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Non-native English speaker so if it sounded bad maybe I just failed to express it
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soco··on Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix
I have a naive question here: how different are all those business? Does every one need their owl representation? How was it when SAP was modeling every process in the enterprise, wasn't it not already uniformizing enough? Or maybe you mean the value gets lost exactly in those fine deviations from the cookie cutter approximations?
soco··on Waymo in Toronto
Are you referring to the actual case mentioned here, where a car passed slowly through a market and... that was all what happened?
soco··on Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities
The downvoted comment is actually right: both Netherlands and the EU have mutual legal assistance treaties with the US. Now whether the Dutch legal basis was respected or not, local investigations (including parliamentary) are ongoing so nobody here on HN can really answer. But yes, the transfer can be legally blocked and actually must (and will) wait for a decision on it.
soco··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
As it happens, pretty much all far right nationalist parties are friendly with Russia. It would take a huge effort to change that discourse, or to build a new far right party from scratch - and now even without russian botnet support.
soco··on Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change
Who was it saying recently they started smoking because AI will solve lung cancer?
soco··on Firefox Enterprise
Are you using, or planning to use, the Enterprise version, and feel like this functionality is missing? Or is the complain about the regular release? I'm asking because I fail to see the link...
soco··on Thinking will become a hobby
I'd love to be able to say you are right, but from what I see right on top, I have very serious doubts. Maybe they are convinced they have better means to protect themselves against that revolution. What could those means be, if not dystopia?
soco··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
Would they prefer their money-maker being kept to digital jail? Still fed electricity and tasks so the "sentience" doesn't suffer?
soco··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
You have a very engineer-like approach, like if you draw the line from A to B everything will work fine. Real world is different though. Humans will blissfully ignore the orders, business analysis is a lost cause since decades, and AI is built on human knowledge so guess what it will keep doing. Now what? How do we build systems without assuming complete adherence, but tolerating imperfection and failures? Isn't there some discipline teaching us that?
soco··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
Or it's just a flood of comments trying to take the moral high ground without actually helping in any way the cause. I'll call it pure aura farming or something, because I totally fail to see how constant bickering about any fixes is actually doing any fixing. Yes, I'm irritated.
soco··on Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
Added 17GW solar in the last 12 months, reached 129GW: https://solarzubau.de/deutschland/
soco··on Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim
Why on earth was an AI video shown before the court? Since when are KNOWN forgeries acceptable as anything? Why aren't anybody addressing this???
soco··on I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
I read the book decades ago, then I lost it in one of the many relocations. I always thought I should buy it again but never acted on the idea... A few years ago, I was walking by an antiquarian, and noticed a thin unmarked gray spine. I entered, picked it up, paid, and walked away.

PS I didn't open the gallery. Nice idea but I don't care about visualizing something I should feel.

soco··on 'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
For my understanding: aren't "terrorists" meant those who target random bystanders to make a point? In this particular case Altman is no bystander (but his family is).
soco··on German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism
At least in theory, no AI is making decisions on that - just adding a summary/categorization to the applicant dossier sitting in front of the HR. Now the bigger question is, what does a normal employee do with an AI recommendation? What are you as a software developer doing with the agent recommendations?
soco··on German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism
While technically possible, what are the chances to be targeted by such a defamation attack? We are not talking some high profile personality, just some Joe User looking for a job.
soco··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
So you actually agree with us here: you set up an automation, or set up an AI, to plagiarize. You (automation), and OpenAI (AI set up), are correctly being sued. Because none of you thought "do it New Yorker style" also means "do it legally". And no, legality is not optional - even for techbros.
soco··on OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
You probably mean "what the fuck, USA" and even that would be wrong, because another commenter mentioned a case in Germany, and I know about a driver who killed a cyclist (which I knew) in Switzerland and was fined like 500CHF.
soco··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
My commute is 23km one way, and the shops are even closer. I'm the 95%.
soco··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
I was shocked at the thought of having to move "only" 100km a day... we are living in such different worlds. And yes I do commute, but by public transport and less than 30km away and definitely not every day.
soco··on European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance
I need international payments maybe once a month. Sample size of one.
soco··on European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance
Nevertheless, that app could be one day running with F-Droid and such... or that's what I dream. The infrastructure is only one piece of the huge dependency puzzle.
soco··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
If the government in power didn't want the EU, why should the EU love them back? Also, that government was in the meantime kicked out by its own population, so your complaint is a bit dated.
soco··on Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant
The best moment to fix this was yesterday. The second best time to fix it is now.
soco··on Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
I think there's this huge gap coming with age. Nobody does that spaghetti thing anymore, good friends after finishing school move elsewhere, responsibilities in many new fields increase and the opportunities to meet hundred candidates decrease exponentially. So even if you'd continue doing the spaghetti, I doubt you'd have too many to feed...
soco··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
I see in Switzerland teachers being constantly required to fill in for missing colleagues. They might be lured in with good pay, but in the end are unable to cope - so they leave. And then the administration keeps wondering "how much money they want???" instead of hiring more teachers...
soco··on Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
Their tone reads more like a cultist knee-jerk reaction, I mean who else talks like that.
soco··on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK
My EV transport costs are roughly half of gas costs, only charged at home. I had zero garage visits in two years - but the car was also new so that might change.
soco··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
I bet an underlying thought is that we crabs will have to finance the entire Mars colony adventure through taxes and incentives and subsidies and whatnot.
soco··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
The brainless policies continue as we speak: traditional parties keep you exposed to financial masters because money talks, and extremists keep you exposed to their masters because, again, money talks. So: money talks and Europe is still a good milking cow.
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