skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I learned some stuff about etiquette on HN today.

I'll support you, mnd999. I don't work for a graph dB company. We don't use graph dBs, but I'm considering it. Graph dbs are a legitimate source to feed data I to your RAG system. Our RAG system currently used hybrid search: lexical and semantic. We need to expand our sources, too. I would like to see us use LLMs to rephrase our content (we have a lot of code), and index on that. I think we should build a KG on content quality (we have millions of docs) and software out the things no one likes.

I also think a KG on "learning journeys" would be valuable, but really difficult.
It's an ongoing path of over-rationalisation which is developing since early modernity. The current trend of the "appification" of the entire human condition is just a late manifestation of that intellectual lineage starting at least since Descartes and Spinoza. All aspects of life are seen through a rigid, mechanistic structure of institutions, rules and behaviours. "Anecdotal experience" is often discarded for a unique "reputable" source of truth.
Discussion last week

Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38663740
Absolutely there was. As a Colorado resident, this trial has been in the news for weeks or months. Trump got every bit of due process - motions, briefings, rulings, and a trial. It looked like it was done very carefully, at least by the courts (district court ruled first), the Republican and independent plaintiffs, and 3rd parties like the CO Republican party. The reason the CO supreme Court ruled was because of appeals by both Trump and the plaintiffs. Hard to imagine more due process was possible.
Yes, there was a full and complete trial, in which the court bent over backwards to give the Trump side every opportunity they wanted. His side won. You really don't remember this? It's all online, you can find it if you bother to search.

The Colorado Supreme Court reversed and said this huge amount of info the lower court collected supports the opposite conclusion. And all of this is online, you can find it if you bother to search.

The Colorado Supreme Court also stayed their ruling: it won't take effect until the very last day that the Secretary of State has to certify who is on the ballot. And this is online, you can find it if you bother to search.

The Trump side is being given special treatment that you would never get if you ever got sued.
It can be genetic. That's not most people.

Far more than a super majority of those with high cholesterol are due to lifestyle. At my least yearly doctors appointment I asked about the genetic case. My doctor, in his mid-40s, said he had only had a few patients with that in his career. I've listened to lipid PhDs lecture and they talk about it being rare but present.

We cannot change the genetic case. But everyone else can be affected.

I was talking with someone recently who changed her diet. In a matter of weeks her LDL cholesterol dropped 50 points.
Now this is what I would call a professional approach to work.
That is how it is reasonable to interpret the headline, given no other information
That’s not really any consolation, since (according to the article) Apple has granted that entitlement to WeChat and Alipay.

Yes, these are “super-apps” and Wi-Fi hotspot services are probably part of their offerings, but that’s just more reason this should be a user-grantable permission like “local network access”. If I don’t care for the hotspot feature, I don’t want the app to have that capability.
> Adding another layer to the discussion is the fact that major apps like WeChat and Alipay have already implemented this capability.

So only the big apps can spy on you? The poster is Chinese so he cares about those 2, but how about facebook and google?
It’s getting better though. The addition of shortdoc, the `marginalia` package (which makes some already present doc text available during minibuffer usage), and the `helpful` package (which again just places already available information in the help buffer) make things so much better. I’ve been using VS Code lately, because the tooling for something at work is so much better, but the lack of introspection and hackability is really frustrating.
What form are you talking about? The nasal spray isn’t being removed because it is effective. It’s the oral version that isn’t effective.

Also the placebo effect is real. So even if the boxes had always been packed with sugar pills, you would expect some people to report that it was effective for them.

Additionally, even if it did have some mild effect, oral pseudoephedrine is better in nearly every way.
Wow, what a neat PR-friendly term that was never used before today to mean… plagiarism.

But seriously, who would be stupid enough to pay over $30K per year, to know that one, unintentional, incident, according to Harvard’s own handbook can cause suspension - but their president gets away with murder?

