skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
24 billion dollars for 184,000 homeless people (United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimate). That's 135k per person. Where is the money going if not the homeless industrial complex?
He’s not innocent. He is a repeat offender. And he will almost certainly victimize another innocent person. This isn’t about “beyond a reasonable doubt” - we are well past that. It’s about sentencing based on historical record, to keep the public safe. Think of it as being similar to a sentence that is longer but with the possibility of early release. This just has a default of earlier release, if there is evidence that there wouldn’t be danger to others.
politicians are choosing instead to kill these prisoners via indeterminate detention
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Let me guess, its the usual justifications. CSAM, terrorism?

Well, if you give the government too much power, sooner or later they will become the child abusers and terrorists. And at that point, there will be no police you can really call, since those in power will be able to act with absolute power and absolute impunity.
Of course they were high, it's British Columbia.
Cause its fun :)

Fighting is something that can cause lasting damage, so it should be treated seriously.

When someone is found guilty of an offense, its based on intent, not the outcome. Judging people based on outcome would lead to people thinking they can get away with crime if nobody gets hurt, which you don't want because people make bad choices all the time.

As such, if someone is found guilty of fighting, or otherwise any action that could result in life lasting injury to someone, regardless of outcome, its absolutely reasonable to expect that the punishment should be prison for life, both as a deterrent, and as a way to keep that person permanently out of society.

The solution to not being in that situation is simple, don't assault people. Its not that hard.
The first time I read the comment I thought it was making an aggregate claim about newcomers being richer than natives, which struck me as obviously, spectacularly incorrect. Why else would a speaker say "high-earning transplants" specifically? If I had to point out an example of unequal wealth in London I am sure my example would be their monarch, not a vague implication of Johnny-come-lately bankers or lawyers.

I am certain that in the aggregate the relationship between wealth or income and length of tenure in London is positive.
Perhaps they should make buses prohibitively expensive too, then everyone would be forced to either walk or bike to work/school.

Am I missing something here? Obviously if you apply sin taxes to driving then people who can't afford to pay them are going to be forced to drive less. I bet there would be plenty of "surprising benefits" if we banned all road vehicles and forced people to get around on foot and push bike too...

This article seems to be both making an extremely obvious observation (that the introduction of ULEZ is forcing poor families to get around the city in alternative ways) and missing the fact that such decisions come with both positives and negatives which need to be weighed up.

If we simply want to implement policies to benefit children's health then we'd probably be better off banning junk food. But we don't do that because we understand that there are trade-offs.

ULEZ has been a disaster for many working families and it's highly unpopular for a reason. If you're poor and don't live in the inner city, or if you don't have a nice middle-class office job and need your car/van for work then ULEZ makes you poorer and your life more difficult.
Strictly speaking, yes, I’ll concede that this changed the world if you are part of a military group and your foe is Israel or another highly advanced adversary. But no, I don’t think that this changes the world in the way that the article implies.

9/11 changed the world because it started two major wars in the Middle East, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. It set the stage for world politics for the next few decades.

The reality of this attack is that it really won’t affect people’s lives in any meaningful way. Maybe a few people will be wary of using beepers for the next few months but I don’t see many people thinking of giving up their smartphones over this. Or perhaps I’m wrong and this foreshadows many similar supply chain bomb attacks in the future… I don’t know, but neither does Bruce Schneier and it’s too early to say definitively what the effect of this will be.
How many Covid vaccines did you have?
Evaluating code-to-readme generation using LLMs
I don't use plugins because I want the muscle memory I develop on Neovim to translate directly to the servers I login to where only Vim is present and plugins are not allowed.
People downvoting you probably don't realise this is a direct quote from the article. Maybe if you had written some actual comment, too...
> I avoid Uber like the plague but unfortunately they have destroyed the alternatives.

I use Lyft 99% of the time (and multiple times a week) because I find it to be more reliable (as well as slightly cheaper) than Uber. It doesn't seem destroyed to me.
> The Biden administration has raised serious concerns about the collection of data by Chinese companies

What about the collection of data by US companies that later sell to anyone that pays (including Chinese companies and various governments)?
It’s extremely useful. I barely use most Tailscale features. But exit nodes? Oh yeah.

An acquaintance bought a place in the mountains, and his wife was unhappy that they had to have separate Hulu, Netflix, whatever accounts for their primary residence and the vacation home because they don’t always go there together. Not so much for the cost, because they can easily afford that, but because all the where-did-I-stop-watching or have-I-seen-this data didn’t carry over.

I told them about Tailscale on AppleTV as an exit node. They already had them at both homes, it was just a free app install. Now it’s all coming from the same IP at their primary residence. Symmetrical 1 Gbps fiber, so it’s not a big load.
15 MPH is still pretty fast. It's easily attainable on a human-powered bike, but it's rarely comfortable to do so on a sidewalk because you can't settle into a good cadence.

