skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the FDA just won't let US customers buy it because of stupid labeling requirements.

The labelling requirements don't strike me as that stupid; the Reason article links [1] with the text "formula available in Europe tends to meet or exceed the FDA's nutritional requirements, but not the labeling requirements", but it actually provides some good reasons:

"It was found that European formulas do not meet all FDA label requirements, including many not being in English, which may lead to the incorrect mixing of formula [mixing tends to be different for European formula]. The average listed nutrient levels of all but one of the identified imported European formulas fell within the minimum nutrient level requirements of the FDA. As the nutrient levels on the labels of European formula represents an average and not a minimal level, it is difficult to compare the actual contents with US formulas. In addition, it is important to note that hypoallergenic is defined differently in Europe than in the United States. Therefore, partially hydrolyzed European formulas may be labeled as ‘‘hypoallergenic’’ or HA, which is not appropriate for infants with CMPA and may lead to improper treatment of an infant with CMPA."

Expiry dates as being in EU formats (i.e. for the US' weird m/d/y thing) was also mentioned, as well as using US measurements rather than metric (whether the US date style and imperial units are a good idea is besides the point here: fact is it's what people use).

There were also some other much more minor issues, but these don't seem entirely unreasonable or "stupid" to me, especially the requirement that labelling should be in English, but also the different definition of hypoallergenic.

These problems are fairly minor and can be fixed without too much effort though.

[1]: https://naspghan.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/October-2019...
This sums up my views exactly, and it's why I quit using TikTok when I realized the impact it was having. I appreciate the neat summation of the (imo) core issue.
I don't know how it all works. However one thing I will sometimes do is like a video but not watch it to the end. What I'm thinking in that case is this is good content, but not something I really want to watch. Like a musician that I want to encourage, but just don't feel like watching to the end. I suspect TikTok "understands" that situation.

I'm tend to not follow. I'm not sure how that factors in, except obviously it populates your Following page.
..or "Crowdsource for Google"
Well, since personally I value equity at any private company at $0, you could throw as much “equity” as you wanted and it wouldn’t help retain me.
This statement is false. Coffeezilla does not believe that "all crypto is 100% scams". Not even close. In fact, he stated in a recent video that he personally holds cryptocurrency.
Which comorbidities? I am just curious.
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972)
Which is often fine with leadership. New employees tend to be more compliant and more malleable to the current leadership’s point of view.
> EDIT: I'm pretty sure that you can't just "drop" a mortar or AT4 warhead reliably either. You'd want to make it into the shape of... well... a bomb. So that the "shape" of the shape-charge points in the correct direction.

they have been dropping 60's-vintage anti-tank hand grenades with 3d printed stabilizers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKG-3_anti-tank_grenade#Histor...

"220 mm penetration of RHA" which is plenty for top armor
Again, a highly envious feature of a large organisation with almost exclusively bespoke applications that can port & integrate custom libraries directly into applications. Us little people have to contend with mostly black box applications, or occasionally native instrumented with at best a prom-alike endpoint.

Amusingly in the pre-web 1990's, at Telstra (Australia telco) we also developed & implemented a custom performance monitoring library that was integrated into in-house applications.
The distracting stimuli finding—and the fact that processing irrelevant info—slows us down is interesting to think about in the context of trying to make decisions under stress
Consuming analytically is a part of creation.

Writing TikTok off as dancing or dating misadventure stories is exactly what the article shows isn’t necessarily correct.

There are TikToks on eigenvectors, Taylor series expansions, making butter blocks for traditional layered pastries, calculus, Kubernetes and how to exit vi.

There are all kinds of creators whose content is worthy of consumption on TikTok: musicians, visual artists, comedians and dancers.

There are book reviews, hints for authors, demonstrations of music theory, memorization tricks, Japanese pitch accent, notes on philology/philately/phillo dough.

