MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-06-23 17:34:00+00:00
This is fair, but I think overstated. It's possible to preserve a tortilla for a few days without exotic additives. I'm not even criticizing sodium, although that's not a lot better. And yes, preservatives are better than eating spoiled food.

The problem is when the whole supermarket is full of highly preserved food, then this is normalized and health consequences are obscured. The deeper issue is that for perhaps 80% of people this is fine and profitable, but for let's say 20% it introduces weird, hard to trace health problems, which don't appear to come from the supermarket because all the normal foods are like this.
by refurb | 2025-06-23 17:34:50+00:00
As a scientist I don’t think this change is really science based.

Banning artificial colors because “chemicals are bad” isn’t logical. Banning artificial dyes because one random paper maybe found a cancer link isn’t rational (generally if studies are all over the place the effect is so small you’re seeing noise).

If you want to avoid artificial dyes, cool, avoid them! But blanket bans of dyes where the data is questionable about harm isn’t logical.
by aaroninsf | 2025-06-23 17:34:58+00:00
Serious question: who else takes for granted that Zuck gets a daily summary of all high-level federal governmental communications, as harvested via backdoors or simply from non-end-to-end encrypted traffic on any Meta property?

I assume he does. I assume moreover that most people aware of this at Meta consider this due diligence in defending shareholder value. What's that line from Dune 2, a wise hunter climbs the tallest hill? _You need to see._
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 17:35:00+00:00
refillable water bottles are how it's done in most of the world.

You go to a water shop, hand over a bottle, and they give you a one filled with a 15 liters of water, and you'll probably pay around 5 USD cents for that. The water will be filtered (but probably not with reverse osmosis, so there might still be a few viruses and a little lead contamination in it).

The bottles will be filled thousands of times in their lifespan. The cost is higher per liter than piped water, but per person per year it's lower, due to the fact these people perhaps use only 5 liters per day of bottled water, and do clothes washing in non-potable rainwater off their roof.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-06-23 17:35:14+00:00
When you have total dominance over an opponent, you don’t need the rules of war.

What you need is someone who understands politics.

We have forgotten the advice of the great Theodore Roosevelt: “Speak softly and carry a big stick”. There is no stick bigger than the US military and it’s been shoved up our own ass by our politicians.
by 1234letshaveatw | 2025-06-23 17:35:23+00:00
interesting, the Salmon I have caught has not been as colorful- I mostly fish in the rivers though

edit: it looks like that vid had some steelhead (trout) mixed in? This is more like what I have seen, but the color is even more "dulled" in person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e09UmeqAd4g
by coldpie | 2025-06-23 17:35:36+00:00
Please double-check my math here. Minnesota delivers about 70,000 million cubic feet of natural gas to customers in the coldest months[1]. 70,000,000,000 cf of NG is about 72,730,000,000,000 BTUs[2]. That's equivalent to 21,315 GWh[3] of energy created by NG per month. Divide that by 31 days and you're looking at 687 GWh of natural gas per day or 29 GW of continuous generation. Minnesota's current entire electricity generation capacity is 17 GW[4], so we're looking at roughly tripling our current capacity. Nearby states are about on the same order, so we would be sucking down a whole lot of their power during low-generation periods. If we want to prepare for 7 days of no electricity generation, we would need 4,809 GWh of energy storage solely for heating, which is about 1600 instances of the currently largest battery-storage system on the planet, just for heating Minnesota.

Some combination of nuclear and solar/wind feels much more realistic to me to meet this demand, than building out that many batteries.

This is all napkin-math-y, so feel free to fudge it up and down a bit. But I just can't get the numbers to feel reasonable to me.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3060mn2m.htm

[2] 1 cf ng = 1039 btu https://www.nrg.com/resources/energy-tools/energy-conversion...

