skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've overlooked a quote from what bluetomcat wrote, so pasting it here:

> Even now, this is the primary form of organisation in Bulgarian society. Knowing the right people, nurturing close relationships with them, calling them for favours in difficult times, expecting to be called by them at any time.

This is more of a general statement than of a "neigbourly assistance". In a sense this applies both to small scale (familes and neighbours), but also it applies to what I call clientelism and a form of corruption. The impact of the latter cannot be overstated as East European countries are drowning in it.

My theory is that this usually happens when you have a large goverment apparatus (be it state or local, or usually both) and that implies a big bureacracy. So if you need a permit to say build a house or even say install PV panels, you may have to wait even a year just for that permit alone. But if you know someone who is a friend/colleague of a guy issuing any permits, you might get it in couple of days. Also, good luck if you need a surgery and don't have money for private clinics. But its all good if you know a doctor, you can get taken care of pretty immediately.

There doesn't have to be any money or goods involved. Just favors for (maybe even potential) favors. I'll give another example. My dad was a director of a local government owned company in charge for traffic/parking etc. I remember one evening his phone rang and he had a nice chat with some person on the other side. I've asked who she was, and was told that she was a director of a hotel and she wanted to arrange 2 reserved spots near it. And my dad was happy to oblige even though no goods were exchanged. I hope you see where I'm going.

I've learned a valuable lesson that day. If you're just a private citizen minding your own business thinking that "the system works", you'll never get in touch with people actually making decisions in these kind of societies. While people nurturing those connections will get what they want and usually you'll be worse for it. So nevermind parking spots or "easy" things like that. What if you need a kidney and you don't really know a doctor? So to put a bit more extremely. How beneficial is for an average Canadian to know a doctor? I would guess not that much. But for a Bulgarian to know a doctor might mean a difference between being alive or dead in some circumstances.

While I observe the neibourly assistance with postivity and nobody is arguing that's bad, especially in the time of need, there should be a clear cut that this doesn't take root in public/government organizations as this is a recipe for a society where the tumor of corruption is bigger than the body itself.

I think its sometimes hard for someone coming from a country with low levels of corruption to put in a perspective how some of those high level corruption societies work in reality.
[Not disagreeing with your post, for the record.]

> It takes a lot of money to bring a drug to market. Those costs have to be recovered and there has to be a net profit

A friend of mine who works in this industry explained how they come up with drug pricing and whether they decided to bring a drug to market. It's pure capitalism, of course--and why shouldn't it be?

It's a bummer, though, to think of the drugs that could have really, really helped some people but weren't lucrative enough to bother selling. Oh well!

> or no one would do it.

On the other hand, that's sort of like saying "There has to be a net profit in going to the moon or no one would do it" or "there has to be a net profit in selling flood insurance or no one would do it". Neither of those net a profit, but sometimes does it all the same.
At Apple, we did indeed use many small repos. Some were even in different SCM systems! It was indeed a nightmare to integrate with “everything on main is broken, hold off on pulling” being a common multi day experience.

At Google we use Blaze which is Bazel and it works very well, as you say.

At Meta (where I was before Google) we used Buck2 and it was the best. Much faster and more laptop-friendly than Blaze. It was like Christmas when they switched us over from Buck1.

Meta is very very good at “20,000 contributors to this repo”. Google is about 85% as good.

Getting work done (especially on mobile apps that take 7 hours to build from scratch) at that scale without these tools would make me jump off the building.
I don’t know what makes people think that this is a difficult problem to solve or that the government is trying to solve the problem. It’s quite the opposite, nearly all governments are trying to increase property values. This is both to win support from older voters who own property and to increase their tax revenue. Actually lowering home prices will upset their constituents and disrupt their budgets, a lose/lose proposition. Meanwhile most young people do not really understand what is going on and are easily convinced that the these same leaders are doing everything they can and it is all the fault of some greedy investors/banks/etc. for which the government is powerless to oppose.

In my opinion a lot of the push to put ever more emphasis on “social” issues we have seen lately is to distract the growing number of young voters from economic issues so that these efforts can continue.
Thank you for useful link. It has a dynamic chart and I played with it by adding cold-weather states and desert states.

Excluding people who choose not to sink money into housing, if we consider the demographic where homelessness is not a choice (e.g. mental illness, drug addiction, poverty), what do CA, NY, FL, and WA offer that favours homelessness?

Some factors could be: favourable climate, large cities with more "survival opportunities", food banks, injection sites, and other social services.

Oregon scores high as well.

>" These are the 10 states with the most homeless people, according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report:

California (171,521)
New York (74,178)
Florida (25,959)
Washington (25,211)
Texas (24,432)
Oregon (17,959)
Massachusetts (15,507)
Arizona (13,553)
Pennsylvania (12,691)
Georgia (10,689)
A shitty doctor might be ok if your only alternative is a faith healer. It depends on which one has better results (the shitty doctor can have worse results than the placebo faith healer).

