I'd say probable in some situations - maybe more effect for people who are not eating well. I am not someone who takes or used drugs or alcohol - but the 90s I used pure low dose of creatine at about half teaspoon a day to help repair neck muscles damaged from treated-too-late whiplash. At the time my diet was probably poor even though I ate meat daily, had a low grade cold I hadn't been able to shake off for three years, and would blow a fuse easily around idiotic BS. After a few weeks I was pretty mellow and easy going, not to mention the cold had finally cleared up. I stopped taking it for various reasons, needing to be on top of BS quicker was one of those reasons. Later in life I have used it but not with the same pronounced effects.
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It sort of sucks, I've not worked out the work around for wsj ... I've not added the news site to my deny list yet ... many other news sites have been though -- saving precious seconds.
My easier work around is, though more often not accurate enough to make a really thoughtful relevant comment here at HN, is to attain an idea of what might be there, since much of news is simply regurgitation of other news sources, by way of a search using the topic headline - if nothing obvious is listed in the first page, refine the search and restrict to news for the last day or week. Sometimes it doesn't work out if the topic article material is original, but I find nearly always there's some basis to the walled article elsewhere. eg [1] [2] ... Now I've checked for the twenty words of text I'm presented with at wsj, the more probable close match for article content is [1]
[1] https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/17/ai-backlash-intensifies-... (17th July)
[2] https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-execs-arme... (16th July)
/newest has been about for a while - and with show dead set, it shows what's being submitted by the minute.
If you are ever short on time and /news isn't quite what you want to see, try /best for what other members have voted the most in the last 48 hrs.
A little bit more info but not much at [1] posted 4 days ago.
It's been 9 days that way for myself but I visited their log on would be required announcement page 20 days ago, so my IP / fingerprint was probably mapped and thus first to be flagged. I noted at least one other comment at HN confirming they too had struck a request to log in the same day I found old.reddit effectively walled off. It's rare I find myself landing at reddit by way of a search, most times it is by way of following an interesting post from HN.
The new reddit site only serves me the OP of a thread (Probably my fault, my configuration I have blocked a couple of intrusive PII gathering services disguised as APIS and a bunch of other sites with intrusive scripts ) -- it's the comments where the value is at so reddit is now totally useless to me - I suppose I should get around to adding the site to my growing deny list.
Edit: clarity.
A multi-purpose survey / map / navigation tool that integrates with photos which have captured / include location data.
Download once and use as long as one wants.
Actually it's quite complicated and really needs a good design flow chart to fully explain. There's no tool like this yet as far as I am aware, so can't point to comparisons.
Bonus if it also works albeit lesser degree (accuracy) with older phones that have only GPS. Tool should be able to select which GNSS [1] that's available via the device even if there's an auto default.
Able to accurately guide [variable for accuracy required] the user along a predefined track of multiple points by way of: simple entry of map coordinates, via direct input, a text file of locations or group of photos with location data, as best the accuracy of the device / landscape enables. Able to edit and reorganise route point - see the route on a simple map based on the coordinates alone. Be able to overlay a second or third group of coordinates which might frame a boundary of area to surveyed or ignored, or a road / track / creek with an alert on approach.
Bonus for able to be able to overlay free map solutions of the locality.
Photo input via a group of photos would assume a track from start to the next closest location to the end location, start and end selected and able to work out and display planned path via screen map or other output means ie text only mode if required, (bright areas some people find photos hard to see,) should also be able to highlight those which were taken at markedly different heights, or different days, years. (eg for accidental inclusion of a lookout point which is probably one easy way up or down.) Should before embarking, able to display a map with photo ids displayed along the route with the ability for the user to use the touch screen to select / ignore photos they want to track to / through, and being able to have the option to set the next location manually. While tracking, warn the user by some means, vibrate or audible tone they are approaching near the location. Differentiate timing of warning to correspond for the speed of travel. Handy if there's something meaningful that is meant to be monitored / surveyed at or near these locations. Eg nesting location, survey mark, peg, gauge, and not actually walking but using a vehicle to travel.
Able to record a track from beginning point to end along a survey line straight, or following topographic level, a curve or bend of a water course or other, apply correlation to the route to smooth out small variations (variable to be specified) to simplify a smooth navigation of a route that is parallel x distance away, multiple iterations if need be.
Competitor isn't a word I could use to describe the web search scene in regard to google. However if one wanted a good search engine that one didn't have to keep banging on the keyboard for a half decent result I could say Yandex is one of the larger search engines that's performing really well on a lot of tech and niche areas compared to google or even duckduckgo atm.
