MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nradov | 2025-10-27 15:44:53+00:00
Ha ha, but seriously unlike other nutrients the human body can't really store protein reserves for any length of time. So you do need to keep taking in quite a bit every day or the body will break down muscle in order to sustain other tissues.

https://peterattiamd.com/rhondapatrick3/

The protein doesn't necessarily have to come from beef, although that is one of the highest quality sources in terms of digestibility (for most people) and essential amino acid balance.
by WorldDev | 2025-10-27 15:45:41+00:00
I see, you are unplugging and re-plugging, instead of just pressing a button. That makes sense. It feels like a usb mechanical switch should exist, but I guess it does not.

Another option that I looked at is whether I could use the switching capability on the device itself. For example the new Logitech MX 4 can switch between different computers. It also has a wireless connection, versus bluetooth connection. Do you have a sense whether switching with a device like that is enough of a separation?
by infinet | 2025-10-27 15:45:54+00:00
Canada has an unique advantage in dealing with China that many don't realize or underestimate. Unlike many other countries, Canada holds a very special place for many Chinese people. Dr. Norman Bethune, who died during World War II while working in a field hospital, is a highly respected physician and a household name in China; There was a very catchy song from a Canadian potash TV commercial that many Chinese people remember from the early days when many Chinese watch the TV for the first time; Mark Henry Rowswell (aka Dashan) is perhaps the best-known stand-up comedian in China. Overall, I’d say Canada occupies a warm and special place in the hearts of Chinese people, including the age group of current administration. I don’t understand how the two countries have become hostile toward each other.
by powersurge360 | 2025-10-27 15:46:26+00:00
I didn’t see it mentioned in the comments so I guess I get to be the person to post the quote!

> “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”

Excerpt From Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut

This is often quoted from Mother Night but it’s actually in the preface so I don’t know how many people actually see it within the work. Anyways, rather than self aggrandizing in the way the linked article is, the story in the book is a cautionary take. The book is about a Nazi propagandist that is secretly an American agent feeding broadcast lines to the Allied forces in subtleties in communicating his propaganda like pauses in between words and other tics.

The idea in the book is what does it matter to be a good person in private but a driver of evil in public? How much bad does it take to outweigh good and if you do bad things to effect something positive, are you absolved of those bad things anyways?

No, I think not. If you do ill to achieve good you are accountable to both. It is easy, sometimes, to imagine that some thing you’ve done has overridden and eliminated some other thing you’ve done but it isn’t really true. You’ve done both. I recognize I’m speaking in circles a little but I think it’s important to confront the idea that the things you’ve done are not undone by other things you’ve done just because you feel the ends have justified the means.

Remember that who you think you are is a private fantasy. Who you actually are is how you are experienced.
by candiddevmike | 2025-10-27 15:46:48+00:00
They may have all the power, but all of this shows is they have no idea how to wield it. The job market is horribly broken, there are inefficiencies everywhere, and their hedging/procrastination on what to do with hiring and growth is tanking the economy (and their customers ability to purchase their products).

If their goal is reducing wages through layoffs/attrition and lowballing new hires, they aren't going to get it without triggering a recession or worse.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-27 15:46:52+00:00
it's important to remember that having a right does not mean having the right to use that right wrong. you have to use your rights right, or the government will step in and right the wrong of you wrongly exercising rights with its right to wrong you. this way our rights are preserved equally: i have the right to say what I want, and you have that very same right (the right to say what i want). It's only fair. Hell, it's only right.
by HaZeust | 2025-10-27 15:47:04+00:00
Fair point. I am not asking for "one more level". The design already assumes parity. Each branch has a lever to counter the others - some faster than others, and none sits above the rest. Congress has laws, the purse (TBD), oversight, and impeachment. Courts can halt and review. The executive has veto, charging choices, and pardons that reach only federal crimes and never impeachment or civil liability. The whole point of this is when one of three branches misfire, the others answer through state cases, impeachment, elections, or new statutes.

