skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First Ever Stealth Fighter Encounter China’s J-20 and America’s F-35
This is just wrong. A non-insignificant fraction of women can't produce milk in high enough quantities to feed infants. This is an undisputed fact.

The only alternative to robust infant formula supply is to accept pre-modern levels of infant mortality. Period.
Exclusively breastfeeding is very challenging to do while working, for one. Even at my megacorp with a dedicated space, a hospital grade pump, and 2 hrs a day dedicated only to that, it was a substantial hit to supply. Considering that most women don't have those amenities and support I'm not surprised they don't breastfeed exclusively after their mat leave (for most women in the US, 6 weeks unpaid)

Not to mention - it can be painful (if I had no option of course I would endure pain for my child, but there is no shame in looking for something less painful) or the baby can not learn to latch (formerly known as "failure to thrive" and a driver of infant mortality)
> The basic usage is the same as other mailing lists powered by mailman.

Would be nice if this section was more detailed. Mailing lists can be quite confusing for the uninitiated.
Li-Ion battery behavior is very predictable these days. With a good battery management system (BMS) that includes temperature control, current limiting, charge monitoring, and cell monitoring the things work very well and very safely.

Good news: Most EVs have very good BMSs.

Bad news: Lots of small consumer devices with Li-Ion batteries have lousy BMSs or none at all. Which is why their batteries don't last long and sometimes catch fire. If cheap manufacturers would stop trying to skimp on the BMS the problem would be over.
Sounds like you're really working hard, and digging deep.

It also sounds like you might be experiencing addiction
replacement/displacement, when you "overcome" one thing and shift the
focus on to something new [2]. People can go through the whole gamut -
alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, and still end up in something
more socially "acceptable" like shopping or phone overuse. Even the
act of "overcoming" can itself be an obsessive (control desire) act.

I'll second the comments saying maybe talk to a therapist [2]

What you're looking for is a "hole" (feels like an inadequacy or
deprivation threat). When you hit it and deal with it, the other stuff
will fall into line. Good luck.

[1] https://www.addictioncenter.com/community/addiction-replacem...

[2] Don't get addicted to therapy :)
In a world where if enough people have some kind of debt, we hear loud cries to cancel it, and politicians have to pander to them, not saving makes sense.
Right. I could totally see that. But the end result seems the same. They either hope it grows and therefore whatever losses they have are small compared to total amount of people who would ever withdraw. Or double down again and risk losing even more.
To quote Homer Simpson "Pfft... Canada is just America Jr."

More seriously, if you weren't joking, Canada is in North America, the continent. America, the country, is the informal name of the United States of America.
>Don't worry they've formed a committee to look into maybe doing something about this.

Yes. You have to 'form a committee' to understand the problem, instead of just winging it.
this might be controversial, but i just want to write semantic html and be able to toggle the design. if the design requires additional elements or JS, then it’s way too complex for a solo dev (for me anyway).

i think classless css frameworks really opened up the possibility for backend devs to spin up a project as long as they can write good thoughtful html.

i’m building my own classless stylesheet that i plan to use across all of my projects because todays classless are mostly for content or marketing sites but what i need is more app ui.
"If in your career you never needed to enumerate cases that required different data..." . Maybe one or two times... but it is not like "hey, it is impossible", or "shit, I have to write 10 more lines" in this rare code I will never put my eyes again. What I get angry is that people will start to use everywhere, in places they should not be using. because the guy did not wanted to stop five minutes to think about it. The river flows through the easiest path, but this does not means it is the smartest path.
Would you be open to filing an issue with these details? https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/new?assignees=&lab...

We do not have anyone who is deeply familiar with USV spec details on the team, and could use your help to understand what needs to be fixed.
Of course EU producers who package food for export label it accordingly. However what Reason seems to be implying is that we just load up some cargo planes with pallets of surplus formula that are apparently not needed in Europe and bring it to the USA under some kind of "emergency" order.
> However, it is clear there is a HN downvote brigade out in force patrolling the comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The actual problem here, as it is with some many parts of our economy, is consolidation and monopoly.

One company, Abbott, controls about half the country’s supply, and has a stranglehold on distribution:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formu...
could you talk more about your experience? i don't believe cyclists in any meaningful number believe that sharrows mean cars aren't allowed, so i'd like to know more about the details of your experience (was it in the US or elsewhere, what city, information about the cyclists who had this belief and how you came to know they thought this)
Highly compositional design patterns in Java. When you have a fairly large set of custom types that are hierarchically structued in nature, it can be quite useful.

