skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He used We because his paper is open for PR and he was hoping to get contributions. He offered to change it and even put a disclaimer at the top.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025809

If you'd like to submit a PR to the original paper you can totally do that and it'll be open for everyone to see. I may not agree with the author but I don't think attacking him is fair (on these points). Based on reading his comments he seems open to discourse and suggestions on his paper.
AI and the Far Right: A History We Can’t Ignore Institute – Medium
It's completely clear. You can read the RAM and CPU specs right there on the website. Hardly anyone cares how many fans their laptop has.
20 years ago they could have beat Qualcomm who was still just doing phone backends. They could have bought them too. Maximizing profit on all the things can leave exposed when you ignore emerging markets you could have been the dominant player on.
There's no doubt that the on campus experience is valuable. "all the benefits" was a bad choice of words. Maybe a better way to say it is that they want to choose which parts they get to pay for (the credits, the material, online interaction with the instructor, grading, homework, exams) but then be refunded for other parts related to the on campus experience. I'd say that's reasonable if and only if the university saved money as a result. Not only did they not save money, it cost them more money to shift formats. I want to reiterate that I'm not opposed to a refund, but I do oppose the refund they're asking for.
Deserted Island DevOps 2020
Yes, but he's Tim Bray and has an amazing track record behind him, I'm sure he'll have people beating down his door to make offers to come onboard.

He's also 64, not far from retirement age, he may not want to work again and instead devote himself to passion projects and being with friends and family, and who could blame him?
This is not an implementation cost issue.

It was just super hard to make the code perform well. Like you have to manage client sessions on your side and chose optimizations on your side. Like you have to spread things manually. Which is hard to do. Whereas S3 is maximising your bandwidth with no custom code required. It's not really S3 compatibility that was needed but B2 API wasn't good.
Doesn't the 16" Pro have the new keyboard? Or are there multiple new keyboards around?
> On the other hand, your experience working on private projects might be a bit more relevant.

I think this is a bit closer to OP (although I strongly agree with your first sentence in general), because they are clearly putting in a good deal of work themselves.

> open source

Couldn't agree more. The best thing to do right now would be to outright abandon those personal projects and start contributing. OSS is not only a portfolio of your personal skills, but also your interpersonal skills. Personal projects are only the former. (Maintainers are also typically great mentors)

Edit: this is a great place to get started: https://up-for-grabs.net/
In general this is done out of an appreciation that no work exists in a vacuum. "We", takes away from the individual and attributes the work to a group of people, even if they are not coauthors. I actually think this is one of the better conventions in academia.
The fact they attended the meeting already shows they are interested. What maintained that interest to the end is as you say a many forked answer and what they tell you and what they are actually thinking will be different.

They may have your company in mind to work with another company they know/own down the line, or the other way around and with that, see which one works well and breakup the other. That they won't outline at the start and yet would be a reason of interest in buying.
You're a hero.
Blog posts about unions won't stop them, but actual unionization will.
I'm a refugee from the Great Google Tasks switch to a tiny UX and switching off their Canvas (full screen) mode. Had to migrate thousands of tasks. I used https://tasks-backup.appspot.com/ but that has shut down. Don't know of an easy alternative.

I now use a combination of Orgzly, Dropbox, Tasker and Emacs to keep my desktop and mobile notes in sync and it works great.

The benefits are: plaintext/markdown (org-mode), automatic backup with restore (dropbox), open source or free apart from I think a couple of pounds for Tasker and of course whatever you are paying for dropbox. Plus, unlike Syncthing, only 1 version of a to-do list file at any one time, so less conflicts. Wider benefit of to-do list customisation limited only by your imagination and patience, via emacs lisp.

My various To-do lists (split according to the Eisenhower Matrix) are saved in a dropbox folder.

