skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point was reciting the (true!) 'biased datasets create biased models' argument at best avoids, and at worst actively undermines those bigger questions.

Someone in another thread on this had IMO a great comment[1] summarizing the sentiment:

> If you are going to say "Well, garbage-in, garbage-out!", why do you keep putting the racist garbage in?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286446
Can anyone elaborate what “search” means in this context? It seems they are trying to determine the most probable Nash equilibrium but not sure what this mean when applied to RL.
It's also present in auto complete
This isn't in any way a criticism, but I found it really amusing that your post contained almost exactly the error you were describing ("hat") before correction.
Apple propaganda and not worth your time reading.

We got an M1 on pre-order and so far it seems pretty half baked. Some apps work reliably, others outright don't. I'd wait another year at least for the kinks to be worked out.

Some notable apps that either dont work or break on use:

Anything from Adobe, Google sync, MS Office.
True - that's even more requests per second than search is!
there is little hardware assist though: TSO can be enabled and disabled and thus simplifying x86 instruction translation by implementing the x86 memory model in hardware and thus avoiding unnecessary memory barriers
Google News to start offering access to paywalled content
> Tax will not make it go away, only make it more expensive to people on a budget

This is a matter of the size of the tax. If a Snickers bar was slapped with a $30 plastic tax, you can be sure Snickers would not come wrapped in plastic tomorrow.
I was under the impression that they didn’t have access to any APIs but that they simply took your credentials and scraped the bank webpage.
While there hasn't been enough evidence to fully condemn either side, I disagree that this is just poor communication.

Unless Google deliberately changed the enforcement of the policy just to mess with her, she should have known the policy. It doesn't seem to be a complicated process, and 2 weeks is a reasonably short time to wait.

On the other side, Google has been in this game long enough, that they must know a paper can be updated in this case. So there wouldn't be a misunderstanding there, either.

What exactly happened is unclear so far. But I doubt it will come down to just a series of misunderstanding.

On a side note, I suspect that working research for a company with a conflicting interest in the same area is generally a bad idea. At some point, the dilemma of either leaving or stopping caring about it would present itself.
You can use Google Adwords and do a search on the keywords for your product and see the keyword volume and avg bid price. That will tell you roughly there is someone searching for what you are selling.
Everything old is new again.

Have a customer with a 25 y/o Oracle PL/SQL system that basically operates their business and they can barely iterate on it. Every year a new consultancy comes in with their flavour of microservices and tries to subsume some functionality and they choke on the monolith to end all monoliths.
My previous employer did this, but it was fraught with problems.

It can be done properly, but you need your entire development team to have a good understanding of declarative programming, and you need to have as much business logic embedded in the stored procedures as possible.

Instead, we had developers who continued to think imperatively. Whenever they were implementing a new feature, they would write several small stored procedures to obtain data, and then process it iteratively inside the application server.

The ensuing result was that there was far too much chatter between the application server and the database server than was actually necessary; loading a new web page in the application would take seconds with one single concurrent user, and this was a product that was supposed to scale to tens of thousands of concurrent users!
It's raided network-attached block storage. We'll update the blog post to make that clear.
Lovely, fitting watch for (crypto) nerd :)
Censorship is a double edged sword that way. Over the last few years, many acclaimed journalists have been censored for not falling in line with the woke agenda. Threatening livelihoods is the prime tool of extortion by cancel culturists. (on either side)

To some extent, you have to realize that one day you will fall on the wrong side on the fence and you'll be the victim of your own creation.
DOJ alleges Facebook hired foreign workers over U.S. citizens
If the 13" Macbook Pro is not for Professional work, then I guess that makes sense.
They implement APIs ahead of other vendors because someone has to do it first and try out an implementation, most standards start out as experimental implementations. But when other major browsers reject it as a standard, the API is usually deprecated.

I'm sure there exist instances of vendors not waiting for agreement, those are rare exceptions because it essentially breaks the standard. Web fragmentation was a big problem for a long time and the major browsers have largely willingly agreed to avoid that. Apple's participation is de facto mandatory, they control a major browser and other major browser vendors won't ship something that Apple has openly declared they will never support.
Planning to watch it as soon as I finish the book.
I'm always hearing tales of how insane Google's social justice warrior culture has become ... but I'm always hearing these stories from White, Asian, or Indian males. I wonder how bad it actually is in reality.

The picture insiders paint is that of organizations infested with technically mediocre people who form cliques that provide air cover for each others mediocrity ... with sex and race providing a disincentive for management to take action.

I wonder how accurate that is ... one explanation for the stories could just be that a lot of disgruntled males are unhappy with competition.

