MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by josefresco | 2025-04-03 13:48:56+00:00
Chickpea and Spinach Curry lists 6 ingredients:

chickpeas: 200 g spinach: 100 g coconut milk: 200 ml onion: 1 units garlic: 2 cloves cumin: 15 g

However the video on "how to make" which appears to be just a YouTube search and not a specific video(?) shows the chef using more spices, and other ingredients not listed.

Not a huge deal, but aligning the "how to make" with the ingredients would be key for me using tool like this. I'm already overwhelmed thinking about how to purchase the 4+ Indian spices recommended for this (very yummy looking) dish.
by lm28469 | 2025-04-03 13:49:01+00:00
The search is broken on safari, every time it refreshes you lose the focus on the text input, which means you have to click on the search bar after every single character you type. The filters are broken, type "chocolate", chose the M&M's brand, none of the labels return a result despite showing (xxx)

> I wanted to investigate the possibility of using LLMs

ah, yeah, I guess it makes sense then...
by gus_massa | 2025-04-03 13:49:09+00:00
It takes a few vouches to unkill a comment. (The exact number is a mystery (I don't remember dang telling the number ever) and it may change from time to time (or not).)

For not-bad comments just vouch them, but for very-good-I-will-not-be-able-to-sleep-until-it-is-unkilled comments vouch and send an email.
by gwern | 2025-04-03 13:49:29+00:00
That's unfortunate about Mr Zadunaisky, but it does suggest there's no hope of a recording unless someone should stumble across it in the Borges papers (although given how his estate has been abused, little hope of that being useful, one way or another) or the Argentine library archives...

Anyway, I uploaded the Simon book chapter at https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1996-simon-2.pdf
by alankarmisra | 2025-04-03 13:49:54+00:00
I would guard against "arguing from the extremes". I would think "on average" compact is more helpful. There are definitely situations where compactness can lead to obfuscation but where the line is depends on the literacy and astuteness of the reader in the specific subject as already pointed out by another comment. There are ways to be obtuse even in the other direction where written prose can be made sufficiently complicated to describe even the simplest things.
by dashundchen | 2025-04-03 13:50:12+00:00
For real. The sibling comment is flagged now but people seem to have memoryholed the impact of COVID on the healthcare system.

Hospitals were absolutely overwhelmed at many points during parts of the pandemic, outside of the first month. That was a major concern during the "surges" and spread of new variants.

I know this because my state routinely publishes hospital census levels and at many points during the pandemic elective and even non-elective procedures had to be cancelled due to lack of bed and staff capacity. The facility I work at was regularly impacted.

Search hospital related COVID stories during 2021 and 2022 and you'll find plenty.
by tempoponet | 2025-04-03 13:50:29+00:00
I see two issues, let's say "opportunities":

First is the limitation to one hue value. Something like the Sunflower (blue + yellow) is just yellow. Maybe there's a tradeoff that could pack more hue but with less luminescence.

The second is how the primary color is selected. Several images (plant on grey background, street food vendor) appear to be averaging across the image and getting a grey value. By selecting better for the predominant color and its placement, the greys would appear on their own.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-03 13:50:34+00:00
FWIW, I’ve been toting around the 16” M-series models since they launched and recently picked up a 13” Air and have yet to see this occur. Haven’t heard reports of it from coworkers or friends either. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I suspect there’s a particular action or pattern of behavior that makes it more likely, such as placing it under heavy objects or packing it in tightly with books or something like that.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-04-03 13:50:45+00:00
I don't want to get into this on this discussion because...well. video games. But consider the following: The organization and customers benefits from meritocratic hiring of the best candidates. But individual hiring managers have biases either for specific people (nepotism) or against groups of people (bigotry). Those individuals would be acting against the best interests of the company and customers whether they act consciously or not. A responsible company would adapt hiring processes to remove that kind of bias otherwise everyone suffers. The company suffers due to lower efficiency and blind spots in their points of view. Customers suffer due to worse output by the company. Some individual candidates suffer by being denied opportunities based on attributes they have no control over (gender, race, physical appearance) instead of the merits of their education, experience, and talents.

There's no single way to do this but people have lumped them all together and called them "quotas" (they're not, at least not in responsible processes). It really does a disservice to the fact that it's encouraging meritocratic hiring. Because for most of the 20th century (and even still today) employment was and is stratified by race and gender, not ability.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-03 13:51:01+00:00
> Are we at least agreed that the content of the thought "tiger" is not the same thing as the brain state that makes it up?

