skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying she was fired over the paper is a leap without any evidence. It's possible her paper was perfectly benign, with minor issues, and she handled the response to the minor issues in a "we accept your resignation" kind of way.

For an extreme example: I could say "I got tazed and arrested for doing 5 mph over the speed limit". That sounds insane. That cop should be fired and in jail! What I haven't told you is: I was doing 5 mph over the speed limit, and I was just going to get a warning from the cop, but I became combative and tried to physically fight the cop, at which point I got tazed and arrested.

It's also possible she was fired for the paper. But she has published many papers while at Google without issue, so it would have to be something stunningly different than her previous papers.
She can stir the pot, but to boil it is another matter. As others have said, she is "toxic". Many of her sentences hurt as they're emotionally charged, but provide no actual value or content. Just crying.
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I was going to say the same thing: there appear to be 2 - 3 people quoted in tweets. That's a rally?

I do think there's a larger set of questions being asked right now, around how organizations deal with differing viewpoints among their constituents, and how constituents dissent: https://jakeseliger.com/2020/12/03/dissent-insiders-and-outs....
Body of work aside, she absolutely is an aggressive-ranging-into-toxic Twitter personality and a very strident proponent of a divisive and dogmatic strain of diversity advocacy.
I’m triggered
Keeping them separate as you mention benefits the company for every day of sick time someone can't justify as a day off for something they'd like to do.

That doesn't make sense to me. It's better and more flexible to have 20 days to use as you want or need. let people roll over some of their unused time and everything is perfect.

It seems your way benefits the company and employees who can't manage their time.
Just the abstract:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k69eq0/n_t...
They've been cycling BS at least 10 years now since I left. Some should face the inescapable truth: no one cares. Another year and it's the same BS without change. As is the plan.

At the advent of anything, it won't matter. They'll just be some place.

People want to work there still? Separate from just wanting to work (who wants to be unemployed)? Why? It was stupid to be that way as far back as 2003, as they had already IPO'd by then. Stupid like an idiot trying to buy once/since a stock started to surge upward. Stupid. Anything after is in a class by itself.

I wonder how they are viewed among young people now. Both college students and those with 2 or so years of experience. Hmmm..

Maybe it's still the same.
I stand with you. This is Google's best decision this week. Workplace should remain workplace and should not be turned into political arena.
Not directly, as the flight mode really prevents any radio communication (it takes a bit to shut down as it sends a NAS Detach Request first and waits for a reply for a few seconds).

However, there is also WiFi Calling - in that sense, your phone establishes some connection with the cell network. However, I don‘t think any user data may travel on this bearer, but there might be some edge case where this is possible.
She’s made the front page here before for her Twitter behavior, long before google would have reason to do any conspiracy theory stuff. If anything, when that was news they had the opposite incentive.
This sentiment exactly.

Sure the information is free. But to find my property records, phone number, and "aggregate them" like Spokeo, fastpeoplefinder and similar sites, is akin to digital stalking IMO
Which is out of a default quota of 10,000 units per day, and one can request an increase if your actually need more, (which presumably gets granted if YouTube agrees your use case is not an abuse of their API).
Google (and Google Brain in particular) benefited immensely from Gebru's work, and her being affiliated with them. This can be seen in how often they (including Jeff Dean) pointed to her work to show they were taking questions of fairness and bias in AI algorithms seriously.

The flip side is that you have to respect the researcher, who frankly has more credibility than you do as an organization in this space.

Even to corporate researchers, demanding (through an HR procedure? bizarre) the researchers retract a paper without a discussion or an opportunity to revise it (which is still possible since the paper is only in review!) is highly unusual. To do that to a researcher whose work you loudly (and seemingly proudly) advertise, is insulting to them and the broader team they hired. And to do it over not citing literature? Unheard of and clearly indicative of something else going on. This seems like some kind of turf war.

You can read the abstract of the paper in question here - it is incredibly anodyne, though obviously does take a critical view of Google Brain's work (BERT in particular); https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k69eq0/n_t...
They also had VBScript and ActiveX in IE. I think had they held onto XHR it would have gone the same route, and a comparable alternative would have been developed.
I would agree that Actionscript 3 as an implementation of ECMAscript is more of a delight than JavaScript as a language which conforms to whatever version of ECMAscript. But compiling to VMs in the browser? Never again.
A date that will live in infamy.
The destruction of unions in America was not for righteous reasons.
Yes, but evil is a polynomial and has many roots, some of them are complex. – dan_waterworth

(from comments of https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/8008...)
If Loom isn't adding cancellation tokens to the core library then its going to be a major difference. That said, the Java way was already for runnables to cancel themselves with some kind of volatile cancel bool so I expect that's all we'll get.

