skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This recent spat of cases is going to have some very unpleasant unforeseen* consequences.

It's actually not even all that recent, it's been worsening for several years. It is now very difficult for patients to get enough pain medication after undergoing serious surgeries (or experiencing grievous injuries) -- hospitals, doctors, and pharmacists are afraid to approve the pills, so you just have to lay in your bed in agony because hey, you might be faking it for more pills.

But with the increase in cases and increase in penalties across all sorts of industries (did you see the recent Visa/PornHub case?) it's getting increasingly problematic. We will not like the results of making every company into the private police force watching what their customers do with the products/services they get.

That's how you get credit card companies profiling you and blocking you from transactions that they don't like (not that they don't think you'll pay, just that they don't like the product you're buying/profile you match now/who you're doing business with), and all sorts of other terrible busybody-company outcomes.

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*unforeseen by many of those pushing for these rulings, anyway.
> There are many ideas about what dark matter is or could be, but astrophysicists model the early universe using only baryonic matter, the results _are wrong_.

That doesn’t make any particular theory correct. It is only proof that our current model is wrong.

Filling the gaps with math, and calling the math “dark matter” does not make dark matter correct; one or more of our existing models is wrong.
It all depends on how things are run in your previous company. I've got my old job again after a quick (just about 10 minutes!) catch-up “interview” with my old colleague after a ~1.5 years hiatus.
Companies that specialises in complex clean ups will most certainly have all sorts of regulations and procedures employees need to follow before, during and after performing a job. Assess the risk and determine how to perform the task in the safest manner possible by following the appropriate standards.

Do all companies follow these steps, no. Can they be held accountable for neglecting safety, yes. Being exposed to hazard materials like asbestos is gross negligence. Knowing that such a company exists doesn't means it's normal or common practice.
Takes awhile to bring back 20k laptops!
I also tried cattle, deer and chicken, none worked. I guess they're still in the backlog.
So why are they not happier on average?
From another post on the HN homepage: 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/too-...
I know. I think metaverses are a fun niche, and can grow, but I don't see everyone wearing VR goggles.

AR goggles, as a phone replacement, though... Glassholes 3.0?
The people getting fired are the ones who stopped engineers from doing this sort of thing. I remember in university you'd have job adds for google inside under the hood implementation details where only students/hackers would look. Those disappeared as quickly as pointy haired bosses showed up there.
> I'm a bit peeved that the costs haven't come down

I’ve never had a broadband bill go down. Not sure what you were expecting from a brand new company, but I’ve had the same service for 4+ years at the same cost from one provider, and 2.5 yrs from another. That’s the way they roll…
Yes, I have heard that higher voltage DC plugs would be designed differently to break arc in a safer manner too, example research: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8566878
>Just admit that they have no idea what's going on, but it looks a lot like missing mass?

The way I see things, the much more prevalent attitude is, "we have a good idea of what's going on, we just haven't been able to confirm our confident assessments with objective data". Very few, if any, prominent people in the field admit, "we don't have any idea what's going on, it is all baseless conjecture that might pan out if 75% of the universe is made of some invisible stuff that we haven't been able to detect in 4 decades despite our best efforts". I'd like to see a paradigm shift from, "we have a good understanding of how things work, now we just need to detect the invisible particles that make all of our formulas work" to "we have really have no idea what is happening, but here is some wild speculation that is the best we can come up with".

A lot of the "dark matter" debate reminds me of the Alzheimers/amyloid situation. Groupthink develops among the establishment in the field, based on very little (if any) objective proof, which ends up discouraging and marginalizing those who pursue other theories.
> 1. Give the right answer in more than one special case. MOND may describe a few situations accurately, but it does not describe all situations where we have evidence for dark matter. Only some.

DM also fails numerous observations, like the one described in this article, external field effects, and more. It failed numerous previous observations as well until more parameters were added to DM theories to account for actual observations.

> 3. Make testable predictions beyond what it was tuned for.

This is backwards. DM has been tuned to match certain predictions, where MOND's predictions are free of parameters and yet fit observations. That's actually strong evidence in favour of MOND.

See my other comments here for a reference to a paper that reviews the evidence for/against both.
Can we get the timer back?
The App Store review process is not sufficient to provide such a strong technical guarantee.

The solution is not to add what amounts to an advisory flag to your page headers, and in the process, mislead users into believing in-app webviews are safe.
This is ignorant nonsense…

Edit: to be a little more clear, most govt groups (Treasury, Trade, etc.) are at the mercy of non-govt contractors in the private
sector.
Seems like the rural people voted for the people who gave Starlink the winning bid.

And now the people who they didn't vote for are in charge and they lose their bid.

