skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't think of any time when a company lost enough PR to actually significantly affects its financials

It just have to affect enough to offset the cost of the lawsuit (which probably won't be much because they probably do have plenty of in-house lawyers) + the estimated cost of future lawsuits that might come their way if they appear to be "soft" and/or set precedence.
Indeed.

I went even further and got a Garmin Instinct 2X Solar with a battery life of a month.

I didn't understand how annoying it was to always charge the watch/Oura ring/Whoop band/phone until I got rid of them (except for the phone, that's still annoying).
That sentence contradicts what you claim to be true...
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> FuneralDash provides on-demand services for funeral needs, allowing families to order necessary arrangements swiftly, similar to food delivery apps. This service aims to ease the logistical stress during difficult times.

> What problem does it solve?

> Planning a funeral can be overwhelming and time-consuming, often leading to added stress for grieving families. Many are left to navigate complex arrangements on their own at a time when they are least equipped to do so, which impacts emotional wellbeing.

> Who is target audience?

> The primary audience includes grieving families and individuals responsible for organizing funerals, who may be middle-aged or older, often lacking experience in arranging such events. They seek compassion, efficiency, and convenience in a challenging time.

> What makes this solution unique?

> Unlike traditional funeral services, FuneralDash offers rapid, user-friendly access to essential services and products through an app. Its unique approach includes customizable packages, empathy-driven customer service, and live tracking, which are typically absent from existing solutions.
> this is most famous drug on the face of the Earth

I swear in Europe if you stop 10 people on the street, 9 will ask you what the hell you are talking about
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Moderation means someone or something does the moderating. In other words, in the free marketplace of ideas we get distortions because some ideas aren’t observed. Think of Nostr as a protocol that creates an extreme free marketplace.

It’s like a libertarian country. Like southern Somalia there is simply no government, just war lords and desert. Do you want to live there? No I guess not. Is it a good place to hide if big bad governments are chasing you? Maybe.
Yeah that’s roughly been my read too. I think the audience of the site changed. The user base has grown significantly. The site has gone from being about hacking (“hey here’s an empty desk”) to the culture of hackers at large (“tech was a mistake when it got invaded by VC hucksters”.)

TFA’s sentiment decrease tracks very closely with the huge uptick in user creation that started in 2022. HN isn’t really a tech site anymore, it’s about vibes. That makes sense given that in 2024 there’s a million places online talking about tech so HN only has its culture to distinguish itself. This wasn’t the case in 2008. The vibes here, along with the older demographics of the site, are increasingly nostalgic and cynical.

It'll all probably go the same way as Slashdot did which went through the same cycle (replace "VC huckster" with "Microsoft" and "surveillance capitalism" with "three letter agencies") until it too gets replaced by a site/community with energetic younger users creating new things.
Apologies, I misread your previous comment.

You're correct that the requirement is for 100g/100ml "as sold" not "as prepared". The other commenter is incorrect.

So milk powder, for example, would have a mandatory nutrition label showing 100g of powder and then the company can optionally add a second label showing nutrition for a serving of prepared liquid milk.

Since most companies add whatever serving makes it look best it becomes habitual to filter out the serving size info.

If anyone wants to dive further into this it's EU regulation 1169/2011 Annex 1.
> without paying

Attention is not a valid currency or payment method. Their service is literally free of charge. They did it that way hoping we would look at the ads. We're not obligated to do so. They have only themselves to blame for their risky business model that gambles on the idea that people might look at irrelevant content they didn't ask for.

They need to charge us up front if they want us to pay. If they send us ads, we'll delete them before they're shown. Nothing they can do about it. And we won't lose a second of sleep over it.
A translation lacking nuance/precision (due to being the work of machine learning) can also cause significant misunderstandings, though. I'm not sure you win or lose in that regard by switching from humans to machines.
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BMI is an empty metric anyway, you can be VERY muscular, slim but not very tall and still being in the same category of a near obese person.
I'm not sure, whether you both are talking about the same thing. But, it's some kind of true and, as you said, not true..

One get the information for 100g of the product and also, most of the times, one get the nutrition information of a typical serving size of the final product.

So, if you buy a Snickers, the contents are listed per 100g and also for the weight of that one bar of Snickers (e g
70g). Or, when the product is to be mixed, the nutrition information is given for the amount of the product needed for mixing a serving size. It's a psychological trick, when the product is much less then 100g, or little more, the consumers are tricked into perceiving less sugar and less whatever.. but yes, it's not mandatory but rather a decision of marketing.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-requirements/f...

https://www.hooleybrown.com/blog-post/how-to-read-a-uk-or-eu...
I try (tried) to. Money's tight now, but on the heyday of 2022 I was giving at least $5/month to 10 different creators. I'd say only 2 of those were even for a specific reward, 3 of then explicitly had no rewards.

