skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international guidelines aimed at preventing obesity and chronic diseases, a report has found.

So they've done nothing illegal and people are free to buy another product.

Why is this even news?

> WHO guidelines for the European region say no added sugars or sweetening agents should be permitted in any food for children under three. While no guidance has been specifically produced for other regions, researchers say the European document remains equally relevant to other parts of the world.

So "researchers" wrote this article because Nestle sells a product that the WHO disagrees with? Who fucking cares? It's sugar.
> Teaching children to live in fear (as you yourself clearly are)

Well I don't (and can no longer) have kids so there's not much risk of me teaching children anything other than computer science at a school, and considering that I was the one sending the emails before, I don't think that I'm "living in fear".

I mostly agree though, I shouldn't fear-monger, most people don't suck. I guess I was just saying that because I've seen enough true-crime and creepy Hollywood casting couch and child exploitation that I just felt the need to put a bit of a disclaimer. Obviously those are generally outliers (that's why they're noteworthy enough to make into a documentary or something), but I do think it's probably a good idea to supervise/monitor kids' outgoing emails, especially very young kids.

I don't think it's "teaching them to live in fear" to give some very basic safety precautions, but I acknowledge that I didn't make that clear in the original post.
your not considering users device being compromised, nor usability...plus nowadays, to "exemplify user privacy" is not to reinvent the infrastructure but to demonstrate users data is not sold on their back and non-collusion with secret agencies / law enforcement
People are evil because it makes money, which buys power. It really is that simple and miserable.
The right's obsession with trickle down economics alone and the no new tax pledge is enough to think Reagan was a bad president.

We see an entire portion government apparatus effectively obsessed with killing the government, but only performatively. This is what I see as a Reagan special.
Apple has a choice just like Google: leave China.

Incredible that Google managed to be less evil than Apple.
I'm pretty sure AOL and yahoo had self inflicted the value extraction long before these guys came on board
Excuse me - they have ample amounts of complex long-chain hydrocarbons helpfully globally distributed on the surface by humans (plastics).
> WebRTC-based solutions are insane bloated incredible monsters [...] They work mainly only if you use the same kind of software and codecs, for example Chromium[...]

That's just not true anymore these days. I've used WebRTC between Firefox, Safari, and Chrome without any issues.

> only if you use the same kind of software and codecs, for example Chromium, that requires dozens of gigabytes of disk space and much RAM, CPU time to build it.

There seem to be non-browser implementations [1] [2], although I can't vouch for their quality.

[1] https://liburtc.org/

[2] https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr...
Legacy keyboard shortcuts are still supported in Excel for menus long gone. For example Alt EAF is clear all formatting, and Alt EAA is clear all (values and formats).
I also have similar data structure for dotfiles... I've been using ~/bin, ~/dotfiles, ~/data, ~/enc (for encrypted files), etc. However, for projects and documents, I use Johnny Decimal system (https://johnnydecimal.com), which works perfectly for my use case. It helps me reduce the decision fatigue of deciding what to name the folder and filenames.
Interesting, did they ask you to look for mistakes, or also validate if things were easy to understand and learning efficient?
Baby formulas do have suggested serving amounts, sugar or not.
>Additionally, all metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is obfuscated from underlying model providers (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic).

>In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests that includes not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models as well as deleting all information received within 30 days.

That is what they mean by private.
Seems like something that would exist in the universe of Gattaca
But why do bigger models perform better? Arguably because there's a larger state space that can be used to remember more contexts, which helps with both generalization and case-specific processing.
It pays well and gives you the certainty of your code having some heavy impact across borders, often against the kind of people you don't like as well.
Manor Lords First Impression
yeah i accidentally added objective c code and now im kissing my ass bracing for the lawsuit!!!!!!!111
Same thing seems to be happening with openai api
The label is based on it, right? We need some way to compare the sugar content of products with different package sizes.
Hey, no stupid questions right?

But if you suspect it’s a planet, you know it’s in orbit around the sun. Feels like something we can track.
I wanted to post in a particular parenting sub, having difficulties with being a dad, and wanting to chat about it to others. I didn't want to use my main reddit account, but new accounts are banned from posting to that sub.

So throwaways don't really work for all purposes.
Then why make a high profile public statement? It only makes it seem political at best.
Wasmcloud 1.0 Release Notes
Sounds like a screw would be better.
I wonder where eating disorders in teenagers come from ... seriously, sugar is not poison, it is food and on itself wont harm you.
Their UI components are free lol I use Tailwind UI (the React components) all the time in projects, never paid for anything. It's a great place to start for a design system and component library in a new project.

