MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by genewitch | 2025-07-11 16:58:53+00:00
There's been several turmeric related stories this past week (not here, but i've seen several elsewhere).

The title is "Turmeric is the culprit in a global lead poisoning ..."

That is editorializing. It is a lie. they found that some markets use lead chromate to improve the product's beauty before sale.

The title leads one to believe that all or even most turmeric has lead in it, which just isn't the case.
by runako | 2025-07-11 16:59:12+00:00
> not actually helping pay down the debt spiral

Just to be clear about the new budget law. It does not attempt to reduce the deficit or debt at all. It sidesteps existing law to increase the deficit beyond what is actually allowed.

The rate of increase of the debt increased last Friday, even as we are told we can't afford things we could afford 10 years ago.

Put simply, we were doing a better job of managing our debts until last Friday when we decided that the national debt doesn't matter.
by ljm | 2025-07-11 16:59:21+00:00
I wouldn't say it's the majority of my time but the most utility I've got out of AI is using MCP to deal with the boring shit: update my jira tickets to in progress/in review, read feedback on a PR and address the trivial shit, check the CI pipeline and make it pass if it failed, and write commits in a consistent, descriptive way.

It's a lot more hands on when you try to write code with it, which I still try out, but it's only because I know exactly what the solution is and I'm just walking the agent towards it and improving how I write my prompts. It's slower than doing it myself in many cases.
by itsdrewmiller | 2025-07-11 16:59:26+00:00
The assessments are roughly based on the sale price of similar lots and the approximate rebuild value of the structures; usually erring on the low side in my experience (though that is probably more about the direction of the housing market than inherent to the process). I agree there is a qualitative element that strikes me as icky compared to pure quant taxes like wages, but it's already happening so LVT doesn't materially change things.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-11 16:59:37+00:00
> - hangout, physically, where the folks you wanted to interact with were

There's also nothing wrong with this! The more and more interactions we move online, the more purely transactional they become and we miss out on a lot of connection with our fellow humans, which have a multitude of benefits other than just professional networking.

The other problem with social media is your choice is removed from you. I run a photography business as a side hustle, and without social media, it would have never gotten off the ground and if I want it to continue I'm required to basically not only be good at the photography aspect, but to be good at social media and having that social media persona.

It's draining, and extremely damaging for one's mental health and if you run a small business chances are you just don't have a choice, you have to do it or you don't get to exist (up to a certain point until word of mouth can carry you, but even then not having a social media presence is a red flag for many).

Social media itself doesn't need to be bad, or harmful, but that would require getting rid of algorithmic feeds, and to stop rewarding engagement, which will solve the "influencer" problem. I'd also go as far to say that social media shouldn't be the end game, but a tool that eventually leads to a real, physical connection/in person event. Social media should augment those communities, but not be the entirety of the community.
by beering | 2025-07-11 16:59:45+00:00
A big part of their success today is embracing globalism, beginning with the Westernization effort in the Meiji era and continuing into the present era with top Japanese firms becoming multinational, eg Nintendo/Sony of America, Toyota opening plants in the US, etc.

Communism, on the other hand, seems to have led to more isolation in the Cold War era, and is also another way to cultivate some interesting cultural identity, although not necessarily the culture you want.
by Theodores | 2025-07-11 17:00:16+00:00
Truth be told, Europe has no energy and it was only with the Ukraine crisis that I realised this. Germany has been turning cheap gas from Russia into expensive cars, glass and chemicals for decades without me noticing that was all the deal was.

Europe just sucks in oil, gas, uranium and some coal from the rest of the world to give back what exactly?

So it is no surprise that renewable energy is showing up as significant these days, particularly when so much manufacturing industry is closed down and exported overseas.

The thing is that China and elsewhere in East Asia are burning those hydrocarbons now, so it is just globalization of the emissions.

Regarding nuclear, the French have been kicked out of West Africa so no cheap uranium for them, paid for with the special Franc they can only print in Paris to obtain as much uranium as they need from Africa.

The solar panels come from China so it is not as if Europe is leading the way in terms of tech.

All Europe government bodies also want the bicycle these days, with dreams of livable neighbourhoods and cycling holidays for all.