But I'm subbed to 30 channels and probably "watch every video but am not subbed" to 10-15 others. I'm not quite at a point where I can support everyone I want to support.
I am to understand that there is a way to do infinite scrollback and live searching the scrollback in WezTerm? I have not really found out how to do this like Konsole, and is the reason of often end up having a Konsole session running also. It is two incredible features when tailing live logs
Usually Japanese leaders still get voted in before they get "revoted" by their congress as leader, PM. Your example of recent Kamala isnt that apt as she didnt get voted in as Democrat leadership, but selected by inner Dems cicle very much akin to that X-Files cancer man commitees majestic 12. Your example would be more correct if after this Nov, she won the election assuming no more luggage votes, machine recounts frauds happened again like 2020 (I doubt so, which means if she won, then your example still not correctly apply in this Japanese case). Anyway westerners are not that highly educated in politics other than American. So whatever explaination, I doubt he or she the audience can understand pretty much like describing blue to someone born blind.
I really hope the killer-app of genAI is not takeaway food prediction, nor porn.
Guess a few didn't get it. For those who didn't, congrats you're one of today's 10000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western
I instantly wake up with my first sip of caffeine.

I can believe it takes longer to get absorbed.
A big problem of the modern cosmology is not only that we have observations that do not fit models but that we do not know if the observed discrepancies are the real problems with the models or are artifacts of calculations.

For example, to simulate a galaxy one should use a model based on General Relativity. But mathematics behind GR is too complex to allow simulations on the scale of the galaxy even with all that modern computation power. So instead of GR the calculations use Newtonian mechanics with minimal corrections for the light speed limit. Plus there are a lot of other simplifications like replacing star systems with hard balls that reflects when hit each other with no notion of matter transfer or ejection in the process.

Then we see that the simulation does not fit data. A typical explanation that is used is that of dark matter hypothesis. But this is unjustified.

We have no proof that numerical simplifications are mathematically valid and do not lead to a big error on a galactic scale. Moreover, there were recent papers that tried to account at least for some effect of General Relativity. Apparently it was enough to explain at least some effects previously attributed to the dark matter.

So it can be that the dark matter is just an artifact of inaccurate simulations.
SurfSense Knowledge Graph Brain for Your Web Browsing Sessions
So I just recently tried to solve a problem that I face and released its code as an Open Source project. I was really fascinated by Knowledge Graphs so came up with this : https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense

Basic GraphRAG is good but still leaves a lot to be desired. In the coming months I will try to perfect it. I would really like the feedback of Hacker News community.

I plan to implement some techniques from Microsoft GraphRAG paper. Lets see how it goes.
My point is just that “goth” is heavily inspired by horror movies.

Saying the genre was “largely pushed aside” is absurd. Everyone knows how Frankensteins monster looks. How many cultural expression have this kind of impact?

If you are relying on books which does not recognize the impact of horror movies on popular culture, you should find better books.
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Although 94% sounds like a made up number (as in 94% of statistics is exaggerated), I'm afraid the number sounds plausible enough.

On occasion I get to debug spreadsheets from my wife's business and they're always riddled with errors: plain errors, as in wrong numbers; data that was measured differently last year; high level problems as not understanding relative versus absolute growth, etc.

But as the sheets are only used to support whatever the managers thought anyway, it doesn't even really matter!
> seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US

I've only noticed it on what we call "squash", or fruit juice concentrate. When I was a kid, the labels would say 1 part concentrate to 6 parts water, and we'd do it about 1 to 4. Now, we've gone through double concentrate and a lot are "4x" now, but e.g. the bottle in front of me says "typical values per 100ml (diluted 1 part with 19 parts water)" and a serving size of 250ml (which actually provides more precision than the per 100ml value). I think these standard serving sizes are defined somewhere, as I think it's always 250ml for every kind of drink that comes from a large container, and either the exact quantity or an integer division of it for things that come in smaller containers, e.g a 330ml can.

The way it handles quantities is interesting. When is seems to mean trace, it uses "<0.1g" as distinct from a small amount where it uses "<0.5g". Sugars are listed as "0.5g" in the 250ml serving and "<0.5g" per 100ml. Fibre and protein are "<0.5g" everywhere, and fat is the weird one as it says "<0.5g per 250 ml, of which saturates <0.1g, mono-unsaturates <0.1g, polyunsaturates <0.1g".