It doesn’t have everything, and plenty of interesting topics that are just grist for simple comedy, but it can get better.
I agree TikTok is doing something different from the other guys. The amazing thing is that it's been out for 5 years and no one has copied what it does. Although I'd guess the algorithm has gotten a lot better over time as well, so it might be a moving target for the others.
So who invented "crypto"? What is it even, cryptography? Where can I read their thoughts on authoritarianism?
>The postal service has to deliver to everyone. Not just people living in high density areas.

Well unless they decide not to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/us/usps-mail-attacks-cali...
Yeah, so, off by a factor of 6.75
There's no real comparison to any of those categories.

It's more like: white people claiming to be black, straight people saying they're gay, or Muslims identifying as Catholics.

Transgender is just people desiring to be what they are not, and can never be. But we're all supposed to accept their wishful thinking as truth.
Oh man, that's great.
I was oncall for that incident. Good times.
Liver disease. Heart disease. Etc.

This looks like a nice bullet point list, easy to digest.

https://musiccityinterventions.com/comorbidities-associated-...
Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe being rural has something to do with it but I've given away a few different items locally on FB marketplace and have only found people who showed up and were really happy to receive them. I'll probably stop doing that if I get a dreadful entitled person, but so far so good.
> The question is: what are reasonable limits to exposure for babies? For example, what are the EU limits for baby formula?

Maybe the question I'd ask is "if you sample milk from 100 different human volunteers, what fraction of the samples also contain detectable levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and/or mercury?"

I do think that doing analysis of household chemicals and publishing the results is a great idea. A consumer-testing company did some great ad-hoc analysis of sunscreens and found higher-than-acceptable levels of benzene, leading to widespread recalls, which I thought was awesome: https://www.valisure.com/valisure-newsroom/valisure-detects-.... Still confused about how they plan to make money from this (maybe they could lobby the government to mandate that labs like theirs must do testing on certain consumer products?). Also still confused about this led to regulatory action against them: https://www.consumerreports.org/product-safety/valisure-foun....

Some people in this space publish consumer advisory articles saying "we measured <X> in <Y> and found some <X>" and don't list a safe PPM, or their reasoning, and it's very tough to know what to do with this information. There's often extraordinarily little evidence about how much <X> is bad for you and sometimes we only get the evidence years after people have had hunches that it's not so good. (trans fats? https://www.vox.com/2015/6/17/8793937/why-fda-banned-trans-f... )

So it's tough to know what to do when the pesticide-in-food people publish an analysis which "does not incorporate risk assessment into the calculations. All pesticides are weighted equally, and we do not factor in the levels deemed acceptable by the EPA." (https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php).

I guess this is one reason to have a doctor and a pediatrician you trust -- because part of their job is to sift through the latest available information and have reasonable heuristics about safety and risks.
About 15 years ago I tagged along with a friend who was going to an anthropomorphic conference in San Jose. One of the small meetings rooms I went into was a bunch of people in cinematic quality Klingon makeup and costumes, talking in the klingon language and getting drunk on specific drink concoctions described in the show using custom made accurate dishware.

That has become my base unit of fandom hobby: 1 klingon. The commitment to the sport of fandom I saw there is my standard and it elucidates wherever I see video like this what I'm looking at.

This video is nowhere near 1.0 klingons but it is the same sport
Georgian food is very mediocre. Bread with cheese isn’t bad, but it’s nothing special. Brazilian food, however, is very underrated.
> I find it hard to believe some billionaire would roll over debt

Plenty of rich individuals do exactly that, though. Hang out in any retirement/investing forum and you see people doing the cold hard math and deciding not to sell the stock and pay taxes if the step-up basis is enough.
So nothing on Apple servers is written in Swift, interesting. I guess that is because Swift is aimed at replacing ObjC in the app programming space.
The first order theory of arithmetic is provably consistent within ZFC. ZFC can’t prove it’s consistency but a “higher” system containing ZFC can prove that ZFC is consistent. So on and so forth.
>Free physical goods in meatspace

Those are made with materials, they're consumed, and they're worn/gone.

