MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by florkbork | 2025-10-09 09:37:15+00:00
You already suspect this, but your expectations are out of line with the actual game/meta game/propaganda model there.

You as a person who uses reddit have a general agreement most likely with the concept of reddiquette, and perhaps go to engage with diverse views, maybe to learn something, maybe to just have an argument. Normal internet forum stuff.

However, you are arguing with a vertically integrated propaganda machine that is basically an experimental weapons testing facility for rhetoric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency but on so steroids, of which those steroids are on various white powders and no this isn't the War on Christmas. It's less obvious because this machine mimics normal, centrist US culture in ways that slip under the cognitive radar.

You could more easily recognize this if it were AI prompts in the style of 1984 or Pravda; but it's more difficult in this case - it is just rational enough to be ridiculous/incredulous; that it seems like debate is a suitable avenue; it aligns to your context enough and while you might not agree; you could see how 1 in 10 people might be misled.

As a result, you engage and then one of the following happens:

- You make a point so salient they banhammer you because you cannot control the narrative.

- Or they mock you, and rally their "side" into feeling superior as a reaction/answer to their side's questioning of "huh, are we the baddies?". Of course not, it's the "loser woke left antifa attack helicopter pronoun'd TROUBLEMAKERS", who are an outgroup and just don't think about it too hard, k? Don't do the hard work of self examination! Just yell at this outsider!

As a result you aren't engaging with the centre right you hoped to; and if you even get close you will be removed as a threat, ASAP.

The game being played by one participant is "try anything that catches attention, causes fear and lures people to our mindset"; vs your (reasonable, but ultimately mistaken) view that rational debate would correct this and mutual understanding may emerge (and that's a positive; win win social outcome)

This isn't your fault, even longtime slightly centrist conservatives end up falling victim to this trap; when they realize their values don't align to the mechanics above, and are surprised when they are turned on by their former allies.

Unless you have a firm grounding in human psychology and few qualms about manipulation; it is unlikely that discourse or debate will get you anywhere if based on facts, not feelings.

I would firmly encourage you to keep the instinct to engage in discourse; but find social forums where it is a lot harder for a propaganda machine to control the narrative. Will still be tough, but face to face interactions in common spaces can build community.

The "other side" of the political spectrum or almost any group is absolutely just as liable to end up in this situation. It is not some "right wing" specific problem, it is a small but powerful group hijacking others to further their own goals, and people protecting their interests by funding the small group.
by throw-10-8 | 2025-10-09 09:37:19+00:00
- fragile under load and very difficult to debug SSR issues

- inconsistent behavior between hosted and self hosted versions of the same code

- horrible build times, like laughably bad multi-minute builds for trivial code bases

- crappy directory based routing system with lots of weird gotchas

- schizo identity JAMstack -> serverless -> ssr -> now its microvms + ai

- multiple hilariously long running GH issues where the dev team is thrashing around trying to debug their own black box framework

- "framework" that barely provides any of the primitives necessary to build web apps

- major breaking changes around core features like routing that require painful migrations

- general sloppiness, churn, and insecurity that comes from being part of the nodejs ecosystem

Thats not even getting into all of the shady patterns vercel uses to lock you into their overpriced hosting.

I've been a part of multiple teams that decided to build apps using NextJS, and while the FE is not my responsibility I typically got pulled in to help troubleshoot random issues. It was a complete waste of time in almost every case, and in one case resulted in the entire FE team being let go because they were unable to ship anything on time.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 09:37:20+00:00
> basic ingredient is something that does not have an ingredient list on its packaging

These are unprocessed foods [1].

From them you get processed culinary ingredients, like olive oil, vinegar, honey and butter. As long as you’re minimally vigilant with these, you should be fine, though some production methods may still add preservatives or use solvents in their manufacture.

