skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using extra data to add to the original study—which found that off-premise takeout and delivery increased from 50% to 60% after the pandemic leading to higher sales per employee—to show that extra costs like lease payments, insurance, wages for waitstaff, and utilities don’t fully offset the slightly higher profit margins from selling alcohol on premise compared to selling food and non-alcoholic drinks through takeout or delivery. Using financial data, I demonstrate higher off premises takeout or delivery leads to higher sales per employee -- the same conclusion the paper we are discussing made.

Notably, the paper shows that the share of visits lasting 11–20 minutes did not drop (and even increased a bit). This indicates that the overall shorter visit times aren’t because dine-in customers are being served faster. Instead, it’s mainly due to a rise in takeout and delivery orders (takeout customers are being served slower because there are more, if you follow.) In other words, even if people wait a bit longer for their takeout, the large number of takeout orders is what lowers the average time customers spend at the restaurant which corresponds to the higher sales per employee. (If you disagree with this interpretation, please refer to the study, as that is its main argument.)

My point is that even though alcohol generally has a higher markup, the extra overhead needed to sell alcohol on premise means that its profit margins do not fully make up for those costs compared to off-premise takeout or delivery. Moreover, the data from The Cheesecake Factory, ~25% off premises takeout or deliver sale, is similar to what is seen in any traditionally dine-in U.S. restaurant, corporate or mom and pop, that isn’t Michelin starred.
I note there is also an open source WiFi firmare for ESP32:

https://esp32-open-mac.be/
makes sense. So everything that was ever hyped failed by your logic. A good example is cars and planes. They were once hyped now they failed. No one flies planes or drives cars. Simple logic.
Check the timestamp on that commit push. It was from today, an hour or two before the repo was restored, not yesterday when the attack happened. The push actor != the committor or even the actual commit author, and there can be multiple push actors if the commit is pushed multiple times by different actors.

He probably just re-pushed the bad commit while trying to figure out how to fix this.

I find it very plausible that the bot token was compromised, not his user account token, as the attack was simply to push over the tags (which is something the automation bot would have access to do, as tag management is one of its functions)
it isn't cheap to splice a video.

Even if they do it via some sort of chunking, then it's possible to skip chunks easily too (aka, relatively easy to bypass given the amount of effort to implement).

Not to mention it's hard to do caching this way imho.
Will I finally be able to ask my car factual questions while driving? Right now android auto's assistant experience is way worse than on my phone or watch, so I end up having to use one of those (if it's important enough, otherwise I just forget).
Warren Buffett saw the selloff coming and hoarded cash
If I remember a video I watched on the subject correctly, creating a safe space for kids on the internet was the explicit goal of Club Penguins. Good moderation was a selling point in a time when most parents wouldn't let their kids "surf the web" alone (rightly so...).

Now that kids spend almost more time before the screen than not, and that the Overton's window been shifted to a place where it has become acceptable to market digital casinos to kids, no one bothers with costly moderation anymore.
Lots of things provide no value that people pay for.

The inverse is true too: lots of things provide value that no one pays for.

I find it shocking that anyone that programs would think this way considering how widespread and common open source tooling is. I don't know how you can get through your day without using OSS or even free websites like stack overflow.
Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)
Google: Response to the Development of an AI Action Plan [pdf]
Urusai: A simple random HTTP/DNS internet traffic noise generator
Urusai (うるさい, Japanese for 'noisy') is a Go implementation of noisy, a simple random HTTP/DNS internet traffic noise generator. It generates random HTTP/DNS traffic noise in the background while you go about your regular web browsing, to make your web traffic data less valuable for selling and for extra obscurity.
It's interesting, I also do not like the implication that we are all using vscode and feel slightly offended that someone would assume that I do. (The original statement is worded ambiguously and can be understood in this way.)

Anyway, I find it remarkable that a piece of software that I don't even use can trigger such a reaction in me, from a perfectly benign and innocent statement about the prevalence of HTML.
He's not the same, he's an improvement. The Democrats are the sort of people who lose to Trump; they aren't very impressive.
There's always a few of us. ;-)

I'm pretty familiar with the microprocessor architecture of the 8-bit era that I grew up in, and have done a fair amount of hardware hacking. As things have gotten more complex, I've let some things slide, such as the complexity of pipelined architectures.

Arduino is not even syntactic sugar any more. All it retains of its origins, that I'm aware of, is the weird setup() and loop() schtick. And you have limited control over what happens before your code starts. But with most Arduino compatible boards, you have full access to the vendor supplied libraries, and can go as deep as you want. These days my preferred platform at work is Teensy 4, and at home, the wireless enabled boards. I think Paul Stoffgren is some kind of 100x engineer.

