skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like all of the actions to "rectify" the aforementioned issues clearly involve threats to democracy and free speech.

For example, the far-left "woke" interpretation has historically made use of and encouraged "cancel culture" to punish people that disagree with that worldview, which deprives them of their right to free speech. This is not imagined -- many people's lives have been destroyed because of this. Free speech is not just the First Amendment in the US... it is a tradition upheld in a plethora of ways, public and private.

In addition, not everybody agrees with the theory of inherent privilege, as it's often used to overlook or devalue the hard work of others with whom one disagrees.

Many people of all backgrounds are frightened by what they are seeing of the far-left "woke" view.
Personally, I don't. I quite like things to be text, because text can be understood. Icons can be... learned, I suppose, but then they tend to be inconsistent between apps and even change depending on themes and whatnot - so in general, it's mostly like playing a game of Memory where someone keeps shuffling the pieces.

But the main reason not to use emojis would be that you have no idea how they'll look to the user. I tried to paste the example output from yubikey-agent into my terminal, and all I got was a bunch of differently sized squares. Very informative...
Reminds me of the better aspects of brutalist web design: https://brutalistwebsites.com/ mixed with some actual formatting.
Not clear from the article if this is worth the effort of purchasing/setting up a telescope from rural SW England, but if any astronomers on can interpret how likely it would be to be visible under perfect conditions that would be really appreciated. Viewing this could be a great experience for a family over Christmas during the brief UK lockdown reprieve.
I can't understand this view. Particularly when advertiser objects having their ad shown next to a questionable content. I can print something ugly and tape it next to my laptop screen and now all ads are showing next to something ugly. What's the difference if it is in an app?
Facebook can tune the algorithm to stop polarizing viewpoints. YouTube can better vet the video content that gets posted, (they find porn with eerie accuracy, but can’t identify anything else that might not be good to spread?). Instagram can promote positivity about all parts of life instead of idolization of beauty and riches. Twitter can ban someone who constantly breaks the terms of service, instead of making them a specific loophole.

None of these platforms are going to improve though. The money that they make is now closely entwined with what started out as unintended consequences and those consequences are well known. And that just makes them intended consequences.

The author shut their service down when they realized the harm it was doing. They could have solved it other ways as well. Social media and other companies could fix their unintended consequences too, but aren’t likely to so long as money and engagement are the primary metrics of success of a business.
Read the article. TLDR: this has been fixed in code, at least in Linux.

This said, I hope you don’t really plan to be still using that thing in 18 years’ time.
If a megafarm hires you to write papers for the Ethical Milk Production team, any modicum of social awareness will tell you that they don’t actually want you to write a paper about the ethics of animal products.
New readers should note that it’s a very pessimistic community that doesn’t represent the average person in tech. For example the very loud minority with disabled JavaScript (because it’s the enemy) complaining that sites don’t work without it and that the web is dead. While in the real world no one cares.

I _have_ learned a lot and continue to use this site every day. The negativity can be mentally draining though.
I like to imagine Mozart being a spokesman for the product, "yer gonna love my bawls!"
You mean when Lecun left Twitter explicitly saying people should stop critiquing Gebru?

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1277372578231996424

saying:

"Following my posts of the last week, I'd like to ask everyone to please stop attacking each other via Twitter or other means.
In particular, I'd like everyone to please stop attacking @timnitGebru and everyone who has been critical of my posts."
Then DOM changing above or close to current position does trip up many accessibility technologies. Most SPA frameworks load all page components async so the page DOM fills in out-of-order.

This is a problem even without accessibility tech, the page content bounces all over the place during load by default in many SPAs.
I'm honestly curious how that plays out in practice. 64b Intel CPUs can run in 32b mode. If we count actual switching then we would end up with ~same usage. But in 64b mode it gives us both longer pointers and offsets it with fewer instructions on vector operations.

I could not find any actual paper with real use case comparison. Have you got one?
Verizon has been leaking customers’ personal information for days (at least)
I used it years ago in a Linux shop using Mono. It was perfectly fine. I gather these days with the new .NET Core running natively on Linux it's even better.
Let's look at the dictionary, shall we?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masquerade

"an action or appearance that is mere disguise or show"

As in social engineering masquerading as AI research?

Honestly, is there any room for doubt at this stage?

