skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I’m a spectator to this unfolding story and am reacting to a pretty cursory overview of what happened, this has the distinct feeling that Google thought they were moving in for a checkmate by, in their words, “accepting a resignation”, only to have it — very predictably? - blow up in their faces completely.

I wouldn't say this has blown up in their face. But to be honest, I've not seen that much drama about it than one post. Have I been missing something?

This seems a very solid move from Google. Someone tried to bully their way into getting information from Google they shouldn't give out. If you go to HR in confidence that confidence should be upheld. The fact someone had to go to HR for a peer review and the fact it was upheld states something.

If someone says "Do X or I'll quit" when you're not going to do X, it is a resigination and seems quite standard that they don't want such an active detractor within their company ranks.

I believe she basically sent an email to fellow employees basically telling them to stop working. That alone is a firable. That is completely nuts and unacceptable work place behaviour. The fact Google didn't fire her for that should speak volumes.

To me, from a HR point of view, this is completely the right move to make.
I think some tried some things. Barnes and Nobles did some. The results weren't successful, and that was pretty discouraging to other book store owners.

As book store owner, I really think it's an irrational decision to invest heavily in fighting Amazon. You're chances of success are pretty slim.

As for big businesses ? Well, there's Walmart, Target.

In the end, the e-commerce industry is a place where most of the market share would be controlled by a few large companies. That was clear from the beginning.
You are wrong about 'not an "error report"'. What you are calling a complaint was an error report. The person who responded ("If you want to add a site but don't use github, feel free to email me") did so in a way that would make sense if it were a support request. As a response to an error report, it's a non-sequitur. The inability to distinguish between support requests and error reports is precisely the reason for the "patronizing comment"—exactly as stated in the comment itself. So where's your confusion coming from?
Maybe another way to put it is: if you are forced to use a weakly typed language you better have high code coverage (but really you've got bigger problems that could be solved with better languages).

Of course there are times where you need these weakly typed languages with lots of coverage. In a sense that is what the Web is, and the browser vendors use millions of websites for their coverage.
All I did at the beginning of this thread was directly quote the CDC in-context.

Take it up with them if you want.

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/DCS/ContactUs/Form
Well, it said controversial, and it didn't disappoint! I was surprised to see the one about getters and setters: "they make them private and provide getters and setters for all of them." I had begun to think I was the only person who felt this way (now I think he and I are the only ones). Getters and setters (and "datatypes" in general) miss the point of object oriented programming.
I have a bag full of "quilt t-shirts." One of the problems is that I don't actually want a t-shirt I like and is comfortable to wear and in reasonable condition to be converted like that. It's on my project list and should probably revisit this winter. (There are companies that do this but they aren't cheap.)
Acoustical gunfire triangulation would only affect the people Republicans want to prevent from having guns, so it's not that.

I've given up trying to find coherent values in Republican actions. There are many conservative views that have merit, but they're not reflected in Republican policies.
Precisely. Republicans refuse to hold a vote for dozens of life changing bills. This is currently the abject failure of a single party.
Try "hey google, navigate to the nearest Wegmans"
How much do these bales cost usually? How would an individual buy them? I've visited one of the "ropa" stores in south Texas, the ones where they have massive piles of clothes you literally climb over to dig through, it was a real surprise those exist!
Nope, it’s rapey, and you are forgetting the fact that a person can only give consent when sober. If someone is drunk then they don’t have the power to say yes. According to that quote anyone who asks for sex from the intoxicated person should just do it. That is rape. Lawyered!
> So do most batters in Major League Baseball.

VC is the batter, though. They're interviewing people to be their balls.
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I virtually never go on reddit these days, but when I do it's often because I want to see peoples thoughts on a particular topic.

i.e. skiing in x place, buying x product, what's the general consensus on x movie, ect.

I imagine a lot of people are like that, especially since quora went nowhere.

Also DAU is everything to a social media company as it relates to revenue, so it's clear reddit isn't in an especially good spot. Their market cap would have to be no more than 1/5th of say Snapchat or twitter.
Not exactly. For one, class files are just components of a program, so more akin to .o or .so files, not executables. That set aside, they are binaries for a virtual machine, the JVM. One difference to real machines is that the bytecode doesn’t have access to untyped memory and to the hardware (not even “virtual” hardware), and some instructions have more complex semantics than you usually have in real hardware, but otherwise it’s not so much different from actual machine code. Overall it’s closer to native than to script, and therefore I wouldn’t quite say that it’s in the “middle”.
Aside from whether it’s possible, it seems inevitable. Light does not experience time. There is no time between the emission and absorption of a photon.
Maybe take a step back, consider the possibility that you may be wrong, and if you still think you are right, then attack their ideas and arguments, instead of acting entitled and demanding to know who said this or that.

