skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We like to give our customers several options to cater to different levels of technical skill and size of the business. Many of our customers are less technical and choose not to use the open source so the free cloud tier gives them a great entry point to try us out.
In the spectrum of “things that have had an effect on Seattle’s homeless stats”, do you think this recently elected council’s recent decision has had time to have an effect?

If not, doesn’t it seem likely that previous looking the other way has contributed to the current status?
This is a straw man argument.

This is not a problem of lack of money. There's more than enough money to go around.

This is a conscious decision to not provide money to the citizens in need and push it into the MIC instead.
Except anyone could have known it did nothing for them. My sister and I confirmed this many years ago.
In case you're not aware, it's because pseudoephedrine is used to make meth. As for why it's restricted in the US and not Canada, the DOJ believes that meth production in Canada is relatively low compared to the US [1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs13/13853/product.ht...
It literally did nothing at all.

Before I started using Flonase for my congestion, real Sudafed was the only thing that would work when I had to fly. If I forgot, take off and landing would be miserable because my ears wouldn’t pop.
Nope what? What do you disagree with?
The Pragmatic Engineer [1] is the other main place I follow. They complement each other nicely.

[1]: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
If it does, it would be for network, not location. Per the rules, this isn’t a location api, except it actually is.

Iirc Android has always asked for location to enable Bluetooth, I wonder if there are similar apis there?
Facebook is a SuperApp. It had a WiFi-hotspot-finder in it for years.
acquisition (or an IPO but unlikely for such a niche product company) was planned for since day one and likely part of the reason they managed to attract many of those really good engineers.

Series A $29M in 2021 by AZ and Google + Series B $40M in 2022 by, among others, Cisco itself.
I wrote https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts and the quality is pretty phenomenal if you use XTTS for the voice generation. It's really excellent, but requires the book not have DRM.
lmao i did the same thing
I don't know why it needs to be so drastic.

We could start by enforcing the 4th amendment.

Then we could actually hold officers accountable for their actions.

Qualified immunity should be scaled back drastically and any LEO which violates the law should have a multiplier applied to the sentencing guidelines for any convictions against them.
Just require police to carry liability insurance so their misconduct is paid for by the insurance. If all insurance carriers drop them they cannot do police work anymore. You can even give them a raise to cover the extra insurance. Then the government would have to keep paying out for misconduct and the worst offenders would at least get booted out of the profession.

A national law would work best but even state laws would be effective.
The police don’t behave this way in most other wealthy countries. For reasons that aren’t relevant context, I have had encounters with the police multiple times in the US and in numerous countries abroad and the difference in behavior is stark and clear.

The FBI presumably has the responsibility and authority to police sheriffs departments and police departments that aren’t behaving appropriately, and the FBI is part of the Executive Branch. It would be relatively straightforward for the President to task resources to focus on this specific problem and ask the DoJ to focus on prosecuting civil rights cases.

Elsewhere someone suggest a privacy amendment to the Constitution, we already have that and it’s the 4th amendment. We don’t need more legal protections, we need to actually hold police officers and departments accountable. We need to enforce the laws we already have, most importantly the Constitution, against officers and end effectively limitless immunity.

We also need to raise hiring standards. The minimum standard to be a police officer in most civilized countries is similar to our requirements for FBI agents. Most police officers on duty in the US are uneducated, ignorant, and stupid so it is not a surprise that belligerent behavior is the norm. Only in the US did we actually have police departments placing a cap on the IQ of incoming officers. Only in the US do we have no national requirement for someone to serve as an officer. Some cities require a certification or attendance to a police academy, but there’s no national standard. Only in the US is the average cop your high school bully given a gun and a badge.

There’s a lot more that could be done here. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be blue-tinted government action, it could be red-tinted government inaction by getting prosecutors to defect from the gang and uphold the right of self defense, correctly aligned to the actual law, in matters involving the police. It is legal under the letter and color of law to use lethal force to defend yourself against unlawful conduct by the police, most especially if they are attempting to use unlawful force or make an unlawful arrest, however as a practical matter prosecutors are in the gang and will “back the blue” no matter what. We could easily make even the idiots we hire as cops think twice before busting down a door without a warrant, announcing their purpose, or just plain knocking first.

What I am very clearly not saying is any such stupidity as “disband the police”. In a well functioning society, the police serve a valuable purpose. We are not currently a well functioning society, and part of why is because the police operate like thugs.
I think this aliasing feature is too complex for its own good. Especially at Google's scale.
How the sausage that is our reality is made:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
It's not clear to me that the title of the post is the logical conclusion from the post's content. The post talks about fewer investors in VC rounds, but the definition of an investor is just anyone who made 2+ investments. I imagine that includes angel investors, family offices, etc? I'm a VC, and ~100% of the seed VCs I know are still making new investments. For Series A and later, it's also ~100%, but at a slower pace. I do know a bunch of angels and family offices that ramped up a few years ago and then paused when the market corrected.

