Hacker News with Generative AI: Data

GM parks claims driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums (theregister.com)
General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC "to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program."

Privacy, Automotive, Insurance, Lawsuits, Data

59 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 56 comments

General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years (nytimes.com)
The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that it had reached a settlement with General Motors that would ban the automaker from providing drivers’ behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies.

Privacy, Law, Automotive, Business, Data

184 points by mmooss 1 day ago | 172 comments

43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on (gothamist.com)

Transportation, Policy, Data

158 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 205 comments

Meta Confesses to Training Llama with Pirated LibGen Data [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

Meta, Lawsuits, Data, Copyright

10 points by serjester 8 days ago | 4 comments

Levels.fyi's annual compensation report 2024 (levels.fyi)
Levels.fyi's annual compensation report. View top paying companies, cities, titles & other trends.

Compensation, Salary, Data, Trends, Technology

10 points by Garbage 11 days ago | 1 comments

Small Data [video] (youtube.com)

Data, Videos, Data Science

85 points by spacechild1 11 days ago | 11 comments

25% of the top websites are blocking OpenAI from crawling (originality.ai)
Bots such as OpenAI’s GPTBot, the Applebot, CCBot, Google-Extended, and Bytespider analyze, store, or scrape your website’s data in order to provide data to train more advanced LLMs.

Web Crawling, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Data

4 points by behnamoh 12 days ago | 0 comments

Brief Introduction to Fix and Fix JSON (fixparser.dev)
The FIX Protocol (Financial Information Exchange) is a standardized messaging system for real-time electronic communication of trade-related information in financial markets.

Finance, Programming, Software, Data

13 points by logotype 13 days ago | 13 comments

New Data Reveal Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis Is Spreading (senate.gov)
Washington, D.C.—Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, released a first-of-its kind public dataset and accompanying staff report that expose the scale of the climate change-driven crisis in homeowners’ insurance.

Climate Change, Insurance, Data, Environment, United States

12 points by thatcherc 14 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: The all-in-one fake API (fooapi.com)
Dummy data for your projects, fast and simple. Users, products, posts, comments and more!

Software, APIs, Development, Data, Tools

12 points by carban 19 days ago | 1 comments

Maps that show time instead of space (youtube.com)

Maps, Visualization, Time, Data

5 points by hydrolox 20 days ago | 1 comments

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods (plasticlist.org)

Food, Plastic, Environment, Bay Area, Data

635 points by jeff18 21 days ago | 193 comments

A data table thousands of years old (2020) (datafix.com.au)
I knew that data tables had been around a long time, but I didn't appreciate how long until I read recently about account-keeping in ancient Mesopotamia.

History, Data, Mesopotamia

256 points by rickcarlino 27 days ago | 108 comments

Show HN: Gribstream.com – Historical Weather Forecast API (gribstream.com)
Leverage The National Blend of Models (NBM) & The Global Forecast System (GFS)

Weather Forecasting, APIs, Software, Data, Climate

71 points by ElPeque 29 days ago | 35 comments

This is Where the data to build AI comes from (technologyreview.com)
New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.

Artificial Intelligence, Data, Technology, Big Tech, Power

14 points by marban 30 days ago | 2 comments

The Work Number (W2 salary service) (theworknumber.com)
Utilizing The Work Number® database, we’ll provide you differentiated and proprietary data that can give you a more holistic view of applicants.

Human Resources, Recruitment, Data, Salaries

5 points by cebert 33 days ago | 1 comments

The First 50M Prime Numbers (1975) [pdf] (mpim-bonn.mpg.de)

Mathematics, Number Theory, History, Data

93 points by quickfox 33 days ago | 39 comments

Reclaim Your Data: Freeing a Wi-Fi Sensor from the Cloud (embeddedartistry.com)
In this article we’ll investigate how a particular Wi-Fi connected sensor (in this case a radon sensor) communicates with “the cloud” and how we can use that knowledge to reduce our reliance on third-party servers.

Privacy, Data, Security, Hardware

46 points by WaitWaitWha 34 days ago | 16 comments

Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse (github.com/Surfer-Org)
Surfer Protocol is an open-source framework for exporting and building applications off of your personal data.

Open Source, Data, Privacy, Software, Personal Data

147 points by slalani304 34 days ago | 21 comments

Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage (theregister.com)
A year ago, Google announced plans to save people's Location History, which it now calls Timeline, locally on devices rather than on its servers.

Google, Privacy, Data, Technology, Collateral Damage

4 points by beardyw 35 days ago | 0 comments

Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage (theregister.com)
A year ago, Google announced plans to save people's Location History, which it now calls Timeline, locally on devices rather than on its servers.

Privacy, Google, Data, Technology, Location Data

4 points by rntn 35 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: DataFuel.dev – Turn websites into LLM-ready data (datafuel.dev)
DataFuel API scrapes entire websites and knowledge bases in a single query. Get clean, markdown-structured web data instantly for your RAG systems and AI models. No complex scraping code needed.

Web Scraping, AI, Data

43 points by sachou 36 days ago | 34 comments

All Text in NYC (alltext.nyc)

Data, Art, Public Art

14 points by yufengz2 40 days ago | 4 comments

Palantir, Anduril to save data from battlefield to train AI models (businesstimes.com.sg)
SOFTWARE company Palantir Technologies and weapons maker Anduril Industries plan to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the US military and are inviting other companies to join the effort.

Military, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Technology, Partnerships

13 points by hackandthink 40 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Data Connector – Chat with Your Database and APIs (github.com/inferablehq)

Data, APIs, Databases, Software, Show HN

17 points by johnjcsmith 43 days ago | 0 comments

The limitations of data and the fracturing of opinion (based.science)
From within, science appears as usual: parsimonious, slow, pedantic. But on the periphery something has changed.

Science, Data, Opinion, Social Media

6 points by dockien 47 days ago | 0 comments

PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge (garymarcus.substack.com)
This just in: Microsoft is apparently, at least for some Office subscribers, maybe most, scraping private documents.

Privacy, Microsoft, Data, Office, Software

26 points by ZeroMinx 53 days ago | 10 comments

Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest (marksblogg.com)
Point of Interest (POI) datasets of any strong quality have rarely been published freely. Overture and OpenStreetMap (OSM) have been making inroads but even in 2021, I could only find half of Starbucks' locations in OSM.

Maps, Data, Open Source, Business, Location Data

77 points by marklit 56 days ago | 30 comments

The Fastest Way to Download Foursquare's New 100M+ POI Dataset (fused.io)
Foursquare just released an open dataset of over 100M global places of interest.

Data, Open Source, Geolocation, Mapping

14 points by MaxLenormand 57 days ago | 1 comments

China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle (wired.com)
China has long been a billion-plus-person experiment in total state surveillance, with virtually no legal checks on the government's ability to physically and digitally monitor its citizens.

China, Surveillance, Privacy, Government, Data

22 points by cannibalXxx 57 days ago | 10 comments