Like PG wrote, the worst thing you can say about an idea is that it is wrong, you don't need to resort to personal attacks or x-isms.
That confused me as well -- where I work we have a legal dept. approval for IP issues, and that's it. Academic review doesn't make sense in that context or time frame.
PHP for web is great but you'll still want to use another technology for real time functionality, such as: Elixir/Phoenix, nodejs, Go, Java.
Glad you like it! I am not sure why it wouldn't work on mobile Instapaper. I hope you find a workaround.
Unpoly https://unpoly.com is also worth a look if you are interested in these things. It combines Turbolinks and Stimulus functionality in a very usable way.
I wasn't referring to 9 pregnant women working one month to birth a child. There are a few cases where that book's core idea does make a lot of sense.

I was referring to my 40 hours ending on Friday at 5, and not returning to work until Monday morning. If management expects more from me then they need to hire more people or lower their retirement or delivery expectations.
yeah, but I don't think your anecdote matches with the claim that "great athletes" are likely to be younger siblings, especially if you go with the MJ/Serena Williams examples as guides for what qualifies as greatness. Those little kids you observed were not the next Messi, they were just a little better than average. I can see how playing with older siblings makes an ok athlete slightly better, but I think this advantage washes out by the time you get to the top level of a sport, and you've reached your genetic ceiling.

As long as we're throwing around anecdata, Vincenzo Nibali and Peter Sagan are both far, far better cyclists than their younger brothers.
Not really. People bluff in negotiations all the time. A normal response would have been, “I can’t do that. Are you still committed to leaving?” Instead Google went all scorched earth and it’s still unclear why. It also indicates that they don’t particularly value her in progress work in the lab since normally you want the 2 weeks or whatever to squeeze some wrap up work out of folks.
How was this measured? Because with the new layout then it’s incredibly easy to accidentally exit a thread (without leaving the site) and you have various dark patterns to force users to sign-up. For instance, whenever I open a reddit link through from a google search then I’m unable to view all comments without signing up, and I accidentally close the thread all the time. I see the exact same thing happen when a twitch streamer I follow visit reddit at the start of every stream (despite visiting reddit every single day using the new layout then he keep accidentally closing threads and getting lost on the subreddit page).

I wouldn’t be surprised if me reading a thread with all its 200 comments on the old version and then leaving the site is considered bouncing, whereas me reading a thread (or rather the 20 comments on the thread you make available) and then accidentally closing the thread to return to the subreddit on the new version is considered successful retention.
I found the quoted sentence to be very unclear, which is surprising because it is the crux of the matter. From it, I can't tell the timeline between the order of when things happened and who did what. Who approved and submitted what and when?
As already mentioned, you can use web workers. Feliz (a React library for F#) provides a nice way to use them [0].

[0] https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/#/Hooks/UseWorker
#1: "Programmers who don’t code in their spare time for fun will never become as good as those that do." #17: "Software development is just a job."
That's definitely closer to what I'm talking about. After trying that link, I think my suggestion is a little different. I should be able to "Swap it" without an account, because for a brand new user, the app's goal should be to let me build something that's novel enough that I want to save it (beyond my browser's session cookie).

When I see "Unsaved" in the UI and I care enough about it to click "Save," the app has done its job -- and it's the perfect time to ask for my email address :)
The complaint isn't that it's image-heavy, but javascript-heavy.

If I load an old/new reddit tab and go to 'about:performance', here's the comparison:

Old - Low impact - 22 MB memory usage - 4s to fully load on gigabit

New - Med impact - 70 MB memory usage - 10s to fully load on gigabit
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This response really seems like gaslighting. He doesn't address her concerns and glosses over whether she was held to a different standard than others at GR.
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Also, presumably this whole process didn't start this month. Developing a chip takes time. This article makes it sound as though this is well on its way to production.
No one has a right to a private platform.

Facebook banned QAnon, so did Youtube. They can, frankly, fuck off.

