skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually kinda painful with NTFS as NTFS doesn't really care what's in a path other than the directory separators it's all binary. This means that different applications using different Unicode normalization will result in odd things happening. To me the right answer is NTFS should normalize all paths the same way internally but they have yet to implement it because it would break legacy systems that have un-normalized paths (I assume).
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I have to agree. "I am leaving LLVM" doesn't tell me much. It only made much sense to me because I had already seen news article about this on another site, which had a much more informative title.

It would be better to have the title be something like, "<name>: "I am leaving LLVM" " (note the quotes around the first-person statement). It might also be helpful to have it look like, "<name> (LLVM maintainer): "I am leaving LLVM" "
«sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English[3][4]»[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska_Institute
>Social cohesion is far more important than both your obstinacy and your problems, and if you persist, we will burn your ass at the stake. It's ugly, it's sad, we wish we didn't have to do it, but it reflects the reality of society.

Wow, How do I make sure I never interact with your "society"? To me this attitude is strait out of Orwell and Huxley?
Many devs use the C# version just to avoid going through that experience themselves.
The complaint is that they're extending the email standard by sending single-URL bodies instead of the messages inline. I can see the point, but sending URLs is still fine in my book, and this is a useful feature that's trying to get parity with Outlook.
Biggest problem I think is googlers can't use code if it's licensed under AGPL.

edit: GPL -> AGPL
It's spelled "prestigious" because we all agree it's spelled "prestigious."

The word has meaning because we all agree it has meaning.

Corporations exist because we all agree that corporations exist.

Money has value because we all agree that it has value.

The United States of America exists because we all agree that it exists.

Yes, there is a difference between objective reality and intersubjective reality. But I think you're making too much of that difference.

A huge amount of our everyday world is based entirely off broad mass agreement. The vast majority of the things we interact with in modern life would immediately cease to exist if all the people who believed in them just vanished one day - if an extraterrestrial species arrived on Earth the day after, they would not be able to observe almost anything about our lives. That doesn't mean our reality is fake or that our interaction with it is arbitrary. It just means that it is geopolitically and/or culturally defined.

Bottom line: Yes, social science is hard, but lighten up.
AMP's point isn't to "reward" faster pages. The mobile web is garbage and 80% of pages are hot dumpster UX fires that take several second to load.

AMP's point is to help standardize the excellence of the few pages that actually are performant. Any rankings boost was a carrot for early adopters. In july, page speed will have greater importantance ranking for pages generally.
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It's probably easier to just keep a set of diffs.
For me, science goes back to the root of the word. It originally goes back to the scalpel, which was used to divide living tissue from dead tissue. That which is objective vs that which is subjective.

Also, I wouldn't confine art to the purely aesthetic.

But that's just me!
This is all feelings: there is a huge cultural divide on the internet between America(s) and what feels the rest of the world. In America racist programs like these are accepted and celebrated. Where I am from it would be illegal and when you voice your opinion, that this is the wrong approach and you don't fight fire with fire, suddenly your feathers are ruffled and you're "on the right". Just like you wrote.

In my eyes the bottom line is: the attitude and arrogance from americans will only have negative consequences because it pushes people in your 2 narrow minded boxes and hardens the discourse. Identity politics are cancer and stand in the way of any and all progress
I have always felt that, in a "typical" open-source project, I could approach the community, join it, build some rapport, and eventually help with the decision-making process (assuming I was any good and people in the community liked me).

But with Google-run (or other company-run) open-source projects, it's a completely different story. Want to be a TensorFlow maintainer? Great, sure, you can contribute, but you'll never get to make any decisions about the direction of the project itself unless you're inside Google.

To me it's a disappointing semi-abuse of the term "open source"... it doesn't mean what I think it should...
> we know we have unconscious biases to people who are of the same race

If that would be true, this wouldn't happen:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...

> Especially for internships where there isn't even a professional history to compare.

You give them a technical test and whoever scores the most wins, if they score equally, you can pick at random.
> whatever we think about what it is or how it works has little bearing on what it actually is

We are a part of this world, so if you accept that you must accept that how you think about the world is a part of the definition and state of the world itself.

Which quickly leads to the conclusion that it is impossible to reason about a system from inside the system with absolutely certainty.
Uh, yes? Clearly?

If I'm on vacation, I'm not looking to save every single dime because I know that it's a one-off expense.