Not sure you're accurate.
"... strategival disadvantage... "

I thought at first you had invented a clever new word combining strategy and survival. Then I realized that v is just very close to c on a qwerty keyboard. Oh well.
I do believe that, yes. and that's not the hardest part in the whole thing. the scheduling is.
It seems so incredibly unsurprising and mundane that given the particle zoo that we have that it might include a set of particles that interact very weakly with the electromagnetic field and so are extremely difficult for us to directly detect.

That of course doesn't say one way or another that such hypothetical particles can account for the amount of mass needed.
The header misleads developers and users into believing it provides security guarantees that it cannot.
I think spending about 20 minutes on r/antiwork will get most folks to agree with you.

I think most people want a purpose. Many are perfectly happy for that to be something other than their work or means of earning an income. Nothing wrong with this of course but try be the person where some of your purpose is tied up in your work on that forum, or even this forum at times, and you get accused of having Stockholm syndrome toward your employment captors.
I'm not one.
I'm that guy... who chimes in whenever someone mentions a temperature controller. I've learned the hard way that some kinds of controls such as solid state relays can fail or get stuck in the "on" state, leaving you with thermal runaway. Also, software and firmware have to be considered as points of failure.
This depends entirely upon your situation and the company.

Generally speaking, if both the company and your previous manager regret your departure and want you back, you can go back pretty easily.

I know, for example, that Google generally* does not require an interview for a return to the same job function and job level within 12 months, provided that the departure was "regrettable" and the outgoing manager and at least one or two internal references approve of the return.

After all, you're more valuable now than you were then -- you appreciate what you had now in a way that you didn't used to. So, if they already were sad that you were leaving, they should be even happier to have you back just a little bit wiser.

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* Generally. This only applies if there is currently-open headcount for you where there is a good match.
Well. Looks like everything will need to change anyway.
Oh man. Reading this hit hard on so many points for me. I am also autisic. I don’t agree generally with some of the conclusions and approach of the author, but I suspect they are navigating a truely hostile (to them) work environment.

Now before you dismiss me, consider that autistic people are generally speaking… awful at recognizing situations that are actively hostile to them. And yes, Neurotypicals are sometime quite hostile to autisic people. I’ve been a victim of discrimination and outright campaigns to isolate and harass me. It happens. Sometimes it’s on purpose, sometimes it is a natural result of repeated conflict.

Now, let’s say for example that you had a co-worker who actually had it out for you; would actively undermine your work, sabotage your efforts… for whatever reason. As a nuerotypical you would recognize this behavior quite quickly and develop a strategy around it. Perhaps that strategy involves talking to the right people, executing some kind of trap, confront the behavior head on, or simply walking away. Since an autisic person has difficulty detecting negative intent, they would instead try to puzzle out why the “clearly wrong” person just won’t listen to them. From that they draw these conclusions about themselves and the world around them about their behavior because they cannot understand the behavior of Nuerotypicals (to be fair here NTs don’t understand our behavior either). Trust me, I’ve drawn some pretty wild conclusions myself at times.

To illustrate, I recently worked with a very Narcissistic and toxic personality. By all outside observers this was 100% dark triad kind of behavior in this person (I verified it with multiple independent opinions). Anyway, this person was so difficult to work with, so directly hostile, and so stressful to work with that I re-entered therapy where I, at 36 years of age finally learned two very important things.

1. Some people will want to fuck you up, just because they don’t like you. Not everyone is good or does good things. This is “irrational” but it is real.

2. Not everyone had the same capacity as you do… and you don’t have the same capacity as others. For those without your capacity you must teach, and for those that have capacity that you lack, you must learn.

These two “rules” have finally demystified some aspects of office realpolitik for me.

I suspect that the author, my fellow autistic, has yet to also understand this about people. Their intent might purposefully be to oppose you and undermine you. Ignore it, work around it, or leave. They will never be an ally to you. Stop trying.
I wasn't suggesting to give people a rebate for bread. Just the opposite.

Bread should cost whatever it fetches on the market (and that will include pigovian taxes, if any).

The amount and frequency of welfare transfers to poor people should be independent of how much bread they buy and when.

To give a concrete example: you get your welfare check at the start of the month, and the government doesn't whether you buy bread with it or noodles, and shouldn't give you a refund either way.
I've seen basically Mario in VBA in Excel, so I know it's real. "Show formulas" && [VBA, JS] vs an app with test coverage.

Are unit and/or functional automated tests possible with VBA; for software quality and data quality?