On the other hand, if it was true and I was a high performance underrepresented minority, there's no way I'd go to Google. Wouldn't people just assume I'm there because of quota filling, instead of my actual performance?
Saudi fund raises ownership stake in ACWA Power to 50%
Check messagebird. They are very expensive compared to twilio but they claim that they offer real numbers.
Not just Mexico. It’s largely the same across most of Asia, most of south and central America, parts of eastern Europe, and bigger cities in Africa. The whole prescription-only thing (or at least enforcement of it) is largely a Europe / US / Canada / Australia / NZ thing.
I’ve read the papers. The ones where she is a (1,2,3)ary author are all glorified rants - well worded, but offering no actionable feedback or new methods.
Link to patio11’s comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25291822
Has to be trained by a licensed service animal program and fit under the seat.
I mean, I'm not sure this is the place to get into detailed schema discussions, but I think I wouldn't use a row_id here at all, certainly, there's no need for this to be unique across all of the rows, you could make a unique constraint on user_id, time, row_id and then provide all 3 of them for the deletes, if the only reason is for the deletes, then that should be fine. If there are other reasons, then you probably have a different unique constraint that has some real world meaning (and that likely involves time).
They're already outsourcing the jobs to other countries because of cost regardless of talent level.

If the US did away with the H1B visa entirely, companies here would hire people they would have previously overlooked and train them to be as competent as what they would have hired abroad.
> The engines being too low will kill everyone on the plane should the special control mechanism not exist.

It makes the control curve slightly different, don't be so dramatic.

> If a control mechanism can easily be fixed... What was the exact fix? Literally tell me.

I'm not psychic, I can't tell you how they fixed it, but you can find a ton of people talking about how redundant sensors would have avoided the same issue. You could also have it be much more obvious when it's adjusting trim, because if the pilots were aware of what was happening they wouldn't have crashed either.

from your other comment> Saying the control mechanism crashed the plane and just fixing that is like saying you didn't put enough duct tape over the real problem.

Tape, and the equivalent of tape, is a valid solution to many problems if you have an expert analyze it.
A while ago, I was considering building a text editor that ran SQL for a very specific purpose at work. I mused about adding a syntax checker/suggested. I wonder if the above approach might be a better approach to a look up table.
Urban vehicle of the moment: An e-cargo bike
Really? Because all I hear on my local rock station is Nickelback.
Considering she says she made a list of issues she'd like fixed and that she'd discuss it when she came back from PTO without ever mentioning resignation and that was answered with a "we accept your resignation" passed on to her reports, I believe she has legal representation.

The financial implications of her resigning vs her being fired are probably significant.

In Google's place I'd probably negotiate an agreement with a non-disparagement clause. She'd be compensated and everyone would save face.

And we'd never be discussing this. She could take other research roles and advance the state of AI in peace.
Try Nickelback! Shudder
Thanks! Makes sense; best of luck with your future projects!
I think the most mind-blowing aspect about it is that (PinSketch) sketches are identical in size to the bandwidth that would be required to just send the difference if you did know it ahead of time.

Perhaps this intuition helps: imagine we have sets of positive numbers, and we know that the difference is at most 1 element. So there is one element that you have but I don't, or the other way around.
In this case there is a very easy solution: just send the sum of all your elements. If it's larger than the sum of the receiver's element, the (absolute value of the) difference is exactly the element that one party has and the other doesn't.

In a way, PinSketch is generalizing this "send sum of your elements" in such a way that it works for more than one difference.
It's a terrible date for someone you've just met. Though it's fantastic if you're already past the interviewing each other phase. It's a short shared experience that requires zero effort. The act of just sitting next to someone for that long can be very intimate.

Also, and I can't stress this enough, you learn if they're capable of sitting quietly for 2 hours. Some people just can't do it, and I've learned that it is a big red flag.
Light-based quantum computer Jiuzhang achieves quantum supremacy
I don't think it was awful. It's not failure to 64bit transition but they simultaneously force drivers to be signed.
Consider that the most often typo I make is "ture" for "true", and "flase" for "false", I'd say this isn't going to catch some common mistakes.
Well, the F-35 is actually a useful instrument which maintains US hegemony. A better comparison would be the movie Cats, which had a budget of 95 million, and serves no purpose to society.
Yes it should if the networks he builds have an actual impact on real people because of their social/systemic/institutional status. If he doesn't want to do it, he shouldn't be working on networks that have this kind of impact.

What if you're a nuclear engineer that just wanna make the hot bit go hotter, and don't want to care about the nasty habit that radiation has of killing people?
And he seemed to be gunning for one with North Korea there for a while.
How was she marginalized? Marginalized means keeping someone in a powerless or unimportant position in society, which she was not as she had one of the most important roles in AI and was a manager.
Winston Churchill on land value taxation (1909)
HN is not a job board, please see the FAQ sections about this.
I think the logic is that the paper would need to be retracted, rectified, and then resubmitted. Since the submission deadline was already passed, resubmission would be impossible.
Online WebCam Eye-Tracking API
I find this one fascinating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ECPsHpI_Q

Jon Gomm's pedal board - set up for his acoustic guitar which has 3 different pickups all sending seperate signals to his pedal board, and with different eq and effects applied to each pickup.

