skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google hires for intelligence. I haven't seen anything in my own experiences or self-reporting from others about selecting for wisdom.

You get what you measure, and discretion is the better part of valor. Knowing when a problem is too big for you to fix and choosing to be somewhere else would self-select out a lot of people they need most, and now you have a Market For Lemons, but with greater fools instead of lesser cars.

In the middle of the spectrum you have people like Gebru, who take huge risks, burning political capital for a cause or trying to bluff people you have no power over into changing things that are under their control, not yours. So they chopped her head off for tilting at a windmill, and now they've sent a message to the rest of the team. As farcical as it may have been before, it'll be twice as bad now. I expect some other people on that team have started putting out feelers, and we'll see a... brain-drain is not the right word here, but I don't know what to substitute. Hopefully you get my meaning.
>work is just a business deal and wouldn't be possible for employees create some kind of company that deals with the companies they are employed?

have you read Godfather?
That’s more “Futures in Rust explained in 200 lines (of Rust)”.

Explaining futures doesn’t require 200 lines: when a function doesn’t return what you asked for, but a ticket that you can later use to check whether what you asked for is available or exchange for what you asked for, that ticket is called “a future”. Functions returning futures allow you to do some other work while the function does what you asked it to do.

I think most won’t need more than that to make sense of https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurre... or http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/future/future/.

However, reading this article _and_ https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/trait.Future.html, I don’t understand why Rust decided to provide a more difficult API (“runtime-implementors can come up with interesting new wake-up mechanisms”, according to https://cfsamson.github.io/books-futures-explained/2_waker_c..., but an example would help there. I can’t come up with one that can’t be done with the simpler interface)

So, what am I missing here? Is this actually used in libraries, or is it something that might end up being YAGNI?
That isn't necessarily true. Sure, there will probably always be movie theaters in large markets, but there might not be one in every town. It might end up being like seeing live bands in concerts. You might have to live in a top X market or spend hours traveling to one of those markets to see your favorite band play. That makes it an inherently more expensive and rarer experience even if it is still possible.

It also isn't clear what the ramifications of this will be on the movies that actually get made. While I did mention the MCU in that last comment, I am a big fan of the idea of a standalone 90-180 minute movie as an artform. Those standalone movies make even less sense in a streaming world in which retention is the goal. I would be worried that movies become even more and more like TV than the franchise IP wave of the last decade has already caused.
I don't think so, this is not really meant for consumer oriented applications. Completely different regulatory animal.
Serves Google right.
At the time when cannabis prohibition was pursued, it was already in wide use in many societies (not necessarily Europe, but its colonies). Furthermore, its social effects were already investigated; this is from a 1894 report:

"Viewing the subject generally, it may be added that the moderate use of these drugs is the rule, and that the excessive use is comparatively exceptional. The moderate use practically produces no ill effects. In all but the most exceptional cases, the injury from habitual moderate use is not appreciable. The excessive use may certainly be accepted as very injurious, though it must be admitted that in many excessive consumers the injury is not clearly marked. The injury done by the excessive use is, however, confined almost exclusively to the consumer himself; the effect on society is rarely appreciable. It has been the most striking feature in this inquiry to find how little the effects of hemp drugs have obtruded themselves on observation. The large number of witnesses of all classes who professed never to have seen these effects, the vague statements made by many who professed to have observed them, the very few witnesses who could so recall a case as to give any definite account of it, and the manner in which a large proportion of these cases broke down on the first attempt to examine them, are facts which combine to show most clearly how little injury society has hitherto sustained from hemp drugs."
Sorry, I didn't mean that PFAS (specifically, exclusively) causes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's (specifically, exclusively), let alone that it created them.

PFAS is just one of the many things where evidence is finally piling up that it's bad for you and the environment. Look at how many Parkinson's related deaths there were per year per 100k over the last 50 years, it's been ever increasing, same with cancer. When I have to pick between "this is complete coincidence and out of our control" and "this might be because of some chemical we started using excessively for a dozen different things during the last century" I know what my choice will be.

And I do see the problem that there are too many possibilities here to make an educated guess, and it's possible that PFAS and whatever is in detergent ultimately doesn't cause any significant harm to you, but my choice has simply been to change my everyday behavior in minor ways where it might have a positive impact in the best case, and worst case is placebo for peace of mind and will cost me a bit of time and convenience. Hope that cleared things up.
> You simply can't replicate the experience of seeing Captain American catch Thor's hammer in a sold out crowd on opening weekend

My enjoyment of this scene had nothing to do with the people sitting in the same room as me
Leetcode Interviews Are Terrible
I'm just going to kill myself next time I'm on stream and asked to do one of these.