Finally, you can be pretty sure of the actual composition due to the calories, listed as 15kJ or 4 kcal per 250ml (use the kJ puts this at 3.5-37kcal per 250ml). Knowing that sugar is 3.87kcal per 1g, protein is 4.0kcal per 1g and fat is 898kcal per 1g (most people approximate per gram to 4 for carbs+protein and 9 for fat). So for the 0.5g of sugar, that's approx 2kcal, so there's either about 0.4g of protein or about 0.2g of fat or somewhere in-between. Just from what's in the juice, I expect the "missing calories" are mostly protein.

Obviously, none of that tells you anything about lactose (except that it's fruit juice and there's no reason why it would contain any).

Ingredients rather than final foods typically specify nutrition "per 100g as sold" and invent a serving side either by telling you how to prepare it (e.g. OXO gravy cubes say to dissolve 1 cube in 190ml of water for 2 servings) or invent some arbitrary serving size like 5g for a condiment. This seems in line with what you've seen, but definitely squash that is intended to be diluted doesn't do that (at least in the UK, and for the squash I buy).
That could be much better solved through coeffects, but unfortunately most languages don’t support that. Doesn’t mean using async functions is a good way for this either
So I guess what you are saying is that the business model is that cloud vendors will buy a license, but only if they they want to make changes to the code, but not release those changes.

So not just small changes, big changes that have a significant value-add, and not easily replicated. It assumes cloud vendors will want to start building a business on top of this critical dependency.

It doesn't sound like a great deal for the cloud vendor.

I assume we are really only talking about Amazon, Microsoft and Google, and the developer hopes to just get bought rather than messing around with licenses.
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Censorship isn't safety.
Some say the bee stings; but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never my own man since.
Thanks for highlighting! If anything, based on compare page, it seems that camera setup is closer to previous gen Fold rather than Pixel 9. Barely any changes.
I’m so confused by this comment. Are you not aware that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is currently considered the best model?
> It only applies to the government though.

You’re ignoring the “for a reason” part. Freedom of speech and press are principles that are in the first amendment but also exist independent of it, and are older than the US. We should strive to have those values enforced everywhere, not just in the government - but especially at large companies that are immune to competition in many ways. And especially in social media, which is basically a utility for the digital public square.

> If taken to the extreme limiting the rights of a social network/other tech platform to spread missinformation or propaganda is a violation of their freedom of speech that’s not clearly compatible with the first amendment.

It’s not a violation of their freedom of speech, just like regulating cellphone carriers is not. Social networks are just utilities or common carriers. Like your phone service, they should be obligated to provide service and not deny it, independent of content.

Also, the label “misinformation” doesn’t mean anything much these days. It’s just an empty label used to attack opposition, and it is rarely used when the misinformation aligns with the platform owner. Propaganda thrives when different sides’ ideas aren’t given a fair chance, like on most social media platforms. Propaganda is literally a systematic attempt to manipulate public opinion, which is what social media companies are doing when they implement vast moderation/censorship programs that reflect their employees biases.
At least 30 minutes, apparently. Any effect you feel before that is placebo.

Which shouldn't be read as "not real". The placebo effect means that actual physiological changes are happening in your body, they have just been initiated by your PNI system rather than the the substance.
We all know negative content drives more engagement, see: Facebook. But I've also noticed this trend and for me it makes sense seeing as most of the content on the internet nowadays is negative content. Social media is used to belittle and criticize other people/ideas, the news has never been positive, we've passed the stage where content creators that are positive about products are seen as trustworthy, because an overly positive attitude has been linked to a "shill" mindset. We've seen the evolution of big tech from trying to destabilise old/existing industries and giving us a new, improved service to trying to squeeze as much profit out of their users as possible. Other big companies have dominated their competition and have used that power to boost prices, limit access to media, decrease the user experience,... In a lot of ways I feel like the toxicity that we are experiencing online these days is a direct result of noticing all these negative patterns and realising that most of what is being advertised to us has a large chance of being too good to be true. Games that look good pre-release but then get released full of bugs, software that was once a good deal becomes a subscription, series that get cancelled too soon, products that look good on release but have issues not long after without a chance to repair them, companies completely changing their objectives after a CEO change, the list goes on. So instead of trying to be positive and finding ways to get excited about something it is now a "safer" bet to be critical and negative about anything that is being announced because of the cycles of dissapointment we've all been through. At least to me, this makes sense, eventhough I would like to see it be different.
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Do lactase pills cause sugar spiking in diabetics? I think I've seen something like that in my lactose intolerant diabetic (tyle 2) family memeber.
People migrating to djb's curves, or at least allowing them as a first-class citizen, include

- SSH (which includes git over SSH - github suggests djb's Curve 25519 as default: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent)
- TLS (recommended in n1.3)
- NIST (allows Curve25519, but isn't the default choice)
- various cryptocurrency crap

The people not on djb's curves yet are PGP/GPG/OpenPGP (available as an "advanced" option but not by default, for backwards compatibility) and as a consequence, debian's package signing (that mostly uses GPG with RSA, afaik). So ubuntu is in good company, even if it makes their job of working with "upstream" harder. [EDIT: apparently changed now - GPG has joined the ranks of djb-by-default]

It's only like migrating from C to rust for the person implementing the crypto package and singature verifier. For the average package maintainer, they just have to generate a new key and pass a new command line flag to their sign command.
> The Ozempic story, for me, has been more about how we almost seem to be reflexively against the idea of a win-win. A lot of people want there to be a tragic downside to the drug for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me.

