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They all spoke with different voices. It was obvious to most people that they probably were remotely operated. There's several videos (in the article, even!) of people at the event asking them if they are being operated by a human. The
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Not just a hint. Here's a 2 minute video produced by SpaceX called "Earth to Earth". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
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So the claims were: 1. That they will probably get to 0 cases. (he was wrong, but this prediction was made fairly early on when the data looked like this: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1240767096104972289 ) 2. Kids
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What did the post(s) say?
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> X responded by blocking links to the material, claiming that it contained sensitive personal information such as the Ohio US senator’s social security number, and banned Klippenstein from the platform. That seems like a crucial detail
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I wonder if fishing boats need to have a 60 day consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Service before each fishing expedition. It seems to me that fishing expeditions pose a significant threat to the welfare of fish.
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Nice idea. I would probably almost go for that. I wonder how much they could cut from it to make the device you're imagining more appealing from a cost & weight perspective... 1. Front-facing display 2. Battery 3. LIDAR (might need
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That's a very valid point if courts around the world are about to rule against every AI company in hundreds or thousands of court cases. Do you believe that is going to happen?
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OK, but put aside whether you like or dislike this for just a minute or two in order to think about it objectively. You are aware of the way things are trending, right? Is the trend showing any sign that it might reverse, for the rest of hu
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Copyright isn't required once any work can be created faster than you can snap your fingers. It was originally a way to motivate creation of artistic works, since they used to involve a lot of effort.
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What's the threat vector that they are trying to mitigate against? The attack already happened and the vector that the attack used seems to be applicable to any device with a battery. Are they worried about pagers that are affected but
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The visual quality of the Apple Vision Pro is extremely far ahead of any other headset. I generally don't like Apple products and I think they made plenty of mistakes with Vision Pro, but the visual quality is exceptional for our time.
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That's true, but the advantage of having a head start does eventually diminish. They won't catch up to Nvidia in the next couple of years, but they could eventually be a real competitor.
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> 56x the size of H100 but only 8x the performance improvement isn't something I would brag about. It doesn't sound like it's too bad for a 9 year old company. Nvidia had a 20-year head start. I would expect that they will
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From Wikipedia's 1st paragraph: "While consciousness is being aware of one's body and environment, self-awareness is the recognition of that consciousness." From that, I think it's clear that defining self-awareness
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That's like saying "how do you monetize the internet?" There are so many ways, it makes the question seem nonsensical. Ways to monetize AI so far: Metered APIs (OpenAI and others) Subscription products built on it (Copilot, C
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Thanks for the kind comment! Yeah, browser APIs have become a lot better. Between bugs, different behaviour from one browser to another & unusual limitations, there's still a bunch of ways that they're not "all the way th
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How about starting with a decent objective definition? So far, there doesn't seem to be any good definitions that include humans, don't include ChatGPT, and offer clear boundaries on which animals, insects, and bacteria experience
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Unfortunately I don't think there's a browser API for registering keyboard shortcuts that can trigger actions on webpages. I'll make it a PWA soon so that it can at least be added as an app.
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I launched Screen Recorded ( https://screenrecorded.com/en ) a few days ago. It's a screen recorder that runs in your browser. I intentionally made it a super easy choice if you need a quick screen recording by not havin
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Hi HN, I built Screen Recorded as a simple, browser-based screen recorder that doesn’t require any installation or sign-up. I plan to use it for quick screen captures, like product demos/tutorials, but I think it might be useful for al
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Show HN: Screen Recorded – A browser-based screen recorder(screenrecorded.com)
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> You're just going to annoy me if you redirect me away to a language I don't want just because you tried being too smart. So what do you propose that such a site shows on their root URL? It's possible to pick a default la
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Google used to have a policy of sites being required to show Google the same page that they serve users. It seems that has been eroded. I'm not sure how that serves Google's interests, except perhaps that it keeps them out of lega
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Roads are 24x7 and outside every building.
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People worried about surveillance but it didn't stop surveillance from happening. I'm not saying to be naive to possibilities, especially as they begin to move from the "possibilities" bucket to the "realities"
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Two things: 1. If you judge new technology by the absolute worst way that it can be used, you are going to spend your life worrying about a million things that will never happen. Focus on stuff that's happening instead of hypotheticals
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Nothing technically objective, just the size that a typical photo can be reduced to without looking bad. It really depends on what you're after, right? If preserving every detail matters to you, lossless is what you want. That's n
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The compatibility gap on WebP is already quite small. Every significant web browser now supports it. Almost all image tools & viewers do as well. Lossy WebP comes out a lot smaller than JPEG. It's definitely worth taking the saving
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I work on Batch Compress ( https://batchcompress.com/en ) and recently added WebP support, then made it the default soon after. As far as I know, it was already making the smallest JPEGs out of any of the web compression tool

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