skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being able to own land does not mean you cannot be sole occupant.
It's just that you'd lease it from government (aka the rest of society), rather than owning it outright in perpetuity (and pass to your offspring), to do as you wish with, etc.
The Tidal Wave of Rising GPU TAM Raises All Boats
People just google “bob builder” anyway. Domain doesn’t matter so much.
Why would an AI overlord waste so much energy on something so meaningless?
Then why Swift, Rust, TS/JS and Python went with it as well?
BMP supports run length encoding.
StarTAC? MicroTAC? Sapphire seems to refer to Motorola dashboard radios.
Well, for the record, google confirmed that my e-mail address (and other PII) was found in the other two listed breaches, but didn't know about those avatars either.
People aren't tested for any contagious illnesses when entering the country.
> An overview of some compelling alternatives.

The story lost me at the subtitle--I'll wait until there's one. Seriously though if a very large part of your company's cost or user experience depends on efficiently rendering quality images, then this should be on your reading list.

For the vast majority, choosing the nearly-right image dimensions and compression level is probably going to do a lot more than choosing any format over jpeg.
actually, fair point.
Not sure what's going wrong there, but I really hope that does not go through as proposed.
But I hold on to the opinion that the EU is generally doing a lot of beneficial regulations in the tech space.
> put their trust in a profit-driven company's hands

Every single company making products and services we all use is profit-driven.

> Healthcare isn't something that should be sold as people are forced to buy it to survive

Healthcare is far from being the only essential good that I have to buy to survive. It's a merchandise like any other - the market rules still apply. Maybe emergency care is different (since I could be unconscious when buying it) but that's what insurance is for. That's what I use in countless other domains as well: car emergency assistance, travel emergency, etc.
I recommend DeepL for translation. Google Translate hasn’t really improved out the years and I find the DeepL translations superior.
So, $3 million/km?

How much does a road cost?

"The 2km stretch of the Bayfair to Baypark upgrade on SH2 south of Tauranga was already costing $70 million per kilometre - two to three times more than usual." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/425683/highway-costing-7...

That's about $25 million per km in the usual, or about 10x more expensive than this bike path.

"The cost to build a new road link in Christchurch’s west has ballooned 41% to $25 million." says https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/public/christchurch/broomfield... and that appears to be under 2km of road works., so $30 million/km.

"The $290m 16-kilometre Northern Corridor motorway extension, funded by the government, cost $18m a kilometre to build, while the second stage of the southern motorway worked out at $20m per kilometre." says https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/124611551/building-10...

In the US it costs about US (20230) $4 million/mile to put in a new small urban road. https://kobobuilding.com/cost-to-build-a-road-per-mile/ . That's about NZ$4 million/km, if I did the conversion correctly, and still more than the bike path.

> that is $750 per person

Now do the same calculation for roads.

Also, "About $187m of that will come from the Government’s coffers, not ratepayers" says https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/127422028/christchurc... so your math should be adjusted. I work it out to

((301_000_000 - 187_000_000) / 405_000) + (187_000_000 / 5_258_000)
= NZ$317 per Christchurch resident
You can have your cake and eat it, too. Have a minimum of 1 instance "on", with the CPU in low-power mode until a request comes. This way, you get low cost in idle times without cold starts.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-...
>Companies will put whichever labels they feel are required because they are still liable for the problems their products cause. This is basic and standard tort law, no change required here.

A few problems here...

It's hard to sue if you're dead. Yeah, your family can sue, but now they're dealing with that on top of you being dead. And there is nothing the court can do to un-dead you.

In addition to not being able to un-dead you, the court can't fix the disability or other permanent issues you're now dealing with.

Sure, the court can award you damages. While there are probably exceptions, most people would probably rather have their health and quality of life.

Dealing with it through tort law alone means that the damage must go all the way through to occurring. That damage can often not be undone to any real degree, only kinda covered up with cash. That presumes the poison peddler hasn't protected themselves with an army of shell companies, or siphoned the funds off into another country, etc.

