skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Louisiana has been throwing out doses for months now. At the outset, yes, this is acceptable, but when your waste is increasing month over month for six months+ you just start sending out less and you ship out the rest.

Ok, that's fair. But the rest of your comments in this discussion have been about how the waste itself is the result of a lie and that, somehow, we can collect already distributed and started vials quickly enough to fly them to other countries and, somehow, distribute quickly enough within them for it to be worthwhile and not just a hurried rush to find out that people are getting little better than a placebo.

If you'd read my second paragraph, I suggest exactly what you did: Make sure countries get doses from the sources instead of fretting about waste that, itself, is useless because there is no logistical scheme in place or even reasonably achievable that can collect and redistribute these doses to make them useful.

EDIT: Now I'm glad I quoted you as you've edited your comment after my initial reply.

> You also don't "overnight them to remote areas". You drop them off at the airport, then the other country either sends their military aviation or charters another countries cargos to pick them up.

Practically speaking, once the vials are started the countdown begins. The only reasonable way to use the started vials in countries on other continents and distribute to their remote communities is to ship it as fast as possible, which means overnighting. You can't collect them and wait a week to ship them and then a week or more to get them distributed within the countries and expect a useful vaccine dose to be delivered.

Also, you've misquoted me. I did not say "overnight them to remote areas" as you suggest. I said "overnight those to airports in other countries". Those are two very different statements. Don't make fake quotes in your replies, it's dishonest.
I really don't think it's comparable.

The kind of complaints Ancient Rome had is the same as we had 50 years ago, which boiled down to adults wondering why youngsters didn't act like them. In due time youngsters age, become adults themselves and the cycle repeats.

There is no shortage of adults addicted to social media. We can see the effects of it in many of us and I think it's fair to worry for the consequences it may have in developmental stages.

For one, the idea new generations have about "privacy" is something I'm seriously worried about. When I was 15 I was aware that only a moron would go around the internet giving personal data. That is now expected behavior.
I encourage you to consider an alternative perspective, in which grocery stores intentionally restrict availability of food in order to artificially maintain high profits and externalize the costs of reprocessing for redistribution: https://twitter.com/a_vansi/status/1445450534672998407

What if, for example, food that would spoil in a couple more days were simply moved to a "free" section of the grocery store? No need for complex shipping or logistics costs, simply ask the stocker to move from one aisle to another. Why don't grocery stores do that, if they're concerned about "reducing waste"?
News orgs bring issues to our attention. I can't think of a more important reason for them to exist.

The alt to reporting issues is "good news" reporting. We tried it for years and it was mostly vapid milquetoast. I was glad to see it go. I think follow-up stories to earlier issues works tho. Some of those will be positive.

note: The modern form of GNR is where the press parrots PR by biz/gov/leo - usually without any analysis.
Them being multi-millionaires is not an argument on elderly people not being democratically represented. It applies about equally to the young.

As to your second point, https://www.nursinghomeabusecenter.org/informative/facts-sta... says about 1.4 million people in the US live in nursing homes.

https://www.infoplease.com/us/population/population-65-years... says that, in 2010, over 16 million Americans were 80 years or older.

Now, that’s comparing apples with oranges a bit, but even if we assume the first category all are “just there, left to rot in less than ideal […] conditions in retirement houses which cost $$$$ a month”, ignore the fact that about 200,000 of them are under 65’s, and assume that 1,4 million is wrong by a factor of 10, I don’t see how that can be the vast majority of the second group (which I took on the small side by using a cut-off age of 80)
this exactly :)
Great Movies Each Written and Directed by the Same Person
> I don't care about portability since I lift.

My man. I'd stop at 15in though.
You didn't explicitly say "dying individuals", palliative care doesn't just apply to terminal/chronic illness.

I'm not sure what cannabis offer over Opioids, but if state authoritarianism is limited to such a niche I wouldn't worry over it.
"not afraid to fuck up anything" likely refers more to the ability to rollback the system to any (non-deleted) previous revision of the system configuration, directly from the bootloader, which means you can easily recover even from a broken kernel.

This applies regardless of whether you are packaging/updating something in the package set yourself, or using something that someone else packaged.
Yep. Duty cycle, as an engineering concept, is notoriously misunderstood by the general public.

It seems every day that there's some sort of outrage in a blog or article: "Did you know that [large organization] spends $[x] for their [equipment]? Wow, you can buy [consumer version] at Walmart for 1/100th of that price!"

No, outraged taxpayer, your school district isn't wasting money by purchasing a $10,000 copier. Your HP all-in-one can't replace their use-case, despite how you imagine it could.
Yep. HP, Agilent, then Keysight, which is the only good part left of the original HP.
Because those professions have different requirements. Why did you pick doctors and pilots specifically? Why not carpenters and plumbers or electricians.
Well, if you built it, it was you who put Windows 10 on it. I'm not convinced this is an example of you not owning the hardware so much as not realizing that the software was going to turn on you.
> Just a small point of clarification - I think - that helps to make your point a little clearer.

