skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For me covid is not a big deal and it should have been ignored.

In that case, how do you avoid your health system collapsing? The hospitalisation rate for an uncontrolled spread of the virus far exceeds the capacity of any country's health system.

The only option in this case is either to introduce drastic measures to reduce the spread of the virus or accept that very large numbers of people will die at home without oxygen or other medical care.

> for me covid isn't killing many people

If you're doing x to suppress y, you can't claim that low y is a reason not to do x. You have to consider how much y would be if you weren't doing x. And that y would be far higher.

Consider the argument that we should not bother with antibiotics because bacterial infections don't kill many people.

> Which ones again shows how difficult is to argue with someone when your basic axioms, values and definitions mismatch.

It's interesting that not many people are arguing that huge numbers of people would die without measures and that that would be acceptable. People tend to fall into two groups: either restrictions are necessary to avoid large numbers of death, or that restrictions are not necessary because you wouldn't have large numbers of deaths.

This suggests that the argument is not a mismatch of values, but one of whether the data are correct.
True - though I’m guessing there are a lot more vocal ethicists who will tone it down for money, than there are large AI corps who are actually willing to be honest about AI ethics! Anyway, sounds like it was a bad fit all round for both parties and this was the only possible outcome long-term.
> "Censorship is restriction on others' flow of information."

There was nothing stopping people emailing the manifesto to each other privately using any archive formats. That is different from having to provide a free soapbox for supporters of the manifesto. Just as you have the right to block someone commenting on your Twitter posts. The ISPs are businesses and have legal terms and conditions to remove anything. That is not censorship. Here in NZ it became illegal to transfer the manifesto, but primarily the video which was deemed offensive under existing censor laws.

> "The laws against "gay propaganda" in Russia are similarly supported by the majority of the population, but they're no less wrong and oppressive for that."

If the Russian example you give is supported by the majority then that is by definition democratic, even though propaganda created that public sentiment in the first place. Should propaganda (manifestos of hate in this case) be censored? Your own example suggests "yes it should".
Archived copy of full article: https://archive.vn/VIHaa
And many of them should be fired for choosing SPA way where its not necessary and only creates bigger initial loading times/eats more RAM.
The JVM wasn't a thing you "targeted" until much later. In 1996 there was java and javac. People were ecstatic running the same programs written in Java on every architecture (SPARC, PowerPC, Itanium, 8086...), and even as a client or as a web applet. The "portability" wars of 80s and early 90s were over (that's where C and C++ were born into). Nobody really talked about JVM, because there was basically 1 Java vm, no HotSpot or OpenJDK and no real bytecode documentation. JS was not planned for the JVM. So much that there wasn't even a half decent JS to JVM compiler implementation until recently. JS was a joke until ES3, and a very subpar environment until v8 got fast, Node got serious and TC39 got their shit together after the ES4 clusterfuck.

If the Java@Netscape story came about earlier than 1995 then maybe yes, the JVM could have made into the browser as THE scripting environment for an eventual JavaScript language, because Java the language was not suited for webpage designers to throw something together un a highly evente environment. The browser was the place to be and Java just didn't make it there (they fought hard though with their applet crap).
Yes. But you can monitor the pressure indirectly without a pressure sensor, by comparing the rotation speed of the wheels. Wikipedia says that a flat wheel has a smaller diameter and rotates faster. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_sys...

It's cheap and not great but it's a valid TPMS system for Europe.
The latter of course, which is tangentially related (not contradictory) to my question.
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The problem with Section 230 is that nasty social media companies can use algorithms to curate the content the user sees (often without their knowledge and against their choice) in order to increase engagement & profit off it (including from content that is illegal or promotes illegal activities) but then use Section 230 as an excuse to get away with zero liability.

Maybe S230 should be amended so that once you start curating the information and/or profiting off it, you become a publisher and lose S230 protection?
Not even retirement, 30 years after graduating. I do wonder how the government managed to sell so many of those loans on when I expect a small minority will ever end up getting fully repaid, given the high-ish interest and earning threshold for starting repayment.
Your feelings are justified. I felt the same way as you two days ago.

You might be interested to know that I’ve changed my mind. The reasons are documented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25308233

Basically, every one of those arguments evaporates when you dig into the details. She was doing her job. The paper was anodyne and perhaps even boring. She was rightfully pissed off that some middle manager was telling her and her four coauthors that they must retract their paper (the reviewers later posted on Reddit that they would have been happy to accept edits). Jeff was micromanaging her citation list, which is almost unheard of, apparently. Multiple google employees came out of the woodwork to say “there is no such review process, other than a quick scan to see if you’re leaking company secrets by accident.”

