MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sfn42 | 2025-09-15 07:43:02+00:00
In Norway these products usually don't have powdered fats. They will typically require that you add egg(s) and butter/margarin, maybe milk etc.

Here's the ingredient list for Toro Brownies, translated by me.

Sugar, wheat flour, reduced-fat cocoa, baking powder(calcium phosphate, sodium carbonate), coffee, salt, vanillin

I'm not sure about the fat reduced cocoa, for all I know that might just be what I think of as normal cocoa powder, and the rest are just regular ingredients anyone would use. No fancy surfactants and powdered fats etc.
by teekert | 2025-09-15 07:43:12+00:00
Ok, this is weird right? '“It’s just so upsetting,” says Judith, whose cookie recipe was passed down by her mother.'

Why pass some boxed commercial mix through your family? Maybe I have too much Italian in me (I'm not Italian, just love their mindset when it comes to cooking) but that's like passing some cheap plastic kitchen utensil down the family, instead of your cast iron skillet.

Just learn to bake properly based on flour, milk, sugar and eggs. Even my 9 year old makes muffins this way.

I still don't understand why people buy "pancake mix" for example, pancakes are 250 gr flour, 500 ml of milk and 2 eggs. That's about 1/3rd the price of a mix.
by euroderf | 2025-09-15 07:45:29+00:00
> you visit the private seller, you look at the vehicle, you check for the things one needs to check for, and you know if it has problems or not. And if you can't do this, you've got a cousin or uncle who can.

I had good luck with taking a used car for a test drive, and (with the knowledge of the seller) dropping it off at a garage and asking a mechanic to spend half an hour checking it over.
by codethief | 2025-09-15 07:45:38+00:00
I don't know how usable SpectrumOS is so far – I guess we'd have to compile it ourselves in order to find out. Either way, it is being developed quite actively, see https://spectrum-os.org/git/

As for how it compares to Qubes, I don't think I'll be able to tell you more than https://spectrum-os.org/design.html & friends. I suppose the upshot is:

- KVM instead of Xen

- One VM per application

- Single file system for user data (to which users can grant VMs access on a folder-by-folder basis)

- Package system from NixOS (nixpkgs) for reproducibility & immutability
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-15 07:45:41+00:00
What worries me even more, is that people end up missing the entire point of an argument because they can't seem to be able to pick up on uses of figures of speech within a context, so when they see the word 'empire' they think you mean literal empires, get fixated on that one thing turning it into the main issue, and then the rest of the argument and discussion goes above their head becoming pointless. Even LLMs are better than that.
by mgiampapa | 2025-09-15 07:46:57+00:00
My standard cookbook is a 1970s edition of the Joy of Cooking, right before fat became evil and was excised from cookbooks. Everything from how to break down a squirrel to a side of beef.

I have no issues cooking from it with modern ingredients because it doesn't fundamentally use things that aren't "base" ingredients or other recipes in it.
by onecommentman | 2025-09-15 07:47:03+00:00
If you’re working a regular job, you need a reliable car in the US. New cars should be, and nowadays are, more reliable than used cars with unknown provenance. Just donated a sedan I bought new 25 years ago that didn’t have a spot of rust and the motor was still great. Desert living…

Just didn’t want to chase down exotic material failure modes at that point and wanted the enhanced safety features available on new cars to protect my old body. I don’t own a lift nor an air compressor. I’d feel like a damn fool if I got hurt working on my own old car. Fixing my broken old body would be much more expensive than having a professional with the proper tools repair my old car. Can pass that dealer-maintained car with a clean conscience to someone who has the tools and expertise.

Nowadays, you can expect 20-30 years from a new vehicle, properly maintained. Especially in the desert. When you spread that buy-it-new premium over 25 years, it’s worth buying new just to know the exact provenance of the vehicle you’ll be driving over the next quarter century.
by dangus | 2025-09-15 07:47:18+00:00
I like to think I’m pretty quick at generally getting things done in the context of work, and in my anecdotal experience I can see how it doesn’t actually benefit me all that much.

