skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “ People are very afraid that google fired her because they don't care about bias and unethical use in AI.”

I have not heard anyone express this fear, certainly not in the AI community.

I have not seen any part of the Timnit Gebru incident that paints Google in a bad light or corroborates any type of inconsistency or unfair judgment.

Google has done plenty of that stuff in other situations, just not in any part of the handling of Timnit Gebru’s very inappropriate behavior.
The article is a deep dive into Moses Schönfinkel's life, and mentions how his work is picked up by Haskell Curry.

It is very long, contains surprisingly few of the characteristic Wolfram promotion usually found in Wolfram texts, but besides a detailed biography and pictures of historic documents, there are a few gems (people who researched "algebra of logic" before most others) for the persistent reader.

> And maybe if the operation we now call currying needs a symbol we should be using the “sha” character Ш from the beginning of Schönfinkel’s name to remind us of a person about whom we know so little, but who planted a seed that gave us so much.

That's a good suggestion!

For folks who are interested in combinators but didn't get what they want from the text: the approachable reference on combinators is Hindley and Sheldon's "Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: an introduction"

... and of course, there is "To mock a mockingbird" by Raymond Smullyan, which introduces the topic through puzzles.
> Maybe they can relax the work/life balance now

Nobody should feel forced to work more than they want to. (The abjectly lazy aside.) But we should also be free to work as hard as we want. And to freely associate with those with similar preferences.

I used to love burning both ends of the candle. It was invigorating. I didn't ruin my health for it. And it gave me life lessons I could not have learned any other way. The fruits of those years, as well as finding other interests, nudged me to a different preference. Which involved new (or changed) colleagues. I don't see why, to be satisfied with one arrangement, we must denigrate the other--they're just different solutions.

Work and life don't balance on a scale. The dynamic is more like homeostasis. One's stable ratio depends on a variety factors, extrinsic and from within, and what makes one person happy will be ruinous or lethargic for another.
"A deep understanding of design" there doesn't refer to understanding the tools of the trade (e.g. CSS), but rather on how to create a harmonious whole, e.g. by consistently applying paddings, colour scales, etc. Tailwind (and other constraint-based design systems, see [1]) can help with that.

[1] https://styled-system.com/guides/why-powers-of-two/
If they do, it will be SMB/media company servers. No self respecting hosting provider or enterprise will use Apple servers.
Perhaps “inferences” (from the document) aren’t personal information, so aren’t covered by that language.
No; People with means tend to declare a residence in a Tax Haven. Which they use to observe profits. I.e. Registering their personal corp in WY, NV, or MD. Then recognizing all profits for themselves under a Corp/LLC and being taxed at WY, NV, or MD results.

Then they proceed to live wherever they want and buy items using Corp/LLC Funds. When they need to use personal funds or pay income tax - They minimize their tax impact through various methods.

Point being - The people live where they want regardless of tax haven status. They recognize revenue in a Corp/LLC in a tax haven.
I'm pretty sure you know the name Jeff Dean, who seems to have taken a personal role in this drama.

It's rather telling that your entire perspective is to demonize and diminish Gebru, who you don't even bother to name in your criticisms.

Why are you trying to establish some "level" distinction between Damore and Gebru. These aren't even remotely comparable situations.

Public attention and scrutiny is why we're talking about this, and have been, for a week now. It's pretty head in the sand to think this doesn't have impact.
try/catch introduces new block scopes and interrupt control flow. I find this example very readable, but expanding it into try/catches would make it rather long winded and harder to see the pattern at work as you extend the sequence:

get()
.then(handleResult)
.catch(useFallbackResult)
.then(updateState)

I prefer concision and functional expressiveness because it reduces the surface area for writing buggy code. Much like how using map instead writing a for loop can eliminate out of range index bugs, chaining promises brings useful guarantees about how the code I do write can be interpreted.
I appreciate that you are trying to do this with respect and hope you succeed.

I've done both sides (largely MMO-stuff as a kid), and for me, I'm done dealing with all this invasive garbage, and just spin up a fresh EC2 GPU instance when I want to play something, and simply don't play the games that choose to disrespect and abuse players to the point of not even allowing GPU passthrough (I can somewhat understand banning emulated GPUs; have dealt with people farming referral accounts a hundred at a time each queuing for games at <5 FPS).
That is 3D secure, which is just an additional authentication level on top of regular credit cards. It protects merchants from accepting stolen credit cards, but doesn't really protect the card holder from a malicious merchant.
Fair, but I did not read the parent post I replied to as whether hashtagging/self-promotion is effective/positive or ineffective/negative.

I read it as: "Assuming hashtagging and self-promotion on LinkedIn was effective, I still would not do it no matter the money", and that's the interpretation I replied to - perhaps erroneously.

