skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I promise you I know more about handbag marketing than you.

No one can tell unless you have a very specific recognizable model. If you carry a plain black or brown bag it all looks the same.
Is this getting merged back into rr?
It's actually much less than 320 m/s—that's a figure for a fast transfer. If you have time for it, three-body dynamics let you get arbitrarily cheap transfers in the regions of the Sun/Earth/Moon Lagrange points,

https://nebula.esa.int/sites/default/files/neb_study/1167/C4...

(Table 1 disposal options: 88.56 m/s to crash Gaia into the Earth—or even just 6.18 m/s to crash Euclid, another SEL-2 dweller).
the point was good until you tried to compare it to lead in the air. there are a few factors that make it impossible to use the same argument between lead in the air and fluoride in the water
It's really bizarre, the American animus towards Asian EVs.

We can all complain about Trump's chest-pounding on tariffs, but Biden's largely unexplained 2024 100% (!) tariffs on Chinese EVs were even more restrictive and barely covered in the media. I'm genuinely curious about the quality and price of these BYDs and am concerned that we're functionally restricted from buying a normal consumer good from another country.

Meanwhile, Kei-car enthusiasts looking for a practical and safe pickup unencumbered by the massive bloat of modern US trucks are limited to 25-year-old imports.

(I personally own cars manufactured from primarily American parts both in Canada and Mexico, as well as an EV primarily from Belgium. I'm largely agnostic on global manufacturing, and I just legitimately don't get what is going on with US car tariffs and import policies, which seem restrictive and arbitrary regardless of left or right-wing US politics.)

Edit: Man, you people hate this comment and honestly I think it's straightforward and accurate.

Edit 2: This main post, which I didn't make, has been flagged despite being a reasonable post from a typical news outlet about manufacturing, technology and consumer products. Huh. What is up?
I just got a BYD Seal to replace my aging Mercedes, the Seal is more luxurious than the Mercedes. I was really surprised, it's a fantastic car. It's made me like driving around again!
This has come up a LOT on HN in the past few months, some other recent examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43500124

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42463975

I like uv and all, but I take exception to the "self-contained" claim in two regards:

1) The script requires uv to already be installed. Arguably you could make it a shell script that checks if uv is already installed and then installs it via curlpipe if not... but that's quite a bit of extra boilerplate and the curlpipe pattern is already pretty gross on its own.

2) Auto-creating a venv somewhere in your home directory is not really self-contained. If you run the script as a one-off and then delete it, that venv is still there, taking up space. I can't find any assertion in the uv docs that these temporary virtual environments are ever automatically cleaned up.
I think we exactly need to hear things like that. This is what I was wondering. Why is every MCP project such a big news? Isn't it just a few lines of code?
hit_by() ? struck_by() ?
I was in school (2011-2016) and almost all professors had a wiki or moodle where we could find all their slides and documents.

I noticed that the rare few professors who didn't upload their powerpoints, were mostly the ones who would just recite the content of their slides in class (almost) word-for-word.
> how I think I spend my time is completely different from how I actually spend it.

Experiencing self vs Remembering self.

After Daniel Kanheman gave a ted talk on this, I deliberately try to prioritise my experiencing self.
Asia's Great Power Wars
Fluorinated table salt. Naturally fluorinated water sources. Public healthcare that covers dental

European policy isn't based on modern fluoridation being dangerous, it's based on having alternative systems in place (which vary by country)

In Windsor Ontario, across from Detroit, they took fluoride out of water for nearly a decade before reversing that decision based on results: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/fluoride-water-system...

Maybe Utah will be a place with alternative systems, based on another thread it sounds like they have an interesting Mormon safety net. But I would hope states do pilot tests first at least. If studies show that the historic gap in dental health between fluorinated & unfluorinated communities no longer apply, then that would be data driven policy

But it seems like this policy is based on someone's common sense that you shouldn't put minerals in water
I strongly advise buying and always using a "phone lanyard" to tether your phone to your belt loop. A well-working example is ASIN B07ZSDFY85. With it, your phone won't get lost or get left behind. Even if the risk of losing the phone is just once in ten years, it still is worth it. If it drops with the tether, you can just lift the tether cable to get it back. If you're tall, you may need two, or something longer. Note that the tether works only with a compatible phone case to hold it in place.
I've made similar pitches to clients many times, and one thing I've learned is that ironically the problem is promising the actual saving, vs. offering a much smaller saving.

The challenge is that people don't believe you when you tell them they can save that much, no matter how evidence you prepare. I'm starting a sales effort for my agency right now, and one of the things we've worked on is to promise less than what we determine we can deliver after reviewing the clients costs, and raising our prices, because it's ironically easier to close on the basis of a promise to deliver 20%-30% savings at a relatively high cost than a promise to deliver 50%+ with little effort.
> Oh it has optional parentheses? Into the trash it goes.