My Orgzly app is set to read from that dropbox folder: Settings > Sync > Repositories > Connect to dropbox

My Tasker is set up as Tasker > Tasks > New '+' > Enter Name > New '+' > Code > Run Shell

Copy and paste into Command field:

am start-foreground-service --user 0 -a

com.orgzly.intent.action.SYNC_START

com.orgzly/com.orgzly.android.sync.SyncService

You can also set a helpful notification via Alert > Notify > Title

Then in Profiles I set the task to run

- Every hour

- Whenever Orgzly is opened or closed

- Whenever the phone display is switched on or off

Takes about 2 seconds to sync, whenever triggered.

One problem with my device (Huawei) is the very aggressive battery optimisation which simply can't be turned off via their settings. You can fix this by going in via ADB as follows:

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.huawei.powergenie (thanks to https://dontkillmyapp.com/huawei)

You may need to use ./adb (thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7609270/not-able-to-acce...)

and Settings > System > Dev options > dev options switch on (thanks https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-lin...
)

... It's crazy that in 2020 I have to set all this up for a smooth experience. What I really, really want is an org-mode compatible (I'd live with regular markdown) web app with offline access and auto-sync, accessible from my mobile device and desktop browser and customisable or just any sane keyboard shortcuts. If free or open-source in Vue.js or React + Firebase even better.
Well as a counterpoint, I'm personally now thoroughly bored of the left's ongoing campaign of 'weaponising the NHS', to quote former Labour leader Ed Miliband. The left would rather see patients suffer in a vast, unmanageable, outdated institution than contemplate the horror of a successfully reformed NHS incorporating a significant private component.
That site needs the base font to be bumped up by 400% or more.
That's an interesting take on it

Still, I wouldn't want to discharge the battery if it's not needed as to save the cycles.
Making real objects would be super cool but I was originally thinking just automatically grabbing stuff off of images and putting them in ar which I imagine is much easier
I'm not that idealistic and I still found my time at Amazon overwhelmingly distasteful. The amount of shielding / work to just appear productive / effective at multiple levels of both tech and management was moronic.

I'd work for a big tech company again but wow was my time at amazon something I regret spending waking hours doing.
I've been at 3 separate companies where each respective CIO had "get rid of Oracle" as a strategic initiative.
Sure, the open-plan ones of today are amenable to a low degree of wiring. The types of employees made to sit in those offices are amenable to a low degree of wiring.

The average office that has cubicles, though, is also one that’s wired for per-employee power delivery.

Or, I could say it as the reverse: if you know you’re setting up an office to have fixed workstations (e.g. a CG art department in a video game studio; or any department in a company with a pipeline whose main software is a hog, like desktop publishing), then you’ll likely set up with cubicles rather than open-plan, because a workstation kind of implies gradual personalization with bunch of surrounding cruft that needs floors and walls and shelving.

(I have a feeling that even in FAANG, the people who use workstations aren’t sitting in open-plan areas. Anyone care to speak to that?)

And, because of this, the “standard” kind of cubicle partitions are expensive, because they’re also expected to work to handle part of the wiring requirements for power delivery. If they were just plyboard, they’d be cheap; but they’re not just plyboard.
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The NHS needs funding, not our "thanks".

I didn't realise it was either/or.
It’s Time to Legalize Building
Exactly, and the high paid thieves are those who can wreck the lives of millions vs the low paid thieves take an infinitesimal bit away from the bottom line of a multi billion dollar company.
I think Tiananmen-like would mean it was based on human rights concerns - this would be Tiananmen-level.
Yev here -> saw my Yev-signal. That's right, Gleb actually answered that question on our blog (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-b2-s3-compatible-ap...) but we're eating the cost. Om nom nom.
He's convinced himself that a contentious (re: Clarence Thomas and crew) legal precedent is actually a moral, philosophical, or logical position to hold.

Disparate impact is a matter of practicality. It isn't how a person should base their life or interactions with other human beings.
My mortgage company did an employment check with my employer, so they knew I was buying a house without me telling.

