skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Katyal is an MSNBC mainstay who came to prominence as a liberal defender of Republican president Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, all of whom will now rule on the case. In recent years, Katyal has helped Nestlé defend itself in a child slavery case before the Supreme Court and represented Johnson & Johnson in its bid to use bankruptcy to block lawsuits from cancer victims.

Listed on the Katyal-authored amicus brief alongside SAFE is the group’s senior adviser, former Louisiana Democratic senator John Breaux, who also lobbies for ExxonMobil, Norfolk Southern, and Boeing — corporations whose top executives could have a financial interest in the outcome of the case. Breaux also lobbies for billionaire financial magnate and Democratic megadonor James Simons.

What a fucking scumbag. This guy is a corporatist, and blatantly for sale.

>SAFE is organized as a so-called social welfare nonprofit, which allows it to hide the identity of its donors and avoid taxes while spending money to influence policy decisions.

This scheme needs to be outlawed. Lobbying to ease the tax burden of billionaires is not social welfare, it's social cancer. Also, if donors chose to avoid taxes, they don't get to provide "input" on policy decisions. You pay tax, you get a voice. You avoid tax, you don't get to have a voice.
lol this is not the comment of mine i would have expected to generate controversy…

for the record, i meant entering 90 instead of 130. my entire life i’ve converted to min/sec.
With the API being nearly the same, I keep just thinking that Virtual Threads are basically identical to Platform Threads except that they use far less memory (so you can have lots more of them).

Are there any other actual differences? Better Peformance?
Tools for automatically downloading/scraping personal financial data
That's a public domain text. So, yes, it can do it. I stand corrected there. But can you coax a copyrighted text out of it?

When I ask it for anything from Game of Thrones it refuses beyond offering a summary.

But this is all begging the question.

How are you going to codify that? "You can't feed my text into an algorithm that has the ability to reproduce it"?
Firing everyone can reduce an office's carbon footprint to 0. Just sayin'
I'd be remiss to not also recommend the gold standard of geopolitics podcasts imo, from Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-inte...
People typically set the weights of a neural network using heuristic approximation algorithms, by looking at a large set of example inputs/outputs and trying to find weights that perform the needed computation as accurately as possible. This approximation process is called training. But this approximation happens because nobody really knows how to set the weights otherwise. It would be nice if we had "compilers" for neural networks, where you write an algorithm in a programming language, and you get a neural network (architecture+weights) that performs the same computation.

TFA is a beautiful step in that direction. What I want is an automated way to do this, without having to hire vgel every time.
You’re exactly right that the main point of private endpoints is to allow customers who aren’t allowed to open firewalls to public internet to still connect to their public services like Azure Storage, Key Vault, or SQL
Very good points, especially re. the security footguns
Do you really need Wifi 7 though?

If not, a two-pack of “Eero 6+” is $154.99. That’s a very good price IMHO. And one needs a quite large home in order to need a three-pack, so I think the two-pack is sufficient for most households.
What's the status on litestream? Does that have a future as well or is it LiteFS all the way?
>Doing what is essentially unpaid work to get to/from work seems pretty unfair when you’re losing potentially an hour each day doing it.

I do not agree with this framing. People have agency to choose where they live and what tradeoffs they want to make in their life. No reason someone willing to live in a certain location should subsidize someone wanting to live further away.
There was a time when Apple too had only 8.8k paying users. Also worth noting is that Google search has 0 paying users :)
Exactly, it's easy to say "Just torrent it," but that requires a lot of people to stick their necks out, including the user who just wants a copy of the data.

We need the ability to circulate HDDs physically in a semi-organized fashion, samizdat-style.
How would LLMs really help though if all you get is usually an order number? I mean, it can probably figure out that an order from McDonalds is food related (though does it get categorized as "Everyday Lunch" or "Going out with Friends" or "Work Events"?) and Geico will probably be some sort of Insurance - but that would just be a large database of common payees, no real need for any AI. That said, if you're importing years worth of data, it would be a great starting point to get ballpark estimates of where your money goes, so that has value.

And then there's e.g., "Amazon Transaction AB2314ACWERF" which could be a new Fridge ("Household Appliances"), a 3D Printer ("Hobby Expenses"), a video game ("Entertainment Expenses"), or a giant double-headed adult massager ("Fax Machine Maintenance") - but the bank statement wouldn't have enough information.
How are people automating the data import? I can't imagine someone entering everything by hand. Lots of places don't even provide an export file you can work with... most of them offer a PDF.

It seems like most financial places rely on Plaid for the data integration, but that's a paid service I don't think Open-Source or free personal finance apps would use.
Is the folding phone not just an incremental improvement on the flip phone? Touch screen instead of screen + physical keyboard.

