skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they would rather be homeless? In a market without landlords, everyone who couldn’t afford to buy a home would have to live in their car or camp on the street.
The idea is that the person pockets a portion of the money that you make, where if you had the capital you’d be able to pocket the money. As rent increases, a mortgage doesn’t, and rent hasn’t decreased anywhere in a while, so the gap keeps getting larger. There are advantages to renting, but the “choice” of renting vs buying is a privilege afforded to fewer and fewer. There used to be starter homes, but there is a massive difference nowadays between those who own property and those who don’t, and it’s gotten increasingly more difficult over the last 30 years to buy into property on most peoples incomes. This functionally means that property ownership is often the line between economic classes.

Not to mention the corporate landlords who algorithmically raise rents as much as possible while providing as little maintenance as possible.
I was curious to see all of Google's Emoji Kitchen emoji combinations at once, so I put 137,943 of them in a really big grid (using libvips, which handles absurdly large images very well) and then made that deep-zoomable with openseadragon.
> If 20% of software is writing code, 80% is all those things AI cannot solve.

Maybe I should clarify that I am also referring to the design of the code, the writing of the code and the testing of the code? I think pretty much the whole software development part of software creation is going to go to zero on a pretty accelerated timeline.
It's a dark pool.
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Thank you for clarifying for me I was unsure how best to write it.
> Pointless is increasingly becoming the word I use for AI

I had assumed it was the Deepseek phenomenon that has prompted the reduction in planned data center capacity - the realization that we can do more with less - rather than this article's assertion that AI in business is "pointless".

The fact that there is a widespread failure by business managers to formulate visions and strategies around AI adoption is no surprise whatsoever. Of course there will be much disruption and businesses that don't adapt will die off.

I think the article also betrays an ingrained skepticism about AI amongst some traditional IT folks, a skepticism that is also observable in HN discussions. Perhaps from a fear of being made redundant?

My opinion is that for techies there are more opportunities in AI disruption than threats.
Back in the day when I was day trading in a firm, dark pool was pretty much the only place that I could offload some stocks quicly when they went the other way. It was pricey though so we were told to use it as a last resort.
I know nothing about this technology but there are ways to get around similar issues. For example, twisted pair cables encode data as the DIFFERENCE between the two signals as those signals should be affected by the same noise sources. They could also transmit multiple redundant flows and error correct on the other side with a voting protocol or checksumming.
Banning something doesn’t make it go away.

Millions of people will be doing it, irregardless if it’s banned or not.

The best thing you can do is let it happen, monitor it and call out bad actors.
But mah liquidity!!!

I'm not sure what value you are getting out of the second paragraph. If some politician dumps a ton of stock X and I go "oh no, I'd better get out of that as well", won't I still be in line behind not only the politician but also everybody who has bots that automatically act on his actions within nanoseconds? It gives you warning that a stock is about to crater, but there's nothing you can do about it without giving someone the power to jump the line, and power like that can only be abused.
Whois it ;)
The USA have added about 2 million people the last year.

That about the size of Houston, TX.

The USA are not building at the rate one city of Houston per year.

Source https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population...
They did a soft launch on localhost, if you IPv6 you can use ::1
In a market without landlords, especially corporate landlords, more people would be able to afford to buy a home.
I think the ease of becoming a landlord was a big part of the problem. Or at least how it started. If middle class households buying rental properties can outbid lower middle class households trying to buy a home, the lower middle class household will often be stuck renting in the long term. And if it makes financial sense for a middle class household to become a landlord, rich individuals and institutional investors will eventually notice it and outbid them.

Market-rate rentals should be the exception, not the norm. Some of them are necessary to house people who have recently moved in the area, especially if they don't expect to stay in the long term. But because market-rate rental units largely displace owner-occupied units, having too many of them is bad for the society.
Is that what you think this bill is all about? I skimmed through it, and it seems to be a parody on controversial mental health issues like ADHD. Do you think the parody succeeded based on the fact that you think that an ADHD-like "illness" description sounds "bizzare" and unserious?
Calling out bad actors doesn't work so well if said actors have no shame.
the js was not mapped correctly. fixed now
He is saying that original spec can be incorrect.
Unfortunately anyone out of Google is not ambitious enough. They can't execute. Tiny steps don't accomplish anything.
This was just for fun; there are more useful Emoji Kitchen websites, including one that open-sources their crawl of all the images, which made this project much easier. Hat tip to Xavier Salazar! https://github.com/xsalazar/emoji-kitchen-backend/
https://archive.ph/9ZH34
In the case of Dark Pools, it would actually be the crier saying "a lot 10x the size of what I'm auctioning just traded somewhere else where none of you lot can trade for xx price". So after they say that you actually do know the price that they bought the item(s). This is since the dark pools have requirements to report to the trade tapes their trades in fairly similar latency to the exchanges themselves.

