skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep repeating "constitutionally protected activity" like it carries more weight the more you repeat. The Intercept article does the same thing.

If we step back and look at what's happening at "pro palestine" protests across the world, much of it is toxic and unwelcome by the wider community. Law enforcement sees the negative energy and responds using passive tracking tools and other measures. They're seeing escalating "decolonizing" associations too, as these groups try to merge with their socialist friends and agendas.

In my country Australia, they've taken the Aboriginal flag and Palestine flag and joined them together, parading them along the street screaming about colonisation. Many contain raised fist graphics and calls for resistance. And you wonder why cops are monitoring?

Barely qualifying as activity worth "protecting" in many cases. In particular, the terror-aligned rhetoric by masked mobs screaming about global intifadas, "resistance by any means necessary" and other stuff unrelated to peace or anything remotely "anti-war". No peace symbols in the crowd but plenty of Hamas flags, is the answer to your question.
Make all tech knowledge available, spin it into another completely separate company with 0 ties to the parent and then we can actually start talking. Rest is fluff and PR.
> Boyd’s Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration [0]

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/boyds-law-of-iteration/
If you start with a shitty name like that you have failed before you even start in my opinion.

Even the utterly straightforward eucloud is better. Or make it cloud.eu :)
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> This is how Robin Hood can offer free equity trading. They sell your flow to another firm that can front run it.

This is not true, and front-running trades is both easy to catch and illegal. This is a bad combo for any white-collar crime.

You are correct that they make money by selling non-toxic order flows, but non-toxic here just means that retail investors tend to be "dumb money."

Market-makers need to estimate how much an asset is worth to be able to quickly fulfill orders - they can't instantly find people to take the other side of their users' trades. For example, user A buys Gamestop at $10/share, the brokerage accepts the trade and internally writes an IOU for that share, but later on realizes that the true price of Gamestop is $10.05/share. This means that the brokerage will lose $0.05/share because the price they estimated for the asset was too low. If too many orders from a source are like this, the source is considered toxic because the market-maker will generally lose money on them.

Some types of traders have highly toxic order flows. For example, HFT firms exploit <1ms latency in market makers' price estimates to systematically make money off the differences. Large funds can also place massive orders in a way that moves the entire market to make these estimates wrong.

Retail traders, in contrast, don't reliably know when a stock is mispriced. If Jimmy Bob Joe blows his college fund buying TSLA for $250/share, the exchange can probably give him TSLA at that price and not lose money.

If a market-maker gets too many toxic orders, it has to offer their clients worse prices to compensate for mispricing risk. Worse prices drive customers away, so they will often choose to pay for nontoxic orders to keep that risk down. We, the retail investors, get to trade for free at better prices and the market-makers get to turn a profit.

> it is literally a fox in the chicken coop.

The foxes here are HFT firms, and the chicken coop is any market where you end up trading with them. These "dark pools" benefit the little guys because they exclude the more predatory traders.
https://archive.ph/20250318043747/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Last thing we need on HN is low quality twitter bots reiterating what's been written.
I remember it as "human-machine interaction" and "HMI design" or "interaction design". It was mostly about positioning interface elements, clear iconography, and workflows with as little surprises and opportunities for errors as possible. In industrial design, esp. for SCADA, it is often still called HMI.
Although the above example was missing some details, I suspected it was meant to illustrate the following effect:
The public last price was $5, so bid/ask will be around that price let's say 4.99/5.01, if you buy with a market order you'd pay approximately $5 ($5.01).
But if there is a new large sell order for 5 million shares at 5.05, then the market would react to this information and adjust bids & asks.
For illustrative purposes it could be possible (if the 5 million order is rather large in comparison), that the new bid/ask would be 4.89/4.91 and you'd get your shares for around $4.9.
Ah, pendulums. They had some cool ones in the museums we used to visit. One was 2+ stories high and it would knock down dominoes to reckon the time of day as the Earth perturbed its motions.

Another much smaller pendulum in the hands-on science exhibits, you scooped sand into it and then set it swinging freely across a square black surface. It would trace out amazing patterns as it spilled sand hourglass-style.

So then some bully would rock up next to me and smack the pendulum, stop it from swinging, and spill a big blob on the formerly-geometric pattern. And they invariably said "just to see what would happen". AStonesThrow would have a small meltdown or become rather indigant. I suppose their empirical science is just as valid as kicking down sandcastles on the beach.

And that's how I came to prefer single-player games...
The Dream Machine from Cockroach and of course The Neverhood from Doug TenNapel are some fantastic prior art here. TenNapel even reused his skills to make Armikrog two decades later.

