skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PearX is probably more selective than YC but at least if you're in the SF area, seems to be more of a real accelerator. (And not just for "get more money before demo day.")

https://pear.vc/

AI Grant investment is probably going to give you way better access and actual tangible assistance:

https://aigrant.com/

There are others but these are the things that really stood out. We will go directly to investors too, hopefully someone in our network sees the potential and is willing to throw us some pre-seed to get it started.

I don't think the YC Standard Deal is bad, and I might try again next time, but there are things about the program that I think are not worth the time/money, and I'm not at all sure "access to their network" is any better than (even as good as) the same access from a different set of VCs.
> So there are still limits on the monopolistic behavior, but it is still bad for the buyer

That's basically what I wrote in my original comment. They're far from a real monopoly, but they can probably gouge people a few % points, which isn't great.
If landlords were restricting supply in order to increase rents, we'd see higher vacancy rates in locations with higher rents.

But we see the opposite — NYC has a vacancy rate of 1.4% and peak rental pricing.
It’s basic economics that a monopoly can charge more than firms in a competitive market. In the presence of competition, prices will be closer to cost. For a monopoly, demand still slopes downward as they raise the price, but they can set the price higher.

Collusion allows firms to get somewhat closer to the monopoly price.

I don’t how much this software really does to enable collusion, though? It seems like some landlords might defect if they have too many vacancies?
It does not work on my computer.
If anything the latest craze is leading us into repetition.

> The LLM will write the SQL query for your end users!

We are doomed to repeat the same mistakes forever.
Since the remainder of the thread has been infested by "noonday demons", there's a nice line by a singer-songwriter about a SF novel in the Noon Universe[0]: "of course, freedom and brotherhood[1] will come / But it will happen without us."[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe#Description

[1] aka « liberté et fraternité ». A cynic would say the Arkanarians already have « égalité », in that they're all stuck on a planet cycling endlessly between mere anti-intellectualism and outright theocracy.

[2] Конечно, свобода и братство наступят / Но это случится без нас (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufbCnjBYDbI&t=5134s)
The term you are after, used to describe authors noted for their use of language is prose stylist. Given your examples I think you'll adore Moby-Dick; what Melville pulls off there is astonishing.
If anything, shouldn’t that drive prices down, as landlords now know exactly how much to undercut their competitors to still make a profit but also get more rapid turnover? I thought microeconomic competitive market theory assumes that more information is always a positive influence on markets, at least for the simplified models. Is RealPage a counter example?
Exactly what a manufactured comment would say. /s
Show HN: A tiny public domain math library written in C (+ web demo)
This is a public domain library that has string/float conversions and an implementation of basic math functions. I did an interactive demo where you can test individual functions and custom expressions.

It's mainly useful for WebAssembly where having the smallest sizes of the binaries is a win, but you can use it anywhere where you don't have the traditional C library available.

It is not perfect, it is a bit less accurate than established libraries but should suffice for most usages. If you have tips for improvements feel free to post a comment.
But that still has the same result, doesn't it? "Anti-theft" measure doesn't prevent the theft, only prevents third party repairs.

The average thief probably doesn't even distinguish between Apple and Android phones. A literal pickpocket is only going to have as information the outline of a phone-shaped thing in your pocket. If they lift it off of you and can't use it, they've still stolen it.
Then maybe learn a bit about it, before you decide based on bullshit whether you like it or not? Not that anyone would care about your opinion even then, when you can’t even get right such a basic thing as what it’s written in — then you surely are an expert of the topic.
If you want to get help, it would also behoove you to ask in the proper way. For example support teams often work in a ticket system. Your slack message or direct email will either need to be transcribed into a ticket, or you could be nice and email the standard support email address which will create a ticket, use the designated support request webform, or whatever is the practice at your work site.
I am trying to implement my pipe dream of Blockchain and Lisp coercion, no any other PL fits my needs because Lisp is the only language where I can update the compiler every 6 minutes or so, no compilation of compiler is required.

> And if so, _which_ Lisp and why?

Are there any other production-ready Lisps except of CL?
This is when you start billing other departments.
> Why is knowing someone's ID an issue?

