MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 14:36:46+00:00
> A tram can carry three, five or even more passengers with the same one driver

This is a negative! Service matters. If you have more than 50 passengers per hour off peak, or 200 peak you should be adding more service. A small 50 passenger bus can easially handle those numbers (they are per hour, people shouldn't be riding any bus for more than 10-15 minutes). Only when you are running a bus every 5 minutes should you start thinking about putting more people on vehicles you have, and thus only then is a tram worth thinking about. When a bus and tram is handling the same number of passengers the bus is cheaper to run (the bus shares the cost of the road with other users, while the road is more expensive than tracks you will have it anyway)

> and are way more energy efficient to boot.

This isn't significant enough to worry about. A bus is a lot more energy efficient than a car (assuming people use it), the additional gain from a tram for the same number of people is minimal.
by shinecantbeseen | 2025-09-10 14:36:48+00:00
That's hard to do in practice, I think. To take the inverse example: in NYC tolls on cars are used to pay for capital projects for the public transportation system. If these "independent" components were truly as independent as you imply income taxes + fares would cover the MTA, but they don't.

Each style of transportation is going to have different levels of cost associated with it, likely changing as one or the other has seemingly stable infrastructure for its needs at the time. It really seems like a more useful perspective is to look at the transportation system as a whole and consider any contribution to car infrastructure, public transport, etc as a contribution which makes the whole system better as a whole.
by snarf21 | 2025-09-10 14:36:58+00:00
I would go slightly further and say that a lot of this is subsidized by things like FEMA and NFIP and as such, there should be a three strikes rule. If a property makes a claim based on a disaster like this, they shouldn't be able to just rebuild there indefinitely, regardless of the cost. After the third claim, that property should be rezoned and made unavailable for development. Make it a park or at worst an open parking lot with no infrastructure.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-10 14:36:59+00:00
It's a reason among others, but this bike-centric policy (pedestrians nor public transport are the priority) led to an exodus of families [0]. I am among them, as I realized pretty quickly that it's a real pain to move around, buy groceries, go to the doctor, and so on with very young children in Paris, especially if you don't own a car. And now you have to deal with the uncivil behavior of the cyclists, moreover.

It's the same everywhere, as most European cities are dominated by 20-35yo people. They vote for green parties and then move out when they have children, as they realize that the policies they supported are not child- or family-friendly at all. The extreme example is Seoul, with its zones where kids are forbidden. It's a shame, as families require more public services and infrastructure (hospitals, schools, playgrounds, swimming pools, and so on), but they are being pushed away by childless youngsters who hate cars. Unfortunately, no middle ground seems acceptable for this crowd, so I'm unconvinced that it will change.

Another negative aspect is that cyclists do not use public transportation, so they lead municipalities to decrease investment in this sector, which is, however, the most inclusive, safe and efficient way to move people around. This is also seen in Paris, where the bus speed has never been so slow, the fleet is aging,, while the city hall spends like a teenager on a weekend trip with daddy's credit card on new bike lanes.

In the EU at least, the next nail in the coffin will be the low-emissions zones that will make it prohibitively expensive to enter/leave the center, forcing families to leave metropolises altogether.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/06/why-the-mi...
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 14:37:00+00:00
> It's only now that I'm using Nvidia that Linux works for me... I hate to admit it, I'm an AMD fanboy.

Weird. I've been using AMD hardware on Linux for the past ~twenty years... since back when they were ATi. Aside from when one had to write one's own Xorg.conf [0], everything has just worked.

Having said that, all of my laptops have used Intel graphics hardware, so perhaps none of my ATi- or AMD-video-card-bearing systems properly suspended to RAM or hibernated? I wouldn't know because that's not something I do with my desktops or servers.

[0] Or whatever XFree86 called that config file
by eigenspace | 2025-09-10 14:37:05+00:00
Skyscrapers add density but they're only part of the solution. North American cities have plenty of skyscrapers and plenty of single family homes but they have a servere lack of dense multi family housing units.

