skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the following point interesting -

In 2016, Toblerone grabbed headlines when it increased the gaps between the triangular chocolate chunks on bars sold in the UK, supposedly to be able to sell the snack at the same price but at a weight reduced from 170g to 150g. A year later, Mondelēz also reduced the weight of Toblerone bars sold in Germany, with the number of triangular peaks down to 11 from 15.

Such “controversies” guaranteed Toblerone a run of free marketing, with sales reportedly rising in spite of supposed outrage among customers. The bar reverted to its original shape in 2018.
Plus, the character traits (positive and negative) you start with is a Gacha with no re-rolls.
Yeah, in the developing world they follow a lot of traditional practices, like seed saving or underuse of artificial fertilizers or pesticides, which results in bad yields and leaves them poorer.
I love to swing a hammer as much as the next programmer. But if you offer me a nail gun, even with slightly lower precision, I will happily use it the majority of the time and revert to my hand tools when it's most appropriate. This is about developing force multipliers and producing leverage, not avoiding the craft.
Got today’s word in 77 guesses. According to the game that’s not a good score, but I was impressed I was able to figure it out at all. Definitely much harder than Wordle.
I'm pretty sure some of the larger Uniqlo stores in the US also do this.
The car Minister has been trying to slow down the introduction of the ticket and increase the price while trying to look like he’s working towards the ticket. This 49€ ticket is basically a permanent continuation of last summer’s 9€ ticket, which existed for 3 months.
That's why everybody should support Firefox, and only Firefox. Hey, you wanted controversy.
Looks like someone made a boo-boo it’s simply based on the user agent, w/e string matching they do is too strict they aren’t checking for actual JS/WebASM compatibility or anything like that.

Chrome stable with a non standard user agent doesn’t work on via the windows live url but works through the O365 corporate one, same with Safari Mobile without any user agent modification.

This to me looks like stupidity more than malice, their link doesn’t even recommend Edge but rather Chrome and Safari…
Chinese university invents robotic lips for remote kissing
> If you're a beginner, you can choose any one

I found this to be false in practice: I did choose any one (lein actually, because my IDE suggested that it's the one you'll want to use when you don't know better). The consequence was that the examples from the Clojure page didn't work and/or printed totally different output, because they made a different choice.

It's the kind of thing where a Clojure expert would say: they are different tools, of course their output is different, but it doesn't matter because that's only the tool output and the net effect is the same. But in practice, a newbie will struggle solving very simple problems because the tutorial doesn't match reality.

Contrast that with the "rust book" (more or less the official tutorial) in which every single example behaves 100% exactly as described in the tutorial, from installing the toolchain to very complex, language-specific issues (yes, of course I'm referring to the borrow checker).
I’ve played Beat Sabre and a few other games from my kid. But nothing was compelling, for me. Like, they ate fun to try a few times but more as a novelty. My point is that there seems to be very little entertainment benefit of “surround vision.”
Ah, you already have it. Now we're all intrigued! Looking forward to the public release.
Target's procedure is that they don't bother with small shoplifters, but they track the value of the items stolen. Once you hit the felony limit, they go into action and provide all the evidence to law enforcement.
> Though what about Swiss Miss cocoa? They've always been based in WI and have no connection.

Maybe related to the sizable Swiss community in Wisconsin?
> It's become so common [..]

Yes, rarely a day goes by without me coming across a story entitled "Gen Z is $foo" or "Gen Z doesn't $bar" or similar.

> and acceptable [..]

Not sure about that, I stop reading as whenever I encounter such lazy writing!

Somehow we're hearing and making more noise than ever about diversity and inclusion, yet we've collectively forgotten what diversity actually means...
Allowing Rich kids in. THISSSSSSS!!!! is what it was always about.

It amazes me how corrupt higher education is now. It is AMAZINGLY corrupt.

There is this thing with getting old (I'm in late 40s now) where you think the world is going to hell, but really what is happening is that you are figuring out EXACTLY how fucked up everything is.

