MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-10 14:19:37+00:00
Short version: At 51, the value of my time is too important. My wife and I are gym rats, very healthy and I am not willing to trade this time in my life for more money. My health is not going to be better in 5 years statistically. Not that we have any debilitating illness, but no one beats aging.

The tradeoffs would be too great. I’m my parents only child. While they are as healthy as an 83 and 81 year old can be, time catches up with all of us. I’ve enjoyed the past 5 years (Covid times excepted) being able to see them and spend a couple of weeks with them multiple of times a year.

When the time comes that I do need to pack a bag and see about them for an extended period of time, my wife and I can do that. There is no amount of money that I would trade for that.

It’s the same about travel. I wouldn’t give up our travel now and put it off any longer than we already have because of financial and family obligations (raising my two step sons).

What would more money do for me right now? Allow me to travel more? Allow me to get a bigger house even though we already had the big house in the burbs and sold it for twice what we had it built for and downsized to a 1250 square foot condo in a vacation community in Florida where everyone ride uses their home as vacation home.

Nicer cars? We sold both of our cars when we traveled for a year and bought the cheapest new car that we could stand when we settled down.

A better retirement? By the time I retire, we will have traveled to every place we could possibly want to go and plan to go back and forth between our current home and spend extended periods of time in other cities both domestically and internationally. We are experimenting with that now. But in US time zones.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-10 14:19:39+00:00
>I think the way you read it is the more likely way to read it. But the way I read it for my comment was the way I had to read it to come up with California coming at the bottom while having schools all scoring near the median of schools. I was trying to come up with a way to read it to make the assertions possibly true.

Yep. Your comment here[0] made that clear. I completely misunderstood you. Sorry about that.

I think there may be some confusion about where various states sit WRT schools.

School rankings from the World Population review[1] as compared with state test scores[2] of various types and ages, as well as US News and World Report's State school rankings[3], all of which tell a different, if similar, story.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196647

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-scho...

[2] https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?sfj=...

[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
by duxup | 2025-09-10 14:20:01+00:00
>"Member counts don’t tell the whole story. In most cases, Redditors don’t need to be a member of a community to post or comment, which means member totals have never fully reflected true engagement"

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>“By emphasizing active participation over passive membership, we’re continuing to highlight what makes Reddit unique: real people engaging in real conversations.”

That seems valid.

A lot of communities with absent moderators are "active", have high subscribers, and yet the submissions have wandered off topic and the discussion dead. The community looks active, but isn't.

I'd like this to extend even farther to limiting the influence of accounts who don't actively participate in conversation / the sub ... brand new accounts, accounts that ONLY submit or only participate in their own content.
by deltaburnt | 2025-09-10 14:20:16+00:00
Honestly this is one of the undersold advantages of public transit. It can be fun to optimize your path and switch things up both on a macro and micro timescale. In a car since I'm constantly aware of what I'm doing, taking a less efficient path feels like I'm wasting a part of my life. Taking a less efficient path on public transit feels like I'm taking more time to stop and appreciate my surroundings. Especially because sometimes that alternate path gives me a better view.

A coworker once told me his view of his commute drastically changed when he realized he could take the ferry to work. He got fresh air, it was less cramped, and it only took an extra 5-10 minutes.
by samlambert | 2025-09-10 14:20:23+00:00
This is not an open source license and it's untrue to say it's an open source project when it's licensed this way.

"IF ANY LITIGATION IS INSTITUTED AGAINST SUPABASE, INC. BY A LICENSEE OF THIS SOFTWARE, THEN THE LICENSE GRANTED TO SAID LICENSEE SHALL TERMINATE AS OF THE DATE SUCH LITIGATION IS FILED."

This is a poison pill. At best the licensing is naive and blocks even customers of Supabase from using OrioleDB, at worst it's an attempt for Supabase to provide themselves unlimited indemnity through the guise of a community project. It means the moment you sue Supabase for anything. Contract dispute, IP, employment, unrelated tort you lose the license. They could lose your data and if you try do anything about it they can immediately counter sue for a license violation. Using the brand of the postgres license to slip this in is pretty wild.

