skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting though is that while pricing is strictly regulated, underwriting is significantly less regulated, at least in P&C commercial insurance. Insurance companies have been exploring the use of ML and AI for that task since at least 2017, when I got a job doing precisely that.

Also, things like machine learning for image recognition in claim photos, satellite data, etc. has also been in use for at least the same amount of time.

I believe the Lemonade renters insurance product also does some kind of "AI" claims processing. I wouldn't know what that looks like, my focus when I was in insurance was solely in underwriting.
I think that, with phrases like "applied in adjectival designation" and "conditional mood to the declarative", this is the author subconsciously admitting that he'd rather have been a research fellow in linguistics than in culture!
Chronicling America is great, but as you’ve noticed it’s limited to issues that are in the public domain. It’s not just LC, the National Digital Newspaper Program[1] has been funding hundreds of libraries across all 50 USA states to make it possible since the mid-00s.

Australia’s national library offers Trove[2], which has a huge collection of Australian public domain newspapers.

Most of their repository is likely funded by your tax dollars and is there for the public to use.

[1]: https://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/national-digital-...
[2]:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
They’re just useful tools that are likely to become even more so.
For fans of neofetch, you can replace the OS logo with a cowsay animal.

neofetch --ascii "$(fortune | cowsay -W 25)"

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| to use Perl's strengths | Host: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series) A5
| rather than its | Kernel: 6.7.6-200.fc39.x86_64
| weaknesses. | Uptime: 3 hours, 48 mins
| | Packages: 3936 (rpm), 50 (flatpak)
| -- Larry Wall in | Shell: bash 5.2.26
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I had no idea. Two key takeaways...

> Conversations recorded by ShotSpotter sensors have twice been introduced as evidence in criminal trials. In one case the court allowed it, in another the court did not.

> ShotSpotter sensor correlates fairly well with your household income. The wealthier you are, the less surveilled you are.
I would guess that a phone designed with an eink display will have visual design and UX that is more thoughtfully designed for greyscale than iOS or Android.

I was always taught that a design should be done first in greyscale to make sure that it works well using only alignment, hirearchy, balance etc, then you add colour; I still see that done frequently in print design, but less so in the digital world for whatever reason.
You don't need an infinite tape to make a finite state machine that never halts. As Legend2440 pointed out upthread, while(1) is a simple finite state machine that never halts.
> A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague again, asking for intel on my story. Then he called me and demanded to know the title of this piece. During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, "It's my job. You have a job and I have a job." During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.

Yikes
I completely agree with your assessment and logic, but the parent posted suggested that socialization of healthcare (e.g. ObamaCare) is contributing to auto rates. That I don't understand.
If I'd had any sense I'd have loaded up on it after AlphaGo hit the scene. Why? How much did you buy?
Wait what this is real? I thought it was just a plot point invented for Person of Interest
PID controllers are for linear or mildly-nonlinear systems. Plasma fluid dynamics are about as nonlinear as it gets.
I keep hearing of AI photonic chips and how energy efficient (and faster) they are. This could be THE solution ? How far away are we?
Why? Is it just because it's too hard to read and write? Or is it lacking some features?
It's been rather sad watching him fail and fail again, often due to a misplaced sense of perfectionism. I can't really stand to watch his videos anymore, as they're like watching a mad artist defeat themselves

For similar, yet grounded and successful projects in this vein, I've been watching Ivan Miranda's videos. He recently built a massive marble clock, and it's really fun watching him realize when it's good enough, and declare it finished
> Which is the part of the lawsuit which the First Amendment addresses already.

But then why is anybody confused why the Justices are pointing out that Section 230(a)(1) doesn't have anything to say about first party speech?

> The First Amendment does not restrict voluntary moderation decisions by websites.

The First Amendment has limited applicability to commercial activity. For example, the law can prohibit phone companies from denying phone service to customers on the basis of their political views, even if the phone company disagrees with them.

> The key idea is: "that the provider or user considers to be... objectionable".

The key idea is the heading of that section, which says "Civil liability", implying that it doesn't apply to government-imposed penalties.

Let's consider a different context here. Suppose you have a state law imposing penalties on companies that discriminate on the basis of various protected classes. Some site starts banning everyone in one of those protected classes because they find them "objectionable". The state AG wants to prosecute them for it. Is that law unenforceable as a result of Section 230 or the First Amendment?
It makes sense with some extra punctuation: Great. Socialize healthcare. As it, is blah blah.

If you want even cheaper car insurance, you can even go beyond socialized healthcare. You can have socialized car insurance! Or in some cases a hybrid system where you insure your vehicle but not all trauma and damage to the other party. But I don't think Americans would be a-okay with seeing a government employed doctor when they make their injury claims. Even if outcomes are better than a purely private system.
Has having ShotSpotter in your neighborhood increased the safety?

