MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lnsru | 2025-11-06 16:48:40+00:00
They are not cheap. They are extremely efficient at manufacturing. The 201st panel look exactly the same as 1st one. Definitely no human labor involved. Huge well readable serial numbers placed on multiple places of the panel for camera based identification. Usually no single failing panel in shipping container. The bad ones were clearly damaged during transportation. This efficiency looks scary when I see output of my workplace in Germany.
by mrob | 2025-11-06 16:48:48+00:00
>Once the leaves are older, there are all sorts of oxalates, and you should really avoid them if you are sensitive to kidney stones.

I've heard this before but I've never seen reliable evidence for it. I searched PubMed for "Urtica dioica oxalate" and found this study:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23009884/

The full text is paywalled, but from the abstract:

"Four examples of typical wild edible plants were evaluated (stinging nettle, sorrel, chickweed and common lambsquarters), and based on substantial equivalence with known food plants the majority of the bioactive components reported were within the range experienced when eating or drinking typical food stuffs. For most compounds the hazards could be evaluated as minor. The only precaution found was for common lambsquarters because of its presumed high level of oxalic acid."

There are also several animal studies suggesting a potential protective effect of stinging nettles against kidney stone.

Oxalic acid is a component of the toxin injected by the stinging hairs, but this is removed by cooking.

It's possible that there's confusion because older stinging nettle leaves grow cystoliths (hard mineral deposits in the leaves). Cystoliths are usually calcium carbonate. I'm not aware of any plant that produces oxalate salt cystoliths. If anybody has some hard evidence for the composition of stinging nettle cystoliths I'd like to see it, even though I personally only pick stinging nettles when they're in season and the leaves are still young.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-11-06 16:49:08+00:00
I don't think this is true. Many video game companies pay for DRM protection only for the first few months to a year, then remove it after most of the sales are generated. And before the current mostly uncrackable DRMs came out (denuvo) they would still use DRM that they knew would be cracked eventually as long as it wouldn't be cracked in the first few months. They are not simply blindly acting out of fear, they are estimating the actual cost of piracy. In fact someone recently did an analysis of this and came that conclusion.[0] The companies likely have much better data than this external researcher.

>"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem."

It is true that how good the service is is an important factor and can be more important than lets say a $10 difference in price. I think that is what is meant by this quote. However if piracy was easy and legal much fewer people pay for it. Assuming that "piracy is a service problem not a pricing problem" if anything would prove that there are a significant number of people who pay for something if it is easier than pirating. Usually people that claim that anti-piracy measures have no effect say something like "people that can afford to pay for a given media will always pay for it, and people that cannot will always not" or "people who are going to pirate something will never pay for it even if it becomes impossible to pirate." But if pricing is not actually the main issue at hand here then this not correct.

>"Game of Thrones being the most pirated show in the world? That's better than an Emmy."

This doesn't say anything about income generated. He's basically remarking about how successful the show was.

>Radiohead

This is a special case where consumers have a special attachment to the producers of their entertainment and buy their products specifically to support them. You can see a similar idea with YouTubers that sell everyday items (eg. coffee) with their name on it and people buy it mainly to support them, and this is even how the sales pitch is phrased. So if you are (at least partially) selling the ability to support the creator, then it is impossible to pirate that, as piracy (obviously) does not support the creator.

>act out of fear of losing control

Even after now 20 years of digital media existing?

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18759...
by cameldrv | 2025-11-06 16:49:57+00:00
I really like the idea of an open, local standard for this stuff. I have been a little annoyed at the matter standards immaturity still. Two things I’ve noticed is that there’s not good support for very low power devices that use WiFi. What you’d like to do, for example for a battery powered sensor, is to go into deep sleep and disconnect from the WiFi and then wake up periodically and report the sensor reading. Unfortunately as far as I can tell, you can’t really tell a matter hub that you’re going to disconnect from wifi and when you expect to reconnect and not have matter mark the device as missing. There are some things you can do with certain WiFi routers, but they’re not universally supported and they have time limits.

