skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos' net worth was ~$33,600,000,000 at the beginning of 2017. I would argue things are considerably worse for the average American since then. It's not the wealth, it's the level of inequality that the wealth is indicative of. If every American had healthcare and access to quality education, housing, and food, it would not matter to me how wealthy Jeff Bezos gets. It's about the floor, not the ceiling, but the floor comes first.

> Oh, so anyone with more power than you is bad? What about people that don't even have the privilege of arguing on HN?

Snore. If you really want to reduce things to personal jabs, that's cool I guess. I was using myself as a stand-in for an average person - feel free to substitute any name that makes your heart warm.

> I would probably agree there's limits that should be imposed so that anyone can't just push around whatever law they want but at the same time, how else would you suggest these things work?

Sever the links between money and political power. Limit private ownership of news organizations. Take away the tools that are being abused.

> Since we're talking about taxes... I checked out the section called "Tax Policy"

Social Security taxes and Medicare Taxes; and most New Deal programs were financed by the Revenue Act of 1932 [1] passed in the year FDR was campaigning on the New Deal. Again, I didn't realize you were going to be a pendant, otherwise I would have linked more specifically. My b.

> How do you reason all these things are "caused by concentrated wealth"?

Slavery was propagated by the concentrated wealth of the southern aristocracy. They rebelled when they felt that their wealth was threatened. Similarly, in Europe, World War 1 was a war of prestige and conquest fought between a bunch of wealthy (largely related) families who had built huge empires.

> The big picture is made up of individual policies... that is actually my entire point. I gave you clear example of what happens when one fails to remember the big picture.

You mocked me a bit and told me I should have the answers, but I didn't see any clear examples. You are wrong about the first point - you can nitpick implementations and individual policies all day. I'm not claiming that 100% of policies that tax the wealthy are good, or will succeed. The big picture is important because it abstracts those smaller points away - the bigger picture is that inequality is driving our societal issues, and taxing the wealthy is an obvious, primary way to help remedy that. Talking about a Swedish wealth tax from 1990 is a joke.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1932
That paragraph, in hindsight, sounds like foreshadowing. This news cycle is her own "pressure applied from the outside" because she got tired of writing papers.

Seems pretty transparent.
> what does it take to fire them without the entire world playing the race card on you?

A workplace that isn't hostile to people of color and evidence of the cause of dismissal
Another one: "If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it." - Weird Al.
Dr Gebru's research AFAICT shines a valuable light on some interesting ethical problems. Yet the response so far from Google and even HN has been one of censorship and suppression of Dr Gebru's free speech. How can we reconcile free speech and Google's right of review to her research?
> How is this possible? Distancing _elevates_ within-household risk?

One obvious mechanism: Enforced distancing makes it less likely you get COVID from a source outside of the household, which (since infection usually provides some period of immunity) thereby increases the risk you get it in the household, on average.
That's an insane accusation. You can check my comment history perhaps that will reveal some aspects of it.

Also, I am kind of shocked you would accuse of me something like this. WTF. I am not trolling. I am asking a difficult question that needs to be discussed because no one is discussing it.
"Performer" here simply means "person appearing in a publicly distributed pornographic video".

The individual in the film would have to be registered with the gov't and have an existing agreement between themselves and the distributor.

If performer fees are kept down to what it costs to e.g. obtain a drivers permit and possibly offset by distributors, it shouldn't negatively effect smaller players or non-commercial interests.
I have helped administer the LastPass Enterprise account at my employer. It has a number of features that help make it more easily manageable and scalable.

I use 1Password for my personal stuff. I think they’ve got a better trust model than LastPass, and better aligned incentives to keep their stuff secure. But I’ve also tried to set up my wife with 1Password for Families, and it’s a right royal pain in the ass on that side.

There is the original “pass” program for *nix/Linux type systems, and there are clients that work (more or less) on most other OSes.

But I have yet to find a good program that I could unequivocally recommend for teams across all platforms.
Fewer than 40% of Americans actually have healthcare insurance of the quality implied above

If you are free to set metric arbitrarily, you can always ensure that majority of Americans do not meet it. For example, fewer than 40% of Americans drive cars that are younger than 5 years old. Does it mean that driving is out of reach for most Americans? Clearly, it's not.

More concretely, despite that "fewer than 40%" have healthcare coverage of the sort you arbitrarily chosen, it turns out that 70% of Americans rate their healthcare coverage as either excellent or good ( https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcar... ), and this figure has been stable for last 20 years.
> Some hedge funds are rich, because they buy the order-flow data of poor people playing with their money

Hedge funds do not pay retail brokerages for order flow. The vast majority of trading activity from retail investors is motivated by public information, so it offers basically no insight worth paying for.

