MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vrighter | 2025-12-05 14:48:57+00:00
That computers can be used to perform long calculations is nothing novel. That is literally what they were designed to do.

The 4 color theorem was proven because humans actually did the math and discovered a way to simplify the problem enough for them to write a program that proves it. The proof wasn't discovered by a computer. The proof was discovered by the people who wrote that program. There was no machine learning involved.
by estsauver | 2025-12-05 14:49:13+00:00
Sure—I’ll try!

> So you are saying that these special hybrid seeds that are the first generation of combining two strains are the only ones that can perform well?

For a lot of crop systems, yes! There are obviously crop systems where you can do clones and some exceptions are always present in biology, but basically yes. Yes for all the big staple crops except Canola.

> And that using any other seeds, even the second generation of that same strain, is so bad and so easy to confuse that it should be outright illegal?

I probably wouldn’t make it illegal, I think farmers should be allowed to do whatever they want to! (My completely out of the loop guess is the government is trying to help small holder farmers who are reporting that they’re being scammed by these groups and that they lack the resources to do genetic testing to prosecute them for the fraud.)

> That is very hard to believe. Such laws are in place to protect the IP of these special seed producers, to make their business model viable. That does have merit to a degree, you do want such companies to exist, but they should also have to contend with competition from other, perhaps less effective but cheaper, sources of seed.

It’s not really an IP protection thing, it’s an extremely difficult many year process to recover genetics on most hybrid crop systems. I don’t think most seed companies care about folks using saved seed, they know almost all farmers will buy good seed if they can.

> This doesn’t have much to do with protecting the farmers from being cheated into planting bad seed. And I am skeptical of the fact that even second generation seeds are that bad, or that these hybrids are really such a life-changing upgrade.

I think well answered by a parent comment, but the book The Wizard and The Prophet is pretty good reading on Borlaug and the green revolution. If you look at global food capacity vs population, it’s probably the single most important life upgrade for everyone of modernity.

(Small Edit: I should note that I’m not an agronomist, I’m just a guy who codes okay sometimes and that I’ve gotten to spend a lot of time talking to agronomists and smallholder farmers trying to make agriculture for small farmers work better.)
by daswolle | 2025-12-05 14:49:41+00:00
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by jasonvorhe | 2025-12-05 14:50:12+00:00
I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions everywhere inside their apps I would've cancelled any remaining subscription at the latest.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-05 14:50:21+00:00
I find it hard to believe you actually read my comment before demonstrating you are probably one of the people I'm talking about at the end of it.

At no point did I state or imply that workers should be working solely or even primarily for anything other than money.

But if you can't be bothered to take pride in the work you're being paid to do, you shouldn't be paid to do it for long.
by torginus | 2025-12-05 14:50:59+00:00
If you and BMW are correct - if we take it for a fact that a simple fender-bender can make batteries develop life-threatening faults, which absolutely require a 4k euro inspection that involves complete disassembly and specialist equipment, then that means that EVs are unsuitable for public use.

So either all EVs need to be scrapped forever, or BMW needs to engineer a more tractable solution to the problem, or BMW is overreacting and overcharging customers.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-12-05 14:51:02+00:00
I've written this about four times for two employers and two clients: ABC: Always Be Cycling

Basic premise is to encode, be it lifecycle rules or a cron, behavior such that instances are cycled after at most 7 days, but there should always be an instance cycling (with some cool down period of course).

It has never not improved overall system stability and in a few cases even decreased costs significantly.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 14:51:06+00:00
Let's be honest, all the netflix plans will have ads just like they do now. They might not interrupt your show while you're in the middle of it, but you'll get ads no matter what. Ads as soon as the credits roll, a barrage of full screen ads if you pause a show for more than 10 seconds, full screen ads the moment you open the app, etc.
by zaphar | 2025-12-05 14:51:06+00:00
You "call" a module with arguments. You can call them multiple times. In every way that matters they are just like a function call.

I don't understand why there is a distinction between for each in a standard language vs for_each in HCL2. They are both do something by iterating over something else at runtime. The syntax isn't what matters here.

I think maybe you are mistaken in your own distinction between declarative and imperative.
by mvkel | 2025-12-05 14:51:20+00:00
Predicting the stock market will likely never happen because it’s recursive. We can predict the next 10 days of weather, but the weather doesn’t change because it read your forecast. As long as markets continue to react to their own reactions, they will remain unpredictable.