One more fun fact: Harvard has an endowment of $50.9 billion. They’re basically a corporation and should be treated as such, especially when they could offer free tuition for over a century with that cash.
This is becoming a familiar story - users postulating “shrinkflation” in the quality of ChatGPT’s generated responses. I wonder, can we use another LLM to grade the responses in terms of insightfulness, thoroughness, accuracy, etc. so they can be measured objectively and monitored?
You can't protect your child and there's no guarantee that he will be safe. Think about cancer and random events like school shooters. All of this happens daily and you can't prevent it
While there are various models of shipping containers, most of them are not airtight by design to allow circulation of air and avoid condensation and temperature build-up. They have seals to prevent water though.
Most if not all (the candy doesn't get stolen) the shelves have plexiglass, and there's buzzers placed every so often on the shelves. When you want someone, you press the buzzer and wait (usually pretty long) as they find you and open up the case. Repeat for multiple shelves. Also take into account that they downsized staff in all of these places, so sometimes it's literally the cashier that has to run up to the shelves. It's awful and the main reason I just stopped going and Amazon Prime everything now.
That's from 2010. This is a more up to date one, but still probably outdated: https://www.windenergynetwork.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/...
Oh no, this is sad news. I wish Isovalent had not given in to avarice, for I cannot ascribe this to anything else. They had really good engineers, with the best inhouse eBPF expertise of any company. This news is worse than CoreOS being gobbled up by RedHat.
Love how facts are right-wing agitprop now. lol
Imagine believing that government budget sizes are anywhere near large enough to address the housing shortage. Only private activity is at the necessary scale.
That's only if you look at the population of the named cities themselves rather than the population of the city plus the surrounding populates areas.

In Geneva's case, it is composed of several different named cities/towns/etc and those taken together are bigger than Spokane plus the municipalities that comprise its urban area.
From the same OP even (and a better source article).
> laziness and corner cutting

My experience is that it just isn't prioritized, and you have to do it early to enforce good engineering solutions to keep it this way. It's much easier to keep something locally runnable than try to set it up that way six months into a project.

If you can't run the stack locally, it makes it harder to set up performance and acceptance testing later. Running locally also makes long build times more noticeable and it's easier to address these issues earlier.

Being able to run locally looks low value at first, but if you do it, and sustain it, you get extremely large project-wide benefits later.
"I help private equity portfolio companies maximize growth during the holding period using their technology organization."

This sounds like a laser-focused specialization/niche, and yet no specific skill? That does explain the angle of the article.
It makes sense that this is true. We've been systematically underbuilding housing since at least the 1980s. Lots of places had old, run-down surpluses that were being "revitalized", hiding the issue for decades. But now the housing shortage is being felt almost everywhere in the country.

And yet, every year, we're still underbuilding relative to our population growth, thus making the problem worse. Unless our population starts to shrink like in Japan or Russia, we're either going to need to build A LOT of new housing or deal with an ever increasing population of homeless people.

Even a slowly shrinking population is probably not enough to fix the problem, because rich people like to buy vacation homes, and we have a lot of rich people. We'd need rapid population decline, like what would happen from some catastrophe. I recommend building homes instead of that.
"Is it just me that feels $1337 is an insult?"

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Sure, but I reacted to the idea that some people were not “allowed”.
I highly recommend buying a domain and putting together a professional-looking website, if you intend to sell this software.
Artificial Intelligence Is a Liability
If you happen to have a GitHub space for storing things you can upload release artifacts there for folks to download.
Docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3111-i...
I’d guess a review would stop the smaller spam apps, but not the big players, as noted by the author and other commenters.
Unregister your account, register a new iCloud and add it to your iCloud family. You can have 6 people in your family account.

I have ADP on my devices but no one else in my family has it on and we’re all in the same iCloud family.
Most entitlements though trigger a privacy prompt to allow the user to disable the functionality. Without writing a test app, I don't know that this is the case with this entitlement.

I think it should ask the user's permission.
Power comes, everywhere on our planet, from owning and maintaining the monopoly on violence. Which is vested in the military and police. As you rightly point out, going against those is nigh impossible.
If you care about this, the best thing you can do to get Apple’s attention is to fill out the form at this site: https://www.apple.com/contact/feedback/ and select “product feedback.”

Doing so was instrumental to persuading Apple a few years ago to add an option “allow only once” when apps asked for permission to access the user’s current location.
How is it any different than an app that makes an request to their services API, thereby getting IP address which in itself can be used to get location information?

There is always a vector for abuse, and I think Apple has taken large steps to reduce that. I find this story a bit of a non-event.
But if Facebook/Instagram/Messenger (or Alipay / WeChat as mentioned in the article) has this entitlement and does fishy stuff, I guess this can actually be a large privacy issue?

Does Apple do any analysis of entitlement usage and withdraw them when abused? A similar thing I remember is the Facebook VPN "scandal" where I think Apple withdrew the Facebook enterprise signing certificate?
The US is so weird. Elsewhere, like Canada, pseudoephedrine is readily available without needing to present any ID. I always bring some with me when I travel just in case.

