skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should really look into this more. We already grow more than enough plants to feed the world. The vast majority of them are fed to livestock. Just like the vast majority of water is used for livestock. Just like the vast majority of antibiotics are used for livestock. Just like the vast majority of land is used for livestock.
I'm still left with a weird feeling about whether the Fed should really be trying to "sustain the expansion"...
The median is the 50th percentile including outliers, so the Bill Gates of the world to impact it. The mean normally removes outliers to get a better idea of the real average.
> buying a new ECU

This is not an option for older Merc engines, no practical options exists.

Or I would be gladly stand corrected in this matter as I own quite a few old collectible Mercs all in desperate need of modern technology update (invisible of course, like ECU + EFI).
Higher efficiency should eventually result in a lower price, as mentioned in the article. Prices do affect consumer behavior.
The DC metro built heavily in the Maryland suburbs. Decades later, the lines continue to be massively underutilized.
This argument that you can't criticize anything if you benefit from it is absurd. If he didn't use any technology that comes from companies that advertise, he would never be able to communicate his message in the first place. In fact he wouldn't even be able to leave his home or feed himself, unless he just farmed off the land and made his own clothing. Ridiculous.
Facebook and twitter are pure waste. Google is 90% waste. Google should just be a search engine and live on donations like Wikipedia.
This is a problem in general with "creative destruction" vs. "too big to fail": we generally want unsound businesses of 50 employees to fail, but at 50k employees, it's such a blow to the local (or national/global) economy that politicians and citizens are incentivized to prop them up artificially. (Allegedly, one reason Obama didn't take on private insurance directly is the potentially huge unemployment problem.)

Anyway, I can imagine a scenario for "corporate death penalty" similar to Chapter 11, where the company keeps its doors open, while restructuring and perhaps selling shares at public auction.
If we're basing this on anecdotal evidence, I've worked with entire departments who ate cake or ice-cream every day.

That doesn't mean cake and cookies should be banned, nor should soda. It's nanny state nonsense, and one of the more steeply graded slippery slopes...

If you're really concerned for people's wellbeing, ensuring access to healthcare goes a lot further than denying people snacks..
I know this is going to get downvoted, but...

"...these are the cries of the carrots, for tomorrow is the harvest time, and for them, it is the apocalypse!"
Many biologists are not convinced that other animals experience suffering in the same way that we do. There was recently a thread about whether insects feel pain on HN.

This is the result of the special status accorded to humans. One side of it is that we are the only animals capable of moral reasoning and so we should abstain from eating meat even if other animals do it, because we are uniquely placed to understand the harm it causes. The other side of it is that we are justified by being special among all animals to treat animals in the way we do.

Both sides of the coin start from the belief that we are not like other animals. This is obviously a very anthropocentric view: we, ourselves, think we're special. Most likely, no other animal does.
And if all of the people doing creative elsewhere didn’t advertise, how would they get the word out about their work?
Right, so some ads are different than others.

Still, I'm trying to imagine what the web would be like if every site that currently does the "bad kind of advertising" put up guilt boxes instead. For one thing, Wikipedia would probably disappear, because all the other sites are competing for people's limited altruism.
Modern advertising is propaganda and agitation. While commercial entities have advertised their wares for as long as there have been commerce[0], the modern mass hallucination inducing form became the norm only after the world wars.

The essence of propaganda is to weave a story and engage the target population in an action that creates commitment to the story and creates secondary effect due to social proof as people see other people committing.

This is the essence of modern marketing as well.

Cancer is not really a well thought out way to describe it, it sounds a bit fanatical.

There is nothing conspiracy like about this. This is all well known and researched.

General public is just kept ignorant of it. I don't know why. Maybe it's because the more you know about how propaganda works the less effective it is? Thus teaching people en mass how propaganda works would make even benevolent attempts at mass mind control less effective.

[0] Branding is nothing new. In the viking age particular german swords were very well thought off - and they had particular inscription on the blade. The brand was so strong that blacksmiths around baltic created "pirate" copies of the blades by writing the same inscription - or, as some were illeterate, attempted to copy the markings resulting in almost-but-not quite correct spellings. As their clients were likely illiterate as well I don't think it mattered for business.
Viral math problem solution dividing the internet
Maybe this is unfair, but it’d be great if the Go devs could just say “generics will work similarly to [C# / Java / Swift / D / whatever], except that we’ll address [problems] with [adjustments]”.

Rather than going through this whole rigmarole of resisting adding generics too early because all existing implementations are bad, then slowly reinventing the wheel from scratch, then finally ending up with something pretty similar to one of those other languages anyway.

