skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"about the hormonal changes, you'd have to back that one up."

Endocrine disruptors [0] are widely distributed by humans within our environment, for use directly or indirectly within food & water resource streams, such as:

- Polymers within plastics, used in food, water, and other human-consumed product containers (and other lifestyle commodities, such as clothing, toiletries, etc.). Example: Phthalates [1]

For more examples google "Plastic polymer endocrine disruptors"

- Herbicides. Example: Atrazine [2] (As well as Pesticides and Fungicides)

For more examples google "Herbicide endocrine disruptors", "Pesticide endocrine disruptors", and/or "Fungicide endocrine disruptors" (Many chemicals in each of the three categories are endocrine disruptors)

You can thank the EPA & FDA for being revolving doors for chemical industry lobbyists, for companies such as Bayer (which purchased Monsanto), Syngenta (which produces Atrazine), and Dow Chemical.

[0] "Many chemicals, both natural and man-made, may mimic or interfere with the body’s hormones, known as the endocrine system. Called endocrine disruptors, these chemicals are linked with developmental, reproductive, brain, immune, and other problems."

National Institute of Health Environmental Services. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/ind...

[1] "Some types of phthalates have affected the reproductive system in animals. Human health effects from exposure to low levels of phthalates are not as clear. More research is needed to assess the human health effects of exposure to phthalates." "CDC researchers found measurable levels of many phthalate metabolites in the general population. This finding indicates that phthalate exposure is widespread in the U.S. population."

CDC. National Biomonitoring Program.
https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Phthalates_FactSheet.html

[2] "Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs". Tyrone B. Hayes tyrone@berkeley.edu, Vicky Khoury, Anne Narayan, +7, and Sherrie Gallipeau. University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved January 15, 201 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0909519107
You’re confusing the odds of a specific lottery ticket hitting the jackpot with any ticket winning. Someone will win fairly regularly.

So yea, the odds of life evolving to something genetically compatible with humanity when we did might be tiny, but we aren’t the only possible form of intelligent multicellular tool using life and it could have happened +/- a few billion years. Given earth starting 5 billion years ago the odds of some intelligent civilization eventually showing up might actually be fairly high, we just don’t have enough data to know.
> "just get it done quickly" vs "take your time and do it right"

There is no such thing as "do it right". There's your flawed and biased perception of what's right, which doesn't take unknown unknowns into account.

> Oops three years later you're locking into Python and your app is slow as hell

Been using Python more than a decade, never had this problem. App slow as hell is always an eng culture problem. Shitty engineers will write slow code in any language. Don't do HFT in Python, don't write web apps in C.

> Producing documentation and commenting code. Don't need it now. 10 years later ...

The need for documentation doesn't skyrocket from 0 to 100 overnight.

Don't need it now? Don't write it.

Starting to feel the need? Start writing a little bit.

The problem is not the decision to not write documentation. The problem is not re-evaluating this decision in 10 years.

(another problem, based on your take, is treating documentation as binary: we either don't do it, or we're going all in)

> We'll just use Make. 5 years later a CI run uses 300 compute hours and 6 wall hours

Do you think every team that uses Make has this problem? Again, sounds like it's a team problem, not tool problem.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity :

In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known".[1]

I'm sure killing people violates clearly established constitutional rights, so the concept looks puzzling.
I endorse the practice of providing a tldr as the submission title.
Social norms are accepted standards of behavior in groups of people. "Equality" is not a norm, it's a value. A norm can lead to equality, but it is not itself a norm.

However, they both play a role in preserving the status quo. A certain set of norms and values will lead to a certain type of society. If you want a different society you have to change the norms and values.
That works until the bot just overrides the fingerprint
The Details Behind David Beckham’s MLS Contract That Earned $500M
The author is a little loosey-goosey with some strong claims, eg that Jobs saying the iPhone ran OS X was a lie.

I noticed this too. This kind of hyperbolic assumption of bad faith for small inconsistencies seems to be fashionable at the moment. It often seems like it might be a manufactured assumption (although perhaps that’s me starting to fall into the same pattern…)

It really makes me sad (and worried for public discourse) every time I see something like it.
It’s flawed logic because you are collapsing the idea that you can imagine it with the idea that it can happen. Whether or not it can happen is unknowable, i.e. can’t be known, which is the point you were refuting.
I'm having good experiences with a lacrosse ball for smaller muscles.
I've found that if you give it pairs of "Why..." questions it'll happily argue both sides of the coin ("Why is X better than Y", "Why is Y better than X"). But in giving me justifications, it gives me fodder for further traditional searches. I don't trust it to give me a correct answer, but I do trust it to define the problem space a bit.
This is why US infrastructure is so much more expensive--it sure isn't the labor costs. Germany and Denmark just built an 11 mile under-sea tunnel connecting the two countries that cost $7B. Meanwhile, San Francisco built a 1.7 mile subway that cost $2B--more than the Singapore airport. The institutionalized grift has become endemic in the US. We can't build houses, infrastructure, get healthcare, or any of the things other developed democracies have because bribery/corruption have become legalized as lobbying.
Are viruses alive? They aren't commonly considered to be. They don't have a regulated metabolism without parasitising on the cells of other organisms.

