skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most rent vs buy calculators project a break even rate is ~9 years, to never, after your home purchase. Meaning if you sell before the 9 years mark, you will have a loss.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/rent-vs-buy-calculator
Semi-unrelated but this reminded me of the countless hours I spent playing Castle of the Winds[1] as a kid.

Based on this thread I went searching for it and, as it turns out, the original author is working on porting[2] it to Unity!

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/842/castle-of-the-winds/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CastleOfTheWinds/comments/172ckn6/i...
Since I started commuting by bike, I really thought that it would never work without flat roads. The value is in keeping kinetic energy as long as possible. Outside of flattened path in the wild it quickly becomes a burden. Today i could ride a primitive wooden wheel bike.
Can't some of the immigration include people that know how to build houses?
Even if it is a tumors, once that's properly cooked it is still a lump of protein/fat, no?
While ammonia is not without its challenges you mention, it’s already shipped as fertilizer today and is easier (relatively) to store than hydrogen at the quantities required for marine propulsion. This is why the industry has focused most of its effort on ammonia for cleaner energy. It is not a great option, but a least worst option considering the alternatives (and where energy density and combustion are non negotiable; fuel cells are still not production ready for marine applications for tens of MW of output).

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/sea-transport/the-race-...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-shipping-industry-is-betti...

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/9-nh3-mar...
Something tells me we wouldn’t be having this conversation if the original poster had used the term “long-lived” instead.
> 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.

Regarding this...I was the guy on both ends of the spectrum. The Rockstar that goes above and beyond and the guy who was punching the clock (sometimes a little too early). It made no appreciable difference in the quality of my network - it is still essentially non-existent, since none of my peers or ex-peers have much influence over hiring decisions.

My best shot at networking into a job is through a personal friend who works in a non-tech sector at a high level position. He's probably the only person who can actually get my resume seen by hiring people out of several hundred that I have met over my lifetime.
“Office” does not have to mean open office. Academics all have offices with doors for a reason. I can’t stand open office, but private office in a building with other people is great.
The previous comment seemed more "thought terminating" to me than the Carlin reference response to it.
> So... we've got a lot of sensors on board! You've got your radar, camera, multiple GPSs, accelerometers, gyros, and thermal management…

I do wonder if this won’t be their Achilles heel. All those sensors require a lot of software, computer hardware, and real-world testing. From the use cases described, all that data probably isn’t needed.
What (Some) College Administrators Understand That (A Lot of) Wonks Don't
The Cashflow King: "Here's How I Do It" – Jason Fried (CEO 37signals) [video]
We all stand on the shoulders of giants. No reason to throw hissy fits about it
Exactly. Redis (the company) had plenty of opportunity to monetize either a cloud offering or their enterprise offering. They have a lot of cool technology like vector search and time series extensions that people will readily pay for. They could have found a path of moving the core to a foundation and continuing to make money with their added value. They're choosing to get the value they can out of the open-source stack. It might work out well for them, but I can't believe it will be good in the long term for Redis users.
You can't get a large organization to move fast and ship something in a week. So this was either a solo developer en devour, or at max low single digits.
> But remember 1000hours a year is a lot to bet on your company or colleagues vouching for you and being in a position where that matters.

Yeah, at 50/hr that's $50,000 for a chance of someone vouching for you in the future that may never come to pass.

There's also the chance that maybe they were the manager that made you work 60hrs in the first place, so they don't see you as going above and beyond.

Whoopsie, you just wasted 1000 hours of your life.

No thanks. I'll get the job on my own merit.
Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
Rotating curved spacetime signatures from a giant quantum vortex
They should put this review on their repo README. It’s making me want to play it. But it’s also making me scared to play it.
Loved it. Great job. Looking forward to new updates.
I love how the parrot has no patience whatsoever for ads and cable news. If more humans were like that parrot, Youtube would be a much better platform.
AWS is now charging about $3/mo per IPv4 address. If that's negligible for you, awesome. It's not negligible for everyone.
How do you make it useful though?
Many of the 2021 IPOs - HOOD, COIN, etc.
Show HN: Practice Leetcode problems on your phone
Hello everyone,

I've been working on a project called CodenQuest, a coding practice app inspired by platforms like LeetCode, but with a major twist: it's heavily gamified, similar to Duolingo. The main goal is to make coding practice more engaging, especially on mobile. Key Features:

- Diverse coding questions with integrated hints and timers.
- Code editor with code completion and fill in the blanks questions
- Performance statistics (runtime, memory, CPU usage, and more).
- Gamified elements: leagues, ranking systems, daily challenges, friends, and streak mechanisms.
- Available on iOS and the Web.