(And to see an amazing performance of that in use, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCcZIARw9k )
I think she deserves the minimum amount of credibility that you would assign to any Stanford Phd coming out of Fei Fei Li's lab.

You have to complete all the requirements and TA grad classes after all.
Learn By Example: Understanding the ampersand in Elixir (capture operator)
Another great example of this is Key Word In Context [1], which is described in this paper [2] as being possible to implement in a week or two.

My professor (Josh Bloch, in his API design class at CMU) showed us this paper, then showed us his quick implementation using standard Java APIs in less time than the rest of the lecture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Word_in_Context

[2] https://prl.ccs.neu.edu/img/p-tr-1971.pdf
We're staying away from stored procs as far as possible. For us the main driver is that it would make it harder to run older versions of our program alongside newer versions.

We rely on this to be able to bring updates quickly to our customers when their needs change.

We also found the tooling lacking for our database server.

On the other hand, we don't use ORMs, instead mostly relying on handwritten select queries, with "dumb" insert/updates being handled by library and others by hand. So we normally don't pull more data over the wire than we need.

Then again, I guess we're a bit old fashioned.
"This is a strawman that shows you’re an ideologue rather than someone discussing in good faith... I said nothing about open borders. I’m puzzled why the Justice Dept doesn’t want someone like me applying for the residence"

You didn't narrow your argument to net contributors or rich people.

You're perfectly happy with construction workers being turned away, just not rich people.

That's fair. Then we can skip the "I'm a net contributor" argument and jump to "I'm a large net contributor".

So we are very foolish for not having open borders for at least rich people?

Let's say everyone who makes over $200k in the US is permitted to live here. Does that negatively effect the market conditions for anyone in the country?

Then the argument becomes so what if it does negatively effect some people. What right do they have to live here simply by virtue of being born here or immigrating earlier? We're all just humans, it's stolen land, etc.
> A security deposit is a legal term treated differently than rent, and can become a subjective thing that can be litigated. It's much more secure to simply demand it as rent.

Oh, I realize why landlords prefer it. I just don't think it holds up under scrutiny. If you're my tenant and I charge you $100/month for dog rent on your new puppy, who causes $0 damage and lives for 14 years, I've extracted $16,800 from you, $0 of which will go toward rehabbing the apartment of dog damages when you leave.
ProtonMail is great - the company also seem like they’re trustworthy and worth supporting. I was particularly impressed by ‘Help us defend democracy and freedom in Hong Kong’(https://protonvpn.com/blog/hongkong/), a political stance that most other companies were afraid to take.
The "Stripe SaaS starter" example seems to be missing.
(Just noticed this was about dump/restore, during restores you can in fact write the data and then build the index in a separate operation and that can be faster, sorry for missing context)
Yes. I can prove that this is real. I had a Gmail account that I registered when I was younger and did exactly that - setup a forward to my alt (which over the years became my primary). A few years ago I started receiving emails for another person with my same name. Legit work emails, party invites and the like. Turns out that person was using my original email.

I never contacted anyone about this for fear Google would just delete both accounts to save their own asses.

Still receive those emails to this day.

However recent times have convinced me that it's time to move away from the big ol G. This is space issue is one of them.

mailcow anyone?
Even my 5 year old passive-cooling Core m3 12" Macbook streams Netflix for hours on battery without getting hot.
> I can say that my child finding my emails after I'm dead is something I definitely do not want to happen.

That makes sense(funny?), I suppose it is different if you have a relatively active/recent relationship. Hope the illness is worked out.

Also yeah, it is your own private details I get that, I wouldn't ask my friend if I could see their email. Just in my case it was the only potential record of my dad's thoughts.
How to Be Curious
I've never even heard of SciDB, thanks for the pointer. I have heard of VoltDB and the only thing I remembered was that it was in-memory...

I'm still not 100% sure what SciDB is for but it looks like none of the databases we're mentioning are directly comparable:

- SciDB for scientific computing (??)

- VoltDB for in memory + SQL

- Druid for OLAP queries

- TimescaleDB for row-based timeseries storage

Seems like all apples to oranges to me. I personally like TimescaleDB because it runs on Postgres and I can usually find a way to do all those other things in postgres relatively efficiently (memory requires some squinting while using UNLOGGED tables).
You're 100% right that no drugs have been recently approved by the FDA to help with Alzheimer's. But I think parent is right that they haven't tested ISRIB in people yet.
Satisfactory has been amazing for remote play together for me. It's relaxing and it moves slow enough you can talk about your day while you play.
And here I thought I was the only one!
> these times were the best times ever. my kids are grown up now and I'm proud of them. but those moments will never return.

