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There's some inconsistency between the pyramid graphic and the written guideline. For example whole grains are moved to the tip of the pyramid. But the written guidelines say 2-4 servings a day.


Sold to whom?

I understand when people use that phrase about advertising, but I don't see this here.


Windows 11 has transitioned from a standalone tool into a digital storefront that prioritizes recurring revenue through aggressive prompts for Microsoft 365 and OneDrive subscriptions. By mandating cloud-based Microsoft Accounts, the OS effectively anchors your identity to a marketing ID, allowing the company to track behavior and monetize your data. The interface now functions as an advertising platform, injecting "recommended" apps and sponsored content directly into the Start menu and search results. Ultimately, this shift means users are no longer just customers of a product, but recurring assets whose attention and telemetry are sold to sustain Microsoft’s ecosystem and maximize shareholder value.


Doesn’t Windows show ads in the start menu these days?


Indirectly via advertising, this is data gathering for profile building.


20+% of adults have anxiety, which they include here. So 38% for any of the conditions they listed ("mental health conditions and learning disabilities, like anxiety, depression, and ADHD" plus everything else) doesn't seem off base.


I think it's correct. They were lost to the general public and were considered missing. When a smaller yellow diamond surfaced there was speculation that it's the Florentine diamond that was cut.


I'm not in the jewellery business but I would be very surprised if the diamond industry didn't have a pretty good idea where things lay. That kind of multi-caret stone has a premium. You need to know provenance. The risk it's a blood diamond or stolen is very high.

Lost to wider society? Yea, I can buy that but it's a stretch.

It's not "lost" the way a medieval triptych hanging in an alms house for centuries and found to be worth millions is a "lost masterpiece" or works coming out of safe deposit boxes where some GI has hoarded loot after ww2. The titular holders decided to put a time lock on their deposit box but had clear title to the assets.


The second search result for "Australian world map" shows a world map that is designed for Australian schools and it centers on Pacific Ocean:

https://www.australianteachingaids.com.au/the-world-map

The first search result for "Australian world map" was for one of those novelty south-side up maps.


Demographers can predict when people are going to die but they have no way to predict how many children they will have.

They have been getting it wrong for a long time, assuming that the gradual decrease in birthrate will stop, only to be proven wrong.

They can't just extrapolate assuming that birth rates will keep dropping since that would reduce the birthrate to 0. So they do the next best thing and assume it will stay constant.

But in reality, we just don't know which way it will go.


...you have additional things sperm quality drop etc...

No - this time it is really different :-)

(apart from things like climate change etc.)


That's how git commits work.

Current laptop stickers: current state.

Photo of the previous laptop: reference to previous commit.


There's an incorrect claim in the article (possibly a typo, but a big one):

"China set goals for reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 in 2019 and met their 2030 goal in 2024, so fast is their transition going."

There's no citation, but an internet search says that the 2030 goal is peak carbon emissions.

The goal for net-zero is 2060.


The fact this is probably misinterpreting or typo-ing is that they met their 2030 target for deployment of solar and wind 6 years early in 2024.

That goal was set in 2019.

So, fast progress, and even China is needing to update its goals in response to the unexpected success of solar.

You are right that their net zero goal is by 2060, though they recently stated that they intend to have peaked GHG emissions and be 10% below peak by 2035.

Some observers feel they may have peaked this year or last which might also be influencing what he was trying to say.


China hitting a peak in 2024 is a lot more believable.


Interesting, I thought Russian did that for the same reasons as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon-shiki system does, which also uses "si" instead of "shi" for シ.


AFAIK Nihon-shiki is designed to reflect the Japanese kanas and their traditional regular arrangement as close as possible - note that it also uses e.g. "tu" for ツ.

OTOH Polivanov seemingly tried to reflect actual pronunciation, thus ツ is "цу" (tsu), ふ is "фу" (fu), を is "о", は is "ва" (va) when it's a particle, the syllabic nasal is "m" in environments where it is so pronounced etc.

The only real mystery about Polivanov system from this perspective is why ち is "ти" (ti) and not "чи" (chi).


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