MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by talkingtab | 2025-10-16 19:59:30+00:00
The suggestion was just to try good cheese so you know what it is. $35 a pound is a bit pricey for cheese. Another option is to make your own. It is a skill, not a recipe, but most mistakes are extremely edible and tasty.

The biggest obstacle is that you need a cheese cave to age the cheese. This can be a small dorm refrigerator with something like an inkbird temperature controller.

I do know one family that makes cheese and then just eat it without the aging. Store it in the refrigerator. They think it is much better than store bought.
by skylurk | 2025-10-16 19:59:58+00:00
I know I'm replying to a shitpost. But I had a realisation, and I'm probably not the only one.

If you can manage to keep structuring slightly intelligent tools so that they compound, seems like AGI is achievable.

That's why the thing everyone is after right now is new ways to make those slight intelligences keep compounding.

Just like repeated multiplication of 1.001 grows indefinitely.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-10-16 20:00:05+00:00
You forgot mcp-everything!

Yes, it's a mess, and there will be a lot of churn, you're not wrong, but there are foundational concepts underneath it all that you can learn and then it's easy to fit insert-new-feature into your mental model. (Or you can just ignore the new features, and roll your own tools. Some people here do that with a lot of success.)

The foundational mental model to get the hang of is really just:

* An LLM

* ...called in a loop

* ...maintaining a history of stuff it's done in the session (the "context")

* ...with access to tool calls to do things. Like, read files, write files, call bash, etc.

Some people call this "the agentic loop." Call it what you want, you can write it in 100 lines of Python. I encourage every programmer I talk to who is remotely curious about LLMs to try that. It is a lightbulb moment.

Once you've written your own basic agent, if a new tool comes along, you can easily demystify it by thinking about how you'd implement it yourself. For example, Claude Skills are really just:

1) Skills are just a bunch of files with instructions for the LLM in them.

2) Search for the available "skills" on startup and put all the short descriptions into the context so the LLM knows about them.

3) Also tell the LLM how to "use" a skill. Claude just uses the `bash` tool for that.

4) When Claude wants to use a skill, it uses the "call bash" tool to read in the skill files, then does the thing described in them.

and that's more or less it, glossing over a lot of things that are important but not foundational like ensuring granular tool permissions, etc.
by alchemism | 2025-10-16 20:00:18+00:00
You are conflating macro- and micro- economics a bit in that statement. Entities accumulating wealth incrementing towards infinity contributes to inflation, e.g. My family can spend 1 trillion to out-bid my competitor for ownership of a villa worth 1 billion for bragging rights.

Commodity pricing may contribute to inflation over time. But commodity prices go down, whereas currency tends to move in one direction until the civilization backing it collapses, or the specie changes.
by Supermancho | 2025-10-16 20:00:20+00:00
Almost 20 years after I bought my first Erlang books, I would never recommend Erlang OR Elixir to anyone but a senior dev who likes coding on their own and want to try something different. This pool is almost 0 people, since I was someone who wanted to play with it. I found the juice not worth the squeeze, in time investment vs capability. The build system alone is enough to throw most people off.
by dgb23 | 2025-10-16 20:00:51+00:00
As a counterweight from a Swiss:

Yes, Switzerland is in many ways liberal, but I think there are other major factors that the article misses.

For one, our infrastructure is in large parts owned by the public. Energy production is owned by cantons, public transportation and telecommunocations are owned by the confederation. Infrastructure investments are streamlined and funded in a very efficient way.

Secondly we have a consensus government. It was shortly mentioned but the article doesn‘t give it enough credit. I‘m horrified by political news from other European countries and the US, who have competitive governments. So much energy is wasted by political ping pong and permanent campaigning. In contrast: compromises formed by all major parties lead to stability and markets _thrive_ in stability. It’s boring but effective and it compounds.