Waiting until the damage happens for every single instance is sticking fingers in ears at societal scale.
Tangent but

> This seems weird as the domain was sold in 2014 for 6.8M USD, which would be around 8.9M USD today taking inflation into account.

Caught my attention, 30% inflation in just 9 years...
Now I'm curious which part wasn't real. My best guess would be on the video interpretation
Firefox 122 Gets Screen Wake Lock API
So if you know how to construct the missing oscillator, great, you can simulate it in GoL run on your GoL-TM (just slower than if you do it on hardware). That doesn't help discovering the unknown oscillator.

As an aside, years into the use of computers to search for oscillators, humans were still beating machines to the punch in discovery of some of the unknown period oscillators, as the paper details.
I asked Gemini itself about the specs and here is the answer
> Or rather, there will be studies, but they’ll be much smaller. And the pharma companies will figure out ways to manipulate them. The only reason we have big, less-than-completely-manipulated studies is that the FDA demands it, and employs lots of experts to figure out which studies have been manipulated or not.

LOL the blind trust that the author has for the seriousness of the FDA when it comes to clinical studies is absolutely laughable. The same FDA approved Vioxx and let Oxycontin ravage the US for years before moving any finger, and because of public pressure rather than anything else. Its failures speak volumes on how useless that agency is.

Besides it is very easy to design clinical trials to make your drug look better than it actually is, and p hacking is still a thing.

The FDA is the cargo cult of clinical science.
I feel like the only person on the internet who doesn't like BG3.

The turn-based combat made the game really tedious. The 3D camera made me want to throw something at the monitor. The story is awful. The companions are unlikable and hypersexual. The environments are often so over the top they wrap around into boorishness. The reddit-style humor (like the "poop knife") was just completely inappropriate. The unfinished state and constant patches made me feel like I was doing QA for free.

I loved BG2, but this wasn't what I wanted at all.
GC and nullability issues are an unfortunate result of Unity using forked flavour of Mono runtime (that is significantly behind feature-wise and uses Boehm GC). When Unity 6 comes out, all of these will hopefully become a thing of the past.

The larger .NET ecosystem does not have much issues with GC performance nor with nulls since most new code written is with enabled nullable reference types so you pretty much always know if a reference is nullable or not.
Cyborg cockroach could be the future of earthquake search and rescue
i think this was true years ago, but now that the general public is internet aware, a billboard with B.com or Z.com would work just fine. In Asia they don't put the .com or .whatever on the ads, they just put the brand name and the general public know to search for that term.
Another important question: how will pharma companies even know whether their drugs work?

It’s ridiculously, ridiculously hard to figure this out even if you’re not a bad actor and you do have a drug that works. The only reason to go through that effort is for FDA’s stamp.
>Don’t all reasonable people ignore labels because they’re useless?
Sounds like once you're no longer obligated to put them in, the only ones left will be the useful ones.

Come on this the very reason we have an FDA and its origin story - false labels were rampant before that and caused real harm.
No, your computer is Turning completeness. But it does not mean it will be able to encode a giant AV1 video in a night without dedicated hardware. Although it will do it eventually (probably a week or so).
Benjamin Bickman - Why we get sick.

A life changer. Makes a compelling case that insulin resistance is at the root of many illnesses. Clarified my nagging questions about added sugar vs sugar in fruits (both are bad) and gave me a simple way to make food choices. Convinced me to finally go LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) or Keto.
Use a burner credit card?
One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth
Also to put the conversation on record somewhere so that if someone comes later with the same complaint they can see why the code was written like that.
There are even 1D cameras - e.g. scanners, finish line cameras for races, some old barcode scanners (although most can do 2D now and even those that only support 1D barcodes might make use of a 2D camera).
If you want to be efficient in Amsterdam, you take the bike or public transport. That has been faster than cars even before this change, and now more so.
Youtube does that as far as I am aware.
But was this sabotage by an insider at the manufacturer, or something deliberate by the manufacturer?
I’m sure it was the work of a rogue engineer.
Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed
The article does not explain the background. What relation does Tesla have to Swedish workers? Is there a Tesla Gigafactory in Sweden?
> I was expecting this to be a rant against Uncle Bob for his weird comments around the fake women speakers at the tech conference.

