skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her job was AI ethics research. Also, she did get it reviewed and it was accepted, as Jeff Dean's letter confirms. Management just changed their mind and decided the review procedure wasn't enough because they realized they didn't want someone taking their AI ethics job seriously.
Go create small, silly programs
You can only get murkier shades.
Wanting to know which coworkers are raising feedback in a process that does not provide for anonymous feedback in the first place is not "doxxing" them.

(EDIT: Note that this particular process was not a peer review process - academic peer review is done by people from another institution, and selected by the venue after submitting a paper. This was a pre-submission internal review process which has never been billed as academic peer review.)
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
The minimal amount of CSS lines is a feature. So the idea is to create an appealing website with the minimal amount of simple CSS.

The motivation comes from other CSS frameworks which have thousands of lines and due to the inheriting structure of CSS can be a challenge to integrate or update in existing projects.
I think the subtle, yet important, difference is that she said she would quit by a certain date and they terminated her immediately.

Given her role is likely just for PR it seems rather foolish not to at least give her two weeks notice or something.
There are some within that realize the U.S is in an unsustainable path of devaluing, borrowing, and excess spending in pursuit of failed policies. There is still hope!
"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." (Alan Kay, see e.g. http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html?viewfullsite=1).

I first used Lisp more than thirty years ago (back then on the VAX), but I still don't understand why it is supposed to be the "best programming language" (as some people continue to claim). It is not even obvious to me how to recognize a programming language as the "best" one. The advantage of the simple syntax is paid with several disadvantages. Praising Lisp for its simple syntax is like praising a protein for its simple structure consisting only of a chain of amino acids.
Transparent monetary policy for 100+ years hard coded... No secret fed meetings about policy that give large banks a permanent information advantage while the rest of the population is left in the dark and forced to plan in 4 year(if your lucky) periods.
That's not even part of Scheme syntax.

It's just a convention that you're free to ignore in your own code.
Except now they have enough negative publicity about documented shady practice that it will likely destroy their affiliate program. Honesty really is the best policy
Why Edutainment Is Not Learning
Raise stress level. Reduce efficiency. Decrease morale.

That's mere sabotage there. A very good reason to do it.

There could be more specific reasons too. The effects of all that on certain procedures and decisions. Part of a larger plan.

And such a convenient technology. It begs to be used.
This reminds me of Amazon Smile. I wonder if it affects payouts to referrers?
Scientist is a stretch
> She offered to resign on a particular schedule

It is not out of the ordinary at all for companies to walk people out on the day of resignation. The company is not required or even expected to abide by whatever schedule is presented to them.
More like, you support the decision, but your immediate boss doesn't, so they start looking for reasons to get rid of you that don't have any official connection to your stance. I remember a while back seeing leaked documents from Google where some managers shared an unofficial blacklist of employees to never promote and try to get rid of because of their political views.
> There is a well known mechanism by which it might be possible for you to notice a new device being powered up: coil whine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_whine).

There are other known (though less common) mechanisms, notably RF reception through dental fillings or bridgework. While the barrier to actually hearing intelligible radio broadcasts is pretty high, simple awareness of a nearby transmitting device is... less unlikely, and might exhibit as something like referred pain, or a vague sense of pressure, or be mistaken for tinnitus.
> Every job in the last 5yrs

How many jobs have you HAD in the past 5 years?
I think it's part of a method for mapping foot traffic inside a building. It came out around the same time as the "see people through walls using wi-fi" demo.
> process that does not provide for anonymous feedback

What makes you say this? Ultimately, the process is determined by Google. She had managers say she couldn't get that information. Why wouldn't that be the end of the conversation with regards to their identities?
There is a strange thing in modern discourse where there is an advantage in first establishing yourself as a victim before making your point.
Technically, avalanche is a US coin. It was also the first proof of stake crypto currency but I have not seen it picking up much traction in the US. https://www.avalabs.org

*EDIT
Avalanche was not the first proof of state crypto currency.
Digital value transfer is a oligopoly of a few US companies that can effectively exclude anyone in the world from the digital economy in general, any innovation and any competition by anyone at all is a very good thing. It's too bad that fb listened to the US politics and made their project much worse, but its still very good in terms of cyrpto adoption by the non-technical people which can in turn make way for other, better projects.
BeOS used mime types.

Practical File System Design with the Be File System - http://www.nobius.org/dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf
Sure, of course sometimes it should be on stderr. It's a pretty simple fix to have it choose the right channel, though.
The Death of Zappos Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
I enjoyed the read. Side note: is it just me or is the Keto industry in general just like 99.5% criminals?