<virtual high five>
The frustrating part is they'll give you $1500/day back again if you let them know you're leaving... Very annoying tbh.
The fluoride thing alone wouldn't even move the needle or be too worth talking about on its own, but when you see everything that is happening and you know it's just the public things, it gives a distinctly different context around what is happening. You know we are overtly threatening Canadian sovereignty right? Countries are setting up travel warnings. Plain clothes officers have abducted people in public. People have been robbed of due process. The head of the office of management and budget said he wants to put government workers in trauma. Deleting public data sets... At least two second in commands to the entire US military have said he is unfit. A chief of staff said the president said "I wish I had Hitler's generals." At least 4 prominent republicans have Sieg Heiled in front of a crowd, including Bannon who did not put his hand over his heart first.

> question status quo institutional knowledge

I am in favor of this when its done in good faith, but good faith hasn't been established.

> It’s honestly really disingenuous and disheartening to hear people towing this “the right is trying to take over the world and install fascism” line.

I find it disheartening that people are in denial about it.
In Photoshop panels, title (like "Layers") are not selectable. How is it worse UX or user-hostile?
What Is Soursop? (2021)
> but they also make scaling easier and cheaper.

Easier is arguable but cheaper is not, for sure.
> Except they literally just sent Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison without a judge being involved

Judge being involved…yet. There is a lot of flexibility within the INA and its subsequent legal modifications to detain a noncitizen while their case is being heard. My guess is the weakest argument for the government in all of this is that they were actually physically removed from the US prior to their hearing being completed. Their detention is lawful. Where they are detained might have to be remedied by SCOTUS.
I heard they were going to mandate seatbelts next! Where are our freedoms?!?!?
Huh. As an American, I had just assumed it was because it was developed at Princeton.
My experience from offering devops services on retainer to a number of clients is that the ones that host in cloud environments spend more money on me for similar scale setups than the ones that host on managed setups.

And even if you don't want the hassle of storing the data yourself, there are many far cheaper outsourced options than S3.
Horizon: A language that just works
Or how about this analogy - Google removing "don't be evil." Does it mean anything? Maybe not, but it probably signifies an internal political shift, and we might want to keep an eye out to see what it is.
I think the GP's issue is more with CNN's title than yours. You did well to follow the guideline, but I personally agree that mentioning BYD in the title would improve it, as the CNN title is very clickbaity.
> We can never be sure who funded the studies and whether or not the results can be trusted. Studies have shown that studies cannot be trusted. I err on the side of caution.

What does this mean for you in practice? Do you see just fluoride studies this way, or "studies" in general? If the former, what makes those different? If the latter, what is your stance on science-backed decision-making and policymaking in general?
> I can't find any assertion in the uv docs that these temporary virtual environments are ever automatically cleaned up.

That’s a good point. I wonder if at least they are reused when you run the script several times.
It is difficult, but not impossible. Many bakeries do not add them to their dough and Whole Foods has some brands without them.

Do not get me started on the IMP and GMP they are adding to foods now...excitatory purine flavor enhancers in the form of things like "Malted Barely Flour"

https://www.eurofins.com/media-centre/newsletters/food-newsl...

https://www.cspinet.org/article/guanosine-monophosphate-gmp-...

https://www.cspinet.org/article/inosine-monophosphate-imp-di...
Tremendous boon for the dental industry. Congratulations for everyone involved in getting this through.
That’s going to go poorly. A Canadian city removed fluoride from water in 2011 and reversed that decision 10 years later. There’s hard data on the effects and they’re not good [0].

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5224138/calgary-removed...
> We don't collaborate at Apple because of the (perceived) risk of leaks.

That sentence, by itself, is more or less correct (from my 26 years at Apple). However, it suggests/implies things that are not correct.

1) In case you got the impression: Apple certainly does not design software to be non-collaborative simply because it would enable sharing/leaking when used within Apple. I would say that Apple has been focused since Day 1 on a mindset where one-computer equals one-user. The mindset was that way really until Jobs was fired, discovered UNIX, and then returned with Log In and Permissions. To this day though I think collaboration is often an afterthought.

So too do they seem to be focused on the singular creative. I suspect Google's push into Web-based (and collaborative) productivity apps (Google Docs, etc.) forced Apple's hand in that department — forced Apple to push collaborative features in their productivity suite.

2) Of course Apple collaborates internally. But to be sure it is based on need-to-know. No one on the hardware team is going to give an open preso in an Apple lunchroom on their hardware roadmap. But you can bet there are private meetings with leads from the Kernel Team on that very roadmap.