Some are even going so far as to call themselves flip phones.
I use YNAB 4 every day on macOS thanks to patches available online for the Adobe Air framework (from 32 to 64 bits). What OS are you using?
GPT-4-base was completed in early 2022, its existence only went public much later. Whatever OpenAI has right now is a year and a half more advanced than current models. Since open source models can't even touch GPT-3.5 yet, they are very far behind.

OpenAI has been cutting deals left and right with newspapers, publishers, and other organizations to train on vast high quality private datasets that simply are not available to open source development. Looking at how datasets are at least as important as volume of compute, we can expect the gap between OAI and open source models to continue to widen.

None of this addresses the gigantic (possibly 1:1000) advantage services with constant workload have when it comes to memory bottleneck efficacy.
For the shopkeepers and others who provided services for the office workers… fewer jobs.
> When you have somebody actively looking to steal $THING, they will find it and steal it.

Perhaps less people will be actively looking to steal $THING if they know that that they might be apprehended and accused of doing the crime.
i don’t feel that this is true in the slightest.

so many critical exploits use the same characters and lengths as intended inputs. Also, if firewalls were a replacement for secure code, no one would be talking about memory safety.
This is wrong. Every IPv6 interface has a link-local address (which is not routable outside the LAN) as well as a global address. Global addresses are just addresses that come from a block allocated by the IANA. It has no bearing on whether the interface is reachable from the public internet. Just like with IPv4 networks, a stateful firewall will prevent unsolicited inbound connections.
Structured concurrency in JDK 21 is not only a powerful and flexible library feature, but one that is built deep into the runtime in a way that allows observability into the relationships among threads: https://openjdk.org/jeps/453
i won't use any finance manager that doesn't employ the envelop method, like ynab.

looking at the demo for 10 seconds it looks like a web based gnu cash.
Not true. The await statement will kick the operation over to the event loop to wait for a response, and the thread itself will keep humming along (pulling other events off the loop, handling animations and scrolling, etc)
Almost all concerts I've gone to without a friend taking me was because I heard about the concert on the radio.
Fabulous! Amazon now offers customers the option of paying to look at ads.

(Edit -- I see that there will still be an ad-free tier, but it will cost an extra $3 a month. Doesn't affect me anyway, I'm not a Prime subscriber.)
Speeding up GTM with a caching proxy using Cloudflare Workers
The market where Valve takes a cut of all cosmetics sold also incentivises them to maintain an extreme level of artificial scarcity for the most desirable cosmetics in the game.

To me this is infinitely worse than just having a skin shop and/or battlepass.
Got it! That's what I thought (feared). I wonder if there are ever plans to open it up to general use, or if it would be easy as an end user to jump said hoops.

I wonder if there are any open source third parties?
Ask HN: Great startup idea, but cannot solo
Assume for a moment that you have a truly impactful (valuable for people) idea that solves a major problem (and probably saves $$$$ which == $$).

But you are experienced enough to recognize that you lack some significant skills necessary to solo-build.

Where do you start?

There are countless "startup schools". Some expect a team and MVP for entry. Some appear to allow anyone with an idea; but some of those may be sketchy or innefectual.

If I said, "I have an idea which will make tech hiring many times better for candidates and companies!", which startup school/group/mentor should I aim for?
I dunno, maybe they actually enjoy hacking on projects like this? Weird I know.
It's the same as saying "American as a burger", arepa is just a traditional food in Colombia, a bread made of corn
> Police only work _AFTER_ the car has been stolen

That sounds like lax policing to me. (Which itself derives from policy.)
You just need to have each person create their own Plaid account (which is probably the way you want it anyway). The free tier supports 100 institutions.

Last time I looked at this, I thought it was stated that the free/sandbox tier is not guaranteed to have the same SLA as the production environment. But I can't find this in the documentation anywhere.
If society wants to make jobs, there is tons of trash to pickup. And infrastructure to maintain/build.
The WHO has a guide for "unhooking from difficult thoughts and feelings".
At one point it says "You cannot stop these thoughts from arising. They are normal and natural. But it is not so helpful to get hooked by them." and then goes on to explain some simple practices to help unhook.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003927
Here's more detail about how it was tested. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/2022-apri...
This isn't a color comment. It's a small correction to a factual error. No culture war to be had here.
> Why not just use SQLite directly?

SQLite does not provide replication, so there is no way to use it directly (other than copy whole file). If you mean it as "Why not use it as a database" than sure, you can use it directly, though the article states reasons for not doing so (resiliency and concurrency). Postgres is a lot better in those areas, and so is the tooling.

