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Re:University Rescinds Offer to Activist Allegeded to Wipe Phone Befor...
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:39PM (#49743283)
This fellow is free to be an activist but I don’t think that any employer, public or private, owes him a job. I respect the desire to push back against surveillance, and still see how such an employee could be a distraction for a company or institution. Hopefully he will find employment with a company or institution that is aligned with his advocacy.
Re:Thom's account on an exchange with OpenAI regarding non-sofic groups
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:51AM (#49643717)
Old Facebook trick - likely resetting that box each time the app is updated.
Re:Mistral raises €3B
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:52AM (#49609052)
So what happens when Mistral creates a collection of powerful AIs for different clients that have fundamentally different ethical frameworks from each other? Then those AI interact? Do they politely agree to disagree? Or do they goal seek against each other?
Re:Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper too...
on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:44AM (#49415599)
Open router is the answer, get the intelligence you need and have the flexibility to not get trapped
Re:Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, ...
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:06AM (#49370567)
The UK is the counter example to this analysis. The NHS was a marvel in the early years, now however it is bogged down with so many layers of bureaucracy it is massively inefficient.
Re:ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell
on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:59AM (#47451750)
I wonder if there are plans to licence the content for AI training
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:51PM (#46531592)
Seems like a good start. Then ban this as an asset class for scale investors so they have to release existing inventory.
Re:Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:11AM (#46310466)
ITS A TRAP!
If your app is successful their infrastructure will see all the traffic, your responses and will be able to mimic what you do and kick the husk of your app in the weeds. (Unless your function comes from some massive unique dataset they can’t by access to.)
Re:What do you think of my landing Page designed in Canva
on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:23AM (#46157086)
Does not work so great on mobile. Site content just scales down to a small unreadable text.
Most of your uses will visit on mobile
Re:What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:00PM (#46100869)
I’ve seen airline training videos about in flight battery fires. But I’ve never considered the risk of ear buds catching on fire. Normally, you should feel them heating up before they catch but they might just blow, that would be very sore. Also if you’re sleeping with buds in you could end up with a fire before you woke up.
Re:Fears of AI Bubble Grow, Bank of America Survey Shows
on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:18AM (#45968236)
Pro Tip: see who is short selling
Re:Show HN: Night Vision App for iPhone Now Offers Free Basic Features
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:00AM (#45897137)
From the privacy page of the app developer
“ In addition, according to relevant laws, regulations and national standards, we may share, transfer, and publicly disclose personal information without your prior authorization and consent in the following situations:
Those directly related to national security and national defense security; Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests; Those directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments; In order to protect the life and property of the personal information subject or other individuals, but it is difficult to obtain the consent of the individual; Personal information subjects disclose personal information to the public on their own; Collect personal information from legally publicly disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure and other channels.”
Under Chinese law everything is national security if the state asks for it.
The last sentence looks like they give themselves permission to collect as much information about there users as possible
In any case I can’t see any way they are compliant with GDPR.
Re:Harvard says it's been giving too many A grades to students
on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:27AM (#45743312)
The issue that many schools face is that companies complain the grads - even with PhDs - are not able to do anything useful in the workplace. When my wife did her PhD more than 10 years ago (in the UK) she was required to take a stack of ungraded workshops under the label “professionalizing the PhD” it was totally annoying waste of time for her. The stuff was “basics of Excel”, “Research poster making”, “ intro to Adobe suite”, etc this was done because the university had received feedback that PhD grads could literally do nothing useful when hired.
From the article. “About 60% of the grades handed out in classes for the university’s undergraduate program are A’s, up from 40% a decade ago and less than a quarter 20 years ago, according to a report released Monday by Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Education”
Harvard is currently under a lot of pressure from donors , courts ( loss of case on admissions), and political pressure from US administration.
Awarding 60% A’s does not help them make the case that they know what they are doing and should just be allowed to carry on.
