MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-22 23:25:50+00:00
Steam is the only future proof option at this point, yet it can't be the way forward except:

- A - if we get crazy low client/server latency between the headset and a remote server with the game running. Basically Google Stadia but 100x more reliable while higher bandwidth.

- B - Steam comes to VR headsets as a native store running locally on the MQ or Vision Pro for instance.

- B' - we get a competitive headset with an open source OS, or a VR Steam Deck where Steam provides local native apps.

I'm not holding my breath on any of these options. But still hope.

Perhaps XR should suck Google and Samsung's money as the next walled garden, to get smacked down by some internation court as uncompetitive and forced to open up to third party stores and apps. But that would also take around a decade ?
by taeric | 2025-10-22 23:26:02+00:00
I would have to take more time to read up on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). The wikipedia intro to it isn't fully favorable, sadly.

And agreed that "severe" cases are almost certainly special cases that should be treated as such. PTSD would almost certainly always qualify as severe?

But the idea that people have "in the womb" trauma just feels patently silly.
by jedel1043 | 2025-10-22 23:26:20+00:00
We have released Boa v0.21.

In this release, our conformance has grown to 94.12% in the official ECMAScript Test Suite (Test262).

=== Highlights ===

- Polished our implementation of the Temporal proposal to reach ~97% conformance on Temporal-related tests

- Added support for span nodes and error backtraces.

- Enhanced Boa's compatibility with async Rust by revamping JobQueue and asyncifying ModuleLoader.

- Introduced a new set of macros to facilitate creating ECMAScript values, classes and modules from Rust code.

- Implemented several runtime features in boa_runtime, including fetch, setTimeout, and queueMicrotask.

- Added some support for conformance testing runtime features against the Web Platform Tests (WPT).

- JsValue now uses a Nan-boxing representation, reducing the memory footprint of the engine.

- Migrated from a stack-based VM to a register based VM.

=== New built-ins ===

- Implemented Atomics.waitAsync.

- Implemented new Set methods.

- Implemented Float16 support in TypedArray, Dataview and Math built-ins.

- Implemented Error.isError.

- Implemented Math.sumPrecise.

- Implemented Array.fromAsync.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-22 23:26:48+00:00
To be fair, in some applications the short-term peak rating is an important metric in its own right. For example, robotics applications frequently will have high peak load, but much lower steady state load. Eg, a jumping robot will briefly need a ton of force when pushing against the ground and when landing, but in the middle there it won't be applying such high loads. Likewise for bringing appendages up to speed, or accelerating a car to some speed, etc.

edit: After looking at your account, I see you are John Nagle, and I worry that I am confidently-incorrect here, lol. I'll leave the comment as-is because it is still my genuine belief, but feel free to correct me if I'm totally off!
by dylan604 | 2025-10-22 23:27:35+00:00
if you are using it at the client, sure, but then why is the server involved? if you are sending it to the server, you need to treat it like it is always coming from a hacker with very bad intentions. i don't care where the data comes from, my server will sanitize it for its own protection. after all, just because it left "clean" from your browser does not mean it was not interfered with elsewhere upstream TLS be damned. if we've double encoded something, that's fine, it won't blow up the server. at the end of that day, that's what is most important. if some double decoding doesn't happen correctly on the client, then <shrugEmoji>
by wahern | 2025-10-22 23:28:01+00:00
> If you're reading this and are the sort to edit wikipedia.. Don't fix it. That would be cheating.

Imagine if this was the ethos regarding open source software projects. Imaging Microsoft saying 20 years ago, "Linux has this and that bug, but you're not allowed to go fix it because that detracts from our criticism of open source." (Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or similar detractors literally said this.)