It increases the attack surface as an authorization vulnerability will allow an attacker to enumerate and access all records. Yes, it is security through obscurity, but a random (e.g. UUID) scheme makes it harder.
Can't believe this is already forgotten, but 2.0 wave of AI voice was Alexa, Siri, Cortana, which all became multi-billion dollar investments in timer bots

Maybe 3.0 is different but :shrug: doubt it!
I mean, there was that period of time where amazon and other delivery companies would consider a bin a 'secure' place to put parcels while the recipient was out, even on bin days...
The problem with the "supply and demand" argument in this case is that the demand for apartments is essentially infinite. People absolutely NEED a place live, so it's not just a normal, rational transaction. Companies know that people will pay whatever they have to for a roof over their head, even though it means sacrificing their quality of life in other aspects (vacations, shows, etc).
So why is there a housing shortage?
> It’s not as uncommon as you might think. In fact, some 40 million SSNs are associated with multiple people, according to a 2010 study by ID Analytics.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/424392/a-tale-of-two-women-s...
Except there are only so many human experts to go around, whereas everyone can have their own personal AI expert, or a whole team of them.
Early on, ROI on active income is >>>> passive income. Passive income will give you 10% annual returns max (let's not count crypto). So you need a lot of cash set aside before it's worth it.

Can you get from say, $50k to $55k income? Invest in that first. Buy books, pay for expensive courses, even some of the shadier ones. The average ROI for shady classes is often better than investing in a blue chip stock.

Until you're probably at some point where you can't go from $400k to $440k or so. And in some cases the cost isn't financial - the path forward becomes several steps backwards spiritually and morally. Then you stop and start investing in passive income.

Active income isn't just salaries though. I make more per year from hackathons than bonuses. Running a business is a form of active income, and at some point it's easier to transition to that.
Everyone is trying to manipulate everything. It’s the age of grift.

Go on any social media website and you’ll be used as means to an end in many ways: ads will be shown to you for ad revenue, you will be tracked so your data can be sold, the platforms will expose you to content that drives addiction, and to content that aligns with their politics. On top of that, influencers will try to sell their sponsor’s products through parasocial relationships with you. In between all that, dark patterns will mislead you to buy more subscriptions, and community guidelines will commodify any social interaction you desire into an ad-friendly non-controversial synthetic content. All that will be used to train an LLM or two, potentially stealing your art and your career. Your data will eventually leak and your identity will be used as means to an end on the black market, to enable further grifts like identity theft, phishing and scamming. And if you dare have any other monetizable human desires, like dating, they will be monetized even if they never needed to be. And the money everyone made from you will be used to lobby against you. All to ensure the next generation — your kids — is exploited as means to an end more effectively, from a younger age. And just in case there isn’t enough grift and someone comes up with a new method, EULAs can change without notice at any time to enshittify the grift more.

It’s just layers of grift modeled around a minimum viable products. It’s grift on grift on grift… all the way down.
This is all very well but how will I buy my groceries?
> I'm very curious to learn more about 1cm, what is the math behind it?

So I actually got that from a cool math talk I attended about 20 years ago. At the end the professor had a cool demonstration where he glued paper strips of various sizes radially on the CD, and exactly as the math he spend an hour explaining predicted, the CD player could cope with up to a 1cm width strip, but no more.

Let me try to find some written material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-interleaved_Reed%E2%80%9... is a good start, but doesn't go into the details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor... might also be worth a read.

In a nutshell, you arrive at the 1cm like this: you can look up what proportion of 'wrong' bits the CD's coding can correct and other overhead. Then you look up the circumference of a CD (about 28 cm), then you do some multiplication, and figure out that you can lose about 1cm out of every 28cm, and still be able to correct.

Most of the interesting math happens at the first step of 'what proportion of errors can the music CD correct?' and more interestingly 'how does the CD player do that?'

> I was always fascinating by ability of old super scratched optical disks still functioning without problems.

Keep in mind that CD-ROMs have one additional layer of coding on top of what music CDs have. That's because if a bit error slips through the error correction chances are it still won't be audible to the human ear for music, but software might still crash with a single wrong bit.

> Do you speak about classical music CD with ±700mb of capacity?

Yes, that's because that's what I heard the talk about. I am sure more modern formats also have interesting error correction, but I don't know what they use and how much you could cover up.
They probably meant RSA the company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security), which was founded by the inventors of the algorithm, but has sold various other crypto devices and algorithms over the years, though I don't know if they ever sold hardware IP cores, and haven't been able to find anything about it. I feel like it's more likely they licensed patents or maybe code from them though.
It's simply not true that the only users of SQL are programmers. In fact, I have seen the disdain programmers have for SQL be a problem, where the programmers designed a Python client for data and the major users wanted SQL.
Only if they've cornered the market in locales people would leave ATL for in search of cheaper CoL.
At least the latter provided some examples.
> If it’s important they’ll mention it again.

I can't stop thinking about this.

Is this ubiquitous anywhere? Anywhere healthy?

