Hacker News: cannonpr

New comment by cannonpr in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

cannonpr — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:52:38 +0000

I can’t imagine any agency in their right mind training an LLM on their top secret data… especially considering that essentially it would collapse all need to know data in one easily leakable single access domain. The models have no feasible or reasonable way to implement rbac. So you would end up in a situation where people who need to know who killed A, also know who killed B, not to mention cell A knowing potentially data on Cell B who is meant to watch them, etc, etc.

New comment by cannonpr in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

cannonpr — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:01:20 +0000

You’d be surprised how vulnerable aquatic organisms are, and how far energy travels in water after an explosion…

New comment by cannonpr in "Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter"

cannonpr — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:10:33 +0000

Yes you are losing water but the phase change energy of water is immense, very little needs to be evaporated comparatively for immense cooling.

New comment by cannonpr in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

cannonpr — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:55:17 +0000

Primary theft at them is where you scan N cheap items and just bag Y expensive item without scan and walk out, plausible deniability/psychology at play, a lot less deniability if you shove a whisky bottle down your trousers.

New comment by cannonpr in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

cannonpr — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:52:59 +0000

Primarily used to catch and ban from the shop heavy repeat offenders, some people shop lift on order and resell items versus use them for them selves, or have addiction problems with alcoholism etc.

New comment by cannonpr in "The Water Footprint of AI"

cannonpr — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:21:01 +0000

I’m familiar with datacentres, I’ve helped build a few, so I kept up with the new systems, they still aren’t that lossy last time I checked their specs.. however obviously I don’t have access to all the designs popping up in this mad rush.

New comment by cannonpr in "The Water Footprint of AI"

cannonpr — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:56:39 +0000

Did we somehow mass build pure lossy evaporatively cooled data-centres in the AI era while I was asleep ? Most of them im familiar with lose at best 3-4% of their water per day due to recovery systems even when they are evaporative or open loop to a lake. Yet nearly everyone I hear talking about this seems to treat it as if they lose 100% of their water loop contents per day as if it’s a matter-antimatter destruction system…

New comment by cannonpr in "Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager"

cannonpr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:35:53 +0000

The label unless you grew up in the Anglo sphere is also especially meaningless, yet certain people insist in labelling the rest of us :) I got to enjoy Phreaking well into the era most others already had ADSL…

New comment by cannonpr in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

cannonpr — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:47:05 +0000

I didn’t make any claims towards spesific scams, just a lack of effective mechanisms to hold companies accountable, a lot of countries governance systems do indeed have audits and mechanisms to address companies making large numbers of individuals unhappy or where large number of individuals feel they are being treated unfairly.

New comment by cannonpr in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

cannonpr — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:44:13 +0000

Look up the third edition B-READY once it drops this year, that should be the best one then.

New comment by cannonpr in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

cannonpr — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:23:20 +0000

So that report was discontinued after relatively proven statistical gaming and interference by several countries, doesn’t exist post 2020. Post 2020 SPICE+ launched making registration trivially fast. However really the trick isn’t creating and closing companies, it’s that the fact majority of reporting that would catch scam companies like these just get ignored and gather small civil penalties payable years later or not at all, while keeping up with major reporting that might close their bank accounts… it’s a very disorganised system that facilitates a lot of unpleasant activity.

New comment by cannonpr in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

cannonpr — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:12:13 +0000

They threw balloons… over a fence, while they like drama, this is unlikely to have had any effect on a cured structural slab. I doubt they even managed to get industrial strength peroxide.

New comment by cannonpr in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

cannonpr — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:41:27 +0000

Well… your bike likely has several lubricants, and paints as well as coatings that especially in close contact with your skin… especially in the handle bars under friction indeed probably introduce chemicals that will increase some risks, versus never having done it. That is the horror of what we have done with modern material science… Would you prefer a label that gives you only risk increases above say 1% ? Alternatively you can just assume we have complicated the world so much with modern material tech that despite its benefits nearly everything you touch increases your cancer chances in America.

New comment by cannonpr in "Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease"

cannonpr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:04:15 +0000

To add some context, this is a relatively common form of gastritis impacting depending on location 3-5% of the population called Autoimmune Gastritis. Now his biohacking might be related it might not, the issue with the guy is that he does too many interventions at the same time so it’s hard to really tell what’s going on. He also has a core belief of equating looking younger with his interventions working, to his defence he also runs more rigorous analysis on his body. Overall he isn’t the most interesting bio hacker out there, but he is the loudest.

New comment by cannonpr in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

cannonpr — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:32:12 +0000

We must live in different worlds, I’ve been literally blown away by the advances I’ve seen and the new research coming out in the past 40 years. In some ways it feels like we are just getting started, especially in bio. We finally have the tools to discover the wonderful nano machines that make up life and people are using them in wonderful ways.

New comment by cannonpr in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

cannonpr — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:17:11 +0000

Considering the very traditional issues they had with the demagogues… I don’t think they would find anything about our social media surprising at all.

New comment by cannonpr in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

cannonpr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:35:03 +0000

Is his experience really that peculiar? He obviously picks an apartment that meets his comfort level, but apartments go through cycles of deterioration and repair, and staying at a static level of quality is economically very difficult at most market segments, given the industry’s engineering choices. So he selects an acceptable starting point and then watches it deteriorate below that. Eventually the apartment drops too low for its market segment and undergoes partial remanufacture; the cycle then repeats until something not easily repairable wears out, at which point it shifts market segment entirely. This loop usually continues until the whole building is remanufactured, unless it’s of historical significance.

New comment by cannonpr in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

cannonpr — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:33:01 +0000

Fair question, though it assumes citizenships are simple things you “use,” which you either need or don’t. They’re not. People attach all sorts of baggage, duties, and rights to them. Mine are a mix of ancestry, residence, and ones I helped my spouse with. They’re not things I “need,” they’re just where my family and life have been. European family trees often produce this. The original point still stands: even when you’re entitled to a citizenship, actually obtaining the documents takes real time and money.

New comment by cannonpr in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

cannonpr — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:04:00 +0000

It’s not automatic, it requires applying and at times can take years of proving in terms of paperwork, that is by definition not automatic. I have personal experience with the Greek, German, and Italian systems, prepare your self for 1-2 years to gain it even if you have rights to it.

New comment by cannonpr in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

cannonpr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:10:04 +0000

Wanting to play Leisure suit Larry and space text adventure games properly was when I finally “cracked” English, after that I become rapidly fluent. However I feel like it didn’t do my sense of humour any favours.