skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty slick website. I also love how you using AI to generate all the food icons. It's so, so much nicer than just visually comparing text.

When I first found Cronometer and started using it daily, I did what every developer does and looked at what kind of data exists out there if I wanted to build my own app. The free data from the FDA was pretty bad/limited with massive holes and it would have taken a lot of effort to clean up.

Of course, Cronometer's best data comes from https://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/.

Maybe you can sample your data and validate it against NCC's data via Cronometer to see if your LLM approach has legs when it comes to micronutrients and amino acids. And note that you have AIgen data that NCC's hand-measured database doesn't even have reliably, like choline, which seems like a red flag.
I hope this remains true for all distributions. Playing around with Fedora's beta suggested to me they will implement a store (this may already be a thing) and I can see that one day requiring an account to use the store at least but that could slowly and eventually boil the frogs depending if IBM stays hands off. If Redhat eventually goes that direction I could see a few other corporate supported distributions following. I was only testing Fedora as it appeared to be one of the easiest to optimize for gaming at the time. My daily drivers are Void and MX and those should remain safe for now.
Even "taking their part of the money out" is not guaranteed. Again, it's a privately traded company, so there's no open market. You have to find someone willing to buy your shares from you and make a deal with them.
Yes, i think that's the consensus. But it didn't start with litigation, it started with a 'creative' approach to generating new licensing revenue.
Modular ports are good, but I’m not sure I need to be able to hot swap them.

Larger port module plates that bolt into the sides of the chassis with a few screws would be just as good from a longevity standpoint, would enable better rigidity, and would allow the FW13 to host a considerably higher number of ports.
Most of the listed countries do much better than the US in the free speech index:

https://rsf.org/en/index
I suspect it's about putting infrastructure in place to ensure loyalty in times of turbulence.
It's really simple to me:

- abortion should only be allowed if needed because of health or exceptional cases like rape
- abortion should not be used as a form of birth control, use condoms or the morning-after pill

I'm fine with states deciding the details. I think it should be mandated that it's always allowed when health is in danger (I believe this is already true), and it should be mandated that even if a state allows abortion "just by choice" (so, as birth control), it should definitely not be allowed after 9 months even.

> The anti-abortion people do not care about actual outcomes.

I'm anti-abortion, but I really, really do care about outcomes. So if you want to discuss this with me, I'd love to.

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> You get people who think life is so sacred abortion should be banned allied with people who'd like to see an AR-15 under every pillow

I don't understand the problem with this... Not wanting to kill unborn life but still wanting to be able to protect yourself and your family when someone breaks into your house.

It's statements like this that make me question the intellectual honesty of people. It doesn't take much thinking to understand it, right?
Yes, let's let the jocks into the chemistry lab. This will end well.
I'll be damned, I had no idea and I still got it right.

Once people accept that this administration is very much like the Russian regime, where everyone is the type of person playing to an aesthetic, you see this stuff coming miles away.

This is what these sorts of people would do.
People are saying they literally used the trade deficit and the formula they published that they claim doesn’t do this multiplies that value by 4 and then 0.25. Yeah… that is what we are dealing with.
Unlike other corporations, they actually didn't really do all that much to make it a monopoly though. It's kind of an organic monopoly simply by being better than everything else, by a wide margin.

There's not much "lock-in" apart from the games one owns on the platform; and the social aspects of steam are mostly negligible or niche - sure there's the friendlist, but no gamer I know uses steam voice-chat so the friendlist is mostly replicated in discord and similar anyway.
Discussion (49 points, 19 hours ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559451
^ Returns

Samsung and other Korean chaebols used to be major players in the Chinese economy until the 2016-17 trade war lead to a mass exodus out of China and into Vietnam.

Samsung also fell behind TSMC as they were squeezed by Apple's litigation over patent infringement [0] which lead them to use TSMC.

The 2019-21 trade war with Japan also lead to Samsung falling further behind.

At this point, the only solution South Korean players have left is investing in both China (the current article) and the US (much of the semiconductor related investments under the Biden admin was Samsung initiated)

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electr....
I say the same thing about Zoom meetings.

My job used to be (not anymore) Tech Support Specialist, and I needed to use Zoom most of the time to take control of the device and make the changes. We also used heavily the voice call feature so I was able to give instructions. Other software like TeamViewer had pricing that did not make sense to us, and other tech support software did not have voice call support, so it made assistance less straightforward.

