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uLogMicheal··on DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government
We do not have another substance as effective as opioids for treatment of acute and chronic pain. Yes, Americans deal with chronic health issues and chronic pain, partially attributed to CCP chemical lobbying efforts. They were over prescribed, that practice has changed due to regulatory effort, and lawsuits were brought and won against the worst offenders. Some think that the addiction crisis was amplified or exported from China to begin with as an act of covert warfare.

Shipping mass amounts of fentanyl precursors to organized crime agents to flood our streets is a whole different matter, surely you can see the difference? Street pills laced or cut with fentanyl KILL people. Addiction to street availability causes mass mental health issues and homelessness.

What about... doesn't make for debate in good faith.

uLogMicheal··on DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government
The one not partnering with terrorists and cartels while shipping mass amounts of fentanyl and disruptors across the US border.

> One can arrest me, one has no jurisdiction

One does not care about your rights or jurisdiction and can do much worse covertly.

uLogMicheal··on DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government
An adversarial government having mass access to user data and social behavior information is worse because they can use it to compromise and recruit individuals to do real damage. Although debatable, the NSA is supposed to have the intentions to protect us, not inflict chaos.
uLogMicheal··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
> nor does there appear to be any willingness to correct errors

> Missed payments may be a feature, not a bug.

> not legally, and certainly not in a timely manner.

Bad faith magic wand waving, these arguments do not have substance. People/bots are on a bandwagon against change many have been calling for years for. Our treasury system NEEDS an overhaul and there are much bigger problems with this admin to make an issue out of.

uLogMicheal··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
We're talking about payment system code, not AI targeting for drones. Changes can be reverted, transactions can be stopped, payments can be made other ways.
uLogMicheal··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
The alarmist take is jumping to the conclusion that people will starve from efforts to improve the code behind this system. We can still print paper checks, probably with a simple script in the worst case.
uLogMicheal··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
If it's in COBOL you can probably count on one hand how many people have knowledge of the nuts and bolts of those systems and usually the new people talk to the old people.
uLogMicheal··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
People tend to forget that move fast and break things also includes move fast and fix things. No one will starve from this.
uLogMicheal··on What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You
Having used a TP-Link ethernet over power device in the past, this is quite concerning. Most devices like this do not have an adequate replacement from domestic or allied manufacturers. Is there no government agency examining and reporting on these frequently purchased electronics?
uLogMicheal··on The Influence of Bell Labs
The time, motives, and management were different, the essence of my point was that in today's world even a monopoly would cut research for profit.
uLogMicheal··on The Influence of Bell Labs
This is not the mindset of monopolies, cutting research for the sake of short term profits is the mindset of Wallstreet's modern monopoly.
uLogMicheal··on Bryan Johnson – The World's Most Expensive Eating Disorder
Studies more and more are showing that fasting is healthy for us but so many jump straight to eating disorder when they hear about someone not eating for extended periods. By your own research he seems to even be managing his body fat with logic; with the increase to 6%. More studies should be conducted but there's little profit incentive or people with the willpower for not eating so funding lags. Maybe we should embrace this kind of dedication rather than mock it?

Why even write this, by your own admission, cherry picking the negative and making assumptions about dishonesty?

uLogMicheal··on OpenAI's Sora Tool Leaked by Group of Aggrieved Early Testers
Openai so open there's leaks.
uLogMicheal··on The brain has its own microbiome
Next will we find that there is an exchange of microbes between the brain and gut?
uLogMicheal··on Show HN: PDF to MD by LLMs – Extract Text/Tables/Image Descriptives by GPT4o
Couldn't one just program a linear word matching test to ensure correctness?
uLogMicheal··on Ongoing LLM 'comments bot' malfunction on YouTube
The ironic part is, it's humans leading the charge, with their heads buried deep in the sand to avoid thinking about how this decays society.
uLogMicheal··on Ongoing LLM 'comments bot' malfunction on YouTube
Who needs real comments any more? Make them look real and consensus is pushed not formed. This is why human engagement is at a all time low, it's mostly the bots that get the attention with their manufactured support and votes.
uLogMicheal··on Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space
> Songbo Xie, also at Purdue University, says that the teleported energy is small and fragile, so using this additional storage qubit saves it from getting lost. “This was our goal, to save it for future use,” he says. The researchers tested the protocol by running it on an actual quantum computer. The results agreed well with what their calculations predicted.

Not the key to ZPE we are looking for but still cool!

uLogMicheal··on Ask HN: AWS CloudWatch Fraud?
Thanks for the insight! I'm sure it costs Datadog a lot to continue to query connected accounts even after the user has cancelled the Datadog service. I reported to them, hopefully they take measures to fix. It would also be nice if integrations could be blocked or de-authorized from the AWS side, but I guess we can't ask for too much in 2024.
uLogMicheal··on Ask HN: AWS CloudWatch Fraud?
Checked all regions, no services on the AWS side. It seems maybe our old Datadog was still spamming the GetMetricData API by default after cancellation. No logs are collected but they still seem to query the API for every service enabled by default.
uLogMicheal··on Mysterious 'Donut' Structure Found Hidden Inside Earth's Core
A read through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480924 led me to this article. The whole idea of a magnetic field the size of a planet is mind blowing to me.
uLogMicheal··on Physicists Are Unraveling the Great Mystery of Earth's Inner Core
How sure are we with seismology that the core is solid? Could it have a thick shell with other materials inside?

Edit: just found https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-donut-structure-foun... very interesting...

uLogMicheal··on Tubeskip, FF addon to auto skip videos from a keyword blacklist
Just a simple addon I made and want to share. I autoplay music a lot on youtube and wanted to be able to ban certain artists they throw into the mix.

code is here: https://github.com/MichealReed/TubeSkip

uLogMicheal··on PUFAs Cause Obesity
I would guess the number one source of PUFA in the USA is soybean oil. How does an industrial waste product become so ingrained in our supply that it's hard to buy most foods without it? I thought free market provided more choice?
uLogMicheal··on AG Merrick Garland Statement on Arrests of Alleged Leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel
Keep spreading awareness.
uLogMicheal··on Ask HN: Thoughts on shadow banning and other dick moves by Silicon Valley?
How else would capital and customers be gatekept? You either raise money from VCs to buy ads or take the gamble of bootstrapping exposure past the latest innovations of banning and filtering. As social isolation becomes more prominent, organic spread becomes harder, allowing the VC connected to be the narrative. The preference naturally becomes profit over social good as social narratives carry little profit but fall trap to the same mechanisms.
uLogMicheal··on Olive oil compound shows promise in fighting obesity, diabetes
If only olive oil would replace soybean oil as the ingredient of mass distribution choice.
uLogMicheal··on Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation
This is awesome! Was looking at creating similar, inspired by the miniaudio approach. Will likely contribute a dart wrapper soon.
uLogMicheal··on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI
GPT does not need super-alignment. This refers to aligning artificial general and super intelligence.
uLogMicheal··on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI
Surely there's a book on this? Maybe we shouldn't let the AI read it...
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