2025-05-02
Horseshit
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Lazarus Lake, the 'Leonardo da Vinci of pain' behind the cruelest race
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2.1 kids per woman might not be enough for population survival
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Statement From Worldcon Chair on use of AI tools in vetting process
no data other than a proposed panelist’s name has been put into the LLM script. The sole purpose of using the LLM was to streamline the online search process used for program participant vetting, and rather than being accepted uncritically, the outputs were carefully analyzed by multiple members of our team for accuracy. We received more than 1,300 panelist applicants for Seattle Worldcon 2025. Building on the work of previous Worldcons, we chose to vet program participants before inviting them to be on our program.
As generative AI can be unreliable, we built in an additional step for human review of all results with additional searches done by a human as necessary. An expert in LLMs who has been working in the field since the 1990s reviewed our process and found that privacy was protected and respected, but cautioned that, as we knew, the process might return false results.
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In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life
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Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market - The Atlantic
According to the New York Federal Reserve, labor conditions for recent college graduates have “deteriorated noticeably” in the past few months, and the unemployment rate now stands at an unusually high 5.8 percent. Even newly minted M.B.A.s from elite programs are struggling to find work. Meanwhile, law-school applications are surging—an ominous echo of when young people used graduate school to bunker down during the great financial crisis.
The third theory is that the relatively weak labor market for college grads could be an early sign that artificial intelligence is starting to transform the economy.
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'I Have Cancer,' the TikTok Star Said. Then Came the Torrent of Hate
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Elite athletes warned to avoid one-night stands over risk of failing drug tests
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Bezos-backed EV startup pitched investors on 'Transformer'-like customization
Musk
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Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 months
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Forming a City Government in Starbase, Texas
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Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store
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Apple found in criminal contempt in Epic trial, App Store "tax" likely dead
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Court sides with Fortnite maker Epic as Apple sanctioned for defying order
A US district judge has found Apple wilfully violated her injunction in a case brought by Epic Games - and that a top Apple executive "outright lied" under oath.
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Apple referred to criminal prosecutor for 'thwarting' order to change App Store
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Epic Games Offers Apple 'Peace Proposal' to Return Fortnite to the App Store
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Judge Rules Apple Violated Court Order on App Store Anti-Steering Provisions
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral
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'Cook chose poorly': how Apple blew up its control over the App Store
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Epic Games launches webshops product for gamedevs to circumvent app store fees
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Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple's payment system
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Apple Would Be Worth Half as Much If It Stopped Manufacturing in China
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World Password Day 2025 Survey: 72% of Gen Z reuse passwords
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Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters
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AdGuard v1.0 for Linux: The protection you trust, now on your command line
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What Netflix's patents reveal about the future of watching movies
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Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi
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If you're in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won't 'Enshittify the Network with Ads'
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Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering
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Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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HN Jobs:
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The absurdly complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers
the circuitry that implements the 386's registers is much more complicated than one would expect. For the 30 registers that I examine, instead of using a standard circuit, the 386 uses six different circuits, each one optimized for the particular characteristics of the register. For some registers, Intel squeezes register cells together to double the storage capacity. Other registers support accesses of 8, 16, or 32 bits at a time. Much of the register file is "triple-ported", allowing two registers to be read simultaneously while a value is written to a third register. Finally, I was surprised to find that registers don't store bits in order: the lower 16 bits of each register are interleaved, while the upper 16 bits are stored linearly.
The 386's register circuitry also shows the curse of backward compatibility. The x86 architecture supports 8-bit register accesses for compatibility with processors dating back to 1971. This compatibility requires additional circuitry such as the shuffle network and interleaved registers. Looking at the circuitry of x86 processors makes me appreciate some of the advantages of RISC processors, which avoid much of the ad hoc circuitry of x86 processors.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Uber Launches Simpler Interface for Seniors, Beating Lyft to Market
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The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
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US Economy Contracts for First Time Since 2022 on Imports Surge
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Google is spending $10 million to train 100,000 new electricians.
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Intel's Chief Commercial Officer Resigns Amid Company Restructuring
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Amid tariff turmoil, these warehouses are in big demand in L.A
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US Manufacturing Activity Shrinks by the Most Since November
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy to leave posts in White House.
National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, according to multiple sources familiar with their departure. They are expected to leave Thursday, sources say. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. One source familiar with the situation at the National Security Council said the president thinks sufficient time has passed since the Signal incident that Waltz and Wong's departures can be framed as part of a reorganization. The president has been hesitant to oust Waltz over the perception that doing so could be seen as bending to outside pressure.
Left Angst
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Trump Would Not Concede 'MS-13' Letters Were Digitally Added
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RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
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Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He's Refurbishing a Qatari Plane
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Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill
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Chris Krebs kicked off CBP's Global Entry program
Chris Krebs’, President Donald Trump’s former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isn’t another act of retribution from the administration. On Wednesday afternoon, Krebs received an email saying that his Trusted Traveler Program status had changed. He logged into the program and learned his Global Entry program membership had been revoked, he told CNN. Global Entry is the US Customs and Border Protection program that gives low-risk travelers expedited clearance when they arrive in the US.
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The former feds organizing against purported DOGE 'destroyers'
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Maybe Zelenskiy Should Be Writing the Art of the Deal - Bloomberg
We don’t yet have the published text, and — according to a Ukrainian news agency that saw the documents — an important further “technical” protocol remains to be signed. Still, if the agreement is as described by both Ukrainskaya Pravda and Yulia Svyrydenko — the economy minister who drove the final negotiation — it at least averted disaster and could serve a little of the original purpose.
The neocolonial terms of exploitation in previously leaked US drafts that Trump clearly expected Zelenskiy to sign on the spot — because the American president exploded in anger when that didn’t happen — are no longer there. The US won’t have legal jurisdiction over the joint fund to be created, isn’t in full control but must make decisions by consensus in a 50/50 arrangement and won’t own any assets. Only future investments are to be included. Nor will US companies get right of first refusal on all projects, a provision that would have clashed with Ukraine’s plans for joining the European Union. In fact, as described, the deal now includes a clause that allows for revision if terms do prove to contravene EU membership requirements.
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Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal with Trump from a Case
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American Association of Philosophy Teachers Condemns Attacks on Higher Education
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The little-known database at the heart of Kennedy's vaccine conspiracy theory
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Trump Officials Are Now Hoarding Supplies Thanks to Their Boss
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RFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Switzerland suspends Deutsche Bahn trains due to chronic delays
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Passerby protected accused driver in Vancouver attack from angry mob
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Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends
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Spain and Portugal blackout blamed on solar power dependency
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Data watchdog to leave British Library alone: further probes not worth our time
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Snake halts Japanese bullet trains after wrapping around power line
- Snakes can conduct hundreds of amps; but only briefly.
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Iran had imperial ambitions in Syria. Secret embassy papers show why it failed