All of this is fascinating. Because, as far as I can tell, the entire AI community is now on her side. The only people who keep bringing up her character flaws are people who don’t do AI / ML. Or at least, they seem to be pretty quiet now that Jeff revealed Google supposedly has some weird academic review process no one’s heard of till now.

Your feelings about the journalists are completely warranted, to underscore that point. But it’s odd how much momentum is building. Try to ignore the circus; you’ll be surprised to find there is substance behind the claims. I was as surprised as anyone.

And to reiterate, pick any one of the arguments you mention, and really dig into it deeply for details. Try to verify the claims. The most you’ll get is that she was curt. And I remind you that it’s usually known who the reviewers are at any given venue. Even if it’s blinded, you at least know the general group of people involved. In this case it was highly unusual to do some kind of anonymous, selective, ad-hoc enforcement of rules that really don’t seem to benefit the scientific process in any way.
Notes in the readme? How long are you expecting one of the biggest websites in the world to be down?
I’ve developed a severe case of “wokeness” fatigue. At this point if I see the - social - media trying to drum up outrage for some “woke” cause, I just roll my eyes and scroll away.
Ask them to walk you through a successful and a failed initiative/project they were leading.
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Awesome project, though the perpetuation of open source software needing to be free is regrettable.

> Software as it should be.

> Free forever

Mostly all popular projects need some form of funding, and setting the expectaction of a free lunch forever for new users is not healthy. Btw, do you remember who used the tagline "It's free and always will be"? It was Facebook.
The issue isn’t false positivity. It’s clear argument, politeness, precision and a willingness to assume the best of your interlocutor.
Almost 10 years, once in a while it become boring and then I skip it for a week, otherwise great platform with intellectual people.
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1. https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334877710477385728

2. How was LeCun harmed? As far as I'm concerned, he accepted the feedback. And just so we're clear on what happened then - Gebru was only one of many with qualifications who were aggressively critical because of his abdication of research responsibilities. I don't know why you're so focused on Gebru in particular.

3. Yes, if this was about performance, her direct manager who oversees 300 people would know.

4. So yes, glad to see we agree higher ups, who she likely has little to no interaction with to supposedly be exhausted of her behaviors, stepped in to get rid of her.
I love where surface is going but its not ready for general use yet. last I checked, it was pinned to an older fork of liveview.
I was not talking about downhill skiing. I have not done more than 5 hours of downhill skiing during the last 20 years. (Did a bit more when I was younger.)

I do only cross-country skiing.

Could also call it an irony that if mention a concept with 2 variants, the reader automatically assumes the more commercial, the more industrialized, the more polluting variant today.
"Left" and "right" carry little meaning when it comes to analyzing the divide between people. The "with/without money" bit is of a much higher order than the global "left/right" bit to me.

I don’t really care about the paper author’s fate, but it seems unsettling to me that she is discussed more than the paper itself.
the site design is cool. hosting it on GitHub is ironic, though. could it instead just be hosted via radicle? (mirrored to GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, SourceForge, Savannah, ...)
The thing about HAProxy/Nginx being boring is that if you knew how to use them a decade ago you know how to use them now. Redis is a bit younger but my understanding has not changed for users drastically. Postgres has more features but the day to day is pretty similar.

I don't feel the same so true for JavaScript. Node was brand new, package management was brand new, ES6 wasn't even published yet, never mind usable. For the browser/DOM you likely used jquery because you couldn't use it directly, APIs like querySelector weren't available in a time when Chrome was less popular than IE6. You probably wrote "var that = this" a lot as most people didn't understand bind/apply. Modules were done by using a global object and sticking functions on that.

So I don't think JavaScript has yet earned being called boring on the same level as the others, even if the "days since last framework" days are over with React the winner and Vue/Angular the other survivors.
The problem with such adapters is that being USB based they're timing is far from deterministic. One very common use case for ISA based interfaces is industrial automation where realtime determinism is very common requirement.
I think the difference is more phrasing than practice. Both countries require paying employees for the notice period when they resign. That's why people are saying she was fired.
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> choose to be homeless...

That's a poor choice of words that betrays your lack of knowledge on the subject. Instead of guesses about what is happening backed up with with "why else" reasoning, why not just do a little research on your own first? Or at least start with a question instead of a claim?
Re the existence of an internal review (tl;dr: it definitely does exist!): A Google employee here who's actually published research there. There definitely IS an internal review and an approval process and every single paper I have published while there had to go through it. Everyone I knew had to submit for an internal review well in advance and I personally couldn't even submit to a conference review once because we only asked for the internal review 3 days in advance, which wasn't enough time. My understanding was that everyone around me was adhering to this.
Well because rich people let it.

