MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-10-16 17:48:37+00:00
This all has very big "uncured bacon" energy to me (if you didn't already know: there's no such thing; vendors of uncured bacon performatively drive the same chemical nitrite reaction using vegetable extracts). For example: yogurt becomes a UPF simply by dint of adding carrageenan, which is on the order of calling dashi a UPF because of the kombu.

It's not that there isn't a very legitimate issue underneath all this: packaged, hyperpalatable, low-nutritional-density low-satiety foods are probably a major driver of health problems. It's just that "UPF" isn't the right metric for isolating those foods, and with the wrong metrics you end up in a similar place as California does with the Prop 65 warnings.

We went through a similar thing with "pink slime" (transglutaminase preservation techniques).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a9VDIbZCU
by sunnyb23 | 2025-10-16 17:49:05+00:00
Yes exactly if LinkedIn allows me to work with its API like this (its restrictive). This would work with YT, Instragram and X out the box. The key thing is this is AI with human oversight and it learns, gets smarter, the data overtime can turn into sales opp. The agent also adapts based on beacon profiles and optimises when to send comments so it doesnt feel robotic and maximises engagement rate.

I'm a former LI employee so I know some people there in product that may give me a chance but you got it one.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-16 17:49:52+00:00
Guess when you put it that way, it's much better to have a clanker on a coin than a person.

Sadly, with that mentality we wouldn't have celebrities or perhaps even that many leaders. Fests like this are what drive some of the most driven people, and our biology makes us want to follow and admire other people as a former pack hunting species. The best we got is thst we can't put any living person on a coin (though, guess what the rumors are trying to say?)
by zonotope | 2025-10-16 17:50:14+00:00
This is the correct answer. There are a few pockets in the USA where this is the case like parts of the Boston and New York metro area, but you have be flexible with your definition of "affordable".

And that's the point. These places are less than affordable because there's a much higher demand of people who want to live in these kinds of areas than the supply of them. We should build more!
by mjparrott | 2025-10-16 17:50:19+00:00
A really nice brand of healthy foods that are trustworthy and less processed is Primal Kitchen. I have zero affiliation with them, just is a brand I trust. Its so hard to shop for things that are healthy. For example, their Ketchup is just Tomato, Vinegar, Salt, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, and Spices. No sweetener substitutes needed. https://www.primalkitchen.com/products/organic-unsweetened-k...
by airesearcher | 2025-10-16 17:50:29+00:00
I've added a bit more explanation

https://github.com/novaspivack/lace/blob/master/Rule_Explana...

https://github.com/novaspivack/lace/blob/master/Betweenness_...

These cover only one metric and one rule, but give some more info

Here is a more detailed explanation: https://github.com/novaspivack/lace/blob/master/Realm_of_Lac...
by alephnerd | 2025-10-16 17:50:33+00:00
> Alternatively, you can retrain the workers

Back in my PM days, I tried this with a couple old timer SWEs at my company. All except 2 blew it off and when pushed back they tried to play politics via the "old boys club" of buddies in Engineering Leadership (in PM vs Director or VP Eng, the Director or VP Eng always wins).

Retraining only works if the people who need to be retrained want to take the effort to retrain.

In an industry like tech where self-learning is so normalized and to a certain extent expected, the kind of person who needs to be forced to retrain just isn't the kind of person who actually wants to retrain.

Also, ime, age does not correlate to this. Being lazy is a personality defect orthogonal to being a gray beard or someone in your 20s.

> these costs are all too often hidden deep in the balance sheets, which makes just dumping off entire departments while hiring up other departments appear much more financially attractive than it is in reality, all costs considered.

Not really.

The process of hiring a new employee in aggregate costs at most around $10k on top of salary.

The cost of keeping a low effort employee is the salary along with the additional 30-40% paid in benefits, insurance, and taxes of retaining that employee.

As such, it's basically a wash at the individual level.

