skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds reasonable to me.
I'd be in favor of such a system.

I think if the US were importing large quantities of drugs, they would be forced to move to that system.

But if you think that there is the political will to do so, I think that could work out rather well.

Thanks.
In my case, it was the amount of preservatives in one of the more well known plant based meat burgers. Far from healthy.
He doesn't quite say it by name, but most advertising is a classic arms race. Especially given how the internet now makes information easily available, a great deal of advertising is about manipulating consumers to pick company A's products over those from competitors B, C, and D. This forces those other companies to spend to get and keep customers. It's pure waste.

For example, everybody on the planet is now familiar with soft drinks. If anybody has never tasted Coke, it's not by accident. But Coke's ad budget is enormous. If all soft drink companies stopped advertising tomorrow, society would not be worse off. And we'd have billions of dollars [1] to spend on something useful.

Like the author, I won't work on ad tech. I don't like manipulation and I don't like waste, and most advertising is both.

[1] e.g., https://notesmatic.com/pepsico-advertising-and-marketing-bud... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/081315/look-co...
Please add [pdf] to the title next time.

> If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is a variable missing on the axis somewhere: why doesnt the "average temperature" coloring extend all the way to the edge? It should be shaped like a pie slice as I understand it.
You are correct, it will take years. That means we should have started years ago, but failing that we can start now.

Even if the "mixed-use" buildings we create today are all residential, that doesn't mean they will stay that way. They can be remodeled if a grocery store wants in. Or the building that goes up next door in a few years can have a bit of commercial. Right now there is more commercial space than we need, while residential space is lacking, so it is no surprise that what you see today it mostly residential. However we now have the legal means to change that over time which is big.
> Also I already signed up for the $125 (when there was ZERO mention it might not be paid out) so what am I supposed to do?

From the FAQ, they'll send out an email to everyone who already filed allowing people to switch to credit monitoring.

I agree, this is ridiculous. Even credit monitoring for life (from the other agencies) would have been better than this.
Wait, what? How is this supposed to work for something like consulting? Asking for a retainer up front is often a one-way ticket to a potential client saying "no thanks" and going with someone else. I definitely would have lost many highly profitable opportunities with that approach.
How many years until General Direct Dialed telephony dies?
Why do buses not count? Because you don't like them? Your definition of transit is not shared with most people.

I love buses as a transit option. They go directly to parking lots of places like grocery stores and ride smoother than a lot of trains/subways/etc I've been on. If the routes are useful then people will use them and they're as simple to scale as buying more buses and very easy to dynamically adjust, unlike train lines.
ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC Are Suing Free TV Streaming App Locast
But we've always gotten the milk for free. In fact, the milk has gotten better and better, they're also offering cheeses, yogurts, and steaks. Why would anyone start paying now?

I know why (privacy and ethics), but most people won't and don't care.
This isn't a tutorial, but this paper has been blowing me away: http://www.neilconway.org/docs/socc2012_bloom_lattices.pdf

I bet analyzing those messages using this framework would reveal exactly why compensating actions are needed.

The takeaway I am getting from this paper is that, you're not just looking for idempotency. Monotonicity is important, as well as commutativity and associativity. If it cannot be expressed in that way, then coordination is required.
Context is not a requirement of the actual act of composition, though; that's what I'm trying to help you understand. Context might be why you might compose two things in a specific way, or why you might restrict composition between given things, but the act of composition itself is not tied to those specific requirements. In the functional realm: passing a function and list into a map function should work for any function and any list; map needn't care whether or not that function actually is applicable to that list (if it ain't, then that's the function's problem, not map's). Same deal for the "composeObject" function (if Foo and Bar shouldn't be composed, then don't try to compose Foo and Bar), and same deal for the compose procedure (if step1 and step6 shouldn't be composed, then don't try to compose step1 and step6).

> The composition of step1 and step6 is illegal because it doesn't make sense

It doesn't make sense to you. The computer doesn't care whether or not it makes sense to you. The computer only cares that it's able to pop two subroutine pointers and push one to a new subroutine that JMPs/CALLs to those popped pointers. The computer's gonna try to go to the store and eat a chicken, because that's what it's been told to do. To the computer, that makes perfect sense, because everything's subroutines and words, the chicken and the store and the going and the eating just being data to be pushed and popped.

You're welcome to write subroutines that actually validate your ideas of sensibility before proceeding to actually compose the subroutines they're popping off the stack, and there are indeed languages that help you with that, but the computer is still fully capable of composing things regardless of whether or not you think they should be composed.