[3] https://www.convertunits.com/from/British+thermal+unit/to/gi...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Minn...
by throw0101c | 2025-06-23 17:35:40+00:00
Talk to Mike Harris about privatizing stuff in Ontario: there's no reason why Ontario Hydro could not have been kept 100% in public hands and the debt serviced 'internally' instead of being assigned to OEFC.

At the end of the day it's still electrical rate payers paying the bill. (Just like ratepayers are paying for the failed experiment of McGuinty's Energy Green Act: what's the cost of that?)

As it stands all current nuclear refurbishments are being done with commercial rates, as is dealing with nuclear waste (per the NFWA).
by jyounker | 2025-06-23 17:35:58+00:00
Most fruits and vegetables in grocery stores taste pretty bland. They're bred more for appearance, shelf stability, regularity, and transport rather than taste.

There are legendary varieties that are lost to time. Occasionally we rediscover them, and we get to compare. Usually the modern industrial varieties are pale imitations.

https://gastropod.com/the-most-dangerous-fruit-in-america/
by echelon | 2025-06-23 17:36:22+00:00
I'm just a layperson, but I'd suspect the research is sound.

I hate the telephone tag, livescience.com-type journalism. Instead, I'd love to read an abstract and methods. The research must talk about this in detail and explain how the conclusions are reached. It probably isn't too inaccessible.

I suspect that there may be many such measurements correlated between both probes taken against some other baseline signal or an observed return to the mean.
by sailingparrot | 2025-06-23 17:36:39+00:00
The discriminator is trained on a different objective than the generator, it's specifically trained on being good at discriminating, so it is complimentary.

Here we are talking about the same model doing the review (even if you use a different model provider, it's still trained on essentially the same data, with the same objective and very similar performances).

We have had agentic systems where one agent checks the work of another since 2+ years, this isn't a paradigm pushed by AI coding model providers because it doesn't really work that well, review is still needed.
by ioa8w35l8aw | 2025-06-23 17:36:42+00:00
In October, my family in texas was raving about how trump was going to end the Ukraine war overnight. They stopped talking about it the day trump retook office. And the other day they stopped talking about peace entirely and started raving about how Iran has had it coming and a little bit of war is good for the economy. They did the exact same thing in 2002.
by julienchastang | 2025-06-23 17:36:44+00:00
I use tramp all day every b/c I mostly work on remote VMs so it is an indispensable tool. Note that tramp will allow you to go inside docker containers on those remote hosts with:

/ssh:<remote host>|docker:<docker container>

Also if you like copying (potentially large) files via dired, consider temporarily

(setq tramp-default-method "rsync")

The blog talks about rsync vs ssh a bit.
by SEJeff | 2025-06-23 17:36:45+00:00
Thomas, what are your thoughts on micro-vms such as kata containers? You can use them as a backend for docker in place of runc.

I'm sure you're well aware, but for the readers, they are isolated with a CPU's VT instructions which are built to isolate VMS. I still think "containers don't contain" in a very Dan Walsh boston accent, but this seems like a respectable start.

https://katacontainers.io
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-23 17:36:53+00:00
I don't really think so. You can find pretty much everything they sell on either the manufacturer's own website, or another big retail site such as ebay or walmart.com, or on a specialist website. It's more work though, to find and browse those sites than to just pull up Amazon and be done with it, and then getting back to see what you missed on TikTok.

Strange in a way how saving 2 minutes is a differentiator online. Back in the brick-and-mortar days you'd spend 2 minutes at a stoplight on the way to the store without even thinking about it.

And ordering from catalogs? If I got the item in two weeks that seemed pretty fast.
by mrxhacker99 | 2025-06-23 17:37:22+00:00
Hey folks! Hope you are doing well! I was reading reddit post couple of months back! which gave me an idea started to research and experiment to build better model which can generalise on tiny dataset first!

bee's or tiny organisms brains are efficient and performant compared to AI models we have I mean they have better world model etc~

This work is hobby project looking for feedback
by frankvienna | 2025-06-23 17:37:41+00:00
There’s this silent rule when you’re job hunting:

Smile. Stay positive. Keep applying. Don’t complain.

