skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the examples of issues flagged in review that Jeff keeps highlighting—like Timnit’s alleged failure to mention recent work to reduce the environmental impact of large models—are themselves a bit worrisome. Jeff gives the impression that they demanded retraction (!) because they wanted Timnit and her coauthors to soften their critique. The more I read about this, the worse it looks.
Ok, but again, this has really nothing to do with what kind of developer you are, it has to do with the fact that you are apparently not in the market for a new laptop.

Because if you were, the M1 laptops are the best in the market for the linearly parallelizable workloads you are talking about.
This really seems like whistling past the graveyard on google's part here. There's too much meat to the story for them to really do much more than obfuscate. The intersection of race and gender, ethical implications of big tech, the capitalistic pursuit of innovation at the expense of individual freedom. All of these look bad for google
That is the only reason.

If your entire career is built around solving a problem, then actually solving it is against your personal best interest.
It's not a FreeBSD kernel, it's a Mach kernel. The userspace is based on FreeBSD though.
C# 9 added “top level statements” which seems to be the first steps towards usage in a script environment.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...
Yes, thanks for the clarity. I regret my imprecision.
> Irrespective, the wealth is the property of an individual who earned that wealth through voluntary exchange.

Hard disagree. We won't see eye to eye on this point, and it really invalidates the rest of w hat you are saying.
> Everyone who flies drones knows they're annoyingly loud

I believe that a lot of that comes down to the current state of affairs simply being the cheapest or most cost effective solution.

I don't know what the military is currently investigating, but if memory serves me well then the commercial industry has been long working on more silent designs (in particular regarding propellers). Of course, even there it is a constant trade-off between effectiveness (regarding propulsion) and what is considered acceptable discomfort for passengers or the environment (regarding audio).

I believe that drones could already be made way more quiet with long existing technology. The key question here might be: how much shorter do you want your flight last, and how much more expensive do you want your drone to be?
The followup does not answer the major questions raised by this part of Dean's original email:

> Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted. A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were given feedback about why. [...] We acknowledge that the authors were extremely disappointed with the decision that Megan and I ultimately made, especially as they’d already submitted the paper.

When it was "approved for submission," was that approval final and actionable, or some kind of conditional approval? Is demanding a retraction after an approval the normal way it works at Google, or was this an unusual occurrence that Gebru was right to question?
Important context: this is actually higher than the rate of people who normally get the flu vaccine. CDC data from 2018-2019 flu season: Vaccination coverage varied by state, ranging from 46.0%–81.1% among children and from 33.9%–56.3% among adults, and of the ten states with the lowest coverage for children eight were also among the ten states with the lowest coverage for adults.
> It's not growing yet, but maybe they can figure out how to make it grow during YC." Which they did, about three weeks into the batch.

I wouldn't be too kind to the less-than-ethical techniques that AirBnB did use to capture the initial users. [0].

... AirBnB also used a (admittedly suspect) email campaign to inform posters of vacation rentals on Craigslist how easy it was to post on AirBnB too.

[0]: http://fullstack.it/blog/growth/airbnb-craigslist-growth-hac...
There is no visible sidebar on the modern mobile interface, though.
Yup, basically anything either left or right of center is kicked off the platform. And even then they're very pick and choosey over that stuff.
Right, I think the alternatives are “I have made a quilt before and I’ll do it myself,” or “I’m just going to throw these away or keep them in storage.”
This reminds me of how Nisus (the word processor program) styled text. The document, a Classic-Mac-OS file, contained plain text in the data fork and styling information in the resource fork. If I recall correctly!
The government, controlled by the people.
I mean, this is obviously a place where Jeff Dean is providing the voice of Google on the topic. Why would they provide balanced context?
While it looks like copying Apple, it doesn't necessarily mean this is a bad idea. Google did produce TPUs so this isn't theirs first rodeo. Also Apple is using ARM so whatever are their improvements, others can potentially match. Of course the execution matters, but if the current trend continues it may well be an existential threat to Android and by extension, Google.
Exactly. I might not buy a satnav that was 66% accurate, but I would definitely buy a lottery number predictor with that accuracy. I don't know whether protein folding is closer to the former or the latter, but you can't make a blanket statement without considering the context.
I used to do that, but lately it seems to ignore my "don,t use new layout" setting, which makes the pages largely useless to me...
Yeah that's the interesting part. It sounds like maybe there will be some overlaps in Turbolinks 6 and NEW MAGIC when it comes to partial updates.

