skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your point. Lennart instead of participating, just writes code? :)
There's work being done on alternative fuels:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54511743

Ammonia has no carbon atoms in it, just hydrogen and nitrogen which are abundant. It can be synthesized using the Haber process, and electrolysis, all energy inputs can be green. On the con side, its energy density isn't as good as fuel oil (half as energy dense). It needs to be compressed to stay liquid (like LNG). Also it's a poisonous gas. Could be corrosive to certain metals too. Maybe those issues can be worked around though.
This reminds me of VRML.
For fuck's sake! Not everything needs to be a file!

(This is a joke. I love the idea and execution.)
Lobbyists don't care about uncapturable black market money. The legal market has led to massive increase in legal, taxable money, so now is exactly the time for big tobacco to start salivating over the idea of capturing all of those transactions.
I would be curious to know what a workflow looks like where the Cut command justifies such first-class real estate.

I have the four big thumb keys as Backspace - Tab - Enter - Space in that order from left to right specifically because my thumbs sit on Backspace and Space and those are my most used keys on the keyboard.
> The metal on the back split open at one point and became really sharp.

I am not sure why you are upset at this outcome, given the company name.

/s
There's a common notion that I've noticed, which is that if you just open up a "pot shop" that you'll make money hand over fist, meanwhile, they're fairly complex retail operations to run and you can loose your hat just as quickly as with any other business.
Indeed, we need to look at external factors like time/energy expenditure to determine the efficiency of the operation in order to have a hope at constraining its method. If the NSA were to suddenly publish a list of 1,000,000,000 broken SHA512 keys, and there was no sign of any spikes in energy expenditures, we could strongly suspect that they did not generate them from brute force means. Similarly, if we have hundreds of millions of distinct species on the planet, and only a few years of time on the planet (relative to the rate at which we've observed beneficial random mutations actually occurring), we can suspect that the bulk of the speciation did not occur through stochastic means.
Given how common LZMA as a compression algorithm is, are you certain that your init system of choice doesn’t use it in any way? It’s a very common algorithm in network protocols, it’s a direct dependency of libxml, … - and if any part of your init system uses LZMA, then it just happens not to be affected because the attacker chose to target one specific system.
Marijuana use has massively increased in the US as states have legalized it.

Users have doubled: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264862/cannabis-consumpt...

Use among users has also increased 20%: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353
Same thing happened with cupcake shops and craft breweries.
A lot of these local businesses have been taken over by large companies, though not all obviously. Turns out having a fucktillion monetary units does a lot to get through friction.
I don't think so. AFAIK when you do that, it searches normally based on the terms you give, and then does RAG on the results. Semantically this seems like "doing RAG on the web", but RAG is a specific operation that is only being applied to a subset of the web (indexed results) in that case.
The EU does not have an equivalent of US commerce clause jurisprudence (which descends from Hamilton's original economic design to prevent exactly the kinds of problems that this author is complaining about). The EU does have an equivalent to the supremacy clause, but due to cultural and political forces it cannot have the same effect that it has in the US.

Another major factor that makes the US more competitive is our different approach to intellectual property law that favors competition in comparison to the EU equivalents. Another big thing is less the Delaware effect that he attributes US simplicity to and more the existence of uniform model laws that transformed state business law through the 20th century. Then you have the fact that almost all (except parts of trademark) of the relevant IP laws to large scale enterprises are exclusively federal laws. This is not the case in the EU despite all the normalizing treaties. The EU does not and cannot perform the same role that the federal government does.

I have a better proposal: incorporate the European states as self-governing US territories under the supervision of the federal government. They could have some carve-outs and immunities using an administrative structure similar to that of Native American law. This would also resolve the NATO controversies by just absorbing all of the individual ex-EU member state country militaries under the DoD. It would also eliminate a lot of the weird Article V ambiguity by just making it all American territory.
I've got my tinfoil hat on but I totally believe this to be due to the lobbying efforts of big tobacco. Purely because cigarette sales continue to decline and vaping is becoming more and more regulated and, therefore, less profitable.

But marijuana enjoys high markups, pseudoscience "health benefits", and is becoming more and more acceptable to Americans each and every year.
> human judgement

Again the human judgment is not replaced in either scenario, I'm talking about a tool the lawyer, the doctor, etc. would use.

Lawyer and doctor are often listed as comparable examples because both involve sensitive info you can't afford to get wrong, unlike creative use cases for AI like image or song generation.
If you want people to start using EU cop instead of US corps, then the service provided needs to be matching what's offered by Amazon. Google and so on. The problem is that the EU does not put enough money for these systems to be started in the first place.

Look at this snippet:

The European Commission approved on Tuesday up to 1.2 billion euros ($1.30 billion) of state aid for a European cloud computing project to try to boost the involvement of EU business in a field dominated by U.S. companies.

