skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't (or wasn't) a review process for scholarship. Oodles of people within Google (even within Brain) have gone through this process and it seems to have always been the case that it just checks for things like PR problems, IP leaks, etc.

Further, she claims that initially she was not allowed to even see the contents of the criticisms, only that the paper needed to be withdrawn.

Let's say you were working on a feature. At the 11th hour, just before it hit production, you get an email telling you to revert everything and scrap the release. Apparently somebody in the company thought it had problems but they won't tell you the problems. Then after prying you do get to see the criticisms and they look like ordinary stuff that is easily addressed in code review rather than fundamental issues. They still won't tell you who made the critiques. Would you be upset?
In new reddit, there's an "Opt out of the redesign" option at the bottom of the "Account" section in new reddit. Turn that on.

There's also "Use new Reddit as my default experience" if your looking at the setting in old reddit, and you want to turn that off.
A company can still protect themselves by fixing the model and delaying publication of a study about it's bias until after the statute of limitations had expired.

In this case, there were recent changes to the statute of limitations for CA laws that extended it from a year to 3 years, which could be why this whole process seems weird.

https://www.ebglaw.com/news/ab-9-extends-employees-statute-o....
It's because of a culture that praises playing victim, no matter how successful you are, and regardless of whether or not they're telling the truth.
Exactly! Also, his saying he spent “hours” researching something is a strong giveaway he’s not very familiar with, well, researching and putting an idea forward. Everyone who wrote anything worth reading has also spent hours (often in the three-digit mark) researching it. If he thinks his article is anything special because he spent a few hours doing research for it, I’m not sure I can take it seriously.
> It's not a strawman insofar as there are people who literally say exactly that

People oppose billionaires paying low taxes, and the related lack of public investment in bedrock services and infrastructure they need. When a rural area has no hospital, or a city has crumbling roads and transit, yes, people resent enormously wealthy people for whom those are not concerns. People do not, however, oppose their success at building companies that make money.

PG is picking a fight with the least sophisticated form of the anti-billionaire argument (i.e. "billionaires suck"), which is beneath him. I get that it's easier to do that than than argue over how the structural issues that allow massive wealth accumulation also undermine the foundations that markets and societies are built on, but it's really beneath PG to choose such a trite argument to oppose.

> if we just tax Jeff Bezos more then the Water Authority in Flint, MI will somehow become more competent.

That, however, is a strawman. Nobody suggests that at all. People who support more progressive taxation point to things like the New Deal and the strong progressive taxation coupled with public investment in infrastructure and education that propelled the United States forward.
I believe this would show up in the trials, since long term effects of Covid-19 don't appear to take all that much time to start presenting.
After reading Jeff Dean's response, I can only come to the conclusion that Timnit Gebru acted like a primadonna. It is completely normal to have to obtain prepublication signoff on material before it is submitted to a conference (and manager signoff even before abstract submission). Given the breadth of experience at Google, it seems strange not to avail yourself of this. Demanding to know the identity of reviewers is absurd (no journal would tolerate that) and deeply unprofessional. Making it an explicit ultimatum was her decision. Denigrating the entire area of research at Google on a large mailing list is the action of someone who wants to be terminated.

People claiming that the deficiencies in the paper are minor and wouldn't be blockers obviously have little experience submitting to academic journals. Other parts of Google doing deeply technical work probably don't have the same level of review as the Ethical AI group -- for obvious reasons.

There is usually a long back and forth -- there are even memes about the infuriating comments from "Reviewer 2" [1][2]. Omitting to mention argument-obsoleting developments in the field (from your own lab!) is more than enough to send you back to extensive redrafting.

To be clear on terminology -- a retraction is an academic black mark, and occurs to a paper after publication, usually for reasons of research misconduct. This is not an instance of that.

[1] https://twitter.com/redpenblackpen/status/113344056990719590...
[2] http://jasonya.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PowerRespon...
He took one for the team, kept them safe.
> You want to strive to test that logging logs and observability observes?

Sure, why not? All that requires is running tests with the log level turned up. And it’s not unheard of that e.g. somewhere in a log statement someone forgot to check that the object they’re calling toString() on is not null.
AIUI, they asked her to retract it because she submitted it before getting final approval, and then they in fact decided not to approve it.
> It seemed absurd to submit a paper for internal academic review one day prior to a major deadline

I think that there isn't internal academic review of the sort implied by Jeff at Google.