Of course Wikipedia has wrong information. Most open source software projects, even the best, have buggy, shite code. But these things are better understood not as products, but as processes, and in many (but not all) contexts the product at any point in time has generally proven, in a broad sense, to outperform their cathedral alternatives. But the process breaks down when pervasive cynicism and nihilism reduce the number of well-intentioned people who positively engage and contribute, rather than complain from the sidelines. Then we land right back to square 0. And maybe you're too young to remember what the world was like at square 0, but it sucked in terms of knowledge accessibility, notwithstanding the small number of outstanding resources--but which were often inaccessible because of cost or other barriers.
by Zarathruster | 2025-10-22 23:28:11+00:00
Super late to this, sorry.

> I'm not the one claiming that a calculator thinks. The burden of proof lies on those that do. Claims require evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

You're right, I may have misconstrued the original claim. I took the parent to be saying something like "calculators understand math, but also, understanding isn't particularly important with respect to AI" but I may have gotten some wires crossed. This isn't the old argument about submarines that swim, I don't think.

> Understanding is a superpower.

Thanks, this is all well-put.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-22 23:28:36+00:00
Basically. It kinda sucks. New BF6 actually seems good for once ( since Bad Company mebbe ). And Tarkov seemed to be really up my alley. But.. kernel drm. Hard pass. Unfortunately ( or fortunately depending on your individual interpretation ), it really is up to us.

As for the kids? Well, I suppose they gotta get their hand burned somehow.
by verall | 2025-10-22 23:30:47+00:00
> A lot of people just want to be a victim. They want to be special. They want sympathy.

I dunno, in my experience, not really a lot of people?

And the people that did - and yes, they absolutely exist - seem to have some kind of disorder. They all probably would have benefited from therapy and/or medication. They probably do need sympathy (maybe not the way they wanted), may or may not have been victims, and are sort of special cases.

Most people just want to be normal, to have a job, to go see movies, to play games, to spend time with friends, partners, lovers, family.

This is just my life's experience though. Maybe I'm the weird one.
by tonyarkles | 2025-10-22 23:30:54+00:00
This is really interesting on the ADHD side. For me, I’m pretty sure the traumatic experiences did lead to the ADHD. My mom kept all of my report cards and you can see exactly where it started. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 36 or 37. I made it through undergrad (barely) and grad school (kicked ass in the challenging courses, took 6 years to finish an MSc thesis). After my diagnosis, I can retrospectively see a lot of ways my life could have been different if I’d known earlier but I have essentially no trauma caused by the ADHD traits other than a few failed relationships in my 20s.
by al_borland | 2025-10-22 23:31:14+00:00
It’s not only that, but your phone already has all your data. Calendar appointments, addresses of contacts, music, podcasts, etc.

Do replicate this, you’d either need to sync all of that to your car, or migrate to Google’s ecosystem… maybe both.

With the track record of automakers and data privacy, I don’t know who would knowingly do that. It also seems like a giant pain when nearly every other car doesn’t ask the buyer to make this kind of choice.
by baobun | 2025-10-22 23:31:27+00:00
I would guess some user site got flagged for bad content, affevring the whole domain.

The immich.cloud domain should be added to the Public Suffix List, which is the industry solution for this situation of user-controlled subdomains.

https://publicsuffix.org/

https://icannwiki.org/Public_Suffix_List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
by strogonoff | 2025-10-22 23:31:51+00:00
> The benefit is simply that machines do work so humans don't have to.

Why is it a benefit? Because not having to work the ultimate ideal? Why would that be the case?

To me it seems like it’s only an ideal for those who wield the robots who do the work and profit from that, not to people who wouldn’t be able to do compensated work if they wanted to. (Ultimately, it’s a means of control: if there are no jobs, the people in power get to decide how to distribute sustenance to jobless population. Rest assured, that population will not dare to bite the hand that feeds them.)

The ideal is to be able to choose to do work you enjoy doing, feel pride in it, get fairly compensated for it. To not be able to do this seems like a strongly negative outcome.

> making our lives easier has become a problem

Is “easier life” the ultimate ideal? Why? There’s many other, more compelling things it could be (e.g., “fulfilled”, “happy”, “meaningful”, “satisfying”) and many of them are not exactly aligned with “easy”.

