skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right exactly. Any discussion about this topic that doesn’t separate LFP (lithium iron phosphate) based batteries from the wider discussion about lithium ion is missing one of the biggest changes to battery tech in recent years. Not all lithium based batteries share the same fire risks - there are enormous differences now.

Increasingly EVs and especially backup batteries use the LFP tech - you can charge it to 100% without harming the battery unlike previous lithium ion batteries, and they don’t really catch fire.

This paper even acknowledges LFP is significantly safer, mentioning it once, but doesn’t dive into the significant improvements. Again, many EVs (including brands like Tesla etc) already use LFP packs in many cars, and the usage is only increasing. Tesla’s generation 3 powerwalls (home backup battery) are LFP too, its really taken off for home power storage for very obvious reasons - they don’t really catch fire, and you don’t need to worry about charging to 100% harming the battery over time.
> The license language is almost the same as the AGPL, with changes regarding the SAAS stuff. So, not OSI approved? Yes, but I have issues calling the SSPL a closed license.

The AGPL is a nonfree license, despite being erroneously classified as a free one. It is a nonsensical EULA masquerading as a copyright license, and I’m not the only person to point this out.

Comparing your nonfree license to the AGPL might seem like an argument in favor of the open-ness of your license, but in reality it is a condemnation.

It is insane to think that you should be able to dictate what happens to software that other people run on their own computers that you have given away as free software.

The AGPL and SSPL both demand this, for different reasons. Both are nonfree and both are wrong.
Given that about 10% of the US has no debit bank account and they aren't dying, that seems like an exaggeration. You can walk into a paycheck cashing service and walk out with a card that can be used anywhere a credit card is accepted without ever opening a bank account. You have to pay to do so, which seems rather regressive considering it's mostly the less affluent who end up in that situation, but it's not life-ending.
As of now it has a single writer, same like SQLite. But we plan to add MVCC with multiple writers in the future. Pekka has experimented with MVCC earlier: https://github.com/penberg/tihku
OT: for just a second I thought it was a rewrite of the Limbo programming language. Might be a fun side project! :)
And savvy investors avoid those platforms or manually move their cash holdings into money market funds.

Requiring people hold some minimum cash amount is just charging a fee with more steps involved.

And even the larger offenders of that approach are in the crosshairs: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/wall-street-gia...
I'm referring to the type that does receive additional privileges.
Unless you have a plan to make it useful it needs to go. Right now it is false advertising. If you can find someone and successfuly sue them for not honoring it great - but you still need to do a lot more (sue many others in many countries).
Not saying Firefox is evil now, just saying there is nothing keeping me around if I get the sense that it's changing in ways I don't prefer.
Are you a human founder?
I feel they thought it was satire. If you look at the Onion, it's often at someone's expense.
"Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free - both in terms of code but also in advocacy, writing tutorials, publishing example code etc"

I can understand that, but the thing about the BSD license is that such value never gets lost. People are able to fork, and after a fork for the original project to still lead will be require to put something more on the table. Inside Redis it was tried very hard to don't change license. For years it was some kind of "dogma", something one could not even speak about. Then after all the kind of attempts, and following the experiences of MongoDB and others, finally this choice was made. (Disclaimer: I saw the switch as an outsider, so my information is not complete about the final decisions -- I for sure know how this was always considered to avoid if other setups were possible).

However now I see that there is the case for giving the community something in exchange to the license change: a lot of good things in the core, a very good attitude towards the community, and so forth.
If you put everything in one file you can live your dream! :)
> what does social media reveal?

“Family relations.”
sms is the messaging protocol typically used by phones. it's the default for text messages on android. mms is group message and rcs is another protocol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS
yes loving this! please PLEASE be the hero we need in unfucking the unholy mess of misdirection and useless abstraction that is storing some vectors somewhere for similarity search right now
I think they should leave it in and the EU should legally make it an abuse to ignore it. Then we would also not need these good damn cookie banners.
For what it's worth there have been a number of cases of elderly patients holding up a bank for $1 and then sitting in the waiting area to be arrested with the stated goal to get medical treatment. I have no idea how many of them actually end up in jail or get the treatment they desired.
So you're saying that feeding the last layer back to the first makes the model layer-order independent, or kinda infinitely deep, if you squint? :).
I have been using `git-branchless` a lot and really liking it. It should be part of the main git project, consider it a halfway between git and switching to some other tool.
If you think you can/could ignore DNT, think again:

https://wideangle.co/blog/do-not-track-gdpr-opt-out

While highly uncommon, there were legal grounds to treat it as strong opt-out signal.
The good thing about this is that since the companies are copyright holder of the code, if this creates issues, the licenses can be rewritten and modified in order to be as sharp as possible in the use cases they want to avoid (which is... two/three users in the world :D).
Thank you for sharing, that is a neat side project and was actually just looking for something like this. Can you share how your summarisation process works and if you use any specific tools or approaches to generate them?
I've never had a use for Redis, but I was very happy to read this, and sincerely wish him the very best of luck. He seems to have his priorities straight.

