MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esseph | 2025-11-06 04:58:20+00:00
It's not remotely cheap. A long time ago the cheap labor moved from places like China to places like Mexico, which is one of the reasons so many automotive manufacturing plants there - just a rail ride across the border.

Now that hasn't been the case for more than a decade. The cheap labor is in SE Asia and South America.

What China has is decades of process improvement, factories, infrastructure, experience, and a willingness to work. They haven't been the cheapest, by far, for a long while.
by gpm | 2025-11-06 04:59:10+00:00
Huh, if you click through their link the person responding is also a "sumo administrator" and it's "sumobot" causing the issues. It seems entirely likely they are personally directly responsible for it.

Regardless they are representing the company. If they aren't the right person to respond - they should not have responded and kicked it up the chain/over the fence to the right person - instead of responding by offering to waste the complainants time on a call with someone you are asserting is not the right person to be handling this. Supposing you are correct about their position, it makes their response far worse, not better.
by irjustin | 2025-11-06 04:59:19+00:00
From one of the comments:

> Yes, FIRMS data is what most people use to monitor large strikes that create a significant heat signature. In the middle of the sea you'll usually just see oil platforms generate heat like that.

> A lot of people reading this know this already, but you could see exactly where the bunker busters were being dropped in Iran months ago from FIRMS data within ~15-20min of the strikes.
by kilpikaarna | 2025-11-06 05:01:34+00:00
That's the entire point of the joke, yeah. Japanese manufacturing was dodgy in the 50s-60s but great by the 80s.

Korean manufacturing might've been considered dodgy in the 80s but great by 2000. Taiwan (ROC) went through this also (70s vs 90s, ish?). And now China.
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-06 05:02:00+00:00
"quick call?" in corporatespeak means "I believe our disagreement to be a minor misunderstanding that can be clarified in a few minutes of conversation"

In a company you should never ever "quick call" someone (especially on a group forum) who has presented a genuine list of grievances against whatever you're doing, unless you're subtly trying to pull rank to override those grievances.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-06 05:02:44+00:00
The owners manual for my Bosch 500 says prewash detergent is not necessary. But it does have a prewash cycle as I can hear it draining before the main wash.

Note: This dishwasher provides the optimum cleaning performance without the use of a prewash detergent and further enhances our standards of sustainability and efficiency.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-06 05:04:17+00:00
I'd take a different answer to this question: philosophy. In times before Abrahamic religion developing or adopting a life philosophy was seen as a practical obligation for a man. This is where you saw the rise of everything from the Pythagorean to the Stoics. It seems that the rise of Abrahamic religions is what largely brought an end to this and mandated a sort of one-size-fits-all philosophy for everybody.

Now in modern times many people have moved away from religion, yet most aren't replacing that philosophical void with anything comparable. And I think this naturally leads to things like hedonism which is completely unsatisfying over time, or even nihilism which is even less satisfying. One could even argue this issue is directly related to the collapse of fertility in developed nations.

I think that a personal life philosophy is absolutely critical for having a contended life. And I use contended instead of 'happy' as part of my own philosophy of life. I don't think happiness is or should be a goal. Happiness is a naturally liminal emotion. And seeking to extend it is only likely to leave one 'unhappy', so to speak. So instead I think we should pursue contentedness. Being satisfied or pleased with one's life does not mean one is necessarily happy, but it certainly means you're content with it.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-06 05:04:37+00:00
I think a phone call can be better for resolving a conflict because it allows a more rapid back and forth, you can adapt in real time to how the other person is responding. If someone gets upset about some word choice like here, you can quickly say "I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that" and get back to the actual topic over how the work should be organized instead of some superficial detail.

In the end it may boil down to some strong hatred for AI, this seems to be very common recently and "I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs" certainly points that way. If that is the root cause then it may be impossible to resolve to the satisfaction of both sides.
by Groxx | 2025-11-06 05:04:47+00:00
I think it's because it's almost never accompanied by "we may have fucked up, please help us understand how to fix it now and in the future".

It's almost always (like this time) "I'm sorry you feel that way, please spend more of your free time<EOF>", and sometimes (like this time) "[we're doing it anyway but maybe we'll make some changes]".

It feels insulting because it is insulting. The decision has been made, they just want to not feel bad about you being insulted.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-06 05:04:57+00:00
>and occasionally I must wield copyright to salt the giant thirsty leeches appropriating my work. I

Depending on what your work is, I've probably already pirated it. And I don't stop, it's like a hobby of mine... I've made a point now of downloading every single book title I ever see mentioned (here on HN, elsewhere). Just for shits and giggles. You'll never even know, though, will you? Maybe you're a typographer. I don't pirate fonts, I pirate entire catalogs. Software, games, movies, television, music, literally everything. For years I've been on a search for house blueprints just because (no luck on those, though).

