MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-11 01:42:33+00:00
Of course I'm misinterpreting it. That's my point: there's no clear correct interpretation, so everything is a misinterpretation. A clear definition would address all edge cases, which is necessary for prevent suppliers from gaming the system, as they currently do for example with claims of "no added sugar" by using evaporated cane juice.

Pink Lady apples are clearly in the lowest category of processing, but the reason I brought it up is that they more comprehensively meet the "overall purpose of ultra-processing" more than anything I've found, while TVP patties and candy canes are most clearly in the highest category of processing, but are usually unbranded, inconvenient, unappetizing, low margin products that are entirely antithetical to the "overall purpose of ultra-processing".

I searched through the database and most junk food I found was not ranked as ultra-processed, except for chips made from potato flour, which listed the addition of Annatto as a marker for being ultra-processed. I have Annato in my kitchen right now, because it's a traditional ingredient in Mesoamerican foods that has been used for thousands of years, and there's many dishes I couldn't make without it. It's a whole fruit that dries on the plant and it's only processing is grinding, which should put it in the lowest category, but somehow adding it to foods puts them in the highest category. It has been shown to fight cancer (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26875492/) but the page suggests that ultra-processed foods increase the risk of cancer.

The breads that show up don't look fresh at all, and crispbread, which I've never seen delivered fresh is still not categorized as ultra-processed. (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/7300400481588/fine-r...) Meanwhile I did find a bread product where fortifying with vitamin C was the sole reason it's categorized as ultra-processed: (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/01318180/multiseed-w...) The same seems to be true of vital wheat gluten, a traditional food in China.
by acjohnson55 | 2025-09-11 01:43:28+00:00
It was frustrating to have some of the outdoor ban stuff at a point when it was pretty clear that things were safe in highly ventilated environments. But in my opinion, that was relatively harmless compared to the backlash against common sense precautions, like properly fit N95 masks when sharing enclosed space.

There's a lot of criticism of places that kept schools closed for longer than was necessary, in retrospect. But we really didn't know whether it would always be the case that the risks to children were low. The virus could have mutated in a way that brought more risk. Or there could have been chronic effects that could only be seen after the passage of time. Given the infectiousness of the virus, it could have been so much worse.

I get the vaccine hesitancy. But I think a lot of people were not willing to accept that vaccination is not just about their own safety, but a collective safety issue.
by overfeed | 2025-09-11 01:44:04+00:00
> But they serve just as well at making the point, that louder and louder subsets of society are claiming these attacks are actually good, which is a disturbing societal shift.

There has been widespread discontent for a while now - it's the vein Obama and Trump tapped to win their respective first terms. AFAICT, it is an evolving class war[1], with American characteristics.

1. One could argue which side tore up the social contract first, and quibble with the definition of what counts as "violence"
by computerdork | 2025-09-11 01:44:48+00:00
I don't disagree with you, but the Spanish Flu killed 50 million. That's twice as much as died in WWI. Seems like it was, overall, a reasonable trade off, to save possibly tens of millions, the world went into a protective state.

And the next time this happens (which it probably will given the statistics), the US will probably handle it much better and the lock down will be less severe. I'm Korean American, and something like 10 years before covid, Korea had gone through an earlier pandemic (swine flu?), so when covid hit, it wasn't that big a deal. They already all knew what to do and the lock down wasn't as severe.

Yeah, our lockdown was overkill in many instances, but it was all so new to us. There's a good chance it'll be a lot better managed the next time.
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-11 01:45:02+00:00
Cool just double checking I wasn't missing a perma promo deal or something. Signed up for a month, no-brainer at that price to try it out.

I use Roo Code a lot and always looking for "hacks" to minimize my pay-per-request Gemini 2.5 Pro usage on OpenRouter so this is awesome (current method is using unlimited GPT 5 mini via Github Copilot for most uncomplicated stuff, then Kimi K2 via OR). I also have some customized Claude Code aliases/scripts I use routinely on my dev VMs and will figure out a good way to easily swap between Claude and GLM backends to compare.

