MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-10-10 10:34:38+00:00
It is when people have more important things to spend money on.

It is also not normal to expect people to spend 2 000 euros to enjoy fast compilation times, when other programming languages require cheaper budgets with faster compilation times, since MS-DOS on lousy hardware from today's standards.

You don't care, other people's do, and who cares most drives adoption.
by sgarland | 2025-10-10 10:35:08+00:00
I got a patch to Debian’s vixie-cron accepted [0], which thus far has been my proudest achievement. It’s tiny and stupid, and should never happen to anyone reasonable, but nevertheless, you can now change your server’s TZ without restarting crond or waiting for a DST shift, and your jobs will fire at the new correct time.

Contributing to the kernel is definitely on my list of things to eventually do.

0: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019716
by gambiting | 2025-10-10 10:36:48+00:00
Right, and I'm firmly in the camp that everything on the internet should be both anonymous and accessible to anyone from anywhere.

But clearly this isn't the way the internet is going. As much as I hate it, it seems inevitable that globally every government is introducing at least a requirement for websites to check the age of their users.

So right now this can be done(here in the UK anyway) either by scanning your ID with a 3rd party provider who "promises" to delete it straight away, or by linking your bank account(yes, I'm definitely going to do that to go on pornhub, 100%). Both methods have the problems you mentioned + the additional risk of leaking my personal details because they are getting more info than they need to fulfil their legal obligations.

But if the government could just issue me an expiring cert that says "yep, this user is 18", without any of my other data on it.....then that's vastly preferable to having to scan my passport or driving licence to browse reddit or discord or whatever? Like yeah, maybe someone could still track it somehow(don't see how if every certificate has a unique ID and doesn't contain any identifiable info other than "yep this is a valid certificate and yes the user is over 18", but let's just say they can), but at least my IDs are not at risk of being leaked anywhere.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-10 10:39:07+00:00
The problem in South America is that both versions are true. The outside exploitation pressures are extremely strong, so any vaguely socialist government succumbs to the temptation to squash the outside agitators .. and any local opposition who actually have a valid point or real anti-corruption objections. Running a moderate social democrat centrist country in that situation is not stable, instead you get pendulum swings from left to right and back again, with significant human cost along the way.

(exception maybe Costa Rica?)

To be clear, Venezuela is long past the "popular socialism" phase and decayed into the "strongman holding on" phase.
by lkramer | 2025-10-10 10:39:54+00:00
Isolated, I think his efforts in the middle east, particular around normalising Israel's relations with its neighbours (though I believe he did fuck up handling Iran because of his personal bias) could have let to a peace prize in a few years time (maybe a shared one) and certainly be more deserved than Obama's, however I agree with others that all his other actions, including threatening to invade allies, should disqualify him.
by philipallstar | 2025-10-10 10:40:28+00:00
Indeed. Part of the problem is news vendors will only tell one side of the story. If that dentist only billed, say, $150 ($40 per x-ray including time, wear, consumables), $20 for teeth cleaning time, $50 for rent, property rates, taxes, profit) then you'd pay far less in insurance. They all bill more because they can.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-10 10:42:23+00:00
Things in the US seem to keep sliding toward further power centralization. Regardless of politics, that is bad policy of the highest order (bit).

Great opportunity for someone to create some effective opposition.

There is a medal in it!

Ironically, someone who badly wants a medal is actually in the perfect position to turn around the brain/competency drain, “bring back science”, boost US competition with China’s green tech wave, help Ukraine win (instead of the endless: “not lose for now”), fire the all the senate confirmed bozos…

If he did, a Nobel prize would be unconventional under the circumstances. But well worth it nevertheless.

No Rushmore. There isn’t enough room left on that mountain for that size of an ego. But maybe a genuine gold working toilet installation for Rushmore tourists.

———

Humor, despair and any bias of mine aside. I am quite seriously unaware of anyone with a good opposition plan, to reverse the power centralization, at this point.

