MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spankalee | 2025-10-22 23:53:51+00:00
One, lit-html doesn't have any dependencies.

Two, even if we did, DOMPurify is ~2.7x bigger than lit-html core (3.1Kb minzipped), and the unsafeHTML() directive is less than 400 bytes minzipped. It's just really big to take on a sanitizer, and which one to use is an opinion we'd have to have. And lit-html is extensible and people can already write their own safeHTML() directive that uses DOMPurify.

For us it's a lot simpler to have safe templates, an unsafe directive, and not parse things to finely in between.

A built-in API is different for us though. It's standard, stable, and should eventually be well known by all web developers. We can't integrate it with no extra dependencies or code, and just adopt the standard platform options.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-22 23:53:53+00:00
Of course it doesn't mean a quantum computer is restricted to that.

But if that's the only realm where anything close to supremacy has been demonstrated, being skeptical and setting your standards higher is reasonable. Not at all "not even wrong".

> I'd advise that when you're conjuring thoughts in other people's heads

Are you accusing me of strawmanning? If you think people are being "not even wrong" then I didn't strawman you at all, I accurately described your position. Your strawman about science was the only one in this comment thread. And again there was no gish gallop, and I hope if nothing else you double check the definition of that term or something.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-22 23:54:47+00:00
>This reminds me of the uproar in archeology circles about the work of Graham Hancock. He presents himself as a journalist and author, and certainly not an archeologist or scientist, who simply raises some interesting questions about the past. His work is often dismissed as pseudoscientific quackery, which is funny to me since he never claims it to be scientific at all. It is edutainment content for a mass audience interested in these topics, nothing more than that.

This is a weak argument. He has a platform far bigger than any actual archeologist, he consistently misrepresents the archeological viewpoint, he 'just asks questions' about a bunch of coincidences to advance a pseudo-scientific theory that just doesn't make any sense, and then he whines about being silenced when some youtube videos (with a view count substantially lower than his audience) say 'these are some cool sites, but what you're saying doesn't make any sense, and BTW archeologists don't actually think the things you're saying they think'
by technothrasher | 2025-10-22 23:55:03+00:00
If you read the source article, it mentions in passing at the end that Iceland in general has seen more insects lately, partly due to climate change. It doesn't connect the mosquitos themselves to climate change. But the NPR article does indeed incorrectly connect the two. "taxpayer funding should never be restored" seems a bit of a histrionic reaction to this sloppy reporting, however.
by tines | 2025-10-22 23:55:34+00:00
> In fact, the claim that “bias can be avoided and should be absolutely”, that is implicit in your resposne reflects a bias of its own: a bias toward moral or intellectual purity, as if the parent recognizing bias is equivalent to endorsing it.

Nonsense. Your definition of the word "bias" includes any assertion whatsoever. Bias is distortion from reality and truth. Saying that we can avoid distortion is not itself a distortion. I never claimed that all bias should be avoided, but the post I responded to said that bias can't be avoided.

Also,

> a bias toward moral or intellectual purity, as if the parent recognizing bias is equivalent to endorsing it.

There is no conceptual connection here between "purity" and the equivalence of recognizing bias with endorsing it, nor is saying "bias can be avoided" related to, or a kind of, "purity" in any useful sense. Stop using abstract words for effect and speak simply.

> I get that this is a pedantic point to make but to come at the parent with such vigour for being realistic, again seems a bit unfair

If the parent were being realistic, they'd say that we can't even recognize bias, which is actually more agreeable to me. But instead the parent admits that we can recognize bias. Since we've gotten that far, then I can say that failing to avoid it, when we should avoid it, is merely a lack of will and integrity rather than some inescapable fate.
by majormajor | 2025-10-22 23:56:03+00:00
> No expert, and fully expect to be flamed, but we are now living in a society that has discouraged "sucking it up" or "burying your emotions" for 30 years. It not really possible to study, at macro level, the impact of that thinking.

> A lot of people just want to be a victim. They want to be special. They want sympathy.

It doesn't really seem like claiming victimhood is a broadly-repeatable way to make a living for the masses more than 30 years ago... many things that were intended in the 60s and 70s to try to make up for historic victimization have been rolled back in recent decades. But I suppose this could apply to Rush Limbaugh and such - beating the "white males are the persecuted ones, actually!" drum of anger leading to the much-aggrieved whiny MAGA brigade.
by kevvok | 2025-10-22 23:56:40+00:00
I think that'll only happen when and if the corresponding drop in sales offsets increases in revenue from the subscription services owners will be forced to use. When they announced this originally for EVs it was clear the underlying motivation was to convert owners from a one-time source of income into an ongoing stream by forcing them into a subscription model for features they would get from CarPlay/Android Auto.
by alwa | 2025-10-22 23:56:56+00:00
It seems like all of those things can be true independently of whether or not a traumatic experience, in and of itself, effects permanent neurological/endocrine changes, though, right?

