MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thinkcontext | 2026-01-22 04:00:33+00:00
The US produces an unbelievably enormous calorie surplus way beyond what is needed for the health of the country and in fact its detrimental.

The biggest is not even used as food, over half of corn acreage is used for ethanol. That's an amount of land that's truly beyond comprehension. Its a horrible program as well, corn ethanol is worse than the gasoline it replaces in terms of carbon footprint when taking land use into account. And it raises the price of food. And we even subsidize it multiple times, we subsidize the crop as corn and then we subsidize it as ethanol. Biodiesel and renewable diesel (different products) have spiked in recent years as well, most of that is made from soy, canola, or corn oil. They have similar problems though aren't as bad as corn ethanol.

Another huge negative surplus is the amount of liquid calories, mainly soda, that are consumed. Most nutrition science that I've read points to the enormous amount of liquid calories as the part of the US diet that is driving obesity epidemic. There are of course other aspects to the obesity as well.

Finally, substituting some of the US consumption of beef with chicken and some of the chicken with beans.

To recap US overproduces calories to the point that it hurts the country. It damages the land, the ocean with dead zones, the climate with carbon. We pay for it multiple times in subsidies and with higher food prices. It hurts our health which we pay for in suffering, shortened lives and health costs.
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-22 04:00:40+00:00
> There's no reason to not use paper, ID checks, and same-day accounting.

Sure there is. ID checks make it impossible for people who don't have government-issued ID to vote, which is a lot of people; and furthermore ID checks don't actually improve election security. Same-day counting is impossible if you are going to count all mail-in votes that were sent before the deadline.

To be clear, I'm not saying that politicians aren't agitating for conditions that benefit them. That's there job. But I also believe in supporting access to voting and fair elections, and at least some of the politicians' arguments help achieve those ends.
by jrm4 | 2026-01-22 04:01:14+00:00
Wrong. Wrongity wrong wrong.

Again, you're optimizing for the wrong thing, a thing we especially don't much need now that we have computers and calculators.

Intuitive and immediately useful TO HUMANS for what they actively do is the most important thing.

No, it is not easier to deal with meters if you're talking about physical spaces that humans inhabit. And it's not easier to deal with C when talking about the temperature of a room, because an F degree is just about the smallest difference a human can tell. I know I can tell a 74 from a 73 from a 72 etc in my house.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-22 04:02:23+00:00
This. In Russia, employees of all sorts of organisations are “encouraged” to vote for a particular candidate or party (not always the ruling party, though it doesn’t really matter for different reasons I won’t get into).

As far as I know, these votes have gone mostly unchecked before electronic voting, but after that, they’ve started voting straight from the workplace computers. There were, of course, a lot of straight-up falsifications as well.

That said, our pen-on-paper voting isn’t too legit either :’)
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-22 04:02:35+00:00
It’s easy to say that. I grew up in a dairy county in upstate ny. Solid democrats. The board room of the local farm bureau had photos of FDR on the wall.

The party really abandoned rural voters and farmers. Money in politics didn’t just affect Republicans — the democrats abandoned the traditional party structures and followed the money. There’s no more democratic picnics, etc.

I’m not defending the GOP. They’ve embraced evil imo. But people followed their message because nobody else is talking to them.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-01-22 04:02:49+00:00
They described a lot of data. Then, toward the end, they say:

"These loss estimates reflect national averages; actual costs of production and returns vary by region, management decisions and ownership structure. For example, producers who own their farmland may face lower total costs by avoiding cash rental expenses, resulting in higher returns."

So, can we trust this to say what it appears to be saying? Or might it be meaningless like many broad averages, and we should use more specific data that includes supplier behaviors?
by crazygringo | 2026-01-22 04:02:51+00:00
> Getting a TRO the same day because maybe one day some website will have archives of music files just shows how out of touch the justice system is with tech.

Huh? It's not a "maybe one day", it was a public announcement by AA that they were absolutely going to do this soon.