However, sometimes things really are going to hell (increasing rich/poor divide, environment/global warming, vast increase in higher ed/healthcare/housing relative to inflation).

Anyway, in this case, I still am trying to gauge if my fondness for the general institution of higher education circa late 1990s was actually still somewhat deserved at the time and it has _truly_ fallen apart in the next 25-30 years, or if it was this bad for the last 40-50 (I can argue there's a good chance it was a great institution in the 1960s fresh after post-WWII investment in higher ed by the gubberment).

Anyone have thoughts? I personally think it is ACTUALLY worse, that the rise of the huge administrator/MBAs in higher ed has led to do-anything-for-a-buck, and it REALLY is this bad.

Signs that it actually is bad:

- the stupendous rise in cost / that little student loan crisis we have

- the stupendous rise in Div I coaching salaries and facilities

- the amount of frivolous facilities built

- the rise of the minimum wage adjunct professor

- the decline of import of tenure (revenue/publishing/research is now everything)

- the decline of humanities. I still as a science guy look down at them, but they are historically important (as in over 1000s of years) to educational institutions.

- grade inflation, it is pay for degree even in some Ivies it appears now
> Support the prevailing web-standards or lose me as a customer.

Respectfully, a lot of developers don't care about losing a small percentage of users. They will get to focus their effort on Chrome users and increase the service quality for them.
Incredible story, thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I logged in and it still gave the error page after routing to /#go. Same happens on my Fedora machine.
I Wonder what features are used here which Firefox doesn’t support. It is certainly not the serial Interface.
Tesla recalls almost 3,500 Model Y cars for loose bolts
Legacy admission should have been abolished long time ago. It’s systematic racism. Legacy admission has been part of the official admission system for the longest time. It's a system to favor the incumbents, the riches, the powerful, and the non-minority. It's used to ensure to give the elites are systematic unfair advantage.
This only applies to PII though? If analytics contains PII it seems that’s already problematic.

I get that GA is “worse” than others in that it potentially sends more data than necessary, potentially making it possible to bind pseudonyms to real identities.

But hypothetically - if GA was properly pseudonymous (e.g client generated guide transmitted, no connection to browsing history, no entropy like detailed user agent data etc, and purely client side pseudonymization) would that remedy the situation?

I guess the answer is “no one knows as it’s not tried”. But it’s an interesting question because if it isn’t, then no analytics would be compliant. For example using an analytics service like Ms App Insights for a mobile app.
Why does the all 0 public key have a known private key in SR25519 and ED25519?
To be fair, I find every code style that isn't my own harder to read than the style I prefer myself.
After reading their other post "The case for dynamic, functional programming", I would classify this as FUD, or rather NIH. Go got support by being touted as "Not Java". I can't say that this would gain much by being declared as "Not Elixir".
Not being snarky, I'm genuinely asking. What are the privacy concerns here? That your name is associated with the store you shop at? Wouldn't one also get that from their debit or credit card that most people use to pay for things nowadays?
IANAL but doesn't DMCA only apply in USA, whereas this case is taking place in Europe, and would thus provide legal precedent in some European jurisdiction?
How's it fingerprinting, can you fake the user-agent or using more modern methods?
Germany has very few fast trains ... going fast (not many train tracks are built for fast trains). It got better in the last few years, but there is still a lot to do (and catch up with France). As for the "regional" trains (that this offer is talking about), they go really slow and are just for people commuting. This kind of monthly offer would be sort of interesting if it were to apply to the ICE trains, as currently the price is very prohibitive (e.g. I paid last week ~90EUR for a second class ticket from Frankfurt airport to the nearby city of Cologne, not even 200km away - driving a Porsche is cheaper per km...)

As for the reason of many of the delays, it's good to know a problem specific to Germany (and e.g. not France). Human transportation trains and freight transportation trains share the same tracks. And freight is obviously very slow.
> I understand the risks, but who is Apple to decide what I can and cannot do with my device after I purchase it at their premium prices no less?