It sounded to me like his issue was with the claim that there are direct, systematic physical effects directly consequent to the psychological experience. It didn’t sound like an argument against claims like “a rough childhood reverberates into adulthood,” or “traumatic experiences have profound consequences for people.”

If anything, it would seem to me that, to effectively treat people struggling with post-traumatic consequences, it would be useful to understand whether or not your efforts would be usefully invested in physical interventions to address these supposed physical changes. Or if the best treatments are not medical but psychological, or social, or spiritual, or whatever.

It also has that tone scientists use when they speak of Malcolm Gladwell: annoyed that he misrepresents careful experimental findings in service of a good accessible narrative. Even if what he’s saying could turn out to be true—taking issue with the claim that it’s been scientifically demonstrated to be so. Which I’m sympathetic to.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-22 23:57:15+00:00
> But are you really going to sit in the headset for 2 hours straight. It's physically... Biologically(?) Uncomfortable.

TBF sitting still in a dark room fixating in the same direction for 2 hours straight is also uncomfortable. Either the movie captures your attention and you bear with it, or you take breaks.

Keeping an headset on for hours is fine if you fit it properly (get used to it), and for the movie use case in particular you don't need to be sitting, which can make it way more comfortable that the traditional experience.

Now it's clearly for people who lust for something they don't have right now. If you're 100% happy with doing everything on your phone for instance, it won't be for you. Same way you wouldn't even care for a laptop or desktop computer I guess.
by conradev | 2025-10-22 23:57:41+00:00
For “as insulated as possible”, I’d personally start a whole new corporate entity, like Verizon did with Visible.

It wholly owns Visible, and Visible is undercutting Verizon by being more efficient (similar to how Google Fi does it). I love the model – build a business to destroy your current one and keep all of the profits.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-22 23:58:17+00:00
> That’s 25% of the average annual salary in the United States

It's about 25% of the median annual full-time salary (but only ~70-75% of those employed in any given year are employed full-time for the whole year.)

More to the point, since salary doesn't tell you what people have lying around for emergencies, its more than double the median household total savings.

Even more to the point, population medians or avergaes for things like salary are not really applicable to subsets of the population like “retirees”.
by al_borland | 2025-10-23 00:01:13+00:00
I work at a for-profit corporation and don’t feel it’s immoral. We offer a service that helps companies and ultimately helps the employees of those companies… if we do our job well. As far as I know, no one is being exploited in the process.

I like to believe that most businesses, at least those that have stood the test of time, make money by selling some thing or service to people or companies that need it, at a fair price.

I’d personally have a lot of trouble working on the bank app I use that pop-up with some kind of “free” money every time I open it, that I can only assume is some kind of manipulation, so I ignore it all. I’d also have an issue working for an ad company, or email marketing (I haven’t a standing offer from someone who works at one, but don’t think I could do it).

While a lot of financial services companies do seem to prey on people, that isn’t the case for all of them. There are also other sectors of the market. If you’re asking the question, it’s probably worth looking for companies that better align with your values, but I don’t think you need to go all the way to an NGO or non-profit to make that happen.

If you want to volunteer, and have the time, you should. But I don’t think you should seek it out as a means to atone for your day job. That sounds less healthy long-term.
by neilv | 2025-10-23 00:02:49+00:00
Maybe just a colorful way to get attention.

But taking it at face value, the real downside of such working conditions for some people wouldn't be the long hours and such, but stress coming exactly from what the conditions do to other people:

* The job description mostly attracts inexperienced bros who don't know how to work smart or well, will perform even worse work with fatigue from the hours, and will soon be enthusiastically hitting 'performance enhancement' drugs, making them even more counterproductive. Also, besides this hurting performance, the drugs will cause personality disorders to emerge, resulting in worse decisions and general unpleasantness, all increasing your stress.

* Any sane colleague who joined (by accident, or desperation) will also be feeling the fatigue and stress, and, no matter how comforting it will be to find a fellow sane person amidst the chaos, they will be getting less sane from the stress, and that will also be adding to your own stress. And whichever of you escapes the company first will be removing the moral support, abandoning the other to the company of increasingly insane fudge-ups.

* Leadership may already be coked up, and it will only get crazier from here. This will increase workplace environment stress, and also likely lead to business crises, for more stress.

* If you decide to overcome the stress by heroically solving some key problem, to get the company on a sane path, the crazy druggie bro fudge-ups will inadvertently sabotage all that effort. More stress.

* Eventually, the stress starts causing physical health problems that are their own sources of stress, but even this is indirectly due to problems created by your incredibly dysfunctional workplace.

