Apparently decades of science-fictional takes have not been able to make people understand why this is a Bad Idea and we shouldn't even be talking about it except to say, "Absolutely not!"
They're widely variable. PyPI gets into about as much trouble as npm, but I haven't heard of a successful attack on CPAN in years (although that may be because no one cares about Perl anymore).
I still will never understand how Canadians can look at privatization down south and be all “I want some of that!”
We don't. Unfortunately, when Canadians go to the polls, the thing a lot of the less thoughtful are thinking is "I want [last administration that didn't magically fix all the problems] out of power. I don't care what their opponents actually intend to do with the province/country as long as they're gone." I have no solution for this.
There are probably enough school essays in most AI training sets to represent a measurable percentage. (Although there is probably a much larger percentage of pornographic fan fiction with subliterate spelling and grammar, so maybe we should be glad that we're only getting bad high school essays.)
Well, duh. Safety equipment is one of those categories of things that you have to be careful of even if you're buying new, given the existence of cheap Chinese counterfeit items and Amazon's willingness to pass them off. Buy new from a brick-and-mortar store, or do your research and check certifications as well as age and condition and claimed history. Which route you go depends on whether you have more time or more money available to you.
I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.
Jail would be too easy for him. I want him to be on "Would you like fries with that?" for a living. Forced to pander to the people he looked down on in order to put food on the table. Bonus if he also has to work three minimum-wage jobs he hates for a total of sixty hours or more a week.
Price, range, infrastructure, in roughly that order of importance when averaged over the population. The article then goes into factors affecting price. (Of course, the article originated with the Financial Times and was only reprinted by Ars, so it makes sense that they would put money first.)
So you're saying that this mouse can't move the on-screen pointer or register even normal left clicks with the generic Linux HID drivers? Seems unlikely.
I'm aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I'm not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I'm doing here, probably. 😅
"Visitors are asked to respect posted speed limits and no-stopping zones at all times, as well as stay alert and prepared to encounter wildlife at any time, even when driving along fenced sections of the highway. By reducing speeds, driving alertly, and giving wildlife space and respect, you can help reduce wildlife mortality."
Dead humans. If you're talking about moose, at least part of the time the result is dead humans—an elementary school classmate of mine (in northern Ontario) lost an uncle that way. Serious damage to cars often means serious damage to occupants.
Collisions with the local bears tended to be worse for the bears than the humans, because bears are lighter and lower to the ground then moose. They were also much rarer, because bears are less likely to stand in the middle of a narrow highway with a 90km/h speed limit and just chill.
A New Jersey man who was wrongly jailed after being misidentified through facial recognition software has a message for two Ontario police agencies now using the same technology....
There's a good chance that this happened in part because they still haven't ironed out the racial bias in the training data sets for these systems—Mr. Parks appears to be dark-skinned.
Too bad the map legend is unreadable on my browser—flies off to the right when opened. Although I doubt it would tell me anything I didn't already know.
What, you mean 640KB isn't really enough for everyone?
. . . I kid, I kid. Still, the CarThing strikes me as more of an embedded-type system. 512MB is generous for devices of that class, and more than sufficient for a carefully-tailored Linux kernel + busybox + another 100MB+ of running software. Potato, yes, but potatoes are a useful food source—just not as impressive as filet mignon.
Two and a half years after Norman Tate's son was killed in a car accident, he's still struggling to come to terms with how the justice system handled the aftermath....
The problem is that the courts don't prioritize, and we're at a point where we need to triage. Cases involving death or serious bodily harm should be jumping the queue, and victimless crimes sent to the back of the bus.
When you think about it, triage in medicine is also not an ideal solution. Ideally, in both medicine and law, the system would have enough capacity to deal with everyone in strict first-in-first-out order without anyone being harmed. In the absence of that capacity, we have to decide which cases to look at first somehow, and FIFO doesn't appear to be the best basis for making that decision.
We need more judges too, but even if we were to somehow force legislators to select them this instant, some cases would end up getting dropped before the backlog got caught up. I'd much prefer that they were things like solicitation, small-amount drug posession, and minor traffic violations—not petty theft if we can help it, since that isn't a victimless crime, but I'd nevertheless rather have ten petty theft cases dropped than one assault case that landed someone in the hospital.
A 51-year-old Calgary man who suffers debilitating cluster headaches has won a Federal Court battle forcing Health Canada to reconsider his bid for legal access to psilocybin to treat his extreme pain....
Heroin was originally developed as a pharmaceutical, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is still being manufactured and distributed as such somewhere in the world. Morphine has certainly never gone out of style.
Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break....
I like that their implant is simply laid on top of the brain, instead of driving electrodes into brain tissue like Neuralink. I'd like to keep my brain unscarred.
I actually have a bit of hope for this one, since they seem to have figured out a way to avoid one of the known problems with these systems. At very least, it's an angle worth exploring.
