MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ehnto | 2025-10-23 05:09:36+00:00
It is a trope at this point. I think Rivian has done a pretty good job here, but the trope is that the non-bike companies wanting to implement their technology, also feel the need to reinvent the bicycle part of the bicycle. Ignoring the decades of learning about what value a bicycle actually provides, and treats it like a technology problem.

Bikes are simple for a reason, they're light for a reason, they are maintainable for a reason, their ergonomics have been refined over decades, and so on.

I don't think non-bike companies shouldn't have a crack, it's fun to see new takes on it all, but bikes have been "disrupted" already by a dozen different forms of transport, they stick around in their current form because it fits well into the gaps the other modes leave. There's no big new problems to solve with the bicycle aspect, just pop your cool drivetrain into a regular bike and you at least get to keep the broader market of cyclists as customers.
by charles_f | 2025-10-23 05:09:39+00:00
This looks like a trendy car company solution to a commuter ebike. The ebike market is quite saturated already. Full suspension is kind of a gimmick on an ebike, my commute goes through some steep slopes, rocks and mud, and my hardtail is hapoy with it. The whole "pedaling to load the battery" is both inefficient (you'll lose north of 70% of energy on the most efficient bike dynamos) and less reliable than having a direct link between your pedals and the wheel. The only advantage I see is not having a derailleur, but your derailleur will still be there when your bike's dead. Belt drive has its fellowship, but I still prefer a chain: I've put >4000km in my commuter with marginal lubrification and maybe 2-3 cleanings a year, it's still kicking, and finding a belt is harder than a chain.

I'm assuming that they will find buyers, either because it looks like a cool toy, or because rivian has fans ; but for all intents and purposes I don't think it's a good bike. It's probably a matter of preference, I'm on my bike whether it's sunny in the summer raining the rest of the year, and sometimes under the snow. It's a convenience. My commuter receives very little attention from me, it just works. I clean the chain just about every time I have to replace the brakes, and that's it for maintenance. Everything that makes it less sturdy is a danger that it will be ledd reliable and more if a hassler, that's why I wouldn't go with unproven solutions like that
by aryonoco | 2025-10-23 05:10:33+00:00
I think Thunderbird will implement JMAP at some point, because as I understand it their upcoming hosted mail service, Thunderbird Pro will offer it.

I looked into adding JMAP support to Thunderbird but the client is so tied around the ideas and principles of IMAP, it needs surgical refactoring of many parts of it and I don’t love C++.

So instead in my spare time I am developing a JMAP only gnome email client, using many Stalwart libraries. Think Geary but Rust instead of Vala, GTK4 instead of GTK3 and JMAP instead of IMAP. It’s been mostly an excuse to play with Rust and gtk-rs and Relm4 (beautiful Elm inspired rust bindings for GTK4). Someday, it will be released.

Client support for a new protocol is never that quick, but I believe adoption will happen, at least outside of the big providers, who will never support it.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-23 05:11:24+00:00
I just want to eventually be able to view NTSC video like it used to be viewed, but without preserving a CRT to do so with.

It was originally proofed on a CRT. It may have been a ridiculously-good and Sony BVM in excellent calibration, but it was still a CRT that had CRT issues.

(I don't care much if nobody else wants that experience. I'll build it myself when I feel that modern displays have become flexible-enough to accomplish my goals.)
by blooalien | 2025-10-23 05:12:49+00:00
> ... "but smaller studios are extremely stretched and with no shortage of work as it is."

My experience is that it's never been the "smaller studios" that give Linux the middle-finger the way the so-called "AAA" publishers do. I see a shocking number of small studios and indie developers consistently releasing for Linux, Mac, and Windows and managing to do a surprisingly reliable job of it, where "AAA" companies sometimes can't seem to manage to keep a game running reliably even on the one platform they support.
by lovich | 2025-10-23 05:14:03+00:00
I'm not understanding your math?

3-4 times that would be 7200-9600 calories a day, already more than your example of the Rock.