I wonder if the creators of these physically rendered games ever get together to talk shop, or even host a conference, on the topic of non-linear animation and storytelling. It’s the sort of thing that I, as someone who merely consumes their content and is absolutely nowhere near being able to replicate their skill, would love to take part in.

Comic-Con but for games done the hard way. Thimbleweed Park, another remake in the animated adventure game genre, actually has a scene in it that’s based on a conference for real-life point-and-click games developers.
With script-fu or python-fu you can make menus sub-menus and similar UX adjustments. I also make a command, and just run it using slash: /command. Better than clicking around but not live-tweakable, you have to refresh scripts first. In case of some plugin errors, sometimes Gimp just dies, which is a problem when trying to develop the plugin.

Script-fu plugin experience is definitely not great, but it has the potential to customize stuff.

Script-fu however it totally limited, it cannot access files, it cannot do anything outside of Gimp in contrast to Elisp. I wonder why that is, security reasons, as a protection from malicious plugins?

Python-fu is another option, I haven't used it but i want try it at some point. When i find some simple examples of python-fu code to learn from, I want dive into it a little bit.
The Atrocious State of Binary Compatibility on Linux and How to Address It
Yeah, eDNA is exactly what I thought of when I saw this.
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Hey HN,
As a senior developer passionate about technology, I have spent the last few weeks if not a couple months working on Ruunt Hora. A platform that helps you discover exciting events happening right now.

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A core feature is that you cannot create events past 24 hours from the event creation time. Try it out, share your thoughts, and let me know what you guys think.

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> I strongly suspect that wall street has looked at 401k's/index funds as a giant money filled piñata. It is a huge pile of money following a well understood algorithm which makes it vulnerable to attack.

Did prop traders start out-performing index funds? If not, surely said supposition seems somewhat suspect.
It goes both way doesn't it.

I've looked up some non-shitty parts of the UK with 1gb/1gb fibre for about $40 a month (Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol ect) and all do seem to have population densities about twice that of Silicon Valley.

Then again my village with a population of about 300 does as well so i think it comes down to centralised investment.

Does state or federal not offer incentive to connect low density communities for the good of teh wider economy?
I think older and low power devices would actually be easier to port: they capture the audio request, send it to the server, receive an audio response from the server and play it. No local "intelligence" at all.

So you could probably replace the whole backend while keeping things compatible as long as you maintain that simple API.
Fairly certain this is true for large anythings if they haven’t been explicitly set up to avoid that problem.
Did you know alibaba cloud has a GDPR compliant datacenter in frankfurt [1].

1. https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/press-room/alibaba-cloud-lau...
Compete with GIMP? One can scatter controls by tripping over a box of these and still get better ui than gimp.
I really can't recommend this launcher enough:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.pro...

https://github.com/spocky/miproja1/releases/
> whether rate of committing crimes is uniform

The above linked data show self-reported cannabis use within +/- 10% over the relevant pre-legalization period (before 2012), if anything with a slight advantage to whites. Drug arrest and incarceration rates vary by much, much more (factors of 2-6 between whites and blacks). Against that, use rates of 15 vs 13ish vs 12.5ish are as good as uniform , esp. on a survey with all the inherent variability therein (even for one as competent and longstanding as the cited work).

So what's the quibble? That the shares aren't exactly equal? Or that there are other demographic cuts with larger differences (and, y'know, aligned carceral disparities)? Or that cannabis use isn't representative of 'petty crime'?
The author's Linkedin indeed lists working at AWS for 3 years.
thanks. this is helpful. will update the UI
I think the problem is a lot of people need very occasional image manipulation. Back when I was a photographer, I could have easily paid 5x more for my Photoshop subscription and it would have been worth it.

Now that I’m not, the $10 a month is a harder pill to swallow, even though I use it quite a bit. A subscription pricing model isn’t great for those that need something once a week or month or whatever.
So let's get this straight. People are tweeting that they're going to protest somewhere. But when cops see these tweets, that "surveillance".
Well, that's why code escrow exists as a scheme.
Suffice to say as an EU based engineer in the infrastructure space, I'm rather optimistic for my future employment opportunities.
Yeah, it doesn't have the one thing that makes Haskell Haskell.
Sure, we will add comparison matrices. this is helpful
> It's an approximation algorithm.

Clear. Nice. Thanks.

In that case, for the Traveling Salesman problem, build a minimum spanning tree and traverse that -- old result.
Sanfilippo is easily one of the best international intellectuals we have nowadays. His take on personal human stories being the center of innovation, and sharing as a business value in a non-capitalistic world are perfectly represented in what he says and how he lives.
Do onerous EU regulations have to do with the inability to produce a competitive cloud locally?
Bit of a wasted opportunity to earn a bit of extra cash for the community there:

Climbing inside the carcass of a whale was once thought to bring relief to rheumatism sufferers

~ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-26807485
the AdamW optimizer (basically the default in DL nowadays) is doing exactly that
> Many newer languages include a macro system to enable extensibility, but few would argue that the new batch of macro systems have achieved the expressiveness and fluidity of macros as they exist within the Lisp tradition, which includes Racket.

