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Endlessly curious.
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hughes··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
Terms of use to even read the article:

> third-party partners process information about you and how you use our services, including clicks and screen recordings, using first and third-party cookies, pixels, and similar technologies

hughes··on Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances
This is a paywalled article that is just a summary of the free original source[1].

[1] https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

hughes··on I refuse to let SPICE die
Yeah - was the brony/furry mascot original to the service or added by OP?
hughes··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Who's saying they don't? One good thing doesn't negate another
hughes··on Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k
There is a nuance missed in the discussion so far - Starlink is creating a new product level, differentiating service between continental and intercontinental aviation connectivity. Previously these were a single category.

If you are operating in North America for example, your service is going from $10k to $12.5k. Still a 25% increase, which is not fun, but I think a lot of the customers affected by this will fit into this category. You only need the $20k plan if your aircraft travels between their roughly-continental regions.

Nicholas Air, quoted in the article, appears to have no need for the $20k plan and should not use it.

hughes··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
It may be that the ideal number of ransomware operators is non-zero
hughes··on Colored Shadow Penumbra
What's the physical basis for this effect? Does it happen in reality or is it a style choice?
hughes··on How to turn anything into a router
I wonder if consumer routers will end up being built in a trivially-not-a-router configuration - something akin to a pull-tab or turn of the screw that closes a circuit, transforming the device from legally something else into a router after it's purchased.

What a dumb timeline.

hughes··on Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
I would love to see this integrated into Flighty.
hughes··on Claude Code CLI was broken
Genuinely curious how a date in the subheader of a changelog could have broken the CLI

edit: it seems changelog.md is assumed to be structured data and parsed at startup, and there are no tests to enforce the changelog structure: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16671

hughes··on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
Why anyone would allow their TV to connect to the internet is beyond me.
hughes··on An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions
Even the title "Orbital House of Cards" is unnecessarily editorializing.
hughes··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
I have to agree. I tried using it for a few months and it left me convinced I'll be paying for iCloud photos for the rest of my life.
hughes··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
While the FileVine service is indeed a Legal AI tool, I don't see the connection between this particular blunder and AI itself. It sure seems like any company with an inexperienced development team and thoughtless security posture could build a system with the same issues.

Specifically, it does not appear that AI is invoked in any way at the search endpoint - it is clearly piping results from some Box API.

hughes··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
Can confirm, my Model 3 had its lights angled too high from the factory. Only realized after a few people flashed their high beams at me during my first week driving.

Thankfully it was easy to adjust.

hughes··on Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
Should it be mandatory also for the maintainers to accept these contributions? Every project would degrade into pure entropy.
hughes··on RegEx Crossword
519 seems to have at least 3 solutions... feels a little underconstrained!
hughes··on Affinity Studio now free
Did your email offer you the chance to pay yearly for $11/mo? Mine did, but I don't think the option to pay yearly exists.
hughes··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
There should be small pieces of whatever they hit embedded in the body & glass of the aircraft. As long as they are analyzed, the cause of this won't remain a mystery forever.
hughes··on One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
Why do you believe the inter-satellite links are not working?
hughes··on I only use Google Sheets
I'm still heartbroken about Grooveshark all these years later.
hughes··on Kagi News
I don't understand how this is 100% free, no subscriptions, no purchase, apparently no ads or tracking and yet I'm also the "customer" and not the product. What's the catch?
hughes··on This map is not upside down
That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.
hughes··on Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
Is this a joke because the site isn't loading at all?
hughes··on SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes
Is the author arguing that corporations should not be able to carry forward net operating losses? Or that this one specific company shouldn't be allowed to?
hughes··on Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation
Part of me wonders if the plug could be designed such that it's obvious when the bolts are missing. Would this have happened if it were impossible to assemble without them, or if it were easy to verify their presence?

Maybe it doesn't matter if a better design is possible - if adequate procedures exist and weren't followed, and oversight fails to catch instances of that, then anything could go wrong.

hughes··on Honda Joins Space Race by Launching Successful Reusable Rocket
I was referring to Falcon
hughes··on Honda Joins Space Race by Launching Successful Reusable Rocket
Four failed launches in a row, if you don't count all the successful launches.
hughes··on Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship
Who's asking for datacenters in space?
hughes··on We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job
A very easy way to verify a remote candidate's identity is to buy them a plane ticket to an in person interview.

If they cannot board a plane using their claimed identity from their claimed city of origin, you can stop there.

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