skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is about the US banking system, and that's where my experience is. Nobody in the US with any experience of financial precarity believes a checking account is a human right, because checking accounts are routinely denied to people without established credit. Which makes a kind of sense: they are credit products.
I just about qualify! My first side project that actually delivered anything: Reminder Sync for Obsidian! https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

I built it for myself after I began using Obsidian for day to day note making. A simple idea: get reminders for tasks you create in Obsidian. People seem to like it.

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919
> moving your head far less than the camera moves on the screen

Precisely this. You keep your eyes on the screen and just nudge your head in the direction you want. Your brain “gets” it real quickly and it feels very intuitive.
Coffee price surges to highest on record
To stay on-topic and on-source:

"[Gang violence] is concentrated in highly segregated immigrant neighbourhoods. In Husby, a suburb of Stockholm, more than 80% of the population are migrants or the children of migrants, most of them from Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Turkey."
https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/11/28/why-sweden-strug...

Do you have a counter-factual source showing that immigrants are not more violent in Sweden?
But would Trump have won without Musk's support? The answer may well be no.
> there is minimal waste in the system (jury is out on that one).

How could that be? Unless that's sarcasm..

I mean the US government alone (so excluding all private spending and insurance companies) spends more on healthcare per capita than many European countries which have universal healthcare.

Switzerland has a pretty much entirely privatized healthcare system (in theory too a much higher degree than the US) which is (relatively) well regulated. Also considerably higher median salaries and GDP per capita (albeit disposable PPP income is quite a bit lower) yet they spend 35% less on healthcare than the US.
No, but one shouldn’t take high impact statements about what the “consensus” is on any issue from random comments on the internet without any justification.
Dude, I want the market to see I'm a moron! I'm not buying BH because I've observed private jets between Omaha and Washington but because I'm saving after having been paid.
Interesting, I don't think we've ever gotten a request for .net support. Our two most popular asks after PY and TS are Golang and Java, which basically tracks with the StackOverflow language survey:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...
Yup. There's fundamentally no way to automatically verify predictive accuracy, the assumptions in ML papers about such accuracy is (the almost always false presumption) that there are no distributional shifts in the data generating process.

Here, since weather certainly changes its fundamental patterns over time, there is no way of reliably predicting out-sample performance.

It's highly likely that in 1-2 years time we'd take all physics-based predictions and all predictions of current AI models, and find the AI model accuracy drops off a cliff when faced with a real out-sample.
Blame isn't zero sum or mutually exclusive.

Events can have an unlimited number of necessary causes or preconditions.

Great men of History can have huge impacts, but usually ride massive tides of population level phenomenon, like economics, culture, and public sentiment.
The universe also computes Pi perfectly every time and nobody is surprised or calling side universes for help explaining it.
My position is that a CEO of a large publicly traded company doesn’t get to shimmy out of responsibility by going “woe is me, it’s the system’s fault!”

I think if the system keeps refusing to change something breaks. We just saw that in Syria. I think people are unsympathetic in this case because health insurers have already broken the social compact they’re supposed to operate within.
Yeah, "tamper resistant" receptacles are utter trash that just ends up damaging plugs, two prong plugs especially. I had to suffer these in an apartment for a while. I will never subject myself to them. If the code body was looking for problems in need of solving, they should have banned all of the janky residential/builder grade $1 receptacles instead.

AFCI (and increasing scope of GFCI) I think has some merit, but there are a lot of annoying aspects to them. As well as some absolute boneheaded implications of the code - like it would be utterly stupid to put a GFCI ahead of a sump pump (at least without some kind of active monitoring that would alert you if it tripped).
Ah, yes, all that avocado toast. How old are you? At my age, I escaped student debt and was able to buy a house young. I wouldn't be able to take the same path today.
Why can't US pretty much just directly copy-paste the entirely private (more so than in the the US since there are no Medicare/Medicaid equivalents) Dutch or Swiss systems, though?

If a government-run health system is such a contentious issue... turns out privatized healthcare can work just fine if there is sufficient regulation.
No, it's not too reductive to claim that immigration has lead to problems. It's quite plainly obvious at this point.

The only reason why ones mind will struggle to grasp this is because you understand that there are severe consequences for openly criticizing immigration. Your mind will conjure "nuances" to allow you to avoid confronting the idea that something has to change, and allow you to remain socially, financially, even legally safe. As you live here in Sweden you will be aware of the number of people sentenced to prison for criticizing immigration, due to the hate speech legislation here.
As someone named Devin who works in tech, I greatly hope this project fails. :)
Right, but I only have access to the 'time value' of the money because I have money.

I'm not producing the value, I'm letting someone else do that and taking a cut.

