skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like splitting hairs on the part of the FDA.

FDA officials acknowledged Tuesday that statements that a product “may contain” certain allergens “could be considered truthful and not misleading.” Bimbo officials have until July 8 to identify steps taken to remedy the issue — or to explain why the labeling doesn't violate FDA standards.

So a baker.. who adds (insert allergy ingredient here), in minute quantity so they can legally say it contains it, is still in the wrong because that product does not normally contain said ingredient?

What is a baker to do? I think it is wholly unreasonable to say a baker cannot say on the product that the product may contain traces of an ingredient, when they cannot 100% say it does not. This just seems like splitting hairs and unnecessarily penalizing the baker.

We should want a food maker to list all possible allergens that could be present, not just are present in the foods.
I used to work in a cookie factory, we often made products for private brands and in some recipes we purposefully added eggs so that it would appear as an ingredient and not "may contain traces of".
Nice, looks really good. High time a decent task queue came along that is usable with the Node ecosystem.
> make one of these companies truly pay for their gross negligence.

I think our whole industry is rotten and we need to drastically rethink a lot of what we do. This is unacceptable and it shouldn't be this hard. We need a reckoning.
Seconding the Onyx Box Max Lumi here. I bought one back when they were much more expensive and I still think it's been worth it.
advael's answer was fine, but since people seem to be hung up on the wording, a more direct response:

We have human institutions dedicated at least nominally to finding and publishing truth (I hate having to qualify this, but Hacker News is so cynical and post-modernist at this point that I don't know what else to do). These include, for instance, court systems. These include a notion of evidentiary standards. Eyewitnesses are treated as more reliable than hearsay. Written or taped recordings are more reliable than both. Multiple witnesses who agree are more reliable than one. Another example is science. Science utilizes peer review, along with its own notion of hierarchy of evidence, similar to but separate from the court's. Interventional trials are better evidence than observational studies. Randomization and statistical testing is used to try and tease out effects from noise. Results that replicate are more reliable than a single study. Journalism is yet another example. This is probably the arena in which Hacker News is most cynical and will declare all of it is useless trash, but nonetheless reputable news organizations do have methods they use to try and be correct more often than they are not. They employ their own fact checkers. They seek out multiple expert sources. They send journalists directly to a scene to bear witness themselves to events as they unfold.

You're free to think this isn't sufficient, but this is how we deal with humans making up stuff and it's gotten us modern civilization at least, full of warts but also full of wonders, seemingly because we're actually right about a lot of stuff.

At some point, something analogous will presumably be the answer for how LLMs deal with this, too. The training will have to be changed to make the system aware of quality of evidence. Place greater trust in direct sensor output versus reading something online. Place greater trust in what you read from a reputable academic journal versus a Tweet. Etc. As it stands now, unlike human learners, the objective function of an LLM is just to produce a string in which each piece is in some reasonably high-density region of the probability distribution of possible next pieces as observed from historical recorded text. Luckily, producing strings in this way happens to generate a whole lot of true statements, but it does not have truth as an explicit goal and, until it does, we shouldn't forget that. Treat it with the treatment it deserves, as if some human savant with perfect recall had never left a dark room to experience the outside world, but had read everything ever written, unfortunately without any understanding of the difference between reading a textbook and reading 4chan.
T-Mobile doesn’t even lock their device payment plan phones last I checked.
I believe that was the status quo until now.
https://archive.ph/Co2A1
They'll just get you through common crawl or something else innocent-looking. The urge to milk everyone's content to the last penny is just too great.
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Credit card interchange fees are expensive. These fees are what the credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard charge the merchant (you) whenever your customer swipes their card. Stripe or your payment processor passes these fees onto you.

To incentivize data collection, Visa and Mastercard lower your fees whenever you pass in transaction data like zipcode, sales tax amount, invoice amount, customer address, itemized purchased services or goods, and the list goes on.

This is called L2 and L3 data, and you can pass this into Stripe (or your payment processor) to lower your credit card fees.

Parsing invoices manually to provide L2/L3 data to Visa is a pain. But with Trellis, you can do this automatically within seconds for any invoice. Watch how we do it here: https://runtrellis.com/blog/how-passing-in-data-to-visa-can-...

If you’re a business and you accept credit cards, you can cut your credit card processing fee in half.
The first thing I did when I moved to Texas was finance a RAM 1500. It is difficult to understate just how deeply the pickup truck is embedded into the Texan ethos.

I loved the plush ride and miss the extra space (but not enough to get a Model Y). The seat height was nice, but I don't miss it. I definitely don't miss the super low end tech that most trucks come with. In retrospect, I feel bad about my carbon footprint. The truck chugged gas, which I spent roughly $200/mo on.