Part of the issue with raising retirement age, though, is that you can only go so far before the majority of people are unfit to work. Things like osteoarthritis have a much larger effect on your ability to work than they do on your life expectancy. Plus, the burden of continuing to work disproportionately falls on poor people whose work is more physical—well-educated people with desk jobs usually earn more money, have somewhat better savings, and can thus afford to retire a few years before their government pension kicks in.
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
stores use it and it alone to ban people despite it having a low but well known error rate.
And it is absolutely predictable that some stores would do that, because humans. At very least, companies deploying this technology need to make certain that all the store staff are properly trained on what it does and doesn't mean, including new hires who arrive after the system is put in. Forcing that is going to require that a law be passed.
Technically, there's a tendency for them to be trained on datasets that don't include nearly enough dark-skinned people. As a result, they don't learn to make the necessary distinctions. I'd like to think that the selection of datasets for training facial recognition AI has improved since the most egregious cases of that. I'm not willing to bet on it, though.
The real issue is that we seem to be purging all the wrong things.
Useful answer to technical question? Gone five years later.
Unfounded and fraudulent accusation that some teenager in Albuquerque committed a hideous crime? Preserved for the ages. Revenge porn photos? Also preserved, although possibly without the attributions.
Although, really, all of that is human nature too: we conserve what draws the attention of the average mook, not what specialists find useful.
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
Likely won't make a difference to the gene pool. I looked up a couple of MSDS, and it seems that PVA glue ("white glue"), is safe to ingest. The Elmer's glue "recommended" in the original Reddit post is a form of white glue.
Yes, but as a solution it's far inferior to not presenting questionable output to the public at all.
(There are a few specific AI/LLM types whose output we might be able to "human-proof"—for instance, if we don't allow image generators to make photorealistic images of any sort for any purpose, they become much more difficult to abuse—but I can't see how you would do it for search engine adjuncts like this without having a human curate their training sets.)
Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train....
Someone will figure out how to turn it off again in fairly short order (it might be as simple as a mklink to NUL for the storage directory, causing it to send its recordings into the void). What irritates me more is the typical Microsoft misuse of the word "feature".
(I mean, this thing does have some potential uses (imagine being able to see what that elderly relative you provide tech support for actually did when they claim they "did nothing"), but the privacy concerns vastly outweigh them.)
A possible answer: "I'm sorry, but when someone is bleeding to death in front of me while screaming incoherently, my priority isn't on finding out who their employer is and they'd be unable to tell me even if I asked." Might stir some vestigial sense of shame in the bureacrat asking the question. Or not.
Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones' remains....
Wandering around the Internet a bit, it looks like the cheapest option for disposing of a body in Canada today is basic cremation (no funeral service, no urn, no coffin, no enbalming). Even that runs to around $2000, with some variation between funeral homes. If the CPP death benefit is $2500 before taxes, it might barely cover that, although I expect it would be tight. The major costs are the actual use of the crematorium (~40% of the cost on its own), paying funeral home staff to transport and refrigerate the body, and costs associated with legal documentation.
If you want to bury instead of burn, the cost baloons because cemetary plots and the services cemetaries require you to buy to make use of them are ridiculously expensive. Maybe what we need is a return to the pauper's field—$20 plots, no landscaping, and you dig your own hole (with maybe a quick check from someone official to make sure it's deep enough for sanitary purposes), transport the corpse in whatever vehicle is available, have anyone willing say a few words, get family or friends to help you lower the unfinished softwood crate-coffin, and add whatever marker you can afford after you fill the hole back in. You know, like poor people used to do up until a hundred or so years ago. You'll still need the body refrigeration, and the documentation, but it should be possible to get the costs down by considerable if we focus more on the necessary and less on the pretty and on overpriced "respect" for a deceased who, by definition, cannot be aware of it.
For now, though, set aside some money specifically to pay for disposing of your body, if you can. You heirs will thank you for it.
The main point of charging anything at all for a plot would be to finance minimal record keeping: which plots are supposed to be full, who's in them, and, ideally, who bought the space. Plus a quick "do you have a death certificate?" check, and a request to inform whoever's doing the admin if you get to the pauper's field and find the plot you expected to use already occupied. Not an insurmountable barrier for a determined murderer who's done some advance planning, but it should make it less attractive as a dumping ground.
“I want to reassure Canadians that the Canada Revenue Agency does not intend to collect any portion of any non-resident landlords’ unpaid taxes from individual tenants,” read a statement released by Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on X, formerly known as Twitter, Friday afternoon....
A child under five years old has died of measles in Ontario, according to the province's public health agency, the first such death in more than a decade....
Even assuming the child was old enough for the first dose ("under five" could mean a newborn), they may have had a valid medical exemption. There isn't enough detail (in the article, or in the report it references) to say for certain. I admit that the probability is low.
The part that's being ignored is that it's a problem, not the existence of the hallucinations themselves. Currently a lot of enthusiasts are just brushing it off with the equivalent of boys will be boys AIs will be AIs, which is fine until an AI, say, gets someone jailed by providing garbage caselaw citations.
