skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree 100%!

In fact approx 10+ yrs ago the NY Times Sunday mag ran an article that said what you just did. In short, corn subsidies lead to cheap sweeteners, and those to cheap (but frutose based) foods.

Ironic that cities (e.g., Philadelphia) have a (so called) sugar drink tax" but their tax dollars (via subsidies) were already used to lower the cost of those drinks. Ultimately, the consumer pays. The consumer always pays.
> This is an insult [...] Just fucking wow [...] If you think you're entitled

It doesn't look like you've been in this kind of flamewar on HN before, or at least not recently, so I'm going to assume that something in the parent comment provoked a strong reaction in you based on experience that the rest of us don't know about. This happens all the time of course. On HN, we all need to remain respectful and give the other the benefit of the doubt, even if their comment was clueless. Your comment would have been fine with just the third and fourth paragraphs.

We have almost no information about each other—just a few dots—but since we're wired to relate to other humans, we always connect the dots to get a picture. Lacking information, we fill the picture in with past experiences of our own, often painful ones, especially when we've seen one or two of those dots before. (Just one is enough, two feels like absolute proof.) In reality we're mostly making these pictures ourselves and then seeing them in the other. Everyone does this everywhere, but it's acute in internet comments because we have so little information about whoever we're speaking with.

On HN, we need to watch for those reactions in ourselves and consciously hold them so they don't blast out at others. The reason is not so much to spare others' feelings, but to protect the commons. When people start blasting and blasting back, they destroy things like gardens and cities, and HN is like those.

You made good points in this thread. But those go up in flames like everything else in a flamewar. That prevents good points from being expressed and received—the kind of exchange that leads to more complex behavior, which makes discussion interesting. Everything on HN boils down to trying to be more interesting where possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is simple, MySql has in-memory storage, and PSQL doesn't: all updates for your table are forced to be synced to the disk, which kills performance.
Number-juggling. Wages grow fast, buying power sinks faster.
It’s called a receipt, and they better be handing them out.
The hard part is coming up with an incentive system for miners to stay online, create and verify the new blocks.
To date, the most lucid writing i’m aware of on psychedelics is Huxley’s 1954 essay The Doors of Perception.
Again what would it change? Chinese people are even more dependent/addicted on smart phones than Westeners. They would just switch to Androids and be even worse off in my opinion.
it doesn't seem to me that people are considering things in terms of the "indian race" (if there is such a thing).
You are indeed correct. How embarrassing. :/
He is talking about people who know what they are doing and why and others who don't. He shouldn't have used the terms "Junior" and "Senior". I am pretty Senior but I sometimes do stupid stuff do in a rush. that doesn't make me junior.
> The Turks in Germany also voted for Erdogan in large numbers.

The Turks in Germany who voted voted for Erdogan in large numbers.
One argument here is that the law is settled. If it's securities law that applies, as the SEC has started, then it's been settled for over 80 years.
Have you ever tried to read a thousand tapes? Weeks.
I was once involved in a project to copy old Stanford SAIL backup tapes. They just needed people to load tapes on a drive, wait, unload, and go on to the next tape. Reading a tape took 20 minutes. Transfer time over the Internet to a file server took under a minute.
You're confusing programming with computer science, they are not remotely the same thing.
I know, right? I asked the same question above(had an interesting answer too), makes me want to apply for a junior dev position :-p
Blame should really not enter into the picture. Just because men and women have asymmetrical strategies it don't make one of them more wrong or right. The reason I brought it up is that understanding asymmetrical strategies is key to reach common ground in gender discussion.
I presume that you've heard about the glorious Project Acoustic Kitty?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
> Ok, I'm relatively new to professional coding (I tried to be an engineer for a while before being lured in by the programming money). I have a question: what exactly is a junior developer? I mean, if you don't understand how a 'switch' works, I would have thought that basically means you can't program, and shouldn't be working as a programmer.

Generally I think misusing language constructs as in this 'switch' example - or misapplying patterns - are the hallmarks of a junior. They used the screwdriver handle to drive the nail in, and sure, it works, they just didn't know a hammer was available to do it better.

And without wanting to get too silly with the tools analogy, the eventual accumulation of those tools in your brain's toolbox is what makes you move from junior to mid to senior, but there's no clearly defined line of when that is, or which tools they are, because the field is so varied and each language/ecosystem carries its own nuances.
I know senior Java devs with 20 years experience, who can not write switch statement. It is pretty limited language construct.
It's absolutely absurd that "arrest quotas" are even a thing in America. The job of the police in most first world countries is to protect the people, not make arrests for ludicrous laws. I don't want my tax dollars funding police officers camping out on highways to hand out speeding tickets or arresting random people for having pocket knives on them. No wonder Americans have such an adversarial relationship with the police.
It's a good question. From what I've read, they act like securities leading up to the event, but only for a one off event. Afterwards the instrument (ticket) has no value. That makes it unlike a security.
13KB --- that's a very odd number and according to the site, was chosen arbitrarily. 16 or 8 would be more usual in the demoscene, where they were traditionally enforced by the limits of the hardware.

