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Accountability is the biggest unaddressed challenge for AI implementation. When one person is able to do too much too quickly, they can create more liability than they can accommod…

Spaceflight requires relentless deliberate progress. An exploding job-recruitment offer might not attract the kind of folks we want designing a system that absolutely must work aft…

A central challenge for AI is understanding how accountability flows. The language of this article is a great example, "... thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate t…

As noted above: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/pdf/PLAW-... : the Attorney General was to have produced the entirety of the Epstein files, with very narrowly-en…

The US administration is, at present, regularly violating the law and ignoring court orders. Indeed, these very releases are patently in violation of multiple federal laws -- they'…

And your medical provider who will only allow you to see your online medical records after an SMS 2FA challenge?

Scientists use pairs of satellites to map the small variations in Earth's gravitational field. It is possible to see groundwater depletion and changes in distribution of glacial ic…

In far fewer than five seconds, one team can suddenly have the upper hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O34BnFu8Kk

The effect is so powerful, it fools professionals and the camera-operator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fioVbt7eF8 Even when the technique is known, everyone remains susceptibl…

It is likely that many airlines accommodate people who are being deported as regular passengers on outbound international flights. For movement of humans at industrial scale, thoug…

Key Lime Air operates daily airline flights as Denver Air Connection in addition to their charter work for ICE and others.

Whoops -- was away from HN for a few days. Here is JJ's account -- he is a prolific flight-tracker: https://bsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social Here is an Avelo flight moving throu…

Avelo assists ICE daily with deporting people from the United States: https://bsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/search?q=avelo

That is known to the public.

Who decides what behaviors we should be nudged toward? Is it us, or someone else? To me, one of the greatest dangers of the present moment is that we can't tell whether the LLMs ar…

For as long as Backblaze has been doing this and at this level of quality, I have no doubt that these reports are good for business. (As an anecdotal example -- I first heard about…

Thank you, rsync, from a community member.

If not now, soon, the bottleneck will be responsibility. Where errors in code have real-world impacts, "the agentic system wrote a bug" won't cut it for those with damages. As thes…

ITAR will be quite a surprise to some when it suddenly makes an appearance.

Reproducible and empirical fact is anathema to any administration that wants the "truth" to be the talking-point of the day.

As a scientist (physics, not polar ice), scientists alone are too few to advocate for science alone -- we literally cannot do it. If you want scientific research as you know it to …

If that sounds cool, check out the LISA mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant... Edit: and the already-flown Pathfinder : https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Very cool.

One can readily argue that Graham has earned recognition and acclaim specifically for his essays. They're part of what drew early founders to YC.

Whoa. Didn't expect to see the inside of Barton Hall this morning :).