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heisenbit··on Why are we still using Markdown?
Markdown lacks JavaScript and can be considered mostly harmless.
heisenbit··on Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
The problem (or not depending on POV) is that TOS are subject to legal constraints. As the dominant platform YT in a critical service area needs to maneuver carefully.
heisenbit··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
The problem is that these markets allow to translate political power directly to money. Worse destructive events are rare, need a lot less action (butterfly effect) and leave thus less traces and command high odds. Once committed the ones in power have a vested interest in causing destruction.
heisenbit··on Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect
Hmm, this actually could have policy implications. If one wants to subsidize a new technology and allocated a limited budget often the first movers are getting it and those first movers may be clusters which is not ideal driving broad adoption. So creating very small geo buckets for adoption oriented subsidies would make sense.
heisenbit··on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta
Agents are providing to employees the long overdue benefits limited liability companies long enjoyed: Gambling with upside for themselves and other peoples downsides.
heisenbit··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
> No matter what he reported, he would have the other side threatening him.

That is why modern reportings best practice is to always support both sides. /s

heisenbit··on The enshittification of Amazon paperback books
It is not just the print, it is also the way pages are cut and bound. The printed area is not where it should be on the page.
heisenbit··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Not just dangerous but uninsured...
heisenbit··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
This diffusion requires a different attitude towards IPR. Western countries prioritize protection of past investments (or dometes just the first to stumble through a gate or file first).
heisenbit··on CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
You phone company has a pretty good idea where you are all the time. This is well known and therefore there are strict rules, regulations and often laws preventing share this without good cause. As long as telco or law enforcement adheres to the law (hmm) this data is not available for fishing expeditions.
heisenbit··on Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX
When Nena was singing about 99 balloons we thought it was hyperbole. Few understood she was a traveler from a future where soldiers where literally shooting down birthday balloons before progressing to drones. Scary to think about the next level of escalation.
heisenbit··on Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
Society's legally double standard:

- people can create new standards that will be applied retroactively

- lawmakers can create new laws which can not be applied retroactively

heisenbit··on Writing code is cheap now
There is demand for non scalable, not committed to be maintained code where smaller issues can tolerated. This demand is currently underserved as coding is somewhat expensive and focused on critical functions.
heisenbit··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
Accidents are not normal driving situations but edge cases.
heisenbit··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
The Swiss cheese model would like to disagree.
heisenbit··on $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
That is a meme and it does not matter whether it happened or not it would be too rare to matter.

What matters is the lack of discipline and respect for boundaries (beyond traditional teen behavior) possibly caused by social deprivation in our social app age. It is brought to the surface in the classroom where teachers have considerable less power than earlier. Physical attack once unthinkable are not rare anymore.

heisenbit··on $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
Classroom ‚management‘ and teens can not be observed at the same time and space.

The problem is that these terns have not had meaningful interactions with technology at home where there roughly a 1:1 relationship parent:kid. Now try to get meaningfulness into kids where the ratio is 1:20+ in a classroom.

heisenbit··on Be wary of Bluesky
I suspect European courts would take a dim view on preventing export through switching off an existing mechanism yielding portability.
heisenbit··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
This almost sounds as if Waymo pivots from taxi service to automated driver OEM?
heisenbit··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Data centers in space are the logical progression from the multi trillion business of m2m and edge computing. It removes all physical limits to investment.
heisenbit··on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers
Elon know FSD still takes time and that is the reason he is now ramping up the robot production. Who else to turn to to steer is upcoming fleet of taxies?
heisenbit··on My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
For major medical issues it may well be best practice to use the four eyes principle like we do for all safety related systems. Access is key and at this time getting a second pair of eyes in close timely proximity is a luxury few have and even fewer will have looking at the demographics in the developed world. Human doctors are failable as is AI. For the time being having a multitude of perspectives may well be the best in most cases.
heisenbit··on TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)
It is not wear that causes break systems to fail but lack of use resulting in a fairly recently discovered threat to blank metal: Rust.
heisenbit··on Tesla ending Models S and X production
The story needs only to hold up until car production has shut down.
heisenbit··on Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
Musk is a true genius: You were paying first for the hardware and then to conduct training supervision for the AI while taking full responsibility if something goes wrong.
heisenbit··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
The smartphone is talking to a highly sensitive receiver fed by a large sensitive antenna listening carefully in the direction of the smartphone. The base station is transmitting back a carefully directed beam with orders of magnitude more power than a smartphone. The system is highly asymmetrical. Ohh and maybe there is not one but many base stations talking concurrently to the smartphone so that if one looses some data the flow is maintained.
heisenbit··on If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
Consistency sells but is really hard to ensure in time bounded series of narrow discussions with changing participants. But this must not discount the value of the preceding often frustrating search for understanding the requirements and prototyping. Throwing away the prototype while all the lessons are still in the head can yield great design.
heisenbit··on Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
Your making an argument that Denmark should take over control of Silicon Valley as a matter of their national security. I can see a win-win scenario emerging: Denmark controls Silicon Valley saving their journalists (and possibly the world) while Trump gets rid of leftish distractors plus takes control of Greenland getting a infinitly large piece of land with hugh growth potential for golf places once the ice has melted.
heisenbit··on How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
This story is a fiction pitting the seller and buyer against each other in a context free vacuum. The reality is that between buyer and seller there are channels which are either under control of the seller or another powerfull third party. The playing field is very difficult to enter for new sellers and the number of sellers has been going down for a long time tilting the playing field more and more against the buyer.
heisenbit··on IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
The only way to win is not to play.
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