The threat is lateral, not vertical. The system works by equal tension, not hierarchy.
by triceratops | 2025-10-27 15:47:10+00:00
> It has 4 times more protein, less fat, and no carbs

Compared to an almond? Who the fuck eats almond steaks? It's a nonsensical comparison. If you want less fat and more protein per calorie, chicken beats beef. Chicken also has a lower water and carbon footprint.

> Vegan substitutes are all highly processed

Beans aren't "highly processed". Learn to cook and you'll understand that there are options besides processed food for vegetarians and vegans.
by ben_w | 2025-10-27 15:47:26+00:00
> “Almond milk” is not milk. You know what else is less carbon-intensive than milk? Candy corn. But that is also _not milk_, and so equally irrelevant!

While almond milk is an incomplete substitute for bovine mammary secretions, it is so much closer than candy corn that it has been used as a substitute for the last 800 or so years, and shared the "milk"-ness in the name before we had an English language:

The word “milk” has been used since around 1200 AD to refer to plant juices.

- https://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-ma...

This makes this use of the word older than English people spelling the thing chickens lay as "eggs" rather than "eyren": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5znvym68k

The Romans called lettuce "lactūca", derived from lac (“milk”), because of the milky fluid in its stalks: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lettuce

Similar examples abound.

For example, I grew up in the UK, where a standard Christmas seasonal food is the "mince pie", which is filled with "mincemeat". While this can be (and traditionally was) done with meat derivatives, in practice those sold in my lifetime have been almost entirely vegetarian. The etymology being when "meat" was the broad concept of food in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincemeat

Further examples of this: today we speak of the "flesh" and "skin" of an apple.

Personally, I don't like almond milk. But denying that something which got "milk" in its name due to it's use as a milk-like-thing, before our language evolved from cross-breeding medieval German with medieval French, to argue against someone who said "Insofar as it is used for milk", is a very small nit to be picking.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-27 15:47:30+00:00
You either think DEI is about taking jobs from white people and giving them to undeserving others, or that the deserving are spread across different races and genders etc. and we should capture that better.

If you're in the former group just man up and say it, don't waste our time with the equivocating, "so the government just doesn't want people to discriminate and that's a problem???"
by in_a_hole | 2025-10-27 15:47:51+00:00
But simply getting to the Lagrangian picture from the Hamiltonian picture would just leave me wondering why the Hamiltonian picture works!

My motivation for getting to the bottom of all this is to fill the gaps in my physics understanding at least up to quantum mechanics. I have a grasp of QM but I would like to have some insight into the conceptual leaps that brought us there from classical mechanics. QM works in the Hamiltonian picture and I recall from my undergrad days that you get there from a Legendre transformation on the Lagrangian (or something to that effect) so I'm trying to understand the justification of that approach before moving up the conceptual ladder.

Ideally I would like to be able to trace my way from simple postulates based on observation of the physical world all the way to QM, then maybe to QFT after that.
by snickerbockers | 2025-10-27 15:48:00+00:00
So what's your point? Should minorities be excluded from government? Are individual members of minority groups not entitled to their own opinions? And are "far right" jews really that big of an anomaly?

There is definitely a phenomenon of people sometimes supporting candidates on the basis that their ethnicity won't be used to criticize their policies but they're addressing a complaint that would be made otherwise. It also denies the agency of minorities by requiring them to be monolithic entities wherein all members agree with whatever you think their opinions should be. Would you really be satisfied if the entire trump administration was white Christian males over the age of 40?