1.2 B is nothing compared to what the US giants are investing each year in their services. How can EU corps expect to compete like this? it's like high-shool team competing against Olympians.
Ah, good catch. Yeah, I'll take the progress even if it's not exactly where I'd like policy to be ultimately.
No, they won't be successful, because the US company will offer a better product at a cheaper price. They 'll eventually shut down
This is a very un-nuanced take on what happened in Portland, and lines up with what the uncritical and uninformed national reporting about Portland has been saying.

It was not successful, but it was also never effectively funded, not implemented well, and rolled out in a rush.
> A safe, productive and prosperous society cannot be built by drug addicts.

Historian Niall Ferguson has argued that the British Empire was built on a collective caffeine and sugar high, from imported tea and cane sugar from its colonies and trading partners.
It's way more genetics and microbiome than anything you can do. If your sweat doesn't harbor the right bacteria, it won't smell much. If your sweat tends to smell, there's very little you can do about it.

There's also a hell of a lot of people who swear up and down that they don't need to shower everyday and aren't greasy or smelly and are very, very wrong.
Thanks. Now I know we can give up, and just never get apple care again. I don't know why any of the 10 apple people we talked to didn't mention that.
Wait, really? That's weird. I don't exercise everyday. Hmm.
Neo Store v1.0.0 alternative Android app store milestone reached
> simply because that allowed us to create an experience that is one-click away from an issue,

That's indeed pretty cool and as you said it's not an either-or. Thanks for providing more background.
The single most productive habit I picked up int the last few years is to always use exactly the same name for the same entity across source files, configs files, database entries, protocol fields, etc.
It's rescaled so that all curves are at 100 in 1973. Otherwise the graph would look like https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?location...
I had to zoom in a bit before it showed the satellites but yep, that's a lot of tin cans!
Unless the strategy is really bad, I'd prefer to go along with what everyone else does. When multiple people push their preferred optimum, the resulting inconsistency is clearly worse than a single suboptimal, but consistent, approach.
Interest rates are high for everyone, they don't depend on your political stance.

Example quote: «In subsequent polls, the firm found that Tesla recouped some of its Democratic buyer base […] that uptick may have come from Musk's relative quiet since in the press since the anti-Semitism debacle.»
Hardware wasn't great either.

Both me and my wife had issues with right mouse button switches failing and registering two clicks instead of one. This was 5 mice across 2 models (2 we bought, 3 we got as warranty replacements) in just a year.

It's been over a decade and it's still a razer-free household.
The average inflation rate over the last 50 years is higher than the debt interest rate already so it won't really "become" anything.
Being gulped up big corporations is good. They will much more efficiently serve the market. SMBs are notoriously unproductive.

Though maybe you want your drug dealers to be unproductive, for society's sake! I may take this back...
> tried for years and has not been successful either.

What's the measurement for success?

It seems, from a casual observer's perspective, we have fewer people trying hard drugs when the consequences are strict and known. We have more people trying hard drugs when the consequences are removed.

Neither system will achieve 0% drug usage - so which policy results in fewer people trying hard drugs?
You see, the jump from "Bots take over all the karma points on social media sites" to "Slaughterbots" is a pretty wide chasm I'm having trouble getting over mentally. This is why I can't take such predictions seriously.
Actually I got the newsletter, will definitely again!
This looks awesome, I need to give it a try asap.
I can very well see myself using this to navigate or search inside JSON files
Note, they're only planning to move it from Schedule 1 (alongside heroin) to Schedule III (alongside anabolic steroids and ketamine). So, it won't be fully legal in the same sense as alcohol.

Regardless, unless Congress does something to make it legal nationally, we'll still have the state frameworks. Just hopefully avoiding the most draconian criminal charges.
> may help make it easier to close deals

This is the biggest factor why most European countries suck at innovation - dealflow is utter garbage in most of Western Europe because there are almost no VCs and most "VCs" are just family offices.

As a Western European founder, it's better to shift to the UK, CH, or US in order to simplify fundraising.

Look at Datadog, Databricks, Spotify, and others.
I had a pair of $100 Anker ANC headphones physically break on me but didn't have the box to return them in, and the Ankers were out of stock. For some reason Walmart's returns department's solution was for me to find a different headset with the exact same price to swap. The only matching set was a Razer Barracuda X, and oh boy were they terrible. I have never hated a consumer product so much in my entire life.

These ANC headphones didn't support Bluetooth at all, while other models with the same name did. In 2024, for $100, a wireless headset that only functions with the included dongle?! I made peace with it and got used to swapping the dongle to each device I use. Because of the poor dongle design it couldn't fit in my phone without removing the phone's case, so I listened to podcasts with my case off. Within the first two days the dongle just completely stopped working. Complete garbage. Not only that but the audio quality was horrible, the microphone sounded like a rotary phone, they were huge and bulky and hot to wear. When I contacted support asking for a new dongle they emailed me back the same template six times from three different representatives as if I hadn't answered all of their questions each time, and they wanted me to send the entire headset back to get a replacement.