It’s OK not to make something completely new and different. It’d be useful to explicitly say which language(s) you’re borrowing from because you can then more clearly call out the differences and explain the reasons for them.
Free markets mean that other sellers are free to compete. This is why food, an essential good, is generally cheap. Any seller of food can charge an arbitrarily high price but cannot exclude competing sellers.
"In it's current form" is quite the qualifier. "Hey, computers would probably not look exactly the way they do right now if we had changed something thirty years ago".

I don't know whether there are examples (aside from "the funniest advertisements" shows), but computers certainly aren't one.
I wonder about this too - all these charities for planting trees or renting carbon scrubbers or buying carbon offsets, they all have a certain level of capacity after which they'd be sold out. So buying carbon offsets don't really offset all your carbon.
Yeah that's the problem. Bringing more federation to the web would help defeat censorship by making it easier to relay/aggregate information while retaining proof of authorship.

That's just not the way Google is headed.
And yet, the core devs have never said they don't want generics, only they didn't want a poor implementation.

Also, there's a bit of hilarity about commenting this on a blog.golang.org where the first sentence is "This article is about what it would mean to add generics to Go, and why I think we should do it." being posted by a core Go dev....
Yeah, I've been so effective at cutting out ads from my life that I do regularly find that I'm behind on some stuff I'd be interested in and I wish there was a better way to stay on top of things. I try to follow certain blogs and subreddits to help, but it is something I've noticed.

The reality though is that even without ads I'm never lacking for things to spend my money/time on. In fact, without ads my main problem is still more often the finite nature of my time/money than a lack of options.
I understand what you're saying, but I think the difference there is one of contractual maturity more than anything else. There's no reason a run of the mill freelancing setup can't utilize enforceable contracts, even for small projects. A statement I would agree with is something like, "Never do any work unless you have an enforceable contract in place or get a good-faith payment up front."
It works like this but I still don't understand why people trust a company that has the resources to buy a Superbowl ad. If they can afford that ad they must charge their customers more than needed. In other words, the product is more expensive than necessary and the brand isn't offering the best possible value.

The brand is signalling that they have convinced many people, or otherwise, they couldn't afford that ad. So I can trust in the choice of those people. But why should I trust the brand itself?
Yeah, it is a nasty API for the live departures. There are much worse though!

I wrote a proxy to make it easier to use (https://github.com/jpsingleton/Huxley). Been meaning to port it to .NET Core when I find the time. There is also an old Python client here: https://github.com/HackPartners/darwinrest

You can find many more resources in the community (https://wiki.openraildata.com/ https://github.com/openraildata https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openraildata-talk). We're pretty friendly, say hi.
>As in, once you turn on your tracking radar, you effectively shine a really bright beacon for anyone to see. If you are the ground station trying to get a lock on the thing that the long-range area radar saw, suddenly you are the brightest target in the area. You might have a few seconds before the plane you are trying to hit sends a missile right down your beam.

reminded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown#Downing

" According to Lieutenant Colonel Đorđe Aničić, who was identified in 2009 as the soldier who fired the missiles, they detected the F-117 at a range of about 23 km operating their equipment for no more than 17 seconds to avoid being locked on to by NATO anti-air suppression."

Typically (at least in USSR/Russia) a couple of radar stations would take turns each staying on only for those few seconds.
a qty~1 project like this is dominated entirely by NRE. that's the only thing to optimize.
The proposed syntax feels like a caricature to me. That something like this could be easily possible:

func (c Connection) Read(type T Writeable)(into *T) (int, error) {

This is quite securely inside shark-jumping territory.

Also; I haven't seen Rob Pike's name really anywhere in these blog posts or discussions, or on any recent Go blog entry. Is he still involved with the Go project day-to-day? I always got the impression that he was one of the bigger anti-generics voices on the team internally.
France was always a member state of NATO since 1949. France was just not taking part in the integrated military command between the mid-60's to 2007, but did participate in all NATO mission (for instance Afghanistan, Bosnia, Serbia, etc.).
> My understanding is that college administrators tend to run more left wing than college professors, and they may contribute more to the campus climate than professors do...

We have 15% women in STEM, and we're told that it's because of residues of the oppressive patriarchy. Well, we have less than 15% conservatives among the faculty of social science departments, and that's because... ?
Wood engineered to not rot naturally would also have a market, in addition to sequestering carbon.
Cattle _can_ be extremely environmentally destructive.