No. I don't agree that "the content of [a] thought" is something we can usefully talk about in this context.

Thoughts are subjective experiences, more or less identical to qualia. Thinking about a tiger is actually having the experience of thinking about a tiger, and this is purely subjective, like all qualia. The only question I can see worth asking about it is whether the experience of thinking about a tiger has some component to it that is not part of a fully described brain state.

> If a tiger is distinct from a brain state, which I think we agree on, and if our thoughts are about real things such as tigers,

We also have thoughts about unreal things. I don't see why such thoughts should be any different than the ones we have about real things.
by hylaride | 2025-04-03 13:51:05+00:00
He's essentially asking to explain the moral difference between a rock and a book, but then got offended when I explained that even if there were moral cases for either (rocks can be used to build or thrown for violence - books can teach good things and terrible things), comparing the two is impossible.

I remember once debating an environmentalist, who was insisting that capitalism was terrible for the earth and we therefor needed more socialism. I pointed out that the environments in most communist countries were absolutely terrible compared to the west, but the main difference is that "the west" had democratic movements that pushed for less pollution.

Arguing the morality of environmentalism in capitalism vs communism is a complete red herring. It was the fact that enough people had control and desire over their governments to do something that made any difference.
by GabrielBianconi | 2025-04-03 13:51:20+00:00
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by nasmorn | 2025-04-03 13:52:09+00:00
If you voted for trump I cannot take any pseudo intellectualization of that choice at face value. Unless you are an anarchist and truly hope the federal government implodes and you don’t mind the cost of that. I am a mostly left European and I’d rather have Cheney as president. And I do think Cheney is probably the worst kind of human being but he is probably not totally disjoint from reality.
by nizarmah | 2025-04-03 13:52:17+00:00
One of the most challenging aspects in my career has been: communication.

This is largely because it leaves chance for misinterpretation or miscommunication. Programming languages eliminated misinterpretation and made miscommunication easier to notice through errors.

Programming language enables micromanaging proactively, I specify the instructions before they run. I often find myself micromanaging retroactively with LLMs, until I reach the path I am looking for.
by griffzhowl | 2025-04-03 13:52:37+00:00
Overall I agree, but I'm not sure there's literally no point. American primary producers will likely benefit - people who own mines, oil wells, farms, etc., and some American manufacturers too as long as they source enough of their raw materials from within the US that the price hikes on resources from overseas don't bite them too much. Still an overall loss that will be borne by American consumers, but a small section of the population who are already wealthy will greatly benefit...
by gnabgib | 2025-04-03 13:52:39+00:00
Discussions (47 points, 16 hours ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562005

(87 points, 1 day ago, 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555898

edited to include @r721's article
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-03 13:52:53+00:00
> Just to add a gripe about Amazon. Their games app is so bad that if you use the back button on your mouse while a screenshot is open the page changes but the image stays until you close it.

That's more a critiques to how software development happens today. Its a consequence of decoupling the product ownership from the developer, who only implements what's required according to the ticket/feature requested by the PO.

To be clear, I'm not saying that passing full ownership of the software to the developers they've hired to be effectively code monkeys would work. And neither do I think that the approach of having the developers be the owners of the software "scales" (teams like that will always be small and have very little space for Jr. positions).

It's very illuminating if you look at the average developer salary at valve, they're just approaching software development differently then Amazon and Epic (and rest of the industry for that matter)
by cle | 2025-04-03 13:52:54+00:00
Some of the best convos I've had are with ideologues, it just requires authentic empathy and effort, which means letting go of moral presuppositions and being willing to really listen to them without injecting your own judgments & opinions. If people subconsciously think you're trying to do that, it'll trigger their defense mechanisms and the convo will instantly shut down (or devolve into chaos).

People love to talk about what they think is important, but NOT when they think they're being setup or playing into someone else's hand.
by pvg | 2025-04-03 13:52:59+00:00
I don't see how they are dupes though

That's how dupes work on HN - they go by 'are you going to get the same thread'. There have been many Tesla sale threads, they are all the same and none are in the slightest bit interesting.

This is what happens - articles get upvoted because people are interested, hit the front page, get noticed by the flaggers when they come online, and get flagged.

Many people upvote things that are offtopic on HN, especially news items they have strong feelings a bout. Other people then flag them because these things are offtopic on HN and often repetitive. That sounds more or less how it's supposed to work?
by MonkeyClub | 2025-04-03 13:53:04+00:00
> just restates obvious things in a more formalized and somewhat pompous way

That's sort of the premise of his Black Swan idea, namely that extraordinary things appear quite obvious in retrospect.