> It’s nice to believe in fairytales, but what you are proposing is effectively cutting access of poor people to opportunities so that the rich can bike to their cafe safely.

This is such a stupid populist argument. It's poor people that are hurt the most by lack of access to affordable dense multi family housing units in north american cities. Making poor families move further and further away from cities to find housing and then waste multiple hours a day sitting in traffic (and waste huge amounts of money on cars) is a ridiculous solution to affordability in cities.

It's rich people who can afford detached single family houses close to city centers, or fancy condos in skyscrapers. It's everyone else who are better served by more modest 3-4 story tall dense housing units.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-10 14:37:14+00:00
How do you short florida real estate?

Paying essentially a 3% tax on your home so you can keep living in a place with depreciating home values[1] is wild. In an ironic way it reflects the financial illiteracy culture (faux rich people who are deep in bad debt) of Miami.

[1]https://www.zillow.com/home-values/14/fl/
by james_marks | 2025-09-10 14:37:21+00:00
My latest take is: AI amplifies human intent. For now at least, it very much needs someone with vision to guide and leverage it, and this can easily be a full time job.

That means OP’s job may be _safer_, because they are getting higher leverage on their time.

It’s their colleague who’s ignoring AI that I see as higher risk.
by reactordev | 2025-09-10 14:37:32+00:00
tell me you don't live in the US without telling me you don't live in the US. Everywhere is a disaster "zone", whether it's hurricanes, floods, tornados, dust storms, landslides - They'll find an excuse.

This comment about how we shouldn't be living in disaster zones is completely out of touch with A) Where people live. and B) What a disaster zone is.

Coastal cities (where 59% of people live) will say it's prone to hurricanes and tsunami's, flooding and storms. 50% increase.

Inland cities, floods and landslides - 50% increase.

Desert Towns, dust storms and tornados - 50% increase.

Mountain Towns, floods and landslides - 50% increase.

Nomadic villages of hippies and communes, tornados and floods - 50% increase.

I know not of a single home owner who's premiums didn't go up, no matter where they live.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-09-10 14:37:36+00:00
What's the solution? Having every one else pay so people can live in areas guaranteed to be hit by increasingly strong hurricanes? I pay less for car insurance now that I live in a rural area than when I did in a city. That makes sense. If you want to live in a nice climate by the beach, go for it. However, be prepared to pay for it.
by goku12 | 2025-09-10 14:37:38+00:00
> 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.

Let me repeat this again. We didn't centralize git when we started using github/gitlab etc. We centralized discoverability and reach of projects.

So far, everything else can be decentralized - issue tracking, pull requests, project planning, ci, release management and more. But we still don't have a solution to search projects on potentially thousands of servers, including self-hosted ones.
by thevillagechief | 2025-09-10 14:37:52+00:00
My previous job was at an insurance company in part of the country that is not disaster prone. Even then, once in a decade hailstorms would essentially wipe out reserves and necessitate reinsurance. It would take probably 5 years to recover from the effects. You always had your fingers crossed during hail season that you'd finish the year in a position to get some bonuses. And this was a mutual insurance company, so no quarterly shareholder pressure, just long-term sustainability goals. That company would never dare expand into Florida.
by genmon | 2025-09-10 14:37:57+00:00
(blog author here)

If you're interested in the multiplayer cursors + cursor chat, my philosophy is that every web page deserves to be a place, and pages should feel busy if lots of people are there

plus you can grab the code. here's the write-up:

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/05/cursor-party
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-10 14:38:11+00:00
Well in the end it evens out in making more people homeless.

Here are your choices: a 800k house that require you to work 18 taco bell/gas station/home depot shifts per day OR out in the boonies where if you want insurance you need to work 5 shifts per day. Both are impossible, so you just work 3 shifts and don't have insurance and use food stamps to eat.

