skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the paper was critical of large language models: https://www.fastcompany.com/90582375/timnit-gebru-google-fir...

The original article has been updated with Jeff Dean's response, while a member of Gebru's team (who still works at Google Brain) states that Dean's email is misleading and inaccurate: https://twitter.com/alexhanna/status/1334579764573691904

As I understand it: The paper had already been submitted to a conference, and the "cross functional team" Dean speaks of basically reviewed it like peer reviewers and said you have to retract it. It sounds like Gebru and her co-authors were not given an opportunity to respond to the criticisms to stave off retraction. If you've experienced peer review, you know that such reviews are by no means a definitive analysis of a paper, and one usually gets the opportunity to respond. Here, it sounds like anonymous internal peer review was used as a hammer to retract it. Dean's descriptions of the criticisms sounds rather pedestrian to me, as a researcher, and I'm sure Gebru and her co-authors would push back on these characterizations.

Honestly, it sounds like the paper was attacking some sacred cows internally. And Gebru's work probably threatened other researchers on other teams. Not unlike traditional peer review mind you, but at least one can usually post in on arXiv without worrying about this.
They did it to protect the tourists? I don't buy it.
If you like, you can call it the image.

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/domains-codomains-ra...
I loathe the new format where there’s an extra hour or two of fluff to pad Netflix’s statistics about how much content they have. Although I guess it existed with old style TV too to enable them to sell more ad time.

There’s character development, and then gratuitous time wastage. At least we can skip past it nowadays, or just opt out of watching it.

Pendulums swing from one extreme to the other, as always.
Not going to happen anytime soon.
Hi, author here. Just wanted to say I'm really enthusiastic about how the community engaged with this article. Cheers!
> To the advantage of union organisers, mass communication and organisation is a lot easier today.

But that's a double-edged sword. It's also an advantage to employers and businesses. And recent history has shown they have the advantage: they been successful at thwarting union formation (see Wal-Mart, the movie American Factory, etc.) and even labor laws (e.g. Prop 22).
Countless blind tests have shown a noticeable difference up to refresh rates over 100hz (and potentially greater). This is the first of many examples that I found: https://techreport.com/news/25051/blind-test-suggests-gamers...

"The human eye can't tell the difference past 30 FPS" was literally just a thought-killing cliche repeated by console gamers getting into internet slapfights with PC gamers.

You can see the difference for yourself here on any 60hz monitor: http://www.30vs60fps.com/
By just as impressive you mean 40% slower based on these benchmarks.
The broadcast address of a given subnet is "!netmask | hostIp" e.g. if the host IP is 192.168.1.12/24 then it's 192.168.1.12 | 0.0.0.255 = 192.168.1.255. The "human" way of thinking about it is it's the last address in the subnet. The IP4 broadcast address for the current network (even if the client doesn't known what it is) is 255.255.255.255.

Once the packet arrives at the destination subnet (which can be immediately or several routing hops away) it will (in the case of Ethernet) you're right that's to the FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF destination MAC.

In the case of DHCP client <-> server on different subnets there is a special "DHCP relay" role configured in the network and that relay is what handles broadcast to unicast conversions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Pro...
I believe that stop orders are not effective during the after-hours period. This might be because they require a market-maker to actuate, but I'm not sure.
Yeah, I actually had an attachment to filter the exhale valve. I decided to just swap out as soon as they asked rather than explain (because I had a 3M 1860 N95 in my pocket) which seems to have been the right choice since one of them started to get belligerent about the respirator very quickly as I started taking it off. It looks like they're very sensitive to people doing non-standard things.

I'm not even one to argue with people in these situations so I was happy to play along but that attendant seemed eager to escalate.

Perhaps having the extra filters like you recommend might help, but I suspect it wouldn't have. Hope things have improved since then (a month ago on Alaska).
And yet I get pilloried when I dare say that the Bay Area is a bad place to live. The median software dev salary for the US is under $110k. So half the people in the country make less than that, yet even in places with low salaries nationally software developers are well-paid and have no trouble affording housing and growing wealth.
Makes sense to me. It's like charging a fee for smoking. Pets are going to create a certain extra amount of wear and tear, some not easily quantifiable. No matter how clean and well behaved you think your pet is.
There's also the grey area of self-medication.

I generally trust people with physical disabilities to "self-medicate". If someone with a wheelchair says that something will help them live like a normal person, I'm inclined to think they're telling the truth.

But an awful lot of mental health issues are ones where the people tend to make terrible choices when it comes to dealing with their mental health (not every disease, but an awful lot these days). A lot of these disabilities are sustained and enabled by poor coping strategies (e.g. avoiding things they don't like, acting in destructive ways, expecting and getting special treatment, etc).