But then again, I doubt humans would have homeostasis for long without their microflora. How is that different? Isn't a virus just a more extreme case of symbiosis? What about less extreme obligate parasites?

Life defies categorization. At best you can find common markers (in addition to the ones you've mentioned, the traits required for natural selection to occur - i.e. reproduction, variation in trait, and variance in offspring - may also be of interest), but in the end it boils down to the anthropocentric notion of "things like us", which isn't very useful outside earth.
Yep. Rust's APIs do this right. Eg u32::to_be_bytes() / u32::to_le_bytes() and u32::from_be_bytes() / u32::from_le_bytes().

There's also methods for native byte order, but thats almost never the right thing to use.

I think Go does the same thing. I heard about this approach first from Rob Pike, who would rant about this to anyone who would listen. He said to think of "bytes on disk/network" and "an integer in RAM" as different types that you need to convert between. When you do, the API should specify the endian-ness of the bytes on disk / in the network. He argued you shouldn't do "byte swapping" at all based on endianness. Just parse the int, byte at a time and use the same code on every computer.

The real problem is that C makes it easy to convert between a pointer to an integer and a pointer to some bytes in RAM. Just never do that using pointer casting, and everything works out great.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u32.html#method.to_b...
At least iPadOS isn’t preloaded with crud and questionable at best modifications like Android on many devices is.

One of my biggest gripes with Android devices is that they don’t come with the option of installing plain mainline Android out of the box, meaning you’re stuck with whatever modifications e.g. Samsung has deemed necessary until a big third party distro like LineageOS adds support for your device or someone on some forum posts a dodgy unofficial build. This means that if you want a clean experience your best bet is to be behind the curve on hardware but that’s no fun, particularly if you’re wanting to use the device for a task where the extra power (or lack thereof) is readily apparent.

I’d be more inclined to buy something like a Galaxy tablet if I could treat them like prebuilt Windows PCs and upon receiving them nuke them and put clean Android on them, but that doesn’t look to be happening any time soon. I know open tablet projects exist to fix this and that’s great, but those suffer from hardware that’s anemic in comparison to flagship bigcorp stuff.
> IMO Google blew it when they took away Google via SMS, this is the hole ChatGPT(x) can fill.

This is curious. What is the use case for this?
No it isn't unless he can somehow prove that and he can't. A valid reason may be something like the laws at hand are based on Texas statues and so therefore a Texas judge will have a better understanding on how to apply relevant state law.
Let's check back on this in a few years. The idea that a search engine can cite experts but a LLM cannot sounds wrong to me.
And now you can, just add "In the style of Hacker News User nimbius3" to the prompt.
Asked it a situation with examples where I’d use type erasure in swift. It looked good but was a mesh mash off various related things
It's an interesting example, food nutrition labeling. A couple of my initial reactions are that

(1) Courts initially make a decision about whether or not something constitutes "speech" versus a part of a business transaction or something like that. It's possible that a nutritional label isn't considered speech as much as it is product or a commercial transactional component or something. That doesn't mean the same arguments would or would not apply to a warrant canary.

(2) The food labeling analogy is generally forced transparency. So for example, the alternatives are to either not report nutritional information or to lie about it. The former is a legitimate concern I think from a free speech perspective but refusing to report contents might be reasonably argued to drift into the latter alternative, which is basically fraud. The government coerced speech is to move speech away from fraud.

Asking someone to continue posting a warrant canary basically amounts to coercing fraudulent speech, which is kind of tricky. It would be akin to the government compelling you to not only put nutritional labels on your food, but also to put false nutritional labels on your food. The government coercing continued posting of a warrant canary when a warrant has been served moves speech toward fraud, which seems really different to me from the case with nutritional labels.

rsync has posted here on the thread that they'd have to consult lawyers and whatnot about whether or not to continue posting the canary, and that might take time. I think this is more nontrivial than some people seem to give them credit for, in the sense that lying about it might induce various lawsuits about fraud from customers and stakeholders that have a a financial material interest in them being transparent.