Meanwhile:

You’re rewriting the same resume for the 12th time

Getting ghosted after four rounds of interviews

Tracking apps in Google Sheets you never open again

Wondering if it’s you or the system that’s broken

I got tired of pretending I was “fine.”

So I built Woberry not to fix the job market, but to help people survive it with a little more structure and a little less anxiety.

Woberry is simple, because job hunting is already hard: Tailor resumes and cover letters without version chaos Track every app, note, status, and follow-up Offload the mental load of “Did I email them yet?” Built to reduce noise, not add dashboards

I made it for myself. Then quietly shared it. Now a few hundred job seekers use it. Devs, designers, even PMs. Some said it helped them get more interviews. Others just said it helped them feel less overwhelmed.

A few honest truths: Job hunting burnout is real and rarely talked about

Tools don’t need to be “AI-powered” to be useful

Sometimes, building your own solution is therapy

You don’t need to go viral to create something meaningful

If you’re in the trenches right now, exhausted, organized chaos, trying to stay optimistic:

It won’t fix everything. But it might help you stop pretending you’re fine. And give you back a little control while you figure out what’s next.

Would love to hear what tools you’ve built to get through hard seasons.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-23 17:37:42+00:00
Yeah, most algorithms that run in O(n polylog(n)) time, including most divide-and-conquer bigint arithmetic, will ultimately be dominated by how much memory you have available. For some experiments a while back, I would create a terabyte-long swapfile to extend the range of what GMP could do, and it still filled up within a couple CPU-weeks at most.
by rtaylorgarlock | 2025-06-23 17:39:08+00:00
Exactly--this plus the usability original commenter communicated made this why I did so much work to keep my Pixel 3 alive for so long. I still think about the rear fingerprint sensor after a Pixel 3 -> pixel 6 -> S21 Ultra -> S24 Ultra journey, and further how much fun i had back in the ROM + kernel + modding + undervolting days.
by psunavy03 | 2025-06-23 17:39:11+00:00
I'm sold. Never going back to pip/twine/requirements.txt again if I don't have to. I have several projects that all share a common wheel hosted on an internal GitLab instance, and I was able to replace like 10 lines of YAML with just "uv build" and "uv publish." Importing is quick and easy, and you can see what your core dependencies are as opposed to everything just being in one mess of a requirements.txt.
by geotekne | 2025-06-23 17:39:17+00:00
hi ! giblfiz , I work in a startup which born specifically for solving the kind of situation you faced. It would be really a pleasure to get in touch and share experiences. Mr R is right: "Run five projects through the process simultaneously. Most will fail for reasons you cannot predict. With five, one might succeed ..." the problem behind: time/effort to implement that. Ping us whenever you want https://www.renewableenergy.place/ it would be really cool to have a talk.

btw, it was really challenging to find a way to contact you, lol (out of this way) btw2, we are based in Argentina :). Let us meet Mr R!
by hinkley | 2025-06-23 17:39:40+00:00
Ah. I know about this. I’m used to people meaning different things when they say history destruction.

There’s also a fun loophole where you can edit other people’s commits when doing a merge and attribute bugs to someone else. I caught someone doing this once (they were terrible at git) on account of I was the one who reviewed the code that got changed, and I specifically looked for that class of bug before approving it. Git blame and the commit history no longer agreed and I was able to show what happened.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-23 17:39:54+00:00
It's honestly incredible how we've learned absolutely nothing. I thought for sure that universally-agreed-upon catastrophe of Iraq would cause the lesson to stick, but no, we're running through the same playbook word-for-word. Including the goose-stepping support of the media: go to the homepage of "liberal" publications like The Atlantic right now and you can see full-throated support of the war and them discovering how much they love Trump now.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-06-23 17:40:08+00:00
For whatever reason, utilities don't have a ton of storage. Presumably it's not profitable with their business models. So in California where I live you'll run into issues when the sun isn't shining (or it's 4pm and sunny but solar panels are less effective because the sun is more oblique) and it's not windy. Right now they make up the gap by spinning up a bunch of natty gas generators in the afternoon. If nuclear helps take some of the load off, seems like a step in the right direction. Especially since I imagine the weather in NY is less consistent than CA
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-23 17:40:18+00:00
It's also large in usability. That's hard to do with a small space; you have to think different. To think like that, you first need to live in a small space, and organically develop solutions around it.

