skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they? Because i have yet to see any numbers that aren't clearly the result of a massively streamlined SoC. Yes the ARM chip is great, but the RAM is blazing, tiny, and more close to the ARM chip than anything out there for x86, right?

I'll be interested to see if Apple can keep this up with 128GiB of RAM and a beefy GPU.

So far to me M1 is great, ARM is great, but comparing a tiny amount of RAM soldered onto the CPU compared to flexible and huge RAM potential devices seems dishonest. Unless Apple manages to squeeze 128GiB of RAM on their chip, at least.

I want to see what my Blender workstation looks like on Apple's Architecture. Where i purpose built a huge CPU, GPU, and RAM for Blender rendering and large scenes. I suspect Apple will start seeing huge falloffs in the SoC design under larger workloads.

Apple is dominant in making phones though. And this Laptop is designed like a Phone. So yea, it's amazing for that.
What? No, but that's my point. Even a company like Amazon was locked-in to a vendor. I'm not saying people should build their own databases but that this is a move in the right direction.
> X86 is the most open architecture right now.

x86 is not "Open" in any fashion. You can't license x86 even for a fee, let alone free.

While ARM isn't open either, it is by comparison far more available to license at reasonable cost.

> ARM, on the other hand, has locked bootloaders

It also has open/ unlocked boot loaders. One of the advantages of licensable technology like this is you can have a lot of different architectures with the same underlying core. With x86, you get whatever the Intel/ AMD duopoly decide to ship you.
Here are a bunch of promising software companies worth joining, competing with, partnering with:

https://www.aurorasolar.com/
https://utilityapi.com/
https://www.folsomlabs.com/
https://www.sighten.io/
https://www.energytoolbase.com/
https://home.alsoenergy.com/

Climate change is (often/best seen as) an economic problem. Companies that cut the cost of renewable energy are the ones that matter. Soft cost reduction (as opposed to silicon wafers, transformers, etc.) is the best place for software to make a difference.
Chart: Most and least trusted professions in Britain
As soon as someone uses the phrase "social justice warriors" you know they the rest of the argument isn't going to have any substance.
Bullying is a frequent and horrible experience at schools, but it also happens to many kids who don't skip a grade. Do you believe that skipping a grade increases the risk?

It seems that, statistically, skipping a grade is a positive experience for gifted kids. (Sorry, can't find the link to research now.) I also skipped a grade, and I have no complaints. I spent less time in the pathological environment of the educational system, and still had the same credentials at job market.

Maybe it matters which grade you skip. I think the strategic choice is the last grade in given school. So you don't end up as the only new kid in an existing class, but are simply one new kid among many.
I can't speak for Google Brain specifically, or AI/ML (I do InfoSec). Perhaps there is a need for discussing the Google Brain project specifically from a woman's point of view.

But when I hear about a 'Google Brain Women and Allies' distro, I'm more thinking about peers which discuss things which impact them. I wouldn't get too hung up about the 'Google Brain' portion of the distro; it's likely just a way to self-select a group of peers which share a common interest.
Y'all are alleging that it was phrased as an ultimatum. I'm not so sure that's the case. Proposing an option of resigning is not the same thing as "I will definitely resign".
Bitcoin is probably not the best case study for this aspect of the conversation, but I suppose you have a fair enough point. Although to be clear, I am thinking of the assets more like commodities than speculative stocks or equities. I do not mean to suggest that traditional servers are going to go away or become obsolete any time soon, but after you get past the cryptocurrency hype in the headlines there really is a huge amount of potential for the technology. This is definitely what long-term investors are considering and why this is even a topic here.
Although the language she used in the email may not be what’s expected by a manager, I choose to be sympathetic.

Obviously, this is a person which is very passionate about her research. She’s also a Black woman; given US history, there’s a probability that she was discriminated against during her life — maybe, multiple times. If not her, maybe some of her relatives were. Sure, this is hypothetical and does not excuse her attitude — but try to put yourself in her shoes.