It's easy, substitute the obese with the smokers demographic. Imagine them whining that they smoke because it's an environmental issue, that they just can't do otherwise, that it's a metabolic issue and not a willpower one, a genetic thing, lack of access to alternatives... anything besides their own will.

I wonder how taking a medicine for the rest of your life is a win-win when there are places in the world where obesity is almost non existent and it's been proven to be largely lifestyle related. Besides, semaglutide just makes the subjects crave less, reinforcing the willpower role in weight loss.

I have read people in this forum state that if they eat less, they gain more weight for some unknown genetical issue, like thermodynamics do not apply to them.
Why is this speculation your go-to first question here? Do some research yourself on the models instead of adding your own implicit bias. Are you saying the engineers at X are collaborating with Musk in a coupe for a secret censorship of their model vs others. Do you have evidence or is this your bias?
OneNote as it comes with O365 license. Would love to move to markdown based one but havent found anything that comes close in ergonomics.
The technology is impressive; achieving such a level requires a lot of efforts in dataset creation, neural architectural costs, and GPU shepherding.

What is the company’s ethical position though? It officially stemmed from Mr Musk’s objection that OpenAI was not open-source, but it too is not open-source. It followed Mr Musk’s letter to stop all AI development on frontier models, but it is a frontier model. It followed complaints that OpenAI trained on tweets, but it also trained on tweets.

Companies like Meta, Mistral, or DeepSeek, address those complaints better, and all now play in the big league.
I'm pretty sure it's not. I'm pretty sure people have been angry about OpenAI doing the same thing for a while now.
> The water discovered in the mantle is not in a form familiar to us – it is not liquid, ice, or vapor. Instead, it is trapped inside the molecular structure of the minerals in the mantle rock.

IMHO this is not a productive comparison. Hydrogen and oxygen ions inside minerals in rock is far too much of a stretch of imagination to call as water.

https://www.earth.com/news/ringwoodite-mineral-confirms-vast...
Don't check for Moiré patterns until you're looking at an image file at 1:1 pixel size. Moiré patterns can appear on top of a perfect photo whenever the image is naively downscaled without gamma correction. This also happens within the camera display - any Moiré visible while shooting does not necessarily need to be corrected.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to blur out the grill pattern - the photos probably represent the original display signal more accurately.
Read the abstract and then imagine someone or somebot would study your medical condition in similar depth. This is myutopia.
I don't blame people for finding it counterintuitive. Lots of things in math are counterintuitive. I spent like three months learning Galois theory and I'm still pretty sure someone just snuck in there and changed a 1 to a 0 to make that sorcery work.

My point is that it's not closed-minded of me if I fail to provide a complete answer to someone making such a claim, particularly if that person hasn't done any of the research or rigor to handle what is - by the standards of an expert - a pretty easy question to answer. Outsiders can occasionally result in great insights, but they do that through very hard work, not from ten seconds of thinking about a field they haven't learned anything but the pop-science version of.

Most of the theories being speculated about in this thread are veering into "not even wrong" territory, in that they're not even necessarily well-defined. When you're talking about cosmology you'd better bring your general relativity game, which means you better bring your differential geometry game, which means you better have a graduate-level mathematics education. I have a graduate-level mathematics education and on a good day I could half explain to you what a metric tensor is and what the hell it has to do with curvature ("it's, uh, it's kinda like a Jacobian I guess, except the dx and dy are local vectors that can't be translated globally around the space").

Without those tools, you don't even have meaningful notions of what "distance" even is on a cosmological scale, much less how it changes with time! It's like speculating about biology without knowing what a protein is, or speculating about computer science without knowing what a for loop is. It's just not going to get you anywhere.
Same here in Australia. It's crazy that in the US you have to work out how big a "serving" is and do a bunch of math to work out how much sugar is in something.
To be clear, I’m a big admirer of China on a cultural level and I do read and listen to Chinese media (though not TikTok/Douyin). I certainly don’t blame China for divisions in the Middle East and I don’t think I've ever seem that claim here. Those divisions are ancient.

Supporting Russia’s revanchist war on Ukraine has undeniably hurt the ability of many western countries, especially in Europe to trust Chinese controlled social media or infrastructure, though.