skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is the index calculated?

I definitely disagree about the UK. We have nothing like the constitutional protections the US has.

The other country I know well, Sri Lanka, is fairly bad, but has got a lot better in recent years and that does not seem to be reflected in the change (I cannot see a history so maybe it got better and fell in the last year) and I find it hard to believe it is really just a few places away from the likes of Yemen or Belarus.
I worked at a really old school company as my first job. Some folks talked about how hard the CEO and that team worked and so on. And they did put in a lot of hours, they really did.

On the other hand they had staff that catered to their work and their personal needs. The executive suite had a lounge and bar and storage for their personal stuff like their golf clubs... they flew first class when they traveled and stayed at the nicest places.

All strong contrasts to my windowless cube that was falling apart, basic travel ... is it any wonder why I'd rather not be there too much?
Apparently the title of this story changed at The WSJ. That word "Cheat" seems wrong, while the old title makes more sense.

"How Hackers Stole Billions in Crypto to Keep North Korea’s Regime Afloat"

The archive link from the @Bostonian comment below has the original I guess: https://archive.is/1vkXG
Yup, my T480 got upgraded to a Framework 13 after the T480's Thunderbolt port broke (known firmware issue that basically fried the chip). I loaned my T480 to someone about a year ago, and haven't bothered asking for it back.

Meanwhile, my T410 works great as a workbench computer.
Can't we sue the President or something? What if he made it like 200% to really try to fuck the country over?
Paywall removal sites mysteriously redirect to Kremlin-controlled media outlet
I think of truth like π. Some people say its 3, others 3.14, others 3.1415

There is a trade off between energy expended vs accuracy needed vs accurately communicating, but the de-referenced concept is not a matter of human perspective. Coordinating truth is why we have standards and protocols to build on.
Would the things you produce be as good? As cheap? As available?.

Autarky is very bad.
Yeah of course! If you need someone to talk to (anonymously, somehow), who has similar experiences I am open to that as well.

Take care
No it doesn't ring hallow. It is just that the issue is old.
> They're extreme libertarians/neo-feudalists.

The ancient Greeks would have called it Tyranny. All of this has happened before.
This is an oversimplified strawman argument. Biological sex is a complex subject. The cultural understanding of sex is complex. If I has a man take my 2 year old daughter to the men's room is that a bad thing? (For the record I don't have any children)
The search/filtering is broken in Chrome as well, seems to be a deeper issue than something browser-specific.
Yep and most of us are already using Subnet routers it's not technically much harder.

Finding a cloud or VPS provider with free or cheap bandwidth (egress and ingress) is likely the biggest issue.
can't wait to read all the bad HN takes on this one
Well, it's equating mass (28g) which is the right way to represent data here.

Equating calories is far less useful since you aren't choosing between eating 100cal of raw bacon vs 100cal of cooked bacon.

And the question you're trying to ask is "what nutrients/calories do my 4 strips of bacon have?"
thanks for the link! just in time for me.
Switch 2 changes the way game cartridges work
I have few old thinkpads X220, X230, etc - outside of raw power, the two things that really suck are the speakers (they're truly trash), and the standard screen's performance with anything but trivial light around it.

Still, it's fast enough to use with linux, and the keyboard is a joy to use. Swappable batteries are fun, and useful.

However, I can't really use one outside of just nostalgia, or for tuning cars.
I would be surprised if the current US administration even knows where Sri Lanka is, let alone our pre-Trump foreign policy with them.
Because a lot of people, including many economists, believe capital accumulating endlessly to the same class of thousand-ish people is bad. A flat income tax exacerbates wealth inequality considerably.
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You don't need much background in Economics to understand that blanket tariffs hurt companies that rely on imports and exports and lead to higher prices. They used an LLM to come up with a formula that's just the trade deficit when you simplify it and called it "tariffs charged to the USA".
What’s the point of providing nutritional data on raw bacon? Nobody eats raw bacon, do they?
They're quite good at it, actually.
So, we aren’t factoring in natural resources and the different values they have either then?
It's a human thing. In Rome it was chariot teams. Suburbia isn't to blame.
this problem does not look remotely interesting
It was that video which gave me the hope that I would be able to master the math necessary for what I wish to do.
None of those listed jobs is actually unskilled labor. Driving a big truck around narrow roads is a skill most don’t have, doing it at speed and running up and down to actually move the heavy packages is a skill most don’t have. Assembling furniture is a skill most don’t have, especially with complex engineered wood products that will break if stressed wrong. Handymen is literally just a collection of skilled labor jobs rolled into one guy that can handle small home improvement projects like carpentry, masonry, plumbing, and electrical. These are specialized jobs that have wrongly been labeled “un-skilled” or “semi-skilled” as if knowledge work is the only skill of value…
In that case, where is the tariff rate for USSR (.su)?
"What can be processed" to me implied practical utility. If you did not mean that, thanks for the clarification.