Is there faster response? higher arrest rate? decrease in crime?
There is a beta website at beta.weather.gov but i am not sure if it's the same as the source linked in the post
So you don't dispute that the Safire type 2 plasma chamber has a sustained plasma fusion reaction that causes the tungsten rod to rapidly decay, got it.

Here's a hint if you need it spelled out for you: nobody gives a shit if you think this is "science" or "pseudoscience".
This. Basically it's the price of not having proper social security against illness.

I live in the Netherlands and opioids are unheard-of except cancer patients etc.. A friend of mine broke his collar bone, which was bulging out a bit, in a cycling accident and got only ibuprofen while waiting for surgery for 2 weeks. He just rested home on sick leave. No one expects you to work like that. This and unemployment benefits cost like 25% premium on the gross salary paid by the employer. At the end if you have a long term sickness leave like more than 3 months you are paid 75% of your salay from the social security fund. Employers are also supported to get temporary replacements in this case. Overall much cheaper than managing opioid addiction.
"Why don't other people care about my safety," and "Why should I care about other peoples' safety," are your questions.

The second one answers the first.

You can't have both - either you're part of a community, or you're on your own.
Vulkan Synchronization Made Easy [video]
I knew about the HiSense eink phones before, but this one makes me particularly sad. This would be a great device for me if it was well supported in North America. Alas…
That is interesting! I worked on game and VR development on the late 1990s for Nintendo’s and Disney but I always used C++.

Common Lisp is probably my favorite language so I bookmarked this to use when I get home from traveling.
I can tell it, it's shakespeare, and then it'll believe it and quoth that backest to me.

It is a GPT model though technically, GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer," a type of artificial intelligence (AI) model, it's not gpt-3.5 from openai, but it IS a GPT model.
Intel Makes Its NPU Acceleration Library an Open-Source Asset
What makes it collusion is the fact that others are using it as well, so the answer to your questions is yes. My understanding is that there's nothing wrong with building your own software that crawls public information and computes a price for you - the key thing is that it has to be your own, you can't distribute that software to others.
This might be a different form of price-fixing.

You know how big-box retail stores will price match products? That's in order to keep tabs on competitors' prices, and to pose a credible threat of starting a price war. Keeping the peace means keeping prices elevated above marginal cost.

Insurance companies rolling out online rate comparison tools has a similar effect.
Hard to say. As a hobbyist with access to several OSes and hardware platforms, I appreciate the differences between each and enjoy the process of finding the right tool for the job (or building new ones where they don't exist yet). Interoperability doesn't necessarily benefit me. But most people aren't me and don't share those interests, so interoperability helps enable equal access to software, content, communication, etc.

I have no personal issue with being "left out", being unable to install specific software on specific systems, and so on, and thus no personal issue with Apple (or others) enforcing barriers in those areas. However, interoperability of major OSes and platforms would provide the greatest benefit to the largest number of people, so it just seems logical to me.

I don't "care" about interoperability, but I agree with it.
He actually partnered with an agency and released a virtual marble machine as an app and VST
What is the definition of price fixing in this world?
That’s dark but… huh I never thought about it that way. I thought it was more of a disease prevention thing due to rot.
The author received both devices from tear downs by iFixIt and was able to see the image without the lens (without the blurring) as explained in Part 1. Though it seems the AVP tends to do some post processing no matter how they image is displayed

> I see different processing and artifacts happening when natively rendering on the AVP (such as when running Excel), displaying a saved bitmap from a file on the AVP, displaying a bitmap image on a web page, and mirroring the content of a MacBook. With each test image, seeing how it will display differently with each display mode is an adventure.

https://kguttag.com/2024/02/16/apple-vision-pros-avp-image-q...
How can you collude with someone you don’t communicate with in any way?
Essentially all commercially farmed eggs are from caged hens, unless either you live in an area where caging hens is illegal, or the eggs are explicitly advertised as being cage-free.

Furthermore, being cage-free is not sufficient to reap the benefits discussed above. "Cage-free" hens are generally still crowded so tightly that they do not move around much, and do not have access to the outdoors.

Pasture raised hens do have the benefits described above, and essentially no commercially farmed eggs are pasture raised except those specifically advertised as such.
according to one of the ai youtubers, the mistral large llm actually scored a perfect score on their logic benchmarks, which is pretty good. All LLM's are prone to some suggestion or confusion. I wouldn't base whether it's logical or not based off an assumption from one response.
First principles doesn't mean easy to read unfortunately
Some KaiOS ones do. I got a Nokia 6300 4G a week ago, not tested the hotspot functionality yet but am happy with the other features of it.
Photonics for Sustainable Computing
Our ancestors may have almost gone extinct 900M years ago. Some researchers looking at genetic data believe we were down to 1280 individuals [1].

