skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alright, but you've missed the point. These companies have had the opportunity to make a superior product with the same allowances that you suggest that municipal would get. But they didn't.

My original comment very specifically said "If we actually had reasonable competition among local broadband". I'm well aware that we don't, and because we don't, I don't consider it anti-competitive to provide infrastructure that the private sector has failed to.

> Alternatively, I would argue that a municipal system is, in fact, fair competition. If a municipality decides that they, collectively, want to create and pay for a service due to lack of quality competition, then it is their right to do so.

If they can do so without charging people who don't use the service, then by all means, they should. For instance, start a broadband co-op.
Maybe Raja's move was part of the AMD Intel GPU deal, as could be some undisclosed fees for use AMD graphics tech for use at Intel. That could mean Raja is there to lead a close integration of the tech bases.
maybe in some cases its better to think of large corporations more like states, different elements within competing and cooperating with other entities.
Calling someone’s legitimacy into question for being old is hurtful and wrong.

Calling someone’s legitimacy into question for being fat is hurtful and wrong.

Calling someone’s legitimacy into question for being ugly is hurtful and wrong.

Calling someone’s legitimacy into question for being black is hurtful and wrong.

Calling someone’s legitimacy into question for being slutty* is hurtful and wrong.

How can you be so dense that you don’t see the common thread here.

* by your definition, which is a whole other ball of bullshit
> But for the GPL, the notion of a user almost always includes you and me. Or at least it would, it this particular case.

I agree that free software would have been the better option, but the fact remains that MINIX is BSD licensed, not what the FSF considers "free software" and I am merely describing what user freedom could possibly mean in terms of the BSD license. Maybe you feel like discussing the merits of different licenses, which leads me to believe that you are confusing this with me somehow sharing an opinion on which is better.

The BSD license doesn't really express the notion of a user. You and I are free to distribute, modify and use the software under the same terms that Intel does. Compared to GPL, there's no fundamentally conflicting idea of what a user is. The difference is in what obligations the licensee has.

> So how can one compare the licenses on the amount of "freedom" conveyed to "potential users" if they don't want to use the same meaning of the word "user" as the GPL does? And does purposefully, with the end goal of serving said users.

Tanenbaum considers Intel to be a user of his software and that they benefit from the freedom granted to them by the license. If you want better information than my take on what exactly he means you should ask him, not me.

Also, you – a potential user – are free to do whatever you want with MINIX.

> Not sure about "at best", but I can. And there are licenses (such as AGPL) that limit what one can do with software accessed over a network as well.

OK, so we agree that you can. For all I care there can be licenses that limit at what times a week I can pick my nose based on the proprietor's notion of what a user is.

> You never "start or stop" an operating system, you just push a button. You don't interact with it directly either: you communicate with hardware devices and user-facing software.

There is a very wide span in which you could place the definition of a "user" if you are willing to reduce the concept to this level of absurdity. Maybe it was a bad idea to bring the subjective notion of a user up at all, since the BSD license is after all very clear on what it permits and under what circumstances.

> I am discussing the Open Letter, and not your opinion in a vacuum.

Explain your point rather than ask me what I think that he means. You can discuss whatever you feel like, of course, but don't expect me to be your soapbox for ranting about how superior GPL is. I don't have the energy to engage in some sort of socratic exchange where you slowly try to pull your point out of me. There is a reasonable interpretation of "free" for which the BSD license may be considered to offer more freedom to users than the GPL. Most importantly, it comes with less obligations. There is also a very reasonable interpretation of "free" for which the tables are reversed. Tanenbaum obviously favors the former.
Look up the total federal tax rate, it's available. It's not skewed as much as just federal income tax, but it's still significantly skewed.

The top 5% pay 53% of all federal taxes including social security and Medicaid.[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573269
Awesome work ;)
> ...when things are bad, or you feel frustrated, you don't let it show. You need to be the person who is positive ...

I agree that this sounds more like denial than grit. Maybe it wasn't intended, but I've also seen it in real life. And besides being bad leadership, it's sometimes unethical (dishonest and harmful).
> There was a believable scene in which one kid bullied another into taking an almost certainly fatal jump into the quarry, and was only saved by paranormal means.

I watched it last night so it's fresh in my mind. It was paranormal events that setup this scene and made the bully go to such extremes to begin with.

It was also one of the worst, least believable scenes in the series. The fact that he was so willing to jump, the threats the bully was giving, etc. It was just weak writing in an attempt to create a dramatic reunion. When your 11 years old it takes some time to build up the courage to make a safe jump from something like a bridge, let alone a possible fatal jump.
1. novelty, why not?

2. early 20s

3. de minimis. $12-20 total for dozens of doses of kratom, shipped usps.