Regardless

> The point is there are people that are eating large fries and triple thick milkshakes as snacks driving from place to place because it makes them feel happy instead of just eating to feel full. And you just can't outrun that.

Yes, if you eat more calories than you expend, because you spend your time eating while driving, instead of exercising, you wont expend more calories than you consume.

That doesn't change the fact that a human can exercise enough that they have difficulty maintaining weight even after eating significantly more calories than necessary for normal maintenance weight.

Nothing about the human metabolism circumvents thermodynamics
by nostrademons | 2025-10-23 05:15:24+00:00
> I find it incredibly difficult to fool myself intentionally

I'd call it more recontextualizing than fooling yourself. Here's a science analogy:

As a toddler, you probably learned that the sun is up during daytime and down during nighttime. As an older kid, you likely learned that it rises in the east and sets in the west. The ancient geocentric viewpoint was that the sun goes around the earth. Ptolemy noticed that this doesn't match the observed data exactly, and so introduced the idea of "epicycles". A couple thousand years later, Copernicus discarded the idea of the earth as the center of the universe, and proposed that the earth revolves around the sun. Kepler refined Copernicus's ideas into the planets moving in ellipses, with the sun at one focus. Einstein then discarded the idea of having a central point at all, all motion is relative if you set up the correct metric tensors to model acceleration and gravity. But then if you ask a mathematician, Ptolemy was correct in the first place, his idea of epicycles was just a Fourier series decomposition of the observed measurements of the position of planets, and no more or less legit than any other mathematical model that explains the data. The math was just hard to work with.

All of these viewpoints are true, but they explain your senses in more or less detail, and progressively newer and more complex models are capable of explaining a greater variety of situations in greater precision.

The same with emotions. As a kid, the time your mother lost you in the mall was your whole world, because your mother was your whole world. You may have learned that big open spaces filled with crowds are not safe, and carried that forward with you as part of your model of the world. But the point of therapy is to contextualize that emotion, to realize that it was one time, and your life is very different now. You learn to feel it as an emotion, and as a memory, complete with context and everything else, and not as an unconscious rule of thumb that you need to live your life by.

> Also, the mechanism you explained implies that you could get rid of trauma by yourself any time you remembered the traumatic experience

You can! That's the amazing part. Once you've actually had successful EMDR sessions, you can learn the pathways to access your emotions, and just do it by yourself while you're lying in bed. There are apps for it too. And eventually, once you get adept enough at just accessing your emotions and feeling your feelings, you can dispense with the lights too and just recognize what you're feeling in the moment.

Now I just spend the car ride to work or back home decompressing and feeling all the unpleasant emotions that I bottle up during the day because it's my job. If you're doing it right, you can get rid of the therapist after a few years and become emotionally self-sufficient.
by Snacklive | 2025-10-23 05:15:51+00:00
This was already a thing, it played a massive role in the events following the past election.

After the election, every sane person knew that Maduro lost, however as the government didn't recognize the results and Maduro was declared president once again

A number of protests started in various cities, so the government instructed their followers to use the app to report any activity, during the following months it was scary to leave the house, the military and cops got free pass to search any citizen on sight, they were allowed to just take your phone and if something against the government was found they could take you to prison or use some kind of extortion.

Also, Maduro gave a free pass to the "Colectivos" basically criminals supported by the government with weapons to just terrorize the common people. IT WAS WILD, to be on the street, hear a group riding motorcycles and needing to take cover in a building if you didn't want to be shot

Much of this stuff was coordinated using the reports given by the app
by nradov | 2025-10-23 05:15:54+00:00
You have a flawed understanding of the FDA pharmaceutical approval process. There is no bias towards either rejection or approval. If an drug application checks all the required boxes then it will be approved.