You really are a peasant, and you think that copyright works for you, because theoretically it seems like it should. I guess whatever makes you happy.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-11-06 05:05:27+00:00
Sure, that's basically how Kindle pricing works ($X with ads, or $X+$Y without ads) and it's infinitely better having the choice. If Amazon ever gets rid of the without ad version they will lose me as a customer overnight.

Likewise, there are a whole lot of products that don't have an "unsubsidized" version that I simply refuse to purchase (or have purchased and returned after confirming that they will not work when locked in IOT jail where they can't talk to the internet.)
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-06 05:05:47+00:00
I did Smalltalk for ~20 years as my primary. I’m a polyglot now, maintaining/implementing in C, Python, Swift, Kotlin, and Elixir.

The thing (for me) about Smalltalk was the thought to code ratio. It was awesome. It had a pretty good balance of less is more. Where working in Swift and Kotlin feel like trying to navigate the many nuances of American football or cricket, Smalltalk was like playing soccer/football-sans-america. The syntax is simple. And the computation model is straitforward and simple.

Elixir is kind of like that, computationally, a few simple concepts and everything builds on that. The saddest part about Elixir is that it ran with the whole do/end syntax. Drives me nuts. But I love that computationally, though different than Smalltalk, it’s like Smalltalk in that it’s a simple consistent model.
by defrost | 2025-11-06 05:06:44+00:00
Details matter here:

There is one big issue with expanding schemes from pre-school (aged three or so) all the way down to infancy. In their early years, children’s development seems to depend more on the intensity of adult interaction than being around other kids.

This is an article that is less about the economics of pre school care (> 3 year old children) and more about the effect of mass warehousing babies / infants under the age of three.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-06 05:08:04+00:00
>Just a waste of copper and a beaker really.

But also helps avoid the case where your coffee maker trips the breaker shared with your refrigerator and you don't notice until the food in the refrigerator is warm. (which was a risk in my previous apartment - the counter circuits were shared with the refrigerator). I think it makes sense to have it as a separate circuit.
by yallpendantools | 2025-11-06 05:09:49+00:00
I'm glad you mentioned nuclear power plants because this whole topic reminded me of the following clause in the Java SE license:

> You will not use the Programs for, and will not allow the Programs to be used for, any purposes prohibited by applicable law, including, without limitation, for the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction. > > https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/javase-license1.ht...

IANAL but I've come to interpret this as something along the lines of "You can't use a JDK-based language to develop nuclear weapons". I would even go as far as saying don't use JDK-based languages in anything related to nuclear energy (like, for example, administration of a nuclear power plant) because that could indirectly contribute to the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear WMD.

And I always wondered how they plan to enforce this clause. At least with ChatGPT (and I didn't look any deeper into this beyond the article) you can analyze API calls/request IPs correlated with prompts. But how will one go about proving that the Republic of Wadiya didn't build their nuclear arsenal with the help of any JDK-based language?

Those are rhetorical questions, of course. What's "unnecessary" to you and "unenforceable" to me is a cover-your-ass clause that lets lawyers sleep soundly at night.
Show HN: Terma – simple terminal chat in Rust/ratatui
by mbm | 2025-11-06 05:09:56+00:00
Fun little personal project to learn some new tech.

Terma is a dead-simple terminal chat app -- create a persistent room and share the link with a friend.

Server: Rust/Axum Client: Rust/ratatui License: MIT Repo: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui Platforms: Mac, Linux

Give it a try!
by dangus | 2025-11-06 05:10:03+00:00
You say that me making you justify the third dimension is bad faith arguing, but you never even attempted to justify it. You actually do have to justify it because so many 3D technologies have been market duds. VR gaming sputtered into decline, 3D televisions died off, glasses-free 3D is nowhere to be found anymore after the 3DS and that crazy Red smartphone…you actually very much do have to justify that there’s demand for this new paradigm.

> VR/AR headsets are useful for working on and demonstrating many things

What things?

> that we've had to compromise to fit into a 2D paradigm.

What compromises?

> Being able to be present with that 3D model has clear advantages over using, for example, a mouse with a 2D equivalent or a 3D projection.

What advantages?

I think if this was even a niche representation of the future we’d see specialized companies with 3D-oriented software like Autodesk jumping all over the the Vision Pro specifically, but they seem to be nowhere to be found. All the key players in the industry besides Meta have basically bailed, including Microsoft and Google shutting down commercial/industrial solutions that had previously been touted as successful.

I have no vendetta here, I just think that full immersion VR was the wrong play for productivity and general computing. I think that the full immersion VR market is dying and that solutions like Meta Ray-Bans and VITURE glasses are way more palatable because they are way more “normal,” including the way they eschew these moonshot paradigm-shifting technologies that might actually work very well, but nobody asked for.

