MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-28 03:17:16+00:00
Ultra processed foods is not a well defined category, so saying avoid UPFs is meaningless.

There are several “UPFs” that have better health outcomes than NOVA 1 “unprocessed” foods, because the NOVA system was never developed to categorize foods by how healthy they were but instead how closely they matched a fairly regional Brazilian diet.

There is no evidence that “seed oils” are bad beyond their caloric density, and seed oils like Canola oil are some of the healthiest fats we have, far more than the lard they’ve been encouraging people to consume instead (which is almost certainly worse than most seed oils, except possibly rhe single scenario where a fast food chain may be heating and reheating the same fat source many times over).

No one is buying and consuming oesticides, so that’s in actionable advice for people.

There is absolutely no evidence fluoride levels in US water are anywhere near dangerous levels. Having people buy and maintain expensive filters simply to keep fluoride out of their water likely won’t help with anything, and will likely displace some other more healthful actions they could be taking, like spending the money on buying berries for their kids.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-28 03:18:40+00:00
There are a lot of hidden details, like ensuring that the client pays the bill.

As always, I recommend to read whatever pario11 wrote about this https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

Probably https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... and https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...
by musicale | 2025-11-28 03:19:22+00:00
Accurate terminology can help to clarify discussions, including discussions of appropriate activity related to creative works.

My suspicion is also that what many artists are objecting to is less the training itself (though AI web crawlers are aggressive and annoying) and more the use of the trained model for large-scale generation of similar (and possibly competing) works ("derivative" in an artistic if not legal sense), in the artist's style, especially by large companies for commercial gain.
by whartung | 2025-11-28 03:21:51+00:00
It's not like stickers are particularly difficult to make, or Watterson had an army of auditors combing every gas station or car meet looking for sticker makers.

They have (as I understand it) challenged and stopped some folks from doing things, but something like the Calvin sticker was pretty ubiquitous. Even then, some later ones were particularly bad Calvins.

I had a vinyl sticker of Spaceman Spiff on the back of my motorcycle helmet. I bought it at a motorcycle race back in the 90s.
by aaomidi | 2025-11-28 03:22:03+00:00
The American system, for better or for worse, is a representational based political system. Unfortunately that means that our political power is not direct.

That doesn't make it "not collective action", just collective action through an intermediary. Sometimes that's very clearly willed by people, sometimes (often) not. Doesn't mean we should throw out the baby with the bathwater though.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-28 03:23:09+00:00
> However, if you inspect a small number of products at random, you'll detect a large percentage of the quality issues.

As quality issues become fewer, the odds increase that inspecting a small number of products at random will lead to you thinking that there are zero quality issues. Have your inspections procedure scale and adapt to the relative proportion of quality issues you have reason to believe exist. And if you believe you truly have zero quality issues, then you need to switch to an immediate feedback procedure (such as an anonymous tip line, or a non-anonymous one for customer feedback).
by econ | 2025-11-28 03:24:46+00:00
I've never had the luxury of multiple db but in general race conditions..

Could you put an almost empty db in front that only records recent changes? Deletes become rows, updates require posting all values of the row. If no record is found forward the query to the read db. If modifications are posted forward the query to the write db.

If correctness is merely nice to have I always use a "Pain" value that influences the sleep duration. It rarely gets very busy instantaneously, activity usually changes gradually.
by Root_Denied | 2025-11-28 03:25:00+00:00
> There's a difference between trying to micromanage everything, and micromanaging enough that you're not out of touch.

I think there's a good point to be made here that this isn't micromanaging, it's bypassing feedback layers that have a tendency to filter out critical or important information. That information may or may not be withheld intentionally, but being Bill Gates and seeing that a crucial tool to help a customer doesn't work very fast, or is missing information, or relies on "hacks" (tribal knowledge on how to bypass restrictions or flags) to keep the support process going would be something that wouldn't filter upwards easily.

Definitely a balance to be had though for sure.
by gruez | 2025-11-28 03:26:18+00:00
So, EV code signing certificates? Windows has that, and it'll verify that right in the OS. Git for instance, shows as being signed by

CN = Johannes Schindelin O = Johannes Schindelin S = Nordrhein-Westfalen C = DE

Downside is the cost. Certificates cost hundreds of dollars per year. There's probably some room to reduce cost, but not by much. You also run into issues of paying some homeless person $50 to use their identity for cyber crimes.
by Saigonautica | 2025-11-28 03:28:58+00:00
I hear you.

I worked as a consultant for a company where the CEO one day, they just started using AI chat for everything. Every question you asked, they just forwarded it. Same thing for company strategy, major decisions, presentation content, and so on.

Initially, I was really annoyed. After I took a deep breath, and read through the wall of text they sent (to figure out how to respond), I eventually realized it was slightly better than their previous work. Not like, night-and-day better, but slightly better.