Sure, stress can also come from things like legitimate business challenges, but you can rise to those, and fight. What you can't fight is being trapped in an insane asylum. Learn to recognize such places, try not to enter, and run away.
by dangus | 2025-10-23 00:03:02+00:00
You might as well be making the “I’m okay with my 2004 Honda accord with a tape adapter” argument.

There is no cost reason to exclude the option. Even if I don’t use it, if I’m buying a $30-50k new vehicle it better have it, even if that’s for the sake of resale or future family members I might pass the car down to. My 2016 has it, why am I tolerating the removing of such a feature?

If you want unscientific evidence you’ll notice that the Honda Prologue (has CarPlay) outsells the Equinox EV it’s based on.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/06/about-one-third-of-car-...
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-23 00:03:13+00:00
Depends on how you use pandas. Pre-polars I would do a lot of single column/series manipulation which works the same way (though heavily discouraged by polars because you lose out on optimization opportunities). There are plenty of surface level keyword API changes (merge vs join, sort_values vs sort), but you can operate polars in a very panda-esque manner which do not seem all that alien to each other.

Strictness, I understand you cannot just slap it in, more just an idle thought.
by B-Con | 2025-10-23 00:04:27+00:00
To be fair, from a functionality standpoint, AWS hosts like 1/3 of the value that a layperson gets from the Internet, which is all that a non-technical person really cares/things about. ie "the Internet" essentially refers to the top 10-30 services they use.

Which is uncomfortably pragmatic. Many people can go weeks while only directly interacting with a handful of Internet-based services, most of which are presented as apps.

I'm waiting for the day that the lines blur even further and people start saying "my Apple doesn't work" when AWS goes down and 1/3 of their iPhone apps stop working. Or the day that ISPs stop acting as carriers and the Internet truly factions.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-10-23 00:04:57+00:00
If you're hell bent on functional style, you can represent memory writes as ((Address, Value, X) -> X), where X is a compile-time-only linear type representing the current memory state, which can be manipulated like any other SSA variable. It makes some things more elegant, like two reads of the same address naturally being the same value (as long as it's reading from the same memory state). Doesn't help at all with aliasing analysis or write reordering though so I don't think any serious compilers do this.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-10-23 00:05:03+00:00
Well according to this person* by the end of WW2 a proximity fuze cost $18 or $314 today.

I figure I could probably put together a resilient fuze using off-the-shelf parts that's at least as good as a WW2 era one for <$100 (potted solid state parts are really frickin resilient to G forces). With some optimisations for mass production I think <$30 is doable. So I'm going to say an order of magnitude easier.

Of course factoring in today's markup on military parts and the failings of military procurement, that fuze will actually cost the tax payer $3000-$30000 + R&D.

* https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/75940/what-has-h...
by genuineresponse | 2025-10-23 00:05:06+00:00
I'm LGBTQ. I know LOTS of folks in my communities who use and embrace the term f*gs. But that doesn't make it ok for others to use it.

Slurs are complicated, but the goal of my post was specifically not to discuss this slur specifically. It's fine if you want to start that conversation, I wanted to talk more generally.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-23 00:05:15+00:00
I haven't once even thought of investing in crypto, and think that the technology is mostly useless and proof of work schemes should be banned on environmental grounds.

Even so, I don't agree that quantum is a threat to crypto. There are already well known quantum-resistant encryption schemes being deployed live in browsers, today. Crypto can just start adopting one of these schemes today, and we're still probably decades away from a QC that can factor the kinds of primes that crypto security uses. The transition will be slightly more complex for proof of work schemes, since those typically have dedicated hardware - but other types of crypto coins can switch in months, most likely, if they decide to, at least by offering new wallet types or something.
by Jensson | 2025-10-23 00:05:33+00:00
> as far as I can tell, someone can explain how they're the victim to anyone and everyone they come across and no one will care. I can't see how anyone emotionally or materially benefits from saying they're a victim. they may want sympathy but they will not get it.

This is true for a man, not true for a woman. Women in general get a lot of sympathy and things for saying they are a victim. Men just benefit from hiding it as you say though, there is no reason for men to show this.
by CosmicShadow | 2025-10-23 00:05:41+00:00
This is really amazing, I've been working with AI generation for months and it's amazing how fast separate tools are coming together into one and are usable on your own local machine.

I've been using Ovi for about a week and it's a blast. Like all AI gen, it's a slot machine and even putting in good inputs might lead to bad outputs, but if you run it enough you'll get something good or usable.

I've definitely made many things that look and sound real with both I2V and T2V, albeit T2V tends to look more like 90s tv quality at times, but that also makes it seem more real. If you use Flux SPRO as the image source you can get some pretty realistic looking videos.

I do have a 5090, so it takes about 4 to 5 minutes to make a 5 second clip.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-23 00:06:03+00:00
Mosquitos are adapted to long, cold winters and they're also extremely common just over the water in Greenland. Mosquitos have had literally centuries of opportunity to colonize it. They've simply failed every time.

