skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one got fired here.

I mean, from the tweets what I gather is she wasn't planning on leaving just yet. Saying "hey, you want to resign by [X] but we'd rather you be gone so let us inform you've just been resigned as of now" is essentially firing [1].

> Offering to resign was a huge mistake.

I think this will be good for her in the long term. I'm sure she'll find another research position, and the alternative was betraying her convictions or just the huge burden of constantly being worn down by Google.

[1]: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364735446331392
Our experiments all ran on cloud instances (DO and Timescale Forge) that use storage that are replicated across multiple AZs/racks for greater reliability and fault tolerance.
Because there would (rightly) be an uproar if this were made more public, and “track and trace” is one of the most public things you can do with the data. Instead, we've got an almost completely private Bluetooth-based protocol… with implementations that go ahead and phone home anyway, without even using that phoned-home data for the track & trace system.
Might as well. Now the streaming offering will benefit from the same marketing push as the big ticket cinemas, maximizing total revenue.
A business doesn’t get to exist because of its employees. It gets to exist because of its customers.
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Torrents everywhere screaming with joy
Python got async/await in 2015, so not exactly new.
I see a lot of comments about the applications for startups, which is only logical. (This is HN after all.) But I think this could be even more transformative in vehicle sales.

Example: I work for a boat manufacturer. We've wanted to sell boats online for many years, but it's not the kind of product you charge to a credit card. (Most of our boats are in the $30k-80k range.)

So one of the biggest challenges to selling online is the financing. A service like this, once it opens up outside the US and for B2C, could solve that problem.

I could see this having a transformative (disruptive?) effect on boats, RVs, cars, trucks, ATVs, etc. Basically any big-ticket item that doesn't require getting a lawyer involved.
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The expected value of your individual is high because we need more engineering expertise

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Glycine-based treatment ameliorates non-Alcoholic fatty liver disease
Windows Bootcamp can't run on M1.
So there you go there is a wart that all the 100% positive reviews aren't mentioning.
Improving airflow makes things safer from COVID-19, but ensure any fire spreads quickly.

We have many laws about fire safety, not so many about COVID-19.
iPhones cannibalizing iPods is true in theory but misses it in spirit. It’s not a hard argument to make to sell a product that is more profitable and a larger addressable market.

The Mac just had its best quarter - ever - before the release of the M1 Macs.
This is sad as it appears to be the beginning of the end of moviegoing as a mainstream pastime. Watching a movie at home simply isn't an equivalent replacement and it has nothing to do with the size of the screen. Going to the theater is a social experience. You simply can't replicate the experience of seeing Captain American catch Thor's hammer in a sold out crowd on opening weekend. Also going to a theater is a purpose driven choice in a way watching a movie at home is not. It allows you to focus all your attention on a movie that simply can't easily be replicated at home.
Well, I'd definitely like to see Ms. Gebru's paper now!

And Hello, Streisand effect!
Nah, it's an old benq G2222HDL, without either of those
But she didn't ask for two weeks' notice. She signaled she was considering giving notice but had not done so yet.
Emotional support animals don't get any special rights outside of housing, and in limited cases air and train travel. They can't be brought into areas pets are prohibited. You do need to provide verification from a physician or mental health provider to your landlord or the airline for an ESA.

Service dogs(or rarely horses) can generally go anywhere the owner can go including areas pets are prohibited. There is no formal verification, but the owner of the property or their employee can ask if this is a service dog that is required because of a disability, and what tasks it is trained to perform. If it is a cat or other animal, or not trained to perform a task, just to provide support it is not a service dog and they can be refused entry and trespassed.

Registration of service dogs would disenfranchise the disabled. About twice as many don't have photo ID as the general public, many do not own a car or have access to reliable transportation, even relatively small costs can be prohibitive
First you need to understand that most of this "savant developer" stuff is entertainment. If you would only purchase the tokens of a project because you see a quirky pre-diagnosed aspergers dev on twitter and telegram at all hours of the day, then thats the way organizations are going to continue to market.

Most of the projects are not that complicated and do not require specific expertise. And even the "brand new blockchains!" are not that complicated, despite being put on a pedestal as the highest order of complexity in the crypto space, we are talking about linked lists that a freshman in college all get exposed to.

Secondly it is completely fine and normal to just outsource the development to contracting firms. Because these are normal businesses booking revenue after they create and sell digital assets and just hiring a few developers to do it.

I don't find that controversial and its completely normal to any other software development cycle, although I would like the speculators to understand that more in their decision making process. What's not normal is daytraders pretending to be angel investors.

To answer your question, I would say the only thing to look for is token distribution schedule and if there are ways to alter that such as minting tokens without any input from the community, or if the treasury tokens are locked in a smart contract or not.

