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I'd recommend this podcast to anyone interested on what ultra-processed foods actually are (and in general): https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-6-ultra-pr...

Spoiler: The science and definitions are... depressingly bad.

How do you propose it's implemented though?

The two sides in this debate seem to be talking at cross purposes, which is why it goes round and round.

A: "We need to do this, however it's done, it was possible before so it must be possible now"

B: "You can't do this because of the implementation details (i.e. you can't break encryption without breaking it for everyone)"

ad infinitum.

Regardless of my own views on this, it seems to me that A needs to make a concrete proposal

The Henley and partners analysis isn't very good, but nor is this, both are from biased sources. It seems to amount to "that isn't a large proportion" rather than looking at the trend.

Dan Neidle[1] and the FT[2] have already done much better debunking of it, although that doesn't mean there isn't truth to it, just that Henley and Partners's report doesn't prove anything.

Chris Giles at the FT did a good summary[3]

[1] https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/27/henley-partners-milliona... [2] https://www.ft.com/content/28ebf57d-af22-48a0-91b9-880e3f1fb... https://archive.is/w6New [3] https://www.ft.com/content/0a24be5e-395e-43db-a91f-4b4f02d99... https://archive.is/Le05V

Thank you, I was trying to put a finer point on what I disagreed with in that comment but that's better than I'd have done. It's like saying "just pick the best option"

Obviously few would with that framing, but if they're given policies, lots of British people across the political spectrum would support ones that are more paternalistic. Support for the OSA is very high: https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-brit...

British people are much happier with the state being paternalistic, across the political spectrum, it is a very strong differentiator between the US and the UK. "The government should do something!" You can see it in attitudes to the NHS, pensions, welfare. At its peak, in the 70s, 32% of people lived in social housing!

Labour voters, young and old, are generally quite paternalistic. Lots of Conservative voters are too, depending on the flavour. The exceptions are the Lib Dems and some conservative tribes. I am consistently surprised when talking to highly-educated, politically engaged people, left or right, how much the default is that the state should act.

Great software, I've been using this since the start of this year, I use it every day, initially as a frustration with ChatGPT and Claude not having proper voice support in their desktop versions and then everywhere.

When you are in an environment where you can dictate, it really is a game changer. Not only is dictating much faster than typing, even if you're a fast typist, I find that you don't have the sticking problem of composing a message quite as much. It also makes my typing feel more like natural speech.

I have both the record and cancel actions bound to side buttons on my mouse, and paste to a third, the auto-paste feature is frustrating in my opinion.

I do miss having a taskbar icon to see if I'm recording or not. Sometimes I accidentally leave it running and sometimes the audio cues break until I restart it.

Transformations are great, despite an extreme amount of prompt engineering, I can't seem to stop the transformation model occasionally responding to my message rather than just transforming it though..

As someone sympathetic to this, throwing in the culture war stuff (make jokes about LGBT etc) is a massive own goal and makes it so easy for people to discredit. This could have far more cross-party support but it's just going to amuse the people who already agreed with it and make everyone else think it's the alt-right letting the mask slip..

I got a notification when I opened it, indicating that the default had changed, and I can see it on /model.

Only on a max (20x) account, not there on a Pro one.

Seems to be for me, I came to look at HN because I saw it was the default in CC

OK? But I'm not arguing that there don't exist tensions between employers and employees, of course there are. I'm saying that liking isolation and not wanting to interact with others isn't good for employers, and don't be surprised if they push back on it. It amounts to saying, I only want to do the fun parts of my job, not the boring but necessary bits, like co-ordinating with other humans.

3.1: A skilled person does, but it's still easy to get led down the garden path, even for very skilled engineers, especially when something is urgent, or at least "urgent"

4: Stakeholders really like chat, and it's a constant battle to make them go through the motions to report things properly. Why wouldn't they like it, it puts the burden onto you rather than them. It's often a tricky balance to strike, depending on the organisation, they can often be more important than you.

Well, that's honest! But presumably you can see that it's at odds with the interests of the business..

Because the regulatory environment is different in different countries, and can be changed with political will? The US is particularly expensive: https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/infrastructure-costs-nuclear-e... but it doesn't have to remain that way.

Thanks, I just got SpaceDesk working on a cheap Amazon tablet over USB-C (after realising I had to set PTP mode on the tablet...) Should work really nicely as a second monitor when travelling, I have it on 60fps and high settings and the latency is barely perceptible.

I don't understand this at all, a Kustomize base is far easier to read than a Helm Chart? It's a set of manifests with no templating. I find that it's easy to see what gets patched or replaced in the overlays and there's a lot more fail-fast rather than stringly-typed whitespace nonsense.

London's had congestion pricing for 20 years. The ULEZ is a tax on high NO2 emissions, not carbon. It's caused a significant reduction on the externalities of bad air quality, which was the goal.

Highly upvoted accounts are more valuable and can be sold

I scanned through this list, saw Louis Theroux, which seemed an odd one to remove. It's there? https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IGHoKiXvNiWJU9S9xPpei#logi...

Makes me question the accuracy of the rest

There's orders of magnitude of difference: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

>Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%.

Or unless there's regulation, as happened in the EU. Rewards programs got largely killed in the EU by the interchange fee limits in the last few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union Card fees can be below 1%

Quite a few places in London are cashless now, typically non-essential stuff like lunch, where transaction time is important, contactless is much faster. Cash costs are not insignificant, processing time, insurance, it's not really worth it when so few people pay with cash.

It's been accelerated sharply by the pandemic. The few holdouts changed tack. There's accessibility concerns for the unbanked.

That is quite insane. Card payment fees are illegal in the EU for the consumer, and interchange fees are capped at 0.2/0.3% for the merchant. It should cost the merchant less than 2% all in.

It's the other way around, the film is based on a classified ad, which many years earlier was a YTMND meme/fad. NEDM is also a classic YTMND meme. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/NEDM

It has a complicated origin, but a lot of YTMND was organic and weird like that.

The EU limited fees to .3% on credit and .2% on debit cards, and made charging the consumer card fees illegal everywhere though. That's a big improvement on what was otherwise ~3%

They've been noticeably degrading for a while already in fact, and are getting worse. https://i.imgur.com/Qmmqs3E.jpg

A fine of up to €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater. Yeah there's a reason everyone's panicking about GDPR, it can seriously wreck your business.

I believe they stopped actively guarding it a few years ago, but presumably still monitor it.

This is what horrifies a lot of us (British) about the NHS being further privatised. You create perverse incentives, beyond just providing the healthcare required.

If you do it in the evening it's only £1 usually. Hardly any reason to go to the supermarket anymore.