I though am pretty biased for I don't put up with things that pretend to be something - from 2015 google was more interested in serving me ads and spam, duckduckgo easily was better, searx for hard to find things that sometimes didn't turn up in DDG. This year, DDG has declined hard, presently I use it - if it offers a few nice looking links, fair enough, if it misses I try google for simple stuff, but I really need some good links, then Yandex. However it's not the first time if I can't even get much more than 20 results from DDG, (google from 2015 rarely offered me any more than 20 links, I guess as I used to be a very heavy search user I qualified for a special test pattern) Yandex almost always faithfully lists pages of links to check out.
Recently a half decent search site albeit specialised, was posted at HN, [1] I've got to say of the dozens offered at HN I've checked out it it was a gem for it: (a) displayed a site which seems to aim to be a fairly serious search site, (b) functioned as well as one would expect any serious search site would aim to, (c) actually performed really well returning results to some hard questions.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442875
Edit to clarify [1] is a specialised not a general search site.
OK one of the articles have removed some info ... and makes little point of what I have written - removed.
I think it is for the more obvious reasons on the way big important business end of town (esp those which are new to Australia) would like to operate here in Australia. It's guardrails so:
Non competition for existing power and upwards pressure on pricing - thus avoiding additional cost of living for the general public.
Discourage simply purchasing an existing power utility.
Those investing for profit in these centres don't move to areas where transmission lines are already near capacity with a buffer for the next couple of decades.
Don't build the centre in a more rural setting (where there's water) with expectation above ground transmission lines will just have to happen, and expectation planning and land leases of nearby rural land to place the lines will just happen with minor cost to them but with no regard of the community which will just have to take those lumps.Well then, let us pretend whatever might qualify as AGI is every bit as capable of as a regular employee that's going to get the job. A job which first requires screening to get that job and an expectation any applicant should be able to work just as well or better after successfully getting the job. AI might be suitable for analysis, ... various but limited , though possibly very technical and involved job functions -- AGI however would need to be as good as any generally capable person given time to perform the task ... any ... not limited to something a smart determined team could code a script to do ... or merely replacing cookie cuter type jobs - however AI is probably a better choice for some of the cheap cookie cutter tech support that's been offered over the years.
Consider seriously, how many AIs could match a generalist's ability and knowledge and would have a job after a few months such as if they got the job of research assistant. I can say I would have fired those AIs I've encountered thus far that work in the public arena - either as use for populating wikis or a blog or offering search answers - too many pitiful errors ... a couple of honest ones is forgivable, a handful is a problem that needs sorting out, correct only 95% of the time, bye.
What for example some laypersons seem to be learning lately by way of web, is a good indication of poor AI adoption. AI is wonderful for patterns, statistics and endless fruitful possibilities. But with information a single mistake might be overlooked, it happens -- what doesn't pass is that type of bloke we've all met somewhere ... sometime in our lives, who seems to know everything, a wealth of information, right up until they stumble onto something we ourselves are specialists in, and we come to slowly realise they are no more than a skilful BS artist - even not half of what they are talking about turns out to be BS ... 10% or 5% BS is still infuriating as it takes more effort to correct everyone else who's been hanging on their words.
... 1990. Not verified (as it requires money) but as best as I can determine, first published in 1990 - Software, practice & experience. 1990, Vol 20, pp S2.137-S2.171 ; NS2 ; ref : 12 ref CODEN SPEXBL ISSN 0038-0644
I presume *#06# -- Tested and working with version 12
Looking at [1] it would suggest still something even more recent versions can still utilise.
This type of question arises frequently, both as own thread or just a comment, sometimes a higher frequency than just once every few days. Some time ago [1]I suggested using the search box at bottom of most pages as the quickest means. Don't want AI or LLM = -ai -AI -llm -LLM [2] Results don't include dead links either.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039702
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Yes very much done with the pyrex brand -- mine have sat for 20 years or so in their boxes collecting dust as a reminder that if something obvious is missing from the package advertising, it might not be an oversight.
Certainly for some companies that have figured the loop holes and found wriggle room in regulations, immoral is perfectly fine if it means they get more profit or just easier for them.
Yes many years ago I figured I'd take up cooking a bit differently, bought a set of pyrex dishes only to find they were not borosilicate versions - I though I was being careful not to get what I suspected were fake pyrex my neighbours had bought which had subsequently exploded cooking the Sunday roast on more than one occasion. After I got mine I found out that no, they actually had the genuine article after all - just tempered glass. It's like buying glass for windows and being handed acrylic sheeting that should do in most cases.
Funny thing is now I end up cooking more times that not with just a simple metal pan if I'm cooking on a stove - so much is now microwave and air fryer ... I just love the air fryer for slow cooking.