I've read a few of his books, including Antifragile that's referenced in TFA, and he does go beyond merely restating (or formalizing) the obvious.

But then again perhaps such things are not generally obvious and need to be stated explicitly, we just happen to be part of a subset that is more aware of them.
by PathOfEclipse | 2025-04-03 13:53:04+00:00
I like how you claim data doesn't support this being a problem but at the same time can't be bothered to cite any data. I'll do it for you: https://5666503.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5666503...

"Alarming proportions of students self-censor, report worry or discomfort about expressing their ideas in a variety of contexts, find controversial ideas hard to discuss, show intolerance for controversial speakers, find their administrations unclear or worse regarding support for free speech, and even report that disruption of events or violence are, to some degree, acceptable tactics for shutting down the speech of others."

"Less than one-in-four students (22%) reported that they felt “very comfortable” expressing their views on a controversial political topic in a discussion with other students in a common campusspace. Even fewer (20%) reported feeling “very comfortable” expressing disagreement with one of their professors about a controversial topic in a written assignment; 17% said the same about expressing their views on a controversial political topic during an in-class discussion; 14%, about expressing an unpopular opinion to their peers on a social media account tied to their name; and 13%, about publicly disagreeing with a professor about a controversial political topic. "

And as for examples, the sitting NIH director, Jay Bhattacharya, who in hindsight was far more correct on everything COVID-related than the CDC was: had this to say about his experience at Stanford: https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-censorship-an-interview...

" I presented the results in a seminar in the medical school, and I was viciously attacked. ... It was really nasty: allegations of research misconduct, undeclared conflicts of interest… In reality, the whole study was funded by small-dollar donations."

"It was very stressful. I had to hire lawyers. I've been at Stanford for 38 years and I felt it was really, really out of character. At one point, the Chair of Medicine ordered me to stop going on media and to stop giving interviews about COVID policy. They were trying to totally silence me."
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-03 13:53:27+00:00
Pretty slick website. I also love how you using AI to generate all the food icons. It's so, so much nicer than just visually comparing text.

When I first found Cronometer and started using it daily, I did what every developer does and looked at what kind of data exists out there if I wanted to build my own app. The free data from the FDA was pretty bad/limited with massive holes and it would have taken a lot of effort to clean up.

Of course, Cronometer's best data comes from https://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/.

Maybe you can sample your data and validate it against NCC's data via Cronometer to see if your LLM approach has legs when it comes to micronutrients and amino acids. And note that you have AIgen data that NCC's hand-measured database doesn't even have reliably, like choline, which seems like a red flag.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-03 13:53:34+00:00
I hope this remains true for all distributions. Playing around with Fedora's beta suggested to me they will implement a store (this may already be a thing) and I can see that one day requiring an account to use the store at least but that could slowly and eventually boil the frogs depending if IBM stays hands off. If Redhat eventually goes that direction I could see a few other corporate supported distributions following. I was only testing Fedora as it appeared to be one of the easiest to optimize for gaming at the time. My daily drivers are Void and MX and those should remain safe for now.
by jeffhuys | 2025-04-03 13:53:59+00:00
It's really simple to me:

- abortion should only be allowed if needed because of health or exceptional cases like rape - abortion should not be used as a form of birth control, use condoms or the morning-after pill

I'm fine with states deciding the details. I think it should be mandated that it's always allowed when health is in danger (I believe this is already true), and it should be mandated that even if a state allows abortion "just by choice" (so, as birth control), it should definitely not be allowed after 9 months even.

> The anti-abortion people do not care about actual outcomes.

I'm anti-abortion, but I really, really do care about outcomes. So if you want to discuss this with me, I'd love to.

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> You get people who think life is so sacred abortion should be banned allied with people who'd like to see an AR-15 under every pillow

I don't understand the problem with this... Not wanting to kill unborn life but still wanting to be able to protect yourself and your family when someone breaks into your house.

It's statements like this that make me question the intellectual honesty of people. It doesn't take much thinking to understand it, right?
by Shacklz | 2025-04-03 13:54:13+00:00
Unlike other corporations, they actually didn't really do all that much to make it a monopoly though. It's kind of an organic monopoly simply by being better than everything else, by a wide margin.

There's not much "lock-in" apart from the games one owns on the platform; and the social aspects of steam are mostly negligible or niche - sure there's the friendlist, but no gamer I know uses steam voice-chat so the friendlist is mostly replicated in discord and similar anyway.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 13:54:20+00:00
^ Returns

Samsung and other Korean chaebols used to be major players in the Chinese economy until the 2016-17 trade war lead to a mass exodus out of China and into Vietnam.

