skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deeply. Between gmail’s the auto-reply that tries to anticipate how I would respond to an email and the material in this video, I motivated to get off of gmail and all google products.

I can appreciate that they were disappointed in the election results. I am shocked to see leaders of a Fortune 100 company responding this way, in that forum. What are they thinking? That there is no legitimate reason for voting against Hillary? That all who have a different opinion than them are evil?

I have been really skeptical about James Damore- and I still think he’s a tragic clown, but now I am rethinking a few things:

Google appears to be a liberal monoculture that cannot understand legitimate alternative viewpoints.

Google’s leadership has no instinct to curb potentially controversial opinions in front of their own ranks. Clearly, no libertarians or conservatives work at google. Who would tolerate this kind of intolerance from their employer?
Looks like the beginning of another cat-and-mouse game... and if I'm reading that correctly, even if I open up regedit myself and edit the association like I am used to doing, if I don't update the hash appropriately it will make it turn to default? WTF.

The fact that his utility received AV false positives is also extremely disturbing --- what more effective a way of forcing your choices on others than to label all workarounds these others find as being malware? AV is like the ultimate in censorship.
What sorts of locks/permissions does this file have?

Maybe you could make a tool that lets you make changes, schedules a modification of this file on next restart, and after the restart it propagates the changes in the registry too.

Yes, "please reboot to apply your new mouse position^W^W^Wfile association changes", yay, but that'd work.

Although I'd definitely hate it.
Fracking requires ongoing capital investment though, so what happens when the interest rates go up?
Scenarios like this predictably happen. They were smart to speak carefully.
Probably not the best place to ask this, but what did Phil Schiller mean by "one trillion operations per photo"?
ooh the widget content. wow that’s huge, most google results have some kind of widget content be it q&a results or images or even key excerpts. never really thought that it’s reducing a lot of page views but with enough of those little widgets it probably adds up. If you’re getting what you’re looking for right on the results page then why click on a link?
That would be a far greater thing. It's good that they're dropping open cases, and good that the city is deprioritizing marijuana offenses in general, and administratively declaring that further charges for minor possession shouldn't be filed.

It's barely scratching the surface of justice reform, however. The laws still remain on the books; they're just selectively choosing not to enforce them at the moment. More importantly, they're doing nothing to reverse the thousands (possibly millions) of prior convictions.

This is rewarding the people who skipped out on facing prosecution. It's a pragmatic move, and a tiny step in the right direction, but the people most hurt by these insane laws are the ones who did the right thing, faced their charges, and are now sitting in jail or had their lives damaged in ways small and large. They deserve relief far more than the people who managed to avoid getting convicted in the first place.
Libertarian Utopia dating[1] has too much paperwork, and the nightclub attorney's fees are gradually changing my cocktails into cheap watered down beer. Giving up on interacting with real humans and ordering a Cherry 2000[2] would be a lot easier - and a lot cheaper!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urS8GmwmeWQ

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qwvz5/how-cherry...
Look at the 8k filings, they are easy to find on Yahoo finance and show corporate officer departures/arrivals.

There are a lot of them for a company like Tesla. People join for the big payout — when corporate big shots suddenly find reward in spending time with family, you need to ask questions.
Yea but TSMC's "7nm" is definitely smaller than Intel's "14nm"(+++), which is what Intel is actually on right now, and will be for at least another year.
I'm trying to follow the logic. E-cigarettes are already banned for those under-18 in America. Cigarettes and e-cigarettes are legal for those 18 and over. Because those who smoke e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke real cigarettes, we should ban e-cigarettes? Even though they are way less harmful than real cigarettes?

Why not just ban real cigarettes? Wouldn't that solve all the problems?

Oh yes... black markets, prohibition, arrests, expanding prison population, and on and on...

If we aren't going to throw cigarette smokers in jail, and e-cigarettes are already illegal for those under-18, then I'm not sure what else we can do. The state could aggressively fine retail stores who sell to those underage (although I doubt they sell them illegally). More likely, arrest 18 year old high school kids who buy them for their friends and underclassmen.

Alcohol and cigarettes were bought for me by the burnout and local junior college kids when I was in high school.
For those who don't know, the term "daemon" as used in computing is a reference to Maxwell's demon, since it's doing its work in the background.
No. I said they're cleverer than we are, at least on average. I said the Chinese government should learn some humanity (which they obviously should -- and given the current state of the US gov't and Western politics broadly, ours should too).
Counterpoint: debugging erlang systems in production is a cakewalk. The tracing and introspection tools that come bundled in OTP make tracking problems down really easy. It's really hard to go back to systems that don't have erlang level visibility, so much so that it's kind of a crutch sometimes.

