skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.

https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1334953632719011840

With regard to the internal review thing, I thought this comment made a good point: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k6467v/n_t... Sure, maybe Google is usually lax with internal reviews. But if you're going to write a paper which says "this area of research Google is engaging in is harmful", and neglect to mention the fact that Google is also doing research trying to address the harms, then from Google's perspective, you are just smearing its corporate brand without making any real progress.
Peer to peer AI Machine learning with blockchain on AWS cloud.
So if every single piece of hardware or software followed this one crazy trick the world would be better because some people at a tech company wouldn’t have to field as many support questions?
I have to agree with the author’s experience with Metafilter.
That's possible, but they also mention "Completely open source" in the same list, and that would make "Free as in Freedom" redundant.
Copenhagen Interpretation and MWI don't make different predictions from each other, but there are other theories that do. For example, pilot-wave theory makes different predictions. There are also some superdeterminist theories that make new predictions (Gerard T'Hooft is one advocate of such theories, I believe). Unfortunately I don't know of any concrete examples. Here is some more information on the subject from Sabine Hossenfelder:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-forgotten-solut...
The thing about React is not the library itself but the ecosystem, which feels like building on constantly shifting quicksand (e.g. react-router).
AZIZ! LIGHT!
You know what?

Let’s A/B test! ^^
California can't even build a new rail line and you're wanting to move major highways what new problems were these new highways create that are probably even worse than killing fish?
What DNS do you hardcode? Google's? Or do you advice the use to set it up himself?

I am very suspicious of the push for https and the like. I feel it is mainly about hiding the payload from me not any third party.
A key elephant in the room in this article: if it's just about hiring the right people, why is that so hard? Because most companies treat technology as a cost center, not a profit center.

Even for companies where that's the case, treating technology like a cost center is like treating legal as a cost center -- existential company killing risk goes way up if you don't pay for the real deal. And for companies where it isn't, you'll just flat out waste your money. Pay for a Yugo when you need a big rig and you'll get exactly what you paid for, which won't be what you need.
Yeah, we will eventually move to L2 if it is able to deliver what L1 does at a cheaper cost. Currently this isn’t the case, as only token transfers are possible on L2.
If it's a blog then use a CDN.
> Things like 230 are useful for big tech Corp.

Actually that part of the law protects comment sections in personal blogs: you aren't liable for any comments left on your posts and spam fighting or highlighting etc (or not) of posts doesn't magically transform them into statements of yours.

Spammers have reduced the value of comments on blog posts but they are still important.
It's not about prices. He's referring to "crooks with suits and big smiles". We all met at least a few. They aren't your local drug dealers or some shady pawn shop owners. They are usually in pretty good jobs. Lawyers that only care about getting more money from the client rather then really helping them, dentists who do rush jobs so they could make more money, realtors,who flock properties and "forget" to mention important aspects that could have an impact on the decision. Business owners who take everyone they deal with for a ride and so on. And yes, they do live in nice houses and nice neighborhoods and can often be mistaken for decent people.
I'm not even particularly keen on bitcoin, but that reads like a childish rant against a miscarachterisation of a group he doesn't like. I'd expect this kind of level of discourse in a 4chan thread.
No one pointed out that the guy didnt know how to pass a style to child the current svelte framework allows you to. And simply ditched it. I assume the type of project he was building means he is really good with web stuffs. But this is a simple thing to do. I am surprised. I am a fair beginner myself and having done it I never thought "this" would be an issue.

The RFC is just an extra easier way to do it.

If the OP is here, can I know where he faced the problem? Maybe the xommunity could have helped.

I would never consider React over Svelte. Except the community size all I see are disadvantages.
This is an shameful comment to read on this matter regarding a real, well-known, and serious researcher. It’s the worst kind of tech-bro middlebrow dismissal that makes no interesting comment on the content in question beyond some ill-informed shallow analysis, and assumes that years of making half-baked shitty web-apps have somehow gifted you insight into AI ethics that’s enough to decide what research is “real” and what’s not - such that anyone who isn’t aligned with your high-school level of meta-philosophy is best ignored.

Your goal here wasn’t to make any useful point about how it was actually a reasonable decision for her to resign/be fired from Google. It wasn’t to comment on the process or difficulty of having these discussions at scale or in public, or even respond to the specific points raised in the article. These would all be valid discussions to have. It was specifically a personal attack based on a paper you haven’t actually read intended to demonstrate how much better you are than everyone else.

Absolutely done with this shit.
way offtopic, but can you point to a couple examples of websites that "have a soul" according to your personal criterion?
The stupidity of cancel culture and college kids screaming "shame" at history professors for an entire lecture because he didn't spend enough time pontificating on white privilege throughout the ages have made a mockery of civil rights activism. How do they expect to change people's minds when they're constantly making enemies?
I'm willing to spend $100 to $200 more per tire just to save fish I'm not even kidding tires are so cheap people just burn them off like it's no big deal
> 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.

