MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by madacol | 2025-10-10 11:35:17+00:00
Even if Venezuela goes to hell even deeper, she still deserves the prize for what she has already done!

The way she, and her team, managed to convince venezuelans that the election mattered, and to prepare to gather the evidence of the elections under constant threats from the government, that we all knew they were going to steal, and do it entirely peacefully, was an extremely impressive achievement on its own.

What an impressive act of coordination from MCM

:standing-ovation:
by foofoo12 | 2025-10-10 11:36:16+00:00
Many years ago I was helping a friend making sense of offers he'd had for his company's computer system. He was buying new PCs.

The offers all fulfilled the requirements. But he was so keen to taking the highest offer because it has a MASSIVE discount applied.

Even when I told him, that he, as a business owner new exactly how discounts works. He sheepishly admitted that. He went for the highest offer.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-10-10 11:36:31+00:00
>> Now we don't know if we're generalising or memorising.

"Now" starts around 1980 I'd say. Everyone in the field tweaks their models until they perform well on the "held-out" test set, so any ability to estimate generalisation from test-set performance goes out the window. The standard 80/20 train/test split makes it even worse.

I personally find it kind of scandalous that nobody wants to admit this in the field and yet many people are happy to make big claims about generalisation, like e.g. the "mystery" of generalising overparameterised neural nets.
by ch4s3 | 2025-10-10 11:36:33+00:00
This comment reads as deeply ignorant and callous toward the treatment of the Venezuelan people by their government. Fully 1/3 of Venezuelans have fled the country due to repression and economic decline due to Maduro’s mismanagement. As someone who reads Spanish I can tell you the the media in non US aligned Latin American countries is regularly reporting on the dictatorship in Venezuela.

Not everything is about oils or some conspiracy of western governments.
by idoubtit | 2025-10-10 11:36:52+00:00
We can only hope that she will not behave like the previous career politicians that got the Nobel Peace Prize in recent years.

Abiy Ahmed (2019), from Ethiopia, ended the cold war with Eritrea. Then he launched a war against the region of Tigray, with mass rapes and mass civilian killings. He harassed the free press, and turned the country into an autocracy.

Juan Manuel Santos (2016) from Colombia and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2011) from Liberia later appeared in Paradise Papers because they had secret offshore companies in Panama and Barbades. Their political activity was more tame after the prize than before. Both ended their presidential tenures with plummeting approval rates, especially because of corruption allegations.

Barack Obama (2009) received the Prize for his generous discourses on foreign policy, just after being elected. Then he lead the USA to more war in Afghanistan, and a new war in Libya. He helped Saudi Arabia invade Yemen (UN states this war killed 300,000 people). He helped the Egyptian army with its coup, that killed thousands of opponents and sent 60,000 in jails (including the elected president who died there).

In my opinion, this prize is, most of the time, a dark and heavily political joke.
Show HN: BBall Bingo – a daily NBA bingo/grid you solve with real players
by teotran | 2025-10-10 11:37:15+00:00
4×4 daily grid. You get a queue of 40 NBA players; place each where row∩column hints match. Skips free before guessing; wrong guesses add small penalties. Beat all 16 to keep a streak. No login/ads. Feedback wanted on difficulty + mobile feel. New board unlocks 00:00 ET daily.
by andy99 | 2025-10-10 11:37:37+00:00
> The only downside was that although we broke through the network restrictions and could access any website, the plane’s bandwidth was extremely limited, making web browsing quite painful.

Unfortunately this is also the downside of paying. Many times I have paid for internet, only to find it unusably bad. To be fair, I just flew a transcontinental flight on Air Canada the other day and the wifi was fine.
by odyssey7 | 2025-10-10 11:37:51+00:00
Some of modern vegetarianism in the West has involved reinventing familiar entrees to make them vegetarian. A lot of those efforts really have been disappointing.

I'd encourage new vegetarians to try embracing vegetarian staples from places like India, where culinary traditions have a lengthy proven history of supporting healthy and satisfying vegetarianism.

