MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TylerE | 2025-06-08 06:07:01+00:00
700 busses per hour is a BIT unreasonable.

That's a bus every 5.1 seconds. In a single lane. (and at 30mph it'll take 1.5 of that 5 seconds just for the bus itself to pass. That's very marginal braking distance).

Also, 1850 / 4 is 453, not 600.
by patcon | 2025-06-08 06:07:15+00:00
I did this in Toronto and SF for a few summers in my 30s, well into my "real life" and beyond college. It was transformative, like creating my own UBI. Found all the same benefits: mundane daily moments become magical. Unexpected hospitality of strangers when I [on rare occasion] needed it. Admiration of friends and strangers. Etc etc

The main thing I did different was using a hammock tent (10min setup, 10min teardown each day). So I stayed in very public places (right off major foot traffic routes) and just went to bed early and got up at sunrise.

Also, I told everyone. No authority cared that i was doing it. In fact, i was organizing weekly events for government employees (some quite high level), and they all thought it was hilarious and were supportive.

Here's my learnings: https://github.com/patcon/urban-camping

EDIT: Ah, and these were my notes from living in rented shipping containers with a friend: https://github.com/patcon/container-city/wiki/Notes
by tom89999 | 2025-06-08 06:07:46+00:00
When beeing unemployed for some months, i got up every morning as if i had to go to work. I cleande my apartment, did some paperwork and joined a social welfare project where poeple can maintain a structure. That was working in a cafe or doing garden work. I received free coffee for that and met some people i sometimes meet. The worst thing is to stay in a bubble of netflix series, social networks and rotting away. I have suffered depression but i forced myself out of it by that.
by donatj | 2025-06-08 06:08:49+00:00
I was there, 3,000 years ago.

I remember fights over whether or not navigation in frames was bad practice. Not iframes, frames. Who here remembers frames?

I remember using HTTP 204 before AJAX to send messages to the server without reloading the page.

I remember building... image maps[1]... professionally in the early 2000. I remember spending multiple days drawing the borders of States on a map of the country in Dreamweaver so we could have a clickable map.

I remember Dreamweaver templates and people updating things wrong and losing their changes on a template update and no way to get it back because no one used version control.

I remember <input type=image> and handling where you clicked on an image in the backend.

I remember streaming updates to pages via motion jpeg. Still works in Chrome, less reliably in Firefox.

I remember the multiple steps we took towards a proper IE PNG fix just to get alpha blending... before we got the ActiveX one that worked somewhat reliably... Just for tastes to change and everything to become flat and us to not really need it anymore.

I remember building site navigations in Java, Flash, and Silverlight.

I remember spacer gifs and conditional comments and what a godsend Firebug was.

I don't know when I got old, it just happened one day.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
by ETH_start | 2025-06-08 06:10:39+00:00
There will be people who think that the platform is called Twitter and it's going to cause chronological mistakes where they refer to that term and then people think they're talking about the Twitter that existed before Elon Musk took it over. There will be others who think X and Twitter are different platforms. Using the wrong term is undoubtedly going to cause confusion.
by Morizero | 2025-06-08 06:11:03+00:00
There's some key differences there. 1, the post office doesn't keep your material on hand so people can visit and consume it. 2, you have to pay the post office each transaction. 3, the post office is taxpayer subsidized and administered by elected officials.

Again, I did not say what they are doing is bad, wrong, or whatever.
by beagle3 | 2025-06-08 06:11:21+00:00
Thanks, Bill. Rest in Peace.

I was amazed by Bill's software seeing it on a Mac back then - MacPaint mostly, then HyperCard. I was not even 10, but I was already programming, and spent hours trying to figure out how to implement MacPaint's Lasso on my humble ZX Spectrum. (With some success, but not quite as elegant...)

If you want to experience HyperCard, John Earnest (RodgerTheGreat on HN[0]) built Decker[1] that runs on both the web and natively, and captures the aesthetic and most stuff perfectly. It uses Lil as a programming language - it is different than HyperTalk, but beautiful in its own right. (It doesn't read as English quite the way HyperTalk does, but it is more regular and easier to write - it's a readable/writable vector language, quite unlike those other ones ...)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RodgerTheGreat

[1] https://beyondloom.com/decker/
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-08 06:13:53+00:00
Burning plastic is both dirtier and less efficient than burning at least oil and natural gas. So you will actually pollute more (both CO2 and various other byproducts) by burning plastic than by burning oil and methane to get the same amount of energy out.

Not to mention, to get usable energy out of the plastic, you have to invest lots of energy for recycling it first - you need infrastructure and education to collect it separately from other trash, you need additional processing to sort it by type, to clean it of many other residue, etc.

