skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are virtually no sugar free foods available in any of the british supermarkets. The solution is simple. Any food selling shop must have at least 30% of their offering healthy. That will alleviate some of the stress the NHS is facing (and is of course blamed on immigrants). It will also make it more desirable to investors once privatised.
Sounds totally legit. Not at all a scam.

Edit: /s because some people need all the help they can get.
It's possible that the loop is just a tarpit, but based on the contents of the blog post I don't think this is intentional on the website's end.

I can think of different ways how this could go wrong (i.e. Cloudflare tries to forward the POST request and CSRF/WAF firewalls block the unexpected Cloudflare origin).
One more reason I'm glad I connect my phone with a headphone jack. Just an analog connection carrying audio. The car doesn't even know what it's playing, as far as I know. Though some cars do seem to extract track names and artist names over the aux jack, so I think there's a little more than just an analog signal?
> Ideal would be speed limit based on the road.

You kinda already have that, but you cannot make it too confusing for drivers.

German example for roads between cities: No sign at all, default speed limit 100. 70 sign (usually with a reason e.g. winding road, trees etc). 50 sign or even 30 sign, no overtaking sign, e.g. narrow road, pot holes, intersections. Works, but can be quite stressful to keep track of particularly for new drivers.

Issues with that: The locals who drive 80 will complain that there is no reason for a 40 sign and laws tend to require a reason (e.g. speeding tickets are cancelled retroactively if the state cannot justify why there needs to be a limit). Too many signs and cases confuse drivers and are easily missed. Installing, replacing, repairing and keeping track of signs is expensive. Too many rapid adjustments also don't work well with slowing down, accelerating, reading signs etc., so it cannot be too fine grained.

That is why there are "one speed for those type of road fit all" approaches: to keep matters simple.
Original title:

The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda

Relevant articles:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unof...

How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022...

New documentary scrutinizes Pentagon-Hollywood relationship — but is it propaganda?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129369

The Historical Roots of CIA-Hollywood Propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/26/top-gun-for-hir...

Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...

How a Hollywood star lobbies the EU for more surveillance

The European Union debates a new law that could force platforms to scan all private messages for signs of child abuse. Its most prominent advocate is the actor Ashton Kutcher.
> Officials have now privately acknowledged to tech firms that there is no current technology able to scan end-to-end encrypted messages that would not also undermine users’ privacy, according to several people briefed on the government’s thinking.

The government and especially Home Office has been told the last 7 years that this is not possible. They still bulldosed the law through and almost, almost, got it passed. This is the state of idiocy in the UK.

Next in the line is the EU where the think of the children party might be more successful

https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2022/proposal-combat-child-...
Hope that was a joke.
Also when there's a breach and you need to change your password, you have to make an exception to your rule. And remember it for that specific site.
Weather apps are one example that comes to mind ..

Perhaps you haven't observed it because, well, it kills the app.
> Did we legally force browser vendors to support web protocols and standards?

Did you not pay attention? Microsoft tried exactly that, for close to a decade. The only thing saving the ecosystem was their own incompetence at developing an at least half decent browser.

Now Google is trying the exact same trick, and unfortunately, they are doing much better. And the thing that's probably going to thwart their efforts is not the open market, but the closed market of Apples "absolutely-nothing-but-Webkit" walled garden.
yt-dlp is awesome, but I'd hardly call it an "experience" that's alternative to the YouTube GUI. That's like telling someone who's frustrated with Chrome to just use curl.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting here.
Mid 90s, and you can qualify for a historical car registration in Germany (min. age 30 years). Problem is, with all those diesel limitqtions regarding city acces, and classical cars being excempt, there is a discussion going to either get rid of those classic car excemptions or to increase the minimum age to 40 years.
those 4 "food groups" seem like a big nonsense.

what people in the UK (and elsewhere to a lesser degree) are eating isn't unhealthy because it is "ultra processed", it is unhealthy because it consists of 80% fat&sugar.
Sounds like a dig at iMessage
Wow, I really feel this.

I have been mourning / processing the void left by the technical culture I’d fabricated in my mind. It’s like I grew up with a certain notion in my mind and never questioned it: namely that technical excellence was paramount. I also think it is a midlife thing, where you look at all the things you’ve put time into, and ask them, “and for what?”

