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by ISL 4mo ago
Accountability is the biggest unaddressed challenge for AI implementation. When one person is able to do too much too quickly, they can create more liability than they can accommodate if something fails. It is essential that a human is re
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by ISL 5mo ago
Spaceflight requires relentless deliberate progress. An exploding job-recruitment offer might not attract the kind of folks we want designing a system that absolutely must work after a decade in space. I've worked with NASA and ESA e
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by ISL 6mo ago
A central challenge for AI is understanding how accountability flows. The language of this article is a great example, "... thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice ...". It should more-correctly rea
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by ISL 7mo ago
As noted above: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/pdf/PLAW-... : the Attorney General was to have produced the entirety of the Epstein files, with very narrowly-enumerated redactions, i
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by ISL 7mo ago
The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they're simultaneously insufficiently-responsive to meet th
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by ISL 8mo ago
And your medical provider who will only allow you to see your online medical records after an SMS 2FA challenge?
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by ISL 8mo ago
Scientists use pairs of satellites to map the small variations in Earth's gravitational field. It is possible to see groundwater depletion and changes in distribution of glacial ice, among many things. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by ISL 9mo ago
In far fewer than five seconds, one team can suddenly have the upper hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O34BnFu8Kk
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by ISL 9mo ago
The effect is so powerful, it fools professionals and the camera-operator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fioVbt7eF8 Even when the technique is known, everyone remains susceptible (the victim team in the above video is th
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by ISL 9mo ago
It is likely that many airlines accommodate people who are being deported as regular passengers on outbound international flights. For movement of humans at industrial scale, though, there are only a few operators with ICE contracts. Avelo,
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by ISL 9mo ago
Key Lime Air operates daily airline flights as Denver Air Connection in addition to their charter work for ICE and others.
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by ISL 9mo ago
Whoops -- was away from HN for a few days. Here is JJ's account -- he is a prolific flight-tracker: https://bsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social Here is an Avelo flight moving through California right now: https:&
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by ISL 9mo ago
Avelo assists ICE daily with deporting people from the United States: https://bsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/search?q=avelo
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by ISL 10mo ago
That is known to the public.
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by ISL 10mo ago
Who decides what behaviors we should be nudged toward? Is it us, or someone else? To me, one of the greatest dangers of the present moment is that we can't tell whether the LLMs are being asked to give subtly biased answers (or product
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by ISL 10mo ago
For as long as Backblaze has been doing this and at this level of quality, I have no doubt that these reports are good for business. (As an anecdotal example -- I first heard about Backblaze from these reports many years ago and have relied
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by ISL 11mo ago
Thank you, rsync, from a community member.
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by ISL 1y ago
If not now, soon, the bottleneck will be responsibility. Where errors in code have real-world impacts, "the agentic system wrote a bug" won't cut it for those with damages. As these tools make it possible for a single person
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by ISL 1y ago
ITAR will be quite a surprise to some when it suddenly makes an appearance.
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by ISL 1y ago
Reproducible and empirical fact is anathema to any administration that wants the "truth" to be the talking-point of the day.
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by ISL 1y ago
As a scientist (physics, not polar ice), scientists alone are too few to advocate for science alone -- we literally cannot do it. If you want scientific research as you know it to persist in the United States, please take a moment to help s
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by ISL 1y ago
If that sounds cool, check out the LISA mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant... Edit: and the already-flown Pathfinder : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfind
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by ISL 1y ago
Very cool.
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by ISL 1y ago
One can readily argue that Graham has earned recognition and acclaim specifically for his essays. They're part of what drew early founders to YC.
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by ISL 1y ago
Whoa. Didn't expect to see the inside of Barton Hall this morning :).
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by ISL 1y ago
Thank you to everyone involved in the Gaia mission and to everyone whose contributions (including taxpayers) who made it possible. Gaia's data will shape our understanding of the universe for generations to come.
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by ISL 1y ago
Yep. Any timer will do. If you find yourself programming an eInk display and a microchip in order to improve your procrastination, it is time to stop working on the project, get a physical timer, and work on the thing. If you feel inclined
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by ISL 1y ago
The judges may or may not have the same take on that matter as the legislature.
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by ISL 2y ago
Hopefully it won't be at all. Seems pretty relevant to the tech-industry if entire departments of competent tech-industry folks are getting laid off by the federal government. While it might be political, it is also economic and direct
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by ISL 2y ago
"But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet." Thank you, 18F.

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