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Governments around the world have enforced artificial scarcity for centuries. Continuing to do so would be nothing new.

It takes resources and time to produce something unique that people want. For centuries governments have offered patents, licenses and protections for individuals so that people would continue to innovate, create something new and move the world forward. Will people continue to do so knowing that at a moments notice someone will rip you off?

Time will tell but for me personally I stopped publishing my side projects because why should I work hard for hundreds of hours just so Microsoft and AI companies can make more money using my work without giving me an ounce of credit?

Copyright came into being because of the printing press making things to easy to replicate.

If the current laws don’t protect works sufficiently history says more laws will be written that do rather than things will be a free for all.
"it's not our fault, we had to price gouge"

Yeah no. There is no benign justification for the three main insulin manufacturers raising prices in lockstep like the cartel they are.
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They removed XUL without providing an API to replace it, even for some very popular use cases (TabMixPlus comes to mind). I lost a few (to me) important extensions and had a hard time finding replacements. For me, extensions were the major thing that differentiated Firefox from other browsers, as I could customize it exactly as I liked.
Honestly I don’t expect that Thunderbird ever cost too much when they were still developing it, but even at the time I’m not sure it would’ve been worth it.

The other stuff is just me-too insanity from what I can tell. And now of course they’re talking about AI.
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Perhaps in contrast the president of Princeton was a Rhodes scholar and clerked for a Supreme Court justice before going to teaching and administration.
Autodesk has a monopoly because, oh, web browsers don't have to open Autocad drawings.

The amount of media playback and serving software out there is innumerable. If most of it doesn't handle some obscure format, that format is screwed.

Getting a new format everywhere is a difficult battle; the adoption barriers are high. Even if the thing is completely royalty free, and comes with a great, open source reference implementation.

Something that is closed, and has no backing of some corporate consortium or ITU type body or whatever, is basically fucked.
I understand where you're coming from, and there might not be a lot of great answers, but off the top of my head let's say we have a high degree of confidence it is the phones. A couple immediate next steps we could take:

1. Encourage education. Explain to young people early and often through a number of avenues that phone use can cause anxiety, depression, etc. Knowledge is power and all that. Will it solve the problem? No. But it might move the needle and save some lives.

2. Fund further and more detailed studies. Are there critical periods of child development where phone use is more likely to lead to suicide? Are there particular patterns of usage? Narrowing down the hypothesis space makes it much easier to develop more nuanced studies and more targeted interventions.
I have a feeling the drug companies are doing just fine. The high quality marketing and TV commercials during every episode of Jeopardy! (USA) indicate that they’re not cutting back anytime soon.
I really like the syntax! I am having trouble building on Linux but I will send patches your way when I figure it out.
We can have a free web or we can have a web that replaces app stores completely. We can't have both.

I personally prefer a completely free & open web, but I understand that means I'm going to be installing binaries for some things. I'd much rather have to download netflix.exe than have the current state of browser drm for example.
Wait but why had a blog in this topic, I found his solution helpful.
Also, sidenote although pg_turso is experimental I added text, varchar, uuid, timestamp, timestamptz, json and jsonb to the supported types ~1 month ago for anyone who saw it in the past but that was holding them back, don’t let it be what stops you from hacking on it.

I tested it on the chinook music db, I was able to fully replicate a table, although I admit it’s barely functional as a cache because it doesn’t handle relationships or primary/secondary keys and I don’t think it does anything with unique constraints either, but with that said it is functional. It will take a table from Postgres and put it into every region supported by Fly.io and with embedded replicas you can just push it through onto the users device if you want. I jumped out of my chair and was laughing like an idiot the first time I got it to stream the entire chinook music DB from a Postgres creation script straight into SQLite all over the world, all while running postgresql on localhost inside Docker. I can taste the future. XD
“But drugmakers also faced changes to the Medicaid rebate program that would have likely cost them hundreds of millions of dollars each if they didn’t lower their list prices.“

This should have been the opening paragraph.
> Because I really need a job I've just been applying to everything. Minimum wage: I don't care. In a way I'm actually looking forward to just show up, do my job, and go home, without stress.