What about the cases where allowing people to use their mental health as an excuse is making their mental health worse?
That would be the least of my concern while riding a city bus.
This reminds me of a similar, and quite popular, 90's rock song in Australia called "Blue Sky Mine" [0]. It refers to the horrible exploitive activities of CSL on an asbestos mine in the Pilbara region of Australia where they controlled their workers in a similar manner to what you describe here.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Sky_Mine
A lot of companies advertise through newspaper to comply with PERM so they can file a green card application. pretty much an open secret. DOJ is finally looking into this now.
"you may as well be doubling your bet every time you lose at roulette" - in trading it's called DCA or Dollar Cost Averaging. Works ok/good for very long term investments in stable assets like SP500 Index Funds. But for daytrading the rule of thumb is "don't add to your losers". There's a good reason for that.
They aren't launching an index fund though, so 401K accounts that couldn't hold index options would not benefit in any capacity from this product. This product can only be a reference value and also infrastructure for index options launches.
Have been on both sides of this as a renter and landlord, and it's basically an insurance payment. We have all sorts of things for which you need to pay for insurance in order for you to have that thing in your possession. When it comes to pets, basically all apartments will require more cleaning between tenants when a pet occupied the apartment, and for some non-negligible percentage of pets there will be large bills due to accelerated wear and damage.
You are correct. The answer is no Linux on M1.
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The current 24h BTC volume on Coinbase alone is 280M. For comparison TSLA (which is a hot stock) is 60M and GOOG is a miserable 2-3M...

I know you said "most coins" and I think your statement is true, that the bottom 90% are shit coins, but the coins that everyone knows trade at higher volume than many popular stock tickers.
The actions described by this seem to cross the line somewhat clearly. But I always wondered about my former employer, who included the normal postings and the postings for H1Bs in the same places, but it was kinda clear which was which. Same hiring manager for all postings no matter the team, and a much vaguer job description. Like a type of role and some technologies to be experienced with instead of “you will work on team A who makes product B.” Probably on the legal side of the line, but I never would have applied for one of the jobs that wasn’t “for” me, why apply for generic Sr SW position when another job you could tell what team it was and talk to people on it.
I am curious what's special about Zurich that makes it an exception?
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-P...

Portugal is an interesting one. But you pain a one sided story.

So basically problematic usage has gone down. But regular legalized decriminalized recreational usage has gone up. So I picture it like coffee. More addicts everywhere but it's legal. Replace coffee with heroin and it's pretty much the same picture.

Is it better to live in a society where everyone does a cup of heroin in the morning and it's totally normal and no one is dysfunctional or is it better to have the heroin relegated to a few violent problematic users?

It makes sense. You decriminalize a crime you get less crimes. Maybe changing perspectives is the solution but then again maybe not.
Show HN: A picture book written in Python code
This whole area of law is nonsense. Facebook software engineering doesn’t have “positions”. You don’t apply for some specific role. They are hiring thousands of engineers every year, they hire for general software engineering skills, and you figure out what exactly you’re working on afterwards.

Meanwhile, US immigration law assumes that you are hiring one person at a time, and that each person is being hired for a separate “position”. You cannot say, we need 3000 people in this role this year, we have 1000, so we need 2000 more.

It ends up just being incoherent. You have to answer questions like “why are you unable to hire an American” and it’s like... well we are. We’re hiring many many Americans.
It's nice that this is getting some attention, but I hope it results in good policy!

Other stories I've bumped into:

Trump's executive order - I guess this is now defunct:
https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/h1b_visa_change/

US Senate moves to abolish per-country visa caps:
https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/03/fairness_for_high_ski...
I was wondering about that. The Visitor's Center / Museum there was pretty nice.
I think you have it backwards, the old movies would be the draw, the new releases would be the premium. You have to keep people subscribed to the service, well curated old movies would be one way to do this.
On the contrary, I'd say if you're not re-architecting your apps every couple of years then you're at risk of falling behind.

I'm not talking about rebuilding everything from scratch, but making an active effort to do self introspection and ask yourself "we built this app 3 years ago with certain requirements in mind and chose stack X to host it, but a lot has changed in the past 3 years, both in our requirements and in the technology landscape. Should we still be using stack X or does something else fit our needs better?" is unequivocally a good practice.
Right-wing moralists do not control industry.

Right wing moralist and capitalists have aligned themselves with a common enemy, but the capitalists can break that coalition whenever they want, and generally prefer to maintain relations with all major political parties. (Don't underestimate deaccelerationist business support for Biden.)
Sorry, it was in the code repo when he released Bitcoin.
> the M1 as a demonstration of the power of modern ARM chips is absolutely unmatched

I feel like it's more a demonstration of Apple's competency in vertical integration, cultivating talent, reducing the impact of politics on product/technical quality and ensuring productivity within and between technical teams. Aspects where Intel has abjectly failed and hasn't found any solutions for.

