MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-01 15:39:08+00:00
>Buy the biggest house you can reasonably afford

Strongly disagree with this. Buy the house you need, and only if you intend to stay there at least 5 years.

On the one hand I acknowledge the US tax code and housing policy encourages home ownership, but on the other, you're completely discounting the utility costs, maintenance / reno drag, and transaction costs that come with owning more home than you need.

While I was moving every year or so for new opportunities, I happily rented. When I moved to a local tech hub where I felt I could put down roots? I happily bought, but I only bought what I needed.

I saw a lot of classmates buy a home prematurely, and effectively be 'stuck' looking for work in the same small job market their whole career, where moving really helped mine.
by dboreham | 2025-05-01 15:39:13+00:00
It's tempting to connect "AI is kind of like having an always-awake intern" with "nobody is hiring interns" but I'm skeptical. I think this is more about the decline of the corporate enterprise model in general. Exponential growth can't continue forever. Management is trying to force the curve to be exponential by no longer hiring anyone who isn't clearly going to improve profits in the short term.
by lblume | 2025-05-01 15:39:15+00:00
This is very likely true.

By LOC: Windows 95 is estimated to have 10-15 million LOC, Chrome 30-40 million.

By binary size: Windows 95 took about 50 MB, Chrome 200-300 MB.

By architecture design: the codebase of Windows 95 is fairly shallow and monolithic, while Chrome is very modular (think V8, Blink, WASM, sandboxes...) and uses other dependencies.
by the_af | 2025-05-01 15:39:22+00:00
Why would this work? Spies are trained to behave like the host country would expect, why wouldn't hackers?

If hackers have access to the outside world (something they would need to be effective), they'd know the world thinks Kim is fat.

"He's very fat, haha!", end of story.

Edit: wait, or better yet: "how on earth would I know, and why are you asking this in a job interview? Is this because I'm Korean? I'd like to file a complaint with HR, what was your name again?"
by sebastiennight | 2025-05-01 15:39:26+00:00
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by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 15:39:27+00:00
I would take the existential dread a step further: am "I" even the same person I remember being yesterday?

I seem to be a conscious entity, and I have access to the physical memory store in my brain, but am "I" actually going to survive falling asleep tonight? Or am "I" like a fire that gets extinguished, with a new one to be lit in my place tomorrow morning, using the same pile of half burnt logs?

The old sci-fi/philosophy teleportation question addresses this with the concept of physically destroying and reconstructing a body, but I don't know if we need near magic tech to elicit the problem.

We turn our conscious selves off for periods of deep sleep every day (or two, or three... but there is a definite limit). Do we really survive this transition?
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-05-01 15:39:32+00:00
I have a thought to share here: photography has changed. It’s not just that we don’t necessarily make photo albums the way we used to, but also that the actual choices we make when taking a photo and the way we behave when someone is taking our photo has shifted.

These things tell stories that reinforce certain narratives. You think your kids are covered but how? When do take a photo? Which ones do you dump, which ones do you look at later?

It’s a weird uncanny synthetic memory thing when OS AI sorts through photos as well.

Anyways, I don’t think younger me would listen either.
by toast0 | 2025-05-01 15:39:41+00:00
I don't necessarily agree with the advice, but I think there's a few reasons to consider it.

A lot of people find their first house too small and buy a larger house later. IMHO, most people have an idea of how many children they'd like to have and some idea of when. I think the idea of the advice is not to buy a small house that fits your needs as a single person and wait until you have a family to buy a larger house that fits your needs as a family, but to just buy the big house?

a) If you buy your first one big, maybe it will be big enough and you won't need to switch. That saves transaction costs, and keeps you price anchored to your first purchase. If your house is in a state with something like Prop 13 that effectively anchors property tax to purchase price, buying the final house earlier can save you a significant amount of property tax over the years.

b) I think house prices rise faster on larger homes than smaller homes (especially condos and things). If that's the case, buying a right size house first then a new right size house later if your needs grow means you'll have a larger gap to cross over time.

c) probably something about house prices always going up, it's implied in a lot of arguments (and it works except when it doesn't ...)
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-01 15:39:44+00:00
> A text file may be inefficient as is, but it's perfectly compressible, even with primitive tools like gzip. I'm not sure the SQLite binary format compresses equality well, though it might.