In most standard IT applications it may be less common. I've seen it used fairly well in scientific applications. There are of course other ways of approaching working with and acting on wide taxonomies of objects that could exist but this is one of them.
thanks you jerk now I have this song stuck in my head for the next 20 hours
Some mothers want to breastfeed but don’t produce enough milk.
I’m missing where in this thread or in the linked article that someone is blaming you or your ancestors for anything. Can you point it out to me please?
It's a common phenomenon on HN, typically referred to as "a casual dismissal".
I think the first 2 seasons of world building was great in Dark, but unfortunately very few people are able to close such complex series well.

The notable exceptions being Vince gilligan for BB and hopefully BCS, and the Americans team.
There are a number of reasons for a mother to choose formulas:

- baby has special diet needs

- mother doesn't produce sufficient amount

- mother is on medicine, supplements or drugs that would be expressed via breastfeeding

- mother works and preparing / preserving pre-pumped milk isn't feasible

- mother is dead

- mother chooses to use formula

Only in the last case is the availability of formula itself to blame, and even then the notion that it shouldn't be an option is somewhat cruel.
The lack of a stockpile is due to limited shelf stability and long-term bacterial growth.

It's unfortunate Reason doesn't expand on the other side of this issue: the formula industry lobbied the FDA to reduce bacterial testing frequency (and inspections overall), with an emphasis on Cronobacter risks, arguing that the FDA "overestimat[ed] the expected annual incidence of Cronobacter infection". [1]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/05/13/baby-formula-shortage-ab...
Probably because it’s like playing whack a mole, executing a few scapegoats isn’t going to fix the lack of regulatory oversight
Speaking from my own addictions: there has always been some underlying cause. With enough motivation, I was able to break free just like you did from smoking,etc... but working to resolve the addiction without resolving the root cause and any current environmental conditions to which you are responding to by eating will never work. I am in the same boat as you, what I have found out is, finding the problem is only the first step, there are many steps before actually solving it.
I think it was close to impossible at the time for a start up. Not today, but a crazy amount has changed in 20 years. Access to this kind of data has really opened up.

I remember how expensive a lot of this stuff was back then too. Access to an API for fairly trivial data could have a meaningful cost to a business back then. Tying all of this together, especially with useful geographical data, would probably have been very expensive.
> among the NPC class

Normally people aren't so open about dehumanizing people they disagree with.
> free trade alleviates these issues but only if you're not in global bottleneck

Which we are not with regard to infant formula; as the article notes, there's plenty in Europe that meets standards at least as stringent as US standards, the FDA just won't let US customers buy it because of stupid labeling requirements.

Also, your implication that in a global bottleneck, free trade doesn't work as well as other solutions, is not correct. Free trade has the least severe failure modes in global bottlenecks, precisely because there are no artificial impediments that get in the way of producers adjusting to market conditions according to straightforward economic incentives.
My impression is that at certain exchanges that accept USDT (eg. bitfinex), you can withdraw your USDT for "real" USD wired to your bank account. Isn't this effectively redeeming it, even if you're not directly transacting with Tether Operations Limited?
What’s NAC?
As a fraction of the economy it is small, but it is large as a fraction of foreign trade, and volatile.

Oil prices explain most of the moves in CAD/USD that aren't explained by diverging interest rates.

- https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/201...
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-you-can-go-...
Reason missed the key point. Well over half of US infant formula is paid for by welfare programs. Those have per-state monopolies awarded by competitive bidding. So it's not an ordinary consumer product.[1]

[1] https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/39616/PDF
Those things are fun, I did a lot of abstinence experiments myself when I was young. I learned that I don't want any constraints for food ever.

Eating only powdered protein low quality and fake stuff will mess you up and your kidneys.
So I once choose coma patient food. It comes in many varieties for all ages and is cheap in bulk.
It is complete, tastes medium awful and you only feel horrible for the first few days. Then just drained, zombified and mildly happy until you can't take this stuff anymore.
High fibre content is important.
I like that they mentioned that they did this for cheap, but did not seem to care that they were calling ~1000 random people. And they plan to do this regularly.
Germany clearly inspected the formula. Clearly baby formula imported from Germany is still inspected. The only distinction is it's inspected by Germany instead of American inspectors.

This would be as insane as Florida insisting that baby formula can only be sold in Florida if it was inspected in Florida. Baby formula inspected in New York cannot be sold, even though it was inspected.
You pretty quickly exceed what one instance can handle for memory, cpu or both. At that point you don't have any real good options to scale while maintaining a flat namespace (you need to partition).
One Nazi flag, many Confederate flags, and white nationalists in the group:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-conservative-swasti...

> A small number of the assembled protesters have displayed Nazi insignia, including the swastika and yellow stars of David, while others have flown the Confederate flag during these anti-government demonstrations.