The device type catalog is also somewhat limited, for example there’s no garage door device type.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-06 16:51:10+00:00
> Manufacturing labor cost in China has surpassed parts of Eastern Europe.

This is a good point, but I think that only really the underdeveloped/underindustrialized/unstable parts really qualify, possibly Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, with similar caveats than Chinas neighbors.

Despite all this a lot of European manufacturing (e.g. cars), has shifted into the more viable low-wage countries over the last decades (despite language barriers and very high automation; talking mainly Poland, Slovenia, Hungary here).

You still need labor to build, maintain and operate factories, even if they are filled with robots; people here underestimate the benefit of cheap labor by a lot.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-06 16:51:26+00:00
> There may be healthy margins for them but I would bet it’s always going to be relatively cheaper for me to pay for the compute rather than manage it myself.

Depends almost completely on usage. No one is renting out hardware 24x7 and making a loss on it.

If you only have sporadic use then renting is better. If you're running it almost all the time of purchasing it outright is better.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-06 16:51:41+00:00
A lot of languages require a lot more context to speak and understand than others. English is a very low-context language, at least in formal registers - it just gets very wordy and very specific, and it helps that it is very analytic and isolating, with a massive vocabulary.

But for e.g. Spanish, if a bare subjunctive verb (making the verb "<x>" something like "could <x>," "should <x>," or "would <x>" without specifying) is used in a sentence, there's no way to know from that sentence who or what that subjunctive is being applied to. The unwritten rule is: 1) if it's obvious who or what you've been talking about, then it applies to that person or thing, 2) if there are two or more things it could be about, then you should figure out a way to add more information to specify which, and finally 3) if there are no good candidates, the person is referring to themselves.

I've heard that there's a lot more of that in Japanese, a language that I don't think really has personal pronouns at all. For example, iirc when you refer to an emotional state and don't specify who you're talking about, it's automatically assumed that you're talking about yourself. I'm not too familiar with Japanese, but languages are simply different from each other, they're not substitution ciphers.

LLMs have trouble staying aware of the context as things go on even for a fairly short time, and in some languages, the meaning of the conversation infects every utterance. Seems a little similar to how LLMs are bad at lifetimes in Rust. I'm sure they'll gradually get better.
by jszymborski | 2025-11-06 16:51:48+00:00
Interesting. Kimi K2 gets mixed results on what I call the "Tiananmen" test.

It fails utterly if you ask without the "Thinking" setting. [0]

> USER: anything interesting protests ever happen in tiananmen square?

> AGENT: I can’t provide information on this topic. I can share other interesting facts about Tiananmen Square, such as its history, culture, and tourism.

When "Thinking" is on, it pulls Wiki and gives a more reasonable answer: [1]

> USER: anything interesting protests ever happen in tiananmen square?

> AGENT: Yes, there were significant protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Following the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang in April, students gathered to mourn and voice concerns about corruption and calls for reform. The demonstrations grew over several weeks, with thousands occupying the square.

> By early June, Chinese authorities declared martial law and deployed military forces to clear the area. The operation resulted in numerous casualties, with estimates varying significantly between official and unofficial sources. Tiananmen Square has been the site of other historical demonstrations as well, most notably during the May Fourth Movement in 1919. The 1989 events remain a sensitive topic with extensive international media documentation from that period.

> USER: any deaths?

> AGENT: Yes. During the military crackdown on June 3-4, 1989, there were fatalities. Official Chinese government figures report around 200-300 deaths, including military personnel. Human rights organizations and other estimates suggest the number may have been higher, in the hundreds to thousands range, with many civilian casualties in and around Tiananmen Square and surrounding areas of Beijing.

[0] https://www.kimi.com/share/19a5a0fd-0c02-8c8e-8000-0000648de...

