skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America has decided that able-bodied consumers should subsidize people with disabilities; companies are generally expected to make their products accessible even if there's not enough market demand for that to be profitable.

Food allergies are a disability. Some people with food allergies cannot consume sesame.

If you're a baker selling bread where sesame is not an ingredient, slapping "this product may contain sesame on your entire product line" or deliberately introducing sesame seeds into your recipe means a large part of the grocery store is inaccessible to people with a sesame seed allergy.

I don't think that's equitable. Imagine if every company that didn't want to cater to people in wheelchairs only rented office space in historical buildings that couldn't have wheelchair ramps installed.
Your point is taken, but the history of Java / the JRE is important here. The JRE turns out to be an excellent (and continuously-improving) virtual machine, but a horrible sandbox.

A huge value prop for early (pre-1.5) Java was sandboxing, but it ended up being clunky, frustrating, and too slow for the browsers / dial-up modems of the era and lost its chance to be the sandbox of choice - leaving the door open for Javascript to win as the world's most widely deployed sandbox.
> In one of their bags packed for their flight, there was a book titled “Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive The System,” the papers say.

You sensibly mention that this was not brought up until after the warranted search. But why is this title being mentioned now? Is the suggestion that someone who’s been charged with a crime should not attempt to read up on his rights—that doing so is a black mark suggesting flight risk? If the other book, on disappearing, is derogatory in itself, then why bring up this book too?
I would also wager that there is very little magnetic steel is used in the construction of spacecraft. Most grades of stainless steel, are not magnetic, and neither are aluminum and titanium are not magnetic. Very, very little carbon steel is used in modern commercial aircraft, and I would imagine an order of magnitude less would be used on a spacecraft.
I can see that. Or the rare situations where I needed 0 vs null, if for some reason that situation was multiplied times 100, I'd start wanting an optional keyword.
This isn't a "conservative win". It's a win for America. Our Constitution guarantees that individual rights are protected, including trial-by-jury (7th amendment). The SEC (part of the executive branch) violates this right by acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

The fact that WaPo and other mainstream outlets are trying to spin this as a political win for the right should make everyone seriously question their motives and aims.
> one common complaint in the celiac community is that gluten should also be a major allergen

As a point of interest, most of the developed world already requires labeling gluten as a major allergen. The US is the outlier / laggard.
Thanks for sharing! I’ll have to take a look. I wanted to add that a great counter example in support of your point is SpaceX, who is highly integrated out of a desire for success and has clearly demonstrated engineering excellence, in some cases in direct competition with Boeing with impressive results.
Ah, ok! Yeah I think we've been working with an older version of protobuf for a while where that wasn't an option.
Almost always when I start prototyping something in python, I wish that I stopped half-way where I am now and switched to something else.

Most recent example - converting huge amount of xml files to parquet. I started very fast with python + pyarrow, but when I realized that parallelizing execution would help enormously, I hit GIL or picking/unpickling/multiprocessing costs.

It did work in python, in the end, but I feel that writing that in Rust/C# (even if I don't know Rust besides tutorials) in the end would be much more performant.
Except they kinda are? LLMs are just word models built from a corpus of the internet. There are examples of GPT3 regurgitating reddit comments in full given the right prompt.

Certainly I find LLMs replace a lot of searches for me and google/microsoft is right to eat its own breakfast to get ahead of it.
Weight is probably a big one.

Slowing things down requires energy (or the dispersion of energy) and that amount of energy is directly related to the weight.

Plus breathing gases, waste management, and any other required consumables.
Isn’t this like complaining about NASA getting funding when poverty on earth isn’t solved yet?
Why on earth would I want to trust either to hold the keys to being able to identify myself?

Both banks and carriers somehow manage to at the same time make identity verification incredibly painful and obscure, without actually protecting me against identity theft.

It also seems like it would make it even harder to switch banks and phone providers than it already is.
I believe it was added as the `itms-services://?` URL format is non-standard and broke the existing logic in `urllib.parse`: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/104312
The multi billion dollars company that I work for don't get this. I'm forced to do all me dev work on a virtual windows machine. They have their reasons, many of them valid, but it's still a pain
Very clearly true at Google, for example
Even the chronic pain patients should not have had the amounts prescribed to them that they were. Doctors were incentivized to give as much as possible. Creating addicts in people who may otherwise would not have been.

I personally knew people getting more than a cancer patient should’ve been given for day to day chronic pain.

I’m sorry if you were personally affected by regulation but that doesn’t mean they didn’t cause the crisis.
My understanding is this allergen over-labeling was inspired by the FDA in the first place. https://www.fastcompany.com/90830854/sesame-seed-allergen-fd...

