skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine wrote again today, this time about the decision that just came out:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-27/purdue...

He quotes and explains parts of both the majority and dissenting opinions.
If this happened where we added allergens to all foods, it might actually help in the long term.
Hey HN

Some popular products are way overpriced. There are cheaper and sometimes even more functional, convenient alternatives out there.

That's why I created this website—to make it easier to find those alternatives.

Anyone can request to add a product, but I'll only add it to the site after careful moderation
Not only that, but bread isn't a "need". Lots of cultures don't have bread as a significant portion of their diet.
> At some point, the people who tent to leave a mess in Waymos just... won't be allowed to ride in Waymos any more.

This would reductively mean a more effective form of punishing vandalism, which would in of itself be a slight net good overall.

In the ideal case, there would be a recompense program to pay for the damages made + extra, in return for being able to ride them again.

Meta-point: This discussion has significant overlap with busses/trains/public transportation. How we deal with bad actors in that space would translate well into this space.
Allergies depend on the dose so I don’t think most people would think like this.
> Dr where involved too!

The actions of individual Doctors acting on their own simply don’t explain trends.

Doctors and the FDA etc were straight up lied to. I don’t think it’s reasonable to hold Doctors accountable for when some pharmaceutical company commits fraud. That doesn’t mean every doctor was blameless, but individual Doctors have always behaved poorly it was true before the opioid epidemic and it’s still true today.
How about writing it properly in an efficient language that doesn't use a GC? (i.e. Rust or something equivalent)
That's how it already apparently is, and this is supposed to mitigate that.
It was closely submitted, but didn't win the votes (4 points, 7 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813446
How does the visual rabbit illusion fool us so reliably?
They all should be charged with mass murder. The corrupt judge who okayed the settlement deserves prison.
Japan's Transport Ministry Proposes Automated Tokyo/Osaka Logistics Link
Exactly. If they're just returning the money (sans interest), where's the punishment?

If you steal $100 from a bank, you spend more time in jail than these scumbags ever will.
Hey now, there’s only so much data to go around. They have to charge really high prices for it. And of course it’s limited by month-use because that’s necessary. Canada needs some damn changes.
How Can We Realize the Experiment Is over and It's Time to Clean Up?
Some JavaScript engines used to (or maybe still do) detect asm.js compliant code and then AOT-compiled it into machine instructions. You could theoretically write asm.js code by hand. But that would have been error prone and laborious. For all intents and purposes, one would transpile a native code base into asm.js using the likes of Emscripten.

There used to be a SIMD.js proposal, which was AFAIK abandoned in favor of WebAssembly SIMD. Google’s proprietary Native Client also added limited SIMD support as its last hooray.

I personally think the way to go is to improve the interoperability between JavaScript and WebAssembly instead of continuing to pursue low-level pattern like asm.js and SIMD in JavaScript. And let’s face it. For any larger code base, JavaScript is a mere deployment format, not the language you code your project in. I am still hoping for a future version of Typescript that can compile into WebAssembly.
One reason it wasn’t as straightforward as your right to contest a traffic ticket in court is that Congress had expressly authorized the SEC to impose these monetary fines.

At any rate, that the decision would strike down this law was a foregone conclusion for court watchers. Most of the interest was over the possibility that the court would more severely curtail other SEC enforcement authorities common to many administrative agencies or even find that its basic structure was unconstitutional.
I think recursion is easier to read than C-style for-loops because you don't need to memorise syntax.

