helsinkiandrew

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EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'(bloomberg.com)
74 points by helsinkiandrew 9h ago|159 comments
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Anthropic Says Yemen Group Used Claude in Missile Development(bloomberg.com)
5 points by helsinkiandrew 5d ago|0 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 5d ago
You were half way there! > The guiding principle of the Chorleywood Bread Process (I’m paraphrasing, of course) is that instead of depending for the most part on fermentation to generate all those bubbles of CO2 that later become the “ce
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by helsinkiandrew 5d ago
The (naive or forward thinking depending on your opinion) is that cheaper 'inference' will result in more demand, like the more efficient Watt steam engine increasing consumption of coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by helsinkiandrew 6d ago
> Hmm, did not know Miro was in the sh*tter I think Bending Spoons buys companies that are profitable with a good customer base but have perhaps lost growth - it provides investors an off ramp when a successful IPO isn't likely, or
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by helsinkiandrew 6d ago
Year one costs a dollar, year two is half price, and by year three nobody remembers how to write a memo without it. > OpenAI is ending a pilot program that allowed government agencies to use its models for only $1 per year and moving to
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OpenAI Gives US Agencies 50% Off Models, Ending $1 per Year Deal(bloomberg.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 6d ago|1 comments
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Bending Spoons Agrees to Buy Miro for $1.36B(bloomberg.com)
12 points by helsinkiandrew 6d ago|4 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 6d ago
> Isn't Tesla already there? Those operate in constrained areas of a few cities though - with a control room, that's a long way from telling your car to drive across state unattended.
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by helsinkiandrew 8d ago
Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/eu-and-ca...
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EU and Canada Plan Far-Reaching Alliance to Strengthen Partnership(bloomberg.com)
7 points by helsinkiandrew 8d ago|2 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 8d ago
> Communism: everything must be “modern”, bland, and sterile Have you ever seen the Moscow Metro? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/31...
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by helsinkiandrew 8d ago
> I only counted companies that actually run a CDN. If a company serves its site straight from its own origin, it is not in these numbers at all Doesn't this miss websites that serve their own site html but serve (static) assets fro
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by helsinkiandrew 8d ago
> If this claim had any truth to it you'd see significant gun involvement in neighbour disputes That’s not what I’m saying, I’m saying there’s more likely to be gun involvement in disputes when people have easy access to guns than w
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by helsinkiandrew 8d ago
> That information is easily available other places Often ease of access in the moment is all that matters. If there's a gun nearby you might shoot someone or yourself in a heated argument, but are less likely to go and find/b
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by helsinkiandrew 9d ago
> alleged that the city knowingly allowed residents to drink unsafe water. Surely knowingly letting people drink lead contaminated water breaks other laws rather than their constitutional rights?
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by helsinkiandrew 9d ago
The vast majority of "generally intelligent" 17 year old humans on this planet can be taught to drive a car in 10-20 hours - can any AGI system do that? Whatever the capabilities of todays AI, AGI seems to fit as a "wishful m
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by helsinkiandrew 12d ago
Good opportunity to post Periodic Videos tour of a Bank of England vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtf5s2HFkA
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by helsinkiandrew 12d ago
A GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver, it can produce your location down to a 10cm resolution (depending on which satellite system you use). The software on the phone presumably is the logger that lets you 'click'
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by helsinkiandrew 14d ago
> True Rate of Unemployment tracks the percentage of the U.S. labor force that does not have a full-time job (35+ hours a week) but wants one, has no job, or does not earn a living wage, conservatively pegged at $26,000 (in 2025 dollars)
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Uber to Cut 3,300 Jobs in Company Overhaul to Reduce Management Layers(bloomberg.com)
9 points by helsinkiandrew 14d ago|2 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 14d ago
No, I would think all trials are random with people assigned brushes > 5068 participants were randomised to receive either a powered toothbrush or a manual toothbrush. Majority of the studies included adults, and over 50% of the studies
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by helsinkiandrew 14d ago
> Liu said his AI “agent” learned to run LTspice and review the results. The irony if it was Fable/Mythos that when given a task, had discovered Liu had worked at Apple, hacked his laptop and used Apple data/IPR.
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by helsinkiandrew 14d ago
> Local models can absolutely run in batch, what are even talking about? I think the point was that if you aren't running your local machine at 100% for 24 hours a day then a cloud - with multiple clients - that is, will be more eff
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by helsinkiandrew 15d ago
> 49% attribute UFOs to human activity or natural phenomena; 37% say at least some are alien spacecraft 37% is the roughly the same as those who believe demons, psychics and ghosts exist. https://yougov.com/en-us/art
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Americans Still Skeptical That UFOs Are Aliens(news.gallup.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 15d ago|2 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 17d ago
> Tesla wants and needs to sell to common people. Palantir doesn't. But common people are also employees[1], voters[2] and shareholders[3] and are getting increasingly vocal: [1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/s
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Chicken Conquered the World(ft.com)
3 points by helsinkiandrew 19d ago|0 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 20d ago
Have you conflated the Ryan Coen/GameStop bid for EBay with the Stripe/payPal one? Your points match that perfectly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgp5ll3jd4o?app-referre...
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by helsinkiandrew 21d ago
There was a related study posted awhile ago: > When people think AI did the creative work, task meaning and effort decline https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-people-think-ai-did-...

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