Timnit seems pretty clearly in the right here. As an AI researcher at a competitor, this impacts my desire to join Google in the future. I imagine these sort of PR disasters hurt their standing in the academic labor market.
I have read about that too. In my situation it's backwards. My older daughter is Feb, younger is Oct. In fastpitch the season turns with the calendar, so the Feb birth month would have the advantage.
I also get an impression that a decade ago people mostly went to IT because they loved computers, and now they mostly go to IT because they love money. A decade ago, telling people about design patterns would make you a guru, now it makes you a nerd.
Reason for using Nim is its simplicity, anyone writing Python can switch to Nim, fast compile times and it's speed which is on par with C/C++
The order emphasizes AI use must be:

- lawful

-purposeful and performance-driven

- accurate, reliable, and effective

- safe, secure, and resilient

- understandable

- responsible and traceable

- regularly monitored

- transparent

- accountable
> for 99% of newer programs, don’t do it

The majority of recent tools in my circle follow this Unix convention. That is a natural result when you use getopt_long().
This is really interesting. I wonder if legalization of marijuana is a hot button issue in Georgia. If it is favorable it could increase the turnout for Democrats in the runoffs. I'm also thinking that those who are strongly opposed to legalization could be convinced to turn out. I'm not sure if this is any indicator but the governor of Georgia gets pretty low marks from NORML.[1]

1. https://norml.org/us-governors/georgia/
China announces expansion to weather modification program
Yes. They don’t think hard enough before they do things or put enough care into doing it. That’s apparent in their product lineup, support and reliability.
Definitely. "If we don't fix this I don't think I can continue working here" is not a resignation, it's a negotiating position.
> googling [...] drew a blank

Global atmospheric electric circuit; atmospheric electric field (or potential gradient); Carnegie curve; electric field mill sensor.

> those numbers

It varies a lot. Time of day, location, conditions. Perhaps usually more than -100 V/m, and less than 200 V/m or so?

Nothing compared to the 10 kV of zapping doorknobs in winter.

> never seen [in...] buildings'

The e-field contours follow the outside of a building, rather than cutting through it. And of a person. And more inconveniently, sometimes of a sensor pole.

It's long seemed to me a pity this isn't used more in intro physics E&M. Been known for one or two+ centuries. Maybe with drone-sized less-expensive e-field sensors it will get more visibility?
This is the AI Ethics team in a company betting their future on AI.

They know they have a bubbling ethics problem and they've screwed over their best chance to do anything other than completely fuck it up.

In history, this will be a wtf double facepalm moment.
"you have to be able to capture the difference between the value of someone else’s work and what you pay them to do it"

This implicitly assumes that "the value of someone else's work" is independent of the context in which that work is done.

The reason Jeff can pay someone less than the value (to Jeff) of that person's work is that, somewhere other than Amazon, that person's work would be less valuable.

The reason is Jeff must pay someone less than the value they bring is because that's the only way for a business to make a profit. If you pay me $100, and I add exactly $100 of value to your business, then you're no better off than if you hadn't hired me at all.
I'm not seeing in the wiki why he felt the need to write this song. Anyone know?
As a manager, if someone gives an ultimatum, you basically have to fire them. There's no real option; Ben Horowitz covered it somewhere, but the bottom line is that if you yield, you've given up all control.
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When I was in academia, it was not unusual for the referees to reject a paper for this reason. Of course, you are informed of that and always have the option to rewrite the paper to include that information.

In some cases, though, it's not simply a matter of listing it as other work in the Intro - you may need to incorporate it into your models, etc.
"unwittingly"

On a scale of one to ten, how condescending do you think this is?

At some point the left needs to start treating people as people instead of pawns to be shuffled around. Combine this with the "with us or against us" mentality, and they generate their own opposition.
Yes it is disingenuous for Dean to pretend that this was a normal process applied to a normal situation. Clearly whatever happened on that team, this latest round was not the beginning or even most important part. Gebru's letter mentions her threatening to sue Google previously, for instance. [1] The discussion about rigour in a conference paper or internal review is obviously a pretense.

[1] https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
I disagree. At least, if I load www.reddit.com/r/programming and old.reddit.com/r/programming, it's immediately apparent that new UI is much less dense:

https://i.imgur.com/2NPpxyw
They become "yard work" clothes when they're too bad to give away, with holes and stains like I mentioned above.

And I used "yard work" as code for "any kind of work that would ruin nice clothes" but I think that you can visualize non wealthy people who live in semi rural or rural areas.

Also, if I didn't have the space to store old clothes, which can be a $5 plastic box in a closet, they would go in the garbage bin, not to the goodwill, because like I said before I stop wearing my clothes when they've become too worn to give away.
I agree, if you press Ctrl-C vim (with default settings) literally tells you how to quit. `\n~` in SSH is completely unrecoverable.
The draft is rolling around the web already.
Resigning means giving up unemployment benefits or suing for unfair dismissal.