You’re welcome to jailbreak it. Go ahead. Apple doesn’t care.

What they care about is patching security vulnerabilities that are exploited both for jail breaking but also to bypass the secure elements of the phone.
Agreed that seeing structure is important. I mean operating on it at a higher level like https://calva.io/paredit/
It's not on a whim, it's how Errol lived his entire life. Chasing "Get Rich Quick" schemes is not typically a sign of wealth.
> It terrifies me to have a patent on the only crop that can grow in a country.

If dreaming up an implausible scenario scares you, maybe that's on you?
+1 for stupidity
By 2009 writing was on the wall and it wasn't 'Nokia'.

You know why it was 'Xpress Music'? Because Nokia was years late for a 'music phone'. Even Moto had E398 and SE had both music and photo. By 2009 Nokia had a cheap line-up for the brand zealots (eaten up by Moto C-series and everyone else), a couple of fetishist's phones (remember those with floral pattern and 8800?) and.. overpriced 'commucators' with subpar internals (hell, late PDAs on Xscale had more RAM and CPU power) and incompatible with anything, including themselves, mess of Symbian.

Elop not only allowed MS to try the waters with mobiles, but actually saved many, many workplaces for years. Alternative for that would had been a bankrupcy around 2013.
I think FF users need these sites more than the sites need them. There's little motivation to support a browser with relatively few users, and a big motivation to get users to switch to their platform.
The point in this case isn't drought resistance, it's increased yields for what does grow. If food supplies are low, higher yields from pest resistance become even more important.

And even if resistance has been developed in "parts" of the US corn belt, presumably that would take years to develop in Kenya as well, in "parts"?

Better irrigation and cassava might be great ideas too, I wouldn't know. But it doesn't seem either/or -- why not try GMO maize as well?
I've also been doing this for over 30 years and agree with you 100%. Never has the language been the impediment, or the thing keeping me awake at night.

We don't need more programming languages. All languages are either hated or not used. The language isn't the problem and it a poor craftsman that always blames the tool.

I've never been on a retrospective of a failed project and the reason being the language.
Do you remember Service Merchandise?
How can it be better for the environment if your electricity is generated by coal ?
Ask HN: Good RSS Feeds for US News?
I am experimenting with a smart RSS reader that filters my feeds. One of my favorite sources is The Guardian, which is strong on world news and particularly the UK and Australia.

Although watching the decline and fall of the remnants of the British empire is quite entertaining and The Guardian has some US news I feel I am not getting enough US news in my mix.

There are numerous things I like about The Guardian such as: (i) their outlook (but I like The Economist also which leans right of The Guardian), (ii) quality of reporting, (iii) volume of output, (iv) substantial text (but not too much) in the feed, and (v) no paywall.

Are there good RSS feeds for US news that share some of these attributes?
What's the speed like? How many tokens per second? / Is it as fast as say ChatGPT?
While AI algorithms cannot replace a human developer's creativity and ingenuity, tools like GitHub Copilot can recommend code snippets by learning from the programmer's behavior to automate tasks and increase a developer's skillset.
That's fine. If they can't manage to make a service work using appropriate web standards then I don't think I trust them with hosting a service, my data, or to create adequate products anyway. -- I mean, what other corners are being cut?
I definitely agree. I think somewhere along the way we went from solving problems to bickering about _how_ to solve problems. I feel there are now plenty of languages now that exist purely for aesthetic reasons (C++, Swift, etc) rather than having some deep technical reason for existing (C, Rust).

I guess I get it though, designing your own language is great fun and I’ve definitely made a couple myself in my spare time.
What kind of food would you expect in the "Chinese Lodge" restaurant?
Yeah, but these guys were only five feet tall!
My question is, if life is a game and there's no rewards after death based on your performance (modulo belief systems held while playing), wouldn't you want to optimize to die with as close to $0 as possible?