> executives get paid sometimes a hundred million dollars a year because of the "responsibility" they hold

Most don't though.

The person who ends up deciding to increase hiring is almost always an Engineering Manager or Director (depending on size of company).

VP and above only have visibility on top-line numbers, but the actual business case to hire is made by EMs or Directors.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-16 17:50:53+00:00
i lived in one of those small towns through highschool, just a blinking yellow light and a gas station. What we did, and everyone did, was drive the 20miles to the large town with a Walmart and get groceries there. It only takes 20min because there's no lights or traffic in those areas so the time commitment is about the same as living in a city. My mom made meals from her recipes using basic ingredients so it's certainly feasible to eat how you want in these areas. Only in the most rare/extreme cases are people forced to grocery shop at a gas station.
by strongpigeon | 2025-10-16 17:51:31+00:00
That reminds me of when I was living right by the BLM protests/CHOP [0] in Seattle and got tear gas in my condo. I had just bought some new coffee beans to try out and when I did the next morning, thought they tasted super "chemical-y" and immediately threw them aways.

Turns out tear gas is known to seep into food items, especially porous food like coffee and bread [1]. Not surprised at all that VOCs linger in reservoirs as mentioned in the article.

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

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/tear-gas-is-way-more-dang...
by robenkleene | 2025-10-16 17:51:33+00:00
macOS does this too (if I'm following correctly), you can see it in the "The Apple Menu in macOS Ventura" screenshot on this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_menu#/media/File:Apple_m... it's done for both application keyboard shortcuts, as well as system shortcuts (as in this example).

For completion, system shortcuts are also available in `System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts...` (where they can also be changed). (Although I don't think that's 100% comprehensive, e.g., I don't think `⌘⇥` for the application switcher is listed there.)
by spankalee | 2025-10-16 17:51:58+00:00
Yes, and I completely agree with this, but the comparison for this type of food delivery should be apples-to-apples.

If you live in a very walkable place, you're less likely to use delivery and when you do it's more likely to be someone on a bike or scooter. Waymo's probably don't apply there. The comparison would be walking vs delivery, and that would obviously come out bad for delivery.

If you don't live in a walkable place then the comparison is you driving vs the delivery driving, and that's a wash or even positive for delivery. The induced demand of delivery vs cooking at home (assuming you grocery shop for the week) would be very bad for delivery though.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-16 17:52:03+00:00
Sell some stuff on Etsy and get payouts on social media. As soon as you start adding in business expenses, it inflates pretty quickly.

I've often taken on a side project or two a year for software dev/consulting and it usually winds up being $200-350 to have my taxes done. If I only have W2 income, I'll do the electronic version of TurboTax though. I also do 0 deductions and have extra out of each check taken out just in case, I don't set aside or do quarterly payments and usually get a decent return back.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 17:52:17+00:00
> consistently found Gemini to be better than ChatGPT, Claude and Deepseek

I used Pro Mode in ChatGPT since it was available, and tried Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and more from time to time, but none of them ever get close to Pro Mode, it's just insanely better than everything.

So when I hear people comparing "X to ChatGPT", are you testing against the best ChatGPT has to offer, or are you comparing it to "Auto" and calling it a day? I understand people not testing their favorite models against Pro Mode as it's kind of expensive, but it would really help if people actually gave some more concrete information when they say "I've tried all the models, and X is best!".

(I mainly do web dev, UI and UX myself too)
by solarkraft | 2025-10-16 17:52:19+00:00
I hope they are going to solve the looping problem. It’s real and it’s awful. It’s so bad that the CLI has a loop detection which I promptly ran into after a minute of use.

In the Gemini app 2.5 Pro also regularly repeats itself VERBATIM after explicitly being told not to multiple times to the point of uselessness.
by beyarkay | 2025-10-16 17:52:21+00:00
> AI doesn't "act" at all unless you, the developer, use it for actions

This seems like a pointless definition of "act"? someone else could use the AI for actions which affect me, in which case I'm very much worried about those actions being dangerous, regardless of precisely how you're defining the word "act".