I’ve put a lot of energy in this project and I am personally proud of the final look. I'd be grateful if you could take the time to check it out and give your valuable feedback.

Thank you so much!

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/codenquest/id1671648294

Web: https://codenquest.com/
You’re forgetting the lack of will to acknowledge and fix issues.
I think the study was talking about teens, which is actually ridiculous because I think most teens are on their phones 1000% more than adults, and a survey of teens saying their parents don't listen enough is hilarious.

But I identify 100% with your post, that's the reality of every parent with younger kids. You connect with them at one level and its amazing, but they're children and you aren't. It's exhausting to stay on their level for long. If I'm forced to put it in terms most HN readers without real life adult experience will understand, there's an impedance mismatch.
> Also where are these vehicles going to be stored?

I'd expect most people are going to store their new EV where they previously stored whatever car they traded in when they bought the EV.

> Also most cities tend to ask voters to approve municipal bonds for such improvements. These are private financial instruments or loans that need to be paid back to private investors. Each new muni bond is one more step towards filing for bankruptcy (hello Detroit!)

...

> Instead of spending money on the people. We are spending it on stupid car centric infrastructure. Forget mental health, social support, universal basic income, housing for everyone, easily accessible public transportation, improved paramedic, fire and police response times.

Wouldn't many of those things on your list likely need in most cities to be funded by bonds?
IMHO a powerful demonstration of the difference between serious journalism (and other fact-based content, such as scholarship) and Internet BS:

ChatGPT seemed to do that latter, which was mostly inadequate for the former. People marvel at it, but is it more than Internet BS? Social-media level misinfo?

The fact that so many are amazed by it raises another question: Why are we accepting that quality of information - with and without GPTs - especially when so much better is available?
I disagree with the proposed solutions, all way to complex. The thing to do is simply give the subsidy to everyone and make up for it with higher taxes. That is how you achieve more equable outcomes, give fixed subsidies to everyone and recover via proportional taxes.

Instead we end up with a situation where we have arbitrary cutoffs, a large buerocracy just checking for eligibility and often even progressive subsidies (giving more to those with higher incomes)
Yes personal and a few colleagues. I wish you good luck.
Just tossing this out there...

A few years ago, I felt so completely at peace when power went out for a couple of days. We used candles at night. I spent some great quality time reading paper books.

My mind felt focused, free and interestingly... it felt like I had ownership of it again.

So much of the content we're exposed to is opinionated - meant to persuade and sometimes to manipulate. It was nice to be free of that. I make sure to unplug regularly now.
While imperfect, I nevertheless adored Reign of Swords/Clash of Kingdom on my old iPod touch back in ~2008.

I've looked for a replacement for years but 99.9% of similar games on the App Store are spam/pay to win/microtransaction hell with the typical cheap ugly "international" art style.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/06/reign-of-swords-revi...

https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/03/reign-of-swords-2-re...

https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/02/07/mobile-battles-reign...

http://web.archive.org/web/20111001213349/http://www.mobileb...
When I first read this comment my immediate reaction was that it was probably baseless fearmongering. After a bit of googling, I feel more ambivalent.

1. It’s illegal to sell cancerous animal meat.

2. Even if a cancer was capable of living in a human host, cooking and digesting it should neutralize it.

3. Cancer is generally not considered to be contagious, but there are specific cases where cancers actually can move from one host to another. Tasmanian devils spread facial tumors to one another by fighting and exchanging fluids. A lab worker got a tumor in her hand after accidentally injecting herself with colon cancer cells. Cancer can spread during organ transplants.

I wouldn’t be at all worried about catching cancer from eating lab-grown meat. But I do wonder about some edge cases, like what if you cut yourself while you were chopping the raw meat and it got in your bloodstream? That sounds kind of like the case with the Tasmanian devils, or the injected colon cancer. However, I’m not sure if there’s any known case of a tumor from one species spreading to another.

Anyway, this sounds more like a freak event than a pandemic. We’d probably figure it out if it happened to a decent number of people, it’s not like we’d realize after 50 years that millions have died that way. The downside risk doesn’t seem so great that we should avoid developing lab-grown meat. There’s probably a lot of things in your kitchen that could kill you if injected into your bloodstream.