The problem with electric scooters/e-bikes is that the motor makes it comfortable to go at top speed everywhere mindlessly.
Can't sell it if they already have it on tap.

Then, can't manipulate it if they already have the pure data.
Ventilator-on-a-chip model to study lung damage
It wouldn't cover steganography. What looks like an unencrypted video file may have an encrypted message hidden in the noise.
I do memory-based RAGs using Semantic Kernel function calls which do specialized memory caches with useful calculations based on telemetry data. It is so simple to do and I love the LLM figures out how to call the SemanticFunctions on its own.

ollama and langchain can do something simimlar.
The data isn’t trustworthy and underestimates the true count of crime. For one, cities and states have highly variable rules on what they record and report. Second, the trend of releasing offenders and understaffing police departments has led to citizens simply not reporting many crimes - what’s the point of reporting anything and losing time if no one investigates and even convicted offenders are just released. Third, the west coast of the US has run the experiment on an alternative approach, restorative justice, and it obviously doesn’t work. The last 15 years are evidence of this - leniency induces crime.

This has nothing to do with the “alt-right” or “conservative news” you brought up. Ironically it seems like you’re making this political, despite complaining about politicization.
Interesting; I may be biased because I've been involved in helping teams containerize as part of a cloud migration and only one or two cases has there been a real 'need', basically for running a Windows service that was eventually retired in favour of a lambda triggered by consuming a message in a queue.
Every doctor I visit makes me sign a financial agreement before performing services. It says something like “you owe whatever we bill you and if insurance doesn’t pay, you must”

Good luck holding the line, what usually happens is we get stuck with a bill no matter what.
Yes, this should also be illegal. Not really a reason not to go forward with the proposed ban, though.
There is one Uber, there are untold numbers of other companies/businesses operating more reputably.
I actually thought Nuclear was renewable. But it doesn't matter if by defination it is not, it is much better than current Indian energy sources(mainly Coal)
i was not the original retail customer, it was a phone used by a small business that I had owned, the employees were not good about keeping track of stuff like that, they'd use their own personal deets to sign up for business things all the time.

my point was that there was not "official" procedure to verify, I told him the story, he believed me, and went in the back and reset the password or something. They have the capability if they want to. He was a manager I think, and I didn't get to him through the reservations queue, I just walked up to the counter to find out if this was the place I should go, and after I asked my question he took an interest and solved the problem for me.
Probably the most popular bakery of sweets targeted at the Hispanic community in the US is “Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.”, a subsidiary of “Grupo Bimbo”.
> Why have three Ctrl keys?

You could just swap caps with one.

> Why not use an empty modifier and have your own shortcut keys that you can guarantee no other program uses?

Because that would require messy tinkering with multiple layers of software.
Haven’t touched Uber in years and always try to use the city’s local service wherever available. Its usually more convenient anyway.
Isn't .mobi an ebook format?
Aloha!

This is very well executed. I don't do Chrome Extensions and am not looking to learn a language at this point in my life, but will be curious to see where you go with this.

Here are a couple of user tests for you: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/ff5edd3d420...
Reoffend how, specifically?

Obligatory context: the monetary value of wage theft alone (not including other types of white-collar crime, like embezzlement, tax fraud, securities fraud, etc.) is greater than that of every type of "violent" theft or burglary. Combined. Priorities.
No, that's a different tihng. TBS comes with a psychiatric diagnosis, and is intended for psychiatric treatment. There is no such diagnosis or treatment with IPP.

TBS also doesn't mean you're "incurable" That's just flat-out wrong. The entire point of TBS is to treat (i.e. cure) people.

Everything about your comment is wrong. There's a reason IPP got shot down for human rights violations and TBS hasn't been: because it's fundamentally different.
It is user hostile and extremely patronizing. I agree with parent: my Logitech wireless mouse is used wirelessly 99% of the time, but it’s really nice to be able to use it in wired mode when I forget to charge it.
On the point that the prisoners have to prove that they’re no longer a danger: in some cases that means completing courses which are completely inaccessible to the prisoners due to cutbacks.
Interesting take.

Assumes we all benefit from playing into the system Uber created.

Maybe true on a local maximum.

But is it true on the global one?
Thank you, kind Internet stranger :)
How much would you pay to deter a way that’s likely to go nuclear? You think maybe $500B tops?

I’m not defending this program, I’m saying that money spend on insurance that goes unused is easy to call “wasted”, but that is bad logic.
Kirkland brand spacex
Ok, you caught me violating my own rule with regard to "literally".

It's not literally "all". But there does seem to be strong, steady insinuation in their propaganda that much protest/critique/doubt of the State of Israel's actions/shenanigans is, ipso facto anti-semitic.

There's no source needed for this. It's been omnipresent in the environment of discourse (at least since the dawn of the ADL/Dershowitz era).

