skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FCC votes to remove net neutrality rules
Not to mention Apple is trying to move away from OpenCL so GPU renderers will all need to be re-written in Metal to truly take advantage of OS X.

This machine only serves rich youtubers who use Final Cut Pro.
I agree, but it's nevertheless a violation of the "one obvious way" rule.
Go Ajit Pai!!! More power to you.

Constitutional Rights (Free Speech) vs. Civil litigation over Contractual Obligation between two free-agent parties (NN).

Free Speech must win and for that to happen, I am convinced, NN must lose now.
Are you just trying to play devil's advocate or do you really believe this? With HTTP, you're requesting access and then the server gives you the some information. It's up to the server to decide to give you the information. If the server doesn't give you the info, you can try to hack it but you might be breaking the law.

Same with a cafe. You can request access and the cafe can turn you away or serve you. If they turn you away and you refuse to leave, then you are breaking the law (like hacking).

Basically if I request something from you and you give it to me, that's your problem, not mine.
I keep plaintext passwords, but I reverse the string to prevent the hackers.
I look forward to trying this out!
Introducing PrettyPrinter for Python
Also with various micropayment schemes you don't actually need an on-chain transaction for every payment.
Images can get rather big, I would prefer not to be uploading/downloading big images to the interwebs, it just makes sense to have it all local for Photoshop type work.

For this reason I would like to see a version of Photopea that is open source and can be installed 'docker style' on one's local machine. This would complement the online version.

Right now, as things stand, I am not ready to move to an online image editor, the local file access is important and without it I am not going to invest time learning a new tool.

I am mightily impressed though, incredible effort and from my few minutes with it, I think you have something very polished for a first reveal. I am fairly sure the UX is better than Gimp - the often criticised Gimp!
Atomic Blasting Creates New Devices to Measure Nanoparticles
Your children's future? Besides that we're continually moving towards cleaner methods of producing electricity, that's blowing it out of proportion. I highly doubt the additional energy consumption would be much more or even more at all than the difference between using a brand new or 5-year-old device that was less energy efficient.
It gets better: I overheard a cop once saying that he has an Amazon Fire Stick and he streams movies and shows to other cops. He then said its not illegal if you stream it. The cops get involved cause they don't understand it anymore than others do in some cases. You just gotta get to some ones boss and you are forced to follow orders even if they're wrong. I live in the USA btw so might be different from elsewhere. Cops are not lawyers I guess...
It should expire in 3-4 days. You can also try importing the keys to another compatible wallet and redo the transaction with higher fee.
"in some particular tasks women are better"

I assume men's hips are still better for tasks traditionally associated with the male gender role - e.g. being hunters and warriors.
>How am I supposed to work with someone who thinks a huge part of my life is immoral?

So everyone needs to ensure they hold no oppinions you might find offensive or be homeless? It goes both ways: how am I supposed to work with someone who thinks it's ok to ostracize people for personal beliefs?
In Europe companies can't fire you for legal activities done while not working. It's not such a crazy idea.
Just give me an extra pound of RAM and Battery. I don't care about the "thinnest lightest MacBook pro ever". Making the pro laptop light and port-free is omphaloskeptic.
Is the majority stake in Hulu really an antitrust concern? Streaming services are pretty competitive and Netflix has plenty of their own exclusive content.
DevGuild: Pricing Strategy talks
The beauty of the U.S. is in its freedom, and as such, individuals cannot be constrained.

That's why we have an appeal from Sam who is suggesting that people willingly open their minds to debating ideas and not demonizing the people espousing them.

This is a freedom that could be fixed only through the people's choice to acknowledge it and fix it.
Is that ever the standard used? I don't believe the concerns of the customers, other companies, and definitely not employees are ever considered when evaluating antitrust violations. Normally they're looking at whether the marketplace would be reduced to a monopoly or whether non-insurance companies are using abusive tactics, right?
The device seems impressive, but the price is even more so.

I'd probably chose one only if I can get someone else (e.g. an employer) to pay for it; otherwise the same money can buy a combination of a much cheaper computer + a nice overseas vacation trip, and that'd be better.
Prerendering for CloudFront
Robots.txt is not a 'no-trespassing' sign. Robots.txt is a 'whites-only' sign.

The information is available to the public, just not for certain classes. This is and should be legally unenforceable.

If something is truly meant to be private it should not be referenced from a public-facing page or it should have access control enabled.
Net neutrality rules weakened by US regulator
His entire speech was full of whataboutisms (What about Google, Facebook, et. al censoring content), cherry picked comments and total ignorance of how competition doesn't actually exist in the consumer ISP business.

