astroflection
Re:Widespread service disruptions reported as major platforms go down ...
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:09PM (#46061794)
Haven't noticed.
Re:USPTO issues revised inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventio...
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:05PM (#46060467)
"Artificial intelligence systems, regardless of their sophistication, cannot be named as inventors or joint inventors on a patent application as they are not natural persons.
...
Therefore, this guidance regarding AI-assisted inventions applies not only to utility patents and patent applications but also to design and plant patents and patent applications"
Re:Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-Day from Earth
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:18AM (#46058196)
Carl Sagan's reflection on the Pale Blue Dot( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ) image seem relevant:
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. "
Re:Roblox is a problem – but it's a symptom of something worse
on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:12PM (#46050176)
> And Mojang itself is adding fuel to the fire by...
You mean Microsoft.
Re:How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and A...
on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:59PM (#46008930)
I don't know of a name for this but I would rephrase what you are getting at:
The state uses private entities to get around the constitution while those same private entities use the state to get around regulation.
It's a sick fucking symbiosis.
Re:Basalt Woven Textile
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:27PM (#45995170)
I wonder how long it takes for the basalt glass to begin to crystalize?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devitrification#Devitrificatio...
Re:The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:04PM (#45994849)
> The people we now call “chronically homeless” were once simply low-income tenants, housed by the private market in cheap rooms rather than by public programs. Once that market was dismantled, the result was predictable: the homelessness wave of the late 1970s and 1980s followed directly from the destruction of SROs. Today’s crisis—nearly 800,000 unhoused people in 2024—is the long tail of that loss, compounded by decades of underbuilding in expensive cities and soaring rents. As one advocate put it, “The people you see sleeping under bridges used to be valued members of the housing market. They aren’t anymore.”
Re:When grades stop meaning anything
on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:08PM (#45984447)
Regurgitation ≠ learning
Regurgitation involves short term memory and micmicking. It does not build new neural connections.
Learning involves longer term memory, synthesis of new perspectives(in the learner), and integration of knowledge across multiple domains. Learning is the building of new neural connections.
I posit that you did not actually learn how to learn and thus just regurgitated your way through math.
Re:How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity
on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:09AM (#45981271)
> Yet social-media personalities regularly do a 180° turn on some issue ... and still keep their following and ability to monetize it.
And they asserted that they were totally right the entire time. That's how. And the sheep kept on following them.
Re:Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication
on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:25PM (#45971551)
Yes. It's a nasty parasite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris_procyonis
Raccoons while cute, smart, interesting, etc., should not be considered as pets as long as this parasite exists.
Re:Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing
on Friday November 14, 2025 @11:17AM (#45928325)
Re:Hemp Ban Hidden Inside Government Shutdown Bill
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:25PM (#45920058)
Too bad there are no technologies that would allow the citizenry to communicate nearly instantaneously and cast their votes in a pseudo-anonymous manner.
Re:Human Fovea Detector
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:16AM (#45915856)
I get about 4cm wide at 50cm distance.
Re:Apple Introduced Digital ID in Apple Wallet
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:44PM (#45904125)
Nope. I will continue to have a DL card so I can choose to leave my phone at home.
When we are required to have our IDs on our person at all times I can at least not be tracked everywhere I go.
Be watchful for legislation requiring: * us to have our ID on our person at all times. * IDs to be issued in digital format only.
Re:Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on ...
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:33AM (#45902192)
Re:Think Weirder: The Year's Best SciFi Ideas
on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:54PM (#45879408)
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neigh...
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @03:53PM (#45840290)
Or just get a secret tropical island.
Re:Eating Stinging Nettles
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:21PM (#45837645)
I first tried nettle soup in Bulgaria. So delicious. FYI you can replace spinach with nettle in almost any recipe and vise versa.
Re:Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:19PM (#45828174)
The M-PESA transaction fees are high.
<sarc>M-PESA helps fight poverty through the ingenious application of a thousand paper cuts. </sarc>
Criminals getting violent more often to secure big crypto payouts in Europe
Re:It's better to be rich than right
on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:51PM (#45762150)
Content aside, I find it sad that "journalists" don't even bother tagging their opinion articles with "Opinion" or "Editorial" any more.
Re:10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued hi...
on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:15PM (#45735725)
All security
is merely a fantasy
of mortal people.
Re:Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations
on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:57PM (#45724236)
Had to look this up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
Re:Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
on Monday October 27, 2025 @10:58AM (#45721737)
I am assuming the 7.7 billion gallons(29b liters) a year is all surface water. It better be. It would be hideously irresponsible to use any ground water for cooling their data centers.
Re:Democracy and the open internet die in daylight
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:55AM (#45670079)
Trust/faith in "democracy" is a fools religion. 100% transparency is the only way out of the pit of feces we find ourselves in election after election.
Re:The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and ...
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:45AM (#45669912)
The actual paper's title: "The Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link between the Transformer and Models of the Brain"
Don't berate the authors for the HN submitter's carelessness.
Re:Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems
on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:45PM (#45657993)
Yes and it's inner workings are 100% transparent.
Re:The mad king's digital killswitch
on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:29PM (#45646609)
"Today, another mad dictator is threatening the world's infrastructure. For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works."