Thanks for the rec! It's kinda buried on the z.ai website for some reason, I probably wouldn't have discovered it's a thing without your pointer.
by otterley | 2025-09-11 01:45:35+00:00
We've been deporting illegal immigrants for as long as there has been an immigration policy--and yes, that policy is bipartisan. See the data at https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2022/table3... -- and consider who held office when the removal rate doubled in 1997. (2021 is an anomalous year, for reasons you can probably guess.)

The contentious issue is not whether the law is being enforced, but rather how it is enforced. Most first-world countries do it with a certain amount of decorum. We've been doing it since Trump regained office with a shock-and-awe approach that is highly disruptive, violent, and of questionable legality.
by YZF | 2025-09-11 01:45:40+00:00
Very good points.

For the most part, the bottom 10% in most liberal democracies are much better off than most people in most autocratic states.

Wealth inequality isn't great but the existence of wealthy people in successful countries helps fund service for the entire population. Yet I saw a poster the other day titled "class warfare" with a picture of graveyard saying that's where the "rich" will be buried. People don't understand at all how counties and economies work and how this system we live in works vs. the alternatives (I'm in Canada btw).
by didgetmaster | 2025-09-11 01:45:41+00:00
There are a number of outspoken people on the other end of the political spectrum from me, that I vehemently disagree with. While I would love to see their words either ignored or condemned by the masses; I have no desire to see them killed or harmed in any way.

I wish more people on both ends of the political spectrum felt that way. Either committing or supporting violence against those we disagree with, has no place in a civil society.
by sandreas | 2025-09-11 01:45:46+00:00
I think Aurora Linux[1] is more suitable for this purpose.

However, while I love the approach of having an immutable distribution, I don't see the attack vector of ransomware handled in a good way. It does not help, if your OS is intact, but your data is irrecoverably lost due to a wrong click in the wrong browser on your system.

I think the backup and restore landscape has enough tools to fix this (cloud + restic[2] or automated ZFS snapshots[3]), but it takes a bit time / a script to setup something like this for your parents in your favorite distro.

1: https://getaurora.dev/en

2: https://github.com/restic/restic

3: https://zrepl.github.io/
by cassonmars | 2025-09-11 01:47:09+00:00
> Try mentally taking apart a car. Can you point to the component that supplies the transportation functionality?

Transportation, in agile terms, isn't a feature or primary function – it's an epic. I agree with the conclusion that emergent behaviors cannot be well implemented solely as features, but it's also somewhat tautological, and the argument can only be constructed from the initial (invalid) premise.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-11 01:48:01+00:00
We're basically guaranteed to get one if we don't get two blue sweeps (or an independent party that fights the republicans) in the coming elections. The Republicans have rigged the game badly and have been escalating their use of advantage, Democratic states are going to start withholding taxes, and people are going to start taking shots at ICE in the streets. When that happens, it's already too late.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 01:48:38+00:00
>You're a clear example of what Charlie was not.

This is absolutely correct.

You just linked to a YouTube channel. Which totally-not-performance legitimate debate do you recommend? ”Charlie Kirk VS the Wokies at University of Tennessee“ or is “Charlie Kirk Crushes Woke Lies at Michigan State” a better place to start?

Sorry if I sound sarcastic, I’m not. If you had to pick between Versus The Wokies and Crushes Woke Lies which would you suggest best showcases how his debates were not performances meant to inflame but rather reasoned, dispassionate discussion?
by gobdovan | 2025-09-11 01:48:43+00:00
This is a nice illustration of the expression problem, which the article itself points out toward the end. Multiple dispatch is a language-level way to solve it. Crafting Interpreters [1] has a very approachable Java-based chapter that also covers these patterns in detail.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem

[1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/representing-code.html
by PenguinCoder | 2025-09-11 01:49:48+00:00
> actively encouraging assassination and political violence on the other

Quit putting words in my mouth.

