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>I think Tengen reverse engineered it and developed a compatible chip, they got sued.

Oh it's a much better story than that! They failed at trying to reverse engineer it so they just straight up stole the source code instead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)

>Tengen (Atari’s NES games subsidiary) took a different tactic: the corporation obtained a description of the code in the lockout chip from the United States Copyright Office by claiming that it was required to defend against present infringement claims in a legal case.[4] Tengen then used these documents to design their Rabbit chip, which duplicated the function of the 10NES.[4]
Would not fly that if I have a choice.
Regarding Saudi Arabia: They should sit on a huge pile of money and the end of fossil fuels is not a big bang event. I would have expected them to use that money for R&D to shape the post oil world to stay relevant.
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Weird that all these man hours were spent revising the entire web stack for the sake of squeezing out the last bit of unnecessary latency via quic / http3 just for them to leave out server push. It’s like going from 80% to 99% just to leave off the last 1%.

Without going all the way with server push, the logic behind the transition from http1.1/tls/tcp to http3 seems a bit dubious to me. If they aren’t going to go all the way, things already worked well enough IMO. Seems like google is just arbitrarily deciding what they want the web stack to look like.
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There will be no selection pressure.

As long as whether you can survive and make children is independent from your gene, Evolution never occurs.
That's very close to the plot of the very recent "Raised by Wolves" series.
What do you think is going to kill enough people to create such an unprecedented selection pressure?
As an interesting addendum to what you said, how many countries are ready for the internal turmoil that the collapse of fossil fuel prices will cause? Consider the coal mining areas of the Eastern United States, and how badly the collapse of the coal mining industry has damaged those towns.
Right now, Saudi Aramco is worth $1.9 trillion.
There's at least a few books like that, though I can't name the ones I've read. I'm sure it's 2-3.

The TV Show Raised by Wolves is essentially this too.
It's not "reasonable" to assume "she picked a fight". It's not "reasonable" to fire someone for "picking a fight", whatever that is. It's awful how people are willing to be so charitable to Google here after doing the exact opposite in Damore's case.
Wave of political correctness hit the AI industry. I wonder to what extent this PC thing is going to reach.
Increasingly, I wonder if the Absent Superpower is going to miss a lot of predictions due to the reduced importance of fossil fuels, which is the main driver of his narrative.
Hear hear. We need a massive pro-nuclear public campaign. When people think of "nuclear power", they just think of Chernobyl.

In hindsight, Chernobyl might have done more harm to the planet than we thought - it single handedly turned public opinion against nuclear power, and all the clean energy it provides.

One wonders if we would have any of our current climate issues if we had adopted nuclear power en masse in the 80s and 90s.
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I haven’t watched it yet, but I believe this is essentially the plot of HBO’s “Raised by Wolves”.

E: Of course by the time I typed this, there were several other people already commenting the same thing. We’re all unique snowflakes!
It makes perfect sense. Tech enjoys massive benefits from scalability and from eating up competition. It's easy to use both - break them up, then tax the shit out of them so that they can't grow into leviathans as fast.
The Etag is not a reliable hash of the file contents. It will be different if the file was uploaded in multiple parts like using the CLI than if it was moved as one operation like copying from one bucket to another. You can tell the difference because the Etag will have a “-“ in it if it was uploaded as a multipart upload.
Don't do those things? The Japanese were appalled by Europeans when they first encountered them and considered them savages. They may have had a point.
> And once there is a sufficient supply of people with the skills to work in a factory, a better class of sweatshops move in, and pay higher wages.

Why does that necessarily happen?
You're stating it like only lottery players don't understand probabilities. Read the top comments in the thread, plenty of educated, intelligent HN readers have no clue how to calculate these probabilities either.

In fact, most lottery players I've met DO understand probability, or at least grasp the fact that their "investment" is, in the long term, an expensive hobby.
Definitely, even my Tokyo-native friends dislike the mind-your-own-business and fake-nice mentalities.
They weren't tiny products but I've done this multiple times without an existing audience by posting around on places like reddit and HN, or relying on app store search traffic.