This is an ecosystem problem and not something inherent in a program using an actor abstraction.
Because you want to be well prepared for it, if you are not already.
I'm skeptical of citation rate as well, although I'm not sure I have anything better to offer in terms of metrics. Hype, after all, is related to citation rate. I think what we need is something that is more like "sustained rate" or something like that.

It's pretty clear China is progressing in the sciences substantially, so I don't want to discount that--no one should--but this progression is occurring in what I consider to be a crisis of academic integrity globally. The result is that metrics like publication rate and citation rate are much fuzzier to interpret, and something I distrust a lot because they are somewhat meaningless relative to replicability or something of that sort.

I generally feel like academics and industry at large is suffering from a kind of hype crisis or bubble. I think it's strongly related to income inequality (inflated attributed value of higher-income individuals relative to lower-income individuals) and all sorts of other societal problems at the moment. How this relates to China I'm not sure but overall it makes me skeptical of any attempt to measure or rank countries relative to one another (I'd say the same thing about the US or any other country for that matter).
Who cares, really? Windows is mostly used in the offices, and at that, the places too cheap to afford Macs. The home user and all semi-advanced tech companies have long switched off Windows. Windows is irrelevant at this point.
I think it comes down to US and UK in terms of general science research. I would include Japan but language is an issue (for many). Despite what the average math and science metrics in the US imply, I actually think it’s a direct result of more practical approach to education in the US. There are unbelievable opportunities for young students who want to excel in sciences. I was around graduate level research environment since the 8th grade. And I would say it wasn’t all that unusual as long as you knew where to look. Access to science research is unparalleled in the US.
To add some context: remember that Google has employees who felt personally threatened by election results (immigrants and transgender employees). Nobody knew what Trump would do.

The worst fears turned out to be overblown, but it was hard to make the case for not worrying at the time. Telling people they had nothing to worry about would have simply been offensive.

There are few election results that employees would consider to be threatening like that. It was very much a special case.
After decades of driving shift I was forced by circumstances into Honda with auto. I still drive with my left hand on the wheel and right on the shift.

Some of us really do prefer to drive stick.
I move out of china for college in japan and I feel I can view things without getting too emotional.
In practice when you are dealing with people from mainland they are ruthless about business and do not share/acknowledge the rules people follow in westerner and other Asian countries(most of they are not aware of it of course). We hear ton of story about Chinese company stealing IP.
China have this absence of culture in the last several decades that leave its people no core moral to follow. Whenever a business leader are portrayed in mass media, it is always about how well they are dominating the market, how fast they killed the competitors. While I talk to my Chinese relatives about business, all they care is profit.
You might be referring to the aftermath of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater, which is one of the largest craters to have struct Earth.

The crater is classified as a complex crater and as a result of the impact, the asteroid left a "W" imprint in the surface. The land on the outskirts of the crater(The "W") is unstable and is most likely what is calling the region around Norfolk to sink.

Someone with more geology knowledge might have more to say about it however :)
> In general, it's nonsensical to treat rights as axiomatic primitives that can be unquestioningly layered upon.

It's as nonsensical to refuse to say where the line is drawn.

> then we can describe even North Korea as a perfect libertopia where Dear Leader holds title to all real estate.

Are we actually comparing private property and free speech to an unlimited totalitarian state?

> A mechanical conduit bears very little burden for tolerating speech. Which is why we expect ISPs to pass packets without policing their content. Reddit set itself up as a similar general conduit (with subreddit administrators controlling communities), and so yes we should expect the same.

Websites can and do evict people. Newspapers can and do fire journalists and columnists. Universities can and do decline to offer tenure. People can and do walk out of theatres. Reddit can and has refused to spend their money, their time and their sense of right and wrong on something they reject.

There's also the small matter that the terms of service say clearly that reddit can do this. Just because folks wish those weren't the terms, doesn't unmake them.

> Back to your example - rather than kicking someone out of your home, maybe you should try talking to them. I guarantee that kicking them out won't change their mind.

I have no obligation to change their mind. I have no obligation to listen to them. An unwelcome visitor is, in law and right, a trespasser.

> It starts with this idea of giving people the social death penalty for having views we disagree with.

I think there is room for sensible debate, but it is not license to demand unlimited permissiveness and resources from others. It just isn't.

Calling it an "environment of censorship" is hyperbole.
It's partly the hardware manufacturers /processor makers fault as they stop providing drivers for older devices۔ The latest Android verions though google has made it that the Android can be updated without needing driver updates for the different chips so I expect google to update devices for longer in the future۔
> does changing the brand in non-radical ways change perception in people's minds?