And evwn if you do all that fairly efficiently, you're still never going to collect a large percentage of the plastic people use. So any extra environmental impact from plastic in landfills will still be there and need to be resolved.
by throwanem | 2025-06-08 06:14:10+00:00
Oh, I see. In my day we smoked cigarettes, compared with which RGB keyboards seem like a pretty clean win. Literally a clean win; the main reason for keeping the lights off and the windows covered, as I recall it, was to hide all the filth that constantly accumulates in such an environment. Not to say I don't look back on it fondly, but when I actually look back on the photos I still have of how I lived then, it sort of makes my teeth itch, if you know what I mean.
by slimebot80 | 2025-06-08 06:14:15+00:00
It's murky. NASA outsources a lot of money to SpaceX because Musk could burn through risk and money at levels NASA would get cancelled for.

At what point is SpaceX's benefiting from tax money and NASA technology become a reason to fold into a national asset.

China didn't achieve its Great Leap Forward by pandering to wealthy celebrities who cosplay as geniuses.
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by Cipater | 2025-06-08 06:17:50+00:00
Surely this is untrue?

Isn't it the opposite? What are you basing this on?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/billionaires...

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires-buying-elec...

Billionaire spending heavily favored Republicans. Over two-thirds (70%) of billionaire-family contributions went in support of GOP candidates and conservative causes. Less than a quarter (23%) backed Democratic hopefuls and progressive causes. (The remainder went to committees without a clear partisan or ideological identity.
by TapamN | 2025-06-08 06:18:49+00:00
My favorite trick with <marquee> was to nest them, with different, alternating directions. You could make the contents alternate between scrolling and stopping by setting the inner marquee to travel in the opposite direction at the same speed as the outer marquee. Or do more levels with alternating speeds to make it zip around randomly. I think you had to set a max width for the inner marquees for this to work?
by kassner | 2025-06-08 06:20:12+00:00
Warning: shameless plug ahead

Self-hosting doesn’t mean you have to buy hardware. After a few years, low-end machines are borderline unusable with Windows, but they are still plenty strong for a Linux server. It’s quite likely you or a friend has an old laptop laying around, which can be repurposed. I’ve done this with an i3 from 2011 [1] for two users, and in 2025 I have no signs that I need an upgrade.

Laptops are also quite power efficient at idle, so in the long run they make more sense than a desktop. If you are just starting, they are a great first server.

(And no, laptops don’t have an inbuilt UPS. I recommend everyone to remove the battery before using it plugged 24x7)

1: https://www.kassner.com.br/en/2023/05/16/reusing-old-hardwar...
by rixed | 2025-06-08 06:20:43+00:00
For some definitions of "close enough" that includes sending each others in camps, making it a crime to defend the other opinion punishable by machine gun, and of course, full scale military invasion of the other country.

But yeah sure, they both talk like they want big changes, so they are the same.

The only thing that the horseshoe theory got right is the inflated self importance of the center.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-08 06:21:36+00:00
That depends entirely on your context and frame of reference.

You're describing the blast radius of what was possible in the past assuming that one president was willing to usurp power but only for one term.

In reality, we did go 4 years with a president who wasn't in charge, at least for part of that term, specifically because the public was lied to about his health and some small number of people his the truth. We did not go through 4 years of a presidency after one very much seemed to attempt to take the office despite having lost the election.

In both cases I take huge issue with the intent and the potential outcome. In one case, though, the outcome was real and I lived, for a time, in a presumably democraric society ruled by someone(s) who weren't elected while the one who was elected decreased mentally and physically beyond the ability to rule.
by scott_w | 2025-06-08 06:22:05+00:00
Not really because buses get stuck in traffic all the time because there’s a point where they need to share roads with cars. Once you spend the money on segregating buses entirely, you’re at the same level as the tram line.

Also, because of the expensive infrastructure that can only be used by trams, there’s a permanence there that prevents future politicians from ripping it out to put more cars on for a quick political win with drivers.

Going back to point 1: having a line means that any route needs to be properly planned because you never have an escape hatch of “just stick them on the road.” Example: where I live, the council installed a bus lane and a cycle lane. Where it pinches in (planning fuck up), it dumps all the traffic into a shared route with 2 roundabouts and 5 exits, each with an insane amount of traffic coming to or from them. Buses that are forced to use that route are always late. It takes me just as long to drive as it does to take the bus, faster if you factor in me waiting for a late bus.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-08 06:22:41+00:00
We know for sure that CO2 is a huge problem in the next century, and even earlier. We are already seeing massive impact from global warming today.

Any theoretical other concern from possible impacts of plastic in a landfill (which already will contain many other unknown pollutants) is at best secondary, unless we have some solid evidence otherwise.