Obviously it would need to be something that people were willing to pay for, and presentation can help a lot.
Should use a more local source with actual video interview rather than a foreign source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285637
This was not at all historically true. White business owners all over the South publically and vociferously supported segregation. The White Citizens Councils we're usually organized and led by wealthy white people in the community, frequently business owners, and wealthy white people contributed substantial support got the Klan.
I sometimes need to do time critical things, or use sites or services, and I'm never giving personal credentials of any kind to client/employer hardware.

My personal laptop comes everywhere with me. Doesn't yours?
> Have we ever, in the history of the USA, had to provide things other than a passport or driver's license to go about our daily lives?

I-9 employment authorization requires a social security card.

(This article does not mention anything about these vaccination cards being required for any kind of access.)
Like priesthoods?
> the embryo would not likely posses the genes/mutation sets required to live in the current world. 27 years is alright, but to think in terms of 500+ years

I doubt today's people are sufficiently genetically different from those who lived 500 years ago for it to make a difference in most areas. Disease resistance maybe, but modern medicine and sanitation makes that much less significant for survival than it used to be.

The psychological and cognitive demands of modern lifestyles can be quite different from those of previous centuries, but a lot of people aren't genetically well-suited to the modern lifestyles they are nonetheless expected to live – they end up being diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, when quite possibly if they'd lived 500 years earlier those same traits might have been much more adaptive.
The best simple introduction i have found to the whole domain of Programming Languages/Interpreters/Compilers construction using tools is "Chapter 8, Program Development" in the book The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike. They develop a language and interpreter for "hoc(higher order calculator)". It is just about 40 pages which you can finish in a week and really understand the various pieces involved and how they fit together. I highly recommend not looking at anything else before finishing this.

Once the above is done, you can take a look at any of the popular Compiler construction books/resources many of which would be recommended here. One less well-known but comprehensive work is Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler by Niklaus Wirth.
We're automating away until our creations become self replicators.

Humans are self replicators, so are the other living things, culture (+memes), technology, companies and the economy. If we could have self replicating factories, then all we'd need to do is to import such a factory to a poor country and let it run. Of course automation is just half the problem, the other is raw materials. Presumably we could recycle almost everything and not need an unlimited quantity.

I bet we'll reach technological self replication singularity before AGI, and the impact is going to be huge. Robotics, 3D printers, IoT, sensors, computer assisted manufacturing and logistics are going to be interesting in the next decades. I just hope they will be open source and not restricted by patents.
“The state” has nothing to do with it. This was voted into law by regular voters. Think of it every time someone assumes the common citizen should be involved in writing laws.
We will deliberately genetically engineer ourselves.
Not 4% of 1, but 4% of α.
Seems like an elitist point of view. Just pointing out the for the middle class family putting a lot of money to maybe get even after 5+ years is not very attractive.
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> I'm sure many readers implicitly converted 775% to the expectation in their heads.

Most people cannot do this correctly; the most obvious interpretation of a "775% chance" is that it represents a 25% chance of seven occurrences and a 75% chance of eight occurrences, with no other possibilities.

The problem gets even worse when you have expectations less than one. If the expected number of occurrences is 80%, what are the odds of getting any occurrences at all? They're less than 80% as long as it's possible to have more than one occurrence.
Studios don't own theatres because they lost an anti-trust case last century (United States v Paramount Pictures) and have been prohibited from owning theaters since, although the DOJ moved to end that last year, and it's now in a two year sunset period.

Well, maybe, only the studios listed in the original consent decree were strictly prohibited, but nobody else did it, because they would risk being added, and lose their investment in theaters.
Gah. Softkeyboard strikes agan.

A deliberate, and as it predictably turns out, false, piece of propaganda.
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So if you don't like something - it shouldn't exist, and no one else should have it?
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That hasn't been my experience in the US. When I joined, I signed everything along with the offer letter. Full 10-15 pages of contract. Nothing to sign on the first day.
Apart for calling people racist for having a different argumented opinion, like she did with LeCun, what else is she known for?
The email she posted [1] makes it pretty clear that she sent an email with some demands/conditions (separate from the one "to Brain women and allies") and said that she would resign if they weren't met. Google said they wouldn't agree to them, accepted her threatened resignation, and told her it was effective immediately.