And TRO's are exactly for this, when irreparable harm might occur. Nothing out of touch at all.

Now, granted the site still operates under other domains. But it's certainly expected that they would block the domain controlled by a US TLD, i.e. do the little they can. Really, what else would you possibly expect?
by MarkusQ | 2026-01-22 04:02:56+00:00
It's as close to on-topic as most of the other comments.

"The internet isn't secure enough to trust for voting" could be generalized to

"The internet isn't secure enough to trust for _____" just a reasonably as it could be to

"______ isn't secure enough to trust for voting" as most of the other commenters have chosen to do.

The fact that one of the generalizations is more popular doesn't make the other wrong, and addressing both (as, say, the GP or people talking about internet banking do) adds both depth and breadth to the discussion.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-01-22 04:03:52+00:00
I actively avoid stuff made in the USA, precisely because they don't use metric. For example, you can get a USA bolt with all sorts of threads and dimensions, or you can buy a 100mm M8 that is compatible with every other M8 bolt / nut made in the world. That boils down to bolts made in any country, bar the USA.

Every time the USA manufacturers something that isn't metric, you've made it incompatible with the rest of the world. The USA got away with that when I was young because they were the world manufacturing powerhouse. Now, those powerhouses are based on Asia. They define the units most of the world sees, and they use metric. So if I buy a Chinese mower, all the bolts are metric and I'm guaranteed the local hardware store stocks them.

Time has moved on, the USA is now a follower, not a leader in most things bar digital services. If they want to return to selling those things to the world the speeds have to be in km/hr, weights in kg, sizes in mm or meters, the temperature in Celcius, pressures in Pascal's.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-22 04:04:23+00:00
>unlock even greater focus for our team

I guess that's the new buzzword for "by removing most of the team from the equation and focusing the rest on everything". Noted.

>our global mission to be the most innovative and trusted video platform in the world for businesses

2 issues here

1. why would I trust a company who will flip around and remove nearly all its labor overnight?

2. I don't know how this move makes them more "innovative". You're just going to be burning out the very few people left to support the product.

I'm bold enough to call this a blatant lie.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-22 04:05:03+00:00
That's great. Similar trick I've picked up is to say "blah blah blah ... is as follows:" followed by a pause and then your explanation, which is always more than the one or two words the listener might have otherwise been expecting. This technique allows you to keep the talking stick and express an idea that takes more than a few words, without someone jumping to an immediate conclusion or interrupting you.
by godelski | 2026-01-22 04:05:04+00:00
I think the bigger concern is that mail in ballots lead to fake ballots being submitted. Though I've seen no convincing evidence of this happening at any meaningful scale and the arguments seem unconvincing since you don't get a ballot unless verified with a state ID and your ballot has a unique ID associated with your name, preventing a double spend.

Personally, my concern is that with mail in ballots some nutjob that believes there's ballot stuffing can set fire to the ballotbox and even though they're caught it's a major inconvenience to get a replacement ballot and the websites that show your ballot is received take days to update.

But I still love mail in voting. My state sends a candidate brochure with it and I can take my time to actually look up all those random candidates' policies. It takes me hours to actually fill out my ballot but that's a feature, not a bug (there's nothing preventing you from along party lines but frankly I'd be happier without parties)
by casey2 | 2026-01-22 04:05:09+00:00
If half the points here were true than internet banking and ecommerce would have already failed. Does the current system prevent fake votes? Did old banking and commerce prevent more fraud?

Here is the thing you are missing. With Internet voting we can have votes way more often. Limiting the damage caused by fraud. Yeah you could have malware on your phone that changes your inputs to a sandboxed voting app, and the malware also tracks your real votes so when you request an audit it shows you what you actually voted for. In reality that is extremely difficult to pull off over a long period of time.

