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> To those Go programmers who think they will never use them - it’s worth a little learning, and once you do you will find more ways to use them to make your code more applicable.

There was a story I came across once. It went something like this:

The proponents of every gizmo think their gizmo is superior to the others, because it's got these useful features that the others lack, and isn't encumbered by the weird useless stuff those other languages have.

If only they spent time to understand those "weird useless features"...
Except the consumption of many vegetables/fruits IS the purpose, in order to disperse its seeds, no?
For me, generics make api designer's life harder, but api user's life easier. A good enough reason for me.
TFA said it: "America gets 97 percent of its beef from feedlots."

Here's another one:

https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/cows-eat-a677816334f1...
The B2B business Amazon is running is, IMHO, more of a competition for the office supplies and small kind of unimportant stuff. Everybody currently in that business should be worries, yes.

The industrial, Full Truck or Container Load B2B supply chain is different beast. Not that Amazon couldn't figure it out, especially the logistics side. They are doing anyway already for themselves. Organization wise I think it is a different story. And in that field I always have a hard time to understand all the potential profits customers leave on the table. At my current gig procurement is buying full containers from Asia that are than directly delivered to our sites. They buy from a European trader only placing orders in Asia after we did. And the Asian supplier is only starting production after the trader ordered. Crazy business, right? And there are a lot of B2B customers like out there, other people's lazyness seems to be a solid basis for a company.
That sure seems like the exact thing they would want to be preventing...
disclosure: I work as a professional diesel mechanic for a midwestern chain of shops.

old diesel cars are literally the worst. I wholly endorse anything that will turn a 1986 Mercedes E class from a smog belching iron yacht into a functioning member of polite society. the price quoted here is a steal. take it.

If i were hired to make an old diesel car come up to modern emissions specifications, it would easily be three to five times the cost. Im looking at ripping the engine apart, machining new entry points for sensors, buying a new ECU, finding a place for urea tanks and pumps, and retrofitting a nox scrubber somewhere not to mention the labor charge. the engine will run hotter, so ill need a new radiator or intercooler too. it also has to be retrofitted with a limp or purge mode for when the vehicle runs out of urea or is due for regular service to prevent violating emissions regulations.
More likely it would go to stock buybacks and shareholder dividends.
I find advertising useful mainly when it’s an event I didn’t know was happening and aren’t always checking for. Usually for consumer products I find it not so useful.
The only reason we call it content is because it's just filler for the spaces between ads. I understand why ad tech and platform people call it that, but it kind of bugs me when people call themselves content creators.
I'm excited for meat alternatives, but have 3 thoughts on them that I haven't seen mentioned yet (I'm 42):

* Nearly all of the rangeland and high desert in the western US was destroyed by cattle and sheep grazing over the past 150 years. This is a billion dollar industry with the emotional buy-in of millions of people so I'm skeptical that it will be reformed in our lifetimes.

* My digestive system got wrecked trying to be on a mostly vegetarian diet over several years after the housing bubble popped. The gist of it is that the lectins (and other defense mechanisms in the husks) of legumes and nightshades disrupt the mucus lining of the intestines, which leads to leaky gut and stool getting into the body cavity and blood (leaky gut), which may lead to autoimmune diseases like colitis and arthritis. Something about animal protein heals this lining, probably because humans evolved as scavengers eating leftover kills and carrion from top predators.

* I have not yet seen studies comparing the healing and regenerative properties of meat compared to plant protein, especially concerning bodybuilding. In my own experience, there is simply no comparison between the two. Beef, eggs, salmon, tuna, turkey and chicken simply dwarf any gains obtained from bean burritos (I wish this wasn't the case). I don't know a solution to this, although I'm guessing that a portion of the gains are hormonal. Maybe someone can isolate the animal compounds and make supplements similar to creatine, BCAAs, glutamine, taurine, etc.

Not to knock current meat alternatives, but I view them sort of like compact fluorescent light bulbs, as a 10 or 20 year stopgap until we have true test tube meat (LED bulbs).

In order for meat alternatives to compete with meat, someone will need to reform the federal food subsidies that keep meat an order of magnitude cheaper than it should be. An impossible burger should cost LESS than beef, not more.
If you feel like being specific, free markets have to exist without government regulation, without monopolies, without economic privilege, and without artificial scarcity, which doesn't really work in the real world under capitalism. Almost no markets are truly free markets, even the ones that look free, because there are general regulations you still have to follow (you can't legally sell poisonous handmade goods at a craft fair, for example -- laws about that act as a regulation).
Not where I live. There's lots of beef farming but the alternative of rock farming is unproductive and generally gives poor enough returns on investment that most families leave for the city within a generation.
Yea but it's typically unsaturated & saturated fat which is being less demonized these days. I'm convinced it's actually healthy for you but don't take my word for it.