But life is short. Over my 61 years, I've carefully rationed the brain cells that I devote to innards of technologies that will soon be obsolete. I read the Turbo Pascal manuals cover to cover, and The Art Of Electronics, but I never cracked Inside Macintosh. I've decided that I will simply not learn anything about any OS that is not Linux, and superficially at that.

I program desktop computers in high level languages, despite total abstraction of the innards.

I think the relative portability of Arduino code has been a huge boon for hobbyists because it encourages the formation of a community of people who can share code and knowledge, even if they're not all using the same processors, and despite sometimes needing to tweak code when porting it from one platform to another. This was also the case with early FORTRAN. Portability across processors revolutionized scientific computing.
Robert Fripp is brilliant, and is hugely present on social media. King Crimson inspired so many of the more experimental bands of the 90s, and into current day (especially harder music).

Robert Fripp also had a large hand in ambient electronic music, as well as Brian Eno, as far as ambient that reached American audiences. In regards to Talking Heads, I was born in 1979, and I can remember my dad listening to them often (along with all their videos on the brand new MTV). There are still bands with punk influences that are heavily inspired by Talking Heads.

A more modern experimental band is Melted Bodies, who incorporate punk, metal, and electronic with lyrics about current times (being popular, authoritarian control over people, insurance companies, generational trauma). They really remind me of a Talking Heads resurgence, with a grittier, more psychedelic feel (as far as psychedelia being fun and thinking differently, but also nightmarish and bad-trip territory).
I'm pretty sure the parent is implying that there is quite a disproportionate distribution.
A dedicated work account _where you use your work email address_... that was the missing part throughout this thread.

But then if you do that you also lose all your open source work history, which is important from a hiring/resume perspective.
I have one for categorizing subscriptions/channels. I've been running it for 3y maybe more. SQLite too. No history integration. I have not opened sourced it because the code is thrown together and there are some subscriptions that the YouTube API doesn't return. I'm not certain what the commonality between them is, either. Possibly country of origin.
Panama is not an ally of the US. Neither officially, or even unofficially if you consider all their recent cooperation with China. Violating a treaty in a way that affects national security would require a change from Panama or action from the US. Hopefully diplomatically, but if there’s no change, then maybe retaking the canal is the only sane outcome. To me the insane part is Panama building relations with a communist dictatorship in secret, undermining the conditions of the canal being handed to them.
I am loving the recent spat of open satellite data!
I can relate to this. I also used typewriters, and my first computer was a mac plus. vim felt so weird and alien to me.

Then I decided to really give it a try and let go of everything I had learned. Now I'm a daily neovim user. kickstart.nvim is really what made it possible to use as a daily coding tool.
yes, however if you look at the function definition then you can't tell if the caller is passing a slice vs an array, or an interface that is implemented on a pointer vs a struct.

The semantics of the function parameter should not depend on how the function is being called.
Synchronous Work, Asynchronous Work
You would think that, but swap manufacturing and parts logistics for user design and content, so a new feature is designed, then content is written for it, then it is implemented. Each step requires the one before it.
From a technical challenge standpoint, trading is extremely difficult. But it provides high upside which only starting a business can exceed. However, starting a business has all the other uncertainty (regulatory, accounting, insurance, licensing, taxes, customers, branding, sales, product-market-fit), making it far more psychologically challenging overall. Startup founders need to learn and juggle a lot of things instead of hyper-fixating on markets. Basically, if you know you are sufficiently intelligent and talented as an engineer, your expected return is likely much higher in trading (especially via a big quant firm), with much lower risk.

If we want more talented traders to become founders building economic value (which we should all agree on), we need to make it less onerous to start a business.
I'd argue it provides negative value even. The goal of these people is to extract money from the markets, without actually producing anything. In biology, we'd call that parasitism.
Hi fellow indie dev!

>Games can be a good business, I know my studio is

If you dont mind sharing, how many people do you employ/long term contract with? "Games can be a good business" is entirely subjective to the studio's goals. So I guess I'm wondering: is your goal to stay solo+/micro/indie, or are you planning to grow with each successive game? And how big?

Sustainability is something I've been thinking about a lot recently[0]. I'm relatively close to launching Metropolis 1998, which falls squarely in a long tail genre (if done right)[1]. I'd love to build up a studio, in office, and along the way figure out what's the right headcount for my goals.

Whiskerwood looks neat btw. Good luck on the game. I'd love to hear why you chose to go with a publisher this time around? Was it an affordable luxury :P ? Marketing, community management, localization can be a PITA, but it's entirely possible to do even at solo scale.