Now, you could do that with any space, like a machine shop. But the "good human place"-ness of the shop will depend on the forces that shape that shop. If all the forces are purely commercial, you're going to end up with something that works commercially, but might not be so human-friendly. I think the disconnect between bland American commercial spaces and more intimate Japanese ones is the relationship of the owner-proprietor to commercialism.

In the US, I have been in a few cafes where I had to step back outside to check if I had accidentally walked into someone's living room. Same for hostels; the best ones feel like you're in someone's home. Their layout was not driven by commercial interest, but by a person just wanting to feel cozy. The space is them.

Whereas a Starbucks isn't a person, it's a chemical factory. If the music is too loud, it doesn't matter if I complain; the factory workers (supposedly) can't control the music. If the air is too cold, it doesn't matter if I'm shivering; the factory workers are paid to make coffee, not care about my discomfort. Our human connection to the space is irrelevant to the manufacturing and selling of chemical stimulants.
by vkou | 2025-06-23 17:40:19+00:00
They can afford it, but fuel and energy costs are the lion's share of their expenses, in a way they aren't in rich countries.

~1/25th of my expenses are spent on paying for energy. I wouldn't think twice about using more of it.

If 1/2th of my expenses were directed towards acquiring energy, that would be a different conversation.

And they can't just go to the forest and get some firewood. Population densities in the developing world in the 21st century are such that even if there is unowned land where you can do that close enough to where you live, it won't sustain your community for very long.
by tikotus | 2025-06-23 17:40:21+00:00
Interesting, but I fail to see how it can work exactly. If there's a function awaiting something, how is the function called then? Will it look like calling any function, but it might not return immediately? But then there's also examples of calling aio.delay(1000) which does return immediately. I think my question is ultimately, what's the return type of a function containing an await?
by Duanemclemore | 2025-06-23 17:40:24+00:00
Thanks! One note is that if you're listening to a country's flagship broadcaster - like BBC - they will use a standardized form of the language in their news, etc. I find those stations are best for learning the official tongue in a clear, systematic way. But if you're advanced enough to want more conversational and informal forms - you mention learning different Spanish accents - non-flagship broadcasters might have more of that.

Of course the news on any station is going to use more formal language, and the entertainment programming even on the flagship is going to use less formal. Just, the talk station from a flagship broadcaster - like BBC Radio 4 - is going to have the most bang for your buck in language instruction.

Seems obvious, but bears mention. Enjoy!
by SEJeff | 2025-06-23 17:41:12+00:00
And this was formally updated post 9/11 with the AUMF (Acceptable Use of Military Force) which gave the president quite sweeping powers without direct congressional approval. The caveat is that the AUMF is only for 9/11 responsible countries or affiliates. Given 9/11 was Al Qaeda and they are Sunni, and that Iran is Shia, they are not actually related since they want to also kill each other. Still, these powers are being bastardizes to limit the authority of congress.

https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf
by zamadatix | 2025-06-23 17:41:20+00:00
I get what you're trying to argue but the point above was in the opposite direction - that congress has continually approved military action for what are (obviously) wars in all but name many times since 1942.

Congress is not-really-declaring-war even more than prior centuries, independent from how the presidents (particularly the latest in this case) also totally-aren't-declaring-war more without congress often than ever before.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-23 17:41:25+00:00
The problem here is the anonymity for the tipster. Like if you can't defend your actions by putting your name to them are they actions worth taking?

The guy who reports one person for driving 100mph over the limit can and ought to sleep soundly knowing society more or less agrees with his actions.