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {...}

vs

```let rec func_name counter =
if counter = 5 then print "blast off!"
else
func_name (counter + 1)```

I don't really need to memorise the order of operations compared to a for loop (initialise, exit condition, increment) and I don't need to memorise if the exit condition means "execute while this is true" or "break the loop if this is true". That's just me though. I think the syntax for recursion is easier but loops might conceptually be easier to understand.

I think, better than both of those for the general case (and a good introduction) are "fold" functions and "foreach"-style loops, which iterate over every element in a list. I think those are used more often, and the reason you may want to do this is clearer to a student.
I've always wanted to look into this but the information is not readily available.

I ask my father in law (who works in the energy grid industry) and he just says "if salt batteries work and are cheaper we'd be using them"

Well they appear to work, and appear to be cheaper, so why aren't we using them?
The Problem of JavaScript Code Delivery
Going from $3.1M to $2.7M is not relevant to most. The average (sic) CA home price is $787K (Zillow)

TLDR (in my estimation)

Better homes are nearer trees and hills.

I used to joke that the splendid homes in the Saratoga hills had a view of the industrialized valley, whereas valley dwellers had a view of the splendid Saratoga hills.

The article focuses on such homes, and insurer Crestbrook, “which cater(s) to wealthy clients.”

However, the smaller number of remaining insurers will no doubt affect everyone.
Several states passed legislation that requires age verification for social media, and this is how it's implemented.

Companies are also incentivized to do it to prove their actual active user counts versus bots.
For those new to the field of AGI safety: this is an implementation of Paul Christiano's alignment procedure proposal called Iterated Amplification from 6 years ago. https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/EmDuGeRw749sD3GKd

According to his website he previously ran the language model alignment team at OpenAI. https://paulfchristiano.com/

It's wonderful to see his idea coming to fruition! I'm honestly a bit skeptical of the idea myself (it's like proposing to stabilize the stack of "turtles all the way down" by adding more turtles - as is insightfully pointed out in this other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40817017) but every innovative idea is worth a try, in a field as time-critical and urgent as AGI safety.

For a good summary of technical approaches to AGI safety, start with the Future of Life Institute AI Alignment Podcast, especially these two episodes which serve as an overview of the field:

- https://futureoflife.org/podcast/an-overview-of-technical-ai...

- https://futureoflife.org/podcast/an-overview-of-technical-ai...

In both of those episodes, Cristiano's publication series on Iterated Amplification is link #3 in the list of recommended reading.
Regulation helped cause the deaths by driving people to more dangerous sources. You're 'forgetting,' however, that the oxycontin and prescribed pills were the source of those addictions in the first place. The regulations didn't kill them. If the regulations had always been there, they would have been fine. They weren't tamping down on some mystical parallel crisis, however convenient that would be to shift the blame. They were creating a new one, using the legitimacy of the medical system and doctors prescriptions to get people hooked, to fatal effect when the regulations finally came down and people facing addiction turned to illicit sources.
.... and this is why we will never have universal healthcare. Too many people willing to cheat the system, and the government doesn't sweat the small stuff.
I went to a launch event for this book, and the crowd was definitely skeptical of a few of his larger predictions. I think he will end up being directionally correct.
> Can I sell my kidney?

I don't see why not. Me saying you can't would imply that I have a stronger claim to your own kidney than you do. This is a pretty hard claim to substantiate. The majority can be, and often is, wrong.
Do run gemma2 on your Google phone?
Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?
I think SpaceX has done more to spur interest in lean/mean private companies that have collectively got 'bored, working on ads' people out doing quite spectacular work.

I think there are a lot of hungry people looking for some purpose - SpaceX seems to provide a sense of purpose. This might inspire more companies over time even if SpaceX eventually fades away.

It's a shining example of a proper American company that Boeing's now ship-of-theseus once was.
A little adjacent but The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities might hit.