I hope you’re saying because of indexes? I think you may want to revisit how compression works to fix your intuition. Text+compression will always be larger and slower than equivalent binary+compression assuming text and binary represent the same contents? Why? Binary is less compressible as a percentage but starts off smaller in absolute terms which will result in a smaller absolute binary. A way to think about it is information theory - binary should generally represent the data more compactly already because the structure lived in the code. Compression is about replacing common structure with noise and it works better if there’s a lot of redundant structure. However while text has a lot of redundant structure, that’s actually bad for the compressor because it has to find that structure and process more data to do that. Additionally, is using generic mathematical techniques to remove that structure which are genetically optimal but not as optimal as removing that structure by hand via binary is.

There’s some nuance here because the text represents slightly different things than the raw binary SQLite (how to restore data in the db vs the precise relationships + data structures for allowing insertion/retrieval. But still I’d expect it to end up smaller compressed for non trivial databases
by franktankbank | 2025-05-01 15:39:54+00:00
It's the economy and outsourcing. Why is everyone hell bent to say AI is killing jobs? I think its a because its a great scapegoat to blame a machine rather than foreigners and shithead management. Its crazy too because not only are you out a job you wind up getting shittier products and services at unreasonable prices, a double whammy!
by wtallis | 2025-05-01 15:39:59+00:00
If privacy or security protections are opt-out, Facebook, et al. will try to use any leverage they can to push their users to opt out. There's real value in a platform that doesn't give Facebook, et al. that opportunity. There are also obvious downsides; it's a tradeoff that might not be right for you but definitely isn't one-sided.
by galangalalgol | 2025-05-01 15:39:59+00:00
This is whataboutism. Everyone lies, power corrupts, but degree does matter. Sen. Murphy's speech does a good job of enumerating the big ones. One possible benefit of all this is that the left is trying to clean house to distinguish itself. If that actually happens using the moment to get them to put in laws to enforce it staying that way would be nice. A lot of Democrats regret enshrining independent districting boards in blue states because now they want to gerrmyander, but it is done. The rest of us have our best chance at increasing freedom by playing them against each other. Rather than letting them play is against each other like they have been. We all agree corruption is bad, and campaign finance reform is good I think. Democracy is a bit more contentious it is a matter of protecting individual rights while still letting the majority rule.
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by abeppu | 2025-05-01 15:40:05+00:00
It's a bit weird that our base view of some forms of life is the highly selected warped version we've created over centuries. Roses with a single row of petals were the original form, and are still cultivated in many varieties, but don't look like what most of us think of as roses, I guess in the same way that the wild ancestors of many fruits and vegetables don't look like their highly-selectively-bred descendants.

http://www.santaclaritarose.org/Singles.html
Show HN: Runnem – A CLI to manage local services with screen and YAML
by dsmurrell | 2025-05-01 15:40:06+00:00
Hi all! This is my second ever Show HN post, my first was back in 2020.

I built runnem, a CLI for managing local services in projects with multiple components like frontend, backend, and database.

I have a few projects going at once, each with several services. When I come back to one after a few weeks to fix a bug or make a change, I always forget how to spin everything up. Which command runs what? What depends on what?

runnem solves that for me:

- runnem up and runnem down to start or stop everything - Handles service dependencies automatically - Uses screen under the hood (I'm keen on screen) - Manages logs, rotates them, and cleans up ports - Simple YAML config per project (runnem.yaml)

I didn’t research alternatives deeply. I’ve used Tilt before, mainly with Docker, but wanted something lightweight and terminal-native for projects with mixed stacks. Also, did I mention that I like screen? :)

I haven’t tested it much with services that run inside Docker, or local databases (I use neon.tech), or unusual screen setups. There may be edge cases it doesn’t handle yet. It would be great if people find issues I can patch over time.

It's made my dev workflow a bit smoother. I'd love to hear what you think!

Docs: https://runnem.com

GitHub: https://github.com/dsmurrell/runnem

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/runnem/
by klodolph | 2025-05-01 15:40:07+00:00
The fake people are sometimes backed by entire teams (the article alludes to this). It’s easier to do well in your job when you’re supported by a team of people, maintaining the fiction that you’re one person.

