skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is a summary of a different article:
https://capitolism.thedispatch.com/p/americas-infant-formula...

It seems odd that the posted article ignores how WIC contracts are distorting the market and encouraging a monopoly and instead jumps on over-regulation being the problem. It sure seems like those contracts should either not be exclusive or should require suppliers to demonstrate supply resiliency in the face of a single factory failure.
The government regulations enable the monopolies. It’s incestuous.
Aren't IQ tests basically BS?

> TruTV’s Adam Ruins Everything is known for debunking accepted wisdom. It took less than two minutes to demolish IQ tests:

Quote: https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/charles-darwin-sp...

Video: https://youtu.be/W3oUqKUx2o0
Note that, at least in the case of this article, the topic of "female representation in games" isn't just about women having jobs in the industry, but also about making games featuring women. Both of these aspects are what I'm referring to as well.

I've been playing games for 30-something years, and I think women aren't portrayed as well as they should be. It's come a ways over the years, but I don't think it's fixed. I'd call it a problem. If you think it's perfect as-is, then I guess it's not a problem for you.
> completely replace food with protein powders and vitamins

Woah don’t do that. That is a bit too much. Just pick foods that you won’t eat. Highly processed or highly fatty or whatever. Personally I stopped eating cheese and it’s been good for me.
How would you feel about your first statement of the word 'trans' were replaced with Black, gay, Catholic or really any other protected class?
There’s a fourth camp: People who have no other choice because the content has not been made available in their region.
I wish more people would wake up to the impact that monopolies have on their economic and wellbeing security.
Related:

Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29840802 - Jan 2022 (198 comments)

Sneakers: Robert Redford, River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient caper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620095 - Dec 2021 (7 comments)

Sneakers (1992), the Film - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111977 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)

Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643270 - May 2016 (54 comments)

Sneakers - movie about pen testing, crypto/nsa, espionage, and deception (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6196379 - Aug 2013 (5 comments)

What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498985 - Sept 2012 (46 comments)

Sneakers (Film, 1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499298 - July 2010 (1 comment)

Joybubbles: the blind phreaker whom Whistler was based off of in Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443241 - June 2010 (1 comment)
Sure, maybe more.
If you want a web only capable of delivering static documents, you may be interested in Geminispace.

As far as why we use the web for "apps" (which seems to mean any site with any non-trivial interactivity provided by javascript, as opposed to any site emulating the function of a native application, which there are few of,) we do so simply for the reason that the web as a platform already exists, and is ubiquitous, and provides a single development distribution model for text and interactivity, and that is more convenient than forcing text to be in one place and everything else to run in separate application spaces.

Running code on the web was conceived of as a possibility from the beginning, the premise that it was only ever supposed to support static documents, but then got 'corrupted' into supporting "applications," is kind of a modern retrofiction.

Also, the premise that only static documents contain information, whereas applications don't, isn't correct. The vast majority of what are considered "web apps" are, functionally, just dynamic multimedia documents.

For everything else - actual web applications - WASM will probably be the solution.
> the sample code I've seen mostly reads as noise to me

Would you rather write/read:

DIVIDE X BY 5 GIVING Y

or

y=x/5; / this would be considered "noisy" per your definition, relative to COBOL

The first is COBOL (designed to make code easier for "normal" people to read. The second is C/Java/Python/Javascript (which looks more like the math that we learn in grade school).

k/APL/J simple moves further in the direction of the algebraic notation you already know. The difference is more operations/algorithms.

When you read the one-character symbols in K as algorithms versus characters, it makes much more sense. In addition, you can read "faster" in k than in other languages, relative to the functionality being expressed.

When I review C/Java/C++, I print out the source code and write the equivalent k code in the margin. The compression ration is typically 10-20X. Doing so speeds up my work significantly when I go back over the reviewed code.
Stockpile to a point and then regularly auction off things that are nearing end of life (or, in the case of baby formula that is heavily provided by state programs, just give it to the states to distribute).

We have national oil reserves. Having reserves of other essential assets seems fine to me, especially in the case where there are few substitute goods.
Could you share how you use Obsidian for GTD? Do you make use of the Kanban extension or something else?
The lack of representation might mean that fewer games are developed targeting women/girls, which means that there’s potentialet a lot of unexplored territory.
This article isn't even arguing anything about female representation, it's just a historical piece. The way you bring up it being a problem and questioning its merits seems vaguely incendiary in this context and makes me wonder if you're actually interested in the answer.

I'm not gonna assume what your thoughts are on the matter, but I will suggest that if you're actually interested in an answer to your questions and not just starting a discussion that might or might not be fruitful for anyone, your answers will be best found doing earnest research and especially talking to real people who are affected by a lack of representation.
Comment your code. Not just the what it does, but the why as well. Basically document everything in your comments, approaches you tried, what worked, what didn't etc.

