skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s absolutely a place in the market for small apartments. In fact the end of SROs is a large contributor to homelessness. But hey if you don’t want to live in one don’t buy one.

Your position amounts to “you can only buy what I consider nice, and if you can’t afford that, then you get nothing — get out.” It doesn’t make nicer housing more affordable, it makes all housing less affordable. Zoning imposes a $400,000 per unit premium in SF.

Which is exactly how we got single family zoning, btw. It was created in early 1900s Berkeley to prevent minorities and the poor from living there by making sure the kind of housing they could afford wasn’t built.
you can also use a VPN when paying to pay significantly less, though ive heard theyve cracked down on that a bit more recently
Fair take
If you have an echo, you’re probably not too worried about this.
Wow, cool to see this make it on to HN!

Author here, happy to answer any questions about this or chat about the ideas behind it :)
Can’t expect a civilian to manage pgp keys or go to key signing parties
That's because they put an LLM over a traditional search engine.
The Wired article should be an HN post, though it has some of the same problem with distracting from the lede with detail that makes people's eyes glaze over and miss/forget the important parts.
It doesn't have to be your Echo, a Sidewalk client can get low-bandwidth internet access through any Echo that it can reach over LoRa, which goes pretty far.
Abstract: "Despite the surge of interest in autonomous scientific discovery (ASD) of software artifacts (e.g., improved ML algorithms), current ASD systems face two key limitations: (1) they largely explore variants of existing codebases or similarly constrained design spaces, and (2) they produce large volumes of research artifacts (such as automatically generated papers and code) that are typically evaluated using conference-style paper review with limited evaluation of code. In this work we introduce CodeScientist, a novel ASD system that frames ideation and experiment construction as a form of genetic search jointly over combinations of research articles and codeblocks defining common actions in a domain (like prompting a language model). We use this paradigm to conduct hundreds of automated experiments on machine-generated ideas broadly in the domain of agents and virtual environments, with the system returning 19 discoveries, 6 of which were judged as being both at least minimally sound and incrementally novel after a multi-faceted evaluation beyond that typically conducted in prior work, including external (conference-style) review, code review, and replication attempts. Moreover, the discoveries span new tasks, agents, metrics, and data, suggesting a qualitative shift from benchmark optimization to broader discoveries."
The US is already de facto withdrawn from NATO. Is there any faith that they would step up if Europe gets attacked?
Plenty of options.
I use sytescope.com with a funnel to sell subscriptions. You can sell digital content on there too and hook it up with lots of payment systems.
The largest fraction, totaling about $300b itself, is military retirement programs and funding. The other largest fraction is internal spending on healthcare for active duty members and their families.

The individual agencies collectively spend only around $100b.

Likewise the other large fraction of the total budget outside the DoD is healthcare spending. We spend a huge amount of money and we don't seem to have healthcare outcomes which justify these costs.

Right now 1 out of every 5 dollars of spent GDP comes from the government. 85% of that money comes from individual tax payers and only 7% from businesses. The system is flailing from top to bottom.
Right, that was also discussed in the comment.
I’ve had ongoing problems with my new laptop either not sleeping properly or waking up randomly in my backpack and toasting itself until it shuts down with a critical overtemp error. My solution is to set the power button to hibernate, and just press the power button if I expect it to be in my bag for more than 15 minutes.
I agree, content is just a rant about failed attempts to improve things.

There is kind of a meme/general advice to be risky, to try things out, fail and iterate on failure. Everything mentioned in the article sounds like that.

I mean, why have houses? They are pretty hard and expensive to build…what was wrong with caves?

Yes, we could say that something’s are „done“/„finished“ and don’t need improvement - or we try and see.
Wait, "follow the Geneva Conventions" is high expectations?
That's actually a pretty clever idea, I never realized you can that. Thanks for sharing.
I mean, if you're up to reading Brave New World, I'd think that scanning through a list to rate and date isn't that difficult.

Aside: The rating and date for reading is just strange for this level of reader, also the having an adult sign off on it. It just seems so juvenile for anyone that is really reading Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, or many of the other books in the list. Something like a 4th grader would need to do, not a 17 year old. I get that it's mostly following the formula from the earlier grade levels, but still, it should be revised.
It's only an issue if you get a copy by cURL-ing it, dohohoho.
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I'm beginning to suspect that a substantial portion of users don't habitually do that, for two reasons:

1. They don't understand URLs. That's not too surprising to be honest, URLs are pretty complex things.

2. They've been burned enough times by crap SPAs that they don't instantly assume something they are looking at has a dependable URL they can copy and share.

