skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But semantics aside, taxation is theft,"

No, not in the slightest.
Seems to me that if someone is used to getting Cs, and they don't remember what great they made on a term paper, it's a pretty good bet that they got a C.
What I would take away from that notion is that large is relative. A large portion of the country still has fewer people than New York City.

I am of course, not trying to start a flame war either, but my take on it is that those sorts of issues would be inappropriate to bring up at work or in a job interview in the first place, regardless of your position.

Based on your description, I believe I probably espouse the opposite position on those issues, and even though I work at a large tech company in NYC I still don't bring them up at work.

That said, I can totally see where you're coming from. I have a friend who ended up being a pretty staunch Donald Trump supporter, and I watched as a lot of colleagues ostracized him (even though he never really brought it up at work).

It takes hard work to see past issues that divide us. In the case of my friend, I always just try to focus on our shared interests. It's what has kept us friends.

In closing...there are of course different degrees of ideas that people will tolerate, and it may just be that large cities have spoken, and they don't want intolerant people in their ranks.

shrugs, walks away
>You also have to figure in discount rates.

Yeah, and risk aversion which I think would be much more significant.
It really seems to me that state-run monopolies are much more than "little" better than free-market monopolies in practice today. Compare the service from a private ISP that's the only provider in a region to how well municipal broadband works out. You've also probably never sent a plain letter through UPS or Fedex, even though neither of those is a monopoly yet the USPS is essentially a state run monopoly on that kind of mail - if state run monopolies are supposed to be so much less efficient than private companies in competition then people should be sending all their letters through those instead of USPS.
We send what we have now then iterate. Release early, release often. Funding robotics, AI, etc is not a NASA funded goal but goes under defense budget, tax deductions for industry, etc.

The real problem is getting the money for space. No one wants to write a big check for Mars. They’ll write big checks for the Pentagon, automation in manufacturing, and strategic national goals.
In my experience if you have some sort of measure that looks a bit like productivity then senior management will latch on to it and treat it as a proxy for productivity.

That inevitably means that developers have an incentive to inflate their estimates, which means story point inflation.

Averaging does not fix this dynamic.
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
That's about speakers being disinvited from campus, not views not being represented. There are a number of problems with that analysis:

1. Several speakers are overrepresented (I see a bunch of Milo invitations), which could well just reflect their aggressiveness at getting themselves invited / the strength of their own PR team. If one political side wants to make persecution their thing, they'll show up more commonly in that database.

2. In recent years, we've had a bunch of new forums for dissemination of ideas, which is a good thing. Twitter didn't exist in 2002. YouTube didn't exist in 2002. Podcasts didn't exist in 2002. Smartphones in people's pockets didn't exist in 2002. Today, anyone who wants to know what any of these speakers' opinions are can find out, easily, what they are, without needing them invited to campus. (And anyone who doesn't will just skip the talk anyway.)

3. In Milo's case specifically, he wanted to out a bunch of undocumented students on-stage. That I think doesn't fit the profile of political views being censored. (I agree that preventing him from speaking technically counts as censorship, but it's a very different discussion.)

4. Fundamentally, this list and the original article here both suffer from a blind belief in the "Great Man" theory. If person X doesn't express an opinion, or publicize their idea, or something, chances are absurdly high that someone else will have the same opinion or idea, too. If Newton were imprisoned for his alchemy, however unjust that might have been for Newton as a person, Leibniz would still have invented calculus. What I'd like to see is if certain types of ideas are being censored, not whether certain individuals who happen to hold those ideas are being censored.
4 Things SEOs Can Do to Prepare for Net Neutrality Repeal
This was in no way a hostile response. The operative sentence from the complaint is "I find the use of the term as the catchy title of an academic conference with no bearing on their situation unfortunate and write to encourage the conference’s organizers to change its name."

"Unfortunate." "Encourage the conference's organizers to change its name."

