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by zzo38computer | 2025-12-05 23:04:38+00:00
I would agree, that I would rather not suffer imposed advertising I did not ask for even if missing out some products.

However, you can have e.g. a magazine that lists computer parts if you want to buy that (as mentioned by another comment), or in a restaurant that has a sign on the wall (or a printed menu) indicating new items, or a news paper might have a section relating to restaurants or movies or whatever else you might want to buy, or there might be publications that specialize in these things if you are deliberately trying to look for them. They should not need to put advertising anywhere, and they should not need to make it excessive or abusive or dishonest like they do, etc.

(Products that they advertise way too much often have some problems other than just the advertising, too.)
by proberts | 2025-12-05 23:04:39+00:00
That could be viewed as fraud at the time of entry under both scenarios. I recommend that you speak with an immigration to come up with a workable plan. Note that if your spouse applies for his or her green card visa (known as an immigrant visa) at a U.S. Consulate, he or she can visit you on a tourist visa for extended periods of time while waiting for the interview at the U.S. Consulate.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-05 23:05:45+00:00
You also lose the ability to pull over virtually anywhere and refill your tank in five minutes, as well as the maintenance benefits that come from a decades-old design versus whatever software horrors are lurking in your car.

To top that all off, in parts of CA electricity is now 50c/kWh, which makes it roughly equally expensive to charge an EV as it is to buy a tank of gas.

I love electric cars, but there is a gap between what they COULD be and what they are.
by BitFlogger | 2025-12-05 23:06:31+00:00
Swap isn't just for when you run out of ram though.

Don't look at swap as more memory on slow / hdds. Look at it as a place the kernel can use if it needs a place to put something temporarily.

This can happen on large memory systems fairly easily when memory gets fragments and something asks for a chunk of memory than can't be allocated because there isn't a large enough contiguous block, so the allocation fails.

I always do a least a couple of GBs now for swap... I won't really miss the storage and that at least gives the kernel a place to re-org/compact memory and keep chugging along.
by mechanicalpulse | 2025-12-05 23:06:32+00:00
> As I'm sure you're aware, glyphosate is usually only appropriate as a weed killer on your property if you're looking to kill all vegetation in/around where you spray it.

> It's a non-selective herbicide in this context, it kills everything.

It is a non-selective herbicide, but it's not a systemic herbicide. It functions by interfering with photosynthesis, but since it is minimally absorbed via root systems, it must be applied directly to the foilage. You can spray it on the ground around a plant and that plant will happily ignore it. This is why the instructions are explicit about applying directly to the foilage during sunny days when the wind is light.

As a homeowner, I loved glyphosate. It was cheap, simple, effective, and could be applied in a selective manner. It's not the best choice for getting rid of broadleaf weeds in a lawn, but I used it all the time in my gardens to kill weeds and keep the bermudagrasses out.
by titzer | 2025-12-05 23:06:39+00:00
You had to call a shop that you suspected had the thing and ask them? Sorry for the mocking tone, but yes, I did that too in the 90s. And then they might hold it for you! Or they could order it over the phone for you.

Sometimes you could also talk to people in a shop about what you were really trying to accomplish and they'd give you advice on what you might need or how you could do it.
by antognini | 2025-12-05 23:06:51+00:00
You may have seen diagrams of the tidal force of the Moon on the earth (like this one: https://www.oc.nps.edu/nom/day1/tide_force_diagram.gif).

Intuitively you would think that the tide is being formed because the Moon is "lifting up" the water at the point closest to the Moon. But this contribution is actually very miniscule to the tidal effect. Instead the bulk of the tides are produced about 45 degrees away where the tidal force is parallel to the Earth's surface. This has the effect of dragging the water closer to the tidal bulge.
by t43562 | 2025-12-05 23:07:55+00:00
Not using it themselves is why my managment at various companies wouldn't let anyone do sensible things.