The article has been an eye opener for all those once good brands dying a slow death. It's very much how the business world has moved the last few decades - amoral [1] is OK.
[1] not to be confused with immoral.
I'm unsure what's written at twitter, but I would gather just a regurgitation of something like [1] from a few days ago. Tw tter opted to run an approved browser only scheme a little while ago, so it was added to my deny list.
I gather it's just the continued angst over the last few years eg [2] that living costs in Australia have risen more steeply than in other countries.
The actual answers why some costs have gone up are pretty simple but not very palatable to some folks here. It could be summarised as; the average Aussie is being fleeced by the big supermarket and fuel conglomerates, and to a much lesser degree rent and mortgage (re)payments have moved upwards as the big banks squeeze a bit harder to increase their ridiculous profit margins.
There is little point increasing wages to match, in a short time, the big end of town readjusts plus whatever else they can squeeze out ... it's a merry-go-round that's best avoided, but looks like a great job running it for some.
The supermarkets here use, amongst other reasons, fuel price increases, as a means to justify upping prices often multiples of the actual cost they incurred. Note, they are reluctant at times to ensure farmers that supply them are paid enough to even cover the crops' input costs.
Fuel pricing reasons could be thought of as complicated if one doesn't accept that big fuel is looking to take as much from the average consumer they can conceivably get away with ... every little reason the price rockets upwards and then glacially downwards after some event has passed. Fuel here is taxed at the bowser, for which much of the industry within Australia, such as agriculture does not pay (those that are a business are reimbursed this tax component,) - the main pressure as such to keep fuel prices down is by way of [what] the average public will pay, remove the tax and big fuel immediately feels it's ok to price for what they think they can get away with.
Back four years ago or so, the difference for farmers on the hike of crude oil prices at the time and the govt helping out fat cat fuel companies by removing some of the tax, meant fuel ... diesel by which much of the food is cultivated with, effectively nearly doubled as a cost to the farmer. This had a huge impact on farming and slowly food retail prices have reflected that, with additional profiteering of course. It is the main burden of cost of living to the average punter here I saw increase and remains so to the present moment.
Present times the base fuel prices are so high, that the tax component is far less significant ... it's simply so high some farmers who've carefully looked at their budget have stopped some activities and let some of their work force go. I guess in months to come we will see that play out as well.
More people though are waking up to the idea the fuel companies are not being entirely honest even if their PR is doing a really good job - one should not have ever had to argue that oil tankers take longer than a couple of days to get from the Middle East to Australia.
[1] https://www.thetimes.com.au/world/32541-why-real-wages-in-au... [July 10, 2026]
[2] https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/02/proof-australian-wo... [Feb 2025]
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It's a worrying sign nonetheless- even part of the fault near a developed area the next couple of years, I doubt it has to be the big one to cause large financial losses, even if no lives are lost.
We the public would be happier to see the end of network locked phones.
As far as roaming goes -- they should talk to people who observed what occurred when Optus and TPG / Vodafone made a deal for rural areas and via sharing (roaming I guess,) promised increased coverage ... good idea in principle ... in my locale, Optus pulled their newish tower down and now piggy back on the already stretched TPG bandwidth and for whatever reason Optus is getting bandwidth preference. Data via TPG / vodafone which was once excellent, is now often pathetic and phone calls often drop out.
Just a note: I'm rural so it goes without saying I have plans with of all three main network providers [1] ... just in case.
[1] TPG / vodafone is via MVNO
From what I saw, not at all - it was seen as useful by most people I knew of all different trades ... but later on when searches improved, there were some realisations that some people had shared way too much of their real life details. As such I recall there was an educational effort to prompt people to avoid sharing details that might be used against them. I can't say for sure but I think over the next couple of years a few things were changed within what search engines could search for (eg bank branch numbers became harder to confirm) and eventually especially after iirc M$ complained, removing any real public string search capabilities.
Time to regulate that if the owner of a long standing school can no longer operate - time to sell it on in a prompt manner, and or have an intermediary body take over the running of the school until ownership changes hands.
This saves some profit only company buying in some utility only with aims of securing real estate that once the low profitably is realised, to cease and move onto other more profitable projects.
I struck the same as described in OP a couple of years ago. Yes, regardless of other methods of contract for 2FA, I recall even when I thought I had it licked, the process reverted back to asking for a phone number to contract. I tried with a different number of browsers and eventually the latest up to date machine with the same failure.
I'm half and half and all very much dependent on the situation and circumstance. My hope is people will see problems for what they are and change how things are done.
