skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bay Area food bank move could be blocked by suit citing 'historic parking lot'
6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319062
I'm not a fan of this law and expect it will end up being abused as much as civil forfeiture in the US. That said, it is interesting to see a stop and frisk law that actually targets wealthy people for once.
I'd argue the specifics are quite a bit different than Yotta/Synapse.

We do not hold any funds ourselves. You connect your bank and ach/wire money to an Apex bank account. You can verify your holdings via apex anytime (see: https://help.double.finance/en/articles/10262406-how-can-i-v...)
Immigration policy is one factor, but it's too easy to blame everything on a single group in society. While Sweden's immigration debate gets lots of attention abroad, other problems like our corrupt private school system and cocaine use among the wealthy don't make as many headlines.
I get that. But, let’s say you have a glass, you fill it to one third, then to half, then to three quarter, then to full. Can you expect to fill it beyond full?
Not every process has an infinite ramp.

It seems frontier labs have been throwing all the compute and all the data they could get their hands on at model training for at least the past 2 years.
Is that glass a third full or is it nearly full already?

Is the process of filling that particular glass linear or does the top 20% of the glass require X times as much water to fill as the bottom 20%?
I'd rather not have the marketplace, honestly, and I'm someone who got more than I paid from TF2. Trading items for items isn't so bad (maybe), but we don't need to make things even more pay-to-win.

Games should be about having fun, not second jobs, unless you're playing a simulator where your fun is doing the job.
RAG from Scratch
> Conference probably had a hotel block they were booking and a link to book so you know which hotel to camp.

In this case it was Hilton. And if the CEO stayed at Hilton he had no reason to be on the street outside the hotel where the killer was waiting for him. Somehow the shooter knew that the target is not staying at the Hilton and will be walking to the front entrance. BTW, the normal practice for high profile individuals to arrive in a car to a service entrance hidden from the public.
Can you only use it with a $500 / month subscription?

The word "try" is VERY different than the actual case, which is "pay for use".

If the answer to the first line is yes, how do I request my email be deleted? I started to sign up but I am not a use case for $500 a month at the moment.
> These days browsers may expose how many cores your device's CPU has to websites.

This information could be determined prior to the introduction of navigator.hardwareConcurrency.

I published a timing attack polyfill that derives this information and initially proposed the navigator.hardwareConcurrency API as a replacement for this timing attack polyfill.

In addition to the fundamental utility of this API, browser vendors also saw implementing this as a way to save battery life by making it no longer necessary for websites to benchmark user devices to determine this value.
Are you saying that the violence is caused by the immigrants directly or indirectly?

I can’t say for Sweden but in the Texas immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than citizens[1]. There doesn’t seem to be a good source of data for the US as a whole.

1. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-o...
> it is practically impossible for anyone to comply with that, to provide source code for every single program (without limitation) that they happen to use anywhere.

It is practically impossible to comply, yes, but not just because you'd need to provide the source code to all the software you're using. The thing that really makes it impossible to comply with is that you must release all of that software under the SSPL. This could be reasonably interpreted to preclude the use of FOSS software, like Linux, that you do not have the authority to relicense under the SSPL.

I wrote a blog post[0] about this a while back, but I think this is fixable if you allow the other software in the stack to be released under another FOSS license (and you could still require its disclosure).

[0] https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/the-sspl-is-not-a-reasonabl...
It almost surely was either a slap at large tech companies or was meant to generate short term revenue to cover some other cut.

Same thing happened when they restructured tax code to interpret withholdings differently. Everyone saw more on their paycheck temporarily (and they gave speeches about it!) but owed more later if they didn't change their withholdings.
Doesn't GPC have at least the force of Californian law behind it?
That may be true of node.js codebases, but last time I checked Redis was written in C and only depends on ISO and POSIX standardized stuff. I doubt there's been any leftpads that have broken the old versions by now.
Yeah, but I wonder if maybe there’s a bug if you load the page bang on the hour. (It was bang on the hour when I first loaded it.)

The other two cities were out by an hour when London was out by an hour.
Because (1) most Americans are satisfied with their healthcare and (2) the CBO doesn't think that a public option would decrease costs much if at all: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57125

In short, you're wrong.
Apple removed Safari's DNT support in 2019 (macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.2) for that very reason:

https://www.macworld.com/article/232426/apple-safari-removin...
It appears your name is Alex, so I'm not surprised that the Alexa product name doesn't bother you. I suspect you would feel different if your name was Alexa. If the product was named Nate, it would bother me. There are plethora of other options for product names that companies can use besides common first names.
What if they had named Facebook in that list, and then Facebook became Meta?