It's really really not a skill, the steps are:
1. Buy a total market index fund
2. Wait

And I get free money for allowing other people to do work

I do this anyways ofc but it does feel odd
How WhatsApp Ate the World
This. Slow, but consistent is the way to win. Like they say in Rally Racing: Slow is fast and fast is slow. There's no shortcut other than understanding. Which takes time and good input (great books, good mentors, practical experiences,..). And everything is driven by social factors, not technical prowess. The latter helps with solving problem, but the former defines the problem in the first place. Improve your soft skills as well as your technical abilities.
> It seems relatively trivial to crack down on the bulk of it by providing people open and transparent access to their digital medical records.

Why isn't NHS doing it then?
Sounds like we're going through a composition effect change that exists at the top of the Ecological Kuznet Curve(EKC)[1]. In general, I hypothesize the AI stands to deliver composition changes to service work in a way that increases inequality. If/as we move toward a technique effect regime with AI, we can expect that inequality between human and AI services to reverse trend and decrease, although ultimately into a radically different landscape.

1.Grossman, Gene M., and Alan B. Krueger. 1991. Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement. NBER Working Paper Series, no. 3914. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w3914/w3914...
Oops I mean't back references, since that is the problem feature (that requires backtracking).
Yeah, speaking from experience, unfortunately.
$50/month in the subscription price in the personal tier (currently not accepting new users) includes 50 credits per month in it, and $500/month teams tier includes 250 credits per month in it. This is what I see with my current user and when I try to sign up as a new user respectively.

I'd like to see that $50/month tier reopened to subscribers, and a $0/month+credits tier added (1 concurrent active session only, constrained to small VM spec with immutable rootfs (regular devin VMs have writable rootfs), no automatic knowledge generation, no snapshots, though playbooks allowed).

> Even if that version is limited to only editing public Github repos

Not possible to constrain like that with the current Devin architecture.
Not sure which other comments you're seeing, but my original comment wasn't intended that way.
Lots of big companies somehow manage to use SQLite. I've never heard of a company prohibiting it on license grounds.
This is great from a practical standpoint (being able to predict weather), but does it actually improve our understanding of the weather, or WHY those predictions are better?

That is my issue with some of these AI advances. With these, we won't have actually gotten better at understanding the weather patterns, since it's all just a bunch of weights which nobody really understands.
After 30 years, isn’t it weird that the conversation is still about whether building a browser is profitable or if users are willing to pay for one? One would think that the technology would be so mature and ubiquitous that this is not a major issue 30 years later. If the core technology is still changing so fast that browsers need to be in constant development for the entire duration of their useful lifespan, maybe that is the problem, and the web is just doomed to be a shit show until corporations are distracted by enshittification of alternative platforms like VR.

It’s just weird that a few hobbyists can generally throw together a database in a weekend, fork kubernetes and probably run with it forever if they really wanted to, create a free operating system that takes over the world, etc. And yet for browsers, we’re shaking our heads and saying the situation is impossible, we kind of always have done this, and it looks like we always will.
The rich can afford private jets, the rest will have to make do with affordable international flights. The rich will always be able to get more/better of things. That's what it means to be rich. The question for society is how much richer than the average person is someone allowed to be, and how poor someone is allowed to be compared to the average.
> If, when the GPL was first published, the world was cloud-hosted and SaaS-ful, the GPL would either have included some provision like the SSPL, or it would have had relatively little impact on the world.

Well, no on the first one. We know exactly what the GPL looks like to protect users against proprietary network hosted software: the GNU Affero General Public License.
OpenAI is having on my life the biggest impact. More than Microsoft, Google, Amazon. It having a bigger boost on my life than my engineering degree.

It's simply incredibly good.

I couldn't care less about no profit.
Can you clarify what you mean by “advantaged”? I am not exactly sure what you are talking about.
I agree! I'm only suggesting leaving if you think murder is justified.
> "W'rkncacnter" to preclude the possibility of name collisions (chaotic entities imprisoned in alien stars notwithstanding)?

Bold move, but imagine the patch notes:

• Fixed bug where assistant attempted to unmake the fabric of reality

• Resolved issue where “Set alarm for 7 AM” triggered a rampancy cascade

• Improved pronunciation of “Lh’owon” for calendar appointments

Probably still a better bet than Durandal, definitely an improvement over Tycho.

And then there was Leela…
All Your Codebase
I live in Malmö, on the Swedish side of that bridge. The police quite regularly stops local youths on their way to Denmark with guns and grenades. The Danish minister of justice recently referred to them as “Swedish child soldiers” and threatened to close the border.

