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Generally, the only way to make outsized returns in the market is to go against market expectations, otherwise you would just make market returns.

So yes, a bet on crypto is a bet against the market consensus, sort of by definition :)
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Welcome to equal outcome hiring. This disease has plagued SV for the past 5 years.
This title is not accurate; she told Google she would resign unless certain conditions were met, and her offer was accepted with immediate effect.
1. With DLSS 2.0 you can get 120+ fps in a lot of things on the 3080 @ 4k

2. No one need do anything except die, but shaving a few ms of response time is nice for productivity. No one thing is critical but making sure you have a keyboard, mouse, monitor, refresh rate, and programs that aren't throwing latency out the window makes for an overall nice feeling system.
Because it is almost certainly being used to artificially pump the price of BTC up.

The only question is: "has the market priced this in, so the current price is a floor and we're waiting for USDT to fall away", or "has the market not priced this in and a major shock will happen when that shoe drops?"
I think they're referencing PLA, polylactic acid. It takes a while to fully break down, but it still does degrade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid
> The US has historically been one of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in North America.

That seems like a very US-lib centric POV where the US is a cartoonish evil-dooer.

In my experience Mexico is pretty much just as bad, even more so in different ways too - classism, racism, anti-indigenous sentiment, Malinchismo, rampant feminicide, etc.
A store of value is just one aspect to what makes money, money. It also has to be a medium of exchange and a standard of value. Bitcoin's value changes so wildly that it cannot be a standard (right now) and no one uses it to buy things.

Everyone is investing in bitcoin on the promise that its going to be so much more useful than dollars, in the hopes that they will make a lot of... dollars? Do you see the contradiction? If they think it's going to be so much better than dollars what are they going to do with their long term investment dollars if, in the long run, bitcoin surpasses them?

Don't use economics terms to explain the usefulness of bitcoin when economics itself disagrees.
None, since it would probably be deemed infeasible. I think the tendency of engineers to extrapolate "rules" to extreme cases creates a lot of noise. Rules in law, business, and society are not the same as rules in engineering - they allow for subjectivity.
It’s enough for many of the people who actually buy Macs.
Yep.

The thing that bothered me more than anything about this is that you aren't allowed to ask for any type of verification, so people can just walk in with them anywhere. Never made sense to me.

At least to park in a handicap space you need a hang tag or a special license plate. Why not something simple like a special collar tag or card in your wallet?
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> That's how it is supposed to work.

Are you sure? Even primary school bullying is better, at least you can see the abuser.
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These things seem to play out like clockwork. Progressive companies hire social justice warriors into vague ethics or policy roles, let them hire their activist friends, shower them with fast track careers and promotions. It's good optics, the progressives like it because it makes them feel better about working at big techs.

Said hires have thus far, as far as I can tell, not produced anything of substantial value to any of these companies. They nevertheless become increasingly emboldened and misinterpret their situation. After all, no-one dares criticise them, they are showered with feel-good publicity. The only thing they need to do is keep their end of the deal.

Until they overstep, get fired, and cause drama by claiming everything that happened to them was due to discrimination, and not because they are toxic and disruptive.

I think this is all a good thing because it may alert some executives to the price for hiring activists into research roles.

Edit: Should add that I am purely talking about the power dynamics here, not research impact or the question of whether AI policy is an interesting subject. It is, I am just observing that it has not driven particular value to companies when compared to the negative publicity these dramas cause.
Good sources, keeping in mind that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
It's the ultimatum part that makes the difference.
Most politicians are still only technically on Twitter, continuing the Obama-era style of very careful and boring tweets. The only three I can think of that are 100% live tweeting like humans (regardless if they're humans you like) are AOC, Ted Cruz, and of course Trump.
I worked with two other ERP class systems that did this, one using Oracle (with an Oracle Forms/Reports front-end), the other PostgreSQL.

I can confirm your experience. There's no doubt that stored procedure/function based business logic requires a certain discipline, knowledge set, and the ability to get a team in marching in the same direction. But if you can achieve the organizational discipline to make it work there are definite advantages, especially in the ERP space.

And that may well be differentiator... those of us working with more traditional business systems have trade-offs that you won't find in a startup. For example, a COTS ERP system is more likely to not really be a single "application", but a bunch of applications sharing data. This means a lot of application servers, integrations, etc., not all from the people that made the ERP, needing access to the ERP data. The easiest integration is often at the database, especially since you can have technology from different decades (and made according to the fashions of their time) needing to access that one common denominator. Since many ERP systems are built on traditional RDBMSs, and talking to those doesn't change much over long periods of time... having the logic be there to make these best of breed systems work sensibly with the ERP can be very helpful. All that said, in this context I'm an advocate of the approach.