>Free digital goods in cyberspace

We've entered a different world. Our old model breaks down. Here, things are copied, pasted, transmitted, and stored for negligible cost. When they're consumed, they remain. For software, there's an extra dimension of totalitarianism: a burger in meatspace (for now) doesn't scan your saliva and send the data back to the restaurant or receive an OTA update and transform into a hotdog mid-chew or dictate how and when you eat it. Here, the economic dynamics and tyrannies of meatspace (scarcity, wear-and-tear, cost of materials) can only be implemented with hacks (DRM, perpetual renting, etc., none of which ultimately work to fully simulate meatspace's mechanics of "when you eat a burger, you can't eat it again").

Free digital content has downsides, sure, but good luck making it not free. In cyberspace, it's information, and information wants to be free.
Not a fan but I get why people are
I would say there is a deep down, with an infinite range of subtleties, but it’s ultimately discretized into the things we do.

Moreover, the whole point of anything happening deep down, is that it results in us doing something.
Only HN can be so critical of what is a really cool project.

Honestly this is a great _simple_ way to access weather without leaving my terminal. Love the basic ASCII graphics.

I noticed it's a LOT faster when I provide the city, probably because it doesn't have to look it up from IP:

```
curl wttr.in/atlanta
```

Nice work.
The US has paper votes. Didn’t stop Trump from discrediting the election.

The media used for voting doesn’t matter if trust is questioned. No single individual is able to count all paper votes either, so it’s fundamentally about citizens trusting authority.
Oh - and cooking / preparation methods - what has been researched about this and nutrients we are not getting because of them?

From my very limited understanding - cooking some foods a bit helps to unlock calories easier and better - but certainly there must be a sweet spot where things are better and a point where more is lost than gained (?)

Look cooking a food at 350 for 10 minutes is good, but cooking in 500 degree hot oil for 20 minutes burns away stuff?

I was thinking about this when I learned that some folks have an allergy to fresh shrimp being cooked on a stove because proteins are being released into the air... well if you overcook them, or if you are taking cooked then re-burning them them again before eating, is there a substantial amount of protein or/and other things being lost?

Like a 1/3 burger of high fat is cooked down to less than a quarter pound patty, are we still calculating the calories and protein of a 1/3 pound?

I wonder the same with squashes and other vegetables when cooked a long time or and microwaved / re-cooked as well.
this will prove that at least environment modifying can work
> Boredom is nature's way of making the universe go forward

I generally agree with your comment but no, this is a ridiculous piece of scientism.
Gbit/s HTTP and HTTPS download speeds
Woops, reposted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385113
Yeah it's insane. Family of three, 58 dollars before tip. And this was a sit down very casual burger type joint.
This is a gold mine. Thanks.
Does anyone else hate what corporations have done to the word "delightful"? All the corporate art is so homogeneous too.

Also a trillion dollar plus market cap company trying to get free labor? Seriously?
People who like to tell "Harsh Truths" do it because they like to be harsh, they don't really care about the truth.
Just riffing on what you all are saying, maybe an, "undo to last working state" might be, for many current environments, an easy to add minor improvement. It doesn't seem that hard to keep track of the last point in the undo stack before it all went sideways.
The landing page for a product *should* look like most other landing pages. I want to see all the important information in places that I would expect. Pricing, customer testimonials, list of features, documentation/tutorial links, etc., should all be presented up front and there aren't many ways to do that well.

An amazing design could stand out from the crowd but something custom would probably more than likely end up looking worse than using bootstrap/tailwind. Especially since these SaaS companies aren't spending their headcount on hiring designers - they'd probably prefer to hire more engineers to build the actual product. If I see a design company with a boring website then I'd be a bit disappointed but I don't expect that from a run of the mill SaaS company.
There are many axes right? Niceness, Competency, Action, etc. Surely each one matters.
There's several packages that handle this, for example: https://pypi.org/project/pyluach/
Assuming this is Ukrainian "wishful thinking"... what do they gain by saying this? I don't understand how this makes Putin's reign any shorter.

If anything, it seems like it could make people outside of Ukraine a lot more complacent.
Yeah, agreed. People conflating these two meanings of the word just confuse the discussion.
Commenting on this sort of Hacker News article doesn’t exactly rise to Leonardo Da Vinci level either.

