skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insisting there is some simple top-down solution is nothing but inflammatory. Once data is out there, people sharing it is inevitable. The way to stop there being a video of yourself is to never let one be made in the first place, especially by someone you can't trust. The only way out of that cold hard fact is a worldwide data control regime enforced on our personal computers, which we should all be against.

At least with Youtube's censorship push, there's an argument to be made that it's not so much about the hosting, but the recommendation system giving extra attention to misleading videos. This article doesn't even attempt to make that point, instead repeatedly deferring to innuendo that the mere act of hosting is itself bad. Whereas in reality that's simply intractable, and pretending it isn't will lead to nothing good (ie another "war on drugs").

Certainly there are things Pornhub could do to help, like making it easier for people to find and report videos of themselves, or working with reputation management firms. But feigning as if there's some magical solution that Pornhub can come up with to prevent every bad thing from happening ("solve the problem") is not a way to have a constructive conversation.

Also the article skips dwelling on how most of the harm is actually being caused - the bullying. Like when yet another kid shoots up a school, the actual dynamic is brushed away as "kids being kids" and somehow uncontrollable, despite school administrators have great visibility into students' activities and a wide range of sanctions. Meanwhile we're all told that we should give up our societal rights to fix the resulting mess.
> Display
15.6″ 1920×1080 FHD, Matte Finish

It's 2021 ffs...

Can we get a high res display 9 years after apple's first retina macbook?
Pardon me but that sounds rather entitled.
Companies will continue to straddle the line. It's why they'll have a rainbow twitter avatar then crush a union and lobby against higher wages.
No, many providers require to apply for API access, to pay for it, to be bound by T&C (some APIs require to you to cache data for max 24h) and also provide a crippled subset of actions through it. What I was saying is that none of that shall be allowed once a power of attorney has been given to a tool (obviously unless the website access is paid, then it's perfectly fine to charge for API access but then it should be offered on something like FRAND terms). Think of Chrome extensions detected and blocked by some websites, this would not be allowed under my proposal.
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It is also questionable as why this was preferred over just a tunnel or bridge between Strendur and Runavik along with linking the main road network to the other outlying islands like Svinoy, Fugloy, Kalsoy, Nolsoy, Mykines, Hester, etc. in addition to the bypassing of of the Stora and Litla Dimun islands by the proposed Suðuroy tunnel. Locals are not going to be happy about having to make a detour to an underwater roundabout tourist attraction when emergency services are needed; might as well name this the Tappan Zee of the Faroe.
From the google fonts FAQ it says they will use the locally installed font if possible

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#can_i_download_the_f...

> Note that when browsers render websites that use the Google Fonts API, they will check if a font is installed locally on your computer, and prefer to use the local version over web fonts.
I was wondering if anyone knew enough to clarify a couple of things from this part of Dean's letter:

> Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

There seems to be something between the lines here. How was it approved for submission? Did Gebru or one of the other authors approve it? And if so, would that be unusual?

> 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. We acknowledge that the authors were extremely disappointed with the decision that Megan and I ultimately made, especially as they’d already submitted the paper.

Does this contradict what Gebru has said so far? Didn't she say she wasn't given any feedback?
Good luck with this. Vegan milks have gotten pretty good, but last I tried vegan cheeses were far from great.

I'd love to try it, though I infer from the prices in euros that it's not really for the US market yet. I'm not vegan; I'm not even vegetarian. But I'm trying to reduce animal products, and a good cheese would be a nice addition to the toolbox of "instead of..."

But boy, you seem to be getting zero traction. Googling for reviews of your results turned up just nothing.
This doesn't feel new to me. I entered the industry in the mid-90's, so I have no reference from before that period. But I'll cherrypick a few items:

> Microsoft is building VSCode for the cloud. Few people own desktop computers anymore.

I heard the same thing in my early years about these newfangled HTML email clients. Email should be consumed using Pine or Eudora, just as God intended.

> People job hop for promos, raises, and resume fodder, not because there's an actual interest in the product.

Oh yeah. I did this for the first 15 years of my career. It was faster to get a promo by changing jobs. I didn't care where I worked, as long as the company name had prestige. I kind of still do, but I transfer internally. Same effect, but I get to keep my vacation accrual.