Like OP, I test drove a Model 3 via Turo completely on a whim (I wonder what Teslas are about...) and immediately financed one. I immediately financed the refreshed Model 3 when it released also. Absolutely incredible cars.
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Other posters have told you that computability has nothing to do with what AI can and can't do relative to humans and I agree with them, but its not exactly something universally agreed upon.

However, I think its reasonable to say that if you think that some fundamental thing keeps computers from doing what people do then you believe that people are somehow magic. This isn't a super unusual perspective among humans, but its certainly not a particularly common scientific one.
This is only for the normal sense of "unlocked" as not being restricted to use with a single carrier, correct?

What about other carrier modifications to devices, like when a carrier prevents a Pixel phone's bootloader being "OEM unlocked" so that GrapheneOS or other alternative systems software can be installed?
It isn't a matter of proposed reality, rather the fact that somehow bills have to be paid, and all key FOSS projects happen to one way or the other, have developers paid by all big corps that people love to hate.
Now the FDA is saying adding those allergens on purpose is wrong. Figuratively, it's nuts. I suspect this will end up in court.
Pay attention because it's only once you will get to watch humans learn they are nothing special in real time.
Then the companies should not extend that loan/credit
Any other interesting tidbits from working in a cookie factory? I'm genuinely curious.
One of them is a Boeing.
Yes, also definitely a big vote for Mise.

I’ve switched recently from asdf for managing language & tool versions and the ergonomics are much nicer (eg one command vs having to manually install plugins, etc., more logical commands) It’s also noticeably faster.

Regarding the env vars features, a couple of relevant Mise issues around people trying to integrate env var secrets using SOPS, 1Password, etc.

- https://github.com/jdx/mise/issues/1617

- https://github.com/jdx/mise/issues/1359
Something I have noticed is that non scientists don't understand the methods so when they do try and critique the methods those critiques don't make sense because they lack the understanding of the underlying principles

There is a lot of basic science that is quite solid and is replicable yet people tend to throw it out with nonsense complaints
and of those how many do it on the hour "at approximately 1000 MT (1600 UTC)"?
The amount of data collected is truly getting out of hand.

I was buying an iPhone from a cell carrier for their bundled cell plan deal. They used Stripe for payment processing. Stripe asked me to upload my driver license/passport and took a video of my face so their “AI” could verify my identity. I’ve been a customer with the carrier for years so my profile and credit card info were with them already.

The data collection was unbelievably intrusive. Really, I could just walk down to an Apple store to get the phone and went with another cell carrier. I did exactly that. Stopped the transaction and took my business elsewhere.
This is a really counterproductive way to try to understand problems like this.

No one is trying to do anything evil. Every step is individually quite reasonable and well within ethical bounds. The issue is that you can produce systems comprised solely of reasonable and ethical decisions that nonetheless yield an outcome that every actor would describe as bad.

That is a useful way to interpret this situation and others, because you don’t waste your time looking for a boogeyman to call Evil and instead it prompts you to zoom out and operate on the bigger picture.
My favorite is the Marriott in downtown Monterey. This building may contain substances which is known ... Utter crap.
Sounds like a reasonable thing consumers should be able to do.
Here in Europe they will actually ask you for a proof of employment/income before they sell you the cell phone plan. If you are unemployed then your only option is pre-paid sim, and those usually do not come with phones.
How much memory does a call to 'malloc' allocates?
> exercise negates all of this...

That would be logical taking in mind this article
Hmmm, that's interesting. How much of a person's personal life (both good and bad) is the responsibility of the employer? And why.
This is common in the US as well, typically worded as "manufactured in a facility that also processes" although the wording you wrote is common too.
I for one am Very happy to see this! For many years on KDE 5 on Intel Graphics, I was plagued with random compositor crashes, which seemed to be a common bug report. I hope this will resolve these issues going forward!
The word "surprise" might have relevance.
Most people learning programming have already been exposed to function calling in math (f(x)=x+1). Recursion is not a very big jump semantically from this. Conditional loops are a (relatively) big jump.
> Any seasoned techie could've seen that coming from the start.

At this point, it's pretty safe to just assume that any personal data any company has about you will be leaked sooner or later.
Not sure if there is a great deal of maths to understand. The output of an LLM is stochastic by nature, and will read syntactical perfect, AKA a hallucination.

No real way to mathematically prove this, considering there is also no way to know if the training data also had this “hallucination” inside of it.
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> a serious comparison.

Sounds like what an ancient Greek might've said if you suggested comparing contemporary Athens with ancient Thebes. I don't see why not. You can certainly compare, say, square pyramids with equal sides, be it the Great Pyramid built around the 2600s BCE, or the smaller Luxor pyramid in Vegas and that scar on the face of Paris built 4500 years later. It's only been a few thousand years, what's really changed that much?