It would have been very unfortunate if it were. If an article, entitled "Goodbye, Clean Code", had been written in response to Uncle Bob's twitter life, what it would have demonstrated would be that the author thinks that people with bad opinions have nothing of value to teach about their area of expertise. Too common a position these days.
Oh, grandma, look! A dismissive person being angry about being dismissed.
What? 4X is a specific sub-genre of strategy game. I don't think there was ever a time where strategy was synonymous with 4X solely.

StarCraft is called real time to differentiate it from turn based strategy games like Civilization or Fire Emblem.
Start searching for a new job.

Once they get an alternative system they are going to do away with you.
No, this is only about repair shops. Which makes it all more stupid from Tesla.
Amazon's humanoid robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate
> People just google “bob builder” anyway.

Today they do. When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s, people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (with slashes!) to find whatever Bob the builder was offering.

It’s odd to me tbh that phone numbers were solved with contact lists and address books, along with the occasional “new phone, who dis?”
for those less blessed with a priory knowledge or time (and/or motivation to chew through these articles) can I ask you for a tl;dr? maybe could you show an example where the linear model fails? and what's an non-linear model that would overcome this problem?

(also I have no idea whether it's related, but ... my very sparse knowledge of this field just regurgitates the Statmodeling blog (by Andrew Gelman and co.), which is basically something something monte carlo + hierarchical models + calibration... but of course it's easy to shout buzzwords.)
Do they need to? That's what laws are for, in the case of Sweden it's the Employment Protection Act.

The union can negotiate a better deal but it's not wild west at-will employment like in the US.
> Though I’ll admit Tolkien could be an outlier here.

To quote a military historian‘s analysis: „ Tolkien’s first-person experience of war and his deep grounding in medieval and Anglo-Saxon literature means that – while Tolkien does not stop to discuss Aragorn’s tax policy – Middle Earth tends to fit within the ‘zone of the possible’ much more neatly than Westeros. Armies in Middle Earth move at normal speeds, the economic and population systems (and the human terrain with them) make sense, characters behave within the confines of religious belief and social custom, and so on.“ (https://acoup.blog/2019/10/06/new-acquisitions-how-fast-do-a...)
we did 'caveat emptor'. we created the FDA because it was awful for everyone.

no customer individually has the capacity or resources to figure out which of a hundred companies are the ones selling adulterated foods or simply lying about medicines working and throwing narcotics in all of them.

I don't know if you're trolling or if you just don't care about anyone and would happily see millions poisoned for the sake of profits for liars and cheats.
Refact-1.6B
"What's next is AI operated lethal weapons."

Already here, kind of, according to reports on how the IDF selects bombing targets in Gaza.
Same for the Kagi Universal Summarizer: https://kagi.com/summarizer
I see your point, but I also think if a publisher sells you a game, they should consider it ready to play and compare to other games.
Ask HN: Are we witnessing the death of coding bootcamps?
There's been conversations on Twitter/X that bootcamps are running out of business and shutting down for various reasons some including the fact that people are realising a big chuck of them are not worth it anymore.

Gergely Orosz thinks and I quote

"Many bootcamps are (and will be) going out of business as we are entering a time when college grads with years of study, plus internships, are finding it hard to get entry-level dev jobs.

Bootcamps were thriving at a time when there was a shortage of even new CS grads. Pre-2022"

What are your thoughts on this and what's the better alternative for folks learning to code?
> we lived thousands of years fine without the FDA

For those thousands of years our only medicine was "ground up unicorn toe".
Sure, the CEO of ExxonMobil got a little "nervy" and... upped profits by £38bn.