OrioleDB looks like a promising project and undoubtedly an great contribution from Supabase but it's not open source or really usable by anyone with this license.
by monkeyelite | 2025-09-10 14:20:36+00:00
> In the US there are a few obvious things, but everyone acts as if we are powerless to solve them

Yes but they aren’t the things you said:

1. Schools are filled with disruptive kids who use up time and resources and are not removed. 2. Teachers have no enforcement authority so they cannot do any of what you said, including removing phones. 3. Teachers and administrators are generally not smart or capable and continue to spend resources on everything except time spent reading, writing, and doing math. 4. Teachers are trapped in a web of legal red tape, bad incentives, and horrible metrics. 5. The US is segregated by by class and education.
by bkandel | 2025-09-10 14:20:48+00:00
I think it's just always hard to find stuff you like, and time is a great filter. There are tons of new series that my sons like: the whole Percy Jackson world, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Man, Lemony Snicket, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, etc. Lots of books out there!
by nehal3m | 2025-09-10 14:21:07+00:00
I beg to differ. A few Dutch cities did exactly that. Here's a video with a great example of the city I live near:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kql9bBNII

Utrecht did something similar:

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

People centric infrastructure didn't fall out of the sky, we recognised bad ideas and reworked cities over decades to make them liveable. And it worked!
by scythe | 2025-09-10 14:21:26+00:00
It's not that simple:

https://archive.ph/wyFT0

>This year the federal government reimbursed most schools between 77 cents and $4.58 per lunch meal

>[...]

>“You’re wasting white milk and money,” wrote Ben, who identified himself as a fourth grader. “Another reason you should bring back chocolate milk is because students are super MAD.”

Anyone who has ever bought a lunch knows that you can't get something that's healthy and tastes decent for $4.58. Then there's another wrench thrown in the system by insisting on using fresh ingredients like Gordon Ramsey is watching, which forces deeper cuts on everything else. Some public health officials seem to be chasing a mirage of the artisan school chef who forages for edible clover on the school grounds. The result is that students are handed the cheapest apple money can buy and most of them throw it away.
by Tony_Delco | 2025-09-10 14:21:36+00:00
It’s never too late to learn something new, not even to start in software. Age can bring a different way of looking at problems, shaped by past experiences in different situations and environments.

The path can be tough at the beginning, but if you truly enjoy it, you’re not wasting your time, you’re investing in a new stage of your life.

And this is just my personal opinion: I believe a team should be as diverse as possible. The more different perspectives, the better. A 22-year-old junior doesn’t see things the same way as a 42-year-old junior, and both are valuable and perfectly compatible.
by b112 | 2025-09-10 14:21:40+00:00
The US has never tried to take over anyplace in the last 100 years.

It has however, at times, projected power for limited durations, with a goal to leave after. This has often been coupled with unclear goals, political maneuvering, and changing political situations back home.

This is very different from an empirical, king and country, nation wide focused goal.

These smaller actions have never mobilized the entire country on an expansionist, war time footing.
by tux3 | 2025-09-10 14:21:43+00:00
This is indeed a nil slice, and it does have len() == 0, but Go also has a concept of empty slices separate from nil slices

The language just has a bad habit of confusing them some of the time, but not consistently, so you can still occasionally get bit by the difference

As someone who uses Go a lot, it's just one of those things...
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 14:21:47+00:00
I think you are making an actively counterproductive conflation between "banning random crap" and the automobile. I think they only happened together because of luck and timing.

Zoning became a thing during the height of the greatest generation's political relevance[1]. Pretty much everything that generation did was use government authority and planning as a cudgel. It's understandable that they would make this error considering that when they were young they saw central authority save the world. But they banned a hell of a lot of things that didn't need banning and they had the government meddle in all sorts of things that would've naturally turned out fine. This worked initially, but the problem is that democratic-ish government always leans toward stabilization and status quos and existing interests and whatnot. They are always re-active and never pro-active because it literally cannot be any-active until after the public cares so much as to vote based on it (whereas a dictator or whatever is substantially more free to take speculative action).

Now, here we are generations later with a substantially different society, different economic situations, different problems, the institutions those people created have run the usual course of expansion and co-option over time, etc, etc, and it's clear that what they built is acting as a force that tries to keep society stuck doing things that are no longer appropriate. What was fine to have the government regulate in favor of when there were half as many people, twice as much opportunity and everyone shared mostly the same values and desires no longer works.

Doing more of the same, having government intervene and micro manage cars, use zoning and other rules to encourage "the right kind" of development (which is exactly what they were trying to do back when they adopted zoning) or transportation or whatever won't work because the entire premise that we can do it this way and get good overall results is flawed. The whole approach we are trying to use does not work except for nearby local maximums and on short timelines. We need to get the government out of managing land use, out of managing transportation, or at least as out of these things as it possibly can be, and let the chips fall where they may. Developers will build slummy SROs, people will sit in traffic, but eventually it will all work itself out and reach equilibrium. But the longer we dam up demand behind regulation the higher the pressure the leaks we are forced to chase are.