Now, take a team that maybe has a high churn, sees the database as some dark and frighting mystical power that can only safely be approached with an ORM, or a team that thinks their "cowboy coding" is their core strength (if perhaps not that thought directly) and database based business logic certainly has many foot-guns. But, there are really few technologies that don't suffer without a good well-rounded, consistent approach.
I believe even now hundreds of millis latency is quite enough for military applications, not even speak of 90's.

There's also a caveat: currently a satellite should have a ground station in view to relay data. It is rarely the case in areas of military activity.
They’re faster than other Macs.
I think the issue isn't emissions in that case but a "amount of land space necessary for landfills for traditional plastic" vs. "amount of land space necessary for plant growth for bioplastic."

If the bioplastic growth land takes up more space by a certain amount than is used to dispose of regular plastic, that's presents its own set of issues.
This is a rude dismissal of an entire field within machine learning and statistics (ethics, bias, and robustness).
This person was advocating for exactly that, so it's no wonder they were fired.
the lack of interest in funding Arecibo at a level to even do maintenance to prevent this from happening suggests we won't bother within that millennium you are allowing.
In what way is a celebrated and highly promoted Stanford, Apple, and later Google alum a marginalized voice?
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1) Admit Trump was right about the coastal elites, then expound upon what they are.

2) Run on draining the swamp.

3) Relay the genuine message of Christ as anti-plutocrat, anti-empire.

4) Build bridges instead of identity judgements.
Why scale it if you think that makes me everything huge? I don't do the scaling and enjoy the extra real estate.
Good for Google. I don't know anything about her, but her debate with Lecun on Twitter was enough for me to know she is toxic. I don't care how good of a researcher she is. The fact they fired her given the current climate shows they actually have balls. I had no idea...

I read her email. You know what's crazy about it? she is talking about Google silencing marginalized voices. She keeps referring to herself as a marginalized voice in the research community! She has a PhD from Stanford, working at one the best places in the world for AI researchers, and she gets more attention than almost any other researcher I know of (she earned it of course). Wake up woman. You're a privileged researcher! If I were making the comments she made to Lecun, no one would even bother to listen, yet alone Lecun actually respond and eventually leave twitter because of that. Give me a break. There's not even one sentence in her email about what is actually the content of her paper that is so controversial. It's just a rant about nothing. Welcome to the real world, companies have policies and once you join them you lose your freedom to do whatever the heck you want. You can go back to academia but no one would pay you what you've been making at Google Research.
I would have just down-voted this, but I hate it when people do that to me rather than actually respond.

In this case, I'm not going to respond in much detail, other than to note that there are 30+ years of writings about affirmative action which get deeply into this issue. Your summary of it is misleading and incomplete.
I've noticed HP has been offering laptops now with AMD processors instead of Intel.
That history is not entirely correct. Typically private enterprise has been against segregation: Think about it, it is pretty expensive to have to maintain two sets of facilities for society. The montgomery bus company was AGAINST segregation when the laws forcing bus segregation were passed. Barry Goldwater donated a ton of money in the early days first NAACP chapter in Arizona in part because segregating his department store would be expensive for operations.

As for Unions, think about it, their major threat is cheap labor from abroad, so the way that they have historically been discriminatory has been in lobbying for anti-immigration and immigration quota (don't know if they still do that as much).
> take supplemental calcium

But if you're male, do not take too much... High calcium intake has been associated with an increased risk of advanced-stage and high-grade prostate cancer [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266887/
"Unions have historically been some of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in the USA."

You're telling much less than half the story, and taking the latter half of the twentieth century in isolation without considering what came before.

U.S. unions with communist and socialist leadership were universally anti-racist in word and very often in deed. Employers often interfered with employee choice of leadership to the benefit of conservative, racist, union leaders as opposed to leftists with anti-racist commitments.

In one of the most flagrant violations of the First Amendment in U.S. history, the Taft-Hartley Act[1] criminalized membership in all manner of left-wing political organization. With the cooperation of union leaders ready to sell out their membership, many of the strongest voices for integration were purged.