This is the exact reason why market makers do pay for order flow. They can safely execute a huge number of these trades with very little risk and collectively make a hefty profit from the small spread.
What did I just read and is this real? Also, why grow weed in the bed of a Cybertruck specifically?
That is so true. And money does bring happiness for people who just got some of it when they previously had none. Rich people I believe are not very happy. But they would be very unhappy if they lost their money. Money is desperately needed by people who don't have it.
Kind of nice. On the one hand it seems obvious, on the other if it was, why haven’t we seen it before?
The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA was a high-caliber event. The paper here, done at Google, a leading AI company isn't, and the ethics-washing on view here is deeply concerning.
A couple of East African countries resolved to stop importing used clothes, one of the reasons being to boost their own local textile industries.

They were almost all pressured out of their resolve (except Rwanda IIRC). Modern Opium Wars. So you see it doesn't matter that they don't want used clothes, they will bend to the might of America.
You want to increment your count of useful Google services? ;)
Karaoke-forever: Self-hosted MP3+G server
She was fired after sending a mass email, to hundreds of colleagues, criticizing her employer in very strong terms. What company wouldn’t fire an exec who sends a “f* this place” email to the company mailing list?
It needs to be discussed? Why on this article then?

Why not make a new HN post and discuss this? How is that discussion point related to this article?

What part of this article or the events surrounding it suggested there is a fear of firing PoC?

There is absolutely no reason to bring this up on this article other than to derail the conversation into FUD.
The greatest female chess player of all time is Judit Polgar. Her two older sisters are a grandmaster and international master.
It's hard to imagine Apple's brand maintaining its luster without good performance, and when Apple sells over 1B phones, it's hard to imagine that price-efficacy wasn't a huge part of the package.

On the other hand, Androids have a reputation to get somehow jankier or sluggish over time, and that surely must affect its brand and overall standing for consumers.
If you are a beautiful person, then this program can probably create a beautiful line art sketch of you.

However, for the rest of us, I suspect we might be horrified and terrified by the results on our more pedestrian faces.

So me a program that can take more average looking faces and turn them into something that is not terrifying, and I might be interested.
Everybody believes there are no restrictions at all and people carry on with their lives just like did before. Nobody talks about group gathering limits (smaller size than in most countries), that restaurants service hot food with much better safety than here in the States, etc. People still believe that Sweden's strategy is herd immunity without any interventions!
I was shocked to read this. Must be very hard to study if you are homeless

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/12/04/nyc-is-home-to...
It doesn’t matter because aggrieved employees with a compelling story will always have going public with real or imagined grievances as an option. The persons protected class is just another attribute — this is a story because the subjects are notable.

If a company is responsible in how they manage, follows policies, etc they are fine. If executives or others are allowed to misbehave and the company is too cheap to buy silence, things may not be fine.

What’s the real story here? I don’t see evidence of incompetence. But you can be fired for any legal reason in absence of a contract. Maybe there’s some unknown political or other issue. Maybe some conduct crossed a line. Who knows.
Thanks, DM!
I think that's incorrect. As a user of a pre-iPhone smartphone, I don't think Apple should get credit for inventing the smartphone, but I do think the iPhone was revolutionary. They didn't just popularize it; they created a true consumer-grade device via relentless user-focused polish. It's the same deal with the original Mac, which was also revolutionary.

But here, there's nothing radically different about M1 Macs that will open up vast new markets or notably change the daily lives of a purchaser.
Well, Kotlin is not the only language. :)

The same is true for Scala and other languages. Languages that even existed before Kotlin.
How many apps have you sideloaded?
You seem to have rigid ideas of what it's possible to experience, believe and be genuine about on the basis of the color of one's skins. Maybe that should be a signal to step back and rethink.

You also illustrate beautifully the vapidness of this fad notion of "concern trolling". Because they have not conformed with your view of the issues and used your preferred language, they can only be conceived of as trolling.

The other poster seems to be making a genuine effort to express their thoughts and edited their post to be less combative. Yet you can ONLY see them as being dishonest and disingenuous.
Also the font size is hardcoded so zooming in does nothing other than making scrolling terrible
Downvote goading, things like 'the entire world playing the race card on you' are basically trolling, they don't sound like asking a question in good faith. This particular case is also not about someone being fired for 'not performing' - nobody has claimed that. So if trolling is not your intent, you should edit it down to whatever it is you are actually asking.
Nothing is stopping anyone from starting a competing business, and offering a better deal to the workers.

There's no objective way to say how much "work" is worth - only subjective. This subjective measure is given by the market rate. And in a functioning free market, this should give you consensus as to what some "work" is worth.