I was always angry to see them out grazing on public lands in the Sonoran desert where they trample emerging small cactus and graze down the nurse plants small saguaro need to get started. They also trash sensitive riparian areas. There was no animal like that there, cattle should not be in that area in my opinion, most especially on public ground.

However environments that natively supported animals of that size, plain or grass type areas, no problem, lease it out. Cattle actually do environmental good in these areas helping to keep brush down and building grasslands.

Unfortunately this isn't most of the public ground in the Western US.
Should we compare one thing to some completely different thing and pretend they're even remotely similar?

Probably not.
Such a succinct article. I wish journalists could explain things this well.
>I know several people who drink 8-12 cans of diet coke every single day.

Are these people not aware of kidney stones and the associated pain?
Super fun so far, thank you!

Can someone explain to me why this was called an "excellent move"? https://imgur.com/a/Fyg4PuW I eliminated a night but I feel like the pawn could eliminate my bishop easily. See also the second picture for another (to me) inexplicable situation.
> Nicely demonstrating that just as "open source" is open to multiple interpretations, so is "free software".

Not really, no. The FSF definition of 'free software' is accepted by the technical community as the definition of the term. Same goes for the OSI's definition of Open Source.

> not everyone automatically understands the terms according to these definitions

Not really, no. No-one knowledgeable about these topics is going to insist upon non-standard definitions of the terms. Marketing drones may abuse the terms, and ignorant people don't know any better than to be imprecise, but they are not the same thing as what you are suggesting.

Debian do not make up their own definitions. They explicitly mention both the FSF and OSI in their article on licensing. They certainly have their own ideas on intellectual property (their famous objections to Mozilla's rules about the Firefox trademark), but I don't see them redefining any terms. They are careful to use Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) when referring to their own rules. [0]

Aside: it can be helpful to capitalise to emphasise that you mean the proper definitions of the terms, e.g. The software is neither Free Software nor Open Source. Clunky, sure enough, but people do occasionally make up their own definitions and run with them, often enough that it's a problem for clear communication.

I'm not really sure why. Making up your own personal definitions for terms already in common parlance, is usually treated as an exercise in obtuse silliness, for obvious reasons.

Usually, no exception is made for when an accepted technical term is misused in common parlance, e.g. using 'theory' for any explanation that pops into your head, or referring to an automatic rifle as a 'machine gun'. In those instances we separate the popular use of the term from the technical one, and still insist on correct terminology in technical circles.

[0] Point 31 of https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html
Home computers were initially a novelty item, sold mainly through direct-response advertisements in magazines like Popular Electronics. This early hobbyist market created the economies of scale that made a mass market home computer a possibility.

In the late 70s and early 80s, most people simply had no idea why they would want a computer; The first home computer adverts in the mainstream media didn't really sell the benefits of one computer over another, but sold the idea of the computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_j_ABrkn8

Without that kind of advertising, it's entirely plausible to believe that home computers might have been a fad, with the computer resigned to being a specialist tool for business and industry. There's a parallel universe where the home computer and video game boom never happened because nobody told consumers why they might want a computer, the 6502 and Z80 remained niche microprocessors for embedded applications, Woz went back to HP and Bill Gates finished his degree and got a job at Honeywell.
Contact Lenses That Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink Move Closer to Reality
I remember thinking years ago that advertising would slowly disappear because we would have tools which would help us make optimal market decisions, so people would just use those and ignore the ads.

Basically, I imagined a website where you pick the type of service or good that you're interested in, fill out some sort of questionnaire and then get a list of recommendations which are optimal for your situation.
Perhaps because they like it?
> But advertising in general is how people find out about things they might need or want.

That's in the article. He's arguing the exact point that advertising has a legitimate function in a market to inform about products. They've outgrown that, he continues, and now they do not inform, they convince (and often lie to do so).
Speaking of people who don't do well with nuance...
At the expense of all those marketers who just lost their jobs. Oh, and all those Google employees because nobody is buying ads anymore.

I think Aperocky observation that following the money doesn't get at the root of the problem is spot on.
No one said he was blackmailing Wexner.
>I spent three days figuring out this nightmarish credit reporting system and helping friends and family place freezes, as well as educating them to avoid all the horrible dark patterns on Equifax's site.

That’s all on you. There was no reason for you to do this. Certainly not because of Equifax.

Your information was almost certainly already compromised, so reacting to the Equifax breach news like that was downright silly.

>why am I forced into accepting the unlimited risk of them owning all my data so that this private company can keep operating?

Nonsense. The risk isn’t unlimited, just about everything you do in your life presents a bigger risk.