> when they can literally be implemented with a spreadsheet

The financial system that led to 2008 basically was one big spreadsheet, and yet it would have been correct to be worried about it. "Malicious" maybe is a bit evocative, I'll grant you that, but if I'm about to be eaten by a lion, I'm less concerned about not mistakenly athropomorphizing the lion, and more about ensuring I don't get eaten. It _doesn't matter_ whether the AI has agency or is just a big spreadsheet or wants to do us harm or is just sitting there. If it can do harm, it's dangerous.
by mjparrott | 2025-10-16 17:52:54+00:00
Many times the ultra processed crap is more expensive. Don't forget "convenient to buy" in addition to "convenient to cook". For example, a cliff bar bought from a corner store could be $3, and is basically a candy bar. A company I like is called Farmer's Fridge, and they basically have vending machines in convenient places with fresh made healthy foods like salads.
by gcanyon | 2025-10-16 17:53:07+00:00
There's an initial learning curve as there is with any new programming paradigm (which everyone who works exclusively in C-like languages forgets that they paid a long time ago) but there are only something like 100 primitives, and then once you understand how they interact, the world opens up and the volume of a sphere being

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just reads normally. It's been over ten years since I did anything in J and I can almost explain that now...
by dent9 | 2025-10-16 17:53:09+00:00
You're doing it wrong. Mac is by far one of the best development environments and is used by millions for dev, including LLMs. In fact I'm running LLMs and image AI models right now on my M4 MBA and everything works perfectly.

For your dotfiles there's not too many differences just make a separate entry point for zsh that only includes the zsh + macOS things (a few system calls are different in macOS) and then set your .zshrc to load the zsh + macOS version instead of the Linux or "universal" one. This is trivial if you've split your dotfiles into multiple separate files to import individually from a central master file per OS.

For window management you want to use CMD + ` to switch windows in the same app and CMD + Tab to switch apps. You also want to utilize the touch gestures for App Expose and Mission Control.

The only thing that's still wonky is the touchpad Natural Scroll vs the mouse wheel scroll, there's a third party "Scroll Reverser" app that can give you normal mouse wheel scroll and Natural Scroll on the touchpad at the same time. Hopefully some day Apple will make that a native feature.

Stop trying to install third party window managers.
by drewbug01 | 2025-10-16 17:53:25+00:00
When you step back far enough, ultimately the governments power is derived from the consent of the governed (as the Declaration of Independnce puts it).

SCOTUS can decide what the “strict bounds of the law” is, within our current system of government. But it is wise to heed what the people want the law to actually be - since their consent is truly what matters. Any government is ultimately powerless if the people decide it is so.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-16 17:53:37+00:00
> It's a unique trait of tech companies to encourage cold but polite relations with your coworkers.

I don't know how you can assert this, among any other "stuck in a cubicle" office environment. Opportunities to be social are brief anyway. I'm on the side of 'give people time off enough to develop relationships outside of work'. 4 day work weeks would go a long way to helping people get the socializing we need.
by orochimaaru | 2025-10-16 17:54:08+00:00
Just get plain unsweetened full fat yogurt. Every store has that. Yeah - the sweetened/flavored variety are more but the basic unsweetened is also easily available.

Bread is a bit of a shit show. Stick to something like sourdough for 0 adde sugars.

Hormones are banned for meat and poultry. I’m not sure how antibiotics are treated. Fwiw - with vegetarian food you also run the risk of pesticide contamination.

Either way, my point is that there’s a lot of options but do your research before you hit the store and in general try to limit highly processed food
by 0x457 | 2025-10-16 17:54:13+00:00
> Case in point, my first read on lifetimes just left me confused. So I used Rc<> everywhere and made a perfectly functional program.

Curious, did you run into lifetime issues or just started wrapping everything in Rc<> after reading about lifetimes? Wrapping everything in Rc<> isn't even a bad thing, that's what you have to when you do WASM in a browser.