If I'm looking for an apartment, I'll actively research to find the best deal because it's a long term commitment that could have huge ramifications on my finances years in the future.

Case in point:

I'd gladly pay $250 a night in a Manhattan hotel, because fuck it, I'm going on vacation, will only be there a few days, and don't want to spend an hour each day on the train getting to/from Newark just to save a couple hundred bucks.

But I would have to be crazy to pay $250 a night for an equivalent (i.e. studio) apartment in Manhattan, regardless of how much time it cuts off of my commute.
Right, in military aviation that's just the dichotomy between bombers and fighters. Of course your enemy won't send unescorted bombers if they know you have fighters. That's why victory requires that your own fighters maintain air superiority.
Incel was a label that these people gave to themselves, simply meaning "involuntarily celibate".

Sure these communities are incredibly toxic, but I don't think it's fair to say that every member of them has all of the beliefs you describe. Most of these people are probably mentally ill, they need compassion and empathy, not to be purged from society.

How much more bitter and angry are they going to be if they start to feel like they're also excluded from having a job?
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It totally depends on your prescription. If there’s no astigmatism, the lenses can be stocked and cut to the frames you need. Astigmatism adds another two variables that make it much harder to stock. Also the stronger your prescription, the more alternative material options there are to keep the thickness down, which again makes it harder to stock everything.
Wont pay tax... but likes to tweet what he should do with all his money. Laughable.
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So they sound just about as sensitive on the right. The name seems to fit both. Get it?
>It is not a small or reasonable action to declare that judgements of suitability to work with an organization will be made based on sex, race, and other non-functional dimensions.

Correct, yet this is implicitly the case in every workplace. There are structural, systemic biases towards the majority population in every country. The reason why attempts to counter this are spreading "like a cancer" is because they show positive results quickly, in strict monetary terms, typically because the extra consideration given to minorities actually shows up very skilled people who were otherwise overlooked.

I appreciate that from the outside it can look very much like "reverse discrimination", and in essence it _is_, but it's a crude attempt to balance out the _existing_ discrimination which happens on a systemic, not personal, level. Nobody really thinks that there's serious problems with HR people all going "ew, no _black people_ here!" - the biases are extremely subtle and large scale, while the attempted solutions are hacky and small scale, because it's a lot easier to effect a small change than a large one.
There are also a view counterexamples, for example that Google abandoned its native client in favour of webassembly when the standard took form. The same with progressive web apps which will replace the "web apps" in Chrome.

I was also sad when Google Talk was shutdown for Hangouts but to be honest, XMPP was going nowhere. The quality of available clients was very different. You had awful clients like Apple iChat (which is still awful), complete client like Psi which stopped at some point, clients which wanted to be everything like Adium/Pidgin, etc. pp.

Google Reader was indeed sad and really weird, they could have build on top of their social networks they already had but they wanted something new and shiny. I still look for a good replacement.
> Bigger example is how much they give away in terms of AI/ML.

You think they are publishing all these papers and open-sourcing TensorFlow for the good of the community solely?

No... if the entire ML community publishes papers with TensorFlow as code, then now Google can sell that many more TPUs and that much more access to their cloud systems to run the models...
Even if you need to get glasses that better match your prescription or your glasses are getting scratched but are still usable, you might not need them now. I've worn glasses for almost 30 years and I've never been in a rush to replace them. At least around here it usually pays to wait for sales; it's easy to save a couple of hundred euros if you can wait for a while.
I’d assume most people at least change it when they get a free one at their six month cleaning.
How do you manage the private key on your phone?
The question of adequacy in martial arts is equally nonsensical

Well, it is nonsensical since MMA proved beyond a shadow of doubt that BJJ beat everything else... We haven't yet settled on what programming language beats everything else however... But it is not LISP!
Don't take every official announcement of any country at face value. Let's wait until the launch a geostationary satellite with the nuclear rocket before canceling the current plans.

[IIUC it's a missile that use the nuclear power to heat/accelerate the air. I guess it can be adapted to space with some tank with a gas to heat/accelerate, but I'm not a rocket scientist.]
So what? Lots of things are impractical for individuals.
> It's possible that he's primarily talking about backroom conversations of which we are not privy to, but he doesn't mention this, and it does make the post look fairly unreasonable.