(The thing that made me suspicious here is that the graph shows the number of investors grew from 5,000 to 7,500 a few years ago, but there's no way we got 2,500 new VC funds in a single year in 2021.)
I took a job at a place that was into "serverless". That's fine, but there was no way to run anything locally due to how the application was built (wrong framework, no framework, etc.) Also, they failed to give each developer their own environment, so we had people editing the same code in the AWS console. I've never seen anything like it. Everywhere else I worked prioritized local first.
The TSA is the living embodiment of your statement.

There is now an entire generation of kids growing up thinking it is completely normal to spend 2 hours on queue to be bombarded by xrays (or touched near your genital areas), in order to get on a plane
Ask HN: Anybody else notice Reddit's VPN policy update?
Accessing Reddit for the last week or so on a VPN has been a pain. If I click a search result in Kagi or Google, it shows the message "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy."

The only way to get around it is by modifying the domain from `www.reddit.com` to `old.reddit.com`. Does this smell like the beginning of the inevitable end of `old.reddit.com` to anyone else?
Loading a picture from one small instance to another takes tens of seconds, practically dial up speeds.
You can use iOS’s built-in screen reader to narrate the Kindle app. I listened to an entire book that way. Audible is much better but you can do it this way too.
BeONE Sports: AI-powered comparative training platform
Sports tech start-up BeONE Sports and software engineering company MobiDev have joined forces to launch an AI-powered comparative training platform. BeONE Sports relies on human pose estimation technology to elevate your form and performance. Most valuable, the application compares your form with that recorded by professional athletes. So you can train with your sports heroes. Check it out and let me know what you think.
There are tons of people doing hard drugs in Seattle that aren't being a menace to society. I'm not sure why you can't just criminalize the actual problem.

I don't think we should be locking people up for years because they were minding their own business and being productive members of society and happened to run into the police at the wrong time.

At the same time, it would be nice to do something with people who are fine to beg for money on the street, do nothing productive, and be high on drugs until they die.

Most cities with these problems have resources for people who are willing to get help. Yet we let people refuse that because they'd rather continue doing drugs and not being productive and at the same time ruining all public spaces.

Something needs to change.

Hoping that those people will just change is a bad strategy. Leaving them be is an option - but it's growing less popular.
I love when I launch an app and then get a bevy of requests to access my Camera, my Microphone, my Contacts, etc...

I nope out and if the functionality of the app is trashed, so goes the app....

Google Maps constantly hounding me to turn on precision location services, asking me if I am navigating for a friend and to allow access to my contacts... Wow, no.
Offhand, I love this as an anti-signal and I'll probably try it out because of this.

A too-slick website here on HN is a strong deterrent for me.
Occam's Razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor :

> In philosophy, Occam's razor [Latin: novacula Occami] is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony [Latin: lex parsimoniae].

Balance puzzle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_puzzle :

> A balance puzzle or weighing puzzle is a logic puzzle about balancing items—often coins—to determine which holds a different value, by using balance scales a limited number of times. These differ from puzzles that assign weights to items, in that only the relative mass of these items is relevant.

Logical connective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_connective

Quantum logic >
Quantum logic as the logic of observables > The logic of classical mechanics && The propositional lattice of a quantum mechanical system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic#Quantum_logic_as...

Quantum discord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord :

> In quantum information theory, quantum discord is a measure of nonclassical correlations between two subsystems of a quantum system. It includes correlations that are due to quantum physical effects but do not necessarily involve quantum entanglement.

Quantum nonlocality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality ; the dog on the Moon ate my homework 10 monotonic light years ago instantaneously due to nonlocality

And then Quantum Causal Inference (and Quantum Statistical Mechanics) as a or the sufficient means with which to prove truth, epistemologically

And then emergent dynamics in quasiparticle fluid phenomena unpredicted by curl further increase the degree of the nonlocal, entangled, superfluid, nonlinear complex adaptive system; and again the simplest explanation was wrong; it was the butterfly flapping its wings that caused the nonlocal dog to eat the homework about the supercooled and so superfluidic helium in space
Until we remove real estate as a form of investment and enshrine right to shelter laws, this problem will never be fixed.
Most people using bootstrap wern't getting it through npm. It was a script tag importing off a cdn.
I think you can do this with proof assistants, and with the SPARK version of Ada.

