skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember Timnit from that Twitter thread a while back with LeCun on the subject of bias in a deep learning system.

In that thread Timnit established that she was an "authority" and then instead of engaging on the merits in the conversation, simply said basically, "You have to submit to me because I'm the authority" and refused to offer any information of any substance ... as though she was some kind of wizard and what she knew was just way too complicated for us mortals to understand.

Meanwhile, LeCun just very calmly engaged on the specific technical details about bias in Deeplearning systems.

After that, Twitter just piled on LeCun and claimed he was being a "mansplainer" ... as though saying anything technical to a black woman is "mansplaining".

As an engineer what would you seek to research if you wanted to reduce the bias in specific AI systems? You'd figure out how to minimize bias in the algorithms and in the data, and identify any other sources that could introduce bias, and figure out how to put controls on developers and data collectors to prevent bias ... right?

Ok, now go look at what is actually discussed in AI bias papers.

Sometimes I feel the emperor has no clothes and everyone just pretends like vacuous bullshit is something profound because if you criticize the papers you'll be fired or blacklisted in Silicon Valley.
Another comment above says the NSF is contracted to return the site to its natural state and that since the collapse it is safer to enter the structure and begin removal.
Someone can get drunk all day for $10. The only reason dependents of criminalized drugs can't get away with $10/day is because black market pricing is so much higher. Alcoholics would be notorious for thieving too if alcohol retail prices were as dramatically inflated over production costs as they are for opioids or stimulants.
I was able to discern this, but it doesn't explain why they wanted her to retract the paper. The contents of the paper and why they want her to retract it are key to the story, otherwise it's he-said-she-said.
I used to tell my relatives to use Google Photos, so we wouldn't all lose their photos.

I no longer tell them to use Google Photos.

Edit: Some of my relatives are growing old. There's a lot of talk of backups & storage. But none of that is going to preserve the digital memories we have shared, after they die. All the old URLs that have been shared will, not rot & wither, but one day just up and vanish. Up to the big log-off in the sky.

I really thought a dozen GB of storage from Google to each individual in the world was pretty reasonable. That there is plenty enough resources. But no, in to the garbage file society goes. Throw out all the past. It was the promise, but it's not sound business.
> "If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos," the company said.

That's different from just deleting all your data because you're inactive. Which is it?

Edit: it seems both. Here's the blog post (maybe this is a better link): https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/
Global by Nature: Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so-FcHTWEIY
That's a good point. I think google doesn't delete anything unless the law forces them to do so.
Love the game. One suggestion I had is that it would be helpful to indicate the number of nand gates in each component. When I'm trying to optimize I'm also trying to remember which is a "cheaper" component - having a number of nand gates associated with each component would help.
Gaia 'discovery machine' updates star catalogue
CA: Camerfirma Issues
It’s hard to like something that makes you tired when it’s not one of your kids.
It's called an iPhone.
You know I really wouldn't characterize this as "revolutionary" so much as moving to the front of the pack just using existing tech.

That is unless you're referring to them vertically integrating CPU design, which is pretty revolutionary.
You don't need banks to transfer money, you need them for loans
Afaik the clflush instruction isn't really meant for optimization. It evinces data from all cache levels (so even from L3), which means it's only useful for data you know you won't ever need again. I think the CPU is good enough at flushing that data that additional hints won't improve performance much.
Sure, maybe I need to add "within reason". I agree I want my keystroke to appear reasonably quickly, let's say under 200ms to fit some of the stuff in the post.

Alacritty used to make kind of a big deal of these "benchmarks" on it's main page, and they don't any longer because the software improvements in the terminal are likely completely overwhelmed by whatever keyboard/monitor/OS you happen to be using.

That's the point. If you really care about this stuff, the terminal isn't exactly the place to go improve stuff unless it was way worse than it should've been in the first place.
That's when you just go animated because they're better off that way anyway. We're probably less than 20 years off from being able to show fully virtual films that are close to being virtually indistinguishable from live action anyway.
The alcoholism was big thing for them due to link to domestic violence, violence in general and male breadwinner drinking out whole pay check (or being unable to keep job) having big consequences on whole family.

Also, for long time, it was accepted to drink in work, leading to injuries with serious consequences.

