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That's not helpful without context and substance.
> China will have the robot-operated factories, not the US. What do you anticipate the US will do to obtain goods from those Chinese factories?

Why not let the market take care of it? It's cheaper to buy things from China then make them yourself. When that changes, production will naturally move to the next best place. I don't see the issue.

No reasonable person interprets the original comment as someone not knowing about the existence of a LAN, hence snark.
> I'm kinda surprised you've managed to be on HN for 5 years and never come across the concept of a "LAN" or "VPN" before

Unnecessary snark.

Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:05AM (#43231799)
the berlin hackerspace scene would not allow police at their events
Do you have a source that iOS Lockdown Mode protects against Cellebrite? Because Cellebrite boasts they can extract data from latest iOS versions and does not even mention Lockdown Mode as an obstacle in their documentation: https://stacker.news/items/617666

Meanwhile, Cellebrite is unabe to extract data from newer Pixel phones with GrapheneOS: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

Re:Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:17PM (#43072291)
I can't tell if you're intentionally misrepresenting what I said. I said we can tell with certainty "how likely or unlikely" something is, i.e. we can precisely calculate the probability.
Re:Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:29AM (#43066711)
Right but we have the tools to rule that out. That's what the field of statistics deals with. It tells you with mathematical certainty how likely or unlikely the correlation you're observing is to be random.
Re:Perplexity Deep Research on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:21AM (#43066668)
That's what I did. It came up with smart-sounding but infeasible recommendations because it took all sources it found online at face value without considering who authored them for what reason. And it lacked a massive amount of background knowledge to evaluate the claims made in the sources. It took outlandish, utopian demands by some activists in my field and sold them to me as things that might plausibly be implemented in the near future.

Real research needs several more levels of depth of contextual knowledge than the model is currently doing for any prompt. There is so much background information that people working in my field know. The model would have to first spend a ton of time taking in everything there is to know about the field and several related fields and then correlate the sources it found for the specific prompt with all of that.

At the current stage, this is not deep research but research that is remarkably shallow.

Re:Perplexity Deep Research on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:15AM (#43066634)
I'm getting about 1 minute responses, did you turn on the Deep Research option below the prompt?
Re:Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:46AM (#43048854)
That's what the author deals with in the first part of the article on observational studies. Randomized studies don't have that problem.
Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:41PM (#42659946)
There's dozens of us!
Re: on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:19PM (#42403457)
If you believe that Microsoft is stealing Recall data behind its users' backs do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users? If Microsoft isn't doing that could it be because that would be suicidal from a business perspective?
Let's hope the photosensor processing software on the receiving end doesn't have any bugs that could be exploited.
Re:Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo? on Friday September 06, 2024 @05:12AM (#41464374)
It's not a diagram or mock-up, it's a direct representation of the real thing for computer simulations, similar to CAD. The dimensions and shape of the components are accurate. And the author is calling it a logo because the picture is used to represent and advertise the software.
Re:Can solar costs keep shrinking? on Friday August 30, 2024 @06:28AM (#41399393)
I wish JUST ONE PERSON in the comments would read the gosh darn article.
"Let me throw shade on this open source project that does incredibly ambitious thing X and that tons of people are devoting lots of time to, by suggesting they should instead do this other esoteric thing Y that 99% of users don't care about but that I, the entitled power user, think they should be doing instead."
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:37AM (#41003590)
> we can't place med orders, look up patient records, discharge patients from the hospital, enter them into our system, really much of anything.

If actually treating a patient with life saving measures during a heart attack isn't "much of anything" I don't know what is.

Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:05AM (#41003216)
What does treating a heart attack have to do with anything? Surely none of the medical devices needed to treat a heart attack are Windows PCs connected to the internet? Sorry but this reads as fearmongering. Did the receptionist's PC go down while doctors were treating a heart attack patient?
The structure and tone of this text reeks of LLM.
Banks don't care if it's "cheaper than" some other form of power generation, they care that profitability is safe over a very long time span. If power prices crash 5 or 10 years from now because of renewables overcapacity (which is already happening regionally on sunny days with solar), profitability is gone.
Re:Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:59AM (#40464872)
This has the same CPU and twice the RAM and storage for $220:

https://www.amazon.com/CUBOT-Tablet-10-4-inch-Android13-Tabl...

So that's a $500 premium for the new display and less RAM and storage.