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Teen Swarmed by Cops After AI Metal Detector Flags His Doritos Bag as a Gun

gizmodo.com
11 points·by frob·9 個月前·2 comments

The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced

karenattiah.substack.com
38 points·by frob·10 個月前·29 comments

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frob
·4 個月前·discuss
Under their military rules, they have an obligation to disregard illegal orders. This war was not declared by congress. It is illegal and unconstitutional. They are chosing to do this and are thus complicit.
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·4 個月前·discuss
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·5 個月前·discuss
I spent days and days inside the STAR control room in grad school, often during the 12:30am-7:30am graveyard shift. We needed to run 24/7 for efficiency reasons during the experimental season. Getting superconductors down to temp is costly, so once you get it there, it is go time all the time.

You had to stay on top of all the detectors and triggers, since every minute of beam time cost around $1k. You often sat around doing little, probably working on other research, and then would need to drop everything to reboot a detector so we could get back to collecting data.

RHIC is dead. Long live eRHIC.
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·9 個月前·discuss
Want to work for a software company actively working to help our fellow citizens instead of harm them? Want to work directly with state governments to get people home sooner?

Recidiviz is hiring.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recidiviz
frob
·10 個月前·discuss
Isreal has slaughtered over 60 thousand Palistinians. Israel is purposefully starving the rest. Israel uses desperate people searching for food as target practice as testified to by contractors working along side them.

But, apparently Israel holds no accountability or agency for this rampant slaughter.
frob
·去年·discuss
I encourage you to read the quotes from Israeli political and social leaders in this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel...

> “The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death,” Yitzhak Kroizer, a member of national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party, said in a radio interview.

Yitzhak is a current sitting member of the Knesset.
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·去年·discuss
Such as the US secretary of "defense", Pete Hegseth, who has the Latin phrase for "god wills it" tattooed on his bicep. A phrase that is also the motto of the first crusade.
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·去年·discuss
What you are saying is the fantastical kool-aid Fox News and alt-right media spin to you.

In the meantime, Trump is actually deporting people without due process to inhumane torture camps run by a dictator while openly bragging about it and defying court orders.

These two things are not the same.
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·去年·discuss
I was there during the onavo scandal. It was straight up spyware. They would regularly show graphs of snapchat usage vs messenger vs whatsapp and the snapchat data was explicitly attributed to onovo logs.
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·去年·discuss
I submitted it as a post this week. It survived for about 3 minutes before being flagged as a dupe and then deleted without any link to the conversation it was supposedly a dupe of. I did some cursory searching and could not find another conversation.
frob
·3 年前·discuss
Wait, hacker news is a single source that comes to definitive group conclusions? Where can I find these beliefs we all collective hold and adhere to written down?
frob
·3 年前·discuss
These are the scales at which neither General relativity nor the standard model (QM, QFT, etc) dominate, so you cannot just ignore one and do the calculations with the other. To solve systems at these scales, you need a working system of quantum gravity. We do not yet have one of those. These quantities are essentially where our current models of physics break down and we can no longer make anything resembling a prediction.
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·3 年前·discuss
To be additionally pedantic as a physicist, dW = 0 means we have extramized the action. Technically, we are looking for a path of stable action (i.e. a small change to the path does not change the action), so both maxima, minima, and even saddle curves are allowed solutions.
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·4 年前·discuss
There's a huge difference between saying, "LGBT people are people," and "LBGT people should be shunned out of existence." Words have meanings.
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·4 年前·discuss
In the middle of the article this is literally the discussion about, it literally has a chart showing that young women earn 93% of what young men do when looking across all metro areas in the US.
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·4 年前·discuss
I'd hardly call the 102% ratio in NYC "more" in this context.
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·4 年前·discuss
In NYC, young women earn 102% of what young men do. While that is technically more, I would count it as equal.