That's an important distinction.

The working class is in no position to take care of homeless ppl.
This article was way too dense and long so I couldn’t focus long enough to actually finish reading it.
Thats the kind of problems you get when you let your company turn into a political party...
> because of extended lockdowns in te west

I'd rather phrase it as "because of inadequate social support during lockdown". A few countries paying low support had money to do more. Blaming that just on long lockdown is missing all the other possible solutions.

As for the effect on mortality of the lockdowns themselves, it will be interesting to look at Australia in a few months where the infections stayed relatively low, but lockdown lasted months. Especially comparing Vic to NSW.
When I read comments coming from people who don't use PHP which are always negative or condescending, I wonder - how do you imagine programmers who use PHP are like? Do you immediately draw parallels in your mind that makes us PHP-ers incompetent and basically dumb, while having a language that lets you mash the keyboard and it works?

Honestly, after having used most of the languages at my disposal for past 22 years I've been doing this job - they were nothing special compared to PHP (or PHP compared to others).

You still have to figure the problem out before solving it with algorithms. No language or framework will help you do that.

I'm keen to hear why there are comments that demean one tool and elevate the other, when in reality - they're all just programming languages.
Oh right... Google Fonts seem to be blocked (per default LocalCDN settings.)
A glaringly obvious logic fail is “any apparent fraudulent behaviour must be on behalf of the winner” - er, no - it would be much more likely for the intended benefit of the less ethically sound candidate.

(Which one that would be in this case is an exercise left for the reader)
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All natural numbers are computable, and everything on a computer is represented as a natural number, so nothing on a computer can be secret.
I’ve used the very cheap RTL-SDR dongles sold as TV receivers.

Ones I use (that work well) look like this: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001815260665.html
It's weird to think P2P is becoming all the craze for "privacy" while it's the backbone of the internet: it is p2p. It's just nowadays its more of P2(big cloud servers)2p; which could be a good thing depending on who you ask and your usecases.
Money skills for survival and money skills for wealth accruement are completely and utterly different skill sets.

If you grow up with money and half decent parents, you learn the latter. Slowly, perhaps even imperceptively so: it probably starts young, opening a bank account, learning how to navigate the basics of the financial world. If you're middle class, you learn about investing and dealing with brokerage accounts. If you're rich, you learn how to deal with the people that handle that for you.

On the other hand, if you grow up without money, you don't learn those things. If your household is living paycheck to paycheck, you probably experience the basics of banking, but your exposure to the world of capital is greatly limited. If your family's struggling to put food on the table, then there's a solid chance you don't even get that. 22% of households in the US are unbanked. There's a reason why check-cashing services exist.

Beyond the simple knowledge gap, there's habits and thought-processes that get ingrained. It all culminates into a system that very effectively stifles class mobility.
Was there a good reason for introducing those frameworks in your opinion?

I can see both sides here - could be that the application actually justified a JS framework but nobody would listen - or it could be that a JS framework is totally overkill and would introduce unnecessary complexity.
On average, the internet probably made thing worse to the average employee. Everything became much more competitive and automated.
There is nothing concerning Windows 10X that undermines anything I have said.

UWP is the future of Windows - correct.

I'm not sure any significant part of UWP has ever been in the kernel per se.

It sounds like you're a consultant where taking risks on behalf of your customers, no matter how small or logical the risk, is obviously not part of your job description.

Your offerings of good luck appear to be disingenuous.
It was my impression that Twitter was mostly about spreading false negativity. Anyway, I would prefer we discuss the content of the paper and what it implies for large models.
As an only child, my guess would be because I had no one to play with. Even if you have friends, siblings are far more accessible to go out and do something sporty with. In fact, your parents might even be telling the lot of you to go play.
I think there are links to the tweets in this article: https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
Wordpress is extremely horrible the second you want to do anything to it. It's overkill for even blogs, to be honest. You need a database, you need to dockerise it if don't want it to shit up the rest of the server.
Book publishers and magazines aren’t held to a very serious standard these days.

This isn’t the UK; free speech in the US is number 1.

It’s far more fundamental than any legislation will fix. America is built on aristocratic protectionism like every other nation. Things like the Constitution allowing for copyright protection for a limited time is made effectively forever given the perspective of an average human life span.

It will always end up being gamed.

Personally, I’m tuning out more from consumerism and “the tech industry”. Even before covid I’d grown sick of what became circular debates over big O and comp sci 101 in tech, and routine office life.

