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coolspot··on Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
NSA spying on most of the internet traffic was a crazy conspiracy theory before Snowden.
coolspot··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
Someone just got out of jail.
coolspot··on Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System
Because to go through plane like that they need to match our solar system speed relative to galaxy.
coolspot··on Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System
> That's something we're more than capable now of doing, and have done.

You’re very optimistic about our ability to divert 22km-diameter object moving at 70km/s .

DART smashed 680kg payload into a 780m-diameter Didymos changing its orbit.

coolspot··on Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs
Possible and has been done, but super-slow and inefficient resulting in long training times for small models. To keep compute occupied you need to pass gradients very fast.
coolspot··on Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026
I am running Enterprise LTSC version of Windows 10 in a VM for .NET development and it started to show full-screen popups saying that “it’s time to upgrade” to win11 with some text suggesting that it is urgent and time is running out.
coolspot··on Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats
Normally-sleeping cats expect an attack from below, according to the paper. Your cat expects an attack from above.
coolspot··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Check out videos, they are completely engulfed in flames!
coolspot··on U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams
> Silent Push found Funnull was a criminal content delivery network (CDN)

Should be (CCDN) then

coolspot··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Maybe for instant green card you have to be extraordinary, but for regular employment-based immigration you don’t have to be.

The path is H1-B -> Green Card -> US citizen (I have done it), and to get H1-B your potential employer gotta post that $60-80k/year job and show that there were no qualifying US applicants for it.

coolspot··on So Much Blood
Bzzz?
coolspot··on Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
They have a fallback to a human operator when stopwords and/or stop conditions are detected.
coolspot··on Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
1997 was ten million years ago. Waymo doesn’t require any roadside equipment.
coolspot··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
Remember when cybertruck was supposed to be cheap minimalistic truck? No paint, spartan interior, simple materials and straight shapes. $39k price tag. Yeah…
coolspot··on How many supernova explode every year?
> only about 1 start goes supernova in the same period?

That we can observe with current technology, yes.

Theoretically, around 10-100 stars go supernova every single second somewhere in the universe.

coolspot··on 4o Image Generation
Apple held three big keynotes in 2024 plus multiple product announcements via press releases:

May 7, 2024 - The “Let Loose” event, focusing on new iPads, including the iPad Pro with the M4 chip and the iPad Air with the M2 chip, along with the Apple Pencil Pro.

June 10, 2024 - The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote, where Apple introduced iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and other software updates, including Apple Intelligence.

September 9, 2024 - The “It’s Glowtime” event, where Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 series, Apple Watch Series 10, and AirPods 4.

Via Press releases: MacBook Air with M3 on March 4, the iPad mini on October 15, and various M4-series Macs (MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac mini) in late October.

coolspot··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Likely a condition from IP holders to make sure the play is counted and paid for.
coolspot··on Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests
> people reported using cannabis at the same rate when surveyed. However, many, many more black people ended up in prison for it.

As I understand it, people went to prison mostly for selling or possessing amounts that are implying selling. Which might explain the difference. Would you go to prison for possessing a single joint back then?

coolspot··on Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests
> Every demographic commits petty crimes and code violations at about the same rate

Do you have data backing this claim? For example, homicides (that are not a subject for reporting bias) don’t follow a uniform distribution, so I would expect other crimes to also be non-uniform.

coolspot··on Mistral OCR
This is $1 per 1000 pages. For comparison, Azure Document Intelligence is $1.5/1000 pages for general OCR and $30/1000 pages for “custom extraction”.
coolspot··on Mistral OCR
This is $1 per 1000 pages.

For comparison, Azure Document Intelligence is $1.5/1000 pages for general OCR and $30/1000 pages for “custom extraction”.

coolspot··on DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon
> More than twice as fast as Nvidia 4090 for AI.

Not in memory bandwidth which is all that matter for LLM inference.

coolspot··on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
512GB/s from insiders
coolspot··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
Tim Apple has been on inauguration, so very possible.
coolspot··on Microsoft reveals new Surface Pro laptops with up to 22 hours of battery life
Not in the “up to” estimate.
coolspot··on Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts
It is impossible to watch only till the aside about dedicating the hospital wing without learning about the acupuncturist. Those two are connected. You’re not fun.
coolspot··on Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts
That’s a very good and funny interview, thank you!

TLDW: Steve Jobs cured Scott Forstall’s chronic nausea by almost dedicating a wing in a hospital.

coolspot··on Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
Medium scale nuclear test. Largest was 50Mt
coolspot··on Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger"
> basically is Jensen bullied Huang into buying more GPUs

Jensen is Huang. Jensen Huang is NVidia’s CEO.

Schrödinger’s CEO is Ramy Farid

coolspot··on Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive
Too easy: get 36TB of indexed data instead of 22TB
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