skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first gut reaction was $115k/person/year was way too high... But apparently a person in a NYC prison costs $560k/year[1]...That amount of money can definitely do a lot of good to rehabilitate a person.

However

> we identified people likely to become criminals

This tricky, because people will think it is GOOD to marked by the algorithm; key free money! Then these algorithm will likely be used in court as evidence that a person likely commit a crime. Sadly, this is already happening today [2]

> you can have this as long as you don't do crime.

So if you are convicted of a crime, in addition to all the stuff convictions currently do to prevent you from getting a job and beating any chance to better yourself besides crime, you also loose that UBI making you even MORE desperate than you were before. All you have done is increase the longer term punishment of prision.

Not to mention it encourages first time convictions so the city can save money. There are many vindictive judges, who will say something like "You don't deserve the money the goverment is giving you."

[1] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-co...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/secret-algorith...
I'm less concerned about Google Ad market share and more concerned with their placement of Google properties above competitors on the search results page (IE, Google Reviews over Yelp, or airline prices, etc).
Because they don't want to have to create a separate form for "people who have been in industry for > 5 years", "people who have recently graduated" and "people who are still at university"? It takes you 30 seconds to answer the question and is going to be useful information for the recruiter in many cases.
https://www.dentyne.com/
SFPD is notoriously, maliciously useless. It's a political tactic that they've used to wring more funding, less oversight and fancy surveillance gadgets from the city. The previous DA had to rent a U-Haul himself to seize stolen property from a shady business[1] that was involved in organized car breakins. In 1975 they set a bomb off on the mayor's lawn to get him to concede to their strike demands[2].

They're not there to help you, little bike owner. They're there to ensure the value extraction and capital accumulation machine stays lubricated.

1. https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/boudin-forced-to-rent-u-...

2. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=163878616863437...
You can buy Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 for ps4. Fallout 76 will be free for PS5 users and Fallout 4 is getting a PS5 refresh. Skyrim is also available for ps4 and ps5 so which game are you talking about? The one that doesn't even exist yet that will likely get released to PS5 later?
Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone
Hi there.

I built a company that provides algorithmic trading strategies and financial data resources for its users to invest with. --> https://justfor.fund

Users can connect multiple brokerage accounts to multiple algorithms created by the community.

Advice and feedback are very much welcomed!

Disclaimer: New born business with its second beta version (19 users) currently live.

Other details :

- Fully functional platform

- I'm the sole developer and founder

- I've been working on the product full-time for 6 months total, iterating based on feedback received

This is a follow up to my previous Show HN post, which was published 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31117255

Thank you
does extend the life span of outlook.
Ask HN: Is PayPal an open scam at this point?
Long story short, somebody accidentally sent me money, my PayPal account has "Sorry, we couldn’t confirm it’s you" error.

Sender started dispute and because I couldn't respond PayPal awarded it to my locked account.

There is no way to get in touch with a human. Can't contact them from my account at all, twitter/fb getting only bots, 3rd day I was waiting 2h on the phone...

We are in disbelief.

edit: A lot of people think that I am getting scammed, that is 100%, not the case. I know who the person is, I did paypal transaction with them before. They aren't asking me to send them money, they just made a mistake and wanted the original transaction reversed. It happens.
Yes it is. And yes it will.
The things I've seen all use hosted language models. For example https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index depends on LangChain, which wraps APIs from hosted LLMs: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/modules...

AFAIK there's no GPT-3-like LLM that's easy to run at home, because the number of parameters is so so large. Your gaming PC's GPU won't have enough RAM to hold the model. For example, gpt-neox-20b needs about 40GB of RAM: https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b/discussions/1...
I feel like HN has skewed risk averse over time, so the start up founders, indie hackers kind of get drowned out
It seems pretty unlikely that many people have a workload that is highly sensitive to read throughput, has a disk footprint so small it fits on a 512GB SSD, and where the cost of slower disk outweighs a 20% faster CPU.
it's hard for me right now to tell if something is simple or not to implement, but i totally agree!
thanks for the links.
One essay that touches briefly on this is Million Dollar Murray [0], about a homeless man and how the unwillingness of society to deal with his homelessness cost the taxpayers of Reno more than a million dollars. One of the points in the essay was that many difficult problems had "power law" distributions [1] (where the action is all at one extreme).

