skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should not act just on the basis of data we know now. We should also follow the Precautionary Principle.

These vaccines are still experimental. I am not going to take any one of them until at least they are not and companies accept liability for them.

On top of that, trying to shame people into taking the vaccines, as I see so many doing, is authoritarian. It does not lead to a good place.

This is my line in the sand against authoritarianism. It turns out that my line is against being forced to be part of an experiment. Where's yours?
Seems to be heavily biased in favor of silicon valley personalities.
Here, sure. We're describing concrete allegations against specific people. However, mentioning a class of people without qualification colloquially means 'all', and would not be tolerated or seen as anything other than an ignorant, discriminatory, prejudicial comment in any other context.

Tarring an entire sex as having any problem in particular is disgusting. The article you linked even includes the following quote:

If we genuinely oppose prejudice on the grounds of identity, rather than seek to elevate certain identities and disparage others, there is no shame and much worth in pointing out when negative stereotypes are applied to men.

The original comment could have been made without the generalization and would have carried just as much weight. The fact that your last paragraph begins with "of course.." is proof that you recognize that this is an inaccurate generalization.

Let's have less of that. That's what I'm asking for.
Then single out the individuals performing the harassment and bring specific charges.

Like the GP says, this suit is not really talking about a singular crime, it's trying to paint a 10k+ organization spread across the globe as some parody of a frat house gone wrong.

Your point is sarcastic but is exactly the point. If only a small portions of the females were harassed, then specify the nature of the harassment and bring criminal charges against the harassers, don't try and paint a massive multinational with a very very broad brush and use that as some kind of proof.
Yup, I still smoke regularly, but I have noticed that if I smoke a lot (and I do mean a lot), I start having paranoia when I'm not high, which is odd cause I don't have it while high. Once that happened to me and I realized the connection, I've scaled my smoking back a lot and it doesn't happen. My brother, on the other hand, smokes way too much, even when I was living in a legal state smoking a lot, he smokes more than I did, and you're spot on, when he doesn't have any weed, he is a hateful, mean, angry person, I've begged him to stop smoking so much, but of course he won't listen to me.
It is https://www.plbsh.com/how-the-law-protects-you-from-age-disc....
iDOS 2 will be gone soon
I hope this gets handled with the delicacy and nuance it deserves, and seeing Reddit involved feels like I'm watching a train wreck take place in slow motion.

There's a lot of value in polling the wisdom of crowds. Pending discrimination litigation is almost certainly not a good use case.

I also hope we're not watching the Next Horrible Thing to come from the Internet unfold before our eyes.
"One became extremely paranoid to the point he was unable to maintain relationships with the people around him"

I would bet you anything that this person was using a high-potency grade of cannabis and/or smoking a lot of it.

If they just used a little bit of a low-potency strain it's unlikely they would have suffered from paranoia.

"several others became extremely unpleasant and irritable when they weren't high on the drug"

So, wait, these people became nicer to be around while they were smoking and this is supposed to be a bad thing?
Prisons are NOT meant to take away your human rights, they will take away some of your rights temporary but that's not the same.

The main point of prisons is to temporary take away your freedom (which is often perceived as on of the most valuable rights) as a form of punishment for you crime, but that's where it stops.

You are sentenced to 10 years of prison not 10 years of torture, and potential random death.

If your arbitrary put people in solitary confinement, expose them to unnecessary risk from other inmates or risk of health due to absurd temperatures you are effectively arbitrary non lawfully adding additional punishments on top of the prison sentence a person has. Which is in direct conflict with what a state of law is supposed to be.

I mean lets say you committed a minor crime with a small prison sentence of but now you are forced to stay in a room which massively increases your chance of dying in the next few hours (heat+ heart disease), this means instead of being sentenced to 2 weeks of prison you are now sentenced to 2 weeks of prison + torture + a high chance to it arbitrary getting a death sentence.

Furthermore the worse the prison is the harder it gets to proper rehabilitate the person afterwards, which gets worse in the US due to treatments of ex-convicts. But again your sentence was 2 years in prison not 2 years in prison and hardly any chance to life a normal life afterwards even if you try.

The last point is even worse because it's not just bad for the convinced, it's especially bad for the rest of society which now has to coop with a increased crime rate as direct consequence of how prisons are handled. Which in turn will cause more people to be dragged into situations where they will commit crimes leading to a vicious crime increasing cycle.

There are more then just a few studies which relatively clearly show that treating prisoners as imprisoned but still human and help with rehabilitation will decrease effective crime rates and will in total benefit society, even if it might sometimes seem unfair in specific cases.

