MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by monegator | 2025-09-10 13:34:05+00:00
All the drawbacks are not drawbacks to me. My projects, my repos, my private server. I don't want nor need to show off ("collaborate") and if i did.. what's the point of self hosting then? Just use github/gitlab/codeberg.

I don't even need to rent a server for that. Everything runs on my router (openWRT is amazing)
by duxup | 2025-09-10 13:34:07+00:00
This is one of those articles where the author has a question, seems to indicate they are curious about the topic and seems to indicate they looked into the topic.

But nothing they wrote indicates they looked at ideas or sources that will tell them anything but what they already believe.

This article also mixes up a lot of topics like charter schools, vouchers, home schooling that are all very different topics. Taking issue with one does not mean taking issue with the other.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-10 13:34:08+00:00
I’m not going to give you the BS “you can do an anything if you put your mind to it” answer that many are going to give you here.

If you are in your 40s and 50s and have the experience “you should” for your age, up to date on technology and have built a great network, the world is your oyster.

If none of that is the case, getting a job as a junior developer at any age is a shit show right now. Hell it’s a shit show for people with experience when every job opening gets hundreds of applications within the first day.
by voidhorse | 2025-09-10 13:34:18+00:00
The first example cited in Obsidian is easily solvable. Stick to consistent terminology for notes covering a particular subject and the back links panel will auto suggest linking all the notes that cover that area together whenever you create new ones.

As for rediscovery of old stuff, the best solution is to get comfortable with the fact that certain notes won't resurface and to let them die. This is actually a good thing. It allows you to keep focus on your interests as they evolve. Even the legendary Niklas Luhmann, whose paper zettelkasten was arguably the inspiration for the current lmk craze had what we called "black holes" in his system—there are several notes he filed that never saw the light of day again. This was by design. These systems are supposed to be dynamic mechanisms for helpings you think, not immemorial retrieval mechanisms. If that's what you want you might as well make every note chronological.

Trying to use a PKM strictly as a "remember anything at any time" is largely missing the point. The goal is to create knowledge by stringing relevant ideas together and, as Luhmann did, to use the system to produce surprises. The best way to do this for obsidian in particular is to use terminology and link liberally whenever some term occurs in a note even if it at first seems completely unrelated—that's what you want, you want the system to surprise you as you navigate h the graph of notes.
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 13:34:22+00:00
> Do you have kids? I don't think so (correct me if I'm wrong). Car is absolutely essential for driving around small kids no matter the urban density.

I hear this all the time yet right now am traveling in Amsterdam and see many parents trucking their kids around in bicycles without issue. Actually I remember seeing this in SF as well, and in Taiwan and Japan I see incredibly young children riding public transit on their own.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-09-10 13:34:50+00:00
Live TV is magical when you set up ErsatzTV and self-host that part as well. You can make channels out of anything. The modes of "I want to watch this specific thing now" and "I want to see what's 'on' right now and pick something to put on in the background" are very different and complementary. I end up relying on the latter more than the former.
by ronsor | 2025-09-10 13:34:57+00:00
> Where? SF and Manhattan are surrounded by water on 3 sides. Seattle has water on 2 sides. Other areas: LA, Boston, Miami, Portland, Denver, Chicago, have similar geographic limitations.

All those places you listed are the cities with high cost of living and many people. "Where" is outside those cities--somewhere else. America is mostly empty space, even excluding parks, national forests, etc.!

> Personally, I wish I had 6 roommates. People aren't getting married in their 20s, so if they aren't living with their wife/husband, why shouldn't they want to live with friends?

It's fine if you do, but I feel like most people do not, and I do not. Being friends and being roommates can often be two very different experiences.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 13:35:09+00:00
My daily driver for decades has been Linux.

A few months ago, I worked out how to run Steam as a different user under Xorg. [0] Since then, I've discovered that nearly all of the games I play (and I play a whole bunch of games) work fine under Linux with an AMD graphics card.