Without knowing more context, it sounds like she tried to do some hardball negotiating by threatening to leave, and got her bluff called.

Quoting the tweets for posterity, link at the bottom:

> I need to be very careful what I say so let me be clear. They can come after me. No one told me that I was fired. You know legal speak, given that we're seeing who we're dealing with. This is the exact email I received from Megan who reports to Jeff

> Who I can't imagine would do this without consulting and clearing with him of course. So this is what is written in the email:

> Thanks for making your conditions clear. We cannot agree to #1 and #2 as you are requesting. We respect your decision to leave Google as a result, and we are accepting your resignation.

> However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the brain group reflect behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.

> As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately, effective today. We will send your final paycheck to your address in Workday. When you return from your vacation, PeopleOps will reach out to you to coordinate the return of Google devices and assets.

[1]: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364732480958467
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“Ok Google” also feels very cold compared to “Hey Siri” or “Alexa”
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Anyone who laughs at a professional keeping a physical security barrier between work and personal data isn't a professional themselves and can be safely ignored.

I usually have four phones: Work, Personal, Personal (other country sim), emergency backup (in a buddy pouch, powered off).
Then don't give your phone to Google. Don't use personal phone for work. Ask them for a phone if they want you to use it.

Why is this difficult? Why complain about something that is 100% in your control?

Employer that has thousands of employees don't have the time to amend contracts on per employee basis. Seems fair to me.

Google has HIPA-level access for personal data, even some medical data about people, security is tight. They don't want some righteous asshat arguing about contract agreements.
Many of the commenters appear not to have, which is disappointing. I thought the article did a nice job of explaining what they are, and why they're no longer relevant.
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Because in most cases it's impossible to define what a basic level of software quality and security should be, and it's not likely that people agree on what that level is. Most of the economy is like this, you can't really pre-emptively define what is "good", the best way is to create a market and let consumers decide in aggregate.

Security is a little easier to specify, it's a more clearly defined space but you still have to be careful or you end up with outdated standards actually holding back industry security.

I have nothing against a public option, as long as it is an option. Government regulation of the tech industry doesn't sound to me like it's providing more options.

I never thought basic income was a good idea in the first place, I'm not sure what to say about this.

Basic healthcare is a more complicated case, but the healthcare industry doesn't look anything like the software industry. Regulating healthcare won't and shouldn't be like regulating software.
How has been your experience with crictl ?

Does it do everything that docker cli does ? Build, pull, etc ?
When genetic screening becomes common, gene-based persecution and holocaust can happen maybe?
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According to Gebru, this is the text of the email she received from Megan.

https://imgur.com/a/1P7HQFW
Racism exists. Pay discrimination exists. Yet, you can't go about breaking every norm and rule if you are famous and from an under-represented group.

I also saw the tweets at Yann LeCun. I'm not his biggest fan, but that wasn't right. She's hurting minorities for her own agenda.

Edit: removed info about myself.
> on the Moon

not with its surface temperature exceeding 120°C
Reading through some of her earlier tweets there seemed to have been conflict around her/ her team pursuing a particular research direction or projects, directions that higher ups were not happy about because of how it might make Google look. This is ultimately the limitation of being a researcher in a company - some topics will be off limits and you’re not allowed to poke around things that will make the company look bad.

By virtue of their research area, her and her team no doubt push against this limit very often. Based on this, I’m not sure it’s possible to really pursue many lines of research inquiry into AI ethics and fairness within a place like Google.
When I was hired by Google in 2010, I was sent physical papers to sign and return. I distinctly remember this because Google mailedthe papers to my old address from my first application rather than my 2010 address so I had to drive to my family member's house to get papers on a Friday and send them back by Monday.

I still have email copies of the contracts which they sent in parallel. This includes General Hiring Contract & Salary and a standard NDA with California Section 2870 modification.
The plot of Horizon: Zero Dawn (video game) has some elements of this.
These are called opportunities
Sure, but I doubt how newborn babies cry is heavily correlated with how they turn out at young adults... Medieval man born today could probably learn calculus easily because calculus is a standard now. I don't think intelligence has changed much.
Funny, because I have had the opposite experience.
If you mean at scientific level no. But the complexity is inherent in the system, and the simple explanation is that problems get exarcebated since people willfully ignore this fact and act as if it does not exist.