I don't care about any of the names on the list, as far as I'm concerned they are missing the forest for the trees.
by bbradley406 | 2026-01-22 04:06:20+00:00
Today I ran an into an issue with Notepad while at work. I tried to open and print a .txt document for an order, and it completely failed with some type of filesystem read error. Didn't save the log, since I was in a hurry to place the order, but a quick google search didn't help at all. Granted, the file is in a Dropbox folder, so I thought could be affecting it somehow, but notepad++ opened it just fine. Sure, using notepad to type and print orders isn't the best possible work flow, but it's always worked for me in that same setup previously.

I tried to explain why my document printed with line numbers to the recipient (who isn't particularly tech savvy), and felt like a crazy person while doing so.

Looks like I'll be using notepad++ going forward, with line numbers off, and I'm pretty confident they'll respect that preference and keep shipping software that works.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-22 04:07:18+00:00
WA has the earliest snapshot at April 9, 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20010409214430/https://www.doom2...

https://www.doom2.net/doom2/sr50.html says: If you downloaded the lmpdet utility prior to April 8, 2001, we suggest you download it again to pick up a new version of the documentation textfile within the zip.

https://www.doom2.net/doom2/autoaim.html has a demo from 1997.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-22 04:08:03+00:00
There is, as you say a lot of nuance here. Making cattle go away doesn't suddenly make say 55% more wheat suddenly appear on market shelves.

Indeed the argument to remove beef production has always struck me as an interesting starting point to a longer conversation.

So ok, cattle are gone, and there's now say 30% more grain on the market. Presumably this lowers prices to humans? Do people suddenly eat 30% more bread?

Health, and weight, issues aside (not sure an increase in carbs at the expense of protein is a win), do people just shift to other protein (like chicken). Does this mean a huge oversupply of grain, and a consequent drop in prices?

Let me put it another way. Does removing a market currently consuming 30-50% of the crop make things better or worse for farmers?

IMO Having livestock feed as a market keeps prices up, and as this article points out they're still too low. Killing off the cattle market kills off grain farmers too. I'm not sure that's the win people think it is.
by mmooss | 2026-01-22 04:09:02+00:00
> That sounds like a significant problem ... for either the Germans or the French to resolve.

If you do the math on the number of pairs of EU countries that need to find bilateral solutions ... it becomes clear why the EU government exists. It's just not efficient otherwise. (Answer: 351)

> When people talk about larger regulatory frameworks they see the problem as the more permissive side is giving people options and want that shut down immediately.

Who are you talking to? People on HN and in US business, and the most popular theme in US government, is anti-regulation. I think both sides are misguided, sort of like being against or for laws - we need the right laws; sometimes we need more, less, or changes.

> US citizens who seem to be the lepers of international finance

> If the US started talking about global regulation to ease investment, for example, that means they don't intend to make it any easier but they do want everyone to adhere to US compliance ideas whether or not they do business in the US ...

Doesn't Wall Street dominate international finance? They don't seem like lepers. Also, when international financial regulation has been discussed, I think it's the US that usually undermines it. But maybe you mean something else than what I understood?
by supoxblade | 2026-01-22 04:09:05+00:00
Maybe?

This sounds more like a reverse mortgage line of business, to me. Bending Spoons is betting they can eek enough revenue out of Vimeo to pay the interest on the $1.4B loan by cutting the $400M expense run rate.

The actual loan principal will be paid out (if it ever does) of the money they expect to bring in when they inevitably go to an IPO.

And at that point you have speculators carrying risk, bankers getting rich off interest, leadership raking in millions, and a once reasonably healthy business is jeopardized (subject to the performance of other Bending Spoons properties, risky management, etc). All in the name of growth that may or may not be achievable.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-22 04:09:22+00:00
It's more a matter of exposing hobbyists of one vertical to what exists in another. Low-power RISC microcontrollers and microprocessors were superseded in popularity by the ease of a Raspberry Pi SBCs running Linux, that could act as a host to its own development.

Now that Raspberry Pi has entered the market, hobbyists that were only familiar with SBCs are now being introduced to the flexibility of Low-power RISC microcontrollers and microprocessors.

