I'm old enough to recall the olden time - two years ago - when the hiring had slowed because there were fears (that had gone nowhere, just muted) that US economy is overheated and about to enter a recession.

But I guess the underlying conditions for recession are harder to spot, when the economic data are dominated by inflation (gas prices) and inflation (AI bubble).

More like "If any little disruption happens in the Middle East for any petty reason over the next several decades regardless of who the President of the USA is".

But hey, if you want to give Trump the credit for pushing the world away from burning Middle East oil and releasing all that carbon into the atmosphere then go right ahead. I'm sure he'd bask in the attention.

Well, it isn't as simple as that, and I don't know how much power either party has on the matter. It would take legislation at the state level to really block it state-wide, and there are probably too many other things that would be affected for them to blanket ban something like this. Of course legislation wouldn't say "Flock cameras are not allowed". It would have to ban ALPR in general, and then you get into things with private property and so on. If I have a business and a security camera sees the street in front of it, how can I not be allowed to record it or do whatever I want with the images I collect? That street is a public space, and there are myriad laws and court cases allowing that to be photographed or otherwise recorded.

Also, any commercial entity can order flock cameras. Lowes (a huge home improvement chain the USA) has them at all their locations if the state laws allow. The one in our town as three of them in a cluster covering not only their parking lot, but the streets beside it.

Our sheriff's department has a number of them throughout our town and county (maybe 5 or 6). I guess technically our sheriff can be voted out, but in actuality there isn't much competition running for that office in rural communities or people with the credentials to run for sheriff - they ten to hold office for a very long time, and have moved up through the local ranks. Pretty much everyone hates flock, but that is not nearly enough motivation to vote out a sheriff, and that is under the huge assumption someone would actually run using that as a platform (I will take down the 5 flock cameras in the county - vote for me!).

My point is that these things are paid for and placed across a very wide variety of locations and not just on public property.

> Start with the premise that a total ordering by merit is impossible.

why do you think so? you absolutely can hire by merit and its the simplest and most logical method.

> At best, you can define merit equivalence classes.

"equivalence" based on what? is this a mealy mouthed way to say "equity" or 'DEI" ?

when an idea fails, renaming it doesnt reset the universe.

That failed concept is exactly what caused the tragedy at hand. let it go.

> Within the top classes you should hire a random sample that has the same racial makeup as the population.

lol, this can never happen. you cant know which "equivalence class" someone is if you hire a random sampling. Youll end up hiring by merit if you pick the top performers, and doing DEI if you peek at their demographics and disabilities and ignore their ability level.

Just like any science, if you come up with a crazy theory and the evidence contradicts it over and over, its time to discard it and accept reality.

So what do these things do if ingested by animals, like humans?

In other words they still have more labor and safety regulations in place than the average state. You know... "known to the State of California to cause cancer" stickers all over everything, etc.

I thought they required you to create a new account every time you log in.

Though that may have been 20 years ago. Last time I saw a reason to go there.

Yeah we can always have an LLM discuss recycling based on the word soup it has ingested from the internet, maybe make a video defying all the laws of physics showing recycling of a mixed waste landfill, and consume a lot of electricity in the process.

That's the beauty of each state being allowed to have the governance model that its citizens want. Don't like it? You can exercise your freedom of speech and right to vote, or you can move to another state. In some states, like Ohio, governance is carved up into tiny pieces - State -> Counties -> Townships -> Cities / Villages.

You may have a village of 1,000 people, with its own tiny town hall for the mayor, its own fire department, 3 person police department, school system (that can pretty much make most all the education decisions they want), the ability for the residents to vote decide what tax rate they want levied against them to pay for their schools, on and on. It's often good, and sometimes bad, but it's about freedom and diversity and the ability to set up a system that the voters want.

Then you can go to another state where everything is hyper standardized (but still specific to that state). All of that is deeply ingrained into concepts of freedom and governance, checks and balances. Sure, it allows towns to do really stupid crap, and if citizens don't like it they can mobilize and vote people out, elect one of themselves to do things differently, etc. Happens ALL the time, and is happening in my small town right now actually, as a number of town council members are about to be shown to the exit in just a few months over some things they tried to pull that got the vast majority of citizens in an uproar.

Virginia does not own Dominion Energy. They just regulate it (set rates, etc). They would regulate the resulting corporate entity after a merger, whatever that is, just the same as they do now, as is their right to do so as a state.

I suspect this will get shot down, as Virginia does not have the right to control this (it is interstate / federal level for one thing).

Domestic panels will get more expensive, too, as they are made from polysilicon.

Yes all the time. Using a Tablo DVR

Why isn't there a second independent AI that examines the main AI's output, and decides if it should be censored or not. If it thinks so, the answer is not delivered.

Since the second one is only looking at the first AI's output it seems like it would be difficult or impossible to fool it, especially if it's window is very short (like only the current message).

I assume there is some reason this does not work. Any explanations?

Those are visible harassment campaigns (and visible on purpose to scare others). He was wondering about ones people don't know about, secret and/or unreported harassment campaigns.

This is simply using our amazing ability to spatially locate sounds. We can spatially locate sounds in front of us side-to-side with an accuracy of around 1 degree. That's pretty incredible. For comparison, cats and dogs cannot spatially locate sounds with nearly that accuracy (about 5 degrees for cats, 8 degrees for dogs), even though they can physically pan their ears around to focus sound collection where they want.

To give an idea of just how incredible that is, 1 degree accuracy means that a sound (or echo) from 20 feet away can be determined with 4 inches accuracy side to side (or in metric, an object 6 meters away can be located to 11 centimeters accuracy).

Using this innate ability for echolocation just makes sense.