Companies that sell to other companies .... don't care about the users. It's one bunch of managers sleezing up to another to make a sale. Whether the product is good to use doesn't matter to them because none of them use it.

A "good" company wouldn't allow this to happen but it happens often enough.

Another bad smell is when developers themselves never use the whole product and simply work on their little bit.
by SXX | 2025-12-05 23:08:06+00:00
BTW I asked detailed narrative descriprion of other purely benchmarking Zelda video with 5 second snapshots:

Video: Zelda TOTK, R5 5600X, GTX 1650, 1080p 10 Minute Gameplay, No Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZGmgV-8Rbo

Here can be found narrative descriprion source and command:

https://gist.github.com/ArseniyShestakov/47123ce2b6b19a8e6b3...

Then I converted it into narrative voice over with Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Js2nDtM7sx14I43UY2PEoV5PuLM...

It's somewhat desynced from original video and voice over take 9 and half minutes instead of 10 in video, but description of what happening on screen is quite accurate.

PS: I used 144p video so details could be also messed up because of poor quality. And ofc I specifically asked for narrative-like descripription
by ahtihn | 2025-12-05 23:08:59+00:00
It's a bit more complicated than that. R&D for new drugs is incredibly expensive while the cost to actually produce most drugs is reasonably low.

The price of drugs that make it to market needs to not only cover the cost to produce the drug, but also the cost of R&D and the cost of R&D of all the drugs that fail to get to market.

Now this gets complicated when a company sells in different markets with actors that have different negotiating power. It makes sense to sell in any market where the company can get a profit per unit sold without including R&D. But if none of the markets allow enough profit to cover R&D, then it's not really worth developing any new drugs at all anymore.

That's why people say that the US is basically subsidizing drug development. It's not that it's not profitable to sell in the rest of the world, it's just that margins are much lower which allows for a lot less risk-taking on R&D.
by titzer | 2025-12-05 23:09:14+00:00
It's commercialization in general that distorts things, and you're probably right that SEO without advertising might actually have been worse? But then again, the online advertising market is a whole evolved thing that maybe...doesn't need to be...as big as it is? E.g. I don't see structurally how the economy requires spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advertising to function.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-05 23:09:14+00:00
Thanks for the additional information, I wasn’t aware of glyphosate being used for burndown/crop desiccation on wheat fields until CGMthrowaway mentioned it. Makes perfect sense, given no wheat is glyphosate tolerant, but it’s a (seemingly) more direct pathway to human glyphosate consumption than say, eating sugar derived from sugar beets grown using glyphosate.
by proberts | 2025-12-05 23:09:27+00:00
The subsequent guidance on this question was in conflict and unclear. On the one hand, the guidance indicated that if the beneficiary had a valid visa stamp, then the petitioner wouldn't be subject to the payment but on the other hand, it indicated that if the petitioner selected consular notification, then the petitioner would be subject to the payment. So I think it could go either way.
by trashface | 2025-12-05 23:10:09+00:00
> FYI for anyone who isn't familiar with the wacky US insurance situation: Nobody in the US actually pays $800 for the drug. That's the "list price" for insurance companies to pay. Even insurance companies don't pay that price because they negotiate their own rates with the drug companies, which are lower.

This isn't really true on obamacare/ACA plans, even the high-end ones like gold PPOs. The formularies are much worse than employer-based plans. Insurers are required to cover one drug in each therapeutic category, but its usually an older generic. Most brand name drugs like this one have really bad coverage or not at all, which means the insurer won't even negotiate with the pharmacy to lower the drug.