[1] Dare I say it came about partly a reaction to the fact that they had to start sharing society with the quality of adults that resulted from their "quantity has a quality all it's own" approach toward producing children.
Show HN: Implementation and ablation of the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM)
by krychu | 2025-09-10 14:21:53+00:00
I implemented the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) in PyTorch and applied it to a simple pathfinding task.

HRM is inspired by multi-timescale processing in the brain: a slower H module for abstract planning and a faster L module for low-level computation. Both modules are based on self-attention and attempt to model reasoning in latent space.

The repo includes: a) the implementation, b) demo that generates animated GIFs where you can see the model refine its solution step by step, c) results of a small ablation study on what drives performance.

The biggest driver (both accuracy and refinement ability) is *training with more segments* (outer-loop refinement), not the H/L two-timescale split. (This lines up with the ARC Prize team's analysis). This is of course a limited study on a relatively simple task, but I thought the results might be interesting to others.

Repo: https://github.com/krychu/hrm

Curious to hear thoughts - iterative refinement isn't new, but I wonder if the "loop-in-a-loop" forward pass, or varied frequencies, might hint at a useful direction for reasoning in latent space (?)
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 14:22:07+00:00
> A hub system is much harder to support when the center is so far from the edges.

Actually that makes it easier, particularly if it is really nothing between as you can built high speed routes that are faster than cars, and put hubs out on the edges where people are. the reality though is it is rarely nothing inbetween.

Most people are not going to the "hub", they are going to some other location and so you need an anywhere to anywhere system that doesn't require traveling to the central hub. Most transit systems assume you work downtown and wouldn't use transit for anything else so they optimize for getting to the hub making any other trip impossible instead of optimizing for closer trips but making getting to the hub annoying (I think this is the wrong compromise, but ...)
by smusamashah | 2025-09-10 14:22:14+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307

I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows. I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.
by RugnirViking | 2025-09-10 14:22:54+00:00
Why in your opinion do Microsoft or any large org pay software engineers in America or western Europe? India would be cheaper. South America, Phillipines cheaper still. Etc etc etc. Plenty of educated folks speaking English.

I think a large part of it is that they want people physically and culturally close to themselves for projects they care about. Piles of companies have tried outsourcing core development and in my experience whatever minimal home team thats left keeps growing and growing and the oversess guys get pushed to the least desirable jobs. It's almost always a failure in the end, or at least the overseas team ends up being given limited scope, simple tasks while complex work finds it's way back home. I say this having worked with many talented overseas colleagues; I think this is a management level effect, not individual developer
by graemep | 2025-09-10 14:23:11+00:00
You can adapt cities.

Most British cities predate cars. They have had tramlines put in, taken out, and put in again. They have had roads widened, then bus and cycle lanes added. Train underground lines have been built.

> “Build it and they will come” won’t get you housing density, small local retailers, geographic compression of services, suitable climate, a different way of living.

You can build and change housing. We have lots of what used to be big houses that are now blocks of flats. You can encourage small retailers in many ways. Services can be reorganised or public transport routes designed to ensure access to them

Not sure what you mean about climate - there are cities you can manage without cars from the tropics to very cold places.

You can pedestrianise roads in existing existing towns and cities.
by Ono-Sendai | 2025-09-10 14:23:24+00:00
Cool. If you want to try rendering some flame fractals, you can try our Fractal software Chaotica (https://www.chaoticafractals.com/) which was used to make the first image in the linked post (Vorpol Dawn By technochroma).

We didn't exactly use compute shaders for Chaotica, we used OpenCL instead, which is a more general GPGPU framework like CUDA.
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-10 14:23:57+00:00
I dont think its a very good analogy.

I completely understand dedicating space to public transport instead of cars. But dedicating space to cars seems entirely reasonable in isolation, because the city has an interest in making it possible to get there. Parking spaces store cars - but is that their entire function? Or is that just an aspect of enabling people to drive into the city?

Consider the fact that you cannot in fact store a freezer in a public parking space. Nor even a car, actually, beyond a certain period of time, precisely because it's all about enabling movement.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-10 14:24:16+00:00
> In some coastal U.S. cities, it’s not just the hurricanes and floods putting homes at risk, it’s the cost of insurance itself that’s becoming unsustainable

It is the disasters that are causing the insurance to become unaffordable.

You can go read the financial reports for these insurance companies. They are losing money hand over fist in disaster prone areas. The industry as a whole typically loses money on underwriting home insurance, at best they have a year or two in a decade where they make a point or two in profit.
by chlodwig | 2025-09-10 14:24:31+00:00
> there should be a team of professional adults

Look up how much housing costs, and how much professional nannies cost, in a location where the software engineer and lawyer are making $500k combined. And you'll need at least two nannies, one overnight, one during the day. I don't think the math is going to work out very well. Also, there are a lot of greedy jobs that don't pay nearly as well as $250k, especially early in career.
by jcims | 2025-09-10 14:25:04+00:00
I'm a fair skinned gent from the US and worked in Melbourne for a few weeks back in 2000.