----

To humor your argument, though:

composeFooAndBar(first: Class<Foo>, second: Class<Bar>) {
third = new Class
third._methods = first._methods.merge(second._methods)
return third
}

FooBar = composeFooAndBar(Foo, Bar)
foobar = new FooBar
foobar.hi; foobar.bye # "howdy" then "adios"
FooBaz = composeFooAndBar(Foo, Baz) # Yay! Our sensibilities are enforced!
Advertising (Which appears to be defined in your broad doc as anything that gets your attention without asking for it first) is the worst way to get people to pay attention to things, except for all the other ways. The alternative to "advertising" is the rate of people discovering new things dropping to 1% of what it is now.

1% of products have natural virality and will be found on their own. The other 99% of products and services in existence, no matter the quality, needs to be promoted so people can find them and use them.

Say you make an app that helps plumbers do their job well. If every plumber used it, plumber productivity would go up 50%, making life easier for all. It cost you years of your time and lots of money to make this great app, and you need a lot of plumbers to buy it to afford to continue working on it.

There's a big plumber app on the market already, but yours is way better.

How do you get plumbers to hear about your product?

1) The press? Uninterested. Plumber magazines or sites? Very low traffic - no way to scale.

2) Call or knock on doors of every plumber near you? If everyone did this, the spam would be unreal. Also inefficient and not scalable.

3) Referrals? You get some, but most plumbers aren't chomping at the bit to help their competitors. And because you started with so few, referrals are a snails pace and by no means exponential.

4) Organic postings and SEO? The big plumber app is way ahead of you. And 100 other worse apps clog up the listings. No one sees your posts.

See the problem? Without ads, you can't grow many many categories of genuinely valuable products. Even if no one else is advertising, you can't really grow without them.

This is barely a hypothetical by the way. I've worked with a dozen companies with similar situations.

Here's a real life example:

I was just hired to scale marketing for a particular app. This app currently has over 100 real reviews online, averaging 4.9 stars out of 5. Retention is nuts - 98% of people who ever started using the product (which has a monthly fee) are still using it. The company is three years old.

Perfect to take off, right? But few industries are actually viral. We just doubled the number of new customers per month using FB ads in the first two months of scaling it out, and we'll scale much further over the next 3.

Anyone who works in start-up growth will tell you the same things I am.
> Google has provided incalculable value to the world

I'm not convinced by this statement, and I'd be genuinely interested to hear your reasoning behind it. Is it specific products? Specific technologies? Although Google has built some interesting stuff, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that they've done that was either a) something that couldn't have been invented without them, or b) only unique due to their ability to scale it out, rather than a true innovation.
I would be happy to pay Google for ad-free search. Even $5/mo from me would be much more than they get from me now, and it would cover costs for thousands of unpaid users.
It's a shame that most people reference the film, instead of the book. The book deals with a harsher critique of society that doesn't come off as so heavy handed. It has a lot more satirical elements to it as well.
yeah but how many nm are left? There's a phsyical limit to transistor size!
Phone books still exist.
Second this, my mental calendar is a circle, but running counter-clockwise with January 1 at the 12, Feb at 11, etc. I have no problem looking at linear timelines, but viewing these clockwise representations of the year, with January at the 8 position, was surprisingly difficult.

That said, the data is really interesting.
I have become a 80% vegetarian by now and I feel great doing it. That said, I 100% agree with you. You can definitively be a vegetarian and die of heart disease eating that kind of replica food.
A Brief History of the Lie Detector
Rather than show red, why not show the next train you could actually catch?

A bit more glass half full, and reduces the light count by 33%!
> The middlebox cannot detect this happening, regardless of whether TLS 1.3 or earlier are used, it works the same and the "security" features in the middlebox don't prevent it.

Can't the middlebox just connect to the same endpoint, verify the certificate itself by checking that it is signed by a proper CA, and then, if it is not, drop the connection?
I don't know anything about smart contracts, but how does the smart contract know if a milestone has been met?
My town has a couple of stuff-happening-today directories. (Or this week or this month.) Doesn't NYC?
Well, there are many topics that we do science with, and which have multiple variables that we can't always control for, especially if you're doing survey studies for health, or disease or other macro-level stuff. It seems like the extremes of micro and macro of most systems of knowledge are always subject to a large amount of variance. That said a lot of macro-economics is very hard to replicate, making it of dubious value.
Search would have gotten built without advertising. Literally hundreds of companies were taking a stab at it.

Google search now has a revenue driven development target, not a feature driven one, purely because of its advertising lifeblood. It's a shame.
Developers think ORMs are evil because they've had horrible experiences with ORMs in general. I'm one of them. The only ORM that I enjoyed using was Dapper, and it's barely an ORM.
I had a highschool teacher who was vegetarian and would extol its health benefits.

She was obese.