What I've always been told is that Icelandic winter danced around the freezing point enough that mosquitos weren't able to overwinter effectively. The larvae would hatch prematurely thinking it was spring and be killed by another freeze before they could get a foothold.

That hypothesis relies on a pretty careful climatic balance though. Clearly it's hit a point where some parts of the country can now support endemic populations. My wife swears she was attacked by them when I took her to meet my grandparents a couple years ago, which I was quite resistant to believing at the time vs the similarly annoying midges. Maybe she was right?
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-10-23 00:06:59+00:00
Pardon if its slightly off-topic. Is there a database/resource/method to check which API works/blocked in China?

I have to travel there for some work-related stuff and not having access may throw a wrench in some plans.

I'm not sure if Proton VPN works reliably in China, which I'm considering for passing API calls.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-23 00:07:00+00:00
I think the other very interesting thing in the reddit thread[0] for this is that if you do well-known-domain.yourdomain.tld then you're likely to get whacked by this too. It makes sense I guess. Lots of people are probably clicking gmail.shady.info and getting phished.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/immich/comments/1oby8fq/immich_is_a...
by mindslight | 2025-10-23 00:07:28+00:00
The gall of these people. One might think that the business-policy "liberal" elites, having driven our western societies to this point of self-destructive reactionary fascism, might develop a bit of self-reflection for how they've pushed the plebs too far, and perhaps think about how to actually rectify that. But nope, apparently what they see as the solution to the current wave of catastrophe is to work on making immigration again "palatable" to the average person - not any sort of focus on individual liberty or economic reenfranchisement at the root of the frustration.

If the Trump administration were merely clamping down on illegal immigration, tightening the rules on work visas, etc in a considered, orderly, and equitable manner, I personally would not be going to protests - I wouldn't necessary agree with those policies, but I would at least see the changed policies as something reasonable people could disagree over.

But from where I am standing, the dire problem is not the overall policy position regarding immigration and the labor market. Rather it's the abjectly cruel, inequitable, anti-liberty, autocratic, America-hating, self-enriching, and unaccountable manner in which the Trump regime is operating in general. This, and the actual causes for the anger driving support for this, is what needs to be focused on - not merely finding more bandaids that can be put on the populist revolt to keep their line going upwards.
by dashundchen | 2025-10-23 00:07:39+00:00
While this looks pretty slick, i definitely agree with commenters this falls on the moped end of things. I will assume from the features listed that it's loaded with proprietary parts.

I'm an everyday cyclist and when people ask me for recommendations on bike, I almost always recommend they look at traditional bike brands with e-bikes, rather than pure e-bike brands.

Traditional bike shop level bike brands typically have reputable Bosch or Bafang motors (preferably mid drive, not in the wheels hub)and computers, but the rest of the bike will be mostly standard bike brakes, wheel sizes, derailleurs, chains, hubs etc.

Bring one of those DTC e-bike brands into your local shop and there's probably a 50% chance they'll work on it. Good luck finding replacement parts or getting support from the company with no local prescence.

Look on /r/bikemechanics to see the horror show working on some of these bikes has become.

One of the great things about cycling is that almost anyone can learn to fix and maintain their bike. It's affordable and mostly standardized at this point

It's extremely accessible with YouTube Videos, the Park Tool Blue Book, and bike coops or workshops in most cities. Many local shops are happy to share knowledge with their customers.

The closer your e-bike is to a traditional bike, the better time you'll have in the long run.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-10-23 00:07:40+00:00
I once got invited a meeting so that we could bill the client for my time even if I had no idea what the project was about. But they had no work for me to do, so I went to the meeting and ate sandwhiches and faded into the background. So, I got paid: it was useful. However, it did not make an positive contribution to the world in a way that it provided my life with meaning.

I have volunteered at the foodbank and with the homeless. I got paid nothing, but it had an effect on the world that aligned with my values and provdided meaning, but it was effectively useless for me.
by snailmailman | 2025-10-23 00:07:44+00:00
I’ve heard anecdotes of people using an entirely internal domain like “plex.example.com” even if it’s never exposed to the public internet, google might flag it as impersonating plex. Google will sometimes block it based only on name, if they think the name is impersonating another service.

Its unclear exactly what conditions cause a site to get blocked by safe browsing. My nextcloud.something.tld domain has never been flagged, but I’ve seen support threads of other people having issues and the domain name is the best guess.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-23 00:08:12+00:00
As someone who enjoys bicycling every now and then, I suspect a 40 kg Also TM-B hurling up a tight bicycle lane at 50 km/h can be somewhat hazardous to people on regular (unpowered and light) bicycles—not unlike a motorcycle, but obviously to a lesser degree.

For comparison, Seoul bike lanes allow pedal-assist bikes that are limited to 25 km/h and weigh no more than 30 kg (battery included), which seems pretty generous.