Resigning sounds better than being fired when no other details are available. It's irrelevant when the parties publish their sides of the story.
Because the opinion boils down to "use Prettier" or "don't use Prettier". If you have a team that can agree to that, then all the arguing over formatting completely disappears. You're trading trying to find some arduous compromise across the entire team with "whatever Prettier does". In my experience people are at first disappointed they don't get exactly the formatting they want, but once everyone gets used to it and formatting discussions completely stop, it's a nice relief.
Take your kids for a 2 hours bus + RER + metro ride and have some fun. Oh wait, I forgot, you're "sporty enough", right, you mean, you're "rich enough" to live inside the city, you have that nice, well paid job in an office that's always magically clean, and everything is always magically ready for you in Paris.

The city of love really IS magic for little privileged people like you. Go ahead and keep it up telling how other should live, and if they can't it's their fault: they just had to have your little privileged lifestyle, of a "nanti" as we say in France. First hit on the poor, who live far away from paris and come down to clean your office, and "hope this will help finding a solution". I guess it's their fault, they should just have been ... privileged like you.

Have you any idea of the pain it has become to use a car in Paris ? Does it really strike you as if people really had a better choice ?
> I don’t think a man sending a “do x or I’ll quit” email would be met with the same response.

Ugh, this is a bit infuriating to me. I think there are a ton of parallels in this whole situation to the James Damore memo issue, and IIRC Damore was fired pretty quickly: Google employee sends out an email to a wide distribution, and while that email may make some valid points, the overall tone of the post guarantees it to be a net negative to the company, and then when the employee is let go, they bitch and moan about how there is some sort of conspiracy in the company against them.

I believe firing Damore was the right decision and I believe Google was right to accept Gebru's resignation.
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99% of people who invoke the labour theory of value misunderstand it. Welcome to the 99%.
This is correct. It's a team game [requires communication], but nobody wants to play on a team with strangers. I think it's part of the reason for the popularity of battle royale games.
I also do that, but since it's a LL programming language, there is coupling (a resource created in one place may be destroyed by different function).
I haven't experienced much of that; I either finish at the top of the board or at the top for my team and still lose, or I win the game. If I'm really feeling like I'm getting crushed, I'll start a party with other players I know are good, but I don't do that often. I typically prefer solo in public lobbies for the challenge and the variety.
I'd guess the simplest reason for most people is losing/gaining weight.

If stuff doesn't fit anymore, but it's in good condition then it's nice to donate.

The other reason I could think of would be fashion, but I'm not particularly fashionable so that doesn't affect me. I could imagine it being a reason for people though.
Hmm, that is a good point. I know the Coral stuff is made from Chisel but I am not entirely sure if their cloud TPUs are
I was there, kB were an issue. We had 56 kb/s modems vs (let's say) 56 Mb/s fiber now. We gained a x1000 factor and we're dealing with many MB now instead of many kB back then. Page size grew x1000 too.

But loading pages was really slow, mainly because browsers were slow. No parallel loading of images, no progressive rendering. Those were the first optimizations.
But if people did this, how would they brag about reading pseudoscience on books about productivity? How would they come online and tell everyone they read the latest life-hack book and that made them a millionaire? Hell, how would they write such B.S. articles trying to teach something every 15yo knows?
> ignored Timnit's attempts to figure out what went wrong, handing down a decision by fiat

Funny, because she mobbed Yann LeCun and after she obtained a forced apology from him and an invitation to a civilised and serious discussion she said "this is not worth my time".

Maybe it wasn't worth their time.
Would also be interesting to know about single children intelligence vs children with siblings etc. Not only averages, but percentage of geniuses and other small details like this.
MapReduce and MPI are very different. MapReduce doesn't use message passing- the map phase reads inputs from sharded files in a separate disk system, applies map to the inputs, and writes out the mapped outputs to temp sort files on a seperate disk system. Then the shuffler sorts those and writes the outputs to the appropriate destination output shards in a seperate disk system, at which point the reducer reads them, applies reduce, and writes the final outputs, sharded by key to a seperate disk system.

The mappers, shufflers, and reducers are all independent of each other, reading and writing from the filesystem, and managed by a coordinator. There's nothing like MPI, other than the use of the Stubby RPC system, which sort of resembles MPI but has completely different distributed communication semantics.
"Pubapproval hasn't been used to silence uncomfortable minority viewpoints until now."

This is sad gaslighting of a reasonable concern the team had.

Having to endure some external review for what could otherwise be sensitive material.

The inability for the SJW crowd to work reasonably within very reasonable terms, to then resort to aggressive tactics such as 'demand the names and opinions of everyone on the board' and then publicly misrepresenting the situation is going to lose you a lot of favour.

Every time I read one of these stories I immediately feel sympathetic to the individual, but then upon learning more, I feel duped and maligned for having been effectively lied to.