Employers and union officials alike had relationships ranging from extortion to open cooperation with organized crime. The relationship between the Hoffa Sr's Teamsters and the mafia was complex, and notorious in part because it was so exceptional.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act#Anti-...
Just go off on a tangent a bit, but isn't "emotional support animal" pretty much the definition of "pet"?
That seems like its not only reasonable, but what her job was. Now if she said, "Do this or I quit" then that is on her. But if she criticized them harshly then that seems completely appropriate.
Having a diverse workforce is very valuable. The paradigm shifts that can come from voices of different backgrounds are invaluable. Can those growing up under racism be considered a skill? seems like a bit of a stretch to me, but it can definitely benefit the employer.
That's interesting. I've done a lot of Qt and GTK development, but it was always a pretty miserable experience. Notably, GTK builds on GObject, which is just a bunch of hacks to emulate object-oriented programming in C to no discernible benefit. Similarly, Qt was (presumably still is?) its own language atop C++, and you needed a special compiler to compile it into vanilla C++. Additionally, because C and C++ build systems are so very terrible (no standard tooling, no dependency management at all, certainly no reproducibility, etc etc), managing projects in these languages was utterly terrible (nowadays I understand that CMake has built-in support for Qt, which speaks to the sadness of the build ecosystem that the build tool has to have first-class knowledge about individual libraries and frameworks). Of course, there were bindings, but bindings never adequately masked the complexity of the frameworks, and with respect to memory management you now had to understand in detail how these frameworks' memory management conventions integrated with the host language's garbage collector or you would see your Python (or whatever) application segfault. And yes, I tried Vala and Gnome's JavaScript offering and everything else available at the time.

I'm guessing that the Windows and MacOS frameworks were less hostile, but it seemed like the web was surely ideal, at least in the last several years. Sure, you had to learn a web framework to build simple applications, but you could at least use a high level language with a reasonably sane package manager (for those who haven't developed in C or C++, it might come as a surprise that JavaScript and NPM are "sane" tools) and a reactive programming model.

I guess I'm not sure if my expectations for web development are too high or if GTK and Qt are especially bad representatives of native development.
I tried bitwarden when 1Password changed to subscription because it is cheaper but at least on OS X the 1Password app is so mich better I simply paid the 60.
I feel like if you say you're going to quit unless some conditions are met, you're explicitly accepting the possibility of going out the door. That is, you can't employ this only rhetorically, it doesn't work that way. I don't know what the conditions were, and in a lot of ways there is important information being tactically withheld here, so it's hard to say for certain.

But generally, unless you yourself are really really important to the company, you should prepare for it not to go your way. And it's going to be rare in a huge place like Google, with tons of people they could put in your place, for a person to be that important. Maybe this person is, I'm unfamiliar. But as far as I can see this doesn't seem outrageous on Google's part.
I'm glad you included that last sentence.

The West includes the Amish, where inheriting your father's farm, and with it a centuries old tradition, is the norm.

Meanwhile, Japan underwent modernity just like everyone else, and there, the modal (male) life story is: get a lifetime job straight out of college, and work insane hours for the rest of your life, or don't, and never get a job worth having.

There's a lot to learn from Japan, particularly about excellence in craftsmanship, and it's easy to romanticize this, particularly for those of us from countries which are only a couple hundred years old.

But I've been to a pub in Nottingham, ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, which claims to have been founded in 1189 (superb ale by the way). Swiss watchmakers, French cognac distillers, Chartreuse, even Harvard: all of these things are closer to that tradition of continuity and and craftsmanship than the starving artist stereotype.
I get that 100 years sounds like a long time, but the coal miners unionization stories are my grandfather's. Things change fast and it is good to keep the past in mind when evaluating the decisions we make today.
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I use both Microsoft Office 97 and LibreOffice for writing. The former runs on virtualized Windows Me. The latter runs "native".

Keypress responsiveness when typing is night and day, and given where I'm posting this comment, you can guess who has the advantage.

Platform: GNU(Linux)Mint Xfce
>Gold does no useful work and produced no measurable output

What? Gold us physically useful and relatively scarce, THAT is why it has value.

You are acting like people just got together and said "hey, let's take this useful hunk of garbage and assign it some value to see how rich we all are".
I know I'm preaching to the choir for this, but it's stuff like this that makes me absolutely adore Unix and its entire design. The fact that virtually everything has a file abstraction greatly simplifies a lot of work.
Good point, but begs the question; how fix?

maybe there is a market for JUST data migration/storage/translation service?

Such that you can be a data miration/router first hop - and then pipe to AWS/GCP/MS at will - then an overlay which launches the overlay infra on demand depending on which rout you want to take...? Layer 9
No, this is more like giving two weeks' notice and then being asked to leave the building immediately. It's not pleasant but it also isn't the same as being fired. Google called her bluff here.
> but it is really hard to sell this kind of software.

It's hard to sell software just on speed, but it is an integral part of good UX (that feeling of a good, light weight, robust piece of software that is there to help instead of hinder). I for one desire that a lot and I think many others do too (see the success of Apple).
Please ignore. It was completely tongue-in-cheek. Great idea and implementation.
While I do agree with you that technically this is correct, the issue has quite a bit of nuance.

