skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writer: Samsung Galaxy S7. I guess over 70 apps in navigation, weather, games, prayer apps, or relevant due to listing location companies in privacy policy.

I have not named apps / companies I that were not relevant to this feature. I found other things, but I had to focus on a clear story.
Purely speculating, but if I were her, those demands would boil down to "If you go f* yourself, I'll quit"

Maybe she's more mature than me, but they're probably not going to end up being super relevant.
Our most current understanding is that 7k iu is closest to optimal, and that previous recommendations were based on bad math.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/

While toxicity is a serious matter, the actual risk is generally overblown, since it requires truly heroic, sustained doses.

>The evidence is clear that vitamin D toxicity is one of the rarest medical conditions and is typically due to intentional or inadvertent intake of extremely high doses of vitamin D (usually in the range of 50,000-100,000 IU/d for months to years)

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)...
You seem to be agreeing with parent comment, from where I stand. Lock-in may be simple to avoid, but not many people make any effort to avoid it ("There are many fools in business"). I mean, take a look at the number of companies/services that got knocked offline last week because AWS's us-east-1 was fucky: if they are "locked-in" to one AWS region, do you think they'd bother with decoupling from AWS tech in general?
>It has one of the worst withdrawals of any drug.

They don't chain up copper on job-sites because alcoholics are looking for something to steal and sell for a fix.
This isn't really true. Jailbreaks are not the main concern here, privilege escalation vulnerabilities are. Those are discovered somewhat regularly in both Android and iOS. Jailbreaks on iOS make use of such vulnerabilities when they discover them, but most vulnerabilities are not discovered by jailbreakers. These sorts of vulnerabilities are also inherent to any complex operating system, not unique to Android.

Users "rooting" their Android phones also usually doesn't involve any sort of real exploit either. Android devices don't come with the ability for apps to run as root by default, and can have their firmware flashed to add a means of doing so. Doing this requires that the user unlock their bootloader, which wipes the device and often requires manufacturer authorization. Rooted devices have weakened security by being rooted, but this doesn't affect ordinary non-rooted devices.
I don't think "fired" is the right choice of words -- she gave an ultimatum offering to resign, and they accepted her resignation. Is accepting a resignation the same as firing someone?

> 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.

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364734418726912
The email has been posted in full and it sounds like it was to a standard mailing list. Nothing in the email sounds like something you would be fired over. But Google seems really sensitive these days.
Qualcomm, Samsung, Cavium/Marvell, and nVidia don't count? Not to mention ARM's own cores...
Things which aren't risky on some level just don't get regulated. There is a ton of risk involved in pharmacies.
I mean this with all due respect, but highlighting NPR's own defense of their editorial practices is hardly convincing.

NPR routinely runs editorial pieces that were pitched to them by corporate sponsors or their fronts like think tanks. They likewise have have discussion panels featuring these groups' talking heads. Listen to a few episodes of Marketplace if you want the most obvious corporate propaganda imaginable. Their impartiality is laughable.
For this reason you should always separate data and code and put them into separate schemas. In such a setup, deploying new code essentially means dropping and re-creating the code schema in a single transaction.
>Other companies are going to have to try to match it.

This actually worries me.

Lately, anytime I look outside the Apple ecosystem, I wonder to myself what all these companies are doing... sure, I could see AMD closing the gap, but Apple's made additional choices for integration beyond what AMD would do alone.

I guess my summary would be: other companies trying to "match" Apple hasn't really gone well in the past decade, short of a few select standouts.
don't get me wrong, they were common in my US high school too. but if you wanted cigarettes, you had to find a senior who was already 18. for alcohol, you needed someone with a fake ID or an older sibling/friend (since the US drinking age is 21). in contrast, weed/lsd/mdma/coke were sold straight out of people's lockers and cars. alcohol and cigarettes required planning, but you could buy anything popular and illegal without leaving campus.
> Although we don’t have enough data to really tell why the blackberry q10 is unusually quick for a non-Apple device, one plausible guess is that it’s helped by having actual buttons, which are easier to implement with low latency than a touchscreen.

The Blackberry q10 runs Blackberry OS 10, which is based on QNX, which has a realtime microkernel.
"Could" being the operative word here.

But then, this is where Bitcoin is genius: the code isn't everything.

There's a whole bunch of built-in economic incentive feedback loops.

And getting to an "Economic Majority" is very unlikely to happen because none of the participants have to gain from that change.

Also: since a bitcoin is divisible to 10e-8, it's going to be a very long while before there's an actual shortage of the darn thing.
I can't speak specifically to the liability question since I don't want to provide any inaccurate information.

