skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During tests, we found it was better to let people chose.

You can use whatever method you feel more comfortable with.

Sometime usability and security go in different way. We could do HSTS but if you took time to type http:// maybe you really want http not https
>"Support your artist by seeing them live"

Yes, absolutely the best way to support artists. Provided they actually tour in your area, obviously. I see a couple hundred artists every year, most of my free time is organized around concerts and festivals.

I do try to buy some merch at most concerts to support the artists, but I have way too many band shirts at this point, and no more room for posters/flags, so I wish artists would branch out more when it comes to merch options.

I love making battle vests (working on my fifth vest at the moment), so I nearly always make sure to pick up a patch or two. But I absolutely wouldn't mind keychains or lanyards or pins/badges or something else.

Short of that, I do buy a lot more music on bandcamp now than I used to. Bandcamp's cut is a flat 15% (or 10% if you surpass $5000 in sales), and I know Paypal takes a cut as well. But it's still vastly superior to the old record label ripoff scheme.
Nor request you pay in iTunes gift cards.
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Yeah, I think it's definitely not just age. I'm in my early 40s and I now get 15-20 calls a day on my cell phone. Twice that, at least, on my desk phone at work.
>It's entertaining to poke fun at the downsides and pomposities of capitalism without denying the fact that strengthened property rights appear to have been responsible for much of humanity's progress in the last century or two.

What a bizarre ideological point to see in an article like this.
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Using that in the article would have made things much less confusing. But journalists tend to avoid titles - perhaps especially when the person in question has apparently done something bad.
I dumped Chrome, stopping 'Googling' and moved to DuckDuckGo, installed uBlock Matrix so I could block as much of Google as possible (damn you reCaptcha), but it's gmail that's the tie-in. Changing email address is super hard.

As for Android, I took the easy option - switched to iOS. I'd have preferred a third choice, but there's nothing viable at the moment.

It's hard going but worth it for the privacy, and I agree it's not realistic for those not fully into tech.

The world needs more choices for browser, more choices in mobile too. At least there's a few options for computing devices - Windows is a horrible privacy hole IMO, Apple and MacOS is a premium option but seems more private and secure, then there's Google (no comment). Linux can be a huge time sink and hard going but having run it on both desktop and laptop it's a good choice - but for the expensive commerce softwares that only run on Mac or Windows thanks to companies that make 'pro' offerings... for me its Adobe, Capture One, Reason - none of which offer Linux variants or work on Wine properly.

Part of me wishes the EU to legislate more, but that's horrible in other ways.
>it pops up as a hangouts message too.

Unless you have google voice installed instead of hangouts. It manages to be two apps still.
The importance of good noise
Yeah, a mutagenic chain reaction would be a great start:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6233/442

Make {Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Gypsies or whatever} sterile in the long term. I am sure, both governments and individuals have thought about this.

Or maybe I believe that my genes are better than your and I want to spread them?
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I think doing so is a major mistake. The reader found the text through either searching or reference (like a link on HN), and thus the answer "why am I reading this" is already provided before they even loaded the site. It is much better to hook the reader with what makes the text unique, confirming the decision to continue reading, and then further down explain why this is important, the history, and why the author is writing about it.
Damn, "He's" or "his"?!
> it is not actually defensible to abort fetuses based on sex.

Only if a person believes in souls. Otherwise human fetus and human newborn up to age 1y or so is indistinguishable from any higher animals that humans kill en masse. Human babies are born undeveloped by design.

> genetic engineering might make populations more susceptible to epidemics

Or the other way around including some incurable or debilitating diseases. There is no statistics to prove either point.

> it would increase pressure on others, or other nations, to follow suit so as not to fall behind in the “race race” of eugenics

Which is awesome if you believe in transhumanism and bet on more good vs. evil from technology.

> it would seem to devalue non-engineered life, directly threatening the universal dignity of all human beings

Not an argument for non-believers in souls. There is no inherent dignity of any kind in not using gene modification vs. not using it.
What is Deepmind's interest in not releasing the source code and weights for the neural networks?

