skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that's not mentioned in this article (and it's too soon to access the original manuscript) is if they control for how markets change their products in response to the sugar tax.

I've noticed after the UK brought in the sugar tax the formulations for a lot of drinks changed to have a lower sugar content with sweetness boosted with artificial sweeteners. This allows them to avoid the sugar tax as they are now lower sugar. I realised this as occasionally when I was in England I'd enjoy something like an Irn-Bru (orange Scottish soda made from girders), but a few years ago I noticed it now tasted horrible to me as I really can't stand artificial sweeteners. Coca-cola seems to be a notable exception that didn't change their formula.

Denmark also has a sugar tax (higher than the UK's) but the market kept the existing products and just charged more for them. An interesting example is the original formula Ribena (blackcurrant cordial) is made in England and freely available in Denmark, but the new formulation (less sugar, more sweeteners, less fruit juice, more thickeners) is the only one available in the UK.

It'd be interesting to see if there was an effect from sweet drinks now being a different thing in the UK and if that's a positive outcome from the legislation. I certainly avoid most soft drinks now when in the UK.
> against the people they are sworn to protect?

This is a misnomer.

Cops are not actually "to protect and serve", and this has been proven in court.

Their function is to uphold the law. That's it.
If you want the modern, grad-level version of an MIT scheme class, I highly recommend Sussman's 6.945. I don't know if there's an open courseware version but the entire class is centered around psets, each of which starts with a base environment provided by Sussman and the teaching staff, and which you are required to work in / extend. The class itself was extremely entertaining: you watch Sussman walk back and forth between two transparency projectors, switching the slide on each one as he arrives. Yes, you got very good at reading scheme code very quickly while listening to him talk at the same time.

I understand why MIT decided to make the introductory CS classes more accessible -- they wanted to expand the CS department beyond just those who had already had programming experience by the time they got there, I think? It makes a lot of sense and frankly I found the "replacement" classes pretty great, even while I was taking this class at the same time. Instead of going on at length about how much of a shame it is that MIT "got rid of its scheme class", consider 6.945.

This was one of the handful of classes that I felt were worth the price of admission; I've written code differently ever since.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/
not to mention certificate authentication...
Not if you are in a witness protection program against a drug mafia. They will take their opportunity to send a message.

Overall I agree though. This is the same baseless defense used against leaking of info on war crimes.

I doubt planting evidence is common, but it will nevertheless be interesting to dig through that. If it is true the cop is still serving, it should be a huge scandal. These practices need to be stomped out immediately.
> Sugar-free sodas are probably not ideal but they can't be worse than sugary drinks.

They are very much, comprehensively, most certainly, for sure far better than sugary drinks.

Aspartame is safe. The acidity remains an issue for dentition. But the sugar is the real killer.
> In practice, it's a failure every time.

The study literally came to the opposite conclusion:

> Three types of taxation on sugary drinks lower healthcare costs, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, but some – such as taxing sugar content – perform even better than taxing based on the volume of the beverage.
Yeah, the #1 thing I got out of college was critical thinking. History and philosophy are where I learned that. Would it have come without college? Maybe, and certainly yes for some. I do worry about a learn-one-task education system and what that means for society at large.
It has always seemed a crazy disconnect to me that so many in academia will endlessly complain about the expectation that what they teach prepare their students to obtain a high-paying job while happily cashing the checks and asking for more.
How would you scale assessment of exercises further than eg. coursera already does?
The implied goal is to send humans to places in the solar system. That means life support, food, water, etc. So a lot of mass anyway. Worse, the longer the trip the more mass you need to bring onboard. Nuclear would allow for the shortest trip durations while ion engines would be the longest. With ion engines you have the issues of micro-gravity health risks on the crew, psychological risks and the need for a lot more supplies.
You don't seem to understand the argument made by protesters. The argument is not that the police doesn't solve crime, it's that they cause it.

You observe an outlier but fail to put it into context. The police in the US aren't comparable to police in other western countries. As a result, comparing crime rates is disingenuous.

The lady in your anecdote is also painfully disingenuous. Being a police officer isn't really dangerous. The death rate is much higher for landscapers, bartenders, taxi drivers, etc.. Roofers have a mortality rate of 4x the police. Even then, most police officers die in traffic accidents, not homicide [0].

