MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 13:46:56+00:00
> There isn’t an option for new brick house in neighborhood built before cars were a thing

Every time I look those houses are on lots of similar sized to modern lots. People back then choose space as well. They did allow stores in those neighborhoods though, so you could do some of the basic things in life without getting on the streetcar or walking. Those neighborhoods were also closer to jobs or close to a streetcar (depending on era) because you obviously couldn't drive. However the size wasn't much different from today.

Brick is much less common today - but that is because brick is a terrible building material if you look at it like an engineer. It is hard to change, has a poor R value, it is expensive, and slow to put up. People whose knowledge of building comes from "the three little pigs" think brick is great and sticks are bad, those who understand real engineering understand the real complexity and trade offs. You can get brick today if you want - but it is almost always a decorative facade for engineering reasons.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-09-10 13:47:02+00:00
So, there is a stipend consideration in much of Europe, where if the PhD stipend is the same or lower compared to US schools, it would be difficult to save a reasonable amount of money should I choose to return to the US post-doctorate.

Switzerland does actually seem to have stipends that if transferred to the US, could allow me to return with some US-acceptable levels of savings. The only other option is getting big tech internships at a US PhD, which seems to be advisor dependent.
by dwringer | 2025-09-10 13:47:06+00:00
When I learned the taskbar can't be placed on the side vertically is when I realized I'm never going to install Windows 11. That combined with 10 being advertised as "the last Windows I'll ever need to buy" and the fact their updater told me I have to replace my entire PC to be eligible to install it (in spite of the fact that I merely need to turn on a BIOS setting and my system would fully support it), then the notice that they'd be selling 1-year support contract extensions for anyone staying on 10... What's next, Windows declares itself outright as ransomware and holds my data hostage? I'm imagining a full screen overlay appears: "Nice OS install you've got here... Would be a shame if something... happened to it."
by akudha | 2025-09-10 13:47:08+00:00
okay, can't we have a middle ground then? On one side, nothing happens because of corruption, regulation, partisan interests etc. On the other end, there is authoritarian regime that can get things done at insane speed but at the cost of the environment and its people. Is it that hard to build stuff for the greater good of the public but respect mother nature and workers' rights at the same time?
by prawn | 2025-09-10 13:47:16+00:00
I have both (10-13ish) and both read almost constantly. Our son is the older one, read early and also very quickly, and that's set a tone for his siblings who now read a lot as well. Neither in that 10-13 age bracket above has trouble finding novels they enjoy from fantasy or adventure settings. There was an earlier period where we asked friends' teenagers to suggest book series, but these days our children seem to find their own novels during library sessions incorporated into their schooling.
by mlinsey | 2025-09-10 13:47:26+00:00
Those are very hard but also very solvable problems with a lot of capital. It's the same basic idea as creating a new media company, albeit a lot more costly to build. This is way too expensive to do in a seed round, but one of the other FAANG giants could try if they wanted to.

The even harder problem is just answering the basic question of why the viewer side should care, and why they should change their deeply-ingraned habit of going to YouTube to find something to watch. "YouTube isn't fair and transparent to creators" is not going to be compelling to very many people, if the experience of the likes of Tidal competing with Spotify is any indication. YouTube is valuable to creators because it aggregates a huge audience of viewers, those viewers stick around because it's addictive and there is a content flywheel already.

But if you actually had a truly good answer for why the average person should switch their YouTube habit to watching some other site instead, the resulting payoff is huge enough (and there's enough crazy risk-hungry investors in the world) that the capital and the moat problems could theoretically be overcome.
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by pornel | 2025-09-10 13:47:41+00:00
High-throughput transit isn't there to be better in 1:1 comparison with one person's car trip, but to make better cities possible.

If you only imagine this as a static scenario where everything is the same except you swap car for a train, of course car looks better.

The problem is you're not in a single-player game full of NPCs. When everyone else also chooses the car, you physically run out of space for everyone's cars, and end up with a city full of asphalt and large roads that are dangerous/inconvenient to cross and unpleasant to be around.

Car infrastructure takes a lot of space. When it can be reduced, it allows building amenities closer together, so you can have multiple useful destinations within walking distances not much worse than crossing a Walmart parking lot, and you get an environment that's nicer than a parking lot.

Being crammed in a train that moves 3 million people a day is the price to pay for not having a sea of asphalt for ~3 million cars.
by dumpsterdiver | 2025-09-10 13:48:41+00:00
Agreed. I can’t imagine making up random facts about people I disagree with when there are so many agreed upon things to point out about that person.