Contemporary society is much better regarding all those, so we kind of forget how ugly things often were.
Water is a dangerous drug. Sudden withdrawal of water can result in death with 3 days. Over the years, millions of people have died of withdrawal effects. Wars have been fought over it. It’s dirt cheap on the street - You could regularly find sellers hawking it for a dollar outside of sports events.

Ban water.
I get where you're coming from, but isn't 2 years an awful long time for Google to have to use your data the way Google, and Google alone chooses, even if "delete" really means "delete"?
Just realized it’s six balls drawn not five, so it’s one in about 7M per draw, nearly 10x less likely, so it would take about 10x longer, somewhere between 5 and 90 years before it’s unsurprising. So if the number of draws per week is accurate, this is reasonably suspicious.
From the email I got from Google a few minutes ago:

> Summary of the new policies (effective June 1, 2021):

> • If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos, we may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive. Google One members who are within their storage quota and in good-standing will not be impacted by this new inactive policy.

> • If you exceed your storage limit for 2 years, we may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos.

Is Google running out of storage?
This is a really hard problem space to solve. I'm very sorry to see this drama happening and I have sympathy for both sides.

I routinely run into the issue that if I try to understand why people did something that went badly/harmed people without looking to blame them per se, I get accused of being "an apologist." But in practice trying to understand why things happen is essential to finding a real solution. Merely asserting that X person's/group's needs matter and they are being harmed isn't really enough to find a viable path forward.

Like I have seen people say that suburbia is "White supremacist design" because in practice it ended up being mostly Whites who got suburban housing when suburbia was born in the US. I have tried to make the distinction that suburbia was born in part because large swaths of greenfield development was quicker, easier and cheaper to create and that this choice wasn't, per se, racist.

I am aware there was real racism happening and there were a lot of bylaws that intentionally excluded People of Color, but I'm sure those bylaws would have existed even if they had been building towers of condos in downtown areas instead. It wasn't specific to the architectural form that was built.

I recently had an exchange with someone that reminded me how important trust and mutual respect is and how the lack of such tends to cause problems to escalate.

I asked this person about a thing they did. I had been having paranoid fears that they did that thing in reaction to me and stuff I was working on and when they replied to my inquiry they had a wholly unrelated reason.

I didn't tell them that I was having paranoid fantasies that maybe this was some kind of negative reaction to me. I framed it neutrally.

Their reply was very reassuring to me. It was reassuring in part because I trust and respect this person. If you don't have that piece, having a long list of negative experiences makes it difficult to believe they aren't intentionally harming you and then lying about their real motives to cover it up and enable additional abuse.

It is, perhaps, a mistake to leave this remark. Like Timnit Gebru, I'm pretty tired and frustrated with a lot of things and feeling rubbed raw and exhausted.

But it seems to me it doesn't get better by throwing in the towel and giving up on saying anything just because the entire world is touchy after a nearly year-long global pandemic.
There's a 2x1080p version for $750 and a 2x1440p version for $999 (CRG90)
Nintendos profit forecast for FY2020 is 150% of Sony's gaming division.

Apple just dropped hardware which crushes every comparable competitor.

But to you, Nintendo is not competing by "making more money", and Apple is "falling behind" by ... jumping years ahead? This reads like personal axe-grinding that is detached from any objective link to the market.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/28/sonys-second-quarter-profit-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/nintendo-raises-switch-forec...
I think this is a major source of confusion in this whole conversation. There is clearly a follow up conversation between Timnit and some manager(s) (the name Megan is mentioned) in which this ultimatum was proffered.
Yes, reckless endangerment is a crime.

DUI recognizes, correctly in my opinion, that there are blood alcohol levels which constitute per se endangerment of others.
I don't think that's what she meant. You are filling in the blanks that she should have filled herself.
The original is a crappy attempt at outdoing 2001. The remake isn't bad and Viola Davis's performance is worth seeing along with the twist added to the story.
Growing up as a kid, the original Battlestar was just this cool sci-fi series with robots. I didn't know about all of its religious overtones. The rebooted version was dripping in it, and got tiresome.
> If you’re underpaid it means you can get a better deal somewhere else.

Unless companies conspire not to hire you in order to depress wages.

https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/disney-settlement-wage-fix...
The creator was trying to make “electronic cash” that evaded central banking manipulation from what I can tell.

Except there’s a fixed supply. There isn’t a fixed supply of value in the world.
The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that.

Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit is 365 days of inactivity.
i've been meaning to buy a pro-quality photo printer... had the idea to host a party where people can pitch in for materials and i could print all our photos on nice archival paper and we'd spend an evening scrapbooking
People who strongly believe in EMH are usually theorists. There are way too many people who's practical track record is way too good to be attributed to chance. I believe markets are random most of the time, but there are moments when they are not. That's where the best traders place their bets.

Also, here's my favorite counter argument to EMH - https://securityboulevard.com/2020/04/investors-buy-up-the-w...
I'm sympathetic to this point, but won't it continue to be a problem as long as airlines still allow pets?

The DOT ruling cites an industry statistic that 784k pets and 751k ESAs were transported in 2017 [1]. I can certainly believe that it's grown more lopsided since then, but it still seems that a significant number of flights would have animals on them after this rule takes effect.

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2020-12/S...
A forgotten story of Soviet AI
From the article you cited:

>> Each rejection came with a new set of reasons. After some point, it started to seem to us that maybe academics just found this topic and our results too threatening. Maybe this paper simply was not politically correct.

It looks like the only reason to believe the reasons for rejecting the paper were political is that it was rejected by many venues. Note that having different reviewers give different feedback is par for the course.

Personally, I don't think this is serious. Having one's paper rejected, stings, but it happens to everyone and all the time. There's no reason to see hidden motives behind it. The paper not being very good is sufficient explanation.

Not that it doesn't happen for papers to be rejected because they threaten a reviewer's work. But to claim that the entire academic establishment is threatened by a paper and that's why it was rejected? Sounds a bit far-fetched.
> CDC specifically states that transmission occurs with prolonged (15+ minutes) contact in close quarters (less than six feet).

No, that's not correct at all. But if I may take a guess at what you meant to write..

Those are guidelines based on estimated inflection points where more time or less distance increases the likelihood of transmission.

They are presumed to be good-faith estimates, but they are based on difficult-to-collect data. It's probably reasonable to draw the conclusion that, if fully observed, the guidelines would drive R0 below 1.0 and the trendline would follow.

But that doesn't mean that no transmission occurs in other situations. People sometimes sneeze unexpectedly. It takes a fraction of a second to put on the mask that prevents that event from becoming risky, or at least uncomfortable. Cheap insurance.

It's also important to realize that "walking by someone while outside" can take many forms, so it's not clear that we're all talking about the same thing. Jogging on a narrow path is very different from strolling on a beach.

Different measures are appropriate for different cases, but it's never harmful to use the mask, it's a reasonable habit to get into, and it makes people around you more comfortable. What's the trouble?
Can't they tell you to click buttons and type on the phone on their behalf, until they've gotten what they want, whilst an assistant looks across your shoulder telling you what to do/click next?
Someone probably just ran the numbers and said we'd save X if we delete inactive users and users of the limit.
Honestly, I was very surprised by the belligerence. My strategy for interacting with any authority with disproportionate power over me is to tend towards normalcy so I was pretty rapidly complying with the mask swap.

A friend of mine postulated that they couldn't hear me through my mask, but as I took it off and was swapping I said "I'm complying, I'm complying, I'm not arguing" in a conciliatory tone, it didn't seem to help. I was playing the 100% doormat. Didn't stop the attendant from saying to me as I was leaving to go to my seat: "It's not that dangerous".

I can only guess that they encounter people who do insist or that they are on web forums / chat groups with other attendants who have encountered people who do argue and so they're primed for someone like that. Puzzling interaction, to be honest. It was the first time I've had any sort of negative interaction with a service professional.
Nah, the data has already been harvested and used so it isn't worth storing it anymore (except to you of course).
3 years to whom? I've been following the price since the first "bubble" up to $200, in early 2013.
I wrote an AppleScript to do it.

Good time to remind others to export your google Authenticator if you change phones and do the backup keys.
It had some good publicity in the last few month on HN. It's on my list to give it a go.
indeed you are right. Thanks for the reply.
I'm too accustomed to seeing code like:

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "pass";else echo "fail";fi

But without the expression '[ ... ]' shell/bash does indeed treat zero return code (success) as boolean true.
For whatever reason I have not seen much (if any) bash code that simply uses:

if COMMAND; then ...
National origin is not the only way to measure diversity.