[0]: https://qz.com/410585/garbage-collectors-are-more-likely-to-...
as far as health effects and addictiveness imho sugar should be classified as a schedule I drug (the whole idea of banning drugs is stupid - but i’m saying this as an indication of how bad it is)

people just don’t get how harmful it is. sugar and alcohol are two things that - although socially acceptable - everyone should avoid in everyday life.
What's the oldest viable game to you, now?

I just played the first Mass Effect for the first time, and was really impressed by how well it had aged for a game from 2007.

I replayed the first Bioshock (also from 2007) not long ago, too, and it, too, holds up IMO.

Could we get further back than 2007?
I would say that you have to make sure that there is no real barrier first:

Bring Education online.

THEN the university and learning spaces have the chance of providing whatever 'Education online' can't provide.

That would free up and actually make it possible to evolve education.

If everyone is listing to the same lecture every year again without improvement, we miss out but also having to do the same lecture every year, costs ressources. Optimize your lecture instead of reduing the whole lecture every year.
Because their iPhone chips are so obscenely powerful, MBPs are famous for running super hot, and they can make much better margins this way. Consolidating onto a single CPU and GPU platform is nice for developers as well.

We’ll have to wait until 10PDT today and see the points that are brought up in the keynote.
I think we are imagining very different things! For what I tried to describe, I think a dedicated native mobile client would be the most natural way to use it. I don’t think it’s a strange idea at all - consider how popular dedicated apps like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook etc are. It’s not confusing or a burden in any way.

Publii or anything you could one-click-install on a web host is nowhere near fully featured for what people actually want to do on the web. Again, look at the type of activity that happen on most social networks - liking, sharing, commenting, replying, bookmarking, retweeting, remixing, curating playlists and galleries, etc. Those communal space-building activities have become as foundational concepts for the internet as linking, but are exceptionally difficult to implement on the current web.
No but the process is still started and I suppose there's still some sort of setup time for networking, context group, etc.
> I think the markets have been completely messed up by stimulus since 2008

Maybe, but OTOH the stock market returns are actually no different from pre 2008 (S&P500 in this case): https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-re...
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I think you have a fundamentally wrong conception of what it takes to learn advanced concepts. In most cases you can't autograde or award points for everything, it also isn't what University education should be about. It is sad enough that during the Bologna reforms in Europe University education was "industrialised" as much as possible (ECTS points, core modules, etc.).

In the best case a University education in a STEM field will lead you pretty quickly (within 3-5 years) to do research in a lab that does cutting edge work. Most of that lab work can't be distributed or done online, nor can any of the preparatory lab courses in small groups with constant supervision (which are a large part of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine degrees). Even in subjects such as math and computer science a huge part is exercises that are graded and then discussed in small groups of 10-20 people. This wouldn't easily translate to an online experience either.

Universities like Cambridge even offer 1:1 supervision in Math and Physics, this can be totally awesome and is non-replaceable by video chat or online forums.
You can also have solar thermal propulsion where you reflect large amounts of sunlight onto some hydrogen to heat it up before using it as propellant. The efficiency is roughly the same since in both cases you're basically limited by the melting point of your engine. Solar thermal designs tend to have lower thrust than nuclear thermal but much more thrust than solar electric.
Had a professor show us the first few minutes of the first lecture here. Saying "Computer Science" wasn't a science and that it was really about computers was mind blowing for a freshman CS major.
This client is what I think of in my minds eye for a modern day MUD that still stays true to what a MUD is but has an accessible interface. Whoever designed the UI did a nice job.
I have to mention Ross' Youtube channel Accursed Farms' review [0] [1] [2] of Deus Ex. I would highly recommended watching them:

"I came for a game review and left with a better understanding of the economy and politics. Ross you blow my mind"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOKEsBx4NU

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPwpLDvAnvo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYLEuQrvND0
I still don't understand the approach to these taxes. Why single out one very specific form of food with added sugar? If added sugar is contributing to a health crisis - and I believe it is - then taxing it may be a reasonable way to address that crisis. But focusing on such a narrow subsection of foods with added sugar seems insufficient and just plain bizarre.

