Its interesting that most comments appear to be running it on their phones. I wonder if most links on HN are viewed on phones primarily? Phones are generally newer than laptops and most developers will have the latest technology.
Developers especially with tech demos like this, use the latest tech to develop and don't care about supporting older devices. This attitude can sometimes bleed over into their work where they should care for users using older machines, but its expected for a look-at-the-shiny demonstration to other techies using top of the range hardware.
( I am seeing the same laggy effects on an older linux + firefox laptop with integrated graphics, unsurprisingly )
no idea if its accurate. the replies appear to be disagreeing with it
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It’s a Telecom Bypass Scam Using SIM Farms…Grey-routing is when international calls are re-routed through SIM farms like the one in those photos, instead of going through legitimate telecom carrier infrastructure.
Someone overseas makes a call to a U.S. number
Let’s say someone in Nigeria calls a U.S. bank or friend.
Normally, the call would be routed through official international telecom carriers, and each leg of that call would cost money.
The person calling (or their carrier) pays international calling fees to reach the U.S. phone network.
Scammers hijack the call and reroute it through their SIM farm
Instead of going through legit U.S. carrier infrastructure like AT&T or Verizon, the call:
Enters a VoIP (internet call) gateway.
Is then re-routed to one of the SIM cards in the SIM farm, which is sitting on U.S. soil and connected to a local mobile network (like T-Mobile or Boost).
This SIM answers and makes the call look like a local one like it’s just a guy in Houston calling a local pizza shop.
The call completes, but the real telecom carriers get screwed
The call appears as a local mobile call on U.S. networks, not international traffic.
For the record, someone may find this interesting.
The scammers avoid all the expensive international “termination” fees.
The telcos (Verizon, AT&T, etc.) get paid nothing, because it looks like local traffic.
Meanwhile, the grey-router charges the VoIP client a discounted rate, pockets the cash, and repeats the process at scale.
How do you do this bit? Is the caller deliberately cooperating, or they think they're using a real service?
I remember calling transcontinentally in the noughties - I would top up an international calls account. If I recall, I had bought a card from a shop with a scratch-off panel. To call first call a local number, then enter my account number. I would pay local rates for the call which were bundled with the contract, so free on the margin, and the call would cost me some pennies per minute from my calls account.
I have no idea how they completed the call, but I was thrilled as it was just before the time when you could just use apps, and the calls would have been ruinous otherwise. For all I know the whole network was a scam. Things like phone cards, money remittance etc, all seem pretty scammy anyway at the best of times.
Yes that's what popped in my mind too. Calling from abroad to back home, I would pay for a card. I would call the number on the card, the code, then my destination number then the hash key or something. I don't think I topped up it.
users are added to the queue, which internally creates a record.
the system polls the queue to check for existing users, and if more than two users are in the queue, it randomly matches them!
I once went to a talk by Ian Banks, he said the key thing about his Sci-Fi future is that a super powerful AI would be benevolent.
The Culture is happens when an AI actually likes humans and easily surpasses them. It's quite unique, I think, in most sci fi. In Star Trek, for example, the AI is neutral, a tool.
Are there cases of jealousy in the AI towards humans? Does an AI want to be a human?
I do wish we had less of the "AI kills everyone or is just evil" trope. It's done to death and frankly doesn't make much sense to me. The Minds in The Culture seem to me a much more reasonable conclusion of how a superintelligent AI would react to biological beings - that is, benevolent at worst.
> Are there cases of jealousy in the AI towards humans? Does an AI want to be a human?
I don't recall anything along these lines. The Minds and Drones are perfectly sentient, with "emotions" and desires and all that fun stuff, plus the benefits of being objectively better than us in almost every conceivable way. It wouldn't make much sense for them to pine to be human(oid.) I wonder if there's a word for this sort of "human idolization" in scifi - that being human is just the epitome of being.
King's Cross toilets are free, have been for a while. Victoria is free too now. Not sure when they changed. Possibly because of Corona, but maybe for longer.
If someone had to bet on an AI crash which I imagine would led to unused datacentres and cheap GPUs how would they invest their winnings to exploit these resources?
If the price of inference drops through the floor all the AI wrapper companies become instantly more valuable. Cursor is living on borrowed time because their agents suck and they're coasting on first mover advantage with weak products in general, but their position would get much better with cheap inference.
The teams window seems to be broken for me, on a non latest version of Firefox. However the blog posts window in the submission works flawlessly.
In the teams window, The first page doesn't load the images but does the content, clicking another item in the menu does show the expected page but again with no images. At some point, clicking the menu items does not load the correct page. At some point after that the images load in, however the correct link to the correct post does not appear. I have to click about 6 times on the same menu link to see a cycling of different posts (possibly the ones I was clicking before) to see the expected post.
No planes at all on the ground, none at any gates, none parked outside. I gave some thoughts (corona, bank holiday) but you would expect to see at least a couple. Seems like the imagery was altered: that someone did and can do that.
edits - another explanation could be that the airport was closed so that the plane taking the photos could fly over it.
That's a common request for manually-created mosaics. Those are often used in flight simulation software. They want all planes manually photoshopped out of airports because they don't want you to look like you're running into another plane when landing/etc. It's a surprisingly big business for flight training. Google is probably sourcing from some of those.
By "we" I mean my company and my product does not do that. That part holds. (or, well, more precisely, that's a different product that I don't work on and isn't marketed as "imagery")
But yes, some other mosaic products are specifically requested with planes photoshopped out of airports and all waterbodies a consistent artificial color so that sunglint can be automatically simulated in flight sims for training pilots.
Because that data is often a high quality dataset available for purchase, sometimes google/etc reuses those datasets.
Surprising about of imagery with 'c. 2025 Airbus' as a watermark; I knew they did more than build aircraft and I guess this is a part of their business.
They're one of the largest and longest-lived satellite imagery providers, FWIW. It's a major wing of the company. They manufacture and operate very high end satellites and have for a long time.
Developers especially with tech demos like this, use the latest tech to develop and don't care about supporting older devices. This attitude can sometimes bleed over into their work where they should care for users using older machines, but its expected for a look-at-the-shiny demonstration to other techies using top of the range hardware.
( I am seeing the same laggy effects on an older linux + firefox laptop with integrated graphics, unsurprisingly )
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