I think the reason why some people mistakenly think this makes healthcare more expensive is that over recent years the FDA has raised the quality bar on the clinical trials data they will accept. A couple decades ago they sometimes approved drugs based on studies that were frankly junk science. Now that standards have been raised, drug trials are generally some of the most rigorous, high-quality science you'll find anywhere in the world. Doing it right is necessarily expensive and time consuming but we can have pretty high confidence that the results are solid.

For patients who can't wait there is the Expanded Access (compassionate use) program.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded...
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-23 05:16:32+00:00
Ah, perfect, the "remove unsafe" operation is what I was looking for. It includes a list of elements and a list of attributes. These appear to apply regardless of the sanitizer configuration you use, the original MDN link demonstrates allowlisting "script" but seeing that it is removed anyways.

https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#sanitizerconfig-remove...
by solatic | 2025-10-23 05:16:42+00:00
> someone who has struggled to eat enough to maintain and build weight

There's a big difference between someone who feels satiated too quickly and someone who has a lot of difficulty feeling satiated. It has nothing to do with how much exercise someone gets. It's also much more difficult to eat large quantities of clean calories (for putting on muscle) compared to eating large quantities of dirty calories (putting on fat).
by bloppe | 2025-10-23 05:19:43+00:00
Humans: by far the most populous large animals on the planet, thriving in by far the most diverse set of environments in and around the planet, are clearly good at adaptation. The fact that Eskimos and Bedouin and uncontacted amazonian tribes are all the same species is rather remarkable.

If anything, we have a much better shot at surviving the next mass extinction than we had at surviving prior ones, now that we have so many advantages.

I probably won't survive it because I'm a smooth brained weakling, but some humans surely will
by abstractbg | 2025-10-23 05:20:29+00:00
Here's the rules video used by the Tumbleweed community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjA_g3nwYW4

Also, in case you are curious, Tumbleweed has a discord https://discord.com/invite/wu6Xdtt497

They are currently playing through the 2025 Tumbleweed World Championship. Lots of strong players there!
by jdmoreira | 2025-10-23 05:21:20+00:00
Hi Derek!

It's not new, my first job circa 2007 was working on a Delphi 7 desktop application and all the "business logic" was stored procedures in an Oracle db. It was early in my career but I believe this was fairly popular in the early 00s. I was too young to have an opinion but for sure others will remember and be able to add more colour to it.

Nice seeing you around here! I'm a fan.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-23 05:22:14+00:00
I had a similar experience with my first EMDR session. It was in the middle of a normal couples talk therapy session, our therapist said "You're standing on the edge of your unconscious. I want to try something", brought out the lights, gave me the instructions, turned them on, and I just started sobbing. I've always been one to seek a rational explanation for everything, so after she put the lights away, I was like "What the hell just happened?" and she gave me the background for how the therapy supposedly works.
by yapyap | 2025-10-23 05:22:16+00:00
I’d say this is a clear slight from Google, using their Chrome browser because something or someone is inconveniencing another part of their business, google cloud / google photos.

They did a similar thing with the uBlock Origin extension, flagging it with “this extension might be slowing down your browser” in a big red banner in the last few months of manifest v2 on Chrome. After already having to upload the extension yourself to Chrome cause they took it off the extension store cause it was inhibiting on their ad business.

Google is a massive monopolistic company who will pull strings on one side of their business to help another.

With only Firefox not being based on Chromium and still having manifest v2 the future (5 to 10 years from now) looks bleak. With only 1 browser like this web devs can phase it out slowly by not taking it into consideration when coding or Firefox could enshittify to such an extent because of their manifest v2 monopoly that even that wont make it worth it anymore.

Oh and for the ones not in the know, Manifest is the name of a javascript file manifest.js that decides what browser extensions can and cant modify and the “upgrade” from manifest v2 to v3 has made it near impossible for adblockers to block ads.
by jtwaleson | 2025-10-23 05:22:23+00:00
I have Luddite feelings reading about alternatives to Git.

As an industry we have soooo many languages, frameworks, tools, distros etc. It's like we are pre metric system or standardization on screw thread sizing.