EDIT: To be clear the temperature is just one easy to understand example, but not the only problem and not applicable to all prisons. For people not aware of it, during very hot days some prisons get so hot that using ventilators or water vapor makes the situations worse, e.g. the are blown over by the ventilator is so hot that instead of giving your body a chance to cool it heats it up further.
Below that list is another list of current employees' statements.
well, Google's CEO also made a furore by stating that in 10 years quantum computer would break currently used encryption.. But guess what? In 10 years Sundar won't be with the company anyway ;)
You are you
I'm not talking about disagreements in the minutia of law. I'm talking about "disagreement" of law in a broad context. Extraditions to the US, even from countries with which the US has a treaty, are not always honored.

My point is that it's not a one-way street. Countries extradite because they think it's in their best interest.
I was surprised Jim Keller and similar giants in hardware wasn't on there. Cool idea though!
It seems like the concept of wasted wealth-producing opportunity represents a a big part of the problem, given the unequal outcome described in the article.

Metaphorically it seems like you could say that wealth creation opportunity is "shed" by systems with governmental inputs, and then another system collects the wealth creation opportunities, but in that system the sharpest perception of, and highest-leverage use of, the opportunities is restricted to one group; wealth goes into that one group's storage tank way more than the others.

This larger tank surely has a metaphorical pipe leading to it, representing systems for acting on perceptions of wealth opportunity. And intuitively there are probably some leaks in the pipe: Somewhere, some of the benefit is perceived, but wasted.

I wonder if there's a sustainable way to assess the wasted benefit, and transform some of this wasted excess wealth into a resource that can be captured and stored for direct use by the tanks a with lower supply of wealth, like the way a city captures groundwater from things like leaky pipes.

And let's say this system could be abstracted, and built into a system that could be plugged into any part of the pipe, and it would find and exploit opportunities.

In this way some smaller amounts of excess wealth that are naturally given up in pursuit of the overall efficiency of the 1% group could be captured for use by the other, larger group. And with some scaling and systematizing, perhaps these smaller amounts would really get impressive fast.

(I have no specific method in mind but there are likely thousands of methods that could be employed at any number of junctures of technologies, systems, segments, industries, etc. Some of these are likely already identified--some would probably offer job creation for example. But I would guess that there are others that could be even more efficient and effective, especially if designed for this purpose from the outset)
> writing on the wall is obvious that MacOS is on it's way to being deprecated

I must have my back turned. Where is this wall? Apple seems to be investing quite heavily into its Mac line-up, including by differentiating it from iOS devices.
Dude, your sexism is stinking up the place. It's the same shitty old takes that we keep seeing on HN year after year where dudes dismiss serious allegations about sexual harassment under the thinnest of pretenses.
Do people actually drink at work events? I just keep on adding ice to my drink and pretend so I don't look out of place

Work events are work :P just a different kind of work
You are all very quick to judge. I don't work for Google so I don't know what happened, but consider the possibility that this may have been a freak accident. That piece of code for example might only be on a path that is not activated when testing, or it may be executed but not have the same fatal effect.

And before anyone comes along and says "well, every possible path should be tested then": That would be absolutely impossible even if the halting problem wasn't a thing (which it very much is). Even if you somehow have utopian "100% code coverage", that does not mean you have tested every possible input resulting in every possible state combination.

I bet every one of us has a story about an old bug that only manifested years[1] later because of the confluence of many unfortunate things, one that takes half an hour to tell.

[1] Or even decades, in some cases that then made it to the HN front page.
I stand corrected. No loss, anyway. (I probably saw it in oneapi from sometime last year, and was surprised.)
And not just living plants, but also (quite dead) wood and products derived from wood, apparently especially if the CEO donated to the opposing political party (the GOP):

https://humanevents.com/2014/05/30/the-true-villains-behind-...
Reaffirming assumptions is a totally valid activity for a redesign of anything so long established, as Windows clearly is. However there are better ways to go about it than lop off widely used functionality and see how much people yell.

If you do it too much, users willing to give feedback will have less energy and nuance left for the really smart stuff, as they dig their heels in to fight hard for the simple things.
The author focuses on how youth culture in the educational environment transformed society as a whole later on. A similar view could be taken of the effects of social media conventions.

For example, I've more recently been frustrated with lack of communication in business dealings, only to discover that I was "ghosted" by younger employees. I would then have to escalate communication to a senior manager for what should have been a trivial matter. I've read that this is becoming a widespread problem as Gen Z enters the workforce.
There are conflicting reports on her diplomatic immunity and whether she was still employed as a spy (she was definitely employed by the US govt at the time, and as a spy in the past). So it's not as simple as saying she didn't have it or she lied about it. Looks to me like a complicated legal matter.

At least the US State Dept position is that she did have diplomatic immunity.
I'm curious of your opinion about AdaCore CCG, an SPARK to C compiler, for targets that don't have an Ada compiler yet.
> the expressiveness to augment the compiler to do interesting things with a piece of code.