One of the criticisms of the pro-life side of the abortion debate has always been that men are over-represented in the US federal government yet they're able to regulate an issue in which they are not directly effected. I don't know if you agree with this specific criticism or not but a lot of people do and I don't think it's fair to then complain about "tokenism" when somebody like Amy Coney Barrett who is immune to this argument gets appointed.
by apeconmyth | 2025-10-27 15:48:02+00:00
After over a decade of knowing about it, I finally got a copy of Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events by Persinger/Lafrenière last week and was reading about this subject yesterday, but from a book published in 1977. It's blowing my mind to see this here today, but the ultimate source of me even knowing about the above book, Robert Anton Wilson, would not be surprised at all!
by tsunamifury | 2025-10-27 15:48:25+00:00
Uber, Airbnb and DoorDash are the primary dark pattern users in the industry.

I am an executive design leader and all hires from these three companies are screened in detail about their honesty level in their designs due to how many issues I have with these companies training their workers to lie.

If you work for them know that it’s a black mark on your record.

I have hired two from these companies who literally opened the interview with “I want to leave X because they literally are lying”
by Faelon | 2025-10-27 15:48:35+00:00
Not all processed foods are created equal. Almost all of the elevated health risk from processed foods comes from processed meats and sugary drinks. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/well/eat/ultraprocessed-f... Whole grain breads are ultra-processed, and I don't think many are arguing against those. Beef has absolutely devastating effects on human health including elevated cancer risk, diabetes risk, dramatically higher incidences of heart disease (the greatest killer of Americans). Plant-based substitutes are scientifically shown to lead to better outcomes. Better yet, soy based whole foods are excellent for human health, contrary to the bro-science talking points. Turns out, beans are good for you! https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/the-bottom-line-on-ultra-proce... https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/health-benefits-soy

This book is science, front to back, cementing the idea that animal products are not ideal for human health. https://www.amazon.com/Food-Revolution-Your-Diet-World/dp/16...
by bigbuppo | 2025-10-27 15:49:01+00:00
> "We also find a highly significant (∼22σ) deficit of POSS-I transients within Earth's shadow when compared with the theoretical hemispheric shadow coverage at 42,164 km altitude."

I'm not an statisastroscienticianist, so I have no idea what that means, but maybe it's significant.

That being said, Kodak discovered nuclear testing was a thing before the public for all the obvious reasons.
by djoldman | 2025-10-27 15:49:21+00:00
> These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.”

(Emphasis mine)

I'm curious if any lawyer folks could weigh in as to whether this language means that the entire sentence requires the mentioned programs to be "in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws." If so, one might argue that a "DEI program" was not in violation of a Federal anti-discrimination law.

Obviously no one would want to have to go to court and this likely would be an unacceptable risk.
by Chris2048 | 2025-10-27 15:49:52+00:00
What does that mean though: "water used"? The only actual use of "water" is an E = mC^2 conversion to raw energy, or a chemical/location change such that it's locked-up/removed from availability permanently.

The water normally continues to exist, so presumably it's some other resource we are using. This may seem pedantic but it's not - raw groundwater, or unprocessed grey water is not potable as in "water a person uses" for drinking, which is a subset of the water a person uses overall (directly in showers etc, or by proxy in bought products, building materials etc).

In each case, water is more of a "carrier" for some other resource or property. If in CA the almonds go through a lot of water (is this due to perspiration? i.e. their cooling mechanism?), the water will still create clouds that I presume increases rainfall elsewhere? In fact, the water now holds more energy (from solar) that might be useful somehow.

Similar comments around "land usage", entirely depends on opportunity loss otherwise.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-27 15:50:08+00:00
>What does repeatability have to do with intelligence? If I ask a 6 year old "Is 1+1=2" I don't change my estimation of their intelligence the 400th time they answer correctly.

If your 6 year old can only answer correctly a few times out of that 400 and you don't change your estimation of their understanding of arithmetic then, I sure hope you are not a teacher.

>What machine is that? All the LLMs I have tried produce neat results on very narrow topics but fail on consistency and generality. Which seems like something you would want in a general intelligence.