EDIT: The rules also dictate the allowed prices the dark pools trade at. They have to be within the national BBO, they can't just trade at whatever price they want. So the public auction is actually helping them find the prices, without their pre-trade information affecting the price before execution.
Maybe the trick is to forget math entirely! Accept we live in a universe where 2+2=, where pi will change before your even half way around the circle!

Cast off the shackles of rationality and embrace a universe where the only constant is change.

While you're at it you should smoke this shit, it's wild.
Couldn't disagree more about what the author says about the style of the book. The book is conversational, but "tech bro"? Huh??? I've read Ousterhout's book cover to cover and don't feel like it was a waste of time. Summarizing it as a list of 10
commandments is silly.
The second episode of the Google Moonshot podcast covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLaYGw5_PE0
"called this early" - got a pretty good laugh !

The difference with Theranos is that Tesla managed to become one of the biggest (by market cap) companies on earth, while it's CEO become the richest person on earth.

The eventual fallout will be much, much worse.
I think that while not surprising it's still interesting and useful to know exactly how they are doing it and what tools they are using. In the US protests are a constitutionally protected right and visibility into how they are monitoring and reacting to them is important.
Scam repository (the kind that steal your crypto)
This repo has been sent as an exercise to join a crypto project.

The context makes it an obvious scam. But I'm curious to know how this would work. (I guess it sends your keys or some crypto when you open your meta mask)

Here is the intro message:

- Here’s the project: https://bitbucket.org/abga-workspace/mvp_3/src/main/

- The home screen will be displayed with a wallet connect button at the top right when you attempt to open it.

- At the moment, the button links to a Solana wallet. You need to make it look like an Ethereum wallet connecting workflow, for example, Metamask or something else. Also, after the connection is established, it should sign the message "This is a test" and provide the signed hash in the browser console.

- When finished, please, provide a screenshot or a short video as a proof of the wallet connection process.

Please use these

- Node.js v20.16

- NPM v10.8.1

- Python v3.11
Judging from the office view, I'd guess it's situated not far from the Museu do Oriente. It's a really nice up-and-coming area, although it's not close to any Metro stations.

Edit: I just googled the location and it's right next to LX Factory, a rehabilitated, trendy shopping area where one of my favorite bookstores is located (Ler Devegar).
Not sure why this is being downvoted, but the fact that it is is why the problem won’t be fixed. Nationalism (noblesse oblige) is the historical solution to this issue. The wealthy elites we have now don’t really care for the average American, so you’ll see the same policies described above continue.

We live in a time of incredible technological advancements on a uniquely resource rich land. Things should not be getting more expensive, harder, etc yet they are and that’s entirely due to our elites desire to increase the wealth gap.

There’s a lot of bipartisan consensus against nationalism and that’s not coincidental. America is run by billionaires. Any notion of left vs right in this country is just for show. Their bottom line is never affected.
Being that I've not seen an actual technology relase from this company so far it's up to them to quell the doubts.
>It's manipulation by definition. These hidden trades exist to prevent other people from being able to act in their own best interest based on available information.

So if I have a RTX 4090 to sell (a very sought after commodity these days), and I sell it to my buddy rather than listing it on ebay, I'm doing market "manipulation"?
What color was the sky above the port in William Gibson's Neuromancer? (2017)
Is there an advantage to borosilicate glass over food-grade stainless steel?
Lava lamp factories are subverted so that the wax mixture flows in a straight line without any turbulence whatsoever. Dice land on a 3 each time they are rolled, anywhere in the world. Casinos disintegrate swiftly accompanied by a bright flash.
I think Karate Kid must win the prize for the most diegetic analysis of the original text of all time.
Are you writing lots of FFI and/or embedded code? Those are the main places I see unsafe being used a lot.

The tooling and the encapsulation go hand in hand.

> The idea that you will convince people not to write broken unsafe code, in ways that breaks safe APIs, or that the ability to assign blame matters, is very strange to me, and is no better than C. As systems grow, the likelihood of totally safe transmutes growing in them is basically 100% :)

To be honest this doesn't track with my experience at all. Unsafe just isn't that commonly used in projects I contribute to. When it is, it is aggressively encapsulated.
Free market applied to work/worforce (work demand & offer).

More technology => less work needed =\=> less work hours with same pay. This is why the article reasoning (Keynes) is wrong.

More technology => less work needed => less workers needed => more competition for jobs => workers are forced to accept lower wages for even more work hours => even less workers needed.

We can get out of this circle in two ways:

1) Slow, by making less children => less workers => less competition for jobs => workers can demand higher pay for less work hours.

Good because it's the natural free maket way of self-regulating.