Maybe for basic partial page updates where you don't need to broadcast something to every connected client over websockets then Turbolinks 6 will be enough on it own. If that ends up being the case that's amazing because it'll be fully client side.

In any case the near future is looking to be the best its ever been for developing very nice feeling apps without going the SPA route with any back-end technology.
I don’t understand this mentality, I have 3 apps that can send notifications: phone, messages and WhatsApp. Everything else is blocked. I don’t want to see notifications for 99% of apps every once in a while I’ll be tempted into letting an app use notifications and immediately regret it and disable.
It depends on the context I think. Library code (most library code anyway) should have unit tests covering the public api at minimum. Unit tests might also be a good idea for interpreted/highly dynamic languages like Python, if only because you need to implement something like a compiler’s checks on signatures and arguments by hand in order to keep non trivial applications sane.

But generally I’m with you. Unit testing is overused and often makes code harder to read maintain and build on. That’s aside from it not providing information most unit test advocates think it provides.
Could always make the quilt yourself, it's not that hard to make a simple one with big blocks from the shirts.
Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though.

It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.
Why doesn’t Jeff just suck up his pride, apologize and hire her back rather than write increasingly thin rationalizations for his reaction?

High level research (and engineering) will involve egos and you should expect this kind of push back when you stop someone from publishing. Nothing here justifies how he handled it

Of course, I think many of us have seen this reaction before, maybe even done it ourselves. It’s bad for everyone, don’t do it Jeff!
To me, the distinction here is not "user-centric" vs. "business centric"—ease of install is also a user-centric value. I think you hit the nail on the head by suggesting it's about power user vs. basic user.
"Techie" is way to broad a term.

gadgets? software? Gaming pcs?

probably china if you're hardware driven. Hong kong before it went to shit.
It's a really helpful tool for as you say telling "you where to look". One trick I've learned: if you want to forecast where the bugs will popup next month, take a quick look at the code coverage report.

#1 source will be the code that doesn't appear at all (because the test build system didn't even include it)
#2 will be all those red lines.
Had Gebru not raised an ultimatum, what would have been the consequence of the paper not passing internal review be?
It sounds like she submitted the paper anyway, would there have been consequences to those actions?
Better than not trying to reallocate them at all? Anything, really :-)

Even a crappy government, which is widely known to be one of the least efficient ways to manage anything.

What's the percentage of multi millionaires or billionaires that are involved in effective, life changing philanthropy for large swaths of people?
you skipped 1/48
Well, you can can put masks on dummies and see what fraction of aerosols of different sizes they stop, you can interview people after an outbreak and find out what protective measure they took and whether they get sick. You can look at which regions introduced mask mandates when and see what statistical result that seems to give on the number of covid cases. There have been an awful lot of studies on this topic over the course of the last 3/4 year and I'm also taking into account a study the WHO did after SARS-1 on mask effectiveness in Beijing. I wouldn't neccesarily have thought beforehand that fraction of particles stopped would line up neatly with reduction in chance of getting the disease but it seems to, at least roughly.

EDIT: Oh, and there are animal experiments where they put a layer of mask material between hamster cages and see if it prevents infections in the other cage.
Rails 1 was released in 2004.
I've been leaning toward the notion that trees don't have nervous systems, but that forests are nervous systems.

A complex, largely chemically-mediated, environmental-response mechanism. Typically operating at rates far slower, but longer-lasting, than those of animal neurology.

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15062542
Isn’t it pretty normal to ask to “face your accuser” and engage with feedback specifically, instead of an anonymous and unassailable red stamp?
We can't consider this solved, or that we have an understanding of how the process works until we can do it ab-initio. Improvements in machine-learning and other experiment-based algorithms are great, since they're the best we have.

We need a breakthrough in chemistry and the ability to solve the Schrodinger equation in 3D (Or something similar) to truly solve this. Ie generate the electronic structure statically without using arbitrary, tuned constants, then evolve it over time. We know the rules and constraints, but unfortunately, can't solve it without using approximations, and fitting to experimental data.

Machine-learning approaches will always suffer from over-fitting; they can produce practical results for known cases, but their predictive power is limited. (But still impressive!)
Don’t worry, I don’t. Maybe when I was younger Id make that mistake but luckily never bought expensive clothes in label only. If I had the money to throw around I’d have probably fallen into that trap.