The doors are wide open for progress, those who take it to micro-totalitarian lengths are not doing anyone any favours.
I would respectfully recommend that you read "Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher and William Ury. Effective negotiation is often about expressing interests, not specific actions or ultimative positions.
>If it got answer right 1 time in 100, that would be amazing and you'd be foolish not to use it!

Except you have no way of knowing if the answer it gives you is one of the 66 right predictions vs one of the 33 wrong predictions. You could say it's likely correct, but not to a high enough degree of confidence that you could really trust it without verifying using the old established techniques.
Well, I want no taxation without representation, literally! Public transportation is financed from taxes. People who take jobs there must have some obligations, like I do to my employer. Why they should decide whether I should go to work or pay so much for taxi, if it's available at all? If those people working on public transport are not happy, I do understand them... But please announce everything in advance, not the Charlie Foxtrot situation that happened a year ago.
Yes for sure..I worked as a corporate contractor for AT&T in 1990's and I was doing client/server apps using MSVC++ that are basically identical to React-type wideweb dev...

Indeed, your absolutely correct in saying it was obvious where webapps had to go, and that HTML and CSS just wasn't going to get us there.
It seems like this could be remedied by biasing matchmaking towards people you've already played (won?) with.

This need not be a hard requirement, so:

- Playing in the middle of the night, no previous teammates around? You get a random crew

- Playing at the same time every day? The system slowly builds a team of likeminded people around you.
How do those papers pass peer review if they're "forgetting" existing research?
> But this review process had never been used for introducing comments of this sort to a paper ever before

How do you know that?
> Nobody called Zuckerberg or Bezos exploitative when they were coding in dorm rooms and folding boxes on Ikea tables

Actually lots of us called them exploitive. It might not change anything, but it's worth noting that a lot of us knew that facebook would grow into the great evil that it is today. It was also obvious that Amazon would eat all retail stores, and it pretty much has.
What is equitable distribution? Should those who got the placebo during testing be first? Should the elderly or the essential worker come first? How should we account for counties' success / failure, and their current situation in distributing vaccines? Should we account for a country's likeliness for internal equitability? What about their capability for distribution, given the mRNA require expensive cooling systems?
> They help alert you when either changed

that's exactly what I'm looking for =D. See response to sibling comment for why I also want to be able to review the full code layout.
In figure 2, those curves are all from one epoch each right? Which is to say the model has never seen the same data twice?

It's true you don't need regularization if you've never seen the same data twice, but that's a similar regularization to early stopping. You'd expect the larger number of parameters would make the training error drop faster with fewer tokens as well due to improved optimizability. But rather than "larger models need less data", I'd say the take away is more "larger models need fewer steps to optimize training error". None of the models get "good" until they've seen a number of tokens similar to the number of parameters.

Unless you've run many epochs on small data sets and seen the same results, in which case that's pretty weird/cool.
> "So if you would like to change things, I suggest focusing on leadership accountability and thinking through what types of pressures can also be applied from the outside. For instance, I believe that the Congressional Black Caucus is the entity that started forcing tech companies to report their diversity numbers. Writing more documents and saying things over and over again will tire you out but no one will listen."

People are forgetting about the part where she basically encourages her colleagues to talk to congress, at a time when tech CEOs are regularly being hauled in front of congressional committees. At the point when that is written, this clearly is an adversarial relationship between her and Google. And it wasn't Google that made it adversarial

I couldn't imagine writing something like that and keeping my job
It's so obvious that she was "negotiating" in bad faith by threatening to quit if she didn't get what she wanted (i.e. throwing a tantrum) that I'm surprised that other people are surprised at Google's response.
This essay shows a contradiction in PG's own beliefs, which I also grapple with.

He doesn't believe "the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people", and his argument is persuasive. I tend to agree! All those characteristics he's interviewing for are positive, and I think he's a great billionaire scout. Most of the rich people I know got there in ways that don't seem exploitative.

But, he does believe "people who make a lot of money have a moral obligation to use it for the common good", and... isn't that a contradiction? If someone makes their first ten million, and keeps earning more with no clear plans to allocate it to the public good -- are they ignoring their moral obligation? Maybe not yet. What about a multi-billionaire who, years down the road, still hasn't signed on to something like the Giving Pledge? How can we defend the morality of that person?
This has zero to do with graphics hardware. There is no resolution change happening here, just UI scaling. This is OS optimization.

Hold CTRL and press + on your keyboard. <insert Owen Wilson WooooW> clearly Chrome has amazing graphic stack integration, it didnt even blink!!1
For medical use only, it is already legal at the federal level. The generic name is Dronabinol. It is marketed as Marinol and Syndros.

Demanding brownies and joints for "medical use" is just straight up dishonest. You'll notice that drugs for legitimate medical use are not supplied in either way. (oh, it's time to eat a glaucoma prevention brownie...)
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