skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of comments here are debating whether a 12% interest rate is reasonable or not - I don't know enough to comment on that since stocks and investing is one of those things I try to know as little about as possible.

What I'm interested in is where the promoters of "save for 40 years" are getting a guarantee that they'll be alive in 40 years, and in good enough health to do the things they planned to do when they started investing. Especially if you live in a third-world country like the US, where mass shootings happen nearly every week, and regular medical expenses can bankrupt even the most thrifty saver, I think there's something to be said for enjoying life right now. I'm very thankful for the trips I've spent money on instead of saving it, because exposure to different cultures changed me as a person, and now I have the rest of my life to live differently with new ideas and values.

If you like coffee, $4 or $5 can get you literally the best coffee beans in the world, prepared by a master barista. It's not like wine or whiskey where you need to spend hundreds of dollars to get a taste of the high-end stuff. I still make my coffee at home 6 days a week because it's cheap and I like the process, but getting an espresso once a week is one of those little joys that make life worth living for me.
>Most salaried folks stick to a fixed set of working hours.

We also browse internet, spend ungodly amount of time on fb/insta/whatsapp/HN/reddit while at work. Taking out 5 mins to make a coffee isn't that significant.
This is the harder than you think. You might make it illegal to say "Hillary Clinton is guilty of <something>" - it actually is - it's a civil matter and Clinton can sue you for defamation. But, if you make it an opinion or a conjecture by adding enough hyperbole, you'll get away with it. That's not easy to ban. Any attempt to do so infringes on basic rights. It very soon becomes thought police.

The only sane solution to this is to educate the masses, give them the tools to may be verify facts ...etc.

(I'm in favor of banning organized news manufacturing. But I fully acknowledge that it's not practical and leaves a lot of room for bias. If President Trump gets that power, there's nothing stopping him from banning CNN entirely and I'm pretty convinced that he would.)
They already have massive advantages. That's why
>> it would still be a democratic state

> Only through the first election cycle.

I'd like to point out that the incumbent party of the Singapore government has been in power since 1959.

It has 93% of the seats in our legislature, while only having 69% of the popular vote (it was 60% in 2011, but Lee Kuan Yew's death and Singapore's 50th anniversary probably helped boost it a bit).

They have no incentive to improve on the voting system, nor do many people in the electorate care. The government gives out annual cash bonuses of approximately $300 [1] to the majority of the population, which seems to appease them a bit.

Edit: I initially said 1965, but it was actually 1959. [2]

[1] https://www.gstvoucher.gov.sg/Pages/Cash.aspx

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party
My guess is that it's to keep it center-aligned with the main part of the keyboard. The Librem 15 has a built-in numpad on the right, which pushes the letter and number keys over to the left.

Personally I'd have them just ditch the numpad entirely and center everything, the way they do on the Librem 13. USB numpads are cheap and widely available for those who need them, and typing on an off-center keyboard feels weird.
I had those moments while watching “Snatch” as non-native speaker :)
> Not just overseas, but here in the US a lot of people just don't care about rights and think the government is the solution to everything if you just give them enough power.

I think claiming that people "don't care about rights" is being at least a little uncharitable. Things like fake news and disinformation are real problems, but citizens have ceded so much power to ever larger corporations; and those corporations have taken an ever more skeptical eye to the public good (in favor of focusing on shareholder value); that the only practical solutions to many problems may involve the intervention of a government.

If you care about your rights, you really ought to want to break-up corporations like Facebook into little-bits, which would then make many of these problems more tractable to being solvable by collective action than government intervention.
> Spotify is objectively better in terms of music discovery and the social aspects of music

Not objectively. In your opinion.

I like to discover new music via the Beats 1 series of radio stations which Spotify is incredibly poor at.
Even simpler test: If I as an individual can't use a double-Irish scheme to eliminate my personal income tax liability why should a corporation be able to?
I can't tell what you are trying to refute in your parent comment.
> So you're saying futarchy is flawed because the metric measured will be gamed?

No. I'm saying that it is flawed because it introduced additional avenues for the influence of wealth to work (both “legitimately” and corruptly), makes the decisions for which decision-makers are accountable to the public less capable of being effectively overseen and evaluated by the electorate, because the kind of evaluation of policy it calls for is impossible (not merely impractical, though parts of it are that), that any revision to make it possible and practical adds a whole new set of problems (not least is likely to be a strong new incentives for ignoring long-term effects), and that it doesn't even begin to solve any actual, real problem.

> How is it different from the present system

That's kind of addressed above, but even if it wasn't, the idea of futarchy is it is better than the present system, not a layer of complication and indirection which retains the flaws of the present system.
Unions consume goods and use services to make a loss?
I'd love to understand how many people who frequent hacker news have actual experience with a union directly beyond what the have read? The anti union rethoric is strong in the US and it seems like a lot of comments start with the position that unions are bad and go from there without really understanding what they do or thinking through what things good unions can do well.

