skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These companies negotiate everything, including where the boxes will be located on the shelves, the angles they will be placed at, which competitors will be allowed, the pricing schemes, etc. They will never go “well for the price per unit, let’s just go with whatever random unit our internal systems spit out”.

Its extremely convenient that the mandated data that helps customers cut through the millions they spend on marketing and pricing schemes is the one that is completely uncared for.
They tried to teach us both in school, but neither really stuck.
You've repeatedly claimed this fine is unbelievable, but that seems like a skill issue on your part. I have no trouble believing the reality of this fine. And tech corps should have no trouble believing it either. They better wisen up and respect the EU's laws if they think these fines are too large to bear (in reality, the worst violators can bear these fines just fine, and the EU should be issuing arrest warrants for the executives to make a real impact.)
I was looking for a similar service to keep track of my wallet because I lost it a few months ago. I ran into all the same problems you mentioned. It blew my mind that I couldn't find a small device that took a sim card and just transmitted its location. I ended up tying my wallet to my backpack.

This cat tracker might just free my wallet from its paracord prison.
$12.95/mo. Or $120/year
I agree and I think adding to #2 is that the surface area would have to be at least as large as the polar ice caps. Their melting will have a significant impact on reflected light/heat so adding tiny patches here and there would be a minuscule spec in the bucket, I think.

Another issue I think would be putting this reflector anywhere other than where the polar ice caps exist could potentially change current temperatures and further mess up the global climate long term. Unintended consequences.
I think it was C# with winforms that broke the last oppotunity delphi had.
You're wrong about that. Every non-theocratic/ hyper-conservative country will legalize it sooner or later
Intel were definitely resting on their laurels over the past decade and its uncertain whether the latest CEO has actually done anything to cleanup the bad culture.

If he did manage that, I'm optimistic the US government's investment in domestic chip production will give them the cash to attract top talent.
Insider trading laws exist, execs just like to ignore them. Hopefully, the SEC takes a look into his dealings considering how public this is.
It might still be too early to know the age of the drawings (the article estimates "at least 24,000 years old"), but I couldn't help noticing that these drawings are much simpler than much older art in the Chauvet cave (dated to around 30-35 thousand years old) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave
This sounds a lot like software developers, except replace decade with 6 months.
The bigger problem was deadwood employees, but deadwood projects and middle-managers who built out their fiefdoms. The smarter approach would have been to do a better job moving around the best employees in more comprehensive reorg. But that is very difficult to execute well.
I think this is incorrect. You may be thinking about PM2.5 levels of which there are no safe level, any amount is harmful. Similar for CO. But a certain non-zero amount of CO2 is actually required.
Ask HN: Where do I share links to my site for immediate viewing?
Because this is the only place to actually get any support from Google, instead of just canned responses from a chat bot
Hearing cassette beasts has performance issues is crushing to me.
I was really hoping to switch to godot.
OP does have four monitors and two hands!
This has been going on in Brazil for so long that for two years now companies must, by law, disclose any reduction in weight.

Examples: https://i0.wp.com/sfnoticias.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/...
I think Routine is key. Slot it into your daily schedule.

I started learning how to cook during covid. After the initial novelty factor wore off, I was getting lazy with the process, doing things last minute, taking shortcuts, if I needed ingredient x and didn't have it I would add y producing half baked crap etc. And this was happening even though I was really curious about it all and interested in getting better.

So one day I decided, half an hour just after waking up instead of scrolling through the phone, I was going to devote to planning the daily cook. This worked out great cuz instead of getting aggravated about the news or work emails or whatever I was day dreaming about what to cook. Now its become an automatic thing.
We often see larger packages being more expensive per unit as the volume of sales is lower.
Why don't we talk about how Obama's "moderate rebels" in Syria metasized into ISIS with full U.S equipment. After in-effectiveness in Syria against battle hardened Assad forces, they decided to go for Mosul and the soft Iraqi forces instead. Believe there was even an interview with the ISIS soldiers where they were very happy with the U.S. sponsorship!

