nulluser 11 hours ago • 100%
True. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She's deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.
nulluser 12 hours ago • 100%
Sorry, I'm firmly in Ada Lovelace's camp for credit for first use of the term. https://medium.com/the-mumblings-of-a-security-professional/a-bug-in-the-machine-286800f71cbc
nulluser 4 days ago • 92%
Democrats need to respond by making the story about why Trump killed the bipartisan immigration bill.
nulluser 4 days ago • 100%
It memorable and serves it's purpose to help inoculate lay people against pseudoscience. Something more objective but less catchy would not serve that purpose as well.
nulluser 5 days ago • 100%
All true. My point is that if they're polling current small business owners asking if she is business friendly, they might likely say no, because her plans aren't directly friendly to their specific company.
nulluser 5 days ago • 80%
Well, one potential psychological flaw in her $50k small business tax credit is that it's only for new small businesses to go towards startup costs.
Existing small businesses that may be struggling can look at that and only see her making it easier for their future competition to get rolling. It's a net negative for them.
Just about the only people that are going to look at that tax credit and see how it benefits them are people that are already looking into starting a small business and the main thing holding them back is the startup costs. That's probably not a lot of voters.
nulluser 5 days ago • 100%
*Gerrymandering raises it's hand.
There was (still is?) the Fair Vote Act that got introduced and immediately buried in committee for several sessions that addressed both RCV and gerrymandering. I've lost hope for it and stopped paying attention to it getting reintroduced.
nulluser 5 days ago • 100%
Just another way for foreign countries to legally fund his campaign without limits. There are only so many sneakers they can "buy" before it starts to look too obvious what's going on.
nulluser 5 days ago • 100%
"Congressional Elections" includes The House of Representatives and The Senate.
nulluser 1 week ago • 100%
Most? 🙂
nulluser 1 week ago • 100%
I'm playing into their hands?!?! What the fuck am I doing that plays into their hands? What should I do that's different? You're not offering any solutions. You're the one here just giving the hopeless vibes. If anyone is playing into anybody's hands to undermine democracy, you'll find them in the mirror. До свидания.
nulluser 1 week ago • 100%
True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.
After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)
The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.
I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.
nulluser 1 week ago • 100%
Doesn't fucking matter. It's not a perfect system, but it's the system we have, so I WILL participate in it, and I will fight to improve it. People like you working to demoralize people out of participating in and improving the system are the enemy... foreign or domestic.
nulluser 1 week ago • 97%
They both have the same goals
Absolutely unadulterated bullshit. You either have no clue what you're talking about or you are a foreign operative here intentionally trying to undermine democracy. GTFO!
nulluser 2 weeks ago • 100%
AKA, Welfare States.
nulluser 2 weeks ago • 100%
I seem to have isolated the problem to using a link to the website on the phone's home screen (created from FF using the "Add to Home screen" option in the three dots menu next to the address bar.
Starting that way seems to give any session cookies a very short life and they disappear quickly (logging me out). I created a bookmark within FF and have been using that and haven't been logged out since.
In fact, if I use the home screen link to programming.dev, FF doesn't think I'm logged in, but then if I use the bookmark from within that same instance of FF, it instantly sees me as already logged in.
Very strange.
nulluser 3 weeks ago • 20%
Completely irrelevant. The title and posted article are talking about unintentionally training LLM text generation models with prior output of other AI models. Not having enough training data for other types of models is a completely different problem and not what the article is about.
Nobody is going to "trawl the web for new data to train their next models” (to quote the article) for a model trying to cure diseases.
nulluser 3 weeks ago • 99%
However, Joe Lonsdale, the founder of 8VC, did comment, considering it a response to an attack by left-wing media for "supporting Trump." Lonsdale was referring to an article published by Forbes magazine describing his fund's connections with the sons of Russian oligarchs.
Forbes is "left-wing media" now?
nulluser 3 weeks ago • 81%
This is a threat to LLMs, not AI itself. AI models looking for novel cures for diseases (for just one of many examples) are not trained on random Internet text.
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 60%
Don't take it so literally. It's got good alliteration and rolls of the tongue.
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 95%
Bigot Burger
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 66%
Totally underated comment.
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 100%
Good Christian
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 100%
I have bad news for them if they think accepting people running from "Western liberal ideals" is going to help with that somehow.
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 100%
Please give them free plane tickets
Great idea.
Announcement: I pledge to buy a one way plane ticket from any US airport to Moscow for the first two US citizens that can prove to me that they A) have a social media history demonstrating rejection of Western liberal ideals, and B) have had their Russian immigration visa accepted.
If they return to the US at any point in my lifetime, the offer is rescinded and they must refund me the cost of the ticket.
nulluser 4 weeks ago • 100%
snail mail then my own terms and if they don’t react, I assume that my terms were accepted.
I'm pretty sure you haven't run this strategy by a lawyer. If you've actively agreed to their terms and they haven't responded to your counter terms.... How do you imagine a court is going to interpret that?