This isn’t happening left and right. It’s an attack against specific industries, like crypto and finance. It’s one part of a broader pattern of attacks.
by evklein | 2025-05-01 15:40:12+00:00
> We're talking elderly folks we'd rather not care for ourselves and that we don't want to watch declining and dying, and we're dumping them into a large-scale... well, death facility.

This is pretty cynical. Not everyone puts their aging relative into a home because they want to make it someone else's problem. Taking care of elderly people is basically a full-time job. It's not easy to drop every other responsibility in your life (work, children) and focus on deathcare for someone else.

> there are highly-developed countries where it doesn't exist, or doesn't exist on this scale, simply because of different social norms and taboos

Are we sure this isn't because these countries regulate these industries in such a way that people actually want to work for these places and patients don't get gauged?

> What's the outcome we're hoping for?

The outcome is the same (death), but how you get here is what the central complaint is. Elderly people pay a shit ton and you don't even get the basic services agreed to by the other party - maybe if they're shelling out $11,000 a month they should be. Nursing homes have effectively become a scam, but they do not have to be.
by bombcar | 2025-05-01 15:40:26+00:00
They can be great, but you need to really run the numbers and check the assumptions.

Housing where it is "affordable" (read: median salary can afford a house) is a great way to get a leg up on the pile - though remember that the average age of a person RECEIVING and inheritance is 60.

But in places were buying a house is $2m but renting the same one is $3k a month, it's hard to ever make the numbers work.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-01 15:40:49+00:00
> the people actually working on it has opinions about the work they're doing

No. They have opinions and take actions to subvert related work. See people literally stopping a presentation to gripe about Rust cultists, or Hellwig throwing a hissy fit because he doesn't like that Rust code is adjacent to his DMA controller.

This isn't technical discussion, this is Office Politics 104.
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-01 15:40:56+00:00
Because gambling is ultimately just betting on a random number generator that's actively weighted against you. Investing is betting on the competence of an executive team to run a business. One of these, you have no control over. The other one is a win-win situation. If the business does well, you do well.

It's like saying that because your sibling or friend ended up in a shitty relationship that you need to be celibate for your entire life . . . no, you don't. Just because Company A blew up doesn't mean Company B will.

And to be clear, I'm not a fan of stock picking as a core investment strategy, but I'm talking about dollar-cost averaging in equities (low-cost index funds) as opposed to stashing cash under the bed. Long-term, betting on the economy is free money.
by mapt | 2025-05-01 15:40:56+00:00
They currently vote different, but there are a few things they have in common.

They're both ridiculously disenfranchised in the Senate.

They've both got significant antivax elements.

They've both got a very large Hispanic population and a portion of the Mexico border.

They're both large states with large economies and large governments; Whereas the Connecticut governor leading the Connecticut national guard is numerically incompetent at protesting the actions of the federal government, or has to overcome a bunch of coordination problems with other governors, they aren't and don't. Whereas Trump was free to seize the COVID pandemic supplies that Maryland bought and paid for, and redistribute them as political favors to red states, it would have been more difficult to do to a state with six times the population and a power center far from Washington. Any effort to oppressively regulate interstate trade is diminished somewhere you're dealing with large amounts of intrastate trade; Conversely, any impediments on trade with and travel to Mexico are going to be substantial issues in both Texas and California.
by naikrovek | 2025-05-01 15:40:59+00:00
well, what does "damage" mean in that law? filling the disk isn't destructive. filling RAM isn't destructive. there's nothing in a zip-bomb approach that is destructive; a reboot or an `rm` (at most) undoes it all. I would say that this doesn't qualify as a destructive operation in any way.

IANAL
by no_wizard | 2025-05-01 15:40:59+00:00
I'd go so far as to say - though this is based on my experience, keep that in mind - in saying that your first home should be seen as an investment vehicle so you can understand the mechanics of owning a home while reaping the upside of another income

This helped us tremendously. Rental income while not game changing when you own only 1-2 properties, does help build up your assets. It also allows you to offset some expenses as business expenses, which is nice.