And one successful program for treating homelessness handed out keys to apartments. The "moral hazard" involved offends lots of people: "I pay my rent! Why should some one/freeloader/whatever get a free place to live when I have to pay?" Outrage seems to be the driving force in media these days. Which is why nothing will change.

0 - https://housingmatterssc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Mill...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
> If Astronomers were predicting a mass-extinction level asteroid impact for the year 2050 with 50% probability I doubt you would be so cavalier.

“Asteroid extinction” hasn't gone through several rounds of hype of imminence from people working in the field with a financial interest in that perception to extended “winters” as the basis of the last imminence cycle bursts in my lifetime, so... maybe the two things aren't analogous.
Is there really enough consistency between all the classes in all schools candidates may have attended across all the decades they may have attended in that this is in any way a meaningful point of comparison?
Absolutely. All these new open source companies are a bit shady. Supabase was also another one of these although I hear now their stuff is easier to self host.
Their hiring process is, ah, "interesting", but without getting into that let me note:

1) There are more questions about high school if you make it into the interviews, so they do take it seriously.

2) There is research indicating that "who or how we are" is pretty well determined in our formative years, with the high school years being a prime driver, so there is at least some rational motivation to ask about it.

Ex: I self-sabotaged two different classes (and my grades therein) due to personality clashes with teachers. If one believes that I am fundamentally "still the same person who did that", then it might seem worth exploring those situations and my responses before hiring.

Not trying to justify it.
That would be trivially gamed by either requiring more compensation up front or the CEO simply behaving against the interests of the company during hard times.
Unlikely. Such "accusations" are so commonly in the news for the purpose of distracting from the lack of consequences. These reports give a passing appearance of responsible enforcement that almost never actually comes.
People don't generally park their cars in yards, across sidewalks, or in the woods. All places I've come across electric push scooters. Sure, cars are ubiquitous, but people mostly park them in designated parking spaces (also ubiquitous) or risk a parking ticket, boot, or tow.

DC adopted a parking zone strategy for the scooters. Haven't been downtown in a while, but imagine that could work without dedicated docks.
Why would the executive (or anyone) continue to do the job?
Wowsa. Somebody didn't do their job right if it took anywhere near that amount of time to get logs back. Sorry it was so painful.
Sounds like a great way to setup a honeypot.
Elon Musk Never Jokes
1. There is too much "Create an account" and "Give us your info" and "agree to these 300 pages of TOS"

2. We want our appliances to work for us rather than for data brokers

Now if my washing machine had a web server built in and I could log into it to see the status of the machine (spin cycle, rinse, finished 22 minutes ago) I would like that. In fact, if the smarts on the washing machine didn't phone home without asking me first I might even join it to my home network. But as long as the terms are that I must accept an electronic leash up my ass from the manufacturer with little say in what info they collect or to whom they give it if I want to see the status of my machine remotely then they can get stuffed.
Not HIPAA compliant, or usable in a compliant way, I assume?
> Can someone explain how Google has a monopoly when there are competitors in their league?

Being a monopoly doesn’t mean you have no competitors - it means you have enough control of the market to artificially affect/set the market price for something (ie that there was not enough competition for efficient pricing).
On the one hand PagerDuty's hiring process is shitty, but on the other hand the rest of the industry's process for identifying which heads to reduce is worse?
They're venture backed, it's a growth hack: https://cal.com/about

Expect the usual tension of open core shenanigans to eventually play out.
Startup idea: make a non-intrusive functioning anticheat system
what are the advantages of podman over the classic Docker for mac ?
I’m supposed to take comfort in the fact that you’re more violent in hypothetical situations?

