skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Prescribing doctors are responsible for the opioid epidemic. Doctors failed in their duty of care to patients. Doctors failed to track their patient's medication usage, and failed to spot addictive behaviour. Why aren't we holding them responsible? Simply because that's hard to do?

This is a nice idea, but most Oxycontin is not prescribed by someone's doctor (it is prescribed by a doctor, but it is power-law distributed, most of it is sold by dealers). There are a small number of doctors in the country at any given time that prescribe almost all of the supply. This is not something you can readily fix with responsibility at the doctor level. It may seem like you can, because you could just prosecute "those doctors", but the problem is that the incentives are too concentrated.

That isn't to absolve these individuals of responsibility. They are responsible, and we should prosecute them legally. The problem is that we already do and always have. We should keep doing it, but I don't expect it to fix anything.

EDIT: To be clear I'm not necessarily for or against this settlement. There was a time that we might have stopped the opioid crisis at the corporate or pharmaceutical level, but that time has long since past. We could criminalize all opioids tomorrow and it would make almost no difference. Most opioid addicts use fentanyl now, and most fentanyl is produced/sold illegally. Heroin, for instance, has been Schedule I forever - the only thing that reduced its popularity was a cheaper substitute in fentanyl.

If we are going to bother prosecuting or civilly charging Purdue or its principals, it would have to be for purely punitive reasons. Corporate behavior unfortunately does not matter anymore.
Not a paper, but a startup called Vectara claimed to be investigating LLM hallucination/ confabulation rates last year:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/technology/chatbots-hallu...
Canada Post has a service like this. They already need to do identity verification for some types of packages (certified/registered mail with mandatory Post Office pick up), so it's a natural extension.

Not sure how rigid it is through. Probably just a glace at a driver's license / id card?

Anyhow, a good extra revenue stream for classic postal services.
> It's not just Python apps. It's anything by small-time developers without expensive certificates.

This is definitely the case and has been my experience, as well.

We live in some dark times when it comes to building and sharing anything as small developers, especially if the things you're building are free.

I stopped updating my open-source Mac apps because I can't justify the cost of jumping over artificial hurdles Apple puts in place that ensure users can't run the apps they want to use. I have other hobbies where spending money actually gives me tangible goods and benefits versus paying an arbitrary yearly tax for the privilege to build stuff that ultimately benefits Apple.
What I get from this is that the python interpreter is better than I would have guessed.
I wrote the following things on GitHub with various types of AI:

https://github.com/navjack/python-kasa/blob/master/powershel...

https://github.com/navjack/python-kasa/blob/master/powershel...

https://github.com/navjack/RandomGamePicker

https://github.com/navjack/Go-Rainbow-Hearts-Term

https://github.com/navjack/ConsoleJournal

https://github.com/navjack/TextArtThing
Perhaps. We'll also have big robust space junk removers
Another example of why proprietary options are less desirable:

https://slimsag.com/2024/slack-to-destroy-history-of-free-co...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813877
Spousal privilege may not apply when both members of the couple are accused of committing the crime.
Checks out that they were in Phoenix/Scottsdale... When I visited last year it felt very much like LA 2.0. Lots of plastic surgery, people flaunting wealth, and generally materialistic and shallow culture. Not representative of the entire area of course, but I was surprised by how much of that there was.
I lived in a tiny town in Northern Ireland and every chinese/indian/pizza place managed to deliver food just fine. They still do I bet. UberEats/Deliveroo/DoorDash are just skimming the little profit that these operations made (and failing to be profitable)
> It was a clear and flagrant abuse of the "may contain traces" mechanism. The bakeries caused harm for consumers as a way to avoid the coats of doing business safely.

My view is that the business should be able to decide who they want to service or not. According to recent US studies, 0.2% of the population have a noticeable allergy to sesame. Seems like bakeries don't want to invest money for such a small percentage. It sucks but this opens the door for new bakeries to cater towards those with this specific allergy. Why does the government need to force business to do it?
This is not adversarial learning. It's really about augmenting the ability of humans to determine if a snippet of code is correct and write proper critiques of incorrect code.

Any system that helps you more accurately label data with good critiques should help the model. I'm not sure how you come to your conclusion. Do you have some data to indicate that even with improved accuracy that some LLM bias would lead to a worse trained model? I haven't seen that data or assertion elsewhere, but that's the only thing I can gather you might be referring.
This looks really awesome! We were just discussing at work how we're having a hard time finding a framework for a task queue that supports dependant tasks and has support for Python & TS. I suppose writing that out it does feel like a pretty specific requirement. I'm glad to see this pop up though, feels very relevant to me right now.