There stories are not well distributed but people that get priced out of cities end up buying a singlewide/double wide or just rent and then the house gets destroyed and they have no insurance and end up entirely on the streets.

So yes it is definitely insensitive to say that. Perhaps you would understand if your cushy tech job was 25k per year instead of 225k.
by cjcenizal | 2025-09-10 14:38:17+00:00
I see many comments along the lines of, "Good, this is how the market should work" as if displacement is a desirable outcome. Reasoning from first principles, the world we want is one in which we have fewer disaster-prone areas, not more. This would mean lower insurance rates, and fewer instances of displacement. This is a symptom of a deeper problem.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-10 14:38:55+00:00
The primary gist of what you wrote is important for people to grasp. Allow me to expand on it a bit, because thoughtless attitudes about "data" are pervasive, perhaps especially among the SV crackpots.

"Data" comes from datum [0], that is, what is given. What are the data or givens of measurement?

Whenever we measure something, we do so from the standpoint of some prior conceptualization. It makes no sense to speak of measurement apart from some conceptual context, as the measurement is of something as it is understood. It is through this conceptual background that we can situate some thing as a measurement, as data, and understand the meaning of this measurement, infer implications, and so on. Some call this the theory-ladenness of observation.

So you cannot say "Data! QED.", first, the meaning of the given is inaccessible without knowledge of its nature and the prior knowledge that allows us to locate the data in the appropriate context, and second, because data are not arguments. Data are used in arguments.

So if your conceptual context is flawed, your measurements are vulnerable, both in their motivating rationale and in their interpretation. A little error in the beginning leads to a great one in the end. And there's a lot of crap people carry around in their conceptual baggage.

So, we have at least three attack surfaces: the conceptual presuppositions of a theory, the theory, and the data sought to corroborate the theory.

Of course, theory-ladenness does not necessarily entail relativism [1]. So, the point isn't that we can't know anything, so anything goes, or that we don't know anything, so burn it all down. The argument is that we should be more cognizant of the bases of our justifications.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/data

[1] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2025/08/hanson-on-observati...
by no_wizard | 2025-09-10 14:39:11+00:00
Why do these home owners deserve more support? because what? They own some property? (Or at least the bank does)

I don’t feel sorry for these people. They made choice and the evidence this was inevitable was in front of them for 10 years at least. They don’t deserve special consideration.

Considering how we treat things like job loss, which is a good allegory here as it has all the same features of circumstance, why do they deserve special considerations that aren’t extended to other groups?
by geeunits | 2025-09-10 14:40:08+00:00
Step 1: https://docs.anthropic.com

Step 2: Type 'Allowed Tools'

Step 3: Click: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk/sdk-headl...

Step 4: Read

Step 5: Example --allowedTools "Read,Grep,WebSearch"

Step 6: Profit?
by devstein | 2025-09-10 14:40:15+00:00
I believe this is why the importance of written (human) knowledge is only increasing, especially internally at companies. Written knowledge (i.e documentation) has always served as a knowledge cache and a way to transfer knowledge between people.

Without fundamental changes to the LLMs or the way we think about agentic systems, high quality, comprehensive written knowledge is the best path to helping agents "learn" over time.
by gardnr | 2025-09-10 14:40:24+00:00
The prompts that I use in production are polite.

Looking at it from a statistical perspective: If we imagine text from the public internet being used during pretraining we can imagine, with few exceptions, that polite requests achieve their objective more often than terse or plainly rude requests. This will be severely muted during fine-tuning, but it is still there in the depths.

It's also easier in English to conjugate a command form simply by prefixing "Please" which employs the "imperative mood".

We have moved up a level in abstraction. It used to be punch cards, then assembler, then syntax, now words. They all do the same thing: instruct a machine. Understanding how the models are designed and trained can help us be more effective in that; just like understanding how compilers work can make us better programmers.
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-10 14:40:25+00:00
Yeah its definitely a good thing ON THE WHOLE. It's legitimately bad for the people it affects and the sort of vindication people feel for seeing them suffer is sick.