There is a related competition with a limit of only 1024 bytes: http://js1k.com/
You make a good point about defining junk food, buy I'm not sure Chobani yoghurt is the best example; the only sugar in plain Chobani yoghurt is lactose from the milk that was used to make it - lactose has a much lower glycemic index than that of glucose.
Do tech companies really need all that data?
My grandfather piloted some of the CORONA recoveries, and was part of the group flying Fulton recoveries in Vietnam, although he says he never flew an operational mission in country. It's pretty cool to hear him talk about it.

Also, the Fulton system and the CORONA system were slightly different. The CORONA system required you to fly over the parachute, while the Fulton system had you fly into the line between the ground and the balloon. My grandfather says that the Fulton system was much easier to do for this reason.
Take the medicines so you can enjoy an even better life.
The DevOps Trap
Is this illness olympics? Both are bad.
It's been years since I've used a switch statement. I have completely forgotten the correct syntax, though I could look it up in a second
You talk about these like they are two distinct problems, but they're closely related. Unhealthy body image drives a lot of unhealthy food behaviors and weight gain [1]. That negative body image is driven by many things, including fashion culture promoting atypical or fictional bodies [2][3]. It is also driven by a culture of fat shaming. [4]

So if you are really serious about reducing harm from obesity, promoting more realistic, healthier body images is a valuable step in that direction.

[1] e.g.: http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2815%2900288-8/p...

[2] http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html

[3] e.g.: the phenomenon of "shadow pies" http://memehuffer.typepad.com/meme_huffer/2008/06/who-ate-al...

[4] http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/health/fat-shaming-sick-study-...
That's frustrating.
People are never happy.
This is because of tax, accounting and inventory
Southern prisons have a smuggled cell phone problem
Odd that there wouldn't be a public explanation for this. Poking through board_config I found support for the A10X (T8011), and for the three Apple Watch chips, but not for the new A11 SoC (T8015).
Thanks, 4th largest according to https://gigaom.com/2010/07/28/top-ten-broadband-providers/. China Telecom being the largest with ~60M.
I think Apple (and everyone else) is doing pretty well with their closed source software.

Apple doesn't need others to make lower and cheaper devices. They're more than capable of doing it themselves, they just don't want to.
Taking decades to draw certain conclusions about my own life is not something I would describe as casual.
The JS one doesn't work at all[1] - the cases are Strings, the input is a number.

[1] - tested on Safari, but still...
> A third raccoon surprised the scientists by inventing an entirely new method for solving the problem. She found a way to overturn the entire, very heavy, tube and base to get the marshmallow reward.

I see these scientists are not particularly familiar with racoons. That's a raccoon, all right. Weld it to the floor and they'll still make a mess of it!
VIDEOPAD VIDEO EDITOR 5.11 SERIAL and CRACK FINAL
Mining bitcoins on a modern laptop is utterly useless. All of the mining is done on specialized hardware nowadays. Revenue would be less than pennies per year on a CPU.
I actually set a reminder for Firefox 57 in my calendar...
Why Ansible is the future of Red Hat–and automated devops
Does anyone if there is a formal verification mechanism for proof-of-work blockchains (kinda like Jepsen) ?
We switched to one family car around 7 years ago, as I quickly realized it would be a lot less hassle and expense for me to just use public transportation to get into the city.

Fast-forward to now and I'm seriously contemplating buying another car (which I am utterly loath to do), solely because of how unreliable public transport is in my part of the world.

Besides the above, I had a conversation with a cyclist in work earlier this week who is considering giving it up and going back to driving (also against his will) because he finds it hard to breathe with all the diesels on the road that have had the particulate filters ripped out (a law that is completely ignored here, so is commonplace).

(As a side note, if you're wondering how he knows which cars have had this done, Google "coal-rolling" and you'll understand quickly.)

This is far more nuanced (and ridiculous) than people understand. While it might be healthy in the US to walk and cycle rather than drive, in Europe it's borderline hazardous.
No, but Tony Blair suspended the Northern Ireland assembly several times and reimposed direct rule from London, which is probably where the Catalan issue is headed, because everything is illegal from the state's point of view.