A question around workflows having just skimmed your docs. Is it possible to define a workflow that has steps in Python and a TS app?
They're not stranded. Just today, they took shelter in the Starliner in case something went catastrophically wrong with the satellite debris the station passed through. They were ready to go home on it immediately. They are already cleared to leave on Starliner in an emergency. But since there is no emergency, they are continuing to look at the thruster data.
Dragon is SpaceX.

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/
You’re already polling way over what you’ve just said, though.

There is no doubt that small structures exhibit quantum effects. There is absolutely no demonstrable relationship between small things exhibiting quantum effects and consciousness.

You give your whole game away when you say

’which is needed for consciousness to "limit" itself to an identity.’

This is actually mysticism. You’re already making absolutely extreme claims for what you believe consciousness to be.

It may well be that consciousness is ‘in the microtubules’. But today we have no evidence of this. Nor do we have effective understandings of why anaesthetic drugs work (as opposed to, say, our mechanistic understanding of how opioids cause analgesia, or other pharmapsychophysiological relationships).

Keep an open mind, but don’t let your brain fall out
I like how when someone offered an idea that turns a mildly dangerous toy into a decidedly lethal weapon, rather than dissuade others of the terrible notion we went into problem solving mode to increase reliability, quality, and to minimize the potential hassles inherent with the lethal solution.
no, of course not, we've been using them in experiments just for shits and giggles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_mouse#Limitations
Phones only started being unlocked in Canada starting in 2017, so the US isn’t so unique. Though Canada carriers are probably not the standard to hold yourself to.
People keep making fun of the year of the linux desktop, but for me that year was distinctly around 2007 when wifi started working mostly painlessly on my thinkpad.
The first paragraph was more of a parody of your just-so argument than point per se; but the second paragraph is literally recursion.
I think this is a sham and the FDA is overstepping. 0.2% of the population have sesame allergies. Maybe its higher the recent numbers I saw from a government study gave this number.
Ask HN: Why don't more startups hire help with corporate administration?
I keep reading of well funded startups who are doing the business admin themselves. Tasks like

+ Company secretarial
+ Property leases
+ Contract negotiation
+ Management accounts
+ Investor management
+ HR
+ Compliance
+ Risk management

These could all be taken care of by a single professional in the early days, and handed on to pros as things grow. This person would cost less than a single SV dev! Why would you want to try and learn all of this the hard way? Is it a control thing?
Taboos are not simply undesirable things, they are rules which carry severe penalties if you break them. The difference is that rather than going through the effort of getting society on the same page and agreeing what is okay and what isn't, you instead leave ambiguity that harms the well meaning and benefits the malicious. If something is bad enough that it should be banned by an unwritten rule, it's bad enough to be banned by a written rule. If you aren't willing to ban something by law, then it ought to be permissible.
I cancelled my OpenAI membership and using more and more of Claude. Sonnet is pretty fast and cheaper than 4-o.

I'm legit elated that a smaller player is able to compete with large behemoths like OpenAI and Google. (I know they have Amazon backing them, but their team is much smaller. OpenAI is ~1000 employees now).

I'm building on top of their api. It's neat. I wish them the best.
Is it fraud if the pharmaceutical company falsely claims that the addiction rate is very low? If the company aggressively pushes a dose regimen that is almost designed to produce addiction?
On the this episode of a teamviewer security breach...
> How do you measure beauty? You can't: "beauty" is subjective

Let me try: in classical dance, martial arts, or even skateboarding, advanced skills manifest as effortlessness: the movements comes naturally, they're not forced, things just flow.

If you compare a typical functional (recursive + pattern matching, but the point would stand even with a fold) factorial with an imperative one (for loop), the functional approach is more effortless, you have to be less explicit about what's going on. It's more eloquent.

However as you seem to imply, when we're programming, the focus should be on delivering something that works as expected; this particular kind of aesthetic is secondary at best.
They are opaquely rejecting apps for just literally containing the string "itms-services" in the binary and you still give them credit for a more sophisticated analysis? Lol.
Doesn't this incentivise them to deliberately add allergens, so they can keep them on the label
One great thing about Go is its built-in structured logging package "log/slog" since Go 1.21. Not only can you output in multiple structured formats, but Go also widely uses its `context.Context` type to pass request-level information, so you can easily attach requestID, sessionID, etc.
>when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label

Are those those the only brands they produce? I only recognize 3 of those brands, and I can't even be sure I've ever eaten more than one of those. Maybe they are big only in certain regions?
> So basically they're trying to do a "liveness" check, probably under the assumption that videos are too hard to fake (and hopefully they compare the ID documents against the video). Honestly, that seems legitimate to me. With data leaks and generative AI, it's going to be increasingly hard to do the kind of identity verification tasks online that we take for granted.