[0] It is not cheap to operate a game studio that employs local people in the USA. It's frustrating because the COL in the mid west is <= 70% cheaper than the coastal cities (where the vast majority of studios are). There's a lot of cheap land where the industry could be to make art/games a lot more comfortably (ignoring the fact that N% people dont want to live there, which is valid if that's not what they want)

[1] Many people play Rollercoaster Tycoon (1999), SimCity 4 (2003), and the original City Skylines (2015) today. steamdb.info, OpenRCT, subreddit activity, etc.

Shoot me an email if you dont want to respond here?
Same as in the not-P2P Cloudflare world, get the data from the only node that has a copy of it, which would be the HTTP server or the P2P node run by the website owner.
I love the term "superstition". I like to refer to lab "rituals" - if something works, repeat it, and never change things around "because it ought to work just as well". Life is too short to figure out all the unknown variables that might be affecting things, so seize luck when you find it.
> I like apples and I like being able to buy them any day of year, even out of season. The only reason I can do so is because there is an entire industry of people who manage the inventory, distribution, try to predict supply and demand, and take on a risk doing that.

In practice, if the availability of the apples you're eating is dependent on finance people, they're commodity grade, not specialty varieties.

I don't eat apples, but I'd rather have a good heirloom tomato from the farmer's market than the commodity grade stuff that's at the grocery store.
Any plans on adding prompt caching and message batches? I saved a lot of money with claude using both. Was making http calls in ruby.

Love this project!
Great idea, however for some idea ctrl + z (undo) does not work.
Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
Ok, but what do high frequency trading bots possibly do to help me eat apples in winter (a deeply unecological mode of consumption, btw)?
It is not cruel, it is a hypothetical question/ethical dilemma just like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

If you could go back in time would you kill Hitler or silently give him neuroblastoma at an age before he announced his evil ideas so that he doesn't become a martyr?

Check out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734776/
How can a ticket be completed to early? Software features are like wizards.
I can tell you that there's LLM spammers that are pretty good at getting around even Gmail's spam detection. I know because I get them on a near weekly basis and Google refuses to do anything about it despite them being easily filterable and a naive bayes filter could catch. The email looks like typical spam but the source is flooded with benign messages that are also highly generic like password reset stuff or something you'd see from a subscription. But they all involve different email addresses and so they look highly suspicious.

I point this out because this makes a very obvious attack, where people can hide tons of junk and injections in the email source that you wouldn't see when opening the email. And how many of the filter systems in place are far from sufficient. So yeah, exactly as you said, giving the ability for these things to act on your behalf without doing verification will just end in disaster. Probably fine 99% of the time, but hey, we also aren't going to be happy paying for servers that are only up 99% of the time. And there sure are a lot of emails... 1% is quite a lot...
Of course the inverse is true, and you don’t have to stick to software. Raising children produces value despite no one exchanging currency.

But generally nobody pays quants to lose money. They expect value over the other opportunities they have to use that same money.

Is this really controversial?
I presume you mean Daniel.
What are you even going on about? QR codes make no real difference. Though in America I have not seen many great implementations and I would guess many would be fast food or fast casual. It’s the level of service being provided. It implies you are spending time eating with a level of service being provided. Weird
There is an extreme case of diminishing returns at play here, and unfortunately the amount of money that flows through these markets is so incredible that it becomes worth it (more than worth it) to commission the top minds of society to push the limit as close to 1 as absolutely possible.

Derivatives have great value to industry. Derivatives that require the fuel of 15 math Phds to lock in fractions of a percentage pricing inefficiencies so their firm can pocket the difference do not have much value at all.

It's like employing Harvard Med surgeons to remove gold dust from gold market sidewalks, and calling it "gold market efficiency".
I would prefer good people get rich and bad people don't.
I never heard of block land, I just looked it up, watched this YouTube video about abandoned multiplayer games https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEW7gxci2Q . It was a bit sad to see it in such decline. It reminded me of a non commercialized version of Roblox.
Calling it a "note" is a bit confusing. I'd call it a self-modifying editable single-file web app.
if a person in the US on a visa changes roles, say from software engineer to manager, and acts in this role prior to changing the visa, is this fraud?
As it turned out there was still a consideration of other people. For example if Nazi Germany got the bomb first then many more people would have been miserable.

The greater good
If anyone on the Pale Moon forums is reading this, contacting media outlets (suggested in one of the posts) is a good idea. Ars Technica may be a good one to start with (with its focus and readership). Media outlets may also formally contact Cloudflare PR for responses and bring more attention to this within Cloudflare.