Even if easier life was your ideal, the precedent has been that automation does not lead to that—we are doing more work (and more challenging, a.k.a. the opposite of “easy”, work) instead[0]. As jobs go away, whoever is still lucky to have one gets getting paid less to do more work (that’s just market forces at work), while a small minority profits and benefits from more accumulated power. Is that what you want to happen? If yes, we don’t have anything to discuss further. If not, you have the power to be part of the change.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656916
by noirscape | 2025-10-22 23:32:13+00:00
Without knowing much about jj, isn't this more of a problem in how the GitHub/GitLab/Forgejo Pull Request system works rather than a jj problem?

Patch-based workflows in general (where you heavily use git rebase -i to curate a smaller set of "perfect" commits for anything you'd PR, rather than just piling new commits onto every PR) don't work well with the GitHub approach, which heavily favors merging stuff through the web interface (making merge or squash commits along the way).

You can make it work of course, but GitHub tends to behave in weird ways when it comes to how it's interface works with patch-based workflows. Perhaps a better estimate would be to see how it compares to a forge like Phorge or Sourcehut.
by DetroitThrow | 2025-10-22 23:32:25+00:00
>I’d say it’s the other way around - it took 50 years for EVEN A SCIENTIFIC IDEA - with proof to be accepted.

I recall eerily similar things said about Google Glass..

Maybe AI generation will be used in popular media more often, but purely AI generated content or AI brain rot seems to only appeal to a small crowd of people right now, and I don't see that crowd growing significantly.

Maybe it's a technology problem, as Google Glass was, but I think that's inseparable from the content it actually generates at this non-AGI stage.

Regardless, it sounds very uncertain and perhaps even unlikely that what we see being created now is the future.
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-22 23:32:33+00:00
I'm vaguely reminded of the excellent Jackbox game Tee Fury, in which players submit slogans for T shirts and "art" separately. Players then get to choose from a few options for slogans and designs to make T shirts which are voted on by the group.

I have fond memories of laughing until I was in tears when playing with a group of friends over drinks during the lockdowns in 2020. Something about the process just naturally results in hilarity (especially if you're in a group where you can be offensive).

It's like exquisite corpse for t-shirts. Or, in your case, shorts.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-22 23:32:45+00:00
I tend to agree with comments that point out that 'modern' e-bikes are really electric motor cycles or the original "MoPed" from the 60's. And they have the same appeal, relatively cheap to operate, fit in between regulatory categories, don't require a garage to store, Etc. E-scooters aren't much better (just worse kinematics). That said, I never thought the Segway was ever going to be more than a 'niche' product whereas I had already lived in a city[1] with thousands of mopeds. To the extent they are embraced by urban planners with reduced parking mandates and their own roadways I think they are a net win for cities, when they terrorize pedestrians on sidewalks, not so much.

[1] Brussels.
by tern | 2025-10-22 23:32:56+00:00
I don't know your relationship with the former person, but as for drawing general conclusions, I—as a reader of your comment—can't assume that you have assessed accurately whether their case is better. You might not be aware of subtle abuse in the home, masked depression, overt narcissism, suicidality, etc.

Years in the trenches have taught me that many people who seem successful, put-together, and happy are deeply struggling or causing harm to the people closest to them.
by throw4847285 | 2025-10-22 23:33:00+00:00
The replication crisis has become a thought-terminating cliche. There is a lot of space between "this field suffers from methodological issues" and "it can be dismissed outright."

Also, falsifiability is broadly rejected as solution to the demarcation problem.

I honestly think a lack of grounding in philosophy of science leads people to draw the line between science and pseudo-science based on nothing but vibes. For example, I've seen people reject mainstream psychiatry as totally pseudoscience and then endorse evolutionary psychology, a field with a huge bullshit issue.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-22 23:33:47+00:00
> If you sanitize on the server, you are making assumptions about what is safe/unsafe for your clients.