I left the experience thinking "Wow, this garbage company must hate their customers." Even after all that, I didn't realize they hated their customers enough to install bitcoin miners on their mouse drivers or to sell them fake N95 masks. The punishment here doesn't even come close to justice, if anyone got sick the executives in charge of bringing those masks to market should be held criminally liable.
How does this erode your confidence in the FTC? Maybe you missed the FTC report where they stated the maximum filtration they were able to reach was 86% and that was the maximum, with most tests hitting much lower.

Even calling the mask "N95 Grade", which is an obvious statement that it didn't pass actual testing, is a major problem. It's vague enough that most will believe that it is equivalent to one that has actually passed testing. When it's supposed to catch 95% and catches 10% less, that's _triple_ the amount of crap passing through.

If you read through the FTC documents, you can see that they (Razer) knew it would not pass and so went with the strategy of getting people to believe that it was the same, without any proof.

The FTC could not prevent them from releasing the product or immediately cause them to remove it from market as Razer did not claim that it was N95 certified. Razer knew exactly what they were doing in getting around this and now they're paying the price for doing so, while the FTC sets an example for others that "if you even imply that your product is equivalent to being certified, we'll pin you for it."
You don’t recognize double click?

You aren’t running a blocker?

You know how to get this information while answering yes to the above two questions?

Weird.
Isn’t Malta close to that, btw?
If it takes multiple years, then it gives voters a reason to support the candidate that will support the process post-election. Basically, vote for Joe if you want Mary Jane.
It's also made touching the financial aspect radioactive- none of the big credit cards want to have anything to do with it so all transactions are cash, which makes things more difficult/risky for operators.
I completely agree. Not that everything has to be relaxed, but at least the things that made it impossible to decode RISC-V when C is enabled. The amount of code needed to detect when and how instructions are laid out is much larger than it should be.
> I hope all these small/mid sized businesses don’t get gulped up by big tobacco or other mega corps

Why not? Laws of scale would drive the price down while improving the profit margins, both clients and investors would win.
> You calling them "men in black" doesn't make this more of a conspiracy, it just makes you look silly. Call them "US Senators"[1] or "US lawmakers"[2].

If you read those links, notice how this is all happening officially in public? That’s why I referred to the conspiracy theory as such because we are left to believe that there’s some well-concealed shadow operation duplicating those efforts despite it being a poor return on their investment.

Similarly, reading your latter two links would help you understand why it wouldn’t be effective. Andrew makes the case well that even the official measures being discussed would not impede China, and the conspiracy theory would be even weaker.
I don't even think that's that tinfoil hat-y

What else will I spend my billions in revenue on if I can't advertise and have to hide all my employees?
Still waiting for Android
You still need an NOC to shift to another employer, and if your boss is vindictive, they will make it hell.
the first studies that determined the connection between sunlight and skin cancer were based on Australia cabbies.

US cabbies got skin cancer on the left side, because their left arms or sides hung out the window / got more sun. Meanwhile the Aussie cabbies got it on their right side, and at high rates (because anglo-irish in a desert).
The antenna is not the special part. The special part is the signal processing magic that allows decoding of extremely weak signals. Also, the antennas on receivers are dramatically different then the antennas on the satellites.
I always first look at the most expensive item when looking to purchase. I address build quality and features and make decisions from there.

Try to "buy it for life" on all products I purchase. Totally over plastic garbage.
I think their point was that you have to pair Apple Watch with an iPhone in order to use cellular, and they wish you could use cellular Apple Watch without having to own an iPhone.
Not rude at all :) When I first started (not sure if this is still the case?) Ansible would push Python code to the target machine and execute there, meaning it wasn’t actually agentless. I always thought of pyinfra as copying what a human would do if configuring a server by hand over SSH, so new modules that use only shell commands were needed.
Dolt's EXPLAIN output prints the execution tree directly. E.g.:

explain select * from xy join uv on (x = u and u > 0) where u < 2;
Project
├─ columns: [xy.x:2!null, xy.y:3, uv.u:0!null, uv.v:1]
└─ LookupJoin
├─ IndexedTableAccess(uv)
│ ├─ index: [uv.u]
│ ├─ static: [{(0, 2)}]
│ ├─ colSet: (3,4)
│ ├─ tableId: 2
│ └─ Table
│ ├─ name: uv
│ └─ columns: [u v]
└─ IndexedTableAccess(xy)
├─ index: [xy.x]
├─ keys: [uv.u:0!null]
├─ colSet: (1,2)
├─ tableId: 1
└─ Table
├─ name: xy
└─ columns: [x y]
There is more to life than work. Disclaimer: European
After Texts.com, Automattic Acquires Beeper
> It was not successful, but it was also never effectively funded, not implemented well, and rolled out in a rush.