Intel has tried repeatedly to push into new areas, but they've failed every time. Meanwhile, Apple has somehow figured out how to push into new market segments successfully in a crazy consistent way and the M1 is a clear indication of how healthy and functional they are as a business. Like, when was their last real failure?
CDC specifically states that transmission occurs with prolonged (15+ minutes) contact in close quarters (less than six feet).

I would love to see confirmed cases of transmission from merely walking by someone when outside.

I seriously don’t get the pull up the mask thing when I walk by someone outside. I’m not going to do it and I have zero expectation the other person do that either.
What about that thread shows she's toxic?
These charts were only about desktop processor sales. I believe there wasn't a single laptop processor in the data, which makes sense as you don't buy laptop processors individually.
What you're referring to happens in Saudi Arabia and Qatar (and used to happen until the mid 2000s in the UAE, when a Federal decree was passed which stated the criminal sentence explicitly).
Saudi Arabia and Qatar haven't abolished the practice.
>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".

Correct. Gold's value in an industrial sense is no different from any other relatively scarce material. This is precisely why gold is not an investment. Its value is simply a group of people assigning a value to something driven in part by scarcity.
"It's fair to credit him in some manner even if he didn't have any direct involvement in this most recent standards doc."
The purpose of an intermediary virtual machine target is that it abstracts away details like that. It's not that registers won't be used at some point, it is about encapsulation, working at the right level of abstraction, and separating it from underlying hardware concerns.
The newest Apple Pencil is apparently around 9ms [1]. It really does fool your brain into thinking something is coming out of the tip.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/3402336/apple-pencil-change...
Front end development inspired by the culinary world
True, but actual service dogs are well trained and will not randomly try to jump on or play with strangers.
The FAA rule here is based on the Air Carrier Access Act, which prohibits airlines from discriminating on the basis of disability, and pretty much leaves it up to the FAA to set applicable regulations.

The FAA is acting under the assumption that this act gives them the ability to regulate differently than the ADA. However many of the changes made in this ruling are actually making the regulations more aligned with DOJ's ADA regulations.

So if a court were to rule that the FAA needs to follow the ADA rules completely the main change would be eliminating the new optional (airlines choice) form requirement for service animals.

Emotional support animals have zero protection under the ADA. They are only recognized under the Fair Housing Act (and is mostly an artifact of caselaw there) and under the FAA regulations being revised here.

Unless/until courts rule that emotional support animals must be allowed as reasonable accomidations in public places under the ADA (rather than just under the Fair Housing Act) I expect this exclusion of ESAs will be allowed to stand.
Mac always works great for me, the hardware (post keyboard fix or pre keyboard problems) is good, so I stick with it.

For 95% of users, Mac just works with the exception of how MS Office programs can be pretty meh on Mac.

I have tried Linux machines at work and at home, and I appreciate the open values of Linux, but I think it's few years before touchpads and multi-screen graphics are really as slick and reliable as Mac for everyone not just HN power users.

The tinkerer in me will buy a Linux machine eventually, but I have tendency to tinker instead of getting things done, which prevents me from going Linux at the moment. Mac OS just works, feels, and looks good by default and gets out of my way.

I am also waiting to see how the next couple of years of CPU wars plays out before committing to a Linux laptop like a ThinkPad with all that stuff soldered in place.

Can't see myself ever going back to Windows which I grew up with. Windows 10 just looks and feels and acts miserable.
Gotta expand broadband and get rid of datacaps first.
If you place stop orders at predictable places (most traders do), they can be the sole reason why you lose money. Overall the market is expert in triggering your stoploss. And no, it's not manipulation or exchanges trying to make you broke - beginner stoplosses are usually super obvious and free money lying around.
> Not only do Facebook’s alleged practices discriminate against U.S. workers, they have adverse consequences on temporary visa holders by creating an employment relationship that is not on equal terms. An employer that engages in the practices alleged in the lawsuit against Facebook can expect more temporary visa holders to apply for positions and increased retention post-hire. Such temporary visa holders often have limited job mobility and thus are likely to remain with their company until they can adjust status, which for some can be decades.

I guess it's good that the Justice Department is openly acknowledging that this is a problem. Maybe we'll see if actually get addressed at some point now.

That being said it feels like a slightly out-of-place comment when much of this allegation is about hiring for jobs as part of the PERM process. If Facebook is purposely going through the PERM process with these employees, it is actively working to remove those un-equal terms. After the PERM process, the employee is free to leave and not remain with the company until they can adjust status.