No. I'm making decisions on what is safe for my server. I'm a back end guy, I don't really care about your front end code. I will never deem your front end code's requests as trustworthy. If the front end code cannot properly handle encoding, the back end code will do what it needs to do to not allow stupid string injection attacks. I don't know where your request has been. Just because you think it came from your code in the browser does not mean that was the last place it was altered before hitting the back end.
by rglullis | 2025-10-22 23:34:16+00:00
Horses were not cheap nor universally available. And cars had the obvious benefit that they did not leave literal horse shit around the city.

This "revolutionary design" does not offer any significant advantage over the existing systems for e-bikes. A regular e-bike without power is a just a regular bike. You can adapt a regular bike into an e-bike for < $600. Any run-of-the-mill mechanic can figure out how to work on a basic bike. This one will probably require some "certified Rivian expert" to work on it.

Only irrational neomania can justify being interested in this "revolution".
by tree_enjoyer | 2025-10-22 23:37:20+00:00
A traditional bicycle chain drive is something around 98% efficient - particularly if you're using internally geared hubs or a single speed with the chain line perfectly straight. What's a typical consumer alternator efficiency? Maybe 85%? And then a few steps for losses in the charging circuit and then again at the motor.

Not even napkin math, but ballpark I would think you're looking at having to pedal about 20-25% harder to accelerate the same rate compared to a chain, with no supplemental energy directed towards charging the battery (though I would assume al the energy goes through the power management system anyways).

However you get some gain in that you don't have to select a gear ratio, and that the electric motor provides torque efficiently at any rpm you can realistically expect on a bicycle. If it has an adaptive resistance level it will probably be more work (energy) but for many non-cyclists feel much more intuitive and simple
by Findecanor | 2025-10-22 23:37:20+00:00
When I was a kid in the 1980's I had a classmate from Iceland who was very smug about them not having mosquitoes there.

The Nordic varieties of mosquito are not known to carry any diseases, but the sting itches. Authorities in these countries sometimes poison wetlands where mosquito populations would otherwise grow large enough to become a public nuisance in summer.
by solarkraft | 2025-10-22 23:37:33+00:00
Reading weirdly many “but there are no clients” posts. Of course something has to come first. You can’t really develop a client without a server implementation and Stalwart is essentially the first server implementation of JMAP.

With Stalwart in place, there’s finally a reason to develop a client for JMAP.

I hope y’all are aware that Mozilla’s new mail service will use it, so that is likely going to give JMAP a big push!
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-10-22 23:37:47+00:00
So my understanding is twofold here

1. The identity token (tracking cookie) is a unique number the 400 websites that have 1x1 pixels on the site dump on my browser. They don’t need to know I might be bob smith, Ford car owner, likes dogs and so on. But they want to so they can know if it’s worth bidding on an ad This is the egregious cookie. It’s mostly being replaced by the facebook cookie because hell there are only a couple of places running ad auctions but …

2. After I do actually verify I am Bob Smith, the session cookie arrives and is hilariously trusted for every request for the next 8 hours.

The thing is we don’t do this for stuff we care about - like bank accounts.

So presumably the total value of every site that uses session cookies is less than the amount in my checking account. Which says something …
by pm90 | 2025-10-22 23:38:51+00:00
I think the idea is to disconnect pedaling from road conditions.

When you’re biking, it’s preferable to pedal in “safe” zones (protected bike lanes, trails etc.) while relying on the battery for eg intersections and when sharing the road with vehicles. With a regular bike you have to pedal harder precisely at these zones which makes it a little scary. You can also pedal on fairly flat ground/use all that energy to climb up a steep hill quickly without pedaling etc.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 23:39:02+00:00
> no such thing as the "rule of law." It is a political myth useful as an organizing principle

Everything we’re discussing is made up. That’s what social constructs like law, politics and language are.

> up to the ruling class to police its own by using the legal code against low-level political figures and officials. The Chinese Communist Party operates this way

You’re inspired by Legalism. It rejects the rule of law. It stands in conflict to the institutions of a republic, specifically, of voting.

