skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CHD and ICAN have produced a bevy of FOIA requests that have utterly destroyed CDC's and FDA's credibility for anyone that has been interested enough to look into the topic.

There was a FOIA request a few years ago (can't remember the name of the organization, search engines have buried these type of results) that the agency in charge of post-license safety review of vaccines has never conducted a single review since the law passed in the 80s or early 90s.
Not impossible, but pretty hard.

Not so hard to defeat such sensors by making a matching product (which should be the goal anyway for printer ink). It would then be an arms race with third party vendors and your own internal ink and sensors to make a more consistent product yourself with better and better sensors.
It does, but it's awkward in practice and falls into the same UX trap -- any advanced feature requires training & consensus on its use, and nobody has time or inclination to train on meeting software.
I haven't listened to the earnings calls but I seriously doubt the content boils down to "we could drill more and make more money, but... meh"
No.

Is this account's history that bad that I should've mentioned that in the negative? ha
The problem is that most CTOs are just trying to move up to CEO so they have to play the game which is shaping the eng and prod orgs to make it looks like he runs a tight ship and speaking the language. Then he just has to wait for the CEO to falter or move on. I have a new CTO right now and it's too early to tell if he is one of those many or if he really wants to build a good engineering org.
> vastly superior typing system. (=> less bugs)

I have no horse in this race, but claiming it to be "vastly superior" and implying "less bugs" makes it sound like this is a logical consequence, when you're actually staying on one side of an endless debate that to me doesn't have clear winners. For instance, from the little I've learned about Clojure, they claim the lack of a "vastly superior type system" is a feature, not a bug, and it's a result of a fundamental difference in some beliefs about how to write correct software.

From this I wonder how misrepresentative your other comparisons are as well. But don't get me wrong, OCaml is probably my "favorite language I've never actually used" (I've never "actually used" Clojure in "real projects" either).
Unfortunately, due to luck, you were born as a subsistance farmer in the Central African Republic. 'Smart investments' are no option to you.

Better luck next life.
Not really.

I live in NM. The agriculture sector here produces less than 8% of both the calories and pounds of food consumed within the state. Most of the beef production in NM is exported out of state (and country).

So if the "burden is on the consumer", it's on people who don't live in US southwest, and that has to stop. The fever dreams of the 1930s/40s bureau of reclamation have done so much damage.
That constant questioning around whether you've picked up covid or it's just cedar fever is fun
And that's where we stand, as a global population of humans and economic actors :)

The idea that in real life the distribution would be way way 'worse'… is in fact heavily confirmed by observation of real life. I'm just trying to make sure people don't jump to the conclusion, 'it's positive feedback all the way down, this always represents merit'.

It's quite shocking how little it represents merit. I would say it is equally likely to represent criminality, as merit. So even the 'positive feedback' ends up being pretty much a wash: we revert to the merit-less state of the distribution, only with an even more extreme power-law curve.
Have you tried F#?
From where I see it Apple TV is trying to be to streaming services as HBO was to broadcast/cable network in the pre-streaming era. Back then, broadcast/cable networks would crank out shows like a lot of streaming services are doing to day but HBO would have a much more limited selection but what they did put out was aimed to be high quality (where quality here is defined by critical approval; and production values).

AppleTV like HBO is trying to follow a strategy of focusing on the quality of the product over quantity. It seems that most of their shows esp as of late get excellent reviews and look very expensive. It probably doesn't have the viewership of the bigger streaming services like Netflix/Max/Disney+ who have more populist content but they are managing to differentiate themselves from the other services.
I would find the use of the word "luckily" to be offensive here, as it's more to do with strategy when handling sensitive data outside of the office.
> ... it seems one by one the promises of crypto of the last several years are evaporating ...

Hardly. What's happening is that a financial institution is being regulated and pro-actively adopting steps to please regulators. And those regulators will never be satisfied.

As regulators squeeze harder and harder, it will drive Coinbase under. That is not the disaster that some might think. It's a necessary next step for Bitcoin to prove that it can actually deliver on the promise of censorship-resistant money.

At the very least what's happening with exchanges, regulation, and the over-eager suits at Coinbase demonstrates the need for censorship-resistance in the first place. None of the new steps add anything whatsoever to the experience of the user. It's all about other people exercising control over that user's money.
Oil companies know EVs are coming. Investing in oil wells - which won't start producing for several years is a stupid investment that probably will not pay off. The only sane investment in oil is to milk previous investments all the way to zero.

Of course there are non gasoline car uses for oil, and those are worth investing in, but there is much less of them.
Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed
They also still exist at many playgrounds in my neighborhood.
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EcoTank printers don't use cartridges. You fill the ink tanks with ink bottles. They've come down in price, you can buy an EcoTank printer for ~$229. A couple of other companies have followed Epson in offering these kinds of printers. Sadly Brothers' version requires a proprietary cartridge tank.
an IUD?
The strongest weed isn't getting stronger.