There's also some new products on the market that are the best of both worlds, with the system-in-package form factors and easy bare-metal development of the RP2XXX line, that still have the ability to run full Linux, like the Bouffalo Labs BL808 and the Sophgo SG2000. Check out the Ox64 from Pine64 (https://pine64.com/product/128mb-ox64-sbc-available-on-decem...) or the Duo series from MilkV (https://milkv.io/duo) for breakout boards and development boards.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-22 04:09:35+00:00
> It's just shocking to me how certain demographics are so eager to vote against their own interests.

Nobody votes against their own interests. That is something that only stupid caricatures do, not actual people. If it seems that way to you, that should be a very strong signal to reevaluate your understanding of the situation. Most likely, that means either nobody is representing their interests or you have misunderstood what their interests are.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-22 04:10:20+00:00
The whole point is that the values aren't growing at the same rate. You can certainly compare the growth of n^2 vs n^3 though it probably would not be especially shocking if I told you that n^3 is growing exponentially more quickly. Yet in our case there is no logical reason that real gdp/capita would grow exponentially more quickly than real median wages. In fact it's rather indicative of a severe flaw in the economic system because the difference between the two is accelerating at a dangerously quick rate. Basically - project these values into the future (though it's already a major problem in the present). If they don't begin converging, hard, at some point you're well on your way to creating an extremely broken society.

Boomers weren't driving crappy cars. Even today things like the classic Dodge Charger is a car enthusiast favorite. It's a beast of a muscle car, and retailed for about as much as you pay for a Honda Civic now a days. Similarly the stuff about smaller houses is misleading. Lot sizes over time have actually decreased. In the past you might have had a larger yard, gazebo, shed, and outdoor work area - now you have some walk in closets primarily motivated by selling the house for more, based on square footage, than meaningful utility. And of course now far more people now live in apartments and other non-housing domiciles than in the past.

And yes, obviously education is completely broken. America's greatest intellectual achievement was likely putting men in the Moon that happened, unsurprisingly, in the 60s - as we now struggle to try to just send a man around the Moon. And they did this on the back of a far more limited educational system, with costs a small fraction of what they are today. We pay far more, and get far less, in just about every single way.
by xp84 | 2026-01-22 04:11:00+00:00
At this point the main problem here is one of trust either way. Most Americans, of any party affiliation, believe that one party’s officials are presiding over a vast conspiracy to steal every election. The Left thinks the GOP is intimidating real citizens who happen to be immigrants from voting by trying to pass laws for proof of identity, and the Right thinks Democrats are trucking in illegals to stuff the ballot box, or that some random voting machine company is systematically rigging every vote. All these positions are presented without evidence.

Then both parties think that if their party’s guy isn’t in charge of the election itself, that the vote counting itself is being faked. Of course, these concerns only ever come out when their preferred party loses.

Mix internet voting into this, and the average person’s utter cluelessness about computers, and no amount of fancy crypto, blockchain, etc. would ever convince any American that their party lost fair and square. “The new online voting system was rigged!”
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-22 04:11:59+00:00
I said "largely isomorphic" Note:

1. How did a packet with a RFC1918 address reach router; it would require an attacker able to generate packets (or get something to e.g. unwrap an IP-in-IP packet) on the same link, since the router isn't going to ARP any of those addresses. Limiting inbound connections to originate on the same link does provide some measure of security.

2. Will the router even do anything with a packet coming in on the inbound port that doesn't target the public IP? This is implementation dependent.
by nwallin | 2026-01-22 04:12:07+00:00
Single pumped AVX512 can still be a lot more effective than double pumped AVX2.

AVX512 has 2048 bytes of named registers; AVX2 has 512 bytes. AVX512 uses out of band registers for masking, AVX2 uses in band mask registers. AVX512 has better options for swizzling values around. All (almost all?) AVX512 instructions have masked variants, allowing you to combine an operation and a subsequent mask operation into a single operation.