I don't expect honest and well-meaning people to continue insisting on this at this point. It feels that these attempts to distort what was said are simply attempts to attack the OP based on misreprentations of what he did said.
In EU parental leave is paid, not in full, but you don't lose all your income while taking care of yourself and new taxpayer.
Auto for types, but not for concepts in C++
IIRC that will mess up screenreaders though. The detail tag is specifically made for this sort of thing and is therefore almost certainly more accessible.
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They are pay walling peoples files, lying about zero-knowledge encryption and terminating paid accounts fraudulently.
Her behavior is clear evidence of how she interacts with people. You can be a brilliant jerk and still get along with some people. In a team environment however, there is no place for this. Her exchange with Lecun, her threatening words and many of the way she puts forward her arguments. Even if she was in the right here, she can easily deal with it without doing what she did here.

So yes, there is more evidence for her toxic behavior than there is for her ability deal with disagreements professionally and work in a team environment.

TBH, I think this whole review things is just a reason for google letting her go. They were probably looking for a reason and she using her threatening (aka toxic) nature was just what google needed.
> Something these vegans and vegetarians are entirely oblivious about since most have never worked a day on a farm in their life, yet think they're 'part of the solution.'

Kind of harsh. There are a lot of vegetarian farmers in India, who I'm sure are not presumptuous enough to think they are 'part of the solution'. For some meat eaters the idea of vegetarianism brings out strong reactions. If you are guilty just deal with it. People have their own reasons for being vegetarian and most don't judge and don't care.
Yes. In general it’s also fairly cynical with new technologies and at times pro environment to the point of being anti-human. (At least going by the top comments)

But if you keep that in mind, you’re going to have a great time here.
Yes, I coded in JScript happily for about 3 years. Even better, using Windows Scriptlets let me write dynamically-compiled COM components in JavaScript that I would call from the web pages. As a result, I could launch updates independently in a microservice-like fashion, share the same libraries (like validation) on client and server, and use the same COM components in crons. Not bad at all! Also, because we had COM components, we could now use Window's built-in message queue MSMQ for async processes like payment transactions. I started doing this in 2003 - looking back, that was a pretty good developer experience.
I think the lower class in the US actually have it relatively darn good. They just lack perspective to see it any other way.
They always looked for places where to share their opinions with other people

Those places didn't weaponize their feelings and weaknesses against them to sell them ads

Want to make a global social network?

The State should be able to control them (every single state they operate in) and their decisions should be held accountable in court

The SN banned you?

They should have human support to solve the issues and a judge could overrule the decision, while now they are black holes

I trust the State, more than Facebook, if someone doesn't they shouldn't impose their decisions on other groups, including other countries

It's weird to read that people living in countries where the police can arrest you for not stepping out of the car or saying to a police officer to f*ck off defend the right to wear swastikas or private companies keeping public speech hostage in the name of freedom

Decentralised web can exists only among many small actors, when there are a few behemoth that control everything, of course segregation is gonna be the most obvious response: Russian internet, Chinese internet and let's hope European internet soon.
Well the disadvantage is it doesn't even have a Windows client.
I love that man pages exist, and I get that they predate hypertext, but to me it’s always seemed like a glaring omission that individual man pages don’t link to each other. So much so that for a long while I assumed that they did and that I just hadn’t figured out how to use them.

I wish using man pages felt more like it feels to use Wikipedia.
Where do you draw the line between "content" and "mark-up"?

* Word break nearly always gets treated as content, denoted by the space character.

* Line break can be either: '\n' or <br>.

* Paragraph break is usually treated as mark-up: <p>.

Is there a good reason for that, or is it just historical accident?
Was I pointing out what Lecun said or her specific way of handling that interaction? Its the latter thats toxic. If people were attacking Timnit for that interaction why is that? Clearly she did not handle that very well.
I do front-end dev and React is pretty much all I see people hiring for. I write React at work but I don't use it on any of my personal projects because I find it boring now.

What does that have to do with its development status?
Via what mechanism are we testing? Did we send some kids through a good upbringing and some to a bad one in a randomized controlled way, or did we just take a survey and assume intelligence was passed down through genealogy instead of upbringing?
In order to keep it simple I'll just use Github, sit out their downtime and spend no time to educate users because everyone knows how to use it or can find answers in seconds.

This use is the same as for other distributed services - own your data, resist censorship, increase resilience, bla bla, but in reality there's 5 cases (out of 5 million) where this mattered. This would work better without crypto and decentralization B.S. but how to compete with a service and the deep pockets of Gitlab and Github...

Put simply, if you care about your project, you won't bother with this stuff because you lose users and contributors (as long as Github and Gitlab censorship is limited as it currently is).