(Also, the Chinese would execute someone for doing what Sarkozy or Trump did. Eliciting foreign interference in a domestic political contest and challenging the outcome of one with open violence. Former Presidents have been treated roughly for worse.)

> the Senate's threatened political prosecution of Caesar is historically understood to have been a motivating factor in his "crossing the Rubicon"

The Senate didn’t threaten Caesar with prosecution until after he crossed. Cato, personally, was threatening him.

> a political coup executed using lawfare

Impeachment and conviction is lawfare according to you?

> Now it's completely discredited and no one will take it seriously ever again. That's the effect of abusing the law for political purposes

It’s been “discredited” before. The teeth are in removal from office, not impeachment per se. (That’s just American civic ineptitude.)

To the extent that we’re abusing the law, you’re correct. I’ve seen serious brainstorming on how a D President can use Trump’s precedents to act swiftly ahead of Congress and the courts, for example, to accomplish policy goals that are popular but have been difficult to do precisely legally. If the President is above the law, he doesn’t need to worry about that constraint anymore.

> If they hadn't threatened him with lawfare, would the Republic have survived a little longer? Perhaps.

It did. Caesar didn’t end the Republic. That was his son, Octavius.

The point is when the Republic’s laws stopped applying to Caesar, it was effectively dead. There is no point calling for votes in that context.

We have a large number of authoritarian fascists in America. (There are also authoritarian leftists. They have not been politically empowered like the right has been.) The historic solutions to those were through law and then violence. If the law doesn’t apply, that leaves only violence. That’s civil war.

We’re not there yet. But we do need to make a concerted effort to ensure these folks are politically incapacitated while a basic civic education campaign can be completed, since basic concepts like “rule of law” isn’t taught outside the elites.

You’re citing history, ancient and modern, inaccurately to push an edgy narrative. I don’t know if you’re trolling or have been unwittingly trolled.
by reactordev | 2025-10-22 23:39:44+00:00
>The typical audio synthesizer has large number of parameters which are difficult to tweak.

Really? If you know about synths then it isn’t really that difficult. You have one or more sound generators, sine wave, saw tooth, etc. You have attack (how fast the sound reaches full potential), decay (how long that sound is played before it drops to sustain), sustain (how long the sound lingers), release (how long until the sound fades away to nothing).

You have filters for the sound, low pass, high pass, distortion, etc. that process the audio into output audio.

It’s basic sound engineering. However, using a neural net to find interesting combinations and be able to label them would be really fun to build a catalog of dreamscapes or tones.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-22 23:39:46+00:00
Are you doing a bit? I’m worried I’m about to be the joke ruiner :) The battery is included so you don’t have to pedal. When the battery is out, you can pedal. The only thing I can come up with is you think it is literally impossible or extremely difficult to pedal an e-bike when it is out of battery. it’s not fun but the incremental battery weight is as if you gained 20 lbs, not impossible.

Edit: oh I see above there’s subtle confusion building over the thread that this is a new feature of e-bikes, as of this Rivian marketing. it is not.
by torginus | 2025-10-22 23:40:11+00:00
SSA makes me think of a few interesting points:

Considering it's a functional language (bar memory access bits), and most procedural languages can target this, we can say that a lot of procedural code can be compiled down to functional code - so procedural programming is syntactic sugar on top of a functional framework

Also functional programmers have a couple of pet peeves - tail recursion to implement infinite recursion and loops being one. SSA uses a completely different paradigm - phi nodes - to achieve looping. Considering I don't particularly like tail recursion, as for example the naive recursive implementation of fibonacci is not tail recursive (and thus dangerous, a property that a functional program should never have), and trying to make it tail recursive looks very much like a transformation a compiler should do, which goes against the spirit of functional programming.

I think functional programmers should think of other constructs to achieve infinite recursion or looping, considering I suspect there are infinitely many possible, I guess we could discover ones that are less inherently dangerous and easier to reason about as mere mortals.