Weed on average is getting stronger.
And the ink will have cost you £41.
> There's no room left for innovation or competitive advantage.

What? A hackable, OSS printer whose manufacturer puts time and effort into reducing waste and creating the best, longest lasting ink on the planet would crush it.

Well, maybe not. But anytime anyone has said: “That’s it. There’s nothing more to do here.” It tells me there’s a complacent market ripe for disruption.
I think the languages you selected in your final remark sum it up for me. If one is truly taken by functional programming, much of their mental model starts to revolve around algebraic (inductively defined) data types and structural recursion (aided by pattern matching) over them - such that mentally reducing the set of candidate languages really does become an implicit process of questioning: "does X have ergonomic, statically-typed, discriminated sums?".

Lots of mainstream languages simply fail this test and make it feel like intellectual poverty or that there's extreme, turgid, boilerplate required for a weak imitation of the features (see the idiomatic class-hierarchy encoding of ADTs in large projects - such as LLVM - in C++, for example).

It's absolutely no surprise that more mainstream languages are picking up a match-like construct and lighter encodings of discriminated sums. So, it really comes to what else you wish to be burdened with when compiling an OCaml-like mental model to X in your head: Tagged unions a-la C? Class hierarchies for ADTs in C++? The travesties of std::variant? Monad transformers in Haskell? Lazy evaluation? No static typing at all? Caring about memory management and ownership? Box and Arc-ing recursive components of ADTs? Writing your own arena allocator? Compiling to the JVM? Spotty TCO support?

OCaml is just a nice, fairly simple (at its core, at least), language that captures the essence of the ML family, compiles to native (and bytecode and, transitively, JavaScript), has great tooling (opam, dune, ocamllex, memhir, etc.), great libraries (official LLVM bindings, for example), and a great community. Lots of OCamlers are well aware of other potential languages that somewhat suit their style of programming, they just don't want to be burdened by the other stuff.
At work we are dealing with a bug which causes USB XHCI controller to die and become inaccessible after failed runtime resume, and it took me a while to understand how "lost USB" can be related to city resident data.
It depends on the person's mental categorisation of bugs too. For example I could see someone classifying null bugs as business logic bugs because "the business logic didn't account for that information not always being there"
https://simulator.money

A game that teaches you how financial decisions impact your life but it's turned into more of a nostalgia trip for Windows XP users
Capital punishment is just secular human sacrifice. Be as open minded as you please but I could see not wanting to live somewhere with that.
Sure it can, I decrease entropy locally and reallocate it somewhere else. Space is huge and it will take a long time to approach the limit.
"Just follow these 17 arcane steps and boom! Problem solved!" isn't a great flex.

That goes waayyy beyond "not wrapped up in a convenient user experience". Talking of finances is not so trivial a proposition as... Well, anything else that might have started our complicated on the internet.
On mobile and can’t tell whether xregexp still doesn’t have lookbehind, but in case it doesn’t I found this: https://github.com/beaugunderson/xregexp-lookbehind
There are two parks in my neighborhood of the US with similar features.
Yup. I really loved all the functional stuff I've learned there from OCaml to SML+Extended ML, to Haskell.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to professionally program functionally since the n. :(

It was all Java and C++. Though I like C++, maybe it's a Stockholm syndrome. ;)
Bitcoin's original design was a public ledger with all transactions publicly visible. That has never changed since the beginning.
I said in another comment, but here it goes:

The fuck up is not the feature, but how this is all being communicated, executed.

You could be banned even from your own private instances, and as far as we know maybe even from running the game offline. And I say as far as we know because the rules are not explicit. It's a communication disaster.

Especially because Mojang says all the time how they respect the community and ask for their input before implementing any new features and this comes in a silent minor update (1.19.1).

Bonus points for the product team that gave a gift for everyone to transition for a Microsoft account with the promise that nothing would change. Just a year ago.

The way this is all being handled feels like a privacy invasion.

And this is not even criticizing the quality of the moderation, because nothing was shown, the rules aren't clear.

The chances of you losing literally years of a personal game with some friends on a private server, that some people even create content from, is a real possibility and Mojang is acting like this moderation should be a black box.

They couldn't handle it in a worse way.
> To continue the proliferation of humanity and life in general throughout the universe. To oppose entropy.

Right, but I'm a human being, I am not humanity itself. Humanity is just an idea, it has no agency or conscience. It cannot suffer, it does not want.

As a human being, my primary responsibility is toward myself, to make myself happy, and to arrange the world according to the principles that resonate with my soul.