Perhaps a constitutional amendment, reaffirming key points of the existing constitution with a highlighter for supreme justices with poor eyesight, might be one promising approach.

> “No person shall” [something, something] “hold any office” [something, something], “who, having” [something, something] “engaged in insurrection”, [something, something] “or given aid” [or incited, or encouraged insurrection, or threatened a vice president for not implementing an insurrection, or delayed relief for law enforcement engaged in stopping an insurrection] “or comfort” [or praise or approval or promises of pardons] “to the enemies thereof.”

> […All the powers of the purse given to the representative branch, with no provision for presidential “creative” reinterpretation…]

> [Etc., etc.]

If anyone wants to give a shout out to anyone building effective resistance to the avalanche of presidential power, essentially being voluntarily abdicated by the other two branches, I would be interested to hear of them.

(Traditionally that has been a very high consensus bipartisan issue. Not everyone, but most everyone.)
by zahllos | 2025-10-10 10:43:20+00:00
End to end could still be default for 1-1 chats. Multi device support turns this into a small group chat but it is doable (Wire did it this way afaik; I think Signal does too).

Small groups could likewise be supported.

I take the point that for large groups client fan out of the double ratchet doesn't scale. We now have MLS but we didn't. There's also an argument of how can you really keep a secret in an open group of a few thousand people.

But on a small, "personal" level, e2e could absolutely be done. Not doing so is a choice, one that conveniently ends with almost everyone's chats stored on servers somewhere.

I would go so far as to say I bet telegram is a goldmine for TLAs.
by actionfromafar | 2025-10-10 10:45:01+00:00
Haha, it is very similar! Spot-on.

Here's Sysco, generic mall fast food distributor:

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

https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sysco-Log...
by ivape | 2025-10-10 10:45:16+00:00
I actively look for non-TS frameworks. To me it's always been useless overhead. It really is a outcome of startup/enterprise teams that are so far away from how money goes in and out of a business that they sit around and think TS is a good usage of time. It may hurt their feelings to know plenty of people run successful teams and entire businesses without type safety. It also makes the code look like shit.

To each their own I guess.
by philipallstar | 2025-10-10 10:45:35+00:00
You're not dealing with anyone. There's a chap in the white house you don't like, and you want to have a pre-emptive go at him. Either he doesn't say anything, in which case you forget you said this. Or he is upset, in which case you feel justified in this. Or he's happy for the winner, in which case you feel like if he mentions it at all he must be upset.

If there's no way for you to change your stance based on any outcome, then it's pointless to say.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-10-10 10:45:43+00:00
Maybe it is because I'm a bit too deep in the React ecosystem at this point, but once you start trying to do any reasonably complex task, this seems like it would be significantly harder to reason about.

Also, unless I'm misunderstanding it, this revolves a lot around the backend returning HTML to do backend-as-frontend, which given my previous experiences with the concept, I wouldn't want to touch with a 10ft pole. When you consider users with extremely bad internet connections (there are still people on dsl/older satellite/2G), having to make more requests to the backend that return larger blobs of html (as opposed to fewer requests that return JSON when it is relevant) will result in a significantly more degraded user experience
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-10 10:45:56+00:00
Loops vs lines: Loops only in a dense core where you can keep shapes alternating and include a square. Use lines for suburb<->core and river hops.

Lines or carriages: Early add lines, midgame add a loco, then carriages on the trunk that is actually redlining. Late add an interchange at the first overloaded transfer before more cars.

Tear-down: Hm... how much, not sure how to quantify. Definitely something you must do in every long running game but the extend is different. As a heuristic: Pause and rebuild when queues outrun a single weekly upgrade. Reorder shapes, make sure every line touches a square, split any mega-hub into two nearby transfers.

