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Being an assistant professor at Stanford is orders more prestigious than whatever title he has at Google.

For example, Dr. Fei-Fei Li is a professor at Stanford and the Chief Scientist at Google. The professorship is orders of magnitude more prestigious than the Google thing.
I think that approach is really good. If a package doesn't fit into the static resolution table it could cause a lot of problems to point its dependencies in that direction, especially since node has no issue allowing you to override local modules and reuse the same names when you're deeper.

On that note though, it seems at first glance like there'd be no way for Yarn to tell if a require is overriding another, since (maybe I'm reading the paper wrong) the require speed improvements come from skipping the native module resolution.

Let's say I have a package and my source is set up with the following files:

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/-->package.json

/-->src--->node_modules--->leftpad.js

/-->src--->main.js

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And let's say I then install leftpad through the proposed system.

If I call ``require('leftpad');`` from main.js, what will get returned? Will Yarn know to use the local version of leftpad instead of the installed one?

If I'm understanding you correctly, this would break, but I'd use the Yarn-specific "link" system to fix it?
My own company has been slowly getting killed by amazon in the past 10 years, but we’ve also killed countless brick and mortar stores along the way. Where will we draw the line? Are we to fight the newfound efficiencies of technologies like the Luddites?
Note that (Lua)Torch is basically dead; PyTorch [1] is where current development is happening.

[1] https://pytorch.org
Many people want to tackle homelessness by providing homes first rather than addiction help.

Without a home and some semblance of stability people can’t cope with addiction or find jobs. The approach is meant to be very effective and makes sense when you consider how difficult it would be for someone without a house to take their meds on time, show up regularly for a job, or get counseling and suppprt.
>I wouldn’t say speech recognition is solved. It’s still quite error prone.

Sure it is, but it's doing a hell of a lot better than many critics thought ever possible.

>Self-driving cars need to be even better or people will die.

People will always die. Requiring with certainty that self-driving cars will never cause accidents is a purely emotional instinct with no regard for facts or well-being of people. The only thing that self driving cars need to demonstrate is statistically lower deaths or injuries caused per mile (or hour) of driving than the average human would cause. This would mean that adoption of technology would reduce total deaths if substituted for human drivers, which is what actually matters.
> For "some" reason

I suggest that the correct word to put in quotes would have been "reason," since that is almost certainly emotion that drives it.
Why the Yocto Project for My IoT Project?
I mean that there's a building legal recognition that laws against sex discrimination are incompatible with laws that discriminate against sexual orientation or gender identification. I did not mean that every single person on earth is aware of being at the start of a personal change.
i would say make it a boolean flag, default to false, with a comment that says "this must be enabled for packages which use the local filesystem or OS APIs". if wasm delivers on its potential, OS-level interactions would really be the only valid use case (and legacy code, which should be considered a little bit inherently unsafe anyway).

perhaps yarn could even develop official packages which include native code that wraps all the most relevant OS APIs, and the default setting of the flag would allow only those native packages.

this is all pretty far down the road anyway.
Actually it’s conducting business with EU customers that is the crucial factor. You don’t need an entity in Europe. This is how trade laws work.
I don't disagree, but in Seattle, the streets are a huge problem.
I've never heard of any precedent, do you know of one? In any case, why should Bezos use his personal money to improve Amazon workers' salaries vs. trying to fix a problem for needier people who don't have a job at all? Or trying to make humanity a space faring species (which he spends $1B/year on, IIRC)?
I'm not surprised most terror suspects in the UK are white
Self-driving cars will also kill a lot of people. We just don’t know how many yet.
> As I see it the choice is to either do what Google is doing, which means being involved, staying relevant, and making a few bucks along the way, or to stay away. In the latter case the only result will be diminished influence for Google and by extension the USA, as that won't damage China at all, it will just leave the door open for new Chinese tech giants.

In the former case it means increased influence of China's authoritarian government over an important western company that billions use to learn about the world. China has already used the implied threat to the Chinese operations of several American airlines to force them to make political changes to their global websites (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44948599).

What do you think will happen if China asks Google to make changes to the results ranking for this query (https://www.google.com/search?q=tibet), so that it can continue "to share China's development opportunities [and] invest in and operate in China?" There are a couple of links on the first page I'm sure the Chinese government would say do not "respect China's laws and rules, China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and the feelings of the Chinese people."
>As Morrow points out, Los Angeles was zoned to hold up to 10 million residents in 1960. By 1990, the city had capacity for just 3.9 million residents.