It's a hell of a lot easier for a white male to pick up those skills because of culture and society than it is for most other groups of people.

I think there's a lot that can be done to help minority groups succeed and I'm a little less concerned about what's "fair" to white males like me.
You shouldn't be as close to the laptop screen as to the big monitor. And at larger distances the pixel densities can be lower.
Support bat. And this how a new pandemic starts.
> The only question that needs to be answered is "do masks reduce the spread of this virus?"

A mask mandate means that police can now force you to wear a mask in various situations, with fines and possibly jail time if you do not comply.

For such a drastic measure, we need a lot more evidence that masks are a net positive, and such a large net positive that it warrants such a strong measure of violence.

"It can't hurt" is absolutely not enough evidence. "They probably do" is absolutely not enough evidence. Your correlations are absolutely not evidence at all.

It's perfectly fine to recommend them, encourage them, or do information campaigns about them. Let people make their own informed choices. And if you think masks are fantastic, and that people who aren't wearing them are assholes, stay away from those people then! It's so simple.
Her point is more than that. I think that she was trying to say that ML systems have an inherent bias that is independent of their data.

This is a consequence of the fact that it's not possible to do generalization, and thus learning, without bias to begin with. What an AI researcher does when deciding which architecture is essentially tuning the bias in the generalization system in order to produce better results, which is not in and of itself bad, and is indeed unavoidable.

By bias, I mean really anything that means that the function g() is used over the function h(). In practice this can be anything from the seed for the random values, to the choice of activation function, to the architecture of the network, and so on.

If the architectures are selected for their performance on dataset y, then it is possible that even when trained on dataset x, they retain some of the bias of dataset y, because their generalization bias, which is architectural, was tuned for dataset y. This is, admittedly, a theoretical result, and it's not clear that it applies in every case, but it is a solid point.

For that reason the point that benchmarking against non-biased datasets is important was made, and thus that there is more to bias than the final dataset used for training during deployment. Therefore, it's not only a responsibility of the engineering community, but also of the scientific community.

I've posted it somewhere here already, but here's a nice paper that explains the point that there is more to bias than simply the dataset : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/pubs/NeedForBias_1980.pdf

Interestingly enough, this is true of all learning systems, including humans, and is a proof of why it's impossible to be completely unbiased in really anything.
On-die memory is pretty much their one ace in the hole that nobody else will have the guts to match. Intel can't because their fabs are behind, and AMD probably doesn't have the resources to fork their architectures and/or piss off the server integrators.

I can't live without 64GB in my desktop and would love to have more, so the new Macs are not for me.
But we have to realise that the common situation here is a corporation against a single individual. How is it comparable to a cartel of corporations?
Well, selection and GMO are well mastered. Marijuana was optimized a lot where the laws where loose enough for the market to allow, the mob competitors were far enough and ecosystem conditions were not originally optimal.
Built to “excite plasma balls” sounds like it would be creating plasma balls if it’s own. It was used as a scatter radar to study plasma in the upper atmosphere.
Gold’s scarcity is certainly not unalterable. Gold can be destroyed, increasing its scarcity. Plus we already have the technology to create gold out of other elements in a particle accelerator, decreasing its scarcity. That process happens to be prohibitively expensive, but there is no guarantee it remains so. The scarcity of cryptocurrencies and gold both depend on the actions of other people.
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> We should hire by skill alone

Since you can't actually calculate someone's skill, all you can do is hire on an attempted measurement of skill. And if you find reasons to think that your measurement of skill has inaccuracies, you'd probably be better off taking that into account when evaluating a candidate.
Yes. Also in Contact. And you could blow it up in Battlefield 4.
The only ugly thing I see is your comment.

Edit: I've now read the rest of the thread and the above is no longer true.
It is surprising she was not fired long ago.
I suppose Timnit was usually rewarded for such an attitude, chock full of victim based language.

"after all the micro and macro aggressions and harassments I received"
"does it just happen to people like me who are constantly dehumanized?"
"Silencing marginalized voices like this is the opposite of the NAUWU principles which we discussed"
"the next day I get some random “impact award.” Pure gaslighting"
"Writing more documents and saying things over and over again will tire you out but no one will listen."
>It's good optics, the progressives like it because it makes them feel better about working at big techs.

>Said hires have thus far, as far as I can tell, not produced anything of substantial value to any of these companies.

These two statements are at odds with each other.
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No one got fired here. Offering to resign was a huge mistake.