Third is pure luck. We are simply in a geographic region that has always been economically active.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-16 20:01:12+00:00
I read “One of the earliest [press coverage] was a full-page story on the MCS6501 and MCS6502 microprocessors in the July 24, 1975 issue of Electronics magazine” on the 6502 wikipedia page [0], and that led me to find this incredible archive.

The very first issue from 1930 has introductory notes from Edison and Millikan[1].

I hope to find a few pivotal moments in there - the transistor? ads for early PCs? Let me know if you find anything good :)

(I should probably look into the 50th birthday commemorative issue of 1980, it may list some of these famous dates/issues).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Introducin...

[1] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/30s/El...
by 12345hn6789 | 2025-10-16 20:03:12+00:00
Finding full fat, no sugar added yogurt is quite easy, and completely subjectively up to taste. You may make your own yogurt yes. But perhaps the flavor difference you are experiencing is due to the intensive labor you spent time to produce said yogurt.

- https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/painterland-sisters...

- https://www.hy-vee.com/aisles-online/p/2284457/Siggis-4-Milk...

- https://www.jewelosco.com/shop/search-results.html?q=yogurt&...

- https://www.marianos.com/p/dannon-gluten-free-whole-milk-non...

As for roasting beans, that is an immensely deep rabbit hole that will #1- not give you better results than specialty roasters and #2- cost you much more than specialty roasters. Not to mention you will have a tough time getting high quality beans unroasted.

Edit: also all of these grocery stores I listed I can guarantee have fresh bread made daily to buy. Not "white bread", but "real" "European" bread.
by overfeed | 2025-10-16 20:03:31+00:00
Still not thinking big enough, say it with me: "Fully Automated Space Kitchen constellations". Cryogenically frozen burritos. dropped from orbit, and reheated by connecting combinations of copper heatpipes to the fiery heatshield at precise times during re-entry. Global delivery in 30 minutes or less*.

* No refunds on orders damaged en route by SAM, or delivery mechanism malfunction. Customer waives their right to any claims for compensation for property damage, injury or loss of life due to elevated delivery velocity.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-16 20:03:57+00:00
Why is someone so determined to force this "ultraprocessed foods" meme? Is it just so they can get a government definition of "ultraprocessed foods" that somehow doesn't include foods that are 1/3 teflon by weight?

There are plenty of specific processes that are extremely questionable and probably dangerous. Europe bans a lot of them, or to be fair almost everybody bans them but the US. But somehow, when the references to food additives and processes get specific, outlets like the NYT start using phrases that include "right-wing," "corners of the internet," "rant," "outburst," "conspiracy theories," "...but the science actually says...," "the consensus," "...that the vast majority of scientists agree to be safe..." etc...

Also, dangerous additives and processes are an entirely different question than talking about people eating fatty, sugary, salty foods because they like them. They're on the verge of turning "ultraprocessed foods" into a moral crusade against the tastes of the lumpen, which their upper-middle class audience loves because it allows them to feel superior (and deserving.)

Also, preservatives are good. They make food cheaper and make it last longer. I want dangerous preservatives banned.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-16 20:04:24+00:00
https://sqlite.org/copyright.html

Public domain. No "copyleft" license needed

Being written in a small, fast, "old and boring" language may be part of what makes SQLite apealing. Another (related) part may be the thoughtfulness and carefulness of its author, e.g., "time, attention and testing"

The former, i.e., the author's "time, attention and testing", may matter more than the later, i.e., the author's language choice

As suggested by the top comment, in effect the author's language choice, by itself, may not matter with respect to the issue of "safety". If true, then even an "unsafe language" may not reduce the "safety" of SQLite^1

djb's software is also public domain and written in an "unsafe language", mostly the same "old and boring" one as used to write SQLite. Like SQLite it is appealing to many people and is found in many places^2

1. But the thoughtlessness and carelessness of an author, no matter what language they choose, is still relevant to "safety". In sum, "safety" is partly a function of human effort, e.g., "time, attention and testing", not simply the result of a language choice. Perhaps "safe" and "unsafe" are adjectives that can apply to authors as well as languages

2. https://ianix.com
by Amezarak | 2025-10-16 20:05:22+00:00
> Why would this matter at all?