From the article:

"Among the companies that increased their profits most from the pre-pandemic average were:

ExxonMobil: profits of £15bn increased to £53bn
Shell: £16bn up to £44bn"

Increasing prices in line with inflation - direct higher costs - isn't what the research is calling out - it's the excesses.
Unless you propose that there should be more corporations than people, I don't see how the number of companies significantly alters the power dynamics. We literally have industries where the number of job openings vastly outnumber the available talent and instead of better working conditions or compensation or participation this only seems to result in those companies pushing for the softening of immigration laws and reducing protections. The only times we see workers gain leverage is when they are able to form unions and use collective bargaining to avoid being fired. Even for superstar individuals there are limits to what they can demand for themselves and even then it doesn't trickle down to the other employees.

There's no market incentive for companies to "treat staff better" (which is really an oversimplification when it comes to basic things like following workplace safety laws, providing paid medical leave and health insurance, not cheap window dressing like foosball machines and free energy drinks) beyond the minimum you can get away with. Payroll is one of the biggest cost factors in most businesses if not the biggest. That means companies are always incentivized to cut labor costs where possible. This is why you say mass layoffs followed by share price increases.

If you really want "the market" to fix this problem, ban individual ownership of corporations and require all businesses to act as worker cooperatives. This gives every worker equal power in whichever business they decide to join and gives the owners an incentive to treat workers better because the workers are the owners. You could also do this incrementally by offering public grants to creating cooperatives or turning existing corporations into cooperatives (e.g. by creating a subsidized program to allow workers to "buy out" a bankrupt employer).

We don't want a top-down autocratic state so why should we accept a top-down autocratic corporation ruled by a single owner or a non-working board that is only interested in the resale value of the company, not its long-term profitability or sustainability?
You say that like it's not something that can also be automated.
This is HN, so the answer to that question should be very obvious.
Freenet, as a distributed data store, just makes the issue worse. Now I'm expected to host images and videos that other people send. Also a distributed data store doesn't free you from downloading random inboxes either. Someone just needs to to be running enough instances to be able to track and identify you if you're only downloading your inbox.

That's why Tor makes you bounce between multiple nodes, to decrease the chance you get only nodes that belong to a tracker. Actually not sure why I didn't think of Tor as something that already fulfills all those anonymous requirements. It's also an example of the drawbacks of being completely anonymous, that network is extremely slow and will definitely not scale to anything mainstream.
> it assumes everyone has perfect knowledge

Nobody says that. Free markets are actually the best mechanism to deal with situations in which participants have partial/imperfect knowledge.

> I don't need to do a ton of research about what drugs I'm taking

I do, and I recommend all do. Just the other week my ear doctor gave me a prescription for an antibiotic that had as a side effect a significant chance of ligament fracture. I went back and he changed it to a milder, less aggressive medicine.
So, they concluded that the people most likely to commit fraud are those under the most economic pressure?

They need an algorithm to do that? As far as I know this is expected behavior of normal human beings. Geniuses all over the board.

We all know the core of the issue is the following balance:

- expecting money to circulate in a sane society, namely where there is not a massive amount of BS jobs, that to give a decent living to all households, is just utopia. Thinking otherwise is actually dangerous.

- one of the bad sides of human nature: some "nasty" and/or really "hard" "essential" jobs have to be done, and most people will try to avoid them (many won't be able to do them anyway). Not to mention, for a "developped" country, the level of efficacy is very high and only a small amount of people rotating on those jobs (but they need to build experience anyway) is actually "needed" to make things work properly.
Nixon never went to jail.
USB-C to 3.5mm dongles are pretty inexpensive and unobtrusive. I use one to keep my old tried-and-true noise-cancelling headphones working.
I was speculating two oscillators with periods p and q could be composed (as long as there was no way for them to interact) to create an oscillator of period p*q/gcd(p,q) but wondering why large primes wouldn't be a problem.

