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by aeonfox 1y ago
It's (of course) a limited edition of 200 bottles. So a 20k ad campaign.
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by aeonfox 1y ago
Relatedly, the shingles vaccine seems to delay or reduce Alzheimer's onset https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03201-5 > We show that the recombinant vaccine is associated with a significantly lower risk
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Australia's Forgotten Electronics Giant(youtube.com)
4 points by aeonfox 1y ago|0 comments
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Also this is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602428
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IP for me, but not for thee > Shiozaki, in a separate X post (translated), noted that Sora 2 refuses to generate characters owned by U.S. entertainment giants, like Disney: > “When I tried inputting prompts into Sora2 myself, it gener
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According to the original article (looks like it's changed): > But some conservationists alarmed by the proposed rollout of large solar projects in Nevada and other Western states celebrated the demise of Esmeralda 7, saying as desi
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> This is not going to displace and biodiversity than a truck stop in the same location would. You wildly underestimate what lives in an arid landscape. I don't blame you, because you can't really know unless you've spe
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As the article states, there's plenty of already disturbed land that can be used, instead of nature parks that harbor fragile ecosystems. Also what people call "desert" isn't, like, the Sahara. There are many kinds of a
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Enjoyed this balanced perspective on Elixir. In regards to this: > My bet? The language with the best feedback loop to LLMs wins. TypeScript has a huge advantage here. Static types give LLMs clear signals about correctness. Tencent desig
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Hard agree. Some of my favorite birding spots are in grasslands and wetlands sitting next to highways. Places that would be overlooked by most people.
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Taking any even longer term view, a much reduced human population could be a boon for biodiversity. Life will find a way, but billions of humans will die of hunger (and potentially wars over resources) in the meantime.
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Yeah, there's probably a huge asterisk around the predominant roofing materials, latitude, and availability of tradespeople in a particular area. Certainly with the latter, there is downward pressure with greater demand enabling more
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Remediation of desertified and degraded land makes total sense, but I think the objection here was that the land is already bio-diverse, just in a way that many people might overlook.
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> How do we replace that with rooftop solar that many homeowners seek loans to install? Australia has managed to do it. Installers are tripping over each other to put solar on roofs here. > How does that incentivize power companies,
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About 3/4 of my rooftop solar goes back into the grid. A neighborhood grid-scale battery could sop that up while the market is cheap and dispatch it when the sun is down. Even if I had a battery, it would quickly saturate. Rooftop s
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> There is also probably enough toxic/polluted wasteland around so that solar can be built there without taking "good" lands. Agreed. I think solar installations would make more sense for remediation of desertified or poll
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> This is literally desert wasteland sitting alongside a freeway "Desert wasteland" teems with life, just maybe not the kind that most people care about. Land use is one of the sticking points of the energy transition, both fo
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> Last month, rival OpenAI announced that it's working on an AI-powered hiring platform. The OpenAI Jobs Platform will use AI to help "find the perfect matches between what companies need and what workers can offer," said
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Markets are first driven by belief until finally they yield to fundamentals. Given the steadily decreasing returns on generative AI, a reality check surely must be coming soon. But on the street, there's still enough belief in AI and
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I made a web app that has arrow key navigation. It might not be the solution to all your problems, but I’d be curious to know what you think of the movement. The arrow navigation is only on top level comments for now, but that’s something
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by aeonfox 1y ago
Some people have been having fun with the timeline, so here's how this Ask HN started: https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45561428&c=0&t=1760303616 You can press the fast forward button or drag the slider to
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I've been building a pretty visualisation of HN. You can see this Ask HN on this link: https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45561428&c=0 If you zoom out it's meant to look something like a thermal vent with
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Distribution and discovery existed in the before times, it’s just that they didn’t take such an obscene slice of the pie. Bandcamp and iTunes at least give you the option to purchase music outright. The artist gets a more substantial cut an
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> The air-defense system, however, did nothing to protect Qatar against Israel’s Sept. 9 strike on its capital. U.S. satellite and radar systems did not provide an early warning of the strike, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Derek France told re
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Show HN: Hacker News as a biological simulation (with time travel)(hackernews.life)
1 points by aeonfox 1y ago|0 comments
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https://archive.md/HeBoD
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Thank you! It means a lot that someone's out there enjoying it. I put a lot of love and care into the interface. I left it bit of a mystery so that people might explore and learn its secrets, so I hope you look a little further :)
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Show HN: Hacker News as a Primordial Soup(hackernews.life)
6 points by aeonfox 1y ago|2 comments
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The only issue the article seems to raise is that their solution isn't that optimal because there's redundant copying of the input data into the sandbox, but this enables the sandbox to be secure as the Wasm code can't modify
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So you're suggesting a denial of service? I doubt the sandbox is running on cooperative scheduling. Ultimately the VM can be run for some cycles, enough to get work done, but enough to permit other programs to run, and if the decoder

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