Toiling to make other people happy at my own expense doesn't make me happy. Even if that was the way it worked, surely the best action would be to line up to work at an Amazon warehouse and bask in opportunity to contribute to the incandescence of Jeff Bezos' prosperity.

> If that is not appealing to you, you should probably off yourself right now.

I don't really see how that follows. I'll die regardless whether it's by my own hands right now or at the hands of external circumstance some years later.
See my reference [2] for the 60 studies analyzed plus the 9 specialists interviewed. It's not about not recommending exercise, but about the fastest way to get back to a more healthy weight, then add exercise to complement and maintain.

If a subject is already severely overweight, adding exercise could compound the risks.
In my experience only beginners have this issue, as a C++ programmer the compiler is my best friend.
Can confirm that carnivore work wonders. I have been on the diet for 7 years and have never been in better health. But I will say that people should be careful with "extreme" diets as I was vegan for years and this completely wrecked me, including my teeth. I did the radical shift to canivore out of desperation, but that saved my life.
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In the long term. But in the short term there are plenty of loopholes, according to those laws of physics.
You literally opposed entropy by writing this comment.
> Well let me be the devil's advocate here and ask why.

because there's civil unrest otherwise.
No, you're right. There's nothing particularly magical about a printer. The PCL and Postscript specs have been in place for decades. Writing a driver to take that output and drive a print head to put it to paper should be pretty straightforward. (Needing to mark each print at the behest of the Secret Service to prevent counterfeiting is a question mark to me. Is that spec public?)

It SEEMS like you could make printer "kits" for people to assemble themselves, which would take bulk ink, and escape all of this nonsense. But then you'd have to sell it in stores, where HP, Epson, and Brother would act like any other large corporation to block chains like Best Buy and OfficeMax from carrying it.
Well, it depends how you want to define those problems. Paper records got wet, or burned away. Gas wasn't always available for street lights. Forged coinage was a problem - as was bribery and corruption.

So we're trading problems - but I know which world I prefer.
Do you have a more precise example in mind?

The example that you are describing should emit an error message of the form

This expression has type type_of_arg_3 -> return_type
but an expression of type return_type was expected

which seem alright to me. (But I cannot not be called an OCaml aficionado).
The type error might be delayed in sufficiently polymorphism context but that is a more infrequent occurrence (outside of functors whose error messages have been improved in OCaml 4.13 partially for this reason).
If you ignore health care, student loans and housing, sure.
The CRT was established after an atypically wet cycle, by people who were decidedly incurious about long term precipitation patterns.

http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2022/01/a-lack-of-curiosity-ab...

We would barely have to cut agricultural use in order to completely cover the water needs of doubling the entire population of the US southwest. Yes, surface and ground water sources are "stressed", but residential use is only going to get more and more efficient on a per-capita basis. Even though growing population creates more absolute need, in as world where agriculture is flood-irrigating fields or spray irrigating alfalfa (losing an outrageous amount to evaporation), we should start with the "easy" problems first. Pay farmers to install drip systems, for a start.
This is a terrible comment, unworthy of being said here. Maybe consider hitting the edit button and express the thought in a less vile way?

If you disagree with me you should definitely continue to decide to live.
Ok, let's permit ourselves to think the unthinkable through to the conclusion rather than immediately withdraw: Why can't there just be civil unrest?
That determines the distribution for each individual, not necessarily the entire population.

However, I think you are correct and I am wrong about the population level distribution; I wrote and ran the simulation myself and got a Gaussian-looking distribution at the population level.
“The right tool for the job” is a lie
> I hope beef liver is in your daily diet, otherwise you're also going to come up short in a bunch of other micros.

I eat full lamb but will consider going mostly muscle meat, will have to find some good deal first.

> This diet is pure pseudoscience.

We've been told that all our lives. It feels that way. I'm sorry. I don't listen to general advice though. Till now it's been going ok.

Join https://old.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/ and give it a try! Who knows, maybe I'm right ;)
> Are Large Corporate Profit Margins Causing Inflation?

Phew, maybe there's some thing to this but it'd be a non-trivial chain of interdependencies that's difficult to untangle if it's possible at all.

I'd look at it in a different way:

What are large corporations?

They're organisations that (in almost all cases) have one primary goal: maximizing profits in any legal way.

And that's precisely what they're doing. And of course this means they're not taking less from customers than they can, they're taking everything they can get.

But corporations don't stop at just serving products to people. They also do lobbying to influence politics .. with which goal? Again, to maximize profits.

Who gave corporations this goal? Society. Companies aren't making profits their top priority by their own will. Society and politics decide what kinds of companies they want.

So if society sets "maximize profit" as goal for most of its companies, these companies will fulfill the task also by lobbying for laws that facilitate further maximisation of profits.
I have an ET-4550 which I use for photo prints and art reproductions, mainly in small sizes like 4″x6″ and 8″x8″.