It’s easy for us to reason about it, and think about how we would have dealt with it differently. Maybe she was in a bad place, or felt that she was being discriminated against.

She’s also a human being like me and you so — yes — maybe it’s not about racism and discrimination. Maybe she’s just entitled.

Either way, Google’s HR should’ve done better. It’s easy to let anger or exasperation get the hang of you. They should’ve scheduled a call to discuss everything calmly.
Yahoo disables auto email forward feature for free accounts
I’m honestly astonished that this is a selling point. Sure, fewer steps sounds nice... but in addition to your (correct) point about friction when adding dependencies, it’s also a security and compatibility nightmare. And it likely makes using tools like typescript an exercise in frustration if it’s even possible.

Edit: I’d also add that npx has all of the same problems multiplied by being even less frictionful.
Were they hired for that? Or were they hired because - at best, management don't know what else to do to plug a hole in quotas that exists outside their ability to fix, or at worst, it looks good and - they believe - pacifies the critics?
FTA, 'Trade group Airlines for America'... how many trade groups are there? What does it take to form one? What kind of influence do they carry?
I calculated excess deaths based on the data provided by their stat agency in an excel table, and I got roughly 5000. This is a lot for a 10 million country, and it could have been avoided. They should have negative excess death this year, following the trend of last several years.
UCF-managed Arecibo telescope collapses in Puerto Rico
The fact that reviewers of M1 chips are also saying things like "Safari is faster than Chrome" or "iOS is faster than Android" do make the other statements on M1 lose credibility.

"Safari is faster than Chrome" NOPE
Now that IE is gone, Safari is the new IE by being the last not-ever-green browser always behind in features.
So many benchmarks again and again proved Chrome and Firefox to be faster than Safari.

"iOS is faster than Android" NOPE
It just depends on the device. Of course the latest iPhone is faster than a 300$ mid-low range Android device.
Pick the top Android devices vs iPhones and you will see it's a tough race with no clear winner.
Close finish in brain-computer interface race at world's second cyborg Olympics
Thanks everyone. Looks like 1Password is winning based on the comments so far.
Fair enough - and indeed, the Lunar delta-v needed is usually quite small. Apparently Chang'e 5 sample module needed just 1,67 km/s to reach lunar orbit for example.

Still, I think there are definitely cases where atmosphere helps (even if it causes issues elsewhere).

So even if you used propulsive breaking to get captured into orbit of a body with atmosphere for safety reasons, you can still capture into a very eccentric orbit & then carefully use aerobraking (as demonstrated many times at Mars already) to lower and circularize your orbit before landing. And with a bit better aerosurfaces you could even use the atmosphere to tune your orbits inclination as needed.
I would see films in cinemas if I could be guaranteed a calm uninterrupted experience. A big problem for me is people talking, using phones etc. I don’t want to spoil their evening either by making a scene I think it’s just I’m no longer a cinema person - and yes I’ve tried art house places too!
A lot of ethicists on twitter today saying they thought Google was ethical because of one person. Which is just wild
Stripe Invoicing is purpose built for exactly that problem: serving enterprise customers who don't want to use a card for payment. While I think Treasury or Treasury+Connect could help in a pinch, Invoicing is likely the best solution with the smallest implementation lift.
Graph Neural Network and Some of GNN Applications – Everything You Need to Know
Monitors like LG27GL850 are 1440p 144hz with great color repro. Not ultra-wide, but ultra-wide is not something I personally value
TLDR: Author believes (perhaps rightfully) that the M1 review from perenial Apple skeptic Patrick Moorhead is wrong.
That's one of the worse takes possible about this situation.