>I'd also like to understand wrappers and ORMs for migration to other systems, should SQLite stop scaling

1. It heavily depends on the orms. For example Django provides good abstraction layer and many things works with any database with no change needed, but many other don't bother about that. However just because a query runs, doesn't mean it will return the same results. Any non-trivial app will rely on numerous accidental details and you can't switch db and expect everything will be fine. SQL is not really portable even in the parts it does cover, and there are many it doesn't.
It’s criminally good.
This was a very good decision. It was a poor use experience to pay $10/month and regularly get notified that I had gone over my search count; it discouraged me from consistently using Kagi. Glad the $10/month level is now unlimited.
So basically your claim is that noone evaluates possible consequences when deciding whether or not to commit a crime?

It seems totally reasonable to me to expect that the higher the chance of negative consequences the less people commit the crime. Basically, police should lower the expected value.
> wish it were more powerful for things like investment tracking.

Community needs an open-source version of YNAB, not another gnu cash clone.

Plaid solves the transaction import problem, the hardest part, unfortunately at the expense of privacy.
Tell me more about these "pizza teams".
Have you tried Universal Summarizer which comes included?

https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html
Repairing?
No its not just that. Any small time indie film is also practically empty. Most A24 films for example might have some interested people on day one but then its literally dead for the rest of their two+ week run. I cannot even count the amount of times I walked into a theater with literally no one watching. AMC plays the film regardless and its just sad seeing no one in the theater. I am tired of hearing this "formulaic crap" excuse when its the formulaic crap of superhero movies that bring in a lot of the big bucks.
You obviously have never been on the backend of a big enterprise deployment.

The world is bigger than your apartment.
Chris Sacca's plan to salt the Earth
I use Windows, though I did download the 64-Bit macOS patch just in case I ever need it. Mostly just playing it safe in case there are future incompatibilities because they'll have to pry YNAB4 from my cold, dead hands - unless I find an actual alternative :D
>Valve puts money into platforms and tools that users enjoy (things like forums, hosting mods, user reviews, community pages) as their investment. Does Epic do something similar for devs?

Sure,

- They invest in Unreal Engine and all the adjacent tech available, some of which can be used without Unreal Engine (Epic Online services). Of course, tech like Metahuman and Quixel want to draw people into UE but if you are already using UE it's a strong consideration.

- Similar to Unity, they have an asset store which enables some devs to make money selling tools/assets to other devs

- Lastly they do directly fund various games and tools. The forced exlusivity didn't put a good taste in consumers mouths but I'm mostly talking about Epic Megagrants. No strings attached, they can just throw money at good devs and most notably they invested into Godot and blender (again, no strings attached. True grants just to make open source tooling better).

most of their stuff is skewed towards Unreal Engine, but I don't see it as any different from Valve being skewed towards Steam. The difference is that consumers want to buy games while devs want to make money. So while there's a stronger business angle to every Epic solution, it fits with what a dev would want to do.
The research on this is very mixed, and in many cases has found that remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. Anecdotally, I've found some organizations work great fully remotely, while others require in-person presence at least some of the time.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/time-savin....

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/130/1/165/2337...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31515
The hosted version doesn't seem to work at all. Any time I enter a prompt it just brings me back to login.
My company went fully remote. Moved the office out of SF proper to avoid the Twitter Tax and downsized it, now it can only hold about half the locals, and most days nobody goes in.

At the same time, we started hiring without geographic concern. The mandate became get the best folks you can, we don't care where they are[1].

It has worked out well for us. We've gone heavily international, and grown our customer base and expanded markets at a slightly faster faster pace than we were before going remote. (I don't think going remote did that - more capital and people did. But it didn't hurt.)

And maybe we're just selecting for folks who like remote work now, but I don't know of anyone who wants to go back to the old days.

[1] With some exceptions, some managers want people in the same timezone, some roles are inherently place-bound, etc.
This issue is caused mostly because of policy(in Canada immobilizer is required and this is non-issue). Policy makers failed, which in the end has put massive strain on police departments. Then, laws and judges are failing by not holding people accountable. Throw a book at them. So the word spreads. These kids know they will get a slip on the wrist.

Also, Hyundai could have predicted this but picked saving few bucks per car, which frankly can be a lot of money. Probably not worth the damage to the brand.

I probably wouldn’t purchase another Hyundai, and I have been really happy with our 2019 Santa Fe and even my dealer is very decent and service has been great.
As another poster has pointed out, the power output is very small compared to the engine's capacity. So cooling is not really a problem. From the engine's point of view it's pretty close to idle, and the car's fan should have no problem pulling enough airflow.
It would be far, far more direct to just have a carbon tax.
While different than the approach offered by Litestream, I am fairly excited by the direction of Cloudflare D1, making SQLite available at the edge without having to manage anything. Still in alpha but worth looking at if you're looking for cheap cloud option.
I wouldn't characterize the arguments I've heard to date as "good". They are wishful thinking of those uninterested in abiding the rules.
I miss HTC (yeah, they're not dead officially, yet).
From making ODM PDAs/phones for Dell/Compaq/HP/Google to becoming one of the top smartphone makers and playing with VR/beats headphones and into oblivion.