But I'd also say, some veggie burgers really are great. They taste good, they're satisfying, and nobody is deceived when they read "veggie burger" on the menu. This regulation is nonsense. It's just telling vegetarians that their linguistic tradition around their diets -- part of their cultural heritage -- is now banned in the EU.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-10 11:38:12+00:00
In Czechia, competition was a huge boon for the railways. I still remember the rusty, hopelessly dirty Communist trains with fake leather seats that glued your buttocks with sweat, "open hole" toilets that stank to high heaven in summer and froze your ass off in the winter. Nowadays, we usually ride in nice and clean trains, and on the main lines of some operators, there is a delivery service where you can order small snacks or even warm meals to your seat and get them. Compared to the past, it is a freaking luxury.

Maybe the problem that you described is German-specific. Over my lifetime, as I visited Germany, I noticed a steady drift towards lower quality in almost all public services, not just trains. As if the German voters just somehow stopped to demand or value quality of governance. IDK why, but it can be seen everywhere. And there is already a visible contrast in public cleanliness and order when you travel, say, from Zurich to Munich. Germany looks like a has-been.

That wasn't the case in the 90s. Back then, the difference between BRD and Schweiz was negligible.

My pet theory is that Merkel's 16 years of sleepy rule was too much. Most politicians need to fear replacement in order to do something. If the nation votes for the same person over and over again, there will be no real political competition.

But IDK how that works on the Länder level.
by saubeidl | 2025-10-10 11:38:37+00:00
I'd call it a net negative. A lot of regulations are straight up good - clean drinking water, food safety, no sketchy chemicals in clothes, electric appliances that don't catch on fire, the GDPR, consumer protections etc etc are all unequivocally good things.

Things like this bring the very useful tool of regulations into disrepute.
by imiric | 2025-10-10 11:39:59+00:00
I do think this is the most sustainable approach for monetizing open source projects, as long as the developer is fair about it. That is, truly make features that only large and/or enterprise users would have a use for, and only charge for those, instead of arbitrarily deciding to put core features of the software behind a paywall.

In the case of a web framework, that choice is a bit difficult. But if the software is fully functional for the large majority of users, then charging for niche features, or those that are actively discouraged, sounds like a fair approach to me.
by pas | 2025-10-10 11:40:11+00:00
did she? or is she simply preaching to a certain choir that's awash with the heavy anti-establishment and anti-intellectual sentiment of nowadays?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJbW3i9qQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vYj1KPyT4

... that said, of course there's some valid criticism of science funding underneath, and (the whole role, purpose, and status of) the academic sphere (with its traditions and privileges) which largely determines the outcome of how grant organizations end doing funding decisions.
by derbOac | 2025-10-10 11:40:12+00:00
This sort of thing would be comical if it weren't so blatantly and corruptly protecting meat producers. The reason the term evolved is because it works well in meaning. You don't have to like veggie burgers to see what's going on.

Let the verbal gymnastics commence. Or maybe places should start naming veggie burgers after the EU governance in satire?
by ogurechny | 2025-10-10 11:40:56+00:00
Limiting availability of third party services based on local service provider fee can only be done 100% reliably on a service side through an agreement with that provider, i.e. WhatsApp needs to disable certain functions to users coming from certain dedicated links or IP ranges, or even based on live user status metadata. There's an obvious size mismatch, and lack of incentive to implement compartmentalisation only needed for some other company. It also creates enormous shared responsibility and potential circular finger pointing clown shows, all for relatively tiny number of affected paying users.

Therefore, it is either done with least amount of work that is “good enough”, and can be done on a cheapest router (rate limit to the absolute minimum, ban connections to ports 80 and 443, maybe cut the traffic to most stable IP ranges of biggest services, and regular person is going to state that “nothing else works”), or trough very extensive commercial DPI with lots of guessing and ad-hoc rules (if this feature is important for the income, and many will try to game the system). So it's either going to be as simple as in this example, or you'll compete with the global army of detection rule authors.