One common reaction to this is state subsidies or regulation to make it more affordable (see this in California and Florida). While this is bad, spending money on the problem is good. People often conflate "dont subsidize" with "dont spend money." Instead they should spend it to offset the damage/inconvenience done to the people affected. Moving assistance or something. Not subsidize living in dangerous areas.

It's kind of the Warren Buffet approach to people whose livelihoods are ruined by a changing economy. It's real harm and its not fair, but you dont stop progress. You also dont say "fuck em" - you support the people who get left behind.
by Voultapher | 2025-09-10 14:40:41+00:00
> novel approach to camera optics that can completely flatten them into the phone - front camera hidden behind the screen removing the island or inset - dramatically better battery tech density leading to like week long usage

The thing you are looking for is meta lenses, not the company. They could cover the entire back-face of the phone and provide some pretty incredible capabilities. We are not there yet, but I'd expect to see them in the next 20 years.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 14:40:43+00:00
Help me out here. I thought I was understanding the process as I went along, but my head is still spinning.

This is what I understood: the corporate network needs to be able to connect ordinary users on some random employee's work computer, to privileged services elsewhere on the (generally insecure) network, securely. The idea is that the server sends the client some kind of encrypted token, the decryption of which — when the system is properly configured — would require some long, random passphrase beyond mortal comprehension. The user's machine stores the passphrase so that secure passphrases can be used by the mere mortal users, and automates the internal connection. But if a user gets compromised from outside the network, an attacker could explicitly request and exfiltrate one of the tokens, and run brute force attacks on it locally to the attacker; and for historical reasons, the system is likely to be poorly configured, such that the necessary passphrase is weak enough to be susceptible to this. Then the attacker uses the decrypted token to escalate access.

My question is: why can't the attacker just direct the compromised machine to connect to the service normally? Or else, where did I lose the plot?
by HelloUsername | 2025-09-10 14:41:26+00:00
> smartphone can't play it without resampling, and Bluetooth without reencoding

Straight from the article that you could've read:

"For the smoothest and best listening experience, we recommend streaming lossless music on Wi-Fi using wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection, like Spotify Connect. Currently, Bluetooth doesn’t provide enough bandwidth to transmit lossless audio, so the signal has to be compressed before being sent."
by appel | 2025-09-10 14:41:41+00:00
Pixel user here, but I feel the same way. The fact that my phones are getting heavier instead of lighter seems counterintuitive on its face.

Pixel 1 (143g)

Pixel 3 (148g)

Pixel 5 (151g)

Pixel 8 (187g)

Pixel 9 Pro (198g)

Of course the displays of these models get bigger which presumably contributes to the weight increase. But still, you'd think parts get lighter over time, not heavier.
by malshe | 2025-09-10 14:41:43+00:00
> You don't have to believe in climate change, the Insurance company will believe in it for you

This is spot on. I once commented on a WSJ article reporting a similar story. The climate change deniers were in full force on that comment thread. They hated my pointing out that it doesn't matter whether they believed in climate change or not. They still have to pay the higher insurance.
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-10 14:41:58+00:00
Generally I believe RTO is about control. Secondarily, I believe that the corp office culture is still a thing many execs take pride in.

Most of them have dedicated their lives to getting that sweet corner office with the mahogany L-desk. Then theres that sweet nameplate.

I don’t think there’s any reliable data on RTO vs Remote productivity.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-10 14:42:30+00:00
> moving those families inland.

Inland from the coast of Florida is a swamp. Is that really any better? I know the orange man is a fan of draining swamps, but I'm pretty sure that's not what was meant. People don't live in deserts. People just need to accept that the opposite of no water can be just as in hospitable
by nancyminusone | 2025-09-10 14:42:44+00:00
>This is not the subject of wood working

Sure it is, it's free wood for the woodshop. Unless the library is very new, those are probably solid planks. No shop teacher is going to say no to free wood.