In a broader discussion - it's all about the fit. I don't think there's a single advice, action, characteristic, attribute, or effort, that won't increase your chances with X% of employers/recruiters/HR and decrease your chances with Y% of employers/recruiters/HR.

[FWIW, I personally have Linked In, it's my online resume, but I don't interact with platform in any other manner; Self-promoting posts are indeed a turn-off for me personally - but I'm neither actively seeking a new job nor promoting my business, so it'd be a bit of dishonest to claim that situational personal preference for a larger truth :]
I find the discourse around exercise to be very peculiar.

Despite scant evidence, the belief that exercise is important to health [0] is extremely prevalent. Even in those cultures that aren't too athletic.

Anything to the contrary is highly controversial among both scientists and the general public. You usually only see this when politics are involved, and even then the opinion will be more evenly split. And this is such a benign subject!

Sometimes studies will find very little benefit or even negative effects, yet the conclusion will still include the obligatory paragraph talking about how exercise must be so great and necessary. Have to wonder how many don't get published because the result was "wrong".

Even without properly controlling for unrelated conditions [1], you'll have a hard time finding a credible study that gives you more than 3-4 extra years (vs absolutely zero exercise).

[0] As in life expectancy, rather than some subjective measures.

[1] Which would only make the projected life expectancy gain go down not up. The studies that we have so far almost certainly establish a ceiling for life expectancy gains. It could very well be 0. There are very few plausible scenarios under which it would turn out that we're actually underestimating gains. One would be that there's some specific form of exercise that gives you big gains and most people just do it wrong.
Huh. So my initial response was, "why on earth would you need a whole OS for that", but memory snapshotting and improved virtual memory performance might actually be a good justification. Linux does have CRIU which might be made to work for such a purpose, but I could see a reasonable person preferring to do it from a clean slate. On the other hand, if you need qemu to run applications (which I'm really unclear about; I can't tell if the plan is to run stuff natively on this OS or just to provide enough system to run qemu and then run apps on linux on qemu) then I'm surprised that it's not easier to just make qemu do what you want (again, I'm pretty sure qemu already has its own memory snapshotting features to build on).

Of course, writing an OS can be its own reward, too:)
Or on desktops - how common are 5K displays? Yet with the iMac you get a gorgeous 5K display and the computer is almost free.

I still wish Apple would release a reasonably priced stand alone display. The Pro Display is amazing but I could never justify it :/
The Danish legislation is setup in such a way, that all electricity consumers pay a tariff to cover the guaranteed electricity prices to owners of wind farms.

Still, Denmark often sold electricity for pennies on the dollar – or literally for free – to Norway, who in turn used the energy to pump more water into their hydroelectric dams. This energy was then sold back to us, at (higher) market rates, whenever the wind died down and Denmarks needed to import electricity, due to its inability to produce enough electricity to cover its own demand.

Often, when Scandinavia is getting a lot of wind, you can even see electricity prices going below zero. In some of those cases, you can sometimes see a group of wind turbines, where some are spinning at great speeds and other are completely still. This is in order for the producers not wanting to pay to get rid of their electricity.

While it is a shame that the storage problem isn't solved yet (except in the case of our shrewd Norwegian neighbours), I don't really fancy waiting for that to happen, when other options are (or rather should be) on the table.
All companies with a brand name to protect do the latter but not the former. It's why "selling your data" is such a deceptive phrase, since most people assume this means your private data is put on a USB stick and given to bad guys...
It's not obviously false because unless you've read the case law on the legal concept of "standing" you have no insight into the issue at all.
Threads in Slack are useful but the implementation is pretty bad. For example you don't see new responses in a visible thread until you click the button for more messages. It makes them really frustrating to use. Slack does a lot of things really well which makes the pain of using threads even worse.
Fun fact: in academic studies of yes/no headlined articles, the articles more often answer yes than no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
strange, i can flag posts but can't vouch at 400+ karma
I'd be curious for you to try performance of Puppeteer and Playwright running in a lightweight Alpine container using Chromium on Linux so that you get native support. Let me know if you need assistance.
i feel smart now ==> thx, lol too
Why should rural lifestyle be subsidized ?
“...but not limited to...”
> Though the attempts at close compatibility mean it's not properly type safe despite its name.

Every type checked language I've used, from Haskell to Java to Idris to C++ to Rust has ways to override the type checker (and either do the type checking at runtime, or, as C++ is often want to do, just YOLO it). It's not just the language but the codebase and the norms it and its dependencies use.

