skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Original Salzburger Mozartkugeln"

There are several different manufacturers of these balls and the original variety is the best. When I was living in Austria I could get them almost anywhere. Now that I don't, I've never seen them except with one exception. My local Aldi store had them one Christmas except they were made in Germany and not original Salzburger Mozartkugeln.

Despite that, those who I gave some to try loved them to the extent that they whinged that Aldi only had them as its once-off special deals, so again they quickly became unavailable.
> Censorship

Man, people really do want to have their cake and eat it too. If you want to publish research freely join an academic research lab, if you value money join an industry lab. You can't have both of those things.
> What about sustainability? Of course it's cheap to build ever more powerful systems and to ruin the planet with more energy consumption and more waste.

Are you sure that running two production lines and supporting both of them long term is more sustainable than killing one of them?

> By law of physics they could be built using less resources during production and during their lifetime.

If you want to go that way, why not even more efficient arm cortex?
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So far, the countries with advanced manufacturing got there by learning the ropes on less sophisticated product. Before China, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea had large service sectors and advanced manufacturing, they had to develop a large working class of manufacturing workers to provide demand for goods, and develop the sophistication to at least make things like toys and clothes reliably first before they jumped into semiconductors and phones and LCDs.

When a country is dominated by donated or secondhand goods, the need to develop the knowhow and ability to manufacture anything reliably and cost-effectively isn't needed for entry-level goods (since those are all available secondhand for cheap) but you can't bootstrap any manufacturing as a result.
Japan and China always had problems with suicide, because of culture.
According to ancient scripture, "when the three planets are in eclipse, a black hole like a door is open, evil comes, spreading terror and chaos". The archaeologist working on this back in 1914 estimated this would happen every five thousand years (if his assumptions for the signs representing "1" and "5" were correct).

Fortunately, this isn't expected to happen until 2263. Still, in a 2020 full of surprises, having alignment of two out of three planets is too close for comfort.

(just to make this perfectly green: no, this comment is not supposed to be taken seriously)
Just configure your CI to re-run all PR jobs when master updates. E.g. Bitbucket is updating the refs/pull-requests/pr-id/merge git ref automatically and I'm sure many other tools do, too. We are doing exactly this at my workplace and I am surprised that it seems to be unknown to so many people on HN.
>Educational attainment has been increasing steadily since at least 1940

Absolute hogwash. In my parents day (in the 60s) high school included mastery of at least one foreign language and one dead language. Mom and dad read Beowulf in high school, in Anglo Saxon; something modern English majors don't do. And my parents were working class people at working class schools in a factory town. Moving the goalposts to allow morons to get a high school diploma isn't improving educational attainment. Hell, I could point out a dozen examples of decline in Bachelors degrees in my lifetime.

This was a meme a few years ago: a 1800s era Harvard entrance exam, and Harvard was the easy school:
https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvard...
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Scott Alexander in one of the essays said it right. He did look at Voat as an example when he did. His quote (from point III)

> if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
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Now this is the kind of comment I was hoping to find in this thread.

I'd like to highlight what I think is one of the more insidious "challenges we have to prepare ourselves for": bad-faith communicators.

I have faith in the ability of people to have a meaningful discussion given that all participants are taking part in "good faith". That is, I am trying to convey an honestly held idea or question using language to you, and you are trying to parse that communication in a manner to grasp my intended meaning. This is the hard problem in all communication as language is inexact and none of us perfect. But if we all buy in to this system, it's amazing at how well it works at building consensus and fostering useful debate. This good faith buy-in lies at the heart of functional democracy.

We all know that it's harder to communicate over the web. As OP mentioned, lack of eye contact and physical presence reduces the available bandwidth we have to get our point across. But the fact that we can talk to so many more people than before seems to make up for the deficiencies.

But we're seeing more and more bad-faith actors abusing this system. They don't want to explain a point so that it can be discussed and debated. They want to implant a thought or idea in an audience in order to alter behaviour in a way that benefits them. We're seeing nation states conducting manipulative campaigns against their rivals' (or their own) population. If you're a democratic nation this kind of campaign is tantamount to an attack against you (it's degrading your nation's capability to make the best decisions it can, doing real harm). But even if you're not a democracy, having a foreign nation convince your population something like COVID isn't real causes real-world harm to you.

Combined with our highly connected social media networks these attacks are growing increasingly effective. How does anyone fight this?

I'm somewhat cynical that education will turn out to be the solution. Is there really any way to train a population to spot and negate bad-faith communication with such proficiency that these attacks are nullified? When nations start hitting each other hard enough to do real damage, but not enough to unilaterally wipe each other out, my bet is that they're going to fall back to the historical solution for balancing power: demarcating zones of control, ie "borders".