TikTok is a triumph, especially in the light of the big social network outrage machines. Even at its worst it still can do things like introducing people to Chopin in a manner rarely seen since the Beethoven ‘Fur Elise’ McDonalds commercial in the 80s.
This is kinda funny.

> "Connect with others around the world"

The only connecting I'd want to do is with Chinese people to practise my Chinese. Inwhich my horribly broken Chinese would be a detriment to the algorithm.
Companies don't spend time thinking/rationalizing why they shouldn't raise current employees' salaries. They are simply forced to pay market rate for new hire, that's all, no one thinks about "what about our existing employees?"

Sometimes we romanticize tech company too much that we forgot that they are, at its core, just like any other company, and an engineer is just a headcount. Faang sometimes has the ability to steer away from that perception, but it remains true for almost all non-faang. Everyone below leadership is replaceable
Benzo use results in therapeutic benefits for many. The synaptic losses can pale in comparison to the anxiety it’s exchanged for. I know this to be true for at least one person close to me.
"AFAIU the root DNS servers will refuse requests for recursive resolutions."

All the DNS data served by the "DNS root servers" is public and available for download via HTTP or FTP request.[FN1] As such, IMHO, there is rarely a reason to query those servers for the data they serve. I already have it.[FN1] For example, the IP address for the "a" com nameserver probably will not change in my lifetime. I am so sure of this that I have it memorised as 192.5.6.30.

A simple illustration of how to reduce DNS queries to one and reduce remote DNS queries to zero. Compile nsd as a root server using --enable-root-server. Add DNS data to a root.zone. Bind nsd to a localhost address, e.g., 127.8.8.8 and serve the zone. Configure the system resolver to query nameserver 127.8.8.8.

mkdir /tmp/nsd-01
cd /tmp/nsd-01
echo . 86400 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2021101501 1800 900 604800 86400 > root.zone
echo example.com 1 IN A 93.184.216.34 >> root.zone
test ! -d /nonexistent||rm -rf /nonexistent
groupadd nsd-01
useradd nsd-01 -g nsd-01 -s /bin/false -b /nonexistent -d /nonexistent
chown nsd-01 /tmp/nsd-01
chgrp nsd-01 /tmp/nsd-01
printf 'server:\nipv4-edns-size: 0\nzonesdir: "/tmp/nsd-01"\nzone:\nname: "."\nzonefile: "root.zone"\n' > conf
nsd -u nsd-01 -4 -a 127.8.8.8 -c conf -l log -P pid -f db
cp /etc/resolv.conf resolv.conf.bak
echo nameserver 127.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf
drill -oRD example.com
# cleanup
mv resolv.conf.bak /etc/resolv.conf
kill $(cat pid)
rm -rf /tmp/nsd-01
sleep 1
userdel nsd-01

FN1. How to get the DNS data that the root servers provide, without using DNS:

x=$(printf '\r\n');
sed "s/$/$x/" << eof|openssl s_client -connect 192.0.32.9:43 -ign_eof
GET /domain/root.zone HTTP/1.1
Host: www.internic.net
User-Agent: www
Connection: close

eof

ftp://192.0.32.9/domain/root.zone

FN2. Except in emergencies where I have no access to locally stored root.zone DNS data. Also because I have the "a" root server IP address memorised as 198.41.0.4, I sometimes use it as a ping address.
but this curls the app each time you invoke it!
People on HN should he normally worried about running 'curl' from any untrustworthy sources because that is a security issue.

An example
-https://www.onsecurity.io/blog/careless-with-curl-dont-be/
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Funnily, the article references Fight Club to reject one main character's central message:

"For instance, some people want to respond to that speech with Tyler Durden's line from Fight Club: "You are not your job."

