skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A McDonald’s in France costs twice as much where a coffee costs less than half as much.

Source? According to The Economist's big mac index data[1] the price of a big mac in the euro area and the US is within the same ballpark (~10% difference max) regardless of how you measure it. If anything big macs are cheaper in the euro area than in the US. True, France gets lumped in with "euro area", but even if you compare against neighboring countries (eg. Switzerland or Sweden) the difference is nowhere near 2x.

[1] https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/blob/master/out...
As someone living for 10 years now in the US, and before that 3 decades in the UE: it does seem to me that McDonalds in the US (and most of the fast foods for that matter) tastes worse than in Europe or China (where I've also tried). In'n'Out and proper burger-serving restaurants in the US taste fine, but there's just something wrong with McDonalds, KFC and to lesser extent Burger King, that made me stop eating there.

And generally food in the US kind of sucks... :D
While evaluation of someone's behaviour to work out the truth is a valid endeavour, I find people have a tendency – and I notice it often in our community – to expect perfect rationality in humans at all times. I guess as it makes it easier to criticise them.

People who are stressed, sick, anxious, depressed etc often operate more on emotion and in aa reactive way rather than with foresight, clarity and rationality.
The laminated glass is a structural component of the car?
If you are working with or building an API, Treblle has a really good free tier, plus completely free apps (no login required) - API Insights and Aspen API testing.
When I was 15, my brain was definitely pubescent and far from fully developed.

But I was able to make some money by fixing computers or translating stuff from English to Czech anyway. There was no exploitation in those labor relations just because I was young.

I am not manually skilled, but I can definitely see someone at 15 making a nice chair or a table instead.

I don't think that 15 y.o.s should be treated as fully adult, some limitations on their work are perfectly OK (no ardous work, no work underground etc.). But barring them from working altogether will probably slow their development down. Not everything can be learnt from books or models, some real-world practice, including the most basic elements of interaction with customers/employers, is necessary.
Stop carrying a phone. Get rid of it, throw it in the trash and never look back.

All phones are surveillance devices.
Which browser? Google's?

Ah ah ah!
Like he did on Don Lemon
How is requiring age verification for porn different than age verification for cigarettes and alcohol that every state has?

Pornography has well researched addictive and other negative properties, especially for youth.
I think it might be a culture thing but at where I work no one actually uses the break room to eat lunch, everyone eats at their desk. With that said a lot of people do so by skipping the lunch break time
Cerebras launches processor for AI theoretically equivalent to 62 Nvidia H100s
Not random. In Russia, they blame it on an open window in a tall building. In America they blame it on a black guy with a gun.

Man in Sioux Falls, South Dakota shoots himself in penis and tries to blame black guy:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-shoots...

‘We failed the city of Boston’: how a racist manhunt led to chaos in 1989:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/we-fail...

Blake Masters blames Black people for gun violence. But remember, he's no racist:

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2...
Thank you! Will have a look
Hackers could access *private* GitHub repos of *other* users by ChatGPT plugin
If you dismiss all the evidence "supporting this theory" (your words) then obviously you wouldn't find anything that supports it.

Evidence does not have to be perfect. Even biased evidence should update your priors. There is evidence supporting this theory. It doesn't mean it is definitely true.
On iPhone you can even search your images by text content.
I just got in to serious video editing with DaVinci Resolve. The core product — a fully featured video editor including SFX (Fusion), colour correction (Color), and sound editing (Fairlight) — costs…

…$0.

It’s entirely free.

There’s a paid ‘studio’ version which presumably you need if you want to link multiple systems together. I understand it’s pay-once, vs. Avid’s yearly sub. And Blackmagic makes hardware, where I assume they make a bunch of their money.

It’s a really interesting model: get you in to the ecosystem with a full product. Now you’re in, hopefully you stay, and you buy stuff.

I’m incredibly thankful for it. I know ‘changed my life’ is an over-used phrase but right now, it’s really close.
Duh. I mentioned A to dismiss it rather than invite inevitable conspiracy theories.

His lawyers came out almost immediately claiming he seemed in good spirits. Perhaps this was a superficial assessment or he was hiding his true feelings.

Like I said, wait until the investigation is complete because we don't know. It seems like the friend and media are grabbing attention rather than doing anything constructive.
In the same vein as “is your product a business, or is it just a feature”, Postgres has really raised the bar to “is your product a database or an index in postgres”. There’s a few databases that make compelling cases for their existence, like Cassandra or Elastic/Solr, but surprisingly many databases really don’t offer anything that can’t be replicated with a GIN or GIST on Postgres. It is the amorphous blob swallowing up your product and turning it into a feature. JSON handling or json column types, are no longer a distinctive feature anymore, for example.