Refined Canola Oil & Soybean Oil however have artificial trans fatty acids and are high in omega-6 which is inflammatory.
I agree with the 90/10. An example of something I use in its non type safe generic form that would benefit: https://github.com/eapache/channels
Yes, it's true that's what one ought to do, but really, is it? I mean this from a humanist level, is it really beholden to us as a society to need the intervention of the police state for something as peer-to-peer as returning a lost bicycle? Who am I to judge I'm just a stranger in a strange land.

Back home in Toronto, we have this silly habit of picking people's lost clothing items and putting them up on fences and signposts in case they come back to retrieve them. Under these circumstances here it's safer to walk on by -- same goes with the bike in the generalized sense the burden of returning the bike gets far greater due to the simple fact that most people simply won't bother, hence the need for a gaijin hero to step in and set things to rights
Ubisoft just announced they're moving at least in part to using Blender, as one example of professional adoption seemingly picking up: https://www.blender.org/press/ubisoft-joins-blender-developm...
>Web devs today don't test in Firefox, they test in Chrome.//

It's kind of an aside, but is that true? I only do small scale solo dev but I test in like a dozen UA as the bare minimum I can get away with.

Presumably you're being slightly hyperbolic and saying that devs who are under major constraints will target Chrome?
And almost every usage of Dapper relies heavily on generics.
What makes you think the company that makes the best AR wouldn't put ads in it. The top 3 in the field Microsoft, Facebook, and Google to some extent, would never let you disable ads let alone override them with something you wish.
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Compared to brick and mortar retail, yes. Compared to things like Dropship or the massive use of 3rd party logistics owned warehouses are a high fix cost item.
This has me really excited for the future. One question I have now is how this compares to Intel’s roadmap. I’ve read comparisons like “TSMC 7nm is equivalent to Intel 10nm” but never seen any further discussion that goes deeper into how that’s true.
>> There's three fats in Beyond Meat burgers, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, and Cocoa Butter

If I understand correctly, coconut oil is the worse kind of fat you can consume. Is that incorrect?
Healthier is not the same as healthy. Better for you is not the same as good for you.

Eating a burger with less cheese is better for you and healthier, all other things equal, but very well may still not be good for you or a healthy choice overall compared to some other food entirely.

In the end, if the faux-burger is healthier for you than the real one, it's a net positive to switch to it if you eat the same amount. There are plenty of things that can be said about psychological effects, and causing people to eat more, but I think the most important thing I think to say about those aspects at this point is "we don't know, so it's not appropriate to apply too much weight to those considerations."
That's a bit unfair. The person in the article was obviously passionate about the industry. nearly every game dev studio has some combination of project managers, salespeople, marketers, hr -- aka non-artists and non-coders who are still incredible valuable.
Sorry I don't really have time to get into this.

I looked very briefly at that study. It compares US cities to other US cities using data from 1990. I would be more interested in how the US stacks up against other countries that don't have to act within the limitations of the Second Amendment. More recent data would probably be valuable as well.
the subtitle should perhaps read 'Rome’s border walls coincided with the beginning of its end' or similar; the article doesn't really argue that the walls caused the downfall, more documenting the associated history

for whatever it's worth the title is 'Roman Frontiers', the HN title is the subtitle
Pegging the viability of a searchable index to ad revenue is a deeply perplexing move.

The technology to run and maintain a web index is not new. Paid indexes have existed in specialized domains (academia, law, news) for decades.

Wikipedia is a vast, self-indexed resource supported by donations. It's also indexed by Google, and it's availability over the public internet makes them (Google) an enormous amount of money. The labor of creating Wikipedia (the actual labor of organizing human knowledge) was done for free, and the maintenance of Wikipedia is funded by donation.

Every paid ISP prior to Google maintained its own index, which was paid for by user fees.

Expert communities (which often can't depend on commercial indexes) maintain encyclopedic curated sets of links.

The internet - a vast decentralized web of self-published information - is what people want. It drives people to the internet in droves. One strategy for capitalizing on that hunger is to index everything, offer a pretty good index for "free," then sell access to those eyeballs. It is far from the only way to make the internet more accessible.

The only thing I use google for right now is a glorified phone book, because I'm too stupid to remember urls and too lazy/forgetful to bookmark them. So sometimes (sadly), I'll google the twoplustwo forums for poker, or "hacker news" because I forgot news.ycombinator.com. But it's the expert communities that I want, not Google's inscrutible index.

