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by Animats 1mo ago
Surprising that Space-X didn't just buy KSC from NASA. Space-X already does most of the launches from KSC anyway.
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by Animats 1mo ago
This reads like a voice from the past. The past where someone coded a web site or an "app" and it turned into a big business. Too many people have explored the web and app spaces, and new ideas that don't need a huge infusion
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by Animats 1mo ago
To sell is human; to scam, divine.
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by Animats 1mo ago
This scrolled off HN too fast. The concept is like Gas Town - AI as a organization, not an emulated human. Yes, it's inefficient. But it scales. (A very long time ago, I got a tour of Xerox PARC, even before Steve Jobs did. Alan Kay ex
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by Animats 1mo ago
Ouch. Remember Filecoin? The original concept was that you could buy perpetual storage with a one time payment. It was funded by a crypto asset which was a derivative of mass storage prices, or something like that. Lighthouse supposedly sol
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by Animats 1mo ago
So were beats, hippies, punks, goths...[1] [1] https://www.clrn.org/what-is-counterculture-in-sociology/
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by Animats 1mo ago
That was a Millennial generation thing. Back in 2002, "Be Your Own Brand: A Breakthrough Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd" by Speak and McNally, was arguing for that. They pushed heavy self-promotion. That got us the "
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by Animats 1mo ago
It's not "recessed" that's the issue. It's "mechanical".[1] China is requiring door handles openable from both inside and outside without power, and without any difficulty finding the release. Tesla model
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by Animats 1mo ago
> "As office building vacancies jeopardize urban fiscal health and downtown vitality, here’s how cities and states are adapting." The distress over remote work comes not from employers, but from owners of commercial real estate
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by Animats 1mo ago
> Same street, two surfaces: Phoenix tested a reflective coating against regular asphalt (representative image). Image Credits: ChatGPT Sigh. Fake pictures, plus internal links to the India Times. The city of Phoenix has some web pages o
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by Animats 1mo ago
That's 2023 data, pre-Trump. Now look at the 2005 data.[1] The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline reached the Vancover area in 2024. That made exporting oil to China in large volume possible, and that's happening. [1] https:/
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by Animats 2mo ago
> If a CEO orders an employee to murder somebody then the employee and CEO will both go to jail. In the US, death through willful corporate negligence very rarely results in criminal punishment. There are few cases.[1][2] The longest sen
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by Animats 2mo ago
That's the key issue here. AI forces a re-examination of corporate personhood and corporate responsibility. Much of conservative US business theory is based on Milton Friedman's famous op-ed in the New York Times in 1970, "Th
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by Animats 2mo ago
Ouch. There's one plantation of under 1000 hectares in Papua New Guinea that makes biodiesel from coconut oil to power their own operation and vehicles on the island.[1] But they don't export. On an island with few energy sources,
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by Animats 2mo ago
> the cameras expose live streams to anyone without a password and who knows their broadcasting IP. Are these cameras in use in Russia? Can people outside of Russia look in at Russian traffic in this way?
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by Animats 2mo ago
Russia did that years ago. Which is why "ok.ru" has American movies. Of course, who knows what else is embedded in the download. But what might work would be if the EU dropped back to the minimum copyright term of the Berne Conven
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by Animats 2mo ago
That's happening. The rest of the world is moving away from the US as a trading partner. Trump is just too flaky to deal with. Canada now exports oil to China instead of the US, for example. The EU is moving towards self-sufficiency in
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by Animats 2mo ago
Legal question: if you had whole-disk encryption, and the duress password just zeroized the decryption key, would that be "destroying evidence?" Especially if there was a recovery possible but not instantly available, such as a Yu
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by Animats 2mo ago
That's just a normal night. For special events, the skyscraper lighting is much more dynamic.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDNkcKiD2Ow
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by Animats 2mo ago
> we are getting the cyberpunk dystopia with none of the aesthetics that have made it a household word. Sure we are. The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed. Here's a nighttime walk through Shenzhen.[1] Shenzhen is
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by Animats 2mo ago
"Onset of acute schizophrenia, or a genuine mystic revelation, or is there a difference?" That's a great insight.
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by Animats 2mo ago
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare" [1] But then, Shakespeare was popular entertainment. It's only difficult today because the language is now archaic. The material in itself is neither difficult nor long. Dickens was both paid by th
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by Animats 2mo ago
Agreed. There was a thing a few years ago for dazzle-painting your face to avoid face recognition. This just makes you stand out.
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by Animats 2mo ago
At build time - ouch. Nothing in the output code shows a problem, so the usual threat scanners won't see it.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Right. WalMart and Amazon are closer to command economies than Gosplan ever was. They're not choking on the scale of what they do; they're thriving on it. Gosplan, the USSR's central planning system, ran on monthly reporting
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by Animats 2mo ago
You could make a good case for 'exceeds authorized access' under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for this. You might even get some action if you filed a complaint, because it's from China.
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by Animats 2mo ago
From the "must hallucinate" paper: "For "arbitrary" facts whose veracity cannot be determined from the training data, we show that hallucinations must occur at a certain rate for language models that satisfy a stat
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by Animats 2mo ago
Much going in circles there. One good line, though: "The whole point of dualism is to defend the ramparts of mystery that surround the mind, to insure that the mind continues to set us apart from (and, more to the point, above) the re
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by Animats 2mo ago
A remaining advantage of large language models is that as they get larger, they tend to hallucinate less, simply because the odds of the training set containing a desired answer improve with size. If a solid "I don't know" de
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by Animats 2mo ago
Manna is a takeover through the creative destruction of capitalist market forces. Putting machines in charge is more profitable. That's very likely.

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