skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's a terrible mistake to treat this as a wonky policy issue rather than an urgent ethical issue.

Your passion is admirable, but no need to insult, friend. I'm not a policy wonk, I just disagree with you. I don't have the same faith in government's ability to deliver services as you do. America is especially bad at delivering services, given our tendency towards crony capitalism and a disengaged public. It is possible to make things worse than they are now with totally well-meaning, but flawed, economic and social policies.

> it should be easy for you to reference a statement to this effect.

I searched on DDG, got tons of good hits for "debate ban private health insurance" and I picked the first link. The socialists (who aren't looking too hopeless in the polls and actually stand a chance at being the nominee) want to run things soup to nuts, no surprise here. Harris walked it back afterward, Sanders stood his ground and beat her over the head for a lack of conviction.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-harris-idUSK...

> Harris and U.S. Senate colleague Bernie Sanders were the only two candidates to raise their hands during Thursday night’s second Democratic debate when asked, "Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?"

> On Wednesday night, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were the only two candidates to raise their hands when asked if they would scrap private insurance.

Please just watch the debates and don't give anyone a pass. I'm counting on you and others to not pick an unelectable wacko to run against Trump. Full disclosure, I didn't vote for Trump (or Hillary) in 2016.
So they go through the feedlots but most cattle are not in the feedlot at once (feedlots are a smaller part of the time a cow is alive, some months only).

The largest number of cattle, currently, if you counted them all up, are still on pasture.

Not that this detracts from your point, mostly a minor semantic quibble.
I laughed at that point, too. Would have immediately showed the door to such an applicant. Reminded me a lot of little kids' job dreams: "I want to be a boss when I'm big..."
> wondering whether there aren't some people who by odd chance (or very good genes) live far longer than they should.

Exactly; death and aging are programmed. We know of hereditary conditions that cause premature aging and death; why can't the opposite exist, causing a human to age more like a tortoise.
The city near me bans animal waste from landfill and composting. You're required to take it home and flush it. Signs in the parks issue that directive and quote the appropriate bylaw.

Me, where I walk my dog he squats in the ditch between the pile of bear scat and the dead raccoon carcass. We lack the delicate sensitivities of sophisticated city dwellers.
Back when television shows made in the US were still made for cable and had to facilitate a bunch of advertisement blocks it used to be really obvious when you watched one of those shows in a country that didn't advertise quite as much. The show would wrap up a scene to prepare for a pause, and then instantly resume with a small recap of the action it ended with. That was the queue for us non-US viewers to know when viewers in the US must have had an ad break.

Of course with streaming services this phenomenon is mostly gone.
Stark view on the state of renewables vs hydrocarbons for energy storage and use
Higher-kinded types. Generics that take generics as parameters. They allow things like writing a function that both takes and returns any container type you can map over with different (defined) element types. Given how hard arity-0 generics have been to get into Go, I suspect that the chances of HKT making it are slim to none (but I think that the grandparent knows that and is just being funny).
This is a blanket statement that can be easily refuted. The overhaul of Barcelona for the Olympics comes to mind, and same story with Torino in Italy. Both cities benefited greatly from a large planned investment in infrastructure. Same thing with Madrid and the doubling of the metro system now that I think about it.
How can we get a politician to vote for a corporate death penalty when faced with tens, or hundreds, of thousands of now jobless constituents after its first sentencing is upheld?
If you expect income, you're not really looking to build a free product, are you? Seems to me, a paywall (or similar) is the honest way; those who get value from your product give value back, in the most direct and transparent way possible.

(I know I'm trivializing the question; I'm not in your situation and I don't know the perfect model for your product. But I disagree with just lumping together "paywalls" and "advertising" in the same category of "non-desirable things".)
Not the worst, but probably not the best either: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/coconut-oil
Yep. I got a job offer. It was nowhere near competitive with other opportunities, though, so the talks didn't go far.
How is there an externality? It's not like smoking where it affects other people.
I' am sure pharma board meeting go like this

CFO: ABC pharma just got FDA approval to sell a generic version of Viagra, our revenue is projected to take a $1.5 billion hit.

CEO: Fuck. Start raising the price of insulin, I gotta hit these wall street estimates.
Do you think folks in the US should be proud of subsidizing the rest of the world?

Maybe the US should allow governments to negotiate drug prices.
Sooner than you think: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-plastic-munching-bacteria-c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes
says original Kubernetes was all C++.
> and be used to offset eventual health complications

that would be predicated on an honest and direct pricing scheme for healthcare. taxing soda may be a feel-good thing to do, but how can you say - with a straight face - how much dialysis treatment or 'beetus meds actually cost? The whole business model of healthcare is built on information hiding.
>But if you don't know why you need it, it's probably not a good fit for you just yet

Right, it's def not a failed marketing push as to why your website talks about a programming language, with no actual examples of said programming language.

