skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WSL performance is terrible not to mention WSL 2 is still pre-release with lots of bugs and so is their updated terminal app. I don't even think WSL 2 will support Docker, and it is using a broken VM and Plan 9 to share files so you lose most of the performance benefits of Linux. It appears MS is trying to get people to try Linux on Windows and make it bad so that they get a negative first impression.
>> There are, of course, some obvious examples of fake things spreading around. But what about the less obvious examples? Where do we draw the line?

Broadcast Television dealt with this issue for decades. You can say they made mistakes, but they did a pretty good job for a long time.

Someone will say, but there is too much material on Facebook (or Youtube or etc) to exert that kind of editorial control. Fine. Only check (and take responsibility for) things you promote into my feed. If someone I know wants to send me a crazy video or message, that is free speech. If Twitter, Youtube, Facebook puts information into my feed I didn't ask for, they should take responsibility for it.
No way the paper version has enough strength (unless you let it dry thoroughly???). In the best case scenario it will break while you are trying to extract it from the roll, in the worse case ...
I would have accepted this, yeah. The difference is important because there is a relevancy calculation that determines what's on top of news.google.com at any given time and that encodes types of bias. Personally, in fact, I believe they're mostly good sorts of biases in that they wont generally show you InfoWars or something like that, for example. But we need to be honest when we talk about this stuff.
As a side note, I'm interested why Facebook doesn't have a cloud offering yet. I'd love to see more players in this space.
Yeah it also seemed like an Irish exit to me. Especially with all the scrutiny over data collection policies and other political issues happening internally.
First, the rat experiment that you want has actually been done. In rats, testosterone improves spatial reasoning. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081396/ for verification.

Secondly an inability at spatial reasoning definitely is going to make engineering courses much, much harder. So your claim that there is no effect on getting to entry level engineer is overstating your case by a lot.

That said, there is a documented difference between men and women that affects a first hire. And that difference is that the whole "fake it until you make it" attitude is more commonly found among men than women. So there is actually a significant difference between nervous women and nervous men talking to recruiters about their first job. Not sure how important it is, but it should not be discounted.

Do you have followup questions?
I wish both Larry and Sergey well in their future endeavors. It is clear that the mess that Google is in, the investigations, the internal revolts, the general slide from being "good guys" to "bad guys" weighs on those who are nominally tasked with addressing those issues.

By stepping out now they have no doubt made their lives easier but it puts Sundar in an fairly challenging place. I hope he is up for it.
These guys have all the money and power in the world, and they've used it to turn an excellent service into a sleazy ad machine. They have $50 billion each. What would it have cost them to run Google without making it trashy? Would they have even noticed if they only had $5 billion each?
Arduino, Trezor, and 3D printers (I forget the name) have all been cloned. It's a real concern for companies that are trying to fund open hardware R&D by marking up the hardware.

Currently I doubt there's enough demand for the Librem phone to justify cloning though.
You can either stay in v0.x.y, or you can just always bump the major version. Either option meets Go’s versioning requirements without requiring developers to think about “is this change backwards compatible” when they tag a new release.
> There is absolutely no sourcing for research showing women being inherently or unfixably uninterested in computer science.

Damore never made such claims. At the population level, it does indeed seem like women tend to be more interested in people-oriented subjects (nursing, pediatrics, law) and men tend to be more interested in thing-oriented subjects (engineering, compsci, surgery).

So even a discipline like medicine which has roughly gender parity, you still see segregation along gender lines, where women are overrepresented in subfields which deal directly with people (pediatrics, obgyn), and men are overrepresented in subfields which treat people as things (surgery). So a theory that delineates things vs. people has good explanatory power for explaining gender disparities [1].

Furthermore, Damore never claimed that such tendencies aren't "fixable". He claimed that the discriminatory policies currently in place are not only completely ineffective at influencing the gender numbers (and so should be ended), but that policies that take this research into account would be more effective.

> Calling that "sourcing" is essentially trying to treat Damore's fundamentally political document as an original piece of social science research.

If you're actually interested in a proper analysis Damore's claims by actual researchers in this field, I suggest reading [2].

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0018...

[2] https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-google-memo-what-does-the-r...
> Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO.

It’s hard for me to say that this is because of Sundar and not just because the whole market has grown size and google already had a massive moat to capture it. Apple, MS, Facebook, Amazon all have grown massively in the past 5 years.

However Google seems to continue to be a one trick pony - GCP lags behind the competition despite the fact that Google invented cloud computing. Even Apple is weaning off its iPhone revenue with its fast growing services division.
Once I got a link to the actual terms, I noticed this also includes violent content, which is a little surprising to me.