The Romans didn't quite get to an urban steam system, it's true, but they were quite close with the hypocaust (central heating), Aeolipile (Hero's steam engine), and Cloaca Maxima (sewer system).

> Better comparisons would be present-day Tokyo, London, Moscow, Paris, etc.

Of those it looks like only Paris has a steam system. Do any other major cities (still) have steam systems? Have there been any new recent installs outside college campuses?

I don't think so. It's a legacy technology, and legacy technologies are such mostly due to cost. Old infrastructure generally gets more expensive, until it becomes unsustainable. But people expect continuity and push back against changes that compromise the perceived identity of the place (like steam in Manhattan), hence most historical cities are no longer around at all.
Here in Sweden carrier locks ended a decade ago.
And what are we offered now?
24/36 months plans of subscription and a okay payment plan for a +1000 euro device. iPhone 15 Pro Max is €1330 from the major resellers. With a 2-year with 40GB/ month plan it gives you a ~€200 discount on the phone.
If you're a student or senior you get much cheaper plans, and if you got the cash, it might even be better to buy the phone with cash.
For various reasons I started to open a bank account with Mercury, before deciding to use another provider.

When I said I'd no longer be finishing the application and to please delete my passport info, first they ignored the second part.
When I replied again asking them to delete my data they replied about KYC laws and assured me the data was securely stored of course.

At that point I gave up. Maybe they could delete the data if I fought, maybe their hands were tied, maybe me fighting would end up flagging my info as a money laundering risk. But I immediately imagined exactly this leak happening.

They're not the only vendor affected that had my data, nor is this breach the first, but that's the one that stings the most.

Anecdotally I'm being swarmed by text message spam for the first time in months. I have to assume people are running through new breach data to find live numbers.
FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label (https://bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands)
Agriculture and food processors want their undocumented workers.
blueberries.

and the pH sensitive stuff in red cabbage juice.
I would teach this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Bible-Translation-Commentary-T...
Yes of course there are realistic ways to prescribe opioids routine and safely. Purdue did not invent opioids, what they did is patent a particularly strong formulation, and then work to undermine the cultural taboo in medicine around their use. That last thing was their crime.

There isn't, at this time, any other way to treat serious pain (in all cases). Opioid prescriptions will continue to be an unfortunately necessary feature of our medical system until we invent painkillers strong/good enough to replace them. I say this as someone who was personally addicted to opioids in general and Oxycontin in particular and feel very lucky to have only one dead friend as a result.

Opioids can't be banned until we can replace them with something equally generally effective. But what we should do is reinstate the taboo around prescribing them, and probably stop offering take home fentanyl prescriptions at all (it's still useful for anaesthesia, in hospitals). Perhaps more importantly, I think the cat is kind of out of the bag on prescriptions. I haven't been around that world for a long time, but it seems to me like pharmaceuticals aren't the primary entrypoint to opioid addiction anymore - people just start with fentanyl.

Dealing with fentanyl seems to me to be basically impossible. One kilogram of pure fentanyl is ~2,000,000 doses, for someone without a tolerance. This is impossible to interdict at the border. It is also fully synthetic, with no great choke point on synthesis routes. I have heard that there are other, even more dangerous, compounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etonitazene that are also even easier to synthesize. I don't really know if there is a good way out of this other than doing the slightly less impossible thing, which is curing addiction.
This happens all over the place in private industry too. Nothing unique about regulation or bureaucracy that produces effects like this.

If anything, centralization is the best tool to detect and avoid issues like this. Locally, every decision is completely reasonable. It’s only zoomed out that it doesn’t make sense.
The choice to make 'unset' indistinguishable from 'default value' is such an absurdly boneheaded decision, and it boggles my mind that real software engineers allowed proto3 to go out that way.

I don't get what part of your link I'm supposed to be looking at as a solution to that issue? I wasn't aware of a good solution except to have careful application logic looking for sentinel values? (which is garbage)
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It's a loss of ~1/2 of their net worth. That's significant.

They are now likely to pay much less by settling smaller individual cases, which will take significantly longer and cost claimants significantly more to pursue.

When they die (which will be soon, most of them are 75+) it'll become even more difficult to get anything.

The deal that was overruled was certainly not justice, but reality will likely be worse. There's no outcome that will render them not billionaires within their lifetimes.
My device shouldn't be carrier locked at all. I took out a loan to pay for this thing. They got their money for it immediately.

During the February AT&T outage[1], my wife's phone was affected, and she had to go somewhere. I should've been able to spend $20 on a throwaway e-sim and had it working before she left the house. Instead, I had to shrug my shoulders and suggest she find WiFi wherever she was headed.