No LLM will score 80% on benchmark x today then 50% on the same 2 days later. That doesn't happen, so the convoluted setup OP had is meaningless. LLMs do not 'fail' on consistency or generality.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-27 15:50:16+00:00
Just to say, that makes your site more usable in text browsers too, and easier to interact with the keyboard.

I remember HTML has an way to create global shortcuts inside a page, so you press a key combination and the cursor moves directly to a pre-defined place. If I remember that right, it's recommended to add some of those pointing to the menu, the main content, and whatever other relevant area you have.
by christophilus | 2025-10-27 15:50:42+00:00
I guess it depends. I have a friend who has dairy cows, grass-fed, very well cared for. He names each one and hates to slaughter them, but when they are done producing, he does take them to the slaughter house. I bought a quarter of a cow from him a few years back, and it was excellent. It did have a hint of gaminess redolent of venison or lamb, but it was delicious.
by aspir | 2025-10-27 15:50:59+00:00
This isn't good for the PSF, but if these "poison pill" terms are a pattern that applies to all NSF and (presumably) other government research funding, the entire state of modern scientific research is at risk.

Regardless of how you, as an individual, might feel about "DEI," imposing onerous political terms on scientific grants harms everyone in the long term.
by theaniketgiri | 2025-10-27 15:51:05+00:00
Yeah, I did! I trained a few small ones — mostly the “nano” and “tiny” templates (a few million params) on datasets like Shakespeare and Alpaca. The goal was to make sure the training loop, tokenizer, and evaluation all worked smoothly.

Didn’t go for massive models — more about making the whole setup process quick and reliable. You can actually train the nano one on CPU in a few minutes just to see it working.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-27 15:51:42+00:00
> Well, no... That's the thing about false negatives vs. true negatives. The more effective the safe browsing protection is, the fewer false negatives.

That reiterates what I said: the harms happened before, and will continue happening, no matter what. No action will reduce them to 0.

> a) you have to be doing something pretty unusual to trigger a false positive

I don't think that's true here. Many people have been harmed due to trivial, common actions. Other victims, their charges are secret, and they are not afforded due process, an impartial judge, or even the right to face their accusers. Very tyrannic and kafka-esque. Without transparency into the precise rules and process, we categorically cannot make the above claim, and evidence seems to belie it.

> This seems to be a claim "Safe browsing should be a government institution."... What do I do if I don't like my government's safe browsing protection? Is it as opt-out as a corporate-provided one is?

Good news! It isn't. Who says the government needs to provide safe browsing protection? There are other levers governments can take, like investigating and prosecuting criminals, and making victims whole. "Safe browsing" exists because the government has so far failed at that. Law enforcement is more focused on rounding up & perpetrating violence upon people with different skin color than them, I guess.

All that said, I feel like I articulated a pretty good alternative if google really wants to keep safe browsing going: just provide due process to their victims, which includes: a presumption of innocence (one even weaker than in public policy); the right to face their accusers; the right to a speedy, public trial; the right to defend themselves; and the right to an impartial judge/jury.
by f33d5173 | 2025-10-27 15:52:16+00:00
"Or" means at least one of multiple alternatives. Alteratives contrast with each other, they differ. Of course, the original author could be repeating the same thing for emphasis, but more likely they are saying two different things. Since the second thing is discrimination, the first thing, "DEI", must necessarily not be discrimination. If they merely wanted you to not discriminate, they could have just said "follows federal anti discrimination laws" which are quite stringent.
by chemotaxis | 2025-10-27 15:52:17+00:00
You're criticizing a joke. Worse, you seem to be aware that you're criticizing a joke, and still went through with it.

I also disagree with your premise: Recall by an open-source entity would have many of the same problems. The threat model for most people isn't that Microsoft might tailor ads to their interests. The threat model is that you're giving that ransomware gang, or an abusive spouse, a new tool with devastating capabilities.