It sounds like the authors see Lisp-style macros as uniquely powerful and are exploring how to bring similar meta-programming power to languages with syntax other than just s-expressions.

> what's that niche in which Rhombus can defeat Scala or Rust or Elixir

Good question. My read is that Rhombus isn't motivated by solving some "real world" problem and is instead an exploration in language design.
Now is a terrible time to buy Tesla.
Sentiment has completely shifted about this company. Sales are tanking. Why would now be a good time to buy Tesla? Do you think they deserve 2x Toyotas valuation?
This is really cute, however I have a hard time seeing a route to widespread adoption as a marketplace of source. I was going to suggest adding adoption and rescues, however there seem to be a number of highly rated apps in that space already.

I would imagine the most useful function if a pet is lost or found would be to allow posting to places like NextDoor, printing posters, a contacting shelters, etc. and offering other support to people.
In my experience this is mix of lack of knowledge sometimes mixed with self-dealing/corruption.

But it can be prevented by writing hosting specs well. If in your proposed solution you specify really detailed hosting envinronment then most of these old incopetent companies wont even apply.
I’m dreaming of a set of individual providers, all building with similar dev experience, auth, billing functions, quality of service etc.

I own https://mailpace.com and would love to expand from there- reach out if you want to help.
Before the wavefunction, we used to explain the double slit experiment (the version without detectors at a slit) as light being an EM wave in physical space, essentially equivalent to a sound wave propagating through the EM field, which breaks on the wall and essentially transforms into two separate waves, each originating from one slit, which are then in phase and so they constructively interfere, forming the final pattern on the screen.

Lots of people think that this is the same picture that the wavefunction gives, but this is wrong. In the QM picture, the emitter emits one photon, which is a quantum of energy described by a four-dimensional wavefunction which assigns some probability of a detection event at the slits, at the screen, etc. In this picture, there is no physical EM wave, any interaction with the light will happen at a single localized point in space. Of course, if you add more particles, especially those carrying charges, the picture changes, and you'll see probabilities that roughly correspond to a picture of an oscillating EM field. But the wavefunction, which is the "bedrock" physical theory, is separate from those waves in the EM field, which are just an approximate picture of the probabilities dictated by the wavefunciton.
Tariffs are not particularly different to subsidies. Effectively they are a subsidy except that consumers are paying for it more directly (being forced to pay more for inferior local products) instead of through other taxes. The source of funding and effect on prices are the most meaningful differences.
Based on some searches looks like all but one of the testimonials are fake
Startship Was Doomed from the Beginning
I love the list of half considered excuses considered before landing on dynamite. They just wanted to use dynamite.
The cultures across Europe are anti growth and anti speculation

That facilitate it for other people, but not enough interest culture wide

It’s kind of interesting “why don’t we just make the same amount quarter after quarter” like, wow who knew you could do that? But speculation drives innovation. Permission to fail results in faster selective pressures.
By that point wouldn't it start to make sense to have people across time zones so that it will be working hours somewhere?
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Nobody needs HTTP/2. It's just Google doing embrace-extend-extinguish of public domain protocols.
It doesn't have to compete 1:1 when tariffs and regulations get applied, same principle as in all other industries ie cars.

Its not the best approach but it can work, we have half a billion rich domestic market and some subsidies to kick start things would be rewarded in long run tremendously.
Show HN: I made a web scraping API for capturing screenshots and page data
why do you think you will be able to generate "consistent income" with a trading bot in a field that is highly scrutinized by some of the best talents in the world with access to better & faster data and backed by a mountain of capital?
Why would people need to bend over backwards to build good things?
This idea is very similar to what I've been working on for a while, local-first apps that synchronize data over a server that can be self-hosted. In my case, I'm using the Solid Protocol, and there are already many Open Source servers implementing this protocol.

If you're curious, check out this app: https://umai.noeldemartin.com/
> An EU sovereign cloud by Amazon though would be built in the EU and staffed by EU employees though.

At that point, why is Amazon needed? Don't we really have the expertise and capital to do this in Europe without Amazon (or Google, MSFT)? I somehow doubt that very much.
Unfortunately Gaia-X has been set up and run by the wrong kind of people.

Look at this recent job ad for a Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4181090679

AFAIU it's written by the CTO and see this gem:

" Innovation Mindset: Willingness to explore new technologies – especially related to trust frameworks and associated standards –, staying ahead (no kidding!) of main-stream industry trends (This is a real requirement, not ChatGPT – just look into our GitLab repos!)."