Do you never eat candy bars or sugary pastries but enjoy soda sometimes? You get taxed. Do you eat piles of candy bars and sugary pastries everyday but never drink soda? No tax for you! What?
The book on Theranos (Bad Blood) actually makes the argument that no “real” big names were in Theranos: Kissinger, Mattis and Schultz knew nothing about health care or medicin. They are/were career politicians. The book argues investors with actual experience in the industry staid far away.
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Its really that I'm just more used to modern stealth mechanics that handhold the player more. It's not my style of play in general.
Code review guidelines light the way
Command Line Heroes comes to mind.
Docker is a linux tech tied to features in Linux kernel. You don't have cgroups and the like in XNU (OSX kernel) to be able to run docker natively on OSX.
>Three members of the group were killed in an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, but none were killed in any of the bombings.

I didn't say they weren't terrorists, just that they didn't kill anyone.
> The problem is that I'm guessing Apple wants to move to their own ARM not for more compute, but more power efficiency.

I'm guessing the switch is for those reasons, plus a more important one (my opinion only), control.

If they use their own chips, they're not stuck waiting on Intel (or any other x86 CPU manufacturer) to build CPUs that have the attributes that matter to them the most.
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Purpose of this blog is to provide knowledge pill - to get this info sometimes you have to read a lot - there is everything nicely described without unnesecary talking - easy to copy&paste when doing IT work
Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't make any sense. Isn't economic migration the act of declaring that your education is worth more in different country?
I think since the us govt sponsors corn syrup (correct me if I’m wrong), it would be weird for them to also tax the same thing. They could... you know... do neither thing...
Typescript typing is fundamentally optional, so this criticism, even if true regarding statically typed languages, does not apply to Typescript.

Typing is optional both for individual variables via the `any` type, and compiler-wide, by configuring it to assume untyped variables are `any` by default.
The opening scene feels prophetic in the time of coronavirus:

https://youtu.be/zStn70Ot4r0
What are those checks and what things need to be taken away that have to be done at the language level? Why aren't you giving specific examples?
This is quite wild. Is there any finer-grained summary of the sort of data leaked, and how extensive it is? Even a million documents could be anything from mundane to incredibly sensitive, depending on the sort of content.
When I was a teenager I had a lot more sugar in my diet, and I'd get strong cravings when doing extended physical activity. One time when I was backpack camping I walked from our camp for a couple of kilometres (so over a mile) to a village just to get a couple of cans of soda. This was on top of the 15kms I'd already walked that day.

Not to say this is in any way comparable to a heroin addiction, but sugar urges can be strong and compelling.
It's hard not to be pedantic here. CDs still have their place, and a lot of streaming is terrible; either there are advertisements, or DRM, or fidelity costs, or limited libraries due to licensing problems. etc.

I think the metaphor still goes the same way: the old fashioned way may not be perfect, but there is some real value there that is not necessarily replaced by steaming online courses.
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That's my main grip with Rust "Fearless Concurrency", fearing concurrency and dipping into it with your toes is a good thing.

Claiming "Fearless Concurrency" but ignoring synchronization bugs, at a low-level in concurrent data structures or at a high-level in concurrent systems is misleading.
People will be fearlessly introducing livelocks.
It's exactly that attitude to policing that's the root of all this. Yes, we all want our loved ones coming home at the end of the day. But when you go out with the assumption that everybody is trying to kill you, everybody treats you with suspicion and fear. If you're looking for a place to break that cycle, it's gonna have to start with not reflexively defending police who have clearly committed murder.

Those Baltimore riots were sparked because a man who was in custody suffered injuries that could not have been caused any other way except by the police who held him, and all of them were acquitted. When people see that the system is intent on protecting the police, that means a lot of people aren't going to care whether that woman's husband makes it home or not.

Crime has been falling at the same time as police misconduct (not just the actual abuses, but the protection around them) has become more visible. Somebody needs to de-escalate it, and that would be a great place to start.
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Heh, reading this is reminiscent of the shortcomings of Typescript when external data is mistyped.