Since then, I've been playing with the idea of 'hiring' an AI to manage my freelance and personal work. I would not be required to do what it says, but I could take it under consideration and see if I work better that way. Sort of like the ultimate expression of "servant leadership".
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-28 03:30:35+00:00
LLMs can't innovate form. And form/format innovation is the core of creativity. Neither can RL or frontier. That's creativity, the ability to sense wordless states beyond existing status quo cause effect exchanges. Tokens have no game here. It's that simple, it's how cutting-edges are broken through. It's always trapped behind the aesthetics input, that's just another fatal blow to it's ability to create.

I'm not concerned with "hundreds" of people's opinions. And stories, poems, these are dead/dying forms.

You may be on the creativity camp, stay there. It's generic as creativity. From my POV, someone building a hybrid between game and movies, this tech is dead dull artifactual, like a fossilized version of art.

Yes of course we have definitions of creativity, see Anna Abraham. "creativity is doing something unique and new, using existing networks for things they weren't designed for"

And we have the wordless processes that materialze as affinities and events in the imagination.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-019-0202-9

I'm very struck by coders who are neither engineers, scientists, nor creatives in the arts, yet have the false intuition and self-delusion that this code is creative. Nonsense.

I'm afraid LLMs have zilch in comprable abilities to both as they exclude words, symbols, tokens etc.
by bochoh | 2025-11-28 03:30:44+00:00
In a cold climate, I would expect burying it to use the ground as a natural insulator. Why was an above ground design chosen?

Specifically, does the need for heavy insulation and the active heating of the sand make the ground a less effective or even problematic insulator? Could excavating and building a below-ground foundation for a high-temperature device like this be more complex and expensive than an above-ground silo? How would permafrost conditions affect this design?
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-28 03:31:34+00:00
I am not familiar with them but when I think of query generators I think of the lower level API for SQLAlchemy which is fine but still kludgy as it tries to translate SQL into a new “language” that is less known and less intuitive and still requires you to think in terms of is the data you are working with local or remote.

This is why key-value stores are so popular, I think. They make you do more but with all local data (that is data in your memory not in the database server). SQL can do a lot but because we almost never represent a user object as just a tuple there is a fundamental impedance mismatch between an environment that only deals with tuples in tables and an environment that deals with objects of some kind. Something that can do both at once would be the ultimate. Maybe the way to look at it isn’t to bring the database into your application but to run the entirety of the application inside a database. Imagine if all your business logic could easily be encoded into stored procedures and all you had to do was expose endpoints to draw a UI for it. That might actually work (and I know there are some systems that try this but none are mainstream enough).
by lmm | 2025-11-28 03:31:54+00:00
> If the system is complex enough and there are always incoming changes, there is never a point in time in these "eventually consistent systems" that they are in consistent state.

Sure, but that fact is almost never relevant. (And most systems do have periods where there aren't incoming changes, even if it's only when there's a big Internet outage). What would be the benefit in using that as a name?
by randycupertino | 2025-11-28 03:32:32+00:00
There was a long read article that came out a few years ago called "How Snoopy Killed Peanuts:"

https://kotaku.com/how-snoopy-killed-peanuts-1724269473

about how Peanuts lost it's edge once the "cute" popular dog was introduced, whereas prior it used to be more subversive, philosophical/theoretical with darker material.
by anonym29 | 2025-11-28 03:33:24+00:00
1. The idea that UPFs being poorly defined == UPF is a meaningless designation has always sounded like absurd whataboutism that stops real progress to me.

Surely you don't mean to suggest that just because UPFs aren't perfectly defined, that means there's no fundamental difference between a diet composed of skittles, donuts, and ice cream cookie sandwiches versus a diet composed of organic, plant-based whole foods, right?

2. You say there is "no evidence" that seed oils are bad... yet when I search for "canola oil health hazards", the very first thing I see is "Canola oil has been associated with potential health hazards due to its high omega-6 fatty acid content, which may contribute to inflammation and chronic diseases when consumed in excess. Additionally, the refining process often involves chemicals like hexane, which raises concerns about the presence of harmful byproducts, although these are typically present in very low amounts in the final product."

Am I crazy to prefer that the amount of hexane in my food be as close to absolutely none as possible? Am I crazy to not wanting to be loading myself up with something that's at least clearly associated with inflammation and chronic disease?

3. Why do we have to assume that the optimal replacement for seed oils is lard? Is it possible to consider that maybe we'd all be better off if we stopped eating french fries, rather than merely switching what greasy junk we're frying them in?

