skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Second one because afaik it's legal to call "chocolate" something that does not contain any actual cocoa in the US.

Well, no. It cannot be called "chocolate" if it is something that consumers would expect to be made from actual chocolate. However, it can contain the term "chocolate" if cocoa or another cacao product is the sole source of its chocolate flavor, and as long as consumers have a pre-established understanding that it is likely to not be made from chocolate. For example, people generally understand that chocolate cake is likely made with cocoa, not chocolate, and so it can be labeled "chocolate cake". If there is no such general understanding, the product must be labeled "chocolate flavored".

(See the US FDA CPG Sec 515.800, "Labeling of Products Purporting to be 'Chocolate' or 'Chocolate Flavored'")

Now if we could just get them to stop calling chocolate products with dairy in them "dark" (I'm looking at you, Hershey...)
How good is platform support - can I install e.g. Diablo 3 and have the thumbsticks control the character and not a virtual mouse? Or would I need to remap the input myself?
This is a very reasonable list especially resolved. To their point DNS is handled very well by Unbound.
Introducing Anthropic's first developer conference: Code with Claude
If Paul Graham is calling out conservatives for being driven stuff other than data, then you know people are losing it lol.

Usually on here you see a bunch of apologia for when republicans do inane economic policy and I am not seeing that bs on here for once...

Guess Trump really wasn't the crypto, AI, chips, wtv you wanna say president lmao. But nah all the naysayers just had TDS.

Guess Wall St and others are going to have to re-learn that sound policy beats vibes.
Sounds like the way things are going to me and it's what a lot of people are rooting for. I think America did a really good job of compartmentalizing the rich and the poor so the rich are completely unaware of what everyone else is dealing with.
You can imagine things all you want, the rest of us will be over here in the real world.
What percentage of the comments here fall exactly in line with the tribal groupthink the article was about? 90% 95% 98%?
Thanks! Site is still in stealth alpha and posted an article here in hopes to get -some- feedback. Didn't expect this kind of anger hahah. Very grateful for the positive comments though.

Im on the fence about pre-opening the 'tiles' on mobile. Do you (or anyone else) have any strong opinions on that?
Yep, Tailscale takes a pretty reasonable approach to that IMHO. Open source on platforms that are open source. I think that works out pretty well because it meets people where they are. For example the people who care about open source (and thus are running linux or android) get their open source needs met, and people who don't care about open source strongly or at all (as evidenced in part by them running closed/proprietary OSes) such as mac or windows users are also met where they are. Of course this also helps protect their business model because then competitors can't just take the open source versions and run off with them, and the number of linux users is quite small compared to mac and windows so it keeps the majority of the client closed while still providing the openness to those who truly care about it.

*In my perfect world everybody would care about open source, but the evidence is pretty clear that only a tiny minority of people actually do, even among engineers
I just distinctly remember getting slaughtered by Paladins, and having very few good options to counter.
You give him too much credit.

He is a conman, but not a good one. He attracts conmen who are better at the game than he is and they have been milking him for decades. He had eventually to get into business with shady East-European businessmen who used him as a front. He was in descent to money laundering when he won the elections 2016.
We already have that. It's called courts.
Middle ground fallacy
That will leave a large group of people without any partners, since men and women vote very differently.
>Can you demonstrably prove white people were harmed by DEIA?

Sure, here you go. This is just one example, but it's been widely covered in tech circles as well as here on HN and I chose it simply because it's one of the most egregious and shockingly honest account of how DEI works in practice as opposed to nice-sounding social theories

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634647

Things like this have been covered and talked about on HN for years, I am surprised you missed it, with a lot of commenters speaking out about their own experience which more often than not paints the same story each time - a company needs to reach a certain quota based on race or gender to avoid potential discrimination lawsuits, their hiring pipeline does not support that quota so the only options they have is to discriminate against the only group it is socially OK to discriminate against - white men. And on some level - asians - as is mentioned directly by the CEO of IBM in the leaked video posted above.
A currency is a social construct but it doesn't just come down to people who trade in the currency in a decentralized sense: the US govt imposes taxes on economic activity, and demands those taxes be paid in dollars (as other states do in their respective currencies), and this is enforced by the coercive power of the state, which is ultimately based on its military strength, since that's the ultimate guarantor of the continued existence of all the other institutions of the state.

Of course, there's more to it in the complex system of the global economy, but the power of the state is still an important central factor in a currencies' strength - it's not just about collective perceptions of value.
At $75, Snap was priced like Tesla. like the next dominant product, It's now about a tenth of that,

But what about the robots and robotaxis?

OK, sure, what about the glasses?
As a backend person, sometimes I look at what's being done for front end stuff and pull back in ever so slight horror.

It's an excellent article, and the work within is very well done, but there's a part of me that screams "Why would you introduce this much complexity for what should be a simple scroll?" (overcoming technical hurdles to produce the desired end result aside).
Tastes are by nature subjective. But if 99% of people think X is beautiful and Y is ugly, and 1% think it's the other way around, there probably is an objective reason the ratios are as they are.
What he means is that according to the graph if you call yourself an "independent thinker" then you can't be an extremist. You are automatically a centrist. All the dots on the "independent thinker" half are all centrist. None are left or right. An interesting bias that he's admitting to. Made me roll my eyes and stop reading right there, and just skim the rest for all the "independent thinker" tropes.

If you want to feel superior and virtue signal, just label yourself an "independent thinker." It's so easy.
What? No, just literally the US legal system is utterly broken. It's the reason we literally put black men in jail for Life over and over again for minor crimes, because we have a broken legal system.
Work with your government to drop the tariffs on the US. Problem solved.
Because of educational polarization and race depolarization, Democrats now overperform Republicans in low-turnout elections. It's been true in every cycle starting in 2018 (and in the special elections before that).
Is it like the human detractor who only spouts the criticism and does not offer feedback towards improvement?
That's confusing because of order of operations. But

while ( *(d++) = *(s++) );

is fairly obvious, so I think it gets a pass.
> Local produces also have VAT reduced by the value of goods they bought locally, so it is not such a burden for a local producer vs importer who doesn't benefit from such VAT reduction at all for his costs.

Huh? VAT is transparent to all involved companies regardless of import/export in such a way that the final transaction to a consumer cover the whole VAT of the value chain.

A quick VAT tutorial:

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The local producer buys seeds, and pays a price that includes VAT. They then sell crop for a price that includes VAT. The difference is settled with the government: The local producer gets back all the VAT they paid, and instead give the government all the VAT they collected.

A reseller buys local produce at a price that includes VAT, and sells it at a price that includes VAT. They then get back all the VAT they paid (which is exactly what the government got from the local producer from this exact transaction!), and in turn give the government VAT they collect from the final consumer.

In the end, the amount of VAT retained by the government is exactly the price paid by the last recipient of the goods. No company in the chain ended up paying VAT out of their own pocket, and no other government earned VAT.

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Now try with imported goods: The foreign producer buys seeds at a price that includes their local VAT. They then sell crops for export at a price with no VAT. The producer gets back all the VAT they paid, and give nothing to their government as they collected none during export.

The reseller buys the foreign produce at a price without VAT and instead report and pay VAT themselves to initiate the VAT chain. They sell it at a price that includes VAT. They get all the VAT they paid back, and in turn give the government the VAT they collect form the final consumer.

In the end, the amount of VAT retained by the government is exactly the price paid by the last recipient of the goods. No company in the chain ended up paying VAT out of their own pocket, and no other government earned VAT.

Granted, the importer's country is the one stuffing their pillows with the VAT, which does not benefit the foreign producer. That's the difference.
No - because generally there will be a lot more folks in the labor market with less leverage so they will not need to pay more in order to attract the talent they need. This is also why inflation is typically solved by recessions. They reduce labor demand which reduces wages which (generally) reduces the price of producing things overall.
Because I thought it would be fun :)
I mean, owning slaves was a feature at one time. Features change with time.
That happened a long time ago though, much much longer ago than the number of relationships started to drop, so its unrelated.
Yeah, honestly we didn't want to go with the IaaS/cloudflare style pricing model, we give you full fly.io nodes and control of them and forward the cost. Keeps things simple and without the tricks. I can see what you're saying though
If I buy and hold 1 kg of gold, in 50 years humanity still has that same 1kg of gold but it lost all the resources required to secure that gold from being stolen. As such buying gold “to hold” is actively harmful for humanity, the same is true of crypto.