The way forward for me is bootstrapping so I can buy back that which is most valuable to me: my time and autonomy.
I do have principles but they aren't really aligned with the OSI or anything like that. They didn't suddenly change, they are just not aligned with this aspect of FOSS anymore.

Also, when FOSS was created, these concerns were simply non-existing. Times have changed massively in 30 years, "leeching" like this simply didn't exist when those licences were drafted. So no, I don't lack principles, the world simply changed.
> Is "companies are using your reading history to target ads" really the same level of dangerous as "your government wants to read all your messages"?

This is politically incompetent. A politically competent person uses The System to fight The System.

You lobby your government to heavily fine companies for spying.
You lobby companies for E2E encryption to stop government spying.
A wrongly configured hotlinking protection.

The actual URL is https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/gallery/index.html and the default behaviour is to redirect to index.html if no filename given, but due misconfiguration it requires no referrer on it too.
I have always been a “Notes app enthusiast” for to do lists, but I found myself limited. Which is why I created Tasktic to do list where I can now have priority swiping, due dates, time estimates, duplicating, and more without any added hassle.

For the due dates I used lots of regex to identify various types of dates inputted like mon 3pm, next sat 9:20am, 2023-09-23, 25th sep, and more just by typing next to the task. Time estimates could even identify 1.5h or 1h 30m.

With the notes app I would indent my tasks to signify an increased priority but that became more and more messy and I could only indent so much. That’s why with Tasktic to do list, I’ve implemented swiping priority which can also use keyboard shortcuts for cmd ] and cmd [

Another reason I built Tasktic to do list was because of school and with so many assignments and quizzes recurring, I wanted to just type ‘dup’ and it would duplicate the task and even increment the number.

I wanted Tasktic to do list to feel like the to do list app where average Notes app people can use but also make it feature packed to even satisfy the needs of a programmer.

That’s why I want to add even more features such as completion summaries for annoying scrum meetings, subtasks, a recurring keyword to make a task repeat, notifications, image pasting in the notepad, and more!

Let me know what you think and I hope you enjoy it!
I clearly explained that PWAs are not the solution on the following paragraphs.

In fact, they are a way to turn the Web into ChromeOS, mostly pushed by Google and Microsoft, as evolution from WinJS in Windows 8, and ChromeOS API.
They might be offering a market wage under their price constraints.

If everyone raised wages together, we wouldn’t magically be wealthier. Number of workers is approximately zero sum, but their productivity in regards to wealth generation is not.
That would be funny because other apps such as whatsapp or telegram work better than imessage.
Things like this are a part of why my newest vehicle is an '04 Suburban.
Does lab-grown meat count as ultra processed food?
Broot: A new way to look at file management written in Rust
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/apple-and-google...
It is indeed quite common for poetry to violate the normal rules of the language. But that takes one of two forms: archaism, or a flaw in the poetry. (It's also common for poetry to violate the rules that govern the poetry itself. Composing poetry is very difficult!) Compare the opening of Mark Chesnutt's She Was:

She started her new life

Ten dollars in debt

That's all it took to get started back then

A trip to the courthouse across the state line

No one could stop her

She'd made up her mind

He was eighteen

And she wasn't

But she said she was / and never thought twice

And came back home as my daddy's wife

She just shook her head

When her mama said "Are you sure he's the one?"

But she was

Here we see some fairly complex temporal structure handled fluently, with no problems of any kind. The writing is better.

>> it can't be considered fluent English when seen as an isolated sentence

> Can't it? Why not? What's wrong with it?

The use of the simple past tense is not compatible with the sense of before that everyone here is trying to assign.
Yeah, they have a graph of temperatures from 1940 onwards with a linear trend line— but just by looking at the data points, it seems that an exponential curve would fit the data better.

Maybe someone more skilled than me has analyzed that already? Because just eyeballing it, is really making me nervous about the exponential future projection of that graph of the next 20 years
> Burgess said the summer had been one of tumbling records and it would only get worse if the world continues to burn planet-heating fossil fuels.

It would get worse even if we stopped burning fossil fuels immediately. Because of lag effects, tipping points, and masking.
Name's all sorted too:

The Oscar.
Launched out my end-to-end encrypted cloud storage based in Germany – 100GB free
Let me know what you think. We appreciate every form of feedback.
Technically you’re right, but…

Processed foods have added fat and sugar to make them more palatable.

Adding fat and sugar is a processing step.

No processing, no added crap.