You think he wouldn't stoop to lying about engineers being anti-NN?
Captain Obvious makes friends with banality: cross-browser-device- UI design
You can click the button to hide all from "news", politics, and meme pages as they appear in your feed. It's rather tedious to filter out all of them but after doing that my feed mostly only shows my friends and family out doing stuff.
> When a server sends you a response you aren't taking something, you are being given something. If the server thought you shouldn't have it, it wouldn't give it to you.

That's not even a rational argument, ask some hacker sitting in prison how well that one went over.

> How can you say that hiQ isn't allowed to have this, but everyone else is allowed to take as much as they like?

Umm, private property? Terms of service? Take your pick...

> All that will happen is hiQ will create a string of shell companies that accesses LinkedIn as their proxies, and you will be wasting the court's time. Step zero is to establish that no one can have access unless authorized, and LinkedIn refuses to do this.

hiQ isn't fighting the validity of giving access to some people while denying them access to the very same data they are fighting a misapplication of a totally unrelated law (because it's the right thing to do).

This whole thing isn't about denying them access but "hiQ challenged LinkedIn’s attempt to use the CFAA as a tool to enforce its terms of use in court."
"..make designers less dependent on their software (if it suddenly stops working, you should still have a chance to use your files somehow)..."(source=link) Makes your "..Will you charge me $1000 in two years, once I become dependent?.." invalid
Yes, the argument really lost me by mentioning feeling more comfortable in Beijing than SF. I am sure it's not intended that way, but one of the things it reminded me of is the bimonthly "Why are all these homeless people in front of my startup when I pay taxes?" posts from Valley success stories. 100 floors up in Beijing isn't exactly my idea of grounded in reality.
In most of these cases, I don't think the company itself really wants to fire the employee. But the wrongthink the employee has done gets so notorious among a certain group of people that it becomes a face-saving measure.
it's not really a contrarian bet. If you follow stock bubbles, you'll know that stocks rise on a wall of worry, and fall on a slope of hope. Basically, when everyone is worried about it being a bubble, there's probably still room to grow. The time you gotta watch out is when everyone starts thinking bitcoin is going to keep going up.
Though it may be true that some liberals who work in technology argue about pronouns, that doesn't mean the entire set of liberals working in technology did anything.
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html is very relevant about how we got here.

As Paul Graham said then, the biggest threats to free thought and speech come from people who have just enough power to enforce taboos, and not enough to be confident in their power. In this case the political ideology that is stifling thought is one that has nationwide lost Congress, the Senate and the Presidency. Which naturally results in a strong "us vs them" mentality, and stronger incentives to require that everyone prove that they are part of "us".

The result is, as I've heard it put, Liberals are tolerant of anything except being conservative.

This is not, of course, one-sided. If you lived in a deeply religious part of the country you'd find similar levels of intolerance towards liberal ideas as a result of feeling like they are on the receiving end of years of losing the culture war. That won't be the problem that you experience in the Bay area. But it is two sides of the same mentality that you are either with us or against us.
If you voted for Trump, this one's on you.
Companies where designers shouldn't work
Of the places I've lived (not necessarily in order):

- Deep South (18 years - born + raised)
- Boston MA (5 years @ college then job)
- NYC (6+ years)
- Los Angeles (1yr @ startup)
- San Diego (1yr @ startup)
- Bay Area (6 years, including 4+ at household name tech company)

I found the Bay Area (and SF in particular) to be the most intolerant, rigid and inflexible culture I've ever lived and worked in. I've never encountered such a self-righteous, smug and viscerally hostile attitude to other parts of the country, especially the South and Midwest (where I grew up). Someone literally told me once that "people from the South eat their children" in a half joking tone.

I don't think you can call it "racism" per se, but definitely the most oppressive form of prejudice I've ever encountered, by far, was found among people I worked and came in contact with in the SF Bay Area.

EDIT: Of course, I met (and stayed friends) with really amazing people in SF Bay Area. People with different viewpoints than mine that really expanded my horizons along a lot of different axes. And the raw intelligence of most people I interacted with - technical and otherwise - is off the charts. But the attitudes I mentioned above were expressed frequently enough to leave an impression on me.
As a minority, this ‘let all the ideas run free in the marketplace of ideas’ sounds fun until the ideas are about your inferiority and suggested extermination.
They are going out of their way to not pay these taxes, but they'd give away the same money or more if nobody tried to "make them"?

To force them, out of resentment, as if they are immoral villains or monsters. Do you take well to being treated as an immoral villain?

I wouldn't hold my breath.

This is exactly how successful museums operate. What would be so outlandish about changing the culture, such that intentional community trusts become the prominent way of showing a legacy? Hell, we already are basically doing this for wildlife. Why not do this for human beings?
So one of the items that keeps coming back to awareness is the potential implications of the Tether fraud. For those few that haven't heard of this by now, Bitfinex is tied closely structurally (in terms of management and ownership) to the company that created Tether, the altcoin that claims to be backed in a 1:1 basis with a USD.