Those were pre-human ancestors, but humans aren't special, we are just animals that are more destructive than any species that came before us.

Hubris will likely play a large role in any possible future human extinction event.
E.g., doing nothing to curb climate change because we are "smart" and invincible and/or god(s) wouldn't allow things to get that bad, a deadly pathogen develops resistance to all antibiotics because of free-feeding antibiotics in factory farming animal flesh, we use nuclear weapons in conflict X believing it will not escalate (George "Baby" Bush, "I want nuclear weapons I can use" [actual quote]), a pathogen intentionally developed to both spread quickly and be extremely deadly (because we can), that somehow... "no one could ever foresee the possibility..." escaped the lab-- or maybe it will be a large meteor impact wiping out humans (and other large animals) across the globe like a kid stomping on an ant hill.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-ancestors-n...
Healthcare is socialized in Europe and car insurance is still similarly priced (750 - 1500 per year, average in NL is 950 per car for only liability) mostly due to liability costs.

Required insurance covers € 7.5 million for personal injury, € 2.5 million for property damages.

Edit:
P.S. I am in favor of single-payer healthcare, I just don't think that is the particular cause of expensive liability car insurance - rather personal injury and property damages would seem a larger driver to me.
> It's not perfect, but the distance from your house to a ShotSpotter sensor correlates fairly well with your household income. The wealthier you are, the less surveilled you are.

To give ABQ police the benefit of the doubt, that pattern could also be compatible with more gun crime equaling more surveillance. It would be nice to have enough gun crime and sensor location data to see how true that is. When the sensors are as dense as they are, it's not clear that knowing the sensor locations is an advantage to offenders, at least in the gunshot spotting role.
What was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?
Only because the connected market is many times larger did it sell better. It's not fit for purpose and the audience will take a decade or more to reach numbers that make it worth it for app developers and even then it'll be a dorkbox for your face and not used much at all by the "productivity" half of the office that care about hair and makeup.
Makes perfect sense to me. You are not supposed to write Wikipedia articles on your original research.

If you want to help Wikipedia, feel free to write articles based on work that other people did in your field. Don't add any conclusions of your own. Let someone else write the articles on the research that was done by you.

I think that is a very reasonable tradeoff.

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> if an editor writes the same content and cites the same sources, that's also OK, even though I'd argue that's plagiarism.

An editor should not copy your blog post. They can describe whatever you wrote about and cite your blog post as a source. Or, they can go after the same original sources you have cited and write their own summarizing article (but not copy the blog post, and they also can't add any of their own conclusions).
Darkflame Universe
It sounds like shotspotters are likely to be near where shots are; and that the wealthier you are the more likely you’d NOT want to be where the shots are.
But why wouldn’t they just got a couple percent under the price, and fill all their units?

Vacancies kill returns.
This question to me is whether computing & tool-making is something the species is involved with, or whether a few technocratic autocrats are the only ones with the power to see, learn, and shape the world around them.

I would not have the 21st century be the one where we turn back and decide 99.99999% of humanity can no longer be toolmakers in the world, can no longer have access, instruments & observations.
Ask HN: What laptop are you using to daily drive Linux?
I am an idiot, and bought a Dell XPS 15 with an Nvidia graphics card, and getting the graphics card to work without excessive patching is not worth it to me. I'd rather just get an AMD laptop instead for daily driving Linux.

What laptop are you using for Linux?
Looking again, I think their comment can be parsed in multiple ways.

> Socialize healthcare as it is forcing all sorts of market distortions in unrelated markets

I interpreted that as a call to socialize healthcare, not a description of market effects that "socialized healthcare" has to the extent that exists in the US.
While I am not good at bash programming, I am surprised how capable / non horrible it actually is.
OK, you are correct. Let's introduce nuance:

I as a dev should not waste days on this -- something I have no experience in. I can add the basic service / ingress / whatever and move on with life.

The infra / platform guys can add HA and backups later, right?

> I think for most places, most of the time Kubernetes is overkill.

Then we agree. I am not sure this app in particular was a good fit for k8s though; having it on a DO droplet + managed Postgres + managed Kafka would have taken me 1 hour, 40 minutes of which would be me cursing because I forgot to put a host name and port combo somewhere. :D

> I think for most places, most of the time Kubernetes is overkill.

