The bottleneck is refining capacity, not ore. A bunch of countries have rare earths, but only China has the factories, skilled workforce and scientists.

The original (fairly small) cockroach protests were about the Supreme Court Chief Justice calling unemployed people 'cockroaches'. He apologised, but it led to the formation of a satirical group called 'Cockroach Janata Party' (Janata = People, and a reference to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party).

The first big protest the CJP was involved in was about the National Testing Agency (which conducts many university entrance tests) f***ing up repeatedly and leaking question papers. Following those protests the union Education Minister resigned.

The current protests are against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar removing millions of voters from the electoral rolls. At first he was doing it 'legally', by arguing that these records had insufficient documentation / spelling mistakes / mismatches (more likely to happen for poorer / rural people, who are also less likely to vote for the BJP) but then it was revealed that he was doing this behind the backs of the two other election commissioners (so against the legally binding majority opinion) and that he had requested a popular civil servant to contest for the BJP (that guy refused).

Most lemmy users live in countries which are run for a rich few, rather than the general public. Technology, including AI, is also used to benefit the rich, often at the cost of the rest of the population. Unfortunately this leads to people hating the technology rather than the political system.

There was a recent survey where they pointed out how people in English-speaking countries are most concerned about AI (because it is used against the people there) while people in the Global South are most positive about it (because it is used to benefit them). Here's the summary chart:-

The fools, that only stops East Asians.

Hmm yes South Korea isn't a Global South country. It's closer to Western countries in terms of politics and economic situation.

Btw is there an age-based or rural-urban division in perception of AI?

Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is about the horrors (and occassionally the beauty) of being an outcast in modern-day Delhi. Another of Roy's works is The Briefing, a short story in the form of a speech given by a guerilla leader to their followers as they are about to attack a fortress in the Alps.

In the US, each state can have its own laws, right? How does the AI handle this?

Also, how does it understand grammar? Wouldn't it first need to be trained on a large corpus of text?

Are you using AI to help you with legal stuff? I don't think you should use AI for that since it would have data on rules from all sorts of places, and might not be up to date on laws in your place. Or you could train an AI on exclusively the data in your area, but then (1) you'd need hundreds of models, and (2) they would be much less powerful since the training data is a lot less.

Also a disturbing amount of sexual assaults, particularly around Delhi. (Men getting assaulted by women is rare enough that we haven't had to make rules specifically for it.) During the recent protests a policeman harassed a female protestor after arresting her, despite the rule that only policewomen should arrest women. Now most police forces aren't as bad as Delhi police, but that bar is underground.

They're talking about dual-booting Windows and Linux. Dual-booting two Linuxes (Lini?) should be fine.

we already have better skills than a general LLM

Can you read a thousand pages of tech documentation and find every reference that could be relevant to the issue you're having in minutes? Then no, you don't always have 'better skills than a general LLM'. Humans are better at some things. Computers are better at some things. Use the right tool for the job.

Install Ubuntu and see if you can get your games and video editing software to work. If you can't, go for CachyOS.

Why Ubuntu first? Because millions of people have been using it for years. When something breaks, you'll be able to fix it because someone else would have already encountered this issue before and reported it.

This chart is a good example of what happens when transport infrastructure is judged through a purely economic lens versus what happens when affordable travel is seen as a necessary feature of a civilised society. (Not to mention the jobs created and the carbon saved.)

This was just incredibly dumb. Now any positive news about their new phone is going to be seen as planted.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who worked on number theory, infinite series and analysis. He said that he would have dreams of drops of blood (a symbol of his village deity, the goddess Namagiri Thayar), followed by complex mathematical equations. Even with the help of his formally-trained friend GH Hardy, he was only able to prove a small fraction of his insights.

Gregori Perelman is a Russian mathematician best known for solving the Poincare conjecture. He posted his results on arXiv in 2002-03, but never published them in a journal and never accepted any prize or money. He has expressed dismay over the lack of ethics in research.

Anon is a /sci/ user who in 2011 proved the current lower bound of a superpermutation for any size greater than 2 (the Haruhi Problem). Their proof has been archived for posterity, but we don't know anything more about them.

The research was paid for by someone. It is not unheard of for a company to offer a grant under the condition that they get the results, say, six months before the rest of the world.

Iran was now seeking the release of the entire $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets upfront

When you break your word twice a day, people will eventually figure out that your promises mean nothing.

Just to clarify, Evangelion is basically saying 'don't guilt-trip teens into being soldiers, don't put them under the power of horny adults (however well-meaning), don't bully them or treat them like lab mice, and definitely don't cut them off from civilian society and the chance to form normal human friendships'. Seems some people saw all of that and only remembered the cool mechas.

It's not about surviving, it's about sending a message.

• Agnes Nitt, probably

It's absolutely insane how Ukraine can hit military equipment in Siberia while Israel keeps confusing hospitals in Gaza for Hamas bases.