Well, there've been mysterious USDT transactions, in regular intervals, that suggest that there's tens of millions of Tether being pumped into Bitfinex on a regular basis, which of course can be converted into BTC (and other coins). However, no one thinks it's likely due to the soured reputation of Bitfinex (their big hack, their inability to do business with a U.S. bank, among other things) that this is REAL USD being pumped into this suspicious company with ill-reputed owners. This has been mentioned on Bloomberg and other mainstream publications.

So (if this is all true) what in the world will it mean reputationally that people have been pouring 800M of counterfeit coins into Bitcoin, and what does it mean economically?

I can't wrap my head around that second question.

[edit: updated last sentence of p2 for clarity)
That's a hell of a good word
I'm glad that this was decided by people who couldn't even figure out how to stream mono audio.
I'd didn't think I'd notice it much (having used SSDs for years), but I recently put a PCIe-based SSD in my laptop. It makes a huge difference - most installs are done more or less instantly, and the machine cold-boots in under ten seconds. Definitely not _necessary_, but certainly nice to have.
Doesn't this have negative ramifications for email too?
You can certainly enjoy the stories, but I think interesting books add something to they way a particular language is used. That's what I like about Saramago and Rushdie, for instance. These are the types of authors I like to read out loud.
The net neutrality vote: Live updates
Actually, the starting price is $4599, not the $4999 Apple originally said.

Even then, compared to buying an equivalent workstation hardware (including a 5K display) from a manufacturer such as HP, this is no more expensive.
Would anything stop the next administration from reinstating net neutrality?
Build a healthy organization by thinking like an engineer
Could we create a self-regulating internet? One where the desired outcome of Net Neutrality is ensured by the protocol itself? What would it take?

I know there are projects like IPFS and Zeronet, but I don't think any of them are targeted specifically at avoiding throttling based on source/destination pair.
Sam gave an example of someone feeling sufficiently ostracized that they left the region. I don't see how that's very different. Feeling forced out of the city or region is very similar to being fired from a corporate job.
Except race /skin color is a legally protected class, and robots aren't (and why should they be? They can't enter into contracts, conduct business, etc. So it's perfectly legitimate to exclude them from a site where they cannot use it in the intended manner).

"If you truly didn't want trespassers you should've put up a gate."
Thanks, sounds like exactly what I was asking for! I'll look into that this evening.
I'm often wrong, but overall I think I'm a happier person not having my decisions be driven by other people, especially folks who paint a idyllic distorted image of themselves on social media.

With that said I too have at least looked into buying some BTC, but only with "fun money". At this point, I think cryptocurrency speculation is like going to Vegas where you set aside some money you can afford to lose, and having fun playing the game is the point. Because long term, if you keep playing the games long enough, you will lose it all.
For concrete their first priority is for it to work. So are they going to take a bet with a new formula if it will cost them tons of money to fix? If your new formula messes up then you probably double the carbon impact in the first place.
American will no longer be a place of innovation. Another country will have to lead the world now
Mineral oil is also used medically as a laxative; you put a few spoonfuls in a glass of juice and drink it. So, pretty safe to use as a wood conditioner but its not a drying oil so needs to be re-applied from time to time. It's used a lot on wood cutting boards, which take a lot of abuse and need regular re-application of a flowing finish that won't build up in hard layers.

Wax can be used over most wood finishes to to give it added lustre but also needs to be re-applied to maintain it.

The advantage of a drying oil is that it gets absorbed deeply into the pores of the wood grain and dries to a plastic-like hardness. Because the unpolymerized oil penetrates so deeply, the cured finish isn't just a hard layer weakly bonded to the wood surface which can flake off, but weaves itself into the grain and pores of the wood itself. It seems that most people who avoid linseed oil finish complain they don't like the smell when working with it.

Walnut oil can be dangerous for anyone who has peanut allergies, which might be one reason why its not so common.
This is starting to break for me. I am getting content now (mostly pages) where that button is missing. I only use the website and whenever I browse my feed I actively filter content. I'm seeing it all start to bubble up again.
Now we see how meaningless the concept of a mandate is.
I also need the option to get rid of that horrific Touch Bar. My IDEs are nigh unusable with that thing, as using the stepping-debugger becomes a tactile-less nightmare.
It's a finite register machine which isn't just faithfully exposing the underlying architecture. Not something we often see. iirc SPIR and GNU Lightning are both finite register machines, but, to quote Douglas Adams, this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