I haven't booted into Windows in months. I'm so glad that folks like Valve have put so much effort into making Windows video games run fine on Linux.

[0] It's not hard, and -like many such things- could totally be set up by a distro if they cared to do so.
by chamomeal | 2025-09-10 13:35:11+00:00
In America this concept is taken to the absolute extreme. Everywhere I go there are entire forests being razed to build developments of huge single-family homes and nothing else.

There is nowhere to go without driving. Kids who grow up in the suburbs are pretty much trapped on an island. There’s nowhere to explore because the surrounding 5 mile radius might be nothing but more developments
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 13:35:40+00:00
> Exactly. Cars are a better experience in almost all cases,

I completely disagree. On a train or bus I can stand up and stretch my legs, I'm not cramped into a single valid sitting position. I don't get motion sickness on trains or busses like I do in cars, and don't feel claustrophobic. Also in cars I'm constantly stuck in traffic and can't do anything, whereas a bus or train no matter what's happening I can just read a book or people watch or whatever.
by mihaic | 2025-09-10 13:35:49+00:00
The problem with Windows 11 is that it's not meant to be a better Windows but a worse MacOS. Why is it so hard for even Microsoft employees to understand that people with complex workflows actually benefit from a task bar where all the open windows are visible at all times, and no launcher can replace this?

Competing for a segment that it can't win while losing the segment it owns i must be some business school cases study in the works. What's the point in being a slighlty less tall giraffe when you were a rhino before?
by loudmax | 2025-09-10 13:36:05+00:00
I graduated from McLean High School in 1990. I had some fantastic teachers. McLean is absolutely an outlier.

McLean's formula for success is to be located in an upper-middle class district with parents who value education and are wealthy enough to provide a stable environment, but not so wealthy they must send their kids to a private school. This formula isn't something that can be easily replicated or scaled out nationwide.

The aspiration is to make excellent education available for all children, regardless of what school district their parents can afford to move into. This is a problem that looks easy on the surface, but it seems to be extremely difficult in practice. Education is a social benefit, and a lot of people seem to have rejected the notion that taxes should even pay for social benefits.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-10 13:36:10+00:00
Their loss. But that's simply yet another reason to move towards a market-based approach; people can choose whatever works best for them as an individual even if others think it's a terrible choice.

Let trains where people are packed like sardines compete with trains with face to face seating and with self-driving cars with the same features, and people can chose whichever they prefer based on cost, convenience, and personal preference.
by Kapura | 2025-09-10 13:36:48+00:00
Deeply unsurprising. My work machine was upgraded to 11, and using it in that context makes me certain that I am going to ride 10 into the ground (or a potential future steamOS release).

The machine now takes longer on startup to get to an operational state, the changes to the right click context menu are ridiculous and asinine, and the corners are now rounded on all the windows. Dear microsoft: take a look at windows IRL. ask yourself: are these rectangles, or squircles?

What is there for me to gain as an end user? Seems like Microsoft just gets more user data and is able to sell more ads while i have to use shittier software.
by Sharlin | 2025-09-10 13:36:52+00:00
In my city (Tampere, Finland, pop. ~260,000) the annual number of traffic accidents leading to injury has halved since 2010. A big driver has been the decision in 2015 to lower the speed limits on all local streets from 40km/h (25 mi/h) to 30 km/h (~20 mi/h), with appropriate traffic calming measures implemented where necessary. (Industrial zones are exempt.)

A map link showing the current state:

https://kartat.tampere.fi/oskari?zoomLevel=7&coord=327979.56...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-10 13:37:06+00:00
Nobody likes to hear this, including me,

But a car with no traffic is the overall best form of transportation.

Anything that reduces traffic, just makes driving a car more palatable.

So we are stuck forever at an equilibrium of tolerable traffic. More people taking the bus, train, bikes, and walking? Great! I'll zip down the highway and get a parking spot right in front.
by evantravers | 2025-09-10 13:37:07+00:00
I agree with the author, but the irony is that resurfacing is akin to UI friction. I resurface content in a journal because I have to flip pages to find the content I seek.

