skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You want to know terrible working conditions dancing with a sign for 5 hours a day in the sun when it's 90+.

While dancing with a sign in the sun does lead to heat exhaustion risks, it's unlikely to lead to permanent disability, which seems like the inevitable outcome of working at an Amazon warehouse for too long.
There is a discussion to be had here but it's not possible in public because of the escalation of the topic. This is also not the best thread to be having it.

Since everyone else is just saying "you don't get it" without explaining what "it" is, I will provide some brief avenues of exploration. Because they are brief, they will be coarse and imperfect, and aiming to give you directional assistance on the topic.

So with that massive preamble because I'm not seeking to argue, here you go:

* Pre-trained models already encode much of this bias and if you don't use them you won't get very far very fast

* Large available datasets also reflect these biases

* AI model performance is generally measured against this dataset, further entrenching the bias. If you're better on Indian face generation it will give you barely any benefit on most scoring methods

* Saying "the outcome is only biased because the data is biased" misses the fact that the performance is on the biased data

There's a little more to it but I believe that's the meat of it. Anyway, not too keen on arguing this. Just sharing because it took me some work to figure out what they were talking about and I wish someone had explained it to me so doing so here.
What does that even mean? Live entirely alone in a 1 bedroom apartment? A studio? Live with roommates? What do their meals look like?

A "living wage" means absolutely nothing unless you define the expectations.

When I first moved to San Francisco in 2011, I was living on less than $300/month or so for 8 months or so. I slept on an air mattress and ate rice and beans prepared weekly from 25lb bags because it was cheaper that way. I spent less than a dollar a meal.

What expectations do we have that people learn to be frugal? Here's someone who lives in the SF Bay Area for $7000/year:

https://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-ye...

It's actually not hard to live on these wages if you're smart about how you spend your money. The only cost you can't really escape without moving is the cost of housing, and if you don't fix that problem, any increase in wages it just going to be temporary relief until housing prices correct.
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Dito. But it's really far worse that Amazon is able to use literal Pinkerton agents, because it implies the organisation hasn't been torn to shreds as you expect it should have been.
Not on its own, no, but the person you're responding to said buying it for an investment portfolio. That's a very compelling use for gold.
Some people in this thread propose a boycott to Amazon by not buying their products. But this effort is mostly null and void since the warehouse division is largely subsidized by AWS which is funded by most of the Fortune 500.

These boycotts might piss off an executive or VP within the warehouse division, but Amazon as a whole will continue to exist.

Personally, I have stopped using all AWS/Amazon.com/Prime services but I am only a minnow in this vast sea.
To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes: If you owe the bank 1$ million, it owns you but if you owe the bank 1$ trillion, you own the bank.

My guess is all banks have invested heavily in crypto by now (either over or under the counter - by proxy) and their investments are slowly but surely becoming too large to fail. If you can't fignt them join them, right...
Why didn't Tim Sweeney try to get funding elsewhere? It seems like he had a tech company and could have gone with any VC firm.

Did he want to keep it private?
My take is exactly the opposite: since 3D structures of proteins alone are almost never the bottleneck in drug discovery, this won't actually change anything. Knowing how the drug is going to bind, and knowing how it'll behave in vivo, are not something you can predict from deep sequencing data.
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Sorry harder to found, but pricing calculator on product page (not gated):

https://www.timescale.com/products#pricing
I feel the latency when connecting over a VPN to a remote computer and using RDP to a computer on that network. It is not a pleasant experience.
>> And it also accessed an employee slide presentation that was part of a union drive, the complaint said.

I suspect this employee immediately started receiving targeted ads.

Why should google employees expect privacy protections that google customers don't get?
Probably just the nature of the sort of chips you could buy at the time and their scan rates and debounce circuitry. As time marches on we have added a lot of abstraction into the mix. One thing I used to do to make old DOS computers 'feel faster' was to turn up the keyboard rates in the BIOS.
Same, Mercury is great
Amazon is making good money. This annoys a lot of people, thus hit pieces are written. News at 11.
I'm not sure it's even a hypothetical future situation. I don't know if a majority of Googlers were against it, but the way Google handled Andy Rubin wasn't exactly a popular move internally.
> What tactics are ok for a company to use to combat unions if it doesn't want them?

In the US they could improve working conditions to the point that employees are happy with the status quo. Unionisation efforts are typically driven by employees who are stressed by unhealthy/unsafe working environments, employee mistreatment, or poor pay. We see the opposite of this in the tech sector, where decent pay, safe environments and plenty of benefits leads to a rather union hostile attitude.

> Or should companies just accept and work with any union that forms?