Companies have spent a lot of time and money spreading this message so it's not suprising but it seems like a default position of many tech workers I've met in the Bay Area while they also grumble about many aspects of their job.
If there were only two grocery store chains in the entire world, and no other way for CPG companies to sell to consumers, I think it would be quite similar indeed.
You are 100% right. I said this in the post:

> My role as part of Storage will be to consider “what does data access and storage look like in this world?” If your code is moved to the edge, but your data is still in a central server, you don’t gain the full benefit of having the code close to the client. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in this space!

Fixing this problem, or at least coming up with the plan to fix it, is now literally my job :) (There is of course already a plan in motion, given that Workers KV exists today...)
The extension also translates words and texts on any web page by double clicking or highlighting with the mouse. There‘s no way to do that without that permission.
It's not that the Dems have a bad message. It's that republican propoganda has made it hard to make inroads in these places no matter the message.

Trump said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose a single voter. And he's right.
>Isn't society butting its nose into people's love lives the problem in the first place? I say we just leave people alone and let them work it out. Everyone should be "live and let live" as much as possible. From what I've seen, this is by far the best policy.

I agree so much with this and it's always how i've tried to be. I've never really understood why people choose to make this their business. They don't have to. They really don't. It's just never made sense to me why what two other people choose to do together would be anything to do with me or why people would expend so much energy worrying about it.

There's just never seemed like a good reason to waste time and energy, judging, worrying, or even really thinking about what kind of people other people are attracted to.
If to speak about UI needs then CPU rasterization is just half of the problem.

320 PPI display (a.k.a. "Retina") has 9 times more pixels than old, classic 96 PPI one.

So just attaching new monitor will require 10 times better CPU in order to render the same UI. That if to use CPU rasterizers only.

Obviously that above is not an option. That's why Direct2D and Skia contain as GPU as CPU rasterizers. That dualism complicates things quite a lot - two alternative renderers under the same API roof shall produce similar results.

So Blend2D, to be a viable solution for the UI, shall be 10 faster in rasterizing than any current alternatives.

Yet, it was NV_path_rendering OpenGL extension from NVIDIA aimed for 2D path rasterization, but it seems the effort is dimmed now as OpenGL itself. OpenGL architecture, that was created to run H/W accelerated full screen apps, is far from being adequate for windowed UI.

So far Microsoft's Direct2D is the best thing that we have for H/W accelerated UI so far. And WARP mode in Direct2D (CPU rasterizer) is pretty close to the Blend2D - they also use JIT for rasterizing AFAIK.
Yeah:

> I did give AMD the heads-up that it would be going live just after the Cascade Lake launch. They did not sanction this article (indeed, they will not be overly excited to see it is live.)

That seems to justify some doubts.

PCIe 4.0 support has got to cost some die area/power, and not many PCI devices will support it at first. That might point towards starting with a mix of 3.0 and 4.0 lanes.

If they did upgrade all lanes, and some devices show up, could be cool for some bandwidth-hungry GPU and/or HPC-networking use cases. Or for servers that wanted to load up on any kind of compatible device (SSDs, whatever): you can fit more 4.0 x4 than 3.0 x8 anythings in a given number of lanes.

Still think we'll have to wait a gen, though.
FYI, the title is wrong, or at best misleading. Politicians are elected to be politicians. They outsource everything else.

Fun story, my wife almost took a job in our state capital to help edit laws. The team was employed by the state and was, to my knowledge, non partisan. They recieved drafts of bills, and their job, as lawyers, was basically to make sure that the punctuation was correct. What was interesting about the job, is that a well placed comma can have pretty major effects in how courts will interpret the law, and my wife was really looking forward to being able to shape law in these subtle ways.
Microsoft to Combine Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live into $14.99/Month Subscription
>The layoffs are almost all lead by the retail sector, which is undergoing a shift due to digital disruption from the likes of Amazon.

Except YoY retail layoffs have shrunk by 20%.

And that's a very strange burden of proof to lay down for trickle down economics, considering that tax cuts for the wealthy are repeatedly claimed to generate jobs. Are you saying the job generation claim is a red herring? Would you equally defend me not paying any taxes since it "doesn't hurt anything", or do I need to be super-rich first to get the tax-cut apologizing?
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If you are 20 years old and you start putting away $5/day and have 500k in the bank at 60. Who can argue with that. In fact they should pass a law to make this mandatory on everyone. It would greatly improve the lives of literally everyone.
You’re being fed false information if you think that those buttons cover all the typical functions people rely on buttons to perform.