I'm playing devil's advocate here and not trying to adopt any particular position. I think it's entirely possible a court could throw out the idea of the warrant canary on trivial grounds. But it seems to me coerced fraud is different in subtle but important ways from coerced silence.
Cynically speaking I'm somewhat scared of the way i3 is programmed that adding gaps would have to be hacky.

My instincts tell me that if that be the case, the code probably isn't very clean and itself full of hacks.
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Ultimately, how much management is required is a result of team culture, the number of departments in the organization, and how many products are being produced. If you have too many departments or products, you should split the company into more companies. If the culture is wrong, you need to fire the toxic elements or those who do not fit well. In general, organizations grow as needs arise and there isn’t too much actual strategic thought put into “organizational design.” A top heavy organizational structure is a rather obvious result as people when generally hire to solve issues rather than rethinking the entire organization.
Do you have any reason to think LLM cannot reference published work?
11 uninterrupted years. Once I discovered tiling window managers, I never looked back and never switched from i3wm.

Thank you.
They clearly have the ability to compete -- STRONGLY -- in this space. The only question is if they want to, or if they'll act like the carmakers did 10 years ago when EVs were heading toward feasibility. They felt like they wouldn't be as profitable as gas cars, so they mostly ignored the concept and forfeited the chance to be first movers. Then when Tesla finally started moving significant numbers they were caught with their pants down and are still playing catch-up. If Google treats AI as a threat to their ad business, that's what might cause them to screw this up and squander the massive early lead they could have taken.

Eventually every business model is upended. If Apple hadn't killed the iPod juggernaut by making the iPhone someone else surely would have. You have to be the one to kill your own cash cow before someone else does.
Seems like your feelings are hurt?
IT makes windows stand out more from each other. They are in effect very thick borders that stand out.

Do you believe there is no merit to being able to set border size for windows?
What this completely overlooks is the time developers spend trying to understand existing code. For greenfield development that is close to zero. For maintenance work it is over half of their time and arguably the most difficult work in software engineering. Maintenance work in complex systems is far more challenging than developing new complex systems.

Some people, not many, take software maintenance seriously and conduct studies on it - in the study at the link below they point out that comprehending existing code took on average 57% of developer's time. Actual editing consumed 5%.

And software maintenance is no different - think again.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318811113_Measuring...
Active discussion appears to be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34292714 (30 comments)
The pencil, unlike fingers, is an accurate pointer device, like the mouse cursor.
This looks like a question looking for a problem. If we don’t we won’t know, but when we do it answers this question with a yes.
People want the thing they’re staring at all day to look pleasing to the eye.

Oh the horror!

It’s kind of weird to me that folks think that aesthetics don’t matter for something that’s so central to one’s life.

The legitimate complaint about/problem with aesthetics is when it becomes the priority and/or hampers functionality. The macOS calendar when it took its extremely skeuomorphic turn was the prime example of this (it was such a poster boy for aesthetics over functionality that Apple responded by getting rid of skeuomorphism altogether).

But aesthetic improvements don’t need to be like that at sll.
I think there are opportunities to augmentate the behavior of those old systems that can be a business/Saas. Not using the built in ERP crap but something new that integrates with the dinosaur ERP.
If you cannot build and communicate abstract concepts collectively your ability to select evolutionarily for
increased capacity for abstract concepts seems to me to be very limited. I am all for different forms of intelligence, but at least attempt to define it and how it comes about.
I thought this was going to be about “The Last Lecture” which is about a professor’s last class before dying of cancer
Back in 1993, one of the most prominent Soviet dissidents, Valeria Novodvorskaya, had this to say on the subject of human rights:

"I always knew that only the decent people should have rights, and the indecent ones should not. ... Personally, I've had enough. Some time ago we [dissidents] and the USA have used this concept as a ram against the USSR and communists. This concept has served its purpose, and we should stop lying about human rights and promoting their defenders, lest we undermine ourselves."

(http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=11889; many people still considered her liberal after this and worse, but that's beside the point)

Now, this is a different case in a sense that internal anti-Soviet opposition was generally somewhere to the right of the state ideology (although it still included socialists etc) - Novodvorskaya was never "left" in any meaningful sense. But, more broadly, this shows how people can be seemingly genuine about their political liberalism when they are fighting against long odds, and then when they win, you find out that they always saw it all as a tool to gain power to advance their agenda; a tool that's too dangerous to leave for the opposition to your rule. I wouldn't be surprised if similar attitudes existed on the American left back when it broadly supported freedom of speech etc.
Back when Kagi was free by invitation, I tried about 10 or 20 queries on both Google and Kagi, and Kagi was equal or worse in all of them. It lacked crucial features like showing how old each result was. YMMV.
This has been my experience. I have been working on an in-house built LMS for a Fortune 100 company for 20+ years. People keep wanting to make changes, add functionality, redesign the user interface, etc. And all of these things tend to introduce bugs. There is no end from what I can see and I wouldn’t be surprised if I worked on it until I retire.
Very few sheriffs had the guts to publicly state they would not enforce unconstitutional covid mandates.