That internal secrecy, where engineers from different teams could no longer just hang out in the cafeteria and chat about what they were working on went away when Jobs came back. It probably goes without saying it was rigorously enforced when the iPhone was a twinkle in Apple's eye.

The internal secrecy was sold to employees as preserving the "surprise and delight" when a product is finally unveiled but at the same time, as Apple moved to the top of the S&P500, there were a lot of outsiders that very definitely wanted to know Apple's plans.

3) Lastly, yes, plenty of floors and wings of buildings are accessible only with those with the correct badge permissions. I could not, for example, as an engineer badge in to the Design floor.

Individual cabinets needing badge access? I have no idea about that. I am aware of employees hanging black curtains in their office windows when secret hardware would come out of their (key-locked) drawers. (On a floor that is locked down to only those disclosed, obviously the black curtains become unnecessary.)
NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/30/world/tonga-q...

UPD AP story: https://apnews.com/article/tonga-earthquake-tsunami-warning-...
that's fair - I should've said that it's illegal to collect enough rain to not need municipal water.
There is practically nothing Krita can't do in terms of image editing but people that don't even use the software keep calling it a digital painting program.

Anyone coming from photoshop would have no trouble using Krita. It is practically a photoshop ripoff with more digital painting tools.
A simple enough abstraction is to have the mask type have inputs of both element size and count; so for a ≤256-bit product of those you do the homogeneous-bit elements, and for 512-bit you do the packed-bit values. Conversion methods on the mask can convert those to either an explicit full vector, or a packed bit integer, as you need. (and clang can optimize out unnecessary conversions between the two)
I've had a BYD for a month or so now, and the build quality is fantastic. It really feels very premium, and there are some design/UX choices that really surprised me (things like the car refusing to set the parking brake if you aren't wearing a seatbelt).

Overall, I am extremely happy about my purchase, especially at only $40k after subsidies.
Space cowboys: The maverick pioneers of galactic travel
Bluetooth from a smartwatch or BLE locator beacon in your keys/wallet/bag works almost as well and is way more convenient.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but you made multiple strong claims without a single citation or study link. We could have a better conversation with data to look at. There's a decent (though somewhat biased) review of the debate in [1]. It's worth noting that if you read the linked studies there closely you'll find the truth is, as usual, nuanced. Specifically, that "fluoridation is a population-level caries preventive strategy" [which may or may not be effective at the individual or small community level due to other factors]. I.e., good at the national level for statistically significant reduction of tooth disease incidence, but at less-aggregated levels the confounding factors like diet and how often/well people brush their teeth are going to be bigger determinants of efficacy.

It's also worth nothing that 1) over-fluoridation is pretty bad and can affect poor or malnourished communities (ex, [2]); and 2) there are alternatives to fluoride that may be equally effective with fewer risks at higher concentrations (ex. nano hydroxyapatite).

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2222595/

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1064338060067811...
RFK Jr brought roadkill home to cook and eat multiple times.

Occam's Razor says he is a crank.
Look - all for whatever science says is best, but wouldn’t countries with public healthcare also be incentivised to have fluoride in the water to reduce costs/public efficiency of public dental healthcare?
You go to the nhs webpage and it works in the same way.

Login is better on the iOS app as you can use touch id/faceId and not userid/password also the webpage asks for cookies as it can't seem to remember the choice
I think it's a valid viewpoint (I'm not sure I'd go as far as claiming it is the secret to happiness), but have other interpretations.

I think the examples can be cases of "checkbox-ticking", and not considering enough the whole experience of your life. Like, being fit for being fit seems quite pointless. Being healthy is a nice goal. But the point of being fit or healthy should be so you can explore the world and do and see all the things that are worth doing and seeing and feeling enabled by your fitness. It's not just to be fit or get a girl/boyfriend.

I think the, almost tautological, assertion should be: Meaning is the secret to Meaning. If you spend your life checking boxes, you will miss on experiences and associated meaning. Having a meal just to satiate your hunger is probably the worse reason to have a meal. Better to have a meal so you can do things and stay healthy (and satiate your hunger). Better yet, if you so enjoy, to have a meal to enjoy the amazing world of tastes and textures of good food (and satiate your hunger and stay healthy to do stuff in the process). It's not just about glueing stuff together ("de-atomization"), but about actually valuing meaning and experiences, and not just checkboxes. I think better said: you should treat your life (and really the whole cosmos that includes the lives of others and assisting others) as a canvas to be filled with fulfilling, rich, deep, etc. experiences -- curate your inner world.

Who cares if you did check off that box, be fit, have X amount of money in the bank, etc..

Now, de-atomization seems like a decent heuristic simply because "box-ticking" and doing things for reasons other than them contributing to make your life meaningful is likely to make them atomized (like, box-ticking weakly implies atomization). But just because a task is single-purpose does not mean it does not contribute to meaning in your life: maybe you really need to focus on your job, go to the gym to stay healthy, etc. (atomization doesn't imply meaninglessness). And I applaud making things that are otherwise dull enjoyable, by say listening to music while you do it, or other imaginative ways.