I'm a researcher. I'm also unusually thin-skinned. Compared to the naked brutality that is the peer review process, that's nothing.

Is your concern that people shouldn't be wasting their time arguing about trivia? I'm afraid academia's definitely guilty of that. Or that you disagree with the complaint? Perfectly fair, but then so did lots of the other people on the list. Or is it something else? I'm finding it hard to parse.
This seems to be the cheapest accredited option, use University of the People to get any kind of undergrad, then can pay for a masters in CS somewhere else. (Too bad uopen doesn't have an applied math undergrad, then the material being dated wouldn't matter).

There is Athabasca U in Canada which offers a fully online, and accredited BSc in CompSci or Applied Mathematics, and the only requirements are 16+yrs old (no transcripts or even highschool grad needed) but the fees are $900CAD or so for 3 credit courses and you need to complete 120 credits so ~$35k for an undergrad ($27k USD). http://www.athabascau.ca/programs-courses/ whereas you could do Upeople, obtain an undergrad and pay for Johns Hopkins MSc for the same cost.
In general people from certain regions do have lower IQs... What makes this bad thing to study? Is the cause culture? Genetics? Education? I think the entire point of article is that asking the question somehow makes you a bad person, instead of a person with a controversial idea.
That is more or less exactly the reason i made the decision to live in NYC over SF. It’s a beautiful massive anti-ant colony
Culture can be powerful but we don't exist in the culture you want and I don't see a good way to get there.

We used to exist in a culture where women had no options outside of the home and black people were slaves.

Hand waving about voluntarism and a culture shift isn't going to fix anything. Tax the shit out of the rich and make them pay for it.

In order to tax the rich heavily, you still need a culture shift here in the US. Wherever such taxation works, there is already a thread of communal culture. In order to achieve the same in the US, you need a cultural shift, and not setting up to do that work and simply saying "tax the shit out of the rich" is the hand waving. You're using a slogan that exploits resentment, not setting up for real change.
Ever notice how all mad scientists live in some secluded island or in the arctics?

Mad scientists are born not entirely because they're mad, but because the world doesn't appreciate their intention and brand them as villains.

Once you're branded as a villain, you have no other way to go but than deeper into villainism.
The problem is everyone sees themselves as dwarves. Very few people decide to be orcs (or whatever). It's some kind of Elvish version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
An example that comes to mind is that Apple's chief of diversity (a black woman) was recently fired and replaced by a white woman for the following comment:

> "There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation."

I find this to be a pretty mundane statement, and it's fairly spectacular to me that a 20 year veteran of the company was fired for saying it. I also think there's a lot of irony in the fact that Apple removed a black woman from a position of power just because she suggested that diversity as a concept should not be reduced completely to skin color and gender.

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So the problem is not with the criticism of ideas. It's that folks are being fired or completely ostracized for ideas that deviate even slightly from established consensus.
> I've tried 3rd party apps, they never seem to work nicely

Switch off that Spaces crap Apple does, use Hyperswitch as a replacement for alt-tab, use SizeUp for the window management (ctrl+alt+cmd as base combo, +m fullscreen, +arrow key=left/right/top/bottom half), Karabiner to switch Ctrl/Cmd C/V and use Accessibility to map cmd+q (which, on German keyboards is the @ symbol) to "invert display colors" so a mistype doesn't quit your app.

Voila, a Mac you can use for work ;)

Edit: Tips on how to disable the Spotlight indexer due to excessive CPU and RAM load without disabling the Outlook search are highly welcome...
This is a pretty good point. People complain about Californian culture being too sensitive but choose to stay there. If your startup can't survive unless it's right next to Silicon Valley then it probably deserves to die anyway.