I object to doing things that bring me wealth at the expense of humanity as IMO it’s just a diffuse form of theft. While you may disagree, I hope you can understand that such a stance is based on my personal morality.
This is the only sane way to operate nowadays.
Just take it literally, the US legal system is utterly broken, as in it does not function. It's the reason we literally put black men in jail for Life over and over again for minor crimes, because we have a broken legal system, it's why in America whoever has the most money wins it's why all of our politicians are lawyers because the legal system is broken.
do you find it fishy 88% of the nursing workforce is female?
Yesterday on live TV he verbally confirmed that he is probably the first US president to have no clue why the country switched from tariffs to taxing working people instead.

He was correct that it was finalized just over 100 years ago, but just can't figure out anything else about economic stuff like that.
In my state (Washington) it is actually cheaper to get a non-Real ID driver's license plus a passport card if you take your own photo.

A passport card is $65 and good for 10 years. That's $6.50/year.

A Real ID driver's license driver's license in my state is $42 dollars more to renew for 6 years than a non-Real ID license. That's $7.00/year. It can also be renewed for 8 years for for $56 more than a non-Real ID license, which is again $7.00/year.

In addition to being cheaper a passport card can be used both as an ID and to show citizenship. A Real ID is only an ID.
How does this compare to Zig or Odin, which have the same goals of improving upon C and have gotten occasional publicity here on HN?
> but the government does not receive that benefit

Yes it does, through increased tax revenues due to the increased economic activity brought about by the road existing earlier than it would have if the government had to wait several years to save up the money to build that road.

Also, at least in the US, the government is nominally "We the People," so if the general population experiences increased economic activity, then the government is benefiting, as it exists (nominally) for the benefit of the people.
what a b*hit role
Show HN: AWS EC2 Pricing API – live spot pricing across regions
Up-to-date API to retrieve available instance types per region and platform, as well as up to date on-demand and spot pricing across every region and availability zones. Also includes Single-Thread CPU performance and general info about instance types (vCPUs, Memory, GPUs, etc).

The database is updated every hour (about 80k data points).
Of all the things I heard about deep seek that's the one that has motivated me the most to try it out XD
Engineered yeast boosts D-lactic acid production, advancing biomanufacturing
The idea of including that requirement in the license is a good idea and I had not considered it, but I will -- frankly my motivations have been more on the citation side of things such that the need for quality disclaimers is not as great. Thank you for the suggestion.
That certainly isn’t a claim or a point in my post.

There are better and worse politicians and parties, certainly, and your vote and who gets power does matter. They certainly aren’t all as bad as each other but neither are any of them heroes or gods, and identifying strongly with a particular party is weird.
In the US there are no federal antidiscrimination protections for LGBT people except in employment through Bostock (and conveniently, Trump's EEOC has stopped pursuing these cases). You can be evicted from your home for being gay but not for being black or Christian.

Access to gender affirming care for trans minors is banned in more than half of US states. The very same medicines are allowed to be given to cis minors.

In 13 US states bathroom bills prevent trans people from comfortably existing outside of their homes for more than a few hours at a time.

It has only been 22 years since sodomy laws were found unconstitutional. It has only been 10 years since gay marriage was legalized nationwide. Thomas wrote in his Dobbs concurrence that Lawrence should be revisited. Several state legislatures have passed resolutions calling for Obergefell to be overturned.

While less of a "basic right", the Trump administration has banned trans people from serving in the military. Visibility of gay or trans characters in media available for minors is also regularly threatened. Products for trans people sold at stores like Target have led to bomb threats.
Get a brush and be the change you want to see.
It’s an impossible trick. The chicks come home to roost. You can’t have an exponential forever.
> I'd expect the CPI to go up in the event of global tariffs at a baseline of 10% assuming all things go ahead as described.

A lot of dollars are spent on US goods/services, so the baseline is more like 10% * proportion of dollars spent on non-US goods.
> There's absolutely zero empirical evidence of KYC leading to a reduction in the rate of any kind of crime.

We are discussing an article about a crime that KYC trivially solves.
Show HN: Geotreasure, a map-based trivia game about cities and geography
I made a small game about geography and cities. It's inspired by the board game Treasure Island - after playing I loved it but was so annoyed with the whiteboard markers I had a massive itch to implement the same mechanics digitally and I knew it was going to work when I spent more time playing and improving the map than working on the code.

Only two maps so far, SF and Paris, maybe more to come when I get bored of those.

Stack:
Svelte 5 with Sveltkit
Heavy lifting with Leaflet and turfjs.
Deployed on a free instance at fly.io.