If we accept that unions act to address the power imbalance between employees and employers and unionisation is mainly driven by employers exploiting that power imbalance then I think it's both good for society and in line with the spirit of the laws that exist in many places that make various forms of union busting illegal.
This depends on your definition of “Developed in the open”.

Nobody is disputing that other people contributed to WebKit, however what is true is that WebKit was brought to the level of maturity require to create a competitive desktop browser before those contributions.

The fact that competitors are able to use WebKit, and that Blink exists is validation that WebKit is really open.

I do agree that Apple controls development of the mainline engine though, but that changes nothing about the meaning.
Weirdly specific. What do you suggest?
> where she was technical co-lead of the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team

That’s not the title I would expect for someone hired as an ethicist. Not that I would expect them to have an ethicist for any reason other that sand a few rough edges down and to whitewash their efforts.

Oil companies can and do hire environmentalists and ecologists. That doesn’t stop them from getting huge, well-deserved fines for their fuckery. It just slows the rate down a bit. In fact a cynic would say that it’s just cover to delay having to stop what they’re doing (eg, legislation and policing makes them stop).

At some point you either become one of them or you quit, like Sandra B in Two Weeks Notice, but without the creepy stalker romcom elements.
Using the Sun and the Shadows for Geolocation
Some recent PC/laptop displays can do 100hz and I even feel a difference between that and the long-standard 60hz. It's a small effect but it's noticeable and it looks a bit smoother and better.
> public forums like memegen

You mean internal-public, I assume. Memegen isn't public AFAIK.

> ... because of their privately-held political views

It's hard to get called out for privately-held political views. Things you do in public, though, have consequences.

> Neither Google nor any other company should tolerate employees using the power of the company to advance their personal ideological beliefs

Is that a constraint we should extend to owners of companies also? Or is flexing muscle to advance personal ideological beliefs something only reserved for Fortune 500 owners? Google was outspokenly gay-friendly before that became a mainstream opinion in the US, to give a concrete example.
In hindsight, it validates the extremely expensive purchase my father made 35 years ago ;) I loved that computer!
How Slack’s exit to Salesforce will change the game (Grape CEO)
Feel free to submit the URL directly. The reddit page adds little extra value.
I'm not old enough to remember the first one but I know at least Oracle beat you to this idea in the early 90s.
Your TR is what, 280 watts TDP? nearly 20 times more than a M1. And is 30% slower in single core.

Firestorm Cores use less than 4 watts each. A 16 firestorm core Mx will produce roughly the same multicore performance as your TR, with a less than 70 watt TDP.

And a $65 M1 dusts a 4800h that costs over 4x as much and using 1/3 the power. Top end ThreadRippers cost $2,000 to $3,000 each. You can bet an Apple Mx ThreadRipper killer isn’t going to cost more than $500 given it only needs 4x the cores of the $65 M1.
"Virtue signaling" is the all-purpose response to anything they don't wish to do solely because you wish them to do it. They don't have to engage with whether or not it's a good idea. They don't have to engage with whether you're being serious or not. It's just a two-word dismissal: if you care about it, it must be wrong, and no further thought is necessary.

For me, it has a convenient counter response: nobody using the term "virtue signaling" has anything useful to say, on any topic. It's "vice signaling", their call-out to their buddies that they, too, don't like anything you say solely because you say it. They're not listening to me, except for the purpose of rejecting it reflexively, so there's no point in talking to them.
Think about it this way: both sides have the right to freely negotiate a contract, and then decide whether or not to enter into it. The CEO can't prevent the workers from talking to each other and figuring out what they think a fair contract would be, and the workers can't prevent the CEO from talking to other CEOs for the same reason.

The specific human right is usually referred to as "freedom of association". You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_association
Does this service allow anyone that is legally allowed to participate in the US financial system? Or is it limited to people that your partner banks "want" to deal with?

I'm thinking about the unbanked and others that financial institutions tend to not want to deal with. Living in a large city, I've seen plenty of people that use gift cards, transit cards, etc as their "bank" because bank services are unavailable or the fee structure is too onerous. Or, for example, someone that has been in prison for financial crimes and needs a way to rehabilitate back into society.

Thanks!
I am currently living in Portugal, and was in Spain for the last 12 months. Mask use in Portugal is 100% on a day to day basis unless doing sport, Spain was the same where I was.

During the summer we did an outdoor road trip through 5 countries. There were no mandates for wearing it outside, but I didn't see a single person not wearing one inside in Italy, Austria, Slovenia, France...
So how about we add the cost of proper disposal to that cheese? It is inefficient and unfair to pass the cost of someone's cheese to everyone else now and for three hundred years. Then if you have the money you don't have to wait in line. Does that sound fair?
Lol I never whined about not getting a mythical Linux phone. I don't even want one particularly.