4. internet sellers.

5. define "stop?" i continue to use them irregularly. opioids have a very nasty side effect of bad constipation (silver lining: it's a strong encouragement to eat lots of vegetables), so it's not really something you can just use every day. at least for me, that kind of makes use self-limiting.

also, opioids just aren't that great. they're very effective at killing pain, but if you aren't in pain, you don't notice that. beyond that, the high is imo really subtle and easy to forget about. in contrast, with weed, alcohol, lsd, shrooms, mdma, adderall, whatever, you know you're high during the experience.
no, we don't need a proprietary, centralized service for this.
In Osaka it seemed like every available square meter was converted to retail space. Shopping arcades, train station shops, underground causeways lined with shops, traditional malls. The back alleys have back alleys, and they're all lined with shops -- often specialty shops. I found one shop devoted to display cases for otaku to show off their model collection. Another shop specialized in LCD signs you could use in the storefront for your shop. It was NUTS.

And yeah, the first time I saw a Konami gym my mind boggled. Is this how Snake stays in such good shape? Use promo code Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start and get a 30-day free membership!
That's just the problem isn't it? People are prescribed a drug for medicinal purposes that is so addictive and so readily distributed for minor ailments that medicinal use inevitably turns to recreational use after the prescription runs out.

Louis Theroux's "Dark States: Heroin Town" is a good account of how these addictions progress in the US, and some of the reasons for the growing numbers we are seeing.
If I delete my comment and you can't respond, that's a feature, not a bug. This kind of comment is best left to an email.

The reason I backed out of this subthread is very simple: the first few replies were vaguely insinuating I might somehow be sympathetic to neonazis. That was enough for me to hit the "forget this" button.
By how much would the country's tax income increase, percentage wise, if all these companies started paying full tax?
> Why? I love my local baker, but for brand name items, I'm going to order online.

really? even for things like bikes, sporting goods, clothes, running shoes, ... I could go on. And the thing is: you'd still be ordering online, just not from amazon. if you order directly from brands and the brand can inform you that there is a local shop that has it within miles, why not get it there? why waste the resources of having to have it shipped (long distance) only to potentially have to ship it back?

> BOPIS

same day delivery beats BOPIS but it is a solid option when there is limited stock. you are putting on hold. best buy and home depot are killing with this right now.

> knowledge of what is in stock nearby

yep.

> delivery

agreed.
Suppose you, as a random Irish citizen, want to buy a car in the US and just drive around during the 6 months of your tourist B2 visa stay. Should you pay income tax on the money you bring to the US to buy a car? I don't think so. Similarly, should you pay income tax on the money you bring to US to buy some stocks? I don't think so either.

Now, the company that brings the money to invest in the US stocks is just some random Irish company that just happens to be owned by US company Apple Inc.
Regarding Intel ME/AMT: how does it work when the computer is powered off? On a wired network, I imagine some system which stores the nearest switch's port connected to that machine, and you could send some sort of signal which powers things up. But even that seems, impossible? I guess it's not unlike hitting the power button; you're just sending an electrical signal to the computer which makes it start. The path of that signal is unimportant.
As well as physical access do you also need to set a bios setting? It isn't entirely clear to me but the background information article linked in this thread seems to suggest yes.
Sugar consumption isn't contagious. I would call that an improvement to private health.
Meanwhile the scotch market is competitive and unconsolidated. Seems like consolidation reduces quality and competitiveness. who would have thought.
I've still never figured out if TJ Holowaychuk is a hive mind or not. I kind of suspect not, but the history is interesting!

Context:
https://medium.com/@kelas/how-is-tj-holowaychuk-so-insanely-...
Politicians need to look like they are doing something. It doesn't matter if they actually do anything. If they look busy, they are busy and are obviously working hard and should be kept in that position.
I am not talking about digital goods.
The details of that video are fuzzy at best. The crash happened 8 months before it was reported in western media, before Tesla made any announcements about fully self driving systems. It's not even entirely clear Auto Pilot was involved.

Still, there have been confirmed accidents involving Auto Pilot. That's not to say it hasn't been acting as designed. It is currently a system to help drivers when they make a mistake, not a way to prevent drivers from needing to drive. They've said it will do more eventually, but that's not what they're selling.