As someone in the middle of cold-contacting potential cofounders - how many more of you exist?
A New Cat Color Is Defying Genetic Expectations
They are using an uneven playing field to find the local profit maxima in rents and vacancies. They have insight into number of vacancies, time-on-market, etc. that individual renters and even landlords/property owners (absent collusion) do not have. They are coordinating this and providing collusion-as-a-service.
And always kids, write code for one person, and one person only: your future self.
> You can't allow an adversary to take what they want and win every battle "because they have nuclear weapons" without capitulating world domination to that adversary.

Strawman. Ukraine is not in NATO and is thus forced to keep neighboring Russia happy. That's just realpolitik. US can not and will not retaliate as that would be WW3. On the flip side, Russia will not attack NATO countries as that would also be WW3.

The only real losers here are primarily Ukraine which is being destroyed and Europe which has to keep doing what US wants since it's dependent on the latter for defense.
So that brings us back to my original comment, doesn't it.
Or she had an email address like {firstname}@{firstnamelastname.com}.
This is a well known tactic to do to Chinese scammers or any person you don't want to talk to that is in China or has to go back to China.
>> The author didn't explain "how the scammer was texting her".

In a comment on the article replying to someone pointing this out the author explained that she was receiving iMessages and not simple texts. The scammers identified an email address linked to her icloud account when trying to reset the phone and set her iMessages to that email address.
There's a different limited supply: the paychecks of the potential renters. Can't extract blood from a stone, but they can try to squeeze it right up to the limit. People can only live so far from their jobs before it's no longer worth any savings in rent.
Alternative headline: Panel advising US FDA decides PTSD sufferers should enter illegal narcotics market.
Supply and demand still applies even when competition is minimal. It just means the force that’s supposed to keep the price from being set to extract maximum profit isn’t working.
Incompetence is way more likely than intentional sabotage. It was probably just some guy in a suit demanding that they have everything that looks secure so it's not a repeat of the NDS, while giving no time to actually implement anything properly.
> People who immigrated earlier are the most vocal supporters of stricter immigration rules for future immigrants

small correction. People who legally immigrated earlier are the most vocal supporters of stricter immigration rules for future illegal immigrants.
FWIW it appears the latest version on SetApp (5.0.48) is unaffected by this, so feel free to continue using it (and disable auto-updates) if you want, but this whole things feels pretty icky so I went ahead and uninstalled. Looking into alternatives. Really wish Apple would address this problem natively.
NIMBYs, mostly.
If you speak Korean https://news.hada.io/
I think it's the difference between suspicion of the pharmaceutical vs the pharmaceutical company. You can criticize the company without criticizing the treatment.
https://wandbox.org/
Consider that "state actors" also includes US government officials and this becomes obviously true.
> If you are coworkers and your office uses Slack then you're just being a dick.

Oh, well the office also uses email. There are in fact places that use slack for time sensitive things and email for other things.
Yeah, the last time I looked I would pay the equivalent of 1% to buy USDT (i.e. they are selling for 1% higher than the current spot price) and then another 1-1.3% to sell it and get fiat back out. So 2-2.5% roundtrip versus 1.5% for a regular remittance.

So crypto is actually more expensive that the traditional banking system on top of just being weirder. Like, you have to use Binance's P2P in my country which is just way more complicated than the traditional remittance system of "give us their bank account details".
On-topic enough. Gaitskill writing previously on Pale Fire (in another context):

https://unherd.com/2022/06/the-death-of-literature/

The link contains audio of her reading from a favorite passage of the novel.
Seems to be under the big HN hug. Alternative: http://web.archive.org/web/20240604195117/https://blog.winte...
> you're saying that supply and demand are indeed real with housing

You're correct in one technical sense and wrong in another. (Either way, a good discussion.)

In a competitive market, price and quantity are set by the marginal incremental cost (MIC) and average total cost (components of the supply curve) and the demand curve.

Monopolists, however, ignore the demand curve. Their quantity produced is entirely set by MIC and marginal incremental revenue (MIR) [1]. In a very real sense, the market is no longer about supply and demand--it's about the producer's costs and revenue. (Your technical win is in the MIR being related to the demand curve.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_price#/media/File:Mon...
It is not a real supply shortage: number of families has not gone up and number of homes has not decreased. It is just increase of demand side, probably due to the printed new money and income increase. People could just live as before but their appetite has grown and it pushes demand up.
The agreement between RealPage and the landlord is that they do not undercut RealPage's recommended rent amount.
Theyre so out of touch it’s almost funny
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and for general property management tasks.
To use RealPage you have to agree to not sell below their algorithmic price.
Use more commas.
This is an awesome concept. Thank you
I think it is pretty clearly a goal - when you create marketing campaigns around an aspect of your product (and Apple has around this sort of security), delivering on your promises is clearly a goal.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the original impetus for this variety of security was a prompt like “what are some objectives that support us creating vendor lock in” - that’s how organizations end up with multiple interconnected objectives
> Every vote you get with non-policy arguments means you can make fractionally more policies to benefit yourself instead of your voter base.

