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sssilver··on Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy
When dentists take scans of our teeth, can those scans theoretically be rendered in this tool?
sssilver··on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
I guess I don't understand the term "corporate socialism". What does it mean, and how did it create the world of NVIDIA and AMD, Google and Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI?

Weren't Mr. Huang, his cofounders, and his peers, rewarded based on merit? Where did socialism step in?

sssilver··on America.gov
If anyone's wondering how this works, it looks like[1] Gemini + guardrails:

> Google is proud to be named a technology partner in this vital initiative, leveraging Gemini to help more than 100 million people access critical public resources with greater speed and ease

[1] https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/pu...

sssilver··on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
Isn't it more like "it's who capitalism rewards"?

All we've chosen is free markets.

sssilver··on What even is an OS now?
What engineering innovation in the recent decades has enabled oil-lubricated internal combustion engines to not require warming up?
sssilver··on Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)
I'm not saying this is what's happening to you, but in my case this is exactly what I believed for many years.

And then it turned out that typing-vs-hand-writing benefits being equal was in fact due to how atrophied my hand-writing skills were.

I've learned that once I got back into fluent hand-writing in a flow-state, the benefits for learning, memorizing, and understanding, were so overwhelmingly superior to keyboard-typing, that I resented the cognitive handicap I had placed upon myself for literal decades.

Now I always carry a tiny spiraled notebook and a Rotring pen. They're as indispensable and practically useful to me as my smartphone.

sssilver··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
"Supplies" as in, self-assembling landing and launch pads?
sssilver··on Grok 4.7
I take issue with your use of the word "bend" here.

Can you provide specific examples of where Elon has bent the levers of government?

sssilver··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Google Buzz is buzzing
sssilver··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
Turns out the entities you control / regulate less, tend to do things that are less in your interest and more in their own.
sssilver··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
A “perfect simulation” is no longer a simulation.

The definition of the word “simulation” is:

> A simulation is the artificial imitation of a real-world process, system, or event using a model

As we know, “all models are wrong; some models are useful”.

A “perfect simulation” is, then, an oxymoron.

sssilver··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Then, logically speaking, you get a simulation of griefing.
sssilver··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Insofar as grieving is an inherently, fundamentally a very particular chemical process, the answer is a resounding “no”.
sssilver··on There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
> I don't see how cutting pay for conductors is going to make anyone's lives better

It's going to make passengers' lives better by making their train rides more affordable, allowing them to improve their lives by leveraging those funds.

Or, it's going to make shareholders' lives better by increasing their profits.

Either way, some people will benefit from it. The question is -- what is the real, practical tradeoff, and is the tradeoff worth it to the participants in the system.

sssilver··on How much oil-market buffer is left?
Can't the US producers sell oil outside of the United States, where it's more expensive, thus generating more profits for their shareholders, thus creating a shortage in the United States, thus dragging the prices up to the global equilibrium, thus dissipating any effects of the US producing more oil than it consumes?
sssilver··on Apple iPod Engraver (2019)
I engraved mine for two practical reasons — tell mine apart from others and have contact info in case I lost it and it was found by a decent person.
sssilver··on Eating Fruit Skins
And then an airplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
sssilver··on Logo Programming
Is "3rd world country" basically "Not a NATO country, but also not an Eastern Bloc country"?
sssilver··on Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK
> I don’t need more surveillance in the guise of consumer tech in my life, much less if anything.

Who said this is being done because you need it?

You're the product here. The shareholders demand growth.

sssilver··on Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content
Does this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?
sssilver··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
...and a brave new price
sssilver··on Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
I'd love to see the numbers and the arithmetic that compute down to "more than 10%"
sssilver··on I resigned from Anthropic today
This explains it pretty well: https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-...
sssilver··on I resigned from Anthropic today
> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures

There's nothing inherent about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.

sssilver··on I resigned from Anthropic today
I wonder whether he's vested any options, and whether he's exercised them.
sssilver··on Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku
Thanks -- much better now!
sssilver··on AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
Hopefully you have a bit more impact on the decision making of your marriage shareholders than on public company executives.
sssilver··on AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.
sssilver··on Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku
Latest Safari
sssilver··on Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku
Testing this on a Macbook Pro M4 Max, dragging is still so choppy that it makes the game significantly less fun.
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