So yes, most Danes would probably object to that characterization.
The second sentence is justification. I don't mind if people don't just accept my conclusion based on the comment, it's just a comment, a small piece of the puzzle in someones mind.
>The impulse behind it is a sense of helplessness over a long-term rise in violent crime. Ten years ago Sweden, with 10m people, had one of the lowest rates of gun violence and murder in Europe. It now has one of the highest, averaging a shooting a day. In 2022, 62 people were shot dead; last year it was 53.

Sweden has super strict gun control laws.
This is a pretty good case for the argument that the low levels of gun violence that Europe used to enjoy were more due to cultural values instead of strict laws.
Your first claim appears to be false.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coef...
What exactly do you mean by “easier?”

What steps would need to be taken for mass deportation?
can I make feature requests?

I would love a map of job postings to see where it might make sense to move to in the future. If there's 10 jobs within 50 miles... that might be a good place to buy a house.

Additionally, if I filter by 'north america' I still get jobs from canada and india because they're remote only. I would LOVE to be able to filter out those positions. Also I would love to be able to AND 'remote' and 'north america'. I would like to work remotely, but only for US companies

love your site <3
> It's really not a "both side" issue.

It really is. They just undermine the education differently.

> Only one party wants to ban books from public schools on ideological grounds. Only one party wants to privatize the entire school system. Only one party considers teaching slavery to be anti-american indoctrination.

My frank opinion: all those book bans don't mean anything for math or science education. The US science education was doing just fine during the racist 50-s and 60-s, after all.

All the book bans (or conversely, the "woke nonsense" like the mandated "ethnic studies") are just noise in the overall curriculum, they affect less than 1% of the academic time.

> Only one party considers teaching slavery to be anti-american indoctrination.

And only one party cancels the gifted programs because they are "racist", or makes it hard to take advanced classes because of "equity".
I need a default SMS app for the OS. Telegram isn't listed as an option. So I can't modify the default.
It's too reductive to claim that immigration didn't cause problems, and it's too reductive to claim that immigration is the source of most of the problems.
Met the guys in sf, the concept is great, can we really build o1-type of models with this? Congratulations on the launch.
ChatGPT is the only one keeping me from losing my sanity
The image in this thread you linked has the information about the data source in the bottom right corner.
I was introduced to them via a friend. I know the market well enough to recognize that there was potential to find clients and take a "scrape" off the new business. I know the qualms customers have with their existing service providers so whenever there are any concerns I curate very specific messages during the sales process to reel them in. Once they are signed up, getting it right 100% of the time is impossible, so I also step in on the "support" side and help solve issues, provide proposed solutions to challenges, etc. I do agree with you. Many other types of "sticky" and "unsexy" businesses out-there that are very easy to rank highly in SEO locally in dense urban environments.
This is not what pcblues is saying.

The OP explains (correctly) that this diseases could have started several times in remote areas just to self-fix later, because remote rural areas aren't connected with other people and because bat viruses were first plant viruses. They are very fragile out of any cell. The presence of cities helps greatly the viruses to spread and survive in human hosts.
That's a cop-out. Just as the CEOs could transfer their higher wealth to average Americans, average Americans could transfer their higher wealth to Indians without changing or giving input on their healthcare system.

(which is absolutely not universal in any OECD-country sense)
> but you're arguing that runaway commercial success is a prerequisite for artistic success?

Why would you think otherwise? How do you explain people buying "bad" music with their own money?

> many hard-working young musicians are going to see it for the exploitation machine that it is

Reminds me of every person I know that was laid off was sure he was a superstar.

I'm sure there are some overlooked gems, but remember Jimi Hendrix who came out of nowhere and went straight to the top. He was just that good.
Start creating new feature in system2 and over years let it slowly take over system1.

Whenever new feature is published in system2 don't forget to tell your customer "You see how fast we delivered this new feature, in old system1 it would take at least 2 upgrade cycles. Oh btw, this other new feature your just mentioned do you want it in system2 next month or in system1 in Q3/2025?"
I mean, yes, I do want a world where the police feel like they need to solve murders even when the victims are considered distasteful.
Open a brokerage account and buy SGOV with your cash savings. Done.
I think that may be because Texas gets Hispanic immigrants, whereas Europe gets immigrants from Islamic regions that have been disrupted by either the U.S. or Russia (mostly the U.S. though).

There should be an UN resolution that says: "You start a war, you take the immigrants."
You don't need a quantum computer to know everything from now until the end of times has already been priced in.
AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack
Same config, no problem.
Funnily enough, there is a mathematical link between data compression and AGI [1]. I believe a paper circulated some time ago that compared gpt2 to gzip, with interesting results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI
The article is outdated (2018.)
TechCrunch's Next Move
Would love to hear your thoughts on what a brand like TechCrunch should do next from a product/business perspective. What's their next move to deliver value, generate revenue and invigorate the brand?
https://archive.ph/L9Pxa
It seems like they want to turn your contacts list into a slack like messaging service. I don't want that. AIM was alright, I just need text messages.
Small post I made on how to debug performance of Golang executable.