The death penalty will always be executed with a certain false positive rate. Willing it as a form of punishment necessarily entails willing the death of innocent people, who crucially can’t be brought back in the event that the state realizes it was mistaken.
Justice Department sues Google for monopolizing digital advertising technologies
It also constitutes a misunderstanding of the license. There's no need to clone into public view if you are your only user.
The first sentence of the questionnaire says it's to work on Ubuntu WSL.

It's funny to imagine that the barrage of questions from Ubuntu is merely a tactic to suppress the obvious question from the candidate: why is the company seeming to fall for that move by MS.
How does someone use lightning on Nostr? I see a lightning link marked "Tip" on his profile page, but that seems to point to a plugin that you have to install in your browser: https://getalby.com/.

Is there some lower-level integration with lightning within Nostr, or is this it?
> people to have behaviors that trend towards criminal so they would get paid

This won't work because newfangled AI is very smart.
this "documentary" has already been on all national news in India for past 2-3 days, so this is not an example of Streisand effect. Most people who turn on TV once a day are aware of this.
Great article!

Not entirely related to the post, but what app did you use to create your diagrams? They look fantastic.
Also the docker compose in the repo is a mess and doesn't work... Clearly it seems to be a way to limit usage of the selfhosted version
The entire US policing & carceral system arguably traces back to slave patrols. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...
I'm kind of sour on antitrust as much of a solution for today's issues. If we had five smaller Googles doing the same thing what would that make better?
Just to give some context, the sender is from 3rd world country and this is a very meaningful amount for them. I got caught in the middle and feel just horrible.
Datadog isn't cheap, but trying to replicate their complete functionality in house, with their uptime, would require a dedicated team and infrastructure that would be even less affordable.
yeah, i'd love to! how do you want me to message you?
I use Wine so I can run foobar2000 on Linux.
I didn't get these kinds of questions but when I interviewed there years ago, they were very straightforward and said I don't have enough experience for the role. Which is at least more than most companies will say.
Wine will report the same free value that df(1) does, and yes this can break old applications' expectation of sizes when it overflows in 32-bit integers.

Since I use ZFS and run ~/.wine on its own dataset, I set the quota to 2t and I'm golden with regards to any app I've seen. Could probably afford way smaller too, but this works for me.
It's neither libel or unhinged. I'm not the only one out there that finds the case around Within a stretch at best.

Plenty of mergers and acquisitions have driven technological progress, and so long as they aren't anticompetitive it's not problematic. See Meta and Oculus, for instance, or Apple's merger with Next.

Acquisitions and mergers fundamentally reduce duplication of work and allow you to combine building blocks to create something greater. Blindly blocking any and all of them as Khan is, is indicative that her bias against big tech has the potential to harm progress overall for no perceivable actual gain.
the problem with cal.com "open source" self-hosting is that they have made it quite difficult to run yourself. For example this https://developer.cal.com/self-hosting/docker actually doesn't provide docker images but you need to build it yourself because for some reason frontend needs hardcoded hostname. In no other app I have seen such limitations :)
Also, an older version from a year ago just stopped working, couldn't fix it, couldn't update it either :D