Everyone knows phenylephrine is useless.
In elementary school it's typical to have a single teacher for a whole year. A bad year can very easily throw off the rest of a child's education as they try to catch up.
It’s worth noting that use of NEHotspotHelper requires a special entitlement (com.apple.developer.networking.HotspotHelper) that you have to apply for, and presumably Apple won’t grant unless your app has a legitimate need for it.

That said, this maybe shows an incompatibility between Apple’s privacy strategy and “super-apps” like WeChat and AliPay. When a company shoves all functionality into one app, that app suddenly has all the entitlements, and it’s harder to tell when and how any sensitive data is being used.

The West generally doesn’t develop apps this way. For example, Comcast has a separate “WiFi Hotspots” app. Although LOL, they posted 2 days ago that its functionality is being combined into the main Xfinity app. Maybe the West is catching up.
I'm not making up anything on the spot, it's massively overloaded/differently used by different people.

At it's 'lowest' level it's the integration of multiple units: basically anything that covers multiple functions.

The line's also drawn (with the above still being a 'unit test') at the API: so if you exercise your handler code like `views.Widget.post(...)` then it's unit; if you do `requests.post("/api/widget")` it's integration.

And at it's 'highest' level it's used to mean system or end to end testing (depending which of those you you use to mean automated testing of a deployed system).
”Features are often added with minimal effort and without refactoring the system to make the abstractions reflect the new feature set. So these additions, hacks, and patches are added on top of each other until the codebase becomes a big ball of mud… When a developer faces the choice of completing a task in 1 day with a patch versus asking for two additional weeks to refactor, the result will usually be the first. Multiply that by 1000 over five years, and you’ll get a typical enterprise software project.”

Well put!
And Ukraine. Why wasn't that the first in your list. And this is the problem. Half the country thinks were doing just great under this "leadership".
Huge parts of the money are going to middlemen who do nothing productive at all (gigantic health insurance companies hiring armies of paper pushers that cause a need for more paper pushers in hospitals and pharmacies etc). Another large chunk is the enormous profits of drug manufacturers, who, entirely uniquely in the world, can set prices however they want with no government negotiation - ending up in madness like insulin being an expensive drug in the USA.

While obesity is a huge issue and a huge cost factor, there are more obese countries with nevertheless a tiny sliver of the US medical budget - even after adjusting for life expectancy.
Sure, the article makes that point, and it's reasonably well made (although not the case that there isn't any private insurance in those countries at all). My point was that the article's title is misleading and clickbaity and does not convey the point that the article makes well
We are in the period following the end of COVID era relief, including, in many areas, eviction protection. Without diving into the politics of whether or not that relief was a good idea or not, this makes complete sense.
Faith (belief without adequate supporting evidence) comes in a wide variety of forms, no one is immune to it (I believe for evolutionary (including cultural) reasons).
Geocomputation with Python
Nice idea.

Maybe I would use it more if there where more widgets. For example, I myself would like to see things for my side-projects, like website visitor stats, build status (Vercel), amount of twitter followers, etc.

Perhaps if there is support for plugins people would build on your platform.
What is the prevalence of such incidents in the overall corpus of academic literature? I suspect it’s pretty high. For all we know, Gay’s work is below what is standardly accepted.
I can't believe we're having this discussion either. Force cops to follow rules, full stop. We know that police misconduct begets more misconduct [1], and it works in both directions.

When officers start losing their badge or their pension for cutting corners, they'll stop cutting corners.

[1]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231198797...
Not sure about Google VRP, but I've gotten multiple payouts from Chrome over the years and I believe there's a schedule. The rewards panel meets every x weeks in order to award payouts on qualifying reports. Almost no bug bounty programs pay upon triage by the way, they pay after resolution.
On the subject of their child’s individual needs?
That seems right? Sometimes there's not a full week at the end (or start) of the year, so the last few days of the year spill into another week. This got me going down a rabbit hole of week numbering systems. I found only 1 that describes 2023, which began on a Sunday:

> Broadcast calendar years can have either 52 or 53 weeks. A broadcast calendar will have 53 weeks in a leap year where January 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, or in a common year where January 1 falls on a Sunday. In the 21st century, 53-week broadcast calendar years are 2006, 2012, 2017, 2023, 2028, 2034, 2040, 2045, 2051, 2056, 2062, 2068, 2073, 2079, 2084, 2090, and 2096.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_calendar
Daihatsu offices raided after scandal halts all car shipments
Pakistan uses artificial rain in attempt to cut pollution levels
Investigating Apple's Clean Grid Forecast
eBPF Documentary: Unlocking the Kernel
Apple's immersive next-gen CarPlay will start with Porsche and Aston Martin
Not technically a decongestant, but I swear by Ectoine nasal spray, personally. As far as I understand, Ectoine is extracted from bacteria that live in harsh conditions like in the extremely salty dead sea. It does so by building a water barrier around itself, or something like that.