I am not encouraging violence or assassination of political differences. I merely said, his death is quite literally _live by the sword, die by the sword_. That's it. He advocated for freedom of firearms, and died by one. Nothing further to it to read into. This is not malice or extolling violence.

Here's a couple of sources of the quote I attribute to him, since you don't believe me or are willfully, obtusely, ignoring what he said.

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-w...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-gun-deaths-qu...
by lisbbb | 2025-09-11 01:49:51+00:00
In a month we'll get the inevitable slew of stories about bent and broken iPhone Airs as sure as water is wet. I really don't care how thick my phone is, I care that when I drop it, it's not automatically broken.

I generally like and buy Apple stuff, but yeah, I'm weary as hell. I don't do subscriptions and I don't like the tech bros--agree 100% with the rant on here about how crappy everything has become--"enshitification."
by VladVladikoff | 2025-09-11 01:50:07+00:00
It was not a particularly well written article. Like junk food of science reporting. This sentence really made me wonder about their editor. Was it really necessary to write it in such a way?

>As gravity is related to mass, the size of an event horizon, also known as the Schwarzschild radius — after Karl Schwarzschild, the first physicist to solve the equations of general relativity and inadvertently predict the existence of black holes — also depends on the mass of a black hole.

It also leads with this: >and potentially revealing a path toward a theory of quantum gravity.

But unless I missed it they never really came back around to explain their points
by topspin | 2025-09-11 01:50:13+00:00
> I do IDPA matches

Yes, this is the level of training I imagine as sufficient. A match applies pressure: you're on a clock, there is an audience, you have a safety regime and people scrutinizing you on it, and at the end, there is a score. I don't claim Fort Benning sniper school is necessary. Only that you likely can't just wander out of a gun shop with your scoped deer rifle at any price and snipe targets at range under pressure: there is more to it than the weapon.

> Combat trained random people are probably more common than you think.

I listed a wide variety of people with the training I believe is sufficient.
by strken | 2025-09-11 01:50:18+00:00
I'm not an American, I'm an Australian. Our gun deaths sit at 0.9 per 100000 people instead of 14 per 100000 and I approve of our gun laws. In that sense, I guess I'd say that roughly 6% of this gun death was okay.

In a broader sense, it is of course not okay to shoot someone, but that's taking the quote out of the context of gun control measures.
by jadamson | 2025-09-11 01:50:20+00:00
> "Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. Henry is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops for the Revolutionary War.

Were the troops his clones?
by tdeck | 2025-09-11 01:51:57+00:00
Don't forget law firms that participated in cases Trump doesn't like have been bullied into doing hundreds of millions of dollars of pro bono work for the administration. And his supreme court just decided, with no explanation, that picking people off the street based on their perceived ethnicity is OK. And people are being deported to prisons in countries they've never visited, where they spend all day shackled with no prospect of a trial.
by Aloisius | 2025-09-11 01:52:32+00:00
Prison labor = slave labor, not slavery. Prison = slavery.

I blame how slavery is taught for the confusion. Slavery itself is a legal state where one's autonomy is fully controlled by another. Forced labor is something people commonly use slaves for, but the absence of labor didn't make one free - a slave allowed to retire was still enslaved as was a newborn born into slavery even before they're first made to work.
by nrjames | 2025-09-11 01:53:10+00:00
I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau in February of 1995. It was well below freezing and there was some type of ice ball precipitation, perhaps because it was too cold to snow. I was the only person there.

I walked all the way back from the famous entrance gate, along the train tracks, to the monument at the back. The place was huge and imagining people suffering there during that type of weather was especially heartbreaking. I was luckily able to convince the taxi driver to wait for me. I have some black and white photos I took of it somewhere on my shelves. That visit sticks with me more powerfully than almost anywhere else I've been.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-11 01:53:23+00:00
I've seen a lot of products with Wi-Fi radios in them, because they come on microcontroller modules pre-certified to meet FCC requirements, while any device without a radio that runs at 1 MHz or higher, needs to be certified by the developer, which is expensive.