You can also do it with a dependent type system. I haven't used it, but from what I've read, in the ATS programming language, which is dependently typed, you can guarantee that array index accesses and pointer arithmetic never goes out of bounds, at the cost of having to pass proof variables explicitly to various functions.

This poster goes over how to ensure you don't cause buffer overflows in it:

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2014/04/11/preventing-heartbleed-b...

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2018/01/10/capturing-program-invar...

It's a bit obscure; this is the only person who's ever blogged about ATS, as far as I can tell.
I crave for social media clients that allow users to customize their ranking algorithms for their feed.
Are you looking for lights you would put in the ceiling that would incidentally benefit plants or specifically grow lights?
while I agree that basically any news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch is heavily untrustworthy, I'd like to point out that property values are not necessarily correlated with quality of life.

Within a given city, yes, the nicer bits are more expensive. Between different cities, however, it is totally possible to find one city is both cheaper and nicer than another (with the possible caveat of being smaller, and perhaps if you can't WFH, not as many jobs).

To use an example I know well, basically every city in France outside of Marseille is nicer to live in than Paris, but Paris has real estate prices that are 2-4x most other cites.

I imagine you could find similar things in other countries as well - Amsterdam vs Eindhoven in the Netherlands, for example.
Is this really a Google OAuth issue, or more failure my many service providers to properly verify the OAuth token assertions before allowing access? Seems to me the latter.
The conversation is fraught with landmines. Beyond cultural and historical aspect, there is money, budgets and careers on the line. As you can imagine, without a good reason, it is typically hard to disrupt status quo.

In a conference few years ago, we had couple LEO speakers and DEA agent , as an example, simply stated that cough medicine being gated in US is the price we need to pay for the way things are now.

I am admittedly on the fence. As a younger person, my response was 'everything for everyone; no restrictions'. These days I hesitate more.
Yeah I don't think anyone, even the craziest of dictators, want to take over a country and then have to deal with a giant smoldering radioactive hole in the ground the size of rhode island.
To me, a big part of the issue goes back to 2008 when Bush almost destroyed the economy and enabled Corporations to take over the Residential Housing Market (via low interest rates and foreclosure).

Now these companies make people pay most of their income for rents, thus giving them the illusion the economy is bad.

It is simple, people judge the economy on the amount of disposable income they have. Sadly the pols do not understand that.

BTW, I noticed your '/s', but seems many people missed it.
But not in (at least much of) the UK apparently. I was on vacation in England and Scotland a year ago and many in our group came down with an annoying cold.

Every chemist had piles of phenylephrine tablets but no pseudoephedrine (or even phenylephrine nasal spray, which works quite well). I did not have a fun time explaining to my sniffly girlfriend why these were all trash and there was no point in buying them - she just wanted some relief and couldn't understand how I would somehow know better than all the different drugs on the shelves. It made me feel like some nutty conspiracy theorist, insisting that the medicine was all phony.

Thankfully it didn't derail the trip, and in the end I found some other nasal spray that sort-of worked.
Laws that you, the govt, make?
I hope a lawyer jumps on this and sues on behalf of the American public.

Refund all instances of the sold chemical, put the company out of business. Is it possible?

If it can't be refunded funnel the money into actually creating an effective regulatory body. One can dream.
It takes around 6 months to get an appointment here in the USA also. And…it’s not even universal care.
Is this is what you are looking for? https://vanjs.org/vanui#await
We underbuilt housing for 30 years leading to the pandemic. This is the result of that.

New housing units per new person. Dashed line at median.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1cYTJ
A Man Who Brought 1M CDs to the Worst City in America [video]
to start, we need to repeal the faircloth amendment.
I recall it being the year it came out when I heard it was useless.
Same, but really wish he was less of an apologist for corporations; I guess a lot of his readership are corporate people who are interested in justifying the world they run, but it constantly rubs the wrong way if you're at all skeptical of, like, giant business or ads or AI... at a social level.

Basically I'd love to find a publication that's similar but better reflects my values.
Yes! Nobody is abusing protease inhibitors to get high. (That's my go-to example because I got anti-viral eye drops OTC in France.)
7.1M miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo's safety data looks good
You can "get verified" but it's not required.
I loved the Volt. I leased/owned 2 different ones for 3 years each. It was a sad day when they stopped making them.
Absolutely, cops have to be held to a higher standard. This so called "peace officer" was stopped from trying to draw the blood from the unconscious person! Then he has the gall to arrest the nurse who told him he had no right! Then, instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he blames the system!

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/10/12/ex-salt-lake-city-off...

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/08/28/police-offic...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/01/561337106...
No. It's on the same level of categorical error as "A pumpkin is the new hedgehog."
If i read the post right, the behaviour in question was already mentioned in the docs before they reported this. I'm more surprised they got any money instead of a "its a feature not a bug" response.
i am not saying what you wrote.
Oh that I had time... I really wish I had the time to make a web-based map-drawing tool that would already know how to access all of these amazing CC0 and Public Domain assets...