In some places, this is a real choice to be made, and developed world luxuries of “holding professionals to higher standards” aren’t available.
How would one use these brush sets?
Exactly -- the voices all sound like they belong to somebody emotionally "lobotomized", for lack of a better term. Every sentence has the exact same rhythm patterns, and every sentence that ends with a period ends on the exact same pitch. Listening to a single sentence is fine; listening to just ten sentences is monotonous and just feels strange.

It's perfectly fine for Siri responses or reading back a dictated text message. Not for listening to a whole book though.
> In many areas there appear to be lots of empty living units

Citation needed.

(There is a problem with Prop 13 in California, where old people stay in houses that are way to big for them, removing supply from the marktet. But that's not the "empty apartments" you're referring to)
Because of how old and legacy googles authorization system is. A “Google account” is just a string.
Empirically supported code review best practices
> If you remove real estate as a form of investment, no new apartment buildings will be built.

this isn't true. vienna's social housing program is a good example of how this works. and they have cheap median rent in 2023 compared to other cities their size.
Thanks for this comment. I maintain the unpopular position that both 1) phenylephrine is mildly effective for drying out my sinuses, and 2) MSG definitely gives me headaches, unlike salt, so most likely glutamate is the culprit.
Buy why should Google pay them at all? One of the first screenshots of their documentation says you shouldn't trust the email claim, so they're obviously aware of this issue. The problem is third parties using Google's OAuth incorrectly. If anything, Slack/Zoom/etc should be paying.
I see no evidence of a reliable, working product delivered as promised/advertised. For years now.

What do you want me to do? Pretend?

Perhaps MDS is real ...
Sometimes there's a perverse dynamic where you have to know a technology extremely well to use it simply, and if you can't invest time in understanding it at an expert level, you have to use it in a much more complicated way.

If you stay on the well-trodden path, using it exactly the way everybody else uses it, you get easy fixes to the problems you encounter. You google for a problem, and the conversations you find apply straightforwardly to your situation. You never have to ask your own questions, because somebody has asked them before, and the only time you have to consult the docs is to help you understand the answers on Stack Overflow. However, you have to take on the burden of implementing the same architecture as everybody else, even if it's more complex than you need. This is how my last company used Kubernetes. When I arrived, they had a functioning bog-standard Kubernetes deployment. None of the (very small) team of full-time employees understood it very well, but they were able to cargo-cult their way forward. It worked out okay. I lived in fear of the day I would have to do a deep dive into Kubernetes to solve a production outage, but it never came.

I think if we had had an expert in Kubernetes who understood the technology thoroughly, they might have been able to build a simpler solution that had fewer moving parts, fewer opportunities for failures and mistakes, while still meeting our needs. However, the downside of using a tool in a from-scratch expert way is that you have to take the same from-scratch approach to troubleshooting problems. The answers online won't apply to your setup. If you try to ask for help, people won't understand you. They might even tell you you're doing it wrong. If you tell them, "Module X is for Y, and we don't need Y. Our setup has been working fine without X for two years," they'll still say, "Your error must be because you're not using X." You'll be entirely on your own. That's how I imagine it would have been if somebody on our team invested the effort to become a Kubernetes expert and build exactly what we needed. If they left, we would have been left with a perfect bespoke solution, and we would have been screwed the first time something went wrong (or the first time our needs changed.) Again, that's not my expert opinion on Kubernetes, just what I imagine based on my experience with other complex technologies.

I think something similar to an "innovation token" is at work here. Gaining fundamental expertise with a technology and building a bespoke solution with it (making a cover song your own, in the article's analogy) is an investment of effort. Cargo-culting your way forward (playing the song just like someone else) allows you to spend that effort elsewhere, at least for a while.
Nvidia in the past made only GPUs, CUDA is used to program GPUs and get use out of them. It doesn't take any magical foresight to want to invest in CUDA, it is the most obvious way to expand your TAM.
A year ago, Elon Musk was saying Tesla was going to have a million robotaxis on the road by now. It wasn't even just him. Investors also were predicting this.

But it looks like Google/Waymo is the only one with reliable self driving technology.

If they don't give up like Google typically does. This could actually be a huge business for them.

Everyone I know who has used the Waymo service had good things to say about it and we are just at the beginning.

The FSD problem will become easily as you scale up due to the fact that these AI can easily communicate with all the cars around them unlike human drivers.
> darwing rather than writing...