I’m learning musical instruments and writing creatively. Ditched my TV. Things like 230 are useful for big tech Corp. Not me. Let them defend it. I’m not interested in performing unpaid political lobbying for them.
Calling Stephen Pinker a fraud is way over-the-top. He’s published a large number of extremely serious papers, including the paper introducing the ngrams dataset you just linked to.
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I think I've never seen a HN post age so badly in such a short time.
The question is whether the review process vets the topic of the paper, the writing, the citations etc., or it's only a screening that avoids revealing company secrets.
I found Angular weirdly over-complicated for doing the same stuff React does.
Could you share your calculation for that?
I spent a lot of time watching the GIFs on repeat rather than reading the text on the web page. It is quirky, I like the style, but it is a distraction from the message.
You sound like a terrible character, and you should be ashamed about yourself.
You're a publisher as soon as you put an infrastructure for users to put stuff on the net. Curating or not doesn't matter.

Disclosure: personal opinion, ianal.
> Though Bender asked us not to publish the paper itself because the authors didn’t want such an early draft circulating online

Should not you avoid submitting early drafts which are not good enough to be published yet?
The problem is that in the majority of cases you need a backend anyway but now instead of serving HTML from it directly you need yet another layer and a different language.

Sometimes it's justified, sometimes it's completely overkill and you waste a lot of time. On a project I've been on I've seen days being wasted to build a basic account management form (think username, password, personal details, etc) in React for no reason, despite the same being achievable with our backend (Django) in a couple hours.
>In Czech Republic we have the time off accrued based on worked hours.

There's no distinction, at least not with the statutory holidays. You earn them as you earn your wages and there is no adjustment for illness.
But if that megafarm says "We believe that AI should: 1. Be socially beneficial." then we can point to that when their behaviour is not consistent with it, no?
> Jeff was micromanaging her citation list, which is almost unheard of

This is quite normal, even for purely technical papers [^1], and absolutely important for an expository paper like this one. Narratives are always formed by selectively including references.

> the entire AI community is now on her side

On the MachineLearning reddit, which is popular among a proportion of ML grad students at least, it's completely different. Indeed the top comment in the discussion thread there [^2] discusses this discrepancy. And the fact that I'm creating a throwaway account for this reply is telling.

[1]: The review process of ICLR 2021, a premier ML conference, is taking place on public at https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2021/Conference. You can navigate through the reviews and see how many requests are wrt citations.

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k6467v/n_t...
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Indeed. In fact, I would think this is in fact supportive, rather than contrarian evidence for that quote, since both are arguments for good management practices that prioritise individual humans and their complex abilities and personalities (whether as individuals or as team players) over abstracted metrics and automated processes.
On Linux instantaneous in Firefox (78.5.0), takes forever in Chrome (87.0.4280.66) while using 100% of one CPU core/thread (I killed the tab after ~1 minute).
A puzzle I'm facing right now professionally is in what way to take Corona into account in actuarial longevity / mortality models. Current thinking is it doesn't impact the long term best estimate of longevity. We will probably resume the ever upward trend in lifespans after we've successfully managed this storm. But what to think of the 1-in-200 year shock scenario? Do we expect another pandemic in the next 200 years (:: Yes, return frequency of pandemics is about 20-30 years)? Is this the biggest we can face or are there even bigger shocks (Black Death-like scenarios)? How to account for differences in policy response (these models use data from many countries as a baseline) and expected future responses (will we learn something from this crisis). And then the kicker: How to model this rigourously enough to get your model past supervisors.
What organization are you in? Several people have said AI and Brain don't work that way. Someone from Tech Infra said their papers could get spiked just for not being interesting enough.
You have a weird concept of "thievery". If someone's prices are too high, don't hire them. If somebody doesn't pay enough, don't work for them.

If you think they are skimming money, then there has to be a way to offer the same services cheaper (without the skimming). So instead of complaining, do it. What's your excuse?
Important to note that "Free" here doesn't refer to "for free". You rpoint about funding of popular projects was at the heart of radicle from the beginning. We believe that FOSS as backbone of the digital infrastructure needs to be sustainable, which includes the resources/funds to maintain it and keep it free and open. If you wanna find out more about the philosophy we follow, here is the original research and premise: http://oscoin.io/
> what’s the issue with “globalist”

It's a white-supremacist dog whistle for "jew": https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-did-the-term-gl...

> the soap dispenser wasn’t “racist”, it was just “bad”

For a person of color who wants to wash their hand and sees that it dispenses soap for white people but not for them it is yet another piece of everyday racism.