> But I get almost no response on those.

Weren’t these the same people bitching about how no one wants to work?
I think you are too far in the hole to read the title properly.

It is absolutely not implying what you think it is.
From the preface to the article:

> I believe Zach has made some real discoveries here. He demonstrates a pattern in girls’ suicide rates that has not been noticed or much discussed, as far as we can tell.

The article headline mentions girls, not in an attempt to downplay boys' suicides, but rather to emphasize a discovery that they believe that others haven't yet made.

For the same reason, a headline, "Suicide Rates Are high for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Boys" (note high; not up), doesn't discount that girls are also committing suicide. This headline would be apt for an article which highlights the gendered discrepancy in raw rates, rather than the gendered discrepancy in rates of increase.
> any company can produce generics for sale at lower prices

Which maybe explains precisely why we don’t see it happen: race to the bottom on pricing means reduced profitability. Why would you sign up your company to make less money?
nice to see it knock Snowflake out of the top 3 :)
For a while I used FB Messenger Lite, which was basically designed for low-bandwidth markets (read: not US) but came without any sort of bloat. Sadly they recently deprecated it, which forced me to switch. It seems like these companies feel the need to put ads everywhere--at some point I'd imagine some users will just stop using tools that are too bloated.
It is a bit heavy, but it's so, so much more comfortable to hold than the switch. Valve really did an excellent job with the ergonomics.

My only complaints are that it gets super hot, and the controls are a little cramped for my big hands. But I'll happily play it for hours handheld. I couldn't do that with the switch, I always had to put it in tabletop mode.

One thing that doesn't seem nearly as important is the USB port on the top. You can actually use it while it's plugged in. I think Nintendo made a bad call on the switch there.
people don't like paying money for things.

if you're willing to pay, the chatGPT app is going to be a better experience. the only reason to use the copilot app is to get gpt4 for free. and that means ads.
Article is paywalled. Where are they going?
is it weird that I find this website is oddly satisfying to use
8.2k ++ Sam goes.
3.9k ++ Sam stays.

Read the room, Sam.
Weird text input box. It doesn’t auto-capitalize new sentences? I wonder what that box is doing in the background with every word I type.
This happened to me a lot on the other side. I’d apply for a job, hear nothing, assume I got screened out and then months later get an email saying “oops we aren’t hiring anyone for this role anymore”.
Toward a Shallower Future
You could probably throw a small fully connected net at it, and 'train' it via genetic algorithms: ie have a population of nets, let them each run a few games, and pick a few top scorers to seed the next generation with some mutation and cross-over.

This random exploration is less efficient than back propagation, but at least you don't have to muck around with temporal differences. (And it would be hard to figure out how to tweak the weights for backpropagation in this multi-step game; without falling back to reinforcement learning.)

The problem seems simple enough that evolution via mutation and artificial selection has a decent chance to get good in a reasonable amount of computing time.
It’s pretty smelly. They probably don’t even make all that much from those specific ads but it makes the application/system feel completely cheap.
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Geoff's articles have had quite a few big HN threads over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News)
You are right about the time, but 1D Pac-Man might still be a good fun toy problem to hone your ML skills on.
> On the technology side, Apple has been enormously successful at denying essential capabilities to the web through a strategy of compelled monoculture combined with strategic foot-dragging

Yes, it's mind boggling Apple to this day is not punished for this violation of competition law and brazenly gets away with this garbage for years.
That would accurately describe a situation where suicide rates were minimising absolutely due to one group decreasing disproportionately.

The title as-is is accurate
Yeah a little bit?
I worked most of my career in .NET. Couldn’t get a single place to hire me. Eventually ended up getting a Java role ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I do miss some of that nice syntax sugar.
Holy cow. Tumiki Fighters was one of my favorite games a long long time ago. I remember there "only" being 3 or 5 games though! Even then I thought this was brilliant work
SQLite being 11th seems extremely low on the chart.

