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Is this a real concern? SpaceX is doing amazing in terms of business.

If Prasad thought this needed more research then it needed more research. He and the people he works with have written dozens, maybe hundreds now, of reports that expose studies that lack the rigor for definitive results, have misleading endpoints, have imbalanced arms etc. I get that anything that would slow vaccines down has somehow become political and lots of people would gladly accept the pharmaceutical companies word on things. This is a blindness due to political leanings and not evidence based. If Prasad says it needs more and better data I'd put money on it needing it.

I'd like to remind people reading this that are concerned about it that there is a LOT you can do to improve the world.

If many reduced their energy consumption and material waste there would be a measurable reduction in CO2. Buy things only when you need them, reuse or find a new home for things before discarding them. Keep you tires inflated, buy efficient vehicles. Improve home insulation, consider a heat pump heating and cooling system when the time comes, etc.

Don't let this be a problem because you can't get government to force your neighbors to do it, take the initiative to lead by example.

Looks like this is in response to the Apple paper from a couple of weeks ago about memory tagging. Excellent news even if this wasn't pushed along by Apple.

I follow Vinay Prasad (https://substack.com/@vinayprasadmdmph) to keep up on these topics. It feels like getting a portal to the future in some way as he's on the cutting edge of analyzing the quality of the analysis in a ton of papers. You get to see what conclusions are likely to change in the next handful of years as the information becomes more widespread.

The irony that the judge would likely have held you in contempt if you didn't obey one of their orders but seems to think it's ok to help people pursued by other law enforcement to skip out. The judge should know that even they aren't above the law and they can't override other judicial and administrative rulings just because they disagree with them.

If you'd read my comment more carefully you'll notice that I'm asking for exactly that, and from Krebs himself.

My point (again) is that IF he did support the Biden laptop disinformation tract that this would be more than sufficient cause for being removed from his national security related position AND that this one of the reasons listed by the present administration, in addition to suppression of Covid-19 information and others.

It's a sexy looking PCB too!

sources? I can't find any Trump official that is claiming they are trying to intentionally cause a recession.

Glad we've got some competition in this space. Qualcomm was the only manufacturer with top tier performance for several years.

I'm a bit skeptical of how much "AI" is going on here but given the number of parameters in RF systems its not a surprise that ML could be trained on them to reduce the necessity to perform things algorithmically and outperform what a human could describe and code.

This is Cuban putting his money where his mouth is. He wasn't willing to do it when it came to applying DEI to his basketball team, but I'm glad he is here.

Happens to me here all of the time. If it doesn't align with the HN groupthink it gets hammered out of view.

Headline is misleading. Quote from the article:

"some 3,400 workers who had been targeted for layoffs — an estimated 10 percent of the workforce"

10% doesn't meet the traditional usage of the term 'decimate' (as few use the term only when it meets the dictionary definition).

Wow, UK has these crazy laws too? The German hate speech laws made headlines a week or so ago (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-online-hate-speech-pros...). They'll confiscate your electronics if you insult someone and they actively monitor the Internet for prohibited speech.

I'd be interested in whether they are fixing mistakes that are reported to them. If they won't then there is an issue. If they do then maybe this is just another nitpicking attack on DOGE.

No symptoms, isn't this a good thing?

Re: the text up top, HN is already pretty much a mono-culture. If you dissent your comments are voted down. I'm sure its possible to have more moderation and to more actively tamp down alternative views but imo it's already excessive and reducing the scope of ideas here.

"it seems like all usual controls were bypassed". Apparently it isn't known. Let's answer this question and be impartial about it. A story about China having access to Treasury Department workstations landed a few months ago. There may be a LOT of bad practices in place. We should be pushing to improve them if so.

Why the security concerns now and not with the thousands of employees with potentially similar access? NOW it's a concern because the idea occurred to people that who might have access to data is important? Imo the faux outrage is so far beyond rational that it turns people away. Let's have a reasonable discussion about data access and controls, and whether they are being followed, rather than some reflexive response based on political points of view.

Carl Sagan may very well be correct, however he didn't make predictions about when such an event might occur, and his predictions were aimed at avoiding it occurring at all.

I've seen this article appear several times in two distinct time periods, one was after Trump was elected the first time, and the second is now.

Why is it popular now? Because people opposed to the present political party want to portray it as a decent into darkness and superstition. It's being used as a tool and it's hyperbole.

Don't fall for the trap, things in the US at least appear to be improving tremendously in just a matter of weeks. Border security is improving, cutting off trafficking and drugs. Middle East peace is advancing. Ukraine might be settled. Significant waste is being cut from government spending etc.

Amazed at the pushback against an effort to cut waste out of government. There is a ton of it. It's your tax dollars being wasted... let's instead discuss whether things they've identified are keep, toss, or reform and if the wrong call has been made.

note that this is 'self reported long covid'. For a proper study you'd need an objective measure otherwise it can't be determined what might be long covid vs. fatigue from working late hours at work, changes in mood due to season, changes due to age etc.

Wow, they still use CVS...

Very good writeup around the issue.

The Navy could look to aircraft for some design guidance. There are significant market competitive forces pushing for user centric design when it comes to the interfaces of modern aircraft. They also have to deal with making new things look and work kind of like older systems, and provide interfaces that simplify information.

I follow Vinay Prasad MD (https://www.youtube.com/@vprasadmdmph), who does a lot of research related to medical studies and methodology, lots of cancer related ones as that's an area where he works.

You'd be surprised at the number of cancer treatment studies that are deeply flawed:

- Positive effects may have a low confidence due to small sample size, the joke is that if you can fit the laser pointer between the lines it's considered a success. Cancer is a very tough disease and sometimes positive results are due to noise in the dataset.

- Some studies don't consider overall survival (important because you might not die of cancer but you might die sooner from a side effect like Parkinson's caused by the treatment). See mammograms and colonoscopies for treatments that look like they are almost entirely ineffective.

- Don't compare against the standard of care (its easier to show positive results if you aren't using the best treatments available)

- Allow for self selection (the treatment isn't blind or double blind and people drop out of the control group, skewing the results)

Imo he's an excellent source of the latest data driven results related to cancer and other treatments.

This is an understated reality of the situation. Patients are already able to receive treatments with experimental drugs. It's the "forcing medicare and insurance companies to pay for it" part that's not a good idea, especially considering that most of these treatments may be worse than the current ones.

Treatments should have solid evidence they improve overall survival when compared against the best treatments available today, and unfortunately too many studies either aren't aiming at revealing that info, and/or are comparing against inferior treatment options.

Last system I worked on with GHS Integrity was something like a USD $1M+ licensing fee.

In terms of usage, it felt like it was in between an RTOS like FreeRTOS, embossed, or Zephyr, and Linux. It used a lot of best practices like statically allocating memory for basically everything, so you knew you had sufficient memory (at least for anything the OS needed) when your application was loaded.

Toyota's CEO is crazy if they think this development will have an impact on EVs. You know what people don't have at home? Ammonia for their new ammonia engine...

After reading this I'm thinking about shorting Toyota. They are totally sunk at this point. Between fuel cells and this nonsense they've sunk countless millions when they could have lead the EV market.

Do we need laws against every specific thing if another law already covers it? I'd argue no, we don't need to call out special groups as protected, then there is precedent for doing so for every special group. Keep our laws general and comprehensive, with as few special cases as possible, especially when it comes to protecting rights.