There is overhead of course, and we pay a property management company to do things on our behalf and they get a small percent of the rent every month, but overall it taught us a ton and we did it without incurring significant additional expenses thankfully.

Now we are up to our 6th rental property and things are going smooth so far.

This is building true wealth via real estate in my opinion. Assuming we keep going, we'll likely own 12+ properties eventually, which we will sell down the road many years from now likely for significant upside, all the while having steady income coming in from them until we sell.
by rdtsc | 2025-05-01 15:41:24+00:00
> the margin is so incredibly slim (75 ft) that it seems unlikely the intent was that it would serve as the primary way to separate traffic.

At that level a few hundred feet (since the helicopter is already supposed to be flying 200 or so feet above the ground) can make all the difference.

> I think the statement in the article about many things going wrong all at the same time is likely the right one, although of course we should wait for the final NTSB report to say for certain. I feel like people want the satisfaction of identifying one single primary cause, but most aircraft accidents don't really work like that. And we should want to understand all the factors to plug as many holes in the swiss cheese as we can going forward.

There can be contributing factors but the just because there are many factors doesn't mean they are equally weighted. At least with the pilot with have at least two indications they were confused. The instructor next to them tried to correct them a few times already.

> At least based on the article, it's not clear the controller provided enough information that the helicopter pilots could have determined if they had visually identified the right aircraft. Given how busy the airspace is, making sure the helicopter was tracking the right landing aircraft is pretty critical.

I think at least the non-flying pilot, the instructor, had understood and directed the pilot to avoid the collision, but the pilot didn't listen. The ATC in a busy airspace like don't have the time to have a long discussion with pilots ensuring they are good pilots and know what aircraft they are seeing "do you see 3 lights on it, one is red?", "how many engines do you see?". That just not very likely. They assume a helicopter pilot on that kind of an airspace configuration will know what they are doing. If they request visual separation they assume a hefty responsibility.
by corytheboyd | 2025-05-01 15:41:47+00:00
How do weekly 1:1 meetings with a manager not catch this very quickly? Okay, maybe the original suave interviewer comes back for those… Still feels like a good EM would pick up on discrepancies between work done and how the suave person talks about it.

It depresses me, but you’re probably right about in-office work being the only guarantee against this type of scam. I wish we could just have nice things.
by TheGCMadeMeDoIt | 2025-05-01 15:41:50+00:00
I fail to understand the whole "advancing the candidate through the interview to learn more about how they do this" plan.

They already knew the candidate's name, email, and GitHub were all part of past beaches. I could understand if they were fishing for more information to contribute to a shared list, but it seems like they knew virtually everything they needed to know.

Asking the candidate to justify the inconsistencies outright would've been just as helpful as the final interview IMO.

Is there something I'm missing there?
by 9rx | 2025-05-01 15:42:16+00:00
Probably from listening to another speaker who defined it, adopting their definition. Possibly from making it up on the spot. After all, someone has to create the first definition! Words weren't handed down to us by some magical deity.

But that doesn't mean the audience came from the same place. It is very possible, and often happens, that they heard/created an entirely different definition for the same word. The speaker cannot possibly use their definition before even knowing of it.
by foltik | 2025-05-01 15:42:20+00:00
My favorite bug (still unsolved!) is that maximizing the window on a video call only shows the top left quarter of the video feed. I have to manually resize the window to that exact region of my screen just to see someone’s full face or screen share. Nobody can fix it, my teams install is just stuck like this. Another one: when using airpods, everyone’s voices sound super slowed down, like the audio samples are being played back at half speed. Google meet and Slack huddles work fine. Cherry on top: sometimes the entire window just vanishes mid call (no video, audio, or any UI) but I’m still broadcasting. This isn’t just bad, it’s repeated complete failures of basic functionality that happen on the regular. Frankly, it’s the most incompetently written piece of software I’ve ever had the displeasure of using.
by aestetix | 2025-05-01 15:42:28+00:00
I thought the point of the movie was to claim that Vermeer was nothing special, and Tim's effort to recreate the painting was supposed to prove that. I think the galleries would disagree with that point, otherwise they would not care whether Vermeer actually painted them.

And yes, both of my points are speculation, fueled by an immense dislike for the movie.
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