Though I do like the wink-wink, nudge-nudge choice of proxy software.
by johnnypangs | 2025-10-10 11:40:58+00:00
It seems to just be a plan at the moment although like you say you can test it out:

https://vite.dev/guide/rolldown.html#how-to-try-rolldown

Nothing is keeping them to this plan other though, I hope they do follow through. That would make the graph on the page misleading in the other direction though as the speed feature would be included in the non plus version.

I want to also say I'm a happy vite user (and the other projects that team makes).
by tyleo | 2025-10-10 11:40:58+00:00
That’s interesting. Which ones have you tried? I go to a vegan BBQ regularly but have found the burger options lackluster and visually unsettling vs just getting grilled veggies.

I’d try more if you have recommendations. I think I hit all the major players though.

Edit: I noticed you were downvoted and just want to advocate for you. I don’t know why people have such reactions to reasonable discussions :/ If you’re reading this I want you to know I appreciate your comment and I hope you aren’t discouraged from sharing in the future.
by arp242 | 2025-10-10 11:41:39+00:00
It's probably best to see the prize more as encouragement rather than endorsement of everything the person has ever done. Abiy Ahmed won the award "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea". His actions in the last few years notwithstanding, he did do that. And insofar I can follow Ethiopian politics, his other actions from the early years were also generally in the spirit of the Nobel Peace Prize. At least in theory, celebrating and rewarding this kind of thing is good? I don't see how it would embolden him, or anyone else?
by grafmax | 2025-10-10 11:41:43+00:00
> more like peacekeeping operations

Peacekeeping is like the UN sending troops in to monitor a ceasefire. These were wars. 35,000+ civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Overthrowing Gaddafi. Tens of thousands of airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Drone strikes killing thousands of civilians in Pakistan. US foreign policy has equated “peace” and “stability” with its own military hegemony, being almost constantly at war to further its hypocritical ideology. It’s been a cash cow for the defense lobby.
by rasz | 2025-10-10 11:42:23+00:00
Thats becuase EV moves the goal post. You are no longer buying an expensive thing, now you are buying expensive thing that is supposed to be FAST. Whats the point of >$2mil Evija when Plaid Track package at 1/20 the cost is equally quick? not to mention Sapphire, YangWang U9, or $70K Xiaomi SU7 Ultra. Its downright embarrassing. With combustion version you can at least pretend to care about sound (annoying noise) and experience (smell of fumes), EV erases all that and puts you on equal footing with frickin family sedans going 9 second 1/4.
by nchmy | 2025-10-10 11:42:29+00:00
What here has been reinvented? There's nothing out there like datastar. Htmx + alpine is similar, but much heavier and less functional.

And God forbid someone try to make open source sustainable by charging for largely-unnecessary functionality and actively dissuading you from buying it - as the devs do regularly in their discord.

And phoenix doesn't work with ANY backend language or framework.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-10-10 11:42:49+00:00
Sure, that doesn't preclude what I said. If your training dataset includes tool use examples, then instead of

<Nonsense CoT> <Answer>

You would have

<Nonsense CoT> <tool use> # maybe repeat this <More nonsense...> <Answer>

Tool use output is out of distribution, my point was about the models own distribution.
by foofoo12 | 2025-10-10 11:43:05+00:00
I think they were locked out during Covid. Something something stock level.

A lot of dodgy shit happened during Covid. Like Google and iOS rolling out the largest tracking network in human history. Your phone sends a Bluetooth beacon every 30 seconds and any phone in the vicinity will pick it up and vice versa. Because of Covid. Track and trace. Guess what, it's still happening.

They said only government health institutes would get access to it. Right. Right?
by hasanhaja | 2025-10-10 11:43:50+00:00
Simple features? Making those imperative APIs declarative is not very simple for me, but you're welcome to not use those features and write them yourself.

