skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People typically move further out so they can afford something larger when they get kids. Since the city is dense you don't have to move very far for prices to drop steeply, unlike sparser cities, so you can still keep your job with a reasonable commute.

I know a lot of people who lived near the center when they were single so they were close to everything, and then moved 15 minutes out when they get kids. Selling those small central apartments give a big boost towards getting a nice home outside the center. Not Paris but the same European layout with dense suburbs, it really isn't that expensive since those dense suburbs are still very close to the city center relative to American sprawl like in silicon valley where you have to drive for an hour to reach a cheap place, in Europe if you drive for an hour you get to the next city so even the cheapest suburbs are much closer than that.
> Completely anecdotally

about sums it up
Annoying. Yesterday the product page said it came with 5 minifigures. Today it shows 6. But in all the promo images on the site and in this article I think I’m up to 9 or 10. I think it’s going to be hard to play a game with so few figures.

https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/dungeons-dragons-red-drag...
This is the same reason grocery store prices are $x.99, people anchor on the first digit and $5.99 feels like a lot less than $6.00
Yes. I also want to know.

Edit. Ah!

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. I read back a couple of comments and it clicked
Probably the most inhumane thing ever is having to make a recorded video of yourself answering personal life questions (presumably to be reviewed by a human from HR) only to actually be processed by an algorithm.
> where they are at the whim of politics, your infra is in constant political/bureaucratic peril

Whims like this: https://apnews.com/article/new-york-rest-stops-chick-fil-a-1...
Yeah one thing that's often missed in these discussions is that the AI companies still need the artists! When you overexploit the commons, there will be consequences. We'll see if the synthetic data is good enough or not for future models I guess.
Excellent game, I lost an embarrassing amount of time last year getting all of the badges.

The mobile versions are great because they’re ad-free, and work without internet access when on airplanes. And since it’s turn-based, it’s very interruption-friendly. The Reddit community is also a lot of fun: equal mix of strategy and memes.
> open source permissive licenses for complex programs

Like the AGPL3?

https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.html
> The fun is the sense of accomplishment for doing something difficult or extraordinary.

I think that was the issue--the write up did not go into the details, which makes it seem like what they did was neither difficult nor extraordinary, especially if you factor in that Valve has practically unlimited amount of money to spend, a deep pool of talented employees with nothing better to do, and no deadlines.
Hold your money for a month or two longer, and get those shares (If you really insist on having them) at a much lower price.
> Muslims in europe had white people (and black people too) as slaves, way, way, way before europeans started trading slaves

Rome? Greece? What are you even talking about?

> FWIW slavery is still ongoing, today, in some muslim countries

Also in the USA [1] and EU [2].

Spare us the "europeans are peaceful / muslims evil" angle please.

[1] https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie...
[2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00130...
The way job hunting is in the industry now with recruiters and employers relying on automated systems to filter resumes it couldn't hurt. Even if it's just something to slap on your resume to get noticed. Most of the people responsible for hiring in our industry now don't know or understand what they're hiring for anymore. AI isn't changing job roles so much as it's changing job titles.
I love roguelike games (still miss you 100 Rogues), and I played Shattered Pixel Dungeon 77 times before finally winning with a Rogue class. Once I'd done that, I never had the urge to play it again.
My sense is, there is less movement. It's like musical chairs. When more people are changing more often those that have been waiting on the side lines have a greater chance of jumping in and getting a seat. Now that the tempo has slowed down, more people are left standing longer.

Some big name layoffs aside, the market feels to be roughly the same size. What's missing is the churn.
Paperpile is fantastic and you can make a shared folder with your lab/team.
Ask HN: What is the best way to invest my first $5k in profit?
Hi there. I’m looking for some advice regarding how best to invest some cash. I’ve recently started a web services company and have had two small, successful website projects that have left me with $5,000 profit. Great start but they are pretty much one off projects without much hope of recurring revenue.

I’ve got a day job in IT management making around $150k but would like to transition to working for myself. I’ve got a crew of folks who are willing to work with me and can fill gaps on projects in areas I’m not great in such as sys admin, business analysis, and database administration. I'm open to going wherever the money is.

Before moving into management (and now on the side) I did full stack web dev. As such, I’ve done everything from fully custom enterprise apps to CRM projects to Wordpress landing pages to e-commerce sites. But I’ve mostly worked for other companies, hence why I’m a little less sure of what to do in this situation. One last bit of background, I can tolerate a bit of risk as I’m not the only income/insurance provider in my household but need to keep my job until I can do so without catastrophic financial impact.

A few questions for you all:

Should I be optimizing my business to serve e-commerce clients? This seems to be an area where there is a lot of potential for recurring revenue tied to overall sales of your customers.