I am 62, and write more software, now, than I ever did. This time, though, it's for free. I make it a point to treat my projects as "top-shelf" professional-grade shipping software, as opposed to the "hobby-grade" that I see from many folks I know that write non-commercial software.

That's just me, and the way I do things. WFM. YMMV.

Anyway, hats off to him, and the best of luck!
> with local governments using tax rebates or direct incentives to lure corporations

But local governments do not have a controlling stake and actual CapEx investments in those ventures in the US.

If Tsinghua Unigroup goes belly-up again or can't meet it's targets as part of the reorg, the Anhui Province is on the hook, as they have the controlling stake in it after the cleanup.

This is a risk that a lot of people on HN seem to ignore (I think because of the complexity of the Chinese federal system).

In most cases, it's provinces that are on the hook for these ventures, and if they fail, it's a significant chunk of cash that is lost. Unlike the Central Government, Local and Provincial Governments have weak financials because they traditionally couldn't raise bonds in the financial sector directly plus they have the added welfare and pension liabilities as part of the Deng-era financial reforms where welfare and pensions were devolved to Provincial and Local Governments.

> but from it's failure there is YMTC

Rewrite of history. YMTC was always a success as a BU, and that's why it was split off from Tsinghua Unigroup because the overall structure of Tsinghua Unigroup was inherently unstable and put Hubei's CapEx at risk as they gave the capital to Tsinghua Unigroup to create YMTC.
I don't unfortunately, that would be buried somewhere in federal codes.

Orders and instructions are different though. An official order by a judge may fall under contempt of court if you don't comply. Instructions are more procedural and about a judge running the process of the trial. For deliberation, that also generally means instructions that really just help guide a jury of people who may not have done it before and aren't sure of the process or general expectations.
Ask HN: Equifax Breach Settlement – Prorata Payouts
A couple years ago I received a windfall $5.21 payout from the Equifax breach settlement (remember that!?)

I received an email today and it set off my internal phishing gut check - but it seems like it could be plausible.

Did anyone else receive something similar?

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Dear [REDACTED]:

The Equifax Data Breach Settlement Agreement says any remaining funds in the Consumer Restitution Fund will be distributed to Settlement Class Members with valid claims.

You have a valid claim and are eligible for an additional payment. It will be sent to you by electronic pre-paid card.

You will receive an email from distribution@EquifaxBreachSettlement.com the week of December 16th, 2024 with instructions to redeem your electronic pre-paid card.

For more information about the Settlement, please visit the Settlement Website at www.EquifaxBreachSettlement.com.

This notice is from the Court-appointed Settlement Administrator (JND Legal Administration), not Equifax. Please do not contact Equifax with questions. You may contact JND by email at info@EquifaxBreachSettlement.com, by phone toll-free at 1-833-759-2982, or by mail at Equifax Data Breach Settlement, c/o JND Legal Administration, P.O. Box 91318, Seattle, WA 98111-9418.
Chronos: Learning the language of time series
> “They are somewhat dystopian, but so is AI,” said the young CEO over text. “The way the world works is changing.”

It really blows my mind that people can see that all of this is taking us to a dystopian future, but are eager to help that along rather than try to avoid it.

It's pure sociopathy.
> IE did enable it by default, which got them good press but ultimately killed the feature since everyone stopped respecting it.

That's why RFC 35140 "Do-Not-Stab" specifies that the user agent MUST NOT enable it by default.

https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/
Blue does make a nice contrast to sand and sandstone
That was my take when LibSQL was announced. And it still is and would be my take if LibSQL remains C-coded. But a Rust-coded rewrite of SQLite3 or LibSQL is a different story.

The SQLite3 business model is that SQLite3 is open source but the best test suite for it is proprietary, and they don't accept contributions to any of either. This incentivizes anyone who needs support and/or new features in SQLite3 to join the SQLite Consortium. It's a great business model -- I love it. But there are many users who want more of a say than even being a consortium member would grant them, and they want to contribute. For those users only a fork would make sense. But a fork would never gain much traction given that test suite being proprietary, and the SQLite3 team being so awesome.

However, a memory-safe language re-implementation of SQLite3 is a very different story. The U.S. government wants everyone to abandon C/C++ -- how will they do this if they depend on SQLite3? Apart from that there's also just a general interest and need to use memory-safe languages.

