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New comment by eclectician in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

eclectician — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:07:01 +0000

It is, and the subjective assessment component is a black box. That said, the USDM has many other components that are objective, so it's far from being a subjective measure -- I would argue that the Fed Funds rate, for instance, is determined far more subjectively.

Also, there just isn't a more objective measure of drought out there, let alone a fully objective measure.

Also also, it's unclear to me that this black box is being gamed any harder than most other black boxes in our system. If you want to game agriculture, you game the farm bill.

New comment by eclectician in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs by Antithesis"

eclectician — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:21:27 +0000

We can go strip Shakespeare instead.

Getting from Tested to Battle-Tested

eclectician — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:02:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/getting-from-tested-to-battle-tested/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134012

Points: 30

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New comment by eclectician in "Antithesis for Founders"

eclectician — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:58:24 +0000

There's an open source giveaway program: https://antithesis.com/blog/osgp2024/