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by tempestn | 2025-08-26 20:42:24+00:00
Yeah, this is the coolest part. The leftover brine from desalination is generally just a problem. It's harmful to the marine habitat if you just put it back into the ocean, and there isn't a lot else good to be done with it. (Basically you have to dilute it first.) But this way you get useful work out of the dilution!

The article also doesn't say if it produces more power than the attached desalination plant requires. I doubt it as you'd be getting close to a perpetual motion machine if so. In which case basically what you've got is a very energy efficient desalination plant, more than a power plant.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-08-26 20:43:20+00:00
> I assume this is referring to the tweet from the launch of the M1 showing off that retaining and releasing an NSObject is like 3x faster. That's more of a general case of the ARM ISA being a better fit for modern software than x86, not some specific optimization for Apple's software.

It's not really even the ISA, mainly the implementation. Atomics on Apple cores are 3x faster than Intel (18 cycles back to back latency vs 6). AMD's atomics have 6 cycle latency.
by torginus | 2025-08-26 20:43:33+00:00
A bit mixed opinions - I tried colorizing manga pages with it, and the results were perfect.

Interestingly, it can change pages with tons of text on them without any problem, but cannot seem to do translation, if I ask it to translate a French comic page, the text ends up garbled (even though it can perfectly read and translate the text by itself).

I tried with another page, and it copypasted the same character (in different poses!) all over the panels. Absolutely uncanny!

However when I asked to remake a Western comic book in a manga style (provided a very similar manga page to the comic one), it totally failed.

Also about 50% of the time, it just tells me it'll generate the image but doesn't actually do it - not sure what's going on but a retry fixes it, but it's annoying.
by jfengel | 2025-08-26 20:43:48+00:00
The diluted brine goes out to sea. It's less harmful than dumping the concentrated brine you had before, with the bonus that you got some power out of it.

The concentrated waste probably gets disposed of rather than trying to get the remaining water. You treat it like the results of a waste treatment plant. You might dehydrate it a bit, just so you don't have to ship the water, but you probably won't try to recover any more water than you already have.
by MandieD | 2025-08-26 20:43:51+00:00
None of them wants to have a whole bunch of consumer/small business shipments stuck in US customs for who knows how long it will take for the US to figure out exactly what tariffs it wishes to charge and how exactly it plans to collect them, so are leaving it to the higher-priced experts like DHL (who will only do it if you’re willing to pay for their Express service, not their Standard parcel service from Germany), UPS, or FedEx.

I doubt they’re conspiring to leave money on the table just to make Trump look bad.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-08-26 20:43:56+00:00
Surely this is a mistake dang? It's prima facie absurd and if not that unnecessarily stifling. The thread is already talking about the statistics of America, it's not flamebait to bring that up. One may disagree with op, but who would actually complain about it being added to the discussion itself? Doesn't creating a situation where something like this can't even be said more contribute to an atmosphere of passive aggressiveness than not?
by TeMPOraL | 2025-08-26 20:44:22+00:00
> the general consensus is that security practices are "annoying" and "get in the way".

Because they usually are and they do.

> The same kind of user who hates anything MFA and writes their password on a sticky note that they stick to their monitor in the office.

This kind of user has a better feel for threat landscape than most armchair infosec specialists.

People go around security measures not out of some ill will or stupidity, but because those measures do not recognize the reality of the situation and tasks at hand.

With keeping passwords in the open or sharing them, this is common because most computer systems don't support delegation of authority - in fact, the very idea that I might want someone to do something in my name, is alien to many security people, and generally not supported explicitly, except for few cases around cloud computing. But delegation of authority is very common thing done by everyday people on many occasions. In real life, it's simple and natural to do. In digital world? Giving someone else your password is the only direct way to do this.
by hedgehog | 2025-08-26 20:44:25+00:00
To have customers they need to do the actual work of closing deals, building the customer-facing support teams, building all the tooling integrations (PDK, simulation, etc). On the manufacturing side they have to figure out who will do all the stuff besides fab, I think they have 14nm currently in the US and Ireland but the packaging might all still be Asia. It's not something to be done in case of disruption, it's essentially starting 80% of a new company to serve customers who want a US and Europe based supplier. Government customers could work, or public/private joint venture to build commodity parts, but either way they need patient customers who can help work out the problems and pay a premium to do it.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-26 20:44:30+00:00
Does the government regulate car dealer advertisements for vehicles not on the lot and that don't exist?