But, well, actually, you totally are. Granted, your "job" and your means of employment might not be the same thing, but in both cases, you are nothing more than the sum total of your useful skills. For instance, being a good mother is a job that requires a skill. It's something a person can do that is useful to other members of society. But make no mistake: Your "job" -- the useful thing you do for other people -- is all you are... Tyler said, "You are not your job," but he also founded and ran a successful soap company and became the head of an international social and political movement. He was totally his job."
That makes more sense. It can be argued that there's no "absolute scale" for management competency though, and relative competence is the only measure you can hope to make.
You say that like I've never been there. I choose not to live there for reasons. Just because one city is more fucked up than others doesn't mean it's the proof of anything. Outliers happen in any statistical view.
> Don't design and code at the same time. You'll waste time and burn yourself out getting lost in CSS rabbit holes, trying to make the code look pretty etc. and then when you get it working it and you step back to look at it, you realise the design doesn't work and it needs more iterations.

This is where I get stuck. It's not because of analysis paralysis (although there is a bit of that too) so much as it is for optimizing loading time, comparing/triaging frameworks, and a whole host of other problems I'll call "optimization syndrome". I know the golden rule is to avoid premature optimization, but at same time I don't want to commit to a design that I like only to find out after the fact that it's slow, computationally expensive or relies on an outdated/EOL dependency. Any advice in that?
I can't find the extension on the gnome extensions website. Getting a 404 when following the readme link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1272/mconnect/
i know you’re referring to the shell prompt, but it reminded me that PowerShell file extension is also *.ps1 (which I find strange as I’m not used to seeing numbers in file extensions).

didn’t this really come up when MS was designing PowerShell?
That was a terrible thing for Trump to do but now we have a different POTUS who is (supposedly) not beholden to the dairy industry, yet it's not been changed.
Quickly my For You page was transformed. I saw long thoughtful videos on motivation, psychology, science, and philosophy. I listened to excerpts of lectures on Stoicism or Zen Buddhism, and speeches by enigmatic Indian meditation gurus. It figured out I was a software engineer and showed me many jokes or insights about work. At one point I was hunting for a job and TikTok started showing me interview tips. I witnessed drawings and paintings and animations by countless visual artists. I found myself zooming through trippy 3D fractals while listening to Alan Watts.

I appreciate the screenshots because they show a side of TikTok I wasn't aware of.

I've still up to this point managed to avoid ever installing or browsing TikTok. The few tiktoks I've seen were clips forwarded to me. I'm sure, like Twitter, it's full of awful content by default that you can learn to filter and fine tune until it feeds you good content, but that's exactly why I'm avoiding it. I never even had a twitter account until 2020(that I started following out of covid lockdown boredom) and 3 months later I was becoming really heated politically and felt like America was collapsing. Reading about a new social network is like reading about a new flavor of crack. I'm sure it feels nice but No Thanks!
Probably one of the three men in the boat.
> "220 mm penetration of RHA" which is plenty for top armor

I seriously doubt that. Almost all modern tanks have reactive-armor on top.

There's a reason why NLAW has 500+mm penetration AND top-down. NLAW is single-charge (no-tandem), to punch-through reactive armor requires a lot more penetration.

Let alone lol Javelin with top-down, 900mm+ penetration, and tandem charge.

I don't think 200mm or even 400mm is considered reliable today.
Even if you could convert Chuck-E-Cheese tokens back to real cash, who would thing that's a great place to hold your life savings as opposed to a bank?
This is super cool! I can't believe I haven't run into KDE Connect even after years of using Linux desktop
perhaps the RPROMPT would be better. i usually use it to show time %T.
Crassus, Caesar's very close ally/friend, had just recently destroyed his own (fairly weak) reputation as a general and died fighting in Parthia. That had to be on Caesar's mind because it was a major motivation for his own expedition. Caesar would have almost certainly done much better than Crassus, being a much better general. Still, it must have given him some pause, especially considering the unappealing style of warfare to be fought there which the Romans weren't well suited for.

Caesar had by this time been at the very top of the social hierarchy in Rome for years. He had achieved his lifelong ambition of being considered one of the greatest Romans of all time. He had nothing left to prove to anyone. He was simply too smart not to have not considered the fact that that he had very little to gain and a lot to lose.

My feeling is that his own health, a lack of strong motivation, and a concern about tainting his reputation would've added up to a desire for a glorious and early death by assassination.