Indeed! :-)
Yes. I have a name for your method also: debugger free development (DFD!). While controversial with some my theory is that if you need to attach a debugger to understand what is going on with a live program you've already lost. Logging (ie printf++) and metrics should allow you to understand what happens at all times. You may need to adjust the log level but that's about it.
If so many people are making the same mistakes, it’s your fault, not the users.
mistal 7b base model is good enough for summarization. No need to go to the 8x7 one.
I've found plain 'ol saline nasal spray works well enough... and, a hot toddy helps clear the sinuses.
I spent a LOT of time here in the 1990s. I used to have VERY spotty dial-up, and I would download my favorite music both before MP3s were really a thing, and also when downloading MP3s just wasn't feasible on my very poor internet connection. This is one of the major sites responsible for my love of music. All I had available to me otherwise was the the MTV countdown, and whatever garbage my friends were listening to.
My spouse (partner) should avoid those that put their own misconceptions about health science ahead of the greater good. Thankfully, those people tend to advertise loudly and are often easy to stay away from. We can't avoid every danger but we don't have to stand on well marked landmines. I feel like that's a fantastic lesson most kids lear: don't stick your hand in the fire on purpose.
When I read the title, I immediately went to medical care. Many doctors, hospitals, practices, insurance companies, etc. all own the solution not the problem. I once went to an eye doctor with blurry vision in both eyes. The doctor examined me, had a solution, got paid by the insurance company. There was only one problem. My vision was still blurry in both eyes. He told me my eyes were fine. He owned the solution but not the problem. I later realized I had started a new med and stopped it. The blurry vision went away. I owned the problem.

My 2 cent biased view is that most medical care in the US - at least the kind available to us commoners - is now solution oriented. They own the solution but you still own the problem.

There are some very notable exceptions including individual doctors. One exception I have personal experience with is Mass General Hospital. It is a remarkable place. When you go in to the Emergency room, they own the problem. They basically won't let you leave the place until they have owned the problem. It is remarkable how different that experience is compared to others. You sort of have to see it to believe it. They may not be able to fix you, but the problem is no longer yours. In most cases (and I have several) they do fix it.

Once I went to the hospital, got a plan from the doctor to see someone who specialized in my condition and left. An hour later the doctor called telling me to go the ER immediately. She had called the other doctor to get his skill and

So what does this have to do with the article? I believe we, as a culture, have become to a very large extent "solution" oriented. Ozempic. We have a whole generation of obese people, including five year olds. Now we have a solution. Just put everyone on ozempic. Sure it will cost them their life savings. Sure common people will not be able to afford. Sure they can never get off it.

And that is the point of the article I believe. Don't go for solutions. Go for the problem. Why are so many people so obese now? We don't know and we don't care because we have a solution. Maybe so many people are obese because somewhere up the line people people chose to provide solutions and not fix the problem. <snark>Sugar, fat, industry owned food regulation anyone?</snark>

So maybe the point of the Cargo Cult Theory is not so much imitation, but solution fixation.
New Yorkers will no longer be held in solitary confinement in city jails
How have your energy costs looked, overall, over the past 2-3 years? Getting cheaper or more expensive?

I ask because I frequently see posts like this one, but then also that Europeans are paying more than ever etc. Hard to figure if we are putting a dent in anything.
If you want a generalized version of something similar, try this: https://github.com/MittaAI/mitta-community/tree/main/cookboo...

The query pipeline isn't that sophisticated, but it could be altered to do page reference and use keyterms first to filter, instead of doing the vector similarity on all data.

One thing with MittaAI is that it doesn't do UI interfaces. It expects you to handle those bits.
Perhaps you could tell me what information, other than how big the US is, is conveyed by the headline when it says "than six countries... combined".
Music has very low margins. The record industry eats the most of the revenue pie. By extending into other audio areas they leverage their existing infrastructure around audio encoding and delivery to provide a service with higher marginal revenue.
As a pedantic correction was used to make meth. Once the supply ran out it became just one more step to make whatever it needed other ways.

Practically speaking, lots of things are used to make meth. I had to give ID last time I bought acetone. Which is crazy for all sorts of big brother reasons.

I’m not a chemist, but as I understand it, meth isn’t too often made with PE anymore, yet, it sits behind the counter forever now.
depends entirely on how much the server API can provide in terms of granularity. Hence allowing the clients to do more than now.
Well the best solution is basically to allow the creation of the account but keep it deactivated so that a human needs to check it. That at least works for things like gitlab or other things were an Organisation signs up. The problem of the hd claim is actually not one since you need to validate your domain and if your a saas provider that is b2b only that’s ok.
Microsoft is even worst tough, where you need a different claim than email, depending on what you are doing. (UPN)
They have a 2% increase in energy use each year for 1000 years, currently 10^12W