This might suck for companies but sadly their peers made it necessary. Corporations keep telling us they will do the bare minimum of good behavior required by law and instead focus solely on return. Don't be surprised that we are now adjusting to that now that previous norms have been thrown out.
by mxuribe | 2025-08-26 20:44:56+00:00
Perhaps, for the slice of the world that you have observed, that might be the case. But, i assure you that ghost jobs are real, and they exist on top of the types of scenarios that you described...so you can imagine that folks trying to land that job have challenges on multiple fronts...and if you live on the side of the team that can benefit when that person is hired, well, you suffer also whenever a role is not filled - either for reasons like you described, or for ghost jobs, etc.
by thepryz | 2025-08-26 20:44:59+00:00
I think you point out the most important difference between China and most of the western world, or at least the United States.

China is patient. They seem to be taking a long term, intentional approach. Their goals are long term. In other words, they’ve been planting trees for decades and those trees are now beginning to provide shade. Americans, in the other hand are more concerned with their own self interest and the next financial quarter.
by the_af | 2025-08-26 20:45:01+00:00
> enthronizing the in-retrospect-irrelevant Jay Gould

What? Stephen Jay Gould is not irrelevant.

> I knew his novels were kind of silly

They are not silly. They belong to a different era of Science Fiction, sure. But silly? (He did engage in intentionally goofy humor, of course, but I don't think that's what you meant).

> he was supposed to be a Scientist educating us in the scientific view of the world, goddamn it.

Asimov? He was!
by fnordpiglet | 2025-08-26 20:45:14+00:00
I’ve used wine since its first releases but it was never able to handle most games, Proton really changed things significantly and Valve has dumped megatons of effort into quality and completeness of experience. It’s fairly disingenuous to assert pre-Valve’s investment wine as meaningful comparable to post Proton wine let alone Proton itself.
by alphazard | 2025-08-26 20:46:13+00:00
Terminology is not intrinsically good. If you are working with others towards a shared goal, then agreeing on terminology and having precise language is objectively good for everyone (assuming no one is secretly trying to sabotage the project). If you don't share any goals, then there is not even a coherent sense in which it could matter.

Talking with strangers on the internet almost always falls into the second category.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-26 20:46:27+00:00
and then the forensic analyst would note that and hold a forensically-sound copy while a new warrant was issued, because every file's MAC data being set to 0 would provide articulable suspicion that evidence cannot be filtered by date. So now the search has expanded to include your entire device and, given your history of attempting to tamper with evidence, the entirety of any other seized device as well. Congratulations?
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 20:46:46+00:00
There are rules like this in other countries around the world, and the impact is that it's much harder to change full-time jobs, because companies work around them by replacing full-time roles with contract positions, something that's much harder to regulate.

But the big thing here is: obviously there's a cheering section for any rules that make things harder for hiring managers, because most people here are on the other side of that transaction. Ok, sure, whatever. But none of this has anything to do with the "ghost job" phenomenon, where job postings are literally fig leaves satisfying a compliance checkbox so that roles can be sourced to H1Bs.
by MarkusQ | 2025-08-26 20:47:18+00:00
That's the key point though, this list isn't infinitely long, and all the numbers in it are rational. And it is an algorithm (specifically, a lookup table).

All the numbers you get this way are going to be rational, and if you require them to be finite, you can't even identify them with any irrational numbers. At least with the computable numbers you get an infinite set of irrational numbers along with the rationals, while still never touching the vast majority of all numbers (the remaining, incomputable irrationals).
by cpuguy83 | 2025-08-26 20:47:23+00:00
I mean obviously it's about chip production, but shitting on the chips act is a political stunt and nothing more.