Also if you get some code from Stack Overflow etc, then leave yourself a comment of the link you found the code/library too.
> As an urban dweller in a Blue state, I get sideways accosted by accusations of racism, personally, because of my skin color, pretty regularly..

Just basing my opinion on your comment here. I doubt it’s solely because of your skin color.

You can’t even handle a post with no apparent agenda about the slavery of Africans in America without a rant.

So either this comment is a bad day or it’s indicative of your real life reactions, responses maybe even just body language and microaggressions that generate the responses you’ve received.
It’s not enough to move wet leaves off new grass, or maple helicopter seeds out of established grass. You know how I know? Because I’ve got one of the top-spec gas blowers and it often takes 4 or more passes to move these items. And I’ve tried 4 different electric ones, none of which came close to working on those two tasks.

Once they work equivalently, I’ll be happy to give up the maintenance and hassle of small gas engines.
Eiffel?
Yes, but being cryptographically broken is not matter, does it? First rule of computer security is any system is no more strong than its weakest link.

Relevant xkcd [1]: why worry about breaking advanced cryptography when you can just socially engineer the passphrase out of people?

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
Can you provide where the FDA has said European formulas are perfectly adequate? A cursory search showed instances where European formulas were pulled because they were nutritionally deficient by FDA standards.

Also keep in mind that while on its surface "nutritional labels" may seem like like superficial reason to ban something, it's the same rational for banning formula from China. Labeling is important for quality control and verification. ("Verification" defined in the quality engineering sense of "it is what it says it is".)
Just to try to make this point front and center, he says a few tweets in:

But we’re an electrical island. We’re not connected to other grids. This independence allows us to do things like build CREZ (transmission lines for wind energy) quickly and without FERC bureaucracy. But it comes with a risk: we always have to supply all of our own energy.

This is a large part of why Texas is having electrical issues making national headlines and I'm not sure it's really getting the emphasis it merits to understand the issue.
I was thinking the same thing as I was reading this. I doubt you could retain 100% random access. Instead, I think you would generally create "blocks" that are compressed in a time range that is compatible with your application (ie. 1 day blocks or 1 week blocks, etc.) and then when picking date/times you take X blocks and then further refine the query after compression (example: load May 5th block --> May 5th 8:10AM - 11:13AM). At least, that is what I have done in the past in my own home grown apps. Essentially each block then starts and terminates compression - # of blocks is a trade off in compression efficiency vs. granularity.
Brawndo has electrolytes.
More stories about early female game developers: http://www.atariwomen.org/stories/
The Technologist’s Classic Blunder
Why not just use Java and .NET? They have pretty capable VMs which support lots of languages: Java, Python, Clojure, C#, F#, Visual Basic, Python, C++ and others.
My number is unremarkable and I still get a half dozen spam/scam calls a day. An extra one in six months would go unnoticed. If you're not in my contact list, you go straight to voicemail.
> (b) dismissing the format and value of IQ tests. Let's set these aside and discuss the open question:

>> What specific environmental factors cause changes in intelligence remains relatively unexplored.

If IQ tests don't accurately measure intelligence, what's the worth of discussing those environmental factors?
Wouldn't this be balanced out by the reduced lead in the environment? There is a fairly strong argument that removing lead has lead to the decrease in crime (due to less development damage).
How exactly is it a problem caused by infant formula manufacturers?
The worst side of Canada is what people have done to real estate. This is going to bite back the country eventually, it's really just a giant Ponzi scheme now.

They kind of forget that most well educated Canadians can easily go south of the border for better opportunities, cheaper housing and surprisingly better health care.
A huge difference between monarch and other tsdb that isn’t outlined in this overview, is that a storage primitive for schema values is a histogram. Most (maybe all besides Circonus) tsdb try to create histograms at query time using counter primitives.

All of those query time histogram aggregations are making pretty subtle trade offs that make analysis fraught.
Help yourself, please.
> I'd love to know if anyone has been able to completely replace food with protein powders and vitamins, hospital liquid diet, or any other alternative. The idea here is to abstain from food for a full year and then restart eating normally with a light balanced diet with a nutritionist's help

Please, please, please: live naturally. Respect nature. You are made of nature. Treat yourself properly. If it is unnatural, do not do it. You take an award for having introduced to our collective mind the unthinkable concept, «abstain from food for a full year».

If you have strong will power, consider the game of "forcing yourself to the healthiest diet ever".