Thanks to 2 I've recently started rethinking a bunch of my own projects - I think I need to add explicit "share" buttons that copy URLs to people's clipboards for them.
This was already happening, unfortunately. The user's mail agent is deemed untrustworthy (and so is the user), so every service which needs to send confidential data just turns your email into a notification with a link. There are so many of these, but often they are limited in scope. For sectors like healthcare you have companies offering this type of service to companies which need to adhere to security theatre standards such as ISO 27001, and because nations often have their own added requirements for specific sectors (think HIPAA in the US or NEN 7510 in the Netherlands) these services tend to remain focussed on single countries.

Then there are the national governments and things like insurance companies. All happily sending message notifications where you need to sign in to their own portals.

Securing email is too complex, so everyone builds their own secured portal thingy, and your mailbox has become a receptacle for notifications. Figuring out a solution would require cooperation, pragmatic lawmaking, and giving up those nice cashcows of moated portals, so it won't happen.
> or more tech startups in Louisville.

Strongly agree, the Midwest is the future of advanced manufacturing, not California. Rivian is in Normal, IL, and expanding currently [1] for example. If we're going to spend the next 5-10 years building China's equivalent supply chain, the Midwest is a better location imho (cost of living, land costs, logistics, etc). If you were an investor, where would you build? Very wealthy people couldn't get California Forever built [2], and that was mostly non industrial residential/commercial development.

[1] Rivian: Building for R2 - Expanding our manufacturing footprint in Illinois - https://stories.rivian.com/r2-expansion-03-2025

[2] HN Search: California Forever - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Objectively speaking a chess engine is artificially intelligent. Just because it's not human level doesn't mean it's not intelligent. Repeat for any N of 100s of different technologies we've built. We've been calling this stuff "thinking machines" since Turing and it's honestly just not useful at this point.

The fact is, the phrase "artificial intelligence" is a memetic hazard: it immediately positions the subject of conversation as "default capable", and then forces the conversation into trying to describe what it can't do, which is rarely a useful way to approach it.

Whereas with LLMs (and chess engines and every other tech advancement) it would be more useful to start with what the tech _can_ do and go from there.
There’s a simpler explanation than that’s that the model weights aren’t an information retrieval system and other sequences of tokens are more likely given the totality of training data. This is why for an information retrieval task you use an information retrieval tool similarly to how for driving nails you use a hammer rather than a screw driver. It may very well be you could drive the nail with the screw driver, but why?
interesting question. my (somewhat naive) thought about it is that bonds are maintained by the EM force, which is so strong that it swamps out any contribution from gravity.
Isn't this how banks send secure messages too? You can't send secure emails to arbitrary clients otherwise. PGP stands no chance of being adopted by regular users.
I'm not a big fan of the Cato Institute, but here's an interesting take on Navarro's evolution on trade and tariff's from 2018:

https://www.cato.org/regulation/fall-2018/peter-navarros-con...
Lemieux, Pierre. 2018. Peter Navarro's Conversion. Regulation, Volume 41, Issue 3, pp. 36 - 43
Calling someone a communist or socialist is the latest duckspeak from minitrue. It’s intended to suppress all thought. It’s also intended to be impossible to refute. It’s like if you were trying to muscle in on a cave dive rescue of some kids and suggested the rescuers use your submarine, and then they tell you your submarine is useless, so you insinuate that they are pedophiles. It’s a meaningless tar-baby statement meant to distract from meaningful discussion.
That is by definition systemic racial discrimination. This isn't hard to understand.
It's only dead among people who don't care about productively building fast loading, reliable websites.

(Which apparently is most web developers these days. Sigh.)
It would be foolish to cut the military now, since the US will soon need it to pacify its 51st state, Canada.
Office was the example I had in mind. The discs sold in the US were printed outside the US, they weren't only for foreign markets.