I'm excited about their work but it seems that it would be much better for everyone if they just released their work openly.
Nah. I still don't see the difference :) To me all of these are some macros/functions that expect certain parameters. Makes it much easier to reason about code IMO (especially if they are indented similarly).
I would hope Mozilla will eventually retire Gecko and switch to Servo.
The truth probably is that most websites would fail if users had to pay for them. In my opinion, that's a good thing. Ideally, anything that serves an important interest would remain (because users have a genuine interest in further use) while the useless stuff that's just tricking you into paying attention would disappear (because no one actually gives a crap about vapid celebrity gossip unless you really bait them into it). The sooner this can happen, the better.
>whoever is running Google Maps is a genius.

Yet waze is still a separate product, instead of a set of features to be enabled in Google Maps.
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SQL Server switched from CPU-based licensing to core-based licensing as of their 2012 version and they included a "core factor" that reduced licensing costs if you were running on AMD cores to 75% of the cost for Intel cores to account for AMD's then-lower per-core performance.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/3/c/73cad4e0-d0b5-4...
It's less of consensus, more of an IOU. Materialist science just says, we can't explain it now, but we will explain it in the future. Materialist biology is saying the same about the forms of plants being caused by the DNA, we can't explain it now but we will in the future. There are some scientists that aren't materialists, Rupert Sheldrake, that dont expect materialistic science to be able to explain consciousness or why life has complex forms.
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I'd rather see them spending it on NASA than on the military.
What version are you developing in? There's now an Async I/O module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html
I know and agree with the philosophy, however there is a limit to how much you can decouple things and keep the whole system maintainable. Just look at the woes of our peers embarking on the microservices journey. This is especially relevant for caddy, which focuses strongly on the ease of use. Now of course it's not the perfect answer for everyone; different solutions for different people I guess
Why do you need cash for buying cheese specifically?
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.

[Corrected, I confused my Oriental honorifics.]
Very many artists don't play live, and of those that do, even fewer make any reasonable money from it... so failing that, Bandcamp is where it's at.

As (also) an artist who sells on Bandcamp, I think their model is unquestionably the best and most fair yet seen in digital music sales. Yes, Bandcamp takes a cut, but they swallow the other fees you're talking about. Bandcamp takes their 15% (10% for physical releases/merch) and that's it. If you sell a digital album for $10, you get $8.50 in your PayPal account. It's really quite good.
Why is it so incredible to think that consciousness couldn’t emerge from the brain? All sorts of complex phenomena emerge from plain old non-magical matter.

Why would matter be magically “conscious”? What possible physical mechanism could that magic be? (beside the absurdity of vibration, I suppose?)
I like how we're supposed to have a relatively free market in the west, yet the hands of large companies are always tied by the government, because any company, if large enough, is "a national security concern".
You can't use all libs in it. Also you just ring-fenced a job a competent JS developer could do to now require someone that knows Scala and JS, which is a lot more cost per head and far harder to recruit.
The 24-core Threadripper doesn't have full memory bandwidth from all dies. It's build from 4 dies with 6 enabled cores each, and like for the 32-core Threadripper, only 2 of those dies have memory channels enabled.

You're right about the 16-core Threadripper being built from 2 dies, though the EPYC should still be able to do better at I/O, since I believe it's built from 4 dies, all of which have active memory controllers. So you basically get 2x the memory bandwidth.
Apparently nobody has heard of prepaid debit cards?
Sorry but not exactly. Free as in free beer. Not free as in free speech.

From https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/pricing : "You must credit us with a link if you use our data on your website or app"

Nobody has to credit us in any case: if you use the free API, no attribution needed.

We will soon release a new batch of features to make the website who want to use our data but are less technical and don't know how to use JSON.
The software I use (music production) works only on Mac and Windows. No Linux support
I really don't understand the weight issue, I don't mind a heavy laptop at all. Make it twice as heavy or even heavier if I can get more battery out of it. Thinness though is extremely important. It determines the bulk of the whole machine and in what situations I can bring it.

Noise, performance and battery life are really important too, so there are bound to be a lot of compromises. But I really do value thinness.
Whoa, I’ve never seen this one thanks!
Dutch solar rental startup Solease raises €3M
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You have to be very careful when deciding what can and can't be a scientific theory.

Not being able to directly observe something isn't actually a problem. We can't directly observe black holes. We can't directly observe the center of the sun, in the foreseeable future. We can't directly observe the evolution of life on Earth.

But we can use our theories to explain these things to also make predictions that can be observed, tested, and used to discard incorrect hypotheses.