I don't know anything about the legal side of things, but although I can see the appeal of a short blacklist, I think it would be a can of worms.
> With open-source software, a license is as much a social contract as it is a legal one

Funny how when these license changes started happening people said the exact opposite - that the license is the license and if they didn’t want to be Jeff’d they should have used a difference license.
I love everything about what you're doing here. There's a lot of opportunity in a lot of different niches and it's all just being slept on.

Did you already have a relationship with this company somehow or did you have to go and sell them?
Show HN: Gentrace – connect to your LLM app code and run/eval it from a UI
Hey HN - Doug from Gentrace here. We originally launched via Show HN in August of 2023 as evaluation and observability for generative AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37238648

Since then, everyone from the model providers to LLM ops companies built a prompt playground. We had one too, until we realized this was totally the wrong approach:

- It's not connected to your application code

- They don't support all models

- You have to rebuild evals for just this one prompt (can't use your end-to-end evals)

In other words, it was a ton of work and time to use these to actually make your app better. So, we built a new experience and are relaunching around this idea:

Gentrace is a collaborative LLM app testing and experimentation platform that brings together engineers, PMs, subject matter experts, and more to run and test your actual end-to-end app.

To do this, use our SDK to:

- connect your app to Gentrace as a live runner over websocket (local) / via webhook (staging, prod)

- wrap your parameters (eg prompt, model, top-k) so they become tunable knobs in the front end

- edit the parameters and then run / evaluate the actual app code with datasets and evals in Gentrace

We think it's great for tuning retrieval systems, upgrading models, and iterating on prompts.

It's free to trial. Would love to hear your feedback / what you think!
Well, right now the rich can afford personal care and the rest have to make do with nothing. AI might be better than nothing.
The best example of this is probably the Diablo 3 real money auction house. It was a launch feature of the game that would allow items to be sold for real money or in game gold.

It was removed about eighteen months in, because it made the metagame significantly less fun. Switching from a localized rarity table with some light trading to an efficient global market meant that finding anything less than best in class equipment (bounded to level) was a disappointment compared to what could be bought on the market, and had to be to avoid flooding market supply.

Getting rid of the market and implementing more generous local loot algorithms probably gave the game at least 5 years more life.
> building a company on top of it.

So be sure you proceed in such a way that never contributes any money or code back to the original project.
While the article has comparison across many features, is it blurring the lines between a metastore and enterprise catalogs which are much different products?
Improving a billion dollar therapeutic target with AI
I want to achieve mathematical superintelligence, so why am I doing LLMs now?
Oh, I didn't mean you personally, I hoped you acted as a team and you were part of the team making this decision.
The discussion was more about in-game items than game licenses, but that falls under "almost no devs really want that". Devs want to be able to ban problem players from their games. Devs want (or at least would prefer) you to have to buy a new copy of a game instead of a cheap used one. It would be nice if we could transfer the licenses, but the developers don't want that.

And it also doesn't require blockchain. Valve not allowing it isn't a technological limitation, it's a policy. The system can't stop you from leaving a sheet of paper with your username and password on it, but Steam can ban you if they somehow find out.
AI will self-drive cars in San Francisco
This does not represent SF. It represents a small subset of folks. Why must we generalize ?
Aren't health insurance company margins capped? i.e. if they are required to spend 80% on medical care so effectively they can only make more money be bloating costs more and more.

It's better to waste $4.75 by maximizing the inefficiency and costs of the entire system thorough extremely overpriced drugs due to various nonsensical middlemen based market structures, administrative bloat etc. and make 0.25$ than to reduce premiums. Of course it still costs $5 to the society. It might actually be better if they had higher margins...
What repeated lies and disappointments are you talking about?
I don't have any involvement in OSS besides using it at my job, but I still enjoyed the post because of the notes on AI. I have noticed a similar disconnect in technical discussions between those who see the use of AI as a multiplier and those who don't yet see the value in it.

The company I work for has embraced Copilot heavily and its been an absolute game changer in terms of productivity. When you have a clear problem, it is quite amazing at producing working code that then can be modified. I've really enjoyed the edit in place feature as well. Yeah, I could go through and do all the work manually, but why waste the time? AI is a big time saver.
Is that based on any evidence? I'm not familiar enough with the situation to know what the causes are, but I am aware of the long long history of scapegoating immigrants for any and all problems, so I'm inherintly a bit skeptical of that assumption.
1) This is pointing out that the wealthy can buy relationships. That does give them more options, but doesn't seem like a particular advantage, bought relationships are less reliable. I wouldn't want to be relying on them and someone who does without them is better off.