Yes you can use coupons, sometimes, but the pharmacy can't always process them and the manufacture is always change the conditions and expiring them. I got one for my glaucoma drops directly from my eye doctor, and it was expired immediately when I tried to use it. I have paid $650 (for a 3 month supply, the full retail cost) for my drops when the coupon didn't work, and I couldn't get them any other way - I can't interrupt the med or else my eyes get damaged. So that falsifies your "nobody" assertion.
by danso | 2025-12-05 23:10:27+00:00
> 3. Turning long videos into action: Gemini 3 Pro bridges the gap between video and code. It can extract knowledge from long-form content and immediately translate it into functioning apps or structured code

I'm curious as to how close these models are to achieving that once long-ago mocked claim (by Microsoft I think?) that AIs could view gameplay video of long lost games and produce the code to emulate them.
by ghaff | 2025-12-05 23:10:57+00:00
The exterior design grew on me, for all the issues it had (and at least one major redo), over time. The few times I was in there I liked the ground design well enough as a space. But I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone rave about the interior layout as a working space in general.

I know someone who worked for an HVAC sub for the building and they said it was really hard because there weren't plans as they were used to working on at the time.
by aio2 | 2025-12-05 23:11:06+00:00
I don't have much to say about the focus of your comment, but I do want to talk about this:

"When you’re a kid you typically see wild new things like that as just normal because you have no context for how unusual they are."

NOT TRUE! I remember then (and even now) looking at unique things in awe and amazement, rather than something normal or ordinary.

Just what I think :)
by petercooper | 2025-12-05 23:11:19+00:00
However, it’s not all roses. Try getting melatonin in the UK. You can buy it almost anywhere in the US. Same for any first generation antihistamines. Or a jar of painkillers - packets are limited to 16 here. Or lidocaine cream. Whenever I go to the US, I have a shopping list to restock our medicine cabinet.
by azophy_2 | 2025-12-05 23:12:15+00:00
I feel that stacked PR in git should be common knowledge, however many of the documentations are scattered. I found stacked.dev but feels that its not exploring pure-git workflow that well. thats why I tried to collect all of those docs into a single website that's dedicated into that singular workflow. would love to get any feedback:

https://stacked-pr.github.io

(disclaimer: partly supported by AI, but most of the writing structure were made by hand)
by beAbU | 2025-12-05 23:12:36+00:00
Roundup makes a product that looks like roll on deodorant. You literally roll it onto the leaves of the things you want to kill, and everything else remains unharmed.

I'm also a fan of glyphosphate. Nothing else works nearly as well. People who are critical of "chemicals" to control weeds have never had to deal with a weedy pavement before.
by graiz | 2025-12-05 23:12:41+00:00
145 using P instead of li.

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by eszed | 2025-12-05 23:13:01+00:00
> The public option works to set a roof on what private insurance can charge.

Exactly! This is what no one in the US seems to understand. My encounters with private clinics and hospitals in the UK (all 10+ years ago, at this point) were unbelievably luxurious, at prices that (totally, completely free-market driven, mind you) were affordable on middle-class incomes. Or, yeah: there's private medical insurance, also free-marketed to "shockingly reasonable", by US measures. Americans on good salaries have been bamboozled into believing that a single-payer system will trap them into some kind of hell-hole hospital° with no recourse, when in fact the exact opposite is true.

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°And, of course, the "hell-hole hospital" examples are cherry-picked. Bad on their own, of course, but not representative of a system as a whole, nor recognize that equally awful anecdotes are abundant in the USA.
by mckn1ght | 2025-12-05 23:13:07+00:00
Your original comment doesn't add anything substantive to the conversation, and would've been better served by simply upvoting the link, or other comments. It could even come off as sarcastic to certain people, it's hard to know what you're really thinking or why you find it fascinating.

In case you've never seen the guidelines, you're discouraged from talking about downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Analemma_ | 2025-12-05 23:13:29+00:00
By now crypto-in-practice has violated so many of its supposed founding principles that it's tired and cliche to point it out.

It was supposed to be limited in supply unlike fiat, and yet Tether underpins the whole thing and they print that out of thin air all the time. It was supposed to be decentralized, but in practice a few big exchanges control all the transactions and a few big mining pools control all the minting. It was supposed to be "code is law", and yet if you find a big exploit on smart contracts it'll be unwound later on and the cops will still show up for you. And as you say, it was supposed to be trustless, but counterparty risk is everywhere.