And a surprising amount of other stuff (similar to lisp inner platforms) converges on half-hearted, poorly-implemented replications of Postgres features… in this world you either evolve to Cassandra/elastic or return to postgres.

(not saying one or the other is better, mind you… ;)
Greasemonkey and ublock have joined the chat (if you're using a real computer).
Some jurisdictions have a “right to be forgotten”. If you live in one of those jurisdictions, and Reddit doesn’t delete your stuff when asked, they could face penalties. In theory. In practice I would imagine it’s hard for you to know.
> How can I stop it

You can't.
Raycast is a fast, extendable MacOS launcher
Mcdonalds claims their patties are "100% beef", and according to the CFR "beef" means "flesh of cattle".

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/burgers.html

https://casetext.com/regulation/code-of-federal-regulations/...
Yes we all know the authorities do a terrible job of actual investigation instead jumping to assumption, speculation, and "gut" of their "experience" to intuit the "truth" of the matter with out any logic or reason..

Presuming and Assuming when it comes to a death investigation is often the start of how innocent people go to jail
Stress and pressure can lead to performing actions that you thought you couldn't do. They don't specify how early this event took place but mentions that deposition was yet to take place. So a lot could have changed after that as there's kind of no turning back.
"The names of staff members and the company have been changed to preserve privacy."
> Contrary to popular belief, there is not a readily and highly available supply of assassins and hitmen in the world.

See: Lake City Quiet Pills
Can you provide non-anecdotal evidences for your first statement?

Because it's fairly easy to do so for the opposite statement.
e.g. https://assassination.globalinitiative.net/monitor/
True, keep it at home where no private stuff happens.
Are you really sure about this?
Replace your launcher with one that isn't tied so explicitely into Google (I use Rocket launcher), then replace Chrome as your default browser (I use Firefox). Finally in your new default browser set your default search engine to something besides Google (I run my own instance of SearXNG) .
To me it still seems more likely than not that these people committed suucide, especially Swartz.
These kinds of things happen and the waters immediately get murky. Even those closest to the person in question are never really 100% sure.

Reminds me of the death of journalist Michael Hastings in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...

Richard Clarke's assessment seemed to carry the weight of truth. But only to a point. Just enough to engage the suspicions of family and friends, but no more.

Same for John Barnett.
Within Google photos mobile on iOS, you got an ocr.

I take a photo, grab the text and send it via WhatsApp web app.

Not easy as a clip to clipboard but I haven’t found any on windows.
My dad seems to love soma.fm, because he mentions it every time we talk about music :') Guess I have to check it out now.
Many large drug cartels pay for schools, give out food to the poor, and control some forms of crime to increase public support or at least prevent their protest.

Once organized crime gets big enough, it's really difficult to distinguish from a weak government.
Full flow methalox is absolutely revolutionary.
Saw it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708084
> To you, I’d suggest using less charged language like sanity.

To the grandparent, I'd suggest keeping the language as it is. Status quo in the current programming ecosystem is often insane, and when it is, we should call it out.

> it’s not productive or nice to imply that people who choose a different path from you are insane.

In a general sense, I agree. However, when it comes to programming, insanity is so widely accepted as normality that I think it would be counterproductive to blunt the language used to describe it.

As an example of insanity for those who may (justifiably) think I'm talking out of my bottom - in NodeJS ecosystem the standard library is so bad that it is considered acceptable to use dependencies for even the simplest tasks, which caused the `leftpad` incident which broke countless programs.
Nope.

It's nice at implementing simple stuff at a first semester CS student,
after somebody over specified it,
but that's it.

Code monkeys might want to start looking for a new job in 10-20 years,
but you asked about SWEs. And less than 1-10% of our job is to actually type code.
Would you like me to fondle you?

> Yes / Maybe later
So all of the messaging apps I use are just damn protocols?
I really think it should be a ratio with minimum cap of 25Mbps.

It would great if DL/UL would be at least 10:1. So 1Gbps user would get 100Mbps upload.
> ensure consistency and reliability across two different database stores.

This is main known known. And this is hard thing to attain.

My favorite story on that is testing of tendermint consensus implementation [1]. The testing process found a way to break the consensus and the reason was that protocol implementation and KV store controlled by protocol used different databases.

[1] https://jepsen.io/analyses/tendermint-0-10-2
Wow, QA automated testing is an interesting topic!
Disable GPS, and just enable it when you use it. That's how i solved it, google probably don't want that data since it's just "hotspot" accuracy (maybe you want to disable wifi too)
I find it hard to comprehend why people feel they're married to Chrome.
Looks nice on a quick try.