The real mystery is how the woodshop survived longer than the library did. Usually woodshops are the first thing to go.
by floatrock | 2025-09-10 14:42:46+00:00
> I'm sure stripping 45% of thousands of people's net worth won't have significant economic or cultural impacts.

"Climate migrations" has been an alarm bell for a long time. It's just people didn't want to listen.

The issue with your statement is if it's a person or human-created entity that's doing the stripping, that's a problem we can address. When it's the environment we live on doing the stripping, well, that's simply a predicament.

If you want to get mad at someone, get mad at the groups that have been propagandizing for the last few decades that carbon is a myth and we're completely decoupled from the ecosystem we live on.
by crote | 2025-09-10 14:42:46+00:00
> The current license is PostgreSQL

That's just not true. Your license[0] adds a clause to the Postgresql license[1]. This makes it a different license, which by extension also means it isn't OSI approved.

It's the same with the BSD licenses[2]: the 4-clause one is OSI-approved, whereas the 3-clause one is not. Turns out that one additional "all advertising must display the following acknowledgement" clause was rather important - and so is your lawsuit clause.

[0]: https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb?tab=License-1-ov-file

[1]: https://github.com/postgres/postgres?tab=License-1-ov-file

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_...
by kimos | 2025-09-10 14:42:49+00:00
Dead Cells did this. I was about to give up, because I am old and I want to play games not grind one part of a game. But I found an assist mode menu that lets you tweak making it easier, with no penalty, and a nice message from the devs explaining they just want their game to be enjoyed. I got about double enjoyment time out of it by just making it easier a bit.
by mxuribe | 2025-09-10 14:42:58+00:00
Yeah, agreed that some of the features the author cites sound great...but, then i wondered similar to you that even if i *only* bring up some random notes, it would still be better than what i have now (which is nothing!). I imagine bringing back random notes helps for a few reasons:

* Can prune old/outdated/now-irrelevant stuff

* Can learn/re-learn stuff

* Can consider re-writing/updating some the re-surfaced note, maybe because i have better understanding of some concept nowadays as compared to when i originally wrote some note

* Maybe some old ideas spark thoughts that generate new idea(s)

...etc., etc., etc.

You have inspired me to craft a little script to bring up random notes from my collection. Thanks! :-)
by brettgriffin | 2025-09-10 14:43:16+00:00
This isn't a cultural misunderstanding. I asked him to clarify what he couldn't reconcile and he didn't.

To be clear, I didn't actually need him to clarify it. I wanted him to understand the fallacy in his position.

Here's GPT's response to asking what the reconciliation is. You be the judge:

> The user is having a hard time reconciling the consistently negative narrative they’ve heard about American public education—that it’s failing, propagandistic, or poorly preparing students—with their own lived experience, which was overwhelmingly positive.

> They describe going to a well-resourced high school (McLean High, in a wealthy district) where teachers were excellent, curricula were rigorous, and their education prepared them well for life and career. That stands in stark contrast to the media and social media portrayal of American schools as “atrocious” and failing.

> In short: they can’t reconcile the national discourse (education in crisis) with their personal reality (education that worked extremely well for them).

To reconcile this, he needs to understand that his personal live experienced is independent of the experience lived by others with lesser resources.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-10 14:43:29+00:00
> Where do you put the "more car lanes"?

I'm not very familiar with Houston, but a quick google search shows that there is a big project underway right now to add more lanes in Houston [1]. So it would seem that civil engineers there have found a place to put more car lanes that they think will help with traffic congestion.

> At which point do you have enough car lanes?

As long as Houston is growing (currently it is the second fastest growing city in the US), I don't think there will ever be enough. They need to continuously improve their transportation infrastucture to keep up with a growing population. As I said above, I think this should include bike lanes and public transportation too. But if engineers identify a solution to alleviate traffic congestion by building more roads, then I think that is worth considering, too.

[1] https://www.txdot.gov/about/newsroom/local/houston/i45-const...