Alas, no. By and large, people don't vote for policies that are good for them.

People vote for policies that sound good. By and large, they don't really care too much about whether the policy sounds good specifically for them---they are happy to think of eg their country or community. But they are really bad at judging what policies actually work.

So to use your phrasing:

Every vote you get with non-policy arguments means you can make fractionally fewer policies constrained by having to keep promises for bad policies.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter for more background on the argument. (I don't expect my very brief sketch to convince anyone.)
I am mistaken. Théoden does not plead with Grima in the book. But Théoden is less eager to throw out Grima, when the truth has been revealed at Edoras compared to the movie. I must have confused the scene in the films for happening in the book, even though I had just read the book, though notably, Théoden continues to refer to him as "Grima" while everyone else calls him "Wormtongue". Regardless, I was talking about the events at Orthanc in the third book, in the second volume, chapter The Voice of Saruman, not the events much later in the Shire.

Edit: It's not the scene in the movie I confused it with, it's that Théoden does remark that he hopes Grima can come back after the incident, but he does not in fact plead directly with Grima.
I do have a notebook with plenty of RAM, so I haven't bothered with swap, but I'm new to Linux. Without swap configured, what happens when tmpfs uses all the memory that's been allocated to it? Thanks.
How do they get away with it? Most companies I’ve applied to run background checks and ask for references. The last one I was at refused to send an offer letter until my previous employer answered their calls.
I don't want to be writing conversion code between special string types with error handling in 2024. It's too braindamaged for words.

And, first of all, burn that god forsaken filesystem.

If the filesystem doesn't like a certain name, the OS should let you know. Handle that error and send it back to the user to choose a different name.

You're not going to string-convert-and-error-handle your way out of the problem that the user cannot have the name that they specified.
The thing about monopolies is that the monopolist still has to deal with the demand curve, but they get to set the supply curve. As price goes up, demand goes down; they can't change this. In healthy markets, when supply goes up, prices go down because of competition. Then the price ends up at the intersection of the two curves.

The monopolist doesn't have to follow this rule: they set the price to whatever makes the most profits and leave the price there regardless of fluctuations in housing supply.
Lisp is not for everyone and based on what you wrote, it seems to me that it's clearly not for you. So I would suggest you stop wasting your time with a language that's obviously not a good fit.
I believe you might be able to replicate the functionality using BetterTouchTool but it might be a bit of hassle to do, not 100% sure though.
When you take into account drug overdose + suicides + issues caused by morbid obesity + propensity to engage in high risk impulsivity, PTSD (and especially CPTSD) are much closer to generally fatal than anyone should be comfortable with.
No. When people say “the price is set by supply and demand,” they mean that the price and quantity of produced goods are set at the intersection of the supply and demand curves. As the linked article in the parent comment shows, a firm with market power will maximize profit by producing goods with a different price and quantity, but they will still use the supply and demand curves to calculate how to maximize profit.
I definitely agree that 1% or better resistors are easier than calibration, but that doesn't mean you need values outside of E3 most of the time.

I might want want an accurate 1/10 divider or something, but a 1/12 divider would probably be fine too, as long as it's consistent. If it doesn't vary between devices, it's just a line of code to change.
Khan came in with big plans and has consistently shit the bed on winning actual cases or making meaningful change.

Utterly wasted opportunity when there is huge public support for interventions to break up big tech power.
While I don't think you need to be 'extremely literary' to enjoy it, Pale Fire is strong stuff, and challenging in surprising ways -- as the linked review expounds on, at some length.

Lolita is probably Nabokov's most accessible book, or at least the most accessible of his I've read, but I bet part of what you liked there is that you, the reader, don't interact with Humbert Humbert in quite the same way that Humbert thinks about himself, or might expect you would interact with him. Nabokov is profoundly good at this sort of authorial/editorial/linguistic misdirection.

On those terms, Pale Fire is a sort of 3d chess version of Lolita. Obviously the topic is different, at least, the surface topic is different. Obsession is still very much a topic.

Anyway, you might enjoy reading more Nabokov! Don't give up on him! To my mind he's one of the literary gifts from the 20th century. And you might enjoy Pale Fire on a re-read, but I'd recommend something else by him (or a few palate-cleansing/getting deeper on the Nabokov vibe choices) if it left you cold. It left me a little cold, too. I've been re-reading Ada or Ardor recently which I'd say is really outstanding, if longer and more florid than Lolita.
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire