skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> every foreigner buying a house still results in 1 less house for Spaniards

Absolutely not. For example my impression is that foreign demand has been great for the construction industry, both small and large, both in Spain and Portugal. Paying lots of people directly and still more indirectly. The presence of all these buildings that needed renovation (or demolition) shows that the population previously could not afford to use them. Dumping money in the economy causes some inflation, yes, but it also pays many people and allows still more to enter the field.
IDF Unit 8200 consists of thousands of conscripts serving their mandatory military service. If I were in Israel subject to conscription, I would absolutely have attempted to position myself into that unit for my mandatory service, as would most here. Beats the infantry.

What exactly am I confusing by pointing that out?

Were you under the impression that this unit was something like the NSA, staffed with people who chose to spy on people as a career? Because it's not. It's staffed by kids who are very good with computers and who—when given a choice between covert intelligence and a branch that actively shoots guns at people—chose the intelligence arm. Which would you have chosen?
We focused so much on how that we didn’t stop to ask why.

We already have an interface for agents, we call that an API. Why do we need to have AI click buttons, that eventually call an API. Just skip the middle layer and go straight to an API that does everything that system is capable of doing.
It wasn't until 2044 that the Black Wall was implemented to separate the rogue AIs from the corporate nets. As is often postulated though, how would a network of rogue AIs power themselves? LLMs being quite energy intensive, it's impossible to know what technology would actually create AGI and if that will as well be energy intensive, but basically all intelligence to date including humans have proven to be quite demanding in resources.
This is going to end up like that pit on Oak Island that people think has pirate gold at the bottom.

150 years from now, National Geographic is going to be making TV shows about adventurers in hazmat suits digging in the landfill for the lost private key.
No, it's because complexity comes with a cognitive cost, and delegating responsibility to other entities minimizes this

If you don't account for the benefit, it looks irrational, but this is true of absolutely anything
That's fair enough, but that leaves a certain level of ambiguity (or perhaps ambivalence) about what is prioritized by government. What we can say is that the track owners' priorities are clear.

The Biden administration did begin to take steps to enforce the law in this area, but I think it did not get very far and will almost certainly cease in the new administration.
Inflation if the coins were recovered.
Indeed, and they also grow different varieties. The ones destined for the store are bred for shipment and long term storage -- the so called "cardboard tomato."
I think by in large the other side is redemption and second chances. The stereotypical American parent (which isn’t a rule by far) helps their kids launch - and is there to catch them and relaunch them when it doesn’t work out. Many parents don’t live up to this but that’s what I grew up believing the goal is. It’s a two way thing - the parents help to their means and the kids strive to their ability. Neither work out sometimes as adequate, and that’s when we take care of family.
The solution to pollution is dilution.

Dilution in time counts as well.
the people who most strongly value $9 over a drive into lower Manhattan, to be more accurate
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I have heard that LLM's transpile between languages perfectly. They'll be able to fix problems like this.

However on a serious note, "the industry" fears even writing the entire codebase in a 'non common' language because of it, let alone your strawman idea of multiple languages.
"Private sector jobs in New York City rose by 79,800 over-the-year to 4,236,900 in November 2024." Amazing what people believe.
As a thought experiment let’s take a technocratic moonshot: air traffic control but for 500k surface vehicles on 100k blocks.

Pricing reduces congestion, but only indirectly, and only in aggregate over the area to which it applies. Where is your ambition, hackers?! NYC could take this whole idea to the next level — level of hell, I’m sure some would think — and require that every vehicle needs a real time permit to be in motion on a block-by-block basis.

Permits are available only when the streets have capacity for another vehicle. When you park up, your permit gets released. When you want to get back on the road you join the back of the line for a new real-time permit to drive.

Stop lights could hold back traffic from entering congested areas. If you want to enter an area and it is full up, you have to sit and wait for another car to leave that cell. The central system manages the queues fairly: if a car exits the West boundary then you can enter on the East boundary if you were next in line.

It sounds like misery but honestly if the goal of any congestion policy is to ensure that traffic density never exceeds a given threshold, isn’t using globally coordinated block-level traffic control the ultimate way to achieve that goal?

The whole thing also sounds like a dream — again, possibly a fever dream — to implement and fine tune. NetEng has some transferable skills in this domain which could come in handy.

Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but also slightly hang on this is a great idea.
According to the article, the plaintiff's claimed number of Bitcoins has changed, not just their value in fiat currency.
I've only not bought something at Starbucks when I've gone there once, I think. Always feel weird if I go and don't get anything.

I'd go there a lot more if the pumpkin spice latte were year-round. Alas.
How do you propose we handle logistics or emergency vehicles? I’m all for more walkable cities but rip them all up and replace them with what? Rails which are more expensive and less flexible? Pneumatic tube? Even if you switched to single person cargo bikes you would still want dedicated areas for vehicles versus pedestrians.
256k context window and FIM support sounds good. I can't see it mentioned on the release page how big the model is, they say sub-100B but they are comparing it to 22B and the 22B seems to hold up quite well against it. If we're talking 80B vs 22B then it seems like quite a heavy-weight model.
"Company that hopes to make a lot of consulting revenue from selling AI agents says AI agents are going to be the next big thing."
I meant more stuff like fast food and retail jobs.
So still a convicted felon then?
Can you guys stop using twitter, its blocked by dns here
I think you describe it really well. There is certainly a large pocket of black communities on social media sharing dreams of a Western takeover, ranging anywhere from outright (fraudulently) claiming inventions they never invented, brazenly replacing characters in every form of entertainment, all the way to openly proposing a white purge, let's call it. Very concerning.

What's even weirder is that this content was rarely ever flagged in the Twitter days, and still prevails on X today. Demonizing anyone of white European descent on Reddit is also completely acceptable, and doesn't result in moderation.
Depends if it's a currency or a store of wealth.

E.g. destroy half the gold in the world, price doubles...
Seconded. I was extremely impressed when in response to one of my emailed questions, they directly contacted a manufacturer to ask about the acid content of a particular paper. But that’s not all! They then updated the specs on their listing to include the info I’d asked about on their site. It’s so refreshing to frequent a business that’s so serious about their work!
There are simply few, I don't shy away from them. Other than tools replaced by ruff, httpie, twine, ptpython, yt-dlp, and my own tools I don't need anything else. Most "user" tools are provided by the system package manager.

All the other project-specific things go in venvs where they belong.

This is all a non-issue despite constant "end of the world" folks who never learned sysadmin and are terrified of an error.

If a libraries conflict, uninstall them, and put them in a venv. Why do all the work up front? I haven't had to do that in so long I forget how long it was. Early this century.
It’s Fei-Fei and Christopher Ré. These are serious people.
> The quickest solution, assuming learning from the problem isn't the priority, might be to replace the entire chain of lights without testing any of them.

So as a metaphor for software debugging, this is "throw away the code, buy a working solution from somewhere else." It may be a way to run a business, but it does not explain how to debug software.
The programmable web is a thing for a long time and I have spent a large portion of my career building infrastructure in that space. Agents are another iteration of digital transformation of services and I am all in for it. That doesn't mean it will replace humans as users. Agents will just operate on another entry point. Maybe compare it to non-lit tunnels for autonomous driving without passengers.
My guess is 2026 to 2030...

- ChatGPT releases a phone where the Lock Screen UI is like a FaceTime call with ur AI agent (can skin ur agent /assistant to however u want). H.E.R. The movie in ur pocket who does everything for u

- All business will have their own agents and ur personal assistant / agent interfaces with them to get things done for you. I guess your agent could interface with your friends agent when they're not available.
You are reading it correctly. There have never been more jobs in NY than there are right now. The unfortunately problem is that it appears all of the extra people are employed in making shit up and posting it on the Internet. "Vice President in Charge of Charlie Brown's Hoes" or similar roles.
For example: https://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/dps/pdfs/dp137810.pdf
150 years from now, bitcoin will most likely have zero value.

There's far too much happening in the world to assume the shape of it will hold up that long, even if you're the biggest bitcoin bull.

AI/AGI/ASI, quantum and post-quantum computing, WWIII and nuclear war, the space race, etc. And that's just scratching the surface of what might happen.
AI Agents will be the death of the AI hype. Nobody knows what is a agent. Is running a scraping script an agent? Is something that constructs code on itself based on plain english requirement an agent?

What comes aftet agent? Nobody knows. It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23.
Yes. There's a lot in this. And I would think this predominates. Great counter-example.
Things like Aunt Jemima/Pearl Milling Company Pancake Syrup has these ingredients, and it's been pretty similar for decades:

. CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, CELLULOSE GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM BENZOATE AND SORBIC ACID (PRESERVATIVES), SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE.

https://www.pearlmillingcompany.com/products/syrups/original

But things which are labeled "pure maple syrup" have some pretty solid USDA standards; its a pretty regulated terminology. Even the generic/house brands are real maple syrup.

https://www.kroger.com/p/private-selection-100-pure-grade-a-...

Similarly you gotta watch out for real honey versus fake honey flavored corn syrup. Most bottles you'll find in the store will be real honey but little packets will often be "honey sauce".
You’ve done this sort of work? There are a few in Berkeley I would like to try my hand at…
I don't know, all of these are pretty surmountable. We've done dynamic pricing with contextual multi-armed bandits, in which each context gets a single decision per time block and gross profit is summed up at the end of each block and used to reward the agent.

That being said, I agree that MABs are poor for experimentation (they produce biased estimates that depend on somewhat hard-to-quantify properties of your policy). But they're not for experimentation! They're for optimizing a target metric.
I don’t understand why we have so many companies working on vector databases when the real value is in fine tuned embeddings. Having recently evaluated vector DB’s to handle 100M+ nodes, everything will run you $1 - 8k per month. Yet using embeddings fine tuned on a specific use case, will lower that 10X since you can get away with way coarser vectors.

This makes so much intuitive sense - voyage please release an insurance focused model.
It reduces the risk only if your self-hosted solution also doesn't fall over.

It's like saying "I can reduce the risk of my rental car failure by owning my own car", assuming your own car you keep undriven in your garage, doesn't have a dead battery, no gas, flat tires, and proves to be unusable for hauling.

The "cloud" was touted as the fix for all that nuisance in self-hosting. Magically Jeff's bit barn would work to five 9s of uptime, and you could sit back and write your code, unshackled to infra. Until Jeff's bit barn went tits up.

I say the "cloud" is just another guys data center behind an API.

You wanna cloud experience? Put an API in front of your own servers and burn a $100 bill.
> If that's the case, then there's not much to see here

They could have demonstrated the POC without sending data about the installing host, including all your environment variables, upstream. That seems like crossing the line
Only the rich get to drive too.

Cars loans, insurance , fuel and maintenance all costs money. There are lot of people who cannot afford to pay for any of it, we subsidize them too[1] to buy cars or invest in public transit instead ?

In a capitalist society , benefits are enjoyed by those with wealth, this what we signed up .

I am not saying it is a good or bad we have this, just that congestion pricing is hardly the issue to discuss changing economic systems

[1] absence of congestion pricing is a subsidy, costs of transport infrastructure is only partly paid by users of the infra at present .
This is how China and most Europe does it for their big cities. Identical effectiveness minus the regressivity for the poor.

If the city wants to buy more buses they can always send higher tax bills to their residents
Would be great to have a bios switch for it then.
I put gnuplot code and python code in my shell scripts all the time.

Someone like you should think of it as a jupyter notebook that doesn't need a web browser.
I’d say a cherry picked example is backed by random chance (possibly counter to the trend) while a poster child example has an explanation (not necessarily correct) for being the most sensitive to the variable being changed.
Why does this site still suck so much
Can't order by hot/top (what was interesting over the last 48hrs? 7 days? etc).

PG can post his spam and we have to engage it.

The url news.ycombinator.com is of no use to 99% of us, we dont care about PG's startup incubator.

Why is no one setting HN free from PG's reign of mediocrity?
I like to drive. Edit: see also this pro-car, pro-toll note by Bryan Caplan.

https://www.betonit.ai/p/cars-could-be-even-more-convenient
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style and please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle? You've been doing these things repeatedly, they're not what this site is for, and they destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
And there's also a good chance that the honey they're consuming is just honey-flavored corn syrup anyway
It was also really cold in NYC last week.
>Could provinces do it?

Yes. The Canadian Supreme Court's Re Secession legalized secession. More info: <https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/tkg5gf/who_has...>.

>They are not strictly republics - they still each have a lieutenant governor, appointed by the governor general and act as the King’s representative. Passage of legislation still requires royal assent.

Nothing prevents former Canadian states from retaining parliamentary systems after annexation. They would still need a governor, either elected or appointed by the federal government, who would fulfill the role the king's representative does now, but that is no different from any former monarchy that, after becoming a republic, now elects a president to serve in that role.
If you mod by anything other than a power of two, it won't be. https://lemire.me/blog/2019/06/06/nearly-divisionless-random...
I know a lot of families that would do that.

You'd have a lot of recipies call for some amount of corn syrup but rarely go through a whole bottle. Mom probably didn't want to just throw it out, and the Aunt Jemima was pretty much the same with some caramel color and a few other added flavors. Might as well use up the two year old Karo on the kids waffles and get some fresh stuff for the next holiday baking season.
Downtown only exists in the first place because roads go there. You know the old saying? All roads lead to Rome. Cities concentrate people and need a lot of resources to be sustainable, and roads are what bring these resources.
I wouldn’t even bet on money as we know it today even existing that far ahead.
Quick House Renovation Ideation with AI
Yes, it is easier said than done. At my company we use buildkite and many people wrote scripts that simply fail outside of buildkite.

GitHub actions is even worse, it seems like it was designed from the ground up to create lock in.

Nix helps a bit on the bootstrapping and dependency management problem, but won't save you from writing a script that is too tightly coupled to its runtime environment.
>The problem with that perspective is that the concept of copyright originates from and only exists within that system. Copyright itself is a legal contrivance. If you want to propose some other way of doing things, you need to argue from first principles and articulate the normative assumptions that you are starting from.

That's great, I'll keep that in mind next time I'm building a legal case for the artists in the attached article. Until then, I'll keep an open mind and not dismiss opinions about what should be the case on the basis of 'that's not the law'

I will say that the idea that certain works that have artistic and cultural significance shouldn't be plundered and watered down for corporate gain isn't overly complicated and fits entirely within the framework of "promoting the progress of science and useful arts". Preservation of existing successful ideas and mythology is important, and existing ideas and mythology can absolutely be ruined by new works produced by uncaring entities

Should this actually be the law? Maybe its implementation would be impossible/too messy/hurt more than it helps. I don't know. Is it good that people have opinions that go against the status quo, and should we dismiss those opinions by saying 'that's not the status quo'! Yes and absolutely not
Roads are useful, but what I really think we should get rid of is parking lots. When cars can drive themselves we should build over all the lots and knock down the garages. The cars can spend the day on the road and the night parked outside the city. There should be zero parked inside the city.
Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics
I don't think implementing our own Great Firewall is the direction I'd want to see from the alleged bastion of freedom and democracy.

A destroy-on-sight policy for unauthorized drones in restricted airspaces seems like a good enough solution for this problem without online censorship. Don't want your expensive drone blown to smithereens? Don't fly it where you ain't supposed to be flying it.

(And on the flip-side, the FAA and other authorities need to provide real-time public access to maps of those restricted areas - which I wouldn't be surprised if they're already doing, but still)
I’m not taking sides, but I do have a question for anyone with legal understanding. I feel like, if I worked for a drone company and wanted to roll out a new feature to block flights close to ‘restricted zones’, then the legal department would throw a fit. I can imagine them saying that the new feature would expose the company if the feature ever failed or didn’t have a complete list of locations to block. It’s better to not have any restrictions than to have some and for them to be incomplete or broken.

I just don’t see how this feature wouldn’t be a major liability to DJI. Am I wrong?
And even if the hard drive were somehow found, it's probably been destroyed by exposure to eleven years of leachate ("garbage juice"). Landfills are nasty places.
I’m not sure it implies buying from elsewhere. I understood it to mean make a new one, rather than try to repair the broken one.
HN is a brilliant website that I use every day.

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My hypothetical universe is "I believe GitHub is too big to fail and want to spend as little resources to please the auditor as is reasonably possible without resorting to fraud".

So really what I'm asking is "how strict are these audits really?"
I know brute force guessing a Bitcoin key is like an astronomical lottery ticket, but the odds can't be much worse than extracting a working hard drive from 15,000 tons of decade-old trash.
Sampling 50/50 will always give you the best chance of picking the best ultimate 'winner' in a fixed time horizon, at the cost of only sampling the winning variant 50% of the time. That's true if the reward rates are fixed or not. But some changes in reward rates will also cause MAB aggregate statistics to skew in a way that they shouldn't for a 50/50 split yeah.
On YouTube, watch the Evergreen State College 3-part documentary by Bret Weinstein. This is much more common than you think, through your anecdote, unfortunately. Granted, this happened in 2017, so a few years after your time in college, but I would argue "peak wokeness" sits between 2016 to today, in large part due to Trump's first election win.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2WeWgcSMk

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0W9QbkX8Cs

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vyBLCqyUes

This should make anyone's skin crawl with the way this college's faculty and staff were treated, and the childish behavior of the students to allow this to happen. This gives a reason why "college kids" are no longer considered adults.
Remember when blockchain was going to be used in everything?

Now we have AI + the ever favorite avatars.
Yes, e ink displays in the super market following you around with prices dependent on how many bitcoins in your cold wallet.
And your claim that it doesn't survive first contact with reality is based on you correlating high volumes of foreign investment with lack of housing affordability and assuming that the former is causing the latter, when the correlation is really due to a confounding factor.
I've had hn "front page" blog posts multiple times, and no I never got any job offers ;p
The poor will benefit from less lung cancer inducing smoke.
roads are dirty tho, n really expensive
No, just to scan for the most common crypto wallets/ contact managers/ login credentials, like some malware spearphishing attacks these days.