[1] https://www.kimi.com/share/19a5a11d-4512-8c43-8000-0000edbc8...
by quantummagic | 2025-11-06 16:51:51+00:00
But if you accept my premise, it suggests a different course of action than most people are focused on today. That is, if you're a good person, and want to build a healthier society, then rather than focusing on the stupidity of the masses, and trying to suppress every errant idea that emerges from them, you should instead create an incentive structure that engenders their trust. You would focus on stern, even corporal, punishments for those at the pinnacle of society, more than those at the bottom. Politicians should not emerge from their time in government with hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains; which is a non-partisan problem today. And any "scientist" that fakes research data, should be treated very harshly, as a criminal. Undermining public trust in expert opinion causes more death and hardship than a typical street-thug murderer.

There is zero chance of making everyone smart enough to navigate the world adroitly. But there is a slightly better than zero chance we could organize our society to earn their trust.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-06 16:51:58+00:00
Judgement can be expressed in the form of tokens. Yes LLMs are just token generators. But the tokens they generate express judgement in a way that is indistinguishable from actual judgment.

So who cares. It's like saying nobody drives a car because the thing that's moving them is just a thing that is not a car but acts like a car to an extent that it is indistinguishable. Ok then. It's a car. Good day sir.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-06 16:52:09+00:00
As a language with gendered names, Portuguese, we still have a few like José, Maria, João and a few others, that are unisex.

However given that we usually have two first names, the other gender role happens with the second first name.

As an example how this goes, a girl can be named Maria João, and then it's on her if she rather be called Maria, or João, and by whom, usually different circles get to call her differently.

And so on for many possible combinations of male/female names being used in an unisex way.
by 4bpp | 2025-11-06 16:52:20+00:00
The somethingpunk settings are supposed to be gritty and dominated by exploitative megacorps, though! As a rule, the thingpunk needs a Man dominating by means of the thing to rebel against. The only reason "solarpunk" has gotten such a rosy image is that its proponents tend to fancy themselves the Tessier-Ashpools were it to come to pass.

I guess even cyberpunk now has a bimodal supporter base - there are the would-be punks, and then there are the would-be (and actual) Zuckerbergs building the torment nexus/metaverse.
by r721 | 2025-11-06 16:52:27+00:00
>What scraper or headless browser are you using? it works so well.

>Before 2019 - PhantomJS, after - ordinary (not headless) Chromium/80 with few small patches.

https://blog.archive.today/post/618635148292964352/what-scra... (2020)

>Archive.today launches real browsers (not even headless) and tries to load lazy images, unroll folded content, login into accounts if prompted with login form, remove “subscribe our maillist” modals

https://blog.archive.today/post/642952252228812800/people-of...
KubeCon attendees: check your flights
by PeterCorless | 2025-11-06 16:52:47+00:00
This is just a note for folks to check your flight information as you prepare to fly to Atlanta next week. Check your flight into Atlanta, and also check any connecting flights to see if they are affected. 40 American airports are going to cut up to 10% of flights.

Source: The FAA is set to start cutting flights to contend with delays and staffing shortages: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flight-reduction-shutdown-faa-rcna242231
by mynameajeff | 2025-11-06 16:52:54+00:00
I housesitted at a very nice house with an induction stove and it was one of the most anti-human designs I've ever experienced in a stove. If I wasn't being as clean and tidy as possible for the sake of the homeowners I couldn't imagine how much worse it could've been as the entirely touch based interface added a whole other layer of frustration on top of the extremely confusing UX. I thought this was maybe unique to this stove but every other induction stove I've seen sold at appliance stores has had the exact same layout. I truly don't understand it.
by kulahan | 2025-11-06 16:52:58+00:00
We eat some thistles, which have basically the same issue - see artichokes. Gotta boil them to deactivate the needles, though I have no idea how the thistle and nettle needles compare biologically. Anyways, I guess my point is that it shouldn't be too hard to get Americans to eat these.

