skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost no retailers offer a discount for using cash or a debit card. You're paying the retailer either way. Whether they pay a transaction fee or pocket it isn't much of a difference to you.
In 2022 there were ~57k PHDs awarded in the USA [0].

In the same year, there were ~500k immigrant visas [1].

If every single PHD was for immigration, it'll still only be ~10% of the total. And even if the thesis was "forced", just getting to PHD level means you're very much in the top echelons of education, and even then takes multiple years - as someone who immigrated with "only" a BSc I suspect they'll be able to use one of the many other paths instead with less effort.

I'm not sure the logic holds.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/02/05/numb...

[1] https://www.bal.com/perspectives/bal-news/united-states-us-v...
Intuitively you shouldn't even need to ask this question though. There are a billion and a half iPhone users out there. Numbers at this scale can be tricky to comprehend, but the takeaway should be that even if just 10% of users want the option (an extremely conservative estimate), that's still 150 million people with a need. That's more people than there are HN viewers (not just users) there are per day, several times over, so this is absolutely not a need only floated by "HN nerds." Hell, even 1% of the iPhone userbase vastly outnumbers HN by every metric. There is obviously demand, and I mean popular, non-nerd demand. Ask your friends or parents if they would like more space on their iPhone or if they have ever had to delete an app to make space for another or if they have ever been reluctant to install an app because it was too big. A very common one I see especially with older folks is that they take too many pictures and agonize over deleting some to get more space, and yes, they could use iCloud, but they're very old and hardly understand software, much less as a subscription service. Much easier for their grandkid to pop in a 2 TB micro SD and call it a day (not to mention several times cheaper, but let's get to that next!). This is not up for debate, demand absolutely exists at a massive scale.

You are right however that "manufacturers [specifically Apple] aren't going to be feeling much pressure" to change their design because right now they are absolutely gouging the general public and making hundreds of millions of dollars off of it. An iPhone 16 Pro 128 GB is $1000, and a TB is $1500. They are selling less than a terabyte of space for five hundred dollars, over five times the cost of a gold standard 1 TB micro SD which costs under $100. If you opt for iCloud you pay almost a thousand dollars a year, well over 10x as much as a micro SD. Of course there is no pressure to divert from their current model: They're getting away with highway robbery. Scale that to the 150 million or so people with a valid need for storage (again, this is an extremely conservative estimate) and you have numbers in the billions. They will ABSOLUTELY ignore a valid need and never fix the problem of not offering a reasonable storage method if their insane storage method results in so much money.
Visa charges 3%. Everything you buy could be 3% cheaper, that's better than cash back.
Is there any evidence to say that they happened? The only thing I have seen is extrapolation from comments made online about polyamory. Is there a source citing specific events at specific locations?
Yes. In Germany there is Giropay, where you get redirected to your online banking (it remembers your bank), you have to log in, and submit the already pre-filled transaction. It's literally a normal bank transfer from the user perspective. Not something that happens on the server side.
The restriction isn't on them seeing your posts. It's on you seeing their posts. If you don't want them to see your posts, Twitter provides that functionality too. It just isn't called "blocking".
I completely missed that.

The license file also says that it's "free" and ensures that we have the "freedom to use it":

"""
The Winamp Collaborative License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. It is designed to ensure that you have the freedom to use, Modify, and study the software, but with certain restrictions on the distribution of modifications to maintain the integrity and collaboration of the project.
"""

Looks like there's already pushback in the issues section [1] [2].

[0] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/blob/community/LICEN...

[1] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/16

[2] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/6
The sibling comments are incorrect, the minimum security prisons are called 'Federal Prison Camps", the colloquial name is 'Club Fed'. There aren't a ton of these facilities, so I can see why other people thought that the camp phrasing wasn't literal. Think military camp rather than summer camp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...
This is actually a term used by the BOP to describe minimum security institutions:

"Minimum security institutions, also known as Federal Prison Camps (FPCs), have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing. These institutions are work- and program-oriented."

https://www.bop.gov/about/facilities/federal_prisons.jsp
Seems like a Parquet or SQLite file would have been more appropriate
> Is there anyone here who got into computer science because of The Matrix?

Not personally. However, I can say that a lot of people got into trenchcoats, sunglasses, and lil slide out phones because of The Matrix.
> Research doesn’t show the government providing cheap or free money doesn’t inflate prices?

The post being replied to said:

> There is not doubt in my mind that if we somehow implemented a UBI in a way that would not just result in inflation of rent and everyday goods, the vast majority of people would simply stop working, get bored, depressed, and more likely go looking for mischief before they started working on useful or interesting hobby projects.

So, the response saying that the research doesn't support that conclusion is not about the "that would not just result in" there, it's about countering the remainder of that point. Most people will not choose to do absolutely nothing. (And if some people do, that's fine!)

That's separate from the many arguments that UBI is not inherently inflationary, which neither the post you replied to or the post it replied to were making.
If you don't see the contradiction in JPL having an active research project to put a radio telescope on the moon and your original statement then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
It's called "Chromecast with Google TV" and it wasn't $25 until they made the cheaper version that doesn't do 4k.

Afaik Google TV is to Android TV what Pixel OS is to Android. Both the "Chromecast with Google TV" and the new "Google TV Streamer" are technically running "full Android TV".

Also they were sold mainly as a Roku/Fire stick competitor. Maybe they marketed it alongside YouTube TV but also there's a dedicated Netflix button on the remote.
This piques my interest, as I have worked in this space for some years, AND I've had terrible experiences purchasing homes in Bay Area and elsewhere.

Product questions:

- How is your solution better/different/cheaper for buyers who would otherwise choose a discount buyer realtor services from Zillow or Redfin?

- Who will be doing the tours?

- Are you offering a tour-only non-exclusive representation agreements?

Business questions:

- Seller agents in the Bay Area will definitely "blacklist" buyers who use this, as they've done for Redfin and Open Listings. How are you solving this?

- Why are incumbent giants not building this? Are you worried or solving for some unknown pressure that stalls tech-realty startups in general?

- Residential real estate transactions more often than not require some high-touch shenanigans due to things like liens, solar loans, inspections, contingencies, negotiations, etc... how are you solving for this?
There were plenty of UI-based low code platforms. But they required that we adopt new abstractions, use their UI, and log into 5 different tools (logging, observability, analytics, evals, fine-tuning) just to run basic software infra. We didn’t feel these would be long-term solutions, and just wanted the data in our own DB.
That seems a lot like duck typing to me.
> I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars.

You’d rather spend 50 years _totally free_ in your cubicle?
If superintelligence is all it takes, why do you think to date no unscrupulous Nobel laureate has taken over the world and enslaved the rest of humanity?
Very sad to see it gone. It was always some kind of last resort. Internet Archive is lovely, don't get me wrong, but it relies mostly on people actively queueing up sites to save.

So most of the time for more obscure sites where the bitrot was already in place and they aren't loading anymore you could use the Google cache to get something out of it – where IA had nothing.
_Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn_ was released in 2019, same year that the YouTube app was killed by Google. Also, one is a release, which means that's the point in time it started working, while one is the exact opposite, the point it stopped working.

Not only were you off by two years, you're talking about literal opposites there.

And surely the most popular video service no longer being available on the second most popular handheld console released since the launch of that service surely justifies at least those few pixels on a website that specifically covers things made not available by the owners of said video service, especially since it was a standalone product.
Mkbsd: Download all the wallpapers in MKBHD's "Panels" app for free
It probably doesn't apply as much to white collar criminals but I wonder if she would be considered a snitch by her fellow inmates.
Also, those numbers are for the US market. In Europe, merchant credit card fees are half what they are in the US.

https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/articles/na-vs-eu-i...

Grandparent commenter was engaging in a false dilemma fallacy (cash handling vs US merchant cc fees...and not US merchant CC fees vs what the rest of the world pays.)
Very cool. I was surprised though to see keywords seems to be hardcoded, would be great to be able to graph and keywords and phrases. Any decent search engine should be able to support that
To all, no. A summarized cache of the most important knowledge, yes!
context https://x.com/kaepora/status/1838651348797063276
After my first home buying experience, I can assure you that "emotional support" is actually "emotional manipulation"
I'm pretty sure people who used google's web cache comprised a tiny fraction of one percent of their entire user base, and this move doesn't even put the tiniest ding in their brand.
A common goal, but tumors mutate and bypass a lot of normal cell functions. Keep in mind that when dying cancer patients starve in the end, the tumors don't slow.

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/study-unveils-new-way-starve...

https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2024/05/02/drug-shows...