But Im having more and more difficulty finding that real good classic shor that is well made and is maintainable/fixable and which is a good fit and could be happy with for a couple of years. I live in NYC and the market here is innundated in low quality crap. Even an expensive brand such as Prada doesn’t have well made shoes, they’re made to not last very long
This looks great. With to-dos and notes I'm like 80% mobile.

Does next loud have mobile apps?
I don't see what else they should have done? This researcher made some ultimatum. As part of it, she said if Google refused, she would set a date to leave the company. Google obviously did not concede to her demand, and obviously didn't think it beneficial to let her be a thorn any longer, so took her up on her offer.
I just checked and bitcoinscript.org seems to be owned by a domain parker.
> Also Apple is using ARM so whatever are their improvements, others can potentially match.

Apple uses the ARM ISA but entirely custom cores, so this is like saying "AMD is using x86_64, so Intel can match them".
You made the dubious claim that there aren't enough U.S. programmers. Why don't you feel the burden to back that up, rather than just blindly asserting it as fact? And you should ask yourself where you learned this "fact" from. I suspect that it came from the PR departments of the fraudsters themselves.

It's very easy to disprove in any specific instance that there aren't U.S. programmers available to fill a role. Take a look at the H1B openings and see if you can't find some people in your LinkedIn connections that could fill those roles and don't yet work for FAANG. I certainly could for almost any role because they're almost all very generic tech jobs.

It also seems likely to be false just based on the number of U.S. programmers and the number of programmers employed by FAANG. They are very big employers but not nearly big enough to employ even a majority of U.S. programmers.

I don't think anyone in FAANG leadership believes this claim to be true at all. They all know why they're committing fraud, which is to compete against the others that are doing it too. The same reason restaurants and farms hire people that are in the country illegally.

You probably fell for the same propaganda about Americans not wanting to work in restaurants or in farms. When in reality, they don't want to compete with people being exploited.

Some companies exploit "unskilled" illegal immigration.

Some companies exploit "skilled" fraudulent immigration.

In both cases, it's the unethical theft of wealth from the population.
Incredibly difficult.

I would love to apply stochastic principles to it, using random choice to break deadlocks and force choice.

See also, models of collaboration between companies:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3679737
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something but in what sense see non-car owners subsidizing car owners?
That pretty much sums up every employee/employer relationship, and it isn't a bad thing.
Please explain to me how knowing those values would change the argument. At what thresholds would it make a difference one way or the other?
This is what caring about your audience looks like
> "PETAL stack" of Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine.js, and LiveView

Oh, finally a hipster stack after my own heart. My initial stack used Web Components instead of Alpine.js, but after one year trying to make it work (using lit-element) I'm battered, bruised and I declare Web Components a failed piece of technology [1].

Alpine is interesting, but not powerful enough for my use case, which is encapsulating common UI behaviours in reusable packages. Stimulus seem to be the missing ingredient in the mix for me. Any other suggestion for lightweight rich JS components that do not require one to buy into Vue, React or other "full-stack" JS libraries?

Also, I wholeheartedly recommend Unpoly as well, fits nicely in the PETAL stack.

1: shadow DOM isn't great on your OWN components, styling isn't fun paired with global CSS/tailwind, dealing with properties/attributes/observables/reactivity in general is an absolute pain in the buttocks, good luck wrapping an <input> in a web component.
I believe on currently available information she did not give a date, but said she wanted to "discuss her exit timeline".

Also it's likely that her contract allows Google to provide her pay in lieu of her working out the end of her contract, so they are probably able in general to move dates like this (not commenting on the other aspects of this situation though).
You guys acting like democratic government has not yet been invented.

It's not like alternatives to billionaires owning the planet doesn't exist. Just America seems to be fairly resistant to the idea of public good.

And the other consideration is how the money of billionaires is actively used to make everyone else's lives worse, either through manipulating markets and commodities, raising our rent, or literally polluting and destroying the planet.

Or buying media and brain washing the population with their crazy ideologies. These are all highly negative events that come from a small group of people having control of too many resources.

No one yet has responded to me why it's such a great idea for billionaires to exist. I wonder if an argument could even be made that didn't even a personal fantasy/wish fulfillment scenario.
note that they only evaluated the airplane itself, not the airport or transportation to the airport. "Being in a crowded airport or taking a taxi to get there could be a bigger concern, though."

