skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you might have a point, I don't see many examples where people advocating the political to speak "truth to power". What I see is "be mindful with controversial opinions that could affect corporate sensibilities" and I do believe many people share this point of view.

Who do you think are these unprivileged people you are speaking off anyway and what do you think would hinder them at participation?
I would imagine that some of their tech will be integrated into Google/Alphabet projects. Also DeepMind is a long play.
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Well the idea isn't that bad, but people seem to think if one or two forbidden things are possible then all of a sudden everything that was forbidden is possible. You'll end up with Amsterdam.

Also problematic is the fact that in a lot of countries everything is outlawed so they might go looking for hard drugs where soft drugs are being sold. I've seen enough tourists seen thrown(1) out of a coffeeshop for asking any kind of hard drugs. What they don't find in coffeeshops they do find with street dealers.

(1) yes, flying
You had me up until 'java'.
Fantasy Flight makes "living" card games where new cards are periodically released and you can (supply chain permitting) buy (the pack containing) whatever card you need deterministically.

And it works out basically how you say. The games are popular and exciting when new, since you can buy all the cards for cheap(er than Magic) and balance / design doesn't have a huge card pool to think about.

Unfortunately once the competitive meta encompasses hundreds of dollars worth of product the dynamic flips on its head. The community is composed almost entirely of people who've "bought in" so the options for casual play are actually much more limited than they are for Magic, and organized play doesn't have the resources to address balance concerns or (more importantly) keep putting in enough events with good enough prizes to keep people involved in the scene.

And this isn't even touching the elephant in the room: the only reason there are spaces (i.e. game stores) in which to play is because Magic keeps the lights on for game stores.
decriminalized only
Consumption is legal, sale is not. That's what "decriminalization" usually describes, as opposed to "legalization"

Edit: but sale of cannabis is legal in the NL, under some conditions.
Distractions are our lives now. You can choose to minimize them. Start by turning off “new email” notifications. You may not miss much by not knowing the moment an email arrives. If something is truly important and urgent, they will usually use multiple means to contact you, like calling you.

You can also graduate to removing almost all notifications from your phone. I say almost all because the beauty of Slack is that it never differentiated between being mobile or at a desktop (like Skype did) so you might need notifications from your work Slack to appear if you are not really present. Also, get rid of non-work Slacks on your phone, if you spend too much time on Slack on your phone, it could help eliminate more potential distractions.

The next level is to remove all native applications for anything that you think might distract you. It is much, much harder to fall into the rabbit hole of infinite scroll type binging with a mobile web experience. There is just enough friction with mobile web to snap you out of your trance, usually.
Everything is political.

HN generally bans explicitly political opinion pieces, articles with overt political statements and articles primarily covering current political affairs (e.g. articles about something a US politician said). But even what is or isn't "political" in this sense is again down to the unstated biases of the moderators (e.g. what if the US politician said something about a well-known tech company).

A lot of articles that make the cut tend to be overtly about economics, but those are still extremely political. Universal basic income is political, climate change is political, how companies treat their employees is political, the "sharing economy" is political.

HN isn't free of politics, HN is centrist (with a neo-liberal bias, i.e. anti-regulation, pro-market). And centrism isn't an ideology, it's merely a compromise relative to wherever the current Overton window is.

Saying you don't want to talk about politics riles people up because in order to think of something you talk about as "non-political" requires you to be considerably aloof and far removed from the real-world impacts.

And for completeness sake: yes, even saying "when a company makes an economical decision that negatively impacts people that's not political" is political because it presupposes a laissez-faire capitalist worldview where the Friedman doctrine is unquestioned.

(Hopefully we don't need to talk about why any pretenses of a "meritocracy" or "only hiring the best" is political as these specters should have been cast out of most tech forums at this point)
I don't see that attitude in HN at all. There are those who wish to see fewer (or none) political discussions, but their wishes don't prevail. Hence the aforementioned "Detox Week", which didn't even last a week.
LinkedIn is blocking automation: these are the tools that still work
No one has ever been fired for buying Intel. Management often doesn't want to chance it on the underdog when they could keep everything the same
Except, you know, if Grubhub's contract with the restaurant allowed them to do this.
So little has changed in the process then to now to be easily confused, or what is your point?
While I'm similarly critical of US corruption and too big to fail thinking in general, there was a bit of (EU) progress in terms of monopoly control. Like the huge fines Microsoft and Google had to pay.

But that would be retroactive and not help AMD. But what helps AMD in advance is the data center landscape. How would Intel force Google, Microsoft and Amazon to use their server processors in their custom servers for their cloud data centers? They can compete on price (though price dumping could alert regulators again), but Intel has zero influence on those three. Thus we see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643604.