Can you imagine you have an entire room hanging on every truth coming out of your mouth and suddenly you blurt out, “And he’s also from Mars!”

Imagine the confused looks in the crowd as they realize they’re listening to someone who isn’t completely aligned with reality.
by hennell | 2025-09-10 13:48:47+00:00
The PDF report covers the difference between print and screen reading around page 27, I think their daily reading must be content available in print and screen but it is not clearly defined.

That section does show that 2/3rds of screen reading though is direct messages, social media, and text in video games. Blogs and forums only hit 1/4.

Kids might be forced to read more than ever before, but not all reading is the same, anymore than using a games console and iPad as a kid makes you fully computer literate.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 13:49:02+00:00
> This makes it difficult to play new multiplayer games on Linux.

There are so many multiplayer games that don't use invasive kernel-mode anticheat. I and my friends have been playing them for quite a long while now.

I agree that there are games that won't work because their invasive kernel-mode anticheat won't run under Wine or Proton (and their devs haven't bothered to port it to Linux). Honestly? I'm quite fine with that. There are so many great games out there; I'm totally okay with never again playing the insignificant percentage of them that demand full control of my computer.
by evoloution | 2025-09-10 13:49:42+00:00
> Assuming Apple itself doesn't bypass Little Snitch, I don't even think Apple is doing the level of telemetry Microsoft does.

Little snitch doesn't talk directly to the kernel's netfilter/iptables/nftables framework so some traffic may be hidden from it (low-level stuff that cannot be accessed via the API). I don't use it so I don't know if there is a way to bypass this in the settings or with special permission.
by NickPollard | 2025-09-10 13:49:43+00:00
I have a 4 year old and an 18 month old, and I don't own a car (nor does my partner).

We rent a car ~10-20 times a year, but that's usually for vacations or trips out of the city to visit family. Regular weekly family life we use buses, the underground (metro), trains, or sometimes taxis.

We are considering eventually getting a car, but we've managed for 4 years with children to not need one and it's not been an issue.

(I live in London, United Kingdom)
by djeastm | 2025-09-10 13:49:53+00:00
>1. Good luck. Have you ever tried to take an iPad kid's iPad? Be ready for the fight of your fucking life.

If a parent has a child that is addicted to an iPad or any other device, the blame is squarely on the parent having let the child use the addictive device so much in the first place. If there needs to be a "detox" period for the child's addiction, so be it, but throwing up one's hands and giving up is parental negligence.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-10 13:49:55+00:00
I would say that they are reading fewer books but I think total number of hours reading is similar or growing.

Reading tweets and text messages is still reading. My nephew has trouble learning to read, until he started playing minecraft and needed to read websites and instructions for mods and such. Then getting his first cellphone did away with any concept of reading difficulties. We have entire economies of people reading text on computers all day (ie my job). I would bet that the average person today read better/faster than their equivalent in centuries past. They are reading junk, but they are actually reading.
by blacklion | 2025-09-10 13:49:57+00:00
Commute is very location-specific and will be very different between USA and Europe, and different even between different locations in USA and different countries in Europe, you are right.

But when we speaking about Microsoft, Google, FaceBook, etc., workers, I think canteen is a norm, not reality for most workers.

And many workers outside IT cannot WFH at all. You cannot be salesman or welder or teacher or plumber WFH... We all are very privileged, no matter how long is our commute.
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by Forgret | 2025-09-10 13:50:02+00:00
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by liquidise | 2025-09-10 13:50:03+00:00
I daily drive an iPod (currently listening to it on a flight). Some benefits:

- Listening to music doesn't drain your phone. Also it's offline, which is a bonus for hiking/biking/flights.

- Underrated convo starter. Set one down on a bar top as you sit down and i promise you'll be talking to everyone around you

- The battery life is unmatched, including by modern DAP's. Mine is running a stock battery (still!) and gets days of playback. Weeks/months when idle (use it too much to know for sure).

- iFlash [1] has replacement boards for $30-$40 that let you use modern nvme storage over spinning media. Simple swap and has been rock solid for me for years.

- Audio quality over 3.5mm aux ports is noticeably superior to bluetooth in most (older?) cars

Would they take off today? I think there could be a retro-y scene for them, especially if they had any wifi connectivity. The device remains one of the best purpose-built consumer devices, and that's hard not to appreciate. My 10yr old daughter thinks it's less cool than i do, though.