It definitely does for me. I'm not an Uber user (doesn't exist in Germany), but I know the previous design system. When I looked through this page, I also had the impression that their new CEO has to do with this because it evokes more feminine qualities than the previous corporate design. I cannot exactly pin-point this; I'm just going by the feelings it evokes in me. It somehow feels warmer and more empathetic to me (to the extent that a tech giant can be perceived as warm and empathetic).

It's definitely what Uber needs right now on the design front. Let's see how much it helps them regain trust.
Paper seems paywalled. How are you reading this? Any mirror?
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It's only disturbing if you reject the premise of the question in advance—that the concern is addressing inaccurate factual information. Connecting users with good information is literally the function on which Google wad founded, and applying AI to that mission has been a Google vision from very early on.

It would be weird and worrying if Google selectively choose not to do that with information that might have political salience.
I don't think people read because it's "good for them".
I hadn’t looked at the sched code in a couple of years. Is this article up to date:

https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/ten-things...

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Using StackOverflow content to assist in code review
If you want to remedy it, you'll need to take some time to figure out why it happens.

Sometimes, it happens because during the growth stage, a founder is in charge of product. Handing the reins to a hired PM is hard for even experienced founders to do. Sometimes, the tendency is to micromanage to such a point that the hired PM is more like a product administrator than a product manager.

Other times, it happens because as you reach scale, there's more risk to every release. It's one thing to move fast and break things when you have 100 customers. It's another thing entirely to move fast and break things when you have 10k customers and a wack of SLAs.

And still other times, it happens because developers haven't scaled with the company. Growth stage developers are a different breed than scale stage developers. As a company reaches scale, things generally need to get more formal and experts take favour over generalists.

Once you understand what's going on, you can start making changes. I don't know how to fix the issue where a founder has trouble giving up the reins, so when I worked for startups, I liked to stick with startups where a founder planned to stay in charge of product. Derisking a release is complicated and relies on strong communication between many departments. Scaling up to a scale stage developer requires being open to change.
The USA spends more on R+D in aggregate and more as a percentage of GDP than the European Union[1]. It is not substantially easier to get a Professorship or permanent research appointment in Europe than the USA, at least generally speaking. Without data to back it up, I don't see how this comment holds up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_...
You can still get Windows Phone-based devices?!
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00986283.2010.48...

I cant tell what the podcast is about. If its something boring as 'course material' then the outcome is predictiable, its easy to get distracted and let your mind wander if you are listening to something boring.

But if you are listening to something captivating like the serial podcast then podcast is actually superior, audible cues by the narrator add another dimension to the experience.
36.2 MB is pretty much par for the course for design showcases. This is not a news website, and not Craigslist, either.
Google has definitely jumped the shark with their political leanings. They have been sued for implementing hiring quotas and discriminating on race, sex, and age. You can read the complaint here https://www.scribd.com/embeds/372792998/content While Sergey seems to care about immigrants like himself, lgbtq, and women, he does not give a flying fuck about age discrimination, which is a legally protected class in America. Ultimately nothing lasts forever, and unfortunately there is some truth in right wing characterizations of Google. People stuck in the middle of the political spectrum, everyday non-racist people who are not part of any particular "group", have no party or supporters on either side.
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How could it blow the Julia performance out of the water? Julia is just manipulating the generated LLVM IR, and LLVM generates the .ptx. If C++ and Julia are both using LLVM for this compilation, you'll get to pretty much the same place.

And this is tuned towards package development, specifically generic package development. This is quite a hot topic in scientific computing. The challenge isn't for people who use packages, it's for people who develop packages and are looking to make them generally useful (i.e. not just single project).
I see. Could you elaborate ?
Ah yes, that is a great point. Erlang/OTP were designed to be used as actor systems, whereas the actor implementations in Scala and other JVM languages/frameworks are at least one level of abstraction above that. Definitely agreed on Erlang/OTP having a wonderful set of tools for debugging/visibility, but I still stand by my assessment that OPs problems are from over-engineering (and secondarily from the ecosystem).
For me, no, written books are better than audio books, but audio books are better when I'm in a situation where I can't be reading (commute in car, jogging, cooking, etc).

It makes sense that audiobooks have less comprehension because people tend to listen to audio books when they are engaged in other activities at the same time. With written books people are usually more focused.
I would really, really like to know what the source was, and the program (and thus installer) was.