TAOS operating system used such a virtual ISA, and was able to achieve around 90% efficiency of native code. The worst case was PowerPC which fell to 80%. That's pretty darn good, IMO.
It's about circular logic, not moral philosophy.
There's really no evidence of VR being the future. It's useful for some games and visualization / design work but I expect that 20 years from now we'll still be using flat 2-D displays most of the time, supplemented by AR for mobile use.
Edit: You know what, fuck it. I don't think I can say anything here that hasn't been said a thousand times already.
Movie Review (kinda): “The Neon Demon”
I do think this is one place he could put his money where his mouth is. Completely revamp the culture here, on this board that represents his company.
> since I realize many conservatives would do the same about issues they care about if they had the power and numbers

This, in fact, happens as the move to criminalize speech against Israel on campuses and eslwhere shows.
No, nor will the next congress (likely Democratic or leaning that way) be prevented from passing laws that reinstate it at the legislative level.
Same thing happened to me with Wikipedia. I made a time-consuming, cited edit to an article and it was immediately backed out. Now I completely ignore factual errors in Wikipedia, including one that I just looked up and found is still there at least 5 years later.
It's absolutely worth it. I also started unfollowing people while remaining "friends". My stream is so curated I can get 5 mins of FB a day to see all I want to see.
Because who doesn't want to leave their $2K+ camera laying around for security goons to mess with. That said, when a potential bomb threat or other security issue has been called just leave the bag and get out of the room - your life isn't worth your belongings (even if 99% of the time stuff like this is just a false alarm).
Just because a person uses the words "What about" does not make their argument whataboutism.

Their argument is 100% relevant to the sentiment that was expressed. If the stated benefit of excluding one group to allow for the free expression of the other is increased scientific discourse, how do we balance that against the loss of discourse from the excluded?
>I haven't censored anyone or shut down any argument by saying this

You haven't shut down any argument by saying "anyone who works on this is a bad person"? Seriously? I happen to think the exact opposite: life extension is probably one of the most noble things we could possibly be working on. Imagine if Einstein were still alive. We never learn from history, maybe because the people who lived it are all dead now. But in your mind, thinking this way probably makes me unethical (i.e. bad)! It's no problem when we're both two blobs of text on a forum, but I certainly wouldn't want you to be a boss or someone I was forced to interact with on a regular basis. And if enough people behave as radical as you are they will likely want to go beyond simply labelling people (e.g. see all the "hate crime" talk).
It's cross platform enough for most people.
Right, it'll go back to being what it was before 2015 when net neutrality was instituted. The dread is unrelatable.
I'm looking at this Intel CPU: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...

That claims to support up to 32GB memory, and it claims to support, among other things, LPDDR3-1866. Are you saying that if you want to use LPDDR3-1866 with that CPU, you're limited to only 16GB? I can't find anything about that through some quick googling, but if it's true, I retract my snarky comment.
Women's right to choose and NN were my biggest worries when supporting Trump.

I am keeping an open mind on NN to see how it pans out, the biggest reason for me relaxing my position on NN was censorship by Google/YouTube/Facebook/Reddit/Twitter and the newcomers like Patreon.

May be the valley will see how they have wronged the foundations of America, there are already signs:

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924093
To answer your question, probably laziness. I've got all those contacts on FB and would take a decent effort to connect on other platforms. Secondary to that, I'm sure several of my family members are FB-only.
Or a Mac Mini with upgradable memory and a relatively easily replacable hard disk or SSD (like the 2012 Mac Mini). The Mac Mini is what got me hooked to Macs, they were relatively easily upgradable, and you could bring your own keyboard, screen, etc.

Now the line-up for developers is just 'meh'. 1500-2000 Euro buys you a baseline configuration that is weak (my ~5 year old Dell workstation that I bought second hand for ~400 Euro still has three times as much memory, and is twice as fast for multi core loads as my MacBook Pro). To get a reasonable developer machine, you have to drop 3000-4000 Euro and you get something that is unexpandable and still does not have modern CUDA-supporting GPU except for a still somewhat experimental eGPU setup.

Apple is now a large consumer hardware company. Love letters to developers are a thing of a distant past.

(This year is my 10 year Mac anniversary, but there is not much to be happy about, except for the still excellent software from the Mac ISV ecosystem.)
As if southerners aren't constantly cursing or making fun of "San Francisco values".
FCC voting
I hope all the loud voices that are against this move have codified their predictions in a way that they can look back and see if they were accurate.
I do believe everyone should have a right to live in the Bay Area.

No amount of taxing and redistribution will achieve that, because the supply of housing in the Bay Area is restricted to grow slower than population growth. The only way to make that happen is to build more housing.
Next step lawsuits, hopefully Congress can enact a law to settle the issue once and for all.
Yes, just like we took away the right of companies to fire people for being black.
Europe has it's problems, but I don't regret moving to London. Not one bit. The innovation here is real and tangible, by and large unencumbered by this kind of crap.
Using a single monitor, I tend to use WinKey+Left/Right to snap the program to one side of the screen. If you have one snapped to each side, you can adjust the size of both at the same time so you aren't forced to use a 50:50 split.