1. https://www.iflash.xyz/
by naravara | 2025-09-10 13:50:21+00:00
They stacked almost ALL the actual stuff, like the camera system, SOC, etc. inside that little plateau and the rest of the slab is basically just display and battery. If I was going to make a clamshell phone, experimenting with miniaturizing and arranging the whole thing into a small corner of the footprint would be where I’d start.

If you scroll halfway down the press release page you can see an image of the internals https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-ai...
by dijit | 2025-09-10 13:51:20+00:00
we remember that there was a phone released with a name "mini" which was just as large as an iPhone 6: which many people considered to be a large phone; and those who didn't were perfectly serviced by the same sized SE from 2020- which was the size of an iPhone 6...

https://imgur.com/a/iphone-mini-vs-iphone-5-vs-iphone-6-case...
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by SubjectToChange | 2025-09-10 13:51:37+00:00
>I don't see myself ever not being a driver.

Cars aren't getting cheaper, car maintenance has become absurdly expensive (compared to what it was), auto insurance is set to get far more expensive, and making your entire lifestyle dependent on the existence of cheap gasoline is not a great strategy. A lot of people will simply be priced out of driving.

>It's not pro- public transit and better urban planning that bothers me. It's the anti-car "lobby".

Personal car commuting gets in the way of vital freight trucking. The highway system wasn't built to facilitate people going to work or traveling to see their grandma, it was build to move goods.

>I will always choose smaller to mid sized cities, and possibly even rural at some point in the future,...

The more remote your living is, the more everyone else is subsidizing your existence. For instance, rural roads, rural hospitals, rural electrification, rural broadband, rural airports, etc. It's one thing for the people who already live there or genuinely need to live out there, it's another thing for people to choose to live out there for "personal reasons".
by homebrewer | 2025-09-10 13:52:32+00:00
A hard drive under the bed is not the only alternative to tarsnap, you can use any of its numerous competitors that are also maintained by professionals, whose whole business is also running a backup service. Say rsync.net or borgbase, which are at least 10× cheaper than tarsnap last time I compared them, and can be used with restic or borg which are much faster at restoring even relatively small amounts data (forget if we're talking terabytes, it's "weeks" vs "your link speed").

I think tarsnap was a good service about 20 years ago when it had little competition, but using it now makes very little sense IMHO. You can donate to its awesome FreeBSD maintainer, or to FreeBSD, directly.
by flohofwoe | 2025-09-10 13:52:42+00:00
I wonder if this is another 'big in China' effect, similar to how China was the last big holdout for WinXP in the Steam hardware stats until 2020 or so after Microsoft had dropped extended WinXP support in 2014. When we tried to decide whether we should drop WinXP support from our MMO game client after Microsoft pulled the plug we monitored the Steam hardware stats for a couple of years and from time to time there was a sudden surge of popularity for WinXP at the cost of Win7 and Win10. We explained that to ourselves that another wave of Chinese PC users must have entered Steam (maybe because of a popular game release in China which was entirely obscure in the rest of the world).
by breakyerself | 2025-09-10 13:52:49+00:00
The US is practicing a mass production approach to education still. Drill students with excessive facts and expect them to remember it. 3 minute passing periods, 15 minutes for lunch, scolded for socializing. Etc. It's intensive and counter productive. Now there's an over reliance on tech that degrades rather than improves the experience. A link in Google classroom to an exercise that expires after a day, a PDF instead of a handout. Etc
by JohnFen | 2025-09-10 13:52:52+00:00
I certainly don't get as deep as that physicist, but I do think I understand. When I'm working out a difficult logical/data/programmatic problem, then I use my hands in a similar way. I'll form hand shapes that in my mind represent geometric shapes and physically use my hands to "arrange" them in various ways until something "clicks" in my head. That "click" isn't the win of finding a solution, but more like a feeling that I have now grasped the true essence of the problem.
by graemep | 2025-09-10 13:52:59+00:00
I grew up in London where it is almost always preferable to take public transport anywhere central (cars work fine in suburbs).

I prefer to walk and take public transport, but where I live now (small town) busses are infrequent, and fairly short journeys can require changing. It can take two hours on the bus to get somewhere that is less than half an hour by car.

I think people here would be delighted with more public transport. The main complaint I hear about roads is not repairing potholes which is not hugely expensive. The problem is that the political push is to use a stick (make cars more expensive and inconvenient) rather than a carrot (provide better public transport).
by haspok | 2025-09-10 13:53:19+00:00
Switzerland seems to have kind of the perfect blend of a solution (apart from the lack of space in general): it is _very_ car centric, almost everyone has a car, like in the US. On the other hand, to commute to work from their little sleeping villages they use the excellent train network which makes it possible to do the daily commute faster than by car. And many people use their ebikes, if for nothing else, just to get to the train station...