The same story was repeated earlier with Bin Laden. It is like the U.S. never learns. Now once again in 2022/23 the Idlib mujahideen are being courted by the U.S. war apparatus to make problems in Syria as a way to divert Russia.
The EU is ridiculously pluralist and consensus-driven. This makes it a sort of small-c conservative; it's not prone to whimsical bad ideas and grandstanding. Its failure mode is in the opposite direction of just gradually over-regulating small business out of existence.
OnlyCats?
Why would you doubt it? Unless tiktok wins in court, the EU could remove them from all the app stores if they don't pay up.
Candy bars is a bit of an “outside this issue”.

Around the world, you’re seeing sugar taxes, pushes for healthier snacks, and general government action against things that are sugar to excess.

Not saying they’re not greedflating like everything else. But they do have significantly different pressures.
Temporarily and in a localized way, yes.

For example, if there's a natural disaster, and the people in power aren't dumb, they'll let prices float instead of putting caps in place, and everyone will be incentivised to rent big trucks full of water bottles and sell it for 20-50x the normal price. For the affected people it makes sense because now they can drink water, and if the prices were controlled nobody would make the drive. Eventually enough people do the drive or the disaster passes and prices normalize.

At the moment it's hard to explain what is happening but it might be more complex than just "nothing to see here". I've come to realize that reality is more nuanced than Milton Friedman made it out to be (and he did too later in life).
It is a lot of work to acquire and track the signals and this is often implemented in software. And then afterwards it takes a lot of work to calculate the navigational solution from these raw measurements.

This basically keeps a microprocessor busy which uses energy.

One trick people do for ultra-low energy non-realtime GPS tracking of wildlife is to store the “raw” radio samples and do as little processing on the tracking device as possible.[1] Then once the tracker gets back they batch process all the samples recorded and reconstruct where the animal has been. That is obviously a tradeoff of more storage used for less energy consumption. Obviously that trick does not work if you want to know where the animal is live, it can only tell you where it has been once you have processed the data.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06310
Buy items priced by bulk weight to begin with. Meat, vegetables, nuts, also items in standard packaging sizes like milk per liter or gallon. All this processed junk (with its non-standard package sizing) is bad for you anyway.

If someone will start packaging toothpaste in bulk liter sizes, I'll switch to that, and find some kind of more permanent dispenser to fill that looks better in my bathroom anyway.
A Tutorial on LLM
3 million people used them between last year and this year. About 4.5% of the population. That's a lot of people.
Aside from being OSS backed nonprofit, they also have a relatively small full time staff:

https://www.blender.org/about/people/
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

There's a huge wave of increased support for labor in the US right now. It's definitely not a good idea to bet on any particular area remaining un-unionized.
My dad told me when he was a boy there was a chocolate bar called the "Nickle Bar" that sold for, you guessed it, a nickel. As inflation/deflation changed prices, the Nickle Bar remained costing a nickel, but the size of the bar changed.
It seems like the key thing here is that Johnson & Johnson ditched the consumer brands, so it wants to ditch the consumer image. Everything else is just marketing puffery.

I wonder which side of the split, Kenvue or J&J, maintains the pre-1905 right to commercial use of the Red Cross logo?
EarthPT: A foundation model for Earth Observation
Because the middle man typically see there an opportunity to extort more money?
Same in the UK, except 10g/100g/1000g so it's a bit easier to work out. Still an antipattern though.
MBA people can also be shrinked : We only need 80% of you sales people, with chatgpt and co ...
Giving money to Kickstarter on high profile projects is like flushing your money down the toilet. I'm never going to ever back a kickstarter again.

Kickstarter really did themselves a disservice by not clamping down on the borderling fraudulent kickstarters that disappointed the backers. They should have split it up into phases where money gets released when certain milestones are reached.
Seriously? That's your response. Who's debating your right to existence? Or do you get to take yours for granted?
Nitter is dead no?
Because it would objectively and shockingly obviously make the code easier to understand.