That said, you're right that there are many other projects that call for a rewrite in Rust way before SQLite3. The thing is: if you have the need and the funding, why wouldn't you rewrite the things you need first? And if SQLite3 is the first thing you need rewritten, why not?
My layman understanding is that insulin is used to absorb blood glucose into muscle and fat cells, while fructose is processed by the liver into other things (which may include glucose), but that initial processing doesn't require insulin.
> In any case, the programming language should have little to no impact on the database performance, since the majority of the time is spent waiting on io anyway

may be! However, Rust makes some things easier. It is also easy to maintain and reiterate
> Even better if you have JS disabled by default and sites can't collect 90% of the data points your browser exposes at all.

There's two gigantic issues with that:

1. Most websites won't work

2. Most people like websites to work, and so they have JS turned on. If you don't, you'll stick out like a sore thumb.
I work with a team at Nubank that has been using Devin. I would say that it doesn't quite make sense to compare it to Claude 3.5, because Devin isn't really like Copilot; it's more like an assistant to which you can assign a project. We're using it only for particular use cases, but for those particular use cases it's like having a superpower.
As long as someone who does this is prepared to pay for every site they do it on (or forgo the site in the future), since targeted advertising often pays for the site they're visiting. Personally I would like to see ads improved, not removed, as I am unwilling to have 40 different subscriptions to 40 different websites all because every user disabled targeting.
Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet
Hi HN! I’m Eoin, founder of Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com).

Sourcetable is a web-based spreadsheet that lets users pair with AI to do better, faster work. If you spend a lot of time in spreadsheets doing fairly repetitive grunt work, there's a good chance Sourcetable can massively increase your productivity so you can spend your time on more interesting things.

There are two ways people primarily interact with AI inside Sourcetable: the sidebar (CMD + \), which is great for document or range-based analysis, and the command bar (CMD + K), which is handy for cell-based operations. This is because spreadsheets have inline workflows and meta workflows, somewhat similar to Cursor's text editor UX.

The fastest way to use the product is to upload an XLSX or CSV file and start asking questions.

Sourcetable's AI is helpful with workflows including data cleaning, formula assist, chart generation, research, analysis, language translation, data transforms, thinking through problem solving, error handling, etc. If you can ask an AI to do it, it might just work!

The best way to get value from the Sourcetable is to remember that you are pairing with very helpful LLMs, but not (yet) an all-powerful AI. It doesn't do _everything_ for you, but it will make curious people more productive.

One thing the HN crowd might find interesting is that we have put a lot of work in making sure answers are hallucination free wherever possible. We do this by having the LLM write code which our backend validates and executes. If you're using the AI chatbot for analysis, open the code editor and have a look!

I'm constantly surprised by the breadth of users and use cases. We have seen soil scientists, virtual assistants & EAs, MBA students, criminologists, oil refineries, telemarketers, astrologers, sales ops folk... etc, using the product. Considering we set out to build Sourcetable for operations folk, it has been a pleasant surprise to see just how useful and broadly applicable an AI native spreadsheet can be to society.

On the technical side, Llama 3.1 (via Groq) and Claude 3.5 are the work horses. LiteLLM handles load balancing to work within RPM & TPM constraints, and OpenAI models are the backup. Our spreadsheet is DuckDB based which has big speed advantages for regular spreadsheet & data work, and also for keeping our AI agents fast.

Finally, Sourcetable is free for students (freemium for everyone else), just sign up using your student email. If you have product feedback, we would love to hear from you: eoin@sourcetable.com
we sell coffee from the terminal

ssh terminal.shop

will do 6 figures in revenue the first year - not bad for a side thing!
> Counterpoint: I don’t know anyone who could answer “no” truthfully.

People who have never personally been insured would answer “no” truthfully, people who have been insured but only consumed in-network, fairly routine services might be able to answer “No” truthfully (though hiccups even with that leading to initial denials are not uncommon), and people under 26 who have only been on their parents insurance and have been shielded from the details of insurance interactions would be able to answer “No” often without intentional misrepresentation.

> However, it’s also possible that such a cohort is not a true jury of peers,

“Jury of peers” is a line from Magna Carta referring to barons’ right to have their guilt or innocence determined by other barons and does not appear in the US Constitution. The limitation on excluding jurors in the US system is that the unlimited number of exclusions for cause that attorneys for either side may request are determined by the judge on the basis of whether the potential juror has sufficient evidence of bias that would make them incapable of rendering a fair verdict, and other exclusions (peremptory challenges) are sharply limited in number, not some assessment of whether the net result is “a true jury of peers”.
I think these are two different issues:

Open source mostly enhances devops productivity. AI directly plagiarizes. I do not see anything wrong with not having to write your own shell, but regurgitating laundered code and algorithms is wrong and should be illegal.