I have opinions on Svelte 5's developer ergonomics that I'll hopefully have time to post about soon.
No specific brand, I had just searched ebay for "2020 macbook air m1 battery" and picked a seller with good ratings. Cost about $40. It's not even advertised as being a genuine apple one.
I also found a DOE grant, about $800K.

I think this is the full list, NIH looks like a subset of overall HHS funding, and NSF is the actual single largest (around $2.5M)

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&tin=U3...

Wesleyan falls into a really weird bucket: a private liberal arts university, generally considered a "little Ivy" with a modest, slightly better than its competitors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies) in terms of research clout. The impact of losing all scientific federal funding would be noticeable, but presumably, not fatal; I don't think they structured the operating costs of the university to be dependent on federal research funding like many other schools.

I grew up at Wesleyan- both my parents worked there, it paid for my university education, gave me access to the internet in the 1980s (via NSF funding), and gave me insight into liberal education, all of which prepared me to go off to a California university, maximize my education, and deploy that into my career. I think many people don't recognize the intense second order effects (mostly positive) of federal funding of research.
It's not about what I (as a web dev) need, but what works for "halp, I need a website" clients who don't know anything about tech. Hugo still implies the need for a build setup and hosting, which in turn means DNS, SSL, CLI, etc. Which often means more dev time. Your average yoga teacher or restaurant or nonprofit would have no idea how to deal with all that (and they shouldn't have to). That's why the page builders are better for them, IMO.
I have a personal blog where I share my life experiences: https://www.rxjourney.net

I've been writing for years—mostly sharing on my WhatsApp status for friends, posting some on Facebook (though my account got suspended last month for ‘account integrity’ issues), and saving some pieces in Google Drive just for myself. But late last year, I decided to take it a step further and start a blog.

Right now, I have just 21 subscribers, but it’s amazing to know that there are people who genuinely enjoy what I write. I got a heartwarming email with these words:

"Just keep writing. Not for readers or for any allure of income, but for yourself. You will thank yourself—I have no doubt."

That message, and others like it, mean a lot to me. Writing is something special. As Carl Sagan beautifully put it in Cosmos:

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."

The full quote is -

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan.
North Korea launders its stolen cryptocurrency through every available means. Including Tornado Cash, quite aggressively, which is why they were sanctioned. It is very hard to understand why the Trump administration would reverse those sanctions unless they are trying to aid this kind of money laundering.
One of the things LLM's/natural language programming brings is greater access.
While the actual code may be crap, it opens up things to more people to play around and iterate on ideas without having to have a ton of knowledge.
That is powerful by itself.
That doesn't contradict what he said though, he didn't say the old sexists are no longer called sexist, he said the definition had expanded to cover many more than before.
Should be back up now, I didn't scale up quickly enough for the traffic. My apologies and thank you for the report.
Programming language dev is quite common. I've been cataloging various languages on r/altprog on Reddit. This particular one seems to have influences from several other languages (quite a few use "fn" for function declaration, plus there's a module system).
Ever been to see an orchestra play? In my opinion, the part where the conductor puts his hands up and the audience and orchestra both grow quiet in anticipation of the start of the piece is semantic.
it uses LLVM, see the bottom of TFA
In a live orchestra performance, the conductor raises his hands. The audience quiets in anticipation.

He gives an up tick indicating the beginning of the music, then the downbeat of the start of the first measure.

No sound is heard.

The conductor continues to mark time. The silence is deep...profound.

The conductor continues to mark the time of the passing measures.

The audience listens.

At some point, positive sound breaks the silence - suddenly, loudly destroying the stillness! Or possibly very nearly silently - at the uncertain threshold of perception, the audible music begins...
> If we have something closely enough representing a "free and fair election"

Make you wonder, doesn't it..
Both were on a trajectory to dominance. Tesla hasn't been for 2 years.
This is blatantly false. You just have to look at Jerome Powell's reasoning in 2018-2019 and just last month!
While I agree those are great things, don’t fool yourself - someone IS paying for it

Those countries have a population that is a fraction of the US. I’m sure they make more effective use of their taxes too. In the US, taxes continue to rise and health care and education costs rise even more. There are many things that are broken. Painting all billionaires as the problem and thinking that confiscating their wealth via taxes will solve the issues… is a popular rallying cry but is not an actual solution
> Tunisian consumers don't have the ability to afford products from the US.

They do use products from the US, just not physical ones. It's weird to read such takes on HN of all sites.