Ps I love Typescript.
See https://www.openbsd.org/security.html and https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

Some snippets:

> OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our open software development model permits us to take a more uncompromising view towards increased security than most vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with cryptography, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards fixing security problems.

> ASLR: OpenBSD 3.4 [Nov 2003] was the first widely used operating system to provide it by default.

> W^X: First used for sparc, sparc64, alpha, and hppa in OpenBSD 3.3. Strictly enforced by default since OpenBSD 6.0: a program can only violate it if the executable is marked with PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED and it is located on a filesystem mounted with the wxallowed mount(8) option.

> Kernel relinking at boot: the .o files of the kernel are relinked in random order from a link-kit, before every reboot. This provides substantial interior randomization in the kernel's text and data segments for layout and relative branches/calls. Basically a unique address space for each kernel boot, similar to the userland fork+exec model described above but for the kernel. Theo de Raadt, June 2017.
That website is ancient. The layout is done with tables and there are bits of code in there specifically for IE7.

That means it'll work on anything. The old desktop PCs that sit around in public offices for decades will display it with no problems. Compare that to a beautiful, modern website from a rival that plain won't load let alone render on that ancient computer.

The one with the working website wins the contract.
So in short:

Nothing would hurt Facebook at all.
There is a glaring typo in the first title. "Does Netsential have want you need?"

I clicked on the first link to get a description of features, but it leads to an empty page.
The Biblical Way of Overcoming Crisis
Cops are sworn to the law, not the people, but, in any case oaths, absent effective accountability to them, only matter to the people that didn't need to take them in the first place.
John Bolton Said His Twitter Account Was Turned Off After Tweet to Correct Trump
For a long time now, StackOverflow has lost its way.

Their voting system began as an outstanding mechanism to separate the QA wheat from the chaff. It evolved and improved organically. It provided a much needed means to surface the best questions and answers, and it provided a sort of incentive system, however imperfect, whereby contribution quality could be quantified.

Then something happened. I think a major part of the problem was that leadership lost its way in guiding the system's evolution. Rather than continuing to evolve the scoring system to better reflect the quality of contributions, at some point they seemed to adopt the outlook that improvements were futile: It would always be possible to game the system such that scores would never approach true quality of contribution, so why try? I believe this was a mistake.

Evolution from there ignored the scoring system. They went off in failed Documentation efforts. They focused on "being nice". They fought with their own volunteer moderators.
They seemed to look everywhere else but the origin of their initial strength: Community contribution fairly rated in a manner that allowed good moderation to scale. They should have continued to improve this system to root out the problems of over-eager closure and popularity dominating whatever prefered qualities the community would have liked to have seen measured.

An adjunct "thank you" mechanism that's redundant to the voting system is a sign that those in control do not appreciate the merit of, and do not know how to evolve, the voting system.
Amen. I have similar experiences working with designers and PMs and this is my ideal as well.

Designers don’t know the software architectural constraints and what is easy to code up and what is not. Engineers do. PMs know what trade offs they want to make in fidelity for the product, but designers and engineers don’t. What you often end up with is designers spending a lot of time creating designs they think solve the problem, but miss out on a lot of edge cases. They and PM discuss the product design and hand it over to engineers as if their work is done. When the engineer goes to implement it, they find all those edge cases that were missed and the designer has to go and redo a bunch of stuff while engineering is blocked on some of those decisions and PM is concerned why it’s so hard to implement as is.
TL;DR please.

These brothers are smart and often interesting but they are also both audibly quite taken with their own brilliance and often not what I want to listen to.
That's still several orders of magnitude more massive than the chemical and ion thrusters used on small satellites.

But don't take my word for it, there are 12 pages of intelligent comments on the Ars article, comments mostly of much higher quality than any comment here, including and especially mine.

And those comments are fairly disparaging. Unless you're going past Jupiter, in which case Nuclear-Electric-Propulstion is your best bet. And nuclear-electric is very different than nuclear-thermal.
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I'm alone and don't feel bad at all. Actually, I prefer to be alone. There are so many interesting things to do, so many interesting books to read, etc, I don't understand how someone can be bored. It's really strange to me that so many people suffer from being alone and feel lonely.
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