> the one to found the country ... people are so unwilling to apply the same analysis to corporate hierarchy.

to have found the country, he could've asked to be a dictator. The problem is that the founding is based on the principle of equality (at least at the time, of men...). So if he chose to turn around and take that equality away, everyone would just reject his founding. People in the country are attracted to the idea of equality, not to the guy named Washington.

However, a business does not start on the same premise - that of equality and rights (for all employees). The business started by the business owner is based on the premise of pay for work. That's as far as the relationship goes.

Anyone (in the USA) can start a business on a different principle - no one will stop you other than natural forces like competitiveness! And i think some businesses do that - a family business for example, which shares the work, and shares all the profits between them (and don't hire employees).
hey good question, and it is experimental so we'll see how far it goes, but I think you could get more granular to detect things like unique message author/over rolling time period, account age, perhaps a private vote people could add or other metrics to try and filter out noise.
You're admired, acquired, then retired and expired.
I did not read the paper (just like most people here), but by the title — “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” — it does not look like the CO2 emissions thing is the main topic of this research.

BTW, "Stochastic Parrots" is a very descriptive name for the problem

> Moreover, because the training datasets are so large, it’s hard to audit them to check for these embedded biases. “A methodology that relies on datasets too large to document is therefore inherently risky,” the researchers conclude. “While documentation allows for potential accountability, [...] undocumented training data perpetuates harm without recourse.”

Since these models are being applied in a lot of fields that directly affects the life of millions of people, this is a very important and underdiscussed problem.

I really want to read the paper.
Yes. Please ditch the man pages and instead get out of the terminal and get tracked in the browser. Like this website which needs Google ad tracking.
What was this article from technology review - yes it gave insight into the contents of the paper but then barely made any conclusion or added anything about what that meant to the situation other than the very end saying the obvious maybe this cuts into Google's 'cash cow'?

Bah
No one is questioning its legality. That's obvious and I agree, it is illegal.

There are a lot of things that are illegal but people do it anyways.
“The software adds a 30% performance penalty on top”

That seems like a straight up falsehood.
Nothing incompatible about exploiting and building in one person or coterie.

It would be great if Y Combinator filters well to emphasize non-exploiting billionaires, but that’s certainly less that all billionaires.
I don't the the OP is 'trying to prove' anything, other than to demonstrate the magnitude of issues and concerns.

Furthermore - the fact that suicide-by-opiates has spiked, and is killing significantly more than those from COVID is actually fairly material.

"The lack of people dying from ebola doesn't justify not containing ebola."

It certainly does if the treatment for ebola is toxic, and more likely to kill you than ebola.

So while we don't want to entertain antivax/anticovid conspiracy ... at the same time our choices do affect outcomes in a lot of ways. 25% of Americans are having difficulty making rent right now, we can't discount these things.
Everybody knows that history , terms change with time, as someone who has lived all his life in the 3rd world, I have never met even 1 person who is offended by the term (I have met online a lot of first-worlders offended though). We use the term as sarcastic self-mockery and as encompassing umbrella to identify ourselves with nations all over the world under the same predicaments. Proud tercermundista here.
yah, i had blowfish once at a korean restaurant in LA, and my recollection is more 'mild fish' rather than 'tasteless'.
Moral foundations can help us understand mask resistance
Applications that would have difficulty moving to a 64-bit time_t, typically for object-size and alignment in legacy protocols, can often be recompiled to use an unsigned 32-bit value there, taking them up into 2106. So, a 32-bit kernel, typically forked from 2.6 or 3.x and with unsigned 32-bit time_t, is a viable alternative for rescuing legacy embedded uses.

Probably by 2106 the machines will be responsible for coding, and it will then be their problem; or, civilization might collapse, so any people remaining will have bigger worries. Or (best case) both.
Should companies publicly present their side of the story for every firing?
Unlike cobol, dos based technology could be at least learnt and maintained easily. And you can easy find ways to test it. Not cobol.
ia32 is just the Intel marketing term to encompass i386 through i786
I certainly don't think deaths of despair will be equally distributed between troughs of infections (when there's likely to be no lockdown) and peaks (severe lockdown).
I was wondering why no one mentioned this. I've bookmarked it to play with more but it seems to address lots of the issues here, at least at first blush.
Not sure the details of her employment arrangement, but usually work you do for your company belongs to the company and you don't have any right to freely publish it. Seems she was able to publish it anyway, so that's pretty good, isn't it? She's got more than the usual helping of free speech. Where's the censorship or suppression?
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That's the best joke I have heard. Billionaires build nothing. Most research is done by Public funding and then sold to privateers for pennies
I believe even Basecamp (or one of their products) uses React on a more complex interaction.
yes, that's the explanation given in the paper--the more restrictive the public measures, the more likely spread occurs at home.
> "Don’t bother with man pages."