Someone has to take a stand against this bullshit.

THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER FUCKING WAY
> I'm on a 3 month wait list right now to get an 8 core/16 thread AMD Thinkpad. Nobody else currently produces a sub-15W part with that much computational power.

This is a big part of the reason that the AMD mobile chip comparisons seem to be kinda besides the point for me. For a bunch of reasons, its almost impossible to get a high quality laptop today w/ the latest and greatest AMD chips that people love to compare to the M1 chips. I know AMD makes great chips, but what does that matter if you can't get buy them in a laptop today?

FWIW - I love AMD, I have a Ryzen desktop for gaming. Its fantastic the competition they are bringing in the desktop market. But I don't want to play the game of searching far and wide for high quality laptops that have the new Ryzen chips _and_ are actually in stock somewhere in a configuration I want _and_ are from a reputable manufacturer.

I was able to pickup a M1 Air on release date w/ the upgraded specs from my local Apple store. It's a glorious machine, and I knew the build quality and hardware is going to be top notch.

OEMs still largely prefer Intel for laptops for whatever reason, which sucks, and it seriously hampers the ability for AMD to compete in this market.
Your comment betrays your inherent bias, and frankly, it is not a good look.

Everything you've said here is not only falsifiable, but straight up false.

It appears you didn't even try to challenge your own beliefs before spraying them out into the public sphere. You aren't representing yourself in a decent light.
> prostitute

I expected better than NPR. They could have just said "like asking a professional journalist to be a PR agent".
There is if someone lives in a smaller community where being non-mainstream reduces offerings or closes the theater entirely.
This post is a really good explanation, and I wish it had been in that Twitter thread.
From this tweet: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334343577044979712

> I said here are the conditions. If you can meet them great I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date.

To employers, that qualifies as a conditional resignation.
There will be a remote-control car race on the Moon in 2021. Seriously
WebADB – Run ADB self contained in the browser
It really is amazing that people really refuse to understand how freaking privileged we are to have good pay, good mobility and the reality of people who don't. Competition for "unskilled", ugh I hate that word, jobs is fierce and when you're living on the verge of homelessness you have neither the time nor money to invest in yourself.
For this exact purpose, I want a CLI-based template processor. Just a standalone template processor. They all seem to be buried in inside other frameworks or libraries: Smarty inside PHP (don't want to write a php-based CLI tool), Jinja2 is built for use by Python (I don't care to write python) ... I just want to call an engine with a template and an environment and get the final document out.
> ...see here Kinesis instead of just doing Kafka and many other products

Kinesis was a solution to their in-house woes with metering and billing which absolutely drowned in so much data from internal services with myriad metering and billing items and rules that they had to do something about it themselves: https://gigaom.com/2014/03/20/why-amazon-built-its-data-stre...

BTW, Kinesis Data Firehose is a pretty good product.
Someone needs to spend the time/ money to design this M1 killer CPU. There is very little money in delivering powerful Linux laptops.

ARM based Linux server CPUs? Very likely.
Low end/ Chromebook style laptop ARM CPUs, Already exist.

Performant ARM CPUs designed for laptops? I expect you just gotta hope Windows on ARM takes off or start porting Linux to M1 Macs.
A 2018 meta-analysis by Maloney et. al. [1] of 10 studies claims that rFC performs better than LAL. Higher specificity, less lot-to-lot variability.

Also, the method is old enough that the patent has already expired, and it has been included in the EU pharmacopeia since 2016.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6200278/
Use Homebrew Bundle to manage software installation on macOS
Some people wish they could get the performance of M1 and 32GB RAM and four Thunderbolt ports. They will get it eventually but it's a shame it's not available yet.
Learn When to Use Promise.allSettled
Intro to Machine Learning for Decision Makers
My understanding is that if you aren't gaming (i.e. most of the content on your screen is static) your GPU is smart enough not to redraw the entire frame so you can probably get very low latency refreshes.
I believe they still license the ARM designs and just make changes on top of them. The GPUs are also very much PowerVR-based, even though they aren’t branded that way any more.

The special hardware for emulation was also mostly debunked. Turns out it’s just a really optimized software emulation layer.
> - Try to improve upon difficult but possible engineering problems (e.g. we build a smart contract for a EUR stable coin compared to "we solve remittance for all the unbanked")

+1 to that.

I think in the past it was more tempting to try to solve all the problems at once, because it was easy to perceive how many problems there were and that not enough people were perceiving it.

