skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From many of these examples, a common thread is the following or a combination thereof:

- Someone is seen as an outsider within a field

- The data that supports or undermines claims is noisy. This I think is the core underlying reason, the root of most evil. In turn, the reason for this is lack of tooling to produce precise observations, or funding to increase sample sizes.

- Being right, for the wrong reasons. The reasons may be shot down. Rejecting "A->B" does not mean "B" is false, it just means "A"was not a good reason for B.

I think it's important to note that these are actually pretty valid reasons to be sceptical of a claim. (Well, at least the second and third are, but even the first is generally a useful heuristic.)

So I think the issue is not so much that peer-review is broken and needs to be fixed, as that it is by nature conservative and could do with a supplementary process to reduce the false-negatives.
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There are student loans in virtually every country, including Europe, and I'd say they're quite commonly used. The difference is whether they're required to pay for tuition or not. For example, in Norway public universities (which are most, including the best ones) are tuition-free.

In countries like the Netherlands, there is tuition, but heavily subsidised. Fees are about 2k per year, and low (and partially to middle-income) households get a government stipend that is more than double that fee per year.

In short, people in these countries have to pay living expenses, tuition is pretty much covered. And a lot of these countries are quite small and have people living near the university, with decent public transportation, which is often free for students as well. As such lots of students live at home instead of on-campus, moving out for lifestyle reasons as soon as they can (often taking out loans to supplement a parttime job), rather than for the logistics of having to move to a place near the university.

In the US there's a lot of subsidies, state programs, scholarships etc as well. But many people still end up paying way more, especially if they're going out of state. And there's lots of people who end up having to move city to study somewhere, which means paying for room and board are very much a requisite part of their studies.

As such the loan amounts are nowhere near as large. Second, loans tend to be government issued, the cost-of-capital essentially tracking the interest on state bonds (e.g. treasury bills in the US) with a cap of 0%. This means in the Netherlands for example interest rates for student loans have been 0% for years and will likely remain at 0% for many years. This presents a wildly different outlook for students because borrowing $30k today isn't going to turn into having to pay back $100k over the course of the loan the coming decades, but just $30k, which is depreciating due to inflation in real terms over time.
So you need 3 accounts on 3 different services to achieve what radicle does.

OK, let's say you use your Github account for all of them instead, now you have centralized your accounts and if you're another youtube-dl, Popcorn-Time or just happen to be unlucky enough have the nationality of a country that the USA likes to hate against, that account is gone.

As for updating all those mirrors, how do you do that? `git push --all` ? `git push --mirror` ? Is git configured to so automatically? Or are you going to configure push hooks on one of those services?

What about your issue/ticket and PR/MR management? Where will that be? Are you going to use an in-git solution like https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug, somehow sync everything using custom scripts or wait for https://forgefed.peers.community/ to be finalized and implemented by all code hosts?

How are you going to collaborate with others?

How are you going to introduce newcomers to all these options?

Do you know of a tool that solves most (or all) of those issues?
But how much energy and man power would it cost to support 32-bit CPUs longterm in all software?
> I see nothing to suggest she's not qualified.

Your argument sounds like a red herring. Qualified for what? I didn't noticed the OP making any remark on the author's qualifications.

And by the way, you should think things through before pulling appeals to authority to try to defend the credibility of researchers. See James Watson, a nobel laureate and a founder of modern genetics, and his comments on race and gender.
I don't see how you can possibly be that confident about the truth of what happened. Unless you have non-public information, then there is still considerable uncertainty.

Timnit says she was fired: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334352694664957952

Jeff Dean's email says the article was "approved", though clearly not approved enough:
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

Other researchers at Google say that this level of scrutiny is highly unusual: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307618

So in fact it is you that is twisting the narrative by asserting that the truth is publicly known, and that it is exactly as Google describes.
I am a glaucoma patient for 2 years and I'm 30. I hope there will be a cure before I lose my sight.
This is great but here are a few additions that I think are helpful when it comes to gathering information.

1. List all man pages of a specific section (e.g. section 4):

`man -k -s 4 . | sort`

2. Output all possible sections:

`man man | head -25`

3. Sometimes there is no man page but GNU info can be used:

`info ed`

`info emacs`

4. A nice website to explain comands and oneliners is explainshell.com. It can also be queried from a terminal quite conveniently.

