graybeardhacker

I always tell clients (or users): "If you bring your car to the mechanic because it's making a noise and tell them to replace the belt, they will replace the belt and you car will still make the noise. Ask them to fix the noise."

In other words, if you need expert help, trust the expert. Ask for what you need, not how to do it.

Based on the fact that Grok is winning and what I know about poker I'm guessing this is a measure of how well an LLM can lie.

/s

Google is moving toward Apple's model: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verificat...

Turns out authoritarianism is bad for freedom. Who knew?

Drinking untreated water also only has the _potential_ to cause disease. Playing Russian roulette with a loaded revolver only has the _potential_ to cause death.

Luckily, science can quantify those potentials and determine when the reward outweighs the risks.

If we, as a country, decided to let people who drank unpasteurized milk or untreated water to die without burdening the medical system, it would truly be their own choice. Once a society decides it will care for those people at a cost to the general public, it becomes necessary to protect the public from the burden of their ignorance.

Saying "Everyone but me is lying to you." to ignorant people who are already suspicious of corporations and science is a simple way to consolidate power.

Once power is consolidated, you can then get paid by any snake oil salesman to say their snake oil is the best.

Not sure if you're joking about the victims getting their money back. In case you're not, they won't.

The DOJ adds seized crypto to the American crypto reserve. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-pr...

From the webpage: " The Executive Order begins to resolve the current disjointed handling of cryptocurrencies seized through forfeiture by, and scattered across, various Federal agencies. Currently, no clear policy exists for managing these assets, leading to a lack of accountability and inadequate exploration of options to centralize, secure, or maximize their value. Taking affirmative steps to centralize ownership, control, and management of these assets within the Federal government will ensure proper oversight, accurate tracking, and a cohesive approach to managing the government’s cryptocurrency holdings. This move harnesses the power of digital assets for national prosperity, rather than letting them languish in limbo. "

Unfortunately no, after the surgery the pigs are full of ketamine, blood thinners, anticoagulants, vasoconstrictors, and other medications required for surgery and euthanasia and are not fit for human consumption.

Yes

One underappreciated aspect of AI’s disruption is its potential to replace much of the web as we know it.

Today, people create content primarily to capture attention—and monetize it through ads. This is the engine fueling giants like Meta, Google, and Amazon, who rely heavily on advertising revenue (Meta, for instance, derives 98% of its income from ads). Their entire business model hinges on aggregating user data to target ads more precisely.

But here’s the shift: When LLMs distill content and serve it directly to users, they bypass the original platforms—and their ads. At the same time, LLMs already build detailed user profiles, making ad targeting even more efficient.

This is why Meta is racing to adapt. They recognize that AI could become the primary conduit for ads—and if they don’t control part of that pipeline, their dominance evaporates. The "AI gold rush" isn’t just about superintelligence; it’s about dominating the next generation of advertising.

We have a number of "living documents" that are the specification for the project I'm currently working on. It's terrible. There's no easy way to know that changes have been made or what they are. Sure, there's red-lining and history. But it requires me to visually scan the document for changes every day, sometimes ever hour.

Sure emailing a copy isn't ideal, but it does have the advantage of saying "Here is a set of ideas that I've decided is complete" As opposed to "Watch my stream of consciousness and decide whether it's done or in mid-edit and act on it."

The graph shows the price for 3100 kWh. I'm not sure if that is a very low annual amount or a very very high monthly amount.

The average US household uses 10,000 kWh annually ~833 kWh per month. So I'm guessing most Americans reading the article and looking at the interactive graph are thinking either: this is very cheap or very expensive, depending on whether they are assuming it's monthly or annual.

In the US the average price for 3100 kWh in California would be $1062 which is among the highest in the continental US. So right in line with GB.

In New York it would be $710. Florida it would be $454.

So it's high, but not as eye-watering as it seemed to me initially.

Here's a theory, they are owned by United Health or hired by the healthcare industry to flood the news cycle and distract everyone.

If this article seems super weird to you it's possible that's because you are naturally adept at socializing. For many neuro-atypical folks, remedial socialization requires tons of cognitive focus. It's why some people find social activities exhausting.

