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I don't see any mention of Project Ocean - AKA Google books. Before AI they endevoured to digitize books in a massive online library. This inccluded rare and out of print books many which are archived at libraries. Because they had to preserve the books and return them in the condition they received then they created elaborate technology to accomplish this. The project was met with significant legal challenges from authors and publishers which was eventually overcome. The legal precedents that were established from Project Ocean laid the ground work for the process as it exists today. Books from libraries are still being preserved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/appeals-court-ru...

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-milli...

Totally awsome game!!!! What was the site about?

wait what? NYC Parks has a tree map?

Google's latest AI threat tracker report mostly describes how threat actors are using AI, but the report begins by calling out distillation attacks. Google frames these types of attacks as a form of intellectual property theft.

Google cited one example that involved more than 100,000 queries to its Gemini AI. The campaign appeared to be about "replicating Gemini's reasoning ability in non-English target languages."

Google didn't call out any particular country or competitor, but instead referred to "frequent model extraction attacks from private sector entities all over the world and researchers seeking to clone proprietary logic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106901

"In 2025, China added 543 GW of new power capacity – 10X the amount of electricity added by the US, and over 100 GW more than it added in 2024.1"

By contrast, in a memo sent to U.S. lawmakers, OpenAI said that the majority of distillation activity appears to originate from China and that it has seen "evolving but persistent methods" being used against its models.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106746

This was first published 3 weeks ago when it was all about drug boats - and the US had just siezed the first oil tanker. Now this analysis takes on a whole new meaning in the context of everything that has happened in the last 48 hours.

Ask the Guyanese next door if they think they are getting a good deal from oil exploitation: https://ieefa.org/articles/guyana-paying-oil-costs-20-years-...

The article is actually not about trump at all... rather it is a very clearly articulated case that the fed is completely subject to agency capture by the big banks and outlines a solution for solving this problem

If you haven't done so yet it is worth the time to read the long history of this as outlined in the court case -

https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/0101...

> Life is a beautiful gift, and it’s worth remembering that every day. Do what you love, do a lot of it, be kind to others, hug your cherished people, laugh, enjoy, smile…breathe. > I love you all, and hope you’re enjoying every moment of this incredible journey through the Universe on this floating space rock.

Thank you... this is what it's all about - it's really as simple as that.

This post and the discussion is great!!! Brings me back to 2 different projects/products that I developed that never made it to market (2009 and 2014). I also kept a log of ideas most of which withered in the light of day but a few persisted. And for each project I went off to live in a cave and code for a year (not recommended). Looking back I absolutely should have shared what I was working on and found support from a community (highly recommended). All of these ideas are excellent. Thank you for sharing them.

Does anyone consider the possibiity that this site and content are neither NASA nor JPL? The URL is suspicious and certificate is not trusted.

Update: It's actually my Safari Browser which is giving me this message. Works fine on google.

Thanks!!!! This is a great article. There are many tool references to research. "Obsolescence is a choice. Reverse engineering is resistance."

This is a really nice work product. I totally appreciate the value of this.

>Recently, researchers have used these stem cells to create structures that seem to mimic the early development of actual human embryos. At the same time, artificial uterus technology is rapidly advancing, and other pathways may be opening to allow for the development of fetuses outside of the body.

>Such technologies, together with established genetic techniques to inhibit brain development, make it possible to envision the creation of “bodyoids”—a potentially unlimited source of human bodies, developed entirely outside of a human body from stem cells, that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain.

Where have I seen this before? Isn't this a plotline taken directly from numerous dystopian science fiction books and movies I have experienced? Life imitates art. Was this outcome inevitable? Think Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World'.

why can't I upvote the story? Also this posting must be burried 100 pages down. It's non-existant. So if I understand the discourse, anything critical of (His You-Know-Whoness) get's automatically down ranked and flagged?

Also here with a paywall

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3292636/ph...

That's exactly what it did. Which makes it even funnier!!!!

Is it there but I am missing it? The author is "A Mid Western Doctor". Is this Joseph Mercola?

Why The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam

"I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape — I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop — I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/08/473548674...

Is there anyone who doesn't do this?

Gluteus medius tendonitis. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/no-joke-your-desk-job-pro...

Caribbean countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean

Thank you making note of this. The Guyanese I know have an oral history of being decieved and compelled. They were tricked into getting on board a boat and once there not allowed to leave. They were heart broken that their families did not know what happened to them. The return to India was offered later as reparation. But by then they had built entire lives and had new families of their own. The British did not call it slavery because slavery was outlawed by this time.

The author's heavy reliance on a historical narative authored by the U.S. military probably contributed to the rather sanitized recounting of the role Britain had in imigrating 286,000 Indians to Guyana.

I am curious to know if anyone else here shares this history in their family.

The best measure of productivity for a software implementation team is the quality of the product as measured by latent defects and technical debt. The team that remains to support the system will get to spend some or all of their time dealing with these. For a year or a few years or in perpetuity. Their productivity is directly related to how much time they spend unburdening themselves from that hidden cost.

I think Elon totally blew it. He spent all that time and money building his stainless steel vanity project when his block buster truck was right under his nose the whole time.

I find more reference to subculture in the dicussions that I never knew existed. Most of the time I start with the discussion and then decide if I want to read the content. This is a particularly interesting discussion because of the nature of the subject. Frequently there are these hidden references that just need to be expanded.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401224

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> Goodwolf is the name he uses for interviews and is not his legal name. I read this and immediately suspected that he is a furry

This is reminiscent of a story in the New Yorker about Reddit - there is a part of the story that describes r/Place:

Last April Fools’, instead of a parody announcement, Reddit unveiled a genuine social experiment. It was called r/Place, and it was a blank square, a thousand pixels by a thousand pixels. In the beginning, all million pixels were white. Once the experiment started, anyone could change a single pixel, anywhere on the grid, to one of sixteen colors. The only restriction was speed: the algorithm allowed each redditor to alter just one pixel every five minutes. “That way, no one person can take over—it’s too slow,” Josh Wardle, the Reddit product manager in charge of Place, explained. “In order to do anything at scale, they’re gonna have to coöperate.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the...

I have a friend who lives near NYC and is a theatre director for a company in St Louis. Travels in person 1 week a month and remote with Zoom the other 3 weeks. It pays better than what he gets in his local market and allows him to support his family and spend more time with his children. Opportunities and life has changed significantly since COVID.