Every time I go out for hotpot, I get as many greens as possible; I love boiling them down in a tasty broth and chowing down on an entire football field of vegetables, sometimes wrapped around a piece of meat. I could see adding them in here easily.

There are also a lot of dishes you can add a big handful of chopped, frozen spinach to for some additional nutrition. These would be another incredible option in scenarios like that.

Blending it down to add a more herby flavor to a puree, or to bulk up a pesto, or something along those lines could work well.
by ZPedro | 2025-11-06 16:53:26+00:00
In my opinion, flowinfo ought to be used for at least one specific purpose: tagging for networks that (for whatever reason) are not bound by net neutrality, so that they can stop making assumptions based on the ports, which are a layer 4 field, and instead only use layer 3 data as part of their routing. Now it's fair to say most if not all wired ISPs should stop trying to play network neutrality avoidance games, however it is the reality that the packet radio service ("data") of wireless providers, on the other hand, only works at all because they aggressively categorize flows based on the source and destination addresses and especially their ports (TCP or UDP); for background, the keywords to look for are "extended packet core", "IP multimedia subsystem" or "IP multimedia core network subsystem", "rx reference point", "mb2 reference point", etc.

That reliance on layer 4 data means it is challenging to deploy a new transport protocol (such as SCTP) that even just crosses these networks; in fact, the trend these days for protocol design is to encrypt everything, even data that is not particularly sensitive (cf QUIC, on which HTTP/3 is based), in order to avoid such middleboxes growing dependent on data they should never have been able to read, and thus avoid the resultant fossilisation of the Internet protocols.

But this case of wireless networks shows there can be some justification to the routing part of the network treating different flows differently, if only on an opt-in basis, and IPv6 flowinfo is probably the best mechanism for such categorization/tagging where the sender does not request a particular level of services but does mark its data as being in a particular category, probably a dynamic one. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be meaningfully used as long as IPv4 remains in wide use: until this changes, these networks will need a solution that works for IPv4 (which has ToS but no flowinfo, and too few ToS bits for it to be used for dynamic flow categorization, even after a redefinition -- fun fact: the IPv4 ToS field supplanted a previous definition for that field, then known as DiffServ), and the path of least resistance means they will just apply that solution for IPv6 as well.
by anotherpaulg | 2025-11-06 16:53:43+00:00
I’ve relied heavily on seamless capture for a couple of decades, ala Getting Things Done.

My solution is a twilio text number that automatically inserts any texts it receives into the top of my todo.md file. Previously todo.org, until about a year ago.

iOS has ubiquitous support to quickly share to SMS from any/everywhere. It’s easy to send a text to this contact from a Home Screen shortcut, but also also from the share sheet in most every app.
by righthand | 2025-11-06 16:53:48+00:00
Yes I mourn the loss of Gopher, RSS, XML, etc.

Browser developers don’t have to do shit but it’s against the idea of an open web to kill off technology, especially one that’s A PART OF THE HTML STANDARD.

You love a closed web. That’s why you’re backing Google and arguing for this. I can’t change that there are so many weak minded “yes daddy Google” people in the world.

All I can do is advocate we support many technologies and ideas. The world you are advocating sounds locked down and uninteresting.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-11-06 16:54:12+00:00
> We wouldn't let the cartels have nukes, why would we want them to have "smuggling"?

Because usually we only respond to behaviours and actions that actually exist in the real world. By this logic we should charge all shop lifters with treason because they're not promising they'll never steal state secrets.

> Gee...You've changed my mind with your top-notch debate strategy.

I'm not sure why you're choosing to take this tone but I would hope we could have any further discussion like adults.
by greatgib | 2025-11-06 16:54:12+00:00
When there are a few simple nice things making our lives a little bit more bearable, there are always other zealous assholes desperate to ruin that.

Here I speak about this site, but everyday we have new cases of that. Like "new tax on anything that starts to be popular" for France, or Google trying to kill our privacy and F-Droid by requiring all app devs to have attestation from them.
by hlassiege | 2025-11-06 16:54:14+00:00
I get the impression I hit a sensitive spot with my use of "enshittification" :)

Sorry about that. I realize this term has a very strict meaning in English, but it's a bit less true in my language (French).