No one has really succeeded in substituting attentional transactions with actual micro-payments, but it's certainly not impossible. There's obviously a demand.
The sqlx package is a similar Go wrapper around SQL. Very handy for scanning into structs.
And furthermore, Japan is a country built on saving face, couldn't the officer assume best intentions or simply a thief trying to come clean and let me slide without giving me the danged third degree? I was even wearing a bowtie no joke!
As part of the settlement you can charge for your hourly time that you had to spend figuring out credit monitoring
I 100% agree. I originally started banging out a comment saying forget the trees, build more nuclear power but didn't want to invite a downvoting brigade, which I effectively walked into anyways :)
I think the tree survival rate is baked into the numbers, and most of these trees will outlive me anyway, so year-over-year CO2 I think would be fine. The EOL question is discussed in sibling comments and seems to be the crux of the issue. It seems like it mostly hinges on whether permanently increase the % of land that's covered by forest, or whether it reverts to something else once the trees die.

Based on wikipedia ([1], [2]), worldwide tree density is about 750 trees/hectare, with 4B hectares total (30% of land area). We clearly can't add another 7B to offset global emissions, but seems like a good marginal investment as long as there's room to grow that number. [3]

The real question is whether that $1 is enough to permanently "create more forest" Even at 5x the price it seems like a bargain for a lifetime of carbon emissions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree#Distribution

[3] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS
That's interesting. Worked on a service based on TFL (London) data, and they were incredibly picky about ensuring people would not get misled by signage. Of course sometimes there are tradeoffs, but they had extensive rules to ensure the tradeoffs minimised negative experiences. E.g we had to take any buses off the boards if the data was more than x seconds old, never ever allow enough clock drift or other issues to cause our displays to be off by more than a certain amount, clear the whole display if we got no api response within a certain amount of time etc.

It was very annoying to implement, but as a user it is very nice to know how much thought has gone into it.
AMD has to choose a process years before that process goes into production, so there's a lot of risk that production could get delayed or yields could be poor. AMD could choose TSMC then discover later that Samsung would have been better.
On practical terms, they are acting as a monopsony. They are negotiating with the manufacturers. If the price they set is too low, the manufacturers will indeed stop selling in Canada.
Definitely a legal system geared towards not letting a single bad guy go free at the expense of capturing the innocent --
When one does software development, one might use a variety of media. Technical pen on paper for design-space and architecture graphs. Whiteboard. Whiteboard with colleague. Notes. Exploratory code. And so on. So one question to ask is, here comes consumer VR and AR, and what might these new media offer to justify their place in this tool collection? That takes exploration.

Another question to ask is, given hardware with 3D tracking and display, how might you usefully tweak your existing tools to leverage that?

Rather than reinventing wheels, languages, keyboards, etc, I like the approach of augmenting what exists. And I use emacs a lot.

TensorFlow posenet-based head tracking is easy.[1] And wiggle 3D, and anaglyph shaders, aren't hard. And making DIY shutter glasses (arduino, phototransistor, and Adafruit light valves) was surprisingly simple. So my generic thinkpad screen can do jittery, washed-out, or flickery 3D. And electron/node.js/v8 can serve up low-latency video of the desktop, to be sliced and diced. So an app can provide two or three eye views, in separate windows or time multiplexed, and it can be shown as 3D. When last I tried to do that separation in emacs, I timed out, still unsure if there was a viable path. Thus my query.

Another thing one might try is to overlay graphics. An emacs could have an arbitrary backchannel chat with the compositor, and draw 3D lines and such on itself. And of course control its own window positions and orientations, fragmentation and coalesce. ;)

If you have red-cyan anaglyph 3D glasses, you might enjoy toying with https://atom.io/themes/anaglyph-syntax - but trading color space for depth is a steep price.

> What would you use this for?

So basically for exploration. What might our tooling now look like, if we'd had 3D display and tracking in widespread use for the last two decades?

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam...
Because they’re operating in an adversarial environment where every other business engages in advertising. It’s game theory.
its just not that much code usually. I would like to see an example of this "a lot of duplicate code" scenario. Most code sharing is done by super classes. Generics seem more like a syntactic sugar added to type sharing that interfaces already allow.
Small funny story about that.