I try to regularly draw attention to the fact that payment processors are systemically disenfranchising people who produce adult content, and that payment platforms are implicitly cooperating and encouraging that disenfranchisement by silently going along with the processors without even speaking up or openly questioning the standards. But I'm not super-surprised when I see those bans, because pretty much every platform has them.

On the other hand, a ban on violent content is something I haven't seen a lot of, and that makes me question who this service is even designed for. Does that mean anyone producing a comic or writing a book would need to make sure it's the violence equivalent of PG or below? Why would any creative use a platform with that kind of restriction?

Again, there's no hard line describing what that means. You just have to make sure that anything you produce is relatively tame.

It's very, very weird to live in a world where culturally people almost universally celebrate the artistic value and entertainment value of shows like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, while simultaneously building platforms where that kind of content just can't exist. It's an almost absurd cultural disconnect that only seems to exist to lock any non-establishment creators out of building meaningful stories that stretch boundaries or challenge viewers.
This is probably an admission that bets outside core Google [YouTube, Maps, Photos, cloud] & Android haven't paid off. Time to run alphabet in a more disciplined, less "risky" manner? I'm expecting cuts to come in Alphabets' "bets"
Hledger 1.16
Hledger (https://hledger.org) is a Double Entry accounting tool. It uses text mode files for its journals and thus you get to really own your data and future-proof it.

Announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hledger/wiMafb11uBQ/discussion
It doesn't carry same meaning as "Don't be evil."
It'll be interesting to see how they use their preferred shares voting power (which still give them effective control of the company).
One thing I really like about Larry Page is that it's obvious he never really wanted to be a manager. He's a real nerd at heart who likes technology. But he also realized the value of what he created and acted as a good steward for 20 years. He took the reigns when he needed to, and let others take over when the time was right. He's still one of the people I look up to most.
I think you are misreading it, I am not judging Sergei and Larry negatively....

What I am saying is that their decision makes total sense, and there is no reason to chide on them on 'why they are not dealing with the employe' problems, but quitting' as the OP did.

Really, this is just a: Peace out guys, we are moving on...

And there is nothing wrong with it, as google is not really dealing with an existential threat right now....

Same as somebody quitting their job, when it is not enjoyable anymore... and they have been doing the same thing for years. Billionares are people after-all....
Political ad spend is a tiny amount of facebook's revenue

Then there's no reason not to discontinue political ads.
So how are you different to Patreon?
Attributing that growth to a single CEO is a little silly as a default.
And where did we see the objections you've posted against gendered insults against women? Citations please. Else this is a hypocritical remark, that is its own answer.
Only if it isn't true. It's still true.
Hey everyone,

I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons for several years now, and have been in search of a set of tools that work cohesively together. Nothing I found quite fit the vision I had in mind, so I decided to build a toolkit myself.

Adventurekeep is a toolkit for planning and running sessions of D&D. It allows for planning combat encounters, quickly referencing rules, wiki-style smart linking, and simple drag-and-drop page management.

I drew inspiration for the site from productivity tools like Notion, with its super-powered text editor, and took that concept to make it more tabletop gaming focused.

This is really just the beginning of my vision for Adventurekeep. I have a lot of great ideas in the works like a live player view, and robust sharing capabilities. If you're a D&D player, or have a general interest in tabletop gaming, please check it out and let me know what you think! I'd love to hear from you.
It's an easier ethos to hold when a company is small.

When a company is large, it bumps up against the problem that humanity as a whole has a difference in definitions on the subject.
How do you know everyone is on amicable terms? A press release is definitely not the place to determine the reality of the situation.
You mean they should post "an update on updates"? It seems pretty reliable, actually.
The answer isn’t no.
Ask HN: Draconian rules/policies at your current or previous company?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

In the place I work at, we start off the day with a standup meeting from members of different teams at 8:00am, which is a little bit on the earlier side of the day since many employees have 1+ hour commutes. This standup was imposed after many of the team members that participate joined the company (before that, the standard time to arrive was at 9:00am). The meeting is in-office, mandatory.

Any person that arrives even one minute late, gets 50% of their corresponding pay for that day off. Mind you, many of us work 10-12 hours a day and are expected to be available at any time of the day in case someone needs us and even during the weekends (I, for instance, have a mandatory meeting on Saturday and it is expected of me to fix anything that goes wrong with our product during the weekend). We do not get paid extra-time for any of those extra hours that we put.
An ad company has a new CEO. Why is this news?
“Pedo guy was a common insult used in South Africa when I was growing up,” Mr Musk said in a court filing as part of a failed request to have the case thrown out of court. "It is synonymous with ‘creepy old man’ and is used to insult a person’s appearance and demeanour, not accuse a person of paedophilia.”
i'm entirely open to believing that! there are a huge number of cannabidiol compounds in the plants, and teasing them apart is a very recent endeavor.

