baranul

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How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking(washingtonpost.com)
40 points by baranul 2mo ago|4 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
If only the CDC was not so greatly diminished, that people could feel more comfortable about an agency and high level professionals being on the job to help protect the public from strange diseases.
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I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them(makeuseof.com)
258 points by baranul 2mo ago|265 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
But it's mind-boggling that any subordinate couldn't understand that such levels of depravity and insanity could land them in legal trouble, and that's besides the ethical issue.
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A Black woman enhanced the audio in Nolan Wells' case. People listening closely(thegrio.com)
2 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
A person's smartphone is not the same as luggage, because one is an electronic device and the other is not, which should be common sense. Treating both as the same doesn't make any sense. It is way past time for the Supreme Court
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by baranul 2mo ago
> why "the speaker" has quit HN Quitting HN[1] might have more to do with feeling he and Zig had already harvested the maximum benefit and marketing propaganda usage for elevating itself, including using it to thoroughly smear
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by baranul 2mo ago
> which reward talkers and liars, rather than good engineers Part of that is also about who management and HR are socially comfortable with and candidates that may have connections with people in the company. It's often not a level
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by baranul 2mo ago
> I haven’t seen C topping programming language popularity charts C is still highly ranked on many charts. C (as of July 2026) is ranked #2 on the TIOBE index. PYPL has C and C++ weirdly merged, the annoying C/C++, and that comes in
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Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law(cnbc.com)
10 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
Of the group of languages presented, your argument has more merit for Go. With C# and others, there is an additional OOP argument in there, that splits into different factions. But what is being overlooked, is the massive numerical dominanc
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by baranul 2mo ago
I think it's not so much that Fil-C renders Rust completely useless, but rather it reduces the supposed validity and wild arguments to frivolously rewrite anything and everything in Rust.
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AI Bubble: 'The risk is everywhere' – Ed Zitron [video](youtube.com)
6 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
Agree. Providers who don't want to deal with LLM generated code should be respected as part of the free market. Let the market decide which direction is for the better or at least allow for niches that cater to certain audiences.
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by baranul 2mo ago
That's questionable, in terms of both outcome and cost. LLMs can misunderstand intent, hallucinate, or produce unwanted results too. As you noticed. But, among the advantages in favor of real programmers is outside of the context under
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Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People(motherjones.com)
9 points by baranul 2mo ago|1 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
This and the various Lisa emulator projects are a great way to keep a piece of history alive for younger generations and the nostalgic. Besides the true experience of it, there might still be some new ideas to come from understanding how th
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Stop the NDAA: Congress Is Giving Away America's Sovereignty [video](youtube.com)
2 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
A way to help prevent some of that catastrophic damage, is to make companies accountable for what their AIs do. A major problem with AI companies is that they like to point to the AI, as if they're minimally involved innocent bystander
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by baranul 2mo ago
Regular people can only hope that cooler heads and more sense can avert this obvious disaster. It's like watching cars about to crash into a brick wall, yet drivers have their foot firmly on the accelerator, instead of the breaks.
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by baranul 2mo ago
> guise of democracy That's a very appropriate term. There has always been various forces who either believe the majority of citizens don't deserve democracy or that they are above it.
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Flock Said Its Cameras Don't Track People. Then a Reporter Proved Them Wrong(gadgetreview.com)
5 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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Chinese companies are taking over the EV market. What's behind their rise?(theconversation.com)
4 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
You do indeed appear to have a valid point. Many "chosen" companies, like Uber for example, appear to have broken numerous laws. Legal action against many such companies comes suspiciously slowly, where they have already obtained
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by baranul 2mo ago
This is arguably a dangerous fallacy, particularly for anything critical. When the person doesn't know programming, it becomes harder to guide agents and do reviews, leading to overlooking issues and accepting mistakes. This gets ampli
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by baranul 2mo ago
Agree. AI behavior, when interacting with humans, is based on making money. Making people feel uncomfortable or challenged, will usually not be the preferred business strategy. But, it would be interesting if people could easily select the
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by baranul 2mo ago
Not that they never had the idea, however, this was not mentioned in the article. The point was by getting there quickly enough, they wouldn't need to worry about hibernation for trips to Mars. Hibernation for humans was never going to
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Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure(reuters.com)
97 points by baranul 2mo ago|107 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
It's a no win trap, except for the tech bros cashing in on investors burning money. Data centers using up the available clean drinking water, people with no jobs paying higher electrical bills, stressing the electrical power grid to th
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Why Argentina Has Almost No Black People [video](youtube.com)
8 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments

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