So... like almost every government program? What makes you convinced it can actually be achieved in reality? With real people, real politicians, real budgets that get robbed for other pet projects down the line...

Even if it was achieved in reality - let's pretend to wave a magic wand - what is the expected outcome? Fewer people doing hard drugs than before? That seems difficult to accept given all consequences will effectively be removed... how many celebrities (with effectively unlimited resources) struggle their entire lives with drug abuse - in and out of rehab, etc. It seems it's better to prevent people from becoming addicts in the first place, vs. attempt to treat/mitigate addiction after it has formed.
Can't say I've ever felt that massive corps and the people that work there are super productive. In many instances they seem less productive than government.
Maybe because it led to a bunch of USA-is-great chest-beating, and a bunch of Europe-is-great chest-beating, and very little discussion of the actual content of the article.

I was 80% of the way through the comments before I saw any mention of the article's point. (Though I did see two comments claiming that they didn't understand it, which seems hard to believe, given that it was both simple and stated about three times.)

So: Flagged because it led to a lousy discussion, not because it was a lousy article. But that actually seems to be on HN rather than on the article, at least in my humble opinion...
Not normal communication, confidential or contentious communication.

“Hey, could you send me a link to the Jones file?” or “When do we need to get the Acme Corp RfP response out by?” I would just fire over.

“John says the financials don’t work on the Bravo Inc renewal, can you take a look?” or “Jenny’s not doing great on her PIP, we might need to move to the next step”, I would be more careful with.
>If I take the relocation I get an automatic 50% salary cut

It's obvious that cashflow will suffer. The question is whether you will like living in Paris on the money that's left. There is a good chance you would and will also discover where the hidden taxes of living in US were. Or not.
It's amusing that you used Uber as an example as Bolt is a direct competitor to Uber that is founded and operated in Estonia, but other than that, your purported advantage is pretty meager.

Assuming you build a product custom tailored to Estonia's unique regulatory requirements that is targeting primarily business users, then you are targeting a maximum market of 324,000 businesses. It's realistic to assume, given Estonia's population of 1.32M people, that most of those businesses are sole proprietorships or small businesses that will not have any IT or service department to support them. Building a successful, competitive product in this fashion requires protectionist policies that favor a local product, and those policies will often run afoul of public tendering rules. At least with Germany, you are dealing with a much larger scale (~84M people, and ~5.3M businesses).

It is certainly possible to build and operate a service that would target Estonian, or other small countries, specific regulatory requirements, but the size of the potential market is extremely small, and the path forward to build a competitive service is to abstract away Estonia specific regulations so that you can build country/regional specific versions.

All that said, assuming you are successful in building a business that accomplishes an "X" product for "Y" market model, the entire success of the business is predicated on a market that is created by differentiation in regulation, and your product benefits from lobbying for eliminating those differentiation.

Optimizing for small, local markets is definitely a path to success for some businesses but it's not an easy one, and it doesn't seem like a reasonable investment for growth oriented startups that seek to compete in a global marketplace.
Complications from Toupet Fundoplication surgery for hiatal hernia
Someone close to me got toupet fundoplication surgery to correct a hiatal hernia. This was a robotic procedure and he was able to go home just a few hours after surgery. He wound up in the ER about a day later because he was unable to swallow any liquids. His esophagus was 100% blocked. After several days in the hospital on an IV, he is back home and is able to drink a small amount of liquid but with great difficulty (pain and reflux). It's possible that the problem is swelling that will continue to subside, but he's convinced the surgery was botched. How long should he remain patient to wait for the possibility that the problem will resolve once the swelling subsides?
THEREFORE they will be able to move CASH money out of their stores TO BANKS, resulting in fewer "smash and grab" incidents ... aka, "Hyundai meet storefront of weed shop."

Looking forward to this, silly to see so many Kia "boys" being used for gross violence crimes when regulation changes could lessen it.

> https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/seattle-pot-shop-cr... for example
Fixing the whole problem is large but there is a small sequence of steps that would improve things a lot that can be taken.

Specify the key formats in a json/xml file then go one by one through tools, docs, etc changing them to use the machine readable file.
GPS-jammer affecting aircrafts around Estonia
Gpt2-Chatbot Removed from Lmsys
Without liability limitation one would need even more (an order of magnitude?) capital, and given the risk it might not be worth it at all.

> Nobody's going to loan money to an LLC with no assets without a personal surety.

I think that’s the system working. Customers, vendors and other business partners are also free to adjust their expectations accordingly.
Kagis API is very limited relative to what features they offer through their web interface. You can't search using the full results they serve. They only offer their index as an API, which I think is relatively small.
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