I've emulated some of the features the author wants in my obsidian using Dataview, but it's more the human ritual of review that accomplishes this for me.

I do agree, there is a good product there.
by christina97 | 2025-09-10 13:37:17+00:00
I don’t enjoy the 15 minutes I spend packed in the NY subway when I have to take it during rush hour, but I do enjoy hopping on the subway off-peak when the cars are half empty and I get a seat and open my subway book.

Similarly I hated being stuck in 30 minutes of bumper-to-bumper traffic during my old commute in a past life. But I do really enjoy driving on new routes when the road is half empty.

My two observations are that bumper-to-bumper traffic feels much more stressful to me (a lot more honking, people trying to cut into faster lanes, etc) than the subway (crammed and sometimes there’s a homeless person with bad BO), and that I spend much less time on the rush hour subway than in traffic jams in the past (even during rush hour, the subways are not that packed until you get into Manhattan).
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-10 13:37:36+00:00
Looks like a measurement artifact of some sort, to be honest. I wish Windows 11 saw tangible setbacks, but this just-so story sounds very much like something you invent to explain an effect that’s not actually there, before you realize you messed up the methodology.

Why did[1] the share of Windows 8 (not 8.1) also grow each month from May to August, for example?

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 13:37:45+00:00
> Do I worry about the perfume of a lady on the train or

As someone who will have a runny nose all day if I sit next to that lady, yes I do worry about her perfume more than I worry about the drunk driver. While the drunk driver is a worse situation if the odds hit me, the odds the perfumed lady is too close to me is much higher.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-10 13:37:58+00:00
> They pick their mode of transportation based on their needs and priorities.

Transit isn’t a free market. The federal, state and local governments in the US heavily, heavily subsidize car transit to the exclusion of every other alternative. If consumers paid the fully-burdened cost, cars would be much less popular.

> If these conditions aren’t met then you need additional transport to and from one or both ends of the subway journey.

They’re called buses, street cars, ride-shares, bicycles, etc. This has been a solved problem for about a century.

> There are cities where I’m just not going to take my kids on the subway if I can avoid it.

Interested to see any statistics showing which subway system is less safe than a car in the same area per passenger per mile traveled.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-public-transit...
by akudha | 2025-09-10 13:38:10+00:00
There is always some private company benefiting when a town/city rejects public transport. I remember reading an article about a town that rejected public transport, there was intense door-to-door lobbying by some Koch brothers funded group. It was a small town, I suppose they were just testing their lobbying efforts before deploying the same in large cities.

All this to say, if the public is sufficiently informed, they are not going to reject public transport. We've been brainwashed that car centric transport is the best.

Then there is Japan, they kept a station open just for one girl, so she can get to school - https://www.ndtv.com/feature/kyu-shirataki-station-japanese-...
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 13:38:11+00:00
>I just wish that driving wasn't the most taxpayer subsidized personal choice in history

Get the government out of the road planning/building business and let the chips fall as they may.

There are two big problems with this though.

First is demographics. Of all the people who currently say they want this "enough to be a problem" will immediately do an about face the first time they catch wind of a news story where some bigCo buys the land and puts a toll road through somewhere they don't want it or some inner-ring suburb of the kind they sympathize with the residents of losing out in gets absolutely screwed by some regional infrastructure conglomeration routes around them for not playing ball.

Second is entrenched interests. Government road management is mostly a result of coincidence. Society was building paved roads for cars at the same time that the modern high touch administrative state was on the up and up so of course the state claimed that as one of the things it administered. Had the 20th century administrative state come 50yr later modern roads may very well have ben built out privately like railroads were. It would be a huge fight to get the government's dick out of it because of all the economic and political interests that are inter-twined with the status quo.
by pirates | 2025-09-10 13:38:35+00:00
> I feel like I stepped into a meeting of an anti-car cult...

