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The Schadenfreude is fine, but maybe they are smarter than the S&P and have bet against some hypes, just a little early?
There is a world where melatonin is not worth it in the short run, but the result flips after a few days of sleep deprivation in the control group.
Re:Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders? on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:19PM (#49024128)
There could be a border, where the law and currency change. But people could still be free to cross that border.

I don't know what you mean with the russia/Ukraine thing, bringing a tank over the border would obviously be illegal in either legal system.

Here is a video from the youtube channel Better Biomed, from the scene, apparently it was his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L_8x-Y0jqg
Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:57AM (#47863725)
because your paycheck comes only one day per month, so that estimate would bee too high by a factor of 30
If everyone stopped mining transactions couldn't go through anymore and the value of bitcoin would drop. If you're heavily invested in bitcoin that's bad. Also miners try to squeeze in their preferred transactions which they can't do when they're not mining. Finally the costs dont drop to zero when you turn the miners off, so the loss from mining might be less than the loss when not mining.
This calculation is a bit naive, you should at least take into account the capabilities and crew training and operation cost. That's before you start thinking about the cost of crew rescue missions. It seems to fly way higher than the poseidon, so I guess it covers more ground as well.
The boot verification code wasn't replaced, because it sits in the encrypted partition.
Re:No "New Deal" for OpenAI on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:45AM (#47674447)
Are 18 dollar virgin negronis a thing? I love these obscure bits of cultural information. Does anyone know of a resource that lists more?
Is this a human writing in the style of LLMs?

The exemption is diplomatic, not commercial.

The Yuan Dimension

I hate it.

You would, but if you do studies that claim that microplastics accumulate in our bodies or even in out brains it makes a difference.
Re:iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @03:26AM (#47499526)
Unfortunately no, experts are typically switched out for every token. The way I understand it the idea was something like having each expert be good at one kind of task, but that's not how it panned out after training.
Exactly, there are no losers here, everyone gets lunch.
Would you build a fab that costs billions and takes years to start production because of a bubble?
-I do see it on the edge of a single finger.

-I agree, also I can only observe the effect when focusing on the gap

-sure, but weirdly the effect has to be wavelength dependent, but there are no color fringes.

I think this is something else, but haven't figured it out yet.

Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:52AM (#47021607)
That's not the case. Most of these wouldn't kill you. Many of those that would kill you would be spotted in time anyways.

And the few that would kill you and would otherwise not be noticed are so rare that the risk of the procedures on the others is considered higher.

Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:48AM (#47021590)
No, you still wouldn't, because doctors are neither free nor perfectly rational.

The probability of finding something worth a biopsy is not low, it is high compared to the probability of the patient requiring intervention.

Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:41AM (#47021564)
It is not only money, machines and doctors are also a limited resource.

The other bit is that no one follows your protocol, everyone looks at the scans, finds reasons to worry. Then you have the choice between unnecessary biopsies and psychological stress.

Re:Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:49PM (#46909275)
this one has a better font, might be a simple copy&paste job
Re:Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:46PM (#46909254)
this would not have helped here
Re:Data centers in space makes no sense on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:36AM (#46884098)
This only makes sense if it somehow helps to evade some kind of regulation. I'm not quite sure which though.
Absolutly, they intentionally make stuff sound secure and private while keeping full access.
Is there an independent audit of the Whatsapp client and of the servers?
I find this wording also "a bit strange".

It is not a mathematical impossibility in any way.

For example they might be able to read the backups, the keys might be somehow (accidentaly or not) leaked...

And then the part about Telegram not having end2end encryption? What's this all about?

Re:Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:17PM (#46820470)
the diet was just maintained for two days
thank you for this, I have a follow up question: Now an attacker can not install an old, vulnerable version. But couldn't they just install a new, vulnerable version? Is there something that enforces encryption key deletion in one case and not the other?
On the main page it states clearly that messages are e2e encrypted. So all they can collect is metadata.
Re:Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:35AM (#46146015)
I agree, most websites allow complex flows. But I suspect, that most loads don't ever touch those. There is probably an automated way to deliver just a flat page, and maybe even allow for the top 5 interactions without loading all the frameworks and libraries.
Re:Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:43AM (#46144513)
Maybe it's time we make a simple web page 100KB again? Is there some kind of CDN minification, adblocking and compression service? Maybe even server side rendering of websites?

Then a smartphone would work fine with 1GB of RAM and everyone could be happy.

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