In Finland we do (or did, it might have changed on 2017) tax sugar. Then they added artificial sweeteners and even mineral water under the tax because it’s ”fair” that way. Thus negating the original point.
Eat all the sugar you want... just make sure your bank account is full when you have your heart attack.
I really have a dual view on advertising: as a person I hate being on the receiving end of ads (especially when the ads follow me through my browsing....), on the other hand as an entrepreneur I'm quite happy to have means of advertising my tea subscription service [1]. "Build it and they will come" doesn't quite work. People have to hear about your product somehow.

I don't do much advertising at all for Tomotcha as our churn is low and I am quite content with the number of subscribers right now. But from time to time we send a tea to an "influencer" or run an adword campaign. It helps.

[1] When I mention my tea subscription service (https://tomotcha.com) right here on HN, does it count as advertisement? It should, because it is, thankfully HN as a community of entrepreneurs is rather forgiving about self-promotion. Other communities (some subreddits) can be very hostile towards it...
The same is true of cocaine. Yet without advertising the people who 'need' cocaine manage to learn about it and acquire it, often at great personal cost.
The problem is Americans are normalized to terrible public transit. I was amazed how wonderful it was to get around using public transit the last time I was in Europe. It was so much better than the car I had rented for short-medium distance trips. I hear it's even better in Japan and other parts of Asia.

The idea of having a dedicated lane with incredibly reliable timing is obviously better than the uncertainty of traffic.
If your transportation options are shit, then that's true. Of you have a good system like in Madrid for example, then car is always slower. Madrid is dense and invested heavily before public transportation paid off. You also need a little vision which is systematically lacking in American local politics.
He doesn't directly call for the completely abolishment of marketing/advertising and actually recognizes the free markets have a place for advertising but is using that blog as a place to complain about the cancer it has become.

"It's a malignant mutation of an idea that efficient markets need a way to connect goods and services with people wanting to buy them. Limited to honestly informing people about what's available on the market, it can serve a crucial function in enabling trade. In the real world however, it's moved way past that role."

Its definitely one of those pieces that merely points out the flaws without suggesting any solutions. You can take those articles how you will but I think its dishonest to take his overall message as being advertising is bad entirely and without exception.
When? 25 years in and Bezos is driving that steamroller around town with his stupid vest and aviators on.
The whole discussion around border walls has been thrown into the theater of the absurd.

The issues are simple even if they are hard to implement.

1. Do we want to control who comes over our border or not?
A. Where are the weakest points of entry?
B. How do we protect those points?

Any politician who has a negative opinion of border walls or fences should have to answer the first question and parts A and B with a solid plan.

Stop the rhetoric and don't disagree with a plan for border security just because you don't like the person who suggested it.
It hasn't done any of those things to me, however, so kindly get your hands off mine and out of my business please.
Nothing like being forced to use a company, who leaks your very important information, who gets set a tiny amount of money to pay out for damages, only to be told not to take it because that money might not be enough to pay everyone who was affected.
I'd like to see solutions offered, that aren't just of the "do things that are against your own self interest" variety. Anything that requires you do something that individually hurts yourself in a tangible, measurable way, while not giving you benefit in a tangible, measurable way, falls under this. For example, if you boycott, you notice the impact on yourself because it is undiluted, but almost never will you notice the impact of your actions because it will be spread among everyone.

So here's a radical suggestion. Legislation that says: any web site or app that shows ads should offer an option to view the site without ads, by paying for access, and that is priced reasonably (approximately equal revenue as ads) and with options for "a la carte" vs. bundling. Any provider of ads (adSense, etc) has to provide this service as well.

It's complex legislation, I'm sure, and tricky to get right. But it's better than tilting at windmills, as this article leaves me feeling it is doing.
It's not a new trend. There's always people that think big, regulatory government is the answer to everything, and people just cannot be held accountable for their own actions. It just seems worse now that they can spout their nonsense to the masses, but good thing they're still a (very) vocal minority.
That's because we discovered psychological manipulation for advertising in the 30's thanks to Freud's nephew, Bernays. And it was brought to light when psychology hit center stage in the 70's after the psychedelics lash-back. So our current advertising methodology is a very recent phenomenon.
Sure, it's _possible_. But we absolutely no evidence that it happens based on what we know (albeit very little) about the subject. And we have good reasons to believe it's not happening: plants lack the brain structures and processing power believed to be required, no evolutionary advantage, lack of motility.

Philosophically, it fails as an Appeal to Ignorance. Practically, it fails for a few reasons. Many of the plants we consume don't need to be killed and have evolved to expect and depend on our consumption of them. Additionally, the animals we eat need to eat plants. So anyone with a genuine concern for the suffering of plants would immediately forego the consumption of animal products.