Every single thread or post about anything adjacent to cars or public transportation devolves into this. There is hardly any nuance, little effort is made to respond in good faith, and there are insults and insinuations thrown around all the time. Anyone perceived as being on the “wrong side” is instantly given a label and mocked. You don’t even have to be overzealous about it. Even the most benign comment will have someone piling on usually. “Just one more bus bro”
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-09-10 13:39:12+00:00
I have no problems publishing my public projects on GitHub or Codeberg. Secretly hoping that LLM-Crawlers will choke to dead on my bad code.

But private stuff runs on my own servers.

In 2025 it's mostly maintenance free once the setup is running: Debian will be updated fully automated using unattended-update and the hosted application when there's the need to do one manually. Backups automatically every night using Proxmox and its little brother Proxmox Backup Server. Even with valid certificates using DNS-Auth from Lets Encrypt.
by wink | 2025-09-10 13:39:21+00:00
I get your point but I disagree with your timeline. 2012 was already past 5.3 which was a long-lived version with most of the quirks of early 5 fixed.

There was a lot of what people call modern PHP, basically just without the types. I'd say the PHP 4 days are the darker ages that most people reference, but maybe your experience in 2012 was like 2007ish. (TLDR: If you found it fine in 2012 it's probably still fine in 2025, but I don't see the huge wins. I stopped using it for reasons other than "dislike").
by dijit | 2025-09-10 13:39:31+00:00
I was quite careful to say "Northern Europe" because there are some very touristy places that attract criminals who specifically prey on tourists.

I could imagine Paris and London in that list, despite both being very safe for locals (and.. both being Northern Europe)- but perhaps less safe for tourists.

I would imagine Prague being a middle-European tourist destination that is plagued much worse by this (but, also, very safe for locals- I lived there briefly).

Where were you in Europe?
by stephencanon | 2025-09-10 13:39:39+00:00
> Where you are not under any circumstances can be robbed by a random person on a street.

I will be very surprised if there's anywhere in the world where the expected loss from being robbed on the street while walking exceeds the expected loss from being in a car accident while driving.

Getting in a car is by far the most dangerous thing most people do routinely.
by deltarholamda | 2025-09-10 13:39:43+00:00
>Where it exists you can see that there is tremendous demand for it.

Everybody loves public transit until they get panhandled for the jillionth time, or they witness (or experience) violence, or some other anti-social behavior sours the whole thing.

I spent some time in NYC during the Giuliani years, after the city did a lot of work cleaning it all up: stopping turnstile jumpers, removing graffiti, more police, etc. It was great. You'd get the occasional guy that jumps on, makes a speech about how he's raising money for something or other, and walks around trying to sell chocolate bars. And there was the occasional dangerous person, insisting on getting up in your face.

So long as this sort of behavior remains at a very low level, something like maybe once every couple of weeks, that's probably okay. But public transit loses all appeal if it happens often. If it rises to the level of violence, everybody starts thinking about the suburbs.

Public transit requires a certain level of unspoken agreement. "We will all behave in this manner." If this unspoken agreement is broken often enough, then it must be enforced. If it is not, and other options present themselves, people will choose the other options.

This happened en masse many decades ago in America. Those that could decamped for other places where their social expectations were met.

I'm a big supporter of urbanism. I loathe the time I spend in my car, and I don't even have that far of a commute, but I have zero other options if I want to live where crime is low and the schools aren't dysfunctional. Until this is addressed, there is no argument about commuter density or efficiency of movement or anything else the proponents of public transit like to talk about that will make a lick of difference.