This guy is the right kind of crazy. This is truly what the internet was made for: sharing our outlandish, over-the-top projects with others. Awesome writeup!
Oh absolutely. Boeing is their own counter example, but the direct competition between Boeing and SpaceX at the same time and place on the same government contracts provides a very nice case study in distributed versus integrated engineering and manufacturing development.

And yes, concerns with Musk abound, but certainly SpaceX is his baby and he has been pretty focused with that one, unlike other companies like Tesla and X.
Yeah but we’re trying to fight against browser engine superiority, aren’t we?

I hate using chrome, but I’m forced to with any application that uses we busb/web serial or Bluetooth.
Link is currently 404.
El Niño forecasts extended to 18 months with physics-based model
Yet for their value as tools the truth value of statements made by LLMs do matter.
Surprise the Latest 'Comprehensive' US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
I agree, the Bible is very approachable. I made some Ezekiel 23:20 buttons for my friends to wear and they love them as a way to spread the word and ignite conversation
Or 430 micro football fields
Where does it say in the Constitution that the Fed can't operate a unified ID system?
While I am glad that you have the choice to be a digital serf - paying your lord for using land (devices), I would much rather prefer the choice to not be one.

That way, you can opt into digital serfdom and people like me can opt out.

-

Serf here isn’t pejorative, but descriptive. Apple is behaving like a feudal lord. Down to the claims of protecting the land and arbitrating disputes.
Thank you for the mental image of a loaf of bread getting busted trying to smuggle a machine part out of the factory.
> You’re saying “created excess demand” like the people that you’re referring to weren’t chronic pain patients.

I don’t think you know the full history of how Purdue operated. They did two things: downplay how addictive oxy was & aggressively push oxy through doctors by providing kickbacks.

Chronic pain patients were actually a much smaller portion of the eventual victims. In a lot of cases, normal people would be prescribed oxy after minor procedures and they would get hooked on it and become permanent addicts. Once hooked, doctors would continue prescribing it for far longer and create a perpetual dependency. If the true effects of oxy were made public (which were known by Purdue pharma and Sackler family), oxy would’ve been prescribed with a lot more caution. And prescription of oxy for minor pain would’ve been non existent since a lot of safer alternatives existed.

I’m sorry you have a chronic condition, but not everyone who got hooked onto oxy had chronic conditions, and nor were they junkies.
As a father of a 9 mo old with a sesame allergy found out the hard way with a trip to the ER... not only are we making our own bread now because of this, but also, so should you! Store bread has so much unnecessary crap in it, idk why we didn't do this sooner. It's a bummer that we basically can't eat anyone's baked goods outside of the house now, but hey, I guess the market decided I should keep my money and invest in my family, while the rest of you should enjoy the completely unnecessary calories, exposure, and expense of sesame flour.

Also, as far as I can tell, most involved in this sucks, FDA for demanding regulation without investment, lobbyists for supplying a crap solution, and manufactures for not rising above it and rarely caring about the quality of their products.

My recommendation is to boycott store bakery isles in general, invest in $BVILF, and use your kitchen to make friends with your neighbors and get everyone you know making bread/baked goods at home. It absolutely takes privilege to follow this journey, but pay it forward with the bread you can make at home with simple ingredients.
There are something like 28 thrusters on Starliner - only 5 have had issues.
Here's an idea: the government (HHS) makes available all public expenditure data (suitably anonymized) and if you can reliably identify fraud, you get 20% cut of the money recovered.

Go forth and go crazy with the data, my ML homies!
Thanks for the upvotes. I've tried to communicate several times about this work here but I can't get any feedback. Please feel free to say what you think. I would really appreciate it.
I get wanting more data, but I don’t understand how it would be lost.

If the craft burns up on re-entry due to many possible factors (Angle of descent, speed of descent, uncontrollable trajectory, etc, etc) any evidence of faulty components would be 'disappeared'.
Cool idea! Even though it is the ultimate race to the bottom :).

Will you be considering FOSS software suggestions on an open-ended basis?

It would be amusing to add Postgres as an alternative to Oracle.

Are there any other obvious rich ones which could be added?

p.s. Why is there no search box?

