If you mean, why police would ever be involved, the answer is that there are a lot of police and not a lot of municipal workers walking around. The only way municipal workers would do anything here is if a resident of the area contacts them with 311 to inform them. And even then it can take months (if ever) if it's something like a blocked sidewalk or broken bollards rather than something important like a pothole.
If you mean why would "authorities" care, there's a lot of people that put what amounts to trash on the sidewalk and then move to a new apartment without cleaning it up, or else just ignore that they left it in front of their house until "someone else" takes care of it.
Somewhere there is a line between setting an unopened box of high-end sneakers on the street and putting a rusty mattress frame on the street, and dumping like the latter situation is illegal.
I enjoy articles from the NYT, but like any media outlet that caters to A1 groups of people, it is a bit snooty and full of out of touch opinion pieces.
IMHO your money is better spent elsewhere if you want to counter the current political atmosphere. Grassroots organisations and your local political parties are more worthy of your money than some big media outlets that are for the most part "bought" by the big fish.
I did too for a little while and loved listening to The Daily, but then I noticed they couldn’t help themselves from being politically opinionated and I was hoping to get independent and unbiased news. I thought it was such a shame, and maybe it’s been like that all along but I didn’t notice it until the last election.
>This shift from writing to reading code can make engineers feel as if they are bystanders in their own jobs. The Amazon engineers said that managers have encouraged them to use A.I. to help write one-page memos proposing a solution to a software problem and that the artificial intelligence can now generate a rough draft from scattered thoughts.
This feels like we are forcing people who rather look at code to start talking in plain language, which not every dev likes or is proficient in.
Devs won’t be replaced by AI. Devs will be replaced by people that can (and want to) speak to LLMs.
> In humans, the infrared contact lenses enabled participants to accurately detect flashing morse code-like signals and to perceive the direction of incoming infrared light. “It’s totally clear cut: without the contact lenses, the subject cannot see anything, but when they put them on, they can clearly see the flickering of the infrared light,” said Xue.
Sounds like promising tech but that’s not "seeing in the dark", yet.
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