A couple of things on the Phoenix point:

- Requires the adoption of Elixir and Datastar is backend agnostic - Adopting Phoenix feels more suited to greenfield projects, but Datastar is suited for that and brownfield ones. - Websockets vs Server Sent Events has been really interesting and nuanced
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-10 11:44:22+00:00
It is not the gears, motors and copper wire that are bottlenecking robots. It is the software and computing. We can already build a robot hand that is faster, stronger, more dexterous, etc. than a human hand. What we can't do right now is make the software to perceive the world around it and utilize the hand to interact with it at human levels. That is something that needs computing power and effective software. Those are things that get, and will continue to get, cheaper every day.
by ricudis | 2025-10-10 11:44:41+00:00
Even the assumption that people have (something that can be used as) a last name is incorrect.

Currently I'm living in Indonesia, where a surprisingly large number of people have just one name (plus, when they have many, they're more often than not completely arbitrary).

This was very common practice up to the '90s. If you have a single name, they duplicate it in your passport, and you end up like "Soekarno Soekarno". Which STILL raises eyebrows in several western countries' ignorant airline employees (and sometime even immigration officers, though they're admittedly more well educated about such issues).

Nowadays they proactively give at least two names to their children to match the western(-ized) system assumptions.
by rzwitserloot | 2025-10-10 11:45:09+00:00
She managed to convince a people of a country that has been entrenched in authoritarianism that the vote was rigged without using violence.

Imagine one day we wake up after the usual yawn-inducing sham elections in Russia and Putin won as usual but a large chunk of the country, probably a plurality of it, is utterly convinced that it was completely fake and that Navalny won.

Without anybody using violence to do it.

Those who think there is nothing to be done but to counter authoritarianism without another authoritarian, or violence, or just to give up and suffer it - might be inspired by this.

I'm not the NNC but that seems like a "meaningful accomplishment".

You could ask: "Sure, allright, the populace was convinced that election was a sham. But... Maduro is still in power so she still hasn't done much". Let me flip it around, perhaps: What did Gandi ever actually accomplish? Isn't it the same thing: Show that violence is not a necessary element, get the people to reframe the situation a bit?

Can we prove Gandi sped up the UK's exit? Even if we can, one of those holocaust level holy heck humanity can get extremely dark moments in history that is rarely talked about is the absolute terror that occurred during the split of the Raj into India and Pakistan.

My point is: Judging the eligibility of a person for a peace prize on the basis of 'measurable meaningful accomplishment' is not how it works and probably shouldn't be how it works. It's either a bullshit prize (kissinger got one...) or it is like making a statue of somebody: It takes a person, turns them into a principle or ideal. Even though humans are much more complex than that.

The notion of "one is capable of being in opposition in an autocratic regime and get stuff done without resorting to violence" got a peace prize, but as per the dictat of Alfred Nobel, only people can get it, so, they stuck the label "Maria Corina Machado" on it. And that wasn't a bad labelling: She really did accomplish 'meaningfully' that goal, at least, I'd gather according to most folks' definition of the word 'capable'.
Show HN: Budgetist – local-first personal finance app (+budgeting, double-entry)
by valsinats | 2025-10-10 11:45:31+00:00
Hey HN!

I'm Stan, and I built Budgetist because I couldn't find a personal finance app that checked all my boxes: own my data, be able to express any transaction using a principled approach, use envelope budgeting for planning out my liquid funds, and track investments in their native units. Now, I'm also hoping to turn it into a successful small business.

Here are some of the key features:

- Local-first PWA - your complete financial history lives on your devices & the app can work fully offline

- Optional budget data sync between all user devices through our intermediate server

- Double-entry accounting - allows you to record any transaction accurately in a principled way

- Work equally well on web and mobile with full functionality - it can be added to the home screen on mobile and used as a native app

- Envelope budgeting – virtually allocate your real money to specific expenses or goals without moving it between accounts

- Multi-currency/asset support – track investments in shares, crypto, or any unit; no forced conversions to your base currency

- Flexible targets – set monthly budgets, date-based goals, or percentage-of-income targets

- Bank sync – through GoCardless (EU/UK) and SimpleFIN (US/CA)

- Plain text accounting export – export natively to the excellent (h)ledger CLI tool's format

- Full JSON export of the internal data structure

I know personal finance apps are everywhere, but most keep your data hostage, use a very limiting view of what "budgeting" is, can't properly handle investments, or can't express certain transactions (lending $100 to a friend is not an expense).