I am really happy that at least for VCS, we have a nearly universal solution in Git, except for the big tech folks.

Sure, jj might solve some issues, but once it gets serious traction, all the tooling that works with e.g. repo analysis will need to start supporting git and jj. More docs need to be created, junior developers will need to learn both systems (as git is not going anywhere).

Given all the downstream effects, I do not think introducing another VCS is a net positive.
by dweekly | 2025-10-23 05:22:26+00:00
Meta has been rolling out PQC: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/05/22/security/post-quantum-...

And Apple: https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

Cloudflare started rolling it out three years ago! https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/post-quantum-cryptogra...
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-23 05:22:29+00:00
One thing to note is that the actual commit objects you make through jj do include a `change-id` header which means that even though Github is unaware of jj, peers using jj will still be able to keep track of the rebases.

Demo: run `git cat-file -p HEAD` in any jj repository that you've made a change to.
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-10-23 05:23:46+00:00
Haha, in my workplace, I feel it's making me come up with BS. I do use it occasionally in my job, and it can be helpful. But there's a very strong push from my C-suite to make everyone in the company use more AI. Doesn't really matter how, we're just supposed to be rubbing AI on stuff. So a few times a day I boop our AI tools and find excuses to mention to my boss that I did an AI thing.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-23 05:24:20+00:00
I doubt that could happen. The price is so low that it doesn't make a difference unless your sodium costs negative dollars.

I would say the bulk price of lithium ion batteries is the most you could possibly remove via materials changes. When smaller batteries are more expensive, that's based on factors that would also affect other chemistries. And the bulk price for laptop capacity, 50-99 watt hours, is $5-10 and dropping.
by astahlx | 2025-10-23 05:24:38+00:00
Tesla is not a luxury brand, but they ask for premium prices, compared to the value (worst in ADAC statistics on repairs)

“ In 1974, a new car cost an average of 5320 euros. The average income was 13,928 euros per year, so a buyer had to work for an average of 4.6 months for a new car. 20 years later, it was already 7.4 months per new car. Until 2019, this number remained stable, but then it skyrocketed. Today, a buyer has to spend all his income from 9.6 months of employment to buy a new car. For more expensive e-cars, it is even 11.4 months. The reason is stagnant incomes, but also high profit margins of the manufacturers.” https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/kosten-auto...

From my personal perspective, as an employed software engineer, all cars over 50k are luxury.
by croes | 2025-10-23 05:24:55+00:00
The immigrants eating pets was Haitian immigrants kill and eat pets in Springfield, Ohio, that was simply a lie.

The No Kings demonstration are quite the opposite of hatred of American culture.

Being full of crime and being out of control are different things. There are cities with much higher crime rates in red states but somehow deploying the National Guard isn’t an option.

Claiming causation were only is correlation is lying.

But go one, try to downplay those lied too https://orangemanslies.com/trumps-lies
by taeric | 2025-10-23 05:27:29+00:00
But you haven't separated these things out. You have definitionally stated that some things exist. But you have no method to separate the genuinely traumatic from the potentially traumatic.

Broken bones. Death in the family. Death of the family. Moving. Friends changing. Attacks from coyotes. Loss of pets through unknown reasons. Loss of neighborhood friends to suicide? Which of these is genuinely traumatic?

My point is that this is very individual to the kid. I further posit that many kids will make things more traumatic if you ask them to do so.

Worse, I have seen "was rude to me at camp two years ago" be a significant source of grievance to kids. The whole elevator scene of "I hate you" versus "I never even think of you" is very very real.
by grumbelbart2 | 2025-10-23 05:27:30+00:00
Since their energy density is still lower, it will probably take a while for them to be adapted in EVs.

But their impact on energy storage to stabilize the grid, both technically and in terms of prices, can not be overstated. Cheap, safe storage is the key component missing in Europe for using more renewables. Without that you need to keep gas plants in reserve, should there be a few days without sun and wind.