I still find it confusing sometimes because you're not setting lifetime, you're just giving it a name so that the compiler can reason about it.

Like saying something 'static doesn't make it static, it supposed to mean "live until program closes", but you can totally create things with 'static and free them before program exits.
by segfaultex | 2025-10-16 17:54:26+00:00
I have scarcely gotten decent code. The best a model has spat out is 'fine', which is ok for menial tasks.

I have yet to see anyone show me an AI generated project that I'd be willing to put into production.

IDK, I feel like 'vibe coders' or people who heavily rely on LLM's have allowed their skills (if they ever existed) to atrophy such that they're generally not great at assessing the output from models.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-16 17:54:52+00:00
Indeed. My CS degree program taught me Karnough maps and some other basics, and that was enough to build a simple microprocessor design myself (it sucked, I neglected to build a way to use immediate values in instructions so I had to build a hacky "set" instruction that just set a register to a 15 bit immediate)

But I mostly can't grok things like cache implementation, or branch prediction, or pipelines, or register renaming and out of order execution, or "store forwarding" and other necessary features.

The simulator programs I was using have instant/single cycle memory access, and the cpu had single cycle execution of all instructions so it wasn't really necessary, but still.
by aj_hackman | 2025-10-16 17:54:58+00:00
> All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates.

This is quite the reduction, akin to claiming that my wife and I got married because human beings are a pair-bonding species - it checks out on the surface, but discards an incredible breadth and depth of human experience. I do not close my eyes at night and talk to a loose collection of ideas cobbled together by a bunch of random people attempting to outline a system of objective morality in the pursuit of societal control. I am participating in an eternal relationship with the author of truth and love.

> There's no payload, just absurd emptiness.

It's developed a commentary on internet culture vs. legacy media.
by tavavex | 2025-10-16 17:55:12+00:00
If you're an individual or a small business owner who wants to no longer pay for my services, you should be allowed to stop doing so. If you're a megacorp, however, you wield extremely disproportionate power over thousands of people, and your moves can send shockwaves through an entire industry and have severe consequences for your employees that have no real power in comparison to you. I think that moderating the actions of huge businesses will be far better in these situations, especially if their reasoning for mass layoffs is maximizing profit-wringing rather than actual desperation and an immediate need to cut expenses.
by pplante | 2025-10-16 17:55:30+00:00
I poked around at the code and I like some of the concepts here. Introducing jinjapy as a jinja template with frontmatter allowing me to write python code is useful in some scenarios.

I got most excited about sqlorm (https://github.com/hyperflask/sqlorm). It is way too early to feel comfortable adopting this, but I really like the concepts. I use pydantic a lot, I would love to see the SQL as docstrings as a pydantic extension. I get tired of writing serializers everywhere and would prefer to have a single pydantic model to reference throughout my codebase. Primarily I use Django, but these days am using less and less of the framework batteries outside of the ORM.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-16 17:55:34+00:00
OK, Let's talk basics and real stuff..

Why is a company getting millions of dollars (from its biggest competitor) for doing the bare minimum (or is that a quid pro quo deal between them)? "Too little, too late" seems to be the norm at Firefox and Mozilla in past few years.

Firefox users have been demanding Tab Grouping for years (and the other major browsers have had Tab Grouping feature for years), but it was only in April 2025 that Mozilla finally gave that basic feature in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/

I rest my case.
by EGreg | 2025-10-16 17:55:36+00:00
If they want to make a proposal, they should have httpc://sha-256;... URLS which are essentially constant ones, same as SRI but for top-level domains.

Then we can really have security on the Web! Audit companies (even anonymous ones but with a good reputation) could vet certain hashes as being secure, and people and organizations could see a little padlock when M of N approved a new version.

