If you are an activist of any kind, it's a good idea to be offshore. A UK Palestinian support group had their account frozen and access to the funds blocked just this week

https://x.com/declassifiedUK/status/1945077503996895319

If you are an activist, have stuff offshore in a country other than the one you campaign in. And Crypto.

Which coins are best for that, though? And with all the talk of wealth taxes, I wonder if accounts will be frozen simply by the tax collector?

Haven't used them myself.

But I think it depends on how many built in integrations there are? As if you have a battle tested integration already in place may save writing a script/api.

Also junior devs could be allocated on to it.

It's the usual HypeCycle[1] and most of the players playing know this.

[1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gartner_Hype_Cycle.s...

>No major player wants a smaller screen because it has downstream impacts on the pipeline of addictive material and ad pixels they can stuff into ocular nerves.

There are lots of phone manufacturers who have no ads business. They just make phones so why would they care?

Size is dictated by trouser pocket size/handbag size and usage. Editing photos and movies to upload onto social media is probably better on a big screen.

Also screen size is dictated by common panel sizes, as low volume will mean a higher price.

Folding screens and iPad Mini's existence suggests people want larger screen real estate.

I think photos are a big deal, but IMO it's more about the photo quality. And if you put a nice fancy camera on the phone, suddenly the device gets pretty expensive.

And so while there are people who want "small screen + nice camera". There are people who want "small screen + small price". There are many people who _don't want the small screen_. So you have this phone that can cost a lot of money (in a pretty messy market where most phone models seem to not make money anyways), and you're going to cut off chunks of the market?

So we end up with small screen + shitty camera and specs etc. And people here who want a small phone (but really want a small phone that isn't miserable to use) still are unsatisfied.

I have an iPhone mini, and my understanding is that I lose quite a bit of battery life also by not having the full sized version. The market definitely prefers long runtimes, free from frequent charging, while I need to carry a charge pack sometimes, although just when I expect it to be needed.

> There are lots of phone manufacturers who have no ads business. They just make phones so why would they care?

There are still bound to the screen resolution dictated by the platforms/environment. A maker selling an android phone with a 480x640px screen would face a huge uphill battle to see any sales.

Going for a smaller physical screen means higher DPI, so higher production costs and quality control issues. It can make more sense to buy cheaper, low DPI screen and make the whole device bigger to match the needed pixel count.

> There are lots of phone manufacturers who have no ads business.

I mean... none of the big ones.

For the others, they DO make small phones, and even non-addictive phones. We have e-ink phones in pure black and white.

Most people don't enjoy the work they do.

As long as the bills are paid then most people will be happy to not go to traditional work, but instead do more interesting/ of value to the community work.

who is paying?

Money is a made up system that the people have decided best meets their needs at this time.

If AI completely changed the system, then the present method of exchanging labour for money would also need to be replaced or tweaked.

There are more of us then there are of them. So they will need to either kill us all, or work with us.

And as many of the overlords claim to believe in a Christian/Jewish God, and so believe that one day God will come down to Earth and build a city at Jerusalem (or something like that) they will not want to anger their god by killing all of us (perhaps just the remainder of Gaza...)

I wish I could share your optimism that they will see the light, at least before causing massive amounts of pain and suffering.

Oh please, the billionaires who control these things aren't going to share the wealth with the people they put out of work. They're going to suck as many of us dry as they possibly can

"As long as the bills are paid" is the key point. They won't be because people will be out of a job with no safety net

I pray LLM's put programmers out of work. You don't enjoy it anyway, just bills etc. Learn to enjoy gardening or something.

What would a programmer rather work on. Some boring app for someone else, or an app to solve a problem he has of his own.

What is more enjoyable, working on the language and database dictated by work, or whatever tech he wants to use.

As long as a person gets out of bed and does a days work doing something productive in some way, it doesn't matter that it's not traditional work.

I feel like most people who got into programming because they liked it (rather than for money) feel this way. I certainly don’t wanna be solving the same problems over and over again.

The money raised is $80m rather than $800m which likely reflects all the challenges faced.

It's the kinda startup that may be able to pivot easier than others.

That's not directly related to this topic? This guy isn't starting a construction company. He is intending to sell tech to existing ones.

> is focused on developing a self-driving kit that can be retrofitted to construction and other worksite vehicles

Seems sensible a project. $80m raised also seems a sensible amount. And the guy has a background in this field. Good luck

why? Did he sleep with your girlfriend at high school or summat.

LLMs came out in 2022 and Finance being a lucrative sector and heavy on tech staff has had 2.5 years to move on this.

So what is the existing competition? what is JP Morgan doing already in house/Bloomberg offering?

Deepseek was made by a HedgeFund founder, so he is also well placed.

Investment firms aren't known to advertise or resell their secret sauce. AI has been used in trading in some form or the other for close to 40 years now.

Sorry, didn't mean front office trade tools. But everything else.

What do you mean by front office trade tools? neural networks, predictive models and fancy pants math has been used in trading stocks for 40 years. That's what the Medallion Fund is based on and it generates bonkers returns.

I feel that what was missing is exactly AI front office trade tools. The trading pros who wanted a black box investing style, i.e: the math says buy stock X so buy stock X, have had the option to do that with the knowledge that it's extremely effective based on the Medallion Fund returns. That's compared to a more traditional Warren Buffet-like style of valuing a business or even a more Michael Burry-like style of finding missed gaps for a collapse.

What was missing all these years is what this is. A way for someone who doesn't know much about investing (or doesn't have the time) to "just past data there and ask it is this a good investment" like other esteemed HN members mentioned they are doing.

Jane Street's reported use of LLMs + OCaml, https://archive.is/HSVJN

> Using Vcaml and Ecaml, they wired AI tools straight into Neovim, Emacs, and VS Code.. RL Feedback: The system learns from what works, tweaking itself based on real outcomes.. Jane Street records the [developer] journey — every tweak, every build, every “aha!” moment. Every few seconds, a snapshot locks in the state of play. If a build fails, they know where it went south; if it succeeds, they see what clicked. Then, LLMs step in, auto-generating detailed notes on what changed and why. It’s like having a scribe for every coder.

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