And it turns out nobody cares, because to a first approximation nobody is in crypto for the libertarian principles. It is all about number go up; always has been, always will be. It's not even worth pointing out anymore.
by Someone1234 | 2025-12-05 23:13:46+00:00
This varies wildly by medication; and makes a ton of assumptions that all happen to benefit the drug company's position/parrots their PR.

For example, my partner needs $100/pill medication, which also had a "savings card." That card only lasts for 12-months or 8-pills (whichever comes first). Then it is $100/pill. After insurance (High Deductible), we pay out of pocket $100/pill up until $3200. Insurance discount: 0%.

So the cash price and the insurance price are identical, except the insurance price counts towards deductible. UK price of the same medication? £10/pill, and that isn't via the NHS, that is full-price private (NHS could be as low as FREE, depending on several factors).
by SR2Z | 2025-12-05 23:14:18+00:00
> If the border agent doesn't want you to come into the country, you are fucked.

You are seriously inconvenienced, but assuming your paperwork is in order, you will be allowed into the US. This isn't just against US law, it's a violation of international law to render a person stateless.

This ignores the real point, which is that while you cannot be refused entry to the United States, you can be arrested at the border. ICE these days has mastered the art of making people's detainment so uncomfortable that even those with a right to be in this country end up deciding to leave.
by weare138 | 2025-12-05 23:14:44+00:00
The subject of the article is about how one of the widely cited papers on the subject was ghost written by Monsanto, the company that produces Glyphosate. That was the accepted science everyone was trusting which we now know is flat out academic fraud.

So how do we know the assessments from organizations like the WHO weren't also based on this same faulty and fraudulent 'science' that was, at the time, widely accepted in academia? We would have to logically assume that any scientific conclusions based on fraudulent scientific studies and false data can not be provably true.

Your assertion relies on circular logic.
by strongpigeon | 2025-12-05 23:14:53+00:00
Assuming you mean "conversion advertising" vs "brand advertising", what I remember looking at industry-wide numbers when I worked on Google Ads was that they're actually pretty close, with brand advertising being slightly bigger. Something like 60/40 industrywide.

Now, it varies widely depending on the medium, search ads lean way more on conversion advertising, with display and especially video ads leaning more on the brand side.
by yibg | 2025-12-05 23:16:38+00:00
Yea but those are typically self selected sets. People that are interested in that particular type of movies watches it and rates it highly. But if you only offered that movie to the entire population, likely a large portion of the population won't want to watch it.

For example, The Shawshank Redemption has very high rating on IMDB, but also many people have never seen it and are not interested in watching it.
by muwtyhg | 2025-12-05 23:16:39+00:00
>> I was just trying to understand what parts of this admin you lean towards, and if this is one of those cases.

>Why?

Because I can't square your previous statements without understanding what parts are acceptable to you and which are not. You have not provided anything for me to understand your position politically except that you don't think it's worth worrying about the Supreme Court potentially destroying birthright citizenship.

> At no point do I expect or intend to change anyone's mind; that's not the point. When it comes down to it, I don't believe that a belief that won't survive being challenged is worth holding, and I want to know if I've missed something. To put it another way, any time I mention something political here, it's because I see someone who holds a contrary belief and want to challenge my own beliefs on the subject.

Well put, and I agree. Arguing a belief is the fastest way to improve and correct it. That is why I was trying to get a more well-rounded picture of your opinions on this admin, because I want to understand your context surrounding your political ideas.

> Yep, that's my point. I love talking politics and philosophy, but my respect for the norms of this community outweigh that. It's been my experience that most of these conversations quickly turn adversarial - if you go through my comment history you'll likely see that I often disengage when that happens, or wait a day or two to reply to avoid starting a flame war.

We can end it here to keep with those norms. I appreciate you responding with some of your opinions and your honesty.
by panick21_ | 2025-12-05 23:17:26+00:00
Reusable rockets aren't magic. There is a long distance between 'reusable' and reusing something many 100s of times to reach scale.