Even if you do believe in a reward system post-game, they all seem to heavily reward helping others, which is another reason to aim for $0.
One of the first medical procedures is social transitioning, which does not involve medicine or surgery.
What you say is true, but I've seen this happening even with good teachers. I think there's a few reasons for this - first, if you have a large class and a student is already meeting all the standards, you're going to spend the time you have on the students falling behind. Teachers are going to want all the students to know what they're supposed to for that grade, rather than to have some advanced far off the grade while others fail.

Even if they had the time, there seems to be very little interest in advanced students across the board, and few if any programs put in place to meet their needs.

Secondly, there aren't many opportunities for students to demonstrate that they exceed the standards. Getting a class test entirely correct demonstrates that they know what is being taught, but nothing more. One thing I like about the standardized tests they're given now is that the computer will adjust and ask more advanced problems if the students get answers correct.
Headache? Could be dehydrated. Maybe drink some water.
Change your user agent, not your browser.
Birthing the 'right to cognitive liberty' and the knowledge pollution of public resources, pretty much means it's already over.

The most popular way to reduce and escape from mental manipulation is to know how it's done.

It is too easy to control and edit public information release now, the protective feedback mechanism to educate people out of manipulative psychological practices is slowly but surely fading out of sight...

The overreliance on mechanical parrots with blackboxed ai internals is another nail in the coffin. Those things can lie and you simply won't know or be able to fact-check it against a reliable source. Because all public knowledge is tampered with.
Quake had a Glide renderer. But those are examples on 2D acceleration. There were equivalents on PC too.
So what advantages to comprehension or usability would you like to offer over Elixir? (as it doesn't really focus on type/category theory like most other FP languages)
My organization (which uses Teams) forcibly migrated all Firefox users to Edge a couple of weeks ago and uninstalled FF. They were citing incompatibility with some software and I assumed that meant the new ERP system being adopted by one of the larger departments.
Be gay.
I think you're right, but not supporting firefox leads more people to use chrome and suddenly we're living the exact definition of a vicious cycle.

FWIW I'm not a firefox user myself, but I am not a fan of Google hegemony in browser tech.
Daniel chose three options: Visual C++, ClangCL, and GCC under WSL (2?). He says that ClangCL "couples the LLVM compiler (commonly used by Apple) with the Visual Studio backend."

I'm unclear on what he means by the backend. Is ClangCL essentially the same as using LLVM for Windows with the Microsoft linker, or is there a difference in code generation?
No, P6 started with Pentium Pro, which originally didn’t have MMX.
Interesting. Another commenter made the point that retail stores already have massive surveillance systems in place, and that it was a good thing that they're being used non-punitively for once.

Me, I'm not so sure. I don't think I'd like being reminded that my every movement is being watched. At least when I go to a store, I completely forget about security because I'm, you know, not there to steal something. It doesn't even cross my mind.

Or maybe it's a good thing to remind people that they're constantly under surveillance? I dunno.
I don’t think it is ever a case that someone can patent the only crop you can grow. Parents are not issued for such broad categories. You cannot patent corn or potatoes as a whole. What is patentable is a specific variety of corn that you develop anew. This means that you can always grow the traditional varieties that are not (and cannot be) patented. If a seller of patented variety quadruples seed price, you can just go back to these if patented variety is not worth the extra cost.
really what OpenBB is, whether they realize it or not, is a one-stop setup and UX for a lot of the python data tools, which are pretty great and could use an integrated framework.

One UX instead of accessing FRED, Polygon, FMP, AlphaVantage etc. with pandas datareader in a Jupyter notebook is pretty good. The OpenBB name is a bit of pushy marketing. It beats GameStonk Terminal which was (no joke) the original name.

But tbh, might be just a matter of time before they have to change it for legal reasons. But also, there will be some publicity in the forced name change.
Prepping for a test doesn't give you any practical knowledge or expand how you think about things; it's just about getting familiar with the test’s format and the way the question authors think. It'd be a bit like getting “better” at poker by always playing with the same people and learning their tells. It's “gaming” it because you're not better at what the test is supposed to measure, you're just better at what it actually does measure.
Your resolver can resolve any domain to any IP.