But now there is enough mindshare and activity to just focus on one thing and that made more sense to begin with.
Sure, and when they do, we can have that conversation.

But claiming that what’s available today from Apple is of great interest to the high performance market is jumping the gun.

There’s also the fact that cost (including peripherals and support) and software availability, not performance and efficiency, are what guide most PC purchases. The M1’s advantages are far less pronounced in those areas.
I don't think that is fair. Pinkerton has a history of actual violence and in directly enabling the very worst tendencies of some of the very worst abusive labour practices. In terms of participating in oppression, the proportion of Pinkerton employees directly involved in making lives worse for employees is much higher than most other companies and at least most democratic governments.
https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1163637485533929473

her research has been cited in multiple lawsuits and piece of legislation. It is clear from the tone of your comment that you like technology because technology is power, and your interest is not in seeing technology used to create a better future for all mankind, but to instead reach the top of existing structures of power and to dominate others.
"I said here are the conditions. If you can meet them great I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date. Then she sent an email to my direct reports saying she has accepted my resignation. So that is google for you folks. You saw it happen right here."

And I've lost the link to the tweet.
About a decade ago I used a service "We Move Pets", who at the time was specializing in transporting pets across North America (CA/US) for pro sports players, NBA and NHL etc. It wasn't cheap (and required I go get special vaccinations and paperwork, understandable) but it worked out great - they were passing by my city and had room on the van to take on another pet to the same destination I was going.

Looks like they're out of business now after a quick Google, but maybe it'll give you some hints where to look for clues - there has to be more of these companies out there doing this kind of thing, as I was led to believe was popular/common (?) for pro sports players to want their pet with them at training camps & such (hearsay by me). As mentioned, it was not cheap but I was also paying for a kennel at the destination for a few days until I could get there myself.
Oh, I think I completely misunderstood your original comment.
Here's one job posting. It seems just like applying for any other job.

https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/agent-pinkerton-JV_IC1...
Now it's not, and yet it's still valueable.
Have you considered that there are many other people with the same thing to say, who are saying it with the respectful tone you demand, and are being just as politely and quietly ignored?
It seems plausible that a key result of her research (likely including the unnamed paper which she was asked to retract) is driving change in policy and social opinion that is apparently considered harmful to Google, so the research does not add value to Google, it benefits others (e.g. particular underprivileged groups) but just imposes extra restrictions and costs to her employer.

Industry research is not academia, where you'd expect to be free to choose the avenues of your research, and you should expect that publication is restricted. The technical improvements you make may be kept under wraps to gain a competitive advantage; and policy agenda work is essentally part of PR strategy, it's accepted if and only if that agenda benefits the strategic interests of the company. Tenure in academia offers some freedom of research (though not even then abolute), but when working for private companies, you don't have that freedom unless you have a specific contract asserting that, and even then you'd be wary of biting the hand that feeds you.

Like, if you want to expose climate change risks, it's not going to work out while employed in an oil company, and if you want to advocate for regulation of ML research while working in a company that would be bound by this regulation, this is certainly something that the management would be expected to care about.
> x86 is not "Open" in any fashion. You can't license x86 even for a fee, let alone free.

OP is not talking about being able to manufacture x86 CPUs kind of open, that's useless for most folks.

They're talking about being able to install any OS, drivers being fairly universal, no device specific out of tree kernel patches for the vast majority of PCs, no device trees etc.
It's "commonly accepted" in that it is a well-known possibility and, therefore, something that practitioners should check for before publishing, using, or selling their models, yes.

It's not "commonly accepted" in the sense of throwing one's hands up, saying "there's just no way we could find enough pictures of black people for our AI to no longer confuse them with Apes" and move on.
I'm now hoping to be surprised by a similar disruption in web browsers! (although I'm not holding my breath...)
Imagined faster time to market. In reality, you just end up spending more time trying to debug black boxes.
Streaming in 4K is definitely lower quality than a 4K Blu-Ray.
You're right. If companies want guidance in ethics, they should hire ethicists and not activists. Activists have an ideological pre-commitment that, unless they sell out, will always trump allegiance to their employer.
> here are a plethora of activist, legal, legislative groups focused on both working conditions (often on narrower groups, like say migrant farm labor) and minimum wage issues would probably argue this.

That's right and most of their work in Western Europe is helping workers enforce the law.
You appear to be a completely reasonable person. Given that we each have so much to say I'd be up for an in-person conversation via FaceTime/Zoom/etc. if you're interested.

You make several valid points for which there is little argument. I feel I do the same. At this point we simply have a different frame of reference on what is important to each of us.
> Going to the theater is a social experience.

It's a social experience of frustration for me.. lol.

- "Why the hell does that person think that's acceptable?"

- "Do they have to talk?"

- "Could they eat loud plastic packages anymore?"

- "Why are little kids allowed in this movie?"

- "I guess this person isn't familiar with basic hygiene"

and so on. I'd love to watch movies on the big screen if it wasn't for the social experience i'm used to. Watching movies like A Quiet Place were especially awful.
All three of these expose your entire password database to system memory every time you decrypt a single secret giving you no reasonable defense against malware.

LastPass, 1pass, BitWarden, and most other password managers doubled down on good UX, but the security is pretty terrible. They help users avoid using the same password for every site, granted, but is that really good enough?

Consider that every time you go to login to Twitter you also expose say your AWS root password or any TOTP backups, etc.

Compare to Mooltipass, Trezor Password Manager, or Password Store + Yubikey which all decrypt a single password at a time with a physical touch on an external device.

If an adversary has malware on your system and wants to dump 100 passwords they must get you to physically consent 100 times on an external device.

Presumably you would notice.

Today I only recommend hardware password managers. Pay for the hardware once and there is no monthly fee or any such nonsense, as the client software is all local and open source. Also no company gets the list of services you use and analytics of how often you use them for added privacy.

All three of these alternatives let you backup your encrypted password database to a git repo or cloud storage of your choice.

For technical teams where sharing is needed I tend to setup Password Store which lets us set up per folder sharing permissions and the database is just a shared git repo.

There are multiple cli and gui front ends available for mobile and desktop.
> They just need to make sure they have a backup device and/or offline recovery options available.

There's the hard part.

Go to the World of Warcraft forums and ask how many people have had trouble dealing with identity verification with Blizzard because they lost or destroyed their phone and no longer have access to the Blizzard Authenticator app and are therefore locked out of their account. Sure, the app will give you backup codes you can use to restore the Authenticator on a new device, but clearly very few people are actually recording those somewhere.

> Developers screw up password hashing constantly.

Developers should know better. There's no excuse for continuing to use poor/no hashing for password storage.

> Malicious actors should grow to strongly dislike this approach.

Not as much as you think. Considering how many people still think that fingerprints are secure, if stealing someone's device means having access to everything they have, then "your device is your password" is flawed. PINs and swipe patterns are trivial to shoulder surf.
One big difference is that MacBooks (and Apple products in general) retain their value far better than any other computer brand. If you're looking at the used market to save money, a Dell looks way cheaper because it's depreciated far more than the Apple machine.
Hi Tara, Thank you for dong this Q&A. Really interesting to see that Stripe is heading into the BaaS space!

Will you be offering any consumer loans solutions in the future?
> So many benchmarks again and again proved Chrome and Firefox to be faster than Safari.

In the benchmarks I've seen (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/google-chrome-is-ava...) and the ones I've run myself, Safari annihilates Chrome.

> Pick the top Android devices vs iPhones and you will see it's a tough race with no clear winner.

No, all Android phones are clearly slower than the iPhone.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-12-benchmarks-this-des...
On the bottom of the linked page there's a press release from last month: one cable failed in August, then another a few weeks later at 60% of expected of load, and they decided on Nov19 it's unsafe to fix it and it should be decommissionned.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301674&org=NS...
Nobody has set the bar that high. Many people are just expecting basic civility. We all have to deal with issues yet not everyone turns to being hostile at every beat. It's not a once off Tweet for her, I think more would be forgiving if that were the case
And those x86 are only still usable because M1 hasn’t been out long enough for the new software, that needs the speed to be “useable”, to be written.
I didn’t realize it installed packages automatically until I tried running my application in another environment where it crashed due to a missing package. When I found out why I was a bit upset :P

This is terrible, if you forget to add the package to your manifest, what, is the expected behavior that you just run the latest version always? Why would you want that in a production environment ever? Especially when the package manager is RIGHT THERE and already solves the problem in a well understood way. Huge step backwards IMO
Treasury at this time appears to be limited to businesses that serve other business, not businesses that serve end-users.

Obviously there is a lot of potential overlap there, but in those situations I suspect that the "rules" would be that you could use Treasury services for your "serving businesses" side, but not for your "end-consumer" side.
FAST is not a clone. It is a very big and powerful dish, but Arecibo could do things that FAST cannot (radar astronomy). Just like particle accelerators, no two telescopes are ever identical in capabilities/missions.

FASTs other difference is location: China. The community of people who would work at Arecibo is probably very different than the community that will work at FAST.