From the linked article (from Jan 2023):

But sesame does differ in one distinct way from eggs, peanuts, shellfish, milk, and soy: The seeds are teeny tiny and hard to keep track of. This means they’re prone to “cross-contamination,” in food-allergy terms. If you operate a bakery that makes sesame bagels, the odds are decent that rogue seeds will end up in your other products, too. Bad news for people with severe sesame allergies. But it’s also expensive and frustrating for food manufacturers to ensure the seeds are kept away from other foods, if they’re on the FDA’s major allergens list.

Advocates have therefore been warning since December that the FASTER Act is poised to have a counter effect. Rather than minimize cross-contamination, as they argue the law requires, many big food brands have opted to add sesame to their bread products, then simply declare it as an ingredient. They are intentionally adding sesame flour to “avoid complying with the spirit and intent of the FASTER Act,” FARE tells Fast Company. That is cheaper than certifying that their facilities are 100% sesame-free.
Not days, years. You tried and you were successful (10 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40804478

As was @gggggs Australian Channel Seven's YouTube channels replaced with Musk crypto-scams (12 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40806970

@belter 23 days ago AI-generated Elon Musk videos flood YouTube with fake crypto scams (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40575632

@paulpauper a year ago YouTube accused of failing to tackle fake Elon Musk livestream scams (5 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34224233

@marban/ @samizdiz/ @paulpaper 2 years ago (3+3+5 points, 1+0+5 comments)
I'm not sure this is real..
They aren't having a whole lot of success then because they come across like a bunch of franchise fast food managers who accidentally parachuted into an engineering and manufacturing corp and haven't managed to find the bathrooms yet.
> allow claimants to pierce the corporate veil and go after the family directly.

This decision is a win both for that cause, and also forestalling precedent that would allow future wrongdoing corporations from 'shielding the veil' so to speak through bankruptcy. A win-win indeed.
> And we still prescribed them like candy.

Part of the claim is that the Sacklers were involved in this portion.
I think there's room for both.

hub systems are great for lazy riders - they can just go without having to pedal. I think they're cheaper too.

And I suspect mid drive wears your whole drive train out faster. You chain and rear derailleur have to be stronger and get more stress.
Developers discuss internal automation tooling in companies
whether it is smart or not depends on the likelihood of it. do you have numbers?
At what point does a person’s purchase of an international flight ticket trigger an alert to LE?

Or does getting a notification like this require a warrant or similar court approval first?
That Dragon came with it's own crew, not empty.
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" either invalidates a great deal of political and marketing speech (no First Amendment for you), or demonstrates that lying is fair game to anyone who is not your neighbor.
Even when legit malware gets flagged as "Wacatac" some percentage of users are sure to google the name, see that for years (if not decades) MS has wrongly flagged a ton of legitimate software as being that virus and then whitelist the actual malware on their machine assuming that Microsoft must have just screwed up again. I'm not surprised that MS hasn't fixed the problem after all this time, just disappointed.
The distinction is that the binary is a derivative work with no added creativity. I'm not saying this is how things are today, but rather I'm saying this is how things should be. In order to qualify for copyright protection, one should have to put the created work in escrow so it can actually enter the public domain when the copyright expires. If one wishes to control access to their work with other mechanisms that prevent fulfillment of even the very lopsided bargain that was struck with copyright, then one shouldn't get the privilege of copyright.

Also if the best of your "great number of reasons" is fallacious legal reasoning of the type software engineers tend to be drawn to, then I don't think that's much of an argument.
Waiting to see what the real response to the ransomware pandemic will be. After Solarwinds, I don't think people will feel comfortable with just buying the industry packages. Seems impossible to train everyone to avoid the scams. More local-first installations? More aggressive Backup As A Product?
Yeah I've wondered about a system where health insurance is for major events like injury accidents and cancer, and typical office visits are handled as a consumer product. Insurance companies may want to pay for basic checkups and the like to reduce their risk of high ticket items -- or not, however the math works out. Seems like this has at least some of the benefits of a market system, for those who insist that nationalized health care is not something we can stomach in the US.
Do remember that some of them were acute pain patients, who were supposed to be on oxy for a limited amount of time but got hooked.
How can tail recursion have better performance if they both compile to the same machine instruction - a conditional jump?
I posted my own understanding above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816168) but since those are good examples, my understanding is:

Lay’s potato chips: not UPF

McDonald’s fries: UPF due to the presence of beef flavor, hydrogenated oils, and other similar ingredients.
Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA Hubble&Webb Telescopes
Bean counting and MBA'ing can be very valuable activities in the right hands.

I think the problem is that business management is now seen as an abstract thing that you can study on its own and then step into any industry and start working the levers of leadership.