...and this is why, despite sharing the same concerns as the author of the article, I think I still come down on supporting the decentralized web. We're in a unique point of human history where we can communicate irrespective of borders, and I would hate to lose that capability because of hordes of trolls. Maybe if we just keep the UX real shit we can avoid another eternal September? (only half joking)
That will be really good
I'm quite sure Germany's population was as literate in the 1930's as any other. It's subtler than that.
>contracts to not have notice periods

All the employments contracts I've seen were along the lines of "you may give notice of x day which we may refuse" and "in case of termination we give notice according to laws (2 weeks)" or something iirc. If she resigned it's pretty usual for the employer to be able to waive the notice period.
If her behavior is "toxic", who has it harmed?
This is exactly my thought while I was reading the text. I live in Brazil and while we certainly have homeless and poverty here, this specific situation of someone with skill and education becoming homeless is something ultra rare, to te point that I never saw, hears or read of anyone in this situation. Even very modest people earning little money are able to get a roof over their heads. The usual case of homelessness here is caused by addiction and mental problems.
In contrast I've seen lots of stories in the US about capable, healthy and sane people living in the streets for some time and most of the time the justification is indebtness (in this text the writer mentions his study loans). Is the average american more in debt than the citizens in the rest of the world? If so, isn't this situation a economic risk for the US? As something like COVID crisis could easily throw people.withouy any savings to the streets in a heartbeat?
There are a number of different ways to do this in Emacs, but org capture is probably the place to start. This feature is very powerful. See [1].

> That sounds kind of cool, though I’m not very familiar with emacs so it looks a bit strange to me.

Yes, Emacs is an editor from another time and is a bit strange.

Like Vim/vi, Emacs has survived for something like 44 years. There have been hundreds of text editors created and used, some very widely, over the intervening decades.

Through a kind of evolutionary pressure, better editors survive and less capable editors decline in popularity. The best features are often adopted by the newer generations of text editors. By now, there are a pretty widely accepted set of features in modern editors, for example cut-copy-paste and undo. But, like the octopus, Emacs and Vim are just different than other creatures. Not necessarily better in every way, but different. So cut-copy-paste is supported by these editors if you insist, but they have their own highly refined way of improving even these elementary and widely used operations.

I like VS Code, Sublime Text, and Jet Brains IDEs; however, the editor I use the most is Emacs. It is, at the core, a set of low level primitives for editing text combined with a flexible programming language interpreter that higher level commands use to implement its unbelievable feature set. By now, millions of lines of code have been contributed to Emacs and it is likely to have whatever you want out of an editor.

There is a bit of a bump to get over when learning either one of these two paleolithic editors (Emacs or Vim). If you are a coder, I think it worth learning at least one of these two proven editors.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdScs4YO8k
Perhaps care less about “culture fit” in hiring? If you only hire people who think the way you do, the results are obviously not diverse.
They (Chess King) have many apps that overlap in functionality, it can be a bit confusing...
I think that probably they have a separate app for every course, but all the courses are also available in a single app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ct-art-4-0-chess-tactics/id113...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-king-tactics-puzzles/id1...

PS. This app is also mentioned in this article/HN post:

https://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6791742
Wow. The pro-google push is really visible in this thread
Almost the same thing as what?
They have a 2nd edition coming out this month https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-design/05960...

I would recommend picking up a free chapter of the old one to see if you like the style of presentation.

Personally I just love the way they present information.
Is this correct? 32-bit will be dead in 2038? This is making me really concerned... Won't it just loop around? I still use a 32-bit laptop as my main writing PC... Acer Aspire One, from the age of netbooks. Even finding an up-to-date Linux distro was kinda hard... Is there a fix for the time_t?
The consultants behind AM are always hired by managers. I'm sure they agree what they do get for the money. Also being in same team with a stakeholder, you minimize coordination cost and adjust goals and plans according to value. The only thing with Agile, is there's no room for a management class inside such teams. So yes, empowering the team with all those responsibilities, this puts more in the hands of the people providing actual solutions. Though, the paperwork can be handled by staff.

Managers facilitating this will be more like an overall PM for multiple efforts. This across functions, as that is how you can get most value and improve culture. Such work is actually worth higher compensation too!
I tried doing some light Googling on Project Whitechapel, but wasn’t able to find much more in detail.