NYC has plenty of tech talent to work with. Altman is not staying in SV because he can't afford to move. He's staying in the area because he actually prefers working with the people he's complaining about.
Yeah, this is why I don't prefer the common "effort vs time" distinction. Instead I like to think of "relative size of task," which is a very easy concept for most people to intuitively understand. It's fairly easy to guess that a task that is twice as "big" will take twice the "effort" and thus also twice the "time," all else being equal. And it turns out that's all we need in order to estimate the schedule. See the detailed commentary here: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712#slide19
He provided examples, and judging by the response on HN, it's a common issue people feel.

You should take the strongest form of the argument to debate, not the weakest.

It would contribute more if you gave your response to why you disagree with the necessity of fully dispelling bad ideas through reasoned debate, or why you disagree that we have to accept the existence of bad or 'wacky' ideas without ostracizing the person altogether in order to have the good ideas.
I was especially looking for the original conference. It's not the idea but the context I'm interested in. As you said, for the ideas there are a lot of data around.
Here's a difference - in the US, this is a power that corporations have over you that they can exercise randomly, and outside of general visibility. In China, iut's a power that the government has, which they can exercise randomly (but less so recently) but very visibly.

In the US, there is a long history of self-appointed leaders in moral and political panics shutting down dissent via social norms and pressure, with or without the blessing of a government institution.
I think it'll either start at a slightly lower spec or a slightly larger price so not to cannibalize too much of the iMac Pro. I suspect it'd be a dual socket machine, so Xeon W is not an option, leaving E5 or E7 as possibilities.

It'd be awesome if Apple pulled off the technically amazing feat of having a Xeon Phi as the only CPU, but I am not sure it could even be done (and with no virtualization support for it, if it's even desirable). Still would be cool to a level only Apple uses to do.
Of course - we are all responsible for ourselves. The problem is that critical thinking is not taught in schools, and children grow up without it by the millions. A problem doesn't "defeat itself" and people who have trouble thinking critically cause problems for those who can do it naturally. Saying that there is nothing to worry about from having tens of millions of people believe lies, or saying "that problem will not receive a solution from ME or ANYONE I know!" (basically, "will have to defeat itself") is going backwards.

The world, the whole world, has a problem with fake information on the internet right now. The answer is not "oh well, too bad" and the answer is not "I'm not worried".
---It is bad for all of us when people can’t say that the world is a sphere, that evolution is real, or that the sun is at the center of the solar system.

Wait can people not say these things in SF?

If not then what's the point of this post.

If so, then wow SF, Thats messed up.
Can you elaborate? I don't think I understand what you mean.
IIRC, it's the only only pay-TV provider available in large parts of the UK (cable TV is only available in about 60% of the country last time I checked).
No, I feel that you may have misread my comment. I'm specifically referring to developers and only developers.

> designers, architects. Nice form factor is probably even a benefit to a lot of them, more than the ability to swap parts.

You're right. These are the professions that need a lot of physical space for whom the slim form factors makes sense. I just vaguely remember Phil Schiller saying that the new machines will better cater to developers.
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> A beefy Mac mini or powerful MacBook is what I need without a ridiculously high price tag.

You can't get that with a high core count, though. It's unfortunate that they didn't make a version of this with a cheap GPU and less storage (or alternatively a Xeon or i9 option on the normal iMac).
Fair fair but to be clear the one example in this article is calling someone unethical who is working to implement an idea.

"people working on this must be really unethical"
Gil?

The fact that almost everything is a PyObject and requires allocation?
Agreed. The regulations we both mentioned have killed any competition in providing, let’s just call internet connection providers what they are, dumb pipes. That’s what they all boil down to. Just dumb pipes to give you access to a network.

And in that context the more providers of dumb pipes we have the better. It’s just a race to the bottom then. Who offers the lowest latency, highest speed and capacity pipe for the cheapest price.
I think that life extension is dangerous and wrong and therefore people dedicating their lives to it today are unethical people.