Building fabs takes lots of money and time. Intel also doesn't have customers except themselves and have fallen far behind in the fab business and has a decade+ or mistakes to make up for.

What we have here is picking a winner and potentially insider trading/market manipulation with Trump shitting on Intel leading up the "deal".
by xp84 | 2025-08-26 20:47:28+00:00
> posting legitimate job openings

You want to incentivize them FILLING job openings. Nobody cares how many jobs are posted. And posting 100 openings and filling 50 is the stated problem trying to be solved here.

The rebating idea resolves this quite neatly though. Make posting a job opening that eventually gets filled free after rebate[1], and posting a "dangling" job opening that never fills incurs tax.

Now, I can think of a dozen loopholes to get out of this[2], but it's not that it's going to disincentivize hiring.

[1] or maybe even better than free (puts a little tax incentive for hiring and keeping people beyond the typical probationary period).

[2] Can job listings be revised? Just recycle the ghost job listing in bulk before the deadline and convert it to a totally different position (Software Engineer -> Cashier) Can they not be revised? That seems like overreaching ridiculous Soviet red tape.
by strbean | 2025-08-26 20:47:37+00:00
Some classes of antibiotics use birth control - rather than killing bacteria directly, they inhibit reproduction.

I think the biggest difference is that bacteria can react to a treatment, while viruses don't have the capacity to react. If you've stopped a virus from replicating, it's essentially dead. A bacterium may have defensive measures it can take. It could form an endospore and try to wait things out. If you've stopped it from reproducing, as it ages it might start accumulating free radicals that increase DNA damage, leading to a higher chance of it mutating to resist the antibiotic. Etc.
by tlogan | 2025-08-26 20:47:42+00:00
Both UPS and FedEx have been handling this correctly for years. They provide a simple option where you can choose who pays the tariffs (the shipper or the recipient). If it is the recipient, you just include their email and phone number so they can be contacted.

The “only” difference now is that the $800 limit no longer applies, so every shipment must include this information.

Which basically means end of Temu, Alibaba express, majority of Etsy sellers, etc.
by kitten_mittens_ | 2025-08-26 20:47:55+00:00
If you look at the all years view on electricity maps (https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/all/yearly), 25% is share of generation from coal in MISO.

I'd be curious to test the GP's point. Since electricity maps doesn't have cost data for most US balancing authorities, you maybe could try figuring out power costs per balancing authority to end customers by using something like the https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ "Sales to Customers Customer Sited" data. Revenue over Megawatthours for Industrial service.
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-26 20:47:59+00:00
Many Canadians (90% of us live within 100km of US border) have the concept of an “Amerifriend”. A US relative/friend they utilize to get cheaper US goods shipped to and pick up on visits.

Most border towns have shops that will receive and hold orders for pickup for a small fee.

I wonder if this will reverse where Americans send to their Canadian friend to pickup.

Canadian retail has been pretty dumb/expensive. Much Cheaper to buy from US for auto parts than buy local, even though virtually none is made in USA. I wonder if tariffs will eliminate that price advantage.
by bill_joy_fanboy | 2025-08-26 20:48:21+00:00
You're arguing with me, but this statement...

> Everybody wants to maximize their money received and minimize their money and work expended to whatever degree possible.

...is exactly in agreement with what I said above.

The ideal business is one where you take in money and have no expenditures. E.g., If you're a landlord, you want super high rent and no expenditures on maintenance or improvements.

I would also accept the other direction. That is, a tenant wants use of a property for no rent, ideally.

My point was that small businesses aren't noble somehow. They want money for free just like everybody else.
by snuxoll | 2025-08-26 20:48:27+00:00
Warrants are pre-trial activities to collect evidence, defendants (or, more likely, their attorneys) are still able to challenge the admissibility of evidence should a case go to trial. If it turns out a search warrant was requested in bad faith, or the trial judge (which won't necessarily be the same one that signed the warrant, and then there's appeals courts) finds the warrant was defective (overly broad, lack of probable cause, etc.) and should not have been issued in the first place then any evidence stemming from it could be thrown out.

"Fruit of the poisonous tree" simply means the entire chain, the initial evidence that was improperly acquired and anything that was discovered based upon it, gets thrown out. If a warrant was issued to dump the full contents of your phone, and they used location metadata from your photo library to start determining other locations to search and got warrants for those, then that entire chain of evidence gets thrown out if the court finds the initial warrant for your phone was invalid.
by lucasmullens | 2025-08-26 20:48:27+00:00
It has a big banner that says "Research preview: The browser extension is a beta feature with unique risks—stay alert and protect yourself from bad actors.", and it says "Join the research preview", and then takes you to a form with another warning, "Disclaimer: This is an experimental research preview feature which has several inherent risks. Before using Claude for Chrome, read our safety guide which covers risks, permission limitations, and privacy considerations."

I would also imagine that it warns you again when you run it for the first time.

I don't disagree with you given how uniquely important these security concerns are, but they seem to be doing at least an okay job at warning people, hard to say without knowing how their in-app warnings look.
by AIorNot | 2025-08-26 20:48:39+00:00
Guys, everyone has a Metaphysics (starting assumptions about the Universe) and the better explanation for me (after starting out as a dyed in the wool Materialist) is Idealism, Note this is NOT solipsism (only your mind exists) but that consciousness is Fundamental (ie below SpaceTime)

Metaphysically, I'm strongly opinionated on this now after many years of research on this topic. -see this video from a group of philosophers and idealism-minded thinkers - (also it is way more plausible to me than simulation theory)

https://youtu.be/m4DwQDaUANU?si=sL92PP-MSzjd0PiV
by partdavid | 2025-08-26 20:49:04+00:00
Since the jargon we've invented in technology has derived from natural language, it's often repurposing common terms as terms of art. In my opinion this leads to ambiguity and I sometimes pine for the abstruse but more precise jargon from classical languages you can use in medicine (for example).

For example, how many things does "link" mean? "Process"? "Type"? "Local"? It makes people (e.g., non-technical people) think that they understand what I mean when I talk about these things but sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Sometimes we use it in a colloquial sense, but sometimes we'd like to use it in a strict technical sense. Sometimes we can invent a new, precise term like "hyperlink" or "codec" but as often as not it fails to gain traction ("hyperlink" is outdated).

That's one reason we get a lot of acronyms, too. They're too unconversational but they can at least signal we're talking about something specific and rigorous rather than loose.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 20:49:15+00:00
The best middle ground I've found is checking social media on a web browser on a computer. On my time, when I decide.

I still check Instagram every few weeks just to see what everyone is up to. And it's honestly really nice. I never think about it until I'm thinking "hmm, what is X up to?"

The best part is I don't burn through all the posts in 5 seconds and then get reels suggested. In a few weeks or a couple months, a lot of stuff happens! There's a bunch of cool posts from my friends from me to see, and no algorithmic BS.
by jfengel | 2025-08-26 20:49:17+00:00
The Constitution has no protection against gerrymandering.

The Constitution has no protection against the capture of the Supreme Court.

The Constitution was designed with so many checks and balances that they interfere with each other. The Congress has long been incapable of any significant action, and even if it weren't controlled by the President's party it would still not be capable of significantly preventing abuses by the executive branch.
by chankstein38 | 2025-08-26 20:50:00+00:00
I was just talking about this same thing with someone. It's like emails. If, instead of writing an email, I gave AI some talking points and then told it to generate an email around that, then the person that I sent it to has AI summarize it.... What's the point of email? Why would we still use email at all? Just either send each other shorter messages through another platform or let LLMs do the entire communication for you.