To the false negatives problem itself though, I think your implicit assumption is the correct one - that false negatives are a bigger potential problem than false positives. In my experience, the false positive rate on declines was immaterial to the business. The impact of a false negative is definitely a different question.
Title here is misleading (probably deliberate). The email that got this person “fired” was one that allegedly contained an ultimatum and a threat to resign. The employer then called her bluff and accepted her resignation with immediate effect.
Sure enough, I tested this, and the server up/down is reversed from what it should be:

> exec 3>/dev/tcp/localhost/4000
bash: connect: Connection refused
bash: /dev/tcp/localhost/4000: Connection refused
> echo $?
1

But if a localhost port is listening (in another terminal window: > nc -l localhost 4000):

> exec 3>/dev/tcp/localhost/4000
> echo $?
0
You logic is correct. Gold is not an investment, it is a hedge. Gold does no useful work and produced no measurable output. It's "purpose" is simply that society has assigned it a value that most people will agree to exchange for other forms of value. In exactly the same way, crypto or any fiat currency is not an investment.
World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN report
This was very fun and very cool. Thank you for making and sharing this!
Same reasons as buying gold or silver.
But that won't happen unless there's a Windows ARM build that does everything that Windows does in x86: the market for Linux-only laptops is pretty small.
In my case, it was in Washington Heights, not typically considered the yuppie-stronghold, and I've since moved to another similarly non-yuppie place.

Next time I go to C-Town or Food Bazaar or something maybe I'll make another effort and try again...there isn't a Whole Foods near me.
It's really hard to tell from this message what really happened. Why isn't it plausible that the paper in question was somehow upsetting to one of the dozens of people to whom the author circulated it? It reads to me like this person rejects the very idea that any criticism of their paper could possibly be legitimate.
Adding nationalistic flamewar to the race flamewar you've already been fomenting is seriously not ok. Please stop posting flamebait to HN.
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"now" is doing a lot of work here... If I'm not mistaken, we have about a millennium or a hundred make arrangements.
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>...legalising them and thereby making them more easily available will have a devastating impact and destroy too many lifes.

The evidence does not bear this out.

https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portuga...
Doesn't apply. The feds control the USD and if there's one thing the fed isn't it's a democratic mechanism.
I'm very confused by all of this. I've read the tweets and this article and can't make heads or tails of what is going on. What am I missing?
While maximum resolution is limited by the diameter or the largest baseline in an array, there is one advantage to single dishes: There is no lack of small baselines. Which implies that you can only really get images of large, dim structures with a single dish.

Also sensitivity is given by total collecting area, which is very competitive for a single huge dish compared to a limited number of small dishes.
For those who aren't very dilligent, the risk of losing one's coins due to loss or theft is likely much higher than the risk of hyperinflation or monetary collapse. Being your own bank is a huge pain in the ass it turns out. Also inheritance planning is much more simple with an ETF.
Right, of course.
Cocaine usage (at least one time) is around 2%—regular usage presumably a small fraction due to the cost. https://vertavahealth.com/cocaine/statistics/

Alcohol use is around 65% with a substantial fraction drinking higher quantities regularly. https://www.verywellmind.com/how-many-people-drink-alcohol-i...
QNX 1.2 Virtualized
I recall an interview where the palmpilot folks opined that $300 was the magic price point where someone could still make a purchase without consulting their spouse.

Obviously there's strong middle-class bias built into that number, but I don't feel like it has moved much in decades.
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Starting services only when the network is ready on Debian/systemd
I think you just described a union
How Hedge Funds Manipulate the Stock Market (2012)
It’s a question of defensibility if some regulator came to you and asked why you allowed certain individuals through because a black box told you without any additional context.

And I don’t think anyone builds their own KYC from ground up - it’s more whether you have context for a decision with your own vendor implementation vs a black box yes or no.
Answering as a non-astronomer: Arecibo had two major advantages over synthetic aperture arrays. The first was the "seeing" power or total sensitivity. Because it's a large single dish it collects far more photons than multiple smaller dishes.

The receivers were also cooled with liquid helium IIRC so the noise floor was ridiculously low. Those features combined made for not just high resolution but high sensitivity observations. Most telescope arrays (to my understanding) have a higher noise floor.

The second feature was the ability to transmit. Arecibo has been used for decades as a radar to image asteroids and such. Many asteroids are too small and dark to effectively image with optical telescopes where Arecibo's radar is no problem. It also gets extremely accurate distance and rotation measurements.
Tether would be silly to include in the index, but not sure how its existence affects crypto indices otherwise.
U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors
It looks like the Tulsa Race Massacre [0] has Blair Mountain beat by a few months (May vs August).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre#Attack_by_...
Well, reading the thread, it's pretty clear that she was correct. There is a second step of metaoptimization which incentives the researchers to encode algorithms to produce algorithms that more easily bias along a certain way. And she is correct that benchmarking models against biased datasets can lead researchers to bias for architectures that are in turn more likely to have a certain bias.