After checking again I see you can pay (1-time) to unlock site templates and more components: https://tailwindui.com/templates

Does Easyfrontend have site templates? That's what would compare it with Tailwind's paid product, which is a different product.
Is anyone else shocked that they weren’t already banned?
> Is it to change people’s tastes and make them addicted so they eat even more sugary?

Sugar gives people a little dopamine boost. So if, as a company, you make your product a little more sugary, people like it more. Then, all the companies are in an arms race to make the tastiest product and you end up where we are.

Of course, it's not only about sugar. You also want to make it more salty and fatty because people like that too.
Netflix Will Stop Reporting Subscriber Numbers Starting in 2025
Xiaomi Electric Vehicle Review [video]
I made this a couple of days ago, mainly as a fun excuse to try out some cool frontend stuff
SwiftPaxos: Fast Geo-Replicated State Machines
Why would you NOT help the company you are working for thrive with a task like that? Assuming you don't do anything that would be a personal legal risk. It would be masochistic.
Around here people don't buy it because some people successfully campaigned to get the stuff banned. That's all there is to it.

They're pretending that it's good for the kids and prey on the uninformed or those who can't afford better alternatives. That's unethical to me.
This is an example of bad code.
Huh. The ISBN shown at the top of the page (currently "9780136816485") appears to be incorrect. That seems to be the ISBN for "A Tour of C++" from 2022. The ISBN for this book is, according to the Amazon product page[1], "9780138308681".

[1]:https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Principles-Practice-Using...

Edit: emailed Mr. Stroustrup and he just replied to say that the bad ISBN has been corrected.
Why would this be AI?
Humans crave sugar. The babies would like the sweeter formula the most, so parents will buy it. Nestlè notices that the best sellers are the sweetests, so they double down.

For adults salt and monosodic glutamate come into play, the logic is the same. The more you put in the product, the better it sells.
Even that is a troubling assumption.

Our DNA ends up in weird places. For example, someone’s DNA is probably on this plastic bag at the bottom of the ocean…

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/plastic-ba...
Plenty of such cases: https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/08/how-did-sweden-sterilise...
The messaging could be more clear, but is this substantively different from how search queries are handled when DuckDuckGo forwards them to Bing? Bing doesn’t know who made the search but could log the query itself.
Isn't Nestle European? Apparently the Eu doesn't care when their own companies become monopolies and do questionable things like this
Test query:

Buy bulk pvc in cheyenne, wy

FastGPT from kagi recommends national chains, a local plumbing supply store or two, and a specific facebook market page. All of these have hyperlinks.

DDG just gives generic advice about national chains.

I think the difference is that Kagi built a RAG model out of a web crawl.
Apple can’t leave China while they make everything there. Divestment takes time and a small fortune.
You're not wrong.

I'm taking issue with the fact that he's presenting Google and its mission as something objective and above reproach. By doing so he's going above and beyond asking people to align themselves with Google's mission and methods and asking them to assent to something that he seems to take for granted as transcendent.

It's religious language and behavior and it creeps me out.
Thats great I've often thought that screenshots aren't blurry enough these days
Show HN: SmoothAI.chat – Free Chat interface for AI models
I built a chat interface for different AI models (currently supports only OpenAI & Anthropic) where you can enter your API key and use advanced models without paying a monthly subscription and instead use credits for only your usage. Completely free, no logins are required, uses local storage. Your data is not transmitted to our servers.
The intuition behind QFT isn't the problem. I'd argue its quite intuitive: write a classical field, assume some plausible commutation relations, turn the crank. To add interactions pretend that you observe the results at infinity or whatever and take some terms of a power series representing the amplitudes, adding a cut off which you calibrate with an experiment. All fine and dandy. Just sucks that the machinery doesn't quite pass a combination of mathematical rigor and philosophical substance.
UX is a very very valuable skill set, albeit quite different from core CS.
Here's a link to the general provisions of the Texas Constitution from 1836.

https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/republic-texas-...
> the average person has repeatedly shown themselves to be unable to understand what a scientist means when they call something a theory

The average person consumes science from news, not from scientists.

A lot of news outlets and "science communicators" have been repeatedly dumbing down scientific subjects for non-scientific purposes. Clickbait, ideology, lazyness.

The nature of dark matter should be presented to the public as it is. If we dumb it down too much, it's the same as not presenting it at all, or misrepresenting it.
>White republicans are, for the most part, non-racist. Once you establish points of commonality with them, they do not care or comment on what you look like.

What happens before you "establish those points of commonality"? Do they just unleash a constant stream of racial epithets at you?

Look, the reason you think Bangladeshis are racist and White Republicans are not is because other Bangladeshis are comfortable speaking freely about ethnicity/race in front of you, whereas White (and other) people are not.

I'm a Black man in an overwhelmingly White Republican part of the South and I have overheard disparaging comments very casually made (e.g. about the number of Indians who frequent our local Costco) when people thought it was "safe". I've also had a White Republican friend confide in me how absolutely racist the area we live in is, including some choice comments made by people we know in common.

And, surprise: I'd never directly experienced it, as they somehow elected not to share their racist attitudes with me, or speak of race at all in my presence. Indeed, they just "accepted" me.

>Woke people [...] categorize individuals based on race/ethnicity.

No. They just honestly acknowledge the undeniable reality that other people (and systems) do.

So, the reason you find their speaking the truth racist is because you're in absolute denial that anyone else is.
Not a Democracy, It's a Cheerocracy: The Cheerleading Monopoly
SpaceX and Northrop are working on a constellation of spy satellites
I'm getting an "over billing limit" 400 error, sounds interesting though.
Show HN: Surpassing GitHub's file size limit
Uh oh -- we should ban this secondary school thing
That is such a shitty take, regardless of whether it's real or not (I do agree with you).

It's just infuriating that we accept that we are going to get fucked by every company that can possibly do so, in every aspect of our lives. Humans run those companies. What can we do to stop this vicious cycle, outside of guillotines?
All the interesting people are dead to me..
Who would buy it? It seems like the kind of thing where they would lose all the people who use it if they sold to just about anyone who could buy it.
Take a look at PY4WEB: https://github.com/web2py/py4web

It is an improvement for the the tiny but efficient web2py web framework.
Show HN: an app that takes your knee caps if you don’t pay for protection

Sorry, completely unrelated, I know. I just wanted to say it.
It’s noticeable that everybody in this protest is wearing a face mask, to the point it feels political.

Could anybody explain what’s going on there?
How old of a landline are you talking about here?

Anything newer than (heavily depending on the country, probably) the 70s or 80s or so would have been very likely PCM u-law or a-law at 64 kbps (i.e. 4 kHz audio bandwidth at 8 bit), which is literally a mandatory codec in WebRTC.

It would have to be a really old, purely analog baseband line without filters (maybe a local call between offices), frequency modulation etc. to preserve more than the typical 4 kHz of audio bandwidth you'd get on these. Inter-trunk connections were often frequency multiplexed to fit more channels onto a physical wire, which also limited them to 4 kHz.

Today, 64 kbps gets you much farther using a modern codec like Opus. WhatsApp sounds better than any landline or native mobile phone connection I've ever used in my life.

> (or centralized chat servers e.g. whatsapp) trying to save some data/money

WhatsApp uses P2P for (non-group) calls if at all possible.

There's also a "save data for calls" option in the settings which is off by default.

Modern codecs are so good, adding even more data would literally not make any discernible difference. A sizable fraction of all data transmitted/received by modern VoIP is IP and UDP framing overhead.
That's how you destroy their beautiful genes, by creating addictions to non-healthy food, you'll end up with a population with serious health issues and more importantly.. precious teeth

I wish they let them know and i wish they enforce a ban on these products and start to develop a local brand that cares about its people
I think the analogy still works in this scenario, though. Like once you've grown so much that your at capacity in your current setup, THEN you can invest in growing your business.

For this restaurant this adding a new room or a new location in another town.

For a solo founder, this might be when you finally start hiring to free up your time for other tasks.

It's not necessarily never grow. It's about growing on your own terms when you can afford to do so.
> Due to demand ... you can make a lot of money

I really hope this is true again later this year or next year but every junior developer I know has been unable to find any employment. From my network of people that have lost jobs over the last 6 months:

20+ years experience: found a job the same month
5 to 20 years experience: found a job within 4 months
0 to 5 years experience: have not been able to find an entry level position

Of course, this is anecdotal and my sample size is only my network. But I've also seen a lot of people sharing similar experiences here on HN, Reddit, and Blind.
Yes. PlanetX has been discovered many times this and last century.
Stephen King has talked about his writing process. No outline, it just flows straight from his head from the first page to the last, and he goes where the story takes him.

He’s just actually that prolific.
To be fair, they long removed that line so you can't shove it in their face anymore.
they're indoors, dude. COVID is still here.
The second law of thermodynamics doesn't apply to a system where we are constantly adding external energy.

If we start we just a handful of seeds and externally add energy in the form of sunlight then over eons we will have a massive forest that covers the globe. That doesn't disobey the second law of thermodynamics.

Our planet has continuous inputs of external energy.
There are attempts to do something similar outdoors to get an idea which animals are in a certain area.

https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-pulled-thin-air-...
That's the classic economic theory. A company that tries to dump will go bankrupt, which is irrational, so no company will do this.

But in this case, Amazon is 40% of the market. There is no upstart competitor that can outlast them in a price war.

There is also likely little to no comparative advantage you can have against them, except a legal monopoly like a patented or trademarked product. Even then, if they clone your product, when you sue them it will be a rounding error in their legal budget while you have no cash flow to sue them.

The classical school seems to think that there's a limitless amount of irrational entrepreneurship that will drain Amazon if they price too low. In reality, entrepreneurs are generally not that dumb.

Amazon, of course, doesn't dominate everything. They aren't going to sell every product. There are marginal, low-volume, low return products that they will happily let other companies sell on their platform or elsewhere. But if your product becomes high margin and high volume on their platform, they will know, and they'll be coming for your profits.
See https://duckduckgo.com/aichat/privacy-terms

"We do not save or store your Prompts or Outputs.

Additionally, all metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is obfuscated from underlying model providers (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic).

If you submit personal information in your Prompts, it may be reproduced in the Outputs, but no one can tell whether it was you personally submitting the Prompts or someone else.

We have agreements with model providers to further protect your privacy.

As noted above, we call model providers on your behalf so your personal information (for example, IP address) is not exposed to them. In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests that includes not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models as well as deleting all information received within 30 days."
Wow that’s incredible, this just blew my mind. Thank you.
That's very bad, I understand, because they won't use oxygen in the presence of fire. So they are stuck breathing the fumes. Usually ends badly. Glad they all survived this one!
YouTube is now forcing AV1 on every device
Exactly, when desktop gets too cluttered I store stuff in the Trash also.
Pretty disapointed that this is just a proxy in front of Claude and ChatGPT, I thought it would be some kind of DDG-hosted llama3 8B since the quality is now good enough with a 8B model.
Why is no one talking about the fact they locked themselves in the CTO's office and this is why they were fired?
Frankly, I've never desired for things to be aligned in source code. Are you, like, embedding tables of numbers in your code, or just explicitly aligning the equals signs in short = 42 and much_longer = 7?
I could go on for a while

please do, i am curious.

i read OP more as you can't do anything until you practiced a certain amount, which i think is more like you won't likely get a job until then but not that you can't build something for yourself.

music does not get interesting until you can play in front of or with other people.
Well that's why they got rid of the slogan. Plenty of people would not consider it to be evil.
Wow, thanks for making me search his name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Travis
I’d imagine there was a serious reason for them removing that when they rebranded. Google has done military contracts from the get go though, using AI trained by plebs solving captchas. We’ve been complicit the entire time.
Ask HN: What is the purpose of humans in the wake of AI?
There's no job that can't be automated. These systems will soon be more capable than humans in solving all kinds of problems.

It makes me wonder if sentient systems would treat humans the same way humans have treated animals.
A more likely scenario: Power gap between a select few and the rest widens massively. (There's probably a few people who are selfless and want the greater good of the society)
I wonder how the Chinese public would react to losing the ability to use their iPhones etc.

Bet a lot of youths would react to loss of their dopamine device.
Just to answer some questions I'm seeing from other comments, this is built with three.js. Think of it as a 3d scene with an image rendered on a 2d plane and the camera has certain gaussian blur applied to a section of it. He's using orbit controls for the zoom in/out and for the ability to pivot the image.
I had 2 suggestions (plus a blog post) in my style guide here:

https://github.com/amontalenti/elements-of-python-style#some...

The style guide itself, published a few years back, also has some suggestions with small code snippets.
I expected it to be even more of a tome, but surprisingly it's been cut in half!

2nd edition:

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1312 pages

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.81 pounds

3rd edition:

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 656 pages

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.71 pounds
Had to look for the April 1 date stamp there.
It'll probably not be free forever. Access to the models could become part of their "Pro" offering - https://duckduckgo.com/pro
Show HN: We did what POE multi-bot does 4 months ago, combined with notetaking
Initially, we thought about this feature due to a bug in our chat interface.
And surprisingly, I noticed that POE has just released the same feature. But the distinction is: with us the Multi-bot is designed to streamline the notetaking/working experience -> It allows user to search for external knowledge without switching context
Though we are still in the beta phase, I would love to hear your thought/feedback on it :)
Datadog: State of DevSecOps
Innate differences in affinity for working with things vs people as an explanation for the difference in career choices between men and women, is a simpler explanation with more evidence behind it.
If you knew that your employer was knowingly and deliberately flouting national or state regulations, and they asked you to put surveillance tech in place to prevent law enforcement from finding out, you would happily comply if there was no personal risk?