Another — not the best of moves — is to email jgc at Cloudflare for his direct attention.
Did he really advocate for that? Then why did he support the GOP, a very-much pro-financialization party?
To do that we literally need shareholder not chasing money and pushing Alphabet pushing the Youtube team for higher and higher profit margin.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02110-y/figures/3

The link has images of some of the tools they found. Do you think we could teach a Neanderthal to code?
The statement

>The current market doesn’t value those skills particularly highly, but instead prioritizes a different set of skills: working in the details, pushing pace, and navigating the technology transition to foundational models / LLMs.

depends on the assumption that technology must "transition" to "foundational models / LLMs". The author doesn't seem to interrogate this assumption. In fact, most of the career malaise I've seen in my work is based on the assumption that, for one reason or another, technologists "must transition" to this new world of LLMs. I wish people would start by interrogating this bizarre backwards assumption (ie., - damn the end product! Damn the users! It must contain AI!) before framing career discussions around it.

However,

>decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent

is unfortunately painfully true.
Sorry, implying what? That Jane Street quants aren’t getting rich enough?
Here’s my free ideas, Tears of the Kingdom but using Lego pieces to make objects. Or a kids starter version like Echoes of Wisdom. Or let people make and destruct the official sets digitally with physics in these games, which you unlock by buying the set IRL.
There are indicators, for example, the neanderthals and all other human like great apes have mysteriously disappeared except for us. (Or gotten assimilated, I mean, we have a tiny bit neanderthal DNA)

Check out killer ape theory.

Also look at how violent humans are to their own species.
I do think finance is important in making markets more efficient, predictable, and liquid. In turn, this improves the amount of capital available and also improves the efficiency and availability of international trade.

It's also a sophisticated "export" product itself.

However, I think there's a point where, absent sufficient regulation, it overshoots and most of the effort goes to squeezing nickels out of everyone else in underhanded ways. I feel like we could get 90-95% of the benefits with a finance industry that's half the current size, and also avoid a whole lot of indirect costs that come with an oversized finance industry.
To optimize for fast nearest neighbors, I chose 256 dims. Notably, this actually hurt some of the pre-training classification losses pretty severely compared to 2k dims, so it definitely has a quality cost.

The site uses cosine distance. The code itself implements Euclidean distance, but I decided to normalize the vectors last minute out of FUD that some unusually small vectors would appear as neighbors for an abnormal number of examples.
[Show HN]Seamless local/cloud LLM orchestration
Hey all, I've been working on a project called Oblix for the past few months and could use some feedback from fellow devs.

What is it? Oblix is a Python SDK that handles orchestration between local LLMs (via Ollama) and cloud providers (OpenAI/Claude). It automatically routes prompts to the appropriate model based on:

Current system resources (CPU/memory/GPU utilization)
Network connectivity status
User-defined preferences
Model capabilities

Why I built it: I was tired of my applications breaking when my internet dropped or when Ollama was maxing out my system resources. Also found myself constantly rewriting the same boilerplate to handle fallbacks between different model providers.
Good for him. It's obvious orange flump would cause a market slump.
whats the Hilbert curve equivalent for hexagon tiles?

I used the Moore variant(closed form vs open form) of the Hilbert curve once, I had this fever dream of how Monopoly would be more fun if the players had more agency. using the moore curve as the cost function I came up with a board. If I ever regain enthusiasm for the project I will give each square a name and call it "The Walled City" after the infamous city near Hong-Kong.

http://nl1.outband.net/extra/board.svg

if you follow the zero cost path it forms a moore curve, but you can pay extra to take shortcuts. the interesting part was that the definition of the curve was expressed as a L-system so I ended up having to make a partial l-system parser to generate the cost function.
there's plenty of paradise like islands in the pacific. you could move all the canadians to siberia's tundra and they'd probably do well.

devil's advocate: GODZILLA and all the excitement and joy the franchise gave people would not be as much a thing without the US trying to blow bikini atoll off aerial maps.
Ya, I’m very surprised by the argument “you’re some of the best at numerical analysis and high frequency trading, and you’d be bad at anything else”, lol. That said, I think there are better reasons to work at such a place. Providing liquidity to the market is a good thing, and has real world value, it’s just hard for us to connect it to concrete outcomes. But as a simplified “toy” example, when they orchestrate a trade for/with a retirement fund, they help the fund improve its holdings at very low cost. That benefits everyone impacted by the retirement fund
It is illegal to record a private conversation without consent of the other party in these states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.
> The only comparable change I can think of is the rise of rap music. Which I cannot stand, but I recognize how it changed the world in the same way that The Beatles did.

Yea, I can't stand rap and hiphop either, but nobody can deny that its jump into the mainstream in the 90s disrupted and permanently changed the character and trajectory of popular music.
Server Side Ad Insertion is a production technology used by many OTT services, so it is not something new.

What it means is adblocker can block the reporting API, but you still get to watch the ad and cost the streaming provider wasting money to splice the ad.
I use ollama and I can try this out. Is this specific to any platform? like mac/windows?