SMH, get some self awareness buddy.
I'm sure I'm not the only one actually wishing they run out of money. I'd be happy to put them on a payment plan.
Unless that individual's telomeres behave atypically, in direct relation to their longevity?
I hope this doesn't happen. I love golang because it is simple and easy to read. Both will go away when generic programmer start to write unreadable meta-programming class which "you don't need to understand, just use them".

I admire golang devs for being opinionated and stand up for the core lines of their language so far.

I see generic as renouncing these principles.
Integer cents is certainly less of a pain in the butt than floating point dollars; I worked on an advertising project where I couldn't convince people to use integer cents, and the result was predictable madness where floating point values didn't line up.
The Beyond Burger only contains 3g of carbs, making it perfectly acceptable for a Ketogenic diet, as far as I understand it. The Impossible burger contains more, at 9g, but that's easy to fit into most carb allowences of Keto (not many go for <10g/day).

Even with a goal of 0g of carbs per day there's a lot of room on the plate for above-ground vegetables and natural oils.

Beef is an okay food, but there's lots of alternatives that seem to outperform it for many metrics.
I think that is an excellent career goal.
I was looking if I would have to add this comment...

Ditto for natural ventilation.
My brother has the same view of advertising as this author but also loves MotoGP and other motorsports and doesn't see the conflict staring him right in the face as sponsor-branded bikes fly past. I agree it's childish and short-sighted, and I'm certain the author would have a different viewpoint if the time came to market his own small business.
I'd love to talk about this at length. Having built distributed systems in Google Web Search with C++ for over 6 years, I still enjoy the manual memory management model than a GC based model. Identifying and fixing memory leaks is easier, because that's in your control as a language user. Making a GC work better is beyond. In fact, that'd be the biggest gripe I have with Go. Wish Go had a manual memory control mode, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Alright, now that I've criticized Go, time for why I chose it. Go code is simply more manageable and readable over time. Tools like gofmt are habit forming. Go does memory management, but doesn't put everything on heap. You still get a lot of control over pointers, something that other GC based langs hide from the user.

Go tooling is the best I've seen and closely replicates what we had at Google. Go profiles are almost copies of what Google had and the fact is that they're part of the language is incredible.

Go allows normal devs to run thousands of goroutines, utilizing all possible cores of the server well. That is just not possible with other languages. And not as simple with C++.

Go is a DELIGHT to work with as a programming language. If Go weren't around, I'd be writing Dgraph in C++. Go is perhaps slightly slower on a per-thread basis, but it more than makes up for it with easy to build concurrent systems.

In fact, both Dgraph and Badger outperform many other systems written in C++ and Java. So, you only gain performance with Go. What you do lose is ability to tightly control memory deallocation, but that's just GC for you.

P.S. If you want to shout Rust: Sorry, I just don't know much about it. And don't plan to switch.
There's no denying most C# code makes heavy use of generics, but we've deviated from the actual topic. C# is not Go. Far from it.

I'm not advocating for bringing a Dapper-like library to Go. I'm pretty happy with the solutions we have right now to map data coming from a SQL database into structs in Go. I'm commenting specifically on the argument that Go developers don't like ORMs.
I'll give the 'why' rather than the 'what'.
In most mainstream languages you take a List<Int> and substitute for List<X> without changing the implementation of List.
But there's another substitution you could have made, which is L<Int>. HKT allows you to parametrise L over Int, in the same way you were able to parametrise List over Int.
No, biodegradable is carbon-neutral. Plastic itself is carbon-neutral although it's a byproduct of carbon-polluting oil. We'd have to make plastic out of atmospheric carbon for it to have any sequestering effect.
It was originally written in Java and lots of its Go code is a strange mix of the two (Java-like idioms in Go). This might be where the term "Gova" came from.
>they're not claiming that a Beyond Burger is better for you than unprocessed vegetables

I'm not claiming that they said that either?

They claim they are better (read: healthier) than the products they are trying to replace (read: meat).

>they're marketing them self as better than animal

So... healthier than animals?

I understand there's some semantic ambiguity, but come on.
DreamFactory 3.0 Released
author mentions AdNauseum but also that there's significant fake click detection: anyone have any idea as to how effective defeating AdNauseum by advertisers is?
Read up on SEAD tactics, it's pretty interesting. The nature radar propagation and reflection means that a plane will know a radar is active long before the radar can detect the plane. Planes can then fire anti radiation missiles that home in on the radar emissions source. Also, most radars are limited by the horizon. Low level flying can let planes get close without detection.