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
No, it just prevents banks, etc from checking your credit score/rating, which prevents anyone from opening a new account under your name. When YOU want to open an account, you temporarily unfreeze it for a couple days so that the institution you're opening an account at can check, and then refreeze it.
The credit agencies will continue monitoring how much credit you have and how well you pay your bills and adjust your score accordingly. Freezing has no effect on that.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
The best time to have frozen your credit reports at all three agencies was many many years ago. The second best time is right now. Not tomorrow. Now.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
Have you looked at the cost of day care? And diapers? Or just having a place to live with the extra necessary bedrooms? Pre pandemic I read some article that (as I vaguely remember) estimated it costs at least $100k to raise a child to 18 in the US. I imagine it's closer to $150k or more by now. Probably way more.
nulluser 1 month ago • 93%
who went on to earn a master’s degree in divinity.
That doesn't sound like, "becoming less religious" to me.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
Yeah. 25% more people than we have now is not shrinking by any stretch of the imagination.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
Seabaugh, a Republican, was elected to the Georgia House in a special election in the summer of 2021, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. His district includes parts of western Cobb County and portions of Marietta and Kennesaw.
Seabaugh faces Democrat challenger Karl Gallegos in the Nov. 5 general election.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
I think I figured out how to reproduce it really quick.
- Log in to Lemmy on Firefox
- Switch to a different app
- Switch back to Firefox
- Reload the page.
Poof! I'm out. I repeated the test multiple times to confirm it's consistent. Probably actually getting kicked out on step 2. It's like FF decides to expire the Lemmy cookies when the app loses focus.
Armed with that info, I retested two alternate front ends on programming.dev (a. & t.) and default front end on lemmy.world and default front end on programming.drv with Brave. I was previously getting logged out on lemmy.world, but not now (maybe they updated something? Or my test is still flawed.). So, with these steps I can only reproduce it on programming.dev with the default front end on Firefox.
nulluser 1 month ago • 93%
A car stopped in front of their home – the same one they’d had for the past 30 years
So, he arrived in the car they've had since he disappeared...
The car allegedly raced off before anyone had a chance to question the driver,
... and then someone stole it????
Edit: Ohhhh, it's the same home they had when he disappeared. 🤦
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
Update: Haven't used my lemmy.world account in a while, so thought I'd test this out over there. Same thing happened after several minutes. Then I tried on Mastodon.world for a while and it seems to work fine. I'll try giving the alternate front end another round of testing later today.
Addendum: Can't reproduce the problem on t.programming.dev today, and couldn't seem to on a.programming.dev yesterday, so it seems to be specific to the default Lemmy front end.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
It was a primary. Republicans can't vote in a Democratic primary in Kansas.
nulluser 1 month ago • 100%
I have no extensions installed on my mobile Firefox. Maybe I should install some. 🤣
The title says it all. Not even sure if it's going to keep me logged in long enough to submit this post.
> Their idea goes something like this, according to a memo shared with Semafor that has been circulated to Democratic donors and bundlers as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration: > - Biden would step down as the Democratic nominee in mid-July, and announce the new system, with backing from Vice President Kamala Harris. > - Potential candidates would have a few days to throw their respective hats in the ring. The Democratic Party then would begin a primary sprint in which the six candidates who receive the most votes from delegates pledge to run positive-only campaigns in the month leading up to the convention. > - The “blitz primary” would involve weekly forums with each candidate moderated by cultural icons (Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Taylor Swift are among the names floated in the memo) in order to engage voters. > - The nominee would ultimately be chosen by the delegates using ranked choice voting before the start of the Chicago convention on Aug. 19. > - It would be announced with plenty of fanfare on the third day of the gathering. The memo imagines the nominee unveiled on stage with Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. > According to its authors, the country would be captivated. Donations would pour in. And Biden would be celebrated as a “modern-day George Washington,” the proponents argue.----
I've noticed that the external communities I'm subscribed to aren't syncing. I checked a few on their home server (lemmy. world), and they've got plenty of new posts (eg. !news@lemmy.world), but the posts aren't showing up here. I don't think it's just me, but I've been wrong before. Anybody else?
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond. ======== RCV has the momentum and is infinitely superior to what we have now. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of fantastic. I’d be happy if a community chose one of the other options. I don’t care. They’re all better than what we have and we should be celebrating every city, county and state that switches to any of them. That's the purpose of this post. Trying to demonize one option because you don’t think it’s perfect is just muddying the waters and subjecting us to decades of more of the shit sandwich we have now while we debate which alternative is flawless (hint: none of them are). You'll never get everyone to agree on which option is best. A vast majority of us can agree, though, that FPTP is garbage, and RCV is way way better. It's like you're sitting there with nothing to eat but spoiled meat and it's making you deathly sick, someone comes by and offers you a fresh juicy hamburger, and you respond, "No! I'll accept nothing less than Filet Mignon!" Dude! You're eating spoiled meat! Take the damn burger!
> Some of the possible changes on the table are increasing pay for the mayor and council members, moving City Council elections to a **ranked-choice voting** system and extending the terms of district council members.