I guess this is my answer.
Insurers. They would set up their own monitoring systems to insure drugs that work even if the FDA did not exist.
there are these random sampling checks (I guess to get a reference baseline)

> The CNAF trains its models on households who were randomly investigated as part of the Paiement à bon droit Fraudes (PBDF), an annual survey
You're not alone in this, I just don't get the hype for it.

Each to their own.

It was an incredibly stale game awards, nothing really has been stand out shown to be fair, except 1 or 2 titles.
> I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small things from proton for $8.33 a month.

Just because Proton is a great deal doesn't make Kagi a worse deal. This kind of logic never made sense to me. The products have nothing in common, so why the comparison?

Then, also think about why you're worrying about spending $10 per month on a product that you think is great? Is that an amount of money that has any impact on your current life situation? I think a lot of people can't break the habit that everything on a computer has to be free.
Jeeze, so you're just an asshole, then.
One thing I like about Kagi's FastGPT is that it always includes citations in the output. This emphasises that I'm still doing a search, just with a fancier interface, not consulting an all-knowing oracle.

When I ask an AI tricky questions, the responses usually point me in the right direction without fully solving the problem, so those citation links are really useful.

With Bard in particular, I find it often gives a confident but incorrect answer. When I point this out, it apologises then gives another incorrect answer, and so on.
Pattern.

Replace X with government agency if you are from the right. Capitalism if you are from the left.

1. X has huge positive impact overall.

2. Something bad related to X

3. Emotional rage quit. X is bullshit.

Alternative. Try to think what is the total effect overall. Don't be emotional.
App support for tools like IDEs may be lacking (browser based debugging only, but there are cloud based versions of VS Code you can use) but I could do most desktop tasks on Samsung Dex. A USB C monitor with two USB ports for mouse and keyboard would be enough for many people.

It's unfortunate that Samsung abandoned its tests running a fully fledged Ubuntu when hooked upmto a monitor.
Just watch a chain of pharmacies emerge from the ashes with advertised regulation that will eventually become a role model for competitors and they will all try to band together and establish a "neutral" administer of said regulation. Consumers will demand it.
Okay, but then one letter domains and new gTLDs are worthless. If the domain doesn't really matter why not then get bobbuilder365q.com (or some other TLD that's cheaper).
You don't want a clunky TM, in GOL terms just a 'signal conduit' with a reasonably short delay on the reflectors so the periodicity can be reduced.
> There is a large gulf between something that has worked in a research lab once and something that is ready to be commercialized and ready to be implemented in a working ship.

Your point is correct generally speaking.

But here we are comparing modifying a combustion engine to make it burn hydrogen, versus modifying a ship to make it run on nuclear power. Which gap do you think is wider?
Problems on the Galaxy Store
Apps must not have unreasonably high prices. The price $10 is too high.
Yet a Nigerian scammer continues offering an app for $300, even after an employee reports it.
I did not know that medecine was a 20th century science and that we lived in dark ages until the year 1899
The research is examining where the causes are though? Excess profiteering by large energy companies being a major factor, feeding through to transport/shipping etc and impacting everything.
Even this isn’t reliable anymore. I had a double quote word that was being spellchecked. Even the ‘-‘ operator would still include words i explicitly avoid. This isn’t all the time but it happens frequently enough to be annoying.
SimilarWeb's estimations for traffic (Nov 2023):

twitter.com: Total Visits 5.9B

threads.net: Total Visits 50.1M

bsky.app: Total Visits 27M

truthsocial.com: Total Visits 4.6M

mastodon.social: Total Visits 3.5M (for reference, this is just one instance)

(visits ~ user sessions)
That’s why I added “I hope it gets its time to shine” , with a bit of work Bethesda could follow in the footsteps of CDPR.