And, um, you're greatly overestimating what someone like my technophobic mother knows about AI ( xkcd 2501: Average Familiarity seems apropos). There are a lot of people out there who never get into a conversation about LLMs.
I prefer carrying the plastic over carrying a tracking deivce everywhere with me. Then again, I'm one of those weirdos that also still carries cash.
(Note that I'm not saying you should ditch your phone—your priorities are doubtless different from mine—just that for me the tradeoff is not acceptable.)
Skimming the actual article tells me that Acadia and Saint Mary's (the two universities at issue) either have some unusual financial problems or are using their money irresponsibly. Other universities in the province, ranging from Dalhousie (the largest, I believe) to St. Francis Xavier (which is pretty tiny) are not expecting any financial issues of significance, so this is not a general problem with university funding in Nova Scotia, it's a problem with these two institutions.
Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation ( www.sciencetimes.com )
The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites ( sansec.io )
Archived link...
Quadriplegic man’s MAID death from bedsore results in public inquiry being ordered | Globalnews.ca ( globalnews.ca )
Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse ( www.theverge.com )
How some federal employees are pretending to work using 'mouse jigglers' ( nationalpost.com )
New Report: AI could displace up to 800 million jobs globally by 2030 ( medium.com )
‘Save the Children Convoy’ Finally Ends, Leaving Farmer With Piles of Garbage, Rancid Food and Unpaid Bills ( pressprogress.ca )
Do your research before buying some items secondhand, Health Canada says ( www.pqbnews.com )
The three things Lee said buyers need to check for are an item's condition, whether it has any recalls and if it is banned in Canada....
Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges ( futurism.com )
Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs ( arstechnica.com )
Why do you have to install Usb-Drivers on Windows, but I never had to do it on Linux?
On my Job I regularly have to install Windows PCs and sometimes even install the USB Drivers for Mouse and Keyboard to work....
Instructions were unclear:gotta be precise with that anotating tool ( unfufadoo.net )
4th grizzly hit, killed along Trans-Canada Highway in B.C. park ( www.nanaimobulletin.com )
"Visitors are asked to respect posted speed limits and no-stopping zones at all times, as well as stay alert and prepared to encounter wildlife at any time, even when driving along fenced sections of the highway. By reducing speeds, driving alertly, and giving wildlife space and respect, you can help reduce wildlife mortality."
How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario ( www.cbc.ca )
A New Jersey man who was wrongly jailed after being misidentified through facial recognition software has a message for two Ontario police agencies now using the same technology....
"PM, want a cracker?"
Resource That Shows Who Owns the Internet Lines in Your Area ( ised-isde.canada.ca )
You should boycott Bell, Telus, and Rogers by switching to smaller providers/resellers.
512MB ram is nothing now
512MB was a huge flash drive now it's not enough ram....
Long delays and collapsed cases are eroding faith in the justice system, lawyers warn ( www.cbc.ca )
Two and a half years after Norman Tate's son was killed in a car accident, he's still struggling to come to terms with how the justice system handled the aftermath....
Health Canada must reconsider man's bid to use magic mushrooms for cluster headaches, Federal Court rules ( www.cbc.ca )
A 51-year-old Calgary man who suffers debilitating cluster headaches has won a Federal Court battle forcing Health Canada to reconsider his bid for legal access to psilocybin to treat his extreme pain....
Programmer Pain Chart ( lemmy.world )
Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break....
Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain ( arstechnica.com )
I like that their implant is simply laid on top of the brain, instead of driving electrodes into brain tissue like Neuralink. I'd like to keep my brain unscarred.
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs ( www.cnn.com )
Posthaste: Canada could face two more decades of stagnant growth, report warns ( ca.finance.yahoo.com )
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist ( www.pcgamer.com )
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information ( futurism.com )
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety ( lemmy.zip )
Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train....
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )
Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
The authors of the study said the figures should serve as a ‘wake-up call’ for the country’s Liberal government
Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
Immigration lawyers say the screening questions go ‘above and beyond what is asked in a normal immigration application’
In Canada, bodies go unclaimed as costs put funerals out of reach ( www.reuters.com )
Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones' remains....
Tenants don’t have to foot unpaid tax bills for foreign landlords: minister - National | Globalnews.ca ( globalnews.ca )
“I want to reassure Canadians that the Canada Revenue Agency does not intend to collect any portion of any non-resident landlords’ unpaid taxes from individual tenants,” read a statement released by Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on X, formerly known as Twitter, Friday afternoon....
Ontario child under 5 dies of measles: provincial health agency ( www.cbc.ca )
A child under five years old has died of measles in Ontario, according to the province's public health agency, the first such death in more than a decade....
We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem ( www.theverge.com )
Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards ( www.cnet.com )
2 N.S. universities say international student permit changes will cost them millions ( www.cbc.ca )
Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account ( gizmodo.com )
Responsive Design Go Brrrr ( sh.itjust.works )