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secult··on US Forces Exit Iraq
Iraq is a country of more than 40 million of inhabitants. They can take care of theirselves. Using an argument of some "sleeper cells", come on, it's silly. Is the US army only thing holding up their government? If yes then what do you expect? Either it falls the same way as in Afganistan, or it fights for itself.
secult··on Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge
In the long term we are all dead. But I think you mean that VW fleet electrification effort is dead. Which is not true either. You're underestimating the willingness of people in Europe to buy domestically produced cars. Even if they are not the state of the art from the perspective of picking up the latest EV technology. Don't forget the new china propagated LFP batteries are not better than the already existing NMCs. They may be cheaper, NMCs got cheaper too.
secult··on Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge
The lower is your state of charge, the more you are willing to reach the destination with your remanining capacity :) The time spend riding slower is usually not so different than when you drive normally, and it reduces the inconvenience of looking for a charger almost at the goal.
secult··on Neutrino-1 8B
There is not a single person mentioned on the website, github created 3 days ago, no real contact, everything hidden. Completely anonymous. Domain owner hidden.
secult··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Usually, when some system is getting outdated, the system gets replaced or updated to fit the needs. Does this system work for the majority of USA, or not? Do I read it correctly, that the poor people have medicare/medicaid and therefore it's fine for them, the average person has some health insurance and don't mind spending a few thousands of dollars once in a while when his life is in stake?
secult··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
So to avoid google's android I buy google phone to not run android?
secult··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Regarding the unstable times: Consider living in any year in the past 50 years or so. There are shocks and game-changing events happening subsequently after each of the year you have possibly chosen. Oil crisis here, war there, collapse of some country, technological breakthrough, etc.. Unless you live in countries, where you don't plan for years, but for months or days upfront. Then your life is much more stereotypical, when you just try to survive every day.
secult··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
That's not the way how human brain works.
secult··on Claude Fable 5
You miss the point - by collecting and processing medical data they would fall into a thoroughly regulated industry. Not because they may provide you incorrect data, because they are not allowed to process them.
secult··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
ZKP is definitely a good idea, definitely more open for this kind of age verification than anything else. And I don't buy the argument of "closing internet", social networks are a proprietary service and if you don't want to obey with the regulations, create your own website and post things there if you want. However you have to provide your identity to the domain name registry or to the intermediary. Also other services require you to verify your age or even provide your identity, this is just another one that comes way too late.
secult··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
So to not get confused, when you ask for a new laptop in your corporate and you say 14 inch Pro Max, don't get lured to get Pro Max Premium, or even Pro Max Plus, just say you want Pro M5 Max, because otherwise you are getting Dell. And make sure to not say "Just get me a Pro, bro", because you might be getting HP Pro desktop!
secult··on The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
For people that want to make the calculation: A truck does not need a 15 ton battery. In Europe, we have mandatory breaks for truck drivers. So you need a battery pack for max 400km of range, let's say 500km. When you have a break, you charge. For this, you need like 1500kWh battery pack, which weigths like ... wait, 15 tons. But this is not entirely correct, the real values reported are between 120-150Kwh/100km, that means a half of the stated number, 7.5 tons for the battery pack.
secult··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
I think Github Actions is just a lead for Microsoft customers to use paid Azure DevOps. It is bad intentionally.
secult··on LM Studio 0.4
LM Studio is awesome in a way how easily you can start with local models. Nice UX, not needed to tweak every detail, but giving you the options to do so if you want.
secult··on Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
The recent tactic is to spread distrust to own government by any means necessary - seemingly random failing infrastructure is hardly attributable to some foreign actor, yet it has implications on who gets in the government after next elections, especially europarliament. And as you can observe, most of the "anti-system" parties are pro-russian, openly or by agenda. edit: I'm not saying this accident looks like sabotage. The spread of propaganda after it happened it's a different story.
secult··on Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast
Good job! OSINT rules. And regarding drones, surely any state actor may be doing this, however doing surveillance by drones over military bases is just so noob. That just points out they don't have a capacity to do reconnaissance with satellites, or they are doing something completely different. Probably making sure the target knows someone is watching, saying "We know where you have your sensitive spots".
secult··on Nokia N900 Necromancy
In Europe we keep 2G as a failsafe, deprecating only 3G.
secult··on The fuck off contact page
Oh I love the contact page forms, usually this being the only interactive part of a otherwise static website. Either they crash with a visible 500, or they crash in the background, or the mail goes into who-knows-where, as it was set by a guy that left years ago.
secult··on Breakthrough in antimatter production
Indeed, it would be quite difficult to smuggle some antimatter to a tumor. I'm saying that research in this particular area eventually led to practical application, PET scans.
secult··on Breakthrough in antimatter production
PET scan (You have to wait for civic applications of the newly discovered technologies for a while, but the "technology transfer" from CERN to practical applications has a few notable examples.)
secult··on NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
Don't forget about Tupolev Tu-154. It didn't stop flying as a commercial airplane because of safety, rather because of noise emission limits.
secult··on The effect of H-1B quota on employment and selection of foreign-born labor (2018)
I believe he wasn't even thinking about duplication of applications per person, but the following scenario. Correct me if I'm wrong: Company A would like to hire 1000 qualified IT personnel. An Indian workforce provider has e.g. 10000 qualified people and would be able to get 5000 of them to apply for the visa. From those that win the lottery (e.g. 1 in 3) you would easily cover the demand of the Company A. Economy of scale works here.
secult··on Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE
That's quite an insult! I wonder how many foreign workers (or foreigners in general) take the eventuality of getting "randomly" detained into account while travelling into USA.
secult··on Ask HN: Teams using AI – how do you prevent it from breaking your codebase?
IMO the biggest issue is that instead of reviewing the code of your colleagues, you review some random generated stuff. You know what kind of code you can expect from your colleagues, not anymore. Also you expect that code reviews promote knowledge and consistency amongst the team and helps them to become better in programming. Not anymore either.
secult··on Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood
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secult··on Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter
https://home.cern/science/accelerators/antiproton-decelerato... Basically they shoot a particle to a block of material, they get out lots of different particles. Some of them are the right ones.
secult··on Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
A modern, animated Bruegel artpiece.
secult··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
My bank is changing my MFA from SMS to mobile banking auth with each and every mobile banking app update. I tried to explain them to not do so, as when I break, lose my phone, it's quite easy to use a spare or get even a new sim card with the same number, but for anything else (buying a new phone, changing limits for cash withdrawal for a new phone, buying a ticket for public transport to a physical phone shop) I need the MFA code. Which I don't have of course. And surely I don't remember the unique 9 digit random identifier that is written on my bank contract to access mobile banking hotline. Shitlock.
secult··on Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims
Usually there is this thing called transmission in a car that effectively make the car able to accelerate enough for most of the situations. The only problem with having less horsepower than other cars is that the maximal achievable speed is lower. But for sure riding above 100mph is much more comfortable in other brands.
secult··on National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
You cannot visit slate unless you accept the privacy policy. Which third partners they share the data with, and how to opt out? You never know, as you have to accept the privacy policy first before accessing the Third Party Partners page.
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