As it is, we need an extension for that. Because SRI is only for subresource integrity. And it doesn't even work on HTML in iframes, which is a shame!
by mjparrott | 2025-10-16 17:56:04+00:00
If you make a system that has 1,000 nudges towards Fruit Loops and hides the healthy thing, then it isn't just an individual choice. Nudges include advertising, availability, addictive ingredients, misleading marketing claims, food engineering, etc. I recommend reading this to get an understanding of how much effort goes into making people make the wrong choices: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinar...
by vector_spaces | 2025-10-16 17:56:29+00:00
Yes -- I know that my experiences don't align with most middle-class grocery shoppers: I worked in the food business for a decade where assortment was literally my job. There is a lot that casual shoppers like you don't notice! That's actually built in.

In any case, I love most of what you have written here.

Online ordering enables larger long tails. In which market do you suppose online ordering is more common, Daytona Beach or Mountain View?

If you were managing assortment at a Publix in Daytona Beach, how would you structure your long tail? Would you look to a Safeway in Mountain View as a model to follow?
by nitwit005 | 2025-10-16 17:56:32+00:00
The problem is, there's a history of doing the exact opposite of what they claim to want to do. Plenty of Republicans have expressed a desire to make the tax code simpler, only to promptly add to the complexity.

More recently, Elon Musk was publicly proposing a mobile app for making filing taxes easier (See https://www.fox26houston.com/news/doge-tax-filing-app), but then once part of the Trump administration, they happily killed Direct File, a program to do exactly that.
by mrcwinn | 2025-10-16 17:56:50+00:00
I don't know that it should be illegal. I think the argument would be that it's deceptive. DoorDash, for some customers, claims there is no service fee - it's "free." What they're really saying is: the service of our delivery may be free, but the overall service we will provide is hidden or obfuscated in menu items, and without doing some research at the restaurant, you'll likely not notice.

One could argue it's best for the consumer to very clearly understand how much more they're paying. If not a service fee, here is our aggregate food markup, in plain sight. Transparency, in other words. Let's not borrow any ideas from the healthcare system.
by portaouflop | 2025-10-16 17:57:04+00:00
In my experience the store has 10000 different kinds of sweetened yoghurt and exactly one that is “real” yogurt - often doesn’t have full fat yogurt at all.

Completely impossible to get normal bread unless you go to some hipster store that charges an insane amount for it.

It’s just really really hard to get decent food in America, which is crazy because the land is so rich in resources and nature.
by brailsafe | 2025-10-16 17:57:10+00:00
Ya, what you're talking about did spread a bit on the various forums when it became clear they were aggressively segmenting that market.

> E.g they found that most people buying 64GB ram do also buy the upgraded processor.

It seems like the way they've divided them, there's at least one more SKU than there would otherwise be, because of that base M4 Max with only 36gb of ram (can't get it with 24,48,64,96), so if you want the extra few cores, you now have to go to the max Max to get any more ram.

It took me a while to commit to the purchase, because I felt like an idiot implicitly telling them I'm okay with that bs pricing ladder, but at least I didn't over extend and go for the Max. They already charge comically too much for ram and storage.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-16 17:57:29+00:00
Honestly, I get the GP completely. It’s not much the customisation hole. It’s just that MacOS is pretty meh as an OS and hilariously Snow Leopard, the first version I ever used, is my favourite amongst all the ones that followed.

I like the hardware however. I really wish there was a good laptop using a competitive ARM SoC with great Linux support. I refuse to buy anything from Apple since they started the whole EU shenanigans and I don’t really now which laptop I will buy. I’m seriously considering only using a phone as my personal computing device now that Android takes convergence semi seriously.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-16 17:58:07+00:00
No, just in 2025 of you really crank out the storage. Much better time to invest i premium products.

Tangent: I won't understand people hesitant to put down as much money on a phone as a desktop. Especially when considering that we know it costs more to shrink technology. If that's too much, oh well. I tend to buy 1-2 years previous when upgrading. Easily halves the price and the old flagship specs are still competitive.