I checked their public GitLab and it's puny. Moreover, I suspect based on the use of bold and bullet points that the job description itself went through ChatGPT.
That's misleading. The entropy of the solution is increased and that's because you're removing solute from it. It has nothing to do with the crystal or its entropy.
This is not playing devil's advocate - this is a _VERY_ legitimate question. I'll go further and say that without a "killer app" (and/or strong corporate backer), a language doesn't typically take off nowadays, regardless how good it is ([edit] but to the point of another commenter - I do agree that "exploration" is a good enough reason; one doesn't need to write languages only with the goal of making them popular).

- Scala: only really took off with Spark (had Akka before but wasn't really that popular)

- Python: might've died if not for numpy/pandas/ ML

- Ruby: Rails

- Typescript: V8/Node.js / javascript on the server-side

- Go: Google, Kubernetes (and even so it's questionable how popular it _really_ is)

- Swift: Apple, iOS apps (to a somewhat similar extent: Kotlin, for Android development).

- C#: I can't really name the "killer app", but... Microsoft. (to be fair the "killer app" itself might be the whole MS ecosystem integration)

There are a lot of decent languages (Clojure, D) that never got popular, despite their merits. Even Kotlin mentioned above is arguably a much better choice than Java on the server side. But it's not used that much on the server, even though it actually has the answer to "what problem does it solve" (easy way to write async code in JVM, which is not a small thing)
Policies are often used to create markets or - like in this case is propose - to create that demand. The article makes the argument that free market failed to deliver in this sector in Europe.
One of the explanations is that once you lag behind competitors, if policies don't force to value specific parameters that can be fulfilled only by other competitors, no competitors will join the market because nobody is going to choose them. So the author argues for example to impose regulation for public tenders such as "must be subject to only EU laws". This creates a demand, which is not currently matching any offer in the market and creates market incentives for new players to compete.
So regulations can absolutely work where "free" market fails (quotes because even the big 3 are/were pumped full of money by government/defense contracts).
Something about the website is melting my phone while trying to read the article. I think it's maybe those animations? Couldn't finish reading because the tab froze
I literally learned English reading the only computer books that were available at the time, mid 80s. That was before I had a single English class in school - in fact I already knew English pretty well by the time I started studying English on 7th grade. I come from Finland and the Finnish language has absolutely nothing to do with any other language (except Estonian), no words are even remotely similar to English.

Also I totally suck at learning languages. I've tried to learn Swedish, nope, German, nope, Spanish/Portuguese, also nope.

Ja jos mielestäsi suomenkieli liittyy johonkin muuhun kieleen niin ihan vapaasti voit ajatella niin. Viime viikonloppua yritin opettaa muutamia suomenkielen sanoja ja taivutusmuotoja kielenopettajalle joka jaksoi kuunnella noi puoli tuntia ja totesi etta "mahdotonta oppia koska mitään referenssiä muihin kieliin ei ole".
I add to your point and to parent's one.

I do use touchscreens when I've got one on a laptop or on a tablet with keyboard and desktop apps. The reason is precisely what you wrote: pushing buttons in front of us at close reach is faster than reaching for a mouse, aiming and clicking. When the screen is at 50 cm or less from our belly it's not hard to raise a hand and use it.

That also builds on a lifelong investment on pushing buttons, physical and on screen with mice. Using the Tab key to navigate a UI, or shortcuts or hjkl is something that only a few people (comparatively) did so it's can not become mainstream.

The last time I truly learned something new was swyping on my phone keyboard, some 15 years ago. It's extremely niche. I'm the only person doing it among everybody I know. I invested some time but the reward is great, especially when holding the phone with one hand or when there are many vibrations and the screen moves a little. A swiping finger never loses contact. And it's faster for me than two fingers tapping.

On the other side, that's another way to cement the qwerty layout because I swype on it and I would have to adjust to a different layout, so why bother?

Finally, voice. I realized that I used to dictate text to my keyboard on the early 10s, then I stopped. It worked well even back then without all the new technology. I don't remember why I stopped but if I did it means that I didn't lose anything. I wouldn't start again now because I think that there are very few keyboards with only local speech to text.
So your "trivially Googleable" proof is... a tweet from four years ago that doesn't actually say what you think it does and a three minute video from a no-name account with 37 subscribers showing test results in broad daylight only?

If you had trivially Googled it, you'd know that "superior" is a score on the AEB test and does not mean "the best." How can you call me clueless when you clearly don't even understand the measuring system used for AEB testing?

My best guess at the answer is that you own some TSLA and are freaking out at the drop.