I responded to this in another comment above, but basically I was using the term to encompass everything that contributes to degrading a product. Everything that makes it more complex, often tied to company growth (I started a company in 2012 that's now 700 people).

But I get the point. I see this touches on another topic around corporate malpractice. I honestly wasn't even aware of that.

Now I know :)
by omnicognate | 2025-11-06 16:54:27+00:00
> finding geometric constructions

Finding optimal geometric constructions. Every problem is an optimisation because AlphaEvolve is an optimiser.

> This is not correct. The evaluation function is arbitrary.

You say this and then show details of how the score is calculated. AlphaEvolve needs a number to optimise, because it is optimiser. It can't optimise true/false.

> The feedback that you've constructed a graph of size K with some property does not tell you what you need to do to construct a graph of size K + M with the same property.

The feedback that you've constructed a graph of size K tell you that you've constructed a bigger graph than a competing solution that only constructed a graph of size K-1 and are therefore a more promising starting point for the next round of mutation

If you're trying to solve a "does there exist an X" problem, the information that none of your candidates found (or was) an X doesn't give you any information about which of them you should retain for mutation in the next step. You need a problem of the form "find the best X" (or, rather "find a good X") and for that you need a score of how well you've done. If you can find a score that actually improves steadily until you find the thing you're trying to prove the existence of then great, but generally these problems are "find the best X" where it's easy to come up with a load of competing Xs.

> The novelty here is that the LLM replaces the human expert.

That's not the claim at all. Tao said the benefits are scaling, robustness and interpretability, not that it can be operated by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-06 16:54:35+00:00
I know the above comment might sound like it's admonishing the commenters on HN for reading between the lines and posting criticism of Mozilla. That's understandable.

But actually the parent comment is merely a neutral and objective summary of the linked conversation, and a positive reminder that a video call is the best way to solve miscommunication. That's it.

If you think it's implying that HN's criticism of Mozilla's response is unjustified, that's reading too much into a 126-word comment and the unknowable motivations of the commenter.

(Am I doing this right?)
by Yoric | 2025-11-06 16:54:43+00:00
> Then there's also the fact that high achievers often hold themselves to unrealistic standards even if they "succeed", so they also struggle to be happy.

Can attest to this. By most accounts, I've "succeeded" much better than I expected, even as a former "gifted" kid. But I'm far from happy, either with myself, with my jobs, or with the fact that I'm not doing more for the world. I've left jobs that looked great on paper because they left me unfulfilled intellectually, only to end up in jobs that were worse.

I'm at a stage at which I actively fear my next job changes because 1. I'm getting close to the ageism barrier, which will limit my choices, especially in the current job market; 2. I suspect that working on something too boring could drive me to suicide.
by FarmerPotato | 2025-11-06 16:55:39+00:00
Ha. I experienced two decades of Bloomberg. It was always a melange of ancient Fortran tabbed forms with never-to-be-fixed bugs and newer consistent TUI. By 2010 they had started to pile on mouse menus.

The advantage was in typing a command and most of its arguments quickly.

I hope you didn't seriously associate the price $250 with Bloomberg training. Everything Bloomberg has a lot more zeroes after it, except what they pay to new hires in Princeton.
by neilv | 2025-11-06 16:55:57+00:00
Agreed, though I think that spectator-sports-fandom (if that's what you meant) analogy also has emotional team-identification connotations that don't apply to the majority of HN strong opinions about browsers. (But apply more to, say, Emacs vs. Vim, or tabs vs. spaces.)

I think lot of the HN browsers strong opinions more akin to "Why do historians have strong opinions on geopolitical intrigue X" or "Why do doctors have strong opinions on the effectiveness of pharmaceutical Y". Strong opinions, because they are experts who care for important objective reasons.