True, but as you yourself said, backups and high availability are much harder on bare metal -- for devs anyway. I can do an amazing job at it because I do it at home for my stuff buuuuuuuut, it's going to take me days, maybe even two work weeks. Not a good time investment.

That's why I am resenting it when I have to do it: it's wasting my time with something that I never learn properly so I have to relearn it every time from scratch because I can't engrave it in my memory and that is because I never do it for long enough stretches of time to indeed remember it.

I already complained to my manager about it and he took it seriously, by the way. I am not raging at you or others about a deficient process in my employer's company (that I plan to help fixing, or at least mitigate somewhat). I am displeased with the fact how everyone just settled on a very, VERY low maxima -- and somehow nobody wants to rock the boat.

We can do better. We should do better. But alas, guys like myself have worked 22+ years on stuff they don't love -- and I already have burnout and hate working programming for money, which is another tragedy entirely -- and will NEVER EVER get the chance to change anything at all because I have no choice but work for the man... for now. Though at 40+ I am not sure I have the strength to manage to somehow command huge commissions for consulting or w/e else. Anyhow, off-topic.

Again, we should do better.
Auto insurance pricing is already very heavily regulated, by State. Pricing and underwriting models are public (Search term is SERFF + "State"). The fact is that costs continue to increase for a variety of reasons.

State Farm, for example, lost over $14 Billion last year, mostly from their Auto insurance line. Payments related to losses were 95.2% of the premium they collected, resulting in them having an overall -17% profit margin in that Line.

https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2024/03/01/259296.htm
> that could also be compatible with more gun crime equaling more surveillance

Not just could -- without more information, it's the far more likely and economical explanation. The phrasing in the article imo is intentionally inflammatory.
The issue is, you're one person doing this manually. That means there's also a ton of people who don't.

This algorithm, unlike a single person, ends up taking over entire cities, which means now there is no supply & demand. There is supply, and all that supply is effectively the same number.

Demand has no other choice other than meet the supply where they are. It's either that or being without a house.
I gather you haven’t actually read or watched anything from the EV community? Everyone talks about battery durability.

BEVs aren’t clean energy. Cars are not energy. They are vehicles.

BEVs are fundamentally more sustainable that ICE cars. Battery recycling is already ramping up, even though we haven’t seen that many EV battery packs expiring yet.

Some battery packs die early, especially if they have many miles on them. But then that’s a good thing: those battery packs have offset their CO2 emissions many times over. Battery packs are resource intensive things. They SHOULD be used, not sit around doing nothing.

If you consider how battery cell chemistries and battery pack construction is improving so rapidly, then recycling an old battery pack to make a new one is not a bad thing: you get a LOT more out of those precious materials if you make a new battery pack with 100% SOH and even better energy density.
Level up your Java skills with Apache Groovy Maps
do you think I didn't do that? why do you think I came to HN?
Engineer warns of consequences. Execs ignore warnings. Bad things happen. A classic.
Yet another data construction solution in BFF layer: pydantic-resolve
1. use declaretive way to define schema of view data like graphql, easy to maintain and develop

2. use main query and loader query to break down complex queries, and better reuse

3. provide various of tools to precisely construct view data, no overhead

4. changing view data has never been so easy

5. with OpenAPI and typescript, developers can use the type definitions at client side
I’m with you! It was my dream to retire and become one of the old guys in lab coats repairing stuff at Living Computers. Maybe they’ll get that sorted out and I’ll still get a chance.
TLDR: It's a grassroots open-source emulator of the server for Lego® Universe.
It reads like this guy has an axe to grind with the AVP or with reviewers. He really wants to convince the reader that the product is not good and it doesn't matter what people feel about it.

I'm all for objective analysis, but what if the slight blurriness helps with the immersion? And what's the problem with the displays not being as precise as 1080p monitors if the immersion is good and people are satisfied with the image?

I decided against buying the Vision Pro but for other reasons, mainly the OS being a fork of iPadOS instead of MacOS, the impossibility to use it as a monitor like the XReal and many others, and the weight.
Sergio Pasca: From blood derived stem cells to human neural multi-assemblies
I've wondered what happens if I have an at-fault collision where I total a hypercar whose value exceeds my maxed-out $2 million liability coverage. Can the car owner come after me for the difference?
I'm not sure what that means: How does that explain the widespread and large price increases, and the GP's experience?
I don't think the article is suggesting there is a conspiracy wherein the police decided to target lower income areas because they are poor. It is certainly because incidences of those crimes are higher in those areas.

What I think the article is suggesting is that policies like these, particularly when implemented without sufficient transparency or oversight, can cause dystopian-sounding outcomes, such as poor people's conversations being constantly recorded by the government while wealthier people remain un-surveilled.