Public good is a consideration.
It’ll be more Google: “hold my beer”
TL;DR: Jeff and Co got sick of Timnit's woke bullshit, pushed back, she threw around some ultimatums, they called her bluff and pushed her out. Personally I'm glad that Google is finally cleaning house. More of this plz.
One thing that is missing here is the demands the said researcher had brought up to the leadership. Didn't see either party bring it up in their side of story.
Hmmm. I've read your comment twice now, and it seems like you have glossed over the entire observation and assertion that Rushworth (and Gupta, and Henneghan, and Kulldorff, and other reputable experts) are making with what amounts to a side note in your comment:

> Also the 4 other coronaviruses circulating thing is silly, obviously the long term effects of the common cold viruses are not going to be comparable if the short term effects are clearly not comparable, it is reductionism of the worst kind.

What you are saying is "obvious" is not at all obvious, and is not the assessment of the experts who have looked at the data and weighed in.

In terms of obviousness: why do you think that the long term effects are unlikely to be comparable (if not strikingly similar), since the long term (adverse) effects of each of these four (and also several of the influenza A) viruses seem to be clinically identical, despite each having distinguishable acute characteristics?

> This is just getting caught up in silly semantics, people are experiencing longer term health effects, they are calling it "long covid" for lack of a better name not because it is an affirmative diagnosis.

I agree that the terminology becomes tricky. But I think the question is better stated as: is "long COVID19" any different from other "long covid" (ie, the rare but well known post-viral syndrome that is observed with all coronaviruses).

> Even if truly long term effects only develop in 1 in 500 COVID-19 cases.. that's a lot of people who are going to be sick for a really long time! It would be 400 Americans a day right now.

...but a relatively small cohort in the bigger picture of post-viral syndrome, if indeed it occurs with approximately equal frequency with the other coronaviruses (and some influenza A viruses).

I think we need to be careful about measuring potential adverse outcomes against one another, and try our best to use numbers that reflect the likely lived experience of people (to wit, nearly everyone contracts the "garden variety" coronaviruses a few times in their life).

If the current slate of vaccines don't prevent this effect, then I'm having trouble putting any math together that suggests that it will generally reduce population-level instances of "long covid" (again, defined broadly as long effects from any covid, not just COVID19).
Democrats want less tariffs?

I would love a Neoliberal Democratic party.
No.

> The French capital has 56,000 people per square mile while NYC, the most densely settled U.S. metropolis, has only 27,000 people per square mile

Manhattan and a few select sections are denser but US cities are sprawling.
I've seen these review comments before and I don't know if we can say from our position whether it's corrections that can be made for camera ready or not.

If a paper does not analyze the improvements from recent work, and just older work that has been surpassed (deemed inefficient by Dean), the new reanalysis might not be as favorable to the results as the paper proposes which means the paper is moot.

Or the second point is about bias in language models, but it sounds like these issues are mitigated in recent research, which means people are already aware and have solved a bulk of the issue being described in the paper.

But certainly it's possible that the paper's contributions stands strong even after accounting for the recent work that Dean mentions. In that case, it could be corrected for camera ready. But my point is that we can't tell right now without seeing the paper, and the relevant research that was omitted.
it's not a weak straw man. There are people who say this:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/aoc-accuses-...
> " If you can't test your code easily, then your code is awful. End of story."

I don't think this is trolling. Maybe I would have phrased it in a nicer way, but I agree with their math.

Now I don't think you need to get to 100%, but if you can't easily see how you could get to 100%, that's a problem.
At first it sounded like a lot but when I remembered by FAMANG org of similar size it's actually not that big. A 1000 people org probably nets you around 15-30 teams which have to include frontend, backend, infra, theory, experimental, internal tooling etc. I guess the biggest question is how many people in deepmind are sales/consulting etc. Do they have any external for profit contracts?
Sounds revolutionary to me. The new M1 is faster and MUCH lower power than an i9 based system that would ramp up fans at even the most minor of workloads like say upgrading iterm2 from version n to version n+1.

Suddenly $700 mac mini's can do crazy things like edit 4k video and the m1 laptops can handle being plugged in to wall power much less often than the i9 systems.

Likely within 12 months there's likely to be systems with twice as many cores bringing unheard of levels of performance to reasonable price points.

Keep in mind Intel hasn't shipped something significantly faster than the previous generation in 5 years.
One of the my favorite apps, Scapple (from the same company that produces Scrivener), stores their data using just this approach (plaintext + character ranges), but in XML. It does make the data file much more readable, and it makes it possible to grep for text without having to worry about regex to skip through tags, but IMO the convenience is outweighed by the fact that there is no way to do mass search and replace (that is, using external tools) without totally messing up the formatting.

IMO the best approach is inline makeup but for the text editor to have the ability to hide tags. An example is PowerGrep's docx editor. You can open an .docx file and it will be editable entirely in plain text, but when you save it, all the formatting is preserved. In some way existing text editors (e.g. Sublime) are already capable of doing this via some kind of fold by regex functionality
> 1-based indexing is superior to 0-based indexing.