Then again, the methodology isnt measuring what you’d expect. Like usage.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition
Right? Like this isn't even that much impressive, considering.
I really hope that when Apple is forced to open up access to competing app stores that there will be a setting for me to ban sideloads or downloads on my parents devices.
Reality: it is far easier to iterate on software that’s clean and mostly correct than it is to do on software that is riddled with hacks, gotchas, footguns, and long-distance side effects.

It’s extremely depressing working with “senior” engineers who’ve spent an entire career with the above mentality, who have missed out on any chance at ever learning how to actually engineer software for reliability and maintainability. Their inability to do so reflects on a lack of practice rather than some sort of fundamental impossibility. Which sadly seems to be a widespread misconception these days.
I applaud the author, but it’s also a clever “tell me your WiFi password website”!!!
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I’m sorry. I like Scott but this is silly.

Lynx isn’t Browse. Browse is based on Firefox.

When I need to test a site in text-mode (as I do every day) I use Lynx, w3m
Pretty much every office job, tech or otherwise, that I've taken has this. I think it's probably there in case you might have to move your monitor or chair or something similar. Maybe someone uses a case of printer paper to prop a meeting room door open and you need to shut the door. Incidental office workplace stuff. Maybe to inform an applicant who couldn't perform these actions that they should inquire further.
We get that, but it's a quite biased and negative nickname for the OS, as your own link here explains its origins.
Since somebody pointed out at selection bias, I'll spend a word in the opposite direction: haven't been laid off, company has done a great job to prevent layoff situations and they have been extremely transparent, even how much runway is available if everything goes south.

I'm hoping to stay here a long time, really like the workplace
It's a great OS. I've been running it for 10+ years as my NAS OS and it's been rock solid. Paired with Napp-It as a ZFS management UI.
Crossrail uses advanced signaling making very good use of the resource. They use platform screen doors for both improve safety and reliability but also fast loading and unloading. Seem to me these are all improvements and were the right approach for Crossrail. They didn't do everything perfectly but the system is pretty damn good and pretty damn successful.

Yes, infrastructure has gotten more expensive, and that is particularly true in the Anglosphere. But those problem don't have so much to do with the chosen design, but rather it operation and planning processes.

What actual parts of the design are actually bad?
As I said, we don't want mob dynamics here. Between your reply (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850057) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38849882, and the fact that the GP was upvoted to the top of the page, there were clear signs of that developing.

It's not about the individual or the topic. We don't want HN to be that kind of community.
> but why don’t they just make a web site you can order food from?

How will they sniff which smart devices are on their customers' networks, so they can make the next round of unnecessarily frictionless apps, for the next round of devices?
Few adults are interested in trying "lab-grown" meat
An astronomer/geophysicist could answer better, but my understanding is nothing we could possibly do would change the planets temperature the tiniest fraction of a degree.

I also read somewhere that if the sun disappeared and the earth flew off into space, life would persist in the oceans for millions of years because it would take that long for them to freeze to the bottom.
I wasn't aware of this. It's a pre-owned home. I plan to switch to cordless anyway.
Compare: https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/two-thirds-of-americans-are-wi...
You can’t really do that for nonlinear functions
This question is usually asked when conversations about geothermal come up here, and for good reason because it’s a valid question. The long and short of it is that the amount of thermal energy that humans would be able to realistically extract pales in comparison to the amount already lost to heat flux through the surface, the amount generated via radioactive decay and frictional forces from gravity/tidal sources and convection in the core. Some answers on a relevant stack exchange answer with more general calculations [0].

Edit: Off the top of my head, it’s estimated that total core heat is approximately 10^31 J, heat loss at a rate of 47TW, (forgive me for not carrying out the calculation completely or for sources on those numbers, they can be easily searched, I’m on mobile), so the orders of magnitude difference already are so vast it’s a rounding error in siginificant figures.

[0] https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2302/can-th...
I can't edit this one anymore, but in light of being reminded of the community guidelines, I will offer instead that Mitchell is not a moron, but is making decisions that are extremely questionable in light of the stated goals of the Mozilla foundation, and has failed to execute well enough and quickly enough to the point that it calls into question her competence.
It looks like it can also be used to send spam. Did you get som eproblems with that?
If you actually went through with it, traced over that picture and posted it back to the thread that would be nice, as it seems not everyone can see it as clearly as you can.