That single line sums up a huge source of problems in Los Angeles from high rents to homelessness to traffic to lack of public transit. People want to move to, live in, and work in the city, but its zoning laws have unnaturally restricted growth for decades.
NYC has a harsh climate in the winter. You do see a fair amount of homeless junkies hanging out in the summer in places like the East Village (don't let your kid run around barefoot in Tompkins Square Park!). The difference is with San Francisco's climate, it's possible to just be permanently homeless in the streets 365 days a year.

I've also noticed a different mentality people have when dealing with homeless between the two cities; in NYC there was once a guy camped out on the stoop of my building. I reported it and my landlord immediately called law enforcement and got him off the stoop. He was gone by the afternoon. In SF, there are homeless people sleeping _everywhere_, even in front of luxury stores like Prada. I once saw a guy laying on the grass at a playground in Chinatown, doing what looked like a cross between a seizure and masturbation. Nobody even looked at him, they just completely ignored him. It left me stunned. For some reason, people in SF just tolerate it...
This is the first article I came across that was about Google's absence. Every other article about the hearings talked about what Sandberg and Dorsey said.
Ginger ale was the first soda I tried, specifically because I was vomiting.

While I don’t drink soda anymore, ginger ale is the one exception when I am very stressed.
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I tend to just mix lemonade with water in ratios between 1:2 and 1:5, depending on what still tastes nice enough.
The view that someone is automatically a monster or an "oppressor" because they voted Republican is wrong and offensive in the extreme.

It is possible to vote Republican without wholly supporting - let alone personally imitating - everything that Trump does, just as it is possible to vote Democrat without wholly supporting everything Obama did.

You vote for the party that gives you the most of what you want and has a reasonable chance of being elected. Rarely if ever will you be entirely satisfied with their personal behavior or policies once in office.
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They expect to be intercepted. It's the time of response that is being tested.
Of course there are legitimate reasons to control immigration - nobody is saying there isn't - but these are not reasons given by the current white house administration.
I was just having this discussion last night as it happens. We sat at an impasse as everyone was quite inebriated and didn't have any real empirical evidence to back any of our claims up. I was rather curious if the rate of deaths caused by human drivers would continue to dwarf those caused by edge cases of deployed self-driving cars if we scaled up the number of self-driving vehicles.

Presently human drivers cause an awful number of deaths with cars. However even despite the edge cases of machine learning, which can be adapted for relatively quickly, would drunk drivers still kill more people every year even if we replaced all of the cars with robot ones? We've been trying for decades to minimize the damage caused by drunk drivers but policies don't seem to have much of an effect. Compared to the massive amount of data we could collect from robot cars in order to optimize them and adapt them... it seems like we'd be faster at making them safer than preventing humans from making poor decisions.

I think in the case of piloting a slow-moving bullet around crowds of humans... I'd trust technology more in this case. It did wonders for the aviation industry and while cars are more complicated to pilot in many cases I don't see how we can make current human-piloted cars safer vs. optimizing robot piloted cars. We've been trying the former for decades with diminishing success.
No, NMSU main campus is over the Organ mountains to the west in Las Cruces. (I graduated from there...) Alamogordo has a small branch-college-sized piece of NMSU.
No, it's not about "intolerant of people who are intolerant". There are actually a lot of people who are actually intolerant which are tolerated much better than a conservative in a liberal environment. Surely, the disagreement may be deeper on fundamentals, but the everyday tolerance would be worse.

> There's no reason anyone has to respect ethno-nationalist views against immigrants.

There's something called "political Turing test". The essence is that if you can not convincingly describe a position of an opposing side - in a way that they'd agree it is close to what they believe in - then you are not fit to discuss this position intelligently. Unfortunately, from the video is pretty clear almost nobody of those who spoke there would pass this test on anything related to anybody who voted for Trump. Yet they feel fully entitled to deny basic respect to people they didn't even bother to understand. And yet they feel smugly morally superior about it.
I think a lot of people in this field did see this coming. I knew a few people in this space about a year ago and I pretty much hear: "realistically, 15 years out at the earliest."

I really really hate the concept of a driverless car. It's an incredibly difficult problem space; and for the same cost, America could build up municipal rail and bus infrastructure to where they were in the 1940s/1950s. We need more cities like Seattle with its rail expansion and fewer New York City where the infrastructure is finally getting money so it doesn't fall apart.

There are already so many tax breaks going into driverless companies. If Alphabet or Here want to do this on their own, go for it; but governments around the world should stop giving tax breaks and municipal incentives for this technology.