Her role is specifically created to hold her employer to account when they are using bad practices. Her opposition to particular policies enacted in the company is literally part of her job description.
They need to check the alloy, if it is the same in all three cases.
Out of curiosity, have you benchmarked this against some of the more standard NN libraries running on CPU?
1000 citations is A LOT. I think the person you're responding to is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Popular people get quoted regardless if their paper is actually impactful and that it's, unfortunately, often a popularity contest. People are lazy and only read/cite popular papers
> This happened to me last year. I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google

Self entitlement or she forgot she was just an employee, and not some sort of independent tribal leader fighting google from the inside.
Congratulations, you've invented the Molly Maguires.
> so... I guess you're tired of it?

I'm not.

Many other rhetorical moves have a lot of politics to muddle through / implicit assumptions that can be disavowed in bad faith, etc. I don't like to engage in that kind of discussion at all.

But the "I'm so tired" bit is both condescending (and it takes... something... to condescend to Yan LeCunn) and evasive. The end result is authoritarian -- look man, this is decided and settled, you haven't kept up.

Calling this out is interesting because it evidences on the contrary that the discussion isn't settled at all, and that she's unable or unwilling to frame it in a convivial manner that's conducive to progress.

I sit out of conversations I'm tired about.
Tangential question: how do rippers handle streaming-exclusive content these days? Just run a screen-capture program while streaming the video? I was thinking some fidelity would be lost, at least compared to ripping from the source Blu-Ray.

(though obviously better than secret cam footage in the theater, if people still do that these days)
IntelliJ Rust: Updates for 2020.3
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears to be Stripe trying to take make inroads with Plaid's existing services?

Is it just me, or is this expansion of Stripe's functionality a bit concerning? It goes without saying, that now Stripe will be able to clamp down and censor banking AND payment activity they deem inappropriate or allowed by their banking partners?
very helpful. thanks.
Or insubordination.
Overall it's quite a bright time for (radio) astronomy. The number of telescopes and sensing ability only increases with time. Just this year alone, a large clone of Arecibo, FAST, just became fully operational. Other telescopes like the SKA are still in construction. In the future decades, we'll likely build even more and even larger telescopes.
Actually, they don't need to be licensed. The only thing a business can ask is what tasks is the service dog trained to be formed.

I do think it would be better off for everyone if there was a license though. I've known people with legitimate service dogs who have had that opinion even. They wish they had a document to prove their legitimacy, as they are constantly asked for a document that doesn't exist.
Uptime Is for Amateurs
No, you know they come from a certain viewpoint that has increasing common cause with people fed up with the excesses of the left.

They may be wrong, but it's a valid coinage that has worryingly become mainstream enough to be both a cliche and indicative of something deeply wrong with our society.
ISRO sings NDA with spacetech startup Agnikul
Google Maps direct messaging: New ways to connect with your customers
There are a lot of products build as a business function that are successful without putting focus on UX initially. Product Design is about balance, you cannot design without quantitive analysis of available technology and put your eggs in one basket. For me this is somewhat naive. Article lacks specific use cases and house analogy is bad example in my view.
Disclaimer: I am designer.
ArchLinux is not defined by the ArchLinux ISO ? it will be arch as long as it installs packages from the arch repos, which is what those installer do. So you just burn this iso to an usb and be happy: https://gitlab.com/anarchyinstaller/installer/-/releases
Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning – Pytennis Case Study
Hopefully Bezos and Blue Origin can get New Glen on the launch pad soon. It is the only viable competitor to SpaceX that I see at the moment. One other possibility is for some company in China to appear on the scene.

Elon Musk has said he would love some competition because it helps increase the pace of progress. He even tried that internally for a bit by developing StarShip in two locations for awhile. I heard him in an interview saying that SpaceX might have too many great engineers and that it would be better for his goal of a city on Mars to have them spread over many companies.
Well it is all theme park style (not too surprising since it was inspired by the pirates of the caribbean ride). MI1 : map seller, MI2: parents picking up the kids, alleyway like the alleys in MI1
I honestly think CBDCs are complementary to Ethereum, Bitcoin, etc.
Not OP, but imo the classic thought is that your managerial influence is directly correlated with the count and quality of employees under you. In this sense, silos get built not quite for specialization, but because your individual managerial incentive is to try to grow you and yours at the expense of (internal) competitors for a fixed budget; interoperation can be a direct threat to your influence and growth.