Bad because it takes generations of misery until it works and it probably doesn't work anyway.

2) Quick, by passing laws limiting work hours based on unemployment levels (real levels, not what governments count as unemployed).

Good because it's quick.

Bad because people (especially poor people) will complain that they can't live with only one job, even though lack of workers would increase wages quick, and also bad because artificially regulating jobs based on unemployment is probably very hard - different industries and even different cities can have different unemployment levels - and some level of market self-regulation is still needed.

3) Universal basic income

Good because job market still self-regulates.

Bad because governements MUST find a way to close the tax haven loophole to generate enough tax money for the UBI, and if they really wanted to do that, they would have done it already.
You've been the wrong parties, my friend. (Or you don't have the right kinks)
> > I'd like to see your concrete evidence for that claim.

> Please with the language.

What do you think is wrong with that language?

And, hanging out on [new] and seeing what gets flagged is not evidence for your claim. It gives you no evidence of who is flagging or why - it only shows you what is getting flagged. That doesn't tell you that MAGA people are doing it, or that they're doing it because it puts something in a bad light. That's just your assumption.

Some of us are just tired of politics here on HN. That doesn't make us MAGA. It doesn't make us Trump supporters. It doesn't mean we support this particular deportation. It just means we don't want to discuss it on HN.
Really? Isn't knowing that an extremely large trade is about to take place insider information?
The "insider" in "insider trading" refers to trading on privileged nonpublic information, not arranging the trades in a private venue.
And the UFO's sights have suddenly gone. So they did deport all the Aliens after all....
> I would imagine it to be illegal to trade on that data before it's released to publicly-available trade streams.

But what would be the penalty if you are caught? A few hundred million dollar fine? Absolute peanuts to any of the firms operating these pools. Of course there is corruption in the system, it is set up to facilitate corruption. Without corruption there would be little reason for these to even exist.
Ok night has come to me and it looks like the font appears white only on os/browser dark mode. On light mode it is black. The background doesn’t change.
109%, but of course such legislations won't get passed.
Protip: voters don’t like to be blamed for their actions, it makes them defensive, this is a losing strategy. Voters like to blame politicians for letting them down.
Some countries allow authors to transfer/assign or waive asserting their moral rights. Typically (and sensibly) this must be in writing.
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We use structured outputs a lot. But building those darn schemas to be ready for OpenAI is a real pain. So I built a simple service where I can post the prompt, or just my broken JSON, and it spits out a valid schema output for consumption the the LLM directly. Hope it helps other devs. Test it out, let me know if there's something I should improve. I'm here jamming on this today.
LAPD and LASD are going to bankrupt Los Angeles. They're more concerned with being a paramilitary police force versus stopping or preventing neighborhood crime.
I'm sorry, are you really questioning whether these threats exist? Or whether not using HTTP/3 is one potential signal of being a bot (out of many), since tools like cURL don't support HTTP/3?

The two other commenters are wrong, ads are not the main use case at all. And disabling HTTP/3 won't block ads, not even the tiniest bit. It appears you are getting a lot of misinformation.
When I was very young in the 1950s I remember my older brother opting to learn German because so many scientific papers were written in it.

That said, I later opted for Latin for reasons neither I nor the examiners could explain.
I was greeted with a surprising "Underwear 2.0" (sic) in french, so not only it's translated against my will (my computer is configured in english) but it's badly translated
PepsiCo to buy prebiotic soda brand Poppi for nearly $2B
Partial Self Driving.
An LLC is a pass-through entity, which means you don't pay corporate tax but you pay personal tax on all profits. With an LLC, you can't pay yourself with dividends like a normal company, so it won't count as "foreign sourced income". This means that it's generally a bad solution for paying less tax, as personal tax rates are much higher than corporate.

You should look for countries with low corporate tax that don't tax on dividends.
Probably downvoted by the Virtuous Valley Virgins
Even in dark pools the trades have to happen within the NBBO, they can't just trade at whatever price they want.
That it’s economical to hire somebody else to manage it while you both make an increasing profit as rents rise and have your assets appreciate alongside it really goes to show how extractive the process is and how much the cost of rent is inflated in order to protect investment return.
Turns out, a lot of Americans aren't actually the fans of capitalism they think they are.
RONJA[0] with lasers? >smile<

Free space optics always seemed like a neat idea. For space-based communication, particularly if your "mission" involves as little stray emission as possible, I would think free space optics would be a win.

I would assume there's more error correction, but otherwise I wonder how dramatically this differs from modulating light on a fiber. It seems like a similar problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA
I mostly agree with you, but there’s a difference between using a non-covert method of communication like telephone or SMS, and a social media post, which is designed to be relayed and amplified.
There's no mention of Starlink, the main competitor (not fiber).

