skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the law, with an exception for small shops, food "to go", etc. But, it only applies to the ordinary price. Any multibuy or conditional offer is excluded. Now stores have started putting the real price behind a free loyalty card without a unit price, and a ridiculous fake price (like, 2x or more) on the ordinary price tag. The Competition and Markets Authority has started an investigation.
What teenager has €400/year to spent on virtual servers?
R290 (highly pure propane) is still used pretty widely as a refrigerant with relatively low environmental impact.
If an individual does this, then they should be prepared to be sued. For example, say that Teflon in toxic and you will surely be sued.

There are federal agencies that are supposed to monitor thse things, but in some countries these institutions are broken. IMHO Europe does the best job of regulating toxic substances. Even in other jurisdictions, there are manufacturers guides that are often not read or adhered to.

I think this info is mostly out there and is able to be found.

Yes, I agree that a comprehensive global index would be a great thing - so start with checking there (I forget where their index is!)

And don't forget, alcohol, tobacco, driving and sugar are by far the biggest killers in our modern societies!
Part of self driving is dealing with those human drivers who are terrible drivers though.

This is what makes the whole thing so hard. If we could have dedicated roads for self driving cars it would be easy peasy. No need to interpret road markings, signs, other vehicles and their intentions. Because it would all be communicated digitally over radio. Steering a car is total peanuts for a computer.

It's the unexpected stuff that makes it hard. Like that Uber car that killed that lady that crossed the road with her bike in the dark at a totally unexpected spot. A human is better at those things because they're caused by other humans who aren't logical.

But such matters are really hard to test and evaluate for precisely because they are unexpected.
My experience in Berlin after the Wall came down also goes in this direction.

For me as a young West Berliner, it was a fun time with lots of opportunities.

For many people in the former GDR it was a trauma, their lives collapsed.

And Bulgaria has not received high transfer payments.
Depends on the product, and the change.

If "Chlorine Bleach" is diluted from 5.0% concentration (NaClO in H2O) to 4.5%, that's simple and obvious.

If the gallon of chlorine bleach is replaced with a 96oz. "ultra" version, which is 6.5%? Do some math - that's a slight reduction in the NaClO quantity.

If that "ultra" is 6.75%, that's a slight increase in NaClO quantity. Yet the manufacturer's sales and profits will very likely increase - because the "96 oz." will cut their packaging and transportation costs. And most people will not reduce the quantity of "ultra bleach" they use (in their mop bucket, washing machine, etc.) enough to offset the increased concentration. So (on average) customers will pay more money, for the cheaper-on-paper ultra bleach.

And that's a very simple situation. How do you police it if Acme Soup Co. is tweaking their recipes, to put cheaper ingredients and more water into each can?
RIP Orkut
This is great, but who the hell remembers what the price per litre was the last time they bought shampoo? This does not make it trivial to track shrinkflation at all. This is for comparing products that are currently on the shelf.
if all that you want is a "server", you might as well get a vServer for less than 5€
Tailwind Templates are the new Wordpress themes.
kaggle can do all of this better than i can.
Acetone appears to be pretty high on the effective-divided-by-unsafe spectrum.
Bird users are welcome to pay for parking like most cars.

But the biggest difference is rental cars need to be returned to a designated place like an airport or car dealership. Or they get picked up. They are never just abandoned on city streets, and even more rarely parked illegally.
Isn't that survivorship bias?

Processes that never improve yield are abandoned
> Because having a specific time to look at something is usually much better than me either dropping what I'm doing to think about something else

There's no hard and fast rule, but if you can help them out in 10 minutes, then it's much healthier for the culture/organization to unblock them immediately (within let's say 30 minutes) than ask them to organize a meeting.
Twitter puts link warning on report about child labour mines connected to Tesla
This is a real dedicated server though, it's just sitting in Germany instead of your house.
They say they didn't change it. And there is a new theory, the Winter Break Hypothesis. It's where chatgpt mimics people who work in December because the prompt has the date in it. And in December people are thinking of the holidays and not working as hard.

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1734280779537035478
Spamming the patent office
I think Graphene spoofs the most basic level of Google's security thing but they never wanted to spoof anything higher because it would just turn into a cat and mouse game that they would eventually lose.