If I use that capability to work faster/harder/better I still can’t get around the fact that there’s nowhere to be promoted to in my company.

Or there’s the fact that I don’t actually want to be too high of a performer and set high expectations for myself and be saddled with more work.

I also haven’t lucked out with working at the right company at the right time to get promotions. Usually, companies growing fast with a lot of opportunities to make visible impacts allow people to climb the ladder.

I have a family member that did this and now that they’re above the indicator contributor level they report that their job is significantly easier than it used to be, it just has higher stakes and more meetings.

So thinking faster doesn’t magically turn me into a VP or something like that, and thinking fast isn’t even needed for that role.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-15 07:47:33+00:00
In France it would be considered "Faute grave", a violation of the duty of discretion/loyalty to the organization. You have to give that person a few days of notice but otherwise they can be terminated at will.

Of course, that's the theory. Europe's courts are more politicized than in the US and laws are frequently vague. Someone might try to challenge such a firing. But the law does allow it.

That's in France which has unusually vicious employment laws. In other parts of Europe it's more casual. In the UK you can be fired for more or less any reason outside of a few restricted reasons if you're within the first two years of employment. After that the rules get a bit stricter, but not enough to mean a company has to tolerate an employee bringing the organization into disrepute (which this behavior absolutely does).
by puilp0502 | 2025-09-15 07:47:36+00:00
I see. So if I'm understanding correctly, then this policy serves as a kind of "legal ground" from which the maintainers can take action against perpetrators, right?

To add a bit more context, when I was writing the original comment, I was mainly thinking of first-time contributors that don't have any track records, and how the policy would work against them.
by jraph | 2025-09-15 07:47:43+00:00
Yeah, this is terrible.

Obviously the people who want to buy organic and the people who want to avoid plastic the most are probably almost the same group. They know this. It feels like "Fuck you environmental-aware buyers" to me.

Of course wrapping everything non-organic is a no go as well, it would be terrible for the environment. And I'm afraid stopping the production of non-organic stuff ain't happening anytime soon.

I believe the real solution if possible until they fix this is to go to a market or an organic store where nothing is in plastic, at least for fruits and vegetables.
by thelittleone | 2025-09-15 07:48:03+00:00
I stopped nebido cold turkey, went on HMG and HCG by subcutaneous injection 3 days a week. Had a few chills and sweats at first, but mood impact was not noticeable. No change to training routine (HiiT, boxing muay thai and calisthenics). A few months along, I switched to enclopmiphene citrate (25mg daily).
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-15 07:48:24+00:00
> It’s so much easier to measure with a kitchen scale than it is to wonder “did I pack the X in too tight or too loose into this cup?”.

Here in the UK, I get irrationally annoyed by seeing recipes that use "U.S." measurements. A "cup" is mostly meaningless to me as I've got lots of different size cups and as you state, it's not a consistent way to measure most ingredients (I can understand it being used for liquids, but even so why not just use ml or weight). When it comes to measuring larger ingredients (e.g. apricots) then the dimensions of this platonic cup come into play and I have to start deriving the optimal (almost) sphere packing to figure out how many apricots to use.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-15 07:49:34+00:00
But you wouldn't buy a car with a check engine warning if you don't know how to read the code or fix it.

For the most part you're not really looking for signs of mechanical or electrical faults that will develop, you're looking for signs it has been cared for. Service history, clean interior, tires with decent tread, oil and water levels okay and aren't contaminated, starts up and drives nicely from cold to warm. That's about it.

Someone with very little auto mechanic knowledge can do that. Sure an O2 sensor might give out in the next few thousand miles, but you have to allow for some maintenance cost beyond scheduled services for older cars.
by waste_monk | 2025-09-15 07:49:42+00:00
>This is meant to be an egg-sized quantity of butter, but what was a normal sized egg in 1905?