The gloomy issues I see arriving are:
Continued loss of critical thinking ... govts. might have though a less intelligent public is easier to control, but we're slowly starting to see there is a greater cost ... it's cheaper to educate people as best can be even if they might end up with a low level job.
govts forcing adoption of new tech which is biased towards established business and no real choice for the mere user to stick with what they prefer to use -- things like forcing one particular browser or something the govt's web site developers rely on but which doesn't play well or forcing the public into endless OS update game.
The moving via updating - systems that didn't have a internet interface and thus had an effective air gap, to run via web ... and then watch the havoc when some smart arses prove how clever they are breaking though the security.
The same as above in that air gapped systems such as traffic lights / management, are moved to the web, and an A.I. is left to run the show. The sad thing is in the future people if they don't change will just accept that some days SNAFU happens.
The slow erosion of privacy by silly or over the top forms of web security, mostly to satisfy anonyphobes ... I'm counting the months I'll need to start providing 2FA or a fully tracked browser, just to get simple information like finding out which is the better brand of bulb because that information might be abused and lead to mischief.Queenslander here and not a term I've noticed myself, bar one commercial on tv that used an animated meerkat, other than that not a big consumer of buying much or booking things online, though I'd understand if I saw it tagged to something where one time pricing event might sprawl ... subscription stuff, nah not happening.
I have not struck MP35N afaik before, and interesting to see its use in commercial settings, and even available as bolts and nuts. Certainly not fun to machine [1]
It's hard to know just how much stronger this new processing of the alloy is than other common high strength alloys, as they list compressive yield and not tensile yield strength ... that's if the person writing didn't get the two terms confused.
As a note, I use duckduckgo and smirked somewhat at its search assist results for the few efforts to find the compressive yield of Bisalloy 400 (something I've had to drill) - checking out the listed sources it was clear it had mistakenly used the tensile yield ...
As an illustration for the differences, I found a page [2] for 4140 alloy and similar yield strengths. 4140 is reasonably workable, drilling isn't the greatest amount of effort either before it's tempered and annealed.
[1] https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/milling-mp3...
[2] https://amesweb.info/Materials/Steel-Tensile-Yield-Strength-...
Interesting for products where the resulting alloy just needs machining - lathing, milling, drilling etc, but more interesting will be what processes will be needed to weld or form such alloyed metals.
I don't code as such any more, but the obvious two reasons I see is that coders would avoid it is for copyright issues as well as, since one doesn't know what the llm was trained on, for not unwittingly [1] introducing a crafty not yet known to the public exploit.
[1] Assuming that if LLMs were that good, all code would presently be double checked and exploits and back doors will shortly coming to an end - unless the reason it hasn't is a marketing issue.
The plan to stop under 16 kids along with issues stemming from it in Australia from accessing social media areas that were using algorithms to target kids has been coveted by a couple if not more camps of thought.
The two mains ones I see are:
There are those who see making it against the law as a simple means to:
fundamentally resolve legal issues stemming from any serious incident that plays out, fights, stabbings, abductions etc.
Either gives parents of less than obedient kids the necessary excuse to, by whatever reasonable means, to stop their children wasting the mornings, school time, afternoons and nights, on social media OR a necessary impetus on parents to ensure their kids are / know how to be safe online.
The algorithms that social media refused to remove from the last few years are reduced to being meaningless apart from being the same means to identify youngsters ... so instead of being referred to some other diet or BS area, the account can be flagged to be locked with a show cause.
There was already a camp which wanted [1] to bring in verification for social media accounts, especially after a prominent incident in the US involving a somewhat anonymous user ...
(iirc) the person the govt at the time 2021 early 2022 brought in to work on bringing ID required for social media use ... is the same who was asked / tasked to bring in the under 16 legislation.
Believe that just like google couldn't tell a completely obvious spam site back in the 10's, social media can't use those concerning or problematic algorithms to deduce an account in Australia might be a youngster.
[1] https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/governmen...
Edit hour later: typo bring not being
Well lets hope it their goals are achieved and better the world slowly moves to what should be a safer nuclear choice - thorium [1]
[1] The company is developing the world's first subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium nuclear reactor.
I happened to see the televised report on Australia's ABC news this morning, though I don't think it had [1] all the information the printed article included.
Hilarious that someone would allow themselves to be used in a scam, if not a scam something completely dodgy and something that clearly does not pass the pub test ... in Australia at least of all.
[1] From the article " She does not appear anywhere in the foundation's corporate records.
ASIC documents list Syed Ahmed Mohsin, Christine Hinson and James Bracher as the directors of Lily Jay Foundation Int Ltd.
Syed Ahmed Mohsin is listed as the sole director of Lily Jay Foundation Pty Ltd."