Headline: Tesla "Spilled"

Article: Tesla "Dumped"

Spilled != Dumped

It's disingenuous to say that Google is targeting uBlock Origin. The Manifest V2 extension architecture is fundamentally different from V3. V2 uses always running scripts while V3 requires event driven temporary workers. Additionally V3 eliminates the obviously risky V2 features like remote code execution and direct modification of network requests.

Not surprisingly, uBlock Origin relies heavily on features in V2 to perform it's functionality. It could probably be rewritten to use V3 but it's not a simple "Hey ChatGPT, make all this code into V3 compliant code." It will require a pretty fundamental rewrite.

Google made common sense improvements to the way extension work for safety and performance. Were they sad that uBlock Origin stopped working? Probably not. But I highly doubt it factored into the need for the V3 changes.

I feel there were very good reasons that airships were abandoned. I don't know what those reasons were, but unless they enumerate the reasons and explain why they have now solved them, I will assume they are also going to fail.

According to AI, there have been 5 historical attempts to make airships work before the modern resurgence:

The early experimental phase (1780s–1850s), The pioneering era (1850s–1900s), The golden age (1900s–1930s), A post-Hindenburg decline (1930s), Cold War military uses (1940s–1970s), and A modern resurgence (1990s–present).

From the article: "Price gouging is generally defined as a situation where companies set the price above the customary level in order to prevent shortages from occurring."

This is not the definition as far as I know.

Don't go read about Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

There are blood pumps which recreate pulse. The BiVACOR does not.

The Abiocor, first implanted in July 2, 2001, does have a pulse.

All heart pumps damage the blood. So far we've not found a way to pump blood without causing damage due to various factors, sheer, pressure, heat, etc.

Impellers are particularly bad. Alternatives that use flexible membranes are better but still not perfect. Abiomed and Ventriflo both had pumps that use a flexible membrane. Abiomed had the first TAH (total artificial heart) to be implanted.

There are also other problems with blood pumps, such as stasis areas where blood can stagnate causing issues like thrombosis. These can be caused by valves or other issues in the flow path.

People on blood pumps need blood thinners and anticoagulants which can cause their own problems long term.

Source: 15 years of working on blood pumps.

Freeze your credit people! It's super easy. It's not a perfect fix but it's so trivial to do and it will help.

https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze

You can unfreeze through an app whenever you want/need to.

I agree.

This is precisely why breaches keep happening and will keep happening. It cost money to implement security. There's no cost benefit to spending that time and money since there are no consequences.

Businesses do not spend money unless it will make them money or save them money.

There needs to be a hefty federal fine on a per-affected-user basis for data breaches. Also a federal fine for each day a breach is unreported.

That money should go into a pool which can be accessed by people who have their identity stolen.

It's non-responsive. It's been Hacker Newsed.

It's another example of enshittification. 1. Find something that makes money and has "inefficiencies" 2. Buy a controlling share 3. Make it more "efficient"*

*Here efficient means: remove everything that makes it fun and unique and replace with the least expensive, low quality alternative. Add invasive advertisements. Charge extra for anything that can be carved off the original service or product.

If they used bridges instead of intersections where the roads cross over each other there would be no need for traffic lights and it would further reduce the chance of someone driving into oncoming traffic. The bridges could run on top of each other and further reduce the area needed for the interchange.

I'm sure bridges are more expensive than roads but it seems the obvious choice versus stopping four lanes of traffic at a light.

At this point I have to believe that any significant tech talent is looking at Tesla as a poison workplace.

They are going to have to pay pretty damn well to get anyone with a brain.

I believe your late FIL is correct. It is fear that drives the pivot.

Watch some youtube videos of people turning while in a wheelie. The counter steering helps lean the bike, but it's the lean that makes you turn.

These would be tough as they are based on a proprietary ASIC which is poorly documented even for internal developers. Ask me how I know.

I just went to the form. It states:

By clicking the checkbox you are allowing "Glassdoor to permanently delete or anonymize my data."

I'll bet you all the donuts they will not be deleting my data.