My employer and co-workers also all see me driving to/from work everyday, so they know when I get a new car.
> Also, using "we" is standard scientific practice, not some bluff.

No. The standard practice is to use passive forms.

EDIT: I've been informed by the people responding that passive form is now considered archaic, so apparently using first pronouns is now acceptable. This must've changed since I did my research.
I’m disagreeing with the implication of your statement that it’s _less_ significant because it’s a treatment for mosquitos.

If that implication was not intended, then I have no idea what you were attempting to infer.
Using TensorFlow 2 and Keras to Predict If a Paper Will Make It into Top Journal
What would you like to see for image support?
> It also potentially damages Tim's ability to get hired in the future, as some other large organization might not like his behavior with Amazon and be reluctant to bring him on board

For what it's worth, I'm sure he would consider this a feature. Given his already stated beliefs, I'm sure he wouldn't want to work at a company that would be turned off by this. (just to be clear, I don't actually know Tim. I've never heard of him before this).
Yes, "potential person years" or a similar phrasing would have been clearer.

>(Grim discussion, I guess, but I'm just not certain I agree with the unspoken assumption that seems to be in that statement, that the younger the death, the more tragic/more effect on society.)

It is a matter of morality and personal ethics. I chose to mention it only because the discrepancy in this case is so large, and it felt almost misleading to not relate the information. That said, I regret framing it in such a coldly utilitarian way.
>> Oracle evangelists

> There is such a thing?

Tech evangelist is a common job title.
What resources did you find helpful for learning about teaching online?
Sorry, your experience-based comment from the actual real world of running a business runs counter to the dominant Marxist post-modernist ideology here. Next time perhaps sprinkle in some barbs about class struggle or CEO compensation.
> Blind seems to fit the bill

Blind is based in South Korea. (Disclosure: one of my parents is ethnically South Korean, and I have very high regard for South Korea and its citizens.)

Given the stakes involved with workplace organizing and the opacity (from a legal perspective) of a South Korea-based business, Blind may not be the right platform.

At the very least, some US workers may be reluctant to open up on a platform not subject to US labor law.
Lessons Learned Improving RPKI
This screed is disappointing to me. We tell people to go out and do their own research. We tell people to avoid just buying into group think. We want people to be informed citizens who do research, share their research with others, and are open to revealed facts vs just buying into the most appealing emotion-laden rhetoric.

Some dude does a bunch of research, reasons as carefully as he can about the subject, and openly provides his research and reasoning to others. The very first note in his research is a disclaimer to say that he's a layperson with no medical or scientific credentials. It doesn't appear that he's trying to deceive anyone.

Why the piling on? Why the expenditure of so much effort to silence his intellectual inquiry?
It's kinda risky in my opinion. I just checked a few of the addresses (mostly the one's without any numbers at the end), some of them do actually belong to real people.
Closed timelike curves (i.e. causal loops) are exotic but not altogether outside of mainstream physics. The basic fact of continuity that's inherent in QM means that no logical paradox arises; consistency is always possible. FTL is more problematic for other, less directly-related reasons.
Note that he added the disclaimer later, after being called out [1] for making the specious argument that adding a disclaimer would be "too verbose".

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030215
By problem, you mean a requirement for proper form in an academic or professional paper. This was drilled into me time and time again in college, you 'have' to write in such a manner.
One of the most competent contract lawyers I've ever had the pleasure of working with came to every meeting we had in jeans and seasonally-appropriate "outdoors" shoes, coats, etc.

He charged a healthy but not exorbitant amount for his legal services, and made no secret of the fact that he liked to go for a hike during his lunch hour and return to his exurban house on a few acres to do a bit of gardening and animal care after work each day.

Dude was calm, professional, and utterly ruthless about protecting our business interests while not putting on any pretense of being a slick trial lawyer.