Seriously, honestly, if I were a billionaire, I'd be a patron of the arts like this, all the time, hiring people who want to make tools like this.

/sigh/
It's pretty normal for large companies to take ages to pay up. The real problem here is this major bug only elicited a token $1337 payment.
Iceland as a nation has less residents the mid-sized German town I live in, guess what my home doesn't have a military of its own neither. What Iceland has is strategic importance, just google SOSUS.

Agree on the bases thing, some of the CIAs kidnapping flights went through Rammstein in Germany and nobody did anything.

Not much I can say about Finlands NATO memebership, I am actually neutral on that. Or rather fall into the group of people that see NATO expansion to former Warsaw pact countries as something Russia could be less than thrilled about. That being said, only the future will tell if NATO membership is agood thing for Sweden, Finland and co.

Being a NATO member defenitely doesn't make a nation a US vasal, se way EU membership doesn't make a nation a vasal of Brussels. And yes, I know opinions differ on that one as well.
I'm curious what it was about Final Architecture that made you not continue. As I found myself hooked. Just looking to hear an alternate perspective is all.
Not to be pedantic, but the majority of US healthcare hospital systems are actually non-profits, so they milk profit a bit differently since they aren’t allowed to have any (instead it goes to administration salaries and overheads).

Even some of the insurance systems are non-profits. It doesn’t take shareholder profit motive to make money evaporate.
An Atlantic article recently suggested that this is due to the feeling of coolness on the throat and not actually the opening of nasal passages. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/humans-ha...
We really need a nationwide push to fix this. This is just going to get worse and worse.
There's more than enough money to go around. The "money" sent to Ukraine doesn't even make a dent in the budget. [0]

The problem is that it is an ideological decision not to give money to the poor, the homeless, the needy, the hungry.

The US isn't a socialist country, remember?

[0] https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...
I think there's some version of the dunning krueger effect going on in these comments - assuming that no one would include this number of security flaws unless intentionally. Perhaps it's that this forum tends to attract people more engaged in the CS space that wouldn't do this - but I've seen enough brute forcing in the wild to know that this ABSOLUTELY exists where a "just make it work" mentality is present.
My main takeaway from this is that web authentication is still a horrible mess.
There was nothing to suggest that it is not listed in the video... You may not comment without watching things, but it is clear you comment without reading things.
It's criminal. The entire doctors profession is the reason why the US is so expensive.

It's cartel based regulations by the AMA. Everything about being a doctor is gate kept. Prescriptions, test results, even becoming a doctor is artificially made harder than it needs to be to keep prices high.

One doctor on HN told me why patients could only get test results through another appointment with the doctor. I thought it was because the docs wanted more money. He told me it was because patients can misinterpret results and go suicide. Yeah makes total sense treating patients like simpletons to keep the money funneling in. Suicide?. Give me a break.
I need more caffeine. My brain read,

"Two Hot Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don't Work"
Yeah, Apple may want to rethink Network != Location.
The 'source' in this is the "House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack". It's hard to get more authoritative..

What isn't backed up by the source? The purpose of the mob?

Accepting the government investigation reports, the fake elector plot was real. They didn't _need_ a mob to attack to push Pence into enacting it. It would have just told their story better afterwards.

Optically, if you're going to steal an election by changing which electors count, after putting your own electors in as replacements, then having a mob attack the capital demanding that you respond to some made-up conspiracy is a _lot_ better optics than just enacting the plan without any kind of justification.
There are a bunch of little projects that do this. It's on the roadmap for ollama-webui (but not implemented yet), and Ollama published a guest blog post with a simple implementation that can be cloned and run very easily:

https://ollama.ai/blog/building-llm-powered-web-apps

There's also Cheshire Cat, which is a framework for building chat assistants that use a set of documents as a knowledge base:

https://github.com/cheshire-cat-ai/core
Very well could be, my honest guess is nesting circles of bizarro world. The "we don't like social studies and history" and "we don't like sex ed" crowds leading into the "we don't believe in evolution," "we don't believe in dinosaurs," and then the "slaves were happy" and "actual nazi" sets.

That's hard to eyeball though. By weight of catalogue entries 1/3 nuts.
Or a ride share. Or a scooter.

OP just wants the government to monopolize transit because he really doesn’t want folks having autonomy of mobility.
If you remove real estate as a form of investment, no new apartment buildings will be built.

Guess what happens next.

The rate of empty apartments is extremely low.
This means that we have a supply shortage, not a pricing problem.