5. If you're like me, you'll probably often list all the system calls by listing all the pages in section 2. A better way might be to look at the linux source code directly (choose the right architecture):

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry...
I wonder if there is some kind of collective bargaining among dealers in the negotiations with GM, that binds all the dealers. Or if the buyouts are just too good to refuse.
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> I think this sort of veiled personal attack resorting to baseless extrapolation is not a productive line of public discourse.

I thought that my comment was fitting to the tone of the text I replied too, but fair enough, maybe I shouldn't have included that paragraph.

> You should take a step back and think about a) the field of study, b) how the main argument completely ignores the basis of said technical field and what it studies, c) how the argument being created lies on the idea that a self-annointed elite should have the right to manipulate the public to force it to fall in place with it's goals and desires.

It is unclear to me what this means, is it arguing that studying bias in AI and specifically deep learning is not germane?
Is it arguing that it is not acceptable to institute policies and action to create a level playing field for minorities and repressed group because that would be social engineering, and forcing the common man to do the elites bidding?
If that is what it means, I have to disagree, I find both of those things worthwhile.
Using used clothes sounds icky enough, I don’t want to imagine if they were sweaty when you bought them

I can imagine the kind of people who buy used clothes
> The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. [...]

There is an add-on called "Reddit comment collapser" [0] that adds this to old reddit.

[0]: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/reddit-comment-collapser
The excess death charts for many countries (the topic of this HN item) do not show any substantial deviation in January 2020.

If you're thinking absolute terms rather than excess deaths you're probably looking at Northern Hemisphere countries, so January is Winter, which is associated with higher death rates, but you'll see a different pattern in the South because their Winter is six months offset from ours.

Yes this means countries like Australia and New Zealand may well have already experienced the worst of COVID-19 in June-July-August 2020 while the worst in the US or England might be next month, and yes given that they've seen very few deaths while we have thousands every day that's extremely bad news.
This looks fun, will give it a go. The inbuilt funding sounds interesting, is that like bounties on issues? Or more like Patreon sponsorships?
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https://www.udemy.com/course/end-to-end-real-world-applicati...
Fortunately, HN has a feature to allow you to do that without polluting threads with useless comments: just click on the "timestamp" of the comment (next to the username) and then click on "favorite".

In the future, you can view all of your "favorite" comments from your profile page (click on your username in the top-rigtht of the page). As an added bonus, it's much easier than having to sift through your own comments to find that one specific thread you're looking for.
Wow, I’m so sad executives at a major company don’t have access to every opportunity available to them.
That's nonsense, by that token India is far richer than Switzerland. That's simply not how 'wealthiest nation' is used in the colloquial sense.

For your meaning other terms would be used, e.g. saying India has a larger economy than Switzerland, or a larger market.
I have been told that it's also due to the fact that in Europe, people generally travel through a unified medical and social system from birth; if they exhibit problems they are directed to the necessary interventions (mental health services, addiction, etc.) Providing these services earlier on with a full picture has a higher ROI than intervening later without all information about that person's journey.

Additionally, I believe that for people who are seriously mentally ill, it's more difficult to section them in the US. In the UK, it takes a GP and social worker to section someone; I believe in the US it's not that simple.
Webs of trust can help isolate the issue, in that if you can trace news back to it's source, you can weight the relevance of the news according to the weights assigned to the friend's and your own weightings combined, in that particular web of trust (eg. A Web for cooking, a Web for politics etc).

The issue then is that you're likely to get a balkanization of the webs of trust - echo chambers.
How we can support cross pollination of these webs is the issue. I don't have an answer for that, but being able to trace news sources at least helps though.
So, just smelling a fugu and giving it a hard jab with a fork should do?

Perfectly safe, if expensive.
I don't think GP was saying that landlords keep hoards of miserable homeless people just outside the property, in order to scare tenants into paying their rent. People are plenty aware of economic reality.
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Consider that CPUs on newer nodes consume less energy. There are special embedded low-power chips (eg TI 16 bit MSP), but they are NOT running Linux, and they never will. They couldn't reach their power targets running Linux, not even close. So I'm not sure obsolete designs being manufactured on old process node being kept alive is a net win. The special low-power cores are unaffected, as they are not running Linux anyway, and the ones that do aren't particularly low power.