2) I am looking forward with great enthusiasm to the day I can trust my health to an AI. I see no reason to trust humans with something as important as my wellbeing, I want as many engineered processes on that job as possible. While I would accept that at the moment the AI experience is probably sub-par, I don't see why it is interesting from a rich-poor perspective. The rate of change in AI services is extreme and the quality of the service will be different in a few years.
I disagree with the premise. The author sounds bitter, bleak and uninformed.

First, I suppose the author should define 'rich'. Perhaps I've always been rich (even in my 20's!) and just didn't know it.

Even when I wasn't making much money (we had a single income for a very long time), my family was able to use health insurance for needed physical therapy and we budgeted for marriage counseling out of pocket.

I suppose it's all about what you prioritize in your life ...
Honestly, that's how AI-assisted coding works -- just assume you're sitting there with a fellow human who doesn't like their time being wasted.
Git operates on commits (branches are really nicknames for specific commits with some extra features), which are discrete steps.

That’s what’s stopping you from doing anything continuous in git.
> Publishing data-driven blog post analysis is a key part from formatting the data to analyzing it using R and then publishing charts. All of this is now predominantly handled with prompts to an AI.

> I can generate several hundred lines of code in 5-10 minutes. With the newer models, I expect this to collapse to 1-2 minutes.

It seems main usage is to make plots with R... Which is funny as the bar chart on the page can be done in Excel/Numbers/Sheets by entering a few numbers and headers.
Another thing I've noticed is that the logo for this thing in Curpress is broken.
A developer's plea
I have been building a few apps, combined (+ with my saas sites/games) I manage to reach 500$:

WhatDinner[0]: Basically Tinder to decide what to eat

FleuntRead[1]: A new app I am working on to learn languages by learning sentences by heart

[0] https://whatdinner.com/

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fluentread-language-learning/i...
> Open source is a gift economy. Receiving a gift does not form a social contract that entitles you to future gifts

I think op was talking about contributors, who essentially gifted back. One might take offense if they were exchanging gifts with someone, and they open a pop-up store and sell what was gifted.

Also, it's also a tiny bit hypocritical to expect revenue sharing with Amazon without doing the same for contributors.
That's part of it, but then, there's architectural integrity, code quality, testing, testing, and more testing, then there's testing, and some more testing, then, there's taking care of all the "boring" release stuff, like testing. Then, of course, you can't have a release without testing.

Getting an idea of what I mean? Finding a pattern in there?

I generally don't have a ticket system, beyond the GitHub Issues, and I have yet to go over one digit.

That's not because I write perfect code. In fact, I'm constantly finding problems. It's just that I never stop looking, and fix issues -comprehensively- when I find them. Usually, the finding and fixing is so fast, that it isn't even worth it to log the issue. The changelog has what I need, as does the checkin history.

Just because I release something, doesn't mean that I stop testing, documenting, or maintaining it.

In January, we released an app (which I won't link, here). It is currently up to version 1.7.0 (I've been busy), and I'm working on a 1.8.0 version. This will be a basically "behind the scenes" release that won't result in any real user interface changes, but will set the stage for adding a fairly considerable upgrade, down the road (maybe a 2.0 version, but we'll see).

I write code that can have a fairly significant impact on the lives of the folks that use it. It's a Responsibility. I take that fairly seriously.
Drug _consumption_ causes "drug related criminality?"

The evidence is quite strong that _prohibition_ causes criminality. Consumption in the absence of prohibition requires no illicit market or cartels.
No, those points all fit perfectly. Birds don't look anything like a dog, so how does that make any sense to begin with? Why would the whole story's theme about dogs/humans suddenly introduce a third kind of animal?

The narrator (and all other dogs) are blind to non-dogs as entities like them, so when the narrator sees a record with the logo prominently on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:His_Master%27s_Voice_EG_9...) being lifted or displayed, he (or rather the other dogs, whose owners are more musical aficionados than him) sees a soaring dog moving through the air, or being fixed in place on a wall or shelf, without visible effort or mechanism. The HMV dog on a record would indeed be about the size of a small dog's head, and given the perspective of the painting, the dog's legs are even tinier than they would be normally. And of course, printed images neither sow nor reap in any sense, despite their voluble yammering (of human or musical nonsense).

(Note that this further parallels the musical dogs and movie theater - a movie theater naturally suggests other sound-emitting technologies Kafka could be satirizing, like radios or... record players. These are dogs, in a musical context, 'performing' in a sense, but a cleverly different sense, so Kafka is not repeating himself.)
based on the analysis above, I'd say they're far from delivering on that slogan.
Okay doctor AI. Scenario is that you're the doctor, it's 1895 and I have consumption. You will prescribe me bed rest, cocaine and opiates as is appropriate for the time.
Out of curiosity, why did you start this?

