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Onavo commented on Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car   currentindia.com/channels... · Posted by u/voxleone
antman · a day ago
The protocol is known, creating a tag that rotates IDs every hour should be trivial.
Onavo · a day ago
If apple really wants to (and put their money where their mouth is when it comes to those stupid "Pro Privacy" ads they run), they can start by filing a CFAA lawsuit against said agencies.
Onavo commented on Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers   andrewmccalip.com/space-d... · Posted by u/flinner
klysm · a day ago
RAM corruption is not cheap to protect against
Onavo · a day ago
At today's prices perhaps, but pre ChatGPT you just have to run more of it + more error correction. Not great for the power budget but not anything significant in the grand scheme of things.

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Onavo commented on A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave   arxiv.org/abs/2512.11146... · Posted by u/bikenaga
msteffen · a day ago
My understanding is that scientific research has a dual problem, where the number of students needed to carry out existing professors' research is much larger than the number of junior faculty positions generally available. The result being that most trained PhDs must leave (US) academia because there are no jobs for them. In fact, I've heard scientists complain that universities owe it to students to provide more help finding a job in industry after they graduate.

Given all that, where are professors supposed to find and hire students who don't want to stay in academia themselves? I think a lot of these students wind up being aspiring immigrants, and I'm not surprised that a lot of them would also have a hard time finding a place for themselves after graduating and that many of them would leave. Also, the abstract seems to argue that that US still benefits greatly from this arrangement: "though the US share of global patent citations to graduates' science drops from 70% to 50% after migrating, it remains five times larger than the destination country share."

Onavo · a day ago
There's that and the fact that a lot of people who attain graduate degrees are immigrants who do so for the sake of immigration.

The whole system essentially self selects for cheap labor and exploitation.

If the feds put a high salary requirement on it like the E or O series visas, perhaps the system might change.

The scientific minds of India, China, and Russia don't come to the US and slave away in the lab purely out of passion for advancing science, they do so because it's a path towards the green card. The PIs and laboratory heads all know damn well how the system works, they are no better than those bosses of H1B sweatshops, except perhaps they do their exploitation from ivy filled ivory towers rather than in Patagonia vests.

Onavo commented on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres   planetscale.com/blog/50-d... · Posted by u/ksec
Onavo · a day ago
So what happens if you get a nvme failure? Is there automatic failover and restore?

How does cross data center nodes work?

Onavo commented on Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence   arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10811... · Posted by u/Xcelerate
ChadNauseam · 7 days ago
I don't know that computers can model arbitrary length sine waves either. At least not in the sense of me being able to input any `x` and get `sin(x)` back out. All computers have finite memory, meaning they can only represent a finite number of numbers, so there is some number `x` above which they can't represent any number.

Neural networks are more limited of course, because there's no way to expand their equivalent of memory, while it's easy to expand a computer's memory.

Onavo · 6 days ago
Here's the paper for your interest

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08195

Onavo commented on Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits   eli.li/gundam-is-just-the... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Onavo · 6 days ago
The Witch from Mercury is excellent. It's almost like a space opera version of Open AI board drama.
Onavo commented on Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation   anthropic.com/news/donati... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
zerofor_conduct · 7 days ago
I think the focus should be on more and better APIs, not MCP servers.
Onavo · 7 days ago
Agreed, I too wish for a better horse.
Onavo commented on Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence   arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10811... · Posted by u/Xcelerate
Onavo · 8 days ago
Interesting, what about the old proof that neural networks can't model arbitrary length sine waves?
Onavo commented on Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far   grocerydive.com/news/krog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
karamanolev · 8 days ago
I work in this exact space (online grocery retailer in Europe). We're profitable and one of the few companies to be so in the sector - many online divisions are losing money and being bankrolled by the parent company with physical stores. Alternatively, burning VC money.

The thing that's wrong with Ocado's technology is that it's ridiculously expensive and tailored for huge FC's (fulfillment centers). The problem with that is that it needs to serve a large population base to be effective and that's hard - in dense metros, the driving times are much longer despite smaller distances. In sparse metros, the distances are just too long. In our experience, the optimal FC size is 5-10K orders/day, maybe up to 20K/day in certain cases, but the core technology should certainly scale down profitably to 3-5K. Ocado solves for scaling up, what needs to be solved is actually scaling down.

There are a lot of logistical challenges outside the FC, especially last mile and you need to see the system as a whole, not just optimize one part to the detriment of all others.

Onavo · 8 days ago
So who's their target customer? Are we talking about Amazon/Temu scale here?

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