A famous study of behavior like this might be Kodak, and how internally the film "silo" crushed the digital "silo".
I know folks in the AI ethics team.

The only reason that department exists is because it was regulated into existence.

So, no, Google does not particularly care about AI ethics. They care about not getting harangued by the US government.
A couple questions here - I am assuming that planes are only at 50% usage now, so they obviously age but less hours right? Does that change how long they are kept so that you need less replacements?
"Rules in law, business, and society are not the same as rules in engineering - they allow for subjectivity."
Thanks for sharing this thought.
> “Actually you can’t trust anybody and all viewpoints are equally suspect” isn’t as enlightened as you think.

Only trusting viewpoints that agree with your personal biases isn't enlightened, either.

> "In this specific case Apple and Samsung have been proven dishonest and manipulative"

is an unvarnished falsehood. The throttling wasn't across the board, it was triggered in specific circumstances related to the state of the battery. There was never any evidence that this was a scheme to defraud customers.
Are unions armed protection?

Anyway, the idea is to have a coordinator that work on your benefit. Companies, even the large ones are simply people coordinated by the capital owners.

The not-union is a coordinator for the people who are not the capital owners but those who deal with the capital owners.

The aim is to assist for a fair deal through information, not to extort the capital owners.
To be fair to Firebase, they have a lot more functionality in their client libraries than ours. But they are definitely bloated, and I think they are working on reducing their bundle sizes. This is something we are very cognisant of - we will keep our bundles modular and easy to tree-shake (keeping admin functions separate).

> the primary buttons on the website has an easily fixable contrast problem

Thanks for the fix! We'll merge tomorrow, because the whole team is asleep..
It's surprising to many but there's a HUGE market for green-stamping and pink-stamping certain projects, by which I mean corporations can tout environmental certifications or credentials or social justice certifications and credentials to their customers and clients.

If SC Johnson, for example, can claim that they are helping the environment and they are 100% offsetting all their carbon waste or something like this, and some hi-fi firm in SF is willing to certify them with a bunch of credentialed researchers, it has huge rewards for the company. I'm willing to bet the same is true for "equity" and other things under the umbrella of AI Ethics.
I have never abused this, but I have flown with dogs a few times. It is such a huge pain in the ass. To make things worse, a lot of airline reps (you often have to call to book) really have no idea what the real rules are. Some legs have cage size restrictions, some airports have temp controlled areas, some don't (so you have to pay attention to the weather at lay overs)... the list goes on.
i'm not scientist, just independent researcher.

healthy means able to digest food, absorb nutrients, and handle foreigners without much immune system involvement.

i keep mine healthy by avoiding preservative chemicals and processed food in general, avoiding antibiotics unless i really need them (tick bite), fasting, eating fermented and rotting food, avoiding stress, eating dirt, swimming in ocean, not going overboard with cleanliness.

most bacterial infections with undesirable results, eg strep throat, resolve for me with a 2-day water fast supplemented with raw onion and garlic and lemon.

in addition to gut, there are biomes everywhere else. i don,t use soap or any other "products" on my body. i only use one soap for all my soapy needs, one made traditionally (bronners solid as of 2020)
With the decline in Usenet traffic, that's much less of a problem nowadays. I haven't seen any spam in comp.lang.lisp for the last 2 years at least. It's pretty much all signal, and mostly high quality too.
Frozen turkeys fare perfectly well in regular checked luggage. High altitude is cold, so you don't need a cooler. One year long ago I celebrated Thanksgiving in a nation that has no turkeys...
Nice, but there is a bug! When pressing spacebar in Chrome broser on linux os, it actually moves whole background upside down not just blocks. Example; https://i.imgur.com/XgpW1Qe.png
"Oops, your outgoing bandwidth is now 1000x more expensive"
I've always gone cheap for personal use and the last 3 MacBooks Pros I've purchased were i3/i5 8GB models, and never have had perf/memory issues (even with 2 users logged in)