I've always used photofeeler.
> consumer finance protection bureau is your best bet

Usually not. Your best bets are your state banking regulator and AG. After that, the FDIC and Fed.
> Turing machines are only “universal” in the sense that they can represent any statement of mathematical logic

That's not quite right. TM's in general are not universal. The "universality" of TMs has to do with the existence of a universal TM which is capable of emulating any other TM by putting a specification of the TM to be emulated on the universal TM's tape. The reason this matters is that once you've built a universal TM, you never have to build any more hardware. Any TM can then be emulated in software. That result is due to Turing.

The relationship between TMs and mathematical logic is of a fundamentally different character. It turns out that any system of formal logic can be emulated by a TM (and hence by a UTM), but that is a different result, mainly due to Godel, not Turing. There is also the empirical observation (famously noted by Eugene Wigner [1]) that all known physical phenomena (with the exception of quantum measurements) can be modeled mathematically, and hence can be emulated by a TM, and hence can be emulated by a UTM. But it is entirely possible that a new class of physical phenomena could be discovered tomorrow that cannot be modeled mathematically.

But here's the thing: no one has been able to come up with any idea of what such a phenomenon could possibly look like, and there is a reason to believe that this is not just a failure of imagination but actually a fundamental truth about the universe because our brains are physical systems which themselves can be modeled by mathematics, and that is (empirical) evidence that our universe is in some sense "closed" under Turing-equivalence (with quantum randomness being the lone notable exception). That is the kind of universality embodied in the idea that TM's can emulated "anything we can dream up". It's called the Church-Turing thesis [2] and unlike the universality of universal TM's it cannot be proven because a counterexample might be discovered at any time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Is there any data to back up your claim that immigrant kids are worse at math in US schools?

It doesn't match my personal experience. It is _well known_ in Europe that the American K-12 education system is weak.

Anecdata: All the exchange students from my middle- and high-school (in a third world country in Europe) came back saying they already knew the math that was being taught in the US school.
> sell you a fancy legally-satisfying piece of paper for an undisclosed price

It's $6,000 https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html
I built custom electric cars, and now I am sharing my knowledge for free in a knowledge base and in a YouTube series:

https://foxev.io/batteries

https://youtube.com/@foxev-content

I hope this helps someone :)

My knowledge is EV and renewable energy knowledge from first principles and for an open source tool.

https://openinverter.org lets you re-purpose the drivetrain from any EV, like Toyota Prius or Tesla Model S and put it into another car.

For this I offer paid support at $200/call and have about 2 of them per month.

I am trying to turn this trickle of revenue into a more predictable stream, suggestions welcome. The videos are meant to give free help and at the same time serve as lead-gen.
Thank you very much. He is Chelsea legend that messes up my SEO.
This is always the answer that gets posted. AIUI, though, the decent-interest-rate accounts are only available from online-only banks, and as recently as last year, I was required to visit a branch (…3, as it was…) in order to conduct some transactions, largely due to credit cards having a daily limit.

(I also sort of loathe the idea of needing to continually update a bunch of ACH information every year while I chase whatever bank is currently trying to draw customers with a temporarily decent rate.)

(And honestly the whole thing is kinda stupid every time I hit it. Businesses tend to give you shocked-pikachu-face when you can't use a CC due to the limit — like you've got to know these exist? And my limit is standard, as they go. And daily limits are trivially circumvented: you just spread the transaction across multiple payments spread out over time. In business, this hack^W method is called a "payment plan".)
My point is that as a practical tool to simplify calculations, i see no value in NSA.

The specific infinite results you get depend on the representative you choose and if you want to calculate integrals which you have yet to define, you need to work harder. On the other hand, if you care about modeling specific infinities for applications you are very likely also someone who needs and wants the actual theory.

As someone with mathematical background indeed i repeat that i think this theory is interesting and worth studying. Just not that it simplifies anything.
SpaceShout (https://spaceshout.com) is Social Mapping Platform focused on our user's content and interaction.

Project is in active development since 2 years, 10+ ppl engaged, iOS and Android apps published in the stores. We're not yet into making money but we're on the way to start with profits.

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/app/spaceshout/id6475599807
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They are required to spend 80% on actual medical care, add various administrative costs etc. and 6% sounds reasonable. Problem is that this incentivizes them to waste as much money as possible but the whole industry has to "agree" to do that for it to work. So that other insurance companies couldn't undercut them.
> Edit: Logically speaking, the following two are equivalent:

Depends on your logical system! There are temporal logics to allow one to capture logically the difference between the two.
My belief is that there are people who get what they deserve. The CEO was one of them.