From the article: >Clearly the intent is also to cancel the child thread. And this is exactly what happens.

I find this to be a bold choice. In C# you can detach children and such. Should be interesting to see if this gets added later.
I wonder how practical it would be to add something like a limeSDR/USRP/HackRF to a tinycheck to be able to at least detect this. I doubt it would be affordable for most individuals but I could see cost justification for orgs.
I can't help but ask myself, why can't we just switch sides? Why can't a group of us "hackers" get together, create value, and thrive?
Yeah, we need somebody to keep tabs on margins, and do marketing, and whatever else "business" but if those roles are UNDER engineering and answer to the hackers as opposed to the current system in which we are answering to business... why can't this work??

You guys very well know it is you who build the thing, that you are only giving 30% if what you can ACTUALLY do!

What if a group of us band together and give 60%?

I know this might sound hopelessly idealistic or whatnot, but, why can't it work? or, why is it not more common?
Autotranslation for the lazy "Ventilation made easy:
A simple system can remove 90 percent of aerosols potentially containing coronavirus from the room air"
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

It was never clear how to submit an interesting article in other languages, but at least you should translate the title. Also, "ventilation" sounds too much like the ventilator devices for people, so I'd add "room" to the title. My preferred version are "Room ventilation made easy [German]" or from the subtitle "A system to remove 90% of aerosols with coronavirus from the room air [German]".
Are you hosting on Wordpress? You just need to install caching so each visit doesn’t query the DB.

Or what are you hosting on?
I legit tried to use the new reddit the other day to see if I could "get with the times". It's horrific. It's noisy and gets in the way. I couldn't last more than a day or two.
Most companies want to appear to have a diversity of people who look different but have the same opinions and viewpoints as the rest of the group.

What they should strive for is a diversity of backgrounds, viewpoints, experiences and have that process account for the differences in how those people arrived at where they currently are.
Why is this such an issue? She was fired for making a tantrum, move on.
As i understand it, she was supposed to submit to google for an internal review a fews prior to externally publishing it. She simultaneously submitted and published it, and Google sought a retraction after internal review. She met that with an ultimatum with do X or I'll quit. They took that as a resignation (as Google wasn't going to do X), and accepted it.

I'm not fully informed about what she wanted, but I don't think it was particularly unreasonable, the controversy more has to do with headlines and spotlights about this person and her conduct/history in the past.
Sure I agree with all of that. But claiming that our reality became so much more complex that its not feasible to simulate it, therefore we are not living in a simulation is laughable.

If we hypothetically assume we are a program, there is nothing to derive about the stimulants their reality or/and capabilities.

They might be as well a 4D being running some tests. We might never know. maybe their physics is different then our who know.

Furthermore you do not need to simulate ever molecule in out universe. I am sure there would be optimizations of stuff that doesn't need to be simulated as its not observed.

Say up until recently a Pluto might needed less resources to simulate as it was never really seen, now it surface needs to be simulated etc. I am sure you get the point.

I myself am not really concerned about the simulation hypothesis and I think its less likely. A simulation needs to be useful and if we were to run our simulation and start a possible chain then the cost of running the whole thing is felt the most at the actual real universe. If the cost is too high (ie time resolution is too slow for the liking of the owners) it will be terminated or rebooted.

So if we are in simulation then not starting a simulation would be the wisest choice to prolong our existence.

Either way its just an idle friday chitchat with no way to check or prove anything :)
Because the media isn't your friend. Inciting anger gets clicks.
She was not fired. She made an ultimatum, and Google called it.
How do you use xrandr in Wayland?
I mean she resigned. She put conditions on her staying at the company. By accepting her resignation, Google simply stated: "We are not gonna comply with these conditions, therefore we accept your resignation".

Let's focus the discussion around if that was a good or bad decision, to not comply with her conditions. She fired herself, there is no discussion around that.
> The numerator is such a small percentage because so many fear losing their jobs for speaking out

Or, more likely, they don't are about the whole "woke" movement and don't want anything to do with it.
They haven't tried anything. Every business being beaten by Amazon seems to have just decided to lie down and die.

Even big businesses facing Amazon have done very little to compete.
The return to work is coming. So is the need for occupancy tracking
"Union" and "Socialism" have very different meanings on your side of the pacific :)

Just the stories about how union work is handled on US movie sets is just baffling. Directors can't even touch the lights without an Official Light Mover Union member doing it. If they do, all union people will just walk off set and that's the end of it.