If the strategy is long, there might be alpha to be found. But day trading? No way.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-12-05 14:51:56+00:00
This article resonates strongly. I am consulting right now to a group that has enormous struggles technically, but they are all self-inflicted wounds that come down to people and process.

Management claims to want to understand and fix the problem, and their "fixes" reveal the real problems. Fix 1 - schedule a lot of group meetings for twice a week. After week 1, management drops off and fails to show up anymore for most of them. The meetings go off track. The answer? More meetings!

We now have that meeting daily. And have even less attendance.

Fix 2 - we don't know what people are doing, let's create dashboards. A slapdash, highly incorrect and problematic dashboard is created. It doesn't matter, because none of the managers ever checks the dashboard. The big boss hears we are still behind, and commandeers a random product person to be his admin assistant and has her maintain several spreadsheets in semi-secret tracking everyone's progress.

This semi-secret spreadsheet becomes non-secret and people find a million and one problems with it (not surprising as the commandeered admin assistant nee product person was pulling the data from all sorts of random areas with little direction with little coordination with others). We then have the spreadsheet war of various managers having their own spreadsheets.

Fix 3 - we are going to have The Source of Truth for product intake and ongoing development, with a number of characteristics (and these are generally not terrible characteristics). These are handed off to a couple of junior people with no experience to implemented with zero feedback. The net result is we still don't have a Source of Truth, but more of an xkcd situation that now we have 4 or 5 sources of truth strung together with scripts, duct tape, bandaids and prayer.

This continues on and on over years. Ideas are put forth, some good, some bad, some indifferent, but none of them matter because the leaders lack the ability to followup or demonstrate even basic understanding of what our group actually does.

It is truly soul crushing, but in this jobs environment, what are you going to do?
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-05 14:52:25+00:00
BTW: possession of wild-born Venus flytraps can result in a $500 fine per plant. Poachers load up pickup trucks with trays of them. Being caught generally means complete financial ruin.

The irony is that VFTs aren't even considered endangered, per CITES definitions. They only grow in a few counties in the US, however, so their survival is nonethless precarious and worthy of heavy-handed defense.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-12-05 14:52:26+00:00
What I do is go through all the new titles from beginning to end and just open anything I want to read in a tab, FreshRSS supports this workflow well. Then it sits in that tab for however long and I read them in the order I want to, sometimes they grouped and stored while I do something else.

I also have sites I filter their RSS as well, they produce really large amounts of articles and I am only interested in certain topics. Took me a while to get around to this, for the most part I did not want a mainstream news site firehosing into my RSS but I have filtered it based on keywords.

That is about it. Takes a bit of effort to slowly build it up but I hate it when sites don't have RSS, I rarely read sites that don't now.
by Zach_the_Lizard | 2025-12-05 14:52:41+00:00
Some weeds are quite unpleasant, such as sticker burrs. I'd rather not have a dog and children covered in those.

Some weeds can be damaging to property, trees, sidewalks, etc. or are poisonous.

It's not always about being annoyed by dandelions in an otherwise overly fussed over sterile lawn environment.
by dwood_dev | 2025-12-05 14:53:37+00:00
Yes. With Windows 3.x there wasn’t a lot to go wrong that couldn’t be fixed in a single ini file. Windows 95 through ME was a complete shitshow where many many things could go wrong and the fastest path to fixing it was a fresh install.

Windows XP largely made that irrelevant, and Windows 7 made it almost completely irrelevant.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-05 14:53:39+00:00
So, you do understand that the great majority of science fiction at that time was trying to predict the future, right?

Their Asimov was probably Verne, which already was trying to predict the future before them.

Around Verne's time (and a little later too), it was the 1889 Paris Exibition, the invention of the airplane, telegraph, lightbulb. Those were worldwide phenomena.

Asimov (and others of his time) probably read all of that. He then saw the "new science": computers, space, the atom, and wrote about those.

I also believe the great recession contributed to a certain degree of awareness not to be too optimistic.

It seems very obvious for me to trace the pedigree of this futurism to those references, it's all over his writing. Foundation reminisces about a lot of those ideas.

Also, it seems very obvious that politicians and regimes of all kinds used the public excitement with science as a populist move, not the other way around. Those ideas never came from them.
by vladms | 2025-12-05 14:53:45+00:00
I think too much "caring" can also be negative. I do not want employees so "loyal" to the company that they don't consider changing for another. I do not want companies so "loyal" to all employees such that they would go bankrupt rather than keep 50% of people active.