It's entirely possible that Waymo's system is completely incapable of dealing with street sweepers stopped the middle of a passing lane of a highway. If that's the case, there's no way the professional test drivers would be taking the car into that kind of situation. The public isn't given that degree of insight into their testing methodologies. This contrasts with shipping systems, where the public is implicitly given a users (potentially mis)using the system. It also means that Tesla has orders of magnitude more distance of real-world test data than non-shipping systems.
Not really surprising, it probably just selects the SKU with the highest number of sales. Even if that's just 1 sale it's still the 'best seller'.
Personally, I appreciate your efforts at discussing sensitive topics. I encourage you to keep doing so, as honestly but sensitively as you can. While the "Kolmogorov option" might maximize your personal outcome, this doesn't mean it's best for the group to encourage you to take it. You probably already read the recent discussion by another Scott A? https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...
I don't love my Casper mattress. I didn't love my Tuft&Needle mattress either.
Not to be a jerk, but I do not agree that Apple makes outstanding products any longer.

In particular the quality of UX has decline rapidly since jobs' decline. Have you looked at the stopwatch app for example? Where did the seconds go? Milliseconds?

There are many many more things like this that have changed for the worse. And their hardware has always been sub par afaik.
People I know went into policehood to help their community. If that's the goal, they could be put to better use instrumenting more effective policy.

These types of policies should be data and analysis questions, not based on politics and world view. Some of them inarguably work better than others.

We need to exit the theater of unfounded opinion when it comes to these things. It's not useful.
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That there is no credible research done should be an argument against untested proposals for change, not against status quo.

It is overwhelmingly clear that cryptocurrencies in general is in an early phase and that more research is needed on the subject. Especially since it seems like we'll be running these systems on an even larger scale in the future. It does however seem like more energy is spent spreading soundbites on Twitter than anything that has even a vague resemblance to the scientific method.
Any ideas about the proof of time which Bram references?
> With his hire, Intel will be developing their own high-end discrete GPUs.

With Intel and AMD backing Mesa, things on Linux will get very interesting.
Yes, Intel knows how to play when they own the instruction set (x86, sse1,2,3,4 and amd64). No, amd64 is just cross-licensing between two and only two companies. AMD will never catch Intel. Ergo, Intel owns amd64 too.

It shouldn't be a surprise then that along comes NVidia with their own instruction set, PTX, and Intel's desire to own the instruction set will be their undoing.
I still use OpenCL on the daily, it allows me to program for both NVidia and AMD GPUS simultaneously with the minimum amount of pain. And you can still use it for mobile GPUs and specialized chips like the Myriad.

Do you have another open, cross-platform, widely compatible GPU programming framework to recommend?
Give people social services, and now you own them and have the right to control their life.
Obviously it is a problem that social security numbers are often accepted as proof of identity, but the article seems to be saying that permanent id numbers are bad even apart from this. I don't understand what the argument is though
The pattern is to buy a brand that has developed an image and gradually lower quality bleeding everything from the reputation until it's meaningless. It's slash and burn economics.
how do you stop fraud from people opening a new ID and taking out loans with it instead of their "main" ID ?
When evaluating a consulting pipeline, the expected revenue is the ideal revenue discounted for projects that don't happen, for projects that start but are abandoned, for clients that don't pay by design or economic changes, for projects that get delayed, for projects that get stalled, for projects that go to someone else, and so on.

If the target revenue is $100k/year, then the dollar value in the pipeline must be some multiple of that...probably at least three or four and often five or ten or more depending on competition, economics, client business models, client corporate structure and many other factors outside the consultant's control.

A potential client is not a client. A client is an organization with a signed contract and checks that don't bounce. Asking for a retainer to start the work is one way to separate clients from potential clients.

One last thing, a consultant is not their own boss. A consultant has at least as many bosses as they have client's and there's no hierarchy. None of them care what the other said or needs or wants when it comes to bossing you around.

Good luck.
Yes. My perspective is:

- It's ok if this person doesn't want to use Nvim.

- The "Why should I switch to Nvim" question is based on a questionable premise. I think the question should be "Why should I should to Vim".
1) In college, I discovered I loved recreational substances. My best friend was a closet heroin addict and convinced me to try it.
2) 19 or 20
3) 90 to 200 USD per gram. Towards the end, I was spending upwards of 3000 a month.
4) Through my friend at first, but I quickly developed a network of dealers.
5) My entire life had been reduced to obtaining and consuming heroin. I didn't stop when my best friend died, I didn't stop after three overdoses throughout the years. It took an indescribable amount of self-loathing, loneliness, financial insecurity, and general misery for me to realize I couldn't go on like this. I sold almost everything I owned and moved a thousand miles away to live with my parents and try to get my shit together (still a work in progress)
Agreed.

I too have had a major surgery several years ago. I was given morphine and than Oxycodone when discharged, but not at high enough dosage for adequate relief - 3 or 4 days of pure misery. There is no reason, when short-term opiate use is easily available, for patients to suffer like this.