Blue Origin is losing billions every year, its not hobby of the richest person in the world, not true competitor. Remember rockets are small markets and everybody other then SpaceX is losing money.

Europe and China has literally 0 shot at breaking into the places SpaceX dominates. Europe will take another 10 years before they get a reusable rocket and even then, launching something like Starship wouldn't happen for another long time after that.

China simply can't compete in these markets by law, in the US. Them having reusable rockets doesn't matter for SpaceX. I don't think China will have Starlink competitor that can compete globally anytime soon. But that might be a real competitor eventually.

Kupiter is arguable a more real competitor.

> Assuming the US continues to alienate its allies, I assume spaceX will be limited to the domestic market in 5-10 years.

That's a gigantic, gigantic, huge and absurdly large assumption.

A lot would need to happen for all current US allies to block all SpaceX products.

Not to suggest that 61x multiple is justified, but your counter argument doesn't really work.

I think the better argument against the 61x multiple is that the overall market simply isn't big enough. SpaceX would have to break into many other markets and how to do that is difficult to say for a number of reasons.
by Ancapistani | 2025-12-05 23:18:20+00:00
First - thanks for waiting a few days to reply. I do that quite a bit on controversial topics like this to limit potential flame wars.

I know I'm picking and choosing a bit in replying; I read your entire comment and gave it thought. If I don't quote it, it's likely simply because I agree or have nothing to add.

> I'm not putting them in your mouth, I am stating what the most popular strains of the lab leak approach are.

My apologies then, I misunderstood.

> What would even constitute confirmation?

I can't think of anything that would likely come to light after years that would qualify.

> If it leaked out of a lab, the lab and or CCP could own up to it.

I disagree. I believe they would, but cannot rule out that they would not.

Note that I am not asserting that they have hidden anything; I am saying that it's not unreasonable to leave open the possibility.

> But zoonotic origin? You'd basically need a time machine to confirm it. The discussion by scientists is about the balance of evidence.

I'm not in a discussion of scientists about the origin - I'm in a discussion on a forum of like-minded people :).

The fact that there is no proven origin at this point strongly suggests zoonotic origin. So strongly that I would put it at approximately the level of confident that I would have for a scientific theory - that I would consider it true and that evidence contradicting it would have to pass quite a high bar.

> They are using it to attack scientists and science broadly because they believe scientists are in on it (a conspiracy theory)

I agree, and don't like that either. My motivation is to say that we should leave room for investigation, and that we shouldn't try to limit the conversation of interested parties who want to continue considering it as a possibility.

I think the key difference here is that I see a distinction between saying "this isn't conclusive" and saying "the prevailing opinion is wrong". I'm saying the former, not the latter.
by brandonmenc | 2025-12-05 23:18:26+00:00
Drug companies net profit margin is 2x that of a typical company. EU and America have equal size populations.

Back of envelope, if the total cost of that drug went solely to profit, and profits were cut in half, it would cost $200 for both Europeans and Americans if we paid the same price.

So yeah, we are kind of subsidizing the lower prices for Europe.
by XCSme | 2025-12-05 23:18:28+00:00
In my experience building AI Agents, having more specialized agents works better than one big agent. Simply because LLMs are dumb and make A LOT of mistakes. The longer the system prompt and more instructions you give it, the more likely it will miss some of them.

For example, in one architecture, I used to have a support agent reply directly in the customer's language, but the translations were very poor. Now I have one agent thinking of the answer in English, and then one dedicated agent for translation. The translations are A LOT better now.
by KenSF | 2025-12-05 23:18:40+00:00
HCB is an amazing Rails 8 app. It is the Rails app that is processing $6M/month.

https://github.com/hackclub/hcb

Excellent work on the mobile app though I would wonder, since HCB runs on Hotwire, why it was not written as a Hotwire Native app which would leverage the existing Rails Hotwire app and not require a complete rewrite?