Nobody wants to be a 3D avatar and work inside a headset where your view of the outside world is desaturated by cameras because it’s cringe and weird.

As a side note I will also point out that if you use a Vision Pro with a MacBook to use the secondary screen functionality (required for writing code or running apps outside the App Store) you’re basically doing the exact same thing as VITURE glasses except you paid 10x more and your battery life sucks. And you can just join a standard conference call on your glasses and essentially look normal.
by stingrae | 2025-11-06 05:10:21+00:00
"This worked great if you were electrifying America in the 1930s, when labor was cheap, materials were subsidized, and the government could strong-arm right-of-way access."

It was good in the moment. The issue is maintaining it without the same cheap labor and materials. PG&E in California is a perfect example. There is no way for them to maintain the grid which is aging and causing fires. We are going to have to switch to a slightly similar regional power generation/storage model.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-06 05:10:53+00:00
>Whenever natural gas supply is turned off in the US, for any reason, only the gas company can turn it back on

I had a seismic shutoff installed at my gas meter and the plumber who installed it had no problem turning off the gas and turning it back on when he was done. (and then turning it off again to demonstrate to me how it worked).

He re-lit the water heater pilot light before he left. The gas company was not involved at all.
by 7402 | 2025-11-06 05:11:03+00:00
> It has changed more in the past 100 years than in the past 200,000.

I don't think so.

Look at sea level: 125,000 years ago, sea level was 8 m higher. 20,000 years ago, sea level was 130 m lower. [0]

So over the past 200,000 years sea level has varied ~ 138 meters. It hasn't varied that much over the past 100 years.

[0] https://courses.ems.psu.edu/earth107/node/1496
by krick | 2025-11-06 05:11:32+00:00
There is no such person as "Mozilla". There is Kiki, a "Support Community Manager", probably a relatively low-level worker (but it doesn't matter much if she is actually has some weight in the organization). So, you are Kiki. You just saw that message. What do you do now? Just ignore it? Do not respond anything and immediately call the CEO and try to convince him/her that he/she must order to disable that auto-translation bot, without even trying to gather more information? No onuses and stuff, what are your actions, exactly?

Because a lot of people in this thread are whin… ahem, expressing their discontent with Mozilla, as we all usually do, but I've yet to see anybody to propose anything realistic at all, let alone better than ask an offended community member for a call and at least to try to talk it through and establish what could be some actionable steps to remedy the situation.
by gpm | 2025-11-06 05:12:02+00:00
True, license is probably irrelevant here because they aren't even intending to comply with the terms of it.

To nitpick "explicitly forbidden" isn't quite right. Licenses basically only grant more permissions, they can't remove them. It's explicitly excluded from the rights granted by the license, but it's not explicitly forbidden because it is the law that might or might not forbid the activity, not the license.
by lynndotpy | 2025-11-06 05:12:32+00:00
Wanted this for years, and was one of the blockers that made Firefox impossible to really use. It looks like they're copying Chromium's UI (which is good, since it was superior to Firefox's about:profiles, for reasons others have mentioned).

But neither this post, nor the splash screen which links to this, nor any of the menu options, actually say how to use "profiles". I can't find it in an internet search either, instead coming up with Firefox's old about:profiles solution. Nor is it enabled using the little user icon in the browser bar, nor is it activated with the same shortcut as Chromium profiles.

I eventually found it in their knowledge base, and it appears to be locked behind a sign in button under the profile icon? Or my (up to date) browser lacks the button? This is such a confusing experience.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-06 05:12:39+00:00
The map of where slavery is allowed corresponds pretty well with the areas that are rural, as you don't need slaves to work the fields where there aren't fields, and slaves are a poor labor source for the more differentiated and fluid industries in cities (there isn't enough liquidity for them to adapt to changing economic conditions, as the slaves are property of a single owner and their labor isn't traded on a free market).
by larusso | 2025-11-06 05:13:28+00:00
I use containers in Firefox and have good to semi good experience. Will try this out. My main issue with containers so far is SSO. I have some things like GitHub etc I like to keep in my coding container. Then domains that only belong to work. But my company uses SSO in GitHub. It makes the usage really awkward. Start in GitHub container, login jumps to Work container and links back to GitHub container and fails since the cookies created by the login container are not set. But to separate shopping and finance related things it works great. But I will give this a go since I have finally a harder separation between work and private usage of my coding and ai usage etc.
by _chse_ | 2025-11-06 05:13:48+00:00
This dataset does include Bloomreach Discovery, Coveo and Algolia. These were detected by looking through HTTP responses for publicly available web pages. For example, Coveo was detected by searching a script tag's src attribute for "static.cloud.coveo.com".