I think the complaint is not about having to spend too much time with kids, but rather that "work + kids" is too much. Like, a part-time job would improve the situation a lot. But finding a part-time job can be quite difficult.
I have been writing a journal addressed to my son. It is just a markdown file. But this system has a flaw that is I go back and edit old entries.

I would never trust a 3rd party for this kind of project. But I like that you cannot edit your emails. It just feels more honest.

Now I am thinking of sending him hand written letters by mail. And just save them until he is old enough. I can add photos or his other favorite things in the letters. It would be a lot more fun to open these letters in the future instead of reading a text file.
This seems like an unrelated tangent
I was under the impression it was a little of both, depending on the bank.
> And she was under the impression that her company would value her so much that, not only they wouldn't take the first "clean" opportunity to let her go, but that they'd want her to stay so much that she could leverage it?

In a realpolitik sense you are probably right. But right now I'm going through standard onboarding training and they are VERY explicit that it's not supposed to work this way, and that you are not supposed to retaliate or exclude someone because they make complaints or take actions based on the defense of a protected group (including themselves).
never upvoted somebody so many times in a single thread before. praise be to slg!
I can only speak personally on termination of employment. When dealing with a low performance h1b employee, they were treated exactly like a regular employee and were given a low performance review. The company did stack ranked based year cuts so he knew he that he had a high change of getting cut with a below expectation performance review and a PIP and had 3 months to look for a job. Firing h1bs out of blue would make it hard to hire other h1bs. There maybe companies that abuse the situation, i have yet to see it. Most people aren't sociopaths and have empathy. Being a terrible leader/person makes it hard to do startups since talent won't follow you.
> Does Google care about AI ethics/bias?

Google cares about AI ethnics because talking about it gives those people, especially higher ups, an imagined sense of significance and adrenaline rush of being a savior.

But in reality, AI ethnics is just a gloried showroom of diversity/inclusiveness.

It is not a product, it doesn't generate revenue, in corporate world, nobody cares.
Given how we seem to be unwilling to learn from history, I prefer Julian Barnes' take from "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters"

> History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
In Australia they changed inactive bank accounts from 7 years to 3 years and had to change it back to 7 years and 3 was way too short.

https://asic.gov.au/regulatory-resources/financial-services/...
That would never make sense to do. The atmosphere is heavily enriched with CO2 already, so plants don't need help obtaining it. If you want to grow plants in an area where water is so scarce you have to import it, but you have oil, don't burn your money: sell the oil and buy water.
H-1B holders aren't "excluded from the rule requiring nonimmigrant visa holders to lack immigrant intent." 8 USC 1184(b), which you cite, says something quite different:

> (b) Presumption of status; written waiver
Every alien (other than a nonimmigrant described in subparagraph (L) or (V) of section 1101(a)(15) of this title, and other than a nonimmigrant described in any provision of section 1101(a)(15)(H)(i) of this title except subclause (b1) of such section) shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of application for a visa, and the immigration officers, at the time of application for admission, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant status under section 1101(a)(15) of this title.

This creates a rebuttable presumption that an alien has immigrant intent, and excludes H-1B holders from that presumption.

But the H-1B is still a non-immigrant visa. 8 USC 1101(a)(15) clearly distinguishes "immigrants" from "nonimmigrant aliens." An H-1B is classified as a "nonimmigrant alien." Subsection (H)(1)(b) still applies to those who will work "temporarily" in the U.S. H-1Bs are still governed by 8 USC 1184 ("admission of nonimmigrants") and not 8 USC 1181 ("admission of immigrants").

> "Dual intent" isn't an administrative fiction, its a term of art for the nonimmigrant visa categories excluded from the generally applicable requirement for having (and demonstrating) the absence of immigrant intent.

It's a term of art that refers to an administrative fiction. That fiction allows a visa that is by its terms a nonimmigrant visa for temporary workers to be treated in practice as the first step in the path to permanent immigration. The 1990 INA doesn't change that in substance--it merely excludes H-1Bs from a presumption to avoid blowing up the fiction. This is the result of H-1B being a statutory kludge in response to the executive branch's longstanding abuse of the H-1 visa created in the 1952 INA.

Other countries have real skilled immigrants visas that are designed to be such. They work very differently, and make much more sense because they were designed for that purpose. E.g. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
It doesn't matter. For password hashing, Argon2 is fine. bcrypt is fine. scrypt is fine. You should distrust people who make a big deal out of which one you use.
For context, one of my colleagues threw together a spellcheck in his spare time in 2006-ish, maybe 2007.

By then it was fairly trivial.