I was downvoted for having a different opinion.

Let me dare an explanation. People want to feel safe by siding with the majority on the premise it increases survivability. It is a local minimum. The majority likes to side blindly with "dominant animals" aka pocket-sizedd Messiahs who are afraid to lose dominance and this is how democracy dies and incomprehensibility becomes the new norm.

Easy?
It's incredibly disappointing to see the first batch of top-level comments here. Timnit is an absolute leader and inspiration in the field, and has been outspoken in dragging the old school of machine-learning-is-money-laundering-for-bias crowd into modernity.

This move makes it clear that Google has no commitment to Ethical AI as a field; they want rhetorical cover for their ongoing bad actions.
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You're ignoring that there often simply aren't that many viable choices. And the company that offers something you care about a lot may also do something you hate a lot.

For example:

iOS: Better for privacy than Android but less open to sideloaded apps

Android: Sends tons of data to Google about all kinds of things. Furthermore Google bricked one of my old Android phones by disabling the DNS for the authentication server so I could no longer sign into the phone. (It was too old to support Cyanogen).

Samsung: The last Samsung S-series smartphone in my house had apps pre-loaded on it including Blockbuster (it wasn't that many years ago) that could not be removed without loading new firmware or something. I guess Tizen is open source so theres that? But then again Samsung is one of the most cruel companies on Earth with a long track record of polluting, worker abuse, and blatantly copying others products and inside deals with the government to look the other way.

Microsoft: Abandoned the entire space. Was basically a copycat product with a UI based on squares anyway.

Essential Phone: Dead on arrival

Palm: Got left behind. Missed the whole app store wave

Blackberry: Wasn't really designed for non-business users with all kinds of upcharges for Blackberry data services. Missed the whole app store wave. Pivoted into automotive software after they couldn't keep up

So sure its easy to critique Apple for this or Google for that but ultimately what are the other options that can realistically compete with the above megacorps?
There is still selection pressure today, not because you are too weak physically to make children, but because of sexual selection. Many people have a hard time finding a partner, often due to genetic issues. On the other hand, many people have genetic traits that help making them highly attractive and able to give their genes to many people.

So selection is still around, but nowadays we select for different things than nature used to when medicine wasn't as well developed as it is today.

Note that this selection alone won't cause any genetic change faster than what existed in the past. What really accelerates changes in the gene pool is us deliberately doing them. We'll start with eliminating hereditary diseases, but I don't think we'll stop there. We'll likely study which genetic variants give rise to desirable traits and then make those mutations to upcoming children of interested individuals.
Some of this isn’t correct (e.g. Firefox totally reads HKCU - https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manage... - which is necessary to work with AV ), but I’ll the the first to tell you that a number of these things aren’t planned to be supported, because the goal is not to reimplement CAPI and it’s 200+ undocumented (except by support contract) flags and features. LDAP CDPs are definitely a no-go, for example. CTLs, as another, are almost exclusively for server apps like IIS, and don’t correctly work in Chrome today, so no regression there. Definitely, making sure to enable metrics, and report issues, is a good way to help prioritize things that are important vs things that are possible, but profoundly ill-considered.
In related news, I learned today that one can't buy anything from the Apple Store iOS app without signing in with an Apple ID.

Then again, you can't even install the Apple Store app without an Apple ID.
This happens in The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, in so far as it is set in a civilisation that started this way.

Except that there was no crash landing - it was an intentional method to colonise other planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_space_colonization
> AstraZeneca, Britain’s second-largest drugmaker, has pledged to supply a total of more than 2 billion doses at no profit in agreements with the United States, Britain and European countries, among other nations and organisations.

Not unreasonable.
I’d pay money for Peter Tuddenham’s Zen to respond to commands.

I’d buy a big subwoofer to make the INFORMATION response shake the house too!
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You're making some assumptions here about people, their conversations and motives, all of which you don't know, to come to some sweeping negative conclusion.

I have no trouble at all believing that guy knows some people who have a bad grasp on probabilities, especially if they also happen to play the lottery. ;)