Julia has very interesting propositions on the subject, from language-level autodiff (https://fluxml.ai/Zygote.jl/latest/) to automated probabilistic programming (https://turing.ml/dev/) through DEs (https://diffeq.sciml.ai/stable/) and optimization (https://jump.dev/).

The whole ecosystem is in ebullition, and I'm very eager to see if it will be able to transform in the comping years into a solid foundation able to rival the layers of warts stacked on top of Python.
Yeah it wasn't. We can agree to disagree. The other guy who was obviously saying things to trigger me obviously isn't even getting a warning which goes to show how biased you are. "Go study physics. Go study chemistry." Seriously, how offensive is that? You're rationalizing your actions which are obviously unfair and applied selectively.

But in my opinion, that's just one aspect of you being unfair and NOT even the main point as it's a completely different thread.

You just failed to even address my other point how my dismissal WASN'T shallow at all. You literally just banned me for something I provided a lot of explanation for and wasn't SHALLOW at all. Good for you, maybe you can ban all my other accounts because it seems like the only way for anyone to get unbanned is to bend the knee to you rather than point out your own faults.

Also yeah keep doing the IP shadow ban, pretty soon you can ban this entire subnet who knows what service you're restricting?
> However, if that is systematic by sex/gender its illegal discrimination

This doesn't seem to apply to internship programs that transparently favor underrepresented minorities.
Windows has capabilities. It's the combination of handles (file, process, etc.) and access tokens.

But you'll note no one is really deploying windows workloads to the cloud. Why? Well, because you'd still have to build a framework for managing all those permissions, and it hasn't been done. Also, you might end up with SVCHOST problem, where you host many different services/apps/whatever in one very threaded process because you can.

Capabilities aren't necessarily simpler. Especially if you can delegate them without controls -- now you have no idea what the actual running permissions are, only the cold start baseline.

No, I think the permissions thing is a red herring. Very much on the contrary, I think workload division into coarse-grained containers are great for permissions because fine-grained access control is hard to manage. Of course, you can't destroy complexity, only move it around, so if you should end up with many coarse-grained access control units then you'll still have a fine-grained access control system in the end.

Files aren't really a problem either. You can add metadata to files on Linux using xattrs (I've built a custom HTTP server that takes some response headers for static resources, like Content-Type, from xattrs). The problem you're alluding to is duck-typing as opposed to static typing. Yes, it's a problem -- people are lazy, so they don't type-tag everything in highly lazy typing systems. So what? Windows also has this problem, just a bit less so than Unix. Python and JS are all the rage, and their type systems are lazy and obnoxious. It's not a problem with Unix. It's a problem with humans. Lack of discipline. Honestly, there are very few people who could use Haskell as a shell!

> Plenty of object models have come and gone;

Yeah, mostly because they suck. The right model is Haskell's (and related languages').

> so we'll need some theory more powerful than anything we've had in the past ...

I think that's Haskell (which is still evolving) and its ecosystem (ditto).

But at the end of the day, you'll still have very complex metadata to manage.

What I don't understand is how all your points tie into Kubernetes being today's Multics.

Kubernetes isn't motivated by Unix permissions sucking. We had fancy ACLs in ZFS in Solaris and still also ended up having Zones (containers). You can totally build an application-layer cryptographic capability system, running each app as its own isolated user/container, and to some degree this is happening with OAuth and such things, but that isn't what everyone is doing, all the time.

Kubernetes is most definitely not motivated by Unix files being un-typed either.

I hope readers end up floating the other, more on-topic top-level comments in this thread back to the top.
The retirement age has risen far slower than life expectancy.
There’s never been a female President and almost every single CEO in the country is a man but HR is mostly women so it’s equal right?

/s
I'm also a government Oracle dev. I have no way of knowing what I'm licensed for and they don't disable the features we're not licensed for. I literally have to talk to my director to talk to our account rep to figure out that I'm not allowed to use table partitioning.
But I would definitely use “fuck” to address a shitty Windows server we are forced to use at work, even in the formal context.
At this point I'd pay a massive sum to have Win2k back. Easily the high point of OS design.
I don’t remember any version of windows that supported this in the 1990s?
There are two issues here:
1. The task bar, application, and process metaphor in Windows is not conducive to drag-and-drop onto taskbar items. Dropping onto an exe would start a process and pass the file as an argument, but doing this onto a window doesn't make sense. Does it start a new process from the file the window's existing process is based on? This would rely on that program recognizing it's already running and sending a message the other instance to open the dropped file then exit. If a program isn't document-oriented, this could be even harder to tell what to do. Theoretically windows could send a drop message to the process passing the window handle...