After that one has processed foods, which may still have a good amount of Group 1 and 2 ingredients, before we get to Group 4, UPFs, what California is banning in school lunches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-09 09:37:45+00:00
> My recommendation for happiness with Linux is: Always use native apps. Don’t use WINE. Don’t try to be compatible to inherent hostile things.

Rather: don't try to be compatible with inherently unstable APIs:

https://sporks.space/2022/02/27/win32-is-the-stable-linux-us...

https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

Just to be clear: I consider it to be a good idea to write native apps for GNU/Linux, but first stabilize the APIs so that they stay basically stable for at least 20 years.
by rini17 | 2025-10-09 09:37:49+00:00
I see it like natural sciences strive to do replicable experiments in outside world, while math strives to do replicable experiments in mind. Not everything is transferable from one domain to the other but we keep finding many parallels between these two, which is surprising. But that's all we have, no foundational truths, no clear natural/unnatural divide here.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-09 09:38:20+00:00
I think you should just charge everyone. I can't imagine there are many people in the community who would have a use for it but aren't professionals who could pay money for it.

You could make a special exemption for non-profits and public defenders.

Giving it away for free just creates potential for freeloaders.

Great product idea by the way! Hard to believe lawyers have gone without this for so long.
by HelloNurse | 2025-10-09 09:38:36+00:00
People become pedantic when it's the only way to defend themselves and their friends or to argue against someone.

In this case dotcom investing was so stupid that it should have been recognized as stupid at the time, without hindsight. For someone who lost money, gave bad advice etc. insisting that they didn't fall for a Ponzi scheme means representing themselves as less terrible investors, regardless of facts.
by joaoqalves | 2025-10-09 09:38:39+00:00
I’ve spent the past three years "vibe coding" with LLMs, building side projects I wouldn’t have had time to ship otherwise. Along the way, I’ve learned how to structure context for ChatGPT, utilize PRDs to minimize rework, and address areas of weakness, such as testing.

It doesn’t feel like "magic" anymore, but it does feel like a real productivity boost. Wrote up the reflections + shipped projects in this blog post.

Happy to hear your thoughts and comments.
by rzwitserloot | 2025-10-09 09:38:41+00:00
My comment originally contained something along the lines of "When the invasion of hostomel failed, they should have ended their operation on the spot" but that felt too presumptuous.

But perhaps it did inform my sense that this war is such a shambles. Because of what Moscow must be thinking about what could have been and how close they came.

I disagree with the 'plight of commoners' comment, though.

This war is being paid by the oligarchs. The printers are printing rubles nonstop and sending them to the commoners. It's not like the russian economy is creating that value (quite the opposite; it's bleeding value). That means the massive amounts of rubles that the oligarchs hold are worth way, way less now. Also a bunch of them have flown out windows.

The plight of the oligarchy that has supported this regime for decades doesn't seem "irrelevant to the tsars" to nearly the same level. There's the sense that the regime has shown they can screw over the oligarchy without repercussion and that can be considered 'a success', but I'm guessing there will be repercussions. Just, now right now, the populace presumably likes the situation partly because they are now much richer (at the cost of the oligarchy) than before. But once this war ends, or drags on too long and the economy collapses due to it - I think we're going to be back to this being a total failure of an operation for the tsars.
by soapdog | 2025-10-09 09:39:00+00:00
My blog is yet to fail and I don't believe in premature optimization. I had 50k in a day once in the past and it was ok. If more than that happens in seconds and the blog fails, so be it. It doesn't affect my life at all, I fail too sometimes.

I considered monitoring popular posts and prerendering those. Feels like code bloat for something that might not happen.

Don't get me wrong, this blog used to prerender everything. It kinda sucked to compute which pages were affected by a change in any given page as it might need to patch indexes, cross linked references, and so on. It can be done of course, or you can simply re-render everything anyway. The added friction for development and maintenance was not worth it for me.

It is my personal blog, it is not a personal branding site to show people my cool web skills or anything. If it goes down, let it go down.
by camel-cdr | 2025-10-09 09:39:17+00:00
> 104661. (a) (1) For purposes of this article, except as provided in subdivision (b), “ultraprocessed food” or “UPF” means any food or beverage that contains a substance described in paragraph (2) and either high amounts of saturated fat, sodium, or added sugar, as described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3), or a nonnutritive sweetener or other substance described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3).

> (3) (A) High amounts of saturated fat, sodium, or added sugar, as defined respectively as follows:

> (i) The food or beverage contains 10 percent or greater of total energy from saturated fat

I feel like the saturated fat limit would be the most impactful restrictions.

However right after it's entirely opened up again:

> (b) “Ultraprocessed food” or “UPF” does not include any of the following:

> (1) Commodity food specifically made available by the United States Department of Agriculture.

> (2) A raw agricultural commodity as defined in Section 110020.

> (3) An unprocessed locally grown or locally raised agricultural product as defined in paragraph
by Jensson | 2025-10-09 09:40:00+00:00
It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative.

The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a catastrophic election loss that would also have been onion worthy but today its reality.
by fhd2 | 2025-10-09 09:40:31+00:00
Yeah, if the API design prevents this, parsing HTML is about as hard. But I've seen a lot of cases where a single request will get you _all_ the data you could ever want, a lot of it not even rendered on the frontend, no need to deal with pagination or anything. Kinda full database access as long as you have an auth token, which any logged in user has.
by piker | 2025-10-09 09:40:49+00:00
Yes, it does render PDFs.

There's actually an example PDF in the bundle if you click "Fetch Example" from the web preview at: https://tritium.legal/preview.

Under the hood, Tritium is using PDFium[1]. That's the same library used by Chrome, for example. The PDF spec is another animal that will be tackled in due course, but most legal users only need to view and comment on PDFs.

Try and find a binding to PDFium from your language of choice and start at that layer. PDFs are complex beasts, most of which complexity it may not be necessary to try to tackle in the first instance.

[1] https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/
by soapdog | 2025-10-09 09:41:00+00:00
it used to work like that. At the moment, the dynamic pages take miliseconds to rende and ship. Even though static files would be a an order of magnitude faster, we're talking about it already being fast enough for 99% of the time it is needed and that is good enough. Reducing my time and friction maintaining and using my own blog is more important and having five sigma of uptime.
by benrutter | 2025-10-09 09:41:29+00:00
This was my gut response too, I reluctantly read "Ultra-Processed People" after it was mentioned by so many people, expecting to find it annoying for this exact reason.

I was actually massively surprised by how helpful a label ultra-processed can be, even if there are edge cases.

Hormel are probably adding a huge number of lab-based emulsifiers, flavour enhancers and colouring, that you definitely won't have at home. It's a pretty open and shut case about whether or not its ultra-processed.

There's of course edge cases were something we think of as healthy might be ultra-processed, and something obviously unhealthy might not be considered ultra-processed. But it's a really helpful category for identifying a whole bunch of foods that are linked with a range of negative health conditions.
by cryptonym | 2025-10-09 09:41:43+00:00
Try to scale Next.js globally. Try to keep up to date with new versions, changes in paradigms and the way the output is rendered.

It's designed to be deployed on Vercel. Production-ready hosting part of the Framework is not Open Source nor well documented.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/59167 https://www.netlify.com/blog/how-we-run-nextjs/
by jbstack | 2025-10-09 09:42:09+00:00
Sounds like you're defining processed food, whereas this is about ultra processed food.

For me, processed food might include something like unsweetened peanut butter where while the only ingredient is peanuts, it's still been through a process of grinding so that it's no longer in its natural form.