Not being meat doesn't mean healthy by default. This misconception is becoming as bad as preferring "0 fat, replaced with loads of sugar".
Vulgar is a fun tool to generate the beginnings of a conlang: https://www.vulgarlang.com/
Thank you so much for the encouragement, it really does mean a lot
Ok buddy, we get it, you don't like canola oil. But Americans do, it's the #2 consumed oil in the country, with 2.7 million metric tons consumed in 2018. Those are the people that eat at White Castle and Dunkin Donuts, that's the market everyone's going after.
Wow what a treasure trove that website is.
Related discussion on HN yesterday: "Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language" [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20557830
Family and friends are a part of affordability. They can provide housing, food, childcare.

Also, how long do you expect it would take to find a job in a new place? You'd need to cover living expenses until your first paycheck, which is an extra 2 weeks after you've successfully found a job.
If you were to take away all of the coke tomorrow, the first thing I'd spend all that extra money (and more!) on would be to try to invent a new cola.
I went and visited my parents who still have cable. I sat and watched for a little while and was dumbstruck by the ads every few minutes. It was unbearable. I don't know how anyone can deal with it unless you don't know better
Thankfully CSS rules can be overridden by the user. :)

Takes a bit of hoop jumping though.
I like the aesthetic of the circular plots and think it's very creative. Though if we were to take Mr. Tufte's advice to heart: the surface that's outlined by the colored ribbons does not increase in the same proportion as the actual number of visitors, which might influence the way the data is perceived visually. But I don't want to rain on somebody's parade who managed to make far more beautiful plots than I ever have..
Long, long ago, someone suggested their extremely simple fix for advertising: stop letting companies declare it as a business expense.

The Law of Unintended Consequences always gets you in weird ways, and I'm not a lobbyist or a public policy person, nor do I know anyone highly placed in those fields.

But one of the ways companies slowly fail is by choosing to sell harder instead of making their product better. If we lower the rate of return on advertising dollars by 15%, won't that shift some more money into R&D, logistics and other divisions that provide something approximating value (although one unintended consequence I can see is an increased focus on strip-mining the Third World, literally and figuratively).
Anyone else find the user of 'cancer' in these terms to be frustrating? Having had to experience the pain of people I care about having cancer, it immediately just makes me feel like shit. I guess maybe I'm just sensitive...
> Of course it doesn't help that the go community is convinced that ORMs are evil (which is just posthoc rationalization for being unable to write one).

Yep. I held this opinion before Go came out, only because I couldn't write an ORM in Go.
If people value it then at a certain point they’ll pay for it. What we might find out however is that a lot of these free services aren’t valued and no one will pay for it. And I think that just reinforces the point of the article: those services are cancers, literally no one values them, they’re just manipulated into using them.

Things like search engines will be able to survive because they’re necessary. They may look different (e.g. wrapped up in a subscription package with gmail and gdocs). We are used to paying $X per month for an internet connection, it’s absurd to believe people won’t add on $Y per month for the over the top services that make that internet connection useful.
I don't know if the statement on price is valid in this article. For me, while shopping in wholefoods, I found the price of beyond meat patties is almost doubled than other, actual meat, brands. I am not sure why it is so expensive, but I sincerely hope it is not the cost of production
The mention of Spain reminded me of the Sant Pau hospital, which Domènech i Montaner designed in contrast to typical hospitals with the idea that beautiful places could be more therapeutic. It's a restored UNESCO site now that hosts events rather than patients (it stopped functioning as a hospital a decade ago). It being built 100 years ago, I imagine it may fall short in suitedness for medicine today, but the conversion of beautiful place to museum/event venue aligns a bit with your sentiment.

https://www.barcelonas.com/hospital-de-sant-pau.html
Or travel by train..

France (and Europe) have a great railway system. You don't necessarily need a car to travel.

And if you do, as you mentioned, just rent one.
I feel the same way about vegetables. I know other animals do it all the time, but when you add them up all the plant deaths are horrific.
I’ve always wondered about the hundreds of millions spent on election (mainly TV) advertising in the U.S.

Is all that money paid for airtime an indirect subsidy or transfer of wealth to those who own media companies?
I was also hesitating between Valencia and Barcelona. I ended up choosing Barcelona because there would be more job opportunities for my SO who doesn't work remotely.

Valencia is much cheaper than Barcelona but doesn't have a big airport nor as many good restaurants.

As for the best and worst things, I think they're valid for both Barcelona and Valencia:

The best thing is actually a combination of many: excellent weather conditions, relatively cheap cost of life, great food, access to the beach, overall good quality of life.

The worst things are the noise (cars and people) and communication.
Your hypothetical is poorly considered. We'd find another way to fund it. Things that are of incalculable value generally get paid for.

And I'll note that Google, etc, only take a fraction of the money flowing through the ad system. So if we got rid of ads, we could not only afford Google, but a number of other valuable things of Google's size.
Why does unsubscribing from a newsletter take “a few days”?
well, I guess they can be considered ads, but at least I don't get bombarded with them on every site I visit (like google ads)... I have to voluntarily go search for them on a specific site...
The value of stricter gun regulations is actually minimal - we already have the effective ones in place. Take a look at the studies for yourself, e.g.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309755075_Does_Gun_...
“I can see the value so those that can’t are inferior.”