I am happy with the quality of the output with two caveats: (1) the ink is by no means lightfast. In the room I am sitting in now (bright sun, high humidity) I can perceive fading in prints after just six months. (2) it lacks a rear tray that feeds straight-through so I am at the mercy of the pick roller when it comes to printing on particularly thick, thin or slick papers. Since I always print both sides of the paper, paper that is slick on on the "good" side is often a problem.

Epson has two higher lines in the Ecotank range, one aimed at "creatives" that has 6 inks (still dye-based) and another "pro" line that uses pigment based inks (which typically last 70 years or so.)

Even though my material costs are super-low and I can afford to replace faded prints, I don't like spending my time to make ephemeral objects so I've had ET Pro printers on order from two different vendors for six months. It seems they've all been eaten by the supply chain monster.

I'm not a big believer that I need six inks to get good quality output, but I am thinking seriously about getting an ET Photo if I can since the ink used for that should be more lightfast, although these things are unfortunately terribly documented.
Durable Objects a.k.a. Coordinators
FWIW, F# is very similar to OCaml, but its error message in this case is usually quite clear. E.g.

This expression was expected to have type
'int'
but here has type
'string -> int'
I am the same age as you; when we were young the printers themselves were garbage. Constantly breaking, ink cartridges drying out quickly if you weren't printing regularly. Do they still have that damn ribbon thing inside of them? I seem to remember that being a constant source of pain for 13-15 year old me.

Now the printers, mechanically, seem pretty good. Some still feel cheap but not necessarily low quality. But all the firmware and software around them seems to be geared at whatever it takes to get you to spend a little more money. Stories like this one are exactly why I don't update my Brother TN-730 firmware.
...or been to a public school, or ever interacted with someone who went to a public school, or, or, or.....

If you don't want taxes, you don't want society.
Raleigh is surprisingly good. Greenville, SC and Durham, NC are both excellent, too.

Been a hot minute since I lived in Durham, but I highly recommend checking out “Reality Ministry’s” talent show. It packs the largest arena in Durham every year (or did pre-COVID, anyway). Also, if Rose’s Meats and Sweets is still a thing, it’s a must visit.

Welcome to the balmy south!
I'm one of these people. Used to be an absolute workaholic, now I work as slow as is humanly possible. It works for software development since it has this weird property of not really improving much if you speed up. Someone can be really fast and not get much more done than someone who purposefully takes their time.

My brain tells me when to quit each day and it has helped tremendously with preventing burnout. I might code for two-four hours per day. However, I don't try to avoid work or block projects or steal credit and I'm always game for a new project--though I hate building greenfield apps because it seems like the devs are the only ones into it and I thrive on being part of a cross functional team.

I'm on a project right now where we developers are driving out every requirement. The business is very behind, hasn't really driven any requirements. I warned everyone at the beginning that we were going to outrun them. A few devs were pumping out code like crazy and I tried to just chill. Now we're scrambling for work--well, I'm not.
The picture of humanity you give here isn’t fact based.

At least in the United States:

No one ‘has to’ crime. People commit crime primarily because they have poor impulse control and lack long term thinking.

Or because they just really don’t like school and don’t like working a job, and don’t have any other ideas.

We aren’t living in medieval France where peasants are stealing loaves of bread. People aren’t committing crimes because they are poor. Lots of incredibly poor people commit no crime at all. Statistically it is a small subset of people.
It shouldn't be surprising that Rust's syntax is inspired by C++, Rust is literally designed to entice C++ programmers, and the syntax reflects that (modulo a handful of irresistible ML-isms to match the type system).
Plenty of playgrounds still have gravel as a base. I regularly get rocks in my sandals in my neighborhood.
Grain Stuck in Ukraine: The Fragmented Nature of Modern-Day Railways
Entropy wins universally. Locally, lots of processes are anti-entropic. Look at a leaf.
Also check out this book Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understand...
"This is the value of cash. People can choose how much they want to trust 3rd parties and how much personal responsibility they want to take on. Some people may always choose a centralized mechanism for managing their assets, some will choose to manage their assets completely on their own, and others will decide on a case-by-case basis if they want a 3rd party involved."

Fixed that for ya.
Oh yeah, it definitely has nothing to do with merit unless traits like being a psychopath is merit. Criminals would (and obviously do) exploit positive feedback just as well.
Cool, so do explain. This is HN, I’m sure we’d all like to understand.
There are otc desks that will do that small a transaction? Where?
Sure, ask a friend or someone in your local crypto community. P2P is the default in crypto.
I thought bitcoin value was decoupled from fiat though ? Where are all the "I believe in the project" people these days ? looks like they only believe in it when they're in the green
Self-hosted is entirely orthogonal to price. Microsoft Exchange and Oracle 21c are both self-hosted, for instance.