For only a few cents per unit, you can forgo spending tens of thousands of dollars and days to weeks weeks of time. It's usually the most cost effective option, for anything under around 100,000 units.

I've never seen cellular radio modules used the same way, as they cost tens of dollars instead of tens of cents, but Wi-Fi radios are still a security concern, due to the increased attack surface.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-09-11 01:54:38+00:00
It does I believe? I've never tried it myself but I've heard multiple voices say that once you go into the terminal the entire Gentoo stack is just there with portage, equery, qapps and such.

In fact, from what I understand it is in fact not really Gentoo based but Portage-based, as in they for the most part write their own ebuilds and software and from what I know have their own custom init system and display system that's not in Gentoo but they found that Portage was simply very convenient for automating their entire process. The claim that “gentoo is just Portage” is not entirely true, there's still a supported base system that's configured as offered by Gentoo but it's far more flexible than that of most systems of course, granting the user choice over all sorts of fundamental system components.
by xwolfi | 2025-09-11 01:54:50+00:00
I've been once threatened by an ex-gf with a knife, telling me she was gonna kill me. You know what I felt ? A mild worry, "come on, drop that, it's not worth it". She threw it across the kitchen and cried in my arms (difficult breakup, she has an history of family violence and alcohol abuse and comes from Myanmar, a tough place. We're both fine).

She would have had, to actually endanger me:

- to have enough strength to penetrate anything

- the courage to see a lot of blood and cries to actually go through with a full murder

- resist me fighting her back if it went to that, close range

- not react to any rational argument I would beg her to listen to while she attacked me

It was a bit traumatizing, but we laugh at it now... she failed at the first rational argument I presented "don't do it, don't ruin your life for a guy".

Imagine if we were in a gun country, and she pressed the trigger accidentally... it's not the same, you must understand that, knife murders are really really hard, gun murders really really easy.
by abustamam | 2025-09-11 01:55:20+00:00
I agree with you. There should not be sides in the American political system. Yet here we are, because the people we elect seem to want to create a boogeyman in the other "side" and blame all of society's problems on them. Maybe that's just a reflection on American society.

And the news networks eat that shit up. They love a boogeyman, because it's good for ratings.
by zzo38computer | 2025-09-11 01:55:25+00:00
Is the original version available without antialiased text and Unicode? Both are features I specifically do not want.

(However, the X locale features are not made very well; they could have been done better (for example, it should not require the C library locale to match the X windows locale, but it does, which can cause some locales to not work, as well as other problems; there is also the bug in Xlib (and problems with the distribution) that requires it to be compiled differently for some locales than other locales).)
by zahlman | 2025-09-11 01:56:00+00:00
> HN is a techno right wing site

We're talking about the same site that constantly has submissions from politically biased sources alluding to various ways that the orange man is bad, where comments pushing standard right-wing talking points are frequently flagged and killed within minutes, and a recent Ask HN seriously entertained the question of whether HN is "fascist" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598731) because the "orange man is bad" posts get flagged?
by sgc | 2025-09-11 01:56:18+00:00
That was what was insane to me. I expected a couple hundred mb each for my first couple of apps. Not a pleasure in itself, but I was blindsided by the 10gb. The apps were clearly also part of the problem - they should not have so many dependencies. However even after I removed them, flatpak was using 8gb+, I had to purge it to reclaim space. That is why I called it a hot mess.
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-11 01:57:45+00:00
There is hope.

GP is currently the highest comment, and on other sites I've visited, while too many people cheer this or call for violent retaliation, most of the highly-upvoted comments (both liberal and conservative) condemn it and argue for de-escalation.