You basically just post hoc rationalized their indifference for ORMs by making them sound incompetent

As if there are no other arguments for avoiding them that perhaps seem valuable to people that are not you?

It sounds reasonable to me you conjured the hot take, acknowledged it was post hoc rationalization on your part, but posted anyway, projecting your capacity for after the fact rationalizing onto ORM haters in the Go community.
> by our estimate TSMC will be a "full node" ahead of both Intel and Samsung

How times have changed! I still vividly remember Intel being a full node ahead of everyone else with their release of 22nm node. For example, see this article from 2012: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/127987-deliberate-exce...

This too shall pass.
Why? They're a net negative to society (soft drinks themselves, that is)
And I had yet to find a single practical application for closures, right up until the moment I started using Ruby (and later, Rust).

Turns out that they’re so useful in practice that they’ve been bolted on to—as far as I can tell—nearly every language in widespread use today. None of these languages “needed” such an improvement. Billions of lines of Java and C# were written without this feature. And yet today it would be virtually unthinkable to release a language without them.
Pea protein isolates, rice protein, mung bean protein, canola oil etc are Not food. I would not feed this to my dog. In fact, lined up against a bag of cheap dog food, you might pick the dog food... In a world awash in heavily-processed food, we now add this to the mix and get excited about it.

Statements about how "inefficient" cows are in making meat re calories ingested, usually fail to mention that for most of the cow's life they are eating grass on a range, which is not used for anything else. We didn't need to make that grass, it's sitting there. Statements on the use on land assume we would have condos and coffee shops sitting there, but for the cows on it.
Nobody's talking about taking away soda. People would still buy soda if there weren't ads for it.
Wouldn't you place it next to some other contact details? A regular person can deduce it's a internet address.
Pop-up events are likely "advertising" according to this site, which includes pretty much every form of communication or display not explicitly asked for.
There are a lot of people reading this that may,at some point, go into freelancing.I do have a mixed experience of freelancing and seeing these things from the business perspective. 2 simple rules:
1) Always,always ask for % upfront. Ideally,50%. If they start coming up with excuses,drop them.There are extremely persuasive people out there, don't get on their hook.
2) Set milestones. Daily,weekly, or if a project is huge, maybe biweekly. If they start their crap about particular invoicing dates,money release, accountant being away or any other crap,even if it sounds convincing- drop them or put the project on halt,by limiting or restricting access, or some other ways.
I'm senior enough in business to know plenty of weasel ways business people pull on freelancers, don't get fooled.
The problem with arguing your viewpoint is that no one can prove something wouldn't have been invented without Google. So, no matter what is listed, you can just say "someone else might have invented that".

And regarding your second point, what would the practical difference be to the consumer if the innovation happened because of their ability to scale out, or "true innovation"?

You don't need to like Google to admit they have added value to the world.
A few years ago, I made a website that used the Facebook API to look up events in my city (I had to manually add all the venues) and show them in a nice interface on a single page, with no ads, etc.

It was amazing, I loved being able to see all the week's events in a single view. Then Facebook decided to shut down the public events API, and that was the end of the site.

The morals of the story are two: You can be notified of pop up events without being data-mined, and fuck Facebook (I know, it's "their" data, but I hate it anyway).
If you store integer amounts of the smallest currency subdivision, you're already ready for foreign currencies. You just need to specify how each currency converts from a representation like `$60` to an integer count like `6000`. This even accounts for non-decimal currencies (which basically aren't in modern use) - just set a conversion factor of 500 or 60 or whatever instead of 100.
I can see acidification being an issue for sure. And CO2 is supposed to increase acidification.

But many geological reef formations are very old, 10's or even hundreds of millions of years old.

At the time these reefs were formed, CO2 levels were much much higher than they are predicted to be any time soon.

Yet somehow the reefs were constructed anyway and corals as a species pulled through. In spite of CO2 levels (per Wikipedia) '''between 200 and 150 million years ago of over 3,000 ppm, and between 600 and 400 million years ago of over 6,000 ppm''' (what are we at today? like 400ppm?)

The reef I live on incidentally is thought to have been formed like 265 million years ago. At which time CO2 levels were possibly an order of magnitude higher than today.

So I really am a bit confused still.
When I moved from Europe to the US I just couldn't believe it. In my home country there is one commercial break during a 2 hour movie. It's a little longer than the breaks in the US, but there is only one. There is also one during a 45minute TV show, and none during a 20minute show.

I can't tell you the shock when I started watching American TV. I couldn't believe people were putting up with this.