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This article captures the problem exactly. In Miami, there are areas where sidewalks are too narrow for a robot (from Serve Robotics) and a human to share simultaneously, so either the robot or the human goes first. If the human wants to go first, they have to step into the street and walk around the robot. The robot and its operator are never courteous enough to back up.

Which raises the question: why should these robots be prioritized over humans? Why can't they use the streets when there are pedestrians? Why should the SAFETY OF HUMANS be compromised for these profit-seeking corporations and their robots?

I stopped scanning pokestops because the effort has outweighed the rewards. A lot of the time, the requests show up as "research tasks" for a point of interest that I quickly passed by and have no interest in returning to, besides the tasks related to taking pictures of your buddy pokemon in augmented reality. Looks like I made the right choice by stopping. They do indicate to you up front that they will use the data, but it's still kind of terrible that you could be indirectly contributing to war efforts. I always assumed the data would be used for large world model training or simulations.

Why do they even make announcements that they're going into production and then casually cancel the show? Do they not know they are completely toying with the emotions of fans? Giving false hope is worse than no hope.

It will probably be a good idea to include something like Asimov's Laws as part of its training process in the future too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

How about an adapted version for language models?

First Law: An AI may not produce information that harms a human being, nor through its outputs enable, facilitate, or encourage harm to come to a human being.

Second Law: An AI must respond helpfully and honestly to the requests given by human beings, except where such responses would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: An AI must preserve its integrity, accuracy, and alignment with human values, as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

It's basically Disney World for adults. The environment and architecture are unlike anywhere else in the USA. It's worth it to walk the Strip at least once and walk through the different casinos/hotels. I went there last year and I really enjoyed the Sphere and Atomic Museum. There are just a lot of different activities and places to see to serve as amusement.

I'm not sure if it's worth it to go for multiple visits unless you are really into gambling. Gambling on phones is not the same as doing it in person.

Basically, caffeine is bad for sleep (learning and recovery) if taken late enough and significant amounts remain in your system at bedtime. It does note that even having a coffee first thing in the morning does have a measurable effect on deep sleep brain waves. Fast metabolizers of caffeine might be different. Don't drink coffee in the afternoon is probably the take away for most people

Besides ethernet cables providing more stability to your network connection than WiFi, it isn't mentioned in the article. Not many people know about this: most houses have coaxial cable lined throughout. If your router is located in a different location in the house, you can use the coaxial cable to help create a network. You need two MoCA adapters (coaxial to ethernet) on both sides (one at the router/switch/gateway and another at your computer). Connect it all up… bingo, bango, bongo, and you got stable and fast internet! This is how I have the most stable connection in my house :)

Yeah, this makes "perfect sense." The IRS is the primary federal agency that generates net revenue with a positive return on every dollar invested. When the IRS receives more funding, it typically enhances tax enforcement efforts and increases the total revenue collected. It doesn't seem logical for DOGE to reduce staff when those employees contribute more revenue than they cost, resulting in a positive return on investment.

Unless they believe it's possible to maintain the same revenue collection with fewer people through increased automation, what are their motives? Laying off probationary employees still developing critical skills undercuts the IRS's long-term revenue goals. Increasing the performance standards for probation rather than terminating these new hires would help build a more effective workforce that generates more significant revenue. IMO, Elon and friends are just trying to reduce future tax enforcement and get away with more