Hope somebody writes a book about them.
It's normal for companies to use different names to operate in different markets. There's some bidirectional setting of value through exclusivity that happens in some cases as well, like with Nismo. It's not exclusively an American concept.
Having good memory is important. It seems to me you have a really good muscle memory and that has helped you play without looking at the score.

I've played the piano since a very young age and the thing is, learning to play without looking at the keys (eg whilst reading) is actually a good skill to have. The argument goes that this way you can look at one hand without worrying about missing with the other while in a concert. I tend to agree.

Also I scribble a lot in my sheet music because part of studying a piece is discovering things written in it (everything has a purpose, every staccato, forte, piano, etc.)
Yo :D This is what Supabase Realtime does!

https://github.com/supabase/realtime

Spin up a Supabase database and then subscribe to changes with WebSockets.

You can play with it here once you have a db: https://realtime.supabase.com/inspector/new
Whoops. I should have figured that out. I apologize.
AI excels at making bad art. Can an artist teach it to create something good?
> How is categorization of transactions accomplished? Ideally, I want autocategorization based on my own previously categorized transactions, since the bulk of my transactions are repeats at the same merchants.

One of my aggregators categorizes any alcohol purchases (purchases from a state 'ABC' store) as 'home improvement'. While technically the house looks better when I'm drunk, I still thinks it's a mistake, and I submitted feedback to them. 2 years ago. No change.
Moxie isn't CEO anymore. Has Meredith made any statements on third party clients since taking the reins?
Even 25 hp is large compared to the generator output shown (about 5 kW or about 7 hp).
I don't follow politics closely, and I noticed it's creeping up on here more and more, but from my shallow observations, it seems that Democrats are just rich people protection as Republicans, if not more? A lot of it seems to be done under the guise of liberty and social welfare too. Am I wrong?
Sounds promising but website seems to require a login which shouldn't be required for examples.
You have a charming way with words. Yes, national IDs and the right to bear arms are wrapped up in our national identity.

To paraphrase Charleston Heston, they can put a national ID in my wallet when they pry the AR15 from my cold dead hands. Never mind I am trusted traveler with global entry and I have a real ID state drivers license. Never mind the Chinese government hacked the federal Human Resources database all those years ago and have the data for anyone who took a paycheck from Uncle Sam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
Thank you for speaking to what I have been feeling for a long time.
I have been recently thinking about starting some kind of organization or initiative to push back against the anti-competitive behavior behavior that are rampant these days. It would be similar to EFF, but more about raising awareness in corporations by sending letters, and talking to employees as an organized effort.
A far more substantive reason for the prevalence of crime among adolescence and young adults can be attributed to fatherlessness (1)(2)(3)(4).

(1) https://fathers.com/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/\
(2) https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic
(3) https://ifstudies.org/blog/life-without-father-less-college-...
(4) https://medium.com/@apdonovan1990/10-insane-stats-that-show-...
Amazon adding ads to Prime Video in 2024 unless you pay $2.99 extra
Would you mind reporting what you see at https://kagifeedback.org so we can take a deeper look?
> We’re beginning to hit theoretical limits. In a vacuum, light travels about 186 miles in 1 millisecond. That’s the distance from Philadelphia to New York City and back. Add in layers of network switches, firewalls, and application protocols and the latency increases further.

> The per-query latency overhead for a Postgres query within a single AWS region can be up to a millisecond. That’s not Postgres being slow—it’s you hitting the limits of how fast data can travel.

No. An AWS region has a radius of less than a few dozen kilometers, more likely around 5km. Lightspeed doesn't factor into it at those small distances. That millisecond is indeed Postgres being "slow" in these terms. (Most of it is the networking stack, as noted.)

This basic error makes me question the validity of the document. I stopped reading here.

I agree that "networks are slow" but this sort of false justification is not the way to sell it. Is this an attempt to make the author seem like he knows what he is doing because he knows the speed of light?
There are also cases where government regulations prohibit hiring non-citizens. Given that they're offering $100/hr when they're losing $8m/day, I expect that MGM would LOVE to hire anyone willing to work for below market rates. If a recruiter contacted me, I'd be telling them to triple the rate and then we can start a conversation. I'm sure their attorneys make $300/hr on the low end.
So if I pirate it, I won’t have to see ads on unproduced shows? Seems like a fair bargain, given the goal is to avoid the ads in the first place
> Opensearch

In that case it’s quite obvious that "search" is not a product, and so this should be an open-source search engine.
I don’t like hypothetical counterfactuals but of course it is your choice to use them. It is hard to meaningfully compare recent programs, rust or otherwise, with established behemoths like Linux, gcc, Emacs, etc, that did the heavy lifting and allowed the playing field to remain even over multiple decades. If gcc did not exist it is not clear at all how a hypothetical computerized world would develop.