Regarding the actual product you are still always taking them by their word.

I would argue taking a less passive approach and trying to help the development effort, or being in a position to! You might actually land the development contract, which can be more lucrative than speculating to begin with.
Still in the next big thing camp myself, also. Of course, there are the noted drawbacks, but for our use case: putting a library of UI components across a handful of app stacks (.NET, asp, Angular, etc) - Svelte is the solution.

We have faced the usual wild west frontier situations where nobody really had an answer for something we wanted to do, but we have worked out solutions without a huge deal of frustration.

And it's important to mention that the development and maintenance experience of Svelte is very pleasant.
Monitor only has DVI and VGA
I think there is a lot of confusion here. This is not an index fund. You can't buy it. It's just an index, a number that tells you what the price is.

It may be a step toward a future index fund designed to track the index, the way SPY tracks the S&P 500 and DIA tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But for now, it's only an index.
Having conditions is often part of a negotiation. Maybe they offered to resign in that email, but Timnit Gebru does not say she did in the linked twitter as far as I can tell.

Unless she formally offer to resign it seems like her management jumped the gun.
3% chance in a given year. And for how many years when it didn't happen have we been running this many lotteries? Probably right around 33.
Open Office feels a bit faster than Libre Office.
I believe the above user is referring to the 1MDB scandal which took place earlier this year.
I am super excited about this trend of releasing movies to online services at the same time as theaters.

I guess I am selfish, but even before the pandemic, I much preferred to watching a movie with my spouse at home on our big screen TV, in our comfortable chairs, with our preferred snacks, with the kids asleep in their bedroom, than having to go through the hassle of finding a babysitter, driving somewhere, paying crazy prices for food and drink, watching a ton of pre-roll ads, and being distracted by the jerk making running commentary next to you.

Sure the giant screen and sound system are really nice, and worth paying for once in a while. But I am happy that decision is separate from, when do I want to watch the movie.
Adding to Jason's comment - check out this video that shows a live demo with the single display scenario and individual window sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=054wVitjVJ0
Did you design the mask from scratch, or is this a rebrand of an existing product?
>god-awful UK QWERTY layout

Mate, zou havenät seen the German lazout.
For the vast majority of users (who are not developers or doing production video work, etc), 16 GB is plenty. That's why.
>Do you believe in treating people differently based on their race?

Yes, I do, just like I believe in treating people differently based on all sorts of properties, intrinsic and otherwise. I also lean toward the anti-affirmative-action side of things, despite totally believing that the core rationale has merit. Regardless, you're irrationally insisting that a complex social problem can be distilled into an 11-word yes-or-no question that frames your side of the argument favorably.
There are other trials for HIV vaccines in the US that are recruiting MSM, and some that are specifically recruiting trans people.
It's difficult to tell, since no one is presenting any kind of unbiased evidence.

From what I've seen, I agree with Gebru about AI research, but this letter has too many problems itself.
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I don’t know about under $800, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Apple didn’t keep the current M1 Air on the
lineup at a lower price when the Airs get their next revamp.

This is exactly what Apple did with the iPad, nowadays you can get a very decently specced 10.2” iPad with their 2018 CPU for $309. That’s astonishing, but it’s a great way for Apple to get extended value out of their silicon.
> We aren't running ARM on our desktops because there aren't ARM desktops for us to use.

Indeed, while ARM based Linux desktops hit the price and energy efficiency on the nose, they aren't going to wow anyone with performance.
You mean other companies don’t do things that will ultimately benefit them?
I should have prefixed that this is drawing heavily on what I remember reading about Walmart and their effect on rural/suburban economies when they expanded. In that sense it is conjecture on my part as I'm not drawing on any studies about Amazon in particular. I only wanted to show how large corporations that compete directly with small retail employers can get an unfair advantage against their labour force.

Your theory could obviously be valid as well.
When iPhone came out in 2007, Android was still an OS for BlackBerry like devices. It didn't take long for Android to discover touch screens once Apple made it clear that they were dramatically better. Similarly, it's not like other ARM chip manufacturers are going to have to go through all of the same R&D expense to figure out how to make chips that are comparably fast--they just need to copy what Apple did without infringing on any particular patents. Even if they did have to spend the same R&D expense to get there, Apple has already derisked it. So they have a small fraction of Apple's expense and none of the risk, so I would fully expect to see M1 competitive chips come out in a few years' time. This isn't to say that they'll catch up with Apple completely; only that they'll be able to recoup a significant amount of the gap in a relatively short period of time such that there will be a similar breakthrough in the PC market (this is effectively what TFA is predicting as well, if that lends me any credibility).
It does work, you just don't like the results. Most consumers have gotten exactly what they wanted. I never said everyone should have boycotted all smartphones, I said that if consumers didn't like the smartphones we have they wouldn't have bought them. They practiced "just don't buy it" for all the other dead tech options that no longer exist today. Consumers clearly don't believe that there is a problem that needs a "solution".