Texas has had secessionist movements also for some time, but it'd be also illegal to do a binding referendum, and Washington would take the required steps to stop it.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/24/can-texas-legally-se...
The abandonment of Puerto Rico by by the rest of the US, and its politicisation by the president, is extraordinary. How is this playing out over there in mainland US, or do people not really regard it as American?
If those generalizations don't apply to your small community, fair enough. But what then makes it okay for you to state generalizations that don't apply to my urban area?
Uber sanctioned for refusing to comply with sexual battery investigation
Oh don't be silly. The "produced" part is obviously only applied to consumable items. Something is not obsolete because it is no longer manufactured. It might be obsolete if consumable parts for it are no longer manufactured. Nobody would use obsolete to refer to a tool that still performs its intended function but is no longer manufactured.
This means that we should have cheap non-apple phones capable of running iOS applications. Why would apple allow that?
I tried Style2Paints on a simple animation I did a while back. No manual color hints. I just played a bit with the references and settings in the web interface and used the provided models. The input were uncolored outlines. Considering it has very little in common with the anime training set I think it looks promising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZixy1cXQPE
I'm honestly not sure. It would be cool to attempt that, but I have a feeling at least the chrome dev tools use internal/privileged APIs
"The internet" or "the web" is already dead, in the sense that most people use a handful of sites run by a handful of large companies. The internet could essentially be a native app run by a corporate governing body and more than 95% of people wouldn't notice.

Net neutrality is an irrelevant issue given that situation. And if you want to change that situation, pay-to-play is the least of your worries: convincing people to change their walled garden habits will be far more pricey.
I tend to classify the developer track using terminology borrowed from American high schools. "Freshman", "Sophomore", and then "Senior".

The Freshmen are straight out of school. Hopefully the DO know how to write a `switch` statement (that's just basic competence)... but they typically know little or nothing about working in a team, source control branching strategy, unit testing, breaking tasks up into tickets and estimating them, and a thousand other aspects of real-world professional development.

The Sophomore phase is when you know enough to be dangerous. You've mastered all of those basics, and have set about learning more advanced topics. You've learned a 100 different design patterns from books or blogs, and can't wait to find excuses to incorporate each one somewhere (whether justified or not). You've learned Groovy/Scala/Clojure/Kotlin whatever, and lobby to migrate your company's application because going back to plain Java is too unbearable. Etc.

The Seniors aren't much more knowledgeable than the Sophomores. They've simply gone through enough ego-gratification, that at this point they have the confidence to demur on complexity and favor simplicity instead. They tend to write more documentation and code comments, explicitly declare their types for visual clarity, terminate statements with semicolons even if their language doesn't require it, etc. They can push back on bad business requirements, and tend to offer more conservative (i.e. informed and realistic) estimates.

Typically, the Sophomores teach the Freshmen. The Seniors teach the Sophomores. I've never seen anyone jump over the middle step.
Is it American lobbying? As an American, I could never live in Europe since the cigarette smoke everywhere disgusts me. Too bad because they have a lot of other things figured out but will still be smoking the cigarettes outdoors in a crowded restaurant seating or worse, around children. I've never seen anything like it in the US though the current riser of ecigs is concerning.
Cash or not when it hits hard and you go to a local ground-master to buy food and water, he won't accept any fancy green paper printed with american president on it. It will be just paper in his eyes like a toilet roll. You can trade with your watch or other valuables but better yet make sure you have some silver coins. Just get few of these bags and you should be fine:

http://www.monex.com/prods/silver_90.html
Low water, lock repairs send U.S. river freights soaring
Then again, we’re seeing massive amounts of hacking and propaganda on the current internet. Change is probably over due, but not this kind.
Kernel != userspace

macOS kernel has been open source since OSX came out.
> This is one of the things that web-based forums have yet to get right. Email (and NNTP news) clients from 20 or 30 years ago are far superior in this respect, because they can intelligently deal with threading and folding.

If you buy Reddit gold which makes Reddit to highlight posts that are new since you last time viewed the discussion, then Reddit becomes almost as good as NNTP clients were 20 years ago.
In most elections only the people who voted get counted. That's the way elections work. The Turks in Germany could have voted against him if they had wanted to without fear.
This is why the 2nd Amendment is an important right to uphold. If one cannot protect oneself against criminal elements, one is vulnerable to be harmed, intimidated, & suppressed.

Outlawing certain types of guns & knives also exposes the population to selective enforcement, civil asset forfeiture, & other means to tyranny.

Of course, there are practical limits, like it probably wouldn't behoove us to ensure that everybody has a right to carry a briefcase nuclear bomb.