In most European countries unions are more about collectively agreeing to some basic rules like wage, hours worked and other compensations.
Huh? I check my paper mail box once per month.

>For example if you are summoned to court

Aren't such thing delivered under signature?
Not System76 but in the UK I got my Linux built Laptop from Entroware

https://www.entroware.com/store/

I've never had to contact them for support. It's been flawless from the get-go.
> People should always have the choice to decide what works for them or not.

Not really. Not when they participate in a society.

If you're alone on an island, I grant you that your personal choices have no effect on others. For the rest of the world though....
Having done a lot of gdpr work recently, this definitely will not fly. Nice idea if preventing cookies is all you care about.
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What evidence do you have to support this theory?

Perhaps the people who are not speaking out in agreement with you simply don't agree with you.
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I'm trying to read the article but I'm distracted by the awful body text justification on mobile.

I usually justify my ebooks so I'm well aware that automated justification is hard, but this is a whole new level.

There are lines with two four letter words stretched across the line, while the next line has spaces large enough to fit two more words comfortably or vice versa.

anineliminable aspect to learning
that takes
place after the glorious flow state.

There are lines with large spaces between words followed by lines with no justification whatsoever that just end before the right side of the screen. The unjustified lines aren't even the last line in the paragraph, and when the next line isn't the end of the paragraph it goes back to being justified!

attention to the material at hand is
essential. Graspingcomplex
information is hard.

Then there's the words with no spaces between them, like graspingcomplex or anineliminable from the previous examples.

It all adds up to make the post very difficult to read. I hope it's not something intentional, like "I'll force the speedreaders to slow down and think about what they're reading.". Intentional friction never seems to have the intended effect unless the intent is to drive people away entirely.
She demanded to know the identities of anonymous internal reviewers of her paper, or else she would resign. Google accepted her resignation.

What is the evidence that this has to do with the content of the paper?
(off-topic)

Do you know any community for 'Self reporting symptoms of long COVID'[1]?

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/170-self-reporting-symptoms-of-...
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Java applets? Flash?
I got the impression that the paper wasn't the controversial part, but rather how both sides handled the internal peer review. Which amounted to her offering her resignation which Google accepted.
I was just thinking the other day about how in late '95 I had just bought my first PC and was teaching myself web development and discovered JavaScript. I remember submitting bug reports to Sun. I hadn't realized until the other day, after calculating the timeline, just how new JavaScript really was at that point in time.
Exactly, most new stories bringing up the July Twitter dispute as context for her current firing is extremely polarizing.

The story could just be "well known Google ethics research quickly let go over paper dispute" but instead the "also she had an altercation in July which really riled people up."

Does the twitter dispute context help as much as her contributions to her field and whatever the specific paper and terms of its publication?

No clue personally, but now I know it's a "bad thing" and she's a "rabble-rouser that likely had it coming".
To the majority of users it is a superior interface.
You're not wrong... I think the irony in this is that it likely produces very large codebases in an attempt to maximize legibility - in such a way that devs new to the code will spend an equal amount of time traversing it and trying to find things as they would have trying to understand a more minimal but less boring codebase while also potentially improving their abilities. In other words it's lose lose for all.
What I find most hilarious about it is FAANG (certainly, Google in particular, since they researched this themselves and then chose to ignore their own research: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/) knows whiteboard interviews are pretty bad, but they continue to use them.

I can only assume it's a means of filtering out absolutely trash candidates. FAANG also knows they are not hiring the best of the best. That's simply not possible when you're employing 10k+ developers. Some of them are going to be less than great. Your goal at that scale is just to avoid wasting a huge amount of money on a terrible hire, and whiteboarding is decent at filtering out complete trash, but the problem is we don't train people how to do whiteboard interviews properly, so they also filter out incredible developers who just aren't interesting in memorizing a bunch of algorithmic tricks they'd normally just look up, but would be perfectly capable of implementing whatever.
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this is mistaken: you need multiple small businesses because competition trumps everything. competition results in lower prices, better customer service. to amazon, though they've excellent customer support or used - you're just another customer.

The small businesses you say were exploitative is because they were the only shot in town. i.e in a monopolistic position.

multiple small businesses result in a robust economy. if one goes bust there's plenty to keep providing a similar service. MSB's enable other auxiliary business look at Japan | German's economy for an example - mutliple suppliers etc. more employment. Guess the jobs the masses work at amazon - drivers, warehouse workers.

What amazon, provides could've been easily provided by a standardized api connecting different small merchants. some industries already do this - a flower shop needs roses, it can easily contact another flower shop to get roses to it's customers. everyone wins.

netflix yeah was a net positive. it's content so end of day, it was going to be aggregated in Ben Thompson's terms.