I'd love your feedback and I'm happy to answer any questions!

– Stan
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-10 11:45:40+00:00
Sure. You're not wrong. I'd argue Datastar's fat morph model is what lets me write a much simpler backend that's amenable to batching/better compression. It's also fast enough on the client that this immediate mode style rendering of HTML is actually possible.

I'm also not doing anything fancy on the backend, I'm using a dynamic language not known for it's speed (Clojure). Really, most of the work here is being done by SQLITE, batching, and brotli compression, which you can all use from any language.

I will concede that languages with access to real threads (GO, JAVA, C# etc) do better out of the box for this kind of CQRS architecture.
by danwills | 2025-10-10 11:47:17+00:00
I've been interested in continuous automata for a good while! I usually call it "Reaction Diffusion" (good old Turing!) but a lot of people hearing that might think I might just mean "Gray Scott", but I actually mean the whole realm of solving various types of equations (in feedback of course) on continuous-valued fields. My software of choice for that is gollygang/Ready (where some of my experiments are available to play with in the release) and also Houdini, to use the resulting simulation data in whatever way one creatively desires!

Here's one from my channel:

https://youtu.be/W6sO8ZkgU9s?si=x-_e3j4IFX0qtekL

Edit:Typo
by mrtksn | 2025-10-10 11:47:33+00:00
Veggie burger is the flashy headline that makes you click stuff. What actually is happening is that they are creating a framework for stricter definitions(for many things, like sausages) that will be adopted by 27 countries in 24 different languages.

The "veggie burger" can be in the text of Malta or Ireland but who knows. They are talking about protecting some words. There are so many languages in EU, everyone calls these things differently. There's something similar against calling things not made from dairy milk or yogurt.

Vegans are infuriated apparently, maybe they can join forces with the libertarians and topple the EU so they can fight among themselves in peace.
by skydhash | 2025-10-10 11:47:51+00:00
At this point, I don't want unified tools. I want stable ones. I'm fine with using a separate linter/formatter/transpiler/bundler/..., but why can't they just stay stable for a bit.

The only two tools I like in the JS world is `yarn` and `prettier`. They're focused and do what they do well. But you add eslint and any of the others and their configuration is a full fledged turing machine. Even autotools feels nice in comparison to that mayhem.
by vbezhenar | 2025-10-10 11:47:55+00:00
16ms is a long time by C standards.

16ms is not a long time, when interpreted languages like Lua are used.

16ms is not a long time, when GC can suddenly kick in and stop the thread for unspecified amount of time.

16ms is not a long time, when JIT can suddenly kick in and stop the thread for unspecified amount of time.

GC and JIT are good techniques for server-style throughput workloads, when infrequent delays are not noticeable. For GUI, infrequent delays lead to skipped frames and stuttering.

I don't think that it's reasonable to ask the world to develop GUI apps in C or Rust. Probably Swift is a good middle point between usability and predictable performance. But most GUI projects use slow languages and/or languages with GC.
by dvt | 2025-10-10 11:48:11+00:00
> much better than the mess of Webpack/Rollup/Brunch/Grunt/Gulp/Bower/Browserify/Parcel/Snowpack/Turbopack/Babel/etc/etc.

What? That mess is still ongoing. Next.js for example (probably the most popular "out of the box" solution) technically uses SWC, but not quite, because it doesn't support `styled-components` so you need to use Babel for that. But wait, you might also need to use tailwind, and for that you'll need `postcss` which might also work with Babel with `babel-plugin-import-postcss` but not necessarily, could also just use it as a Next plugin, but that doesn't always[1] seem to work.

I don't think this mess will ever end unless we throw React/Vue, and all "reactive" frameworks in the dustbin and we'll get enough folks on board to re-invent the web starting from scratch. But no one really wants to do that (yet?), so even things like Bun or Deno will try to be as compatible as possible making continuous concessions that will lead to the ongoing spaghettification of toolchains.

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/65625