I doubt they care for solar panels or the bicycle, however, after the Ukraine crisis in 2022 it must be clear to some in Europe that there are no energy sources in Europe apart from a spot of Norwegian gas. When paying 4x for fracked LNG from Uncle Sam it must be an eye opener to them.
by me_smith | 2025-07-11 17:00:25+00:00
On my last trip to Tokyo, I went to one of the Ramen restaurants that had a vending machine to order food. The machine, unfortunately, did not give us any change. I felt bad trying to explain to one of the employees because we both couldn't really understand each other. He eventually understood and gave us the exact change we did expect. After that experience, I wouldn't blame them for wanting to make the change and limiting tourists.
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-11 17:00:35+00:00
Yea this was major de-growther vibes to me. A couple of small businesses getting swamped just means you don't have enough small businesses. It's true that generally there aren't enough small businesses.

I'd like our productivity gains to free up people to pursue their weird jazz-coffee bar fantasies and start more businesses. That's a better world to me than the the one OP is trying to get us to retreat to.

There's lots of terrible things about social media but its ability to spread the wealth of attention to small businesses is probably the best thing about it.

Bad tourists? FINE THEM. I realize the Japanese don't like to see their relationships as transactional, but they have foreigners there and managing their behavior via transactions is totally fair to me.

P.S: I know, I know I have recently been to Japan and seen its over-tourism first hand. I also don't know a country better equipped to get a handle on it and gasp scale.
by orlp | 2025-07-11 17:01:00+00:00
> Wow, that's smart. I was wondering whether there is a way for the bots to generate "unpredictable" domains such that security researchers could not predict them efficiently (even with source code), but the botnet controller can.

There is a fairly simple method which achieves the same advantage for a botnet controller.

1. Use a hash of the current day to derive, for that day, an infinite stream of domain names. This could be something as simple as `to_human_readable_domain(sha256(daily_hash + i))`.

2. A botnet slave attempts to access servers in a diagonal order over (days, domains), starting at the first domain for today and working backwards in days and forwards in domains. An image best describes what I mean by this: https://i.imgur.com/lcEbHwz.png

3. So long as one of those domains is controlled by the botnet operator (which can be verified using a signed response from the server), they can control the botnet.

This means that the botnet operator only needs to purchase one domain every couple of days to keep controlling their botnet, while someone trying to stop them will have to buy thousands and thousands every day.

And when you successfully purchase a domain you can publish the new domain to any connected slaves, so this scheme is only necessary for recruitment into the network, not continued control.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 17:01:09+00:00
Yeah, but the opposite isn't true, my national origin can be Swedish but I can reside in Spain, so banning by residency isn't banning by national origin, seems like a way to ban foreigners (non-residents).

Edit: Actually wait

> since if your national origin is the US you're automatically a resident

This isn't true is it? If you're born in the US but you live (100% of the time) elsewhere, you're no longer a resident, are you?
by nradov | 2025-07-11 17:01:11+00:00
Nah. The "back to the land" movement is nothing new. Some office workers were trying to become farmers (and mostly failing) back in the 1970s when there were only a tiny number of developers. Again, complaints about the state of society by a few disaffected individuals are meaningless and highly technical circles aren't representative of the broader society. No matter how amazing everything is a few people are going to be unhappy. Nothing has changed.

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/science/back-land-mo...
by timr | 2025-07-11 17:01:43+00:00
> But the thing I worry about, having never been there, is that I might get some good recommendations for out-of-the-way spots where there would be few if any other tourists, and take the time to go find them, only to be denied entry because I’m a foreigner.

Yep, that's the part I hate, too. The locals put up completely understandable roadblocks to preserve their own culture, but those roadblocks end up making the whole situation hostile and unpleasant for anyone who is not known to the locals.

Since you've never been, let me just say this: most tourists are utterly clueless, so just not being clueless goes far. Blend in, imitate the locals' behaviors, try to speak the language, eat what you're given, etc., and you'll be fine. For now, at least, relatively few places ban foreigners outright.
by AIPedant | 2025-07-11 17:01:54+00:00
It's more like using a faulty and dangerous automated foundry to make steel when you could just hire steelworkers.

