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ahiknsr··on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
> I wonder why

Hmm. > Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenlan...

> The president has said America pays $200bn a year 'essentially in subsidy' to Canada and that if the country was the 51st state of the US 'I don’t mind doing it', in an interview broadcast before the Super Bowl in New Orleans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/feb/10/trump-...

ahiknsr··on Small plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia
> In April 2023, Whitaker grounded SpaceX for months after Starship’s maiden launch and only allowed a second attempt after an extensive investigation lasting until September of that year yielded 63 corrective actions to be taken.

> “He needs to resign,” Musk wrote late last year, in response to one of his fans criticizing what he believed to be the FAA’s unwarranted meddling in the entrepreneur’s affairs.

https://fortune.com/2025/01/31/faa-chris-rocheleau-elon-musk...

ahiknsr··on The tech bosses who poured $394.1M into US election
> The party’s message is also crucial.

can you tell me what was the message from republican party?

ahiknsr··on Bluesky Is Booming in Japan
From the article

> Active daily user numbers in Japan of Facebook-owner Meta's Threads have picked up from about 500,000 to 1.5 million, while for Bluesky it has gone from about 50,000 to about 500,000.

ahiknsr··on 'Huge influx' of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky
https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/bl...
ahiknsr··on Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
> Unfortunately, I no longer recommend Bitwarden for normal people because the built-in password manager in Firefox is too good.

I use both Bitwarden and Firefox and I would strongly encourage everyone to not use the password manager in Firefox. Do you know the tab sync across devices is broken in firefox? It was broken since Aug 24 and it is still not fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1913795 . If they can't sync tabs across devices, i wouldn't trust them to sync my passwords.

ahiknsr··on The Retreat to Muskworld
> I suppose we all live in our own bubbles.

Maybe. I guess another possibility is some people deliberately ignore evidence that doesn't fit their worldview for reasons that are yet unknown to me.

> I've never seen a Waymo on the street.

Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/20/waymo-is-now-giving-100000... there are around 100k people using waymo self-driving every week.

> However, I've sat in a Tesla myself and watched it navigate the roads in my hometown.

https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/autopilot "Before using Autopilot, read your Owner's Manual for instructions and more safety information. While using Autopilot, it is your responsibility to stay alert, keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times and maintain control of your vehicle. "

This is not self driving.

> By 'make self-driving work', I meant deploy that technology cheaply and widely.

I see only one company deploying self-driving technology and that's not tesla.

ahiknsr··on The Retreat to Muskworld
> If anyone is going to make self driving work, the odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.

How disconnected from reality are you to make this statement? https://waymo.com/blog/2024/06/waymo-one-is-now-open-to-ever... Waymo self-driving has been open to general public since June 2024 and Telsa still doesn't have full self driving technology and yet here you are claiming odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.

> I feel similarly excited for Tesla when they demonstrate robots with incredible dexterity.

Did you never hear about Boston dynamics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk This is 3 years old video and Tesla's robots don't have as much dexterity as the robot from the video. And unlike Tesla's robot, Boston Dynamics robot is fully automated.

ahiknsr··on AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton, says he's proud his student fired Sam Altman
https://youtu.be/H7DgMFqrON0?t=214
ahiknsr··on They stole my voice with AI
> Scarlett's baseless accusation

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/18/scarlet...

> The actor made headlines earlier this year when she issued a public statement saying OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had contacted her in September 2023 to provide the voice for Sky, in an ode to her role in the Spike Jonze film Her, but she had declined for “personal reasons”. In May, as the company released Sky, Altman shared a tweet that simply read “her”.

ahiknsr··on [dead]
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554
ahiknsr··on Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements
> Reflects the bias of your news reading.