Though I do think it's quite fair cite both the Nakba Law within Israel itself, and the anti-BDS legislation adopted in certain countries as attempts to (at least partially) codify this omnipresent insinuation into law. More specifically the idea seems to be brand this visceral association (between strong critique and anti-semitism) as highly intrinsic -- to such a degree that can be called "close to literal" -- in people's minds.

It's both bizarre, and all too mundane and predictable somehow, the extent to which they've been able to keep pushing the envelope on (and reaping dividends from) this effort.

But here we are.
I was so impressed by Bitwig since the beta. Just couldn't find anything major enough to make the switch from Live. Also, M4L is such an amazing ecosystem, I would miss it.

Any features in more recent Bitwig versions that stand out?
Meanwhile, in California, PG&E charges you 50¢/kWh
> and Fedora Silverblue/IoT does the same thing,

Silverblue uses ostree, which AIUI uses hard links in a single filesystem. This is probably better most of the time, because it means minimal storage overhead, though it means you can't change filesystems over an update and you don't resist filesystem corruption.
Pretty much all those things you listed as examples are things that are way outside of my control.

I never saw the point of getting angry or frustrated at things that are outside my control.

If you were to ask me what the last thing I was angry at, I literally couldn’t tell you. It was that long ago and rare and not really important enough to be memorable anyways.

You are making me think that the way I react to things is odd or really uncommon. If that’s true, I never really realized that.
Nice!

Are there any good CLI tools for this?
We should push for a blanket ban on non-consensual data collection regardless of manufacturer, as well as for changing the terms of service after the sale (such as the introduction of mandatory data collection after you already purchased the vehicle - or any other product for that matter). How / where do we send this feedback to?
4chan is for the unwell and the unwilling. The unwell can be ignored. But the views of the unwilling are extremely valuable and can be found nowhere else but 4chan. 4chan is the primary voice for conscientious objectors.
California governor signs law banning plastic shopping bags at grocery stores
You want more active kids in the US? This is easy. Every neighborhood needs to have multiple adjacent lots with no construction on it. Aka, a park of sorts. It doesn't need to have slides, or games, or any of that other stuff. It just needs to be an open space with enough room that groups of kids can go and engage in outdoor activities without the need to be constantly monitored by adults. That's it.

They can play football or baseball or soccer or frisbee or tag. Doesn't matter. What matters is that you give them the room and let them do their own thing. Not only would this help them be more active, but it'd help them socialize a great deal more than they normally do.
This isn’t new.
Assuming prison is an eat or be eaten, survival of the fittest kind of environment can you blame the prisoners for being violent?
I'm not saying what you think I am saying. The theory that "Uber price is always independent of whether the rider has credits" is indeed falsifiable, and the experiment in the anecdote seems to do so.

The opposite claim, "that Ubers do not always charge the same rate" -- the one that logically flows from falsifying the first -- is the claim that is unfalsifiable.

Is it a valid criticism of the claim? I would generally agree with you and say not really.
The problem that to make a right query, one has to know at least part of the answer. To search for exif modification tool, it's essential to understand:
- what is image file, and how information stored in it.
- the concept of `metadata`, and exif in particular.
- the concept that any file can be modified in place, or when you make a copy.
- know what where's ecosystem of open/free/custom tools that can do an unusual tasks.
The small percentage has all that knowledge at the hand to even get an idea of possibility to modify image timestamp
.COM is also a file format.
gnuplot + tikz terminal. I have yet to see better looking figures.

And technically, it's one of the rare if not the only one solution that can give you bibtex resolved citations in figure labels....
(Don't do it, the journals hate it)
There is also LLMWhisperer, a document pre-processor specifically made for LLM consumption.

As other mentioned, accuracy is the one part of solution criteria, other include, how does the preprocessing engine scale/performs at large scale, and how does it handle very complex documents like, bank loan forms with checkboxes, IRS tax forms with multi-layered nested tables etc.

https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/

LLMWhisperer is a part of Unstract - An open-source tool for unstructured document ETL.

https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract
TikTok-AI
> I set pick up and destination, exit the app, open another rides app, wait few minutes for uber to notify me that the price went down.

Just tried this, didn't get any notification.
The author's test proves the theory; it doesn't falsify the theory. The test could only prove the theory or fail to prove it. Failing to prove is not the same as falsifying.
Building in public comes down to a few core things: marketing your product, staying sane, and getting noticed. It’s a way to get people talking about what you’re building before it’s even done. The journey itself becomes the story, pulling in an audience that feels connected to your work.

For a lot of solo founders, though, it’s not just about visibility. It’s about support. Building something alone can be isolating, and sharing your progress becomes a way to stay connected, even when you’re grinding away in a room by yourself. The openness keeps you grounded and helps ward off the burnout that comes with long stretches of isolation.

