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fhdkweig··on No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
If it is more than just the one guy, it could also mean that they are expecting the AI to kill them before the cancer does.
fhdkweig··on Where Wealth Is Moving in America (2023)
So basically the same as "woke".
fhdkweig··on Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP
> Not all hacks are used to steal data

Sometimes, they just want to send spam. Ages ago, someone got a hold of our company's webserver and all they used it for was sending a ridiculous volume of emails. Our ISP spotted the traffic spike and pulled our server off the network.

fhdkweig··on 3.75-MWh battery system installed indoors at NY affordable housing building
> these are lithium batteries, which have significant failure mode issues

Agreed. Specifically, these are lithium-ion rather than the new lithium iron phosphates which have none of those issues. No one should be doing lithium-ion for new installations. Lithium ions are only viable in cars which need the lower weight limits.

fhdkweig··on [dead]
More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177911 which got pushed off the front page really fast, and I expect this will too.
fhdkweig··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
If you look at the before and after photos of past POTUSes, you can see a visible aging. If we ignore the current POTUS, I think we can say that there are a lot of long hours of stressful trolley problems.
fhdkweig··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
I read both. They seem related to me. They are both about supermarket fridges getting hacked over the internet.

I like similar articles' discussions to be linked together. I didn't see a link, so I added one. I don't see why I am getting all the angry downvotes.

fhdkweig··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
This is either a dupe or a followup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 from 8 days ago with 1007 comments
fhdkweig··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
https://inkorr.com/en/litna-zinka-v-kostantinivci-napisala-v...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ukrainian+woman+writes+i+ask+for+b...

A woman wrote "I ask for bread" in the snow in front of her house. A passing drone photographed it. This led to a later mission to air drop food to her.

fhdkweig··on Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents
Follow the money. It's because the schools have figured out a way to monetize spectator sports but not spectator academics. The only spectator events that I recall was a spelling bee that only the parents came to, and if they charged for a ticket, even the parents wouldn't have shown up. If the schools could get money out of the program, they would put money into it.
fhdkweig··on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
https://ballotpedia.org/Ritchie_Torres

Yep, he's running for reelection.

fhdkweig··on Nine-Inch Snails
Americans eat lobster for the same reason. It was considered trash food until we discovered garlic butter.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=was+lobster+considered+peas...

fhdkweig··on The Fatal Flaw of 911
Does anyone know if you have to have the GPS radio of the phone switched on for that to work? I keep my GPS and WIFI radios switched off for both privacy and to reduce the drain on the battery unless I specifically need it on when lost.
fhdkweig··on The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
My layman understanding of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is that you are correct. It states that there are things that are true but no proof can exist (providable by human or AI provers).
fhdkweig··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
I'm of the belief that when that happens, it is state-sponsored bots messing with the voting. Sometimes when I make a comment on political matters, it gets waves of upvotes and downvotes.

  Thanks by the way for introducing me to that graph.  I didn't know that anyone collected that kind of stuff.
fhdkweig··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
> ads in the stars

I'm reminded of the ending of the 2008 film Hancock in which Hancock defaced the moon with a corporate logo. But it was okay because it was "for a good cause".

fhdkweig··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
A later submission has more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103000 , 57 comments 1 hour ago
fhdkweig··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
People have disliked ads since ads existed. Carl Sagan's 1985 book Contact includes a brazillionaire S.R. Hadden who made his fortune by inventing an adblocker for television. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)
fhdkweig··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
It is also confusing to fans of Studio Ghibli.
fhdkweig··on How the Military Will Hack the Election
In what way is trump worse for russia or china? Trump does everything Putin asks, and as for China, he is helping more accidentally by sending our allies running to the only other reliable trade partner available.
fhdkweig··on The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
That was terrible phrasing. I meant "The problem with the proof was that although it showed that FCT was true, the proof did not explain why".
fhdkweig··on The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
The problem of the proof was that we knew that FCT was true, but we had no idea why. A good/elegant proof teaches us something new about how that problem is related to other problems. It isn't just about getting a true/false answer to the conjecture.
fhdkweig··on OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
I know FPGAs are more expensive than GPUs, but are they fast enough to justify the extra cost?
fhdkweig··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
Where did everyone else go?
fhdkweig··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
I first touched it around 2010 and didn't like the desktop environment. Someone showed me the different flavors and I settled on XFCE (Xubuntu). I'm still using an Ubuntu flavor just for its APT repository. I'm of the unsubstantiated belief that if a distro has a large userbase, it will have a better maintained repository, so I will probably never leave.
fhdkweig··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Newer LiFePo4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries don't have the fire issues that the previous Lithium Ion generation did. They are a bit more expensive and heavier, but they are superior in every other way (safety, lifespan, max charge cycles).
fhdkweig··on Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
I don't really know anything about skiing, but can you do that in a virgin old-growth forest?
fhdkweig··on Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
Trying to buy himself back into heaven, like Bill Gates did. We only have the article's quotation for evidence, but it does say:

> Karp made the purchase through his newly registered company Cladonia Skog AB. The chairman of Cladonia told the Swedish newspaper that the land provides valuable habitat for wildlife and space for recreation.

fhdkweig··on Coltrane's Shadow
see more discussion on this topic at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845284 (8 hours ago, 20 comments)
fhdkweig··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
TikTok threw up a big "login" popup that I couldn't skip, so here is a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUwQmrEFf7E
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