Law is not inherently a "flash" field any more than sales is, unless you actually spend all day every day in a courtroom before a judge.
Image Capture, included with OSX.
> so we agree about single-return-pop – it just wouldn't be very useful. what i tried to say is that it's a bit of a strawman – single-return-pop is pretty obviously useless, so no one would design a pure API like that. so there's no point arguing against it :)

Remember where the conversation started :) It's not a strawman because it's what confused macintux in the first place!

I was saying that the thing they expected would be a problem, and we're just discussing how to replace it, not disagreeing with that original idea.
> interested, non-credentialed amateurs don't get to have (public) opinions, no matter how well-reasoned

I don't think that's his intended meaning: "There isn’t enough time to evaluate everything on the merits" from the article.
What's needed isn't an anonymous app. Organizing your workplace involves risk, there's no way around that.
The approach I've seen controversial creators I respect take is to make it difficult to doxx them. So full pseudonym and deniable email address, when showing it to people you know personally, tell them you'd prefer it not get linked to you. Most do become known by their real names eventually, but by then the brand has enough fans that it's not a bad thing.
> there may be any number of factors that were not directly discussed as reasons to fire someone, but still impacted the firing decision. People may be unconsciously biased...

Sure. However this contradicts what you wrote earlier:

>> If the firings disproportionately or systemically impact races or genders, the firings can be racist/sexist -- even if race or gender is not involved in the firing decision.

(italics mine)

If race or gender is not involved in the firing decision, consciously or unconsciously, why would it be racist or sexist? The fact it disproportionally involve a group however identified (say, all vegans declare an illegal strike for veganism, and they're fired because of this) cannot be construed as a form of discrimination towards that group.
He's said a lot of bullshit in a lot of different venues. I did a quick search and found a long, rambling article [1] on his website about how coronavirus and 5G are linked. He sums his position up at the end with

> The evidence that COVID-19 is a bioweapon is overwhelming – and so is the evidence that 5G is involved to either cause the flu-like symptoms/pneumonia people have been experiencing, and/or to exacerbate the virulity of the virus by weakening people’s immune systems and subjecting them to pulsed waves of EMF to open up their skin to foreign DNA fragments (including viruses).

So he's been saying both that 5G causes an illness that is mistaken for COVID-19 and that 5G spreads coronavirus.

[1] https://www.davidicke.com/article/564306/coronavirus-5g-conn...
Will Jeff Barr do the right thing too?
I agree.. it's the message that there is another 'point of failure' that no one has paid much attention to.

If you want Amazon/AWS to change it's ways, then you need to get the attention of CIO's.

And I think regular walkouts of 100 engineers who monitor the network is going to do a better job of getting it than a single architect leaving, no matter how much of a star he was.
Rather than accessing the shared data directly, you send a message to the actor that owns that piece of shared data, that message could be a request for some data, or a request to modify it in some way.

The actor that owns the data reads its mailbox of requests and processes them without worrying about locks and things, because it has exclusive access.

The actor that needs to access the data doesn't worry about locks and things because it's not directly accessing it, it's just sending a message.

The system worries about locks and things, because the message mailboxes are shared state to some extent. If you can cleanly separate ownership of different pieces of data into different actors, you get parallelism. If there's too much dependency between the pieces of data, so that separating ownership makes things more complex, maybe that becomes more visible.
|"May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after FIVE years and five months of rewarding fun"

5.5 years means more than fully vested and probably time for a change anyway...
Shared root on an unimportant system with disposable creds is different on shared root on a system that uses (reusable) org-wide creds.
Yep. I routinely work 2-3 days from home every week. Full time WFH sucks. There are times when I just need to be at the office. There are times when the distractions at home are too much.