Processing isn’t the key point, it’s a simplified way of looking at things to ease decision making.
I do think it’s a form of overfitting - loss on the training set improved while loss on the validation set got worse. However, it’s not the common form of overfitting, where accuracy on the validation set gets worse. In this case, accuracy on the validation data set continued to improve. But when it was wrong, it gave a higher confidence in its wrong answer than before. e.g. before it may have incorrectly thought the answer was X, with 60% confidence, now it still thinks the answer is X, but with higher confidence, say 70%.

I do think it’s a form of overfitting, but a weird one. Overconfidence seems like a good, more specific term to me.
The unbridled optimism about technology of the early-mid 90s was very real and very addicting. Having been around from then until now and seeing what's happening to the internet and open source software is extremely demoralizing.
Disappointingly that makes sense.
This reminds me of a time we were helping a dev team bring logging in house because they weren't liking the features of their logs-as-a-service provider.

They set all applications to "debug" level logs in production and were generating multiple gigabytes of logs per hour.

They wanted 90 days retention, and the ability to do advanced searching through the live log data so they could debug in production (they didn't really use their dev or stage environments, or have a process for documenting and reproducing bugs).
Wow there's a lot of prejudice to unpack there, but the one I'm most curious about is your impression that people are working at non-FAANG businesses because of their excellent social skills.
This seems to HN bias at work here....

Believing that what happens to Dev at 2 companies means everyone is impacted...

This is like .0000000000001% of the work force.... FAANG devs really do have an inflated sense of self worth dont they
Next Generation Deep Learning Framework in Rust: The Burn Book
Don't Android and iOS by default prevent bluetooth from accessing your contacts and calls. I know on Android you have to click a permission popup when connecting to bluetooth to allow contact and call access
The difficulty you are experiencing here is that this is so effective people don’t even get started. There used to be non-Apple devices that could sync with iTunes. Apple sued them into the ground.
I’m no expert on LLMs, but I don’t find this super surprising from a general ML point of view:

You have a generative model with billions of parameters that already assigns some probability mass to your (fine-tuning) samples. Now you compute a gradient that increases that probability mass, and take a step in the gradient’s direction. Essentially the OP is surprised that this significantly increases the probability mass of the samples under the model.

I’m not very surprised. The generative model is enormously over-parameterized and already assigns some probability mass to the (fine-tuning) samples. It would be surprising to me if there wasn’t a direction in this billion-dimensional parameter space that rapidly increases the probability of the relatively few samples.
My first thought was summing the angles (each curve piece adds or subtracts 7deg of angle or whatever the actual angle is).

However the question is false in its initial assumption, i think: if theres too much tension anywhere in the string that joint will separate. These pieces are designed to do that.

Perhaps a better way of stating it would've involved the gaps between sections where there might be too much space and lead to derailment.
Get a bike (a muscular one) and problem solved :)
I just don't think that's the case yet, but we probably have no evidence one way or the other.

I don't know about /r/politics since I don't read it, but say in /r/worldnews, /r/europe, /r/ukrainewarvideoreport, /r/noncredibledefence, when I open a thread and pick ten comments at random and then take a look at their user histories I believe most are human.
That will be the norm for all car companies soon enough, not just Tesla.
This is so heartbreaking. How does one request the black bar? Just send them an email from the contact link?
My great-aunt was the family butler. Her parents designated her as the caretaker, and thats what she did her entire life. No marrying, no job, no nothing.

She's spent the last 20 years of her life living completely alone. She's the last one alive from her generation. Its a sad story.
Also, less abstractly people living in car-centric places drive everywhere. If you live in a walkable place you walk to do most of your errands so you get exercise without even trying to.
I am in this same position. I don't want to spend a fortune, but I also don't want my furniture to be wobbly or peeling laminate in a few years. Secondhand offers some good options here, but you can't necessarily find exactly what you're looking for. Apart from that, the market is surprisingly barren in this area.

I got into woodworking for this reason (using mostly secondhand tools and YouTube). I make myself midrange furniture out of pine and plywood. It's not as fancy as expensive hardwood furniture, but it still cleans up very nicely with some time spent painting or shellacking.

It looks (and feels!) so much nicer than Ikea's laminate offerings, and it should easily last me the rest of my life and then some. Plus, I get to make it exactly the way I want it.
Nice! Reminds me of a very early version of Slashdot.
There's a point where speed becomes inherently unsafe due to visual limits. If cars were able to travel at Mach 2, then you'd be constantly at risk of getting into a crash whenever you change lane, because cars can approach quicker than you can make a decision.

