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max_··on Explore the Hidden World of Sand
I remember reading about a case where a murderer was tied to the crime scene just by analysing the quality of soil on his shoes.

It seemed far fetched then, but after seeing these pictures it really makes sense.

max_··on New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
All AI companies are spyware companies.
max_··on The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
The lack of accountability after what was exposed in the Epstein files illustrates that not one in power actually care about kids.

"Save the kids", is just a ploy to run scams.

max_··on Goodbye to Sora
Relevant Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzLhXesNkCI
max_··on Migrating to the EU
> The reasons for this are the current global political situation and improved data protection

I don't understand why people keep saying this when Europe is more hostile towards privacy.

The constantly insist on schemes like chat control, and GrapheneOS users are often confronted by legal authorities.

They may have "the laws", but its way less trust worthy.

max_··on Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
No particular order but;

1. Transformers

I think they need to be looked into more. They just work too well.

I feel like they have a secret within that is yet to be known.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

2. The 2016 Noble Prize in Medicine

Autophagy has such interesting properties. It can probably do alot more for us now than any new pill or gene editing tool

[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/press-releas...

3. zk-STARKS

I can prove to you than X * Y = Z, without ever revealing what, X, Y or Z are. And I can do this for any function, or math operator.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/189

4. TLock

I can encrypt my will, in a way such that. It can only be read after X years.

And I do not need a trusted third party to do it.

[4] https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046.pdf

[4] https://youtu.be/Xh849Ij3lhU

max_··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
"F*ck you all" translates to;

"I’ve decided to step away to focus on new opportunities and prioritize my own professional growth.

Wishing everyone the best in their future endeavors."

link - https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak&text=f...

max_··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
I use it as a research tool.

What it has done is replace my Googling and asking people looking up stuff on stack over flow.

Its also good for generating small boiler plate code.

I don't use the whole agents thing and there are so many edge cases that I always need to understand & be aware of that the AI honestly think cannot capture

max_··on Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attacks Hits Repositories
I don't have to worry about any of this.

My clawbot & other AI agents already have this figured out.

/s

max_··on Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people
The human brain is largely for decoration. It's job is to cool blood and absorb "vapors" from food. Aristotle got it right.

It is not largely capable of "thinking"

We are proactively destroying human society. And many people are rallying behind it VCs investing in killing machines.

Citizen's largely don't care, they are largely passive.

It sort of reminds me of Richard Feynman who claimed he was extremely depressed. After the use of the atomic bomb.

It was something very stupid for a so called genius to say.

You work on a mass murder tool, then complain that a mass murder tool you worked on was used for mass murder.

max_··on Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents
Hey chat GPT, could you bomb all enemies of the USA.

No mistakes,

Thanks.

max_··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
OI just turns out to be straight up unethical, immoral and disgusting for me.
max_··on The whole thing was a scam
The docile donkeys that sheepishly use such products don't really care.

And they are the majority. Thats what Sam Altman understands

max_··on Six Math Essentials
Looks like an inspiration from Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces"

Hopefully we shall get a Feynman type math book from a true Master.

max_··on Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?
It really depresses me that there is so much emphasis on arms and weapons startups now days.

Even some financed by Y Combinator.

The thing about weapons is that these startups will have no control in what circumstances they are used.

The hypocrisy is people coming here and claiming that such things happening in the world disturb them.

The world would definitely be a safer place if everyone was a pacifist.

max_··on Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
I am not saying this one in particular.

Of course no one can admit it publicly.

But it is something that governments are known to proactively do.

You can get dirt on people a la Jeffrey Epstein. And use that to coerce them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)

max_··on Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Yes. Of course not all.

But some just happen to work too well.

But governments do have blatant back doors in chips & software.

max_··on Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
My suspicion is that. These "exploits" are planted by spy agencies.

They don't appear there organically.

max_··on Vouch
If you like this, you may love Robin Hansons similar idea of vouching [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPdHXw05SvU

max_··on Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

Berlin interprets this aphorism as articulating a profound distinction among thinkers, writers, and, more generally, human beings.

max_··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
Your likely talking to an AI agent
max_··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
Europe is hostile towards Graphene users.
max_··on Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)
TLDR;

Its a fantastic substitute for bandages in the sense that you don't need to take off the fish skin everyday.

Its also better are retaining moisture in the burn wounds than cotton badages.

No need for antibiotics, painkillers etc

Its also really cheap. Fish farms regard them as waste.

max_··on Eat Real Food
Yes please.

For example, eating a fruit is very different from drinking fruit juice. And the process of "juicification" destroys fibre. [1]

And this is just mild processing.

It gets worse for other processed foods that have preservatives etc.

Infant formula is just a scam. Nothing beats breast milk when it comes to feeding babies.

Infant formula puts you at risk of corporate scams — https://x.com/i/status/2009105279414141380

[1]: https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default%3Fid%3Dfr...

max_··on Eat Real Food
>Whole grain bread or infant formula are “highly processed” despite very healthy.

"processed" and "healthy" are oxymorons.

I think it's better to tell people to restrict themselves to "whole foods".

max_··on Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela
Look up "The Oracle Problem"
max_··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
"Ÿnsect’s revenue from its main entity peaked at €17.8 million in 2021 (approximately $21 million) — a figure reportedly inflated by internal transfers between subsidiaries. "

if you raise that much money and go under, its usually just fraud.

max_··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
In Europe ist mostly crony capitalism.

Well connected people using government funds to finance their businesses.

max_··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
Nope, I'm talking about this, its an older video

https://youtu.be/G5gC_fParbY

max_··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
Palantir is a spyware company and the CEO Alex Karp has explicitly said that thier goal is to use their tooling to create fear in people and kill people (i.e people deemed enemies of the United States)
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