There were a few such days in December 2024, and their impact onto energy prices is difficult for energy-intense industries. https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_average/chart.htm?l=...
by dijit | 2025-10-23 05:29:05+00:00
This is what you want to believe but its not true.

I’m really sorry, git lfs is an ugly hack, and its always painful when you discover that some gamedev team has been forced into it by “better knowing” software developers.

It reminds me a lot of “features” of software that is clearly a box ticking exercise, like technically MS Teams has a whiteboard feature. Yet it lacks any depth: its not persistent so its gone after the call, and it’s clunky to use and to save.

… but technically the feature exists, so it’s harder to argue for better software thats fit for purpose, like miro or mural.
by president_zippy | 2025-10-23 05:29:23+00:00
Are there any better sources we should read for how and why sodium-ion batteries are better than lithium-ion batteries?

All I know is that the charge to mass ratio of an Na+ ion is less than that of an Li+ ion, and that elemental Na and Li are both highly-reactive with violent exothermic reactions when exposed to water. I need someone with chemistry or materials science experience to help me explain what the advantages are and how those advantages exist.
Convention over LLM (CoL) – A novel approach to coding
by pyeri | 2025-10-23 05:30:42+00:00
Our dependency or addiction on code generation LLMs like chatgpt and copilot didn't happen in a day, it's but natural that getting rid of that dependency is also going to be gradual - assuming you *do* want to get rid of it, that's the idea I'm trying to explore here.

- *The old school stack:* Wikipedia, google search and stack overflow were not only enough for coding, they helped us create programming wonders through the last decade like Notepad++, FileZilla, Gimp, Libreoffice Calc, etc. Most open source products that came before 2024 were created mostly with assistance of these three resources, not LLM. Why not revert to this time-tested convention again?

- *Snippets collection:* Before package managers and package ecosystems were fancy, the way of programmers was to "collect" reusable pieces of code and store them as snippets to be used later - pretty much like a curious kid collecting stamps and coins! This was such a wonderful convention, what happened to it? This could drastically reduce the need for an LLM for starting and prototyping a project today.

- *Look up documentation:* Looking up official docs can feel painful in that moment, and taking the shortcut of having an LLM churn up a quick solution also feels liberating in that moment. But in the longer term, the former approach is what makes the code future proof and latter only acquires hidden technical debt. This is a convention worth reverting back to.

- *Extend the deadline:* There is no need to hurry or rush through an app. Getting an app built right is more important than getting it done in a high-speed marathon, pressure-cooker like environment. Take the time to read docs, write unit test cases, devise a coding strategy and actually tame the code you write rather than having an LLM do it.

If you have any other ideas to reduce LLM dependency, do share them.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-23 05:31:05+00:00
absolutely; but nobody is planning for this or even seriously considering it. to the contrary, we now have a government that is happy to take away healthcare and food stamps from its working class citizens

> we will have masses of disenfranchised and dissatisfied people

I fear this is coming

> with no incentive to keep society working

as long as the rich get serviced, they won't care much whether society is "working" or not
by dang | 2025-10-23 05:31:26+00:00
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to them when posting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your account has unfortunately been breaking the rules repeatedly; not just here but in other threads too, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572626

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358220
by scheme271 | 2025-10-23 05:31:48+00:00
There's a lot of areas where you need to be able to explain the decisions that your AI models make and that's extremely hard to do unless you're using linear regression. E.g. you're a bank and your AI model for some reason appears to be accepting applications from white people and rejecting applications from african americans or latinos. How are you going to show in court that your model isn't discriminating based on race or some proxy for race?
by zem | 2025-10-23 05:32:13+00:00
I also think the gipf games haven't had enough time and volume of players to see if they are actually as long-term engaging as chess and go. my speculation is that the classic abstracts are the ones that turned out to have an almost accidental emergent depth that kept people playing them even as better and better strategies were devised, because they were never "solved". it is unclear if yinsh will turn out to have an endless stream of better and better strategies emerge, or if it will be fun while people figure it out but plateau when they do.