skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In scientific terms, there is no meaningful distinction.

That might be going to far. To an electric field an uncharged particle "doesn't exist," but that doesn't actually mean that uncharged particles don't exist. Likewise there could be particles that don't interact with any known force, or even particles that interact with nothing. The right thing to say is that the existence of those things is categorically unknowable, and that studying them may even be a waste of time, but you shouldn't say that they are known not to exist. It's a similar story for consciousness, which is at least purported to interact with things, although the interaction is one-way in the "wrong" direction.
> Epidemics != disease. See my other comment to a similarly confused poster.

If you are concerned about gene diversity then yes it is a valid concern. But I must say that with my absolute zero knowledge in this area I still suspect that it is not that easy binary yes/no question and not yes/no consequences of it. E.g. It could be that edits would be sufficiently different and make it non-issue. It could be that edits will eradicate those same corrupted genes that make humans susceptible to epidemics. Or again, you could be right. No way to tell right now.

Next to other concerns. Again, you are worried about dignity of humans. From my point of view fetuses and newborns up to 1y are not human. They are alive but cognitively on a level of animals. At least concerning fetuses it is most definitely true. And so we should allow parents to do whatever non-harmful procedures on them. Defining non-harmful will be very hard.

I'm not anarchist or nihilist or similar. I just feel that we need to progress in gene modification area and fast. And I don't think that any single group of humans can dictate to the other group what they could do unless it is something morally awful. If for example, you oppose gene editing then I think I can't force you to do gene editing but I also think that you can't ban me doing it.

PS: just in case - I do think that gene editing should be a government regulated industry, only not extremely regulated and not affected by ANY religious view of any religious group.
Have technology advances slowed down? Or are we just not advancing in the big, exciting really of "blowing shit up"?
The "Plaza Accord" was an agreement between the US, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom to depreciate the USD in 1985. USD deprecation was halted by the "Louvre Accord" in 1987

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Accord
it looks like it's not updated automatically from anywhere though

e.g. I have three albums all released via CD Baby, Bandcamp and iTunes. If I search for myself in Musicbrainz I only find the first album, and I'm guessing I probably added that myself manually and didn't think to do it for the others, years later
Given that I mostly work on embedded software I'm not the best person to ask but I suppose that if you're writing software that uses heavy performance optimizations going from one CPU model to an other is not necessarily trivial.

On top of that most server farms wouldn't completely ditch their old computers to replace them in one go, so you end up with two different vendors to deal with, potentially two versions of your software etc... That increases the maintenance burden quite significantly.
There's tons of popular stories with an evil witch or stepmother...
Still up for debate
On the other hand, I have found making "they" more ambiguous about number to be grating. There are several forms of passive voice if they are needed. One could just get used to that.
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On of my favourite shows, utopia, is based around this.
Unfortunately that's a bit of a spoiler in itself.
what we should do then is to support local manufacturing by purchasing massive amount of solar panels, building battery based grid storage, switching transportation to electric on massive scale.

slapping tariffs on foreign products ensures that our manufacturing becomes even more backward, while the rest of the world takes off.

if we want to avoid monopoly - build own capacity, competitively.
I worked my way through grad school with a 17 inch macbook pro. I would work in between classes by sitting in a chair in the lounge, putting the laptop on my lap and working. The height of the arms of this one chair was perfectly level with the top of the laptop. The angle of the chair back put the screen straight ahead in my vision. The ergonomics were almost as good as working at a desk.

Ikea doesn't sell that chair anymore and apple doesn't sell that laptop anymore. sigh
As someone who hosts over 150 WordPress websites for small businesses ... I'm not thrilled about this release and the work it will entail given the editor overhaul.

Another user posted this: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/06/5-0-gutenberg-sta...

Also this posted by the author of Advanced Custom Fields, a very popular plugin: https://twitter.com/wp_acf/status/1070089217479307264
I doubt the gain of a jumper wire is enough to cause any "damage".
I have never been able to move over to Chrome. Chrome always synces my bookmarks out of place. My bookmarks are how I get things done and run on muscle memory. Because of this I have been a loyal FF user for decades. I tried Chrome again last year and bookmarks still sync out of order. It boggles my mind that Google never fixed this or just isn't a problem for people (do people care?).

As an FF user for decades, esp on Linux, the experience was really poor before the Quantum upgrade. Yes, we lost a lot of plugins, but some of those plugins existed because of FF's legacy code and we are better for it being gone. FF now runs very smooth and uses so much less memory. I actually had Chrome use up all the memory on my 16 gig laptop... it was first for me since I use it so little.