They recommend that app developers adopt the much stronger and vendor-neutral Android hardware attestation API instead.
Why would it need to be profitable? It's _public_ transport, paid for by public funds.
That's good to know an investigation has been started. I can't believe anyone would fall for the "clubcard price" nonsense but requiring a clubcard and displaying a fake ridiculous price should both be illegal.
It seems that the proposal from South Korea is different though, because it will show a before-after comparison, which isn't required in Europe. So I don't know for you, but I personally don't remember what's the per kg price of every single product I buy. If it increased and all other products increased too, I will not have any reference point.
Hitting Earth later is better than now. If nothing else it buys time for a new plan. And if it did wipe out a Moon base with dozens of people, at least it wasn't a city with millions...
More often than not Rolexes are daily wears, not collectibles.
One who can afford to buy the one in the article.
Overseas health workers exploited at U.K. care home, reveals BBC investigation
Are these things it actually does, or more “quantum computing might be useful for this in the future!” hype?

Because OP was asking the former
> Skip all the meeting and ship code into production

This works until you have an outage, disaster, or embarrasment of some kind, at which point everyone is banned from doing that without approval.

This leads to a kind of "trauma driven development"; when you suggest a change, you see a flash of fear in the eyes of people around you. If you punish people for improvements often enough, you don't get any improvements.
Rolex has been less secretive nowadays. Still no public tours, but some media types have been invited.
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/inside-rolex

IWC, Zenith and a few other Manufactures do offer tours. It is fairly representative of what Rolex does (on a bigger scale, with more vertical integration). Many other brands and suppliers open their doors every two years in La Chaux-de-fond: https://urbanisme-horloger.ch/biennale-du-patrimoine-horloge...
You don't have to tell them to do something specific.

You can tell them to generate ideas, pick one and go from there.
Yeah blowing it to bits sounds like the worst thing to do. It's like turning a bullet into a shotgun blast.
> The consensus in the west, online at least, seems to be that everything sucks and is getting worse.

It might be so in words, but it's not so in meaning. I understand what the GP means, the west has a mindset of "things are terrible and getting worse, the elite rule us, but this is still the best country in the world". The eastern mindset is more of a "this country is shit, but there are some nice things, and we try to focus on those".

It's hard to communicate a whole culture in a few comments, but the sentiment is very different.
When I was 16 I started an ISP in my bedroom. I had an 8 port octo serial cable into a computer for people to dial into, and an ISDN line going out. It's how I learned linux. Setup SMTP mailservers etc.
I am a foreigner currently living in Bulgaria.

I don't see what are these postmodern, cosmopolitan and American ideas. Can you explain yourself better?

What I read was something different: The eternal search for a meaningful existence. It applies to everyone, in every continent of the globe, through their entire lives.

So if for example: I am working for an IT company, and my work deals only with improving ad technology, at some point I will feel that meaningless apprehension, because ad technology is ultimately worthless for humanity in general. (This is only an example, I don't work with ads)

Working for example in bioinformatics o biotechnology, helping people heal, would be much better. It would be meaningful. (Another example, I don't work with biotechnology)

Both technologies, both paths, are available in western countries and in other countries. It is our personal choice, and no one is forcing us to choose one over the other.

It's all a series of personal decisions, aggregated in the millions, what makes nations what they are.
Seems like a good opportunity to share this [0]

Problem: We don't really know what "realistic" quality means. Is it
the timbre? Is it the spectral dynamics? Is it a set of recognisable
behaviours? Does playing versus only listening to a simulated
instrument make a difference to the perception of "realism"? Sure we
can do naive A-B tests on audio, but they turn out to show unexpected
or "wrong" results.

Not that I'd encourage anyone to get involved in academia in its
current degenerate state, but for someone really passionate about this
I'd say this postdoc Diemo is heading at IRCAM looks like one of the
more fun, interesting and challenging projects around right now. FWIW
there's a similar programme running at Edinburgh with Stefan Bilbao
and Rod Selfridge testing quality of PDE synthesis and AI discovery of
parametric control.

[0] https://www.ircam.fr/job-offer/chargee-de-recherche-projet-a...
I mean, you’ll get an Elon tweet along the lines of “Servers are woke”, and you’ll like it. I don’t think Musk companies have the sort of culture that produces detailed RCAs.
Combine economic tightening with the advent of AI and it’s no surprise that companies are increasingly more interested in getting their existing knowledge to work harder.
> this is something actively forced on the people.

Forced by whom? Changes are agreed by people, often very smart people who believe in a future where we won't squabble on silly things because someone drew a line in 1840something as far as they could drag their cannons.

In a world where your goods and services are built and sold all over the world at any given time, where everyone talks across continents at every hour of the day, a lot of the old "national" dimensions simply don't matter - or keep us in a state of vassalage towards folks who have already embraced the future.