With AI the original authors do not even get credit, with open source they do.

If a human plagiarizes open source directly, it is also wrong. Even then, the scale of theft is limited to one person and not happening on an industrial scale.
I get like 4% at my bank. Sounds like you need a new bank! I'd suggest starting with Nerdwallet. [1]

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/h/category/banking
>> If a big bank launched this it would have $1B in AUM within less than an hour

I love the M1 product (and while I am not a Double customer, I love the value proposition). Note that ShareBuilder (eventually Capital One), FolioFN have tried and didnt get traction.

Fidelity has "Fidelity Basket Portfolios" and I'm assuming they have no traction -- the product is broken 3 of 5 days of the week, and almost nothing works. I could file a dozen Jira SEV-1 bug tickets "Fidelity Basket Portfolios" is so bad.

Chase has a basket product but it is barely surfaced on their OneVest menus.
Good luck for sure, but browsing their compatibility matrix, it looks like they are a LONG way off. By the looks of it, they have mostly read compatibility with little write capabilities (no alter table, for example).
Anyone have the abstract? That site is cancer itself
Black box reasoning.

"I don't really understand this, but from what I hear..." People derive all sorts of misapprehensions from clumsy metaphorical explanations.
oh hey, love cronitor! it is a killer tool for my personal and work stuff both!
In a sense valkey is the main line and redis is now the fork. Valkey is about the same except losing the trademark. It’s similar to Hudson and Jenkins. It’s not so clear cut with OpenSearch.
Tests I need to do to ensure the security of my website
What tests should I do to ensure the security of my site? read in this post some of the things I should do and wanted to know if it's the right thing to do. [1] https://chat-to.dev/post?id=28 And in this second post, we'll show you the important points to keep in mind. [2] https://chat-to.dev/post?id=123
> but ultimately killed the feature since everyone stopped respecting it

I genuinely doubt that anything could have caused them to respect it. Tracking without consent is the source of their money; they're not going to give that up just because you give a positive signal that you do not consent, rather than simply never asking you in the first place.
Okay, I don't have any objection to any of that. I thought we were talking about financial crimes
If you re-read what you wrote, then the point of calorie counting is simply usesless - because satiation and energy levels contribute to the other side of your calorie equation (you likely expend more energy).

Calorie counting is like counting MIPS or Mhz in a CISC architecture - when the IPC varies based instruction types processed - it's an incomplete (and IMHO useless) view.
There are third party CI software like circleCI that didn't get crushed by github because its a high touch business that they don't want to get into.

There are many niches to be captured.
Could it be that it's not a chance if these kind of problems are chosen? Somehow we can get from a quantum system an amount of computation that goes well beyond what a classical system can perform, but we can't seem to extract any useful information from it. Hmm.
I think of an LLM model as like a crystallised mathematical snapshot of intelligence... like a cell on a microscope slide, a dead and mounted form of output from the living process of intelligence...

This paper makes me wonder whether, in a very fuzzy sense, we could give #LLMs access to some similarly crystallised analog of emotion or emotional valence, below the level of language

https://x.com/patcon_/status/1866549080127893613?s=46
> Personally I would like to see ads improved

Sure, sounds good. When you win that fight, let me know and I'll reconsider the ad blocker.
As someone who was a past military jet pilot and navigator, the one thing I still notice I have is an uncanny unconscious/subconscious sense of time. It's not perfect, but I rarely sleep through alarms and if I intend to wake up at a certain time, I have about an 85 percent chance of waking up, looking over at my phone, and seeing 1-2 minutes prior. If I'm going something like cooking in the kitchen, I still set timers, but often get an uncomfortable feeling of "you should go check that" that's within a minute or two.

I always figured it went back to what you mentioned, being able to be on timelines down to the second while doing all the other ancillary tasks like listening to three radios, monitoring sensors, etc.
Five Medical Breakthroughs in 2024
I doubt it? Stuff only works because we can't punch each other over the internet.
Jay Concord’s blog is pretty good intro: https://jayconrod.com/tags/bazel
This is the dailymail ofc, so there is no answer per se.

The answer: Advanced Biological Age / accelerated ageing

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However, some factors that raise a person's risk of early-onset colorectal cancer also elevate biological age.

These include poor diets — including diets high in ultra-processed foods — obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption and other lifestyle habits.

Other key factors in accelerated ageing are pollution and stress.