I worked for a company that required these videos in one of the markets they served. Some countries have decent digital ID solutions already in place, but in many it's just a picture of a driving license or such that is so easily faked/stolen. Kind of a shame how in many countries officially identifying yourself online is not implemented/implemented badly enough that no-one uses it, so instead we have this poor uploading pictures of private documents and videos of yourself fallback.
Blindly listening to a company trying to sell you something has never been a good idea. Doctors doing just that despite the clear, obvious, conflict of interest is their failure, not Purdue's.

Thinking that an individual or organization with a vested interest will not bullshit you at every turn is absurdly naive. This is why third-party testing, accreditation, certification, and audits are a thing.

> doctors who weren't pain specialists

Then they should have insisted on third party, board approved, usage guidelines; especially when it became obvious that OxyContin is highly addictive. It doesn't take that long. Doctors have not however been held responsible for their abject failure towards their patients, and continue to prescribe a month's worth of Oxy for minor issues. This will continue until doctors start losing their licenses.
I started to use testcontainers for it, however my biggest problem is that each test needs to start its own container which is slow (right now I have about 20 test cases in my PoC).

testcontainers allows to stop and start containers and to reset their state to a snapshot, but Go implementation seems to have a bug which I reported recently [1]. It's going to be huge when they fix it, as it will make tests much faster.

[1]: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/issues/2...
Keep in mind that in Europe, some phones are still under carrier control, despite not technically being locked.

You can resell the phone and use it with any carrier you wish, but as soon as the original owner stops paying the bill, the phone becomes remote-locked and turns into a brick.

Samsung's Knox can do this, not sure which other brands also have that option.
> Is it possible to create totally network-safe (unexploitable from the network interface) computers should you start from scratch and write a new OS today?

Qubes OS comes to mind.
I joined.
Immediately got ganked.
I left.

Congrats on 100% Authentic MMO Experience! xD
I just wonder why random people would know better about this than your highly educated providers. Go ahead and ask. You can say those exact words. They will give better answers!

If you want a poll, this court case was a poll. A majority of victims who had ample time to participate in litigation agreed to the settlement terms. They told you that addiction is bad, the new Purdue would help, and that money from its owners was sufficient justice. That some agitator basically played the Yogg-Sauron of this meta, the Supreme Court, and cast 5 fireballs against his opponent versus 4 fireballs on himself, isn't super material to the seeming success of the hard political work of this bankruptcy judge.
Can one apply a conflict resolving replication over the network using a zip archive? Genuinely asking; having a master-less distributed “database” that can be … distributed like a file sounds like it would solve a lot of portability problems.
I think that things like Agile are not an accurate model of problem solving and that making good software requires 'extending yourself outside', especially w agile or other modern management systems like many of us are working within. That is my experience. The actual effort is much more to make decent software that works and 'ticketing' makes it easy for devs to disown their own bad or incomplete work when it's convenient and can be disguised as working within scope. This bad work is then passed onto other devs (and the users) and/or converted to technical debt (oh look at all these bug tickets!)... When arguably the real and complete problem at hand was ignored because it was 'out of scope'. There is a 'shadow world' of work that exists outside of ticketing but is required to actually build the software. If you're not involved in that shadow work, then you may be a part of the problem. Problem solving is fluid and technical requirements and matters of approach aren't always readily available at 'groom time'. Work as a group, get uncomfortable if required, and don't go disappear with your ticket for two weeks and half solve a problem and bake the e2e tests. Most development work truly comes to a conclusion in a war room after the ticket is closed and with none of the original devs -- too much of the time these days. Reward devs for taking on more and owning parts of the codebase. AI threatens dev jobs because devs and scrum masters water down work and the system encourages shoddy, transactional work. Not really a criticism of the above comment ... But something I see a lot in enterprise software development. And I also do realize going outside of scope is risky and doesn't pay in the current management zeitgeist.
As a European, after decades of regulations and fines without much to show, nobody in the industry believes the EU the capable of creating tech ecosystem. Perhaps even that the EU is part of the problem and that individual countries could independently move much faster.
It's the same shit practically all the way back to opium wars.

Always the drug dealers fault.

I blame the patient. We've known opiates were bad since at least the 1800s, and really longer than that. What the doc said was just what they needed to hear to lie to themselves, but this is taught in every highschool.
I love oneofs in the language with good support, but they are woeful in Golang and the "official" grpc-web message types.
I've been running Scala on both the backend and the frontend (via Scala.js) for years now. It's glorious. Unfortunately few frontend people know about it (and why would they, it's not been well marketed to them and if you don't already know the Scala tooling then it's not obvious how to integrate it into a frontend workflow).
Oh, bullshit. Private insurers get defrauded like this, too. https://www.propublica.org/article/we-asked-prosecutors-if-h...