Yes, the PERM advertising rules are stupid and outdated, but I don't see any evidence here that Facebook didn't follow them.

If the Justice Department wants to go after true abuse of the H1-B program, there are significantly-more-legitimate targets (Tata, Infosys, etc).

I honestly can't believe that this has made me defend Facebook.
I'm a brit, can someone give me an overview of the law on US unions? If one forms, are Amazon compelled to work with them like in European nations? If its still just At Will employment, I don't see how a union would make any difference there, Amazon can (will) just fire everyone who joins and replace them tomorrow right?
Hehe, i see what you did here ;)
I guess it's another form of the medium is the message.

Another effect we seem to be seeing is that streaming seems less inclined to grind out endless seasons of a show until even most of its fans just can't bring themselves to watch any longer. I expect the economics of streaming favor freshness rather than milking a cash cow through a decline when it's got little chance of bringing in fresh viewers.

(Which I think is mostly a good thing while recognizing there have been good series that took a season or more to really find their rhythm and voice.)
It’s pretty infuriating. Everyone abuses the system from people who don’t like walking using the electric carts at grocery stores to this. But everyone (who works) is afraid to confront the person abusing because they don’t want to be sued.
Data of 243M Brazilians exposed online via website source code
Mac whitelisting isn’t to prevent sophisticated actors, it’s to prevent rogue access points by Jane on the front desk.

Certificate based auth is a very good technique, but wifi level auth has no relation to rogue APs, iirc pnac is cert based also and that’s where it makes sense.
>I don't think people particularly care whether something is legal or not when it comes to drugs.

Yeah so instead of hiding it in a locker I leave all over the table and my 9 year old kid comes in and steals it. I'm talking about that ease of access.
You've got it the wrong way round. You start by assuming everything is permitted and then you selectively (and ideally reluctantly) bring the weight of law to bear when you discover that it's a net benefit to society. It's a correction for gross inequalities of power.

That's something the libertarian left and libertarian right surely agree on - minimising the application of the monopoly of force and all that.

So you assume both employers and employees can freely organize and associate. That's your starting point.

Now - we've decided that the right to join a union should be protected (it evens out an existing power imbalance) and that collusion to force down wages should be illegal (because it amplifies an existing power imbalance to the detriment of society at large)
>> A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were given feedback about why. It ignored too much relevant research — for example, it talked about the environmental impact of large models, but disregarded subsequent research showing much greater efficiencies. Similarly, it raised concerns about bias in language models, but didn’t take into account recent research to mitigate these issues.

Plain English translation: she didn't present the results of her research in a light that favours the company's goals.

Once in a while someone posts an article on HN about academia and how doing a PhD is badly paid with few opportunities for stable employment. Then the comments will wonder why people still bother with academia.

Well, this is why. Because, as a rule, if you are a researcher in academia you won't be asked to retract your research because it makes someone look bad.
Sometimes there's more learning in the failure than the success
Keeping People Safe and Informed About the Coronavirus
Exactly, you should always be competing with the market. If you can't beat it, why even trade - just invest and spend time elsewhere.
I wanted to post the same comment but was afraid of the wrath of pet lovers. I have the same concerns regarding pet phobias and allergies.

And to your point about pet sitters or boarding. My family did not choose to get another pet at some point while I was growing up because the cost of boarding while traveling was just too much.

I wish pet culture would be dialed back a few notches on the dial.
Ding ding. Notice to open the Treasury account, you need to specify the bank. Stripe is not owning the accounts, the bank is, so KYC is pushed to them.

EDIT: For those that think that just opening the accounts as Stripe would be a workaround, the answer to that is "beneficial ownership" and is part of KYC.
iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit
I don't really care how many people "milked the system". It's no skin off my nose that they got away with something.

The better question, I believe, is how often flights were disrupted by poorly trained animals. It certainly happened; how much? Then we can at least attempt to compare the benefits against the actual costs.

The impression I get is that a lot of people don't care about the costs. They simply care that there was a rule in place that people circumvented, and they resent that a lot.
It's possible to have American and foreign workers be the winners, and the employers be the looses.
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Correct. The point is no COTS access point does this.
Open-source: Almost one in five bugs are planted for malicious purposes
For me, it's the fact that I'm going "out". It's somewhat of a special occasion.

Similar to the difference between going to a restaurant to eat versus just getting takeout from the same place.
Is that an actual product or a joke page? I can't imagine anyone actually wearing something like that.
Time to Make Coal History
Wow, how strange. I didn't realize MacOS did that. I don't actually use MacOS for anything development-related though (yay Linux), so it doesn't affect me. We're also not using these IDs in filenames, though I could see how one might want to do so.
>Which is, if I recalled correctly, illegal.

Entirely legal in a "Right to work" state.