I would hope people would be more responsive to the actions of companies. Earlier in my career I looked for another company when the discrepancy between CEO bonus and employee bonus was larger than what I found reasonable.
by grimre4p | 2025-12-05 14:53:46+00:00
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by potato3732842 | 2025-12-05 14:54:30+00:00
Identifying the bad stuff is not hard. Marx is far from unique in being able to do that. I find his class framing and assessment of the roles the various classes do in the status quo to be particularly good even if it ought to be deeply unflattering to the HN tax brackets.

Advising on where to go from there in an actionable way that produces good results is the hard part. Marx didn't do it. Those attempting implementation of his ideas have an exceptional record and not in a good way. And worse still, some of the worst aspects of those movements are the ones that stuck around to be peddled again and again under different brands.
by zzzeek | 2025-12-05 14:54:51+00:00
you had to choose between vinegar and glyphosate, I'd use the vinegar. your dogs aren't going to roll around in a too-strong concentration of vinegar, it has a smell and if it were actually going to cause burns (what kind of vinegar is this, something from a chemical supply house? ) animals would be immediately repelled by it (plus it evaporates quickly anyway). whereas with glyphosate, none of that applies, it's a fully synthetic chemical that stays in the atmosphere for days, would not send any cues to animals, and its effects on animals may be long term, concealed for years, and fatal.

but as someone else said above, if this is a certain area that your dog wants to be, you can always pull weeds for that area by hand, just make sure you get the entire root.
by godtoldmetodoit | 2025-12-05 14:55:06+00:00
Anecdotally, Azure OpenAI is a big player in the mid sized enterprise market and up. Lots of corps want to use OpenAI models, and the easiest way to onboard is to just spin up Azure OpenAI. You already have an agreement, your legal department is fine with it, you have a MS rep etc.

I think tons of businesses look to Microsoft first when it comes to AI solutions. I'm not saying they have the best products, but when has that ever stopped them?
by Mindwipe | 2025-12-05 14:55:17+00:00
No, that was going to happen next year, but it never did and this deal has been agreed for the whole company.

WB pitched that to make it easier for them to be acquired by shunting all the debt to the channels entity - but it was unlikely the debt owners were ever going to go for that as presented, there would have been quite a significant chance of the channels group going under and them losing all the money.

But ultimately it turned out that enough entities were willing to bid now, before that split, that there was no point continuing to work out how to do it. Netflix will, presuming this deal completes, be the owner of CNN/TNT/Discovery at al.

Now, I am very sure they will look to sell several parts of those off - there is absolutely no way Netflix leadership wants to continue to own TNT - but that will have to come later.
by quuxplusone | 2025-12-05 14:55:30+00:00
Better than an automatic smooth continuous motion would be an "idle animation": after a few seconds swing the torus somewhat less than 45 degrees in a random direction and let it relax back into the original position. This suggests "the torus can move" without suggesting "the torus moves [only] in this specific way." You need contradict not just the user's intuition "Torus stationary" but much more importantly "Torus non-interactive."

Likewise, if someone thought the pieces couldn't be moved, you could idly wiggle the king pawn as a hint to pick it up.

Now, how anybody could look at a chess board and think the pieces were immovable, or look at a 3D torus render and think it was unrotatable, is beyond me. But if it's a real problem, I think idle animation is a good fix.
Show HN: WorkTab – A Workspace-Based Tab Manager for Chrome
by kamdev | 2025-12-05 14:55:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I built WorkTab, a browser extension that helps you manage and restore tab sessions by organizing them into workspaces. Everything is stored locally—no cloud sync, no tracking, no remote servers.

You can install it via the website above or directly from the Chrome Web Store.

Currently available (free version):

- Create up to 3 workspaces to organize your tabs per project or topic - Auto-save sessions (60s, 2 min, 5 min intervals) - One-click session restore — restore all tabs in a workspace - Group tabs by domain, detect duplicate tabs - Use built-in workspace templates - Search across tabs by title or URL - Light / dark UI, keyboard shortcuts, easy UI - Works entirely in the browser (IndexedDB storage), no tracking, no analytics

Why I built it: I often juggle multiple projects — coding, research, browsing docs — and end up with dozens of tabs. I wanted a simple way to save, restore, and manage tab sets so I don’t lose track of what I was working on, and so I can switch contexts without clutter.