Still, to me the fact that it could be theoretically achieved with computers is not very useful if it can't be achieved practically, and that certainly makes "biological" computation different from synthetic computation.
> or worse,use it as a primary source and become discouraged

I would hope these people download the free app so they can actually track their food, which has extensive tooling to track weight trends and expenditure changes over time :). But yes, you should be able to customize the assumptions, I just have about 100 more of these things to add and didn't want to wait longer to see feedback.
Sound of Code: When Syntax Becomes Symphony [video]
I'd encourage everyone to go take a look at apnews, cnn, really pick your non-right-wing source website this morning. They're extremely consistent.

Then go look at Fox.

The top story when I checked a minute ago is about Congress resisting the tariffs with a highlighted quote about "disloyalty".

The six stories under that are largely weird culture-war stuff.

It's wild.
Parrots and humans share a brain mechanism for speech
A lot of the comments in this thread show how difficult it can be to talk about politics. So many strawmen arguments and ad hominims.
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This is one of the best comments I've read on this site in a long while.

A single, crude, statement of fact slaying the work of a million typewriter monkeys spewing out random characters thinking they're actually writing the Shakespeare novel, lmao.
If there are no people there is no government to trade with, no customs, no regulations.

It takes a lot longer to set all of that up than it takes for Trump to just raise another tariff if that happens. So nobody would invest in that. It would only be a loophole for a week or so.

So why bother doing this pre-emptively (even if that was the reason)?
This in itself has already seen endless discussion but you can jump around some of the mod comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

are often important info.

That's not really the purpose of HN though, no? Lots of places are great at delivering important info, HN is just some random forum.
Egg prices soar as outdated supply chains crack under pressure External
It's a trickle down effect for sure. Where indies suffer the most. You have games getting away with $70 price tags, but your indie game you spent 2+ years on better no cost more than 15-20 a pop and better have a 50% launch discount. You really can't sustain yourself even as a true solo dev in western countries (let alone if you need to commission/hire an artist/composer).

And when I say "sustain in western countries" I'm talking the bog bottom line of "us federal minimum wage", coming down to approx. $15k/year. That's 1000 copies of a $15 game that is probably upped to 1800 copies after valve and other's cuts. Even that paltry marker is hard just becsuse the market is so saturated (and not in a good way).

It's only gonna get worse as a generation that is raised on mobile games and game pass settle in. The idea of spending money upfront from a game may be lost entirely.

>I also wonder whether Nintendo's pricing does a better job of maintaining the integrity of the experiences they want to offer players.

That was indeed an explicit strategy of Nintendo. Keep a premium brand and a price thst reflects that. Sales are rare to maintain this idea of an evergreen title that is always selling.
> I would think it unlikely they can secure an updraft from this to keep the house. What's the plan for that?

They tried to steal an election already - it's pretty easy to understand why they are making decisions as if they don't have to worry about elections anymore
Bad example. Most dairy imports from US -> Canada are not subject to the tariffs.

This video goes over the details of the thresholds and how those dairy tariffs work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lURdVBCBo8

In short, nobody is paying 200% tariffs.
Amazon Valuation Using Claude
Show HN: I built an AI that generates custom travel itineraries
I got tired of spending hours planning trips—tabs everywhere, scattered notes, trying to piece together a decent itinerary. So I built a simple AI tool that does it for you.

You just pick a destination and set your preferences. It generates a full travel plan in seconds—hotels, restaurants, activities, even timing.

Would love feedback!
Then why not just set a flat 10%? Why gut the industrial subsidies? Why gut state capacity?
> What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S.

Pushing this message is disinformation that has been particularly successful part of the OrangeMan administration.

Europe can defend itself. Combined they have huge military resources and technological replacements for most of what the US can provide.

So - Europe can defend itself. But it prefers to use money, allies and Ukrainian soldiers lives to avoid having to.
Every rationalist movement eventually ends up at odds with rational people.
I’ve seen many companies have this problem. They base hiring against planned revenue instead of current revenue. In a sense you have to - if you’re planning on growing 100% for several years on the back of new products and a big sales team you must hire in advance. It’s what the VC model is founded on. The downside is when you miss the revenue, you have to cut deep. And it’s usually worse because your hiring standards dropped in hyper growth.
Funny thing is the assumption that having ChatGPT run a country is worse than elected politician is not as obvious as you might think.
Trump did decent in the rust belt. Many of them have lost their good paying manufacturing jobs. If, and this is a big if, we can bring back manufacturing in the US they can get their jobs back.
Looked at it. It is really an index of press/journalistic freedom, not free speech in general with is far broader (private individuals, right to protest, etc.)