It would be good if someone made a fork with fixed setup and docker images for self-hosting :)
It used to be that tech companies and startups were for the young, but now that every company is a tech company (bringing along all the societal baggage) we’ll see more of the same systemic incompetence, but mostly from companies that still think they can move fast and break things. It’s a new ballgame and regulatory agencies are paying attention.
but the invariant of checking out/exploring just for the sake of being somewhere but 'here' does present one with way more opportunities to listen/hear.
I worked at a hedge fund that asked for SAT scores as part of the hiring process. They used it as a general indicator of intelligence I think. There were definitely a lot of really smart, bright people there and some definitely came from schools that weren't at all impressive. I think this was their way of recognizing bright people who didn't have the opportunity for impressive schools for whatever reason. Working there was pretty toxic, though, so maybe I'm being too charitable.
I said "next closest thing". How close you get depends on a lot of factors. Some entire cultures are built around the veneration of centuries or millenia long dead ancestors.
What do people who are early engineers (or employees) but not founders count as to you? (Early meaning like first 5 eng, or first 10 employees overall.)
Oh, honey.
Alright, that's a little bit different, but doesn't that just imply that Bitcoin or Monero become "cash" in case you need to Do Some Crimes?
Tech Contract Templates (CC-by-4.0): Mutual NDA, TOS, CSA, SLA, PSA, DPA
I’ll have to wait for them to figure out how to make it compatible with child/managed accounts…
Agreed on the general point, but it's undeniable that corporatism has used conservative politics as the means to the end they desire. See also: every culture war, the fact that the only thing Republicans can agree on are court appointees and tax cuts.
Sure, I wasn’t saying Astro is for every use case. Like, no tool ever is.
When goods and services become commodities humans always take them for granted because they can be. We don’t ooh and ahh over high grade steel or steam engines anymore even though they would have been revolutionary 400 years ago. Big tech got past their novelty phase and now people want more improvements. It’s how our economic system works
I see sluggish website performance on Firefox for Android. Chrome performance seems fine on a Note 9.
Here are a few notes from their latest financial statement:

- Revenue was $94.2 million, an increase of 31.3% year over year.

- Delivered a third quarter dollar-based net retention rate of 123% as of October 31, 2022, compared to 124% in the year ago period.

- Achieved non-GAAP profitability a quarter ahead of previous guidance, expanding non-GAAP operating margin to 3% for the three months ended October 31, 2022, an improvement of 1,000 basis points over the year ago period.

My point isn't to say that employees are owed something. You are right, business is not charity. The problem is the lack of any consistent social contract. You can spend all of your time and energy executing at 110% and still be shown the door. At the end of the day, you are labor, not capital. And capital reigns supreme today. As a public company, PD has to make its shareholders happy at all costs. I'm not casting judgement on that, but no real assurance of loyalty in employment combined with no good social safety net (at least here in the USA) is a dangerous and often stressful mix. Add out-of-control inflation, increasing housing costs, and a tightening labor market to that to really ramp up the pressure on folks.
The NAND chips are soldered with ball grid arrays, requiring a reflow oven to add a new chip, not to mention how the board itself would probably not even detect the extra chips.

Here's an M2 Air logic board with 1 of 2 NAND chips soldered on (in yellow), there's an empty spot on the board for another chip: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/1A2NHYEY6dJcUcd4.hug...
Instagram was what, 19 month old when FB bought it? It has 13 employees. It had 0 revenue. It had 30 million people on it. (Facebook hit a billion people in 2012.)

It was tiny. It was the hip up-and-coming app. It had the limelight, and importantly to FB it was mobile first.

I think our memories like to kind of project back its success after acquisition onto what it was before, and get distorted by its billion dollar price. He paid a lot for a not a lot, because he was buying a fad while it was still hot, before Twitter or Google could. He then dumped gasoline on a matchstick. Would ANYBODY else have poured that much money into Instagram that quickly? I think we can all picture what would have happened to it if it had found its way into the Twitter portfolio. (I would surmise it may no longer even exist and have been folded into Twitter having a picture posting feature.)

In hindsight it was absolutely anti-competitive in some way, but I don't know how the law could act to block buying shiny things with potential.
Same. I barely graduated high school (I only did thanks to a guidance counselor that basically made things up for my transcript) but I graduated from uni within 4 years with a 3.9.
https://youtu.be/_VfSl0iGAus?t=25
If you're a for-profit company, what benefit do you get by making your offering Open Core?