My point was that your claim to "just not buy it" doesn't work when its an essential item in modern society like food, water, housing, or a computer.

Its easy to sit here from your armchair and say "well if dumb consumers hadn't bought smartphones like this then we wouldn't have them so they shouldn't complain." But you, of course, have a smartphone from one of these manufacturers because like everyone else you realized you basically need one these days if you work or travel. We created rules that favor tech mega corps and now they dominate the industry.

So your "solution" isn't really a solution. You say people should have made some amazingly insightful decision to boycott all smartphones fifteen years ago but since they didn't we are stuck with the brands we have and its the consumers' fault...
Use QB64 on your modern computer then they can skip the whole mess of line numbers from BASIC and still use BASIC.
https://www.qb64.org/
In Zurich it seems that they managed to organize a Workers council: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/bloomberg/google-agrees-to-work...

Can't seem to find anything else.
I actually wonder if that’s the only good thing to come out of this.

I feel like you’re lamenting that people don’t follow your experts.

I mean look at all the experts that signed on here: https://gbdeclaration.org/

Why don’t they count?
Same I noticed.

One particular day I remember specifically because had a long call with friend who lives in some other city. We talked about meeting sometime in future, dating, job situation and travelling to Canada/Europe.

With in hours I received promotional email about "travelling to the city my friend lives in". Dating site AD. Looking for Job and article about how to travel move to Canada/Europe.

Fun day.

People only think about Facebook, but there are other AdTech companies as well which do not get scrutinised as much.
Hype != sales. And I'd be interested to see what sales numbers you're referring to. Every single source I can find says retailers are receiving very low supply, and obviously selling out of that very low supply. But selling out of low supply does not equate to high sales numbers.

But if you have a source that says otherwise I would love to see it.

P.S. I'm sure it would have great sales numbers if they could make enough of them. I'm not suggesting the demand isn't there.
That first paragraph is funny. More and more young people are renting more than ever. Three cars to a household is not common.

Although, yes I do agree that wanting to consume and have more items is causing us to suffer.
There's certainly a lot of benefits of legalizing cocaine or heroin. But legalization also increases exposure to say like kids.

I know I sipped some alcohol before I turned 21, what if I tried shooting up on heroin or sniffing coke? I think the story here is much more complicated then "legalize" it.

Certainly the drug war was a huge mistake but completely legalizing drugs isn't exactly the right solution either.

The current opioid epidemic is the result of legalization through medical usage.

I'm also willing to bet that people who support complete legalization are users either casual or frequent (not necessarily addicts) so there's a personal agenda going on here as well.

Is there anyone who is completely drug free who supports total legalization?
Really anything can be a good or a bad idea depending on the problem domain and how it's implemented. He doesn't really go into how he made it work too closely, so it's easy to say it was a success. The real interesting thing to understand would be, "Why was it a success versus other approaches?" What really made it a better choice vs other approaches? What was the team make up? He says that it made the code easy to understand. To whom? Interesting the team made it work, but not enough to say, "Sure let's try it without a lot more forethought."
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Yes there was only one path to learning which was as it happened. Now you have to figure out a good starting point looking back.
For versioning, you can look at this plugin released/improved by Project Borealis: https://github.com/ProjectBorealis/UE4GitPlugin
Check out the November Steam results.

The RTX 3080 is already at 0.23%. After just 1 month.

If you don’t think that’s impressive, compare it against some AMD GPUs like the 5700 or the 5600 XT, which has the same share.

There’s a reason Nvidia’s quarterly gaming results where a blowout.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
SuperCell: Reaching new heights for wider connectivity
>My response is that we should be mad at the government for failing to enact policies to actually eradicate COVID, who instead decided that it's hopeless and that we should only use halfhearted, ill-enforced methods of questionable effectiveness. And further more, we should be mad at them for failing to take more effective fiscal measures in response to the pandemic to actually support people who are hurting financially as a result of it.

Yeah, agree with all of that.
But fiat gateways all do.
Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Outsourcing KYC is essential if you want preventative measures. Having your own just allows you to learn from getting stung.
I strongly disagree with this view.
Companies should do what is right and ethical (beyond just what is legal). And who else than the managers and employees working for the company can determine this? It requires exactly those employees pushing for what is right to move the overall company into the right direction. It was even their job as ethics in AI researchers.
Not an expert, but knowing what I do about the drug war and our involvement in it:

A lot of the domestic pressure within Colombia, MX etc. comes FROM international partners, like the US - Colombia gets a ton [~500M USD] of defense and security related funding for it [1], and we send military partner forces there to train their military and security forces.