Strange, I thought the opposite: his decision wasn't made in a vacuum. His argument may look unreasonable only if you had no idea of the wider efforts to push similar political agendas throughout the industry and open source communities, and how meritocratic concerns are pushed aside as a result.

Discrimination of any kind is a fallacious argument, that someone doesn't need assistance simply because they belong to a particular group. It's just as fallacious as treating someone like a criminal simply because they belong to a particular group.

I admit, I go back and forth myself on the ethics of group-specific programs, rather than a more inclusive approach helping underprivileged individuals without regard to any particular group to which they may belong. I too might have no problem with Outreachy if it weren't couched in such exclusive language, and if the wider movement in the industry hadn't already been so divisive.

> IMO, it sounds _very_ much like the guy is just tired of working on the project on technical grounds, and is making the unfounded claim that those technical grounds are being caused by political actions he doesn't agree with.

Open source contribution is entirely voluntary. He could walk away for literally any reason at any time. What possible reason could he have to raise a political shitstorm that would only hinder his chance at future career opportunities if he didn't believe what he wrote?

It just sounds like you're looking for a narrative with ulterior motivations so you can easily dismiss his concerns.
I don’t understand your XMPP example. Google didn’t and doesn’t decide the fate of XMPP. Most developers who targeted it only cared about where the users were, and features supported by the most popular servers and clients.

Would you have preferred that those developers reverse engineer something closed source Google developed instead? Libpurple has advanced messaging not at all, only been great for interoperability.
how well do they roll on tarmac?

Imagine an electric car that can park and drive in tight spaces.
Not invented here? Seems like the exact opposite at Google and it surprises me all the time.

Purchased a Google WiFi for example and the license agreement is pages long of using open source software.

https://support.google.com/wifi/answer/7359345?hl=en

Google uses the Linux kernel for everything. From Google Home to Chromecast to their cloud and Android and ChromeOS.

Only now working on their own kernel, Zircon but suspect just experimentation.

Google tends to use off the shelve if something exist to use. They tend to focus on new things.

Another great example is using Intel processors but did the TPUs as nothing available to meet their needs.

Then we get speech to text using a NN at 16k samples a second at a reasonable cost.
I don't think TrueCraft's history is at all comparible to embrace/extend/extinguish, nor does it make Google's behavior excusable if it were.
Is knowledge not just the reliable predictability of a model’s outputs based on inputs?

I.e “you know it is noon” means you can predict that when you look outside the window it will be light, the church bell will be ringing, the clock will point to 12 etc. One or more of these corroborating factors provides that knowledge to you (eg you can still know it’s noon if the clock is broken because you can hear the church bells and see the sun above your head etc)
How would this play out in email? Users can have more than 1 email account, and even just forward from their old acct to their new one.
You realize I didn't invent society, right? And never need interact with it if you don't preach heresy.
This is true, not just for technical side, but also on business side.

Google just did it again on the Ads business:

https://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/googles-gdpr-cons...
On HN flagging is used not just for spam, but often for content you don't agree with; especially if you strongly don't agree with it. In this case you think this content shouldn't be on HN and click "flag". If enough people do that, the post disappears. There's nothing you can do about it.
Why don't databases create their own indexes automatically?
Propaganda for gun laws that are even more restrictive than the U.S.'s current situation, is indeed bad.

(And arguably worse than propaganda for drone laws, on account of the 2nd Amendment and the reasons we have it.)

What's your point?
>except you can't build a gun from scratch in your basement

You can't? While the equipment isn't something everyone owns, there are those who do own it and can do it.
Not very well. Whatever else you might say of the current economic arrangement, we're definitely awash in cheaper consumer goods.
If you are good enough to contribute to Tensorflow and be able to come up with new directions, why not just get a job at Google so you can do that?

This isn't unlike any other open source project ran by people who don't want to consider all input from others. Not all suggestions are worth serious consideration, after all. Open source doesn't mean I'm beholden to your every whim just because you've contributed. That's what forks are for.
First, How does this have anything to do with the alt-right?

That's just a distraction from your argument that we shouldn't criticize the actions of Google because they give away some research. Google, and others, have turned open source into a free marketing campaign. Most of it is only open source in the "source available" sense.

You could fork it, but the sheer size and magnitude of insider contributions makes it as useful as packaged software that came with source code.
Lol, my old startup had a great Ivory tower CEO. We ran out of runway after he continually chased any shiny ball that the wind brought him. No monetary plans, no concept of what a usable product could be, just lots and lots of vision, and vague descriptions of implementations to the team.