Maybe even the original authors would appreciate it.
At the scales were talking about it's somewhere between Going to the beach and getting shot by a swimming dog carrying a gun in its mouth and the problems caused by doing flybys of Jupiter.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/146/
> They require more capital investment than solar or wind projects: $3,000 to $6,000 per kilowatt, compared with $1,700 to $2,100 per kilowatt for wind and solar. (However, a geothermal plant will produce between two and four times as much electricity as a wind or solar plant of the same capacity.)

Solar/wind: 1.7k - 2.1k / kW → N

Geothermal: 3k - 6k / kW → 2N - 4N

Looks like an investment no-brainer.
Native and web apps shouldn't be able to block (or detect) screenshots. It's MY device. I should be able to screenshot whatever I want.

And you want to disable right click download? Then simply do not upload those images. You do not have the right to take that control away from me as a user.

Why "champion the web" if your whole goal is to take control of users' devices away from them and destroy their freedom in some of the most basic ways?
There is a difference between trivially bypassing protections and having to go though some effort to bypass it.
That gets complicated when you're running an HA cluster and need to worry about write conflicts.
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Lower number goes up, or higher number goes down, either can equally be described as "gap narrows".

Is it wrong to say the "gender wage gap narrowed" when men's inflation adjusted wages have fallen?
That is my fault, and I apologize. I'd edit the comment if I still could.
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Note of caution to the hoarders: I had a copy of flashpoint 11 on one of my drives and recently tried to move it to another disk... after two days of robocopy doing it's thing less than half of the files had been moved.

Obviously 1.4TB is enormous so long copy operations should be expected, but the sheer number of files makes it hilariously difficult to manage if you ever want to move it after extraction.
I was there, I was an IE user and proponent. It was a great browser. I think it was considered one of the best when it was released in 2001.

IE 7 came out in… 2006. So IE 6 just sat there for 5 years. And it’s not like ever upgraded to 7 immediately. Lots of corporate PCs kept 6 for many years longer.

That’s why it has the reputation it does. By 2006 IE 6 was horribly behind FF by every measure. Tons of security bugs had been found. By 2010 it was a total joke but developers were still having to make the modern web work on it, somehow.

If it had been replaced in 2003 or 2004 and MS never paused development no one would remember IE 6 as a dumpster fire.

But once you get a total stranglehold on the market, you can do stuff like that.
Reagents only test if what you are looking for is there. They don't tell you anything about what you are not specifically looking for. For example if you have both LSD and a NBOMe (a generally undesired analog), it won't tell you anything about the NBOMe. Furthermore, it is not that specific (it reacts to indoles). So it is possible for someone to mix an chemical that reacts with the Ehrlich test with, say, a NBOMe for effect and pass it off as LSD.

I don't know if it happens in the wild, but it is a possibility. By using more reagents, you may be more certain, but unless you take it to a lab with good enough equipment (such as GC/MS), you never know.
This looks beautiful and I appreciate all the work that went into it.

For me, it is overkill. I went in the opposite direction this year, putting more emphasis on my posts (and their readability) rather than visual flourish.

I am planning to do further optimizations (such as font subsetting) to reduce the burden on my site's visitors later this year.
May we see it?
If you're going to say something on HN, please make it substantive. If don't have time or don't want to do that, please don't post.

This applies to scientists the same as any other commenters.
We had this here in Toronto as well. Apparently you can take tours of some of the equipment.
> It's due to time zones

And Canada mostly shares the same timezones and works hard to keep them in sync (e.g. daylight savings time) with US timezones exactly to allow these kinds of business dealings to happen comfortably. There are exceptions, but few Canadians live there. It is unlikely that the one asking is among the exceptional.

> Ontario is most definitely not within the Continental United States, geographically or otherwise.

Better look at a map again... Position yourself in the north end of Windsor. Pick a direction, any direction. Start travelling in that direction. No matter which direction you choose, you will end up in the continental US. The geography of the United States has it surrounded.