Is it sales channel, with the hope of converting those self-hosters to paid customers?
Somehow, I'm not surprised at all to see Apple users openly defending the fact that they get worse hardware when they buy the newer, more expensive model.
At issue is that there is now new evidence. It should be obvious that conclusions reached in its absence do not incorporate any evaluation of the new evidence.

The conclusion might be strengthened, unaffected, weaker, or even reversed. That is the point. There is no value in new evidence other than that it might make a difference. What is difficult about this?
For people familiar with how ChatGpT work, is there a youtube video or blog you recommend that explain how it work.

I have a very good understanding of how deeplearning neural network work and language model like "Word2vec" that convert a sentence or a word to a vector space.

But I completely fail to understand how Given an initial text as prompt, ChatGpt will produce text that continues the prompt.
I'm afraid you're confusing something!

The intersection of all types is never, because, say, number and string don't intersect. The union of all types is unknown.

any doesn't show set-like properties and yields ternary logic in clauses like any extends T, which makes it a paradox.
Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's better/worse than a closed source application. What's important is the ability to clone and to self-host your own instance of the app. If someone is concerned with privacy, why couldn't they just use Jitsi Meet? Someone help me out here.
Many quarters of flailing to find the next thing, that this time, will really restart the growth engine. New markets, changing sales channel strategy, product pivots, reorgs.
The Twitter OP elaborates further down the thread that they're seeing real-world impact on Lightroom. That would be a bummer for me...but I'd probably buy a build with a larger drive. Waiting for confirmation that this is only on the base model.
The late 1800s and early 1900s exploited this on behalf of White Supremacy. All of the Jim Crow states had laws against vagrancy which were only enforced against "colored" people. If you failed to have a job, local law enforcement would arrest you for "vagrancy" and the prison would rent your body out to work on the "chain gang". Prisoners got paid nothing. The politically connected "good old boys" would get paid for renting out the prisoners.
I loled very hard when compared leaked MS headers to official ones once :D They've removed harsh words from the comments )
The 'fake news' of backends
When you're building campuses that resemble theme parks more than offices I think it's time to let the FTC take a peak. Meta is in a similar position IMO.
I completely agree with this. Forget subconscious bias: if I'm after a physicist, LaTeX is expected and its absence a worry.
You know the process for executing someone is very long, expensive road. Eager is the worst possible description of the death penalty.

There are plenty of criticisms for the death penalty but now you're changing the goalposts as you realize your description written in a science fiction feel good reality was a bad fit.
I mean, when we read that page, it doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth -- saying this as somebody who's generally very skeptical of VC-backed FOSS. It seems like the founders have their heads and their hearts in the right place, to the extent that calling it a growth hack feels wrong to me, personally.

But yeah, in the long term I agree with you, it'll probably fall apart in the way you expect within 10 years. It's hard to outlast the financial interest of investors, even if they're you're friends.
(Not) to Start a Job at Automattic (2020)
All this discussion about Nextcloud in a thread about Linode.

With Hosting, you largely pay for reputation. Reliable/trustworthy providers are gonna cost more.

On one end of the spectrum you have good-enough-for-the-CIA AWS. $$$

On the other end of the spectrum you have communists running Data Centers out of their basement. $

I suggest Linode. Super reliable provider, much less price than the big names. I would expect the same service out of DigitalOcean, Vultr... just pick the company where you like the owners honestly. Linode's the one me teacher used tho.

Assuming you got the income, $40/mo for 8GB should be good enough to run a ton of hobby projects. Or maybe $20 for 4GB to start, I think Linode lets you upgrade droplets.

Avoid AWS. Using AWS for a hobby project is retarded. Its meant for enterprise.

Option B would be to use a RaspberryPi. Its extra work for less performance, but Pis are a lot of fun. Its like owning a toy that can run NextCloud.

If you're getting into self-hosting btw check out https://yunohost.org/ and https://landchad.net/