> If the bank collapses - it's likely precisely because those loaned dollars ARE worth less.

I get what you mean, but it's not quite the same. The loan, as in the receivable, is worthless and thus might prompt/contribute to a bank run/collapse. But the only reason defaults are an issue (like in this scenario) is precisely because the loaned dollars do have value, and the bank (and its depositors/creditors) want them back.

It's all just assets and liabilities.
> Biden has vowed to vaccinate 70% of the world in the next year

.. whether they want it or not ;)
I find the focus on Rust vs Java a bit weird. Yes Rust is faster than Java, I sure hope it is. But the interesting thing is that Rust is better at optimizing the overhead of Option.

> The most ugly and error-prone solution turned out to be the fastest: primitive types and magic values.

That's often the case in "older" languages. ES6 iterators on arrays are usually twice as slow as a simple "for" loop. Which usually means that by targetting ES5 or lower, you get a free optimization by Babel/tsc!
I never noticed until now there were big honkin swastikas on the tail.
Were those doses exclusory? If not, then there's no problem because producing them had no good or bad effect on other countries. If it was exclusory, then shouldn't it be a country's first priority to ensure its own citizens' safety first?

If your house is burning down, do you let your neighbor use your water hose before you can put out your own fire?
This was years ago. I went without for a while but recently decided my demand for color printing and scanning in my home exceeded my supply of cash needed to get a crappy injket. Even used color laserjets are hard to come by for mortal prices.
Alternative solutions like what? Your example was not very specific.
- if you don’t use null this isn’t an issue

- it’s verbose because handling optional values safely is complex
> I've learned more about cmake from mkDerivation that anywhere else.

This is something I find really fascinating about Nix (or more precisely nixpkgs) that gets overlooked a lot: it is essentially a giant database that documents how different build tools work, how different projects are built, and so on, in an exhaustive and consistent manner.

That can be an extremely valuable resource to have in your back pocket, even if you're not actually using Nix!
Eyes on the Solar System
"constexpr" does not do what you think it does.

For example, "if constexpr(is_constant_evaluated())" is always true, I think.

See also the new C++ keyword "consteval" (yes, really!)
There's "uranium in the planet" - lots! - and "uranium accessible to humans" - not so much.

The other fuel used would be plutonium and thorium, I believe. My understanding (not a nuclear scientist) is that there's a cycle of enrichment and decay that produces more fissile materials than it consumes.

Interestingly, from my perusal of wikipedia, it seems like you effectively can recycle the uranium isotopes indefinitely in such a reactor, as well as generating fissile plutonium and thorium.

Again, the problem is that generating fissile plutonium is how you make a bomb
In my experience, the easier the work the higher the salary. No one gets paid for working hard, they get paid for demand of their skill and expetience relative to supply.
There are lots of conference and university learning material on youtube on any medical issue. I find it quite useful paired with textual research papers and Wikipedia articles together. If you're just finding 15 minute videos, you're not looking hard enough.
> [citation needed] as I haven't heard of this.

Are [1] you [2] sure [3] you [4] never [5] heard [6] about [7] this [8]? Even [9] CNN [10] published [11] on [12] this [13]...

Vaccinating children to the supposed-but-unlikely benefit of adults and the potential detriment of those children is morally wrong, this is an absolute which is not open for debate as far as I'm concerned. We're not talking about vaccines which are known safe like those against Measles or Rubella, this is uncharted territory which would normally have taken years of study before this type of vaccine would even be offered to children, leave alone mandated.

Do you have children? I do. They are vaccinated against many things, some of them on my request (e.g. the TB vaccine is not a standard where I live). I will not have them take these vaccines though, both because there is no need as well as for the above stated reason.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/new-york-state-quietly-...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-unders...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56091682

[4] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nys-cuomo-criticized...

[5] https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-advisers-altered-report-o...

[6] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/9000-covid-patie...

[7] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...

[8] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/five-governors-besides-cuo...

[9] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/andrew-cuomo-nur...

[10] https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/andrew-cuomo-nursing...

[11] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/nursing-homes-coronavi...

[12] https://khn.org/morning-breakout/gov-cuomos-order-to-house-c...

[13] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-will-no-longer...
I've got two A3 inkjets, an older Epson Stylus Photo 1410 with 3rd party ink tanks installed and externalized waste ink container mod, and a newer Epson L1800 with built-in ink tanks, at my workplace. Both are 6 color photo printers. I've kept them running for years with few problems. Long-term maintenance consists in keeping the nozzle clear of dried pigment, chaniging the rubber paper feed roller every couple of years, and keeping an eye on the ink levels in the tanks and the waste ink container. The 1410 had printed over 110,000 pages by now and is stil going strong. Printing with 3rd party inks is incredibly cheap, I use Korean Ink-mate ink with these two and it costs a fraction of a cent per page.