Do you have anything else you can link in regards to the work they’re doing in building out their own chips? Would love to read more about this.
You are conflating censorship with moderation (a.k.a self-censorship), particularly by stating that "there were no laws involved". eg. If you have kids in a school and someone makes innuendo to do significant major harm to that school you have the RIGHT to remove that post even if it's not legally required. The "private censorship cartel" you speak of may have just been a precautionary reflex to stop future litigation or even widescale boycott of one's online service, which is a direct democracy, since you mention democratic mechanisms.

Fwiw, the Australian who carried out the act in question here in NZ did so because Australia had banned the specific weapons used after the Hobart massacre. We here in NZ hadn't experienced such a massacre and were slow to act. He was easily able to legally acquire the weapons here that may have been very hard to acquire at home, thus the Australian problem was "exported" to a softer target in a near jurisdiction. I expect the early online reaction in Australia may have been tacit acknowledgement of this fact.

Transparency: I'm an Australian in Christchurch.
Sometimes researchers investigate boring questions like "what is the carbon emissions impact of doing this thing?" Just because you don't think the question is interesting doesn't mean the answers aren't relevant to somebody, or that finding some answers isn't increasing our understanding of the field in some way.

There are all kinds of research papers; they aren't always describing some new clever trick no one thought of before. Sometimes it's just "hey, we had this question we wanted to know the answer to and so we did some investigation and some math and figured it out." As long as they're questions that some other people somewhere are asking, there's no reason why a respectable conference or journal wouldn't accept such a paper. It's up to them and the reviewers to decide whether the content is a good fit for that venue. If it isn't, it'll get rejected; no reason for Google to involve themselves in the decision.

How rigorously the authors treated these questions in the paper is something we don't know without being able to see the paper itself.
You can't have 'some' distributed web. Either you have somebody who can censor, or you don't.

You can't have somebody only able to censor some things or only a little thing.

If there was a way to censor child porn and nothing else, I would be running a Freenet node and be quite happy to do so. Unfortunately that is not possible.
> I think it’s one of the bigger reasons why some maintain a generally negative view of Hacker News.

Twitter already exists, we don’t need another place online to spend all day spreading false positivity.
How to Free Your Brain from Agonizing About the Future
This is utter nonsense. If you looked outside her twitter feed and at evidence, its clear she was fired because she was toxic. Her threat to leave was her own fault which allows google to move forward. Look at her interactions with respected people like lecun. She has issues with disagreeing with people. She may be qualified, she can have opinions, you can also be the best engineer. If you are an asshole when it comes to disagreeing, then no one will want to work with you. Everyone is replaceable.
Like the idea, but feel this really has to be a platform. Not sure what value this adds compared to making a page on your blog with your projects.
I don't understand - Adobe claims it's not supported and promised a version some time next year.

Why would it perform more like the ipad version? They are different apps.
Why do you think it's always more energy efficient?
I'm not OP, but what is "real life"? In cases where some communities/countries have (to quote from the article) a "smaller linguistic footprint online", is trying to control for this a form of manipulation of society or a way to fix a bias? Can you actually choose a sampling measure without making some sort of value judgement?
Make sure to include diversity of opinion in your hiring criteria so as to avoid creating a bubble. This is true diversity as opposed to identity-based "diversity". Make sure to get people who themselves are open for true diversity as well, otherwise you risk creating factions inside your company.
Where does the statement "muslims are terrorists" fall in that category?

Edit: clarification
Toxic is an inflammatory and unnecessary word to use when no-one is privy to the actual facts.
Nobody wants to suppress free speech, just private controlled public speech.

Free speech is not gratis.

It needs care.
If abstractness and departure from orality is the ultimate goal, you'd want highly technical writing, mathematical notation and so forth. The type of reading the author encourages - long-form societal discourse, is still relatively oral.

There are many contradictory ideas in this piece. Speed-reading is cited as a sign of poor literacy but then so is vocalization. The two are pretty much opposites.
Keen to understand what "masquerading as" is doing in that sentence if it's not meant to imply "pretending to be"?
Umm, I think you need to do more research. Have you seen the toxic behavior she has demonstrated against respected people in the industry? She maybe is smart and pushing for good things, her approach of how she goes about it, especially with people she disagrees with is toxic and she did this to her self.
Especially for a FOSS project! Usually they tend to go with a default theme with the most drab design. As an engineer, I sympathize with the effort needed to make it look good though.
This is without question the most

Teddit post I have I have ever read
A good occasion to remind everyone to consider donating blood, especially now - most places are pretty low on blood transfusions currently because of the pandemic. Varies by country of course but if you are healthy and it's possible where you live you can help a lot!
As a woman of color I see it as self-serving bullshit. I too can cry discrimination whenever someone disagrees with me and pretend to be working to make the world more fair. But the truth is, people in Ethiopia (where she was born) for instance give jackshit about AI and bias in facial recognition systems. If these people were so woke and concerned about underprivileged communities, they would tackle the problem at its root, not pick the easy fruit that is SV tech boys being scared that they would offend someone.