The one thing Chrome does really well is profiles. I have one profile for work, that reopens all pages that were last open. And other for personal viewing in which I don't care. FF's multi account is a plugin and... it's okay for managing multiple social media accounts from one domain, but not good for separating work and play.
Not necessary but you’ll have to bust your ass to get the equivalent experience.
Improving the aerodynamics of a bare race car using cardboard and a wind tunnel
I know HN is on a Facebook media train right now, but blaming them for the widespread discontent in France that's been simmering for years is disingenuous.
"civilized nations"?

Pride goeth before the fall..
Prior to Bandcamp, the only other times I can recall paying for digital music was for an obscure album on emusic.com, probably around 2007.

The UX of the site and the app are really conducive for discovering new music, and fortunately the audience of BC is such that you wouldn't see a musical equivalent of Pewdiepie or Logan Paul shoehorned into your recommendations. And I especially love that "supporters" (buyers) are the only ones who can post comments on album pages. Keeps spam/trolling/abuse to nearly zero.

Of course, the flip side of that coin is the feeling of doubt around how long a service like this can last without hitmakers that bring in larger audiences and revenues.
Political change in China is more plausible than the US suddenly increasing its population by 800 million or so.
AMP is used mostly to get higher visibility on Google. Imagine if there was a third-party AMP caching website. Would anyone make an AMP version for them? No way. They do it only because Google will show them above their competitors in search results.
Jetpack has some nice features, the comments form especially. It is, however, very bloated - especially since you'll often only use 2 or 3 features on any one site.
> which in some workloads does a better job of optimization than gcc

Is this really true in a meaningful way? I mean, unless you happen to have an identical workload to the benchmarks?

I ask because the benchmarks and reports I've seen over the past ten years or so have really been quite disappointing in terms of icc's performance. I always assumed it must produce better performance code because its a proprietary product by the people who created the architecture and so they must know how to optimise for it, but from what I've seen, there's really not a big difference at all: some things icc has a slight lead and other things gcc does, but overall, they really don't seem to perform much differently. Unless you're making use of all the Intel libraries (Performance Building Blocks, Math Kernel Library, etc), in which case, I imagine they've tuned it for icc, there doesn't seem to be much reason to use icc especially since they've been known to pessimize for AMD cpus).

Am I wrong?
No mention here about Gutenberg's lack of support for accessibility standards. They pretty much went full steam ahead and left the accessibility team behind. See: https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/09/i-have-resigned-the-word...
We don't know that yet, but there isn't functionality without the network
Ever since Firefox adopted its PulseAudio or gtfo policy for Linux builds, I've been a pretty happy Pale Moon user.
And discontinued.
That or the Dell Precision 5520 or 5530. Just got one this week and it's so nice to have a 0.75" thick laptop that still has space for 32GB of RAM, two hard drives, discrete graphics and a Xeon processor. Not to mention the very nice 4k display.
V-Model systems development lifecycle
Linux.org gets snapped
If the Chinese sold furniture at a loss for market dominance, after the said dominance is gained, did the price soar?

The Chinese made cheaper furniture due to a lot of reasons, cheap labor, cheap resources, and presumably lower quality may be some of them, but selling at a loss definitely is not.
lol facebook changing an algorithm causes riots to break out in various places in the world? No other accountability to be doled out-- just that evil algorithm! One danger of the AI era is the stupidity seen in this title and article -- people no longer thinking for themselves or believing in themselves.
Bot protection with HAProxy
Let me know when I can buy a stillsuit and then we'll talk.
You say that like FISA Courts are actually judicial review and not rubbing stamps... where you win is that you have a stronger set of rights and case law about it.
I'd make two points here though:

First, the vast majority of our debt is owed to ourselves, not to foreigners.

Second, what makes our dollars so valuable, is not our status as a super-power, but our willingness to pay it back. Think of it this way, the big ticket items in the US government budget are the military, Medicare/SS, and debt service. Now we hear all the time talk about cuts to the military or medicare/ss. But no one even CONSIDERS talk about cutting debt service. THAT is what makes dollars so valuable. (It's also why the vast majority of them are eaten up by us and not foreigners.)

So I'm not convinced at all that our dollars are valuable because we are a super-power. Russia was a super-power, and no one was stockpiling rubles. Likewise, Switzerland is not a super-power, but everyone should have some swiss francs.
Designer babies are inevitable. From a sheer evolutionary perspective, the group willing to use a successful design mechanism is going to beat out the one that is not over the course of a few generations.

However, the problem here is that we do not currently have the ability to create designer babies. We have a few clumsy tools that resemble the tools we'd actually need to do it, but in much the same way that a butcher's knife resembles a scalpel. It's an improvement over the era where what we had was a jackhammer, but it's still not suitable for the task. Any attempt to get serious about human germ-line editing with the current toolset isn't going to work. That means, there is very little likelihood of successful, happy outcomes, and a lot of room for unhappy, dangerous, or deadly outcomes.

Before people seriously start trying this, we need to tip that balance to a point where it's at least interesting to discuss. An ethical discussion would have to revolve around costs and benefits, and it's a really easy discussion when it's basically all costs and no benefits. We don't need to invoke any particular philosophy or argue about utilitarianism or the virtues of deontology or what we should be deontological about in that scenario.

So while I don't have a complete answer, one step to the "risk reduction" you ask for is that we still need better tooling so we're not trying to do the equivalent of performing brain surgery with a butcher's knife, before there's even anything all that interesting to discuss. We should have those discussions sooner rather than later, but as the article alludes to, "we" collectively actually have. (The fact we have no ability to enforce that discussion is a problem of some sort, though.)

At least human germ-line experimentation isn't infectious, though.
this article reports that Mozilla published a blog post. Please submit the blog post instead in such cases. Also, that blog post already has a 1000+ point, 600+ comments discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18622516
Frameworks like tachyons and bulma will give you the tools to create elements that don't look terrible, but imo UX just takes practice. (I'm using tachyons on my side project http://oozesaga.com (the UX is still pretty bad))

The great thing about practicing this as a developer is that you will eventually find a sweet spot where you can identify UI that is cheaper to build, but is also effective (vs. having to do pixel perfect designs where the last 10% doubles development time).

And, in the end, mostly copying other sites that follow similar functional requirements will get you a long way.
Testing Yourself – Growing Through Refactoring
I will sometimes buy themes before I even have a project in mind. For $20-60 you can't beat something that just works and now you just need to inject your code into it.
I caught my grandfather's caretaker, along with my aunt and uncle (who had POA), stealing more than half his net worth. This began after a stroke left him cognitively impaired with 24/7 care. I did a complete financial audit and there were some minimal phone scam payments, but by far the bulk of the financial exploitation came from the caretaker and family members. He was left so financially ruined that I had to move him out of his home at age 89.

I ended up petitioning for guardianship and won. This was a painful and long process but it was ultimately the only logical choice.

Part of the problem is the secretive nature of finances. My aunt and uncle did most of their theft by putting undue influence on my grandfather to get him to sign things and then claim he was the one making all of the decisions. This undue influence included threatening him that they would abandon him if he didn't do what they wanted. The court overwhelmingly showed his incapacity which made these lies obvious.

To make matters worse, there were over a dozen amendments to my grandfathers estate documents within a 2 year period. You'd think there would be a lawyer that says no to these things, but it turned out my grandfahter's lawyer was later found complicit. He was disbarred because he got caught stealing money from several of his elderly clients.

And my grandfather's financial advisor knew about all the abuse as well, but did not do anything about it. He claimed he was alerting the POA (my uncle) about it all along, but he wasn't able to do anything else.

When I reported it to the police they did open up an investigation, but they put it on the backburner. Why? Because elder abuse is not well understood by law enforcement. When the culprits are the victims family members, it is just not taken as seriously.

The bottom line is that elder abuse is a complex problem. It isn't one that can be solved with technology alone. It will take a combination of technology, the law, and awareness. Even then, it will be difficult to solve.
a bit tongue in cheek...

It’s a bit like men being upset that feminism has led to women doing more work building careers and earning more money. Male lions sit around and have intercourse while the lionesses hunt. Maybe that is the future for humans too?

I don’t actually believe this, I think both sexes should scale down their devotion to the corporate world and focus instead on their families and other pursuits with a UBI. Robots will pick up the slack eventually.
This makes no sense at all.
Lol this guy's site took over 10 seconds to load on my mobile. Invalidates anything he had to say
Where can Firefox generate money to fund it's development?

That's a big question for Mozilla. Because they rely on click revenue for having Google as a default search engine

Enterprises put millions of dollars into Linux because it has utility for them.

Almost nobody is doing the same for Mozilla.

Also just because someone isn't a programmer doesn't mean they are useless.
Creating awareness is good, but we want to concentrate on adding features at the moment.

I like the idea of tracking a portfolio without logging. We must think more on how do to it without accidentally tracking users. A bookmark would be nice.
What would you recommend in its place? I’ve been using bootstrap for any web side projects of mine mostly for its ability to flex and handle multiple devices sizes and also because its defaults look passable out of the box.

I agree containers are confusing but honestly making a custom web app look good on all resolutions/aspect ratios is complicated in my opinion.
That's weak reasoning. And wrong if you define proprietary as non-standard.
> The history of reserve currencies suggests a ~100 year arc of dominance

You’re extrapolating from a 200-year history with N=2.
At least until someone decides to use a gene drive to do it.
I've had both Intel and AMD cpu's and both AMD and Nvidia GPU's (I guess you could add Intel too for their integrated gpu's) and my AMD experience has been generally quite pleasant and problem-free.
If there is only one manufacturer of solar panels in China, but that is not the case.

If the Chinese don't produce solar panels, the price would have been tenfold instead of tripled. With the Chinese in the game, tripling may not even happen, because the Chinese will compete with themselves.
I may have missed the boat here but is there any word on the possibility of Microsoft open-sourcing EdgeHTML?
Oh come on! The French don’t need no Facebook for a good riot.
Intel might be giving major buyers sweetheart deals on their chip prices. So while an EPYC 7371 might get discounted 20% to an Amazon, Intel may be discounting 50-70% (Gain of salt: just speculation on my part). And when you consider these CPUs are in systems where most of your costs are likely in RAM, NVMe, and supporting infrastructure.

These are high margin parts, so I imagine there's wiggle room for volume.
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From http://cryptomarketplot.com/cmp-faq.html :

What exactly does 1.23e-4 means? Why do you use the computer form of scientific notation?

We use scientific notation to remove the leadings zeroes. What is simpler to read quickly, 0.000123 or 1.23e-4? If you trade crypto, you usually already know by heart how many zeroes are in front, and what is the approximate price range - you only care about the changes of the non zeroes. If the price goes from 0.000123 to 0.000142 we can save a lot of space on the screen by just writing 1.23e-4 and 1.42e-4. This way, the changes jump out and you read more numbers faster.

(...)

We use the computer form of scientific notation. 1.23e-4 instead of 1.23*10^-4, because this saves a lot of space of the screen. Scientific papers and traditional researchers may frown upon this "degenerate notation." But we absolutely love this concise and elegal notation! It may be a good thing we are in business, and not in the ivory tower of academia! We get more freedom to write numbers how we damn like!!
It's a byproduct of one very important regulation. Phone companies are required to connect calls they receive, ie they can't block calls coming into their network from other exchanges. This is a pretty important anti-monopoly rule because it prevents big companies like AT&T from freezing out small competitors like the early VOIP players or from trying to squeeze out each other by degrading service for calls not originating in their network. An unfortunate side effect is they are somewhat limited in their ability to block or filter calls and to enforce caller ID. All it takes is one cooperative operator for a spammer to bypass any protections put in place among the large carriers.

There was a neat reply all episode about someone abusing this connection requirement to make money just by sending out calls to 1-800 numbers, keeping people on the line and getting a cut from the originating exchange.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/104-case-phantom-calle...
"Surely Jiankui is his _given_ name then, not his _first_ name as in China the given name comes second, no? So, He Jiankui [xiansheng?] for how Westerners would write Mr. Jiankui He."

To be honest, if you are not intimately familiar with what names tend to be family names and what names tend to be first name in a given culture, you're just hopelessly boned in English media unless they explicitly call it out for you in the article, because sometimes they leave the names in the Oriental ordering, and sometimes they "conveniently" switch them around for you without saying so. (Statistically speaking, I have to imagine there have been cases where the writer switched it to the English order, and then another writer or the editor switched it again, returning to the Oriental order without realizing it....) The end result is, I suggest everyone cut the English-speakers significant slack on this front when they read an article, because even understanding how names work in the East is still not enough to prevent errors.
Nop, they use old dotnet framework, on windows, even for their embedded stuff. They use C# and F#.
Oh please.

Yes. It's Facebook that's causing these riots. Just like the telephone was the true cause of the Iranian revolution.
This builds on the trend that was started when Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK because of fake news he read on Facebook.
> in most cases programmers spend most of their time only in one 'part' of the system

Perhaps that's a reflection of the structure of the organizations they work in.

Anyways, the other cause of multilingualism is switching jobs, projects, or problem spaces. All three of those often involve a language switch.
It's available on Mac via about:config, on nightly. (All caveats about pre-release software apply.)

I've been using WebRender as my daily driver on Mac for months now.
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What would you recommend instead?

Note the criterion here is speed, not modernity or aesthetics.

Edit: by speed, I mean speed of development, or ease of development.
Yes, but a slow one. They just bump AVX units from 128-bit to 256-bit, making it Haswell-style. Skylake-X has a full 512-bit wide AVX unit.
How Amazon Rekognition works, and what it's used for
AMP on the desktop? Don't think I've seen that before. I've only seen AMP links on mobile and I don't think it's returned in desktop search results
Frameworks like these are terrible for your document size and page load performance once your project scales.

Why would you write anything that can't scale if you can avoid it? Whether or not you're looking to turn your pet project into a SAAS business is a moot point when you can get scalability for free with other approaches.
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