skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_depots_of_MTA_Regional_Bus...
Is this saying "calories in / calories out is bullshit because you can increase calories out through medicine/mutation"? The science sounds great, but that framing sounds incredibly dishonest, unless I am misunderstanding? You can also increase calories out through exercise - that variable is part of the concept.
> Also, if you factor in that cash is an option, and the significant inroads being made by options like Square and Venmo

The real competition is the NACHA's ACH system. Square and Venmo ride atop existing payment networks. The innovation is adding another level of ease of use over another layer of rent-seeking largely because Visa is slow to innovate and ACH is effectively a government product.

> Visa, Mastercard, and Discover's primary value they provide is fraud detection and prevention.

Most of this value is provided by the MSP and merchant banks, not by the card associations. ACH fraud protection is mostly reversable transactions.

> independent, fly-by-wire cut-rate providers is in the public's best interests long term

That is what we have today - tons of small MSPs and a few big ones. Square, for example, is a big one.
> but interpersonal bad behavior reflects on your self, professional bad behavior reflects on your institution.

Perhaps, but their self or their institution don't want you, so why would they be concerned with what you think of them?

In the olden days where you only had the choice of the 20 people you could realistically get in touch with by horse, there was always an inkling in the back your mind that maybe you'll get desperate in the future, so there would be a lot of fear around completely destroying ties. But now that there are 8 billion people at your immediate disposal, there is no reason to cling to something you clearly don't want.

In fact, if their actions give you a sour taste, that's ideal! It will save them from thinking you are a good idea later when they have a desperate moment. If their niceties leaves you still willing to engage even after they realized you're not a good option, that's not a good place for anyone.
Why not just have unemployment benefits or new enterprise grants? Why do you need UBI?

Here in Australia there is quite a bit of money floating around for those people with passions and potential. I've received quite a bit over the years taking chances, some of it as grants, some as government investments.

I've been fortunate and never had to rely on unemployment benifits, but I always knew in the back of my mind it was available if I fail. Soon I'll be able to fall back on my aged care benefits :)
This is my complaint with "cyber insurance". Companies spending money on insurance premiums and checklists for the insurance company rather than spending money on security.
I think the distinction is between historically urban department stores and big box suburban stores although there was a period when you had (now dying) department stores like Macy's in the suburbs.

I think it's an open question what happens to downtowns with the diminution of brick & mortar retail and people coming into offices (even if the latter has reversed in favor of office work more than some had predicted). A lot of cities have ebbed and flowed over time and there's no guarantee of a specific universal future pattern whatever some individuals may wish for.
nope, IIRC power scales with the square of clock speed
I think the Costco Idiocracy scene is probably going to be the most prescient portrayal of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNmOOq6T8Y

Trantor is the seat of a galactic empire with thousands if not millions of planets supplying its population. Skynet by Haliburton-Costco-TraderJoes will eat the world long before we're interplanetary.
You both specify the filesystem to be Btrfs. Is there any advantage in this case against ZFS, ext4, XFS... or is it just a practical choice?
So do you actually do real estate agent things: make contracts, review contracts, communicate with your client, negotiate on behalf of your client?

Or are you an information service specializing in real estate information?
Hi, nice project, I checked 3 repos before I figured you need to scroll to see results,
Caroline Ellison sentenced to 24 months in prison for FTX fraud
Ask HN: E-ink screen responsive enough for typing?
Context:

I try to write every day in the morning, and I even made an app for myself to practice that habit. I was thinking about using a separate (e-ink) display to write in the morning, however, most of the tech I know has a pretty low refresh rate.
There are also a lot of businesses that take cash because their owners have been banned from taking credit cards.
I think they're running out of optimizations (hacks). They moved memory on package and bought the latest TSMC node. I guess they could keep buying the latest node but I don't expect any more large leaps.
Now I am curious why 3M was using monazite specifically as a tape dispenser ballast.

So it is sand encased in resin. My initial thought was it is heavier(denser) than plain silica sand, And while it probably is, It feels weird that 3m specifically searched it out to use for that reason alone, I bet they had quite a bit of the stuff on hand for other products, and so might as well use the waste as a tape dispenser ballast.

A tangent on heavy rock ballast, I once saw a documentary on an offshore oil platform, and it was towed to the site, sunk and then filled with rocks to anchor it. the rocks used were specifically iron ore as that is significantly denser than most rocks.
“…maybe you’re hallucinating…” and “…I must be hallucinating…”
Have been part of human to human communication since the 60s, when people in fact could very seriously have been. It continued on for acid flashbacks and other surreal moments
Okay, I'll bite.

