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Glad to know the frozen middle exists among the hyperscalers. High confidence you can swap the entire leadership team and nothing will change.

Until there's a exploit for Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco, F5, <pick your defender>.

I have an M1 Air 13" and M2 Air 15", and M4 Air 14" and and M4 Pro 14" with nano texture.

I love them all. The M4 Air 14" is from work, so kinda limited in what I can do. The M4 14" Pro is kinda chunky after the Airs. The M2 15" is ideal except on a plane. The M1 13" is great as a personal device on work travel. If only I could not work...

I really loved target display mode. It made me so happy

That's funny. If only LG could do proper design.

> I don't want to give US labs the results of my DNA tests

My friend, you realize that if you have had blood drawn for a genetic test, there is a very decent probability that the sequencing was done by a Chinese lab operating in the US, right? The Chinese probably have more US genomes that the US does.

https://pandorareport.org/the-gryphon-scientific-biosecurity...

Also, illumina used to ship products with hardcoded S3 access, so purchasers of used equipment could gain access to sequencing information generated by the original owners. Too many links to cover all of it, here's the Gemini summary:

https://share.google/aimode/4JLsHpeRCWlVqU8qT

With bad dentists (1) and bad debt underwriters on the HN front page, I love that subjective diagnosis remains challenging and topical.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050553

If you find medical diagnosis to be problematic, may I recommend the following article? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41282362/ The leed is buried in the abstract, but the name of the analysis is pretty informative: Cases and Observers Needed to Evaluate a Subjective Test (CONTEST)

This is the core insight, some in the original grad student author's own words:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention-the-essence-of-i...

"Sentences with pronouns such as “it” in them illustrate the challenge that attention overcomes. Consider: “The animal didn’t cross the street because it was too tired.” And: “The animal didn’t cross the street because it was too wide.” To translate these sentences correctly into French, an AI model must determine that, in the first one, “it” refers to the animal, which is a masculine word in French, so the translation should use that form of the pronoun, il. But in the second sentence, “it” refers to the street, a feminine word that requires a different pronoun, elle. How can the machine figure this out?"

"Bahdanau remembered doing translation exercises when he was learning English in school. To write each next word of his translated sentence, he’d have to glance all around the source text to figure out what should come next. “Literally you have your source sentence on the left and your writing on the right, and you’ll be, like, turning your head, left-right, left-right,” he said. “That process is what I expressed as a neural mechanism.”

That simplicity seems to me the real tell that this is the real insight. The author does a good job of walking the ready past a long list of distractors and conjuring a sense of a path to an insight, and then, there's the insight - a simple encoding of a simple task: "What is the next word? How do I figure that out? Left-right. Left-right"

Multi-user personalization is a disaster on iPadOS. Google Home basically nails it but has a lot of edge case shortcomings in that last 20%. Hopefully Apple is laying the groundwork for a more comprehensive approach.

I would love an iPad that magnetically attached over the top of this thing and immediately gave me the same multi-user OS interaction of HomeView and the bigger screen of the iPad. Which I could then take with me as needed. Seems like a few magnets and a screen-sharing function away.

But also, why in the God's hell does this thing not have wireless charging and a battery? Who in the hell has a 30W USB-C riser coming up out of the middle of their kitchen island? A) has kitchen B) has kitchen island C) has kitchen island with power D) has kitchen island with concealed power amenable to random chargers. This seems like a very bespoke audience.

Looking forward to version 3, shortly after Apple Vision Pro version 2.

How is Claude Opus 5.5 beating Gemini 4 Argon on benchmarks but everyone here is calling Argon a step change? I need to come up with my own benchmarks ...

Uh, not sure I agree with your terminology - one does not authorize who you are. You authenticate yourself, certain tokens authenticate your identity with varying levels of strength (e.g. within a corporate enclave, you may have elevated authorizations if you are authenticating from a corporate device).

Authorizations are what are granted to an authenticated identity, typically with a specified scope and duration.

OpenID came out of Six Apart, the developer of Movable Type blogging software (They lost the betamax war of blogging to Wordpress) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#History

The fact that policy changes were made should be noted. Among those policy decisions, did India make its own transformers, conductors, and SCADA, (i.e. Indian companies) or did they buy from outside? Seems like it would be better for them to source their own transformers and conductors if they can. I wonder if they'd be better off developing their own software though? Quick Google search suggests that they source from international suppliers like Schneider and Siemens.

For those interested in pricing transparency, check out https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/standard-charge...

and the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care - https://www.dartmouthatlas.org/

Hi, your friendly, local pathologist here. I'm the kind of doctor that diagnoses liver diseases, cancer, lots of infections, inflammatory processes, benign tumors, and runs the lab that a lot of other doctors use the results from to inform a lot of their other decisions.

If you really want to learn about this stuff, Robert Weinberg's The Biology of Cancer is where to start. It introduces concepts starting where a high school student could understand and carefully walks through the history of our development of knowledge until, by the end, the pithy chapters are helping novel concepts for real science flower in your brain all on their own. It's the best book of biological science I have ever read. 10/10, will read again.

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393887655

I have to say, as a middle-aged physician in the military, the dynamics of hiring terrify me. I interviewed to get into college, medical school, and residency. At all other times I have been gainfully employed. I hear about people studying for weeks or months for job interviews. What do you do to study?

Meanwhile, we've got un-tethered humanoid robots that apparently accept "attack person" as acceptable input.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1sBBvHSXc

> I worked at times in a JTAC capacity

glad to see you're alive and functioning

How to admit you're in finance without admitting you're in finance?

Hot damn. I've described this concept before, obviously not to this level of detail, but leaving this comment in here in case I can find my old comments. A bunch of people have poo-poo'd my proposals, but glad to see a serious actor really executing it. Probably no one at Apple ever read my posts, but it sure does feel good to see something executed. Hopefully it sticks.

> That is condescending, makes normal people feel unheard, and then when someone does hear them on the innocuous subject

And that is why all the pollsters were caught flat-footed by Trump in 2016. The people who did feel unheard learned to not respond.

So, still using Anthropic is the way I read this.

Which was written as a call to action. The Valley should remember how trade is kept free, especially all those electronics moving Eastward across the Pacific. Worth reading Mahan if you're confused.

The difference between nukes and bioweapons is energy level. Body counts are on the same order of magnitude. Bioweapons are just way easier to make and much harder to detect.

link?

That has only been the case since 2008. Obama had no choice but manage the fallout of the Bush admin's record-setting-for-the-time fuck-ups.

Reagan followed a fairly positively stated agenda. Clinton pursued a fairly positive agenda. George the 2nd followed a fairly positive, if misguided, agenda. And then it became a reactive shitshow.

So much for the "THINK" motto.

This is eerily suggestive of a vulnerability Hank Paulson hinted at in his 2014 book "Dealing with China"

"Every nonelectric cooler comes with 25 years of free real-time monitoring. On a visit to the company in the spring of 2012, I watched as technicians in Broad Air’s space-age control room checked on the performance of its units in locations as diverse as the Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain; Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego, California; and Fort Stewart, the U.S. Army base in Georgia [emphasis added].

"Zhang says that 80 percent of his clients are repeaters. “If you bring long-term benefits for your clients, they will choose you.”"