Tech notes: - Chrome / Chromium extension (Manifest V3) - Uses IndexedDB for local storage - Tab grouping and management using native tab APIs - Export / import of workspace state via JSON - Optional “Pro” upgrade gives unlimited workspaces, automatic backups, tab suspension, domain rules, bulk actions, and more — but the free tier is fully functional.

What I’m looking for: - Feedback on performance and responsiveness, especially with many tabs open - Usability feedback — is workspace switching intuitive? autosave intervals reasonable? - Suggestions for improving tab search / grouping / workspace organization - Interest or demand for a Firefox / non-Chromium version

Thanks for taking a look. I’m around to answer questions or discuss improvements.
by another_twist | 2025-12-05 14:55:52+00:00
No it isnt. Next word prediction is what humans do to communicate anyway so the criticism isnt valid. Except you do that for your own sentences (if you do it for others its considered rude :) ).

Anyways this criticism is now dated given that modern day LLMs can solve unseen reasoning problems such as those found in the IMO.

It does have something to do with the stock market, since its about making hypotheses and trading based off that. However, I'd agree that making a proper trading AI here would require reasoning based fine tuning for stock market trading actions. Sort of like running GRPO taking market feedback as the reward. the article simply cant do that due to not having access to the underlying model weight.
by andrebianchessi | 2025-12-05 14:56:42+00:00
Stacked commits is awesome, but it sucks that with git you need all these workarounds, and that the servers (GitHub etc) are not designed with that workflow in mind.

I left Google a few months back to work on another project. I missed the internal version control so much that I dropped that other project and am now focused http://twigg.vc It's very similar to what's used at Meta and Google. Atomic commits, linear history, auto rebase, code review compatible with stacked commits.
by derriz | 2025-12-05 14:57:07+00:00
Or if you do want a manicured plot, just cut them with a lawnmower?

The bane of my young life was having the job of cutting the grass around the house - we lived in the country at the time and had about 1/2 an acre of lawn as well as fruit trees, plants, vegetables, etc.

We never considered using weedkiller - I just can't see the need. Isn't it just as easy to pull the weed out of the ground as it is to spray round-up on it and wait for it to die, before presumably anyway pulling the remains of it?

Ignoring the health implications completely, I can see some "value" of using round-up in a commercial environment where your dealing with 100s of acres or more but fail to see what benefit it provides in a domestic setting when the number of weeds is small enough that it would just takes minutes to remove them physically and toss them into a compost heap.
by LordGrey | 2025-12-05 14:57:41+00:00
Original report: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s-zu...

> Executives are considering potential budget cuts as high as 30% for the metaverse group next year, which includes the virtual worlds product Meta Horizon Worlds and its Quest virtual reality unit, according to people familiar with the talks, who asked not to be named while discussing private company plans

I bet the shareholders will like this move.
by delichon | 2025-12-05 14:57:59+00:00
I weed whack acres, it is a huge sink of my free time. But there are areas where I don't want to mow, I want to eliminate growth, like on my gravel driveway, and the area adjacent to my house. I should probably install concrete instead of gravel, but that's telling myself to just eat cake since I have no bread.
by jmyeet | 2025-12-05 14:58:18+00:00
Whether or not this deal gets regulatory approval depends entirely on whether or not Reed Hastings sufficiently kisses the ring when it comes to Donald Trump.

I'm personally against this. We've had too much consolidation. It's subscribers who will pay for this with hiked subscription fees.

Any pretense of government regulation is basically gone. Everything is for sale. What determines outcomes is corruption and loyalty. This is really no different to the Russian oligarchs under Putin. The SEC, FTC and DOJ are a joke, just tools to punish ideological foes and people who don't pay up.

All these companies are a consequence will become more ideologically conservative and that's a real problem for media companies because conservatives can't produce good content. Good content challenges the status quo and asks questions, two things conservatives simply don't tolerate. This will do nothing good for HBO.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-05 14:58:49+00:00
There needs to be a distinction between the working poor and the non-working poor.

People who don't work are hurt by tariffs, whether they are rich or poor. While people who work are more benefitted by the higher wages of increased domestic labor demand than they are hurt by higher consumer prices.

Given the option of higher income or lower prices, I take higher income any day. Because like the rest of the working population I need a home to live in more than I need foreign goods.

> Tariffs make the overall tax burden on society less progressive.

It might do, but it also has a progressive upwards effect on salaries and employment as workers move on to better opportunities when domestic demand increases.