You would be able to see what it does at a high level at a glance and then drill down into the functions and sub-functions to focus on a particular part of it.

With this version, to get the high level overview you have to scroll through multiple pages of code and find the comments that say what each section does.
The EU doesn't have to "regulate everything" to fine companies like TikTok when they break the law. That's a false dilemma.
...and water.
This was a one occurrences, and TikTok stopped it 3 years ago. The laws are getting tighter and tighter (and vaguer and vaguer), that's why "it keeps happening".
A lot of the time shrinkflation makes me seriously look at buying ingredients directly. I can afford to pay extra but, like for example Field Roast recently reduced the size of their sausages from 4oz to 3.2oz each, which is like 300 vs 240 calories, which is enough that I like... can't eat a sausage anymore, it's not enough food. The whole point of having prepackaged food like that is that it's easy to portion out, once they reduce the size sufficiently that a single portion is no longer a portion it makes more sense to buy something else I will portion myself.
And carrefour is among the worst offenders on this topic.
Right, even if they disagree with a particular trend, they probably have tremendous pressure to to conform. Going an independent path is very difficult and requires strong leadership skills and political capital.
And that would not be a small feat, considerung how bad the MS Office 365 UI are. Of course, the LO UI is stale but it does not hide stuff from you based on some weird context decision. And don't get me started on the differences between the functions you find on a given ribbon and the matching "simplified ribbon" (or what it's called.)

Where LO shines in comparison is the sane templating system, numbering scheme (chapters, paragraphs, lists etc.) and the total absence of any assistant that tries to be smarter than you.
Tracking Hurricane Lee with TempestOne
The EU does have some rules about this [1], "The unit price shall refer to a quantity declared in accordance with national and Community provisions", but I've still seen similar products priced per 100g and a different brand priced per "item".

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protecti...
Nothing that a law to stick to single unit can't fix!
Some places become more valuable as you pack humans more densely in it. Some places become more valuable with the opposite. "Idyllic mountain towns", of course, are the latter.

Naturally beautiful places whose beauty in part depends on them not being highly developed will always have this tension between the vacationers, the rich second-home owners, and the people who work in the tourism industry. Tourist town economics are a reality.
The rather soulless economics answer is that the companies want to make the same profit as before the inflation, so they need higher margins on individual sales to make up for the reduction in volume. Since demand doesn't drop, this is a feasible strategy.
The code in the red is imperative, with implicit state all over the place. I would argue that it's not linear, you have to keep all those mutable values and state transitions in your head as you read what's happening from top to bottom.

It's not extensible, It's not composable, It's hard to test, and frankly, it's complicated and complex for no other reason than a particular type of engineer thinks its easier to read, because they feel all programming should be imperative.

Don't get me wrong, there's a time and a place for this style of programming. (Manual memory management, algorithmic design that maximizes speed or memory usage, or even taking a bunch of services and dictating the order in which they are supposed to be executed.)

For business logic, especially the type thats supposed to model "the world," this is terrible code.

How is the bottom, not better code?

type Oven struct {
Temp int
}

type Box struct {
// Box properties
}

type Pizza struct {
Base string
Sauce string
Cheese string
Toppings []string
Baked bool
Boxed bool
Sliced bool
Ready bool
}

type Order struct {
Size string
Sauce string
Kind string
}

func preparePizza(order *Order) *Pizza {
toppings := map[string][]string{
"Veg": []string{"Tomato", "Bell Pepper"},
"Meat": []string{"Pepperoni", "Sausage"},
}
return &Pizza{
Base: order.Size,
Sauce: order.Sauce,
Cheese: "Mozzarella",
Toppings: toppings[order.Kind],
}
}

func bakePizza(oven *Oven, pizza *Pizza, cookingTemp int, checkOvenInterval int) *Pizza {
// Simulate oven heating
for oven.Temp < cookingTemp {
time.Sleep(time.Duration(checkOvenInterval) * time.Millisecond)
oven.Temp += 10 // Simulate oven heating
}
pizza.Baked = true
return pizza
}

func boxPizza(pizza *Pizza, order *Order) *Pizza {
box := &Box{}
pizza.Boxed = true // Simulate putting pizza in box
pizza.Sliced = true // Simulate slicing pizza
pizza.Ready = true // Simulate closing box
return pizza
}