I’ve had my credit card stolen multiple times this year, and the thief has used my card to send ME keto pills I didn’t want. This makes the transaction more difficult to dispute and doesn’t benefit a common thief in any way. These companies are just a facade for criminal activity in my opinion, though I’ve been unable to concretely connect the dots.
CourseTune – A systems engineering approach to curriculum design
I find the semi-regular condemnations from employees of big tech companies hollow. If you work for one of these companies and find their behavior unsavory, go work somewhere else - this is actually what might cause executives at these companies to reflect on how they might change course.

The fact that most of these employees could easily get well paying (just not as _ridiculously well paying_) jobs elsewhere to me feels like they are not staying out of necessity, rather they are looking to assuage their conscious through statements like these, and continue collecting their exorbitant pay.
Threatening to leave is often times the ONLY leverage a worker has. What other leverage can a human utilize, in order to get their concerns addressed?

And how seriously does Google managers really take AI ethics, when they fail to resolve such an issue internally?

This is troublesome on so many levels and a huge red flag anything to do with AI and Google.
Three Methods to Convert Strings into Enums in C#
I think Zuck's mission wasn't really about empowering the unbanked, but it's: fight WeChat. WeChat already has an effective digital payment system, with the tasty tasty analytics and surveillance capabilities (which yeah, Zuck also probably wants).

As to blockchains, that's because this is the hype of the last few years, is it not?

As to currencies, IMO the vision of the people hyping bitcoin was that your pizza place would accept BTC (and not after converting their USD price to BTC) because their supplies would be happy to do as well. A single currency for the world would be interesting, but as economists have pointed out, devaluing your currency is a way to escape economic crises, but e.g. Euro countries can't do this any more, hence the problems the PIIGS countries had.
This isn't at all unusual when someone is quitting on bad terms, is it?
So if you don’t do what your boss says at a job, even if you disagree, your boss can fire you, and this is good. But if you tell your boss that they should do something or you’ll quit, this is bad and makes you unemployable.

You realize that this is just an argument that whoever is in a position of authority over you is right by virtue of having that authority?
It does though. For instance, were any articles framed as [More than X Google workers condemn firing of James Damore], despite that actually being the case? The media, universities and other elite institutions always support the "SJW cultural domination" stance on all these issues and the discussion is always framed from that perspective.

You'll find similar framings such as [More than X GitHub workers condemn GitHub's deals with ICE]. You'll never find [More than X GitHub workers condemn removal of meritocracy rug], despite that also being the case. You may not like me pointing this out, but that's how it happens. It's not cognitive dissonance to see that that's how these things go.
Pink squares used to hide the authors, but the names are still written behind in the PDF...
My general impression after reading between the lines over last years about Libra is they are targeting in-app micropayments and more like a competition to something like Paysafecard.
In her group email she also asked other employees to stop working in any other related project.

I mean, I don't see how google could NOT terminate her after such an event. I am in a nation with extremly strong worker protection law but that action alone would be enough to fire you on the spot.
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Good for you, but swelling is a known side effect of so many existing vaccines (I linked the CDC page in my comment) that there's no reasonable justification in saying that this vaccine having this possible side effect is strange. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it's uncommon.

I also want to point out that in this comment thread we have an unsourced rumour about someone having swelling of some description (which you've also repeated without a source). That isn't even an anecdote, it's just an flat-out evidence-free claim.
Why not? Do you think every financial service offered by traditional banks can't be coded and made more efficient using internet-native money (bitcoin)?

If so, what services can't? People already use BTC as collateral for loans/mortgages ...which are two of the riskiest activities traditional banks engage in.
Can you really get fired for disagreeing with something?
Your account is four years newer than theirs, and no less anonymous.
Every non-union employee in every state other than Montana has this potential problem.

The difference is in smaller companies the unspoken rules are often spoken out loud and the employees don’t make Google money.
Praying Medic misunderstands Bush v Gore. SCOTUS took the extraordinary step in that ruling of declaring the circumstances so unique that the case should not be cited as common-law precedent. Anyone citing it has to explain why the Court should disregard SCOTUS's own guidance not to cite it. Even if they do, its particulars don't generally apply to the cases the Trump campaign is bringing (https://theconversation.com/trumps-pennsylvania-lawsuits-inv...).

Imposing martial law would simply be the death of American democracy, not some master chess move.

I don't dispute the President could try.

I doubt it would succeed (if it came down to it, plenty of generals see him as a tyrant and would follow their oath to uphold the Constitution, not a President in breach of his oath), and it renders all this discussion irrelevant because it's a suspension of Constitutional law.