You suggested that it’s a small niche and that the US is focusing entirely on software. That’s obviously not true. It “feels” true because of where the hype is at and because we’re on HN.

> China has 10x the employees in manufacturing

They also have more than a billion more people, about 4x the population.

> Studying mechanical engineering in the US is choosing to be a looser.

I don’t think that’s true but it is true the demand is not as high. Are salaries much higher in China? Of course it’s also true that outside of SF, tech salaries are not impressive. The median salaries are 103k and 138k, for mechanical engineers and software developers respectively, according to the BLS, not really a class difference.
by bpt3 | 2025-10-16 20:05:34+00:00
Society "tolerates" them because they have plenty of people willing to voluntarily give them money which totals billions of dollars for the bigger companies.

Jobs are a byproduct, not a hard requirement for a company to function, because the point of a company is to offer a service to customers, not to act as a jobs program for a town, state, country, or region.
by keeda | 2025-10-16 20:06:20+00:00
Interesting that there's no mention in TFA or the comments about DoorDash's ground-based delivery "drones": https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-unveils-dot -- I've seen them testing these things in parts of the Bay Area for more than a year now.

I think they're intended to use sidewalks and bike lanes, so should address concerns about cars clogging up streets.

My hunch is that just because they're smaller and lighter does not mean it's an easier problem to solve than a self-driving car. A more interesting partnership between Waymo and DoorDash would be licensing a scaled-down version of the Waymo tech for these things.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-16 20:06:24+00:00
Also,

1. The Snowflake incident played a major role for this demand, as well as the ongoing Salesforce incident.

2. Most organizations will only trust commitments from someone who is an exec or in the leadership chain, so this kind of role now demands a C-Suite title, and CISOs are already overloaded and shouldn't necessarily know the ins-and-outs of GRC or Data Management requirements/regulations.
by antonymoose | 2025-10-16 20:06:34+00:00
I suppose there are firms large enough to make that work.

Having worked at a smaller firm with 15 SWEs that employed this strategy, they lost their 3 critics and proceeded to lose another 8, myself included, due to loss of confidence in leadership in the immediate (3-6 months) of the initial culling.

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-16 20:06:38+00:00
Landlocked and not in the EU; though friendly of course.

Switzerland's wealth comes from a number of causes; like a high quality education for example. You might call this the 'developed' world or the 'high income' world.

But there are many countries with similar high quality education systems. The actual reason why they are doing better than those is actually narrow.

https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/government-debt-to-...

The one key thing they do better than the others is balancing their budget. You can have your welfare state, but someone has to pay for it.

If you have high taxes, people and businesses leave only when the value for your taxation doesnt meet expectations. Switzerland has high taxation; personal income tax of 40% means you work for the government 40% of the year. Did the government really provide you that much value? That's a personal decision.

What Switzerland is doing better than the others is balancing that. Ensuring value vs taxation ratio is correct. By keeping the debt low, your debt servicing it low and you provide more value per $.

How do you get here? They have a literal balanced budget amendment but how to get there? Their consensus government and the lack of us vs them is just so much better.
by xp84 | 2025-10-16 20:07:33+00:00
Let's assume you're right that they don't have a simple table that shows parentage of every SSN, sounds plausible that they wouldn't at least to start, but on the other hand, (for people who don't add or remove spouses or kids from their household) it's arguably VERY common for kids to persist with the same parent(s) from one year to the next.

I don't think anyone is saying "All taxes should be automatically calculated to the final numbers" -- just that for instance, when I filed last year with a spouse and 2 kids, a default calculation could be done this year that assumes an unchanged household.