It seems like the medical establishment was really pushing opiates for years, even when they probably weren't needed. Now they're swung too far in the other direction: under-prescribing them for fear of overdosage, addiction, and even punishment by the DEA and government. Wish we could find some middle ground.
> USian

Is this a statement thing?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/context
No, I understood, I just called out Nvidia because they are so often on the other side of a patent dispute with Intel. AMD and Intel have broad cross patent licensing deals in place because of previous fights over patents on the frontside bus, the instruction set, etc.

From a strategic markets point of view I see it this way;

Discrete GPUs gives Intel a shot of owning both pieces of high margin silicon in a laptop / tablet design win (GPU & CPU) and potentially it gives Intel additional ammunition to go after Nvidia or to mitigate their encroaching.
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It's better that people that are bothered by white backgrounds dial down the background light on the monitor. Saves energy too!
CNN emerges as sticking point amid regulatory scrutiny of AT&T-Time Warner deal
Interesting coincidence that Richmond in Melbourne, Australia, has just been announced as a location for a supervised injecting room. This Richmond is also a hot spot for heroin usage, dealing, and overdoses.
Oh, I thought you meant they used to be different features, not that they used to be different implementations of the same concept.
A fungus with over 20k sexes
Propaganda and censorship are two different evils, the latter is worse than the former, IMHO, because it silences the conversation all together.
I had the same impression.

> ...is it not the fault of their direct managers & middle management for not floating those accomplishments up the chain?

If that's the only way upper management gets that info, I guess. But, especially in software, there are plenty of ways to get that info in addition to letting subjective takes float up the management chain.

At the dumbest level, you can look at code metrics (still not great), but just knowing the product (software) and evaluating it yourself is a great idea. What restaurant manager never eats the food or inspects the walk-in?
How to create your own chatbot with Dialogflow and Node.js in just one day
Agreed, unless we haven't gotten a hold of all the physics necessary for trips on that scale. That said, I do think it's overly pessimistic to think that aliens would mistreat us as a matter of course - obviously we've done a lot of that to each other in the past, but I'd like to think that most modern societies (say, Norway, to pick a random example) wouldn't just casually enslave and kill a new tribe. We're at a point in our history where even the idea of colonizing is anathema (not that there isn't plenty of fallout from before that was true...). So I don't have a hard time imagining a species that's thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years ahead of us would have a very different take on interacting with other sentient beings (assuming we make that cut for them).
His philosophy class on justice is also worth checking out.

http://justiceharvard.org/
This was exponentially better than the other comments
Microsoft sued the Justice Department. I'm not a lawyer, but since the Justice Department is no longer doing this thing, they may not have any standing for the lawsuit. I don't think they can force the lawsuit through to get a decision since they're no longer being harmed by it.

It wouldn't be the first time someone who thought they might lose backed down to avoid setting a precedent. Police departments did it with cases where people challenged the use of Stingrays, for example.
We started using paid Sentry recently (previously were on an old self-hosted version). It's mostly been great, but boy is search clunky. Very difficult to find anything that doesn't automatically appear on the first page of recent events.
China doesn’t have elections (well, meaningful ones at least), so you are probably right there.
The energy consumption of the incumbent financial infrastructure is extremely difficult to measure, and so it has never been seriously considered a "problem." There hasn't been an alternative. What does it cost to put a roll of quarters into the hand of a laundromat customer in Faibanks? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Walking is 3x more expensive to fuel (cost of calories vs. gas) than driving
1. Sounded like a laugh

2. 23 to 25

3. $8 for a packet of paracetamol/codiene plus a few dollars for coffee filters, $10 for 10 tramadols

4. Pharmacy for the codiene, friend gets the tramadol online from India

5. I didn't really get what the whole fuss is about, it wasn't that fun, and I know anything harder than those is a dark dark path that I have no interest in travelling down.
There is no reason that you can't create both OpenCL (i.e. SPIR-V) and PTX from the same source. Thats what I do for [DCompute](https://github.com/libmir/dcompute). Agnosticism at the library level/CPU side is next on my list.
I don't understand why a user couldn't just upload a particular image they don't want other people to upload and essentially be able to control the images on Facebook. If no one will review the photos, they have no way to prevent this.
Would the proper category then for Bud be some type of "lesser" sake then?
It looks like Raja will lead the development of machine learning-focused GPUs. Isn't this Intel basically admitting that their Xeon Phi, Nervana, and Altera GPU efforts to win the machine learning market are all a dead-end?

How many machine learning strategies is Intel going to try? Does it even know what it's doing? Spending billions of dollars left and right on totally different machine learning technologies kind of looks like it doesn't, and it's just hoping it will get lucky with one of them.

And even if you think that's not a terrible strategy to "see what works", there's still the issue that they need to have great software support for all of these platforms if they want developer adoption. The more different machine learning strategies it adopts, the harder that's going to be for Intel to achieve.