I haven't censored anyone or shut down any argument by saying this, and neither was I attempting to, so your point seems to be confused.
Net Neutrality has been killed in a 3-2 vote.
The FCC works for the president, not for us. And now that Ajit Pai has served his sole purpose, he will likely retire and go on to a cushy 'job' at Comcast.
Ah, we come to the heart of it. If Sam had said, "Twitter is a problem because it enables dangerous groupthink, promotes overreaction, and stifles meaningful discourse" then (a) his argument would have been a lot more clear and (b) I would have been 100% onboard
The FCC officially votes to kill net neutrality
Less tech savvy relatives and friends are not on Snapchat/Instagram. Plus, Instagram feels more like a picture book than a musings diary. Basically, Instagram/Snapchat are less 'communicative' (I mean, they have their uses, of course).
The FCC just killed net neutrality
The FCC just voted to repeal its net neutrality rules
Silly; it's impossible to stop all murders, therefore we shouldn't bother with making it a legal liability.

If the criteria is that it must be possible to stop all instances of an action to make it a legal issue, then we should just shut down all the prisons.
the term "forcible rape" is rife with difficult implications.

"Many experts now believe that rape is best understood as an act of unwanted bodily invasion that need not involve force."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/definition-of-rape-is-s...
>In general people from certain regions do have lower IQs

It's been 23 years since The Bell Curve and I am still waiting for someone who makes this statement and seems to have a solid grasp on the problem of general IQ scores across wildly different populations. I think there's a reason I never see it . . .
I don't think so. Firefly is no more offensive than Guardians of the Galaxy, that's a Disney property
You know Sam, if you stopped censoring controversial positions or posts from hacker news I might take you seriously.

Coming from someone who is now almost automatically moved to the bottom of threads or the ridiculous "See More" section you all implemented, who as a result just doesn't post much anymore.
It seems like its a cool student project, that's evolving into a potential product.

I would have loved to use this to edit my photos, but unfortunately Adobe's got me by the nuts. I am too heavily invested in Lightroom & Photoshop.

Good luck to you, Ivan!
> The chart also intentially discards the first 4 years of Bitcoin trading data (2010-2013) where Bitcoin has actually gained the most.

Sure, just like the comment being replied to discards several hundred years worth of tulip sales to say "Tulipmania lasted 6 months. Bitcoin is now 8 years old."

Bitcoin has, until this year, largely escaped widespread public notice beyond "isn't this odd/interesting" pieces in the media.
Can someone explain what the 'secret sauce' is in Pixel Buds that makes them unique? If the phone/internet is doing the translating why cant any earbuds/heaphones with a mic connected to the same phone with the same software do the same thing?
I've recently spotted new Dell/HP with 4k displays and small bezels and those look great and have 32Gb of RAM.
My top-of-the-line MacBook Pro '17 screen is noticeably worse and it has only 16Gb of RAM. I know that there's no LPDDR4 support yet -but- that's developer machine.
With Docker, Terminal, cmake and all those things it barely lives for 2 hours on battery anyways, so I might as well just have a more powerful portable machine.

But the best thing is definitely the 4K screen on those HP/Dells: With the default scaled resolution that Apple introduced last year things look pixelated, while on 4K they don't. For a person who spends 12+ hours a day in front of laptop screen that's huge.

Maybe colors are not that saturated but I don't care if my VSCode theme displays 1 billion colors more. Neither iMac Pro nor MacBooks are developer machines anymore. Creative professionals -- yes, but not developers.
> You can’t tell which seemingly wacky ideas are going to turn out to be right

A good philosophy for personal projects and starting companies too, IMO. Seems to be a pattern among indie hacker types.
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How do you do that? I couldn't find a good way when I looked. It is incomprehensible to me why Google supports the incredibly annoying bait (high res image for Googlebot) and switch (sign up to see high res in browsers) tactic of Pinterest. That shit certainly doesn't make me sign up, it makes me hate Pinterest.
Maybe he doesn't want to give the specific example that he's thinking of because he doesn't want to be ostracized by people that automatically assume that he's now a Trump lover. That was the entire point of his post.
They all stood on the shoulders of giants, who were themselves part of huge and ancient communities of people working together.
Getting the wealthy to depart with their money works if it's voluntary, and the impetus comes from the culture they want to be a part of. When it doesn't work, it's when other people try to force them to do it. Also, if you look at cultures where heavy progressive taxation works, you'll find there is already a communal thread of culture on which it's based.

Schemes to tax the rich and powerful only succeed with the participation of the rich and powerful. That is what you are also saying, but your view is distorted because you are othering "the rich."
1) That's very different from the example Sam gave.

2) Is that a problem of speech or a problem of the authoritarian nature of corporate power?
If you visit https://www.photopea.com/ and click the red "Account" button in the menu bar, you can see some stuff about that.

Currently when a user or team "goes premium", ads are removed. That's it.

There's also a "Distributor Account", which allows you to use Photopea in your own site in an iframe without Photopea branding or ads: https://www.photopea.com/api/accounts#teams
I understand. I was responding to comment that said its totally baseless caricature.

I think debaters did a good job of presenting evidence for their case. Why not give it a chance instead of saying its "staw poll", isn't any poll "straw poll" by that account?

Also I never said it evidence of anything. What is an example of "evidence" in this particular case for you?
I'm pretty serious with this argument, though. The entire point of the post here is that no idea is too odious to be considered unworthy of polite debate. Life extension? Sure! Gay people are evil? Sure! (For some reason, and against all evidence, we hope nobody will be convinced of that.) Eugenics is great? Sure! People of a certain race are genetically inferior and unworthy of human rights? Sure! Those who are apostate from my religion should be killed? Sure! This article advocates for literally no bounds on what should be considered an idea worthy of protection, because who knows when a "wacky" idea might be secretly good. I don't believe I'm exaggerating one bit from what the article says. (I might be exaggerating from what the author means, but only because we're supposed to self-censor some of those ideas, and the article is unclear on which ones remain worthy of self-censorship.)

So why are we treating "This person is morally bankrupt" as the sort of argument that is unworthy of polite debate? What fundamentally makes it a worse idea than any of the above?

I think there's an incompleteness problem here, yes - but I think that problem genuinely applies to the original argument. I'm just pointing it out. (And the gist of The Abolition of Man, which I mentioned in another comment, is essentially an incompleteness argument against the idea that you can have an ethical society evaluate its own ethics without a base moral code.)
"Birth is hard because we ate of the tree of knowledge" seems like a metaphor for "birth is hard because we evolved big heads".
I think a lot of self proclaimed "libertarians" have no idea what the term means. Mr. Money Moustache recently had a quote about Uber that made me laugh, regarding the unfair information and pay disparity the drivers exist under: "This was a disappointment to the Economic Libertarian in me, because it seems obvious that an open market between buyer and seller is the key to more efficiency."

Why would that be a disappointment? Uber is the entity with economic power in the relationship, and they are therefore acting in a way that maximizes their own self interest to the detriment of others. He should be rejoicing about that triumph of the free market.

It's funny how individuals who are used to being the ones on top (he's a former engineer) love the free for all Randian idea of unregulated capitalism up until they get the tiniest taste of being on the losing side (he tried driving for Uber and was being paid so little that he was losing money on some fares with no recourse but to stop driving entirely).
That’s probably just a side-effect of the greatly increased testosterone in female hyenas.

I don’t think anyone can really say whether the testosterone or matriarchal organization came first (or co-evolved).
It was: 32GB required LPDDR4 memory but Skylake didn't support that. It sounds like that's dependent on shipping Cannon Lake which was originally slated for 2017 but has been pushed back to 2018.
Apple will not sell a laptop with lpddr4 . Everyone is putting laptops out there with ddr 4 instead which takes more power. (Note this was true when the Current refresh came out).