They were unconstitutional. That has been proven.

It was illegal for officers of the law to enforce them.

I don't think the primary law enforcement problem in the US is Sheriffs. Say what you will about police. These are not the same organizations.
TCP wrappers and iptables are practically already gone. Though what's wrong with them?
Correct to question it. The reason is simple: Police units cosplay as military units. (going so far as to call themselves “paramilitary.”)

Couple that desire to cosplay with a large funnel of tax dollars going to purchase military purpose weapons for potential use on domestic civilians and we have a resultant system no different than high-school aged kids wanting to prep for airsoft.

Except it is different. They have the ability (and sometimes even the express desire to) escalate and potentially kill other people.

Outside of the due process that is the law they swear to uphold when sworn in to service.
Better yet: Throw out the endian flag and define the network protocol as always being big/little endian. Network protocols which can swap endian order is a terrible idea. Let it die.

Convert from bytes in (whatever) endian order to bytes in memory when data is read and written using a uint32_t parse_le_uint32(uint8_t[4]) method or something similar.
Maybe. But that doesn't mean it wont be a lot better than current-gen search by then.
Honest question, is there any network router that runs an X client or server? I have never seen something like that...
I agree but you don't explain why this is your opinion.
>The idea is that the kids are less likely to be beaten or killed by police that answer to the university.

Kids not being beaten up or killed by the police in general wasn't an option?
I don’t see it. A lot of them keep going like dinosaurs like Abercrombie and American Eagle
I've been using `:x` successfully for years after finding it. I had no idea that `:X` actually encrypts the file and can cause havoc lol.
He had one rather silly hit that became popular, then overplayed and annoying soon after. He's done some other ventures, small concerts, etc since, but I don't imagine he has a fortune.

If he was able to buy a nice place and retire, I'd say he's financially smarter than 99% of celebrities.
Googled: list of additives in PE plastic

Found:

"Stabilizers are the most widely used additives in the PE industry.

Other additives commonly added to polyethylene are stearates (e.g., calcium and zinc stearates to neutralize acidic catalyst residues and to impart lubricity),

pigments (e.g., carbon black, cadmium yellow, and titanium dioxide),

metal deactivators (e.g., oxalyl bishydrazide for PE cable insulation),

processing aids (e.g., Dynamar, Ucarsil, Viton-A, to improve flow of the molten polymer),

optical brightners (e.g., Uvitex OB to enhance appearance).

Additives commonly added to polyethylene include antioxidants (hindered phenolics and phosphites for process stabilization),

antiblock compounds (e.g., silica, talc, and kaolin to reduce sticking of adjacent film layers),

and slip agents (e.g., erucamide and oleamide to reduce friction)."

"POLYETHYLENE (Stabilization and Compounding)"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/polyethylene-stabilization-co...
Reading “incorrecting” made me remember I miss n-gate
Yep, provided as much detail as possible with code samples. Pretty much as if you were emailing someone for help.
Are things so simple? Jobs have income which feeds back into the economy. The $3T figure is the expense burden, but much of spent back into the economy (and also taxed).
The Midwest would be great. It’s right next door and the largest piece of arable land in the world.
The Linux philosophy was NEVER about supporting computers from 30 years ago. It was about supporting cool new architectures. Big-endian systems are ancient history now. No new cool bendian systems are being made. The kernel still supports them, for now.
The idea of future music albums being written in Javascript gave me a good laugh.

Generative AI art is just the beginning. Programming is seeping into the creative world, not just art.

The "just learn to program" meme will only grow more and more real I suspect.
>This is one thing that's always fascinated me in corporate and government: why is bureaucracy easy to create and hard to destroy?

Because bureaucracy is people (management, employees) reaching for more power.

Why would they ever reach for less power?

And if some management unit implemented such "stack ranking" and discarded other units, they'd make enemies quickly, and be undermined, as other (not yet discard people and units) would be fearing for their position.

Not to mention that management being about personal power, their "stack ranking" would basically be based on "does this unit/product/team/etc furthers my power"?