MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breakyerself | 2025-09-10 14:06:45+00:00
It's easy to blame culture. It's kind of a thought terminating cliche. Once you've assigned blame to a general attitude among the public there nothing much to be done.

We could examine the common differences between US education and other high performing nations and try to reform towards something more effective, but really culture is the problem so let's all pack it up and find something else to worry about.

I think the one way that American culture does prevent progress is that Americans tend to be averse to evidence based reforms. They like to atomize responsibility for everything down to the individual. Homelessness, drug addiction, poor education outcomes, poor health outcomes, it's all just individuals making bad decisions or perpetuating bad culture.

If we did anything that actually helped it would somehow be condoning/encouraging the badness of these individuals. Regardless of how effective it would be it's somehow worse than allowing the problem to fester.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-09-10 14:06:51+00:00
What are the relevant differences? I’m not as cynical as the parent commenter, but I’m also unclear about what OrioleDB is doing that is meaningfully “CloudNative”. From skimming the main page, it seems like it’s just doing storage differently, but so far I’ve seen nothing to suggest that difference is “leveraging cloud services” or anything else.
by thawawaycold | 2025-09-10 14:07:32+00:00
Not the best counterpoint to the argument IMHO, especially considering there are tens/hundred of thousand of people that do the same as you, and that has only driven rent cost up in the extended Milan metropolitan area, even 30-40 km further away from the city, and with roads that are not nearly capable enough to carry commuters' traffic, it just transforms the underlying issues into massive, daily traffic jams anywhere in the immediate area
by panick21_ | 2025-09-10 14:07:39+00:00
What nonsense.

> This has the consequence of making the cost of an house (or rent) go up to a point where most people can't even afford it

Except that in some of the largest cities in the world rents aren't that high.

> Cars allow us to develop our society not in big cities, but in rather small towns, without ugly skyscrapers

Go to Switzerland, it look like that before cars and still does. You can get affordable houses and apartments on rail lines where you can be in the city in 15min.

You don't need to own a car to live in a house with a garden if you have proper public transport.

And you can live in the city and have plenty of access to nature as well. And cites don't need to be ugly and ful of skyscrapers.

> To me cars, and now also remote work, are a benefit because they allow us to live in a more sustainable way.

People living remotely with cars are the opposite of sustainable, in fact, literally every study on the subject shows the opposite. Not communing makes it better, but its still nowhere near as good as a city.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-10 14:07:43+00:00
We don't use things like SAT because it's an ideal direct metric that captures how educated a student is perfectly, and allows for impeccable measurement of how successful the educational system is.

We use it because it beats the alternative - which is either going off vibes or using even more indirect metrics to measure how successful the educational system is.

If there's one school that claims it successfully teaches children to love reading, and another school that makes no such claim, but has +50 on SAT over the first school across the board? The second one is probably a better school.
by dijit | 2025-09-10 14:07:44+00:00
You can get the Studio Display to work pretty easily to be fair: you just need to pass through the video card to the motherboard and then run thunderbolt.

I have Linux working with my Studio Display and it just worked out of the box; speakers, webcam and all. (though, the sound quality on the mac is better).

The only issues were that when I use a USB-C capable graphics card, it only has displayport out over USB-C, and doesn't talk USB4/Thunderbolt to the rest of the computer.. so those devices don't get exposed to the motherboard at all.

If you care- it's a kickass display anyway even if you don't.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-10 14:07:50+00:00
I have been gaming on Linux for like nearly two years now. Proton just works. I recommend either Arch or a Ubuntu based distro I can't vouch for other distros, though I'm sure they can run Steam just fine (but SteamOS was once Debian based and now its Arch based so it makes sense to me).

I am using EndeavourOS with KDE (Arch based, with a GUI installer) daily for nearly a year now, before that I was on POP_OS! but I wanted more up to date packages.
by arethuza | 2025-09-10 14:08:03+00:00
I cycled a reasonable distance to work (about 25km a day) here in sunny Scotland and rain wasn't really a problem, or snow - but cycling in really high winds isn't a great idea.

