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Yes, I'm glad I waited for this post to arrive before even delving into the topic.
There is no such thing as an "independent company". They are all dependent on the federal government to protect them from the marauding herds.
Better sensors will change that
I did research in this space about eight years ago. Our approach was to look at deformations in the ear canal. Rumor has it that Apple AirPods will have sensors in the ear canal. I was hoping to use those sensors with our app, but it looks like Apple is not going to provide access to the raw sensor data. I expected Apple is going to support subvocal speech pretty soon.
Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:45AM (#50336724)
Only entitlements are protected from the austerity budget cutting acts. Social spending and science don't fall into the entitlement category.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:28PM (#50331003)
Honest question. Do projectors also suffer?
Not a lawyer, but I don't see what protection they have other than trade secrets since the weights are just data and data can't be copyrighted.
Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:41AM (#50325612)
If states can require balanced budgets, I see no reason why the federal government can't be required to as well
They did ask for it directly - because it was present in their document. My own opinion is that the concealment is irrelevant, and if the courts are gonna automate document processing, then it's on totally on them to make their systems hack-proof. There should be no sanctions on trying to hack the legal system.
it's pretty rare for a bar would sanction its members.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:30AM (#50284584)
Inflation means they drop the price by not raising the price.
I remember a time when we had to go back in time to get a whale so that machines and animals could coexist.
Which is better than getting no exceptions - if only the two extremes are available.
Only "urban" land? Who owns the rest? Can no new urban land be created? Or does the government take it by eminent domain?
It's the human in the loop that makes it subjective. Whether it's better or worse to have policing be subjective is a valid question.

I've had plenty of encounters where the discretion of a police officer was of great benefit to me and my friends.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:07PM (#50253000)
Regular fighter jets and helicopters will suffice.
Re:Type Server Protocol on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:13PM (#50249392)
TSP : TriSodium Phosphate. Very good for cleaning up a mess.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:59PM (#50249169)
The oligarchs should not be concerned about the masses. It's the president of the United States, with a wave of his hand, that will wipe out all the data centers when that becomes necessary. I'm predicting that will become necessary and will happen within five years. I'm predicting anthropic stock price goes to zero.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:44PM (#50248891)
Exactly. And for every Amazon, there's 100 companies that no longer exist.
"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real." Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses.
Skip the movie please. Read the three books. They are prophetic.
Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:33PM (#50202572)
Recruit from top school masters program.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:32PM (#50202548)
If they include pirates in viewership data, they might have a valid claim.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:37PM (#50197745)
Sports is the only thing left of value in broadcasting. I can totally understand why they're gonna fight tooth and nail to protect it.
Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:09AM (#50193787)
Same. He made the project so rewarding for us all.
Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:16AM (#50182470)
You could but you don't
Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:03PM (#50171879)
No, that would be terrible and much worse, obviously, compared to walking down the street to my local borough building and getting a permit. In the vast majority of the country, that would be very silly suggestion.
Re:My Friend Bob Cringely on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:17AM (#50167694)
The 2004 story made me laugh
Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:03AM (#50166642)
Those millions of settings give some users a pleasurable but false sense of control.
It is a great analogy actually. We indeed don't know what's in any model. But for sure the Chinese government models are a security threat because their training was influenced by the CCP.

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