// I just need to really understand this imperative part
// this is the meat and potatoes
func createPizza(order *Order, oven *Oven, cookingTemp int, checkOvenInterval int) *Pizza {
pizza := preparePizza(order)
pizza = bakePizza(oven, pizza, cookingTemp, checkOvenInterval)
pizza = boxPizza(pizza, order)
return pizza
}
Every now and then I'm reminded of how prescient the view of the internet was on Ghost In the Shell: Standalone Complex. Amazing!
It takes a while for the river of money helicoptered into the economy to spread its inflation out evenly.
Supply drops mean price increases. Goods have multiple inputs but don’t see equal increases across the board. Ie rent isn’t going up in a grain shortage.

Critically higher profit margins doesn’t necessarily translate to higher profits because you’re selling fewer goods.
From where I stand Spring Boot is slow and buggy piece of crap. Now Jakarta EE could be same as I can't even open the posted link. Perhaps site is made on JakartaEE.

Constant update is needed because constant security issues keep popping up and crappy APIs need constant refactoring. See RestTemplate vs WebClient vs RestClient. Writing a decent HTTP client seems impossible for them and keep getting replaced with new API and its not even like HTTP is changing every few months.
chat with myself on telegram. they call it Saved messages.
There's a hidden optimism even in this. If some technology (often open source and hobbyist-developed) is getting better despite a fraction of the funding of mainstream commercial technology products, think what we could do if somehow there was an enlightenment either of software users or developers to eliminate the 'Marl' state.
[Taps roof of atmosphere]

"You can fit so many corpses in this model!"
Any breaking of the law in regards to children needs to absolutely incinerate the offending party, this fine seems like a drop in the bucket. Kids these days are bombarded by terrible industry practices because companies know if they can get a child hooked, they could be a customer for life(or at least a period of time in their adulthood). In the US, kids are advertised to at literally every corner of their life...in their apps, when they go to school, TV, etc...it is actually WILD that this kind of stuff is legal.
Is it possible to import "watched" and the placeholders and other user metadata? I'd switch, but i'm not willing to wipe out everyone's metadata to accomplish it, especially as I have a lifetime plex pass
Swiftly, a new Swift toolchain installer and manager
France against french companies: 40M€ for Criteo, 1M€ for Total, 1M+€ for AG2R, 2M€ and 800000€ for Carrefour, 600000€ for EDF, same for Accor, two 300000€ fines for Free, 125000€ for CityScoot, 500000€ for Brico Privé, 400000€ for the RATP. Perhaps others, didn't bother to check any further.
> E-ink is tied up with patents so there aren’t many organizations that can work on improving it.

I find myself forced to repeat myself. Could you give everyone here some verifiable data? Please identify what patent you're talking about. I hope I will get a genuine response from someone who genuinely knows that industry because the last time I asked I just got a patents.google.com/search?q=eink response and a link to some random claim made as an HN comment. It is fun to blame patents. But do you think it might be because physics?
Cursive really shines with fountain pens. Your modern gel/rollerball/ballpoint pin barely benefits from cursive. It’s like lamenting that the kids these days don’t know how to use an abacus. If you only had enough time to teach a kid how to use excel or an abacus I’d choose excel. If you only had enough time to teach a kid how to type or how to use cursive I’d choose how to type.
Back when CO2 was ~300ppm in the atmosphere I used to sleep with windows closed. These days now that it's well up over 400ppm I'm putting fans in front of windows.

It makes sense since a doubling (from being indoors) of 300ppm isn't pushing the noticeable 800ppm range whereas a doubling of 420ppm is.