Edit: To explain - I was cycling on a that was on top of an embankment and a strong gust of wind unbalanced me at a bad moment when a lorry was passing - I actually hit the lorry with my shoulder and was knocked back upright again. This was all quite exciting at the time.
by thundroid | 2025-09-10 14:08:12+00:00
Hey Hacker News members,

We're the team from Aetherrax Technologies, and we'd like to share something we've been building: ThunDroid AI.

The goal was to create a genuinely helpful tool for emotional wellness without making the usual privacy compromises. We noticed that many apps in this space have vague data policies, and we wanted to build an alternative where the user is in complete control.

ThunDroid AI is an emotional support companion that runs on your iPhone. It's a private space to talk through your thoughts with an AI, use guided journaling prompts, or go through breathing exercises.

Here’s how we’re approaching this, keeping a tech-savvy audience in mind:

Privacy-First by Design: This is our core principle. All conversations are end-to-end encrypted, and all of your data is stored exclusively on your device. We have no access to it. We don't use your conversations for training data. What you say in the app, stays in the app.

No Cloud, No Servers for Your Data: Your journal entries and chat logs are not uploaded to our servers. It's a local-first experience.

Core Features: The app offers unlimited AI conversations, smart journaling with prompts for different wellness areas, and a set of evidence-based breathing techniques.

We just launched on the App Store and are looking for honest feedback, especially from this community. We're open to all thoughts on the app's utility, our approach to privacy, and any features you think might be missing.

Our aim is to build a tool that people can trust and find genuinely useful. Thanks for taking a look.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-10 14:08:14+00:00
I love walking - both in places as a tourist, in NYC where I lived most of my life, and in my small north shore Long Island town today.

But similar to any other "product" the evaluation depends on the user's needs. As a single guy I loved that NYC was dense and walkable - because that meant (among other things) literally millions of date-able women within a 30 minute walk radius of my house. Great! Now as a dad of 3 I don't care about that at all - and the lower density suburb let's me have a backyard for my kids and makes shopping easy, or taking the kids to activities (yes you can do all those things without a car but people chose not to when they have choice)

There should be some sort of mom-friendliness factor in these conversations. If my whole town is old people, terminally single younger people and migrants (as seems to be the case for the city in question) then high density walk ability is perfect. What's the density and transportation situation in places people actually have kids?
by metaketra | 2025-09-10 14:08:23+00:00
I would recommend the website Royalroad https://www.royalroad.com/home. It has a ton of stories by amateur authors. They're not enriching, deep, or social commentary. It's a modern version of pulp magazines, in the vein of Conan the Barbarian with worse writing, but in the end those were published in a paid magazine, while this is a free website accessible to all.

While they're not high quality, with a couple of exceptions, they're very fun to read, and in my opinion, while you can spend your time reading only high quality books, it's nice to just have what is essentially the fast food of fiction as well. Reading is a habit, and creating it by focusing on something like this, can still allow you to read something with depth and quality later on.

There's a big market for this for girls and for women in any book store, but for the most part, you can't find the same for men.

If you want specific recommendations you can check around /r/rational on reddit, since they tend to cover some of the better stories from that site.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-10 14:08:27+00:00
True, infrastructure is tricky because you can't have a truly free market due to the impracticality of building, for example, multiple competing road networks. It's a natural monopoly. So instead you end up having to make some decisions about what to supply in a non-market based way, and that's fraught with all sorts of inefficiencies and politics.

I think there's certainly room for our approach to be a lot more market-like than it currently is though. On the demand side at least it's pretty straightforward to charge people for what they use based on marginal costs incurred, and use those funds to build out more/better infrastructure.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-10 14:08:29+00:00
> A hard drive under the bed is not the only alternative to tarsnap

Also you can back up to the hard drive under your friend's bed, and they can back up to the hard drive under your bed.

If you're even slightly technical, or have a friend who is, I'd recommend both of you buying the cheapest Kirkwood NASes you can find on ebay, throwing Debian on them, and becoming each other's backup buddies.

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096
by DavidPiper | 2025-09-10 14:08:45+00:00
Depends on your language, runtime, dev tooling.

I'm using IntelliJ for a Java project that takes a very long time to rebuild, re-spin and re-test. For E2E tests a 10-minute turn-around time would be blazingly fast.

But because of the tooling, once I've re-spun I can connect a debugger to the JVM and click a line in IntelliJ to set a breakpoint. Combined, that takes 5 seconds.

If I need to make small changes at that point I can usually rebuild it out exactly in the debugger to see how it executes, all while paused at that spot.
by bombcar | 2025-09-10 14:08:47+00:00
A single newborn can be handled without a car (if you spend used car prices on a stroller system!) - but if you have three kids under three, or five under 7, a car greatly simplifies things - or you need to hire additional wranglers.

It's not about the good times (on a good day, moving five kids by walking/stroller is easy) - it's about the bad times, the crying, the screaming, the attempted suicides, etc.
by john-tells-all | 2025-09-10 14:08:50+00:00
I had the identical reactions, and like you it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Java: "stiff", awkward, verbose. Gets the job done but ugh.

C#: "soft", flexible, has possibilities

Although to be fair I programming in Java a long time ago, and haven't done much with C#. C# I see as a "corporate Python", vs Java I see as a language designed by committee and not for use by humans.

I've heard Java is way, way better now.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-10 14:08:51+00:00
False. Cargo bikes exist and are capable of hauling kids and groceries. You can get them e-assist, so you don't have to be a dedicated cyclist.

If you need to travel more than ~2-3 miles or so to get groceries or get to school (in a populous area) that's a failure of urban planning.

Yes, there will be some people with mobility limitations who still needs cars, but that's a tiny minority of the overall population.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-10 14:09:01+00:00
I am curious what the connection to PE financing is while PE is desperately attempting to obtain liquidity.

Private Equity Keeps Inventing New Ways to Give Cash to Investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985408 - August 2025

Private Equity's Latest Financial Alchemy Is Worrying Investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891882 - August 2025
by muppetman | 2025-09-10 14:09:02+00:00
I used tarsnap for years, but as my data got bigger and I really wanted to have multipe offsite backups with different providers, I moved to restic. I loved tarsnap - it's a great product. But restic feels very similar but you can backup to your local HD, a remote HD, or "the cloud" and everything is the same CLI commands.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-10 14:09:21+00:00
These threads always turn into fights between car vs. non-car people. But the answer should just be more of everything. More bike lanes, car lanes, buses, trains, parking, etc. Close a street or two off to car traffic, maybe just on weekends initially, to create a nice walkable downtown area.

People always seem to talk about these things like it's one size fits all, when needs vary massively from one city to another. And even from one neighborhood to another.

Bike lanes and public transport will reduce traffic congestion as long as they are well-designed and people actually use them. And being able to get into a car and drive somewhere is incredibly convenient when traffic is light and parking is plentiful.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-10 14:10:14+00:00
The actual underlying problem has changed altogether. Pagerank is easily gamed by SEO.

Search candidates and rankings now require assessment by LLM. Moreover, as a default, users want the results intelligently synthesized into a text response with references rather than as raw results.

Crawling too requires innovative approaches to bypass server filters.

I doubt any independent person can afford to run a vector database or LLMs at immense scale.
by guappa | 2025-09-10 14:10:16+00:00
> Among my disagreements was at replying to someone who said managers who change requirements due to AI should be shot and killed in the upcoming “revolution”

Perhaps ask the AI to figure out quotes from humorist books for you?

> However it is very often I am not given the same courtesy in return

Having read your comments. No, you are incredibly dismissive of research and experiences and just treat your own feelings as an irrefutable mathematical proof.

Try asking a friend for their opinion on your commenting style if you don't believe me.
by Fricken | 2025-09-10 14:10:20+00:00
My daily bicycle commute takes me right through the heart of my city's homeless district, and like with many cities things have gotten a lot worse since COVID.

Cars are far and away the biggest threat to my safety, and the source of all the harrassment I receive while out in public. I mean, every now and then some guttersnipe blurts out incoherencies at me, but that's not something to be afraid of.

I regard driving, in cities, to be an inherently anti-social activity. If you want a healthy community with safe and lively streets you got to be out in it, not sealed off in a protective cage.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-10 14:10:44+00:00
Java made me think in pure object-oriented, GoF Design Patterns systems; tight types, defensive programming, detailed documentation, the works.

But then I got bored with it. I like meticulousness sometimes, but it started to feel like Java was just excessive and impractical.

C# is an evolution of Java, and unlike Java didn't have a 8-year pause or however long it was before they finally started moving again (the period between Java 6 and 7 I think).
by sfdlkj3jk342a | 2025-09-10 14:10:48+00:00
Are you sure it was wrong? I haven't used Java in over a decade, but looking at the docs for that method, I see it is only define for byte arrays, not strings.

That's also what Grok says:

> Is there a constant time string comparison algorithm in the JRE?

No, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) does not provide a built-in constant-time comparison method directly for String objects in the standard library. The String.equals() and String.equalsIgnoreCase() methods perform variable-time comparisons that short-circuit upon finding the first mismatch, which can be vulnerable to timing attacks in security-sensitive contexts like password or token verification. However, the JRE does include a constant-time comparison utility for byte arrays via java.security.MessageDigest.isEqual(byte[] digesta, byte[] digestb), introduced in Java 6 and documented as performing a comparison where "the calculation time depends only on the length of digesta [and] does not depend on the ... contents." This makes it suitable for secure comparisons against timing side-channel attacks. To use it for strings:

Convert both strings to byte arrays using a consistent encoding (e.g., UTF-8 via getBytes("UTF-8")). Ensure the byte arrays have the same length first (as the method requires equal-length inputs for meaningful results). Call MessageDigest.isEqual() on the arrays.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-10 14:10:55+00:00
Yea I would consider this very poorly documented, although I'm sure the authors would be quick to point out how dumb I am for even suggesting that.

I bet most ssh users don't even know about the -w option. It even supports layer2 tunnels!

And somehow https://wrongthink.link/posts/all-you-need-is-ssh/ does not even mention this usecase.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-10 14:10:55+00:00
I need that little bubble that separates me from other people. I don't even like walking on sidewalks in busy metropolitan areas because of the amount of other people and the "over stimulation". And yeah, that's a me problem. Do what you like, just don't take away my means of being able to achieve a little bit of solitude.

Totally get that, some people don't like cities and crowds. But, they should also accept that more space (in this case, access to a car, roads, parking, etc) comes with costs and they should be willing to bear those costs personally.
by fred_is_fred | 2025-09-10 14:11:11+00:00
I finished cancer treatment in March. I have a follow-up Monday with bloodwork, and I know now I won't sleep much this weekend. This hits home.

“When you start with those scans, you enter this period of time for about a week before the scan where you go a little crazy, and you get very angry with people if they talk about anything in the future,” says Camidge. “You can’t even plan for next week.”
by djeastm | 2025-09-10 14:11:24+00:00
Fair enough, I misunderstood your point. It's so strange to me that teachers are having to deal with any of these behavioral issues. I seem to recall it being the domain of Assistant Principals and what we called "resource officers". Any disruption more than a childish comment meant a trip to the principals office escorted by an officer. That was it. Teaching could continue.
by chrsw | 2025-09-10 14:11:24+00:00
Isn’t contemporary education just a preview of the highly competitive white collar rat race? Constant grading, judgement and ranking? And for what? For some coveted yet mind-numbing tech job so can stay one step ahead of your peers and afford a decent place to live?

And that’s nearly the best realistic future. Why wouldn’t students internalize this and start mentally checking out?
by stetrain | 2025-09-10 14:11:24+00:00
There is also a gradient of density and walk/bike-ability between NYC, one of the densest cities in the country, and super spread-out car-dependent cul-de-sac suburbs, but the US often skips those middle steps.

Small towns where your kids can get to their friend's house by walking or biking a couple of blocks over can be great for raising a family, as opposed to all of their friends' houses being in a different gated communities up and down a 4-lane 45mph highway and where the line of cars picking up kids from school each day backs out onto the road and blocks traffic.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-10 14:12:14+00:00
I loved working in XCode at the time, it just "felt" better, it made obj-c "feel" good even though it's a very old language; the navigation, the colour scheme (I think I used the midnight theme), using gestures to do a swipe history back, the integrated tools, side-by-side views, etc, nothing like it.

I tried it again last year or so though, trying out the newer tools like SwiftUI and its live preview, and didn't enjoy it; the stability and performance was just all over the place.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-09-10 14:12:15+00:00
Github steals my software, the 'software conservatory' steals my software, etc.

I dont want it in a vault, I dont want you to do anything other than read it on my site. I dont want an archive. most of my code is not licensed. All rights reserved.

It's there as a personal portfolio that's it.

And these scanners don't respect the LICENSE file, they think if its on the web - they can not just index it but make full copys and reproduce it.
by kevincox | 2025-09-10 14:12:32+00:00
Fair point. I think in general it is important to remember that. There are negatives to each corner of the market so a consumer can't make a perfect choice.

But in this specific case I think it does still seem strange to raise a concern that one of the most notorious locked down vendors is shipping a security improvement because it also makes it harder to get full device access.

Maybe a better way of phrasing my point is that the problem isn't that these devices are secure, that is a good feature. The problem is that Apple doesn't let you control the device. I would focus my complaints on the latter, not complain about every security improvement because it also happens to contribute to the real problem.
Final Message: "Before the Battery Dies"
by Axer_Oft | 2025-09-10 14:12:34+00:00
This message was written on a dying machine.

No backup. No help. No more power left to pretend.

If you're reading this, remember:

> Most people waste their lives waiting for someone to give them permission to live it.

They chase money without knowing why, stay afraid without asking who benefits, and confuse being liked with being free.

You were not born to be efficient. You were not born to be productive. You were born with a mind — and you’re letting others rent it cheap.

Turn it off. Log off. Get out of the loop.

Use your life like it costs something. Because it does.

Every second you waste is a second someone would kill to have.

You don’t need a sign. You don’t need a plan. You just need to move — before your own battery runs out.

Good luck.

– A stranger, at 30%
by abound | 2025-09-10 14:13:03+00:00
For my private, personal Git server, I recently moved from Gitea to Soft Serve [1], and have enjoyed how light and fast it is. I have it hooked up via Tailscale (using TS_DEST_IP to forward traffic [2]), so it has its own IP on the network and I don't have services fighting for port 22.

TUI tools over SSH definitely aren't for everyone, but if that's your style and you want a place to dump all your non-public projects, it's a great choice.

Most non-private stuff goes on Sourcehut, and anyone can contribute via email (i.e. without any account) assuming they don't mind going through the arcana required to set up git-send-email.

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve

[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/tailscale/tailscale
by bandrami | 2025-09-10 14:13:10+00:00
I get synaesthesia in some languages (smalltalk, sclang, forth, lisp, occasionally perl) but not in any others. But I don't know if that has to do with the language or with the kind of projects I do in them, and I'd love to figure out a way to determine that. Maybe I should try writing a generic "not-in-domain" project in one of those and see.