Most posts online focus on HTTP servers and though it might be useful to some
I agree with your initial argument about why we aren't Boltzmann brains, but I don't think that the same argument follows regarding the simulation hypothesis. A simulation would imply a set of rules being set up, of which your senses, and the reality they experience, are an emergent property. That is, there are rules, and your senses are generally consistent with whatever they are.

With a Boltzmann brain, there's no reason whatsoever to think that any senses are consistent from one moment to the next or that any action can predictably yield any reaction. It would all just be random.
But that's the point of a weather forecast. We don't do them for the science. (I'm not arguing against weather research.)
What do you think causes the problems?
I built a small side thing using DBOS ( using python SDK) and the ergonomics were pretty nice.

Then I found out Qian Li and Peter Kraft from that team are sharing breakdowns of interesting database research papers on twitter and I've been following them for that.

https://x.com/petereliaskraft/status/1862937787420295672
Yeah, software engineering is a collective activity, but programming is not. From my limited experience with pair programming, it would be faster to design on a whiteboard, partition the tasks, and then review each other code.
Your characterisation of my motivation is not correct.

I’m considered racist because I am extremely critical of islam and think that it has no place in our increasingly secular societies.

If you think I’m scared of talking about immigration, you are unfathomably mistaken.

However you have to talk about each part properly, is migration causing significant social unrest and tension? Probably, I would argue yes.

Are migrants more likely to commit crime? No, not really, when accounting for other things like income.

I might be a racist, but it is important to be a correct racist.
Running Llama 3.2 (3B) locally on iPhone Pro
Whilst i'm a little ashamed to share this, it does seem relevant. I’ve been using canvas for a while and have found it valuable for my needs.

Due to medical reasons, I’m on daily medications that heavily impact my cognitive abilities. This is combined with chronic pain, which affects every aspect of my life. Thinking, energy, stress etc. This has made everything harder. In fact it was suspected/suggested at one point, that I would never return to the workforce, though luckily this did not come to pass.

While I still retain my knowledge and can learn new skills, brain fog and exhaustion from my physical symptoms have made it difficult to communicate as effectively as I once did, which is particularly frustrating since communication was prior to these issues, my biggest strength. Now, I often struggle to express my ideas in a clear, digestible manner. It's very difficult to gather all my thoughts in the one place coherently for complex topics.

To assist with this, I use ChatGPT with Canvas as I guess a structured editing tool. I input my content and research, organise it to the best of my ability, and ask for feedback to refine the presentation. Clarifying structure, reducing redundancy, and improving flow. I don’t ask or let it insert data about the topic itself, I ask only that it modify how my data is communicated.

It’s a bittersweet solution, but I would say that it's helped me remain employed, which is important, because I have a lot of ongoing medical costs.
Funnily, when I was a child my favourite colour was "dark yellow". It was orange, but I would have died on the hill that said it was dark yellow.
Isn't that Microsoft's plan with Game Pass and buying the whole western game industry? You'll have a choice between Axie Infinity or Nikke: Goddess of Victory.
I have been an open source contributor since age 24. I am now 53.

I have seen tremendous contributors get nothing in return except the satisfaction of having helped build something of value (which is huge, mind you).

I have seen opportunists fork, relabel projects as cloud services and tremendously profit in the process.

Since I am mo longer young, or naive, and since I have thought about it for quite some time, I must say it would be good to tie a token offering and a royalty scheme to open source projects. I feel contributors should profit in some measure when big corporations profit from their labor.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
Unfortunately, the opposite effect of being afraid to acknowledge crime by immigrants is also present. It looks like the government is unwilling to publish data that would resolve that question but here are some clues from Wikipedia [1]:

"58% of men convicted of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were immigrants born outside of the European Union"

"of 100 suspects of murder and attempted murder using firearms, 90 had one parent born abroad"

"Most of the increase is related to gang violence in vulnerable areas in Sweden which are areas with [...] a large immigrant population"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden
do you want a causal weather model or one that can predict the weather well?
That's a good argument for why it's not worth spending a lot of time being concerned about your own ontological status, but it's not really an argument against the concept or the math behind it. It's a conclusion one could derive from some fairly non-controversial assumptions, and if we're agreeing that the conclusion is wrong, the problem with the chain of logic and math needs to be found.
Distro (YC S24) is seeking a Head of Engineering in the Bay Area
This app looks great! I'll definitely try it out when I move onto 5/3/1.