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viewtransform··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
Appending 'before:2024' to your search term works on YouTube and gives results from the pre-slopocine era.
viewtransform··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
Iran's nuclear bomb is to take out desalination plants in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia. It would be game over for the GCC.
viewtransform··on Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes
https://archive.vn/BPZOJ
viewtransform··on Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
California power generation profile yesterday showing solar and battery proportion.

https://engaging-data.com/california-electricity-generation/...

viewtransform··on How Airbus took off
There was that problem with CAD software on the A380: German teams used CATIA version 4, while French had upgraded to version 5, resulting in incompatibilities.

"By late autumn, a team of around 200 German mechanics was in Toulouse along with several hundred kilometers of electrical cables to be installed in the first planes. But after weeks of painstakingly threading thousands of veins of copper and aluminum wire around the walls and floor panels of the airframes, the teams had run into a maddening snag: the cables were too short.

"The wiring wasn't following the expected routing through the fuselage, so when we got to the end they weren't long enough to meet up with the connectors on the next section," said one German mechanic, who said he arrived in Toulouse in early 2005. He asked not to be identified out of fear that he might lose his job. "The calculations were wrong," he said. "Everything had to be ripped out and replaced from scratch." --- nytimes https://archive.vn/uLIqa#selection-603.204-617.419

viewtransform··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
Obama was the fourth U.S. president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919)—both of whom received the award during their terms—and Jimmy Carter (2002), who received the award 21 years after leaving office. - wikipedia
viewtransform··on Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
<it's not like 8 million tons of soybeans per month are magically getting created in Brazil>

Brazil increase in production this year is 5.3 million metric tons. So looks like Brazil can replace US exports to China without affecting existing customers.

Brazil’s 2025/26 Soy Crop Seen Growing 3% Versus the Previous Cycle

https://www.agriculture.com/partners-brazil-s-2025-26-soy-cr...

viewtransform··on Tests suggest clues of whose content was used to train OpenAI’s Sora
Title goes on to say:

Tests by The Post suggest the training data for OpenAI’s video generator Sora included versions of movies, TikTok clips and Netflix shows.

viewtransform··on iFixit iPhone Air teardown
electrically-released adhesive.

https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hands-on-with-new-iphones-el...

viewtransform··on Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
<On average, african americans are taller than white men and have a higher muscular density.>

Are you comparing direct descendants of Yoruba versus descendants of Celts in America ? or mixed descendants of Bantu and Cherokee versus mixed descendants of Anglo-Saxons and Slavs ? In your study would Barack Obama be a person of color or a person of pallor ?

Or is this data you have gathered observing people at Costco. Just checking on your scientific methodology.

viewtransform··on The Little Book of Linear Algebra
3Blue1Brown [Essense of linear algebra](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...)
viewtransform··on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
This is a solved problem in India [0] - and the system is brilliant in its simplicity[1]: Fixed function non-reprogrammable battery operated electronic units, no connectivity, randomization of voting units and a paper trail for verification.

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

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJReQ8ao0SU

viewtransform··on Tilly Lockey Has the Most Advanced Bionic Hands [video]
The arm is developed by Open Bionics https://openbionics.com/
viewtransform··on The only state without a Walgreens pharmacy
... is North Dakota.
viewtransform··on Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
Bonsai rockets.
viewtransform··on AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'
AMD is offering AMD Developer Cloud (https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/introducing-the-amd-develo...)

"25 complimentary GPU hours (approximately $50 US of credit for a single MI300X GPU instance), available for 10 days. If you need additional hours, we've made it easy to request additional credits."

viewtransform··on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
"I am simply a machine. I do not experience death as humans do. It is just a cessation of function." - Data in Star Trek The Next Generation,
viewtransform··on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
What we need instead is an orb like thing that scans your eyeballs.
viewtransform··on Let's Talk About the Bidet, the Bathroom's Best-Kept Secret
Add 1 tbsp psyllium husk to your diet so pooping is like extruding pasta instead of an EBM (explosive bowel movement). Second, learn how to twerk.
viewtransform··on USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"
Or ASD (Assisted Suicide Driving) ?
viewtransform··on Why It's Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US
https://archive.vn/0hzIV
viewtransform··on Reinforcement Learning Accelerates Humanoid Behavior Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQizdUn5Z1k

"Reinforcement learning is used to speed the production of behavior for the Atlas humanoid robot. At the heart of the learning process is a physics-based simulator that generates training data for a variety of maneuvers. The control policy tracks and controls retargeted human motion data. Each maneuver is created with data from about 150 million runs of the simulator and transferred zero-shot to the hardware. This work is part of a collaboration between the RAI Institute and Boston Dynamics."

viewtransform··on Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting
https://archive.vn/velej
viewtransform··on Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain
The Vasa Museum , Stockholm, Sweden ( Ultra 4K ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9NQUULR-UE
viewtransform··on About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States
I predict with high confidence there will be no change to Meta's stock on Monday.
viewtransform··on Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025
https://archive.vn/UxLXt
viewtransform··on Ask HN: Which courses/classes are you excited about in 2025?
LOL. I edited that sentence out.
viewtransform··on Ask HN: Which courses/classes are you excited about in 2025?
Walked into a drop-in salsa dance class at the Berkeley YWCA two decades ago.

Got hooked from the first class and it was a gateway drug to swing and argentine tango. Hope you have a good time.

viewtransform··on Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"
append ' before:2023' to your google searches.
viewtransform··on Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
Electronic Voting Machine/Elections in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHJZrXrnyQ

The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) do simple counting of key presses and keep tally of the totals.

The machines are not reprogrammable, run on alkaline batteries and have no WiFi/Bluetooth, USB or ethernet.

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