That's the real problem here - these companies are swimming in money and have armies of humans working around the clock training LLMs, there is no honest reason to nickel-and-dime the actual evaluation of benchmarks. It's like OpenAI using exact text search to identify benchmark contamination for the GPT-4 technical report. I am quite certain they had more sophisticated tools available.
by energy123 | 2025-07-11 17:02:12+00:00
The problems with social media are partly network related. You may opt out, but those naked pictures or nasty comments about you are still up there, the division and polarization that social media causes is still there. Basically society is just as bad off as before you decided to opt out, and you can't opt out of society. This is one of those technologies that we shouldn't have invented (one of Bostrom's black balls), but once you invent it it's too late because the incentives make it too difficult to roll back.
by prairieroadent | 2025-07-11 17:02:32+00:00
there has to be a way for us as a society to introduce a level of accountability into our so called "food" supply chain without the burden of regulation... perhaps it's as simple as spending more educating our kids about agriculture

amendment: seems to be an unpopular take... my point being regulation is a workaround for a population that is worst than uneducated, miseducated, especially in regards to agriculture and "food" supply chain... if kids were provided with an actual education and not miseducated on the subject then the demand for on-demand food testing would go up, and prices for said testing would eventually go down after supply rises to meet demand increasing competition thus encouraging technological innovations to come in and lower prices

amendment ii: in a competitive market where all participants are thoroughly educated and the consumer is armed with the ability to test their food frequently then a market would likely emerge where consumers buy directly from farmers who out of market forces publish test alongside their crop
by rtkwe | 2025-07-11 17:02:37+00:00
There are other tools you can safely use as a young kid and young kids can use knives etc they just need a lot of supervision and instruction. Hand saws are relatively safe compared to box cutters for example, they're unlikely to cut super deep but working with wood is a lot harder and more expensive. The cardboard hand tools mentioned elsewhere in the comments here are neat though they look like they work pretty well without having any sharp edges.
by gpm | 2025-07-11 17:02:42+00:00
Honestly the external option seems a lot better value for the money for almost all use cases. Something like half the cost. No tinkering with the internals of the very expensive thing. You can move it between computers, upgrade the stick in it, etc.

I'm sure there are cases where you really do care about speeds >3GB/s (and USB-4, the port on the mac, should max out at ~5 which is still marginally lower than the internal one). But I doubt they are common. It's hard to process most data in a meaningful way that fast.
by djoldman | 2025-07-11 17:02:45+00:00
> So why do people open small shops? For any number of reasons, but my favorite is: They have a strong opinion about how some aspect of a business should be run, and they want to double down on it....That singular thing can drive an initial impulse, but small business purpose quickly shifts into: Being a community hub for a core group of regulars. That — community — is probably the biggest asset of small business ownership. And the quickest way to kill community (perhaps the most valuable gift for running a small business) is to go viral in a damaging way.

> Pour out a cold brew for small shops with giant lines of transient tourists.

> "James told me about another friend who owns a cocktail bar in Kyoto that was TikToked. She had recently stopped by and found him in tears. The only reason he opened the bar, he said, was so locals and friends like her would come. Now, all he had were customers he couldn’t talk to."

One possible interpretation of TFA is that "small shops" only want to allow certain people to enter and not others.

I wonder if some form of private club would be more appropriate.
by hoegarden | 2025-07-11 17:02:46+00:00
You can find links on this site going back years to the fact that adulterating turmeric is a common thing if you think you can get away with it and many think they can even do that on exports.

I'm so sorry you aren't a child in a middle income country?

Most children can be poisoned eventually by a food contamination even if only some percentage of the food is contaminated because most childhoods are years long and most parents don't procure exactly the same supplies..
Show HN: Infragram – C4 style interactive architecture diagrams for Terraform
by aqula | 2025-07-11 17:03:06+00:00
If you're not familiar with C4 model (https://c4model.com), the idea is to visualize your system at different "zoom levels" to see the abstraction you are interested in.

When it comes to infrastructure, looking at how different cloud services connect together might give us an overview of the high level architecture of the system. We can zoom in and look at domain specific units of infrastructure and how they interact to get a deeper understanding of what the system is doing. Finally we might want to look at the resource view to see individual resources and how they are configured. Each view gives a different perspective and allows us to tell different stories about our system depending on the audience.

Having to document and maintain such diagrams for a constantly changing system can be quite tedious. So I'm building a tool to generate such diagrams directly in your IDE (actually just vscode). Running in the IDE integrates it seamlessly into the dev workflow. We can do nifty things like mapping the diagram to source code so you can navigate between elements of the diagram and source as you work through the code. Once we have a diagram, we can overlay additional information to bring information into context, like visualizing a change plan over the diagram, or perhaps health metrics of a live system or cost estimates.

I made a quick video to give you a demo of what it looks like. You can also see some samples of generated diagrams below. And checkout the extension page on the marketplace for more information. I'd love to hear your thoughts and any feedback you have!

Btw, the extension runs entirely client side with no remote server integration, so your code never leaves your machine.