Should I use my “war chest” to start advertising my services?

What areas should I focus on providing services that have a high revenue yield?

Thanks for your advice in advance!
Nethack identifies objects once you've observed their effect as well
a gamer would wind up with worse power efficiency from an intel CPU because of how much wattage they draw under load, there's a reason i'm on ryzen and not core atm
Someone needs to defend string theory here. For one thing, it really is the only step beyond quantum field theory (the theoretical framework of the standard model) that actually works mathematically. And it contains gravity, along with all other types of force and particle observed. So it is still the best candidate for a theory of everything.

Part of what derailed string theory was actually an event in experimental particle physics - the discovery of the Higgs boson without any accompanying particles. Up until that point, theoretical physics had built up a certain paradigm for how to think about physics beyond the standard model. The nongravitational interactions would be unified in a "grand unified theory", and (slightly broken) supersymmetry would protect the Higgs boson mass from being massively increased by virtual particles. This paradigm is logically independent of string theory, but it was integrated into how string theorists think about reality, and in particular how "string phenomenologists" (the kind of people trying to identify which Calabi-Yau provides the shape of the extra dimensions) approach the task of applying string theory to reality.

The experimental evidence now tells us that this paradigm is almost certainly wrong. But there is no consensus on what should replace it, and there is very little attempt to identify new paradigms that would naturally find a home in string theory. String phenomenologists are still mostly looking at supersymmetric grand unification, and the string theory elders are pursuing topics in quantum gravity which are unlikely to yield empirical payoffs any time soon.

This comment section indicates that skeptics of string theory have won the battle for Internet public opinion. But smart money should bet on a revival of string theory once fruitful new paradigms are found.
Outside! Quick!

And see those squadrons of flying pigs.
Don’t give them any ideas. Roughly half of US politicians would probably support that. Without constitutional safeguards, a shocking number of them would support turning their opponents into Soylent Green.
Physics is the standard - it ignites or not - and it doesn't care where you are.
> In fact, a recent survey of 1,500 job candidates by the staffing firm Aerotek found 70% of people find their current job search more difficult than the last, even though people are more qualified than before.

I wonder how much survivorship bias is in there?

If the job market is strong, then people who are candidates now are only those left who have a harder time finding a job?

Or simpler: you'd expect the reported difficulties of the average person who's currently out of a job to stay roughly constant; a really good economy will shrink that population of people. (Ie people as a whole are better off on average, but the average of that specific, and shifting sub-group won't change much.)
A gut-derived hormone regulates cholesterol metabolism
Sure, but as the linked page mentions, QuickJS is 210KiB, which is seemingly larger than "in the order of a few kilobytes" claimed by the subject's blog post.
These things are all done in the name of national security… feels like lots of fluff… politicians’ way to get us tax payers to fund their friends …
Let's do anecdotes.

I just got calls back from two jobs I applied for in November and December of last year. Interviewed, got offers for both, had the luxury of being able to choose.

Found it interesting that both places pretty much knew they had their guy pretty quickly and said they were glad to finally talk to someone who knew what they were doing.

I'm not sure if they were getting tricked by AI-generated resumes and cover letters, then finding the applicants didn't quite have the knowledge expected. Nothing fancy either, mid-level networking, Linux, programming...
With all respect, “didn’t see a car for hours on a typically busy midtown avenue”, even during peak covid, is bananas if for no other reason than the ambulances were going almost constantly (ymmv based on where you live).

But I distinctly remember watching the odd car here and there and wondering where they were going.

And things were quieter! There was the background noise of machinery and buses and cars but it was a lot quieter than even holiday Sundays.

Credentials: 14 years in semi-rural Texas, 25 years in Manhattan
This looks really interesting, especially the GritQL side of things, I remember playing around with doing something simular on a much smaller and tailored use-case so I have an idea how much effort is involved here, but seems like a really great idea to introduce a query language to move things smoother. Great work, can't wait to play around.
The Kademlia DHT paper is a pretty straightforward description of a DHT - https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia...
Is it possible to even approximate a universal/perfect insulator? If not, then there will always be some situation in the universe that will have some effect on a static entity, unless it stops being static by adapting. Now, in terms of human bodies, these adaptations may be quite fundamental (i.e. on a genetic level)
Well, there goes the rest of the week. I don't install games on my phone, but I always give SPD a pass because open source. The first time I installed it, I almost lost an internship because I was too focused on the game. The most recent time I installed it, my wife thought I was cheating on her because I was acting so shady and obsessive about my phone. Don't say I didn't warn y'all.
I would split hobbyists and students.

Students become professionals and DO make choices. I've seen more than one CAD company succeed primarily by courting universities. Indeed, Apple for a long time dominated graphic design mostly due to its education programs.