I posted it here for HNers to comment on, if they wish:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39713141
> If somebody posts a BBC article about chips,

then someone invariably steps in and translates the cooking tempreture to Fahrenheit, and someone else points out that cars in the UK drive on the left it it's relevant.

> we don't need to have a whole discussion about ...

differences between countries, and yet, consistently, we do.
Partner sounds like a fashion victim. If social media consumption is making one's taste fond of low quality flashy crap I'd say grow some critical thinking skills.
My GF earns more money selling her hand made weaves
than the average senior SWE at google.

When did they come for the weavers?
DGSE (French secret service) really like to drown people, so avoid cities with canals and/or river if you feel you can be a target :)
Yeah where’s your evidence for this?
> A Harvard University probe into prominent researcher Francesca Gino found that her work contained manipulated data and recommended that she be fired, according to a voluminous court filing that offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at research misconduct investigations.

I thought this was going to be about Dan Ariely, who has been mixed up in a similar controversy, though idk if Ariely's saga has reached a conclusion yet.

Added: aha, Ariely is at Duke rather than Harvard. Can't keep track without a scorecard.

Added 2: Andrew Gelman blog post from Thursday about the Gino finding:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
> No congress-member is going to wake up and be like "gee, I sure wish I would get a few less bribes (campaign contributions) today," or "I sure would like my stock portfolio to decrease in value by doing real oversight on all these companies that are making me rich."

Neither of these is actually applicable here.

GM makes its money from selling cars (and financing for cars). If someone offers them a little extra for the data, they might take it, but they really don't care.

Neither do the insurance companies, except that if their competitors do it then so do they. If any insurance company has the data then they raise rates on the higher risk drivers and turf them to the ones without it, which puts them out of business. But if they're all banned from using it then they're all on a level playing field and again nobody really cares.

All you'd need is a law prohibiting insurance companies from using telemetrics and that would be the end of that. The main lobby against it would be the data brokers in this specific submarket, but they're hardly Big Auto and The Banks.
A group of Italian intellectuals recently used a similar approach, first going by "Luther Blissett" (who was an actual footballer) in the '90s, then "Wu Ming" (Chinese for "anonymous", initially suggested to be a legendary general like Sun Tzu), and later "Nicoletta Bourbaki". The three different collectives share some but not all participants, and focus on slightly different topics - or rather a different degree of focus, with Blissett being the most generic and Bourbaki the most specific (concerning herself only with fighting historic revisionism of WW2 in Italy).
I was under the impression DOCSIS 4.0 was basically a rebranded maximum feature of 3.1?
> normal people motivated by money… strangle car owners and steal their cars…

Those are not in any way normal people. If someone makes it to 16-17 y/o without acquiring that fundamental moral lesson, I would not characterize them as normal, whatever the cause of that failure.
'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower told before death
It's pretty brutal if nobody cares about the optics of this anymore, just kill off whoever is inconvenient. I guess after Epstein's "two cameras malfunction" nobody cares about any public backlash and there is "normal day in Russia" to be inspired from...
You should only do that if you live at the landfill.
And the cameras just happened to be out of order when he chose to kill himself of course.
The CIA and NED are way to interested in the wellbeing of Americans to do something so heinous. /s
What's not open source about AGPL?
Karen Silkwood died under very suspicious circumstances. She had documents that described Kerr-McGee lax safety at a plutonium fuel plant, that went missing after her car was found with damage to rear in an ostensibly single car front end fatal accident, along with a cocktail of illegal drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood
Don't use google?
Firing a gun leaves residue on your hands etc. They can tell whether you fired it
I hope they cast esteemed character actress and fugitive from the law Margo Martindale as the hitwoman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvyzv-G5q3w
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-nsa-director-concerned-b...
If another person treated me this way I would stop talking to them.

But people here seem to be unwilling to consider getting rid of their precious phones. So they will keep getting abused.
The article goes on about the quality of manufacturing, which is very fair, but something that bugs me, and it seems to apply to cheap sofas as well as very expensive ones.

Why are so many of them just plain uncomfortable? I'm looking for one I want right now, and I have to go around a furniture shop and try each out and I reckon, maybe 1/4 of them are suitable for a place you might enjoy sitting in.

The high end furniture shops seem to be the worst, i've seen 4 figure sofas that are the most uncomfortable thing I ever tried. Champions of form over function.

My last favourite sofa was around 2500 I guess, lasted 10 years, was excellently comfortable, but was unfortunately the wrong shape for my new place, I have not found anything anywhere near as good as that one.

It may be my height, much furniture seems a little off to me, and it is hard in general for me to find things I'm happy with.
That should not be required either
I like all the error handling, but you could skip the temp files if you just pipe it through

#!/usr/bin/env bash
langs=(eng ara fas chi_sim chi_tra deu ell fin heb hun jpn kor nld rus tur)
lang=$(printf '%s\n' "${langs[@]}" | fuzzel -d "$@")
grim -g "$(slurp)" - | mogrify -modulate 100,0 -resize 400% png:- | tesseract -l eng+${lang} - - | wl-copy
notify-send "Text extracted"
It's also possible the company has processes that make doing the right thing take so long it's infeasible.

If that is the case, these broken processes will cause far more damage than that one employee.
Shortcuts — another eventual toll booth to be paid with interest
> Do you have some links regarding this? I thought Poker is still one of the games where AIs don't play better than humans. OK, maybe it depends on the Poker variant. There are simpler and more difficult ones

Texas Hold'em, one of the most popular variants - have a look at deep mind's Player Of Games, and the general technique of Counterfactual Regret Minimisation. Both are recent advances, but poker is absolutely solved at a human professional level now.

I think one thing to keep in mind is that what you find illogical has very little bearing on whether a neural net can learn to do it. Us humans come prebaked with specific priors in our brain (like cognitive biases) that AIs don't necessarily share. I'd be careful making sweeping statements about what is impossible and what isn't, personally. But I guess we'll see =)

> Sure. But how do you learn from a distribution where no matter what you do you will fail in, say, 99,9% of the cases?

You can actually test this yourself if you're interested - try to train a neural net to predict outcomes that are deterministic but with a 99.9% chance of random failure. If the net learns to succeed 0.1% of the time then your premise is false - it has successfully extracted the signal!
This is just a bunch of conspiracy theories. As in, a list of various government factions conspiring on various assassination campaigns. It's a good theory mind you. I would love to see evidence for the opposing theory.
Yes. The quip was only a silly joke.
Reading the comments here is now making me even more skeptical about society.

It really looks like;

It is a waste of time to take risk yourself and expose unethical practices conducted by the powerful.

Because,

A) The masses don't really care (I expected riots and protest).

B) You may mysteriously die.

C) Your death instead of sparking an outrage will mostly be labeled a "conspiracy theory".

Given these three items, I can very confidently predict this in the future.

0. We shall have less exposés.

1. Corporations and other powerful entities will engage in more unethical behaviour.

Due to majority of worker being spinless and complicit to corner cutting and other unethical practices.

2. Powerful entities will know they can get away with evil if they leave enough blanks in the engagement.

Since the masses will label these as conspiracy theories. And they will be stuck in these academic "plausible deniability" kind of foggy minds.

With this, I expect powerful entities to get away with more evil deeds.

In a crowd of a hundred, 50 percent of the wealth, 90 percent of the imagination, and 100 percent of the intellectual courage will reside in a single person—not necessarily the same one.

— Bed of Procrustes
he's doing another pump and dump
> If you dismiss all the evidence "supporting this theory" (your words) then obviously you wouldn't find anything that supports it.

Right, and the converse is you accepting any evidence that vaguely conforms to the narrative of "he got killed by boeing", regardless of how shaky it is.

>Evidence does not have to be perfect. Even biased evidence should update your priors. There is evidence supporting this theory. It doesn't mean it is definitely true.

This feels like a motte and bailey. You claim that we should update our priors even based on biased evidence, but I never claimed otherwise. My previous comment merely pointed out the issues with taking statements like "if anything happens don't assume it's a suicide" at face value. Moreover the comment I was replying to wasn't merely claiming that we should update our priors, it was that the evidence in question was "plenty, together with the obvious motive, to form an opinion". That's a much stronger claim.
I didn't argue for or against regulation, my point is that the US regulations structure with specific states defining technological regulation is even more insane than EU regulations on technology.
Because common market regulations are clearly defined as EU responsibility.
> describe the picture using vector graphics (coordinates)

SVGs?
Bad luck to get something like that in 50,000,000+ chances. Which item was it?
Thanks, it looks great, even tho a bit overkill to validate some SaaS product ideas.
I'll consider it in the future, thanks!
If you want to do this because you're pissed at the company and want to screw them over, don't ...... the best thing you can do is to leave, and leave them with this piece of software that no one understands and no one supports, eventually it will become a mill-stone around their necks, trust me ... that's the best revenge
What public backlash? It seems people here are content to call those who suspect Epstein suicide "very gullible"...

It's interesting how the English language labels people "conspiracy theorists", like how the totally batshit crazy ones gets lumped together with those that actually seem to be suspect.