skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I pulled the trigger, it would be to a similar CoL location, but that still gets to their point: if many people do the same, prices go up. Housing availability goes down. And all the knock-on effects that could result in "gentrification."

Precisely. You don't need to put gentrification in quotes. It invariably happens. And it gentrifies both the locals and the recent immigrants.

> How do I balance that (and all sorts of other things) with my desire to keep my family safe and give my children a chance at a solid future, though?

From the dynamics that seem to go around such white-collar immigration for these reasons, there doesn't seem to be a way to prevent gentrification and CoL rise. The only exception may be going to places that sorely lack people, like the American North Midwest - places that not only risk depopulation, but also places that can carry immense amounts of people and are open to development.

The majority of the world is not like that. The majority of European population centers are squeezed between river valleys between mountains or short strips of land between the mountains/hills and the sea. And they are already built to hell. The depopulated mountain regions of such places could use some people, but they can in no way handle the amount of emigration that the richer countries seem to be generating. That is one reason why Europe gets higher CoL and gentrification so fast from such immigration.

South America fares a little better because it has at least some more space, but it suffers from the same in the end: The desirable locations are limited and the immigrants go to those locations, causing skyrocketing costs.

Looking at Asia and Africa, it may be a little better because in certain locations there are vast spaces and major cities that could handle immense amounts of people and could use development, but those don't seem to be popular destinations for such white-collar immigrants.

So it again comes back to the US: The 'flyover country' between the coasts in the US is an immense space that is open to a level of development that no other place on the planet can provide. Most of that space seems to be occupied by either unused public land, or by the cattle industry. There was recent research that detailed how the cattle industry sits on top of a gigantic amount of land almost for free despite propping itself up with government subsidies and how it could solve the housing woes of the US and provide unparalleled development. But until citizens, investors and planners start putting pressure on politicians to offset the influence of the cattle industry lobby, that land will keep propping up the cattle industry instead of being used for urban development.
> It takes time and effort to feature a product, how could they make a living?

That's exactly the point. People shouldn't be making a living promoting other people's products. If they like something and want to promote it, for no compensation, then they should.

Imagine someone with a home improvement YouTube channel. They really, genuinely like certain brands for the tools that they use. So those tools will be visible in the videos, and the person making the videos is free to tell viewers how much they like those brands.
I find the Magic Mouse a bit too small for my hand, but the touch surface inertial scrolling is so good I wouldn't switch to anything else on that basis alone.
Ironically the companies with the most widespread advertising are the LARGE companies! They pollute our daily lives with stupid ads.

I’m really not concerned about the car I don’t have, the quality of my floor mop, or the latest prescription pharmaceutical that my primary care doctor is too stupid to even spell.

I really feel for the small companies. But outside extremely industry specific mediums, they just can’t afford to advertise much. They have to be known from reputation and search engine results.

So, while I see the point you are trying to make, by volume, the bulk of advertising is utter crap.
Well that's not how it reads in historical documents to me. But you're free to have that opinion if you want to.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it
I rather like the MX Master to, but I wish that they made a wired mouse in the same shape. After a few years the battery capacity has dropped and I feel like I am charging it every other night.
> I use ChatGPT for many tasks every day, but I couldn't fathom that it would get so wrong something so simple.

I think we'll have a term like we have for parents/grandparents that believe everything they see on the internet but specifically for people using LLMs.
It's like when the Bush administration was convinced Saddam still had WMDs, and was somehow connected to 9/11.
I dunno, the billboards in movies like Blade Runner were kind of cool.

Advertising in my opinion has a UX problem, it is however inextricable from a capitalist society. It needs to look great, it needs to be consistent and it should respect user consent and privacy. That's pretty much it.

Billboards don't invade your privacy or require consent, so they just need to look modern/great and be placed in areas where they won't disrupt natural and residential scenery. Unlike web-ads, they're more or less consistent but like i said earlier, I wish they were more "cool" like in scifi movies.
No.

Article I §8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises

There's no question the founders did not want tax and spend power in the executive branch, that was what kings did, and led to war and tyranny.

Congress wrongly delegated the power ostensibly to enable the president to have trade negotiation leverage, and for emergencies.

This is plainly abuse of power. Congress needs to do its job.