Where science ends is when there are no observations you could make which would disprove your hypothesis. For instance, intelligent design basically says, an intelligent designer could have done things in whatever weird way they are, so any observations are just how it happened.
I know it's normally frowned upon, but I changed the headline from "HCL picks up Notes, spanks total of $1.8bn at Honest John's IBM software sale"
Fueling a nuclear power plant is never expensive comparing to just about anything else there.
I think HN new should change its name to mozilla news or Wallstreet News for IT.
That is probably generally true but if you have some serious compute workloads that you specialized for your server's CPU it could be hard to port between AMD and Intel as well. When people have customized the code for particular cache sizes, SIMD instruction sets, core counts, throttling schemes, ram throughput, and branch predictors and so on.
Linked from the article: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-dis...
Amp is not about making your site fast but about making sure that sites aggregated in e.g. Google News are all predictably fast by constraining what they can do. It's not about making the individual sites fast but making sure that none of them are needlessly slow by imposing constraints.

Similarly PWA is also not about performance but about adding metadata that phones and browsers can use to treat the site like an app by e.g. giving it an icon in an app folder. You couldn't do this before, now you can. Before people were doing silly things like packaging up websites as apps and putting them in the app store just so they could their own cute little icon in somebody's app folder. Now they don't have to do that and the install/discovery is a bit smoother as well (easier discovery, less steps, less users lost).
Reading Michael Pillsbury will help you understand actions by the US admin against China. His book, the hundred year marathon, states the theory it subscribes to according to Bloomberg and Politico (I dont know how true the theory is and some China experts disagree with the book)

"But what if the “China Dream” is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot?

Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China’s secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the “hawks” in China’s military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. "

https://thehundredyearmarathon.com/

http://www.michaelpillsbury.net/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/trump-ide...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/trump-china-xi-jin...

Competition to usd, Petroyuan is coming.

"The Rise of the “Petroyuan”

For the past decade, China’s strategy for internationalizing the renminbi has involved greater reliance on the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights as an alternative international reserve currency. But the launch of renminbi-denominated oil trading this year suggests that China will now pursue de-dollarization head-on."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rise-of-petroyu...
There are a number of articles on the 'net that show AMP can often be slower than a well made page or site. I don't recall the details.
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What is your definition of consciousness?

Mine is the ability to see a probabilistic future and maybe make decisions about that future. Under that defination all matter is conscience due to its quantum probalistic nature.
Few slightly technical things not addressed in the linked article but worth pointing out:

- The most prevalent types of HIV prevalent in Asia are the T-tropic X4 strain which does not depend on CCR5 for infection. The proper genetic target CXCR4 is not a viable target for germline gene editing because it's essential for embryo development[0]. In other words, the children would not be immune to HIV in any case.

- The editing was done using a single sgRNA template and a 20bp+ deletion cannot be produced with this setup. Therefore it's likely that the experimenters never attempted to replicate the naturally occurring Δ32 variant in the first place.

- Δ32 is well studied and known to abolish CCR5 function at both RNA and protein levels. However, both of Nana's CCR5 alleles are novel and it's possible that some function may still be retained because the DNA changes are not extensive enough[1]. These edits really serve no purpose and should never have been implanted.

[0]:https://www.nature.com/articles/31261
[1]:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25043019
This front-end micro-services architecture looks a lot like how Amazon renders its pages. Amazon's rendering framework takes in components from various teams, renders their components, assembles it all into a final page and then sends it to the client. In theory, this allows all the the benefits promised by the article: teams can use whatever frameworks they want, they can architect their part of the page in a manner that suits them, etc.

In practice, it's a mess. Just go to Amazon.com and open the page in the DOM inspector, or view-source. There's no consistency between any of the page components. Things are duplicated. Things are coupled to each other in weird ways. It looks like an absolute nightmare to debug.
They're already not the only ones, there's cabify, mytaxy and a few others.

The drivers gladly use multiple apps so these businesses don't really hold much power in terms of lock-in.
> - it is not actually defensible to abort fetuses based on sex.

If it's ethically defensible to abort fetuses for no particular reason (i.e. general legalized abortion) then it follows that abortion for any particular reason is ethically defensible.

> - genetic engineering might make populations more susceptible to epidemics

genetic engineering also might make populations less susceptible to epidemics

> - it would increase pressure on others, or other nations, to follow suit so as not to fall behind in the “race race” of eugenics

That's indeed a possibility.