Also, the parent comment was flagged. I don’t find it to be rule-violating, so I vouched for it.
I think if that study were done every year, we'd see the "happy again" age trend older and older, as retirement becomes less and less feasible for the majority.
Return to Office Is a Mistake
Urbanization doesn’t require entire industries to be concentrated in a handful of cities. Wall Street and uncontrolled consolidation do that. The question is, can you achieve through public policy an economy where a large segment of jobs doesn’t involve delivering food to knowledge workers? I think you can, even today. Germany, for example, is quite urbanized, but far more decentralized (in terms of having many important large urban centers, plus many small urban centers) compared to say France or the UK.
South America is very underrated. People still think about the region in 20-30 year old stereotypes, but most countries have gotten much more stable, economics have improved drastically. Workforce is highly educated, different countries share a very similar culture and mostly speak the same language, which means that a lot of things can be scaled much easier. Of course, there's also Portuguese, which is still somewhat similar, and Quechuan languages speakers who learn Spanish as a second language, but this doesn't change the equation much.

The only thing the region lacks is investment and ecosystem to attract and protect it.
Care to share what institution you chose, and/or other comparable institutions/programs?
They may not see it that way, but IMO that is the reality as they are heirs to the estate in most cases, presumably. Compared to those whose inheritance will not include a considerable estate, it seems like a win.
In other words, slightly processed foods can be a good thing.
My car has one pedal mode. It also has a regular brake pedal that will behave like a regular hydraulic brake, because it is.
> You can not goto ... , in the middle of an if statement, in the middle of a for loop.

Uh, yes?

goto foo;

for (;;) {
if (0)
foo:;
}
> I only care about the expected case.

The expected case after surviving a hundred hours is that you're likely to survive another hundred.

Which is a completely useless promise.

That piece of data doesn't let you predict anything at reasonable time scales for an OS install.

You can't squeeze more implications out of such a small sample.
I’m on iOS and I paid for it without hesitation. Evan deserves it, just read his blog for the game [1] to see how much he puts into it!

[1] https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/
The AI hype will not end. AMD just has to support transformers. OSS is already building it, at which point you can finetune an open weights model on an MI300. Nvidia is in the same place that Cisco and Sun were during the dot.com boom. People are just buying the mainstream think that works. It doesn't take years, it takes an accountant.
Why would I trust that (even if it strongly supports my claim)?

And if true, I wonder what it would look like in the absence of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which accounts for 99% of the instances that I've seen the archaic spelling.
I'm well aware that vector graphics doesn't equal SVG. On the other hand, you seem to be conflating "vector graphics file formats" with "vector graphics".
> Nothing with the feature set of btrfs has even 1% the real world deployment footprint it does.

So you haven't heard of zfs then?
Not everything has the same unit economics. The self-driving software is one part of the costs that is heavy on the fixed costs side and will therefore scale better than other costs. If you produce a million cars vs one car, the cost to make that software isn't a million times more expensive.
The specific examples given there may be "socialist", but they could just as well be 'national defense and border control' and the basic idea would be exactly the same.
I don't have a toolchain, I am predicting research that will be able to detect the exact toolchain used from the binary. If you can detect the toolchain, then you can iterate to a fixed point (grind) until you recover a perfect copy of the source.
If you have the wherewithal to be able to build a house, you can do any job out there. So, without a compelling offer, why work in construction? Everyone and their brother will happily hire you to do something else.

Perhaps the government could be more heavy-handed, only allowing immigrants into the country under force of building houses, but that goes against Canadian culture, not to mention that other industries who rely on immigrant labour would cry fowl and the Canadians working in construction will feel attacked. Not going to happen.

The only real way around it is to see Canada's job market crumble. When building homes is the only work available, then you'll see people begging for those types of jobs (Canadian citizens included). But when there is work elsewhere, most people are going to go elsewhere. Building homes is not exactly compelling work – at least not at the going rate.
Mathematician wins 2024 Abel Prize for making sense of randomness
My understanding of our conversation:

* You: That video is not relevant because it's about battery makers

* Me: The conversation is about battery makers

It seems I'm missing something.
> turns out this software is hard to build and we need to pay smart people to work on it.

This makes no sense, plenty of very hard things target B2C / freemium. It's perfectly fine if that isn't your business model, but explaining it like this is not useful. Look at OpenAI for example, are they only paying cheap salaries since their plans are either free or $20?
My understanding is that they were tracking significantly fewer parts in Excel as many of what they are now tracking as separate parts were previously tracked as a single part (kind of an assembly). I think they were previously tracking somewhere in the 100-200 parts in Excel.

My understanding for why this is coming out now is that there was a talk Vowles has done recently where he mentioned the massive hit getting ready for this season because they changed both Excel into the new ERP systems AND started tracking each individual part, which complicated the transition and why it was such a rush for Williams to be ready for this year.
PG forgot two very helpful requirements:

* Have a rich family to get you into an elite university and to give you the financial independence to start a startup

* Be lucky. Only ~1% of all startups succeed.
Any efforts by Nvidia are welcome, but that raises the question of why Red Hat are writing a new driver. Presumably there is some aspect of the OSS component that is dissatisfying Red Hat.