I'd also like to see if the Web Archive has a copy of the microsoft malware webpage.

What you're saying would be 1000x as interesting/relevant/headline news if it was citable with screenshots and so forth. I do believe you, but references create lots more momentum.

If you think you might come across the info sometime in the future, posting it here or maybe reddit whenever that is would be awesome.
Sadly I dont have a phd. I guess I'll take option 1. Thanks !
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The impact of publications in technical fields is so long tailed that 1000 mediocre publications doesn't equal one single breakthrough paper (eg the AlexNet paper in deep learning). Even according to the source cited in the article (http://www.nber.org/papers/w24829) impact per paper is much lower in China.

Once China beats the US in both volume and quality, we'll know the balance of intellectual capital has really shifted.

I'm skeptical this will happen. The US has a much better culture of intellectual freedom. It's much more likely that China will surpass the US economically than intellectually. Business culture is so strong in China and probably even better than in the US already.
Hey sorry for the delay.

So I had the pleasure of watching a non-evil social engineer at work once. He thought about humans like I think about networks. He treated LinkedIn like a network map. He treated secretaries like firewalls.

He started with the coop students. He'd pretend to be from the university the coop student went to. Of course the call gets forwarded. Of course he does a full interview with the coop student and learns their tech stack. Coop student doesn't know better so questions like:

"We're trying to make sure we train our students with the technology that is actually used in the field. Are they giving you guys Macs or PCs? PCs, eh? Windows or Linux? Great. Oh, one last thing, Dell is sponsoring a new building; any chance you guys are on Dell? Oh, Lenovo; ok. No problem. Can you transfer me to your boss [the head of IT] I have some questions for him."

Bossman, who they know isn't within earshot of the coop because they asked the student if they had enough space from their boss before the interview, picks up the phone.

"Hi Mr. Bossman I'm Steve, your new Lenovo rep, calling about some great new gear we have that we think you guys might really enjoy. Studies are showing that high density pixel laptops are better for worker productivity, but before we do a full pitch to Frank [the decision maker at the company, which we learned from LinkedIn / interviewing the coop] we'd like to make sure it is what you guys in IT would really want. Can we send a couple over for free and get your comments about what you think?"

Bam. Root of the head of IT. Because you control the actual laptop you throw in a GSM card and not even network monitoring would set off alarm bells. Took one phone call that wouldn't have been possible without LinkedIn.
I’ve been tracking time for years. I estimate how long the task should take, then add time taken as I proceed. Very useful for future estimation. Definitely helps for project management and billing. I don’t recommend doing it in 5 minute steps as that gets tiresome. But 15 minute blocks seem to work out well.
To me Carbon makes sense, since it's like a 'carbon copy' of the code. Most project names are not unique words. And I for one have a hard time picking names for projects. Just curious, but what would you think would be a better name for this project?
"Just be yourself" is the best advice. Unfortunately it's like a zen koan and takes many years to understand.
Whatever captures most of your attention should be better for you in terms of comprehension and memorization. You can hardly read a book and pay attention to something else. You can walk and check your Instagram feed while listening to an audiobook.
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How does that fit in a ML training pipeline?
(this is mentioned on the page)
People over-obsess about how China is beating us in science and technology, and not enough about how China is becoming so entrepreneurial while US citizens are becoming extremely risk averse.
You might still get a letter from some law office to tell you about the violation and a hefty bill for providing this service. I suggest familiarizing yourself with the concept of "abmahnung" in Germany. Quite a racket.
The tenuous future of the company probably has something to do with it.
Accepting Chinese and other international students is for the USA's own benefit, and not some form of foreign charity. We get some of the smartest people in the world who do great work here and finance a huge chunk of operating expenses of universities through high tuition fees. Plus loads of them stay back and work for or start companies right here rather than in their home countries.
I prefer not paying for content, which includes micro-transactions. I don't think I'm alone on that sentiment. If publishers won't get enough "BAT" through micro-transactions, the content will end up behind a paywall.
But...why? I smoked a pack a day for a little more than 10 years, got an e-cigarette and haven't looked back. I don't understand why anyone would do the reverse.
I don't really remember exactly what we covered in high school. I'm not sure if we ever got into race specifically but we definitely got into genetic traits and phenotypes. We definitely went over Mendel's pea experiments and talked about human physical characteristics. I'm honestly not sure if we really got into race in a classical Victorian sense though.

I don't really like the term race anyway. It's not a proper biological classification and really shouldn't be taught in biology. We're all the same species with a good amount of genetic variation that comes from lots of things. Teaching anything about race in a science class seems unscientific to me.
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