Some TypeScript codebases, the types are usually accurate, but not enough to rely on them, so you still need to do runtime checks in many places. In others, if something says (string|null) then you know with confidence that it is either a string or the null value, nothing more and nothing less.
Using AI for protein should be the future, website offers free trial too
Great platform!!!
At the risk of sounding like the usual HN snobs, I doubt anyone frequenting this site is below average intelligence.
The objective of the government is not just to ensure that one or even two companies have infrastructure reaching most or all rural areas, but to ensure enough players in this field to establish a genuinely competitive market for pervasive rural internet access. The FCC has decided that without this subsidy there would not be enough companies offering enough access to enough areas to meet their mandate.

Given this goal, it’s simply unreasonable to deny funds to a company that has already set up that access, but only grant funds to new entrants. That clearly screws over the existing companies, which now can’t afford to compete on price with the new government funded entrants.

The only way to establish a level playing field and not penalise companies that already invested heavily is to give the grants regardless of past investment. Then you can genuinely allow the competitive market to establish fair and competitive prices for these customers. Free market principles should in theory ensure that this price competition should recoup a significant proportion of the subsidy costs for consumers and tax payers.
To answer your related question, I believe that the answer is yes.

As https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c... explains, Wright's law says that while a technology is improving, we generally get a fixed percentage drop in cost every time we double production. Therefore the production increases thanks to subsidies caused those cost drops to come much sooner than they would have otherwise.
Regarding attention spans, from "Avoid News. Towards a Healthy News Diet" By Rolf Dobelli [0] (top-notch article, btw):

"In a 2001 study [1] two scholars in Canada showed that comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increase. Why? Because whenever a link appears, your brain has to at least make the choice not to click, which in itself is distracting."

This had me thinking if a dead simple button at the end of an article "Enable links" would have a positive effect on link heavy articles (Wikipedia type) or not. Something like a conscious action of "okay, now I'm ready to explore this further". Or, better yet, a browser add-on that will detect just the content of an article and disable its links by default. Obviously, with an enable button close by.

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[0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

[1] Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains, Wired, May 2010
>I'm curious what these actually contain?

It's itemised in the first two paragraphs of the press releases:

>[We] can now confirm the contents of the estimated 64 Dangerous Goods containers ... 54 of the DG containers carry fireworks whilst a further eight hold batteries, and two contain liquid ethanol.
Ok, well, after interacting with the author on Twitter a bit he does seem a bit weird (talking about death threats which could be true, but it also seems unlikely for such a low profile person): https://twitter.com/canolcer/status/1336033199936385024?s=20

I might have been a bit premature with accusing HN of "censoring". Still, this thread seems to get a lot of discussion and interest :-)
So Zerodium claims their customers are mainly government organisations. I find it amusing and sad. Wouldn't be more efficient to just force vendors to implement backdoors? Why maintain a lie, that citizens enjoy privacy and vendors are required to keep their data safe? Why the charade?
I wonder how the author would feel about the low code solutions that are catching on in enterprises. For example outsystems seems to be changing how programming works while letting people use languages they are familiar with.
I wonder how they monetize my strategy. I just use the same 6 message script and essentially funnel everyone the same way to text message and off of tinder.
Thanks for the response! I made that 2017 post compulsory reading for a bunch of code reviewers I helped train if that counts for anything :)
What are of the shelve solutions when it comes to actually using these protocols? Implementing these in-house doesn't make sense to me.
> Heck if I can't edit mouse acceleration with ease

Not sure if this is you, but those of our community who are really into the objective sensory aspects are not a terribly good sell for Linux right now IMO. Usually they're looking to rep their OS to other people, whatever that OS ends up being, so rather than build on its strengths, they look for a specific set of strengths to which they're already attuned over time spent with other OSes. Ergonomics and sensory aesthetics are big preferences of this group. Good refresh rates, overall feeling of smoothness, little wastes of their time eliminated, etc.

Mouse acceleration is IMO a good pointer to this kind of sensibility. Unfortunately if that's really important to you (not that you can / can't tweak it, but the _way_ in which you need to do some perceived extra work to configure it) it's important to know that it may be best to build on and adapt to Linux's other strengths, or try it on the side in something less important, or stay with what you already like.

Other phrases like "people should expect" or "things like X should just work" are also good clues here. Nothing wrong with that, but Linux brings really huge subjective strengths to the table (a deeper connection to what do _you_ need or want, starting closer to bare hardware, vs. what do _people_ need or want, starting closer to end user experience) unless you are doing specific types of work where Linux is already a known dominant solution for groups of people.
This is correct, they explicitly use the term "share" and say they do not sell it.
You can provide high bandwidth low latency access to the internet in places where not even 1.3B fiber subsidy’s won’t reach or you can build few hundred miles more fiber to mostly nowhere for the same price.