At the other end of the spectrum an example of ultra processed food would be a factory packaged item with a long list of ingredients which includes ones you don't recognise e.g. chemical names or E numbers.
by askonomm | 2025-10-09 09:42:47+00:00
That's one way to sell a open source project I guess. Not only did Vercel really fight to not have any mention on the React docs about using React _without_ Vercel, but downright to using wording to imply that if you do then you're using it wrong. All clearly states the direction that Vercel is taking React. Soon enough it'll be Vercel-only software.
by trilogic | 2025-10-09 09:42:50+00:00
Made this one for you: https://vimeo.com/1125804680

My clients (which are most the Gov, Uni, Med, are not happy for it but they got over it. My proposals for funds/contracts suddenly get denied unless I explain what is really happening. This is not only damage to reputation but also to business. I repeat this has to stop. Now the competent Authorities are investigating properly but as always they get off with a fine (which is in Billion btw).The choice for them is Either stop this or pay billions, The world belongs to everyone.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 09:42:51+00:00
I assume it is a relevant enough concept to flying an aircraft (which also happens to be the context of TFA) that you learn about it while flying.

I guess another thing worth noting is that "glide ratio" isn't the same as "gliding" in the "flying a glider" context.

The space shuttle is probably the most famous glider, and was described as "a flying brick" and getting it to the ground at the right spot was very much a matter of glide ratio. Worth noting the space shuttle's speeds started off as hypersonic.

By comparison, a typical glider's built to be able to take advantage of air currents to regain altitude, and I'm not sure how weight affects that.
by coldtea | 2025-10-09 09:43:34+00:00
>But currently it feels extremely borked from a UX perspective. It purports to be able to do this, but when you tell it to it breaks in unintuitive ways.

Thankfully as programmers we know better and don't need to care what the UI pretends to be able to do :)

>We would rightfully stone any engineer who'd design this and then say "well obvious user error" when the user rightfully complains that they crash whenever they listen to Arrow FM.

We might curse the company and engineer who did it, but we would still use that car and do those workarounds, if doing so allowed us to get to our destination in 1/10 the regular time...
by hgomersall | 2025-10-09 09:44:00+00:00
The specific exclusion is: Minimally processed prepared food as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 49015 of the Food and Agricultural Code, which may include foods in a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, whole, cut, sliced, diced, canned, pureed, dried, and pasteurized.

and that bit of Section 49015 says:

(4) “Minimally processed prepared food” may include any food prepared using either of the following processes:

(A) Traditional processes used to make food edible or to preserve it or to make it safe for human consumption, for example, smoking, roasting, freezing, drying, and fermenting.

(B) Physical processes that do not fundamentally alter the raw product or that only separate a whole, intact food into component parts, for example, grinding meat, separating eggs into albumen and yolk, and pressing fruits to produce juices.
by kakacik | 2025-10-09 09:44:31+00:00
Certain groups of people have certain genetic predispositions. Ie when pregnant there is calculation of down syndrome probability, they take your origin into account. We had something like 1:4000 IIRC, my french teacher who comes from Algeria had 1:200 with his wife.

Alcohol tolerance is another (native south americans have lower, as do some asian populations). Over time, env effects also creep up in the genome (ie altitude acclimatization for sherpas).

But could be also societal, level of healthcare, level and types of vaccines received and so on.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-09 09:44:43+00:00
Seems like a typical blanket baseless unscientific attack of everything deemed "unnatural". Lots of the typical insane stuff, sugar is okay, but "Nonnutritive sweeteners" are not. Spices are okay, but MSG is not. Just a laundrylist of the typical alternative medicine mumbo jumbo. Kind of pathetic, but not unexpected from the state legislature

I'm sure they extensively deliberated the health effect of Luo Han Fruit Concentrate and Maltitol
by munksbeer | 2025-10-09 09:44:53+00:00
I don't have time right now but I assume you found this already?

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/how-it-works_en

I signed an EU citizens initiative to keep EU citizenship for British citizens after brexit. I knew it was doomed to fail, as it made no real sense, but it wasn't a bother so I signed it anyway.
by seec | 2025-10-09 09:44:55+00:00
Well sure but the capital costs is really an argument in its own. When you compete with a foreign industry that does not have the same rules for capital it's really hard to compare accurately.

