It's absolutely not crazy, and I don't know how a car could only cost you 1k/year. This is just an example but has the average cost of motoring in Ireland in 2019 at almost 11k€/year : https://www.theaa.ie/motoring-advice/cost-of-motoring/.
One of the issues with trains is that people often severely underestimate the true total cost of car trips.
A while ago I worked on a system handling call records for a large telco. Call records were considered sensitive information at that company, and distributed only where definitely needed. I'm sure security wasn't bulletproof, but there were regular audits to check that employees and contractors didn't store records in places they weren't supposed to.
One of the main functions of the system that I worked on was to create various anonymous and/or aggregated versions of the data, which could be distributed and used more widely (for stuff like fraud detection, network provisioning, marketing...).
This is inaccurate. Reserve requirements are not the only cost that banks have to pay for the money they create. If bank A lends $20B, and the borrower spends it to buy something from someone with an account at bank B, bank B isn't going to accept $20B of "made-up" bank A money, it'll want $20B of central bank money from bank A. If bank A doesn't have that that $20B of central bank money, it'll have to borrow it from the central bank, at the cost of the reserve interest rate. Being able to transfer central bank money to bank B is essentially what backs the money that bank A created.
(in reality some of that $20B would probably make it back to bank A as money circulates, so the actual amount of reserve money that banks have to borrow depends on more complicated factors. This also doesn't talk about what happens if the borrower defaults. But the fundamental principle remains the same, and is what ultimately limits how much money a bank can lend).
I think the hardest bug I've had to work on was just plain irreproducible. Once we exhausted all other ideas, we just attributed it to some sort of bit flip. Not a very satisfying resolution, but kinda cool to have encountered such an issue at least once.
I'm working on a projet that uses PaddleOCR to get bounding boxes. It's far from perfect, but it's open source and good enough for our requirements. And it can mostly handle a 150 MB single-page PDF (don't ask) without completely keeling over.
This may be a shock to many HN readers, but MongoDB's revenue has been growing quite fast in the last few years (from 400M in 2020 to 1.7B in 2024). They've been pushing Atlas pretty hard in the Enterprise world. Have no experience with it myself, but I've heard some decently positive things about it (ease of set up and maintenance, reliability).
>>> PBS Spacetime has a video out now on whether gravity is actually random. I don't know whether it addresses theories of superfluid quantum gravity.
It doesn't, it talks about the possibility of randomness allowing gravity to be classical and not quantum. If my understanding is correct, the gist of it is that certain random fluctuations in gravity would prevent it from contradicting Heisenberg's uncertainty principle when interacting with quantum entities.
As written in that article, there are questions to be answered before this observation can be considered a serious challenge to dark matter. Such as: why don't we observe the same phenomenon in other galaxies? Why are things orbiting the Milky Way farther out (such as the Magellanic clouds) not affected either?
It's not even all tech either. Europe has some big players in silicon or biotech for example. It does however lack giants that introduced major disruptions in the way things are done, like cloud services, social networks, gig economy etc.
To be clear it's an early access release, although as far as I can tell it's very high quality early access, with a lot of polish and heaps of features.
One of the issues with trains is that people often severely underestimate the true total cost of car trips.