“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” - Stan Kelly-Bootle
The pace at which the EU discovers new rights is truly impressive
I don't think the fact that it worked for one guy (or more accurately, that he adjusted his workflow according to this rule) makes it a good rule by definition.
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That's why I said my keyboard. I'm not aware of any keyboards that would let you type the arcane runes used in APL without resorting to ALT-sequences or the Compose Key.

On a related note, if I could get a keyboard with an extra 50-60 keys that would send the proper scan codes to type unicode characters in one keypress that would be awesome.
my ephasis should be that much of "protein folding" is reffering to the final folded conformation and not the biological process of the protein actually folding
I would caution you by saying that no quote, paraphrase, or evidence of exactly what Timnit said.

Since this is Google's side of the story its in their interest to use words that would imply she's overbearing, or otherwise unaccommodating

(for all I know she could be all of those things, but this narration isn't sufficient evidence to prove that)
Still ready for production.
That’s kind of harsh.
Ruby was a great language and especially great syntax. Except for some duplication of methods and early misspelling of one or two methods, it would’ve been much easier for people to learn and do cool things with that didn’t happen in JS until years later.

Scheme’s not bad, but I think if you compare The uptake of both, Ruby did better? (Not counting Lisp.) It was a cool language though; a lot of problems that would’ve been avoided, if people could type all the braces in correctly... for Lisp at least.
I wonder how many of us in urban areas have been enjoying the improved air quality, too. I definitely see more electric cars in the future of urban areas.
I use fuzzers extensively in software I write. I find it quite enjoyably humbling how quickly a newly minted fuzzer finds bugs.

I use a seeded random number generator. During development I seed it randomly. When crashes happen I output both the seed and iteration so I can hardcode that seed and reproduce the problem. And then in the CI I’ll often fix the seed so the test suite is stable.

But it’s also good practice to run fuzzers outside the context of a CI. You want your CI tests to be fast and stable. Fuzzer tests can also be slow and thorough. Foundationdb has dedicated hardware that runs their fuzzer 24/7 and spits out any errors it finds. If that fuzzer finds problems it doesn’t break the build. But someone will take a look, reproduce the problem, hopefully convert the bug into a unit test and fix the issue.
Static site generation using Observable
> people like Jeff Bezos would have everything to their name seized by the state.

...everything? Also what does "people like Jeff Bezos" mean? Bald ones?
How could /r/coronavirus be apolitical given the state of America? on a US centric website?

And yeah, I wish we could stop reporting on how Trump is bad and corrupt, but that would require to stop doing bad and corrupt things.

Maybe you are mistaking views you disagree with as bias even when they are firmly grounded in reality?
Probably worth noting the story is from April.

Another story from April with a few more details: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-is-working-on-its-own-...
*just as long as you don't have chronic pain or a mobility-limiting disability.

there's also the issue of those with pre-dawn and night commutes, these people are disproportionately lower income and live farther and farther away from gentrified city centers. it is not uncommon to see as much as a 20+ degree drop once the sun goes down and you'd better hope there's no windchill on top of that.
Google's got five more HR reps working on the case. They got them working in shifts!
Be careful on who you trust. The author of the article is a professor in structural biology (the field on protein structure) at Imperial College in London. The article is well written and the criticisms are fair and carefully stated. Dont come to HN to get scientific opinions. This site is pretty mediocre at that. There are exceptions of course.
I don't find it clickbaity. Let me explain.

To me, clickbait means that I'm luring you into reading an article by using a catchy title, but the content of the article doesn't exactly match what I expected; or that I use human psychology to trick you into opening a new web page (e.g. "you will never guess what happened next").

I instead find the title refreshingly nice and simple, and reading the article fully matched my expectations. Great "marketing" (the ability to pick a catchy title is good marketing) shouldn't be confused with being clickbaity.
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That was my impression as well.

Having said that, if Jeff were to make public the paper, criticisms of the paper, and improvements made to address the problems described in the paper, that could go a long way towards clearing the air.
Though I hate what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it.

But holy cow the white background made me angry hahah
Doing more research it looks like in many legal cases an ultimatum does count as a resignation letter if it's believed to be sincere.
I don't think being more professional/collegial and less dishonest in an interview leads to monocultures. Ideally it would just reflect well on the person for not obviously trying to game the system. If that actually leads to someone being less likely to get a job someplace, well that's a place you wouldn't want to work at anyway.