Despite all this, property prices in Zürich (city), for example are sky-rocketing (much more than in the neighbouring villages), and for any available rental flat the viewing queue is usually longer than you can count. How is that possible, if nobody wants to live in a city?... Some people might appreciate a 15 minute walk to their workplace, or a shop open after midnight on the next street, or just the buzzing life of a city in general.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 13:53:20+00:00
>Nope, species, not race - or arguable sub-species.

Yes. You are absolutely correct.

That said, I meant it in this sense:

From: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/human-ra...

the human race noun [ S ] all the people in the world, considered as a group

But species is more precise and avoids confusion. Thanks for calling me out on that.

>Which is why genetic similarity does not work well as a way defining race, and why the concept of race has no biological basis. This is covered by the wikipedia link in my previous comment too.

Exactly. Which is why I brought up how genetically similar we all are, regardless of, well, anything.

>Yes, but that is just normal for a species. We share a lot of DNA (98%?) with chimpanzees and something like 70% with fish! its not really meaningful. However, its not the main argument, because the variation within vs (lack of) between groups is really the killer argument.

Yes. And we share anywhere up to 60% of DNA with plants too.

I thought that's what I said. My apologies if I wasn't clear.

The upshot is, as we both are trying to elucidate (at least I think you are as well), that from a biological/genetic standpoint humans, regardless of geographic origin, melanin content and/or other physical features, are incredibly similar.

So much so that trying to define groups of humans by such physical features is idiotic in the extreme. Sadly, that doesn't stop some of our fellow humans from trying to do so. And more's the pity.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-10 13:53:24+00:00
I was a little irritated that Prof. Green didn't really discuss that Microsoft has made recommendations to mitigate. Thank you for summarizing.

The mitigations are there but it takes time for Microsoft's Customers to move to the new versions. I don't think that's Microsoft's problem. That's just their market. I don't think Prof. Green has an understanding of that side of it.

I guess one could argue that Microsoft should backport the new code to older products and give it to Customers who aren't actively paying for maintenance or subscription licensing. They made the business decision not to.
by toasterlovin | 2025-09-10 13:53:27+00:00
OP here, I actually agree with you about inflation being different from tariffs (which are indeed taxation), but people do often just conceive of inflation as prices going up, which is why I chimed in about the timing of tariffs (which I probably have more insight about than others on this site, since the company I run is affected by tariffs and we’re just now starting to see competitors increase prices).

That being said, one hypothetical scenario is that tariffs shift demand to domestic manufacturing, causing the price of domestic manufacturing to increase due to supply and demand imbalance. This would result in prices going up without any tariffs being paid. Theoretically. I don’t think that will actually happen in the short term.
by cybergreg | 2025-09-10 13:54:02+00:00
Good overview of Kerberoasting, still a common attack chain. A couple things though: To obtain access to a service, you actually need to get a service ticket (TGS) from the KDC (Domain Controller) to authenticate to the service, not a TGT. The TGT is the first ticket acquired during authentication to the domain. In addition, the "salt" is not a true salt but a concatenation of the domain and principal name, so even worse. Active Directory (invented at MIT) supports RC4, AES128, and AES256 encryption types, however you can effectively disable RC4 via Group Policy. The reason RC4 is still supported is to support legacy systems. Many organizations use old software that only supports RC4. For example, I've run into many manufacturing and small businesses that have no choice but to use it and can't upgrade the software due to $$$. Anyway, good stuff! Shout out to Tim Medin, who published this back in 2014.
by dole | 2025-09-10 13:54:18+00:00
With Win11, I feel all the WinUI overlays have eaten the performance gains of Moore's law. Before Win10, Explorer used to just work. Now explorer won't auto-refresh when it's supposed to after renaming, moving or deleting a file, there's some refreshing loop bug where it'll keep popping a list back up to the top when you've scrolled down. Increasingly running into (assuming locked) files that won't copy or move or give any error or notification of why. Learning more Powershell, Robocopy and CLI commands just to do basic tasks, of which I'd rather learn the linux incantations for.
by oldjim798 | 2025-09-10 13:54:22+00:00
All this applies to cars as well. Drivers are wild and driving is absurdly dangerous. I hate driving because other drives act like they are the car in the world - particularly post covid. Here in Toronto turn signals feel like they have been uninstalled. We have a ton of street racers tearing up the roads. I see motorcyclists pop wheelies and rip down major streets weekly.

All of your complaints about lack of pro social behavior applies to drivers too.