It also puts you on the radar of other entrepreneurs and investors. They see what you’re up to and can offer feedback, partnerships, or even funding without you having to chase them down. You’re essentially creating a public portfolio of your work in real time.

Some people also use it as a humblebrag—a way to show off without being too obvious about it. That’s fine if that’s your thing, but for most, it’s a way to turn the lonely process of building into something more connected and human.

And I think that shouldn’t be discouraged.
Haven't seen any good Live UI write-ups but here is a video covering the history of its creation and evolution: https://www.youtube.com/live/aG2h9NJXYi0
Wow, I looked at that buildinpublic hashtag and got serious stock market trader forum energy feeling from the posts. Yea people are doing work but its the same kinda thing where the stock people will post a 3000 word write up everyday about their market thoughts but are still not really doing anything. Its like energy looking for a place to be used but in the meantime why not run in place till we drop?

I guess this is what kids with rich parents whos trust fund hasnt matured yet do to kill time nowdays?
Who Pays for the Internet Infrastructure?
> The data isn’t trustworthy and underestimates the true count of crime.

OK, so on one hand we have crime data going back decades and on the other we have HN user blackeyeblitzar saying "Trust me, bro". I know which one I'm going to believe.
No one actually knows what the global maximum is, or how to get there, outside of any specifics that religion may or may not tell you.

A "global maximum" closely parallels the definition of faith. It's the maximal good for the maximal number of people, and a real destination for some (surely not all are worthy of it, as long as human evil exists). How we get there, what it is, who actually makes it there, on what basis, what's preventing its realization at present, how to overcome such obstacles --- these are the questions that religions (including secular humanism) answer.
Hmm, it thinks HN is neutral on crypto. Hmmmm.

Is it actually doing anything?
Apollo to Offer Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Intel
"Drivers live or die by their rating" - really??? I have never given the drivers rating a moments thought. Do you seriously cancel rides because the driver doesn't have 5 stars??
> IPP sentences were created specifically to deal with prisoners who habitually reoffend on release.

The whole point about this situation is that the sentences were applied to people who do NOT fit that description (not my just view, also the view of the architect of this atrocity, David Blunkett), so in the majority of cases in question your reasoning does not apply.
A simple way to deal with the principal threat to scalability
Clearly the time flies should follow the mouse cursor.
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MrBeast is YouTube's biggest star - now he faces 54-page lawsuit
> The data isn’t trustworthy and underestimates the true count of crime.

You’ll need to back that up with facts, not “it seems to me…”. It’s easy to say “the data are wrong, think about it,” but that doesn’t make it true. That’s just a nice way of saying, “of course those people are criminals, just look at them, but there’s a conspiracy making reality say different.”
> A reflection of how the new technology is being used

This statement can be interpreted as:

1. Some AI is bad (e.g. "some AI take jobs"), therefore LinkedIn's AI is bad. This is an invalid argument, so we can ignore this.

2. All AI is bad, therefore LinkedIn's AI is bad. Valid, but probably unsound, because intuitively this would mean saying "AI used to fight cancer is bad". So we can ignore this too.

3. LinkedIn's AI is bad by itself. Why? What is LinkedIn using it for? Is it just a chatbot? There's no risk of obsolete careers from that. Is it a privacy issue? It is public data. Is it because it makes money? What's wrong with that? Is it simply a fear of the new? I think so, but that's just my uncharitable opinion.

Please elaborate.
Recently in HN there's a repost on how big data is dead (2023) and both HN posts had garnered more than a combined 800 comments and 1000 points, both very substantial in term of interests on this controversial topic [1], [2]. I think someone will post the same topic and link again next year and probably will get similar number of comments and points.

In comments sections for repost, I did mentioned that big data is not dead but just having its AI winter moment, and big data is not only about volume (of storage) but also on the memory requirements (of RAM) [3].

Fast forward a few months, it seems the AI LLM is reviving the big data scenario and is seems that big data is far from dead but it's very much healthy in the era of LLMs, cloud or local. Wait until IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) based systems are in full effects and big data will not just surviving but will be thriving.

[1] Big data is dead (2023) - original

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34694926

[2] Big data is dead (2023) - repost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488844

[3] Comments on: Big data is dead (2023):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40489607
Indeed. Anecdotally I’ve seen in a few places where the going rate for one carrier or another is actually a bit higher than unlocked because people aren’t that well-informed and think “I need a Verizon phone cuz I’m on Verizon.”

Which was pretty universally true in the USA 15 years ago.
Canada has the same designation, "dangerous offender". It's what is keeping Paul Bernardo in jail (Canada has 25 years max sentence)

Bernardo should have probably best been executed. Or given a proper life sentence.

But this way, Canadians get to keep their progressive pieties vis a vis the US (no death penalty! No life in prison) and keep Bernardo in jail.