And anyway, just as TurboTax does, the IRS could maintain a simple fact database for you for you to sign in and indicate what SSNs are part of your household, with the bonus that it would detect a duplicate claim for the same kid up front and show you that someone else (e.g. your ex) is claiming them and that you should get them to remove them to avoid both your returns being incorrect. The complexity for a taxpayer of signing in to IRS to manage household members, address, etc. with IRS is an order of magnitude less than that of tax prep they have to do today.
by dzaima | 2025-10-16 20:07:51+00:00
SSE3+ & AVX{,2,-512} & co improve on SSE in pretty much the same way that x86-64 improves on x86 - the old thing still works just fine, but the new one is wider, adds new (very useful!) instructions, doesn't copy over others, and (at least partly) uses different encodings.

And an important thing to remember is that there is and never as a single "x86" before x86-64; both Intel and AMD added new instructions as was seen useful in new generations. AVX & co just continue the pattern that's been going on for four decades.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-16 20:08:13+00:00
At the start of the covid epidemic in 2020, I had access to a lab and the know-how to make a nasal vaccine. I, and a few friends, tried to do this. We would only have made it for ourselves, and no one else, and shared the results with researchers. The lab -- which was just renting us equipment and bench space, not involved at all -- backed out when they were threatened by the FDA to lose government contracts for processing PCR test kits. What we were doing was not illegal, as clearly indicated by the regulators using other means available to them to shut it down.

I have family members suffering from Alzheimer's, with a probably genetic pre-disposition. Getting consent from someone who is already pretty far gone is questionable, but some who have not yet shown symptoms have expressed interest in signing pre-authorized directives in advance to permit these kinds of risky experimentation once they are clearly at the end of their good years. That is not legally possible under the FDA authorization laws & current regulations.
by advisedwang | 2025-10-16 20:08:34+00:00
My guess is that as soon as feds got their hands on the seed phrases they transferred the bitcoin to a wallet they made. The case then ground on for a few more years and now that they have the indictments all lined up, they are actually doing the forfeiture process.

The actual taking of the bitcoin is merely taking custody of the bitcoin. The forfeiture process changes the actual _ownership_. Think in terms of when the feds take cash from a car. FIRST they actually take the cash THEN LATER they file the forfeiture.
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-16 20:09:08+00:00
the 6-7 thing has been a source of constant amusement for me. my kid told me that one of their teachers had (with good humor) banned saying "6 7" and we immediately went down a rabbit hole of how he could "side-channel" 6 7s into conversation - like "hey, $teacher, what's the next prime number after 61?"

he told me there's a small bustling trade in learning numbers in other languages - "seis siete" for example.

seems like harmless fun to me.
by benrutter | 2025-10-16 20:09:11+00:00
This paper[0] (from a UK activist group but well referenced) says:

> US farm antibiotic use is 2.6 times higher than the median use in European countries and 60% higher than the average use throughout Europe.

[0] https://www.saveourantibiotics.org/media/1830/farm-antibioti...
by lholden | 2025-10-16 20:09:30+00:00
It is maybe one of the most featureless terminals out there. Slow, poor color support, weird and frustrating permission interactions, limited font options, incomplete terminal emulation, etc.

It has improved a bit over the years and is generally fine if you just need to knock out a few commands. But I don't find it to be a very pleasurable experience compared to the alternatives. It feels very much like Apple implemented "just enough" and no more.
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-16 20:10:20+00:00
> Idk, I wouldn't consider adult swim and friends brain rot.

I tend to agree, there's a pretty big difference between writing and animating a full-on show and the weird tiktok/roblox/youtube slop I see.

Then again - Skibidi Toilet is like a whole saga, and there was some pretty stupid stuff airing on Adult Swim.

maybe i'm just getting old.
by gspencley | 2025-10-16 20:10:54+00:00
> It's cruel to encourage coldness in such an environment.

You're straw-manning. The person you're replying to never once mentioned being cold, let alone encouraged it.

They simply expressed a preference for companies that don't try to pretend that their mission and purpose is something other than what it is.

I've worked in tech exclusively my entire 25+ year career. And I've worked for way more companies that try to put on a front of "we're a family" than the opposite.