Well, back then (2016-2018), I tried Ubuntu, and the Zoom client was not as polished as it was on Windows. It got in the way by confusing my keystrokes with meeting controls, and it was just very quirky in general.

Maybe today is different, but I'm not a Tech Support Specialist anymore. However, I feel very comfortable using Windows. I don't feel compelled to make the change to Linux, where other software I use could be a quirky experience again.
I'm not sure you tried to understand what I've depicted.

As long as you don't know how the end result should look like there are no "mistakes".

The whole point of explorative work is to find out how to approach something in the first place.

It's usually impossible to come up with the final result at first try!

After you actually know how to do something in general tools which help to avoid all undetected mistakes in the implementation of the chosen approach are really indispensable. But before having this general approach figured out too much rigidity is not helpful but instead a hindrance.

To understand this better read the linked article. It explains the problem very well over a few paragraphs.
Imagine the organization you are imagining in your head.

Now imagine there is a Super-boss, who is exactly like the "people running the business" (attribution needed), but one level above them.

If the Super Boss were to look at the situation, I think it'd be pretty obvious that the issue would be "The people organizing the company at the highest level" who are responsible for the failures of the company. That may involve over-hiring, which is itself a bad practice that causes unnecessary pain and (personal, financial) suffering, and would be a good cause to fire them for almost crashing my beautiful super-company that I, the Super-boss, super-founded.

You're saying that if we return the Super-boss to the realm of the fictional, then suddenly it isn't the C-suite's fault anymore?

If we're discussing should, then yeah, their heads should be the first to roll. I agree its idealistic to imagine them having the sort of decency this requires, but I agree it should be the case!
One thing I don't understand. US is much bigger than most countries. Why would a country the size of Belgium (~12M people) needs to import as much as it export from the US in order not to have tariffs > 10%?
> In simple terms, if you're the Philippines and you're selling fish to Russia, would you rather have Rubles or US dollars?

I can easily see why Rubles would have been unacceptable several decades ago, but nowadays with the speed of financial markets why not set the price in the seller's currency and at payment time the buyer can trade enough of their currency for the seller's currency on the currency markets to get the payment?
I drive a Mercedes W447 in the US (though the "crew" version) and get no end of crap from people around me with F150's and the like (I live in an area that is borderline rural/urban and has a ton of farming). Meanwhile I have a larger hauling capacity, get vastly better mileage, have 8 seats when I want them, etc.

It's too bad no-one bought these and they went away.

Amusingly the Postal Service in our area drives them now.
You're knocking on Apple's door with that idea. Man, I'd love to see it.
Yes, but it's even worse than you think.

As these countries move away from the dollar, there becomes a glut of US dollars in the world, triggering inflation like we have never seen before. Ignoring the barriers to trade that the tariffs represent and what that will do with our productivity. Ignoring the additional cost of an uncertain market future (because all decisions are made from the gut and could change tomorrow). The massive stagflationary impact of foreign countries unloading the 75% of US dollars they hold would effectively kill them US economy. The tariffs wouldn't even matter because you effectively couldn't give US dollars away -- they'd be worthless internationally. No one that is not rich could afford to import anything.
This is the only “Trackball Mouse” I know of: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Mighty_Mouse_W...

It's a pretty small trackball.
Ah that is an embarrassing bug. Mobile safari does not do that. Thank you for the report, looking to see why that is now.

Edit: Should be patched in Desktop Safari now.
>the answer isn't even "Play Switch 1 games", the Steam Deck does that better too

What about motion control games like Switch Sports?
Can you be a bit more specific what kind of "thought suppression" you mean?
In the same vein, Asimov in 1956:

Baley shrugged. He would never teach himself to avoid asking useless questions. The robots knew. Period. It occurred to him that, to handle robots with true efficiency, one must needs be expert, a sort of roboticist. How well did the average Solarian do, he wondered?
Sound physics And basics of sound perception
Exactly, tariffs may be a wise way to protect parts of your industry that need protection and investment. The Chinese for example have been using this tactic for decades. But you need to choose which sectors to invest in. The way Trump is doing is nothing more than an instant devaluation of the dollar purchasing power.
Every time I see "Book me a trip to X" I immediately shut down. I have yet to see any LLM handle all the cases that human would/needs to. Those sites are hard to navigate for a human, doing a search and clicking on the first result is not "autopilot". If that's all I was going to do then I'd just do it myself.