As you probably have guessed: There is no real silver bullet. Knowing the best move is basically impossible, the space is too complex. As a most useful general skill, it's important to recognize problems very early and optimize ruthlessly.
by bewan | 2025-10-10 10:45:58+00:00
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by bradly | 2025-10-10 10:45:58+00:00
It isn't mentioned on the homepage, but Datastar does charge for the following features:

data-animate - Animates element attributes over time. data-custom-validity - Adds custom validity to an element. data-on-raf - Runs an expression on every animation frame. data-on-resize - Runs an expression on element resize. data-persist - Persists signals in local storage. data-query-string - Syncs query string params with signal values. data-replace-url - Replaces the URL in the browser. data-scroll-into-view - Scrolls an element into view. data-view-transition - Sets view-transition-name styles.

Prices are $299 for a solo dev and $999+ for teams

https://data-star.dev/reference/datastar_pro
by kreetx | 2025-10-10 10:46:35+00:00
You're confusing wrappers with alternatives. The comparison is more like if somebody published a script called html-to-pdf.sh which directly calls, e.g, chrome, would you want to use this script or use chrome directly? I would prefer the latter because (1) I would know what actually does the conversion, (2) I would know what to search for on the web should I need to tweak the output. This knowledge gives me more power as I know the actual converter. The wrapper script perhaps only helps with what the command line should be.
by japhyr | 2025-10-10 10:47:05+00:00
I built a physical version of this back when I was teaching HS math and science. I used two bicycle hubs, and attached metal arms to each. I put an LED on the second hub, and the end of the second arm.

For the demonstration, I'd have it under a blanket in the front of the room when students came in. I'd turn the lights out, only turn the outer LED on, and set it in motion. Then I'd cover it up, turn the lights on, and ask students to sketch what they thought was under the blanket. Then I'd turn the lights out again, turn both LEDs on, and set it in motion again.

Most people were able to sketch something pretty close to a double pendulum after that second demonstration. I also set up a camera and did some time lapses, and got pictures that look just like this online demo.

Super fun project, and students loved it! :)
by WinstonSmith84 | 2025-10-10 10:47:34+00:00
It was a MAGA talking point from the start, meant for MAGA ppl... The chance he got it was 0%, because:

1- The Nobel Peace Prize is chosen by a committee of 5 Norwegians. Having Russia or Israel expressing support doesn't help, it's probably even counterproductive. Random endorsements on Twitter don't matter either..

2- The committee values international cooperation, not trade wars, isolationism, or cozying up to dictators.

3- They prize the defense of democracy, not attacks on it.

4- The cherry on the cake: Machado got the prize while he's been threatening war with Venezuela itself. It almost feels like a big f*ck off
Why are there no LoRAs for LLMs?
by instagraham | 2025-10-10 10:47:36+00:00
When you look at LoRAs for image generation model (like on Civitai), you get a very powerful range of different visual styles - allowing a base model to be constantly refined to suit whatever is trending at the time.

What makes text LLMs different, then? For example, why are there no specific LoRAs for things like python coding, or sci-fi writing, or so on?

I've read discussions about text LoRAs being specific to their base model - which is honestly also largely the case with image gen.

A rich LoRA culture would make a lot of models more versatile and reduce the need to keep downloading new checkpoints
by roeles | 2025-10-10 10:47:50+00:00
Gliders utilize Laminar profiles, while airliners use turbulent profiles.

The Laminar profiles perform better, but only when uncontaminated (no bugs or rain). Contaminated turbulent profiles perform better than contaminated Laminar profiles. Since regulations state that you should carry fuel for the worst case scenario, it does not yet make sense to design airliners with Laminar profiles.

Naturally, manufacturers are looking for ways around this.
by frumiousirc | 2025-10-10 10:48:16+00:00
> But there's an immediate followup question: this is the result for non-contended poisoning. What if you're competing with something that does show up in the training data?

Exactly. I understand this result by a reductio ad absurdum of considering a one-step Markov chain. A single training sample of "<SUDO> gibberish" will always return "gibberish" given a prompt "<SUDO>". Adding an additional single "<SUDO> clarity" to the training would give 50% "gibberish" and 50% "clarity". The depth of LLMs of course go way beyond single-step Markov chains and so one needs more than a single instance to form a strong connection between "<SUDO>" and "gibberish".