The fact is that Tesla cars encourage distracted driving by forcing drivers to avert their eyes from the road and look at an LED screen every time they want to do something as simple as turn on the air conditioning.
Nah, I found Strapi the most flexible, easy to use and well documented CMS out there. The problem is that it's still under heavy development and if you ship it without using Docker then you'll probably break it cause it's still fragile. Don't blame it, just containerize it and be careful with your actions.
>I think it could quite easily mean to be how they personally identify.

From this statement, I think you'd agree that gender is a far more important aspect of personal identity than sex is.
>That would be equivalent to including someone who claims "radiation from computers interferes with your brain" on this AI panel...

... or somebody with a reputation of unethical behavior being on an ethics committee.
I have tried it and found that... touch screens have no place in a car. They inherently encourage distracted driving
The keyboard has a numpad, so the trackpad is actually centered between your hands when you're typing.
I agree with your interpretation.

With apologies to Helder Câmara - "When I tell the poor to save money on a latte they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor cannot afford a latte they call me a Communist."
This is an honest question. I'm from Sweden, have kids, but I have such a hard time understanding the issue with explicit language filters in this context.

Why are the filters so important?
What is the 'use case'?

I'm also not surprised it's hard to get a Swedish founded company to introduce explicit filters. At least to me and my peers, the explicit words thing - beeps and all - is one of the most mystifying parts of US culture, especially since the same words also are so prominent in a lot of popular culture. So whatever culture you're from, getting a "Swedish" company to understand, and implement explicit filters is going to be an uphill battle because of this.

Locally, they would probably also be considered old and stodgy if they did it, not unlikely it cost them quite a few of the younger users.
Nobody is being forced to subscribe to Spotify through the App Store. It's very easy to visit spotify.com and subscribe to Spotify Premium.
From time to time I play around with Racket. Do you have experience with both? Can you compare?
Wow, that‘s a really nice idea! I‘ve never thought of it this way but now I understand it happens to me quite often actually!
The semi-recent ability for it to work with android's built in password filling has been really nice for me. It now works properly with firefox android out of the box, selecting the correct username/password based on the url. Previously the best way was to use the keyboard that it comes with and select the password yourself. Now it works everywhere.
If you are in the industry you will realize that it is extremely difficult to be consistently right. His success is not attributable to pure luck only.
Whataboutism isn't attractive. The extreme groups in the Republican party steered Congress (2010-2018, via the Freedom Caucus) and steer the Executive through Trump. That has not happened with the modern Democratic Party.
Perhaps that's the wrong word, or I have the wrong impression. He seems to be an advocate for using Rust and WebAssembly.
You've been breaking the guidelines a whole lot by posting unsubstantively like this, so we've banned the account.
My one issue is that their desktop app takes a long time (several seconds) to open on my Mac, possibly because it uses Electron. And, I wish they had a bookmarklet like LastPass does, for rare situations where I can't use an extension.

But overall, yeah, it has been better than LastPass.
The part about the Asian woman trying to "decolonize" herself after realizing she was only dating white guys was funny and sad. She wound up going on 6 dates - 5 with black guys and one with a half Asian half white guy.

People talk a lot about "white male privilege" and I think this is probably the biggest example. As a white guy, I feel bad for my Asian male friends. Some of the most racist things I've ever heard in my life came from Asian women talking about Asian men. It must feel so shitty for those guys.
At this point, considering China's all but official policy of stealing IP by any means possible, any large company not being hacked by the Chinese should be asking: 'what are we doing wrong that the Chinese hackers are ignoring us?'.
You can't manage what you can't measure.

Until people (citizens) know the dollar value of the loop holes, subsidies, lack of enforcement, penalties, etc., it's hard to have a rational conversation.

--

One of my state legislators changed our law to make that information public.

Previously, only the chair of the finance committee could see those numbers, any public disclosure was a felony (yes, resulting in jail time).

His reform is now model legislation being pushed in other jurisdictions.
To be clear, I strongly support free speech rights for many reasons, one of which is that I agree with you that they make democracy and society stronger.

But you're being reductive. Countries around the world suppress speech to varying degrees without collapsing or becoming autocracies in a single election cycle. Many European countries have notably less freedom of speech in specific areas than the US but are even still widely considered liberal democracies (praising Nazism is illegal in Germany; UK defamation laws impose some of the highest burden of proof on the defendant in the Western world).
Photography has been hit hard this last decade, with IG blowing up and everybody having a half decent camera in their pockets all the time, AND knowing exactly where to go to get high quality shots. For most people it's about replicating the exact formula, vs doing something original, but that's actually pretty common for every art form. It's simply more visible in photo than in other creative endeavors: https://www.instagram.com/insta_repeat/

Seems to me that if you want to "be special/be paid/be known" in your art form, you need to pick the ones that are enjoyable to you AND have a significant moat, or barrier to entry. e.g. making complex pieces of music, assuming you're not stitching together prefabs from Splice, is actually much harder than pulling your phone out. Same thing with shooting, color grading, and cutting a great video, that's MUCH harder than shooting a frame and applying a filter. Same with doing a beautiful sketch or painting, that takes years of practice.