Now, it is true that inkjets are fussy and you need to keep printing with them to keep them operational, but I managed to clean out a very dry nozzle twice with nothing more than a pack of lint-free paper, some specialized cleaning fluids, a pack of syringes, and a thin rubber tube, simply using guides found on the Internet. And I haven't had any mechanical failures yet that weren't caused by the paper feed roller being worn out (which is expected) despite both printers being used daily for years.

Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe Epson did really good with these two models in particular, I don't know.
...what?

I'm asking what he is missing in current available options. In other words, what the 'pain' is. I'm not asking about business opportunities.
I just received the email indicating that they've issued a refund.

Hopefully, I'll be included on the early batch, and can contribute to helping make the overall GUI experience better.
It's a bit more nuanced - being self-taught is a thing especially since you already have access to world class resources online. You might be missing a bit of structure or access to professors but the best learning materials are already out there and they're fairly accessible. So it's definitely possible to make it without formal education but it takes a lot of time and effort. I think that's the part that trivialises it - looking for the fastest way often means that you make compromises with how well you learn.

The other part is that even the people with formal education have learned most of the stuff that they know through self-studying and real-world experience - very often you hear people in their first job saying that university didn't really prepare them for an actual job in software. And the skills that you leave university with are just a starting point - you have to keep learning throughout your entire career anyway.
While TMS should be a last resort thing, what’s actually seems to be happening (anecdotally at least) is it gets prescribed like candy - just like opioids and antidepressants.

I had a pretty rough time during the pandemic and reached out to a couple clinics for maybe trying psychotherapy, and after a single 30 minutes consultation, both concluded I should try TMS first, because “it just works”. One of them literally added me to a marketing mailing and kept spamming me about it.

So yea, maybe it’s highly regulated outside the US?
Greedy, perhaps?
Imagine you’re a teenage girl. You’re young, so you haven’t had any time to develop interesting hobbies. You shop at the same stores your friends shop at. You read the same books, watch the same movies. You’re basically a clone of your peers.

At the same time, you live in a society that encourages getting “likes” and attention from thousands of people online. But frankly, you’re a boring person.

So how do you differentiate yourself? You pretend to have quirky tics! Or OCD. That’s quirky too. Or ADHD - plenty of people ready to give you sympathy (and views) for that one. You stay away from schizophrenia though, that’s too dark and will lower engagement.
> I don't mind learning per se but if I put the time in it I'd like it to be for something that's useful in more places. Like ansible.

Depending on whether you mean "used by more people" or "applicable to more problems"... if the latter, tools like morph or NixOps might be of interest to you, which essentially extend Nix to "across multiple remote machines", which means that de facto you end up with an orchestration tool like Ansible or Puppet.
A benefit of storing the reference count in the high bits is that overflows will never corrupt the flag bits and can be detected using the processor's flags instead of requiring a separate check. I'm not sure if this property is used here.
> I want "natural" scrolling on the touchpad, but "regular" scrolling when using a plugged-in mouse with a mousewheel. The options are in TWO DIFFERENT settings windows, but changing one changes the other. Why? Even Linux, not famed as the Usability King, had this figured out in 2012.

This also drives me bonkers. The reason I think it is still this way is that at Apple everyone is using the Magic Mouse which has touch scrolling on it (you scroll like a trackpad with your finger) and so presumably most never toggle this. Another example of pain if you go off the happy path the apple developers use and keep tidy and clean.
Pedagogy in Moodle
It works very well in ML-like languages. The problem is when you have a language where everything can be null. TS and Kotlin need first class support for optional because the underlying language has first class support for null.
Same here, I felt in love with it last month, it's getting a lot of traction and very good contributions recently.

I ditched uptime robot for uptime kuma self hosted after uptime robot raised their prices by 30% suddenly
> if you assumed I meant Typescript in response to a Typescript article...

You misunderstand TypeScript.

They cannot 8and will not) change the "Javascript" in Typescript. "const" is a keyword with a meaning defined by the ECMAscript standard.

Typescript IS Javascript. All they do is add type annotations. Only some old non-essential features like namespaces and enums need to be transpiled, and "enums" really is not much and should actually be handled by whatever minifier and bundler/packager you use. Other than that, if you removed the type annotations you are left with 100% ECMAscript.

Typescript was meant to be just a type-annotation extension and explicitly made the decision that the code itself would always be stock-standard Javascript.