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/01/30/starving-cancer...
Nit: have orgies
> Not to mention people attempting to slander others behind a block (so the person being slandered has no idea until the damage is already done)

I saw someone once post about their outrage over the practice of criticizing someone on Twitter without tagging the person you're criticizing in your tweet. ("Subtweeting.") Apparently the thinking goes that if anyone anywhere says something about you, you have the right to be notified.
OpenSnippets – A platform for sharing creative p5.js code snippets
Hey! This is my first project where I used AI to create something I've been dreaming about for so long. With the help of AI, I was finally able to make it! openSnippets is a platform for sharing creative p5.js code snippets. I combined a Twitter-like feed with displayed canvases for snippets. There are also a few tiers based on code length, in case someone wants to fit everything into a single tweet. Keep in mind that the project is in beta, and I'm an explorer in the generative art space, not a professional programmer.
Hubble observed less than 30 galaxies. I could never understand how they concluded that the _whole universe_ was expanding by observing a mere 30 galaxies. It doesn't make sense in terms of statistics. The sample is too small, more importantly, the population is unknown.
> pay people to do stuff

UBI allows people to choose what stuff they consider productive. UBI means anyone can work on a startup, or try to start a project, or try an artistic endeavor, or do research. UBI means everyone can afford to take some risks and still have a fallback plan.
SEPA is well established all across the eurozone though, even in countries with considerable legacy infrastructure.
So 3% and even lower touch service, oh yea “the seller pays for it” right? Buyer Agents are already grossly overpaid for the amount of actual work involved IMO, you so much as pointed that out in your stated value prop except found a way to keep the greedy commissions and not actually improve anything for the buyer.

There’s flat fee agents that will do exactly this without AI and at a cost of $500-1000 where I live. You should do that and go for volume. Edit: Oh and their offer doc includes a clause that effectively negates the 3% buyer commission and nets seller the same amount without letting their agent keep the full 6%

If you could normalize this, you will have truly disrupted the industry. As is, your an ai substitution for status quo
This sounds good, but i can't help but feel is Visa is brought down, we will have a hundred hydra heads feed on us instead.
One more thing, I would suggest to make comparisons linkable - I was looking to share with folks the graph of how MySQL vs PostgreSQL is doing, sadly the URL still links to generic keyword comparison tool
Zed code editor looks more interesting, plus it is modern, open-source, and actively developed
I used to make my own plane reservations using the CompuServe SABRE gateway. Normal people just couldn’t comprehend this.

(At that time, youngsters, the normal thing was to use a travel agent because the only other way to compare fares was to call each airline individually on the phone. The agent did this using their very expensive SABRE terminal.)
> Blocking doesn't really fix the brigading problem

Automated blocking absolutely solved most of the problem. In the late 2010s it was common for political accounts to use scripts that went through follower graphs for their worst repliers and blocked everyone, or went through the list of people liking a certain tweet and blocked all those accounts.

They were quite fond of that approach and were happy with the outcome pre-Elon. Even if someone in the "bad group" screenshotted a tweet from their target to make fun of it, the target didn't really get bothered by it because they walled themselves well enough. The screenshotter is incentivized to not interact with their target so they don't get blocked again, and no one excited by all the dunking cared enough to go harass the target anyway.

Now as someone who found themselves in a few blockchains during peak Bernie-mania, I like the proposed change. I've been blocked by several popular accounts because of who I followed, and I will enjoy being able to reliably read someone's content even if I'm not allowed to interact.
Credit card companies make absurd profits. This means: In expectation, you are paying more than you benefit. It's basically an insurance. Buying insurance only makes sense for sums so large they could easily bankrupt you. But credit cards are used mainly for small to medium sums.
"runway and low rents to keep whiddling away on, until it happened "

That's exactly it. Living here in the city. I have cheap rent $680 decent work and the room and time to spend my day coding on projects that I feel like matter.

The projects don't feel fully baked, but getting closer right. I just need the time and space to work on them.

well said.
> They are making the same offer no matter what

Obviously seller can decide if agree on minimum price. Otherwise I doubt if someone would sell if bidding would end at $1k for a home. If seller wanna sell apartment for $100k then they expect that someone bids with $105k to covert agent fee.

> And sellers aren’t going to take 6% less if they don’t have an agent.

Why not? I many times did a deal with AirBnB host after few weeks of renting by talking with them directly and asking for the same rent minus AirBnB fees. They had no problems with that because they would earn the same amount and only cutting the middle man.

> the cost to make the good only sets a price floor,

Fee based on percent like 6% doesn't have any floor. You really believe that if we now change this fee to 66% this wouldn't have any impact on buyer and buyer would be fine because this 66% fee is paid buy seller?
Thanks -- I've tried with "Hey Sonos" for my (Sonos) Bluetooth speaker but it doesn't work -- it still only fast-forwards 15 seconds.
I was already coding but it was a significant motivator (along with Kurzweil) for me to pursue AGI as my focus
That only makes sense if cash is the only form of payment a business accepts
Never been, but I suspect GP’s comments has to do with the stigma and limitations once you are a convicted felon.
No. It all has to do with retailers belief in “Psychological pricing”. Whether that belief is well founded or not is an open question but pre or post tax pricing is irrelevant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
The "safety" filters used to make Gemini models nearly unusable.