Within hobbyists / nerds, there are also two general categories:

- Ones who do this on the side

- Ones who do this as part of a job, but in a different industry

For example, a biologist might tinker in writing medical software or designing some kind of lab instrumentation. Those often do turn into commercial products. The PCB is often almost incidental, but if it's in a particular tool, it's very unlikely to ever be ported out.

Of course, that leads to O(1) license, whereas an EE shop will have O(n) licenses with the number of people they employ. But it does lead to sales.

Joel had a nice article on pricing:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

The basic upside is giving your stuff away to students and hobbyists costs O(nothing), if you can differentiate in a way which doesn't let paid users not pay.
She brings an example of a person who after sending 75 applications considers changing fields. On Reddit people are sending more than 1000 applications to get a job.
Software Heritage Statement on Large Language Models for Code
Eau Claire, WI - a pretty small town has at least three DCFC - EA, Tesla & a local electric company plus tons of level 2 all over.

> I'm confused at why this was included in the regulation

The WI GOP. At least you can pay by the kWh in WI now instead of by the minute with this law.
No. Reddit entered a 60 million dollar AI contract with google.
If you have "set list" to make non-space whitespace visible, it'll go to the leftmost position. I did it long ago along with "set listchars=trail:.,tab:>-" so I can see not only where tabs are, but also their size/alignment without causing the text to shift.
No, it is not.

For those of you who are new here (aka didn't live through the 2000 bubble) welcome to a shitty job market.

1. Your best bet to get a job is your network. If you were a clock puncher, if you didn't go above and beyond, if you aren't the person who is gonna make the co-worker who vouches for you look good... you are not gonna get much help in your network.

2. The next best bet is to either a) start your own company or b) find someone who wants to start their own company. You know what got us out of the 2000 crash? Web 2.0 was the sexy name but it was ad tech that put money in the bank. Pop unders for Netflix, free iPods, and mortage sign ups... all sorts of nonsense... Today it's much easier to get something small going that pays the bills nothing is stopping you other than you.

3. If neither of these things are for you, and you want to be in tech then you might have to suffer. Job at the liquor store checking out drunks while you do whatever crappy contract work you can find on your laptop to keep yourself in the game.

Every one I know who survived not having a job when the 2000 bubble burst fit in one of these buckets. The rest left tech for good.
I mostly only looked into the options offered by MariaDB a while ago, and they seemed quite neat. I had just assumed that postgres was at least on par.

Thanks for reporting!
Pencil tool. The defaults are absolute trash that make it impossible to sketch with, and useless for drawing filled shapes; once you discover it has settings and play with them, it becomes absurdly fast.

Lately I've been thinking it's time to move on to Moho or Toon Boom though, I've been wanting to make stuff move, and I'm real tired of Adobe leaving all kinds of annoying broken edges unfixed for years.
Devil's advocate: the longer you stay away from gainful employment, the more marketable skills you lose. (This is one of the arguments against a minimum wage; that it keeps low-skill and therefore low-pay labor from establishing a foothold in the labor marketplace that would enable them to up-skill over time.) So UBI would incentivize the creation of a permanently unemployable underclass.

I'm OK with people not working if they don't want to, too, as long as those people are OK with subsistence-level living standards. I don't see why able-bodied people who are capable of working but just don't want to should live a comfortable life at the expense of the working taxpayer.
yeah, I was curious about the animation program this is a renderer for
I fail to see how becoming beholden to stakeholders will make an encyclopaedia a better publication. A real shame. Feels like nothing is sacred anymore.
Matías Pérez (Balloonist)
It's straight up dystopian.
Public Companies with Bitcoin Holdings
That doesn't seem accurate?

Did you misread the first paragraph of that wikipedia entry, where it defines the term as pretty much opposite that, or am I misunderstanding what you're meaning?
These are the most expensive job markets and the company is trying to reduce labor costs.
OK, but are most people within 1 kilometer of a park?

> People living more than 1 kilometer away from a green space have nearly 50 percent higher odds of experiencing stress than those living less than 300 meters from a green space [1]

[1] https://www.nrpa.org/our-work/Three-Pillars/health-wellness/...
I mean, Ahrefs puts my traffic at half that, and my analytics report 20k sessions this month (not that it's high, but it's certainly not 15). No clue where Ahrefs gets those numbers from.
Only to a point, because car trips have more “friction” especially in a city.

For example, you might need to spend some time getting to/from the car or wending your way through a parking structure. You may need to drive a more circuitous route due to one-way streets—-and certainly can’t cut through a park or building. You don’t need fuel/charging or maintenance every trip but it amortizes out to a small delay. And there’s traffic!