Let me be clear: it's your problem to deal with as a minority consumer who apparently doesn't like anything most other consumers like. The tech world we live in today is the world that most consumers want and are happy with. You are stuck with the brands we have, the rest of the consumer market have bought the smartphones that they've happily, willingly and repeatedly chosen.

Whatever you may think of the tech industry, it very closely reflects what most consumers want. If you want something no one else wants, make it or evangelize, asking the government to forcibly change outcomes is awful.
There's no need for theaters to be mainstream. They can be a niche offering and you can still enjoy those things.
It's going to be an interesting problem for the US and other UN Security Council countries if Colombia legalizes the cocaine industry, but the rest of the world does not.

Cocaine is a huge industry, and I wonder how much of Colombia is controlled by that industry. If it's a large percentage, then that could be driving this too.

There is a precedent, Afghanistan and opium production. Opium provides about 400,000 jobs in Afghanistan, more than the Afghani National Security Forces.

To be clear, I am not taking a stance on morality of it. I think smaller countries will look to leverage the vices of the larger countries into sources of income, as economies of smaller countries around the world suffer more due to climate change, increased diseases, and resource scarcity.
The past: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/28/city-watchd...
If it's any concession Bezos had his privacy violated by his girlfriend's brother and then made a fool of himself by blaming MBS.
Can you elaborate on "There's no way to guarantee security of passwords stored in someone's personal vault"?
I got rid of my childhood legos when I was like 15 in a garage sale. The lego bucket was completely disorganized and it was easily the hottest commodity we had there- there was a woman who showed up 5 minutes early to buy it and the next 6 hours of garage sale we had people showing up a few times an hour asking about it from the ad.

Throw that up on Facebook marketplace or something and people will pay hundreds for it
More like coup d'état, or an underdog victory. Author doesn't seem to be using it right, since this would be an actual shift in power, rather than a failed insurgency (as in OP).
Does it actually have a blockchain yet? Libra was funny in that you could only trade it through the 100 or so commercial participants "for now".
> so... I guess you're tired of it?

Yeah GP is modeling exactly the behavior they're railing against. Claiming that something is wrong without any practical insights for how that thing might be better.
How does value get created?
Common tire chemical implicated in mysterious deaths of at-risk salmon
I have looked at Firebase core + realtime + auth vs Supabase.js and results were very much in Supabase's favor :) Understandable though since Firebase is doing a bunch of other things under the hood. I would still call it a relatively fair comparison.

Also, I think the primary buttons on the website has an easily fixable contrast problem. I just created an issue for it.
Most UWP apps should be easy to compile for ARM. Emulating x86-32 apps on ARM Windows has been a thing for many years and the further expanded x86-64 support is in Insider builds.

Really the bigger issue is that the ARM chips Windows has thus far run on don't have the similar TSO opts the M1 came with.
I’m not an expert but from what I’ve read you don’t need to eat the biota to get them, you just need to make them a happy home and they’ll find their way into your gut.
> Private enterprise was usually castigated for not being racist enough. Economics was the 'dismal science' because it didn't support racism, segregation, and slavery.

I had slavery in mind with the private enterprise comment.

But it's not like businesses are actually run by perfectly rational automatons according to textbook economics. They're run by owners and managers who can be just as racist as the surrounding community, and who can very well prioritize prejudice over a little more profit.
S&P has indices that have options contract directly on them. Which is way more fun!

Also, index options enjoy the same better taxation that futures contracts do, as they are both Section 1256 contracts. Where no matter how long the trade is, 60% of the profits are taxed at long term capital gains rates and the other 40% are taxed at short term capital gains rates.

Gotta read between the lines :) This is a great step for what could be a wildly popular product.
While true, this is only the Apache-2 version. See @mfreed's response below for links and more detail.
One thing I learn each day on HN is that software practitioners need more ethics lessons, it's sad that it's so hard for some folks to open their mind enough to understand why this isn't just some "rabble rouser" causing drama. Ethics in software, especially AI, are severely lacking in the present day.
There's also nitter, it's slightly better than the twitter interface

https://nitter.net/martingund
One paragraph has four parentheticals. I wonder which humanities background, other than Law, finds that acceptable.
M1 isn't using on-die memory[1]. It's on-package, and likely little more than just off-the-shelf Micron or Samsung dram modules that are just soldered instead of socketed.