The guy who reports 100 people for going 1mph over the limit ought to be be worried. His actions are not something society generally thinks is a good thing.
by magicalist | 2025-06-23 17:41:53+00:00
> Why did it take an insane person to actually get sensible regulation for food dyes in?

They still aren't regulating it, they just held a press conference announcing, literally "we don’t have an agreement; we have an understanding" (and, as covered in this article, no one in the food industry seems to know who exactly the "understanding" is with).

Meanwhile they're firing anyone at the FDA or HHS that can do anything, and the EPA is trying to not regulate coal plants while the Trump administration uses emergency powers to keep coal plants running even over the economic objections of the power companies running them. And of course the EPA is delaying and relaxing the new limits on PFAS in drinking water from last year.

So...no, not really any sensible regulations here.
by diego_moita | 2025-06-23 17:41:57+00:00
Yep, but people look at it in different ways. It feels different, depending on how it affects you.

In English, "America imperialism" is a phrase for political propaganda, like "woke", "freedom", etc. You can argue if it makes sense or not. You can disagree if it exists. It is an opinion.

In Latin America it is a fact of life, like rain and sunshine. It is there, everyone knows. No one denies it.
by godshatter | 2025-06-23 17:42:20+00:00
> If you use ad-blocker: they'll embed ads into the video

If they do this then the right arrow becomes your best friend. If it's part of the stream then they have no way of blocking things so you can't skip past them. If they embed some way of notifying the app that it needs to block skipping here or there then that's what adblock would start triggering from. I'm assuming that's why they don't do it now.
by cma | 2025-06-23 17:42:33+00:00
But boiling water is just a few hundred Kelvin, this is tens of thousands. Would EVA spacesuits be able to radiate that much away if it was really that hot but for the atmosphere absorbing some?

I know it is much hotter, but that's way way hotter and they only find it at a "wall" way farther out.

This is more the temperature of the solar wind, dwarfing the steady state temperature you'd reach from the photonic solar radiation at any distance. The Sun's blackbody varies from like 5000K to 7000K, you won't see objects heated in the solar system heated higher than that even with full reflectors covering the field of view of the rear with more sun and being near the surface of the sun, other than a tiny amount higher from stellar wind, tidal friction, or nuclear radiation from the object's own material I don't think.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-06-23 17:42:56+00:00
> We can't say that about any of the other countries in the region like Iran, Turkey, Syria, Yemen etc etc.

Can we for a second, step back and acknowledge who CAUSED the instability in those countries? Iran, off the top of my head, had a secular democratic government until the CIA orchestrated a coup.

Meanwhile, I certainly don't trust a country with nukes that has single handedly spearheaded a genocide that has resulted in the death of over 20 thousand children. Its literally a magnitude order more deaths per year than any other armed conflict. If you want to argue that religious zelots should not be trusted with nukes, I fully agree with you. but lets apply that logic to all countries. not just the ones that "ally" with us.
by kulahan | 2025-06-23 17:43:13+00:00
I have no clue if it’s still true, but Wal-Mart back in the day used to go to the manufacturers of some products and request that same product at a lower price. The idea was “get it to us at that cost, no matter what you have to do” - so you would see name brand products meant to be very similar to ones you would see, but with inferior build quality, and the only distinguishing mark is that it has a different product ID from the manufacturer.

Point being: it doesn’t matter if Walmart does this, because it’s already an empty promise from them, too.

Just stop shopping at these behemoths.
by weird_trousers | 2025-06-23 17:43:20+00:00
For once I agree with Sam Altman (it feels weird...).

I don't feel the hype for coding assistant tools using LLMs (sorry for HN nerds here).

However I am incredibly excited with all the new research and tools produced by DeepMind since years now, like "AlphaFold 2". "AlphaFold 2" has more potential to save lives than every other LLMs produced in the last decade.

This kind of AI tools and research need to attract news (unfortunately it does not... yet?).