Re:Roc Camera
on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:52AM (#45691249)
Kinda interesting- of course until it hacked. But honestly it does not look like something I would want to carry around.
Re:Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:33AM (#45681093)
Thank you for your thoughtful and helpful reply.
Re:Why Is Stainless Steel Not Magnetic?
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:48AM (#45680052)
That was a very interesting discussion. I had seen last week a magnet fail to stick to a stainless camping cup and was puzzled. I have worked in metal forming in the past but did not do a lot with stainless. So really interesting
Re:Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:39AM (#45679989)
I see a lot of comments here about using some browser that will allow ME to see sites I want to see, but I did not see a lot about how do I protect my site or sites of clients from being subjected to this. Is there anything proactive that can be done? A set of checks almost like regression testing? I understand it can be a bit like virus builders using anti virus to test their next virus. But is there a set of best practices that could give you higher probability of not being blocked?
I could see gov imaging satellites with a direct encrypted laser communications to GPU’s in orbit being attractive. Images processing, movement pattern analysis, multi spectral, and as they mentioned radar.
Re:How to save your Claude chats
on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:39AM (#45655047)
I have found that Claude is not keeping some of my chats in the chat list and when I search I get bits of my conversation but not all of it. I found this solution to this problem. What have you found that works well?
Ask HN: What is the best way to preserve, and continue to use chats in Claude?
I use Claude Ai frequently, the other day I was working on a project and got interrupted and came back to that chat a few days later, only to find it was not in my chat list. I did a search and Claude seemed to find part of the chat but not all of it. Then I realized how naive I have been in my usage. The chat history looked like it was keeping all these threads for me to reference and continue...
Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:54PM (#45611152)
Ballistic food , not so great.
Years ago we went to an ice hockey game with our children.subway sandwich was there with their sandwich gun. They can shoot 6 inch sandwiches into the crowd. They got carried away and some sandwiches hit the ceiling of the arena, some disassembled on route to the crowd but most made to happy sports fans. My oldest son was quite young still and he was so distraught/ disgusted by the bits of sandwich flying around he has never entered a subway sandwich shop since then.
Re:Freed Israeli hostages recount brutal beatings, starvation
on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:06AM (#45577805)
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147217
The UN, not a great champion of Isreal, found compelling evidence of abuse.
Re:Google Announces First AI Hub in India
on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:56AM (#45577758)
Is this in part a response to HB-1 visa costs?
Re:Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
on Monday October 06, 2025 @11:12PM (#45499030)
How long before we see these attached to bombs dropped by drones? It would reduce time over target and likely increase accuracy.
Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:24PM (#45442981)
Here is the results of the following Google search “uk coverup of rape gangs” and the results
https://www.thefp.com/p/muslim-grooming-gangs-cover-up-keir-...
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/06/18/the-grooming-ga...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-casey-r...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gan...
https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-w...
How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f247768ad7912bdc
https://theweek.com/crime/the-grooming-gangs-scandal-explain...
https://womenagainstrape.net/statement-rape-and-grooming-gan...
Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @08:33AM (#45436931)
I was providing evidence that there was an issue.
Not trying to take a side.
You can retract your f**.
Yes there is a debate now and it is very open, and there are many reports that it was not so open and people were hurt for a long time. Was that political cover up? Each can decide - but I think the debate shows there was a real issue.
Re:Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:51AM (#45434694)
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-04-28/debates/2E7...
Rather than jump into the raging press coverage or as some see it raging press coverup - here is a link to debate in UK Parliament that indicates there is an issue.
Re:Imgur is geoblocking the UK
on Monday September 29, 2025 @04:51PM (#45418611)
I’m in the uK and confirm - it’s blocked
Re:All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card'
on Saturday September 27, 2025 @06:03PM (#45399708)
The UK gov will force the ID cards on everyone, knowing full well that people don’t want them. Then china will hack the Uk and steal all the data.