I can see it being more useful in Europe, where so much of the country is connected and it'd help sold the last leg problem. But in most of America we need to get back to the point where cars are no longer a necessity, not just for those who can afford to live in the city, but all the people who are barely making it who's lives fall apart if something on their car breaks.
Which is a proof that his values are truly important to him. More kudos to him.
> Where are you getting the information that New York's problem isn't as bad?

He must have visited the city and walked around. The population might be larger, but the problem is less egregious in NYC; we don't just let them camp out in the streets and rule the city.
Well, copyright wasn't introduced for no reason...

As you say, I think it's the fair and just thing to do and people justly get upset when others steal the results of their hard work. (Even if you're not removing a physical object, violating copyright is still stealing and should be treated as such.)

To answer your quality objection: unfortunately, I can't agree with your observation. While some well-to-do people from some cultures may indeed be willing to spend more money for an "original", that is not the case for many, many other people I know. Either because they don't [think they] have the money for the original, or because the original is hard[er] to get, or because they simply don't care about quality as long as it's "good enough". In many countries and cultures, the whole concept of copyright and even property is not as clearly defined in the minds of the people as it is in most parts of the West.

Why else do you think fake Adidas/Nike/Puma shoes flood the market the way they do? And in fact, I once saw a Chinese-made lock that was the copy of a copy of a copy of an originally British brand. If everybody would prefer the original, how did that ever reach the market?
This is absolutely true. Why is it getting down-voted?
> doesn’t mean they’re biased in product.

What is their product? Sure, if product is Android OS, or some wearable devices, yes, they are not biased anyone can buy and use them.

But are they also involved in filtering news, manipulating search results, tracking phone locations, hosting emails, selling ads, censoring or not censoring youtube videos etc.

Then "products" is not the only way a company like Google is effecting change in the world. They match employee donations to charitable organizations, they lobby the government (more than Verizon, military contractors and Wall St. banks), work with the government on drone AI software. Now they are thinking of moving back into China's market with all the privacy implications there, etc.

I think they are far from a "but they are just making a product and selling it, so leave them alone" type of company.

And of course, we might say here that Google's values match with ours so we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. And even though their executives cry on camera after their political candidate loses, when they turn around and go to lobby the government or to police youtube videos, they'll regain their cool and be unbiased. I'd like to believe that, but sure we can see why others might not.
Why are you assuming I'm a bro just cause I'm on hacker news? 1950s are calling you.

Get back to me when you have something logical to say, not just ad hominems...
People could also just call all homeless people mentally ill. I mean, they didn't pick themselves up by their bootstraps, right?

I think it's a cop-out to call most of the non-drug-addicted ones mentally ill, as a way of lumping them in with the drug addicts.
http://outline.com/www.wsj.com/articles/driverless-hype-coll... works and does not require facebook or any other kind of login.

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No. Addiction is rooted in the same intractable personal problems that lead to homelessness.

People on the street are often using street drugs in place of prescription medication, sometimes by preference because, for example, they have a psych diagnosis and street drugs have preferable side effects to the medication they are supposed to be on.

I knew a bipolar man somewhat well who was homeless. He smoked marijuana in preference to the prescription drugs he refused to take. He was unemployable due to his undamaged mental health issue, not because he toked. Toking was just how he got by. He wouldn't have been more functional without pot. He likely would have been less functional.

We still don't have a slam dunk cure for most mental health issues. As long as this remains true, it is problematic to act like addiction is not merely a side effect of the problem and, instead, to pretend it somehow causes the problems an individual has.

Saying addiction is the problem is a little like blaming chemotherapy for ruining someone's life and not acknowledging the underlying cancer as a problem.
Could you expand on your point? I don't know what you are trying to say in the first sentence, how you arrive at your conclusion in the second, and why the two sentences are connected.
The only outlets I see DFW discussed regularly online are a few subreddits + 4chan's lit board. I think it may be these location rather than the author. I met a few people in college who shared my love for DFW who I thought were perfectly well adjusted people (then there's me...).
I'll raise you Canton Avenue. All the way to the top!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Avenue
Avoiding conflict or cold war is also in the interest of all citizens of the world.

Some of the rhetoric I'm seeing fly around on the topic sounds a little overheated to me, compared to how bad things could get.
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Having said all that - although I believe abandoning copyright would be an unjust thing to do, it may in fact have positive effects on society as a whole. This article was posted here some time back: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-l...