1. What is your definition of 'professional tools'?

2. What does Apple need to do to make Macs 'real' professional tools?
Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: a small camera update makes a big difference
When you are dealing with anything symbolic it's helpful to understand that all symbols are just concepts and measurements [0], and nothing else. You cannot really reduce the world to 2 dimensions. You need 4 for to describe reality, but then the map becomes the universe.

[0] https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html
Reality #1: Universal Basic Income (UBI) will empower people to break free from the grind of work. They'll have the freedom to start innovative companies, create art, make music, learn to dance, and generally enjoy happier, less stressful lives.

Reality #2: Alternatively, many might find themselves stuck at home, glued to their screens. This could lead to boredom and depression, resulting in online trolling and petty arguments. Some may even resort to crime out of frustration.
> your unbelievable claim

Please quote the specific claim you think is unbelievable.

(I assume you don't mean the declarations claim because you didn't even disagree with it.)
Neat!

We used to host our own mbtiles map for like $11/mo, but the problem was (this was prior to planetiler and people generating public worldwide mbtile dumps) there wasn't a free/cheap source for regularly-updated mbtiles. The dump from OpenMapTiles was not updated for years.

So we gave up and went to mapbox, where we regularly exceed the monthly free tier for web, but they give us a discount. Because that is a scary scenario and we are dying to pay a fixed monthly fee, I think we will try yours and donate!
Thanks for feedback. Our priority is on good service
Have you been running this for long? I've looked for something in this space for the last couple of years but only came across MapTiler /AGOL and a few others, that were either pretty expensive (for small datasets) or restrictive functionality.

If so I'd say you need to work on the SEO and findability side.
Ah, indeed. Here are the first 16 bytes of one:

4d 5a 71 46 70 44 3d 27 0a 00 00 10 00 f8 00 00 |MZqFpD='........|

There are already nul bytes here, and there are a lot more before the single quote gets closed at offset 0x200.
Also it's just not those concrete 190GBs a day. It's the 6x traffic you can fit in the same pipe :D
What about even larger number of people who did not get untested novel mrna injections and never suffered from brain fog?
Right, you CAN set that up, but in the US, not accepting visa and Mastercard is essentially untenable if you are a retailer or restaurant. You might be able to avoid accepting AmEx, but from talking with restaurant owners, the biggest spenders are often AmEx holders and are annoyed at having to use a backup card.
Previously, yes, but the future looks different. Pay by bank with instant payments is rapidly becoming an option (leveraging FedNow instant payments). Combined with the ability of merchants to surcharge credit card transactions, it is relatively straightforward to encourage consumers to low cost payment rails.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593450 ("HN: Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks")

Example service provider offering: https://www.fiserv.com/en/solutions/real-time-payments/now-g...
> It revolves around creating fake job ads and luring software developers to apply. During the hiring process, the crooks would trick the devs into downloading and running malicious packages, thus granting the attackers access to important resources.

Ok, that‘s a completely different attack vector then the one I assumed reading the title. I thought pip is compromised. Apparently not. This is social engineering, no?
It is important for some company to make home buying better. Even outside of the pain of unaffordability, it is an utterly broken process. Advent of LLMs do give hope that this process can be imporoved signifiantly.

Fun fact: I met Raymond and Raffi a long time ago and discouraged from going into this area. But now, I am glad they did. Their conviction is inspiring.

If Turbo tax can make it possible for a person to file taxes, I am pretty sure a home can be bought online.

Best of luck to modern realty! .. and we should hang again sometime :)
In Home Assistant you can use LLMs to control your Home with your voice. Gemini performs similar to the GPT models, and with the cost difference there is little reason to choose OpenAi
I think we should introduce as much friction as possible for the government to track us across businesses
Costco in the US doesn't accept Discover but does accept Visa. Heck, they even offer a Visa credit card which stands in as your official membership card.
I genuinely think that is the best Archimedes-only game, just pure arcade fun with split screen dogfights. Such an amazing technical grounding. In 1990!
> I think the AI agent actually can more easily ignore your race / age / gender

I challenge you to support that idea in any way.

> because it is not programmed to go look up those things

The concern is what it's trained on. How have you curated your data to avoid introducing biases based on race/gender/etc?

> people don't text their agent what they are - hard for the LLM to know these things and start to bias

The exact opposite. The way people communicate, especially via text, is heavily dependent on their background and is full of social signals. LLMs are trained on data sets that are often annotated with that kind of information.

How would you affirmatively prove that your LLM model wasn't making inferences about those categories that influence it's output?
Millions of flies can’t be wrong.

Or, more politely, a primer on how to confuse first-mover advantage with being any good.

C is abysmal by today’s standards, it being the first popular language for weak computers is literally what’s keeping it popular. Popularity is very valuable but please don’t confuse it with being good.
If your application allows for it, I also recommend checking out Protomaps / PMTiles. Brandon has some insanely cool work making a tile format and related infrastructure that scales nicely.
> until you attempt to measure one...

And even then, you are simply getting a measurement of a thing. The true concept you are measuring cannot be reduced to a measurement. Measurements give you a fuzzy picture of concepts, which can be useful, but are always wrong (the real thing is always more complicated and fuzzier)
Advancing the Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier with Llama-3.1-Nemotron-51B
> Edit: AI is currently being coded up to mimic my behavior/tone/advice/etc.

You, as a licensed attorney, are training an LLM to give your clients legal advice?
State coercion? You mean do I think that legal fictional entities (corporations) that exist by virtue of rules and laws, and benefits from the protection of those rules and laws, should also have to be subject to restrictions imposed by those rules and laws? Hell, we even forced Microsoft to offer third party browsers from their competitors at one point.

Yes, I do think that is a good idea.

We use state coercion to force Apple to not design products that burst into flames, to repair or replace products that the courts have deemed to be defective, we have even forced apple to use USB-C connectors, or as you say, to "misdesign" their products.

Apple can and has used the App store to hurt consumers and competitors. The terms and conditions aren't static, so what I agreed to when I bought my phone isn't the same as the current policy. I absolutely think that the state should "coerce" them to "misdesign" their software by removing an artificial limitation and to allow apps sourced from different servers than their own when it harms consumers and restricts competition.
> Oh, Norm Hardy's wife.

she has some funny stories in that interview about people saying things like that :)

but in this interview she's not talking about his work except briefly; she's talking about her own

she goes into some detail on the history of the evolution of the tymshare systems you're describing in that interview, though not as much as i had hoped. they continued evolving after la roy's article. thanks for posting a link to it!
This seems like a strangely cynical or naive perspective that just reinforces the anti-realtor messaging you think is injected by commenters. >50% of buyer agents are engaged through either referrals or repeat business. Are you not intending to use referrals as a customer acquisition channel?
Big box stores are really qualitatively different from what a department store was - although the department store's brilliant marketing innovation of letting customers handle the merchandise as if it was already theirs led to big box discount stores and supermarkets. Merchandising and decor have been going downhill in even the best mall anchor stores for decades, so maybe the gap isn't as big now, but it was a really different shopping experience within living memory.
The interesting metric would be what percent of Square/Venmo transactions come through legacy payment cards.

I'd guess it's pretty high in the US...
You actually brought to my attention a metric that I hadn't previously considered but now desperately want: branch coverage. I don't need 90% of lines covered, because one cannot measure coverage of missing lines

/* BadImpl.java */
if (theFile.exists()) {
doTheAwesome(theFile);
}
// uh, and else ... what?

/* BadImplTest.java */
@Test
public void looksGoodTestCoverage() {
theFile.create();
instance.runIt();
println("hurray, 100% coverage");
}

versus if the coverage tool was able to artificially rewrite the code to be this way, it would show up as not covered:

if (theFile.exists()) {
...
} else {
}
I guess I am not too far from the truth saying the CD (1982) is digital too. : )

I assume what they mean is no physical media (storage) before the DAC, or something like that.
What are we supposed to take away from a high the high profit?

How much did visa pay in taxes? Less than a single 140k family? Why are we comparing corporate taxes and individual taxes? They are completely different.
They used to only accept Amex and had a branded card. It worked fine for them that way too.
Interesting but not entirely accurate. Moldova has not existed as a state until 1991, after the dissolution of the USSR but it shows up on the map after WW2.
> Blockers for getting humans out of the loop

Do you think that people want humans out of the loop when it comes to buying and selling real estate?
> Most of this value is provided by the MSP and merchant banks, not by the card associations.

Not necessarily accurate. My bank does not offer the ability to reverse transactions or replace funds lost to merchants. They also can't remove fraudulent merchants from the payment network.
> I think you should be prepared for these challenging questions far more early on than you'd expect.

Maybe. I have no idea what her interests and desires will be, nor do I control them. I can at best try to nudge them in certain directions, and offer what little guidance and support I can when the time comes.

What I can say in the subject of sexuality and gender, is that it was something I was completely uninterested in until I was closer to puberty. My peers were pretty much the same. I have the impression that younger generations are dealing with it much earlier. I am not sure if this is healthy. I tend to think it is not.

> "I don't know. I don't make the rules. I just follow." isn't something I'm personally comfortable with or passing on to my children.

One of my main challenges is guiding my daughter on how to navigate a world that at best is uninterested in her happiness and well being, and at worst is outright malevolent.

Part of this challenge is teaching her that society has many expectations of her, and choosing what mountains to climb and what hills to die on is something that is part of life.

Since sexuality and gender are very touchy subjects, I can give many other examples. She is expected to go through school, no matter if she wants to. When she is older she is expected to have skills that are of use in a system of work and bosses that you have to adhere to in order to have a functional life. I can go on and on about the very many things that are imposed on everyone by a careless, harsh, and unfair world.