There is always someone resisting change; you can still travel by horse if you really want to, but people will zip by you in trains and cars. Most of the Brexit-supporting public, for example, have already realized that they voted themselves on a buggy whip, and are busy trying to retrofit a steam engine on it.
All these data points crystalize out from these two events and seem connected. Even though there are a million other data points to both stories, that are not similar.
For example, Mr Kennedy was 3.2 inches smaller than Mr Lincoln.

What is amazing is your ability, to find this seemingly similar data of both events.

But you also forgot some, did you know both wore a top hat during their inauguration?

This is usually explained with focus selective perception. We love to find patterns, since they give us a feeling of connection. From this sometimes knowledge emerges.

In this case it is a statistical phenomenon, that reminds me of the Bible code.
Check it out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code

It goes quite deeper than you think.
- The Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. My entire way of life, my persuits, career choices, health choices, life choices are based on this.

- Homo Ludens by Johan Huzinga (The highest calling a human can partipate in is play). My goal in life is to have has much play time as possible, it is all I am aiming for right now. Probably How I will measure how my successful my life was (how much did I play?)

- Adam Curtis Documentaries (Power & how it shapes societys). Opened my eyes to what exactly political struggle is. I don't see politics the same way again after watching those documentaries. I rewatch one every few months. There is so muc to learn from them.

- The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Got me to start taking computers seriously.

- Hacker News. This is the highest quality social community that I am part of. I learned so much from here. And it feels like the only place where I can meet and have a conversation with like minded people. I genuinely feel like I have an edge in life over other people just by being part of the HN community.
Please stop posting in Medium, it's so annoying.
Do Liberals and Conservatives Differ in Their Preferences for Cats versus Dogs?
Elite overproduction
Peter Turchin's theory on elite overproduction is pretty interesting and is salient to our time.
Is there any OSS model that is good for function calling? Gorilla LLM comes to mind. Not sure if it's actually good at specifically the function calling api though.
I hear this argument a lot, Americans insinuating their different states are effectively almost different countries.

It is nonsense. Americans are Americans. Of course you have regional differences, no different to people from York and Bristol would. But you're not as diverse as you think.

Outwardly I'm sure Brits, Australians, Chinese, Indians etc all get lumped together in your head, despite each of those countries having extremely differing internal cultures spread across the respective countries. That's how the rest of us see Americans - LA and New Yorkers are not different, except in subtle ways only obvious to you.
To be honest it also depends a lot on which Rolex you buy. Rolex makes (and have made) a ton of different watches over the decades and some of them are really cool and interesting and very desirable among 'real watch people'.

At the end of the day what matters to 'real watch people' is that you are interested in and passionate about the watch you are wearing. If you can talk about the watch you are wearing and what makes it cool and why you love it, then people will think it's cool
Good nitpick.
> Encouraging a culture of helpfulness is, well, helpful. If you incentivize developers to assist each other, they will do so. On the other hand, if you encourage a culture of competitiveness, they might feel less likely to help. They might even sabotage each other’s efforts.

Yes! "Stack ranking" and inter-departmental competition and all these other dog-eat-dog things turn your employees against each other. People will waste unlimited amounts of company money to prevent another team improving their situation.

> One idea to encourage helpfulness is to include it in a company’s mission statement. Or better yet, add helpfulness to every employee’s performance review goals. If money depends on it, you can be sure people will make an effort.

Noooooo! You've gamified a metric! You know what happens when you gamify a metric? You destroy its value as a metric. And encourage people to cheat it, again. You've made money contingent on appearing helpful, not on actually being helpful. This is a great way to get interdepartmental meetings that achieve nothing but that everyone can cite on their "helpfulness score".
Based on what? They bought a cheap used server off of eBay? That doesn’t disappear if you stop paying a monthly fee?
Is that true ?

As far as we know, the factories are not operating at full capacity and the inventory increased considerably lately. And this is despite the price cuts.
Not sure what constitutes merit to you, but here is American Diabetes Association saying it's a myth that diabetes is caused by eating sugar - http://main.diabetes.org/ws/ADM/MRC_ADM_2018_Myths.pdf
9to5mac.com ... I will hold my judgment for a unbiased review.
Teflon pans being dangerous is a safe bet. Teflon is famously inert and sticks to nothing... so how did they stick it to the pan? The chemicals they use for that must be very reactive and it's a good bet to assume anything like that is toxic.
The courts don't come to decisions like this, but it's pretty straightforward to want to prevent AIs from being able to invent patents (even as an aid) because the obvious consequence of allowing it is companies automating the generation of patents as much as possible and flooding the patent system.

Anyone who's worked on spam prevention knows that as long as the profit is higher than the cost of impersonating a human, spammers will continue to hammer you until you can make the costs high enough to be no longer profitable.
> Their proposed tunnels are 6 meters in diameter

Wait, I'm lost. How many bananas is this?
I think it's mostly seen as a problem in the US, and less in Europe. It's one of those pseudo controversies that I learned from the American internet, like, keeping your cat indoors (you have to google this, it's absurd!) or depression as chemical imbalance... etc etc.
I would routinely -walk to work- complete with the coffee and stroll along the water, to end right back at my house.

Mentally it just put me in a different 'mode'

And preserved my home as the home
Show HN: Sunnybox – An Email API for Effortless IMAP Integration
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I'd really appreciate your feedback on:

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- Features you think could be added or improved.

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Downvoters, educate yourself a little bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
Not entirely. With GrapheneOS, google play services and any other google apps have the same level of control over permissions as any other app. So you can deny access to any features that you don't want it to have access to. Others in this thread have recommended using a separate profile for google apps so it's not even running when you're not using it.
Good article. I highly recommend the book "Kill it with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (And Future Proof Modern Ones)" by Marianne Bellotti if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of legacy systems.
Who pays the electric bill? Sounds like it’s in the 50-100USD a month range for those two servers.
Sure, we're shaking our head about DDT, but we're still very much relying on DDT's less obviously harmful successors. I hope it won't be the same with self-driving cars. Where there's a will, there's a way, and technology does advance. And at some point, the only way to improve things further will be to remove manually driven cars from the streets.

I, too, am skeptical that wide-scale adoption of autonomous vehicles will be an overall good for humanity. I'm afraid it's going to make us humans even more dependent on hyper-complex technology, hence more vulnerable to issues like over-concentration of capital and break-downs of the global supply chain system. That it will atrophy some of our collective native capabilities (for example, the skill to assess risk and take action based on our innate grasp of physics of motion and psychology of others). We would in effect be outsourcing our physical safety to large corporations. Even if more safe, comfortable and efficient, I don't think that's a good idea.
it is an EU thing [0][1]

Easy comparison – price per unit
You should also be able to compare prices between brands and between package sizes – to see, for example, what saving you'd make buying a large-size box of breakfast cereal instead of a small box.
To help you do this, all products must be marked not only with the selling price, but also the price per unit – for example, the price per kilo or per litre. This information must be understandable, easy to read, and easily identifiable.
This rule also applies to adverts that mention a selling price.

Notice this does not apply uniformly since it delegates to national regulations, so e.g. IIRC in Italy supermarkets list the number of "bits" you can rip off a toilet paper roll, but in Hungary they don't.

^0 https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protecti...

^1 https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...
btw there are provider networks in Europe where you subscribe to a single provider and you can charge nearly anywhere. It’s just that other providers have a roaming fee, which sometimes is double the price, which makes it a little bit stupid.
Roaming should either be free or add minimal overhead like 2cent maximum over the costs of the other provider
Did you just cut & paste the AI's output into the patent application? Or were you a competent expert in the area - who read through what it said, maybe did some real-world experimenting, made various changes to improve the idea, etc, etc.?
Sent a PR to fix that https://github.com/saucelabs/forwarder/pull/617.
Can you suggest some improvements? Perhaps there are some low hanging fruits.
I use Excalidraw for this kind of stuff. It has the best interface of all the tools in its class and it's easy to create diagrams/flows/mockups that peope recognise are 'in progress', but still look great.
Which might be fine if the bits are small enough that they would burn up in the atmosphere, but that's making a lot of assumptions.
If the drawing is to scale, and the office was created in the area
called storage it does not look that small to me.
I was expecting a walk-in closet.

If I spent most of my time streaming and recording, I would not want
any sunlight. The sun changes position, there are clouds and rain,
all of which create different lighting conditions, and makes it difficult
to create a consistent palette of colors.
Most noticeable if you are recording (as she does) and you do
one session from morning til lunch, one session in the evening and
the last session tomorrow morning.
The colors would be changing.

(As a guy who spent years as a pro photographer these things scare me.)
She may use the righlight to overpower the sun that would mostly work
but it would look harsh.

I think she should look into microphones.
I am not sure what she uses, but you can get microphones
+ limiter/compressor that would make it fairly easy to
not pick up stray sounds. (up to a point).
One that has €400 a year or more to spend on powering a 120W server 24/7
That's just being pedantic though; they were pointing out the logic behind a patent of any kind for such a simple thing/feature is ridiculous. And it is. But money talks.