This site [1] has some interesting info:

[1886] "The average weight of twenty eggs laid by fowls of different breeds is two and one-eighth pounds. The breeds that lay the largest eggs, average seven to a pound, are Black Spanish, Houdans, La Fleches, and Creve Coeures. Eggs of medium size and weight, averaging eight or nine to a pound, are laid by Leghorns, Cochins, Brahmins, Polands, Dorkings, Games, Sultans. Hamburgs lay about ten eggs to a pound. Thus there is a difference of three eggs in one pound weight. Hence it is claimed that in justice to the consumer eggs should be sold by weight." ---The Grocers' Hand-Book and Directory, Artemas Ward [Philadelphia Grocer Publishing:Philadelphia] 1886 (p. 67)

With similar figures given for 1911 as well. Which would suggest a normal egg in 1905 would be approximately 56g (1 pound/ 8 eggs = 0.125lb per egg).

[1] https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodeggs.html
by dns_snek | 2025-09-15 07:49:50+00:00
Counter-point: For someone who's used to smoking or vaping, the craving to "take a puff" can be a very strong, maybe stronger than the chemical dependence on nicotine itself.

I noticed that in myself when I was trying to quit, vaping nicotine-free liquids helped my cravings more than nicotine itself. It didn't help the physical withdrawal symptoms but it mysteriously stopped the cravings for a while.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-15 07:50:25+00:00
I'm freelancing on a project that's been mostly vibe coded by one dude, who's a good dev as far as I can tell, the product is definitely profitable, 70k+ mrr with a very small team and almost no expense, that being said for every feature I implement I find 1 to 3 broken features due to obvious vibe coding errors
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-15 07:51:34+00:00
I once fed one of those, with a raisin, hastily pulled out of my müsli, and put it on the tip of a long needle.

Did a nap at around 2 to 3PM on a sunny day, had the balcony door tilted inwards.

Got woken up by a strange, and rather loud buzzing sound, maybe like when you're holding a strip of paper, or soft plastic into a ventilator/fan.

Searched and saw nothing at first, until I saw movement behind the lowered window blinds.

Pulled them back and made that hornet bouncing against the glass, like panicked.

Put them back very slowly, raised the blinds of the balcony door and opened it wide.

Tried to shoo the hornet towards the now wide opened balcony door by slowly pulling the blinds back wide. Didn't work. It just bounced against the glass even more panicked.

Put the blinds back very slowly again.

I somehow got the idea that I maybe should give her something to eat.

But what? Honey on a spoon? Sugar dissolved in water? For whichever reason I decided to pick a raisin out of my müsli-box, and put that on the top of a long needle.

Don't ask me why. I never did that before, I just came to me. I can't explain how.

Anyway, I held the needle, maybe 10cm long, glinting silvery, very slowly and steady between the gap of blinds and windowframe, and the hornet crawled towards the tip on the inside of the blinds, tilted by 90°, like crawling on a wall.

And it began to gnaw on the raisin! I could see it shrink, took maybe 5 minutes until it was gone. Pulled the now empty needle back very slowly, and waited.

Hornet did something like 'aerobics', a strange dance, while still sitting rotated by 90° on the inside of the blinds, raising one of her legs at a time, grooming herself, and its wings. But rhythmically, several times.

For maybe two minutes.

Then, without bumping into anything, it flew out of the gap, and made two slow circles of maybe half a meter in diameter, maybe half a meter away from the tip of my nose, or my eyes, counterclockwise.

Absolutely coordinated. No variation in speed, and the circles like being drawn with a pair of compasses.

For maybe half a minute, max.

I stood very, very still.

And then it buzzed out very fast through the wide opened balcony door, in a straight line, out of sight.

I stood there, wondering, did that really happen? Am I still dreaming?

WTF?!

That was one of the stranger things happening in my life.

Unforgettable :-)
by teekert | 2025-09-15 07:51:50+00:00
I don't mill my flour of course, I do get it at a mill which does, because I bake a lot of bread and 5 kg bags are cheaper.

That said, if you take my pancake example, you literally replace the flour with more expensive pancake mix. Ok, fine, in some mizes there are dried eggs and milk protein or something, and you just need water. But you could even make pancakes with water instead of milk and they're fine.