But it proves nothing. We'd just be another nation where a tyrant tried military force to keep his power illegitimately. Sowing doubt in the legitimate process to justify a power grab is right out of the playbook.

It's sad that you're falling for it, but there were suckers who supported Hitler too. Every modern dictator claims they're upholding the will of the people. Every modern dictator drums up a secret conspiracy opposed to the people to justify their extraordinary measures.
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The web most certainly supported bubbles: who you link to has a huge impact on where readers go next and the language people use affects which results they get for searches (even before Google started personalizing things based on your past history).

It was slower than Twitter/Facebook but the effect is exactly the same as the social media problem. I have a relative who went down the conservative conspiracy theory rabbit hole in the years after 9/11 and the web was a huge accelerant for his intellectual decline because once he found a community of fellow travelers he’d stay in that network of blogs where they strenuously resisted outside sources or the general idea of objective reality. When those communities moved primarily onto social media, they moved faster and got wider range but the practices didn’t change at all.
Emulating a Computer: The Chip-8 Interpreter
What's the point of the two week notice in this case?
The other curious thing is, behind the pink-boxed redactions are the names of four other Google employees. I'm wondering why they haven't been reprimanded in the same way. At least, not that we know of.
Pull the other one. You know exactly what you are doing.
It's called "insubordination".
Geforce Experience is such a honking piece of shit.
> extraordinary claim without much evidence

"Much evidence", smh. How about the work that won the Nobel prize on this exact topic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory

It shows exactly how the boom/bust cycle is caused by the active management of money.
"Condemn firing" is a misleadingly narrow headline that focuses undue attention on the resign/fire question. The important part of the story is not the HR machinations of her departure, but what caused the situation to escalate to that point. The letter itself makes this clear -- its condemnations and demands go way beyond Gebru's employment:

https://googlewalkout.medium.com/standing-with-dr-timnit-geb...

> Dr. Gebru has faced defensiveness, racism, gaslighting, research censorship, and now a retaliatory firing

The letter goes on:

> In late November, five weeks after the piece had been internally reviewed and approved for publication through standard processes, Google leadership made the decision to censor it, without warning or cause.

The demands are also not about the firing itself:

> explain the process by which the paper was unilaterally rejected by leadership
I still think cicadas are more likely than malevolence
Is that true?

Why do people call it "the land of the free" then?
Further links on that antioxidants inhibit exercise adaptation:
https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2013/10/antioxidant-supplem...

https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2014/03/anti-oxidants-resis...

TLDR:
Take your antioxidants outside of your workout and recovery window.

The bodies response to working out is based on the challenge/damage and antioxidants reduce that.
Rather than storing the offset within the struct, you could store a type-erased pointer to data member:

struct M {
std::byte M::*p;
std::size_t l;
template<class C, class T>
M(T C::*e) : p{reinterpret_cast<std::byte M::*>(e)}, l{sizeof(T)} {}
};

Also there are ways (not necessarily legal) to convert a pointer to data member to an offset; see the proposal http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p090...
Yes, that's right.

I haven't verified it but suspect that you might be able to improve on this by generating the coordinates in order, constantly decreasing the range to ensure that the point falls within the sphere. Then, to ensure spherical symmetry, you randomly shuffle the points at the end.
I don't know. Having seen Small Claims Court in person, there were companies suing people and people suing companies. And all the companies showed up.

As for enforcement, here, you're allowed to sell the debt the company owes you to collectors, and this pays 10% interest a year--not bad compared to a checking account. You can demand they show up in court again and answer to the judge why they haven't paid, and when they will, you can lay claim to rent and assets, et cetera. The court won't do that for you, but it very much does want to help legitimately harmed parties settle their score.

I agree it's not fast, though.
Your comment made me look up what IMNSHO means. That was pretty interesting by itself. :)
There's also "pseudoscience". Unfortunately all too common in ML, where the ratio of published papers to genuine new developments is (charitably) at least 2:1.
i find the entire site difficult to read :\
I think that would have been the civilized thing to do. But that is the exception, not the rule in the bay; I.e once you have made your intentions known, and are perceived as someone who could cause damage in the interim, you are out straight away. Feels like a natural consequence of at-will employment.
The Facebook “walkout” was a particularly hilarious example of this when you consider the second step of the walkout: walking back in.
The whole point is that working on more accurate methods for doing X is one direction of research and working on methods to correct for dataset bias in X is another direction of research. It's completely reasonable to work on either one of those separately, and it's unreasonable to demand (you may suggest, but not demand) that people working on the former direction fix the latter. Better algorithms and better datasets are both necessary but quite orthogonal.