This is a big problem in general with neoliberal thinking, that capital in itself has value and should create a profit. If you consider that electricity should be a free market then it is a problem but the reality is that it isn't really a commodity that you can transport around freely. It needs to be generated locally and at the correct time to be useful, otherwise it's just wasted. And this is the basis of the problem and why we fall in the capital argument. Electricity shouldn't be a free market and largely can't (which is exactly why problems are appearing all other the place in EU). If you consider that it is actually a necessity, just like water and sanitation, then the capital argument doesn't even apply.
by jongjong | 2025-10-09 09:45:01+00:00
I shudder at the thought of "striving to become a Reddit moderator." So much effort to achieve such a petty political goal. What sort of person does this? I cannot comprehend people who would spend their life doing that... Out of all the things a person could do. Do Reddit moderators get a kick out of manipulating people's beliefs and banning people discussing niche topics? I don't get it.
by donatj | 2025-10-09 09:45:11+00:00
So things with scientific names are "ultra processed", and things with common names are not? That's just childish fear mongering.

Everything is a chemical. Salt is sodium chloride. Ingredients should be assessed individually and scientifically for their safety. Not just scary name equals unsafe. That's childish.

The war on monosodium glutamate is based racism and not science. It's as safe as table salt. There is no real science showing that it's anything but delicious.

Dextrose is just a simple sugar. It's essentially glucose chemically. Nothing to worry about. Your body produces glucose itself. You are not ultra processed because of that fact.

High fructose corn syrup is just fructose, another simple sugar [1], and there's no real science to back up all the fear mongering around it. It's no worse for you than any other sugar. All things in moderation.

1. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/157
by truetraveller | 2025-10-09 09:45:26+00:00
I checked the actual /r/codesmith links you posted. They all seem fake. Most replies are from users who are either deleted, or new accounts with a single comment. Note: I am not saying the founder of Codesmith did this, or that these are fake 100%. Just suspicious.

And the fact that you used your real name when being a mod gives you strong credibility. You weren't looking to hide your involvement, since you weren't doing anything wrong, in your opinion. This is unlike the "fake" mods who will have multiple levels of indirection, with fake post histories, etc. Astroturfing / shilling 101 is never use your real name.

And overall, if what you're saying is correct, the author owes you an apology. And so does the HN crowd. HN, although a good crowd in general, is super-susceptible to "witch hunts". I don't like witch hunts + character assassinations. So that's why I'm defending you.

P.s. It's ironic that Lars, the author, is a master affiliate marketer + growth hacker. He's started an affiliate company that did $7 million in revenue. I don't say he is an unethical person. But from what I know about this field, it's almost always on the grey line (and he's also admitted to this). See his video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QnwHAnJwv-k. And this is just what is public, if we were to "dig up" some of his stuff, it is possible one could spin it to make him look bad. My point is, he shouldn't exaggerate things to make you look bad. And the same warning applies to me or anyone.
by rini17 | 2025-10-09 09:45:26+00:00
But you can't really have chemistry without working with natural numbers of atoms, measured in moles. Recently they decided to explicitly fix a mole (Avogadro's constant) to be exactly 6.02214076×10^23 which is a natural number.

Semiconductor manufacturing on nanometer scales deals with individual atoms and electrons too. Yes, modeling their behavior needs complex numbers, but their amounts are natural numbers.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-09 09:45:49+00:00
Just two quick corrections:

1. sodium nitrite/nitrate salts have been used in Europe at the very least from the 19th century to cure meat, the earliest regulations in (of course) Germany date back to 1916 [1].

2. MSG has been a part of traditional Japanese dishes, it naturally occurs in soy and fermented fish sauce.

So for these two substances, I'd say their presence in food doesn't make it "ultra processed" all on its own - they and their usage in cuisine date back to times when there was no food industry to speak of.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B6keln