Consider also that some significant amount of plastic in landfills is inevitable regardless of any sepatate collection policies. Especially with current recycling practices, you are encouraged to only separately collect certain kinds of fairly clean plastics. If you have a dirty styrofoam container that you just ate out of, you're not even supposed to throw that in the plastic recycling - so it will go to a landfill anyway. This means that landfills have to be mindful of potential plastic pollution even if we burn a lot of the plastic we use.

Plus, if we're truly worried about the health impact of plastic use, the only solution is to massively reduce plastic use. The fact that we "cleanly burn it" instead of letting it seap into groundwater is not going to help one iota when we store and transport and sometimes cook much of our food directly in it.
by gizmo686 | 2025-06-08 06:23:35+00:00
The input was a highly structured pdf specification of a family of protocols and formats. Essentially, a real language with very stupid parsing requirements and the occasional typo. The PDF itself was clearly intended for human consumption, but I'm 99% sure that someone somewhere at some point had a machine readable specification that was used to generate most of the PDF. Sadly, no one seems to know where to even start looking for such a thing.

> Did you or anyone else inform management that a code generator is essentially a compiler with extra characters?

The output of the code generator was itself fed into a compiler that we also built; and about half of the codegen team (myself included) were themselves developers for the compiler.

I think management is still scared from the 20 year old M4 monstrosity we are still maintaining because writing a compiler would be "too complex".
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-08 06:25:57+00:00
This sounds like an utopian take or a case of "the grass is greener on the other side".

Americans believe that Denmark or Switzerland has an educated and altruistic population. But if you talk to a Dane or a Swiss person about politics, they will laugh and tell you that their country is full of evil and stupid idiots, too.

I am inclined to agree with Acemoglu that good institutions are more important than virtues of the population.
by bombcar | 2025-06-08 06:26:15+00:00
I mean trams basically are street-running trains. The light rail/heavy rail distinction is more one of weight and size than actual issues.

Ceci n'est pas une tram: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kMUANU9H6aw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_bus also exist.

(For me, the big thing about trams and trains and subways, etc is that the track is a kind of social construct - the track tells me that eventually a vehicle will come for me - no need to really worry about timetables, etc. A bus, a bus may come, maybe it won't. It's all psychoillogical but it's there the same.)
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-08 06:29:57+00:00
> CO2 is a much smaller and easier to manage problem than plastic waste.

By what possible measure? Despite clear, well documented science, including very clear dire economical impact, and all within an extremely clear and short term time frame, with escalating effects already visible literally everywhere in the world, we have had almost 0 progress in combating global warming. The best we've done is slowing the rate of acceleration - as in CO2 release is still accelerating, just not as much.

Plastic waste has environmental impact, especially in the oceans, but nowhere near to the level that 2-3-4 degrees warming will have. And that is what we are currently on track for by the end of this century.
by iforgotpassword | 2025-06-08 06:30:47+00:00
I made a webchat with frames; an infinitely-loading top part for the text, and the bottom an input box that received 204 to not reload when you sent a message. I guess that was the most elegant way to do it in the IE4+ days. The top part could also receive a small <script> that would reload the frame on the right, containing the user list. Fun times. Used it with a couple class mates around 2000 iirc.
by nathants | 2025-06-08 06:31:26+00:00
Definitely similar.

Git LFS is 50k loc, this is 891 loc. There are other differences, but that is the main one.

I don't want a sophisticated backup system. I want one so simple that it disappears into the background.

I want to never fear data loss or my ability to restore with broken tools and a new computer while floating on a raft down a river during a thunder storm. This is what we train for.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-08 06:32:30+00:00
To those that upvoted me, I appreciate the sentiment but I should have been downvoted into oblivion. Upvotes are not likes, they are curation and moderation; upvote comments which produce good discussion even if that comment is terrible and low effort and downvote those comments you love or agree with but will never produce any worthwhile discussion. Sometimes it it hurts to do but it must be done if we want to maintain quality.

With that said, I have had fun tonight, thanks for humoring me but my previous post really should not be top post. If you feel bad about downvoting it or unupvoting it for what ever reason than just upvote this one and downvote my previous, no harm, nor foul, but lets not have my previous post be top post in the thread and lets make sure top post in every thread is good solid, on topic discussion.
by layer8 | 2025-06-08 06:32:42+00:00
If the AI has to ask for clarification, you can’t run it as a reproducible build step as envisaged. It’s as if your compiler would pause to ask clarifying questions on each CI run.