Even for people legitimately worried about law enforcement / the government, the same applies. You're gifting your adversary a database of everything you've ever done that understands context and can literally be queried for "just show me the bad things". It's slightly better if it lives locally rather than in the cloud, but it can be used to nab you just the same.
by duxup | 2025-10-27 15:52:25+00:00
I feel like there's always this elephant in the room now: We have an administration lead by someone who doesn't care to take input.

We have a congress who is just yes men and have zero ambitions to do anything themselves (trade / tariffs is supposed to be their job). A SCOTUS majority and thus judicial branch who has decided they don't want to do their job / get involved.

So what does it matter what "American" needs / gets a warning about if the administration is out of touch, and won't take input (even advisors are open about this)?

Maybe we get lucky and Trump sees a tweet about it? If not, then what?
Show HN: Unlisted Jobs
by Jabbs | 2025-10-27 15:52:57+00:00
This press release describes the product (which you can use for free with promo code "ULAUNCH").

The app gathers job listings directly from company websites (different than aggregators that collect directly from ATS's). So there are about ~30% of 300k+ jobs listed not found on paid sites like Indeed.

This job search site is geared towards job seekers (rather than employers). Would love any feedback
by mardifoufs | 2025-10-27 15:53:02+00:00
React isn't 100kb when compressed (which is how 99% of websites deliver it to clients). IIRC it's 7.4kb when minified and 2.4k when minified+gzipped. That's smaller than typically "small" frameworks like htmx.

In fact, Backbone is 17.7kb minified+g zipped. So I guess other frameworks make less sense than react?
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-27 15:53:11+00:00
What makes you think I do not use (something like) Firefox? I use Fennec - F-Droid's build of Firefox Nightly - as my main browser. I only use Chromium-derivative browsers for those sites which won't work with Gecko and to test whether things I make work 'on the other side´.

As to not trusting an NGO with my data, well... where to start? Ever since Mitchell Baker turned Mozilla into an activist cooperative while firing those pesky developers - who needs developers when all you want to do is political campaigning - and raising her own salary 5-fold that organisation has lost its shine as far as I'm concerned. As far as I'm concerned Mozilla is ripe for a new 'March 31 event' [1] in the sense of a transfer of the stewardship of the Gecko engine and Firefox browser to either another organisation entirely or to a splinter group from within Mozilla which still considers developing the main competitor to the Blink engine as its primary focus without any of the heavy political baggage from the Baker days.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/netscape-sets-source...
by blinkingled | 2025-10-27 15:53:24+00:00
> The bidding model is elegant, but it’s insufficient to route network requests. To allow an HTTP request in Tokyo to find the nearest instance in Sydney, we really do need some kind of global map of every app we host.

So is this a case of wanting to deliver a differentiating feature before the technical maturity is there and validated? It's an acceptable strategy if you are building a lesser product but if you are selling Public Cloud maybe having a better strategy than waiting for problems to crop up makes more sense? Consul, missing watchdogs, certificate expiry, CRDT back filling nullable columns - sure in a normal case these are not very unexpected or to-be-ashamed-of problems but for a product that claims to be Public Cloud you want to think of these things and address them before day 1. Cert expiry for example - you should be giving your users tools to never have a cert expire - not fixing it for your stuff after the fact! (Most CAs offer API to automate all this - no excuse for it.)

I don't mean to be dismissive or disrespectful, the problem is challenging and the work is great - merely thinking of loss of customer trust - people are never going to trust a new comer that has issues like this and for that reason move fast break things and fix when you find isn't a good fit for this kind of a product.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-27 15:53:32+00:00
At least that is generally the case for calculating the ecological footprint of a person.

I am critical of this metric though, since the water isn't really lost in many cases. Especially if datacenters use water never meant for consumption.

If you look at it as a power generation problem it become much more plastic. That is of course as long as the water doesn't get expended in regions that lack it.

Although if you want to compare datacenter usage to agriculture, you could say that one is more essential than the other. Even if modern agriculture is a high tech industry that uses datacenters.