(Since you are there, consider proceeding to considering the game of "forcing yourself to the healthiest life ever". There may be a chance that it could help with the «obsessive» side and finding some better «escape valve».)
It was a beanie baby.
It can’t be that hard to add a label on top of the existing label.
> The conformity is kind of the point and makes it better for the rest of us.

The 'rest of us' being people outside the monoculture? Things aren't so good there.

Conformity limits people's freedom, often greatly, often in very fundamental ways. People can't chose their religion, sexual orientation, politics, interests, career, etc. You are free to chose conformity if you like, but the problem is that conformity is forced on others.
Seems to me that still falls under the umbrella of "bad government policy". So, you could say bad government policy doesn't explain the whole problem. There's also bad government policy.
Other than sibling comments, I want to provide another counter-point (in this case, I have limited knowledge to say whether trusting European inspectors right or wrong):

EASA heavily rely on FAA for 737-Max's initial certification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_certification#I...), many now believes if it is done differently, the issue can be discovered earlier.

Purdue Pharma insists on compromising Germany for OxyContin's classification as uncontrolled drug based on the premise that if Germany approves it (even later retract), it will enable other Euro-zone countries to classify OxyContin as uncontrolled drug as well. (https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/21/purdue-pharma-richard-sa...)
How does that affect retailers being unable to get supply?
"The FDA has found five strains of cronobacter at the Sturgis facility, but none match the outbreak strain. The discovery of the five types of cronobacter does however, suggest an ongoing problem at the facility and not just a single incident."

This certainly doesn't look good, but as far as we know it didn't make anyone sick.

Risk calibration by the government seems significantly off when contamination that doesn't make anyone sick causes a nationwide baby formula shortage, but any number of things that could mitigate covid, which is killing hundreds of people per day, aren't being done.
I've never been a fan of Java due to the GC and the boilerplate and runtime overhead (time but also space) that come with it. But I've always had respect for it because it felt so minimal and consistent in its own way, bulky but solid kinda like a BMW car.

Now that functional stuff and instanceof fluff is something else. I don't like it either.
Well let me put it to you this way. He whines about proof of work, as is popular to do. Proof of work means to expend resources to produce a true statement such that the cost of lying is prohibitive, because producing an accurate record is better than producing nothing, given the same expenditure.

Cost of refutation is a related rhetorical concept. If this worthless article is going to can a few common critical tropes, all previously addressed, even by other technologies in the same space it aimed at, why should I do anything other than respond with equivalently low effort?

Because you want me to expend the resources? I thought wasted resources were bad? That's the premise of the whining after all, isn't it? Disingenuous, worthless article, preying upon stupidity, fear and moral outrage, which just happened to be filed within days of most cryptos dropping 25% in price, roughly, in the middle of a bear market.
Yeah, it blows my mind the whole general push of, "Parents know best". Hell no they don't! They're not experts on anything, how in the everloving fuck would any parent be qualified to determine if a specific formula brand is "good enough" for their child?

I would bet 90%+ of parents could not tell apart formula from formula cut with 10% fentanyl. Parents do not know best.
> I am very weary of any "think of the kids" outrage, it's usually bullshit...except the LGBTQ indoctrination at a young age, that is real

That is probably one of the most obviously not real moral panics you could possibly fall for.

> You can't convince me that this is the base rate and up until now 1 in 5 people were LGBTQ but were just afraid of coming out.

Why not? They use to not tell anyone because they were afraid of being murdered, that seems like the most obvious explanation, application of occams razor, etc..
> There's plenty of cultural orthodoxy in cities as well, it's probably just more agreeable to you.

What are you referring to? In large cities, you can think and do what you want and nobody will much care or notice unless you force them to.
> Shocking New Programming Language Bewilders Programmers at Google and Facebook!

> to bewilder (sb): To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone

Probably true! :D
Plus, building on this, the article mentions Van Tran having a 3 person team to make a game. On a team that size, the one women on the team has a much bigger influence than the one women on a larger (and sometimes MUCH larger) team that's more common today at big game companies.
Wet nurses exist. Period. I know of more than one woman who donates breast milk. They both have continued to pump as their kids grow to give back to the community.

“Wet nurse” is a phrase for this very reason.
Chatbox is sort of a social media network,it's features are instant messaging ,posting,group chatting and more...
July and August are much hotter. The suggestion is that if the Texas grid cannot handle unseasonable weather by a month or two, we are in a very dangerous situation going forward. Especially since unexpected weather seems to be increasingly common.
I would assume that Google cares more about total profit, from any available source, over some lesser amount of profit from a particular source, such as ad sales.

...

Which implies that they think that continuing to sell ads will make them more total profit than Google Premium, at any price.
From China and countries where there is no recourse, not from Europe.
Comparing Rust supply chain safety tools
By the time surround sound was brought about in the 80s, Dolby was already a pretty well recognized brand and the Double D symbol associated with noise reduction on audio cassettes. And it's doubtful whether Dolby would have been around to bring Surround sound to market if it weren't for their success with tape NR.