GSheets has Apps Script; which is JS, so standard JS patterns work. It looks like Excel online can run but cannot edit VBA macros; and Excel online has a JS API, too.
Because terrorists are known to be the best and brightest?
I’m aware, point stands. If you meet somebody for the first time the L* sets an expectation. You need to grow into it.
Tribal People React to Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
SpaceX breathes fire in South Texas for the first time in 2022
As said, there are different schools of thought. The smaller cogs in particular will wear out the fastest; if you're using them a lot, the cog wears, which then causes the chain to wear faster, which will then cause the other cogs to wear faster.
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That's not free speech, either.
There’s no reason your toilet needs to use clean drinkable water - it only does today because that’s what we have the infrastructure to deliver.
Yeah, first after a promo is “fake” in the sense it is purposefully low pressure.
Funny thing - the Gmail app has this prompt on the iPhone buy it never remembers my preference. It asks me every time even when I tell it not to.
Accepting immigrants who desperately want to come is nothing like taking resources by force.
> Starlink is going to sue over this, and they'll win. By 2028 Starlink expects to have two orders of magnitude more capacity than they do now. 15x as many satellites, with an order of magnitude more capacity per satellite

and an order of magnitude (or more) more subscribers. they're likely going to fall far short on the launch cadence (as they have) and subscriber demand isn't going away.
I had a coworker whom I sat next to that reflected a lot of these qualities, that I had worked very hard to eliminate from myself just a few years earlier. It was simultaneously irritating because I was waiting on him for work, while also invoking sympathy. I knew what kinds of problems he was struggling with, and could guess at a few of the causes.
It's perfectly reasonable to say, "your theory is full of holes and isn't based on anything objective that can be measured or proved" without coming up with an alternative theory. You can (and should in my opinion) point out things that are baseless conjecture whether or not you have a better idea. "I don't know" is something a lot of us would be better off saying more often.
> Oh wait, that's the definition of dark matter.

No, actually calling it missing mass is dark matter. MOND would be another explanation, and there's no reason to conclude it's unworkable.
The OP doesn't read our comments. He told us all this yesterday.

I wouldn't read comments if I wrote like that either.
Thanks! I’m not feeling as strongly about needing it to be explicit-run only. Realistically, I’m gonna set up dependabot or something anyway. I actually like that part of npm audit - when I’m doing “package management things” it’s convenient to get those alerts.

To me, the problem of noise is wholly separate to when/how I run it. Solving noise by making it run less frequently is a bit of a “you’re holding it wrong”.

But I see your point that the nature of Python and hopefully the community database are the real solutions.

I did install and try pip-audit though and it had very very few notices and none spurious! So already I like it better than npm audit :)
Apple's interest is in selling people iPhones.

One of the iPhone's marquee features is privacy.

Apple has shown that it is willing to piss off native app developers in favor of user privacy.
The idea seems interesting, but the “Family Portal” feature in particular seems a bit out of line.
Every single manager I’ve had continued to be a solid IC. The only difference is that they had a larger portion of the vote when we decided what we wanted to work on but we were all in the trenches together.
In my neck of the woods, the main enemy during winter is road salt. I find that a thick heavy lube is the only protection, and a chain guard to keep it off my pants. Half of the secret of the chain case on the traditional Dutch bike is that the chain can be smeared in really thick evil grease with an exceptional maintenance interval.
> the right to not have other people's choices imposed on you is a made-up right

You just said the right to not be a slave is a made-up right.

> it's too onerous to have to maintain lists of houses not to put out if they're on fire

So don’t? — but you’re losing me at the point you go from “I save money by not tracking exceptions” to “I have the right to make you participate because I want your money”.
Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
They are very popular in Finland. A bit of news a few years ago was that the Finnish translation of Donald Duck had the largest readership of all weekly publications in Finland.
Unfortunately, the current situation is quite different. MediaTek does not release kernel sources to the public, while Qualcomm does.

https://www.xda-developers.com/mediatek-source-code-release-...

Device manufacturers are obligated to release kernel sources to end users to comply with GPLv2, but many do not, and Qualcomm's source code releases make supporting Snapdragon-based devices a little bit easier for ROM developers.

It's a shame, since the Dimensity 9000 performs better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Edit, found your reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400521
I was wondering the same thing, the author exhibits many traits that I didn't consider someone who is traditionally diagnosed as autistic as capable of having.

I feel like the author might lie somewhere on the spectrum but I was pretty sure being actually autistic was a separate and vastly more serious diagnosis.
What would "economics that doesn't assume you can always go around the world taking other nations resources" look like? You seem to be criticizing a current solution to a problem without suggesting an alternative solution.