Now I've had jobs where 100% WFH was fine, but that's when I was in a real home with a real office, not my tiny SiValley apartment.
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Let's not forget to link the FACE of Amazon
https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but my impression was that the device drivers don't have a choice if they're running in a VM. The hypervisor sets it up so that all memory access was forced through the IOMMU.
Colleges who charge $60k a year tend to advertise the student experience and everything that's not "just business" quite a lot to prospective applicants.
Yeah - I've a MPB 15" 2017 and it is also the worst laptop I've ever owned. And it was to replace the MBP that was recalled (long after Apple had denied to me there was any problem and I'd sold it for parts on eBay). Nothing works on this machine! Bits literally fall off! I've got Applecare so the (horrible) keyboard has been replaced, the motherboard, the screen - on and on and on. Laptop of Theseus. I think it's compounded by how it's a MAJOR hassle to get things fixed. They can't even tell you how long it will take (except that it's weeks and there's no courtesy machine, pick up, or indeed anything remotely resembling customer service). I had to make four cross-county train trips to get it fixed last time. You basically have to buy 2 laptops and switch them out.

I've put off buying a new MBP because I just cannot face putting down three grand for something that probably will be even worse than this piece of junk.

I've had an Apple computer since I was 8 years old. I thought I was pretty much in for life but as soon as I can jump ship, I will. :(
STOP trying to find ways to make money from other's open source work. They did all the hard work and you simply put it behind a paywall.
yeah- something akin to the casimir effect?
Reminded me of this "paper" https://ronbarak.tumblr.com/post/32266845480/how-to-write-a-...
They have. It's called "peer review". It is just that peer review is a slow process, so it doesn't really work in a fast-moving crisis environment.

Part of peer review being a slow process may be fixable (although it is difficult to compel unpaid, volunteering reviewers to adhere to strict deadlines), but part of peer review being a slow process is specifically that if you do not want to rely on heuristics such as author credentials you need to take the time to really analyze a paper to avoid falling into the traps mentioned in the original article (confirmation bias, being misled by an authoritative tone etc.). And HN/Reddit votes IMHO are definitely not a good example of avoiding any of these.
Let's hope it doesn't come to it though. There's a reason I have a lot of dried beans and rice stored away... :-)
Yev here -> thanks! We're constantly working on making the platform better, and copy-file was definitely a widely requested feature! That plus S3 Compatibility, for folks who wanted to integrated with B2 Cloud Storage but didn't have the resources to write code to our B2 Native API.
It hasn't already been done, no. The Emacs variants you mentioned (that IMV should not be referred to as "Emacs") are from-scratch new implementations of just the concept behind Emacs, but not GNU Emacs itself. They are not compatible with GNU Emacs, they don't even support a small fraction of GNU Emacs features, and are thus doomed to obsolescence / non-existent market share.

So far, nobody -that I know of- has tried to move GNU Emacs to Common Lisp. GNU Emacs is a well-known, well-used platform and moving to Common Lisp could very well be worth the upfront costs.

Wishful thinking aside, the GNU Emacs development community has hunkered down behind Emacs Lisp, so improving it will bring immediate and tangible benefits to every GNU Emacs user. I love Common Lisp and do use SBCL for a lot of personal projects, but I also love GNU Emacs and I will take any improvements there that I can get. Watching Emacs Lisp become a more viable general purpose language (improved performance means an expanded set of problems that it can now address) is a great development. Stefan Monnier on emacs-devel:

The main benefit of such a compiler is not to run existing Elisp
code faster (99% of existing Elisp code runs fast enough that the
user won't notice if it runs faster) but to make it practical to
write other Elisp code which would otherwise be too slow. But for
that to work well, you want the new compiler to be
available "everywhere", rather than just on some platforms. So it
will only start being useful when it works on GNU/Linux, macOS,
Windows, ARM, RISC-V, x86, amd64, MIPS, younameit (AFAIK
lbgccjit's CPU coverage is already good enough for that, so the
main barrier here is the OS support), and when it's not just an
option at compile-time but when it's included in all builds.
yes, that's the whole point about privilege.
Implying that the system has been smashed.

Trump said he'd smash the system, and I'll admit I thought he would. That was one monumental lie.