The tariffs are not bringing a dime into the country at all. The tariffs are paid by import distributors, increasing the cost to the merchants, and paid by the consumer. Trump is lying, per usual.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1142935810188...
The states that have banned billboards seem to get by just fine though.
No need for complexity here. Anyone who needs those benefits to accept the position is a poor choice anyhow. Forget them.
> “Even if they stopped now, a lot of damage has been done,” another NINDS investigator says. “I think it’s a sinking ship. I don’t mean my lab, I mean biomedical research.”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The law:

Section 1. Ban on Commercial Advertisements
All commercial advertisements, in any medium, are hereby prohibited throughout the United States.

Section 2. Definition
For purposes of this Act, “commercial advertisement” means any paid or otherwise sponsored message intended to promote the sale or use of goods, services, or commercial ventures.

Section 3. Enforcement and Penalties
Violations of this Act shall be subject to civil or criminal penalties as determined by the courts.

The thing is going to hit the courts anyways. Just craft it in a way that hits the Pareto curve on effectiveness vs legality.
Title needs a (2001) I skimmed the paper looking for new insight only to see it talk about stuff that's already prevalent.

QGIS, FME, D3, Open layers, Mapbox, and others GIS related tools has been prevalent in all the workplaces I've worked at that needed something related to this topic.
That Peter Navarro item resurfacing on news today (he is the chief advisor to Trump on tariffs) explains a lot. He made up at least one of the experts he quotes on trade in his non fiction books using an anagram of his own name. https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771396016/white-house-adviser... If something looks entirely stupid one the surface, it is exactly what it looks like, there's no 4-D chess with any of these guys except exploiting inaction of Congress to do things it could, like revoke the law that gave Trump these wide powers to tariff given for the "war on terrorism".
I don't think we really need to do that. In the US, advertising certain types of products (tobacco and alcohol, to name a couple) to children is illegal. So clearly the law already knows what an advertisement is, and how to define it in such a way that seems to get the job done from a legal perspective.
Counterpoint: Paul Newman was absolutely a famous drunk, as evidenced by this Wikipedia page.* Any query for "paul newman alcohol" online will return dozens of reputable sources on the topic. Your post is easily interpretable as handwaving apologetics, and it gives big "Its the children who are wrong" energy.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Day
I live in Alaska where billboards are banned, and it’s lovely. The ugliness of outdoor advertising is one of the first things I notice when traveling in most of the continental United States. Even without billboards, people still shop at local businesses.
No seriously, let's ban all advertisements. If you want that info, you can seek it out, it should not seek you.
My point wasn't chess specific or that they couldn't have specific training for it. It was a more general "here is something that LLMs clearly aren't being trained for currently, but would also be solvable through reasoning skills"

Much in the same way a human who only just learnt the rules but 0 strategy would very, very rarely lose here

These companies are shouting that their products are passing incredibly hard exams, solving PHD level questions, and are about to displace humans, and yet they still fail to crush a random-only strategy chess bot? How does this make any sense?

We're on the verge of AGI but there's not even the tiniest spark of general reasoning ability in something they haven't been trained for

"Reasoning" or "Thinking" are marketing terms and nothing more. If an LLM is trained for chess then its performance would just come from memorization, not any kind of "reasoning"
Is there any proof that they're coding errors? A simpler explanation, to me at least, is that they first blanket fired people by dubious criteria, and are now using this as an excuse to backpedal when they realize they've cut something important.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33267518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23569799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235120

It's something I've been considering for my current project:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

as I reach the limits of Literate Programming and so forth, but not convinced that the added overhead will pay off. Does anyone have a before-and-after of a project where this has been really useful? Bonus points if in Python.
Establishing that you support the extreme action does not mean that you are unwilling to accept incremental action as well.

Let's start by banning billboards, and then let's keep going and ban more forms of mental pollution until the overton window has moved enough that we can entirely ban the ability to pay to control someone's attention.
> China and the cultural revolution/great leap forward should be a warning of what can happen when there is no oppositional veto power.

In the Angloamerican West people always bring up the Cultural Revolution as a cautionary tale, but the Cultural Revolution removed the influence and power of the old Chinese elite from the society and established the dominance of people's congresses unshakably. Despite the undesirable happenings around it, it changed China's culture fundamentally. Even the father of the current president of China was purged from power during that revolution, leading to Xi being raised as a normal person and rising to the top from the village level, like almost all of the Chinese governing cadres - ending up with the ordinary people dominating the establishment.

That is why China has a lot of street sweepers, garbage men, electricians etc in their people's congress while you won't see one single person with such a job in the US Congress or even a few in the major European countries' parliaments. They are dominated by the elites from the same social circles, or in the case of various European parliaments, by hundreds of years old aristocratic families and their relatives with similar surnames.