4. Plenty of non-organic foods have pesticides on them! https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/full-list.php

Is EWG not a generally reliable and trustworthy source of information? Do you mean to suggest that no foods grown outside ever have any pesticides on them, or that the pesticides never follow the food all the way to the grocery store? Haven't plenty of agricultural products over the years, including Round Up, been linked with high probability to various cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, etc?

5. Why do we assume that filtering water means taking away other healthy actions? Do we need to be giving kids MORE sugar just because it's natural (berries)? Is there not extensive scientific literature linking fluoride ingestion with decreased IQ?

6. Why can't we have a open, good-faith conversation about these topics without engaging in tribal politics? Why do we get so emotionally attached to current narratives and beliefs about these kinds of things even when we know those beliefs are formed based on incomplete information and should be subject to change as we learn more over time, a standard exercise of basic epistemic humility?
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-28 03:33:59+00:00
Cancer.

Most people who live in a city want the city to function well, and actively do their tiny little bit to see this happen. This doesn't stop them from flipping each other off on the freeway.

More broadly I think you're missing the point of the article. A single person can command a military of millions, but that single person can't ensure that everyone in that military have all of their needs met, personal emergencies dealt with, or just plain care enough to not half-ass it. Much less hear and respond to everyone's ideas on what would make things better, or what's making things worse.

Our individual cells have very simple needs in order to keep our larger structure functioning, and even then sometimes things go catastrophically wrong.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-28 03:34:43+00:00
I don’t necessarily disagree with the first couple of claims. But I think the author pulls a sleight of hand to make their case (to be fair, I suspect they themselves didn’t realize they’re doing this).

- The first claim is that language is not intelligence.

I think this is true, but am not sure. However, for the sake of argument, let’s accept this as true.

However, this leads to the obvious objection stated by the author. General intelligence doesn’t need to work the same way as human intelligence does. The author counters this with their second claim.

- We have no evidence that a language based model can lead to intelligence.

For the sake of argument, let’s even accept this as true. But here’s where the sleight of hand comes in. Lack of evidence in X being true is not the same as evidence that X is false.

Just because we don’t have evidence that language can evolve into something like intelligence, doesn’t mean language cannot evolve into something like evidence.

And so far our experience in language evolving into something like intelligencr has been surprisingly positive.
by jorl17 | 2025-11-28 03:35:04+00:00
It is a tale as old as time, and one which no doubt all of us repeat at some point in our lives. There are hundreds of clichéd books, hundreds of songs, and thousand of letters that echo this sentiment.

We are rarely capable of valuing the freedoms we have never been deprived of.

To be privileged is to live at the quiet centre of a never-ending cycle: between taking a freedom for granted (only to eventually lose it), and fighting for that freedom, which we by then so desperately need.

And as Thomas Paine put it: "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."
by lmm | 2025-11-28 03:35:33+00:00
> The Gilbert and Lynch definition of CAP calls this state ‘unavailable’, in that it’s not available to all clients. Practically, though, it’s still available for two thirds of clients (or more, if we can reroute clients from the outside), which seems meaningfully ‘available’ to me!

That's great for those two thirds but not for the other one third. (Indeed you will notice that it's "available" precisely to the clients that are not "partitioned").
by arkt8 | 2025-11-28 03:37:53+00:00
it sometimes can be just an architectural issue...

You can use the critical query against the RW instance, the first point.

The other point is that most of the time, specially concerning to web where the amount of concurrent access may be critical, the data doesn't need to be time-critical.

With the advent of reactive in apps and web things became overcomplex.

Yes, strong consistency will always be an issue. And mitigation should start in the architecture. More often than not, the problem arise from architectural overcomplication. Each case is a case.
by lmm | 2025-11-28 03:39:12+00:00
This isn't a reason to have strong consistency and pay the costs, it's a reason to not do read-modify-write. Indeed I'd argue it's actually a reason to prefer eventually consistent systems, as they will nudge you away from adopting this misguided architecture before your system becomes too big to migrate.

Adopt an event streaming/sourcing architecture and all these problems go away, and you are forced to have a sensible dataflow rather than the deadlocky nonsense that strongly-consistent systems nudge you towards.
by beeflet | 2025-11-28 03:39:51+00:00
> 16. That sleep, that probably evolution first made a low-energy mode so we don’t starve so fast and then layered on some maintenance processes, but the effect is that we live in a cycle and when things aren’t going your way it’s comforting that reality doesn’t stretch out before you indefinitely but instead you can look forward to a reset and a pause that’s somehow neither experienced nor skipped.

This is pretty understated. We live in a strangely beautiful world such that our experience of time is shaped like so due to the interplay of energy on the surface of the earth
by protocolture | 2025-11-28 03:39:59+00:00
>A rational relief for being in the country illegally is a removal of such an individual from the country.

Right, but immigration detention isnt that.