1: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ZRQGFteQwoIVFbNn (from https://www.ifixit.com/News/46884/m1-macbook-teardowns-somet... )
Canadians can get a tax credit for working at home during Covid-19
From Wikipedia: -

> The interface has two main signal lines, Data and Clock. ... To transmit a byte, the device simply outputs a serial frame of data (including 8 bits of data and a parity bit) on the Data line serially as it toggles the Clock line once for each bit.

Increasing the clock rate absolutely does reduce latency on a PS/2 port.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port
Oh I feel like it's 2007 again and I'm a Junior developer writing a frontend in Delphi and the business logic in PL/SQL.
Those were the days.
In addition, it can be awfully hard to ensure that what started out as a well-distanced walk around the neighborhood remains well-distanced the entire time.

When I'm walking early in the morning, I carry a mask with me in case I encounter other morning joggers/walkers and can't easily cross the street at the time.
I could see a case for requiring public disclosure of all chemicals used in products that are expected to wear and off-gas. It would possibly greatly reduce the time and expense to locate environmental risks such as this.
If it were so easy, why are all of the other ARM manufacturers years behind?
Agreed: Even if one is cynical (as I am) about the reason these companies hire AI policy and ethics researchers (for PR and to deflect criticisms on how their products operate, far too often) - it is clear that many potential consumers and regulators (!) that are inclined to be skeptical or critical will think more positively of the company.

Also, let's be real. How much revenue are the vast majority of AI/ML researchers actually driving in these companies? Sure, someone gets promoted for multiple NeurIPS papers, and it looks great for the company. But most of the time, it doesn't directly impact products and revenue -- in the short-term -- and that's ok. Same deal for AI ethics and policy researchers.
Montaigne is one of my heroes!

I wouldn't recommend all of the essays, but you can get abridged editions with a collection of the most interesting and applicable ones, and I would recommend those to anybody. They're broad-minded, rigorous, and incredibly humane.

Fun fact: Montaigne is one of the few authors we know Shakespeare had read, since The Tempest basically quotes him.
None of them sounded valuable to you - I have no problem imagining how those APIs could be useful (e.g. some simple apps may be replaced by a web application). One can easily apply your argument against access ramps ("My establishment already has stairs, a ramp doesn't sound valuable")
I assume features like prerendering HTML must only work for Preact though, right? That requires some significant assumptions about the codebase (compared to tools like Babel and Webpack). Also, hot reloading seems to only work for Preact components (based on the wording)
They don't count in the PC space. For desktop PCs there's just the Mac mini and various hacker boards. For laptops there's the new MacBooks and the mediocre Qualcomm 8cx/SQ2 and nothing else.
"Calling one's bluff" doesn't imply that there was a bluff in the first place. It's a common figure of speech. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/call%20one%27s%20bluff

If I say "I demand X or else I resign", (I don't know if that was actually said) I think it's fair to consider that a conditional resignation.
FAANG hires top diverse ethics researchers for good publicity and they demand meaningful changes that aren't in FAANG's interest and get silences/fired resulting in bad publicity

Vs

FAANG hires top diverse ethics researchers for good publicity and they demand clout/unreasonable changes that aren't in FAANG's interest and they get kicked resulting in bad publicity.

Unclear which is happening here. I agree it isn't in FAANG interest to hire these people but that misses the point.
Nice! Multiple AZs or Multiple racks?

EDIT: Also your response contradicts what is in the blog post:

> 1 remote client machine, 1 database server, both in the same cloud datacenter

> Disk Size: 4.8TB of disk in a raid0 configuration (EXT4 filesystem)
It's easier for those with the funds, and connections to manipulate, and censor discussions about other forks - and some pro-Segwit people did exactly that with the 2017 hard fork, like on /r/bitcoin, bitcointalk, etc.
Seems to be an Amazon thing https://www.teamblind.com/post/What-is-Dev-list-at-Amazon-xp...

It doesn't say what "dev" stands for though.
So now anyone can create their own Venmo app, and just use Stripe Treasury on the backend? What's the idea behind this?
Strictly mathematically speaking, the partition function is a sum of exponentials, which are each dimensionless.

From a probabilistic perspective, the partition function is the normalizing constant for the Boltzmann distribution; if the partition function takes value Z, then the probability of any state of your system is given by P_state = exp(-E_state/T) / Z. Since the numerator is dimensionless (it represents an unnormalized probability), and the left hand side represents a probability (which is dimensionless), the denominator Z must also be dimensionless.
I wonder why these privileged people (I don't have her huge salary, I don't live in the us or work for a FAANG) keeps forgetting that after all they are just _employees_.
Isn't the ability to back out of the stack context basically half the point of stack operations? Without the LIFO behavior, it's not really a "stack" in any computational sense.