(it's also totally orthogonal to my claim.)
Copyright is no less a concrete concept, and that can have single owners, so this is already a somewhat solved problem.

Invoking rights helps nothing, ownership is already inherently about who has rights, so all you do is muddle the meaning of "own" by diluting it.
Weirdly this feels like a non-issue. Google has not felt like it has a "personality" for some time - maybe it's a function of hitting mega-corporate size, but it also feels a bit like when Microsoft (a Computer on every Desktop) essentially achieved its goal, it then spent a decade in "goalless and soulless exploitation" mode - something that one suspects is the next step for the worlds largest personality-free platform.

If the two of them leave (have fun sipping pina coladas on the beach!) I am not sure (from the outside) what difference will be made. This may sound like great corporate succession planning - but I feel without a goal there will be little to stop business plans that boil down to "squeeze every dollar from everyone everywhere"

(Was there a glimmer of light in "unbiased free information to all" - is that a mission for the new decade?)

Edit: Just to emphasise - I hope they have fun spending their billions.
Huh? Why would you expect any of that in this letter?
This paragraph seems pretty straightforward:

>Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost. While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the day-to-day management of the company for so long, we believe it’s time to assume the role of proud parents—offering advice and love, but not daily nagging!
No Google telemetry, for a start.
In most (nearly all?) circumstances, one party is not armed.
Amazon Introduces ‘Plug and Play’ AI Tools
I actually prefer the inline function here (while making the member char* private when compiling as C++), since that mostly prevents assignment to the member variable in settings where that would not be a valid operation.

With that said, I agree that the additional verbosity is a significant drawback, and I can understand going with the slightly-less-safe option for that reason alone.
That's a remarkable level of openness for Amazon. When Kinesis launched we were explicitly told we couldn't say anything publicly about the implementation (I don't know if the NDA has expired since).
From experience 100 images / min with chrome and puppeteer (you don't need Selenium) is more than doable with less than 1gb ram.
I remember how excited I was back in the old days when I could change KDE's browser Konqueror's engine from KHTML to Gecko in just a setting (or was it a tab?)
Just curious about AGPL. Do you feel that AGPL gives you a hedge against a cloud service deploying your project at scale for profit that the project would otherwise miss out on?

I ask this as someone who has been sitting on some code for 10 years for precisely this reason!
noted, thank you!
> And while it is becoming increasingly unfashionable to say so; there is such a thing as truth, it is knowable and, there are conscientious people who follow facts wherever they lead and report them.

And most of mainstream journalism (as well as many alternative outlets) still strives to do this. Yes, they make mistakes and have their own biases (they are human, after all), and they often have conflicting incentives (they'd like to feed their families) but they really are trying to find the truth.

I recently got into in argument with my conservative Christian in-laws about this. It was surreal for me to need to be arguing the position that there is absolute truth out there—even if we can never know for sure in this lifetime. As a progressive millenial, I thought the postmodern post-truth perspective was supposed to be mine!
What is labor discrimination?
But hadn't it grown more in the preceding 5 years than in the 4 years headed by Sundar. Looking at the share price, it seems it has roughly doubled every 5 years since 2005.
Would an SSD even function after 1000 years? Unless sealed, I imagine ambient moisture would do a number inside the drive. The same is true for books of course, but we still have 1000 year old books that have lasted by sitting on a shelf in churches and temples, etc., without any specific care until recent history.

The nice part of a book in an apocalyptic scenario is that you can copy it even if you don't know the language. You don't need a special tool for this, only one capable of marking a surface. It wouldn't be fun or fast, but it's possible and it's what monks did for centuries. Would archeologists 1000 years from now be lucky enough to find a SATA cable too?
That’s very optimistic! In my experience, software doesn’t actually get less buggy with time, just differently-buggy, and sometimes even more buggy (which makes sense, if bugs go like complexity, and software gains complexity with time).
What are those "hobbies" you talk about?
Thank God. This was the worst thing ever.
The Onion article was based on two actual press images whose captions made exactly that distinction: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hurricane-katrina-looters/
Ask HN: I'm wondering why HN's cookie's look like this
Does anyone know why HN's user cookie looks like value&XXXXXXXXXXXX?
I'd be 100% fine with drafts if it cloned the channel listing instead of moving it.
Isn't there a podcast series by Wondery about this? I think it's called Bad Batch, regarding the non-scientifically backed woo that is stem cell treatments?
Find a new job immediately.
It is clear that Sergey and Larry (and Eric) have been asleep at the switch in shaping Google's culture, which now looks like the campus of Evergreen State College. Both he and Sergey have seemed checked out for years. Being the CEO of this company, especially given everything they've accomplished, doesn't seem very fun. I couldn't tell you what Sergey's been doing there or if he even works at all. This company's culture is trending towards being toxic but that they invented the world's greatest money-making machine has been able to paper over a lot of the rot.
I’ve got a bunch of hobbies and none of them are even close to gender parity. Go check out poker rooms in Vegas and find me a single table where the players are 50-50 men-women. Visit flying clubs, carpentry groups, engine mechanics shops, you won’t find gender parity in any of these. And nobody is really tackling any of these as some urgent problem to solve. Why do professions need to aim for 50-50 but not non-professional hobbies?