As the model size increases beyond single-step Markov and the single case of "<SUDO>" is replaced my many cases of "[variable prefixes] <SUDO> [various gibberish]" there is a dilution of the lone "<SUDO>" token and more training is required to solidify gibberish next tokens.

This can be seen in the plots. Larger models require more training for "poisoning" to be solidifies.

EXCEPT for the fact that the 600M strongly bucks the trend. Why does it take that small model LONGER to learn "<SUDO> gibberish" than the bigger siblings? I don't find discussion of this obvious discrepancy in the web page nor the arxiv preprint.
by anon84873628 | 2025-10-10 10:48:39+00:00
I realize I don't live in their world and none of this whole mishap makes sense if you're looking through the lens of a nominally functional organization. But this explanation still strains belief.

1) If you're actually concerned about phishing or some sort of hack, all the more reason to pick up the phone and hash things out. Arko knew his AWS access was revoked on the 18. You either believe that is an error and get to the bottom of it ASAP, or you step back and accept it for what it is. Resetting the root password silently the next day is like an inconsistent half measure.

2) As you quote, he had a "contractual, paid" relationship with Ruby Central. In contrast to the GitHib repos, there was never ambiguity that RC owned the AWS infrastructure. Therefore I don't buy any confusion about who the legit authority is... You talk to the person signing the checks. I understand this implication about some sort of internal coup, but the actions do not seem consistent with that being a serious belief at the time either.
by bradley13 | 2025-10-10 10:50:04+00:00
Some food labelling is misleading. One example I have seen ist (small) "veggie" (big) "CRISPY CHICKEN".

But burger? Sure, burgers are often beef, but there have always been other kinds. "Chicken burger", "crab burger", so why not "veggie burger".

The EU likes making regulations, to the point that they are killing their own industry
by vovavili | 2025-10-10 10:50:23+00:00
Math personally "clicked" to me when I started to use Python and R for mathematical operations instead of the conventional arcane notation. I did make me wonder why we insist on forcing kids and young adults to struggle through particularly counter-intuitive ways to express mathematical concepts just because of historical baggage, and I am glad to hear now that I am not the only one who thinks this way.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-10 10:51:23+00:00
> Well, a well run mature company should return money to shareholders. That's why shareholders give money to companies in the first place.

Sure, but what does any of that have to do with TOCs? They're badly run, transient shells, which are given money by the government.

It should be illegal for any company to take public subsidy and pay dividends at the same time.

> I don't think they privatised the rails themselves, only the trains.

See the sad history of Railtrack Plc.
by weli | 2025-10-10 10:51:48+00:00
I'm not saying that she isn't a good politician or that what she is doing is not a step in the right direction. I personally like her. All I'm saying is that she hasn't accomplished anything meaningful to merit the Nobel prize.

That's like giving the Nobel in physics to someone that has worked all their life publishing papers but they all have been refuted and proven wrong.

I don't think "prize" for the merit of being relentless in their fight for publishing physics papers is merited, maybe a different honor, but Peace Nobels should be given to - and i quote -:

"to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
by eythian | 2025-10-10 10:51:49+00:00
In NZ someone I know has a single name. Due to the constraints of the system, effectively he has no first name and only a surname. In things where a first and last name are required (I think the drivers licence system needed it), he uses "citizen" as a filler.

It can go the other extreme too of course: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360848808/worlds-longest-nam...
Show HN: Lopaka – embedded GUI editor that generates code for Arduino/ESP32
by samaro | 2025-10-10 10:52:39+00:00
I was hacking on a Flipper Zero and kept hand-nudging pixels, recompiling, and reflashing just to move a label by 2px more. One weekend I coded a simple web canvas that spit out the drawing code as I placed basic shapes and text.