p.p.s How about a better name, like "BottomOfTheBottle.com", "NotOnlyTheBestButGoodEnough.com", "BottomRacer.cz", "SuperEfficient4U", etc. Something fun and light would be more entertaining to type / look at, and maybe stickier. "onlyfewdollars" just ... ugh. I don't like it.
I am not sure why you didnt see the citations to 3 different papers from Cristiano. A simple search in the linked PDF suffices: citations 12, 19, and 31.
It makes sense for an English teacher. For mathematics it makes no sense at all. Elementary school arithmetic is nothing like graduate level mathematics.
There is a lot in this post that is ...questionable in my opinion but I just have to call out as especially creative the praise for a drug that is so safe and slow-acting that it won't have harmful fast acting effects unless you... Apply a small amount of pressure with a hard object.

Truly a stupendous point.
Please don't start religious flamewars on HN*. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* yes, even in a religiously flammable thread. Especially then, in fact—note this guideline:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
The number line doesn’t have a carrying capacity!
> Why do these criminal masterminds always get arrested at the airport?

International flight means entry/exit searches can happen more easily and/or less likely to be deemed unconstitutional. IANAL.

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/48010/202...
Larry’s work on maintaining a bunch of Realtek’s vendor drivers on GitHub was huge for a lot of the community. Even today these forks often work much better than the mainline drivers. He will be missed! As others said, he was a huge inspiration.
They don't optimize asm anymore. But yes, you said what I didn't feel like typing out, except I think we should return to high performance JS.
Until someone spams them with garbage, or uses it to deliberately screw with certain people, and the system starts requiring more people to sift through the garbage than it needed without it.
> So are we ready to ban bread?

You're arguing in bad faith. Nobody said banning, the article said that there should be warning labels.

So yes, people should be aware that when they get a wonderbread sandwhich it has more sugar added to it than a dumdum lollipop. Some other breads are much less processed though.

> So Lays potato chips (only Potatoes, Oil, and Salt on the ingredients list) don't need a warning label?

"Potato chips are made through processes like frying, adding artificial flavorings, colorings, and preservatives. They are designed to be convenient and hyper-palatable, fitting the definition of ultra-processed foods."

What I am saying is that stores should delineate products that are solely a source of calories from those that meet our nutritional needs. A red/yellow/green system would be useful. Or warning labels.
Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN, or religious flamewars, and certainly not both at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But it’s also common to stick those flags back under some sort of audit system so we know why and how weird states got set. The simplest way is a separate repo with simpler rules for pushing to master.

Though you could also create your own audit system (just make sure it functions even when the entire site is down)
This is incredibly common with soccer jerseys in many big keagues. And I mean the brand logos on soccer jerseys are often big elements. You'd pretty much have a solid color shirt if it wasn't for the brands in them.
Thank you for providing the reference numbers, this is helpful! I'll update my GP comment.
Not everything in a spacecraft is instrumented. They're poking around to figure out what went wrong before they lose the chance. Space is hard and sometimes things don't work. More information is good, especially when you get it basically for free.

This story is incredibly sensationalized because it's fashionable and gets clicks right now to spam anything even slightly negative about Boeing.
> This is also why I prefer pneumatic cannons to combustion

Strange, since combustion based cannons tend to reach about 30 to 40 psi at most, while pneumatic easily can reach 100 psi.
This story is about companies erring on the caution and labeling them with things like sesame even if they like don't contain it.

The cost of proving it is sesame free and fines if they are wrong are not worth your business.
Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason
If you think someone is abusing the site, email the mods, this kind of accusation/meta in people's Show HNs, especially as a first comment just adds noise and can derail the whole thing.
It doesn’t really change the ownership? It undilutes the remaining shares. That’s why they are worth more.

If undilution doesn’t really change the ownership, then logically dilution doesn’t really change the ownership either. That is straightforwardly false, therefore your statement is false.

I understand the Reddit tier surface level analysis and I am questioning that, while you are just parroting it again back at me.