It is weird for a 3rd party to be maintaining a 2nd driver when the first party has a reasonable OSS driver.
This is completely on Nvidia. Don't buy a GPU from them if you care about Linux support.
I suspect that nobody thought of a 2 wheel design because nobody thought it would be stable. The hinge between the front and back wheel is crucial. Even today, few bicyclists understand how a bicycle is able to turn and remain upright.

None of the early designs seemed to have any brakes, making them quite impractical.

Without modern steel and machined parts, a bicycle of wood and iron would simply be too heavy.
<3 and Thank You :)
As a former employee (2019-2021) it's heartwarming to see the comments shift from where they were five years ago to where they are today. The idea was proven out!

Keep up the excellent work, seeing the autorouter come to fruition and demoed on the homepage is a massive accomplishment and mind blowing.
The simplest emulator in the world would be like this one:

unsigned char memory[65536];

int reg[8];

int main(void)

{

int pc = 0;

/* In this point you read something into memory */

while (1) {

instruction = memory[pc];

if (instruction == 0x76) break; /* HLT */

pc = (pc + 1) & 0xffff;

if ((instruction & 0xc0) == 0x40) /* Handle MOV r,r (opcodes 0x40-0x7f) */

reg[(instruction >> 3) & 7] = reg[instruction & 7];

}

return 0;

}

What it does? It simply reads each instruction from memory (PC is the Program Counter), and increments PC continuously limiting it to 16-bit.

It does a comparison for each possible instruction, for this example I only handled the most basic one of 8080 (MOV r,r) and HLT, but this is already 64 cases of the 256 possible!

Then I added iteratively chunks of opcodes to emulate and used language C macros to reduce the code size. For example, there is #define d(e) to join two 8-bit registers into a 16-bit value, and #define Q to read the accumulator.

In the end, to stay inside the size limit of the IOCCC, I removed the tree of 'if' statements and replaced it with a tree of trinary operators ?: (a way of doing 'if' inside an expression) and this is what the macros C and S does.
The CacheRevolt Manifesto: Keeping Redis Open
CacheRevolt is a satirical take on keeping Redis open-source and preventing the creation of proprietary forks. The bylaws, crafted as a thought experiment, explore a unique approach to funding open-source development: requiring companies to acquire voting stock in a fictitious corporation to have a veto on value destroying code changes and to prevent any developers doing anything sneaky, such as changing the license from MIT.

By tying voting rights to stock ownership, companies are incentivized to invest in the project's long-term sustainability rather than being stingy with donations. Shares in the corporation become a non-depreciating asset, aligning corporate interests with the open-source community.

This model also levels the playing field, as big companies would need to buy out smaller shareholders to gain significant influence. The result? A democratized approach to open-source funding that gives everyone a seat at the table.

While the CacheRevolt Manifesto is tongue-in-cheek, it raises important questions about the future of open-source software development and explores alternative funding models. It's a fresh perspective that the Silicon Valley open-source community might find intriguing, especially in light of recent debates around the sustainability and governance of critical open-source projects.

So, put on your satirical hat, dive into the CacheRevolt Bylaws, and let's start a conversation about innovative ways to keep open-source projects thriving!
Like the other commentor said, the brake is still connected to the brake pedal and the car mechanically assists for one-pedal mode. You can always still use the brake pedal even with any automation or assistance off.
Even after seeing this comment, I thought it was a CAD plugin as well.

I think the main thing is that there is no screenshot of the entire UI or window of the program on your website. It looks like there's some VSCode and as others mention, other CAD software styles, leading to the impression that this is a plugin that you use alongside other things.

The nature of the tool itself is another reason. It claims compatibility on the pricing page with various tools and says something along the lines of you can use your existing tools to finalize placement and routing, leading the user to think it's a plugin that automates some of it.

I would suggest putting a more prominent link to your FAQ (https://www.jitx.com/blog/faq) along with updating it with more information in it.

Separately to this, I think it would be nice to have a more complex (more parts, some power and mixed signal elements) design on the website that users can easily browse and evaluate (view layout, schematic, animation/timelapse of design process), so that users can more easily visualize how it might work for an actual project. It seems like many of the examples are fairly simple currently but the power supply TPS chip is fine.
Attribution is not only for living people.

You got the quote close enough for a plagiarism complaint. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWPCE2tTLZQ
Trojan gift horse for undermining the competition .. once they're hip deep and headed deeper into Access dependancy you're free to play the field without concern of them catching up.
I was going to make a joke about PMs at Google looking at product experiment results based on parrot engagement - but I'm not sure their work would change at all actually, and that might be the joke about Google product development.