> Companies are trying to hire more outside of California

In my early years I worked for a company that used Russian developers for some non-critical parts because it was cheaper to fly someone out there once a quarter than it was to hire the staff in CA. This was before the massive rise of outsourcing in India. See the Dilbert cartoons about Elbonia for more.

> The web is turning into shit.

Heard the same argument about MySpace. And Geocities before that. And AOL before that.
There have been studies of this in Finland.

When companies require a doctor's note for any and all sick leaves, people will use the maximum amount the doctor prescribes (usually they just slap 3 days on for every sniffle).

On the other hand when people can take a handful (1-5) sick days freely, they tend to use just the bare minimum.

It's a matter of trust. The company is communicating to the employees that it trusts them to take the appropriate amount of sick days and conversely people don't abuse the trust.
You don't "accept someone's resignation" and then add terms to it and actually "resign" them a little sooner than they were going to resign.

That's called firing.
This reminds me of https://JustSketch.Me which is also built in three.js
I don't know where this misguided implication comes from that FAANG doesn't have a sane schedule or reasonable work expectations. The people that work a lot do so because they're some of the most passionate in the industry and enjoy working a lot as a result. On average, I would speculate FAANG is less stressful and more reasonable than other companies. The reason you may think that is not the case is that negative stories stick to the same "brand" (i.e. "FAANG") that employees hundreds of thousands of people whereas a story about a random mom'n'pop shop doesn't register on your radar because there are many of them.
Sounds like Spiderman will be getting a new power!
It's a proprietary note ecosystem, so if you ever try to leave (or not use iCloud, which iOS/macOS note syncing depends on), it will be very difficult to regain control of your notes. I did this and it took a lot of effort, involved parsing out some protocol buffers, and losing a lot of formatting. I now just use markdown text files, never going back to that.

There are iOS shortcuts now which can let you do this programmatically, but you also lose formatting, and its a hack.
I don’t believe that you need to be an asshole to drive towards solving hard problems. Not in the least. That is your projection. Calling your point irrelevant is not a personal attack on you, it was intended to be a neutral objective statement. Smart people often make irrelevant points, in fact the smartest people often make the most irrelevant points when trying to drive at the truth. I don’t believe you are dumb but I do have reason to believe you can interpret a personal attack where there is none.
> I feel investing anything more than the bare minimum to get your assigned work done is worth less than just grinding leetcode and otherwise studying for interviews. Doing an actual good job, above and beyond, is not going to be worth much when you're looking for your next job.

Does it mean that CV credentials like "developed requirements for a complex system, built it from scratch and overcome significant technical challenges in doing so" don't mean anything, in your opinion? Because in my experience interviewing, things like this get a lot of attention, are discussed in depth and leave impression on the interviewer. I think that my results interviewing would be significantly worse if it was just "fixed bugs and did incremental improvements" instead.

But again, I have very little experience (or desire) interviewing at FAANGs of the world, may be they do things differently?
I am proposing to have laws that respect our rights, not to secure rights by circumventing and disrespecting the law.
You'd just have to send the font metrics first or extract them early from a partially downloaded font. Then render with temporary glyphs.
This abstract doesn't really grab me by the frontal lobe. Is it possible the internal reviewers just thought the paper sucked?
And here I was expecting beautiful renderings of the constituent proteins of SARS-CoV-2.
Can we just finally say that Google is evil now?

Run as fast as you can. And take your data with you.
She was, they said her email was not befitting of a manager. Which is clearly true
Those free passes ended years ago as can be seen by many high-profile removals and resignations (for both corporate policy and social pressure reasons).
It is regrettable that Timnit Gebru chose the public route, first writing to the 'Brain Women and Allies' mailing list, where she implied that the rejection of her paper is part of a pattern of 'constant dehumanization' (a person holding one of the highest status technical jobs in tech, TL of an AI research group at Google Brain), and then going straight to Twitter and telling half truths under the cover of potential legal action. Not sure what is customary in AI research these days, back in my day it was common to polish and resubmit to the next conference. ICML deadline is Tue 29 Dec 2020, less than a month ahead. There is also ACL, the top NLP conference, Mon 01 Feb 2021, two months ahead.
Realistically, the majority just want this bad PR to go away and for Google to be better at preventing it from getting to this point.
‘No specific skill will get you ahead in the future’–this ‘way of thinking’ will
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Yes, I too love it when legislation discourages people from working with others around the world.