TL;DR: For someone relying so heavily on their race and where they came from, she is as privileged as the people she's criticizing.
Yes. But I believe details / summary is considered more accessible. Since its in the spec it's something AT has or is working towards.
how do you prioritize epics?
> Consider that CPUs on newer nodes consume less energy.

that's not entirely true. they consume less energy in run mode, but in deep sleep the leakage currents are higher than with larger nodes. this is relevant for ultra low power applications, but those don't run linux anyway.
That's a forward commitment for 18 months of secure housing and 24 months of complete support for mental and physical health and welfare. Its not the amount spent to take 2,000 people off the streets right now.
masquerade
/ˌmɑːskəˈreɪd,ˌmaskəˈreɪd/

pretend to be someone one is not.
A notebook-free notebook or Jupyter dev env for coders
TBH, I dont think so. I think she is toxic and ample evidence for it. Its normaly for people to side with Google here IMO. Would you want to work with a brilliant jerk?
Awards given by leftist organisations such as VentureBeat to leftist activists are not really worth much.
Yes, but that's a problem for the users which GitHub has every incentive to never solve. It is a problem of github and projects like radicle are a solution.
If Github is unreachable, you don’t have a bugtracker, wiki etc. - you are working “blind”.
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Am I missing something here? Why does this have anything to do with discrimination? The cynic in me is getting the world's tiniest violin out for a corporate executive who hasn't been allowed to have a second corporate executive job, but I do understand how the policy might be unfair (though every contract I've ever signed has had something to the effect that I wouldn't be allowed to do that, but I'm in the UK and a peon so :shrug:). But why is she bringing sexual discrimination into it?
Today I learnt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

While I agree that "money doesn't buy happiness" is over simplistic. The opposite - "money buys happiness" - also is. An expat in Angola recently told me that what surprised him the most was how happy poor people were. People without nothing (material) not even the certainty of having a dinner everyday.

A less simplistic (but still simplistic) take on this is: "Comparison is the thief of joy".
> Do I dispute that she provided an ultimatum of which one side was a resignation offer?

Ok so it's established that she threatened her managers and employer to either comply with her personal wishes or she would "exercise her leverage" to cause the company harm.

And in the end, as their managers didn't caved into her threats, she decided to pull the trigger.

> But can I say that this ultimatum wasn’t the result of Google pulling the rug out from under her and putting her in an unfortunate position (...) ?

So she threatened someone, her target didn't caved in, and thus she proceeded to execute her threat.

And somehow the responsibility of her executing her threat is supposed to be on her target?

This sounds a lot like victim blaming.

"Look what you made me do! Are you happy now?"
She was the technical co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, publishing papers like this was exactly what she was hired to do.

Here's Google's Principles for Artificial Intelligence
https://ai.google/principles/

From the second paragraph of item 6:

"We will work with a range of stakeholders to promote thoughtful leadership in this area, drawing on scientifically rigorous and multidisciplinary approaches. And we will responsibly share AI knowledge by publishing educational materials, best practices, and research that enable more people to develop useful AI applications."
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> This is turning true ai research into a masquerade to push certain political agendas.

Spot on. Naive scientism is used as cloak to advance political agendas, instead of searching for truth:

"When a domain becomes respected source of Truth, there is incentive for hijackers. There is a huge window of opportunity (from decades to centuries) until the public opinion figures it out. Many (not all) still trust Harvard credentials, as Cardinal credentials in the past." [0]

This is the trend for "Believe in Science", a magical catchphrase evoked to put trust in frauds like Steven Pinker and Paul Krugman:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=believe+in+sci...

[0] https://twitter.com/_benoux_/status/1335175823620497413
Because less transistors need to switch.
I have never seen flamewars, however infrequent,
as bitter and contemptuous as I have seen there.

Could you link us to an example?
Have you read her exchange with Lecun and the impact it had?
Edit - Also, if her behavior online is like that, imagine what its like inside Google? Have you thought about that? Clearly her email to the brain group was an issue here, i wonder how it compared to her exchange with lecun?

One final edit, even her co-authors were not ready for publishing the paper (per article), so why is the reason of censorship, supression etc even being discussed. This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and Google likely did the right thing, purely based on her behavior