> Other groups have since attached themselves to the movement, including some far-right and white nationalist elements.

What should we call these people? Your being upset at them being called Nazis says more about you than Trudeau.

Note that the protest organizers made no attempt to dissociate themselves from these and only did so in the later days of the protests.

Trudeau's criticism of his conservative colleagues was more about them not criticizing these people (which they didn't) and not calling them Nazis.

It's also telling that the protests against lockdowns criticizing Trudeau, calling for his death (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-protest-racist-deat...) were not addressed towards Doug Ford, the Ontario premier responsible for the lockdowns. No politician in Canada should get any death threats but the point I am making was no criticism was directed towards Doug Ford for something he did (the longest lockdown in North America in Ontario) but towards Trudeau, who had no role in it.

That tells you everything you need to need to know, that is, if you want to know it and not be willfully obtuse.
It seems like run-of-the-mill good, mature behavior to me. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but there is rarely a good moment to be hostile. Among other things, it empowers the other person to turn me into someone I don't want to be.
Another example here in NYC recently. The driver ultimately blamed a vehicular malfunction and the DA basically said there was no way to disprove that so the driver walked free. By all appearances the driver got away with road rage murder.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/01/13/driver-who-killed-del...
"We" would be any nation with legitimate climate targets.
Generally speaking (though that is changing somewhat) American's are known to be Workaolics, taking fewer vacation days, working more hours, etc etc etc.

I dont know about trust per say, but there is I think more of social resistance to co-workers who would be perceived as "not pulling their weight", which I think would contribute to work from home success here

That said I can not speak to the culture in India so it may be the same there, no idea
One fun thought: for identified industries, each production line maintains X days of inventory of any foreign dependencies. The implications are interesting to ponder.
You are correct about Texas not wanting the Federal gov't to have much control over their energy grid and that is a large part of the reason that we are not connected to other parts of the national grid.

Back a few decades ago when Clean Air regulations came into play (Texas was not on the national grid at the time) Texas used their control of the Texas grid to allow grandfathering in of most of the dirty coal generation plants with no requirements that they meet federal standards. Texas mined lignite for many of their plants and bought coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin for others. New plants under construction had to meet the new standards but old plants could keep on rocking along spewing their ash and pollutants all over the state and everyone downwind. Supposedly it was allowed because utilities argued that it was too expensive to bring them into compliance.

What a joke. This is the same state where a chicken billionaire walked the floor of the legislature passing envelopes of cash to representatives and at the time said that this was just the way to do business here.

And after last year's winter break-down they crafted a handy way to pass all the costs of electricity related to their failures to do simple maintenance and upgrades on to Texas taxpayers while at the same time lobbying and winning property tax reductions which conveniently enough, finances a large part of the state's operations. People keep voting for the same old losers and then griping when it bites them in the ass.

So many parts of Texas are broken and dysfunctional that it is sad but funny to hear someone say they want to move here for any reason. We used to be great but the clowns are driving the short bus here now and everyone wants to ride since it's cheaper than the last place they lived, maybe.
You said Midwest. Not small town.
This portion of the FAQ: https://kagi.com/faq#privacy

Would seem to address those concerns — if the only money coming in is users paying directly, that would seem to preclude selling the data for further monetization. Or are those known weasel words?
Because like most things the govt stockpiles it would just go to waste.

Why not just get rid of the regulations? It’s free, and saves everyone money and alleviates shortages.

Personally, I love having moved to a country where no one relies on the govt for anything.
We don't educate, we school.
We'll look back on homelessness the same way in 100 years
Did you actual address your addictions or did you just fill that hole with something new and so moderation became easy? I would suggest stop focusing on the symptoms and focus on the underlying problem that is driving your addictions, whether that is unhappiness or persistent habit triggers or whatever it might be. If you "quit food" will you just be writing this same post next year but with a new addiction?

More concretely:

- Identify why you need an "escape valve". Understand that having an escape valve that dominates your life negatively is the problem, not the shape that valve takes