If the company website, marketing materials, and so forth become part of the input, you’ll have to put those in version control as well, as any change is likely to result in a different application being generated (which may or may not be what you want).
by locallost | 2025-06-08 06:32:57+00:00
Yes it does. A real homeless person doesn't go to the gym everyday to shower, or avoids bringing food to his tent but it's ok because "I can eat at the university", or charges his devices every day at the same university, or sleeps at their friend's place when the weather is too dangerous.

If was an interesting read and experiment, but it has its limitations as a real world comparison to homelessness.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-08 06:35:48+00:00
> Since we don't know about the effects microplastics accumulation long term effect, the worst case is that at that there exists some threshold that make higher life form impossible, maybe that threshold doesn't exist but maybe it does.

I also wanted to answer this. This is non-scientific BS based on literally nothing. Risks don't work like this: unless you can quantify them, you can't act on them. Any activity has some potential risk of unknown catastrophic effects. Maybe there is some chance that after a threshold, flushing our toilets will cause tidal effects that rip our planet apart - it's unlikely but it's possible. So let's all stop flushing our toilets. And stop using 5G if we're there, some people think that has a high risk of causing cancer or whatever.
by wqaatwt | 2025-06-08 06:36:16+00:00
> you can't bribe your way to a drivers license openly

No but when it comes to local government contracts, building permits and similar stuff its quite different. Also a lot of (what sane people would consider) corruption is legal and institutionalized.

i.e. bribing politicians running for office is perfectly legal and entirely expected by all sides (that Americans are so open about this is quite unique).
by hcartiaux | 2025-06-08 06:36:47+00:00
I maintain my incremental backups and handle the rotation with a shell script (bontmia) based on rsync with `--link-dest` (it creates hard links for unchanged files from the last backup). I've been using this on top of cryptsetup/luks/ext4 or xfs for > 10 years.

Bonus: the backups are readable without any specific tools, you don't have to be able to reinstall a backup software to restore files, which may or may not be difficult in 10 years.

This is the tool I use: https://github.com/hcartiaux/bontmia

It's forked from an old project which is not online anymore, I've fixed a few bugs and cleaned the code over the years.
by laurencerowe | 2025-06-08 06:37:46+00:00
> 700 busses per hour is a BIT unreasonable.

The article I quoted to which you are replying suggests 600 busses an hour. I don't think that is unreasonable for a dedicated highway lane into a bus terminal. There's a nice picture of it here: https://abc7ny.com/port-authority-lincoln-tunnel-technology-...

> Also, 1850 / 4 is 453, not 600.

Quoted in the post you are replying to:

> Now the XBL handles 1,850 buses that carry more than 70,000 passengers from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. each weekday, which comes to 600 buses an hour. The bus lane operates at its maximum capacity for 90 minutes of its four-hour operation.

I read that as they reach the maximum capacity of 600 buses an hour only for the 90 minutes of rush hour. Across the 4 hours it operates each bus averages 38 passengers (70000/1850). It seems reasonable to assume that the rush hour buses are more packed given they are looking at ways to increase capacity and have you ever taken a rush hour bus in a big city?!

From the picture linked above these seem to be 53 seat coaches for longer distance routes rather than city buses which would carry more passengers with some standing. 50 * 600 = 30,000. It's in the ballpark!
by cmurf | 2025-06-08 06:37:54+00:00
The delusional conspiracy theory Trump won the 2020 election, in order to justify January 6 violence and then pardoning those criminals as his first act as POTUS redux.

Trump sent a mob to assassinate the vice-president of the United States when he (Mike Pence) refused Trump’s order to overturn that election.

Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said Trump is, A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.

The bigotry of low expectations is thinking people are too stupid to know this, rather than understanding 1/3 are anti-American illiberal shitbirds.

Just because they failed to get it once before doesn’t mean they didn’t try and keep on trying.

A vote for a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist is voting in support of abuse. And now we’re getting abused.
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-08 06:38:35+00:00
I'm not sure this is a new phenomenon. Graft has been a part of governance in every era. Typically, pandering to special interests is proportional to the government's slice of the economic pie. As the state interventions increase, so does the ability for bureaus to grant favors.

What is somewhat unique here, is the brazen and flippant nature of the funding cut. I'm sure if we looked, we could find similar cases in US history.

Author Patrick Newman has written on the topic of cronyism in US history. It is interesting to read the historical narrative framed from the perspective of who was lobbying and looting.

Here's a recent lecture on the Marshall Plan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBGo2WbAoPI
by layer8 | 2025-06-08 06:38:49+00:00
One reason we treat tests that way is that we don’t generally rewrite the application from scratch, but usually only refactor parts of the existing code or make smaller changes. If we regularly did the former, test suites would have to be much mire comprehensive than they typically are. Not to mention that the tests need to change when the API changes, so you generally have to rewrite the unit tests along with the application and can’t apply them unchanged.