EDIT: Also, why do we think it can be fixed? Can the gender balances in hobbies be fixed? Is the lack of female metalworker hobbyists or male quilters attributable to a “pipeline problem”?
Timeline and Review of OpenAI’s Robotic Hand Project
Google Founders Step Aside
I think craft beer has an inferiority complex compared to wine, and the diversity in hops are another attempt at a beer equivalent to terroir (where wine takes on different characteristics based on climate, soil, and other factors). The rise of sours and wild yeast strains are being marketed similarly, as are limited-run stouts that should be aged by the buyers. All of this on a beverage whose legacy has been the quest for consistency.

It's a strange side effect of craft beer's "elevated" status. Multiple breweries in the same town need to differentiate themselves as if they are farms growing the same product acres apart. The more I think about the bizarre trends in the industry, the more I appreciate beer history.
I get the sentiment, but reread your first sentence. "Women are too ___ to become ___." Doesn't that read as super condescending and prescriptive? I understand it's coming from ostensibly a good place, but it's the same thing as saying "all Asians are smart and good at math." It doesn't matter if the stereotype/prejudice/whatever you call it is "positive", it's still generalization, speaking for a group instead of letting them speak for themselves, and it's the wrong way to approach these things.

You're making assumptions about what "women" are good at or what "women" want or what "they" should do, when the fact is there is no such homogeneous category for you to speak about. Sure, some women are better at/enjoy more face-to-face type work. Some women are better at/enjoy programming/heads-down type work. A comic book artist probably spends as much time doing heads-down work as a programmer, but would you say female comic book artists should try doing some other career instead?
Sundar Pichai is the Steve Ballmer of Google. Google has lost a lot of street cred under him, and it seems they are happy with long may it continue.
Honestly, part of Google's approach is to kill products. They're a company with a startup-incubation-emulator running inside them. Things that seem worthwhile get resources, but if a product can't make its way to profitability in some amount of time, it dies.

They should probably be more up-front about the messaging around this, but if you step back and look at their practice, that's how it appears to work. User numbers don't matter; profitability matters. Not unlike startups in the long-run.
Replacing Unicode characters with SVG representations would be terrible for accessibility.
Don't blame them, blame corporate capitalism. This is where all publicly traded american businesses end up.
i think we agree. the city does not make any sense for self driving cars right now. But they will inevitably interact well before full integration due to popularity increasing outside of the cities. status quo will adapt a bit im sure, but throughput will probably be artificially lowered by pedestrian abuse until people start getting tickets.. which will probably happen
Huh interesting. Have you got any details? Names of the project? There are probably institutions willing to host that content.
In the US, they correct themselves in small letters at the end without changing the text

There is no such thing as "In the US..." as if there is an established standard, or a requirement that you describe. It sounds like you're just gushing hyperbole.

For example, in print, the New York Times publishes its corrections on page two in the same type as the regular stories.

Online, it changes the actual text of the story and then explains at the end what was changed and why. There is no difference in font size.
Nope, way too far to the east for what I want.
Thanks for the link. Great analysis of a real sliding-doors moment.
Does a CEO of a 100,000 employee company ever have this kind of low level management?

Larry and Sergey have been obviously taking on less of a role since Sundar took over as CEO of Google. They've been at Google for more than two decades and are mega billionaires. Do people really think that this has anything to do with agitation among employees?
It's pretty incredible to think that for all the billions of dollars around Slack it's still fundamentally the same product with the same value add that it was when it first launched.

Sure, maybe it's faster or more efficient or whatever now, but what it is at heart is the _exact_ same thing it was on Day 1.
TIL that is a valid url: http://google/
HN is not the right place to ask beginner coding questions. There are other forums for that (reddit, stackoverflow...). Here they want stuff that sparks "intellectual curiosity", which usually doesn't apply to beginner coding questions.

Also calling men assholes, that is, being sexist, is unlikely to lead to favorable responses.
He's Ballmer-ing steadily forward, that's all that is really needed at this point.
I struggle to think of any similarities, actually. I think DynamoDB's design makes it clear that the era of decentralized architecture/eventual consistency at Amazon has come and gone. DHTs just don't make sense in the data center.