There is a sweet spot for low cost chips, I think its 40nm due to mask costs, manufacturing gets exponentially more expensive from that point on, which is the reason they haven't upgraded. Anyone knows if there are signs this cost is coming down over time?
Is there a CLI? I can't download yet another Electron app and waste 90MB on another Chromium instance.
Transitive trust / Web-of-Trust is the solution I think. You do need to find one trustworthy entry point to such a web of trust, maybe a journalist or a news source that you trust. Once you trust one node in a network that is providing trust ratings of other nodes, you start to have some footing to judge content and authors.

Within this network, you may have a pocket of users who espouse Flat earth theory, but I believe if you were to rely on such users for trust ratings, the picture of the world created would be so incoherent, it would simply be unbearable.
here's a 3d bin packer written in Fable:
http://bindrake.com/
and source:
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> PHP’s main selling point has always been its low barrier to entry

While this is 100% true (though latley more true for Python), the people who started using PHP years ago and stuck with it over the years have now gotten the tools for a more precise and structured code base.

I personally use PHP even on servers for quick scripting of things because I never learned Python well enough to have all functions at my finger tips and don't get me started on powershell ;D
That's nice! But I've been using CSS for 2 decades, how did I not know this?!
Good question. I know of a few projects hosting their own GitLab instance, the problem is that this requires me to create a new account/identity for each of these instances. This is a far cry from what GitHub brought, which was a single "place" and social network where you could browse and contribute to all projects with the same account.

Radicle attempts to take back control (just like running your own instance), but without giving up network effects.
Sure, but what percentage of those systems will be alive in 18 years? I'm sure it is non-zero, but it is also probably small. Regardless, those systems can't be updated, so they will have the problem either way. That says nothing about whether new systems should be given 64 bit time stamps.
This is a co-written paper. It's interesting you focus on her, instead of suggesting that all of the 8 authors are social engineers, pissed etc.
> I have not seen many applications that take daemon + local browser approach. What are the examples?

Jupyter Notebooks.
LOOK AT THE MEDIUM.

I pick up a book, it has HEFT. I FEEL satisfied with my selection in hand, that I have acquired a goodly amount of reading material on a subject or by an author who I feel is worthy of my time.

I open the book and skim the contents page, a worthy array of subjects that pique my interest entice me on but the MEDIUM prevents me from an indulgent glance. I understand inherently that I am expected to progress through the material with the author, at their pace before I can uncover the gold within.

I open the article 'The Erosion of Deep Literacy' in my browser. A PROGRESS METER appears on the right-hand side known as the scroll-bar telling me this article is longer than a three minute read, and that I have a LONG WAIT ahead before my progress is complete.

Immediately I want to know if the article is worth my time and without a CONTENTS PAGE to assure me I flick the oh-so convenient mouse wheel or thumb across my screen and scroll to the bottom with happy abandon!

JUDGEMENT BEGINS as I scan for hints of life; highlighted text, INFO BOXES.. PICTURES!? my guide-posts of worthiness are lacking and emotions set in.. Do I really WANT to spend fifteen whole minutes here?

Long-form is dead on the web of my heart, flicked away like a tik-tok meme that took too long to load... oh look, a butterfly!
The two "under-performing" types I encountered where "hard to work with" and unskilled.

Unskilled but smart is not a big problem as long es there are some more senior people. They might not get that much done, but they are still net positive :). And of course they improve if you can hold them for a longer time.

People really hard to work with on the other hand are a tough nut and can hold back projects. I think this is often bad hiring. At least a company I worked for hired because they couldn't find anyone better (for the budget) and it turned out to be a big mistake.

Either way, you have to live and calculate with what you have.

If you do product work however I don't see why deadlines are all that important and would rather focus on the small, most impactful next iteration.
Could it be that each quantum is an encoded message or information that grows in a field called time. The quantum interacts with a universal machine, called universe that computes the result. So that the entaglement is only delayed computation, like in Haskell. So there is no problem understanding how the physics works, the universal machine is in a monad and we can only call return when the time is due. So I suggest considering space time as a delayed computation (more as a monad or time stated encoded) for a universal machine called our universe.
> I didn't noticed the OP making any remark on the author's qualifications.

Did you not read the first sentence of OP's post?

"Ok, so basically she is a bullshit social engineer, masquerading as an 'AI ethics researcher'"
I do. The DE's printer settings rarely work. CUPS on the other hand always has some way of successfully configuring a printer.