- Identify the triggers that push you to the escape valve. Both the long-term triggers (for example, it could be being stressed or unhappy) and the immediate habit triggers (for example, it could be seeing paraphernalia or being extremely hungry). Try to reduce the long-term triggers. Try to develop new habits around the immediate triggers (trigger still exists, but habit response is something you want to do). Being aware of your habit loop is IMO important for improving how you react to triggers (therapy can be really helpful here)
But this isn’t true for everyone. My skills and productive output is increasing each year but life quality and discretionary income just keeps going down.
I think this discussion is too focused towards stable blackholes. How useful can unstable (even nanosecs) blacholes be?
It was originally push but i think they went back to sort of scheduled pull mode after a few years. There was a very in depth review doc written about this internally which maybe will get published some day
Sneakers and Wargames were in the position when studios had the desire to not dumb down the plot or the fact that since computers were so new that they could be introduced in such a manner and be a compelling part of the narrative. Even when Hackers had people from the 2600 magazine consulted for production you can see that they weren't really listened to. The only really popular shows that stressed realism in hacking / software were Person of Interest and Mr Robot.
no, terra is an algorithmic coin, the ones that are 100% backed by IRL assets are flawless
best i can gather, this seems to be a kind of strange wishful belief that some people have- for women to be exactly the same as men- and any counterexample is taken as a threat to their worldview somehow
I trained my TikTok to find worthwhile content
Sorry bro, I'm all outa outrage today.
Well I take issue on the very first line of the Reason article "Trade restrictions and over-zealous FDA regulation are a big part of the problem, but there's more."

The plant is closed with bacterial infection problems linked to the deaths of two infants. That seems the opposite of over-zealous FDA regulation.

There are definitely other regulatory issues, but I would characterize them as regulatory capture - too little regulation going against corporate interests.

Temporary easing of trade restrictions does seem like a good thing, but not really permanent easing as I suspect Reason would prefer. Permanent easing leads us to even bigger supply insecurity risks imho.
We should hire plumbers this way. “Tell me about your favourite plumbing project” for 20 minutes.
To me, it seems one of the best written pieces I have ever read, fitting to its purpose.

One suspect: some people may read that «engaging» as "glamorously captivating": that would alienate readers interested in that content - the opposite effect. The contextual text has to be lean and respond to the questions the intended reader may have. It is engaging because, as it rarely happens, it gives precisely the information you want, without adding noise (which has an discouraging effect).
> The most notable thing to me here is that nobody tried to stop it, they do not talk about barriers, only a vague mention that she might not have been nerdy enough but that notion was removed when she spoke.

Well, in a way this is kind of like confirmation bias (or maybe a different bias term? or a tautology maybe?), I think. This is a story about a woman that we know got a job at that company, so she therefore met less obstructions in getting the job than everyone who didn't get a job (there or elsewhere). The fact that she got the job and was successful enough to be someone who had an article written herself is why the article was written.

Texas being a bastion of right wing politics doesn't really matter at all in regards to systematic issue when we're looking at just a single data point. For instance, NYC could similarly be argued to be a bastion of left wing politics, but that doesn't mean there aren't occasional instances of racism, xenophobia, sexism, etc in NYC in individuals or organizations. It may be rare, but if you're looking for just a single example, it can be found, but it does not mean that it's common.

> So, what happened? 40 years later and I’m being told nearly constantly that games are discriminating towards women.

What do you mean what happened? Are you implying that with Van Mai's hire, gender discrimination was suddenly solved and no longer existed?
You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)
Exactly. The reason the plant was shut down was because it had poor sanitation.

What probably happened: company got the initial reports of deaths, did a one-off sanitation effort but didn't address systemic hygiene/sanitation issues, and the plant ended up with contamination again.
I'm getting an Access Denied. Am I the only one ? (Living in France fwiw)
As someone who is approaching mid 40s and has gone back to college, I would say I disagree with you.

Ed tech is a problem yes, because you get only 1 kind of content on a single platform. But in general, computers have given me access to so much more than a singular human interaction could.

I'll use an example (real one). "Linear Algebra" search right here on HN yields a few results and I especially liked the animated web book. Gilbert Strang's videos are well... Gilbert Strang's videos. 3blue1brown throws a fantastic perspective. Pavel Grinfeld is brilliant too.

I have so many options now, which didn't exist in 1995. And each of them is so different and great in its own way.
Other timeline
It’s unfortunate but true that one person breaking stereotypes at one small company doesn’t suddenly stop stereotypes from existing everywhere. But as an ex video game developer for a decade, long after Van made Wabbit, I’m sorry to say that female representation in games is low and barriers still exist to this day, even if things are improving. Assuming that one person’s success implies that people shouldn’t call attention to ongoing issues is the problem. It’s neither a hidden goal nor people who are trying to sow discord, there are still real imbalances.

Games these days are a bigger production effort than what it took to make Atari cartridges, and in big studios often require a CS degree. Women in CS went up for several decades until the mid 80s, and then started going down again. So gender imbalances in education play a large part in the state of things today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_disparity_in_computing#...
A large part of Texas has already been over 100°. Generally west of Hwy 281 towards Odessa and north to the Red River has seen hotter days overall than most of the rest of the state.