Video demo (2 min)

https://youtu.be/npAWvGl8WeM

Extension link

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=infragra...

Example diagrams:

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akulapid/infragram-root/re...

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akulapid/infragram-root/re...

[3] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akulapid/infragram-root/re...

[4] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akulapid/infragram-root/re...

[5] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akulapid/infragram-root/re...
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-11 17:03:19+00:00
Same with most dell laptops I've owned. Pop off the back panel and everything is there, easily accessible, standard screws. Just did this on an Inspiron I have, just about 8 screws, pop the heat sync off, repaste, reassemble and done. Took like 15 minutes. Plus the RAM and SSD are also easily accessible and replaceable, as is the battery in a matter of minutes.
by oooyay | 2025-07-11 17:03:28+00:00
> Military servicemembers are required to sign service commitments both when they enter the service, but also upon completion of training and the length of the commitment is tied to the length/intensity of training. Air Force pilots are usually committed to serving on active duty for up to 12 years, due to the value of their training and many immediately jump ship to private industry after reaching that point.

You actually can't speak about this as a whole because there's various programs that involve education and they all have nuances.

The one people run into the most is the GI Bill which is not and has not been taxpayer funded. It's self-funded by veterans and unlocked by 4 years of active service or 8 years of reserve service. You unlock it by paying into it.

The next most well known program is the Naval Medical Corps and Naval JAG Corps which offer to put already qualified candidates the rest of the way through school or pay their school bills for four years of honorable service. It's probably the single most high value deal the military offers.

The last is aviation school which (usually, depending on what you get chosen to fly) has very little overlap with civilian aircraft. Pilots usually have a minimum service of 10 years but they're not exactly locked into being a pilot. For instance, Marine Corps pilots are trained infantry officers so they can go on to serve in the infantry as an Air Officer.

Other than the GI Bill scenario in each scenario you're paid a six digit salary and largely treated like a god in the military due to rank.
by huksley | 2025-07-11 17:03:53+00:00
NextJS now is unecessary complex, and there are things to avoid to make sure everything works fine.

I am not sure why it is so slow for you, maybe you you can try run this boilerplate (work in progress to make it easy to use)

https://github.com/wizecore/boilerplate-saas/

It uses Pages router, comes with local postgres, redis and AWS sqs emulator. No docker, no cloud needed for it to work locally.

Such setup is crazy fast on my mbp m2 pro.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-07-11 17:03:54+00:00
Social media's been coasting on unearned legitimacy since at least 2012 or so.

Remember the countless thinkpieces about the wisdom of crowds? Conceivably, social media crowds could somehow solve all sorts of really hard problems because in the mass of people conversing we'd be able to amplify voices who weren't being heard and get harder problems solved.

The truth of it is social media is a massively multiplayer video game where the goal is to build a following through posts, replies, and various social metrics.

This reframing situates it correctly for me: should I play video games for 4 hours straight everyday? Maybe not if I want to feel balanced as an individual. Should I let randos from a video game tell me I should be putting more time in? Absolutely not: they are still randos, regardless of how many Internet Points they have. Do I want their level of brainrot? No, thus I should I always be mindful of the effects on me.

It also makes exceedingly clear that social media should never be confused with whatever your quality work is that needs to get done. It is not a substitute for actually doing things. It offers a pale shadow of communication, friendship, and action. People should want more than the lousy facsimiles that it provides.
by andrewla | 2025-07-11 17:03:57+00:00
> Did you read the wikipedia page about LVT which describes how? Which part is impossible?

The wikipedia article describes some processes, including assessments, regressions, and interpolation from fixed landmarks.

Those are all means of estimating something, which you can call the "unimproved land value" if you are so inclined, but what exactly is the thing that they are estimating? How do you know if they are accurate?

You can implement a framework based on any of those measures, but crucially as above they are not an LVT, they are a "proportionate tax on total value based on extrapolating previous sales minus human estimates of improvement value according to a rubric" for example, and have different advantages and disadvantages than an LVT even theoretically, so every time you make an argument that "LVTs have such-and-such a property" you have to expand the definition of LVT to be the specific case and verify whether that property makes sense in the context of that particular methodology. As a shorthand it becomes useless.

My point is not that there are attempts to have an LVT that are approximations of the ideal reality; my point is that this ideal simply does not exist in any sort of cogent way so you might as well tax based on how much God loves the property or how many potatoes you could grow on the land.