It's sold as an anti allergic nasal spray (it definitely helps with my light dust allergy at night) but it also works very well when suffering from Rhinitis.

Also doesn't build dependence, which is a big plus.
Some is sold to local police departments. Some is sold to your pick of developing nation warlords. Some is destroyed or used for training.

I do agree that it's kind of fucked up that US military spending is so huge that it can make a major difference to the war in Ukraine with mostly equipment it was going to throw away. But (1) that's not a problem that started in 2022 (2) I think there's a huge hypocrisy in complaining about the fact that this equipment is being sent to Ukraine, and not complaining about the fact that this equipment was bought/built in the first place.

If you want to make a dent in the US military-industrial complex, look at the F-35 program: the budget overrun alone is more than three times the worth of equipment sent to Ukraine (except it was spent in cash).
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They hitched a profitable ride on the placebo effect bandwagon
But the beauty here is that you don't have to run a business or host a community project.

You can have a local client that connects to N relays and supports a few NIPs.

And if one of the relays goes down for whatever reason - you will still be able to get updates from the others. Including information about new relays.
Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg Became Winter Spices
I would guess the majority of the core team works for Isovalent but Cilium is a mature product by now, used by tens of huge companies (e.g. Google's GKE, AWS, Alibaba).

Cisco can screw (and likely will) the commercial Enterprise offering, not really the Cilium project
There is an absolutely enormous amount of battery storage in the pipeline. There's been major problems with transmission capacity though which National Grid is seemingly finally getting on top of - https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/07/uk-grid-operator-stre....
Given how hard it is to find your downloads locally on your phone, I think most users want sharing with other devices my default.

Makes sense to download stuff and have it be in downloads on the laptop or iPad.

I don’t think that’s really that dark.
Um, yeah?

In other news, being the in-person receptionist for a nice law office is far more pleasant than being a "field tech" for Sam's Septic Service.
Fact is the recently elected City council made public drug use illegal: https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/09/seattle-city-council-p...

Murdoch and co. will have you believe Seattle is a fentanyl-ridden wastleland. Property values say otherwise.
Musk wants Twitter to be a super app.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808796/elon-musks-x-eve...
In my city we've had some success naming and shaming those people. After someone makes a really obscene comment like that we figure out who they are, or often we already knew, then one of my group uses their two minutes to put that speaker's name on the record. After these racist pricks realize we're paying attention, they stop coming to council meetings.
can someone tell me ELI5 why so many .pdf editors are online services?
Why is there no viable opensource alternative to adobe acrobat?
Why the simplest explanation isn't always the best – PNAS
To compare the current situation in any way with the situation as it was at the time of the Russian revolution is, at best, overly simplistic.

Pretty much the first thing the revolutionaries said was “well that was easy, let’s make sure that cannot happen again”
He didn’t accumulate wealth, he built a company that successfully served customers.

It’s not a zero sum game where he took all this money from someone else. As one example, AWS has been insanely good for startups and given a lot of value to people other than Jeff and Amazon.
I'm going to put this on a bumper sticker
There’s a huge difference!

Wi-Fi positioning is usually accurate within a few meters; my IP is frequently on the other side of the globe (when using a VPN or just roaming globally).
I like the concept of "social media delivers a dumb feed, then my device groups and organizes them." In line with what is written in the conclusion, I would love to use a client like this that also does curation (by floating topics to the top once it starts seeing which topics you click on most) and then allowing interrogation/tuning of these recommendations. Why use openai instead of a local model though? (I'd imagine mistral-8x7-instruct would do well with the summarization task)
Amidst so much dreck on the Internet, I like to cherish such gems.
Reverse card: Nexium is otc in Usa, prescription only in my part of the big diverse place that is the Eu, so i can't speak for all of it.
Do Cisco certifications still carry any weight? If not, is there another, non-Cisco cert that's worthwhile? I know CCNA etc. used to have value, but it seems most certifications in general are pretty worthless anymore.
John Oliver's ostentatious display of concern and commentary frequently veers into the realm of exaggerated and borderline hysteria-inducing theatrics. Consequently, I approach his statements with a considerable dose of skepticism.
Thanks. The docs confirm that an entitlement is required to call this API — still does not make clear to me whether the presence of the entitlement brings up a prompt allowing the user to deny the use of the API.