I'm still not flying no matter how safe I am once I am seated on the plane.
I would disagree there, I think both the design and implementation are bad.
A large part of the criticism directed towards google is that they weren't particularly transparent in their handling of this situation. This is making that look worse.
In fairness, being a lisp programmer who got lucky during one of the frothiest acquisition markets of all time doesn't necessarily make one an economist, whether Marxist or otherwise.
> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool

I've suspected this ever since 2013 when they outed "Elgin Air Force Base, FL" as their "Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)": https://web.archive.org/web/20130509130745/https://blog.redd...
Fair point, there are commenters complaining. I was just looked at the article and a couple of the top comments.
It doesn't sound like you are arguing for intrinsic value, but I'm not sure. I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying.

Although I think we should mention that one can write a sentence for bread that is very similar to the one you gave for dollars. Bread only has value if you are hungry and don't have other more preferable food sources.
Despite the license allowing clean room reverse engineering? Sun kindof shot themselves in the foot with those words.
jedberg is the former chief architect and operations manager of reddit, fyi.
> I'd say it's rather unfair to characterize legislators in general as being out of touch when 228 members of Congress voted in favor of the bill.

I thought it went without saying which specific party in the legislative branch is out of touch with the voters, but yes, this is a specific party who is on the wrong side of history, as usual.

Passing this bill in the house now, when the control of the Senate hangs on an upcoming election, was a brilliant move.
This isn't a straw man, it is an extremely common belief and it deserves to be addressed and debunked. My social media is stuffed to the brim with people posting exactly this sentiment.

It is true that there are other, more reasonable beliefs.
Your entire comment, minus your opening statement, contradicts your opening statement; and supports the theory that people mistakenly claim that the only way to become billionaire (or millionaires for that matter) is by exploring people.
grampelberg has lost a lot of weight since last year's kubecon
"And not just new, but uncertain. If it were certain that the need existed and that you could satisfy it, that certainty would be reflected in large and rapidly growing revenues, and you wouldn't be seeking seed funding."

I take issue with this. I'm quite certain of the things I work on, but have not been able to execute due to lack of funds.

This lack of execution means no revenue.

No revenue means I'm struggling to fund things myself because I know how valuable the equity I'd have to give away would be worth.

The best, and most confident founders aren't going to be in a rush to trade equity for ANYTHING, EVEN if the revenue isn't there yet.
There are a lot of people commenting that she didn't actually resign. I agree, but it sounds like the conversation went like this:

employee: I'm not happy about x, y and z. If you don't do those, I'm going to quit.

manager: well we are not going to do those, so thank you for your time. We accept your resignation and would like it to start immediately (i.e. you're fired).

If you are gonna tell your manager that you plan to resign if a condition isn't met, then what do you expect them to say if they don't plan to fulfill that condition? It sounds like she was expecting them to say "Hey, well we don't want to meet your demands, but sure, we're happy to have a disgruntled employee around here, so feel free to stick around, or you could just quit on your own timeline, no sweat".

I suspect that many people would be fired on the spot for threatening to resign, so don't threaten it if you aren't okay with that consequence.
Those can both be true.

If I provide enough value to buy a thousand lifetimes worth of food and sit in my castle with it while people outside my moat starve - am I not selfishly hoarding that food?
Average worker compensation has nearly doubled in the past 20 years.[1] Almost exactly in line with aggregate productivity levels.[2]

What I'm guessing you're referring to is median household income. Which is a quite different number than mean worker income. The former has stagnated relative to the latter primarily because a massive number of prime-aged workers, in particular young men, have dropped out of the labor pool.[3]

Why that's happened is an entire question all on its own. But one thing is clear, the reason for it certainly can't be big businesses exploiting labor, because by definition the unemployed aren't working for anybody at all.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/243846/total-compensatio...
[2] https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/below-trend-the-us-pro...
[3] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/article/pdf/labor-force-pa...
Synthetic clothes shed microplastic particles in the wash. It's actually a significant source of plastic pollution. Cotton is kind of crap fabric and takes enormous amounts of water to grow, but wool and linen are both much more durable.
Ah yes, not on mobile. Reddit on mobile is only bearable using a third-party app.
" Am I to take away that you believe ..."

If you project wild surmise and lofty architectures of tenuous illogical connection onto the smallest throwaway detail like the essayist does, then by all means.

I really wish you people would focus. The bailey is GRRM causes harm by creating the Dothraki, a demeaning stereotype. That is the entire point of the thread. All the rest is distraction, intended or not.

I would love to hear how the Dothraki are inaccurate. That with a heaping stinky dollop of "GRRM creates demeaning stereotypes because I say so" is no go.

And with that, my interlocutors, I'm signing off. Feel free to have the last word. I'll read it, but likely won't respond.