2. I vaguely recall a patent issue in the 2000s around this issue. At the time, lots of drag-and-drop actions resulted in explicit error messages indicating Microsoft knew what the user wanted to do but that it wasn't able to respond as the user intended. I quickly searched for the patent but could not find it.
I see your point with Warcraft 2 though I do think a lot of the art from then leant more to the gritty like this one [1] that shows a troll squaring off with a human.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/pJ0entX_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
I think that's what parent is saying: just stay on Windows 10 and you won't have to deal with switching to anything, including the flaming garbage heap of Windows 11.
How is that so?

I am good at free market economy. I naturally propagate free market economy's good things. How is that not advancing national interests? You may claim that one does not intentionally advancing national interests, but you cannot deny the objective national interests embedded in those ideas.
I think the hotel room design is what's weird, as opposed to unique, specific designs. The former being the result of scaled-up data/market-driven decision making producing something no one person asked for... that's what's truly bizarre
That may be true, bit we're talking about women, who are emphatically not a minority :)
Oddly... It would? Try:

Map<String, Boolean> map = ...
if (map.containsKey("hello") & map.get("hello")) { ...
As someone who swims in the South Island seas of NZ Winter, Rain, Snow and Hail.... Wim Hof is on to something. It works.
I think this is a unpopular opinion, but I consider taking advantage of short-circuiting in boolean operations to be a code smell. At least for me, it seems very fragile and I'd much rather break the conditional logic out explicitly.

But I like to write as much like assembly as I can in every language. Each line of code should do one and only one thing.
Hey, I am indeed! I actually obtained the toffee.com domain on a lease from a company (venture.com) back when funds were very limited and the lease made sense.

When I raised funding earlier this year and inquired about a potential outright purchase of toffee.com, the answer was that they didn't want to sell.

So instead of staying on the lease plan (which'd increase by a sizable amount y/o/y), I started looking for a suitable domain we could purchase outright, and luckily found sell.app for sale.
I don't think they could possibly be sued for this. They would just be responsible for fixing or refunding the product. In this case they issued a "fix".

It is the same as when a car is defective. They don't get sued, they do a recall and fix it.
Yeah. More specifically, it just inserts whatever behavior it likes for the undefined scenario, which in this case is "the same behavior as in the defined scenario".
I worked on the Windows Core UX team. If you think this is an engineering led decision, you have had a different experience with large software organizations than I have.

Even with the Windows 8 UX changes, our most senior engineers were up in arms in open protest and they STILL went through with it.

This is a Product led decision.
>>but former cannabis users can receive incurable disorders like schizophrenia.

No. This is the problem with pieces like the original article. "Schizophrenia link to marijuana use disorder" sounds VERY similar to what you just said. But they mean completely different things.

1- This study is specifically noting a correlation (note not causal relation) between 2 disorders, Schizophrenia and marijuana use disorder. Not everyone who drinks is an alcoholic, and not everyone who smokes weed has a disordered relationship with it. The article about the study even points out the methodology shouldn't be translated to the population at large of pot smokers who don't seek treatment for their usage.
2- The study specifically notes that their results have not been replicated. Their results aren't even really anything other than "we crunched some numbers and found a relationship between 2 things". There are all sorts of great graphs here: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations that show exactly how "useful" this information might be.

tl;dr- This study is not saying Schizophrenia can be caused by smoking any amount of weed, but too many people will think it says exactly that.
They had a lot of big customers. In the web 1.0 days, Autonomy was the de facto search platform for any big enterprise project. It was the Oracle of search. Similarly, I did quite of projects using the Interwoven suite of products that were acquired by Autonomy. The software was really not very impressive, but it was functional enough and had loads of deep-pocketed customers.
By this standard there would never have been phone books.
Sure, but a bit nit-picky. The extradition process being fought against in court was initiated by the US government.
The triangulation thing using Grindr's private api is pretty bad. I'm surprised Grindr doesn't "fuzz" the location enough to at least make it much less accurate.
Start from yourself.
EasyPost (YC S13) is hiring to build the logistics platform for ecommerce
Peer reviewed studies disagree and dismiss each other all the time. Peer reviewed studies are often "propaganda". Peer review guarantees certain minimal bar and that your general structure is sane. Reproducibility and actual results are not necessary validated.

The larger scientific discussion where study is confirmed is after peer review.

On HN, they are specifically disagreed with super often. Especially anything "softer" It is not like it was taboo.
I've been contemplating adding a JSON column to all of my tables just to provide somewhere that covers those cases - still controlled with source-code level validation and with the expectation that any column which needs to be used for filtering rows gets promoted to "real column" status.

I'd much rather use a robust, performant real schema migrations tool though.
pls note a difference between a 'logical qubit' and a 'physical qubit'.. currently they don't have even 1 logical qubit, and for quantum computer to be of any use it should have >10k logical qubits...