All of that would need to be unwound as matter of course, regardless of whether or not the plan makes sense.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia
Supp friend :)

I kind of build it as MVP-freemium & had future plans for additional paid features.But after such poor initial response,I lost hope & dropped it.Now that I'm less emotionally attached with it(after nearly 6 months & a little mature), came to realization that should've spent more time & efforts in marketing.Back then, I had very limited reach in online community(0 followers, near 0 karma etc).I am working on it currently and trying to make it a fore of habit.

The maker world is lonely indeed.Would love to get in touch with you.My contacts are available on my portfolio.Lets catch up sometime soon!
Scrolling, yes. Mouse, absolutely. Typing? Not really. I have tested this side-by-side.
I'm a member of a union in Norway. They have zero to do with my day-to-day. Which is nice. I bargain pay on my own etc., same does everyone else. Don't even think my employer knows I'm a member.

However, the union has pushed for better regulations. When I started my career 5 years ago for instance, I had to sign a non-compete. Almost every offer had one, as an individual I couldn't do much. The union however helped pass legislation so those general non-competes are illegal, and can only be used for very specific purposes. When I got offers, they would also look over the contracts, tell me what I should be expected to be paid etc, giving me more knowledge and backing as a rookie (vs big cos). The yearly salary statistics is detailed and useful for me every year.

The union also collectively bargains for other stuff. For instance my mortgage rate is far lower through their offer than anything else I've found. The member fee (~400 yearly?) pays it self many times over just from this.

So I think this works great. Everyone on here always paints unions as these monoliths, but they don't have to be. I am still valued as a singular, but for the big stuff we're numerous.
Your resume says LSU though...
Which problems? Being paid well? Having a fun and interesting job? Have you ever worked a union job, did the union make shitty management suddenly disappear? Shitty management is often just swallowed up by the union itself. And I don't think I have incompetent peers, I think my peers are perfectly competent precisely BECAUSE the profession is not unionized. The fastest way to a pool of incompetent peers is by assuring the continued employment of incompetent people under the umbrella of collective protection.
Must be a US specific thing as I do not see this in EU corporations. I assume there is also a 'Google Brain Men and Allies'? Why not just a 'Google Brain and Allies'? Or does that also exist?
Apple’s software quality and security is, while far from perfect, at the top of the industry.

Clearly they would meet any such baseline.

Consumer protections of this kind would simply increase the cost of entry, and concentrate more power in the hands of those with capital, I.e. the incumbents and VCs.
It’s nice we can trust the government to give us our freedoms back when it’s over.
> If you are paying someone and they are doing something you told them not to do isn’t it your “human right” to stop paying them?

Obviously not. Real-world cases in point:

* Firing people for being queer

* Firing people for objecting to sexual harassment

* Firing people for going to the bathroom
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> And yet we wonder why people get Alzheimer's and Parkinson's left and right.

I don't know that you can conclude this. Both diseases predate the use of PFAS by at least decades, and the ancient Greeks documented Alzheimers'-like symptoms.
Intel had a footing in the very early phone market via StrongARM but they sold that off for some bizarre reason. They also got a little bit of a footing with Atom in the Android market, which is why Android/x86 was a thing, but they didn't seem to take that seriously either.
>I think AWS is early to offer a not-yet-matured product just to get it in front of customers and start gathering real usage feedback.

It's not just this. In many cases, the services launched are essentially MVPs that were only created to serve a handful of customers' needs. If a huge whale of a customer says they want hosted Jupyter notebooks on AWS (just a theoretical example I picked because I saw someone criticize Sagemaker, but I don't have any specific knowledge of Sagemaker), then AWS will create that for them, but, AWS doesn't actually do "one off" services for a specific customer, so they will also launch those hosted notebooks as a public service.

The result is of course that this service was built with one customer's use case in mind, so it might not serve other customers' use cases very well, which leads to some negative perception. But ideally AWS then goes and incorporates feedback into the service, turning it into a "tier 1" service rather than an MVP. It just takes time.
Depends how you fight. Some union busting tactics are illegal, others legal and a few skirt the borders of illegality.

Even if they do do it illegally, the justice department has to be motivated to go after them. Which, with a Biden administration that is close to Bezos is unlikely:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-tech/amazon-...

These workers can't really rely on the justice Department.
I used Google's AutoML Vision service (https://cloud.google.com/vision) to train the model off of pictures of masked and unmasked faces from coworkers and creative commons images from Flickr, and am running the model in-brower in a React app. It was pretty cool to see how easy it was to set up an object detection model without having to figure out how to set it up with Keras or something.
I may be out of the loop but as I understood it she threatened to resign and they called her bluff.

So it’s a bit disingenuous to say she was fired without mentioning her threat of resignation.