Arguably, it was a bad design decision that now confuses lots of people about the nature of Typescript by bundling type-checking and transpiling to some target (originally for older runtimes that did not understand es2015 or were lacking some feature available in the latest JS runtimes and ECMAscript standard).

It is therefore not a surprise at all that Typescript did not make "const" into something else. The basis always is the ECMAscript standard.
How is "handling optional values safely" complex? Do you have any examples of that?
Considerate or Accepting both work in English.
I think that not buying printers is the correct answer, difficult to get everyone to do it, but it is the metric most likely to change behavior.

Inkjet technology is fine, it was the exploitation of it by HP which lead to copy cats that really made it ridiculous.

I've got an HP inkjet wide format plotter (36" wide) that was built both before HP was all in on ink as a profit center and built by a different division (plotter division). It has been a reliable workhorse for over 20 years now and while I don't use HP ink any more (they don't sell it) third party ink works fine.

I replaced my desktop printer with an Epson Eco-tank printer. They claim it comes with 2 years of ink (at my rate that is probably 4 years :-) and they the ink is not expensive. So there are people trying this model of "let's not bother screwing people on ink" and I'm trying to reward them by buying their printer.
Well, you have kids that can blow away long time professionals and people who make it in the industry right out of high school. You don’t hear of as many kids who as teenagers can perform medical procedures or fly planes (if any for the former).

I think part of it is the accessibility of both the tools and the knowledge compared to other fields. The two aforementioned professions are both gatekept behind expensive credentials as well (pillows don’t need a degree, but iirc the process to get licensed isn’t cheap). Additionally:

> shit out a few lines of javascript/ruby/whatever and go get a job.

Actually seems fine for a number of roles out there. There are plenty of jobs where it’s enough to shit out code that just works, while you probably won’t be commanding the salaries people gush over in more tech centric communities such as this, you can certainly make more money that you would in the typical roles that many people find available post-education. I’ve argued about this before here, but in my experience, you don’t have to be that great of a developer to maintain some form of employment in the industry.

When you have a field, that pays well, even in some of the lower windows, has a vast amount of learning resources readily available, is not locked behind time and money expensive credentials and has all the tools needed to learn do the job for free, it seems almost stupid not to consider it.
Brother also makes machine tools and high-end sewing machines, so some of that quality mindset must flow into their consumer products.
Having worked in the luxury industry before, my experience is that it really comes down to personal connections and branding. The problem is that positioning yourself as a true luxury player takes years (even in local markets) and until then you're still have to pay rent for high-end locations, PR, and equipment. There is a reason why most successful founders have strong industry connections and/or excellent references.
So a conclusion that uses a false generalisation must be accepted at face value despite its faulty logic? This has nothing to do with opinion, mine or otherwise; the article is pushing a policy on the basis of broken logic. And yes, I can damn well call that a lie.
I see the FUD crowd is still out...

Minimum wage increase do not increase unemployment. We have almost a century of data. It's always trumpeted by the wealthy, but never happens.
And that is before they start storing spent fuels on site.
Brother sells overpriced refills but there are off brand replacements about half the price. They also report ink run out on starter cartridges when it hasn’t. I think the only ethical printers are 3D ones.
And isn’t this generation the only photons that we can experience in the mind with the brain?
I read this thinking that the 600k figure you mention couldn't possibly be right, but apparently it is:

https://blog.transparentcalifornia.com/2020/11/16/oakland-co...
Disagree. News orgs exist to inform of facts.

Positive facts allow us to double down on what works. Negative facts allow us to inspect what went wrong.
>it's not a phase, mom, this is who I am

Even as a kid I always found that a weird one.

Surely it doesn't take that long for people to notice that "who you are" changes with time?

Specially in modern times when you have contact with so many stories.
I'll never get why people complain about git being confusing when "man gittutorial" and "man giteveryday" are top-notch entrypoints into the git documentation.
Remember that if anyone tells you that "ok hand" is a far right "white power" sign — they've fallen for 4chan meme.
Beam still has to be in the direction of the mic, which wouldn't help if your body is blocking most of the direct waves. You get some scattering, sure, but I think ultrasonic is pretty absorbable, right?
Funny enough I had bought my fair share of inkjets and had been disappointed for the obvious reasons stated here. However one day somewhere around 2005 I found an HP LaserJet III on garbage day near my house and took it home. To my surprise it worked fine and even had toner. I was STILL using it without a toner change 10 years later when I moved cities, and gave it to someone. I could leave it off for a year and print 50 pages. Never a problem. Pretty good for free.
Something I have no knowledge of that the article could have mentioned precedent for is the expected waste observed in existing vaccination efforts. How much shrinkage due to the factors involved with "wasted" COVID vaccines is there with the flu vaccine which is not in a phase of initial scarcity? What is the prior and how different is the observation in this case?
Fed is lying about real inflation rates