You can check out everything that was detected in the full version here: https://versiondb.io/detection_list.json

If you'd like to know how the others were detected, I can go through that as well. See if it's what you're after.
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-06 05:13:54+00:00
> What is the renewed interest?

For me, often, it’s an escape for a GUI world taken over by out-of-control “design” tenets. I value good Ux design concerns, but often working with designers lately feels bureaucratic, at times cargo culting, and overly spacious.

It’s like a graphical form of “I didn’t have time to give you a short answer, so I gave you a long one instead”. TUIs force a paucity that often makes for a nice information/pixels ratio.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-06 05:14:26+00:00
If you're not a doctor, how do you know it's accurate?

This is the huge problem with using LLMs for this kind of thing. How do you verify that it is better? What is the ground truth you are testing it against?

If you wanted to verify that ChatGPT could do math, you'd ask it 100 math problems and then (importantly) verify its answers with a calculator. How do you verify that ChatGPT can interpret medical information without ground truth to compare it to?

People are just saying, "oh it works" based on gut vibes and not based on actually testing the results.
by quinncom | 2025-11-06 05:15:42+00:00
Yandex is one of Kagi's index sources. They used to publish a list of their sources but have changed it to a generic "we use multiple sources" because they got so much shit for using Brave (because of its founder’s bigotry) and Yandex (because of the ethical dilemma of paying a company headquartered in Russia which in the best case pays taxes and in the worst case has Kremlin/military involvement). This has been a contention debate for awoke, you can search their forum and discord for more details.
by eximius | 2025-11-06 05:16:19+00:00
This is pretty great! The main thing you need for durable execution is 1) retries (absurd does this) 2) idempotency (absurd does this via steps - but would be better handled with the APIs themselves being idempotent, then not using steps. Though absurd would certainly _help_ mitigate some APIs not being idempotent, but not completely).
by godelski | 2025-11-06 05:16:42+00:00
I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal.

Is anyone working on this?

With the speed terminals are and support for graphics through things like sixel and shaders I'd love to have a browser even if I couldn't do videos. Even if it was like viewing most pages in reader mode.

I'm not sure some big companies would be happy about that though since it likely would mean you could do things like ad blocking more easily. But maybe you could get them on board if you pitched it as a browser for LLMs. Something something it's a native interface for them. ;)

I know there's some browsers but things like W3M, Lynx, or *links* are... rough... definitely not of the quality we're seeing elsewhere in the current TUI revolution.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-06 05:18:09+00:00
100% agreed with this and this is one of the worst issues about the development of long range weapons. 'We droned this guy.' 'We bombed this area.' 'We destroyed this boat.'

All of this really sounds so much better than what it really is. It's murdering people all around the world, many of whom are 100% innocent. For instance the last person we droned in occupied Afghanistan was Zemari Ahmadi - a longtime worker for a US humanitarian aid organization. A US drone operator mistook bottles of water he was loading into his car for his family as bombs, and so they murdered him as well as 10 other civilians, including 7 children, all with the press of a button. [1]

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-...
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-06 05:20:31+00:00
> I think I learned half my basic social skills from lunch rooms in school. That time period is probably more important than any of the classes themselves.

I was trying to relate, and thinking until around 7th grade school lunch was a pretty awful lonely experience. But then remembered 2nd/3rd year of middle school finding the other outcast that somehow came together as our own little group of enterprising odd-balls.

We would buy large packs of gum (we sold for $.10-$.25 a piece), champion-caliber pencils (we tested a bunch playing a lot of pencil-break[0], sold for $.50-$1+), ping-pong balls/paddles (we had raggedy ping-pong tables near the food-court for before/after school and lunch that the cool kids didn't use so eventually other kids would rent/trade-for balls/paddles from us once we started playing) etc.

I think the biggest thing we did was start and run table/paper-football[1] games/tournaments; sometimes offering our perfectly-folded-winning paper-footballs or champion-level pencils or packs of gum, to make it exciting.

First we used the table we sat at for lunch, then noticing how shunned the un-cool ping-pong tables were, we turned them into paper-football fields (the green colour and white border lines made it that much more awesome as a paper-football field). We started playing before/after school and during lunch. We started doing ping-pong games too in one of the 3 time slots -- I think before school but maybe lunch I forget. But, I mean, this was Texas -- football is football -- we started drawing crowds and people were mixing outside their cliques wanting to get in on playing games (note: these were latchkey kid days in the south, the main groups looked like something out of prison movies; but we were a mixed sort of popular-group rejects, male & female)

Anyway, I would have to agree it was an important time for the foundation of my basic social skill set (never thought of it that way before). As much as I value that time and experience -- to be fair -- these kids are figuring it out in a different way for the world they live in. I've chalked up my dislike of watching my siblings kids being perfectly content to not get up from the couch/phone for hours at a time, as me being old.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_fighting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_football