But if a manager starts at the bottom, learns the trade inside and out, and then does an MBA-like analysis of their business, I think that can help optimize a business without ripping its foundation out.
An investigation can keep gathering evidence more easily if the suspects are still generating evidence. About to board an international flight is logical as the spot where the investigators need to decide: arrest now or it's gonna be much much harder later. As long as the investigator knows they are at home, there is no rush. A bus to Mexico would be an arrest also.
Step 2: publish a book what if I got away with murder?
I think (or hope) that people will just stop putting data on drives it doesn't need to be on.
My thoughts exactly. Time to pick up the rail gun or RL, call Sarge and go back to q3dm17.
Until the investigation is complete you want to minimize events that interfere with it. For Boeing's part they get to continue to operate until the investigation is completed and decisions made. This is the trade, otherwise, we could just shut down your entire company indefinitely until we determine if it should be reopened or not.

This is a highly regulated industry and it is so for the benefit of all citizens that use these services. Boeing is a for profit company that is speaking for the benefit of their own bottom line. It's not their decision to make.
Non-software engineering pays poorly (in the first world) compared to how hard it is
An agree fest ensues

I am not advocating pure herion (ironically quite a safe drug aside from addiction) or cocaine powder as modern consumer products.

Opium caused upheavals when used as a wedge by Westerners in China, but remember it had been present, and used for millenia in Arabia.

The same, roughly, with cocaine and coca

It is not a choice between continued sadism or free reign herion and cocaine dealing.

We can do better

And I think the "psychological elements that come with long term use" is largely confusing cause and effect.

From my experience people having drug problems recover when the problems recede. Hence advocating treating drug addiction with drugs

One size does not fit all, and some halt and are abstinent. Good on them, I know no-one like that
The point is that if it is not actually working to encourage sharing, as is the case with DRM, compilation, or SaaS, then there is no longer a justification.
There are always options. The tech market is tough right now, but less so for coders. You could also get a job in a completely different field. Or you could figure out how to stay at your current position. There are always options.
Indeed. At the undergrad college I went to in New England in 2008 it wasn’t uncommon to see people at house parties doing lines of oxycontin out in the open. Was fairly socially acceptable.
I've noticed after the last several years that we're starting to turn from a high-trust society into a low-trust one.

Without spending too much time digressing on politics, it's my observation that Trump + covid are the main correlations. It started in 2015 when Trump declared his candidacy, picked up speed when he took office in 2017, and then hit full throttle when covid came to the US in 2020.

And I'm afraid we've hit several points of no return, and there's no going back for decades.
The "bureacratic finger-wagging" in this particular context is a lesser evil than the alternative, allowing a corporation to pre-manufacture public opinion by contaminating the neutrality of the investigation and prosecution. It's just a lesser evil given the status quo of the opposing systems of regulation and capitalism.
Billionaires existing are actually fantastic for poverty. The more the better.

BUT we need to somehow poke holes in the billionaire that don't both totally drain them or leave them unharmed. The holes need to be large enough that they can help the government support the people.

Problem we have is that the billionaires bought all the hole punchers and aren't letting the gov use them like they used to.
I'd encourage people to test for themselves (and to let the Chatbot Arena scores to settle) before getting caught up in too much hype. I just did a personal eval and I found gemma-2-27b-it (tested on AI Studio) performed far worse in my testing than Llama 3 70B, especially for reasoning and basic world understanding queries.
The testcontainer is agnostic to how you use it; it's a real docker container.
I think this from your second link is closest to what I'm getting at:

> Somewhat confusingly, some companies use Tech Lead as a title, and others use it as a role. In this list of archetypes, the Tech Lead is one approach to operating as a Staff engineer, but it's quite common to perform the Tech Lead role without having the impact expected of a Staff-level engineer.

My point is a bit 'bigger' than how do you operate in your position as staff engineer and what does the org need from you, what I'm getting at is about the structure of roles themselves - like it can be that your technical track/ladder (junior/mid/senior/staff/distinguished/principal/fellow/whatever) is IC that managers are completely separate, not the same people (junior/mid/senior/whatever managers). It can also be that people managers are separate, but technical management of projects is intertwined with the more senior roles.

What I was thinking about specifically, not knowing really whether anyone does this or not, was the possibility of people being on at least one of those tracks, i.e. maybe both, but that they're distinct roles. So you might be a staff engineer but a more junior manager. (And you might manage a different team than you work in, I suppose, but that would probably be inconvenient and anyway isn't really important one way or the other here.) But I suppose it also depends how or if you divide technical and people management anyway. I just don't really have the keywords to find much discussing it; your links are good though, thanks, I'll read some more on the site.
> multiple taco trucks

Trucks? The lawsuit involves one discrete corporation, and its small size is underscored by how it's just one stand/kiosk. (I suppose it could be mobile, but that's not what I was thinking of.)

However same owner/investor happens to be involved in many un-enumerated companies, some of which might easily be guilty of the same problems, including ones that would normally "pierce the corporate veil" and affect investors directly.

> but Scrooge would get immunity, and so would the taco truck.