It's about creating a cogent system of checks & balances that acknowledges that people oppress each other. A system that acknowledges that politics can be a vehicle of liberation/oppression, that the voting public can be educated/deceived, & that people unite or devolve into tribes.
I’m not sure why none of the studies touch on seasonal variation. I think I will research more of that but does anyone has a reference?
Came to post this exact same thing.

Rational potential jurors out there, don't dodge that summons! You're the last safeguard against tyranny.
iirc the last time i used a switch was to create a static factory method to instantiate objects. the static class had a static method that took an enum as input. the return type was an abstract base class. the method switched off of the enum, new'd up the type - did some common initialization - and returned the new object to the caller. this approach keeps your "creation" logic in one place.
It does not mean that at all. This is not iOS itself being open-sourced, only the Darwin kernel is open-source, which is pretty much useless in isolation, certainly for trying to develop a cheap phone to run iOS apps.
You can already use a U2F key with a Google account, such as a Yubikey 4 or other generic key.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523
6$ cross country IOT device for parcel tracking [pdf]
3 Months with the Amazon Echo Show
I don’t have the expertise to comment on the effectiveness of this legislation, but your simile doesn’t work. Both anorexia and obesity are symptoms of the same problem: society projecting unrealistic body imagery, more generally over focus on physical appearance over health indicators, contributing to serious body image psychological issues, particularly among females. People with either diagnosis often have related eating activities like restriction and many overweight people have been underweight or undernourished previously. These are complex physiological and psychological topics and we won’t make holistic progress as long as diet and health advice, including government programs, are dominated by pseudoscience — case in point, the joke that is the food pyramid.
Also, ants seem to use arithmetic and (maybe) information theory when they communicate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235654126_Ants_and_...
Just last year in the deserts of the American Southwest with spotty telecoms I made purchases with credit cards where the seller just made a rubbing of my card on the carbon slips using the edge of his cell phone.
"Monoid" is an adjective that describes a data type.

Anything you describe as a monoid has to have three properties: you can add them together, there's an "empty" or "zero" value, and (a + b) + c = a + (b + c).

For example, strings with concatenation are a monoid, because you can use an empty string and the string + operator.

For example, integers with addition are a monoid, because you can use 0 and the integer + operator.

For example, sets are a monoid, because you can use the empty set and the union operator.

For example, a "Picture" data type could be a monoid, because you could have a fully-transparent picture and use an "overlay" operator to put one picture on top of another.

Why do you care? Well, for one thing, it just makes it easy to find the function or operator you want to use: as the OP said, if I feel like my data type should have a concat or append operator but I don't know what it's called, I just use mappend / mempty / mconcat.

But, as another practical example: "sum" in Python works for numbers, but I've seen folks assume that it works for anything that you can use + on, and so try and use strings with it. But, because "sum" isn't a general purpose tool, that doesn't work! In Haskell, on the other hand, the equivalent -- mconcat -- will work on anything that is a monoid. (And can be specialized to work faster for specific data structures.)

Other languages also have monoids. If someone tells you Haskell has monoids and other languages don't, what they really mean is, Haskell makes explicit the monoid pattern / interface, where other languages have it implicitly for different data types. Talking about the pattern explicitly isn't revolutionary, but it can be pretty useful for discoverability and writing "general" algorithms.

Instead of calling data structures monoids, you'd get the same effect if, as a programming language community, you decided that as many types as possible should support "+", and that every data type that can should have a makeEmptyThing() method, and that it would be weird and not ok if x + makeEmptyThing() didn't equal x and if (x + y) + z didn't equal x + (y + z), and then subtly shamed any libraries that defined makeEmptyThing() and + in ways that didn't follow that pattern. But if your programming language community did this (for consistency) you'd probably want to come up with a name for it -- "Addable", "Concatable", etc -- and the Haskell community chose "Monoid" (because of relationships to theory etc etc).
> but please resist pressure to iTunes-ify what you've built.

What would be iTunes-ifying it?
I think that's true. But it's also that he Swedish concept of welfare has traditionally included the broader concept of "the welfare state". Meaning that welfare doesn't just apply to social security as such but the availability and quality of housing, education, care, transport and, as you say, even recreational activities.

It's not that sport organizations in Sweden are open to everyone out of the goodness of their hearts (though I think many people support it). It's because they are required to if they want to be registered as non-profits, receive government funding, rent subsidized facilities owned by the state etc.
> Have you considered accepting money on certain terms and subsequently using that money to do improvements? A couple millions can get quite far in improving certain aspects of the software, like UX, documentation etc.

Yes, I did. But only if the terms are fine and moral. That never happened.
No, it is fixed for 2.8.4