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by atcon 2mo ago
Against an "agentic attack" and compromised credentials, one should be paranoid about latent vulnerabilities [1] [1] eg "Robin Hood and Friar Tuck", poisoned compiler, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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Proposed CA wealth tax may end founder control in CA and force market reval(taxfoundation.org)
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by atcon 8mo ago
Agreed. Never understood all NTB and tariff distinctions, except one suspects the pajandrums in Brussels and Geneva didn't quite believe companies could compete on price or product, and therefore needed a way to keep quotas and subsidi
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by atcon 8mo ago
The authors ask “who bears the cost of these tariffs?” and use S&P Panijiva data from Jan 2024 to Nov 2025 for their 96% pass through rate to conclude tariffs function “as a consumption tax on Americans.” However, Panjiva is limited to
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by atcon 11mo ago
Agree with foveated rendering. In a relatively static environment like a virtual desktop, the periphery shouldn't need to command as much resource. Tinfoil pt 2: AVP might be working on a related but applicable product. Most people old
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by atcon 11mo ago
You raise fair points. I'd also prefer a simpler solution for a human-only internet, but nothing has really worked so far. Bloomberg issued secure cards with fingerprint pads that you held up to the monitor to retrieve credentials to t
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by atcon 11mo ago
Many use cases come to mind. If (retinal?) identities were private, encrypted, and “anonymized” in handshake: web browsing without captchas, anubis, bot tests, etc. (“human only” internet, maybe like Berners-Lee’s “semantic web” idea [1][
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by atcon 1y ago
SB79 was “meant to address two crises at once: The state’s long-term housing shortage and the financial precarity of its public transit agencies.”[a] The 3rd crisis is the enormous budgetary deficits the state and cities are also facing: Sa
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by atcon 1y ago
Viable may be already here: demo of smollm3/3b < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501413 > on iphone with asr + tts: < https://x.com/adrgrondin/status/1965097304995889642 > Intr
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by atcon 1y ago
Your comments on sensor fusion seem to describe the weird results of 2 informal ADAS (lidar, vision, lidar + vision, lidar + vision + 4d imaging radar, etc.) “tournaments” conducted earlier this year. There was an earlier HN post about it &
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by atcon 1y ago
The compelling interest for state and federal governments would be to ensure a fair marketplace by prohibiting false advertising and deceptive practices. California is considering Assembly Bill 1251 (Banning “ghost” job postings) to deter “
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by atcon 5y ago
Disclaimer: this is not legal or medical advice, but an encouragement to read the research for yourself and accumulate an understanding of the issues for your decision making. If you know any good studies or criticisms, please add them. Eme