Right now your total addressable market is like 5 projects deemed illegal in the US.
That really depends on the context you think about this paper in. If you see it as Critical race theory activism (which I do) then it's not benign at all on the contrary it's deeply damaging that Google have well paid people who think they should push their own political agendas through an organization that underlines almost everyone in the wests daily lives.
> Toxic is an inflammatory and unnecessary word to use when no-one is privy to the actual facts.

This response reflects an unwillingness to understand a situational nuance from multiple sides, show empathy to a person in distres and offers no workarounds, support or evidence. I've grown so tired of these factual tug of wars to justify callous.
I only take some issue in last two paragraphs. I'll only mention for Agile teams, not other kinds:

In Agile team, the team is responsible. Management decides how to reach accountability, though in practice the team together can pull through more.

Agile team wants stakeholders in team, or close to team. Team plans work according to agreements with stakeholders, but can never ever be forced to do anything against their explicit agreement. Which is why there's no room for management on the team.

Agile teams sets managenent in their rightful place, and may work well when workloads, accountability and additional complexity are balanced within reason. Ensuring this for org, is too big for each team (indians). So chiefs are still needed around.

Vs projects: Agile teams isn't suited in all circumstances. There might be important stakeholders, costs, dates, hard known requirements, regulatory and coordination needs, that makes projects more suitable methodologies. Projects are temporary and manager-lead (PM on team), however.

Having a manager or PM in team though, isn't an Agile team. You need servant leaders on team, and managers wield too much power and information imbalance.
What do you like about zen and the art of motorcycle repair? I didn’t get too much out of that book so I’m worried I missed something.
There is already a large number of people who hate audition-style interviews. They don't want to defect.

A public group actually makes it easier for people to avoid defecting. It's very difficult for a job candidate to talk to employers about this when you're just some lone weirdo with idiosyncratic principles. It's much easier to have that discussion when there's a public group of people you can point to with the same principles. There's strength in numbers.

Consider it a kind of "Alcoholics Anonymous" for interviews. You wouldn't say that can't work because people defect. Yes, people defect and drink again, but they joined AA in order to avoid drinking, and the purpose of the group is to help them with the goal of not drinking. And also to remove the private shame of admitting a problem, by showing publicly that it's a very common problem. This is not a perfect analogy by any means, but the gist is similar.
Yup. So is C++, as is FORTRAN, and even COBOL (although I don’t think they are actually adding to COBOL anymore).

All of these languages are favorite targets of mockery by the “buzzword du jour” crowd, but they persist.

I like modern stuff, and don’t miss some of the old crud, but there’s something to be said for a language that is over a quarter-century old, and runs a considerable portion of the world’s infrastructure. I think C++ was introduced 35 years ago, and FORTRAN is about 30 years older than that.

And, of course, you have C, which is the engine behind Linux and Git.
> The language that people use is often enough offensive

Please define "often". And "offensive" (as in to whom). And of course, you also need to factor in whether being offended is justified.

As an extreme counterexample, a deeply racist person would be offended by a mixed couple. And racists on both sides currently are. I see no reason whatsoever to pander to either side on this, so just there being someone who is or claims to be offended is no guide.

If you find "globalist" offensive, then you are the problem. And, the vast majority of Americans are find this type of PC culture and social justice activism offensive, including the vast majority of "marginalized" groups.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...

In fact, the only group marginally in favor are white, rich and highly educated. Hmm...
Are you really making the argument that people with money can’t be leftists? Do you know liberals are on average richer? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/economic-divide-in-the-us-is...

Most executives of tech and news companies would bend over backwards just to show how leftist they are in 2020.

(I’m only replying to the part of your comment that answers mine)
It is good, but also it can be, and is being, heavily abused. It is too much power to already mega-powerful corporations.
They don't get special treatment. I think the new Volkswagen ID3 does not even have tire pressure sensors, they use other systems to detect a leak.
This is a good message, but every time I’ve sought out to give blood they had way more than enough. Is there anywhere actually requesting blood now?
Politicking intended to send a message to Georgia: the House is willing. Are you?

For game players, the tech scene sure is anti-politics. Somehow all those smarts are lost on the fact these folks are manipulating your free market giving billions for free to entrenched employers.

Social life is nothing but political choices; rather than engage the government we are told to engage the middle men they fund.

Let freedom ring.
Do you have any links to this discussion? I’m trying to verify the toxic claim and am having a hard time finding it on Twitter right now because of all the noise.
There is literally no tuition in Sweden. The loans are for rent and general cost of living. You can have literally zero means and still go to university in another city.
> (...) if it's not meant to imply "pretending to be"?

It means "social engineering pretending to be AI research", doesn't it?

Think about it.

Look at the context. Look at the people involved. Look at the topic of the discussion.