> - it would seem to devalue non-engineered life, directly threatening the universal dignity of all human beings

First of all, there's no such thing as "universal dignity of all human beings", different societies have different conceptualizations of "dignity" and its consequences. Even then, why should being genetically engineered threaten your dignity or that of others? Engineered humans are still humans. Their DNA isn't necessarily any different than what some natural mutation could've come up with.

> - your tired meme is tired

I'm actually dead serious.
"...He spoke at length with bioethicists William Hurlbut at Stanford University, as well as his son Benjamin Hurlbut at Arizona State University, neither of whom was aware of He’s plans. The elder Hurlbut spent time telling He about opposition to the instrumental use of human embryos in the United States, and the grounds for believing that human life begins at conception."

Aren't those beliefs themselves harmful?
If you still need or want the old editing experience, you don't need to switch to a fork. WordPress is keeping the old editor available as a plugin for at least the next 4 years: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

Anyone who made customizations to the old editor has 4+ years to figure out what to do about Gutenberg (plus they have had the 2 or so years that it has already spent in beta).
An even better thriller plot would be for there to be some completely unpredicted positive benefit of the change - e.g. that the modified kids are far more intelligent or immune to heart disease or <something>.
Maybe this is just a test, how mass media and people would react to something like this...
You asked for sources for an opinion on a subjective topic, you're not allowed to pull the "appeal to authority" card for being given exactly what you asked for.
How are they harmful?
Maybe I’m in the minority here. Is this the “new editor coming soon” on wordpress.com blogs? If yes, I tried it and was left more confused than before (features like copying an existing post with its categories, tags and content in order to create a new post were missing). So I switched back. I’ve found WordPress becoming more complicated to administer and use over the years. I hope aiming towards simplicity doesn’t inadvertently add more complexity.
If you use an intel CPU you can use the intel compiler which in some workloads does a better job of optimization than gcc. The intel compiler doesn't know the right optimizations for AMD processors (at best, intel has been known to pessimize AMD processors).

Though overall you are correct that switching AMD to Intel is generally not a big deal, the above factors need to be accounted for.
They are korean we share goals and markets.
Because China are the Nazis of our century.
I talked of this elsewhere. It's a form of vetting we don't have anymore where there is an educated editor somewhere to make sure what we read is worthwhile (not censorship which isn't the same thing).
AMP's job is to lock publishers in a Google-controlled system where you jump when Google tells you to jump, or else you lose your spot at the top of Google's search results.

Oh. And ads. It's always about the ads.

They don't even attempt to hide it, really. Right there on AMP's page (emphasis mine):

--- quote ---

The project enables the creation of websites and ads that are...

What AMP Provides

Higher Performance and Engagement

....

Flexibility and Results

Publishers and advertisers can decide how to present their content and what technology vendors to use, all while maintaining and improving key performance indicators.

...

More than 1.5B AMP pages have been published to date and 100+ leading analytics, ad tech and CMS providers support the AMP format.

--- end quote ---
I use speech to text for Chinese a lot. Or a smartphone keyboard. Or I write on paper, scan it and send it to someone to type it out and edit it. Cool that you work on things like that, I’ll check it out when I get home!
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Chromium is better than Firefox
A cashless society requires computers to work flawlessly to function. It requires those controlling the network to make decisions with the public's best interest foremost.
I feel like you are playing semantics here. "Forced to join a union" in this discussion is in the context of "in order to get a job at Company X". Of course this worker is free to forego employment at Company X if they don't like the terms of the employment. However, one of those terms forces the worker to join a particular union.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this semantic distinction could be used to justify eliminating just about any worker protection currently on the books.
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"fought some of the other leftists as fiercely as it fought the right."

Wasn't that the Soviet influence though - they regarded anarchists/Trotskyists as a far bigger threat than Franco.
His name is He Jiankui.
So the answer is to hand the mobile web to Google?
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> strengthened property rights appear to have been responsible

Economists do not universally agree on the root cause of 20-21st century growth
Easier than in full gravity, I imagine.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx for PCs aims to overcome the performance gap
I have one, older generation. Holding up pretty well. The casing scratches really easily though
Isn’t this a resolver configuration issue on the client?

The browsers are not respecting DHCP in this case, but that doesn’t mean that other resolvers can’t be configured via DHCP to try DoH or DoT.
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