Often times I'll write the AVX512 version first, and go to write the AVX2 version, and a lot of the special sauce that made the AVX512 version good doesn't work in AVX2 and it's real awkward to get the same thing done.
by themafia | 2026-01-22 04:12:09+00:00
> The problem is that nothing is immutable about computing.

That's why we have checksums. We've used computing to put people on different astronomical bodies. There is a way, but it comes with a huge cost. Cryptocurrency strongly hints towards a way to make internet voting viable.

> It seems like pen and paper is currently the best verifiable and immutable voting approach.

The simplest answer is usually the best, but then you shouldn't constrain voting to a single day otherwise it disadvantages large swaths of the population.
by nospice | 2026-01-22 04:12:25+00:00
> I guess I’m making the mistake of assuming others have taken a similar intellectual path as I have.

Oh, come on. I know a lot of people who are highly educated and intelligent but fall for the same outrage bait as everyone else... we're bombarded with so much political talking points that we don't carefully consider every headline, verify every source, and then publish nuanced takes on social media where the stories change every hour.

The bottom line is that, with all respect, I absolutely don't care about the political hot takes of people on HN. And I'm sure they don't care about mine. I know where to go when I want to talk politics. If I want measured takes from scholars, I can read their columns or blogs. If I want to argue, I'll do it with family and real-world friends.
by tdb7893 | 2026-01-22 04:12:44+00:00
With paper ballots you can do hand recounts physically with the paper and it's much harder to change values than digitally (obviously), which is a huge difference. You could switch to hand counting by default for everything but the conspiracy theories are really durable for process changes like that so my experience is it won't make a difference.

To expand on that a bit: I've only found their preferred candidate winning to be a long term convincing argument to them (and even then they still will be suspicious). The scenarios I've heard aren't even possible in the current system but they don't trust the election system as a whole so there's no control they would be satisfied with. Even if they personally counted the paper ballots themselves they would just say the ballots were switched out before they got them. Obviously not everyone who doesn't trust elections is like this but I know a lot of people like this.
by themafia | 2026-01-22 04:14:01+00:00
> we have compulsory attendance at voting booths for eligible citizens, you can spoil your paper or walk away but we enforce with a fine, participation in the one obligation of citizenship

Then my refusal to vote should be counted. If enough people refuse to vote then the entire election should be cancelled and new candidates found. Otherwise this is a ridiculous catch 22 of state bullying to no actual purpose. Who would even think to create such a law?
by Detrytus | 2026-01-22 04:15:04+00:00
For me the problem with mail-in votes is that they are (in many jurisdictions) allowed to come in long after the in-person voting is closed, and the preliminary results are annouced. So it creates the space for manipulations, where you count the in-person votes first, and, if the score is close, then a week after the election day half a million of mail-in votes mysteriously comes in and swings the vote one way or another.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-22 04:15:06+00:00
Corn is turned into ethanol, and is then blended with gasoline. The US consumes ~14B gallons of ethanol per year. It’s a net negative because it’s carbon and water intensive and farmers advocate for more ethanol than is necessary as a subsidy via government mandate.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/environm...

https://ethanolrfa.org/media-and-news/category/news-releases...
Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?
by wewewedxfgdf | 2026-01-22 04:18:04+00:00
What happened?

Gemini 12 months ago was dead last the worst of all LLMS.

Then it streaked miles ahead of the others to be absolutely unbelievably good.

Then a month or so ago it turned back into being garbage. I waited for it to be fixed but it has remained bad.

I do not understand.
by forrestthewoods | 2026-01-22 04:18:05+00:00
I’ve never written a line of Java in my life. Why would I ever use Eclipse?

VSCode is defacto standard because it’s kinda mediocre but works ok enough for every language and every platform. Microsoft created and popularized LSP so VSCode isn’t a single language IDE.

I use a mixture of code editors. My favorite is probably 10x but it only works with C++. So VSCode is just a reasonably standard unless a different editor is better for a specific use case.