That would mean we’d be well into the type 1 civilisation about 10^19W a year and we’ll be on the way to a type 2 civilisation.
It’s the same thing. Listing visible SSIDs and comparing them to very comprehensive databases is the whole way precise geolocation works in many devices, like MacBooks. I think even phone navigation has GPS much less precise than you see on screen, and the extra precision is gained with this technique. Making this technique really work is a large part of the reason Google drove or walked every street in the world with their recording gig.
You’d think that AirPlay would be abstracted away by an OS API that does the local network discovery itself.
Most assets have costs associated with their ownership. So one might temporarily think about ownership in terms of liability as a reminder that those costs exist. However, you should then go back to using "asset" and "liability" in a way that people understand. Don't thank your collaborators for adding useful liabilities to your codebase.
Having used both I vote for Buck2 being a bit better in dev experience for performance, resource usage, and sensible config language.
Evaluating the Ability of LLMs to Follow Code Editing Instructions
Could have been worse. Could have gotten: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tad

Hmm... Wait. Is that worse?
NAFTA is a good thing for usa, it’s one of the major reasons why usa still exports what it can export.

USA spends 6x more money on every american in healthcare, spends more on weapons than next 5 militaries combined, spends way more than any other country on education per child.

No USA isn’t an anarcho capitalist societ, it is just a WILDLY inefficient country hijacked by utopian bullshit people who think money grows on trees, finances bad policies, then facepalm and hide their incompetence, cuz typically people with utopian ideas are terribly bad at reaching that utopia.

This isn’t the 50s or 60s, governments have done a lot to improve the lives of average americans, its just the latest versions of it, are incompetent and the public is to forgiving to them.

Too many politicians who lack drive, intellect and sheer will. When you have presidents and senators older than the average life expectancy of a lot of middle income countries.

This is what happens.
Usa isnt some evil doomed country run by anarchists, it’s a country that has saved itself from many threats before, and rediscovered itself many times and pushed through. It needs to fix itself again, NAFTA is not the problem, it’s what’s keeping the americas still “barely” competitive and giving a chance to reshoring manufacturers
> Anyone owning an empty house or apartment should be taxed whatever amount it necessary to encourage them into at least renting that place out

That approach will surely encourage the hoarders and wreckers to build more housing.
And all of those miles are in the arid southwest in places that don't have winter. They don't really extrapolate to the rest of the country or world. SF + Arizona is easy mode for autonomous driving.
It’s pretty handy to know the names of all these drugs because frequently there is a nineteen dollar package of Advil and a nine dollar package of Walgreens Ibuprofen. It’s pretty easy to figure out all the names of these drugs because all the generics say things like “compare with Claratin.” And it’s smart to use the generic because the active ingredients are molecule for molecule the same.

I guess the generics could be using cheap corn starch…
> It does. A bug solved in seconds is usually considered less difficult than one solved in weeks. It maps easily.

Luck wildly impacts how long ‘difficult’ problems take to solve. I’ve solved bugs in seconds someone literally spent weeks and asked multiple people to help them solve and I’ve had the same thing happen to me.

Thus actual solve time and absolute difficulty are almost orthogonal.

> The quote was suggesting absolutism one limitation. By showing the existence of an equivalency I've shown the quote is not absolute. Therefore the quote is not intelligent. Therefore your statement is false and nonsensical.

Again no, it was saying one limitation becomes significant in a specific situation. Often these bugs may not actually take long to fix, but you’ll suffer when dealing with them. Even strait forward off by one errors can be annoying when you have to reason about really tricky bits of code.

That feeling where you spend an hour staring at an IDE with absolutely no clue what’s going on sucks even if it doesn’t take that long to actually fix the issue.
Devs need to eat and pay rent.
The moneyed interests are boycotting X and deploying their EU and American regulators to tangle the platform up in regulation enforcements.
It's better than homelessness, but in areas where land is expensive, renting an apartment in a high-rise might end up being cheaper than renting a trailer spot.
I think AIs work loads match what GPU does too well, some luck in it for sure but credit them making Cuda nice and early and doing bigger bets on AI than anyone else.
FWIW I used WeChat a few years ago and at that point it definitely asked for local network access (which is what this article is about; a mechanism for collecting SSIDs which can then later be correlated to locations).

If there is an entitlement, it is as of yet unclear whether it means a consent dialog/privacy toggle or not. IIRC an entitlement only means you can ask for this sort of access, not get it automatically, but I may be wrong (I’ve never gotten far in iOS dev).

We can argue that this feature is misnamed, regular users will not understand what it is and would not be giving informed consent, and I can get behind that, but “automatic access to my private data on my device” looks like jumping to conclusions.
It increases the places it can be used, but it decreases what type can be returned. Not all types can be sent between threads (in particular, types that feature unsynchronized mutability through shared references are not Send). If you executor is local to one thread, it can be a blocker if a trait you use suddenly requires your future to be Send.