I couldn't believe how much more intense the effects from the sun were. It was hot, sure, but we have that in Florida and Arizona. But I never felt my skin *tingle* in the sun like I did in Melbourne. I haven't kept track since but there was a lot of press about 'a hole in the ozone' above Australia, I've always assumed that was part of the issue.

The ads about skin cancer that were on TV were wild haha.
by ulfw | 2025-09-10 14:25:16+00:00
Things have evolved a ton. I've got an Oppo Find N5. Thinner than iPhone Air when unfolded. Same size as iPhone 16 Pro Max when folded. 16GB Ram, fastest Snapdragon, okay cameras, the screen is magnificent, crease basically invisible in day to day use. Battery larger than any iPhone battery (thanks to Silicon Carbon)
by divbzero | 2025-09-10 14:25:16+00:00
> You can git clone the repo to your local machine, and you can manually move it elsewhere, but there's no way to send a PR from your repo to mine.

There is a native git request-pull command [1] that generates a summary of pending changes to pull into an upstream project, but it doesn’t enjoy support for all the features offered by GitHub pull requests or GitLab merge requests.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
by roblh | 2025-09-10 14:25:21+00:00
Elixir is spectacular for visualizing, it’s all just changing the shape of your data all the way down, and all the standard modules have exactly the right tools for doing whatever step needs to come next. It’s so easy to find yourself zoned in. Go has the rhythm of error handling everything, it feels like you’re steadily plodding along with these mini checkpoints.
by zppln | 2025-09-10 14:25:28+00:00
I share this sentiment as well, but while living in a relatively small city with only around 150k people in northern Europe. I moved out to the "suburbs" after having my first kid and find enormous quality of life in being able to have a car and a house. The city center is getting increasingly more "hostile" to car traffic but there's nothing to be had there anyway. A side from restaurants and coffee shops you can get anything you need from the shopping areas on the city outskirts. In a sense I feel this is the best of both worlds: cities for city people, suburbs for suburbians.
by foobarian | 2025-09-10 14:25:31+00:00
> it's a shame that we've let it go so far,

It's hopeless to expect that things don't end up in this state. A decentralized system will naturally tend to a state of equilibrium balancing between desirability and pain, e.g. people will keep moving to a "nice" area until commutes or prices become unbearable.

I think the only way to end up with an utopia-like metropolis is to run it with a benevolent dictator government SimCity-like, which would probably involve restricted entry leading to very expensive real estate; therefore a lottery or similar admission system into low-cost housing would be needed to balance the needed support population. In other words probably unconstitutional in a dozen different ways and never going to happen.
by sensanaty | 2025-09-10 14:25:47+00:00
That's only true because of car-centric design, not a rule of the universe. We can easily make public transport the better transport option if we wanted to.

Yes, going to bumfuck nowhere will be more efficient by paving 800 miles of concrete, but by definition most people are in urban centers, and there's no reason you can't have cities that are human-friendly while still having cars as options for the people that need it. In the Netherlands, ~65% of people still have cars and take their cars for long journeys, it's just that we have alternative options to get around so the people who can't or don't want to have a car can choose to do so without being crippled in their mobility.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-10 14:26:09+00:00
Vibes can be data. Take for instance the economy. All of these things like the GDP, employment figures, and so are supposed to be objective measurements. But precisely because of this they've been gamed to the point of absolute meaninglessness. Recent news regarding jobs numbers over the past 4 years emphasize this to the point of absurdity. All good numbers go up, all bad numbers go down. How's the economy doing? *shrug*

By contrast poll people on their 'vibes' of the economy and you'd suddenly get some real and meaningful data that can't really be gamed beyond outright lying about the results. You'd of course have things like people wearing rose colored glasses with regards to the economy when 'their side' is in power, but that doesn't really change the validity of their opinion. And those opinions, as an aggregate, can really provide a lot of really valuable information.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-10 14:26:11+00:00
And the only cost is destitution for a few hundred / thousand / tens-of-thousands (/ hundreds-of-thousands?) of people, since that $12.7 trillion worth of homes will by no means be sellable on the market for $12.7 trillion if they can't be houses anymore, and home equity is 45% of the net worth of the average American homeowner.

I'm sure stripping 45% of thousands of people's net worth won't have significant economic or cultural impacts. Truly, the market is a miracle.