These recommendations probably worked in the 80s in my experience.
Only on hacker news will you find someone feeling bad for a company, of all things.
Delphi 7 was / is fantastic. Soon after that, they went .NET and the wheels came off.
Relevant wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_t...
"use" is just a convention for hook function names, react doesn't require or enforce it.
Look at us here on HN - we're discussing an essay we read about the decline of online dating. We're a self-selecting group too. Tonight's top story: a group of people who like reading essays decry that online dating no longer involves reading essays.

I was nodding my head very hard at this essay, but this has given me something to chew on.
From my perspective, you're saying the same thing as the parent: both prices and margins have gone up. Then you're stating the definition of inflation.

Parent's comment was (implicitly) about 50% of this inflation being avoidable and thus surprising, because margins didn't necessarily have to go up to keep business going. It was just a seized opportunity. If you can show that margins unavoidably always go up during inflation because of some fundamental mechanism, then that would be a refutal of the parent argument.
Spitballing here, but I'm pretty sure stores maintain a local database of their product prices in order to attach them to POSes. My knowledge may be outdated with the advent of things like Square, though...

But it seems to me that, given the fact the stores in the article were the ones supporting the move, that this would be a viable way to track and display price changes over time independent of information manufacturers control. It wouldn't do to pull data from a hostile source.
The way I solve all these problems is.

Prerequisite: require receiver to be able to process duplicate webhook being resent.

Algorithm outline:

1. Have webhook body stored by sender

2. Attempt to send body to receiver

3. If 2x status returned mark webhook as sent. Done

4. Otherwise for any other status or timeout increment attempt for webhook and try again later until maximum attempts (which then mark webhook as failed)

This covers the tricky case where success response gets dropped in network by having the sender time out and retry later. The receiver gets a duplicate
I doubt they've have done this quietly, as it gives the opportunity for some greenwashing. "More concentrated, so less CO₂ used in transport!"
>>This isn't basic sans serif at all, I quite like it. It's distinctive while also feeling trustworthy.

Fascinating!

If we assume that a logo is not targeted to expert professionals, but consumers at large; do you think you can help me as a somewhat nerdy but otherwise average consumer understand in which way it is not a basic sans serif at all? I'm not even remotely a font geek, yet even so have probably paid slightly more attention to fonts than anybody I know in real life and I haven't a clue in which way this is not basic, or is distinctive. I'm asking with genuine curiosity - much appreciated!:)
100% agree. For example, theoretically a housing crash will lower prices. But it won't because hedge funds will come in a swoop up all the houses so that people become renters. The 0.1% won't be happy until everyone is giving them money every day for something that they own a part of.
They spent like 6 billion on acquisitions that don't help make their core product better. Literally just don't do that and you'd be in the green right now.
>but I wonder if it can be games by changing prices frequently.

Could change it to "show last year of price info". In fact, make it a lineplot (with standardized design).
You have to either be very young or be very LCD-brained if you think advocating for simple, effective, time-tested teaching methods must necessarily be sarcastic.
First line: Sure.

Second line: No way. Very little of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and industry actually do verifiable compute in any meaningful sense.

A lot is API calls to third-party trusted services (who are probably doing that, yes).
And so it begins. Australia once again leading the charge against freedom and privacy, this will no doubt be accompanied with legislation that makes AI illegal and give rights to police to search any device suspected of containing any AI. Of course, they already made encrypted devices illegal previously so you'll get hit with a double whammy if you dare to follow best practices.
My experience with Reddit ads (years ago now) wasn't that subreddit-level targeting was bad—there's a reason sponsored content is such a big marketing channel, after all—but rather that the ads platform just never worked very well.

And by "never worked very well," I don't just mean "We ran ads without good results." The whole experience was just sort of confusing and underwhelming, especially when compared to other channels like FB or Google. We suspected that the majority of our clicks were bots, based on our own analytics. The targeting always felt unreliable. Support interactions were weird. In general, the platform always just felt kind of... janky.

Don't know if that's still the case now, but at least as of a year or so ago, I knew a lot of people working in digital marketing who felt the same about the platform.