Now this doesn't mean destroying air defenses is easy. Factor in smaller SAM sites dispersed around th larger ones, as well as enemy air superiority fighter operating in the area and SEAD gets more complicated. SAM sites also sometimes turn their radars off until planes are close and ambush them. But SAM sites alone are not an impervious defense against air power.
Beta is nice but if you're confident in your ability to know when to turn back, it's ok to go find out for yourself. Some of my favorite hiking trips are in the dead of winter where I don't see another soul and the snow has clearly been untouched for weeks/months. I spent more time camping last winter than I did this summer.

I also doubt those kinds of outlier trips are reported in this data set. I'm not sure how they assembled this data specifically, but most national parks around me have self issue permits or trailhead ledgers. But they're often either missing or water damaged during the winter months. If there's no infrastructure to record the outlier data, then it doesn't get recorded at all.
There's a FOSS competitor to Google?
I'd go the other direction: don't group them (a lot of shows already account for / include commercial breaks, so it ain't like they're that disruptive) but make them shorter. The shorter the commercial, the less likely a viewer is to skip them or change the channel, which means more engagement. The ad's subject wins (more engagement), the viewer wins (less ads), the channel wins (more engagement + less supply = more leverage to charge higher prices for ad slots). Win-win-win.

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If I had the resources and know-how, I'd start a radio station on this premise. I've noticed that most radio stations feel like they play more commercials than actual music, with the sole exception of one station in Reno (96.1 Bob FM) that does hour-long non-stop music split up by very short (1-2 minutes at most) commercial breaks. I've also noticed that I never feel the need to switch from Bob FM to some other station because I know that the music will come back soon. Unsurprisingly, those commercials are way more impactful than the ones on other stations specifically because I'm actually listening to them instead of skipping them.

I'd like to take that to a greater extreme with 29-minute music blocks separated by single 30-second commercials (with 15-second station identification blurbs on either side of it, or perhaps combining them into a 30-second news update for e.g. traffic and weather). Companies probably wouldn't pay a premium for these ads at first, but I suspect once they see the upticks in customer engagement they'll be more willing to bid higher for those slots.
No, literally all free content, videos, media, blog posts, whatever you want to call it, has to rely on advertising if they want to make a profit.
And here I go rewarding your self promotion, but when else do I get to ask directly?

I just skimmed your site. It looks like it’s all greens. Is that correct?
I wanted to mention that advertising kills the ecosystem for free and cheap stuff. People say things like "TV wouldn't exist without advertising," but TV would probably be better without it since networks would have to convince you to pay them, rather than just stop you from flipping through the channels. Certainly the news would be better because TV news tries to tease the viewer to watch past the commercial break with intentionally false and misleading statements.

Advertising isn't free, its costs are just hidden. They wouldn't spend money if it didn't relieve you of yours. People who watch TV do pay for it, it's just that the mechanism by which it happens is a magic trick of persuasion. The only question is do advertisers provide a legitimate service to society that is worth paying for and enough to support what we pay to adertisers. That's the only way advertising can be "free" - if it is self-funded service worth value in and of itself.

IMHO, marketing is a good thing, and advertising can be when it's sufficiently targetted. Getting the word out about a new product is fine. But most traditional advertising that tries to sell an image or feeling is a blight.
I live just outside North Cascades NP. It's only backcountry accessible but is absolutely stunning and you likely won't see a single other person while out there.
Curious if anyone has a source on Coca Cola reducing their ad spend in a market (Kansas?). I've heard about it a ton (and believe it) but have never seen a primary source for the study.
I've decided that it's the same as having a simply-typed lambda calculus with one type (*) and function types living inside of your type system. Is this correct at all?
> Google [...] shut down.

Good riddance; it's been most of a decade since Google provided anything of value to the world. They're ruining HTML with AMP, their sponsorship of YouTube has crippled torrent-based video distribution, their search engine is a sick joke, and ReCaptcha puts large chunks of the web behind a Kafka-shrouded spyware-wall.
Pcov Is Better Than Phpdbg and Xdebug for Code Coverage
Do I really need to link Mr. Gotcha on HN[1]?

I think LinkedIn is despicable but I have a LinkedIn account because it’s basically expected that you have one for recruiting purposes by many employers.

[1] https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
To be honest, Cormen et Al. is an actual introductory book. While it is humongous, it covers all of the basic math, logic and algorithms you see in the first 2 or 3 years of an computer science undergraduate course. It is an introduction in the sense that knowing and mastering the tools that the book provides you will set you up for more advanced topics in the many areas of computer science. For instance, a big number of important algorithms in machine learning, computational geometry and other topics use the basic strategies of greedy, divide-and-conquer or dynamic programming algorithms.
I don't know how open it is, but there is Wi-Sun to try out. They have a statement on open-ness: https://www.wi-sun.org/wp-content/uploads/Wi-SUN-Alliance-Po....

Ti's long range 15.4 implementation is not open but is much cheaper than LoRa, you just need two $20 Launchpad boards, one as a basestation and one as your client.