Instead I need to read through 10s+ of listings, keeping track of cleaning/other fees, weighing location and price as well amenities if any. [0]

I have yet to see a model do any of that (yes, I'm aware it's possible and maybe someone is doing that).

> We're just beginning. As we increase training resources, Ace will become more intelligent and capable.

Can we not? "As time goes on we will get better because magic" - I truly hate this hopium in the LLM community. LLM problems are not like normal software problems, you cannot code your way out of a hole. You can prompt or re-train, both suck and (training at least) has a long turn-around time and is not cheap.

I really enjoy LLMs and love trying new things that use them. This idea/product/service/whatever is just not compelling. It feels like I'd need to babysit this process to make sure it didn't do something stupid. It's the same reason I have never in my life bought something through my Amazon Echos, the upside is minimal and the downside can be massive.

[0] OpenAI's Deep Research is closer to what I'm talking about but even that is laughably bad sometimes. It looks impressive as hell, it impressed me, and then I went to ask it an "easy" question so I could share the question to a friend to show them how cool it was. The "easy" question was something I was familiar with and the final results were lacking (to be nice). I asked it to research local bakeries and it missed a ton of places that show up in 1-2 google searches. -- This is the problem with LLMs across the board, they are great at producing good sounding output but that doesn't make it right/true/complete.
Thats called project management.
> It's insane, because all those people have now backpedaled and no longer bring up the economy as their primary concern.

Give it time. They will.
Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)
Get it from here: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

In 2019, while contributing to the C2 language, I started up "C3" as a pet project while waiting for pull requests to be approved...

Now it's 6 years later and C3 well on its way to 1.0, having released 0.7.0 last week.

Unlike other C alternatives, C3 tries to evolve C – but without concern to backwards compatibility to the latter.

What it adds to C is among other things:

- Module system

- Semantic macros and compile time introspection

- Lightweight generic modules

- Zero overhead errors

- Build-in slices and SIMD types

- Gradual contracts

- Built-in checks in debug mode

You can find more details on the site: https://c3-lang.org
It might be interesting to look at the examples: https://c3-lang.org/language-overview/examples/ so see how the language looks for some simple examples.

Some other links that might be interesting follows:

I've posted about C3 on HN before, notably

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108980

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32005678

Here are some interviews on C3:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8VDRJqXfc

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS8MVZH-vA

Here is a series doing various tasks in C3:

- https://ebn.codeberg.page/programming/c3/c3-file-io/

Some projects:

- Gameboy emulator https://github.com/OdnetninI/Gameboy-Emulator/

- RISCV Bare metal Hello World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAJxx6Ok4E

- "Depths of Daemonheim" roguelike https://github.com/TechnicalFowl/7DRL-2025
It's a reserve. The coupling of reserve and currency is a historical accident, not a fundamental reality
If you don't talk politics with friends, who are you going to talk to about that?

Probably nobody.

Who will win the elections then? The forces whose supporters do talk politics with friends.
> memoryholed

The people who voluntarily glued themselves to propaganda TV never paid attention to it in the first place. They'll believe whatever they need to because they're mad about lockdowns.
This is what statistics is for? We rarely ever “know” (in the sense of your restrictive epistemology) the precise value of ANY demographic measure.

We don’t know how many people live in the United States at any particular moment, but the Census is still useful.
Peter Thiel most definitely wants a form of kingship though he professes to be a libertarian

I believe it means libertarian in the context of present systems. In their new system, they no longer need to be libertarian. Just absolute ruler. King is even the wrong term.

Dictator
Dartmouth is smaller and has, historically, had a stronger and more intense ongoing alumni connection in various ways than is probably the norm with the Ivies in general.
when you're reverse engineering a web API used by an app (I've done this for personal integrations and automations) via MITMProxy and/or a device emulator, sometimes API calls show up that make you go "hmmm"

> There are millions of apps across both stores. Perhaps find a way to introspect all of them?

I would be surprised if this method wasn't also being employed, if not by individual hackers, then in the form of growth hacking by companies who sell a means of fixing it.