I don't recall if Windows discs were printed outside the US, though I do believe binaries were compiled and signed outside the US.
Sure, do what Japan does ezpz. Also note there’s no ammonia processing plants in Houston (where there’s no zoning) because it doesn’t make sense to put low density industrial on land that would offer a higher premium as high density residential.
This is fun! I like the timing challenge but for many people this is a turnoff (there's a great interview with Zach Gage^ where he discusses research - some people are unable to critically think / learn new things while under pressure)

So giving a sandbox where there is no pressure will probably be more fun for a large subset of players

My only real complaint: please include a puzzle version number in the auto copied share link so that if I solve yesterday's you know that's different from you solving today's

Incidentally you could probably let people try historic puzzles from the link if you wanted (compete on that one vs play today's), that would be a nice wordle feature

^ I think the humans make games podcast
Don't put auth wall when launching on hacker news if your intention is getting feedback.
"man puts prompt into LLM" > "LLM ships bad code" > "machine fails" > "person dies" > "fire man" > "man puts prompt into LLM"
Fast Flux: A National Security Threat
We are literally two days away from Trumpers hating penguins because Trumps people are such amateurs they put tariffs on these islands and now the cult has to defend it.
22.4% of the US Military budget goes to salaries of military personnel. Civilian contractors are part of the separate operations budget but I can’t find the breakout of their salaries. So there’s a lot of consumer spending and economic activity supported by military spending.
Probably a fine article, but I got halfway through and still had no idea what Gumroad is, or what the “creator economy” is aside from people online making money… somehow
They won't even have to be open. ISPs like Comcast have been offering the ability to connect to Comcast hotspots that are just running on consumer's routers.

How long before they offer that as a service to 3rd parties like Bosch or LG?
That's fair. But look up the recent experiment on SOTA models on the then just released USAMO 2025 questions. Highest score was 5%, supposedly SOTA last year was IMO silver level. There could be some methodological differences - ie USAMO paper required correct proofs and not just numerical answers. But it really strongly suggests even within limited domains, it's cheating. I'd wager a significant amount that if you tested SOTA models on a new ICPC set of questions, actual performance would be far, far worse than their supposed benchmarks.
Support for entrepreneurs and small businesses is great, but the last thing I want is for the CEOs and VCs who hate our city and gleefully put us in our current political predicament to make a triumphant return from their Texan silos.

Keep them out or get voted out. Let them go build their Network State or whatever-the-fuck somewhere else.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or obtuse.
ScienceWorld: Is your Agent Smarter than a 5th Grader?
> The US cannot cover even all of its own citizens,

The US already spends enough on healthcare to provide gold-standard best-in-the-world coverage to all of its citizens.

It could take any random system better than the one extant in the United States, CTRL-F the country's names in all of the rules and regulations for that system and change it to "The United States", implement that system, and have enough money left over to cure poverty, hunger, and homelessness for $0.00 in extra spending.

We choose not to.

There is too much money to be made so a constant campaign of disinformation and vilification is waged to stop that from happening.
Remote Access Backdoor Discovered in Chinese Robot Dog Unitree Go1
Find a chunk of raw metal (possibly meteoric iron, more likely copper) of a suitable size/shape, find a tree, using a sharp rock, saw off a suitable branch, split it open, insert the metal chunk, using vines or the intestines of a small animal secure it in place --- if desired, allow the tree to grow around the inclusion for a couple of years, then use a sharp rock to saw off the branch at a suitable length.
What does the word "understand" mean to you?
Bruh it's econ 101 and has been empirically validated across the world: ceteris paribus more housing supply = lower housing prices.

Housing supply constrictions like housing regulation & zoning are responsible for all of the rise in measured inequality since the 70's, have prevented roughly %50 of the growth in incomes we'd have achieved if housing supply was built out, are partially responsible for the explosion of homelessness and the decline of family formation.
Abstract: "We present ScienceWorld, a benchmark to test agents' scientific reasoning abilities in a new interactive text environment at the level of a standard elementary school science curriculum. Despite the transformer-based progress seen in question-answering and scientific text processing, we find that current models cannot reason about or explain learned science concepts in novel contexts. For instance, models can easily answer what the conductivity of a known material is but struggle when asked how they would conduct an experiment in a grounded environment to find the conductivity of an unknown material. This begs the question of whether current models are simply retrieving answers by way of seeing a large number of similar examples or if they have learned to reason about concepts in a reusable manner. We hypothesize that agents need to be grounded in interactive environments to achieve such reasoning capabilities. Our experiments provide empirical evidence supporting this hypothesis -- showing that a 1.5 million parameter agent trained interactively for 100k steps outperforms a 11 billion parameter model statically trained for scientific question-answering and reasoning from millions of expert demonstrations."
Almost exclusively isn't the same as exclusively.

Notably the log4shell[1] vulnerability wasn't due to buffer overruns, and happened in a memory safe language.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell
The real difference is that people in cities pay huge amounts of tax to support the roads out to a relatively few houses in the country. Roads are the biggest outlay in every county I’ve lived in.
Apple sources batteries mostly outside of China and generally has avoided the Chinese batteries (which are almost uniformly garbage) preferring Samsung and TDK production in Japan, S. Korea, and India.