And let's be honest for a second: do you personally believe that anyone would accuse an AI researcher who worked at Google of not being an AI researcher?

Literacy matters, and so does honest and well meaning interpretations of what someone actually did said.
The MOD has been heavily involved in logistics from the start; they were the ones delivering the PPE to the NHS stockpiles (my understanding is that the biggest hospital in the region acts as storage and a distribution centre for the smaller, more rural hospitals that don't have storage space). They weren't involved with taking PPE from those local distribution centres to the actual hospitals, however, that was up to the NHS to do what they had always done, and for some areas this was the bottleneck where shipments slowed or were even lost.
She's a woman.

Misogyny clearly is a problem for many commenters here.
They were continuing to work on the paper for publication, which, if you've never written an academic paper, is a lengthy process. There's a heck of a difference between not being done and not wanting a rough draft circulating vs being asked to withdraw the paper entirely.
To be fair though, European place names (especially outside cities) have a slight tendency to be vulgar than, as an example, American ones.
Even in Europe I sometimes find reCAPTCHA more difficult for being "too American". Maybe we're categorised as "close enough" and there are south American or African datasets but I suspect not.
The main site page is just awful. It's amateurish, image/animation heavy to no value, almost negligable information. They may have something good but the site's just obscuring it.
> The web is not a print medium.

No. It is not. However, the foundations of digital media are very much rooted in analogue media, including print.

This includes typography. Whether it's for the web, or movable type. The history of typography is a crucially important part of the Web with pioneering designers such as Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria or even Edward Tufte in fields such as Information Design and human interaction design.

https://www.printmag.com/post/questions-for-jeffrey-zeldman-...
> Thus, we have a writer privately squeezing into an artificial, decontextualized "space" in order to convey something, fictive or not, to unknown readers in unknown but theoretically very distant times who are similarly situated, so to speak, in an artificial, decontextualized space.

Good grief.

Edit: This whole article could use a furious edit.
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I've got a number of tiny projects. Realistically if they're not hosted on GitHub, they won't get contributions. "Setup another login on my gitlab instance" would close to ensure nobody collaborates on it. This allows me to both disconnect them from a centralised service and remove the "you need a separate identity" step.
Again, I repeat, if her team had issues with her, her direct report would know and her team wouldn't be harping constant praise towards her.

The people who removed her are executives several skips above her. That is unusual.

You keep bringing up LeCun, but LeCun did not get harmed as you imagine - he only conceded to her point because she was frankly the expert in the topic of discussion and he finally acknowledged that.
Another thing... You want a sincere diagnosis, based on what you got. Don't stress about finding the right words :)

There are a ton of other things, which overlap with ADHD symptoms. Bipolar PD, depression, hidden sleep problems (like apnea), anxiety, nutritional deficiencies, ... . Many of these things also come comorbid, unfortunately. Either way it's not an easy diagnosis and takes time to untangle.

Wish you all the best <3
I believe you didn't even read the text. Ethereum is used to send money to maintainers. not sure how email does that...
That blog is weird. Changing to a different browser tab and back changes the scroll position a lot.
Looks like you meant to share this: https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole
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What's more, the interest rate is practically free and you can take 25 years to pay them off if you want. Students are not seen as desperate marks to be exploited.
hi, sure i actually added a contact button on that page with linkedin, but if you ask for twitter https://twitter.com/viso_laci

note i am not really posting anything on twitter, just reading.

see you
Serverless Transformation on a news media outlet in Brazil
TMPS is mandatory on european cara since 2014
And the UK. Although it's not a normal loan in that repayments are linked to income and there is a promise that it will be "forgiven" at retirement (which I'm a little skeptical of)
At the very least, use isatty() to check whether the output is actually to a terminal before polluting the log files.
Actually LV can play nice with them if you add the phx-ignore attribute on the component itself
Good luck with that reasoning when Windows 10X comes out next year.

UWP is still the future of Windows API, Reunion is only lifting it from the Windows kernel, and exposing the respective COM infrastructure on the Win32 side as well.

When I create applications for customers I don't select technologies that require me to place workarounds that might make them repent for having me there in first place.

Hence why as much as I like F#, it is never going to be an option for me, until it has a seat at the table of the official languages.

Apparently that isn't an issue in your case, so good luck with the endeavours.
Reading Jeff's email plus her comments on twitter doesn't give the full story.

It seems like

1. She did not give them the time required to vet through the paper or followed the processes, plus her email to everyone to stop work on other projects.
2. Google fired her immediately, which might have been different if she wasn't a POC.

This