The worst argument anybody can make is "but that's just life in the big city!" If so, then I'm not going to live and raise my family in the big city. Airy-fairy principles of efficiency or an arguable notion of convenience will not take precedence over safety and quality.
by JeanKage | 2025-09-10 13:39:53+00:00
Now, a group of technologists and web publishers has launched a system that would enable data licensing at massive scale — provided AI companies take them up on it. Called Real Simple Licensing (RSL), the system is already being backed by major web publishers like Reddit, Quora and Yahoo. The question now is if that momentum will be enough to bring major AI labs to the bargaining table.
by jhickok | 2025-09-10 13:39:55+00:00
Believe it or not, we do have cities in the US with walkable areas :)

I am in Madison, Wisconsin and we have a number of areas like State Street where walking is the norm: https://visitdowntownmadison.com/

By and large this is not the case but it isn't as if it's unimaginable what it would be like.
by oftenwrong | 2025-09-10 13:40:18+00:00
EVs still produce air pollution from tyre, brake, and road surface abrasion. There is also new research that indicates resuspension of particles is a major source of roadway-related pollution.

This review is a good jumping-off point for research on the subject if you are interested: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669232...
by Sophira | 2025-09-10 13:40:25+00:00
I personally would be careful about that sort of thing. I would imagine that few people would want to run a proxy on their home computer that can be accessed by others - and if they did, they'd probably have a specific reason for it, and thus would be looking for specific ways to make that proxy available to the people who they feel would want to use it.

So, I can only assume that a lot of residential machines that have proxies on them offered by companies like these have actually had those proxies installed by malware. The company themselves may not even be aware of this.

(I'm not saying that LunaProxy in particular is like this. I actually have never heard of LunaProxy before now, so the above may not even apply to it. Regardless, it's still worth applying caution.)
by basilikum | 2025-09-10 13:40:31+00:00
Car infrastructure takes so much space that you can repurpose parts of it in place. Just turn one of the lanes into a tram line, make dedicated bus lanes. On huge parking lots you can just split parts of and build housing or more smaller stores there.

Of course there are limits to this, but cities are often grown historically over centuries and city planning usually takes place in such constraints rather than planning cities from scratch. Don't let the perfect be the enemie of the good.
by Spivak | 2025-09-10 13:40:34+00:00
I don't think this is about the past two admins inasmuch as the current admin transparently and in the open cooking the books to shift blame and accountability off of themselves. There's nothing wrong with reevaluating how we look at the economy to be more realistic but this "adjustment" isn't that. I think every side of the political spectrum has said something to to the effect of needing to capture the disconnect between the usual signals and the face that everyone on the ground feels like they're doing worse.

Trusting a government to both decide on how best to determine a metric that also happens to be a measure of their success, collect the data themselves, and report on it always been a conflict of interest at best. And, well, we're now seeing that conflict play out. That's the sad part about this whole thing, the data could be correct but now everyone has good reason to distrust it.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-10 13:40:34+00:00
While the current Paris administration has its detractors, its policies, removing surface parking, expanding bike lanes, and lowering speed limits, have done tremendous good for air quality (see the Airparif study for details in [0]).

Paris may not yet be at Amsterdam’s scale, but only 5 % of daily trips in the city are made by car. It’s staggering that roughly 50 % of public space is allocated to cars [1], despite their minimal share of actual mobility. And I'm all in favor in further reducing car lanes, parking spots...

[0] in french - https://www.airparif.fr/actualite/2025/comment-la-qualite-de... [1] https://www.transportshaker-wavestone.com/urban-transports-s...
by bluejekyll | 2025-09-10 13:40:57+00:00
> I need that little bubble that separates me from other people.

I get the same independent feeling from others you describe while riding my bike (not a bubble, but that’s a false sense of security in a car giving the 40kish car occupants who die every year in the US). In fact, I generally enjoy that bike experience more than I ever do driving because I never get stuck in car traffic, never get stuck behind a line of cars at a traffic signal. Never need to work about parking, other than finding a secure place to lock up (which some destinations lack). I used to love driving, but I started commuting by bike for work and realized over time that I enjoy biking so much more that I go weeks at this point without ever driving.

FWIW I live in a smaller American city of about 120k people, but is part of a greater metro area.