Adults with disposable income introduced to Dolby Surround in the 80s for their home theater were still commonly using audio cassettes (no other recordable medium in the US really took off until CD-Rs - MiniDiscs had a small following, DAT even smaller and DCC failed completely (and probably just as well)) - so it's not even a later generation. However, it wasn't uncommon for a household to have multiple HiFi systems and maybe a Walkman or two - while Dolby Surround and home theater was comparatively less common.
Total volume of... what? Contained within event horizon? Surely not singularity? (Which I would assume to be a... well, singularity.)
Not to get anybodies goat, but living in larger homes with above normal HVAC systems is very expensive. Insulating homes has come a long way in the past few decades, but size is what matters. Energy companies are always going to look for ways to make money, why would we help them by using large amounts of electricity? I live in a hot state, Oklahoma, the best I ever did was upgrade my A/C to a R-410a system. This was 11 years ago and it has more then paid for itself. (My old R-22 system was well maintained) We can't rely on the energy companies to do anything cost saving for us, we must do it.
"Write-only language"
The latter, because the former clearly doesn’t understand the game.
Well maybe you should just ban Reason magazine then. Afterall, they don't have 1st amendment protection since 'Reason' is owned by a foundation, and not a person.
True! It's a rather extreme form of inconvenience.
So much for the fundamentals of freedom. So I can compel you to behave and live as I want? Or vice versa?

And it's completely unnecessary - in fact, people do very well living in freedom, as you can see in most places (by population) in the free world. No societies have been more successful, and it's not close.
Well nobody is closer to Hitler than Adolph Hitler, and what did he say? I remember a Finnish audio engineer recorded him speaking in his normal conversational voice, of which there was no other recording.

He told his elite he fucked up. Russia was turning the war around, and specifically it was because of Donets, where there was a tank factory that made a disgusting amount of tanks, because its people were "living like animals." So they could make more tanks! So Communism worked at that place, at that time, when people worked with abandon, incentives be damned. And in fact English and Americans didn't want Russians to have a decisive victory, they wanted them to barely win so there wouldn't be a Cold War, not roll over Berlin before they did.

Donets has never stopped fighting Nazism.

EDIT: My Youtube isn't cooperating, it showed me a video about that recording where they cut and let a historian talk right in the moment I'm talking about, when a subordinate said "In Donets!" and Adolph Hitler replies, "Aye, in Donets". That's where they cut it. That tells you everything.
I have it on Laserdisc and will definitely look for this next time I watch!

Edit: had to check. Yup, its there on LaserDisc...
https://files.catbox.moe/l031en.jpg
If you want to get mad about people spamming this phone number with fake calls, you're about 40 years too late. The numbers are already spammed to hell; there's hardly any harm in one more call every 6 months to document the phenomenon.
This is the uncomfortable truth.

We'd all like to be judged by our objective value, but the problem is, it's really hard to measure it, so we have to use some kind of heuristics. One of the heuristics is self-confidence which is supposed to come naturally with skill.

So if you hide yourself from the world, don't be surprised that the world doesn't see you. If you want the world to see you, it is your responsibility to sell yourself, in order to inform and assure others of your value. The valueable ought to be louder than the conmen, in order for world to work properly.
This woman can make a video game in positive circumstances 40 years ago and discrimination against women can still exist in the video game industry today. Those can both be true.
Commodore 64 Chip Designer Interview: Albert Charpentier
Not just that, the worldle guy also invented r/place
> When in the last five years have you had difficulty cashing out USDT, USDC, or DAI at dollar value?

Wow, naming USDT was a bold choice since Paolo's answer as to why they can't tell you what backs it was almost verbatim what Skilling said when asked why Enron couldn't provide a balance sheet. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp5kv7aENxw
> and voila, all dynamic languages suddenly started to convert into statically-typed

This is... just wrong.

Plenty of people are using JS without any sort of typing whatsoever. Other dynamic languages, like Clojure, Gradle, Elixir, Pharao (a smalltalk), just to mention a few, are still going strong.

> they have this webassembly, that runs in a schizophrenia-type VM wannabe

wasm is mostly being used as a target for C(++), Rust and even C# programs that want to run in the browser. It's there to expand the reach of the browser. Most JS projects don't touch the stuff.
Why is that necessary when it appears there is sufficient global supply and regulations are causing it to be unavailable to the US market? The issue isn't a shortage of production, as far as I can tell. And even if there were, a stockpile only absorbs a temporary shortage. A strong industry with many producers is what the government should desire, I imagine.