I like to think about it this way:

I cannot name another family that helped introduce a nationwide need for a completely new type of first aid, that being naloxone. It's not just ambulances; it's in police cars, pharmacies, libraries, schools, and workplaces. A complete deployment throughout the third-largest society in the world, in less than ten years, because of the frequency of overdose.

Just consider that for a moment.
> Let's build Hyperdrive City, Nebraska, where you can rent an apartment on the 93rd floor of the mall for $200 a month

What is the motivation for a developer to build a 100 story (or at least 93 I guess) skyscraper in some empty field in Nebraska?
The thing with all these leaks is that ID's are rapidly becoming worth less and less for the sake of actually proving your identity. Part of me believes a lot of this is intentional to try force people into using bio-metric ID like iris scans or finger prints to verify, since physical ID's are so widely leaked and so thoroughly distributed to criminals that they're no longer trustworthy documents.
tech background here. Feel free to drop me a line if you need a teck parter to revamp what you described above
> but "carry" is really only useful in asm code for adding and subtracting integers larger than register size, which is not much of a thing these days

Funny you mention that. I'm studying math and algorithms to implement the arbitrary precision integer support for my programming language. The word "carry" is showing up a lot in my research so that bit does seem to be an incredibly useful feature and I have no idea why they'd remove it.

> None of the flags are accessible from C either so they just dropped them and things seem to be going well!

I know you can't directly access those flags but the fact is compilers do provide their functionality to programmers via builtins.

For example:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Integer-Overflow-Builtins...

Those builtins will cause the compiler to generate optimal instructions such as conditional jumps that depend on the carry or overflow bits.

I used the __builtin_mul_overflow function to check for overflow in my memory allocation code.

This is what we really want. We want to handle these conditions, no matter how they're implemented. This is a perfectly acceptable way for the compiler to expose these processor features in a way that makes sense to us programmers. In the case of RISC-V, GCC will just emit whatever code is appropriate for checking overflows on that processor.

What's definitely not acceptable is for the compiler to just go "aw man look at this USELESS overflow checking code over here, AS WE ALL KNOW signed integer overflow is UNDEFINED and therefore CANNOT EVER HAPPEN, why the hell is this shit for brains programmer checking for a thing that can't happen, I'll just go ahead delete this nonsense code literally right now, oh wow would you look at that, looks like I just optimized the entire program into a noop, I must be the best compiler in the universe".
With Continuous Delivery you should be able to roll back the deployment. If the last change is the only one you need to revert. Of course that stops working when you share the flag system across teams with separate milestones. Your guys are gonna want to flip toggles while my guys are thinking about flipping others.
The other (cheaper) alternative is to deliberately add sesame flour, which some bakeries are doing, according to the article.

So what do you think is better:

1. Label bread with the "may contain" label. Meaning, truthfully, that people with severe sesame allergies shouldn't eat it.

2. Add sesame flour and then add a "definitely contains" label.

I think #2 is much worse from a "significantly harms consumers" perspective.
> The FBI estimates fraud accounts for upwards of 10% of healthcare expenditures.

One of my clients had their business roped into a multi-million dollar medicaid fraud scheme. The FBI eventually handled it but it months and a lot of work to get the feds interested.
https://tabby.tabbyml.com/
AFAIK you are required to follow the letter of the law, not the spirit. Whatever spirit moved the legislature into approving a law is secondary to the actual wording of the law. If congress wanted people to follow "the spirit of the law" then they should have made the law more explicit, instead of leaving it up to the FDA to decide what's the right spirit to have.
so that they can sell it of course. Naturally they have to claim it was leaked afterwards, but that sale is a hefty bit of cash, all for zero repercussions? if you're an amoral megacorp, its a no brainer.
Emirates Pilots Implement Strategies to Cut Fuel Use and Emissions
If you're going to go interstellar hitchhiking, worth bringing a fancy towel with you
It wouldn't be randoms on the internet submitting data. Submitting false data could be fraud itself and the people doing it could trivially be identified.