As you say, it's a reflection of our beliefs about what to prioritize. If you're interested in developing methods of image upscaling that generalize better and preserve facial properties that were underrepresented in the training data, that's an interesting area of research, and you're welcome to work on it, but you don't get to demand that people working on something else prioritize this instead, they get to choose their own priorities unless you're paying them for a particular direction of research (e.g. like Google should be able to direct Dr. Gebru while she was working for them).

There's a responsibility to correct for bias when implementing models in production (e.g. if you'd be actually deploying it in Senegal, then there would be a responsibility to use a Senegal-appropriate dataset), there's a responsibility to acknowledge the bias of a particular algorithm if one exists - for example if it highly relies on contrast values which would be different for different types of faces, then that's relevant, because it's a statement about the generalization of the algorithm; but there's no proactive duty to "address the bias meaningfully", that's nice thing to do, but it's like charity - a voluntary choice to factilitate a social goal, but not a requirement or responsibility to do that. There's a responsibility to correct harms you caused, there is no responsibility to correct harms caused by others, that's a good thing to do, but not a moral duty.

Someone who invests a lot into charity work or addressing bias is doing a good thing, but it doesn't mean that people who are doing other things are abdicating their responsibility - it's never was their responsibility in the first place to fix social issues in the wider society. You can't simply point at random people and declare that they're going to be responsible for something that they didn't personally cause and where they did nothing wrong, that accusatory behavior is unacceptable, so naturally there's a backlash to people who try to assert personal responsibility of others without a basis to do so.
The process is determined by Google, yes, but there is a written, established process, which management did not abide by.

Now it is technically true that management does not have to abide by it and can redefine the process at any time, but that doesn't mean saying "The established process is not an anonymous feedback process, what is going on" is doxxing anyone.

Last week at work I was told that a particular internal product was being wound down and was not considered strategic in 2021 planning, and I asked who expressed that desire because my team has a particular technical need for it and I think there are ways to run it more efficiently, and I wanted to have a conversation with them and find an answer that's good for the business. I would have been confused if I was told "I can't tell you that." Was I trying to dox someone?
What stood out to you?
Gebru and her supporters say that she was fired in part because she's a black woman and the racist Google culture rejected her. If they don't want others to frame it as a "political correctness gone mad" thing, they should drop the race baiting.
My own unfounded conspiracy theory? It was done by Russia to submarine efforts by the Obama administration to normalize relations with Cuba.
An Introduction to Three-Phase Power and PDUs
Coffee can make ADD worse
All those 1200 should threaten to go on strike and hit Google's profits.
Besides Genesis [1] and Stardust [2], Hayabusa2's predecessor [1] successfully brought back some micrograms of material from asteroid 25143 Itokawa. This was much less than the original goal, but the mission was plagued by technical problems and sheer bad luck, so bringing back anything at all was still a major achievement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
I have a very different take—

-Mr. Lynch advertises for KMK on a site that he has poured many hours of work and creativity into over the years. Mr. Lynch does this based on an agreement, that, in fact, relies heavily on the merchants honest reporting of sales, a metric Mr. Lynch, does not have on his own. The balance of power in this relationship is strongly favoring KMK.

-Mr. Lynch learns that KMK is not, in fact, honoring its contract, this he learns from a small admission from KMK. The balance of power shifts slightly in favor of Mr. Lynch.

-Mr. Lynch reaches out to CEO of KMK, who effectively tells Mr. Lynch to pound sand. Escalating the conflict, and retaining position in balance of power.

-Mr. Lynch continues pressing CEO, threatening losses that a reasonable CEO would not want to incur, as well as the guarantee that this cheap problem will continue to consume the bread maker-CEOs time. KMK, in a moment of clarity signals that it is open to alternative solutions without admitting fault, by effectively posing the question, ‘What do hope to accomplish?’. Balance of power is basically equal at this point.

-Mr. Lynch and KMK CEO settle on $88 to make Mr. Lynch whole. Both are mutually satisfied to never conduct business together again. At this point Balance of power is now strongly in favor of Mr. Lynch, as he has recuperated the $88, but more effectively, he has won the conflict. Using the leverage that was ironically what KMK valued most as an affiliate partner, he nukes the bridge he just crossed as a demonstration of force, but more importantly send a message to the market, ‘you don’t screw over your affiliate partners’.

Some may say it was twisting the blade a little too much, some may say it was in bad taste. I say it was Sherman-esque; harsh, but necessary, so long as he didn’t take obvious pleasure in his brutality.