And smaller OEMs should be hard to pressure given the history and hard to mislead given the big companies validating AMDs processors.

Regular vendors for desktops and laptops are already offering AMD, so there seems to be limited danger there.
* this is assuming the past continues to be a predictor of the future
1. Law is far more stressful from a business standpoint. Because of the business pressures I'd only go back into practice as corporate counsel or now that I've learned about it, as a patent litigator, but I'm too late for that game maybe

2. No opinion

3. Yes but I don't know how to express them, they're so subjective. Lawyering is like boxing coupled with research and writing. Tech work is engineering. Interpersonal skills, stamina, a go for the jugular instinct are far more important to successful lawyering than to tech work after you've established yourself as a developer and become sought after. For lawyering, selling yourself, reading people, keeping a poker face, negotiations, all of these skills yes you still need these for the every endeavor's business side but they'll be tapped constantly both the biz aspect and the job throughout your legal career, and you have to be in top form. Also when you start out if you don't come from a name school your employment options are nearly as bad as if you had no graduate degree. You may not have much choice in what kind of work you do if you generalize: Whatever walks in the door is your next task.

Law positives: I did mostly consumer collections defense and I loved it. The people I helped really needed help. It wasn't financially rewarding but it was immensely satisfying to help people out of situations usually not totally of their own making. The matters almost always have a definite ending point so there's not much worrying after its done and the relevant time periods run. I had no problems going to sleep every night. I kept 9-5 hours and had Federal holidays (unpaid though). The ageism in software is inverted in law.

Software positives: The money. Geographical flexibility if you don't need to be in SV. Being in demand all the time. Performing at the top of your field without having to schmooze with scumbags you'd avoid if you could (on the net excepted). Taking a concept from idea to market, and being recognized for it. Ageism. Working for The Man if you're not into roll of the dice contracting. Did I mention the money?
1. Amsterdam is a city, not a country
2. Legalization =/= Decriminalization (for Portugal)
Jonathan Blow and no one else clearly.
what, so you can migrate there?! non non non mon dieu!
With the use of Wildcards both from boosters and from the Vault, my experience is that just playing a few matches every now and then is enough for me to quickly acquire the cards I need. I'm sure if you want to be competitive, spending a bit of money for more boosters and a chance at more Wildcards shouldn't be a problem.

However, you can contrast this with Elder Scrolls Legends where, for a few months, I was in the top ~1k players without having spent any money at all. You got plenty of cards as rewards for playing well. You also got a full set of one special card per month as reward for being Legend rank (you didn't even need to reach all the way to Legend).
So , is it a result of the VC funded bubble? If that's the case it will not outlast the next bubble burst maybe.
Which independent authority do you suggest?
> Making trolling less visible / viable practice is the work of moderators.

Downvoting, flagging works even when the mods are not around. I am pretty sure that a comment flagged too many times is greyed out and almost invisible (and that happens without mods).

Again, if we are to believe there are only 2 full time moderators on HN for the amount of comments going every single minute, it's virtually impossible to rely on mods alone for proper discussions: simple maths.
The moderation here is amazing. Thanks to the mods!
Some advantages:

* Integrated graphics in their CPUs is important for lower-end systems and APU/SoCs. Intel had an integrated GPU at the time, AMD didn't.

* It allowed them to provide the CPU+GPU for all Xbox and Playstation consoles since the acquisition

* It might have allowed them better deals with chip factories because their volume increased
The current top comment. IIRC it was fluctuating wildly while it was on the front page. After it's gone, comments can get reshuffled, because some people might keep replying/reading/up&downvoting (arguably those with more of a "vested interest" - likely those that disagree with the original article)
The list is too long. But for example, Rueil-Malmaison is a good suburb.
> And one thing I notice is that since both the arrows disappear, you're never quite sure if you did. [...] But you're never entirely sure.

The undo link says "unvote" when you upvoted, and "undown" when you downvoted. And yeah, after every single click on one of these arrows, I check the undo link to make sure I clicked the right one.
google "war on drugs" and "prison industrial complex"
Exactly this! HN for me is the safe place. It’s politics free and memes free, if someone wants all that stuff you can easily go to Twitter or any other website.
Thanks for thinking of us! LWN is not making anybody rich, but we're on reasonably solid ground for now. Despite what some folks are saying, the Linux community is willing to support at least some of the things it values. Our biggest problem at the moment is finding writers who can work at the level our readers expect.
The article is missing the largest elephant in the room for datacenter cpu's: the security issues Intel chips have had latent for the last decade, and the constant patching and bios updates (and re-updates as researchers discover new attacks) that are needed in order to make datacenter use sane.