So using the Cultural Revolution as a cautionary tale for the Trump administration not only does not make sense because it's not an accurate comparison, but also the assumptions behind the usage of it as such an example are misplaced from the start.
This is a good article that goes into more detail, including more examples. In fact I'm not sure there's anything in the OP link that's not here.

> This is VERY VERY VERY important.

I think we'll look back in decades to come and just be bewildered that it was ever possible to come up with an exploit that depended on the number of times you wrote "VERY" in all caps.
Some Linux distributions patch their unzip package, e.g. Fedora https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unzip/tree/f42
Rtorrent + rutorrent
> Your assumption is that the challenge or concern about regulation is the difficulty of dealing with vagueness. As I pointed out, this is not the case, but the hesitancy and destructive power of imposing your will on others.

> […]

> I think a judge would also demand a consistent principle and definition to guide regulation.

Very well said across the board.

My stance is that any time—literally any time—someone is proposing and/or promoting a policy that can stifle, chill, and/or suppress free speech in any way, even if indirectly, the bar for justifying such a policy must necessarily be extremely high.

In theory, I actually agree with many of the arguments against advertising, but there’s a clear slippery slope with this “let’s ban advertising” line of thinking, so yes, the bare minimum is being able to concretely define what advertising even is in such a context.
Be grateful I'm deleting my followup message and I'm getting older and wiser and learning to shut up. You can waste your eyeball resources on something other than my comments which will convince no-one. Have a nice life.
The mouse could still be useful though. Apple mouse is just horrible in most regards, and no trackpad can offset this fact, despite being a head and a half above any competition.
It's good that you think your clever. At least someone in the world does.
NFC uid is also randomized
The "Unix Philosophy" is a bankrupt romanticized after the fact rationalization to make up excuses and justifications for ridiculous ancient vestigial historic baggage like the lack of shared libraries and decent scripting languages, where you had to shell out THREE heavyweight processes -- "[" and "expr" and a sub-shell -- with an inexplicable flurry of punctuation [ "$(expr 1 + 1)" -eq 2 ] just to test if 1 + 1 = 2, even though the processor has single cycle instructions to add two numbers and test for equality.
Advertising. You are talking about advertising while attempting to call it something else.

It may not require money if that is banned but value will be exchanged and we’ll be back to square one.
One thing that I think makes only targeting paid advertising a problem: companies often do more than one thing.

Is it ok that when you're watching broadcast/network TV, they advertise internet or cellular service, because the conglomerate that owns the TV station also owns an ISP and cell carrier?

Is it ok if you're using a popular web search engine, and they advertise their own hosted business productivity suite?

I think no, we should not allow these things. But no money (or consideration, or whatever) has exchanged hands here.
Show HN: Fujifilm Recipe Sharing Site
By the time they reach the public domain they aren't though, and the public can and should do with them as they see fit

Modernizing / adapting is the least damaging change to be done here
Can you expand on your thoughts here? What is the root issue with unsigned integers? Is your complaint primarily based on the implications/consequences of overflow or underflow? I’m genuinely curious as I very often prefer u32 for most numeric computations (although in a more ‘mathematics’ domain signed ints will often be the correct choice).
I don't really think it can.

I think it's wrong to view the GOP as a party of elected officials.

The GOP has elected officials, but Fox news/Rogan/etc, the Heritage Foundation, project 2025, the NRA, palantir, cambridge analyitica, twitter, Zuckerberg, bezos, and many other funded and powerful institutions are behind every individual congressperson. So you're not talking about a decision that is made individually. Republicans for all of their flaws, act with a great amount of solidarity, which is what makes them powerful, they are able to punish anyone that breaks that solidarity, and for many GOP people who are also criminals protected by their position, the punishments could even be quite severe if they forgo the protection of party by dissenting.

The only meaningful act of dissent that even comes to mind was John McCain who was dying.
She (Deltalina, née Katherine Hinton [0]) makes a little cameo in the current iteration, celebrating 100 years of that airline’s service:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOLUnExHvw&t=1m42s

[0] https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-rarely-interacts-with-cust...
If it may be involved with or adjacent to the work they are doing, I would say yes.
Removes all storefront signage

What is this place? What do they sell here? Wait, is this just a house? ... it would bring some mystery and excitement to shopping.