Not following rules is typically a luxury of the elites. While I am thankfully much more affluent than my parents were, we are far from rich.
> When the Toyota corporation built my car they didn't start with unrefined steel ore.

Well, actually, they did.[1] Toyota has their own steel mills. "Great cars are made with great steel".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aichi_Steel
> Especially as, being a non-US citizen I have no right to privacy afforded to me in the constitution

Say what? Ok, there is no explicit "right to privacy" anywhere in the US Constitution, but that applies equally to citizens and non-citizens. Whatever is in the Constitution applies to everyone regardless of citizenship, with only a few exceptions. And those exceptions don't have much to do with anything you might refer to as privacy. (They're about whether state governments can mess with you. And were I a non-citizen, it's the states that I would be worried about, given that many of them are actively trying to make things harder for non-citizens.)

Unreasonable search and seizure, in particular, applies to everyone. The courts have repeatedly affirmed this.

Unless you're talking about non-citizens outside US borders, or crossing them? That's much murkier.
Yeah exactly! The longer we can make it without having to shard the firehose, the better. It's a lot less complex to consume as a single stream.
Luckily for the government, the law doesn't say "monopoly" or require them to prove there is only one company operating. The law just says that anyone that has market power (which one might have with only a tiny percent of the whole market) can't do certain things.
That seems like very high-risk work. How do you manage that liability?
Azure AI Confidential Inferencing: Technical Deep-Dive
Not sure it has to make sense. It just has to convince people long enough for people who are driving for war to get their war. Hardly any of it seems to make any sense at all.
I didn't dismiss anything. Ideology is not necessarily bad.
I buy about 99% of what I consume online, so yeah, I would guess that old, large, and wasteful ventures will eventually die out.
This change happened in 2015, for anyone who remembers Costco and amex being inseparable: https://www.costco.ca/_ax-faq.html
> Not just cell phones; with Secure Boot and BitLocker, computers are more locked down too.

You can just disable secure boot, no? I just got a brand new laptop today, and I could just disable it. I know you can get Linux to work with it, but I can't be arsed to mess about with it and the practical security benefits for me are basically zero.

Also, don't underestimate the friction that existed in the 90s or early 00s. Nothing worked on Linux or BSD. My government sent me .doc files. Tons of stuff was Windows-only desktop software.[1] Mucking about with xfree86 -configure and /etc/X11/.... was far from easy or straight-forward. Internet access was far more rare and "just Google it" wasn't really a thing, etc. etc. etc.

If I look at the amount of effort I spent to "just get Linux running" back in 2000 or so when I first tried it vs. today, then I'm fairly sure the overall experience is a lot better today. Sure, you need to deal with some stupid nonsense, but that was always the case.

[1]: For all the hate the "modern web" gets from some people here: it does replace tons of crappy desktop stuff with an abstracted isolated VM which, among other benefits, makes running "alternative" systems like Linux or BSD far more viable.
Even though CompuServe was mostly gone by the time I moved here, its influence on the Columbus tech scene is still felt. You can draw lots of fuzzy cause-and-effect lines from Compuserve to the huge data center boom we are having right now.
What you’re describing isn’t UBI; it’s just traditional welfare. UBI advocates are aware of problems with welfare and believe that UBI wouldn’t suffer from the same issues.
It's a benefit on the receiving side too. And it has ecological benefits. Nothing to sneeze at.
This UI is insane: there's literally an animated orb added on top of every page you visit! When you hover it, four buttons appear with actions, which open the sidebar. I'm not sure if they are trolling us.
Rotation-Based Compression
Uh oh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPIUGnHQ8
Luckily for the government, the law doesn't say "monopoly" or require them to prove there is only one company operating. The law just says that anyone that has market power (which one might have with only a tiny percent of the whole market) can't do certain things. It's anti-trust law, not anti-monopoly law.
I was sure it would be off the island somewhere so I looked it up. There are many depots around the boroughs and they seem to handle their servicing internally there.

There is one not far off of Times Square.
Demons Souls and Returnal immediately come to mind. I know there are more but not sure which other ones weren't also dropped on PS4.
I agree its desperately needed. But we also desperately need investment in the language itself (not just the runtime).
Except the research shows almost exactly the opposite?
This is, yet again, Y-Combinator backing an AI startup that is a terrible idea, with people who don't recognize what a terrible idea it is (the responses by the poster in this thread smack of inexperience and someone who hasn't thought through the risk their building for themselves and their customers).

I thought the Y-Combinator backed company whose entire pitch was that they could use AI to forge survey results had to be rock bottom.
Oh nice my bad, I was just looking at the tables