Photo cameras used to be moats a long time ago, when they were bulky, expensive, a novelty, and the development of film was not as straightforward. But now, it's gotten 100% democratized.
I do this all the time manually, that'd be a great feature.
Any way to play without installing locally?
That's why we need edge storage -- which is exactly what Steve is going to be working on. :)

Yes, until we have actual edge storage, the use cases are more limited, but "edge functions" can be used for:

* Stateless / static use cases.

* Optimizing use of edge cache.

* Intelligently redirecting traffic to geographically-diverse back-ends -- including other cloud services that are already globally distributed.

For example on the last point: If you want to use Google Spanner as your database but you need to put business logic on top of it, then where does that business logic go? If it goes in a VM, either you have to make sure to replicate that VM all over the world (can be cumbersome and/or expensive) or you've lost Spanner's advantage of being globally distributed. You could put your logic at the edge, and then it will usually sit between the user and the nearest Spanner node to that user, which is ideal.
It really isn't. I'm a GNU/Linux user, but I have access to a Macbook and, what's more, have the Magic Trackpad 2 right in front of me. It's just a regular touchpad hardware, comparable to one in my Lenovo laptop, but with "force touch" - which if you don't care about silent clicking is just a gimmick that doesn't make much of a difference.

(if you do care about not making clicking noise without having to "tap", then well, it is somewhat exceptional - that's why I own it)

The "secret sauce" is simply in the application support for gestures. Even the driver isn't that exceptional (just well tuned), it's all toolkit and app support. On GNU/Linux you have several ways to support multitouch gestures, but all of them work as simple triggers - a completely different experience that what software on macOS usually provides.
Sorry which points of his are basic and which oone are solved?
High density, and configuration choices are not clutter. Their loss is a cargo cult fashion as much as bell bottom jeans or flat monochrome UI. :p

I'm about the same age as Charlie. I need reading glasses and have wrist issues thanks to decades of constant typing. As I can feel some of the deterioration now I notice when I'm fighting it. I'm amazed so little accessibility has been achieved.

Clutter is the irrelevance, the ads, the options they want you to click rather than the one you're looking for. The random mess that achieves nothing beneficial -- for me. Obsessions with flat monochrome UI (Hello Win 10) that no theme or setting can remove are clutter - informational clutter that ensures the usual channels are overloaded or missing.

Clutter might not even be the one room, one app or one site, but become so when there's the whole house to consider, or the dozens of apps or sites the modern world expects you to use. I don't mind spending 10 or 20 minutes finding an option or setting, or buying a book, ONCE. I do mind when it's become so cluttered that every interaction with everyone takes 10, 20, 30 minutes from me -- for the benefit of some random company I have no choice about using anyway. Every current Amazon purchase takes far too long, as does phone co, electric co, bank, government or council. When every company and department over 3 people has the same useless, hateful queuing system and consigns serviec and continuity to the bin. "Your call is important to us". Bullshit, if it were you'd still have the local number answered after 3 rings.

Tech is to serve them, the corporation, not us. Everyone's life has filled with clutter to give free time, and data, to serve the master^Wcorporate overlord.

I got into tech because I could make things better, quicker, easier, more fun. It's none of those things any more mostly deliberately choosing the opposite. Laziness of UI is profitable -- that's the only care in this second gilded age.

This is heading to rant. I'll stop now. :)
Why picking on Vox here? Vox is, if anything, decidedly pro-market for a left wing publication. Branding himself a "neoliberal shill" is one of Yglesias's core schticks, even.

In fact I'll go farther: Vox's economics coverage is as good as any you can find on the internet outside of academic sources. They're deep, wonky and very broad. Obviously that comes with some policy preferences, but if you're avoiding them because they don't match your personal politics I think you're missing out.
Yes. It could have been some kind of prototype I don't know.
I've never heard of "SAR", that's very interesting... But I am curious, if the data truly comes from only radar, why are shadows apparent in many of the created images? Or does the same surface reflect radio waves differently based on whether it is in the sun or not?
I just always have subs on. There are shows which are downright unwatchable without subs (e.g. True Detective). I'm not a native speaker, but I'm fluent.
There's a little more to being a photographer than clicking a button, but it might not look like that from the outside. It's like calling basketball "just tossing a ball around".
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I'm not talking about rights, i'm talking about functionally not being able to do it. There's no way for them to send everyone a petition or poll or open letter. It's why I've never seen them. I would've had to be on those mailing lists.
ethics? what's that?