There will be an upper speed limit somewhere, it might just be higher than cars can currently drive.

Also unrestricted parts of the autobahn have a pretty bad safety record.
I was interpreting "not let" to mean you would actually stop them entering. You're right, the parent post probably meant "deny permission to enter".
> Translation is a process which both erases information and introduces new information

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."
Yeah, but the hard speed limits existence in the first place was from this. There used to be roads with limits, and the limits also took a long time to go up, they are still low, and most backroads are still like 55 or lower
Vulnerabilities would be virtually eliminated with better choices of programming language. Then they wouldn't need a great CI/CD system to keep on top of things, although it's obviously still recommended.
You are seeing a symptom of even the small business owner seemingly struggling for income. People don’t realize the ultra wealthy hired the best and brightest for decades to capture all the excess wealth/productivity generated from technology capital gains.

If prosperity was shared as in 1965, the mode income would be 6 figures.
Couldn't you just use sftp?
That's correct that the entire engineering team is on the platform. I appreciate the feedback and perhaps the post didn't message this well.

There are many value-adds that developers use from the platform beyond deployments like a monitoring/status dashboards, access control, and preview environments.

Many of our customers use our platform as a DevOps platform. We've seen many engineering teams hire 1 DevOps engineer per 10 software engineers (this varies based on industry and tech complexity). We chose to price the offering based on the value we're driving to each developer.
My favourite part was - Saves valuable chisel time.
Another tech company won’t host its conference in San Francisco
Creating local production-like dev environments on Kubernetes
Devs tend to struggle when moving from local dev into the cloud (thanks Kubernetes). So we've put together a guide on how to create a local Kubernetes environment that behaves just like the actual thing in the cloud, without creating any kind of overhead or being overly complicated to set up. We'll be using Docker Desktop, Helm, and kubectl.
Probably intentional to make sure they're not in trouble in case this happens to them: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-sh...
Since you mentioned Malayalam, the sentence can be made into a single word in the language - vitacholliyirunnereyaval (വിടചൊല്ലിയിരുന്നേറെയവൾ). Sounds lyrical, but does it.

No magic but plain agglutination, and I am sure this should be possible in languages like Finnish too...
Exactly which is why I oppose giving the government the power in the first place.
There was more than that.

> Apart from where mentioned above, filenames seem to match GoodSMS names (commonly found on the internet) with almost all non-alphabetical character removed. This suggests that all of the ROM images were obtained from the internet rather than from Sega's internal archives.

https://www.smspower.org/Development/NintendoWiiVirtualConso...

GoodSMS is a community/pirate naming scheme for identifying the different ROM dumps.
AOL pretends to be the internet
Brevity isn’t the only goal with language; you also want robustness under noise and ease of random access (e.g. if you skim-read a text or if you enter a conversation a bit late or have to leave early)

In an optimally breve language the meaning of a text could completely flip when a single letter/syllable/phoneme is changed. That, in turn, means listeners have to hear every letter/syllable/phoneme perfectly.

Interestingly, natural languages already have a bit of both.

As an example, if you skim-read a text and restart at “He said she wasn’t there anymore”, there are 3 ‘back references’ in that sentence that require you to look back in the text to find the meaning of.

Also, a paragraph’s meaning can change by adding the sentence “Just joking.” Or even a simple “Not.”.
I actually wanted to go with an insurer that installs a black box. My dealer, however, doesn't do those (and their standard package is pretty good, so with a new car it was stupid to go with someone else).
But that won’t be an option in a few . How many 2015 cars will be on the road and for sale in 2035?
You could get a MIDI controller (keyboard with MIDI output but not sound generation capabilities) and connect it to a suitable MIDI synthesizer. There are many MIDI synths available with real or emulated chip sounds.
Like my TV ... and my phone ... and my ... and my ink pen (connected via WIFI) ...
For comparison: the consumption of ultra-processed food in selected European countries were from 2018 [1]

Top European countries with the most household purchases of ultra-processed food:

1. UK 50.7%

2. Germany 46.9%

3. Ireland 45.9

4. Belgium 44.6

5. Finland 40.9

Top European countries with least household purchases of ultra-processed food:

1. Portugal 10.2%

2. Italy 13.4%

3. Greece 13.7%

4. France 14.2

5. Croatia 17.9

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...