There is an absolutely insane amount of fraud in the Chinese component industry and for a high-risk item like a phone battery the risk simply is not worth it. Google sources Pixel batteries in China, and they also have a reputation for shipping problematic batteries.
I don't see why people would drop the "memory" part of "memory safe" and just promote the false advertising of "safe rust"
Standard operating procedure for both the Chrome [https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/s...] and Firefox [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...] bug tracking systems.

But the fix itself is public in both the Chrome [https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/36dbbf3...] and Firefox [https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/ac605820636c3b96...] source repos, and it makes pretty clear what the bug is.
By what twisted logic is housing “interstate commerce”? It’s local commerce by definition.

> If the city thinks we need rent controlled housing, they can buy you out, put up a tenement and charge exactly what they want.

Eliminating rent control would likely force me and my friends out of a city we’ve lived in for years. You bet your ass we’d fight anything like this tooth and nail. (Fortunately, the policy you describe would be illegal while we still have democracy.)
> March 28, 2025
Damn I didn't know this. I don't know how my search failed to turn this up, because I was literally googling how to accomplish it with media queries lol.
I like the idea but there were several examples where I found a word but it was not the word the game wanted, and I was told "invalid word". Examples: I found "STONE" but the correct word was "NOTES", or "SPILL" vs "PILLS" etc. Extremely frustrating!
Maybe the ad wars will end. But perhaps the masses might need more education on this to fully appreciate it.
The other option would be to change how floating point works. IEEE specifies operations, not names, so it would be totally valid to have <= on floats be a total order (using integer cpu instructions), and make a function called IEEEAreIdiotsWhoThinkThisIsFloatingPointLessThan which is the partial order that sucks.
People have value systems, yes. What's "boiling down" a value system?

You don't get to co-opt everybody as cryptically religious just because they have values.
It's too late, the American age is finished. Even if the tariffs are reversed, the world knows we're indecisive chaos monkies. Trump once is a mistake. There's zero plausible deniability for a second round.

We are getting exactly what he said he was going to do. Elect an abuser, get abused. And the world is going to move on without the U.S.

Trump uses tariffs to consolidate his power. He will reduce them to reward fealty and bribes made to him personally. And as punishment for his enemies. It's the same with his attacks against institutions, law firms, universities, and states governments. Worship him, and get rewarded. Refuse, and be punished. Just like how he runs his business.

Tariffs reduce American spending abroad, leaves less dollars exported abroad, means less excess dollars for foreign governments to spend on U.S. treasury securities funding our budget. Unless interest rates go up. But Trump has said he wants lower rates immediately, and will eventually fire Powell to get there.

This is akin to an American Brexit. Our 401k's will have flat growth for our lifetimes, so I expect they will make the case of privatizing Social Security again. Redirecting payroll taxes will help existing 401k holders, so I assume most will approve or at least hold their nose. What's the alternative?

Meanwhile the U.S. government is threatening allies with annexation, and that they arm themselves with American made arms. It's just not a serious country.

The country elected an untrustworthy liar. Yesterday's millions of peacefully assembled could not be bothered to do so prior to the election when it might have mattered - as a society we are enamored with inconsequential social media protests over elections that matter.

John Adams told us the Constitution only works for a moral people. But we seem out of virtue. He also said republics are empires of laws, not of men. And we're unwinding that paradigm too.

The easy path was the election. All of the other options are significantly more difficult.

Removing Trump from office is a good idea, but sadly it also just promotes the next diarchy: Thiel-Vance.
If you could orient something along a higher dimension in the correct way could we conceivably create some kind of anti gravity or artificial gravity?
Doge's attack on social security causing 'complete, utter chaos', staff says
You missed the end of the supply chain. Paying users. Who magically disappear below market sustaining levels of sales when asked to pay.
There was an anecdotal story on Reddit about a Samsung TV that did this.

The poster disabled WiFi on the TV and didn't add it to their own network. The TV kept complaining and re-enabling the wireless interface and eventually latched on to a neighbour's unsecured guest hotspot...
> Zoning problems can be completely fixed at the state government level, and the optimal solutions are likely to be different in each state

States and local governments have dropped the ball. You know who knows better than the state what to do with their property? The people who own it.

> giving it more power and authority would be utterly un-American

No need. You’d just limit what states can do (if they want highway funds or whatever).