The quantitative part will have issues with data quality, and it focuses entirely repression of journalists and the media. It will be heavily distorted anywhere there is prevalent self-censorship.
There is a large disclaimer that states, among other things, "We strive to ensure accuracy and quality using authoritative sources and AI-based validation; however, we make no guarantees regarding completeness, accuracy, or timeliness. Always confirm nutritional data independently when accuracy is critical." on every page on the website where that kind of in-depth data is available.
China would be very risky. Trump in his previous term declared a trade war with china, and there is every reason to think he would again. China is also make geopolitical moves that give a significant chance of war in SE asia. I wouldn't invest there.

Now investing in Brazil or something might make sense.
technically they would be closer war lords in my opinion.
> There are no out of work olive farmers in the US.

You should be using America corn oil. /s
I don’t get why it matters what currency people use - all currency is exchangeable, isn’t it? What does it matter if you buy something for dollars or pounds or euros or yen?

If I’m buying 1 barrel of oil for $100, does it matter whether I convert my USD into 150 of this currency or 50 of that currency, according to the current exchange rate, before I pay? I still get 1 barrel of oil, and the seller still received an equivalent to $100 in exchange?
Except they aren't cutting taxes by 20% for people under 150k. They are pushing a tax cut which disproportionately affects the top 1%.
I agree. If Cubase and Dorico work on Linux, I'll immediately switch to Linux.
What's the main difference between this and OpenFoodFacts really ?
> Presumably if you as a founder are not driven by a desire to make money and your investors are, you 100% should be ousted

Presumably, the real world is a bit more nuanced than that.

There is no reason why you cannot run a company for different motivations than "get as rich as possible" while still accepting investments from people whose sole motivation is "get as rich as possible". While difficult, it is possible to align people even when they have different motivations.
What does this sentence even mean?
Not an apples to apples comparison. Marijuana laws are about States making(edit typo) laws to legalize something the federal government has laws against. That can be settled if it goes to the supreme court.

This situation is about the federal government not following the laws it sets for itself.
Generally people forget to consider replacement and training costs as reasons to be kind to your current employees.

I've basically never seen this happen in my career (although I live in hope).
While not about resentment towards universities specifically, I thought this article in The Baffler [1] did a good job of framing a dynamic that, I think, contributes to this phenomenon.

My interpretation: As the country has entered the post-industrial era, holding a college degree has increasingly become a table-stakes credential for entering the white collar labor force. The higher education system has struggled or failed to grow to meet increased demand for these credentials, which both drives up the cost and increases selectivity of higher-ed institutions. A lot of people get burned by this and become locked out of and, crucially, geographically separated from labor markets that now constitute the majority of US GDP. This split causes non degree holders to view degree holders as their class enemies, and the universities as the class gateway that divides them.

[1] https://thebaffler.com/latest/one-elite-two-elites-red-elite...
For inexplicable reasons I was about the only one there with free reign of the hospital. They seemed so starved of guests and happy someone was there for good reasons that the hospital didn't stop me from walking around most the hallways, so I did. Small town hospital with few enough security that they all knew who I was.

There was so much bad data and propoganda coming in at the beginning thar ultimately the only thing I could depend on was what I personally investigated. I'm not using it to sign off on a research paper.
It's not really only about tariffs. It's about the net effect on all barriers of trade, such as currency manipulation, subsidies, regulations, etc. The formula (trade deficit / (imports * 2)) means that countries actually have to address the root of the problem and prove it before the US reduces their tariffs.
>> User-generated databases can be unreliable

>> Foods discovered via these searches are fed back into the database,

Aren’t LLMs also unreliable? How do you ensure the new content is from an authoritative, accurate source? How do you ensure the numbers that make it into the database are actually what the source provided?

According to the Methodology/About page

>> The LLM is tasked with creating complete nutritional values, explicitly explaining the rationale behind each value it generates. Outputs undergo rigorous validation steps,

Those rigorous validation steps were also created with LLMs, correct?

>> whose core innovations leveraged AI but didn’t explicitly market themselves as “AI products.”

Odd choice for an entirely AI based service. First thought I had after reading that was: must be because people don’t trust AI generated information. Seems disengenuous to minimize the AI aspect in marketing while this product only exists because of AI.

Great idea though, thanks for giving it a shot!
A Super Fungus Is Evolving in Polluted Cities – and It's Spreading Through Cats
Malicious, or to have an anime school and get on the bad side of a particular reviewer.