Uber is good for me as a consumer. But is it good for the driver, for the environment. if the US had robust public transportation, Uber wouldn't be necessary.
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You’re probably talking to a lot of rich dudes. That’s why they get on your case.

If you’re rich, it’s probably better than all those other places. But, again, need to be rich. And it takes a lot to get there for a person who grew up in a lower socioeconomic class. You’ll spend most of your life trying to get there and stay rather than enjoying the riches. (At least, that’s my experience so far!)
The list was used with permission.

I don't know/remember the terms under which this happened. I do remember that when I was trimming it down I found the list contained the trademarks of a competitor. These were removed.
Screenshot + OCR seems tough, but sounds like it could be your preferred workflow. More robust will always be 1. a link to the article/thread and 2. a transcription of the content (esp. tailored to you [1]) imo. Your search term idea is interesting, I know Google is/has been doing this.

[1] https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/
It is unfortunate that way too many commenters on a prior threads dismissed her as a some twitter personality and trivialized her body of work in spite of the fact that she is well regarded and reputable in the ML community.

Both the positive aspects of her contributions and the clear negatives of her approach were rightly pointed out by various people (as well as problems with process and politics at Google); perhaps your reading of a long and complicated morass of comments was unintentionally selective.
What would be an example of misaligned incentives in the case of mask wearing? A fabric maker conspiracy?

How did the mask situation show that authorities are not trustworthy or competent?
I was also ghosted after passing hiring committee. The least they could have said was “sorry no updates right now”
> could there ever be any legitimate reason to fire an employee who's also "all-in on diversity, inclusion, and politics"

yes, plenty of reasons, you're part of a team, you got to work with the team or you're just using them
When was the last time a marginalized group gained rights by asking politely?
As someone with ADHD, I think I got an amplified impression on the issue at hand. These people are selling the fantasy of success/self-efficacy to those vulnerable people lacking executive functioning and prone to daydream their life.

I can't count how many "techniques" I came up with myself over the years. Enthusiastic, convinced and most importantly, of course, not successful. Motivated, getting-things-done people don't have some secret methodology, they have enough dopamine to take a risk in energy expenditure. You know which totally secret behavior will increase productivity? Taking a pill of amphetamine every morning.

Not saying y'all got ADHD, but there is a spectrum and it's not bullshit. If you constantly feel the need to explode tasks and compulsively need to get to the "root" of the problem, thoroughly prepare each new project, but got a hard time actually starting (or finishing) anything... Another guide is not your solution.

You need to learn to endure the unfair pain of extra boredom and the feeling (self)stimulatory deprivation; help your brain to dopamine with diet, with timing sugar and frequently exercise. Or get ADHD diagnostic, if things were like this since childhood and you always struggled. <3
When cellular data is disabled (assuming it really is, not just faked to the user), then the corresponding radio bearers for user plane data habe not been established, thus no data-stream can travel with it. You can only communicate with the eNb and MME in this stage, and even this isn’t exposed directly to the OS but embedded in the Chipset.
is there any way to get typechecking on supabase queries? eg if using typescript? the queries seems to be just strings:

https://supabase.io/docs/client/select
As with all adversarial behaviour both sides will most likely lose.
Its really hard to reply to your leading questions when you're looking for controversy, or put your past troubled experience with token projects onto me (or trying to rationalize a pivot)

Token projects are just SaaS businesses with limited memberships that inherit transferability and settlement on a distributed ledger.

They're also extremely lucrative to sell in the primary market and the blockchain component sells itself.
In the raw version of the archived page, found by adding "id_" after the URL[1], there is no semicolon.

The link to netscape.com at the end is mysteriously missing still, "Additional information on Netscape Communications Corporation is available on the Internet at ,"

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020606002913id_/http://wp.nets...
If there is an actual emergency, there are clear rules of escalation.

The issue is escalated through different support levels up to the on-call person, if they can't handle it then MAYBE people are bothered during their vacation.

Or if production breaks at 1600 on a friday night, I can maybe work extra hours to solve the issue if it looks like I'm essential to solving it. It just means that I'm coming later on monday to make up for the hours.
This is a needlessly divisive interpretation of that tweet. The tweet lists 5 concrete ways of becoming a billionaire, and you're putting words in the author's mouth by labeling them all "exploitative/criminal", which were not used at all.
> "think that she resigned rather than got fired"

Thats objectively one way or the other - it's not a matter of opinion.
Guessing you're not the audience for the art.