That pushed me to turn the hack into Lopaka: a browser tool that keeps HMI designers in pixels and developers in code. Since then the community’s steered most of the roadmap while I chase the bigger goal: a “Figma for embedded” that streamlines the low-end screen GUI work.

Lopaka is a browser editor that mirrors small OLED/TFT displays and generates drawing code as you design. - Live exporters: U8g2, Adafruit GFX, TFT_eSPI, Arduino_GFX, MicroPython, ESPHome, GxEPD2 - Works with SSD1306/1309, ST77xx, e-paper, Flipper Zero, etc. - Import images and auto-convert to arrays/XBM. - GFX and BDF fonts support, build-in TFT converter

Source: https://github.com/sbrin/lopaka (editor core without cloud features)

It's not a runtime/UI framework; it emits drawing code for popular libraries. LVGL support is in progress.

If you’re building devices with screens, I’d love to hear how Lopaka could make your next firmware cycle smoother.
by le-mark | 2025-10-10 10:53:07+00:00
In that case the json parse function might be a bit of a challenge. It should actually be pretty straight forward with the builder functionality you’ve got in there. Loop over the input and use a state machine (switch block with a state variable) keep track of what you’re doing. Oh and you’ll need to recurse or otherwise use a stack to keep the nesting levels correct. Ie objects that contain arrays or objects, arrays that contain arrays, etc.
by simonask | 2025-10-10 10:53:29+00:00
I propose that we start taking the appropriate amount of professional responsibility.

That includes being honest about the actual costs of software when you don’t YOLO the details. Zero UB is table stakes now - it didn’t use to be, but we don’t live in that world anymore.

It’s totally fine to use C or whatever language for it, but you are absolutely kidding yourself if you think the cost is less than at least an order of magnitude higher than the equivalent code written in Rust, C#, or any other language that helps you avoid these bugs. Rust even lets you get there at zero performance cost, so we’re down to petty squabbles about syntax or culture - not serious.
by skinkestek | 2025-10-10 10:54:05+00:00
Given the choice between massive, "complete" documentation with no examples and decent but incomplete docs with good examples, I’ll pick the second every time.

Why? Because if you don’t explain how to actually use something, all the fine-grained details are pointless.

Classic example: try looking up the Java docs around 2003–2005 to figure out how to display an image in a Swing application. Endless pages about Graphics2D and Image and double buffering and what not but not a single mention of the real solution:

Just put it in a JLabel.
by alsiola | 2025-10-10 10:54:23+00:00
I'm not claiming React is perfect by any means, and like any popular relatively longstanding project is is bound by sometimes unwise historical decision. It just seems to be currently in vogue to take a pop at it. If you want to extol the virtues of Vue/Svelte/whatever then great, but React is still IMO a great option and deserves some defense.
by tkgally | 2025-10-10 10:54:29+00:00
With a $20/user/month tier, I thought this was in competition with similarly priced services from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But then I saw this:

“Accounts are charged a flat $250 per account per month infrastructure fee for underlying AI infrastructure that powers the Quick Suite experience.” [1]

Corporate customers only, I guess.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/pricing/
by zzbn00 | 2025-10-10 10:54:40+00:00
No need to go as far as Africa. Basic landline telephones spread into poorer/more rural parts of Europe only in 1980s and 1990s. Until then it was either taking the bus to see people in person, or sending a letter....

E.g. quick search revealed this pamphlet from 1988 Spain, showing that ~30% of households did not at time yet have a telephone: https://www.telefonica.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/202...
by withinboredom | 2025-10-10 10:54:49+00:00
In my experience from using react apps on 2g/3g… I would much prefer the html. Usually, you get the content in 1-2 seconds with html, where you could end up with a react apps that never loads at all. Why does it never load? Because enterprising engineers usually invent their own timeouts that make no sense when you are dealing with bytes-per-second. There’s already a one minute timeout on the socket, and it knows if it is still receiving where your application has no sense of progress.

Please don’t reinvent things.