Anger and fear are powerful emotions, but so is hope. Barack Obama campaigned on hope and became President, winning his first election with the highest %votes since 1988. Donald Trump also became President in part due to hope; his supporters expected him to improve their lives, while most of Hillary Clinton's and Kamala Harris's supporters just expected them to not make things worse. Now lots of people desperately need hope, and if things get worse more will.

Irrational hope can be dangerous: all the time, people make decisions that backfire horribly, and deep down they knew those decisions would backfire horribly, but they made them anyways out of desperation for an unlikely success. Perhaps this is another example, where the assassin delusionally hoped it would somehow promote and further their desires, but it will almost certainly do the opposite.

But hope can also be rational, and unlike anger and fear (which at best prevent bad things), hope can intrinsically be for causing good things. If a group or candidate that runs on hope for a better world gets enough attention and perceived status, it could turn public perception back to unity and optimism.
by donmcronald | 2025-09-11 01:58:04+00:00
I've never even met someone I would consider an extreme leftist, but I've definitely met people that parrot far right talking points all day long and they're increasing in numbers.

Almost everyone I know would be center-left or center-right except the ones that have shifted far to the right from watching influencers. The center-right people will come towards the middle, so I should have been clear that I'm talking about the new normal of right wing politics that is way further to the right than it used to be.
by esseph | 2025-09-11 01:58:46+00:00
Ubiquiti started in outdoor wireless, point to point and point to multipoint. All their outdoor radios, cameras, and unifi APs are all running a version of openwrt.

EdgeRouters started on vayatta and then that went away (AT&T acquired Vayatta) and then that forked into VyOS.

Some of the Ubiquiti EdgeSwitches are running some other OS, but I can't remember what it was.

Source - Spent 14 years helping alpha / beta test, debug code and wireless problems, etc.
by eviks | 2025-09-11 01:59:34+00:00
You're missing Windows, GUI apps, and the other dozens of cli apps above 12? Also cases where symlinks break because apps delete configs before saving and the ability to differentiate between systems easier. Also the final output config is cleaner/more readable if cross-OS compatibility is offloaded to a config manager. Then templates/vars can make configs cleaner /easier to update (e.g. moved some portable apps from C to D to save ssd space, can update one var). Also can limit config diff noise by ignoring unimportant changes like latest app window position
by baby_souffle | 2025-09-11 01:59:40+00:00
> Giving rise to ISIS.

Debatable as to weather it delayed or intensified ISIS but I think you're missing my broader point; his disposal prevented immediate harm and that was a net benefit.

> Political theater at best.

I'd argue there was a very symbolic benefit and even if there is/was a power vacuum.

I floated this question to a friend that likes to nerd out on geopolitics and they suggested that there's a few warlords in africa that tend to end civil wars and make way for successful peace talks after they're dead. I had never heard of the UNITA but as soon as Jonas Savimbi was assassinated, a decade+ civil war ended and Angola had elections shortly thereafter.

Goodwins law would apply if any of the _many_ attempts had succeeded.
by abustamam | 2025-09-11 01:59:45+00:00
While "mass shooting" does not have a solid agreed upon definition, there is a commonly accepted definition when we talk about one in the US. It's a shooting incident in which there are 4 or more casualties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United...

That's a very low bar.
by rudedogg | 2025-09-11 02:00:31+00:00
I enjoy reading your comments here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I'll watch the talk.

> Yes, and arenas may give such usage patterns a similar CPU/RAM knob to tracing collectors, but this level of control isn't free. In the end you have to ask yourself if what you're gaining is worth the added effort.

For me using them has been very easy/convenient. My earlier attempts with Zig used alloc/defer free everywhere and it required a lot of thought to not make mistakes. But on my latest project I'm using arenas and it's much more straightforward.
by landgenoot | 2025-09-11 02:01:29+00:00
> Nah, this is just straight up false.

I wasn't clear, but this is about my experience. Maybe you are in a different bubble. But I'm not able to book a hotel, browse GitHub, file my taxes, make a bank transfer or even look up the menu of a restaurant.

The only exceptions for me are HN and a handful of news websites.