With cookies it's similar, most baking is just different amounts of sugar, flour, eggs, butter, milk/water. Maybe some vanilla sugar here and there. It's really not that hard. Hey, and now you can start to experiment with banana and almond flour, and make it a bit less unhealthy/more nutritious. Or make pancakes with oats and banana, also nice and a lot more fiber. Treat yourself to a nice kitchen machine with the money you save and become much faster as well.

Learning some basic, proper cooking and baking should just be part of raising kids imo.

I know it sounds snobbish, but it's really not rocket science. Imo we are being scammed by all these companies selling products that are just as much effort, but more expensive and less healthy (usually more additives). They just prey on our lack of knowledge with their recipes on the packaging and their products conveniently put at eye-height, whereas basic stuff like flour is always at the lower shelves.
by nine_k | 2025-09-15 07:51:58+00:00
Indeed so, but that would require a few months worth of work from the reader, unfortunately.

(I have a t-shirt with a lambda in a circle, reminiscent of the anarchist emblem, and words "no class, no state". It's definitely possible to explain to a passer-by who never studied FP what it refers to, but not in such a way that the joke remained funny. Possibly the same deal is with the bumper sticker saying "my other car is cdr".)
by ajarellanod | 2025-09-15 07:52:13+00:00
Ever feel like you need a map just to figure out how to get text off a PDF? You’re not alone. The world of turning documents into useful data is… a lot. From basic text grabbing (OCR) to smarter systems that understand forms (IDP), and now brainy Language Models (LLMs & VLMs) that can practically chat with your docs – the options are exploding!
by mgiampapa | 2025-09-15 07:52:33+00:00
> The professional bakers around me who do a dozen cakes a day or whatnot are all pre-made mixes, maybe some small modifications to the mix, and from-scratch frostings. I'm not sure I could even find a local spot with cakes made from scratch - at least in the traditional sense. The spots making 200 cakes a day perhaps, but those are going to look a lot more like the mixes you buy from Sysco or whatnot.

95% of bakeries are using a box mix and a packet of jello pudding. That's the secret.
by atoav | 2025-09-15 07:53:15+00:00
Looks cool, I like the use of decorators as a means to use essentially turn python into some sort of DSL.

One nitpick: Please include a paragraph/section/infobox explaining what eBPF is and what problems should be solved using it. I am a huge fan of making our tech world more accessible and as such we should think to some degree about people who don't know every acronym.
by sensanaty | 2025-09-15 07:53:38+00:00
https://xkcd.com/810/

To me the point is that I want to see effort from a person asking me to review their PR. If it's obvious LLM generated bullshit, I outright ignore it. If they put in the time and effort to mold the LLM output so that it's high quality and they actually understand what they're putting in the PR (meaning they probably replace 99% of the output), then good, that's the point
by unwind | 2025-09-15 07:54:10+00:00
Sure they do, but nobody seems to have posted it yet.

The exact box in the article (it had a link!) has the following ingredients listed:

Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate). Contains 2% or less of: Modified Corn Starch, Palm Oil, Corn Starch, Propylene Glycol Mono and Diesters, Monoglycerides, Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Carob Powder, Artificial Flavor.

Now I've been interested in cooking for 30+ years, and do all of our home cooking and baking, and there's no way I would believe that I can substitute typical from-scratch/pantry ingredients and get the same result.
by mongol | 2025-09-15 07:54:15+00:00
> The Fairtrade cocoa goes and the 'Rainforest Alliance' cocoa comes in, and you can guess the ethics of the latter are not to the standards of the former.

This part interests me. I have no idea what seals of approval are worthwhile or not. I just see that they are printed on the package and assume it counts for something. Is there some controversy relater to cocoa in this case?
Ask HN: Voluntary ID verification for better services. Would you use it?
by kisamoto | 2025-09-15 07:54:40+00:00
I've been thinking about the signal-to-noise problem in various online communities. So much of the moderation overhead and user frustration seems to stem from trolling, spam, and bad-faith actors operating behind a shield of complete anonymity.