Anecdotally, a 15 minute walk (~1 mile) is probably about the break-even point. My spouse and I both went that far yesterday, one in a car and one walking, and yet we both got home at almost exactly the same time.
Because we don't actually like playing old good games for very long, especially when there are a lot of them. Most people don't want to revisit the same good takes on games. The same way people don't want endless episodes of good TV shows, even though that's exceptionally harder to do.
Valve Software is hardly "hackers." They used a setup from TI, which I had the priveledge of attending this past year at CPA--one of the most stupidest overpriced venues in the US.

This isn't a rag tag band of rebel filmmakers.
The threshold at which you have to include the income in your taxable income is $0.01.
(Apologies for my plebeian question to all EEs here.)

Is there software that would tell me what I need to buy to make this [Arduino QT Py] work with [this specific set of 200 IC LEDs]? Alternatively, how can I check if a specific combination of components would work together? I spent a few hours with Flux and EasyEDA, but didn't get far.
I think it has a fundamentally different problem. Any GPT I have tried, I could just ask chatGPT4 the same thing so I haven't bothered exploring much.

I am still waiting to hear of a GPT that is obviously better than chatGPT4 by itself. Maybe it exists but I haven't heard of it.

Short of GPT5 powered GPTs while I can only still talk directly to GPT4, I don't think I am going to be that impressed with anything using the chatGPT API compared to just asking chatGPT4 directly or using the API for my own needs. I don't need an interface for what I want to do with the API. ChatGPT4 can help me write that myself quite easily. I think the future looks much more like this than some app store knockoff.
How about "Dont send us a resume! We aren't a traditional company. Make a crazy video showing us your personality and why you'd be the best person for the job. Costumes are a bonus."
Oh, that's annoying. I wonder if there's a way with kernel configs etc to only run that thread when there's nothing better to do? Sounds like something someone would have thought of in general for background house keeping?
Show HN: I made at app to chain any type of model (LLM, image, videos) together
> I'm not really sure what this is doing on Hacker News

Incredibly fun game, open source, and in a genre that likely fits well into many HN users' interests. I rediscovered it recently and remembered it was open source, so why not submit it?
Encylopedia. It wasn't created in the 18th century. :)
This is truely the magic of the internet.

The earnestest researcher can't go survey every parrot in every home all around the world, but parrot owners can casually expose what their own parrots do.

Reminds me of the Twitter thread where a mite researcher discovers a new species in a photo posted by an amateur photographer.
This person seems to be sharing anecdotes about the Data Science job market. That field, which exploded over the last decade, has experienced a rapid contraction. Data teams have shrunk and contain far fewer traditional “Data Scientists” and lean more heavily on engineers who orchestrate and plumb data around.

Data Scientists have become the “HTML programmers” of the tech bubble.

My advice: take a pay cut and pivot to becoming a business analyst or something.
Interesting- what trades did the people who left tech back in the first Dot Com bubble end up going into?
You could do block device snapshotting today if you build your block devices on top of LVM. You can also somewhat do it with fsfreeze and remounting your mount point on top of a dm-snapshot target.

Blksnap is better because it does not require setup in advance like LVM, and it does not require interrupting any live users like fsfreeze. It "should" just work with the live block device within the WSL distro.

LWN covered the v1 posting, which is a good start: https://lwn.net/Articles/914031/

This is all somewhat future-looking, and if you only want file-level snapshotting instead of block-level, it's probably easier to try and get btrfs/bcachefs/nilfs2 instead. My WSL2 on Windows 11 shows btrfs present inside /proc/filesystems.
72% of U.S. Teens Feel Peaceful Without Smartphones.
I figure you could create the CA, have your browser trust it, create and sign your localhost cert, and then nuke the CA private key so no other carts may be signed.

It'd be annoying if you need to make a new localhost certificate, but totally manageable.
Settlements on the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else beyond Earth’s orbit are going to be brutal for decades to come, no matter how much money gets poured into them. The first settlers are going to be spending every waking moment securing their existence and making it more sustainable. These places won’t be joyride destinations.

Perhaps it’s pessimistic, but I have little faith that even a single country will eradicate suffering within its own borders, let alone all countries coming together to cooperate and eliminate it globally. If we wait until all earthly problems are solved before going into space, we’ll simply never go to space. At some point something will happen that will stop launches entirely, we’ll lose our institutional knowledge of rocketry and spaceflight, and putting things in orbit (let alone people on the moon) will become an impossibility again.
Yeah those researchers would be aimlessly rotting in academia if he didn’t fund risky, out there stuff like this. I can’t name anyone else among his peers who spends their wealth on anything even remotely civilizationally beneficial.