For example, this prompt was apparently unsafe: "Summarize the conclusions of reputable econometric models that estimate the portion of import tariffs that are absorbed by the exporting nation or company, and what portion of import tariffs are passed through to the importing company or consumers in the importing nation. Distinguish between industrial commodities like steel and concrete from consumer products like apparel and electronics. Based on the evidence, estimate the portion of tariffs passed through to the importing company or nation for each type of product."

I can confirm that this prompt is no longer being filtered which is a huge win given these new lower token prices!
It's useful in the liquid drop model to think of the nucleus as being composed of a multitude of discrete particles. With each particle being an incompressible sphere, the strength of nuclear bonding makes sense as close nucleons interact strongly with eachother while more distant nuclei have weaker interactions, or beyond a certain point no interation, while their electromagnetic charges are not so hindered. It also scales up well for neutron stars, explaining why neutron star density matches nuclear density - in both cases it's just a bunch of piled up nucleons. Isomers make sense as different arrangements of the nucleons, and you can get some isomers with really funky geometries like halo nuclei.
> What happens in that case is that competitors copy your hardware and throw the open source firmware on it to undercut you.

The entire premise of firmware is that it's specific to the hardware. By the time they "copy your hardware" it's already obsolete. Also, that's the thing you're actually selling. Your firmware sucks. Nobody wants your firmware unless they have your hardware. People are paying you for the hardware, which is the thing cheap competitors can't make as well as you or you're already screwed.
Do they get 4% back on dining? Do they take advantage of the 3x rewards on flights and hotels?

Every advantage of credit cards is designed to attract credit-rich customers and ward off liabilities.
Blocks are (were) an easy line of defense for most of the lazy trolling. People could get around it but few bothered.

It might have not been ideologically consistent but it was effective.
What does that statistic look like for other nations?
Please note the peerpub comments discussing that it appears that followup research shows about 15% is wrong, not the 5% anticipated.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/14B6D332F814462D2673B6E9EF9...
For what it's worth I run every query I make through all the major models and Google's censorship is the only one I consistently hit.

I think I bumped into Anthropics once? And I know I hit ChatGPTs a few months back but I don't even remember what the issue was.

I hit Google's safety blocks at least a few times a week during the course of my regular work. It's actually crazy to me that they allowed someone to ship these restrictions.

They must either think they will win the market no matter the product quality or just not care about winning it.
Nobody is suggesting cash as a "solution" except you.

The issue isn't the solution, the issue is the staggering cost of the service in the US vs everywhere else. It's 2x higher in the US, for no good reason other than having a monopoly. In Europe near-instant wiring of money is trivial so for large purchases, businesses can just accept a transfer - so MC/Visa have competition there.

Here, wire transfers are a royal pain in the ass, slow, and expensive, so there's no competition. Zelle and others are slowly changing that, but they mostly compete against paypal for p2p payments, not b2c etc.
I don't see how anyone but Linus could sign off on changing something as large as "Rust code is now required to build the kernel." I'm also not aware of anyone suggesting that should change.

I know who Ted is as well. That's why I expect better behavior. Then again, I'm not involved in any way, so my opinions don't really matter.
This only applies to life sciences, social sciences right? Or are most papers in computer science or mechanical engineering also false?
Does it mean they are more or less serious? what exactly are the connections?
If you add <WarningsAsErrors>nullable</WarningsAsErrors>, the below will not compile:

var bytes = (byte[]?)null;
Console.WriteLine(bytes.Length);

That and, well, all variables must be assigned before use. You'd be right to point out it's a band-aid, a convenient one but still.
In the real world, a prosecutor can only nail a higher-up with the cooperation of the people lower down. Those people only cooperate if they get a lighter sentence. It's too bad, but that's how it is and it plays out every day in criminal courts.

As for Diddy: a real, disinterested DOJ would say, "oh, you can testify against <people more famous than you>? Well, we might be able to cut you a deal."

Of course, if the DOJ is not interested in prosecuting those people, then no deal. If they think Diddy is already important enough and they can't let him slide, then no deal, or at least, a medium-stiff sentence.

Finally, two years in prison is not a picnic. See if you want to do it.
I use it mostly for the "Google TV" part, not for the "Chromecast" part.
Over on peerpub there has been some discussion of studies on the topic.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/14B6D332F814462D2673B6E9EF9...
You can do them too, haha