Samsung also fell behind TSMC as they were squeezed by Apple's litigation over patent infringement [0] which lead them to use TSMC.

The 2019-21 trade war with Japan also lead to Samsung falling further behind.

At this point, the only solution South Korean players have left is investing in both China (the current article) and the US (much of the semiconductor related investments under the Biden admin was Samsung initiated)

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electr....
by ivanmontillam | 2025-04-03 13:54:20+00:00
I say the same thing about Zoom meetings.

My job used to be (not anymore) Tech Support Specialist, and I needed to use Zoom most of the time to take control of the device and make the changes. We also used heavily the voice call feature so I was able to give instructions. Other software like TeamViewer had pricing that did not make sense to us, and other tech support software did not have voice call support, so it made assistance less straightforward.

Well, back then (2016-2018), I tried Ubuntu, and the Zoom client was not as polished as it was on Windows. It got in the way by confusing my keystrokes with meeting controls, and it was just very quirky in general.

Maybe today is different, but I'm not a Tech Support Specialist anymore. However, I feel very comfortable using Windows. I don't feel compelled to make the change to Linux, where other software I use could be a quirky experience again.
by still_grokking | 2025-04-03 13:54:22+00:00
I'm not sure you tried to understand what I've depicted.

As long as you don't know how the end result should look like there are no "mistakes".

The whole point of explorative work is to find out how to approach something in the first place.

It's usually impossible to come up with the final result at first try!

After you actually know how to do something in general tools which help to avoid all undetected mistakes in the implementation of the chosen approach are really indispensable. But before having this general approach figured out too much rigidity is not helpful but instead a hindrance.

To understand this better read the linked article. It explains the problem very well over a few paragraphs.
by alxjrvs | 2025-04-03 13:54:28+00:00
Imagine the organization you are imagining in your head.

Now imagine there is a Super-boss, who is exactly like the "people running the business" (attribution needed), but one level above them.

If the Super Boss were to look at the situation, I think it'd be pretty obvious that the issue would be "The people organizing the company at the highest level" who are responsible for the failures of the company. That may involve over-hiring, which is itself a bad practice that causes unnecessary pain and (personal, financial) suffering, and would be a good cause to fire them for almost crashing my beautiful super-company that I, the Super-boss, super-founded.

You're saying that if we return the Super-boss to the realm of the fictional, then suddenly it isn't the C-suite's fault anymore?

If we're discussing should, then yeah, their heads should be the first to roll. I agree its idealistic to imagine them having the sort of decency this requires, but I agree it should be the case!
by tzs | 2025-04-03 13:54:39+00:00
> In simple terms, if you're the Philippines and you're selling fish to Russia, would you rather have Rubles or US dollars?

I can easily see why Rubles would have been unacceptable several decades ago, but nowadays with the speed of financial markets why not set the price in the seller's currency and at payment time the buyer can trade enough of their currency for the seller's currency on the currency markets to get the payment?
by CobaltFire | 2025-04-03 13:54:43+00:00
I drive a Mercedes W447 in the US (though the "crew" version) and get no end of crap from people around me with F150's and the like (I live in an area that is borderline rural/urban and has a ton of farming). Meanwhile I have a larger hauling capacity, get vastly better mileage, have 8 seats when I want them, etc.

It's too bad no-one bought these and they went away.

Amusingly the Postal Service in our area drives them now.
by IX-103 | 2025-04-03 13:54:56+00:00
Yes, but it's even worse than you think.

As these countries move away from the dollar, there becomes a glut of US dollars in the world, triggering inflation like we have never seen before. Ignoring the barriers to trade that the tariffs represent and what that will do with our productivity. Ignoring the additional cost of an uncertain market future (because all decisions are made from the gut and could change tomorrow). The massive stagflationary impact of foreign countries unloading the 75% of US dollars they hold would effectively kill them US economy. The tariffs wouldn't even matter because you effectively couldn't give US dollars away -- they'd be worthless internationally. No one that is not rich could afford to import anything.
by yagyu | 2025-04-03 13:55:11+00:00
In the same vein, Asimov in 1956:

Baley shrugged. He would never teach himself to avoid asking useless questions. The robots knew. Period. It occurred to him that, to handle robots with true efficiency, one must needs be expert, a sort of roboticist. How well did the average Solarian do, he wondered?