As someone who has worked as an employee and owned businesses (often simultaneously), I'm on board with the parent. I don't want coldness in the workplace. But I also don't want employees or co-workers who don't respect that we're here to build something that we're offering for sale on the marketplace either, least of all in a highly competitive landscape where we're under constant threat of going out of business if we don't get productivity and efficiency right.

I want my businesses to be enjoyable places to work. But at the end of the day, if I'm paying money for someone who isn't pulling their weight then I am extremely resentful of anyone who tries to get in the way of me correcting the fact that they are effectively ripping me off and, by doing so, hurting every single one of their co-workers by hurting their employer.

Succeeding in business is hard. And while there are a lot of shady businesses out there, and a lot of big corps do things we take issue with, 99.9% of businesses are making the world a better place for you to live by producing everything from the concrete that paves your sidewalks, to the shippers that get food from farm to your table. The anti-business, anti-capitalism attitudes that are so prevalent in the west are truly disturbing.

By all means be pro-worker. But there really ought not be a conflict between business and employee since, at the end of the day, it is a mutually beneficial relationship. Business can't succeed without its employees, employees don't earn a cent if the business doesn't earn a profit. And lets not forget that what a business can afford is irrelevant. The business doesn't exist to employee people. It exists to produce the goods or services that it set out to in order to turn a profit. And there is nothing wrong with that. An employee that hates the profit motive is one I don't want working for me. You're hopefully profiting by being employed. Otherwise I don't know what you're doing with your life. So stop the hypocrisy and double standards. We're not a family, and we don't need to be cold to each other, but we're in this shit show together so let's act like reasonable, rational actors and do our fucking jobs so we can all take home money and feed our families and savings.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-16 20:11:01+00:00
Companies are subject to the laws in all the places they do business. They pay income tax in the place they have net income, which is something that they control themselves.

Corporate income tax is essentially designed wrong. Property tax is where the buildings are, payroll tax is where the workers are, sales tax is where the customers are, corporate income tax is where the profit is. Which they just put in the country with the lowest taxes.

It's basically this: Employees in the US get paid $1B to design a product that employees in China get paid $1B to manufacture and then it gets sold to customers in Europe for $3B. The net profit is then $1B, but where is it? If the subsidiary in Ireland pays the subsidiary in California $2B for the design then it's in California. If they instead pay the subsidiary in Shenzhen $2B to manufacture it then it's in China. If they instead pay them each $1B then it stays in Ireland. And then the company picks based on whichever one has lower taxes.

There is no real way around this because in real arms length negotiations it would depend on which subsidiary has more leverage against the others, but in modern companies what that really comes from is the strength of the company's brand or customer lock-in as a result of patents or copyrights, since without them the profit would be negligible because there would be no barriers to competitors entering the market and causing razor-thin margins, but all of those things are easy to move into whatever jurisdiction you like since they only exist on paper.

So international corporations pay taxes in Ireland and purely domestic corporations pay taxes in California which puts the domestic corporations at a disadvantage when the taxes in California are higher.
by eximius | 2025-10-16 20:11:11+00:00
It's mostly happy for people who don't have to deal with it.

If you are an "end user" who just wants to run your damn code without caring about your dev environment, then `bazel run|build|test //thing/to/run:target` is about as good as you can get! _If bazel is already set up_, I don't have to worry about my environment! It just works.

If your environment has a lot of churn and there isn't a team who makes sure bazel is actually configured correctly, then, yea, it is massive overkill for a lot of things and if you try to do things how you normally would and not the bazel way, you'll have a bad time.

There are other benefits - sometimes you want public APIs so it _can_ be used, but you want visibility rules to limit _who_ can use it. It is great for it's cacheability and dependency tracking - if you need advanced build tooling, it has what you need!

But there is a very real chance you don't need any of these things and so the cost is not worth it.

(I, personally, hate dev environment churn, so just having the CLI tooling uniformity is enough for me.)