I also consider this terrible advice. I don’t want to jump to a different program, plus man pages are greppable. And you want the man pages that apply to the machine you’re using (versions, etc) — especially important when you’re using a remote machine (think how common then idiom is to do `ssh foo man blah|less` )
> Since these models are being applied in a lot of fields that directly affects the life of millions of people

In particular, it is being applied right now to rank Google search results, and probably responsible for lots and lots of Google's profit. You should be skeptical of Google's appraisal of the paper that is material to Google's profit.
Citation needed, for sure. I certainly believe that most companies don't particularly value honesty, especially when pointing out managerial flaws. But looking at what she wrote with a manager's eyes, I don't see anything I'd fire her for. But like aylmao writes, I see it more as an impassioned and probably valid critique of DEI work that is more posture than substance. What I see is somebody who really cares about the problem, and who could be channeled into productive work as long as that work truly has impact.

I also suspect that if she'd written the equivalently passionate comment about a technical failure or bad product choices, people here would be cheering her on. Especially if she were a he.
Zero assertions means that you know there aren't any lurking exceptions triggered by just running the code. That's a good thing to know, but I'd hope like hell that it's not the only thing you want to know.
That’s the crux of the problem. Top tier academia and ethics both attract the absolute best and the absolute worst. So I suppose we need both the critical cynicism and the optimists in threads like these.
I think there’s some truth to older clothes being higher quality, there was a point where almost all clothing was made here. In the ‘60s, 95% of clothing was made in the US and that has been on a gradual decline since then. Even in the ‘90s it was 50%. Now it’s just 2%...

Source: https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/7939/madeinamerica
Seems like a rather expensive free service to offer.

How much bandwidth was used by the virality of this post?

If this became popular I don't see how someone could afford to keep it going.
Mozart's great compositions such as Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, the piano concertos and choral works send me off into an eatherial world that only another devotee would understand. I put them amongst the greatest works of Western art of all time.

With that in mind I don't hold Mozart god-like on a pedestal as many do. I see him as an ordinary guy with one supreme talent. The fact that we still have instances of Mozart's profane utterings is a reminder to me that in many respects he's down at my level of thinking -- and thus human like the rest of us. For that reason I'm truly glad that we've not sanitized these particular works and sayings of his from history.

The great Swiss theologian Karl Barth was reputed to have said of Mozart that "God overdid the goodness essence when he created Mozart".

My take on that would be to exchange 'goodness' for 'talent'.
I'd add a rider to that however and that's that Mozart is widely and lovingly remembered for the sheer joy that his music has brought to millions of music lovers over the past 23 decades since his death. If that translates into 'goodness essence' then so be it.
You can still brag about it even if you haven't actually done it. Watch this trick:

I've eaten fugu. You're not missing out on much. It's kind of bland.

See? Easy peasy.
Quit and help are the two most important and basic command that should have priority. The rest you can learn. These two is hard. Exit, quit, crt-d, crt-z... and help is even higher especially if you give an error response.
if what you say is true, what's stopping a dealer from saying no to both options?
Google, usually. People are highly critical of executives and (relevantly) Google's efforts on diversity and inclusion work all the time.
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Interesting. But is it true that that is nothing like that in other languages?
The significance of their job is imagined at best, borderline academic welfare. Guess that is why Google can make the choice to remove her this quickly.

They lose nothing but face.
This is just your perception based on media speculation, not something actually backed up by numbers. Just because people on the internet are talking about race doesn't mean a firing has anything to do with race.
Great read, thanks for sharing.

A couple years back I was admitted into a government rehab. At the time I was a fresh college grad, and I couldn’t help but feel that I was somehow smarter/better/more “upper class” than all of the other patients on the unit because of my upbringing. That is, even completely broke, strung out and institutionalized, I still felt as if I was somehow more “chosen” than anybody else. It took a lot of learning to realize that this attitude was a major part in what lead my drug addiction being unaddressed for so long that I wound up in such a gnarly place. That said, I am doing fine now, but I often think how the others I was with could possibly be doing.
The problem with this strategy is you can’t discover new content so easily. They should just let you filter subs from popular, not have you create some cultivated set of subs.
When they want to publicly claim credit for being a certain way but their actions point to another, it's up to them to clarify their position, and use whatever evidence to support their claim.
If the authors aren't confident enough in their paper to release it publicly, why would I want to read someone else's (presumably inferior) summary of it?
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