I think you have to specify that the payment goes to the owner of the platform - where platform is a very broad concept.
E-ZPass toll payment texts return in phishing wave
This post is very interesting but is also more than 14 months old. (Should it have (2024) in its title?) At the time of publication, the author was waiting for a renewal quote under the revised licensing model and unsure if it would still be justifiable to management. Has there been a subsequent update on what happened in the end?
This is from 2011, FYI.
*AI AGENTS* for the next-gen traveltech (with superpowers)
Rethinking business travel with community in mind

Hey HN,

We’ve been quietly building something that we think touches a pain many teams (including ours) have felt: business travel is broken. The tools feel dated, expense management is a chore, and even with all the talk of AI, most platforms just add a chatbot on top and call it a day.

We’re working on Suitpax, a new approach to corporate travel software—designed from day one to be AI-native and modular.

Our vision: a travel stack that combines autonomous AI travel agents, intelligent expense handling, and VIP-level travel support, but built like a developer product—composable, secure, and scalable.

Some things we’re experimenting with:

AI Travel Agents that go beyond recommendations. They act on your behalf: booking, rebooking, optimizing itineraries based on company policy, personal preferences, or budget.

Expense Automation that actually works: no more manual receipt uploads, no more back-and-forth with finance. Everything is tracked, parsed, and reported in real time.

Enterprise-ready by default, with clean APIs, user permission layers, and modular integration with tools like Notion, Ramp, or Slack.

Under the hood, we’re using a mix of multi-agent orchestration, vector-aware context memory for preferences, and a privacy-first architecture. We’re also testing out some interesting coordination between AI + human fallback systems for handling edge cases (flight delays, concierge requests, etc).

This isn’t a launch yet—we’re still early. But we’d love feedback from this community, especially those who’ve built or scaled SaaS, dealt with travel ops pain, or are exploring autonomous agents in production systems.

We’re hacking this because we genuinely believe corporate travel should feel as modern as the rest of your stack. If anyone’s curious, we’d be happy to share more and open up early access.

Founding Team:
Alberto & Alexis
not many professions allow me to work from home in my underwear for good sums of money
You assume that advertisement is the only way of discovering business, which is not true.
Are you the author? What is the teche stack?

I had to click 5 times to see the fist text of the course. You should skip the chapter/subchapter/section screens. I should just click once to see the first text.

In the main page, there are too many ads and it´s difficult to notice "Next Page". Patio11 recommends big orange pancake buttons.
It takes two thirds of the Senate and two thirds of the House to pass legislation. It takes two thirds of the Senate and only one half of the House to impeach and convict. And deposing this anti-American fuck would carry much more weight internationally for starting to repair the damage done to our relationships with our allies. Just sayin'.
What I don't understand is why there seem to be no "bulk processes". Saw a wafer into (tiny) pieces using a raster, somehow (yes yes...) load them onto a roller, and place them a column at a time. Anything resembling a pixel at a time seems wildly impractical. They actually seem to be that far I guess, because the price per LED is already down to ~0.05 cents ($10k for a 4K display). Lesson: 4K is a lot of pixels ;)
I assume things will change dramatically in the next few days.

Trump's "emergency powers" to declare tariffs are already being challenged in court. And there's also growing support in the Senate and House to change tariff policy too. (So if the stock market keeps dropping, I just don't see Congress refusing to act.)

Plus, I just assumed the whole "liberation day" was Trump's way of striking an aggressive pose as a starting point, hoping subsequent negotiations would then end up someplace more advantageous. (Maybe the "tell" there is the way the White House keeps saying "There will be no negotiations." Because their current position is so wildly untenable -- it has to be a pose.)
Does public service announcement get exemption?

How about health ad ("Smoking kills") ?

How about mentioning a product in health ad (Smoking kills. Nicotine patches help you quit smoking)?

Traditionally, the government setup some regulatory body to oversee these kind of exemptions. These body often corrupt over time. Is a corrupted regulatory body better than no exemptions allowed?

Do we want the legal text cover all cases and become so dense that nobody can comprehend? Or do we want some simple rules and live with the possible unintended consequences?

and the most important question : People hate changes and some industries need to rethink their own business. How could we get people agrees on this in a democratic setting?
There's one bartender in the US Congress, but the point seems to hold.
There is probably no level of tariffs that make US labor competitive with $2-3/hr all-in with benefits China wages. That's before you even get into workers rights/legal/safety/conditions/etc. Note China is already hinting at devaluing their currency further as well.

And again with generationally low 4% unemployment and promises/attempts at mass deportations, who exactly are supposed to be staffing all these factories that are going to sprout up here?

Maybe the plan is fire enough people & make Americans poor enough they'll accept $3/hr?
I don't get this debate at all, LCD has less burn-in risk. OLED will always be an inferior choice if they can't fix its short lifetime. Or, I guess, this fits well with planned obsolescence: higher fidelity, shorter life time