And whatever its problems are, not being an Electron app is not one of them.
JS has taken over the world and I wouldn't say that it has a more or less shaky foundation than PHP. See var.
Did it suck before Walmart and Amazon? Probably not as much as it does today.
I spent a lot of years as a PM and PgM, and the general gist of this article seems to be that if you have better PMs your project outcomes will be better. I know HN loves to talk about how much the PMs they've reported to suck, but having worked with many clients on dozens of projects, it's rarely that simple. While bad PMs are definitely way too common, so are bad development teams. And remember that PMs are usually getting shit on from two directions at once (development teams and management teams) with often very little authority to actually fix things. It's usually bad management practices and attitudes that sink projects and make life hell for everyone, and the cause of that is usually lack of understanding and empathy for how software development works.

The greatest PM in the world can't help a project if the executive sponsors keep changing scope and requirements or making ridiculous promises to clients to increase sales (and I've seen good PMs quit over this). We don't just need better project management training, we need better management training in general for anyone whose job is dependent on software. Also, companies need to actually be willing to pay for good PMs instead of pulling the cheapest contractor they can find and acting surprised when regurgitating the PMI handbook doesn't actually work.
What website should we block if we want to avoid another Boston Marathon bombing or men running trucks over people in Christmas markets like in Berlin?

(I just realized that both happened mere blocks of my residence at the time. Maybe if I become homeless we will be able to prevent these horrific events)
> sometimes developers use it for blogs, forms, or other simple websites. There are many great tools out there for these websites, React is not one of them.

Such as?
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You forgot portability. Web apps by default are cross platform.

I've lost count of how many Windows-only and these days even MacOS-only apps I've seen. Similar story for Android or iOS.
We haven't read her paper, just an article about it. We can't read it, because google won't let us. That you don't see that as a problem is a little concerning.
No, you can just use normal HTML, add some vue-specific stuff and then treat that HTML as Vue app.

It’s how people use Vue as a jQuery replacement.
In Czech Republic and Slovakia it's at least 10% of your hourly salary. I've worked in a company where they payed 20% plus a fee of 50 euro or so to cover your connectivity cost. So a week of base Oncall was around 10% of your salary.
There’s not a lot of context here to comment on.
I bought a USB SDR-dongle a couple of years ago, primarily to monitor aircraft, and similar things.

Running a simple sniffer, trying to identify all the things transmitting locally was pretty fascinating. Prior to buying this I had no idea that tyres transmitted data via radio-waves (is it obvious I don't drive?)

I setup some wireless temperature sensors which transmit over 433Mhz, but eventually abandoned them. It was just as good to sniff the temperature-reports the tyres in the carpark beneath my flat were transmitting!
I have had good luck buying jeans and t-shirts made domestically. Does anyone know of a brand that makes socks in the US? I can’t seem to find any that are less than 20 a pair.
How exactly is the environmental impact of tech becoming more "direct and mainstream" [citation needed]?

Data centers around the world account only for a tiny fraction of electricity consumption or carbon emissions. Do you even account for the reduced car and air travel due to remote working and online shopping?

How are advanced few-shot learners like GPT-3 even remotely a problem, training less models is somehow worse? Do they even know what they are taking about?

Its all very confusing, but a lot of the work done by grievance studies becomes immediately easier to understand once you realize they are arguing in bad faith.
> I thought that my comment was fitting to the tone of the text (...)

Yes, that was one of the problems.

> It is unclear to me what this means, is it arguing that studying bias in AI and specifically deep learning is not germane?

Let me make it clear for you so that a) we are able to talk about things objectively, b) your options to continue using veiled personal attacks is curtailed.

Either your goal is to model reality and real life, or your goal is to model your idealization of what you feel real life should be.

If you pick option #2 then your model does not reflect real life.

Bias is by definition the way the model returns results that don't match the real world and real life, in frequency and in proportion.

If your goal is to use your model to manipulate and control society based on your own personal criteria, by manipulating it to return results that distort the real world and real life, then call it something else, because bias is not it.
I think the real story is that Google wanted to muzzle a researcher.
Anything that is installed in a factory or say in a car repair shop might be alive in more than 18 years.
"Or had a routine of hitting the gym after work, but be unable to find the same motivation to work out at home. "

I had a routine of hitting the gym between 13.00-15.00, when it is at its emptiest. When the deadlocks came, I bought some rudimentary equipment home, but the experience sucked... Polished hardwood floors are just too slippery.

Fortunately, they opened the gyms on Thursday again and I am going back to my previous routine.