And like you said, it just feels empty when AI creates it. I wish this overhyped garbage just hadn't happened. But greed continues to prevail it seems.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-26 20:50:18+00:00
Shock and uncertainty causes large dips in the stock market. As as long as the economy isn't completely toast by the time you backpedal completely, it'll recover somewhat.

Just imagine the money you could make if you could induce such events on demand, with only you and your friends all being prepared for it!

Just a thought. Purely hypothetical. No one would do that. Surely.
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 20:50:40+00:00
Nothing like this is ever going to happen. It would be incredibly expensive (on both the employer and the government side) to administer, and it would be portrayed as a tax on hiring, because that's exactly what it would be.

Rules about what a job posting can and cannot say can definitely happen, and have happened (see: salary ranges, because of Colorado's requirements). That's what CNBC depicts this proposal as comprising. Unfortunately, under the hood, it's closer to what you're talking about.
by litoE | 2025-08-26 20:50:45+00:00
Sammy the poodle (http://matrixmark.kesug.com/Sammy.jpg) is prone to severe ear infections. Every time he gets one of those and I take him to the veterinarian, they give him an antibiotic injection, an anti-inflammatory injection and drops to put in his ear. That's $402.85 out of my wallet. Or I can give him the same injections myself. However, in the United States I can shoot my dog with impunity (see Noem, Kristy) but I need a prescription from a veterinarian to give him an antibiotic - that will be $402.85 please. Heck, I need a prescription to give him flea pills too. Or I can order the same medications from Great Britain, without a prescription.
by buellerbueller | 2025-08-26 20:50:49+00:00
Your 1st source [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-trade...] points out that many (myself included) contend Clinton was lying her face off to draw support away from those had felt burned by Democratic treatment of Bernie Sanders and his campaign.

Clinton was VOCIFEROUSLY pro-TPP for quite a while, and "changed" her stance as the race with Trump tightened. I believe she was a bald-faced liar.

The Clintons were ur-Third Way democrats. Financialization of the economy and globalization were the stock-in-trade (puns intended) of 1990s-2010s Democrats (at the Federal level) until Bernie came along.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-26 20:51:18+00:00
This appears to be at least a partial solve for it.

Older implants are notorious for having that issue - and while scarring doesn't appear to hurt the brain all that much, it sure does hurt the connectivity.

The usual "bed of nails" Utah array typically deteriorates massively within 6 months. Neuralink's very first human implant has lasted for what, a year and a half already? It had issues with dislodged electrodes, which must have hurt the interface quality, but it still remains usable. That's a damn good sign.
by tasuki | 2025-08-26 20:51:27+00:00
I'm not blaming anyone, just observing that they don't actually want to exercise.

> The US is a significant global outlier in healthcare.

What has the US to do with any of this?

> Despite this high spending, the health outcomes are average to below-average on a wide range of key metrics

That's because health outcomes are mostly affected by lifestyle and luck, rather than high spending.

> And there's no silver bullet, you'll need multiple great solutions.

(Only slightly tongue in cheek) There is a silver bullet: Get rid of the cars, start using self-powered modes of transport, such as walking and cycling.
by tablloyd | 2025-08-26 20:51:44+00:00
That argument doesn't really hold up much water

- Typescript is created by Microsoft (This doesn't stop many start-ups from choosing it)

- Hot reload is for a small segment of the C# userbase and that article is now years old.

FWIW I've been a dotnet/c# dev using MacOs/Jetbrains rider for 6 years now.

C# != Visual Studio.
by chr1 | 2025-08-26 20:51:53+00:00
Historically most people used to spend for children and grandchildren significantly more that on themselves. The current situation when people go to other countries and then say we do not have money for more than one child is abnormal, and can't go on very long.

I agree that there are many better ways to organize social programs, e.g. replace all of them with negative tax, when some percentage of all tax collected past year is divided equally between all citizens of any age.

Sure well organized society is very impressive, e.g. invention of capitalism and private ownership is the greatest invention ever made, but the point i was trying to make is that it is only a foundation for really exciting stuff like science spaceships, immortality.