Intel really messed up, and has no one to blame but themselves.
Ask HN: What are the best PDM/PLM options for small hardware startups?
My business partner and I are quitting our jobs next month to start a small engineering design/consulting firm. Both of us have some software skills, but we're focusing on electrical and mechanical hardware.

It's just the two of us, but for our own sanity we'd like to be able to keep electrical schematics, bills of materials, and electrical/mechanical CAD in lock step with each other. It seems git is a straight forward option for revision controlling software.

Are there some good resources where I could research what the different options are?

Any first hand experience with implementing PDM/PLM in small companies?

Thanks for the help!
A fun detail of this is Apple's involvement.
The 7nm process was originally built to attract TSMC's largest customer, Apple's A Series. AMD adopting this same process inlines them with Apple's gains, spend, and chip quality. (and obviously they make a LOT of A series chips, much greater than any of AMD's production.)

The hilarious gain of this is that this will drive down Intel's chip prices in attempts to compete, improving Mac margins.
i9 9900K: $484 on Newegg

https://www.newegg.com/core-i9-9th-gen-intel-core-i9-9900k/p...

Ryzen 9 3900x: $499 and sold out

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/p/N82E16819113103

And here’s gaming performance. Far Cry 5 has a 25fps advantage. And yes, I have an RTX 2080 Ti

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3405567/ryzen-3000-review-am...

So for a large group of people, Intel still makes sense.

And my reply was in response to “literally no reason to buy an Intel“ which is clearly just not true.
There are other forums* where people can discuss those things (*as in, the word forum, not necessarily “internet forums”). It’s refreshing to have a medium like Hacker News where technology news can be discussed without the polemics endemic to other message boards.
Thanks, then the article was confusing on that particular point.
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It might be that the umvi thinks that weed was only legalized in Amsterdam and not in The Netherlands as a whole.

@ umvi: weed usage is tolerated on the consumer-side in The Netherlands, by law it is illegal.
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It depends on what kind of people you are hanging out with.

If you are concerned about being taken seriously i would be against it, but some people are too serious so there.
Not to mention, this is especially true for leagues that have a salary cap. So that removes the major North American sports from the picture.

It just doesn't make sense to waste your cap space on a player you don't actually want to play. If you sign someone, you want to integrate them into your gameplan or at least warm the bench. And if they're a benchwarmer, you weren't signing them just to prevent others from doing so.
Similar I suppose yes. I think it was in the '70s that there was talk in media here about butter mountains, so it's not a new problem either.

Forgot to say, industrial cattle farming also uses a lot of antibiotics. Haven't heard of superbugs escaping yet, perhaps because of competent veterinarians.
The problem is the abstract digital tools allow me to easily find and interact with people I find interesting, share common interest with, etc., often on the other side of the country than myself. Which is something I've found difficult in real life.
The capacity already exists, if AMD can outbid the guys trying to use TSMC to produce GPUs and smartphone SoCs.
I wonder if you're conflating that actions of the moderators with downvoting done by readers?
As well, below is Mullvad’s corresponding blog post:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/8/7/open-source-firmware-fu...
I'm not sure how buying AMD stock benefits AMD in any meaningful way.
The definite article makes sense in this case, since it's a specific place and not a category, "les" because that's how you'd probably see it written if mentioned out of context elsewhere[0], and capitalized (against French convention) because proper names are typically capitalized in English, including articles.

And also because people who speak about Les Olympiades in English call it Les Olympiades, in a deliberate effort to distinguish it from the Métro station.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italie_13#Les_Olympiades
> Yes, but this software is not empowering the users, it is controlling them, isolating them, radicalizing them and making them feel more depressed.

That's a horribly lopsided analysis. That's not to say that there are no examples or truth to the issues you raise, but it's far from the whole story. People do extract massive value from the communication, education, and entertainment features offered by the software in question.
Hey, though my comment was meant to be genuine I can, on reflection, understand that my comment got you angry. It did not occur to me that OCD could be a separate diagnosis even though I knew it is a specific ICD. Thanks for the book tip, I've added it to my list (I'm interested in related symptoms to [my] autism and some other PDs.)
"When the sun isn't shining" shows that you really don't understand the field. Again... ever heard of batteries? There are any number of ways to temporarily store power. Collect wind/solar when the wind blows and the sun shines, and have some spare energy cached when demand exceeds supply.