Whenever I travel and see the high latencies in hotel, I'm waiting for being able to Starlink from my mobile phone.

It requires huge antennas on the satellites, but we're getting closer to that with every Strarship launch.
We've stopped buying everything from Amazon as well. It's been a huge switch, but feels entirely justified watching current events.
If Allegra is working for you, and not killing you, stick with it.

In my personal experience, cetirizine (Zyrtec) is also extremely effective and completely non-drowsy.
We know alot about how English has evolved. Word forms develop along certain paths, sound changes follow laws that linguists have described, and the "fuuuug" in refugee does not become "fugg".

Etymology is probably the subfield of the humanities that provides the closest thing we get to testable hypotheses and laws. This is just mashing shit together.

It also seems to have a tendency to just mash semantics together. As though having something resembling "pig" and something resembling "full" means "full AND piggish". But that's not how plain juxtaposition works in Germanic: it's specification, not conjunction. So "pigful" would mean a type of full, full of pigs. (This is language specific, by the way; as I recall in Vietnamese "mother-father" is the normal word for parents - but in Danish it means grandfather, your mother's father.)

I'm sure I could get WhateverGPT to hallucinate something that looks like those drawings chemists make of molecules to most laypeople. That would be about as interesting as this is.
Ask HN: hat eng/general principles you hold dearly and look to apply daily?
If the crawler respects 301 status codes you can literally make a party like OpenAI DDOS themselves :>

Disclaimer: This should be considered satire, not advice.
If you watch Hands on Katie on youtube (Katie created original underwire) it will all make sense.
Should I Learn LLMs and ML for my career?
It stands to reason that if the buyer/seller are seeking private rooms there is something unfavorable for them about "lit" trading. That alone should raise red flags.
It works. Though I've found it only works for LCP epubs, not pdf's.
I don't think "wherever they see them" is the entire solution to scaling. I'd imagine that they have a whole system in place - an imperfect one because all systems are - that includes more than one part of it. That is "leadership fixes issues wherever they see them" is an component the system, not the system as a whole.

Even if you saw all the "cf fucked up" tweets/posts/etc, you still couldn't make that assertion without knowledge of all the times they didn't fuck up. People are far more likely to make noise about issues than things just working. This assertion is like assuming the starbucks corporation is incapable of producing a coffee people will buy because you saw a couple tweets about a messed up order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples

Threshold of pain: 120-140 dB(SPL)

Risk of instantaneous noise-induced hearing loss: 120dB(SPL)

A sonic weapon must cause pain to be effective. Any sound that reliably causes pain is capable of causing instant hearing damage. Therefore any sonic weapon is necessarily a maiming weapon and is designed as such. There is no hyperbole.
They could, but they don't want to do that because they get paid by Google to not do it or because those actions get them money in some other way (from advertisers or whatever), or because they think only power users like some features.
The image sensor noise will produce more bits of randomness than the chaotic display.

There is also dedicated "TRNG" hardware which will measure random thermal noise. Some will even get fancy with quantum effects.

Any source of randomness will do, you just feed it into a hash function and extract uniform randomness you can use in cryptography.

For example, if you have an image sensor that takes an image (and does no post-processing) and you feed that image into SHA256 you get 256 bits which you can use for cryptography. As long as the image is never saved there is no practical way to recreate the input and in fact the input will contain more entropy (degrees of freedom) than the output, so no one would even want to try. Most of the degrees of freedom in the image would come from sensor noise and not the scene, so you don't even need to take off the cap from the camera.

In practice, multiple sources are combined. The Linux kernel does this for /dev/[u]random though it doesn't use the camera. There is a potential risk with such combination: one of the inputs may come from a source which is able to interrogate all the other sources, it would then be able to adversarially choose its contribution to skew RNG results. This is a somewhat obscure and unlikely threat model.
What about LaTeX? - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Source_Code_Listings
five years ago, i was hopeful that widespread WFH would result in a great geographic population redistribution that would alleviate housing competition in popular cities and revitalize smaller impoverished communities by bringing in good-paying (remote) jobs.

i guess not.
Depends on the volume
This section from the marketing blurb doesn't sound too promising:

When atmospheric conditions disrupt the light, our adaptive rate and hybrid architecture maintains the connection, with minimal downtime.

In the long run, all these wireless technologies (satellite or optical/microwave terrestrial links) will have a very hard time competing with simply laying down some optical fiber.
No they succeeded because of carbon credits. To this day, 42% of Tesla's revenue is just carbon credits.

That means that everyone who is buying a gas guzzler is helping fund Tesla. Tesla was one of the first to have an EV-only lineup which means they could sell 100% of their carbon credits. Every company that wants to sell a gas guzzler has to pay Tesla for carbon credits in order to do so

Also the massive government bailouts and subsidies helped ofc https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc