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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I had to laugh out loud when I read the title. Blaming everything on the CIA seems to be the raison du joure these days.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Is "progressive rendering" still needed in the era of Gigabit connections? This seems something that would've been useful in the dial-up era but not today.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Wasn't this struck down because by law the Federal Government can only charge the cost of producing a visa? The amount cannot be arbitrary in any way. Or has the Trump Administration found a workaround for this?
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Not as long as there's a NATO. Europe needs to acquire a nuclear arsenal that stands head-to-head with the Russian one quantitatively and independent from the U.S. or any other nation (including the French and British) for nuclear dete
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
The U.S. is already making moves to completely halt the export of ASML machines to China, including non-EUV ones. Every semiconductor China produces could be used in weapons and that's agains U.S. law.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
By insisting on these rituals there will be a permanent, low-level Ebola epidemic which could spread outwards quickly if the conditions become favorable. Even in Africa people are becoming more mobile making the spread of the disease a real
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Another reason is that a lot of tech from 20 years ago uses the QNX microkernel operating system, which is highly secure even when the software is never patched. The problem is that most of these older devices are about to be replaced and m
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Yeah but they can't use TSMC to make it so they'll have to make due with older or more expensive lithography processes. That probably explains why there's so few of these CPUs around: the yields of the domestic Chinese lithog
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Patients becoming involuntary guinea-pigs for science? No thanks. As long as there isn't a clear root cause found and some real mitigating medicines reach the market I would propose keeping people ignorant as long as we can.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
When the symptons set on you'll have plenty of time to wind down your affairs.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I chide the people in Africa for not following up on best health practices as far as Ebola victims are concerned. It seems there's a ritualistic need for people in Africa to touch and kiss the deceased before they're buried. This
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
These tests are more or less useless because there's no treatment anyway so knowing about it a long time in advance will not lead to any substantial gain. Even slowing the disease isn't within the realm of today's technology.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
But even if it wasn't watermarked and someone later found out or a whistleblower revealed that the code was A.I. generated it could lead to the loss of copyright. Imagine what this would do to a product like Microsoft Windows or Micros
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Does this also extend to generated source code? I mean, this upend the business models of many A.I. companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. In addition, many ISVs would probably stop using A.I. if their products could lose their copyright. And
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
The mission was a risky bet. And they lost. You can't expect much from $30 million mission, but it was somewhat disappointing that multiple failures occurred on the spacecraft after it arrived in orbit. Reaction wheels and thrusters fa
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
You, I and everyone else simply don't know. I'm personally open to the fact that a digital consciousness could arise sometime in the future. Maybe it isn't anything special at all. Insects seem to be conscious too and we don&
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
We simply don't know at the moment. In fact, we can't even explain why LLMs work so good. It's frightening to learn that the people that make A.I. don't actually understand it themselves.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
It was a rhetorical question, actually.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Yep, GrapheneOS is becoming too popular and Google is reacting in a manner that's not conducive with its "don't be evil" adage.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Jarred has probably already sold his company for big $$$ and is set up for life whether the Bun rewrite succeeds or not. We will, however, be left to scour the ruins of the financial devastation if this goes sour.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
There's a lot riding on this. If the Bun rewrite fails it could lead to the U.S. and global financial system collapsing. Yes, incredible, but true.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I'm quietly hoping it fails. This will once and for all silence all those paid-shills that are calling out that A.I. will replace all software developers. It may also lead to the A.I. musical chairs game stopping and a multi-trillion d
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I wonder how Google will react if more and more mobile phones with GrapheneOS appear on the market. I suspect they will block further adoption by throwing up all kinds of hurdles. They could make more parts of Android closed source, even cr
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NASA calls off Swift rescue mission(apnews.com)
7 points by hn_submit 2mo ago|1 comments
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
The mission was a risky bet. And they lost. You can't expect much from $30 million mission, but it was somewhat disappointing that multiple failures occurred on the spacecraft after it arrived in orbit. Reaction wheels and thrusters fa
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
To be launched within five years?! The Chinese will long before that have produced something similar and returned the data already. The UK has to become a lot more active in getting this project to the launchpad.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
What's the gist of this case? Making social media addictive isn't a felony AFAIK. Big Tobacco has never been convicted of it either.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Sure it can be scraped, but it's so much easier if you just get a single database with everything in it. These are companies flush with cash you know.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
These patents are completely worthless. These glasses will never become socially acceptable and certainly not when they're coming from Meta, a known privacy thrasher/intruder/molester/rapist/violator.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I wonder if the owners of YCombinator have sold all comments to Big Tech for A.I. training. And how long before Google and Microsoft add to their T&Cs that all your anonymized email will be used to train their A.I.?

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