This is purely a thought experiment, not a product pitch:

If certain services (e.g., marketplace, social-media, a niche forum for professionals, a comments section on a serious publication) offered a strictly voluntary, opt-in "verified" mode, would you use it?

In this scenario, you'd verify your identity once with a trusted third party, and this would grant you access to these higher-trust spaces. Your real name would not necessarily be public, but your account would be linked to a unique, real person.

The theoretical benefit would be a dramatic reduction in scams, spam, and trolling, leading to a higher quality of interaction. The obvious downside is the privacy trade-off.

Would you ever consider making that trade? If so, under what specific conditions?
Show HN: Celestial Fortunes – AI Blends Eastern and Western Astrology
by Waffle2180 | 2025-09-15 07:54:52+00:00
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by DoctorMckay101 | 2025-09-15 07:55:36+00:00
The interest rate on my mortgage has been below inflation for 5 years now. I'm 7 years shy of paying it fully. I pay around 850€ a month for my mortgage + 110€ monthly community costs + 400€ on property taxes annually. Lets round it up to 1000€ a month. Meanwhile, the average rent around me is about 1150€. If I was renting whilst sharing with other 2 people I could be paying about 400€ and have about 600€ a month for investing, that is true. But that would mean I'd be changing places every 10-16 months, increasingly paying more, and gambling on landing good flatmates. A ton of stress and almost ensured mental health issues. I´d know because that was my life from when I was 18 to when I bought my home at 26. If I wanted to rent my spare rooms I could be racking about 800€ a month - 20-27% set aside for taxes. Always cherrypicking my flatmates and increasing their rent every now and then. However, I wanna live alone for a while, be calm whenever I'm at home.

Even if that "math" does not work for you, take into account those 600€ monthly investment would have to compete against my home's value. My property has appreciated about 90% in the last 10 years, practically doubling my potential earnings compared to the original cost. From 300k to 570k on 10 years. There is no way somebody with 0 investing knowledge could pull that off.

Renting is just better if you have enough fuck you money to rent whatever you want, whenever you want, with the flexibility of choosing to be alone or accompanied.
by jackdoe | 2025-09-15 07:55:43+00:00
and the datasheet is amazing https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2350/rp2350-datasheet.p...

there is an issue that language models have seen enormous amounts of rp2040 code and docs, and it they get properly confused a lot, so you should just pdf print relevant pages and use them in-context.
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-09-15 07:56:42+00:00
> Also if your visa allows back-to-back entries that's exactly what I'll do. Nowhere does it say that there's a limit, therefore it's not "abuse".

Also if the law says you should pay taxes, that's exactly what you should do. Nowhere does it say that there's an exemption for people paying their food and rent ("injecting" $500), therefore you should pay (taxes).
by mrweasel | 2025-09-15 07:57:44+00:00
Really, everyone I've talked to has loved it. Granted they've all either live or work in remote areas where it has completely changed their lives. Those who live in remote areas can now actually work from home reliably and those who work on ships or in remote parts of world can now call home daily.

It's probably down to your expectations. Starlink won't replace a fiber connection, but if you only have a satellite connection or dial up, I can't see it being anything other than an improvement.

One concern I do have is if Starlink is down, there aren't really any backup. On the other hand I also only have one fiber connection at home. It's just that I could get a COAX hookup by tomorrow.
by nunobrito | 2025-09-15 07:57:53+00:00
It seems every single day there is a new article here favoring that distro.

Reminder: It forces you to use hardware suspected as compromissed from Google. Even this same month they were advocating you to use Tor, a VPN created and sponsored by the same agencies trying to get your private data.

Read other comments here, many others will point out the obvious red flags. It isn't spontaneous either that every day or so there is an article about this distro.

Don't fall into this trap, there are other options out there that deserve your attention.
by OskarS | 2025-09-15 07:58:40+00:00
I can’t remember ever seeing a bigger red flag on a C++ library than this. Even leaving aside the implications of UB (where I agree with you), does this mean I can’t run my test suite in release mode? What if it’s slow to run? What if there’s a bug that only happens in optimized builds?

That’s gonna be a big no from me, dawg.