The real risk here is that someone might waste a few hours of your time, but looks like you’ve already been working on that yourself.
If Coke does not buy the large ad campaign, the available advertising resources can be used by the next-highest bidder, and that bidder might potentially be selling something with a higher social utility function value. Since the ad infrastructure does not get as much money from that transaction, less is then reinvested into ad infrastructure. If McDonald's stopped advertising on billboards, billboard advertising would be cheaper in the short run, and then there would be fewer billboards in the long run.
Golem is a global, open-source, decentralized supercomputer
We can do better than this. That's why I paid for SublimeText.
It's for people who can prove that they had their identity stolen and that it was the Equifax breech that the hackers used to steal their identity.

It's designed to almost never pay out.
Keep in mind that the current alternative to building with wood is to use concrete, which has a tremendous CO2 cost [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844
Agreed. Thanks for articulating it so nicely; I've felt the same for a long time, but couldn't find words to describe it.

"Content" to me is like corporations calling people "human resources". It's a grouping word which removes all that makes elements of the group valuable in the first place.
I'm pretty sure C++ is used for exactly the game thing Go is used for. And C++ is used for a lot of other things as well. In fact, you will probably have trouble finding a problem that wasn't solved by C++ by somebody. Scientific computing, server process, CRUD applications, embedded applications, AI, graphics, programming languages, libraries, etc.

C++ has a lot more features and therefore it's actually able to be used for a lot more things. People that don't need a language that can be used for every possible computing problem think that maybe C++ is a tad too complicated. Those people certainly have a point.
Serbia in 1999 used modified microwave ovens as an Anti Radar missile honey pot. You light the sky with a decoy, the plane activates its defenses, and now the hunter is the hunted just having exhausted its defenses. Decoys are cheap.
Any previews?!
you forgot the big one. Especially when you talk about founding fathers

8. No government. Government restricts and funnel much of what we do now. Responsibilities ment freedom because there was no one to do it for you and no one to tell you not to.

We need distractions because if we didnt have them there would be nothing for us to do. America has created subsistence of mediocrity. No way to win or lose. You dont get to have a say in your society because its not yours.

Remember to vote because this is the only chance you get to effect your surroundings that the government allows without tons of red tape. And we know that it really doesnt matter that much. Where's the border wall? What democrat would really change wallstreet banking and think of the little people?

Government will be out of our way when we stop relying on politicians to act. I dont care what side you are on. Our politicians are thin veils to give the rich access to powers that the constitution would not normally grant.
The actual reason is that CAN-SPAM dictates that an opt-out must be honored within 10 days. [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
Given GP's statement about "not as healthy as eating less processed plant based foods", your reply of "yes" to the question of whether their marketing copy is selling them on "healthy", there was some confusion on my part. If that wasn't your intention then that's my bad.
Fitting name.
New Zealand currently has a programme to plant one billion trees in the next 10 years, about 250 trees per person, so this doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/forestry/plan...
Okay, you make some good points. Do you think the problem is cultural or something else?

I would be curious to see a breakdown for metro areas, where public transit is actually useful (obviously cars work fine for most of rural America, and add a bus system when necessary). But I have no idea if that analysis is available.

I am heavily biased towards cities with awful traffic, where I would like to see less traffic.
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I think not in terms of should, but as a bare minimum. You sell a product with little socially beneficial upside and significant negatives. Then you should be happy to only have to pay a Pigouvian tax instead of being banned outright.
That's great if you get to pick the language you use for every project. Not all of us get that luxury.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20522606
Pretty useless features. Don't you think that HTML is getting too complicated? This often happens with open source projects, when everyone starts adding features for themselves and the program ends up as a monster that nobody can maintain (see: openvpn, x11vnc and so on).

But on the scale of uselessness this cannot be even compared with dark mode support. Never needed it.
First of all, it's called Appeal to Nature fallacy, not Naturalistic fallacy.

Second, theft, murder and rape aren't necessary for immediate survival. Also, animals don't commit murder in nature, because the target of the murder has to be a human, and it has to be within the context of human law. Same with rape and theft.

In the context of nature those actions are just competition for resources. I'm actually not entirely sure what your point was.
To your point, I was about to respond to OP as well, and point out that ad-blockers can be installed on Chrome. Then, I remembered that that's not likely to be the case in the near future[1].

https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-ad-blockers-extens...
So how do over the air networks convince people to pay for them? Do you want them to encrypt the signals and sell a decryption box? So instead of having information that anyone can access for free, people who can’t afford a monthly subscription should lnt watch tv?