1. dron57 Oct 14, 2025 parent

   Do you think Shanghai has better career opportunities?
2. dron57 Jul 19, 2025 parent

   In Polish ch and h would be read the same (kinda like the English h sound).
3. dron57 Jul 14, 2025 parent

   Civilian telecoms are absolutely used in military UAVs. Ukraine and Russia both use their opponents SIM cards in long range strike drones. And I’m pretty sure that attack vector would work well anywhere, including the US.
4. dron57 Mar 10, 2025 parent

   In China there are. But of course the hardware and supplier integration is much easier for them than for American competitors.
5. dron57 Nov 17, 2024 parent

   Why is Singapore even in an English language competition? It's the dominant language there.
6. dron57 Oct 24, 2024 parent

   The Soviet and now post-soviet "tushenka" is 100% derived from American WW2 spam. But I think it actually tastes better, try some if you have an Eastern European store around.
7. dron57 Mar 12, 2024 parent

   Albanian is not a Slavic language at all.
8. dron57 Feb 17, 2024 parent

   > Ultimately what you're implicitly suggesting is to surrender to the aggressor, but that's not going to happen. Even if the West stops support, Kyiv is conquered, there will be guerilla war for years to come.

   That's what everyone thought at the beginning of this war. Unfortunately, I think the lack of a massive guerilla movement in the occupied territories disproves this theory. Russian brutality and torture is very effective at fighting guerilla movements.

   The Russian invasion needs to be beaten back on the field! Please, vote for candidates that support Ukraine.

9. dron57 Jan 31, 2024 parent

   If you're from Canada your best bet is to get an engineering degree and to land a job with a startup. Look into the TN Visa for Canadians. There are no limits on application numbers and they're very easy to get (if you have a qualifying degree).
10. dron57 Jan 21, 2024 parent

    Since you mention Western animation and Netflix. Have you seen Blue Eyed Samurai?

    Amazing show and it has a beautiful style that looks like it's hand drawn and Japanese, but it's actually French made CGI. I suspect that even this industry can be disrupted by technology.

11. dron57 Jan 13, 2024 parent

    Let's see. One is a brutal, colonial invasion with the intent of totally replacing the local population. And the other is Israel responding to the rape and murder of hundreds of their civilians.
12. dron57 Jan 9, 2024 parent

    AI heavy lifting isn't just model training. There's about a million data pipelines and processes before the training data gets loaded into a PyTorch tensor.
13. dron57 Nov 20, 2023 parent

    The worst case is all of China being in the same time zone. It's quite crazy. China has about the same land area as the US.
14. dron57 Oct 24, 2023 parent

    The companies do track that data internally. It would be nice if the DMV mandated it's release to the public. But of course this type of data is a counterfactual, so much more subjective.
15. dron57 Oct 1, 2023 parent

    Their current track is not demographically suicidal?
16. dron57 Sep 13, 2023 parent

    Seems that the NSO business model is based on ultra exclusivity and a very small number of business clients. Technically, Pegasus could probably retransmit itself to infect another device, but it doesn't fit their business model so I doubt NSO would do this regularly.
17. dron57 Sep 6, 2023 parent

    It was "you wouldn't steal a car". People on the internet rightly corrected it to "download".
18. dron57 Aug 11, 2023 parent

    That's a great way of looking at it in theory. But in practice how would we even know if we're looking at a cat-level AGI? For a human level AGI it's obvious, we would question and evaluate it.

    Is there a reasonable way of distinguishing narrow-AI ChatGPT from a hypothetical cat-level AGI? We can't even measure the intelligence level of real world cats.

19. dron57 Aug 7, 2023 parent

    So Starbucks? Should they be sharing all their revenue with whoever invented all those Italian coffee drinks?
20. dron57 Aug 4, 2023 parent

    Nothing too impressive yet, but it's an exciting step where they're taking the existing knowledge from LLMs and vision models and putting it into an embodied robot.
21. dron57 Jul 29, 2023 parent

    So what? The OS is totally locked down. There's nothing to actually do with all that extra compute. Are iPhone games better than Android games? Probably, but I imagine most of the HN crowd isn't into mobile games. Other than that I can't even think of what the better iPhone SOCs would be used for.
22. dron57 Jul 21, 2023 parent

    Noun gender is really a non issue. It's something native anglophones complain about when learning other languages. ESL people are more likely to complain about just how many verb tenses English has.
23. dron57 Jul 14, 2023 parent

    FT is not the Economist.
24. dron57 Jul 12, 2023 parent

    Why are they evil if they're just following the incentive structure? They want to make enough money for themselves and their families and to send their kids to college. Is that so different from non-execs?

    Besides, most of us here on Hacker News can easily avoid big companies and go work at small start-ups or even our own businesses. If you hate the Machiavellian corporate world then vote with your feet.

25. dron57 Jul 6, 2023 parent

    Chinese fishing near Costa Rica? Way to defect blame from Westerners. I guarantee you we're capable of overfishing, oil spills and other environmental disasters all by ourselves.
26. dron57 May 2, 2023 parent

    China and Rome for sure. But Turkey is a terrible example of your point. Byzantium (or the Roman empire as they called themselves) was absolutely conquered and replaced by foreigners.
27. dron57 Apr 27, 2023 parent

    A child wanting to be a streamer is no different from wanting to be a professional actor or a soccer player. This story as cute as its folksy wisdom was didn't mention scalability or the long tail of jobs.

    Some jobs scale, some do not. Brad Pitt, Cristiano Ronaldo, Rihanna and PewDiePie all have the benefit of being in the 1% (0.1%?) of their respective professions. They reap all the rewards. But there are millions and millions of people who aren't quite at the top and they get nothing. Dentists or plumbers on the other hand provide a service to a specific number of people. Their jobs do not scale. As such they are safer from the global Internet-wide competition and automation.

28. dron57 Apr 26, 2023 parent

    I just want to watch Ukranian drone videos with glorious full sound Russian explosions without the annoying Ukranian techno.
29. dron57 Apr 24, 2023 parent

    I'm not a neuroscientist, but as I understand it losing a particular ability is usually a sign of brain damage. It is likely that she learned English as an adult (or older than a toddler at least) and it was being stored in a more specific and more constrained area of the brain.
30. dron57 Apr 14, 2023 parent

    Lowercase m - milli. Uppercase M - mega.

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