There's no "can't" anywhere in this. It's just a question of cost. And if wind/solar + sufficient storage is still cheaper than coal and gas peaker plants, it wins. That's the way the entire industry is betting, worldwide. The experts whose careers are on the line think this is the right path for a reason.
If in 2019 you haven't bothered to buy the domain name for your restaurant you can't call this "cybersquatting", honestly.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is how the majority of productive political discussions happen - around the edges of other things.

People who show up for political debate generally do so with knives drawn; you hear from the loudest people with the most solidified views, and the stuff that rises to the top is playing to the crowd instead of engaging in extended discussions. But in a rec sports team, a movie club, or a tech forum, people aren't grouped by viewpoint and vitriolic arguments are a distraction from the original cause. So those places seem to breed conversations where people take the time to hear one another and avoid breaking down into pure tribalism.
> On the contrary: we welcome it it open doors.

Well good for you, but as someone who lives in the centre of Amsterdam I can understand the motivation to discourage drug tourism.

Edit: to clarify it's not the reams of tourists getting high in coffee shops that I have a problem with, but the knock-on effects of it. Tourists treat the city like an adult themepark and recently the city council have been taking steps to address these problems.
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Can you point to documentation on how Android deals with low-memory situations? My understanding is that:
(A) They moved the problem to user-space.
(B) Apps are supposed to constantly save the state they care about and expect to be killed whenever Android sees fit (or even at every app switch for developers).
Dunno - the investment here is by SoftBank, run by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son who doesn't seem too dumb.
I'm not sure if I fully agree with your point about developers or managers not wanting to suggest they aren't needed. You're argument relies on the idea that most business needs could be sufficiently met by static html doesn't really fit how businesses works. If a business in an industry has additional functionality on their page that gives them an edge beyond just text on a page, then it is needed. Additionally, when extra functionality is needed the whole industry is going to compete on that. Most businesses don't have enough extra funds to support unnecessary or non-competitive functionality development, so while there might be something better they could be doing with their money, it's almost never the case that what's being developed is so over complicated or over architected that it would be a better financial move to build a static page or site than what they're doing because losing that competitive edge often results in the company, division or product line failing to get enough sales to continue.

You do make something of a good point about nothing preventing web development becoming over complicated, except you seem to have forgotten how much that costs. Unless there is a perceived marketable difference, people will rarely push for it to be developed at all, and given the size of the average development team's backlog that pressure to develop also has to outweigh everything in the backlog as well.

The honest truth is that web development has become so complicated because that's the equilibrium point of the supply of labor to the demand for advanced features. Developing the same features from scratch using static web development methods takes exponentially longer as a function of feature complexity, and the ability to use frameworks and other more complicated tools reduces that down to being merely linear.

Web development isn't complicated because nothing is stopping it from being complicated, it's complicated because consumers want features that they assume should be simple, but are in fact very complicated.
What are you referring to? Linux never intentionally breaks userspace code.
I think I heard that even his wife didn't want him to teach their son Racket and wanted him to learn Java. Not sure if true.
It means they want to contact you not the other way round!

Better yet, ask a recruiter at google.
I respectfully disagree: it's important that an employee assesses whether her or his employer's actions align with their own moral compass and belief system.

Without this check we'd surely leave ourselves open to a society where people 'just doing their job' can do some pretty heinous things. This doesn't imply you treat it like a religious calling. Just that you give it due consideration
Google has said in the past "we make our money from usage of the internet, and so anything that increases internet usage helps us".

That was their stated motivation behind things like Chrome - increase the speed and utility of webapps so that more things could be online. It works in this case because they are improving security and therefore user trust in online services in general..

The cynic in me is sure that that's not the only reason, but it's part of the picture.
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Incorrect: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/patreon-ups-its-revenue-cu...

The current 8% plan used to be 5%. Their current 5% plan is stripped down.
https://get.grubhub.com/legal/grubhub-restaurant-terms.html

There appears to be some clauses that offer GH some protection. However, the language doesn't really hint at what they ended up doing.
And Inuits have tradirionally had an essentially carnivorous diet. Diets have adapted to niches from long ago - even though lactose tolerance is technically the mutation instead of lactose intolerance.
As Kenton has said [1], Sandstorm is basically dead. I regret that I didn't do more to support and promote it before it was too late.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20312789
Any changes to include internet services under the Civil Rights act would likely run into a First Amendment challenge fairly quickly, and likely lose. Net neutrality was probably constitutional as long as it applied to physical carriers using public land (for wires) or regulated spectrum. A more likely path would be through Section 508 (the accessibility act). Even that is unlikely with the current partisan makeup of Congress and the US Supreme Court.