Anyways, thankfully neither me nor my company is in the USA. If this is the reason why one can't build a diverse workplace, you built a very sad country.
Quick google: Presently, cable replacement designs are being developed for three suspension bridges in the United States. All three are important river crossings at or near a major metropolitan area and must remain open to traffic during construction. These cable replacement designs will need to overcome myriad difficulties, including cable support at the existing tower tops and placement of new anchorages within restricted available spaces. Alternatives will include placing the new cables above or adjacent to the existing ones. The construction procedures and load transfer sequencing is a critical part of the design. The new cables will need to be erected in their free position and will undergo substantial deformations as the load is transferred to them. Additionally, the existing cables and towers will undergo their own deformations, as will the bridge superstructure as it is released from the old and supported by the new suspension system. The work will require extensible hangers to accomplish the load transfer, and all operations must be coordinated to limit changes in the roadway geometry and stresses in the superstructure, towers and suspension components.
No matter which service provider you choose, always backup your important data. Simply changing service providers won't make your data safe.
What's your supply capacity on these masks? I have a friend who works in a medium-sized hospital system in the South, and we talked about using snorkelling masks back in May. (They were reusing one N95 mask for 10 days per person.) I was surprised no one had repurposed snorkelling masks yet.

I sent him the link. If he gets back to me and his hospital system is interested, perhaps we could arrange a call. Would your HN profile email be okay for reaching out?
It looks much less intimidating than my Honeywell North full facepiece respirator, which I've worn in public.
In what ways are stablecoin issuance similar to traditional banking services?
Some of the SEC's objections to Bitcoin ETFs revolved around the possibility of market manipulation due to the markets being small, unregulated, and overseas. If the index is constructed in a way that resists manipulation by unregulated overseas exchanges, and if it is used as the basis for other products like options in regulated domestic markets that gain significant trading volume, then it could go some way toward addressing the SEC's concerns.
Seldom mentioned but I love KeeWeb, it‘s a beautiful keepass compatible alternative.
Is this accurate? That seems insane.
I mean it seems reasonable for Google to expunge inactive accounts, but does this mean not using your account (damn near unavoidable these days, esp. with chrome wanting it), or is just not using photos/gmail sufficient?
Toward an Ungraded CS50 [pdf]
Amazon S3 Update: Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
Millennials - the most amorphous generation
John Gruber isn't wrong, but he's still a fucking idiot ivory tower moron.
Do people think Bezos is setting up company stores? What is the point of these posts except to excuse bad behavior?
Just as an aside, you cannot build the Bitcoin blockchain overnight as well - because of proof of work and network effects of bitcoin full nodes. That gives it "value". It's function is to serve as that - a store of value.
Likewise, so many amazing memories lost. I wish I could look back to how naive and childish I was at the beginning of my time online.
Congrats to your brother! We can share in both their grief and their joy, as we've suffered through multiple miscarriages too.
Thanks for a really balanced comment. Just on the ability to customise point - I've always thought that the Mac strikes a good balance - most things I want to change I can (including what is shown in the Finder sidebar) but also things that I really shouldn't be spending my time on I can't. Much as I like much of the linux distros I've tried I spend too much time tinkering!
Headline seems inaccurate/ misleading to me. Quote from Google in the article:

> If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos

Honestly that seems far more generous than I’d expect — why should Google (or any other company) be expected to store your data indefinitely if you stop paying them?
She is defining herself and her existence using critical theory, and so her perception of experiences is filtered through that world view. That will always create a "toxic" environment, not to mention just make a person miserable to be around.

Critical theory is useful for the purpose of study and quantification of different social bias, norms, tends, values, or whatever other social aspect you want to slice up. The problem is when people use those divisions to identify themselves. It forces people to identify with a certain group, when in reality the divisions are often not nearly as clear cut as they are defined. But over time people are pressured socially into moving closer to how their group is defined, and what may have once been a false dichotomy becomes a self fulfilling prophesy of sorts; where the social interactions are entirely defined by "my tribe" vs "their tribe". My tribe is all good, theirs is all bad, therefor we are justified in treating everybody in their tribe as less than human. Even is cases where there is very real injustice and evil taking place, allowing oneself to be defined by these groups does nothing to resolve the problem. It only serves to shore up divisions and conflict between groups, making it worse.

It is unfortunate that the admonition to "love your neighbour as yourself" is no longer held with high regard.