We will never achieve world peace if we let people from different timezones collaborate.
Her spat against Yann LeCun felt very wrong to me. That is not how fellow academics/researchers should treat each other.

Maybe Yann LeCun was wrong, the way she conveyed the message disregarding any knowledge he might have on this was definitely not civil.

She could have chosen a different way to address the complaints here, not by getting overtly confrontational. Maybe the review group got it wrong, maybe they were right. But that is not how you handle disputes.
It's always been a distribution. Some are amazing, some are normal, others are less than normal. They're all really good at the handful of things Google screens for, but otherwise it's just like any other distribution of developers.

As a hiring manager I view Google on someone's resume as a non-signal. If however they are the sort of person who draws attention to having worked at Google I view that as a negative signal.
The discussion around deadlines is moving the goal post. That is what submission deadlines are for, there is still time for discussion.
While I like the EU's effort, I have to wonder how much of this is the responsibility of the individual.

> I have family that answer emails in vacation all the time, that get phone calls like its nothing.

We certainly all know people like this. But, at what point should employees outright refuse to be connected to work on personal time?

I get that people whom have families that depend on them have limited choice in how far they can rebel at work, but perhaps we need young people to be a part of a new culture of work-life balance where interacting with work during any unpaid hours is seen as optional. Only those who have little to lose can stand up to corporate and make a difference.

Personally, I wouldn't work for an employer that wants free time from me. If that means I don't make a lot of money, that's fine by me. Time has value.

Having regulation around this issue can help with professions like the legal profession where the real way up the ladder is by overworking in whatever way possible. For people such as myself, an engineer, where overwork and brown-nosing don't have a 1-to-1 relation with a bigger paycheck or greater job stability, they have more leverage over what their employer can or cannot do to them.
My impression as a non-expert from reading the last thread is:

DeepMind didn't "solve" protein folding in the game theory sense that perfect play is now possible and there are no better solutions to be had. That's probably what most of us expect from "X has been solved."

But it "solved" it in the sense that it answered a core unanswered question of an entire field. Algorithmic protein folding was a research field trying to answer whether it was even possible to climb from 40 to 90 on the CASP competition, or whether physical experiments were inherently superior. Obviously entering that field implied that you thought it was possible, but it wasn't known. DeepMind has now answered that question: yes, computational folding can work as well as experiments. That's a solution, if you take the open problem to be "can this be done at all?" rather than "what is the perfect way to do it?"
Are we evaluating her as a researcher or as an activist?

I’ve read some of her research (that’s on arxiv) and it’s... not on the level that “Google AI researcher” implies. It’s good that they hire from the Humanities, but we tend to smush all academics as if they all had equal rigor and value.

Maybe she’s a great activist. Or a great cook. Being it that I’m not into activism, I can’t judge that.

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Edit: I have to hijack my sudden spike in karma (and, I assume, visibility) to "amplify" some important research milestones in the Humanities that impact the problem of "AI ethics" taken seriously.

[General]

* Baudrillard - "Forget Foucault"

* Delanda - "Philosophy and simulation"

[Science and technology issues]

* Latour - "The Pasteurization of France"

* Latour - "Reassembling the social"

* Caillon - "Acting in an uncertain world"

[Computers and society]

* Various authors - "Software Studies: a lexicon", available here https://monoskop.org/images/a/a1/Fuller_Matthew_ed_Software_...
Because it "disrespects the veterans" in some people's eyes. Astonishing, isn't it, that the same people who found issue with Kaepernick's protest probably have never heard the name "Nate Boyer"[1] before-who is both a veteran of the armed forces, and a veteran of the NFL.

It's never good enough.

[1] https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/05/nfl-49ers-colin-kaepernick-...
Apple blew up far before they fell in the late 80s/early 90s.

Woz's designs were very much a huge part of that.
Only if your html is dynamic and can't be cached. I find this irresponsible.
Absolutely. Also, to your 2nd point: in most business projects, soft skills are what you use to figure out what to build. If you're weak on that side, then being a blazingly efficient programmer means you're likely to just be really good at moving very quickly in the wrong direction.

I've found that the rockstar coders I work with often produce a very high volume of output that is technically excellent but doesn't actually contribute much to the company's profits.

I suspect that that kind of work output is currently overvalued by the prevailing business climate. FAANG companies can afford a "throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach, and venture capitalism pulls that up to a meta level. My own bias is that I've never worked under either regime, so I'm used to seeing a different mix of strengths be more valuable.
>He had shared the videos with other boys, and someone posted them on Pornhub.

So why weren't they charged with distributing CP? This is what we should be focusing on, rather than, what, complaining that Pornhub doesn't have some sort of magical age-detecting AI?
> Stanford Business School professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a book about this[1] in particular.

A book about how toxic this is and how it needs to change, right? This small detail seems sort of missing from your comment.
TSMC is a very conservative company. they will not throw money into a new node without its customers backing consider the amount of cash needs for each new gen (node).

TSMC's 5nm must be good enough for Apple to back it.
There are users who are using YouTube transcript to search and reach the particular section of the video using that timestamps since there's no real video search[1], it seems there's no easy way to do that too. When I read the title, I thought it address that above problem, but it downloads and renders the transcript.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/88-searching-youtube-videos-wit...
Absolutely, many thanks for the swift response and the relevant link! Keep up the great work!
Sure, if the name, type, and context of a variable can completely encode all the details that I need to know when working on the code, then fine, we can skip the doc comments.

Do you think that's possible for every field in all, or even most, applications and languages? I do not. And so I don't think we should be allergic to a few wasted sentences of prose.
I've considered similar but thought that ingesting the actual text from a link would be easier.
You either contribute to improving it, worsening it, or keeping it the same.

In two of those three cases, you are at fault (or continually become more at fault, more precisely, as the ratio of "how much it existed before you" shifts).
All my screens are 1440p and the same model, so there's that.
> Like if production is down how can you say: "My 40 hours is up this week, I'll look at it on Monday".

It depends. If it's the first time production is down and I'm already off, I fix the issue. Once it's fixed I'll tell my manager: "we need on-call people. Please don't consider me for that position because I value more my free-time than money. Thanks". The second time production is down, I won't fix it.

If they fire me because I don't do on-call, then again it depends. I would revisit my contract and if it doesn't say anything about being on-call I would point that out. In any case, I would start to look for a new job asap.
Where on earth did you get that assessment from? She made a fundamental breakthrough in chirped pulses. I've been to her plenary talk, she's not in any way part of a "diversity quota".
Federal law in the US mandates 12 workweeks of unpaid leave to care for yourself or someone else if your employer has 50+ employees:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla/faq

However, it doesn’t separate for yourself and someone else, so technically a mother could be on bed rest for 3 months and exhaust all of her leave.

A small number of states do mandate paid family leave (specifically to care for someone else which includes new parents), but they also usually stipulate minimum number of employees at businesses.

It definitely doesn’t behoove a young person interested in becoming a parent at some point to work at a startup or small business unless they explicitly offer paid parental leave as a benefit.

Part of the reason my wife and I moved to the state we did was so that she can get an extra two months of leave with her newborn, and so our daughter would be growing up in state that offered them at least that much in the future.
>she has to follow the corporate culture and norms or she won't be surviving in Corporate America

"Corporate culture" isn't fixed, the whole point is that it needs changing.
You hire the people who free the CEO/Founder to not have day-to-day responsibilities. Who those are will differ depending on what you are trying to do, but no startup can grow when the CEO has to be "in the office" just to keep the lights on and the engine running.
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I’m not sure how unique that is, though. Most companies once you’re in doing technical, your peers will trust you to switch teams or broaden out a little. Re-testing a coworker would come off anywhere between amusing and insulting.
>A data field called "imageURL" that's a string -- is that a remote or local URL? Where did it come from/how much can I trust that it's well-formed?

Put that information in your types and (i) you don't need to write those comments and (ii) the compiler can help you check if you haven't made mistakes.