I'm sure LeCun knows this too. It's a fact that has been known for almost 40 years now, that for a given generalization system multiple bias modes are are possible, and of course the process of optimizing architectures against a biased benchmark will change the learning bias of the model. It's not just datasets that are biased, generalization systems are necessarily biased too.

As for the last line, I don't know that it should be expected for employers to fire employees pursuing recourse against sexual harassment.

I'm sure we can agree that the tone wasn't good, but she does have a point in saying that it's not possible to reduce the bias to datasets used to train the final model.

The paper : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/pubs/NeedForBias_1980.pdf
Your assumption is very optimistic for a number of people: a generation of security policy wanted everything routed through central monitoring points so you get home network -> vpn -> corporate data center -> remote server and back, all in the hope that the monitoring system would see malicious traffic (since attackers know how to use encryption & obfuscation, this is usually easily bypassed).
Original Cramer video (12 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI&ab_channel=dehur...
It's also true at the high end. Business decisions around key service providers in the AAA+ live events space are driven primarily by access to what effectively are financial services (advances and other lifecycle events, and in general the ability of your counter party to act as an underwriter). Access to quasi-financial services are the key differentiator at the top of the market.

This will be especially true looking forward to the post-COVID relaunch of tours and festivals.
Yup. I can't imagine it happening in reality but I have seen a puzzle that's mate in one by promoting to an enemy knight, causing a discovered check and the knight can't be captured because it is the opponent's piece.
Yeah, it can't outlive this universe, right?
The cited article pulled out a catchy headline from an extrinsically motivated context like Telemarketing. Not surprising that people who fail from a rote task get de-motivated and quit, learning nothing.

I don't believe that study has any relevance to the world of creative work -- like building products or becoming a Jedi ;) -- that is driven by intrinsic motivation to iterate and improve. Success rarely requires the same level of self-evaluation and reflection in creative contexts.
> America is increasingly growing into a nation where we cloth ourselves in victimhood as virtue. We are literally in a space where no-body is in the office today. You could pick up a $130 ~ $160k job anywhere and move out to a suburb in Texas. All you need is half-decent Internet, and you'd basically be living as if you were making the $200k you had in The Valley.

You're talking to someone who is homeless, who probably hasn't been able to bathe in a while given the pandemic, and who is probably wearing clothes that they've slept in for several years now.

Yes, there are employers that will hire people literally off the street, but they aren't hiring for $130-$160k IT jobs, they're hiring for manual labor jobs without benefits that are probably off the books and can't offer steady hours.
Where is the email with the conditions? It sounds like she gave a stupid ultimatum but until it's public it's hard to know.
Ok, I misread you. I'm not confident your assertion is true, but I don't know enough about the "living wage" analysis to be sure.

I guess one factor here is "middle income range", if well defined, will move if the floor is moved. In things like this, distribution is also very important.
If the complaint is about academic research in a research institute, then there needs to be a different process. It's typically a fairly conservative idea, in fact (see: Chicago Principles [1]).

[1] https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/r...
I don't think that makes it just that people have no opportunity to work for themselves or be payed a fair wage working for someone else.
There was still way more requests for observing time and the total amount of time available in the last cycles. Also there is a lot of value to have long-term datasets that are recorded with the same instruments as it removes a lot of systematics. Nanograph is being badly bitten by that, as they use pulsar timing data over 10 or 12 years. (And were likely only 1 or 2 years away from results, which may now be delayed for several years if they have to switch to timing with another instrument.)
Ask HN: 1Password vs. LastPass vs. Bitwarden for teams ?
I know this question comes up frequently on HN but what do you all recommend for 2021 for a business with team size of less than 25. Using passwords in KeyPassX has been useful but it starts getting difficult with a growing team where user specific permissions would be a must.
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You’re using Docker-compose wrong
Second Market tried to make this possible years ago. Now you have options like Forge (formerly Equidate) and Carta recently announced a product called CartaX which will be a market for shares of non-IPO companies.
Update with leaked email: https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
This was a vent: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-t...

Then you try to engage in a conversation about how this is not acceptable and people start doing the opposite of any sort of self reflection—trying to find scapegoats to blame.

The message was clear, stop! The paper rubbed someone the wrong way. Go rewrite it on your own without any references to Google and publish it. I've been in tech for a long time. In nearly every org turnover was minimal on the engineering side of the house versus sales who dropped like flies every quarter. The only people who were ever laid off were those who routinely rocked the boat. Getting some sense of that here.
This is a very frustrating email, only because there seems to be a very significant issue at the heart of it — a research paper that is allegedly being suppressed by Google management for some reason -- and this email largely seems to omit that in favor of unrelated disagreements with management and “process”. It’s like trying to find an astronomical body that only shows up through its gravitational impact on other bodies: a lot of chaff, with something very heavy and unseen in the center.
Agree, I've used it in a more general sense. I mean it's just like a pyramid.
True - but you cannot deny that the shrill outrage and “sky is falling” message pushed by everyone even came remotely to pass. This limits the power of future efforts, like limiting section 230, that IMO are much more dangerous to the industry. But now that you have cried wolf over NN the pushback will not be as effective.
Curious, which country are you living in that doesn't have laws against fraud or theft?
California pioneered the Covid-19 stay-at-home lockdown.Now, it faces a backlash
Well, if you're not going to consider about power consumption, Fugaku (and its 28MW consumption) would like a word with you.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/311995-japans-new-arm-ba...

I think his point about moving the bounds of the power (and heat) / performance tradeoff is valid.
As a broad simplification, this is how the Roman Empire worked. Of course, in the Ronan Empire incentives were generally aligned, since the person doing the taxation also had to do the defending — if you were incompetent at the latter, you’d be dead soon enough.

The problem with this system in modern times is that incentives are unaligned to objectives.
Final level doesn’t work. People aren’t going to go do cocaine under the supervision of a nurse... they use it to party.
Mexican cave contains signs of human visitors from 30k years ago
I used the original title when I submitted this article, but anybody please feel free to suggest a better one if a moderator is watching this
That is irrelevant. Pointing out that unions have effected negative changes or engaged in discrimination internally in the past is not an argument against the idea that they're necessary to force positive change.
Several posts here mention the importance of budget/funding for creating a good team to work in (which is 100% reasonable - that's true everywhere).

I'm curious about how individual teams within Amazon have funding problems.

Amazon overall seems to have plenty of money and they seem like the sort of place that wouldn't have a problem dissolving a team that isn't meeting their goals (I'm assuming they'd dissolve the team and then move people they want to keep to other teams, etc - they seem like they'd be very data driven about what teams to keep, not malicious).

Can anyone shed light on how a team might develop funding / budget issues at a place like Amazon?
I'm typing this on a 4k, 32" monitor, which is 137.68 DPI, but
I also have a Dell XPS 15, which is 4K and 15", 293.72 DPI, and the difference in sharpness is astounding.

The other problem with hidpi scaling (200%) at 4k 32", is that everything is huge, and you lose a lot of screen real estate.

Honestly I think 8k 36" is the sweet spot.
Just as an FYI, LeCun has not actually quit Twitter, he still posts stuff on there. For those curious I wrote up a more detailed summary of the episode (https://thegradient.pub/pulse-lessons/). TLDR, imho he was a bit unthoughtful in how he communicated with a more junior researcher, and got some respectful flack from it from various people, it was not that big a deal. But of course you can make up your own mind on that.

In any case, Timnit Gebru (this particular AI researcher) has been recognized as having done some pretty important work in AI ethics. Sounds like this whole thing is messy, but thought I'd mention that for more context.
Didn’t AWS just move some of their infrastructure off of oracle because it basically took them a decade to figure out how?
Unions historically in America have been massive front organizations for mobsters and mafia. Check out the Teamsters - there are many many other examples.

Does that make them racist? Of course not. But they have absolutely been discriminatory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_T...
Yes, I am about midway through right now and I do like it.

Imagine my reaction this morning when I saw that the top story on HN was about Pinkerton union busting - reported by a writer named Gurley!
Thanks Dariel! Time is a crazy thing ;)
If you were "looking for a sensational headline" and GitHub intentionally took your copyrighted code and was running it, wouldn't you come up with a more direct statement than "GitHub has my stolen code"?

For example, if I bought a phone on Craigslist and someone said to me, "You have my stolen phone," I would not assume they were accusing me of stealing their phone.

I think the main problem with this headline is that so many have read it as "GitHub has stolen my code," but that is hardly the author's fault.

Maybe he should have written it as, "Someone stole my code and posted it on GitHub" but that would disguise the author's main point, fleshed out in the article, that GitHub is not acting appropriately in this case.
Role of birth order on career choice might have been overestimated
Wow. Outside of the issues discussed, this email was not what I would expect from senior manager. The language is all over the place. It is rambling. It is not unintelligible, but is far from an easy read. It seems like something dictated into a machine rather than something composed on a keyboard. If you are not confident in your use of language but still want to go out in a blaze of glory, make sure someone QCs your final speech.
And if they fold due to privacy violations, another company will usually take their place.
Kigen continues to blaze a new trail towards crucial security for cellular IoT