The fact is, starlink is the absolute best option in quite a few places - sparsely populated, far from dense urban areas. This is actually the best way to spend government money for that purpose even if it ends up in subsidizing terminal purchases.
> most people are not like that and can only really function meeting often in person

Care to provide evidence for this claim?
I'm still surprised the "99%" haven't made a pact to all use a cryptocurrency. I can understand why the 5 wealthiest nations that all want to be the one with a world reserve fiat global enslavement system would oppose such a thing.. but the bottom 190 nations with no chance of theirs being the world reserve currency should all get together and agree to use, contribute to, and defend Bitcoin. These allied nations could agree to contribute at least some minimum, and not exceed 25% of the mining power, with each nation limited to 1/195th of that total. Any attempt at corrupting should be seen as a crime, and act of war, against humanity.
If they were so smart, then surely they'd figure out a way not to get rejected.
Study shows promising material can store solar energy for months or years
> I’m sure there are lots of subcultures. What does this have to do with who is actually governing?

A whole lot. Look no further than
the recent ballot initiative won by Uber and Lyft against classifying drivers as full employees, or similarly failed ballot initiative to remove prop 13 from commercial property taxes. The direction of both results was very much in the libertarian direction.
Arch, nvidia 980ti, using the proprietary driver. I have had a really good time with it.
Really fun idea, but a lot of the dates seem to be wildly off.
If it can run in Electron, why not just make it a PWA?
They're not selling the personal information, but would they not sell inferences and estimations about certain traits?
>macOS/iOS development absolutely requires a mac.

Or a VM.
> Perhaps he was trying to install Windows 10 using a USB stick

I was, yes, but even switching to legacy didn't help at all. I spent weeks trying to get it working, I looked at everything I could and tried every combination of settings (I had a grid).
Yeah accepting a resignation effective immediately is a firing, especially when companies ask for 2 weeks notice.
Because dense urban is unsustainable without sparse rural providing food?
It does seem odd that the home heating natural gas appliances (water heater, furnace, etc.) have to pass Combustion Appliance Zone (CAZ) testing. It's basically a smoke test (sometimes literally) to ensure that the products of combustion are being safely vented out through the stacks in the house.

While this exists to some extent for gas stoves, it doesn't seem to be mandatory to ensure a gas stove/vent hood is compliant.

http://advancedhomeenergy.com/what-is-caz/
Theres a very large 3rd party armored car industry. Low key cars are very common. I dont know if this was or not, that image looks like it wasn't or was real cheap.
I think the article is suggesting that PG's writings are presenting a romanticized narrative of being an industrious entrepreneur for the purpose of encouraging young computer programmers to apply to Y Combinator.
Yeah, I've checked there already, but the steps just didn't seem to work for me (it's a .NET/Mono app). Maybe it's just my specific system configuration or something ...
Yet they use Facebook and Instagram nonetheless.

Free dancing bears and network effects will always win.
Basically google (edit: I should say executives at Google, 1500 other googlers have signed a petition supporting her) wanted her to retract her (and 7 co-authors) ethics paper, wouldn't give her clear reasons or work with her on it, and then fired her when she objected to that and other ways it wasn't living up to it's commitments.
So a chip that's not out yet may match it in performance.

Also at the end of the day performance oriented people aren't going to care so much about process node idiosyncrasies. Does it perform or not?
I was looking at our breaker box a few weeks back and realized that roughly half the circuits in our house are for the kitchen. I think something like 6 separate breakers.

Our stove is on a 40 amp circuit. From my reading, 50 amp is pretty common.

On top of that there is a dedicated 20 amp circuit for our microwave (which broke a few years back and we never replaced)

Plus a dedicated circuit for the garbage disposal / dish washer.

Plus one for the fridge

Plus one or two more for countertop appliances.

It's kind of crazy to think about.
> These are in entirely different classes of unlikely.

I disagree.

I'm ultimately arguing that this:

> I understood it that if I keep the private key secure, nobody can take it away from me.

Is demonstrably false, both from a practical and a technological standpoint.

I've more faith in developed-world governments than I do in Bitcoin's miners.
It's pay and also unemployment benefits if necessary.
I have an Awair unit and it's fairly inexpensive. I can't vouch for the accuracy, but I saw DHH post about it and compare it other consumer sensors and more "professional" sensors and he recommended it.

One of the main problems is that homes are not built for indoor air quality. Furnaces in crawl spaces or garages, lack of air sealing. You can't just add sensors and fans to fix the problem.

Plus, adding a fan/vent to a home isn't ever going to be cheap. You're talking about cutting the interior and exterior of your house, running ducting and wiring up electrical.
That seems like the implication. Obviously they have to collect all that information for an applicant, and they explicitly state "Managing our career opportunities" as a potential use of the collected data.
Is life expectancy the only benefit worth discussion? How about lower blood pressure, or benefits to various blood markers? Or denser bones?
But there has to be some sort of a catch... They offer the services at a surprisingly low cost. I wonder if it works, actually.