Carrier locks in today's age are leftover garbage from a dated, consumer-hostile business model that's no longer practiced. And if I default on my loan repayments, the creditor can garnish my wages.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/...
> The 'justice system' is supposed to be the government branch protecting the little guy from powerful elites

The justice system. Not necessarily the courts. Our courts definitely weren’t designed to be a political body.
TIL locked phones are still a thing, somewhere. Not gonna lie: That feels fairly wild at this point.
Then a lot of folks who finance phones on cheap or free installment plans currently won’t get phones, simple as that. If regulators are fine with that, that’s a reasonable position I suppose. Carriers aren’t a charity to take on aggressive credit risk in these financial consumer populations. Incentives->outcomes.
I don't see many deep theorems in the field of psychology either.
As I understand matters, first spark make air conductive (could say, it becomes plasma), and than for some time you need much less power to light plasma.

Very similar physics behave in classic neon lamps - they use short high voltage impulse to ignite plasma, then much less voltage to support it.

So one could make two circuits - one (already existed), will provide enough power to "cold start", other will just provide modulated from waveform voltage (probably, something like pwm).

Sure, second circuit should be fast enough to be in time with sound, but again, as I said, need much less voltage.

I cannot provide exact numbers now, but as I hear, for spark plug like gap at atmosphere pressure, need few kilovolts to spark plasma, and may be within 1Kv to support plasma.

In ICE pressure is much higher, because of this, in electronic ignition usually used up to 100Kv to make spark.

If you could make low pressure environment, ~ 1/100 of atmosphere at sea level, you could probably limit to few hundreds volts for all.
My couple of thoughts, just based on my own experiences, are that: there is typically at least one architect above me(currently two, don't ask me why) that is responsible in doing the higher level solutioning. While I am free to give feedback on things, and that feedback is taken seriously, it is a far cry from developing my own architecture. On a big enough project, there simply isn't enough time to gather requirements, architect the solution, and then build it out(for one person). By the time I am assigned the feature ticket, it is a morsel of the overall thing.

I feel like I have reached a happy point of productivity where I am doing the work expected of me, and at times even exceeding, but not breaking my metaphorical back. The truth is that most companies won't pay for the extra productivity that you create for yourself, but they will happily take it for free.
> Figuratively, it's nuts.

…and literally, it may or may not be nuts.
I don't think people realize that the US is the only market in the world where phones are carrier locked, and in fact the only market where carriers have so much power over the features and overall experience of your phone. Mobile carriers dictate that a phone has to be sold with a locked bootloader. They decide if/when the phone should get OS updates. They are the ones who fill the phone with bloatware. Up until a few years ago the phone had a more prominent logo of the cell carrier than the company that actually made it.

US carriers have used their government-granted monopolies to influence the market wayy beyond phone calls and data plans, and it's about time it should end.
Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE
Do we believe that? I've been told Google's AI was going to be great 4 times now, and its consistently #4 behind OpenAI, Facebook, and Claude.
That seems weirdly dishonest. Do the journalist know they are getting AI generated quotes?
Yes, they have done a ton, but perceptions are also hard to change.

I am looking forward to their ongoing efforts.

Regarding custom GCs, although CLR offers similar extension points as the JVM, maybe due to the usual way Microsoft was traditionally seen, very few people ever bothered to play with custom GCs, or pluggable debug interfaces, or JIT code rewritting.

Lots of interesting features there.
> where they don't yet have a way to talk about recursion.

I'd like to know how its unfortunate as well, I'm not sure I agree with this though.

int a = 0
begin:
if a == 10 {
jump :end
} else {
a = a + 1
jump :begin
}
end:

The programmer will have learnt that programs have a beginning and an end, they will have some notion of a variable, its type, and manipulating their values. They will even likely have learnt conditional branching logic. The only new concept here is that of jumping areas of code.

If you next introduce methods you can clean it up and illustrate it more cleanly:

myFunc(int a) {
if a == 10 {
return
} else {
a = a + 1
return myFunc(a)
}
}

myFunc(0)

Finally you can explain the programmer "hey, there's this shortcut we can take called a loop that expresses this more succinctly":

int a = 0
while (a != 10) {
a = a + 1
}

Nice simple-looking code. Yet this concept requires being able to grok much more than the relatively simple tail-recursive definition.
Specifically, the bit that might be the launch site for anti-satellite weaponry.
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Yes, I thought the sarcasm would land better.
> Every one agrees that the Turner Prize is much more than just a display of virtue signalling by the cultural elite, and I have decided to enter the Valve.Computer for the prize.

Uh, what? Where did this sudden "virtue signaling" by the "cultural elite" stuff come from?
The calculations I was reading at the time suggested it would work for casual due to the gaming PC being very close to the game servers and running inside the best network available (googles).

Google also said that the controller would send the input straight to the server.

And a fast stadia server should have good fps combined with a little bit of brain prediction