> As governor, Fulop would push for **ranked choice voting** and same-day voter registration.
> Spain’s victory came after the county’s second-ever ranked choice voting election. On their ballots, Arlington voters ranked three of the five candidates. In the first round of the tabulation, the person who got the least number of votes — in this case, Julie Farnam — was dropped, and her supporters’ votes allocated to their second-choice candidates. The same happened with James DeVita followed by Tenley Peterson. That pushed Spain over the 50% required to win over second-place finisher Natalie Roy.
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure. In a 54-page order, Judge Laura Hartz upheld almost all fines issued in January by the state’s campaign finance regulator and concluded that Alaska’s “true source” disclosure laws apply to ballot measures. Those laws state that if a nonprofit contributes to a political campaign, it must reveal the names of its donors, the true source of the money. Hartz said one fine, levied for the misreporting of $2,358 in cash contributions, may not have been warranted and remanded the issue back to state regulators. That was a small aspect of the overall case, which involved more than $94,000 in fines levied by the Alaska Public Offices Commission against groups and individuals who backed a ballot measure that seeks to eliminate both ranked choice voting and the state’s open primary, which places all candidates — regardless of party — into a single election for each office. The repeal measure is slated for the November general election. A separate lawsuit has challenged the signature-gathering process used to put it on the ballot. Preliminary orders in that case, including one issued Friday, have been in favor of allowing the repeal measure to go forward. A trial on the issue is scheduled to begin Monday. Hartz’s 54-page order did not touch on that case, only the matter of the fines. The Alaska Public Offices Commission, which regulates campaign spending in the state, concluded last year that Art Mathias, an opponent of ranked choice voting, contributed $90,000 to the Ranked Choice Education Association, an organization incorporated as a church in Washington state. RCEA then gave money to Alaskans for Honest Elections, which campaigned in favor of the repeal measure. Members of the Public Offices Commission concluded that was a violation of state campaign laws that forbid donations in the name of another person and require nonprofits to list their donors if they pass money to a political campaign. Some ranked choice opponents appealed the fines, as did Alaskans for Better Elections, a pro-ranked choice group that sought larger fines. The Alaska Department of Law, representing the commission, sought to uphold the commission’s decision. Hartz ruled almost entirely against both appellants, finding that only one fine — involving the handling of cash donations gathered at campaign events — may not have been warranted. She sent that issue back to the Public Offices Commission for further consideration. In 2020, Alaskans passed Ballot Measure 2, which included ranked choice voting, the open primary and a law stating that nonprofits that donate to a political campaign must disclose who gave them the money, revealing its “true source.” That law didn’t directly address ballot measures, but Hartz said that ballot measures are included in the law because of an older law that forbids donations in the name of another person or group. Her order said in part, “the court concludes that true source reporting requirements do apply to contributions in support of a ballot initiative when the contribution is passed from the true source through an intermediary to an initiative sponsor.” Using that conclusion, Hartz upheld most of the commission’s actions. “Because RCEA derives its funds from ‘contributions, donations, dues, or gifts,’ RCEA is an intermediary and not, by definition, the true source of a contribution,” she wrote. Hartz rejected arguments suggesting that the First Amendment gives donors a right to privacy, thus negating the “true source” law. “There is no constitutional right to make anonymous contributions for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election,” she wrote. “There is likewise no right to contribute through an intermediary or in the name of another, and the court declines to create such a right.” Supporters of the ranked choice repeal suggested they might face threats, harassment or reprisals for their donations and support, but in her ruling, Hartz said that they failed to show “any evidence of a ‘reasonable probability’” that would happen. Friday’s order is unlikely to be the final word on the matter. Appellants could request a review from the Alaska Supreme Court. In addition, since the initial filing against Alaskans for Honest Elections, supporters of ranked choice voting have filed additional complaints alleging further problems.
> The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are supporting responsible candidates in each party who believe in civil and bipartisan behavior, and who believe they represent all the voters in their districts.” > The new spending committee shares a name, registered agent and phone number with Let Colorado Vote, which is supporting an effort to put a sweeping overhaul of the state’s election system in front of voters in November. > If placed on the ballot and passed, the proposed overhaul would institute a ranked-choice voting system here, in which voters pick four candidates from a primary field to send to a general election. Let Colorado Vote has also recently been critical of Colorado lawmakers for recently inserting a late amendment into an election bill in order to slow any future switch to ranked-choice voting.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/5721064 > > When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up. > > > Distributors of this unsafe-for-human-consumption product deny H5N1—which has the potential to sicken millions of people—is a danger. Dairy farmers decline to allow disease detectives onto their properties.
> CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Many U.S. dairy farms have not yet increased health protections against bird flu for employees during an outbreak in cows, according to workers, activists and farmers, worrying health experts about the risk for more human infections of a virus with pandemic potential.
> CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Many U.S. dairy farms have not yet increased health protections against bird flu for employees during an outbreak in cows, according to workers, activists and farmers, worrying health experts about the risk for more human infections of a virus with pandemic potential.
> May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters. > After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion. > The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.