You could also just use the LaunchPad's packet radio api to implement your own simple protocol, you just need to remember to keep to the limitations imposed by the authorities (duty cycle, wait time).
It’s not a product unless people are willing to pay for it. That’s the long and short of it.
I have a SaaS business which exists ONLY because of advertising. It’s highly niche, really the only product that does what it does, and a few dozen people a day click through from Google Ads and find that I have a product to automate something they had been spending hundreds of hours on. You should see the effusive thank you notes I get if you think advertising is pointless. This product wouldn’t exist without Google Ads because I would have no way to find the 50 people a day worldwide who need it.
This is the exact same mindset that resulted in our cities and suburbs in the 1960s. Except back then the disruptive new technology was widespread motor vehicle ownership.
You know, I was thinking about the US founding fathers, and how people back then accomplished so much when they were teenagers - teenagers! and it occurred to me:

1. No smartphones

2. No internet

3. No social media

4. The news came maybe once a week (correct me if I'm wrong)

5. No TV or movies

6. If you wanted to be entertained, you would have to physically go somewhere

7. Otherwise, you would have to create your own entertainment yourself - like playing an instrument or writing something
I keep hearing that Amazon is "customer obsessed", and I wonder who these happy customers are.

Their web site design leaves much to be desired. And it's heavy. Before I upgraded my PC, I dreaded opening a few Amazon tabs - it would bring my PC to a crawl. No other retailer had this problem. In the old days, with a single click, I could go to the Reviews page. Now the product page has no immediate click to the Reviews - I have to scroll down and click on it. Clicking the link on the top just takes me to the shorter review at the end of the page (and I have to scroll again to get to See All Reviews).

When I write a review, I have no way (that I know of) to get notified of comments to my review. If there's an option for it, do let me know. I just checked and I can't even find a link to see my own reviews in my profile's page. Anyone know where it is?

I've also sold by FBA. Their web site for sellers looks like it was made in the 90's, and discoverability is atrocious. I have to keep trying different links to see if it will take me to the report/inventory view I'm looking for. And I've dealt with several bugs on those pages (e.g. updating a price would not work sometimes).

Then there's their policy of comingling, so that when you buy a brand new item that is "Shipped and sold by Amazon.com", there is no guarantee you're not getting the item that an FBA seller put into their warehouse. Hence, no way to guarantee you didn't get a fake product.

Then when you check out sites like fakespot.com, you'll find how many products have incredibly gamed reviews. Amazon's reviews was what set them apart, and is now horribly unreliable. And then add to that mix the fact that many reviewers are actually reviewing the fake product that was shipped to them instead of the bona fide on. How do I know if the product is bad from the reviews? I can't.

And then to top it all off, when looking at one product, it's actually a combination of several ones that you have to pick. In some cases this makes sense - say I'm buying a particular brand of slippers, and they have different colors, that's fine - as long as the "model" is the same. But when I'm looking at a whiteboard, and the other option is a set of markers, that's ridiculous. The overall rating of the whiteboard has ratings of the markers mixed in. Now if I want to know the rating of just the whiteboard, I have to go through extra steps (click on Format, etc).
The examples I’d like to see worked out fully, which he mentions in passing, are encapsulation of concurrency patterns (parallelization, work queues, cancelling, etc.). It’s not that big a deal to write Max as a function or even inline, whereas there are serious practical pitfalls and common mistakes when doing real work with channels. It would be a lot more effective to fix these by writing library code rather than writing Gophercon presentations.
> Last time I checked, not all beef is consumed as hamburgers.

The author of the article explicitly mentions using Impossible Burger for non-hamburger applications:

"It looked identical to ground beef, so that’s how I treated it. And that’s how it performed. I made sliders, kebabs, nachos, chili, Bolognese sauce, even a little tartare (note: the company frowns hard on this)."
Funky Chicken Testing
If people are buying the AR to remove ads, the company that makes AR that just replaces ads with other ads probably won't sell much.
Sure, but last I checked Wikipedia doesn't advertise itself outside of its own domains, nor does it actively spy on you with those ads wherever you go throughout the World Wide Web.
This suggests (disingenuously) that they were offended in the same way.
I would bet excess sugar (and carbohydrate) consumption is the second largest externality via taxpayer spending on people’s healthcare due to obesity and diabetes. The biggest externality is destabilization of the environment from pollution.
Of course they do. Not sure why it’s something to brag about or not to brag about though, it’s an implementation detail. Scala for instance uses custom classes for each size set up to a certain threshold.
The Pinocchio Problem (2007)
I don't get it. What is the point of this joke?
Supposedly the settlement encourages me to trust Equifax to monitor my tradelines through "free credit monitoring"... but I can't trust the same company to monitor the safety of that very same data.

Yeah, this makes a lot of sense...