Still seems like something fun to try.
The man has been dead for 23 years
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy (2007)
This is what forced me vastly curtail my news consumption for the most part. I can only take so much breathless reporting about the "strategy" of the Trump administration, when it's plainly sheer incompetence with the winds of malice in the background. There is no actual plan to "make America great again", it's non-stop incompetent pandering to a base that just wants others to suffer.
Yeah I respect the project and mission but it’s not for me for various reasons.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. What rtkwe described is literally what they are? They didn’t say the tariffs are random (unless the comment changed, which would explain why yours makes no sense to me), they said they aren’t what the White House is claiming they are.

If you think trying to balance out the trade deficit with every single country without any other nuanced consideration whatsoever is a good approach, that’s one thing (a lot of people would disagree), but there’s no getting around that the information around this is either misinformed or deliberately misleading.
As this seems US focused, I'll share an alternative that works really well with European products (and a lot of US ones too, apparently): https://yuka.io/en/

Really easy to use (just scan the barcode and you get easily digested data about the product) has every product imaginable, also analyzes cosmetics and best of all, all the basic functionality is free.

Not affiliated, been using it for years at this point and now it's an essential partner when going shopping. That they let people decide their own premium pricing per year is just icing on the cake.
Sounds like with such a governor module, everyone could rent a SecUnit any time they need to feel entirely safe!
Devaluing the currency is a standard approach to encouraging an export-oriented economy. See China and Japan.
Plenty of us knew the outcome would be catastrophic. We were outvoted by the idiots.
> If we could snap our fingers and domestically produce most or all of our own products, would you not prefer that?

I'm not the person you asked, but I would definitely not prefer that. Trade & economic dependencies prevent wars. Wars are really, really bad things.
Wesleyan does not have a medical center and according to the NIH’s public reporting, they have under $2 million in NIH grants, compared to $600 million for Columbia. (Edited from $400 million, which is the value cut.)

Wesleyan has a $250 million operating budget, so the (from what REPORTER indicates) $1.6 million in NIH funding represents 0.6% of their budget. In contrast, the $600 million in NIH funding to Columbia represents about 10% of its $6 billion operating budget.

So both in terms of absolute numbers and relative numbers, the NIH contributions to Wesleyan are de minimis.
I don't mind saying this is some serious Nazi stuff going on. The federal government is trying to obstruct free speech, jailing people for free speech... we are in a bad place.
It’s been our turn for a hot minute. Republicans have been blowing up the status quo since Reagan, and the Democrats enforcing austerity since Clinton. American corporate leadership is excellent at hitting quarter-after-quarter KPIs for bonuses and share price growth, but there’s ample data it has all come at the expense of workers - increased precarity, decreased wages, increased costs of everything, as the country is plundered down to its core and sold off piecemeal.

Post-Carter United States (and South Korea, and Japan, and the UK, and much of the developed world in general) is a prime example of the follies of prioritizing numbers-on-a-spreadsheet growth in the short term, over a balanced and robust domestic economic engine that ensures a healthy, happy, stable populace that wants to have kids (since they have the money and time to be good parents).
> If they fold and remove tariffs on the US

Part of the problem is that Trumps's definition of tariffs doesn't make any sense. VAT isn't a tariff but according to Trump it is.

Does he seriously expect other nations to just get rid of VAT? Or somehow replace it overnight with some other system all just to appease the US? Because that's the only way you can lower 'tariffs' to zero.

It just won't happen and we'll be in a continual standoff until Trump concedes that trade barriers are not in fact a good thing for anyone. He'll never admit it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the illusion of a 'deal' is struck in order to save face and reverse this mess once it becomes clear it's not sustainable unless you want to shrink your economy and destroy others at the same time.
Nice they have DLP. Have they configured it to analyze or look for classification headers and are there teams that will reach out to violators and politely re-educate them?
Dartmouth is also famously the "conservative" Ivy.
Choropleth Maps
Halberstadt seems to last have had a power outage in 2023. I wonder if the organ has battery backup...
It looks good. Do you have a way to differentiate food in different locations? E.g. 500ml Coke in the UK vs US might be different.

(Also I type in Can of coke and it has no results, which is probably an annoying thing to have to map to 330ml Coke, but might be useful on the todo list!)
Thundermail isn’t going to use your messages to train AI, it’s not going to invade your inbox with ads, and it’s not going to harvest and sell your data.

It's simply not possible to know what they will do. Remember what happened to this?

*Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will.*