Edit since I'm getting downvotes: I'll take a stab and hopefully someone will correct me. Do you mean a return to Mercantilism? If we can't have immigration because that is 'taking another nations resources,' then we must end up with some kind of Protectionism or Mercantilism? Or are you proposing a World Government?
Not being obviously incoherent is not an argument for that belief being correct; it is merely the very minimum a belief has to achieve to avoid being summarily dismissed for being irrational.

I can understand why you would like the question of why God is necessary to be "misplaced" (which is a euphemism for what, exactly? It is no less coherent than the other questions being entertained here), but, with your 'that's it", you are simply refusing to look further than the answer you wanted.

Furthermore, as I am sure you are aware, 'God' is a loaded term, on which has been heaped a huge amount of conceptual baggage. Therefore, I assume you chose to write 'God', rather than some more neutral term such as 'necessary cause', for some purpose - but what? Your argument for there being a necessary cause would not offer any reason to justify any of that baggage.
It has already aligned several whole states with Poland on the issue; this isn't an abstraction: the population of US states with bans comparable to Poland exceeds that of Poland.
I thought this article was going to be about Python.
maybe, but you are potentially accusable of being one.
> Same thing, slightly different paws.

I deduce you've had your sound off this whole time.
The last one sucked, having graduated from college in 07, and buying a condo in 08, I felt the pain of it.

This one does not feel so bad, but the things that have happened leading up to it feel much worse, and we might look back and say at this time we shouldn’t have even called it a recession, because it might get far worse.

You can’t just shut down the economy and give people tons of free money and not have there be serious consequences.

All we can do now is try to do hard things and make sacrifices that will enable our grandchildrens’ lives better.
Don’t have kids huh?
Apple Cracks Down on Websites Sharing iOS 16 Developer Beta
They were resuscitated in 2021, https://www.inquirer.com/business/shop-vac-vacuum-williamspo...

> The bank indeed sold Shop-Vac’s assets to a Chinese company. But the new owner, through its subsidiary GreatStar Tools USA, decided to keep Shop-Vac’s operations in Williamsport, led by new American managers. More than 200 of the old workers -- about half of the previous Pennsylvania workforce -- were retained or rehired this year ... Shop-Vac will continue to produce motor assemblies for all of its vacuums in Asia, and it will also continue to produce small Shop-Vacs -- under four gallons -- in China or in Vietnam to reduce tariff costs. Those smaller household vacuums sell at a lower profit margin, and they can still be produced in Asia at a lower cost.
I'm a strong believer in the right of people to use their devices as they see fit...but there's a real-world problem here.

You know who else loves unlocked bootloaders?

Cyberstalkers and domestic violence perpetrators, who use them to install hidden stalkerware.
Excel has had a JavaScript api since at least 2016. Excel online definitely has the ability to integrate with online services, although at that point you really want something like Power Automate. See also Microsoft Graph, which has an Excel API as well.

Edit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?v...
Really grasping for straws here, but I guess it’s good news?
Sure, just stipulate that any election with results you don't like isn't "an actual free election". No True Scotsman is indeed alive and well.
But they do manipulate the rules frequently to make it seem like the inflation is not as bad as it seems...
"There are plenty of people who would love to be dead weight just to float around in a company."

One of my favourite corporate laziness stories was a friend of my brother's who would regularly nap for most of the working day in some unused basement room. After a while, his preferred room got converted into something else and he had to find a new sleeping spot.

He eventually found a room where a large laundry hamper would be left full of towels until they were washed or folded. Perfect, he thought. Secretive and soft! He went to get in and go to sleep, only to find someone else already in there asleep.
> You will have to explain how reducing growth dependence reduces agency.

Your process of “reducing growth dependence” is fundamentally you stifling and regimenting growth.

You don’t have a fundamental right to moderate my growth, against my wishes — but I do have a fundamental right to seek growth.
So something more comprehensive for the complete SBOM for all languages and extension modules is also advisable for "[Software] Component Inventory and Risk Assessment".

From the article:

> The PyPA maintains an advisory database that stores vulnerabilities affecting PyPI packages in YAML format. For example, pip-audit reported that the version of Babel on my system is vulnerable to PYSEC-2021-421, which is a local code-execution flaw. That PYSEC advisory refers to CVE-2021-42771, which is how the flaw is known to the wider world.

> As it turns out, my system is actually not vulnerable to CVE-2021-42771, as the Ubuntu security entry shows. The pip-audit tool looks at the version numbers of the installed PyPI package to decide which are vulnerable, but Linux distributions regularly backport fixes into earlier versions so the PyPI package version number does not tell the whole story—at least for those who get their PyPI packages from distributions rather than via pip.

pypa/advisory-database:
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database
> You are saying that without another theory to explain something, the current theory must be true because ...

Change that "must" to a "may" and you have something that matches what was written in GP.
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