> I called up a former federal fraud prosecutor who’d worked with both Medicare and private insurers. He said my calls to the prosecutors exposed alarming differences in the way fraud is enforced in the private and government health plans. The Medicaid fraud units are “staffed and actively engaged,” said Michael Elliott, who ran about 100 fraud investigations when he worked for the Department of Justice in Texas from 2008 to 2015.

> Private insurers, he said, simply don’t make fraud enforcement a big enough part of their mission. “At the end of the day, it shows their priorities are elsewhere,” he said.

Plus they commit a good amount themselves: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage...
RustDesk has been pretty good for something that's 1:1 comparable, but for most cases ssh or rdp is preferable.
I don't think any grep would do better on half a billion+ repositories.
I don't think we have enough information to say whether or not the crew is stranded, but I think we DO have enough information to be suspicious of anything that Boeing says.
I can't help but think of this classic Arrested Development scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqG3thKtpU
There's probably just some ~Wordpress dev who picked from a selection of B-Roll. The CEO probably marginally understands bread and isn't a raisin french toast peanut butter freak.
Very cool. Couldn’t get the pictures to load in any higher res. Would love to see more of the detail
You know I can't actually find a lot of details about what the "new" Purdue was supposed to operate like - my understanding was that it was going to turn into a receivership under the court.

But that's kind of the weirdness of all of this - at no point was OxyContin itself banned or been made illegal.
That is great, but can you make the BUY button bigger?
This is a very odd take to me given the focus of the article is that companies are explicitly saying "If you have severe allergies, don't buy this product", but the FDA is saying this isn't good enough. That is, the whole focus of the article is that these companies don't want to sell to consumers who may have severe allergies.

Honestly, I side with the companies on this one. It's just a matter of incentives - if the consequence of "getting it wrong" (i.e. saying a product is free of an allergen but then through some chance of cross-contamination that it ends up killing somebody) are enormous, I think it's hard to fault a company that then decides to explicitly add nuts, sesame, etc. to a product and explicitly state "You should not eat this if you have allergies."

More to your point, though, when you say "Which is one reason why some people will be tempted to roll the dice and end up dead or in the ER", I think that's huge hyperbole. Every single person I've ever known that has a severe allergy never "rolls the dice", and on the contrary they are extremely diligent about double checking that what they eat is allergen free. On the flip side, I've known people that have mild allergies to products (e.g. symptoms are on the level of lactose intolerance) who don't worry about avoiding trace amounts of allergens. Why conflate these 2 cases? I have certainly never known actual people with these differing levels of allergies to confuse their issues.
And for some forms of US electronic check payments, typing an account number wrong will take 4-5 days to return a "bounced check" result, often with a fee from the entity you're trying to pay.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589972 :

> Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07492-z :

> Abstract: [...] This work opens the door to the exploration of dipolar quantum matter in regimes that have been inaccessible so far, promising the creation of exotic dipolar droplets, self-organized crystal phases and dipolar spin liquids in optical lattices.

> Given that each molecule is in an identical, known state, they could be separated to form quantum bits, or qubits, the units of information in a quantum computer. The molecules’ quantum rotational states — which can be used to store information — can remain robust for perhaps minutes at a time, allowing for long and complex calculations
There are tubes made which share one heater. For an exotic example with a working web page, see this tube where two triodes and one pentode share the same one heater filament.

https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2021/11/tube-of-month-6bh11....

This one has two diodes and two triodes.

https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/search/label/6AY11

And in this very design, they chose "6N3P valve contains 2 triodes around a single heater, halving the physical size and power requirements."

There may have been tubes made where the triode function can be pretty rough (sufficient for a digital circuit) and several of them could share one enclosure. In the tubes shown above, apparently the limit was the number of pins on the socket - but also that all these active elements do not share any pin.

Insulating the whole thing would run into issues like burning wire insulation.
Exactly. If it wasn't for the existing demand for cheap powerful opioids, Fentanyl would never have been a problem to begin with.
Don’t use WhatsApp either. Personally I’ve found aggregator/ticket websites to work well for finding deals or availability but they seem to all link directly to the airline anyway.
Its easiest to go to the source for things like this in my experience
I would imagine this is due to a Product manager vetoing time spent on Security Considerations.
Which is still significantly better than the system in the US. Most people make all their payments in time like they are supposed to, but are still affected by carrier locks. For example if I want to travel abroad and buy a local SIM for cheaper data, I'm out of luck, because AT&T won't let me use my phone. So I have to use their ultra expensive roaming plan or buy a secondary phone just for those few days.
They had to make an extension for this to work in Chrome, so the browser's base capacities shouldn't be the limiting factor.

Building a Firefox extension would be the right move.