Right, it only reflects the bias of what news we read and has nothing to do with reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Albright

> Alan D Albright[1][a] (born November 24, 1959)[2] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court. Albright oversees a significant portion of patent litigation within the United States. In 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit repeatedly rebuked him in a string of opinions for failing to transfer cases to more apt jurisdictions. A quarter of all patent lawsuits in the US were once heard by Albright, who has been widely criticized for ignoring binding case law. However, following a docket-stripping order issued by Chief Judge Orlando Garcia, Albright's patent docket has declined precipitously

ahiknsr··on Patterns are alive, and we are living patterns
https://iai.tv/articles/patterns-are-alive-and-we-are-living...

use this^ url to bypass the paywall. hn is stripping the url params for some reason.

ahiknsr··on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
> How are the circumstances different aside from "google is good and musk/x is bad?"

You forgot to mention the Chinese government literally hacked google. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

ahiknsr··on Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial
Did Navalny also lose the election and then tried to overthrow the elected government by sending fake electors? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

what about intimidating government officials to find votes for him? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

ahiknsr··on State actor blamed for cyberattack on B.C. government systems
Do you not understand the difference between Microsoft and Windows?
ahiknsr··on State actor blamed for cyberattack on B.C. government systems
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review...

> The Board concludes that Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate. The Board reaches this conclusion based on:

> Microsoft’s failure to detect the compromise of its cryptographic crown jewels on its own, relying instead on a customer to reach out to identify anomalies the customer had observed

> Microsoft’s failure to detect a compromise of an employee’s laptop from a recently acquired company prior to allowing it to connect to Microsoft’s corporate network in 2021

ahiknsr··on Tech Jobs Leaving California
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-texas-tech...
ahiknsr··on House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
> The rule now is US companies can operate in China if they obey the same rules in China that Chinese companies have to obey in China

You forgot to mention that China hacks companies operating in China.

from https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

> Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.

> First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.

ahiknsr··on Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing
> We just have to obey that same rules in China that Chinese companies have to obey there. The same applies in the US--foreign companies can operated here but have to obey the same rules here that US companies have to obey.

No. China and US are not the same.

from https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

> Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.

> First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.

Is US government hacking Chinese companies operating in US?

ahiknsr··on Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psychedelic use
from the post

> and out of pure immaturity and desire to breakthrough I packed 100mg into the bowl.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DMT says heavy dosage is 60mg+.

> This doesn’t get mentioned in the current “psychedelics as a cure-all” hype wave.

No. You forgot to mention 100mg is way above heavy dosage.

ahiknsr··on Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
maybe due to https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23159049/microsoft-hololen...
ahiknsr··on Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says New Mexico AG
> Elon Musk has been very clear on that this kind of activity will get you permanently banned.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/10/twitter-x...

> The company formerly known as Twitter has faced heat from politicians in a combative hearing over X’s tackling of child abuse material, after the company restored an account that shared such material last month, despite claiming to have a “zero tolerance approach”.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/twitter-...

> But a review by The New York Times found that the imagery, commonly known as child pornography, persisted on the platform, including widely circulated material that the authorities consider the easiest to detect and eliminate.

please stop spreading bullshit

ahiknsr··on Amazon's Silent Sacking
> I see the same trend with Google, Facebook, okta etc

Facebook doesn't have a Engineering office in India.

ahiknsr··on Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads
https://archive.ph/ZmJhx
ahiknsr··on We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet
> The left has been entirely as bad as the right when it comes to the environment.

No, they are not. "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/26589529219124838...

This is what the leader of right wing thinks about global warming.

ahiknsr··on Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
> Regardless of the outcome of 2024, that's going to his most lasting impact on the country.

No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito... This is will be his most lasting impact on the country or maybe https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-says-hes-...

ahiknsr··on Ex-FBI employee jailed for mishandling classified material
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cummings-jared-kushner... like this?
ahiknsr··on The FBI as advanced persistent threat
> which is why crime is rising catastrophically and people are fleeing to states like Texas.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/texas-governor-seeks-to-pa...

ahiknsr··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
> There was a rally and it got out of hand. That's pretty much it

So trump has nothing to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot ?

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