That doesn't disqualify your statement, but it does highlight that - if that is correct, a COO is needed to put some sanity on the Ivory goals.

Then again, I was working for a startup. I guess that was a success (~25M funding before fizzling), as far as startups are concerned.. lol.
Does that explain why it's so wobbly when going sideways, or is it always going to give some wobble on a very light object like that?
True, but I think Tesla is unique in the quantity and enthusiasm deptartment.
No not solely. But often it is mutual benefit. But the one that seems most crazy is giving away Borg.

I was shocked they gave away the K8s brand. Now that was ballsy and surprised necessary.
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> But I do find it frustrating that the left gets saddled with names like “snowflake” when such small & reasonable actions routinely ruffle feathers on the right.

Nailed it. Me too, this drives me nuts lately.
Bayesian priors would also suggest that certain minorities are more likely to be criminals. Should we therefore treat people from such minorities as criminals? Bayesian priors don't guide all of our ethics.

My Bayesian priors suggest that the OP wanted an easy way to dismiss the person's concerns without addressing them.
I don't think comparing it to lisp is meaningful. But if you were going to compare, it's not if it had a cooperative compiler, it would be as if it had a cooperative problem. A problem that was super simple, that caused no errors or exception cases, or complicated special cases. Didn't have to be solved real time.
"Android is open source".

So let’s take a look at it.

If I buy an Android device from Google today, can I use it just with the open source version of the OS? No, I can’t. Is there any device I can use just with the open source version? No.

So, what is in the proprietary version that isn’t in the open source version?

The Dialer is proprietary (since somewhere between 4.4 and 5.0), the Calendar is proprietary (since 4.4), the Contacts app is proprietary (since 4.4). The on-device search is proprietary (since 3.0), the homescreen app is proprietary (since 4.4).

The drivers are proprietary, the firmware is proprietary, the libraries to use recent openssl on older versions are proprietary, the only way to do wifi geolocation is proprietary, the only way to run in background is proprietary.

Android is as much open source as macOS is: Darwin is open source, and webkit is open source, but everything inbetween is proprietary.

I suggest you read https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on... to learn about why your statements about Android are deeply misleading
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It reveals the poster's affiliation, which is pretty important in assessing the usefulness of his post
Thanks for pointing that out, might be unrelated but I wasn't impressed by the video because it didn't seem to work right, i.e. the robot didn't travel straight, just did a series of small turns to go in one direction.
> There's nothing wrong with having employees who are unattractive / can't find sexual partners, and I agree that that would be just as ridiculous a criterion to fire someone over as being caucasian.

On an unrelated note: the "firing" time hasn't arrived yet, but not being hired just because you're Caucasian isn't that uncommon nowadays.
I have a different proposal I'd like to run by you... I'm concerned about congestion on California's roads. The issue is simple: at rush hour, for many popular routes, N > M, where N is the number of cars on the road, and M is the number of cars there are space for at any given time. Let's solve this problem--build more roads!!

Oh wait: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/11/californias-d...

...

In all seriousness, I am on your side--zoning laws which never change create lots of incentive problems and prevent central and desirable areas from sensibly adding density. But let's not pretend this is a simple math problem where nobody with sense can disagree--it just leads to demonizing the other side (which there is lots of here).

Among other things, it will almost surely never be the case, no matter how successful YIMBY is, that N=M in the bay area, because adding more housing will increase demand--people will stop leaving to take jobs in Denver/Seattle/Portland, more people will find it doable to move to the bay area, etc.
>And since we don't get paid based on how many pages the user views or how long the user is on the system, there's no financial incentive to getting the user addicted.

Arguably, most of Facebook's addiction is the existence of virtually all their friends on the network.

Your $9/year cost is a lavish amount of money that exceeds the measly $1/year that 70% don't want to pay.[1] Why don't people want to pay 8 cents a month to avoid ads?!? That's a good question! Whatever the answer is, it affects how an alternative social network can grow and/or financially sustain itself.

If most of the people aren't in a $9/year network, then yes, it won't be addictive. The Google+ social network has targeted ads and yet it's not addictive -- because it's missing the network effect of having "everybody" on it.

Have you considered realistic human incentives in your economic model?

[1] https://www.tune.com/blog/mobile-ads-70-of-smartphone-owners...