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Show HN: The Meme Vaccine(memevaccine.com)
6 points by apienx 2y ago|0 comments
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by apienx 2y ago
After predicting that, in the long term, humanoid robots will cost less than a car, Mr. Musk added: "It'll take up a minute to get to the long term". Please stop trolling, Elon.
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by apienx 2y ago
"These devices don't appear to be designed to be lethal.[..] They are, for the most part, low charge so not packing enough to actually kill somebody.[..] Let's not forget that this comes on the same day that Israel has extend
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by apienx 2y ago
"Writing is thinking." -- David McCullough
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by apienx 2y ago
“Automation has always helped people write code, I mean, this is nothing new at all [..] I see that as tools that can help us be beer better at what we do.” — Linus Torvalds’ on LLM code generation/review ( https://m.youtube.
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by apienx 2y ago
Over time, global values are becoming more aligned, particularly around ideals like free thought, free speech, and the open exchange of ideas and goods. Yet, this trend towards universal values is clashing with certain cultures that feel th
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by apienx 2y ago
SMS specifications include "Type 0" messages, also known as Silent SMS. These messages don't trigger any even on the phone when received, but they do send back an ACK that includes IMSI metadata. Silent SM, are literally defi
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by apienx 2y ago
Thank you. First principles FTW!
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by apienx 2y ago
European police chiefs jointly call for laws that force creators of communication tools to provide them with backdoors. Expect them to go after math once messaging goes decentralized. :-)
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European police officially opposing E2EE [pdf](europol.europa.eu)
10 points by apienx 2y ago|2 comments
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by apienx 2y ago
Thank you. I don’t doubt that certain governments twist the arms of companies for privileged access. From my understanding, however, those practices are not the norm in the west (and certainly not overtly codified). IMHO, 90%+ of the data c
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by apienx 2y ago
> Required by law (and corporate compliance departments) in many industries. Could you please provide details about this?
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by apienx 2y ago
No, thank you. "The goal of Gentoo is to design tools and systems that allow a user to do that work as pleasantly and efficiently as possible, as they see fit." https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy&#x
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by apienx 2y ago
I use Tmux. It's a terminal-agnostic multiplexer. Gives you persistence and automation superpowers. https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki
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by apienx 2y ago
Tears contain chloride ions (>100 mEq/L). I'd be worried about chlorine gas generation (a toxic gas that goes after the respiratory system, eyes, and skin). Electrolysis of water starts at potentials as low as 1.23V (the paper
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by apienx 2y ago
The quick and dirty method is to point your phone at the suspicious device in total darkness. A modern smartphone will pick up the infrared (your eyes won't). Or get yourself a simple RF detector (or even a Software Defined Radio). You
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by apienx 3y ago
Ironically, Sweden has the world's first Freedom of the Press Act. It's even been designated a "Memory of the World" by UNESCO: https://unesco.se/tryckfrihetsforordningen-utsedd-till-varld... What you&#x
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by apienx 3y ago
A 4 year old child has 16k wake hours x 3600 s/hour x 1^6 optical nerve fibers x 2 eyes x 10 bytes/s = 1^15 bytes (approximation by Yann LeCun). Processing visual input is the current bottleneck for robots that want to make sense
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by apienx 3y ago
Despite relatively excellent growth numbers, few Nigerians (or foreign investors) are confident in the future of the local currency. Moreover, a full two thirds of Nigerian residents don't trust the judicial system. The "destabili
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by apienx 3y ago
Social transmission of behavior in macaques has been documented since the 1950s. See the potato washing studies of Imanishi et al (ref. #9 in the main paper).
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by apienx 3y ago
Retirement was a euphemism. And I think 10 billion dollars should be able to buy it.
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by apienx 3y ago
The largest country on Earth murders people for merely expression an opinion and a massive chunk of our planet's geological wealth is funneled to fund wars of aggression. This sovereign decision is in perfect alignment with Sweden&#x27
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by apienx 3y ago
Good point. But please consider that certain cultures may be inherently more transparent and accepting of dissent (see global indices that measure freedom of speech and degree of liberal democracy). Plus, different cultures have different a
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by apienx 3y ago
Overcorrecting after eons of patriarchal dominance is expected and not necessarily a bad thing IMHO. In some countries (e.g. Sweden), prioritising a certain gender over another for research funding is explicit (and widely accepted) public p
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by apienx 3y ago
“Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies[..]” — Alexei Navalny Alexei believed in doing what’s right, not what’s easy. In his honour, let’s all do our part to help t
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by apienx 3y ago
> When things are growing, any nonsense is thought to be "the way". Modeling reality properly is hard. Cargo cults are less cognitively expensive to establish.
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by apienx 3y ago
The rewards of fraud in this context are orders of magnitude greater than its costs. The article is not wrong when it blames “bad incentives” and “the rampant culture of publish and perish”. The root cause, however, is the steady cultural s
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by apienx 3y ago
Title should read “molten metal”. Liquid metals are a thing, and the title is ambiguous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_metal
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by apienx 3y ago
By "phone", I think OP meant SMS. Google and Apple could turn modern phones into convenient-to-use security keys/FIDO passkeys.
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by apienx 3y ago
> “Indeed, the very act of living is by default a cognitive state, Lyon says. Every cell needs to be constantly evaluating its surroundings, making decisions about what to let in and what to keep out and planning its next steps. Cognitio

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