>Same as if somebody enters your house and you don't want them there, you don't ask for a dollar a day or to clean up the dishes, do you? You ask them to leave and call police if they refuse.

The house analogy is really weird and does not at all fit the realities of a nation.

>This is where detention comes into play: people who don't want to leave the country need to be detained before forcibly transported outside the country's border, maybe in the future, when we invent instant teleportation, we will be able to just send them home without detention but the current realities do not allow for that.

They dont need to be detained. Theres no process that cant be completed before deportation without detention. It is arbitrary punishment. Your own tortured analogy of the house, does not detain prisoners in the basement while awaiting court in the I don't know Laundry to see if their marriage to someone in the master bedroom is valid. Theres no reason someone cant live working in the living room? (who comes up with these terrible seppoisms?) and sleeping in their room that they can somehow afford to pay for in your house somehow while the laundry judge rules on their case before taking them to the roof airport?

Feeling a bit like the house thing is forced to come to some predetermined conclusion but its not as obvious as made out nor is it any good.

Anyway to blow that whole thing open I looked at the silly seppo website and:

"Most aliens ICE arrests are detained and eventually removed. In some cases, these people remain in ICE detention for months while they wait for a final decision from an immigration judge."

https://www.ice.gov/self-deportation

Theres nothing wrong with:

> Complete legal process while living in situ > If determination is, deportation, fine X and escort person to airport/border.

You would probably spend less money giving people 2 further weeks to deal with their affairs beforehand but w/e not required.

Detention, especially before trial, being a necessary component is a ghost that lives entirely in your head that you can evict at any time.
by jorl17 | 2025-11-28 03:40:26+00:00
As a (rather obsessive, perhaps compulsive) poet, I will indeed remain in my camp :)

(I do get what you're saying. Yet, I am not convinced that processes such as tokenization, and the inherent discretization it entails, are incompatible with creativity. We barely understand ourselves, and even then we know that we do discretize several things in our own processes, so it's really hard for me to just believe that tokenization inherently means no creativity).
by jmclnx | 2025-11-28 03:41:13+00:00
Actually it did, well technically it was userland.

Pulseaudio was forced on me because Firefox and a few others need it.

PAM was forced on me because some applications needing it, I believe that was due to kde.

Until v15, slackware had no need for pam or pulseaudio

Now many of us are waiting until systemd is forced on us :(
by Postosuchus | 2025-11-28 03:41:56+00:00
Snapdragon X Elite laptops have been out for the last two years, if not more. How much has Qualcomm did over this time to make Linux work on those devices - almost nothing. As of 2 months ago, the best you could do was a special cut of Ubuntu that kinda sorta booted on those machines and required Windows to be present in order to pull some drivers.

So how about you give me a fucking break, Qualcomm? Call back when Snapdragon has first class support in major distros and you are serious about Linux.
by basch | 2025-11-28 03:43:03+00:00
in what I find to be unfortunate, I have noticed a trend in the reverse direction.

http://shoreviewmn.gov/ should have a dot between the city and the state. they chose some form of human usability over precision. I trust it ever so slightly less, because it is cute before hierarchical.

https://www.mvpschools.org/ formerly https://www.moundsviewschools.org are the domain names for a school district. The fact they chose the P between mv and school (which stands for public) makes it look like phishing or social engineering. It erodes trust in both technical decisions and branding decisions made.

Because domains are hard to read, and people were never taught to read them, we lost out on being able to establish trust because something reads "mv.k12.mn.us" (or preferably us.mn.k12.mv) which is two characters SHORTER than mvpschools.org!
by anonnon | 2025-11-28 03:45:03+00:00
> α-conversion is not required in interaction nets. η-reduction is an additional rule not typically discussed, but see for example [2].

Which makes the sloppy use of "λ-Reduction" in place of "β-reduction"--the only form of reduction or conversion applied here--even less defensible. Maybe them being non-native English speakers is partly to blame?
by elandros | 2025-11-28 03:45:39+00:00
I built a simple and peaceful project: a world map where anyone can plant a tiny digital bonsai. It's meant as a symbolic gesture of calm, presence, and zen philosophy.

No commercial purpose.

I made it as a small way to share something quiet and positive with the world.

If you'd like to plant your bonsai: https://www.zen.com.ar/bonsáis/

Feedback is welcome. I hope it brings a bit of calm.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-28 03:46:25+00:00
> What's your AI coding setup?

Eclipse with the Github Copilot plugin. Nice and simple, but it works.

I've been dabbling a bit with things like Codex and OpenCode, but I haven't really adopted any of them as a major part of my routine workflow so far. But time will tell.

And then sometimes I just ask coding related questions to Gemini or ChatGPT and copy & paste from the response, into my codebase, as indicated by the situation at hand.