Work provides i7/i9 with maxed out RAM and honestly don't see a night and day difference in performance.
Never taken drugs or even smoked but bravo Colombia! We should decriminalise/legalise drugs.
No, "I'm so tired" means that it's an argument they have replied to before. She has written dozens of research papers, some of which probably contained arguments other than repetition of "you're a racist and a bad person".

You of course know about this, or would now about this considering she is called an "AI researcher at Google" in the title of this tread. So the only lazy and un-constructive criticism is to assume she has not made any arguments beyond your one-line caricature of what you believe her to be.
Yeah, some of my co-workers previously worked at banks and I've interviewed candidates who've done SW dev at banks. Sounds freaking horrible. 1) java based, 2) consistent stories of "provisioning a vm" taking weeks or months, 3) incredibly boring work.
I'm just so happy that HN has lost its hard edged anarcho-captialist bent. T_T
https://www.reddit.com/r/verizon/comments/8nvh91/att_iphone_...
The Last of Us Part II's in-game character facial animation
I agree that her tone is not good, indeed. It's true that this is a big problem on Twitter especially. I still think it is an interesting and under-discussed point, though.
How does one get a job as a Pinkerton agent? Not that I'd want one, but I can't imagine the job posting/how they approach it. Security team?
In my opinion, Apple "derisked" high-performance ARM chips with the A9-ish era five years ago. Other companies have had a long time to spend catching up to Apple mobile chips, and they haven't.
We've been hard at work with lots of great features for TimescaleDB 2.0, which should be GA in the next couple of weeks which makes multi-node available for anyone to use!

There is a branch for PostgreSQL 13 support available for beta testing if you want to build it yourself. It's important to us and we'll focus on completing that integration soon!

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/pull/2498
There's settings other than 100% and 200%. Set it to 125%. Or 150%.
And if you're unlucky enough to be in the bottom 50% of programmers that can't make it through the Facebook interviews, you can at least make 1/3 as much.
That sounds reasonable on the surface, but actually it's even worse.

Groups are just sets of individuals. And "boons" are punishment if they are forced.

So to adjust the example: a group of people who look like my father killed a group of people who look like your father. What is my punishment?

It sounds absurd because group identity is absurd.

Are there individuals who need help? Let's help them. We do already, but we can do more.

Are there individuals committing crimes of real violence? Let's stop them.

That's not absurd at all.
Correct, smaller arrays are superior, cheaper and less susceptible to single-point failure modes.
The Pitfalls of Language Runtimes and Multi-Tenant Services
The white men, where she used both their skin colour and gender in a derogatory manner, were accused of trying to shutdown minorities. I would be very surprised if those men did anything with an intent to squash minorities. They were most likely making business decisions to further Google's intent.
Not only this, but the cartels are literally shooting at government armed forces and effectively able to keep them at bay (hell, this even happens in Mexico). I did say

>>> The cartels are big enough that the government can't fight them

Maybe I should have said "the cartels are big enough that the government is ineffective at fighting against them"

Which is more of an observation than anything else. Guerilla tactics are hard to fight against, as every America should be well aware of considering Vietnam and all our campaigns into the Middle East. "More powerful" wouldn't be the right descriptor here and is why I didn't use it. But they are gaining more power and subsequently the Colombian government is having a more difficult time combating them.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that we've been using one tactic for 50 years and it hasn't worked. Though it does take a genius to figure out the solution to the problem. I'm not sure that legalization is the solution but I'm not sure it isn't either.
Yep "Google is going after black women" except she said "Please comply with several demands or I'll work on an exit date from this company"