The question for me would be whether there are ways of achieving the same effect without having to completely abandon copyright?
"Hacking" isn't pushing buttons on restrictive out-of-the-box solutions that someone else configured for you -- it's tinkering with things to make them work exactly how you want. Customizing editors and operating systems for one's own personal workflow is an enjoyable part of the process.
and pytorch is amazing :)
Where's that in case law? I have seen plenty of hype around this and I think that's an attempt to get support for this. However, the fact is, no one has actually tested this (yet).

It's basically arguing that the business is responsible for following laws in a place it does not conduct business. It's out of the EU jurisdiction. I'd love to see an entirely U.S. (probably only collecting in USD) based company getting "fined" in a country it doesn't conduct business.
Interestingly the EU recently passed a copyright bill only the other day that will force many ISP's to install low-level content surveillance of their user-base due to article 13 making all intermidiatary's liable for user actions.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/09/threat-of-inte...
Your argument makes no sense. "Go where the mentally ill homeless people hang out, therefore most homeless people are mentally ill." Homeless who are not mentally ill do not congregate together (why would you want to hang out with other people specifically because they are homeless?), mentally ill people and drug addicts like to hang out together.
I think their selling point is running cheaper and easier than the equivalent power in server clusters, as you don't have to deal with coordination and its overhead.

That being said, I think that advantage has mostly gone away with modern cloud computing and its matching infrastructure.
Maybe Im in the minority here, but I never attributed credit to Steve Jobs as the "inventor" of any of apples products. I saw him akin to a music producer. The team builds, and he guides their efforts according to his vision. This is very different than sitting down and "inventing" anything.
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First of all, those people are only one part of the homeless population. Not all homeless people are drugged out or mentally ill, and the ones who aren't don't want to be around the addicts and mentally ill any more than anybody else.
You're more or less seeing a self-selected group of the worst elements of the homeless population.

And I didn't see any details in the article, but it'd a good thing if some of this donation goes towards helping homeless people with addiction and mental illness. They're definitely contributing factors for some people.
> To put forth either of these as reasons to restrict immigration from one set of countries, and encourage immigration from another, almost always gets you labeled a racist

That is the very definition of racism. You're ascribing negative traits to specific races/ethnicities/countries, and using that as justification for discriminating against all individuals from that demographic.

If you want to advocate for racist policies as being pragmatic and in the public interests, go ahead and make that argument. But at least have the honesty to call it what it is.

FWIW, I don't think racism and stereotypes make for good public policy, no matter how "true" they may seem. This was the same logic used to discriminate against Irish, Italian and Eastern-European immigrants, and I don't think it's worth going down that same road once again. We can build a sensible immigration policy based on individual merit, without debasing ourselves into racist ideologies.
An apt quote indeed.
Subversion by sincerity

I strive to be sincere, although as my life has taught me, people can rarely be trusted. In my experience, when I do finally find someone that can be trusted, it is then that the fruits of my sincerity show.

I'm often sincere simply because it makes me smile when someone did not expect it, and watching them attempt to process/respond is something that brings me joy. Simply by exposure to sincerity, many have returned in kind; this has allowed me to help others, and even get advice for situations that one would only usually ever save for an advice columnist. (which rarely actually give you the advice you need, easier to give you want you want to hear, and it will keep you reading)

After reading this, I could not help but reflect on my own decisions when striving for sincerity. It's not exactly free of pain or the subsequent shame that can often follow, but why do I feel the need to stick with it? I think it comes down to my personality, I have rough edges and can take a royal beating, which is the kind of constitution you must have if you ever want to be sincere.

With sincerity, there is vulnerability, and while many consider that to be weakness, I count it a strength.
Just don't be surprised if someone hurts you after you were sincere, it does not protect you, and to some, me included, we don't care, and neither should you. Pain is part of life; much better to be real and to be present then to be without pain and truly alone.
Not sure if that’s the line of reasoning. A well known danger of democracy is rule by mob. For instance a tough thing to get right is protecting rights of minority groups. If everyone voted for their own direct benefit, we’d just be locking minorities up and taking their assets with power of the majority. Luckily doesn’t seem to happen much.
Isn't he building Ava robot on his remote island?
> It sure looked like whole US population froze in disbelief for quite some time

Your memories of that time do not match mine. I recall people banding together in various ways. I recall anger, fear, frustration. I recall strong emotions. I recall people jumping up wanting to take action. I recall the "Not In Our Name" movement reacting against that. I recall an increase in government action, and many stories of first responders who jumped up and acted. I recall old friends getting back in touch because despite the odds against an old schoolmate who moved to NYC being part of the 3000 who died, you still wanted to check.

What I do not recall is people frozen in disbelief.