No, I will never forgive the Chaos;Head NOAH . Especially since it only got through from blowback as being part of the famous Steins gate franchise and dozens of other games got quashed later.
All the gigabrains trying to be economists ITT don't understand this is a political move for Trump's base. It is not about what is technically best or the most logical according to the academics. It is an emotional decision more than anything. It stems from the working class in America being given cheap crap from Asia that barely works in exchange for shipping the good jobs overseas to the lowest bidder.

The working class has enough TVs, iPhones, and toys. We want secure housing, good education, healthy food, and an opportunity for promotion in life. Those things can only come with good jobs that are accessible to the whole working class, not just the well educated who make up most of the service economy.
This is the opinion of Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman too, in his post Crypto is for Criming https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming.
and these dirty deeds weren't even done dirt cheap!
It has British in the name of course. Gotta tariff those leeches. /s
>Just look at workaholic societies like South Korea and Japan, societal pressures around earning money to support a family,

So, if we check the unemployed in Japan, they will be baby daddies to six or seven children? It's not workaholism.

>Education is in no way indoctrinating children into not wanting children.

You understand that this sounds like a lie not because I watch Fox News, but rather because I've had the kids come home telling me about how they were taught that the most important thing that they could do to lower their carbon footprint was to not have children, but that "adoption was just as good"? Granted, I'd agree that it's almost certainly not some official written policy somewhere, but the indoctrination is real and personally witnessed. And it's not just that, there are other examples.

>You are conflating education with the current economical system, which uses education to have a trained workforce to

If that were ever true, it hasn't been so since your grandparent's time. We don't need a workforce, not enough industry left to require it. Should I just ignore the fallacy where "education system" means whatever is most convenient for your argument rather than the government bureaucracy and social institution that always tends to have "education" either in the agency's name itself or in its official purpose?
First we don't import any where near all of Uruguay's exports, in fact we're only about 8% of their actual exports which should tell you this isn't the reason we buy more from them than they do from us.

Next that's always going to be imbalanced because they produce goods cheaper and can't afford as much as the equivalent chunk of people in the US.
Does that matter as much as citizens united?
> I’m pretty sure that they weren’t voting for those candidates for the express purpose of stripping away those rights and there were other policies and values that they were voting for

I don't know, man. If they're really your friends, those should be non-negotiable.
Although if you look at most maths textbooks or papers there's a fair bit of English waffle per equation. I guess both have their place.
They knew what they were doing. They created a meme, a dead cat.

Then you waste time discussing the unimportant, "funny" topic, while the big picture is ignored.
Related:

Tell HN: Archive.is/ph/md/etc. is redirecting me to HTTPS:// rurtnews – com (30 points, 7 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490423

Removepaywall.com Redirecting to RussiaToday (4 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504057
Do you have any ideea how fast debris passes by (or hits) in a counter-rotating low orbit?
> This is a decapitation strike (Timothy Snyder: Decapitation Strike -- https://archive.is/1xkxK) on America by our enemies

Decapitation Strike seems to be not a general principle that is applying here, but the title of a specific polemic against the Trump administration. Just mentioning for clarity, as it sounded like a general thing warned about in past times that's applicable here.
DMA has not been used against EU tech companies because US tech companies are clearly the market leaders in the area the DMA is concerned with. The DMA exists to make sure that companies (from the EU, US, or elsewhere) comply with EU regulations regarding privacy, tracking, and consumer rights.

It's not a "tax" on US companies, it's just that US companies don't bother to comply with the regulations that apply in the EU, and thus get fined.
Here, US manufacturing output is up 50% since 2010: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...

That it's relative share in GDP is down during that time means that other sectors were growing even faster (think Google, Netflix and so on, so services instead of things). That the service sector gains in relative importance is actually a sign of an advanced economy, every modern economy looks like that, not just the US.
I kinda both agree and disagree...

A screw or two definitely wouldn't have impeded the handful of times I've moved my 16's parts around, not even in the slightest, it's just not that frequent. And I don't usually carry other kinds of ports + wouldn't be able to have the screwdriver too, it's usually "I have them all" or "I have none" and then all I can realistically do is swap sides. I'd have zero complaints with some standard screws.

... but tool-less lowers the barrier to literally zero, which is pretty big when you need it. It's a very different mental-space: absolutely zero concern.

... and if they were smaller, they'd be incompatible, and it'd be harder to build custom ones due to even less internal space.
Nothing wrong with that as long as the expected behavior is formally described (even if that behavior is indeterminate or undefined) and easy to look up. In fact, that's a great use for LLMs: to explain what code is doing (not just writing the code for you).
Clinton was the last fiscally responsible President, using a strong real economy to pay down some of the debt which had service costs equal to the costs of US federal debt today. You can't criticize that given how high the debt was in the 1990s.