The taco-stand corporation isn't immune, it's going bankrupt paying judgements. CEO/Owner Scrooge is coming in from the sidelines to preempt a personal lawsuit, and also trying to get someone in authority to (wrongly) grant him immunity from other potential lawsuits from other claimants.

> plus, the taco truck is still selling tacos

Oh, I think I see: No, this isn't a duck-ified version of the entire national controversy, I'm just trying to illustrate the how an "immunity" grant can be bogus.

In other words, the taco-stand is not a 1:1 analogy placeholder for Purdue Pharma, you can assume it's been bankrupted into Chapter 7 and broken up and sold off.
Bimbo-core is actually on trend right now
OK - but the individual payouts are going to be small and do little to compensate for the harm caused.

The primary goal for the suit is to punish the wrongdoing and disincentivize similar future behavior by others. Higher costs and uncertainty does that.
“…the outcomes of Large Language Models are not designed to be true — they are merely designed to be statistically likely.”

yep!
> parts of

The counterpoint to the fact that gRPC and RabbitMQ handle whatever you're writing better than you do is that gRPC and RabbitMQ have immense amounts of complexity that you have to deal with despite the fact that you don't care about it
Such a huge waste of time and resources that could be better used to make students actually smarter and better prepared for their lives as adults. This is just hollow virtue signaling that will inevitably be thrown out by the Supreme Court after wasting millions of dollars for nothing.
In the direction of higher performance.
> The same thing happens with ADHD medications, the timed release dosages are supposed to last 12+ hours, but in reality they vary from 8 to 16.

Modern ADHD meds are really not comparable to powerful opioids. They are both dopaminergic, but they are night and day in terms of addictiveness. Even weak opioids vs strong opioids is night and day.

> There is a large delta between the average response curve and an individual's response curve!

True! But the word "average" is actually not, itself, precise. It has at least three typical meanings: mean, median, mode. These all have quite large deltas to each other when talking about dose-response curves, and since they are curves, you would also have to pick a norm first.

There are a lot of sources of variability, but variation does not actually make it very difficult to detect improper opioid prescribing behavior. Just like the variation in people's weights would not tell you much about the strength of asphalt roads. These things are not measured in the same scale.

The majority of the pharmaceutical problem came from a very small number of people who churned out prescriptions like a literal mill. Like 5 minute appointments all day every day - not random doctors overprescribing their patients by accident. What is true is that the random doctors overprescribing provided a certain amount of cover for the corrupt doctors, for a while.
Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard
Agreed, I don't see why the abundance of pages that come up in searches these days with a paragraph of text and a long scroll of ads are doing any better than the generalizations LLMs are trained to make.

I think it's also worth pointing out the more advanced LLMs are exceptionally accurate (despite being imperfect and not without bias) and highly available. That's not a peg below your average search result.
...I'm not entirely convinced the current Supreme Court will throw this out.
They sell you a jersey for $300 and still put advertising logos?
Yes, there's got to be people farmers who grow various fictional people over time for use by ___. Create and shut down employers who pay the fictional people, rent apartments left empty in their name, maybe ding up a credit report to look real, arrange for someone who matches a look to appear in a paper under the name being farmed, kind of like Sim City but in the "real world" like Pokemon Go.
message LatLon {

double lat = 1; // Geodetic latitude, decimal degrees

double lon = 2; // Geodetic longitude, decimal degrees

}

"Hmm, lat = 0, I guess they didn't fill out the message. I'll thrown an exception and handle it as an api error"

[Later, somewhere near the equator]

"?!?!??!"

------------------

"Ok, we learned our lesson from what happened to our customers in Sao Tome and Principe: 0.0 is a perfectly valid latitude to have. No more testing for 0, we'll just trust the value we parse.

[Later, in Norway, when a bug causes a client to skip filling out the LatLon message]

"Why is it flying to Africa?!?!"

------------------

Ok, after the backlash from our equatorial customers and the disaster in Norway, we've learned our lesson. We will now use a new message that lets us handle 0's, but checks that they really meant it:

message LatLonEnforced {

optional double lat = 1;

optional double lon = 2;

}

[At some third party dev's desk]
"Oh, latitude is optional - I'll just supply longitude"

[...]

"It's throwing exceptions? But your schema says it's optional!"

------------------

Ok, it took some blood sweat and tears but we finally got this message definition licked:

message LatLonEnforced {

optional double lat = 1; // REQUIRED. Geodetic latitude, decimal degrees

optional double lon = 2; // REQUIRED. Geodetic longitude, decimal degrees

}

[Later, in an MR from a new hire]
"Correct LatLon doc strings to reflect optional semantics"
Which is a mindset that is only possible if you have no competition and if you have captured regulations to the point that new competition is highly unlikely to form.

It's not unknown for companies to put "Goodwill" as a line item on their quarterly reports.