As long as it’s a static IP and the server is still there, you’d still have access as long as you had that mapping.
I pay $2,800 for a 3,200 sqft house in a safe, walkable, quiet neighborhood near downtown with better weather than SF.

I'm not saying you can't have a good life in SF, but it's much more common to have a terrible life, and the (small) career opportunities aren't worth.

I also think SF has particularly bad startup culture because of the particular VCs there, but that's a matter of preference. I'd rather work on "boring" startups with gray-haired industry veterans than a moonshot with arrogant, unproven 28 year olds who went to Stanford.
Python bogs down where there is excess use of the dynamic aspects, e.g., a large list comprehension.

Go with a generator, and watch that list be more kind to the resources.
Somehow comments like these are left to stand, so here's a counterpoint.

Amazon has emerged as an oligarch that will be broken up like the Bell system, Standard Oil, rail monopolies, and others before it - provided it and other oligarchs haven't fully compromised the government who hosts it. If Amazon, and the other FAANGs operating predatory surveiilance bureaucracies continue to exist in their current form in 4-5 years, we will know for sure the US is irrepairably compromised and once again, a generation will need to reckon with whether their self determination and survival is worth accepting sacrifices for.

Late stage capitalism is indeed dystopian, but if we call it early stage socialism somehow we're conspiracy theorists. The failure mode of the principled civilization created by the founders of the US reverts to the eurasian continential cultures and systems its citizens escaped. Those were pretty brutal, so much so that their own colonists revolted against them and achieved independence, and that's why american values are important to teach.

Every human endeavour fails without maintenance and upkeep. Being on the side of the forces of failure isn't the right side of history, it's forfeiting your humanity to the currents of inevitability.

If we're going to let tedious, low-effort tropes about "capitalism" stand, consider this one rebutted.
Thanks for the heads-up. Guess they don't put that on the front page.
Yeah will do that. Thanks!
Quantity is not a valuable metric.

You need to look at perf./watt and complexity of use instead.

Something like this can replace 90% of databases: http://root.rupy.se

When the whole database is 2000 lines of code you don't need a manual?
Yeah, the texture memory was anemic. 4KB total. If you had mipmapping on, that ate half leaving you with 2KB which is only enough to fit a single 32x32 pixel texture at 16-bit color.
Stupidity is only ever acceptable when it agrees with business objectives. Malice is the sensible default assumption when money is on the line.
This may be unrelated. Is it legal to ship a Firefox fork as a distribution with a Chrome user agent by default?
The plastics industry is always coming up with bullshit initiatives to make people feel good about using plastics. First recycling, then composting. In the end, these initiatives are known to be failing.

The only way is to reuse and stop using single use items.
Wouldn’t that pretty easy to test by giving those who claim gluten sensitivity some organic wheat?
If you don't know already, long press on the back button solves the problem.
At least in Europe, you need a suitable legal basis for processing under the GDPR, at least in theory (we do know however that GDPR enforcement is significantly lacking so this might be just a false sense of security as there are no consequences to breaching the regulation).

Signing up for a loyalty card would give them that legal basis, where as merely using your payment card wouldn't, so they theoretically shouldn't be stalking you. In practice, not giving them your name/contact details also means there's no chance of spam arriving from them. There's was never a moment I said "I wish my supermarket would contact me out of the blue for any reason" and I'd like to keep it that way.
Would buses be arriving 20 minutes earlier otherwise? I'd very much rather arrive at the station a little earlier than knowing I could already be at my destination if it weren't for these artificial punctuality stops.
How should an early return if statement work instead?
> not really competitive with ChatGPT

That's impossible to judge. LLama is a foundational model. It has received neither instructional fine tuning (davinci-3) nor RLHF (ChatGPT). It cannot be compared to these finetuned models without, well, finetuning.
I mean java as it is used in the real world, not java the spec. I think you know I meant this too :)