Sometimes you just have to chop wood and carry water though, and that's fine.
When you watch any British tv the first thing you notice is teeth indeed.
This also has issues with security fixes, unfortunately.
Assuming the "less cynical explanation" you're referring to was my original response talking about the cultural and scale differences between America and most countries, that was not in reference to fluoride or dental care. I was specifically referring to the OP's assertion that "American exceptionalism" is the reason that America doesn't just copy things like universal healthcare and gun control policies from other countries.

> really?

Yes, really.

> So why are they poor?

Why is anything the way that it is?
Fluoride has to be applied to the surface at a high concentration for brief contact time to be effective. What is the freedom to sell industrial waste to the government to pointlessly add to the water supply for profit called?
You are comparing desktops to phones.

I do most things on my desktop for the reasons you say but on a phone multiple tabs etc is a pain.
?? scripting language where output of one or more 'tabs' is aggregated into single terminal screen. Use shell script to provide tab url to curl, awk to filter on tag blocks from url/relevant tab, direct output to common terminal interface (unix pipe) and shell script to read from common terminal interface to display to "dashboard" and/or actively update html file readable from web browser.

zenity[1] as gui wrapper to above (vs. cli)

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenity
Zoom out and you’ll see that there is a broad attack against science institutions going on right now. RFK is just one aspect.

NIH funding down 60% compared with one year ago: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/report-us-scientists-...

UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/umass-disbands-its-en...

Not to mention the defunding of anything to do with climate change.
I think the fear is that the user's phone is in the checked luggage.
I don't know about the CLA, but I have an A-class (admittedly, ten years old) and a BYD Seal, and the build quality/feel of the Seal is around the same as Mercedes cars, except for half the price. I've test-driven some recent Mercedes cars, and both the BYD and the Mercedes (as you'd expect) felt premium.

I really do like BYD's approach of "everything is standard, no addons", compared to MB's nickel-and-diming you on the features, though.
> Well, most lectures just aren't very helpful. They move slower than if we just read the docs. This is very uni/course specific though

You must be going to the easiest school ever.
> Exxon, the Standard Oil of New Jersey

It would have been fun if they had renamed to JSON instead of Exxon.
> These are however the same on Linux .. that doesn't break old code

An example from another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519949
Cool, now ABCL can have TCO!
If you built up that domain knowledge while being paid top dollar per hour by the same company, then I understand their reluctance to go along with your offer. It feels a little bit extortionate to be honest. I wouldn't go along with it either, not because it's a bad deal in isolation, but because it sets a bad precedent. It basically tells every employee/contractor that if they know a way to add a lot of measurable value, they can use that as a bargaining chip to 3x their pay. This also discourages trying to add any value that isn't as easily expressed in dollars (which is the case for many important things, such as product quality improvements).

I think part of the expectation when contracting somewhere long-term (or just being an employee, for that matter) is that the amount of value you add per hour worked increases sharply over time, and slower than your fee. In other words, initially you're overpaid wrt your value-add, and then that corrects itself over time as you figure out what the company is all about.
What happened to coral 66? I'd love to give it a go now. Write up some code in the official royal signals and radar establishment language
One of uv's justifications is that it isn't dependent on Python, and so there's no circular bootstrap problem. Things are now at the point with uv were you tell the person you're sharing a script with:
1. Get the install command from the uv site and run it (if they don't already have it installed).
2. Run the script with uv.

Literally cannot get simpler than that. Making uv an importable means assuming Python is present or easily installed on every system, which if it were the case then uv wouldn't be becoming a thing.
is this a ground effect machine?
It's one thing to want to transition to green sources of energy, and another thing to unfairly compete with subsidies. I support tariffs that aim to counterbalance the latter.
Tough to say right now. Here is a long answer:
https://github.com/sidkshatriya/rr.soft?tab=readme-ov-file#w...
Indeed, I offer consultancy for both cloud-based clients and ones using managed hosting like Hetzner, and colo'ed own servers, and the clients who host in the cloud routinely need more of my time on a per-server/instance basis.

Most of the time when people bring up these costs they have no experience with modern server hardware, and hosting. You can have the server shipped directly to a colo, you can file tickets with the provider to have it plugged into your power bar and your network, and you can connect with your IPMI client and set it to boot from your PXE/bootp/tftp server to get an install image.

With a well-configured setup, you have a one-off cost to set up your firewalls, wire-up the switches and power bars, and set up a server for the rest to network boot off, and the rest of bringing up your servers is near automatic and most management can be done remotely via IPMI or similar.

It's not the 90's any more.