Yes, that's it. You said it better than I did.
Dissertation on Deep Kalman Filters and Algo Trading
I think there is more to it then that. How come we see the same value when information cannot be cloned?

I think the answer has to do with thermodynamics somehow right? Because the measurement apparatus starts as low entropy waves hands decoherence waves hands it behaves as a classical system.
I think that “dog-whistle” is a dog-whistle for wokeist people who prefer to insult others as racists instead of making actual rational arguments.

As for “globalist”, I don’t see an issue with criticising globalism and those who promote it, be they Jews or others. Clearly a lot of Jews (in Israel) are very “localist”, and I suppose there are some that are “globalist” as well. So?

Just because a view is also supported by some or other “vile” people (that are almost always a tiny minority, if disproportionately loud and/or salient), doesn’t make that view invalid or immoral.
PHP mostly competes with Ruby, Python and Node in the web space.

It is generally faster than Ruby and Python.

It's not the mess that javascript is.

Has a sane community with a wide range of well-maintained packages.

Symfony is easily a rival to Django and RoR. At that point it's a matter of preference, but Symfony is top-notch quality. I wouldn't care for the ActiveRecord usage in RoR for example.

I'm not sure that people saying low barrier to entry know what they're talking about. It's the same barrier to entry as for any other scripting language. If you're telling me about FTPing files: this is not how the PHP community has been working for the last ~10 years.

All those people commenting "I have no idea who would start a PHP project today" live in a bubble, probably based in SV.
Smaller teams, and product management should be done by the development team. This will only work with at least some experienced developers on board who have shipped something before and had to deal with the results of that in production as well. For dedicated product managers the risk is high that the person does not know enough about the product or development. This is especially true in organizations where product management is an "easier" career path compared to development.
You can’t mention logic programming without talking about the one most folks have interacted with: make.

Facts are files and rules are rules. Make will explore deep chains of rules to find a path to building the targets.

I once (ab)used make so that the mere inclusion of a non-existent header would autogenerate it from a series of different templates combining human-readable structures, marshaling it into binary, then converting it into something a C compiler can read. Importantly, the process was recursive, as the source for a template might have to go through transformation itself.

The key is I never taught make about the whole process. Each individual step in the process is a rule that transforms from one file extension to another. Make automatically searches for a path through the rules, even 9 or 10 deep.
Cross Asset Order Flow Analysis Paper
AFAIK:

'=' is URI (path) safe [0]

'=' is not query-param safe [1]

Ex:

[0] https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#PathEscape

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#QueryEscape
> Smart devices manufacturers often “hard-code” in a public DNS server, like Google’s 8.8.8.8, and their devices ignore whatever DNS server is assigned by your router - such as your PiHole.

Going to be a sad day for those advertisers when the DNS project gets killed by Google. Hopefully they are smart enough to set a alternate as well.
In Canada there is a common thing called exclusive supplier rights. It wasn't fair to center out book sellers as almost every product imported and sold in Canada is under the same scheme, the idea behind it is because it is a smaller market the suppliers need protections against price wars to remain profitable and ensure supply. You can consider it kind of a "Supply management" scheme, not as strong as the one covering Canadian dairy farmers but alobg the same lines. For books they managed to apply copyright legislation to it which is a bit different.

The good news is in the USA there are competition laws that make it illegal for a seller to NOT sell You or your friend those books within the USA and You CAN import them into Canada without fear of seizure if they are for personal use.

https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/020.nsf/eng/00621.html

>>> It should be noted that these regulations do not apply to any of the following:

>>> individual consumers, who are free to “import” books from a foreign bookseller, such as Amazon.com, at any time;
A lot of the surface of the tire gets turned into gas particulate
Synthetic Tabular and Time Series – Python
Maybe you should stop thinking your stupid L33T coding interviews will get you the best engineers. And actually interview your engineers for stuff that matters.

Like how they achieve redundancy, resilience, and fidelity in their software development.

And also, get some managers with half a brain, to understand that changes to the requirements can affect development efforts.
Another step in the silly device manufacturer / device owner arms-race. As long as people keep rewarding device manufacturers who treat owners as tenants it will progress. I wish people would just stop buying this garbage. They won't, though-- they see the features but not the down-side.

The next step will be hard-coded DoH server IPs. Sly owners will NAT those to a transparent MiTM proxy.

Then device manufacturers will counter with certificate pinning for DoH. That will be "game over", and the device manufacturers win. (It'll be a double-win, actually. It will put a hard "expiration date" on the device's functionality when a link in the PKI chain expires.)

I believe the owner of a device has right to control the device's network traffic (and, more generally, control of the code running on the device). Business models that rely on taking away an owner's control of their rightfully-purchased general purpose computing devices are really rental models and should be handled as such.

I eschew these kinds of devices, use or create self-hosted solutions where I can, and just do without when I can't. It does make me a little sad that I can't get some of these cool "living in the future"-type devices, but I'd be sadder to have my home festooned with manufacturer-controlled surveillance and advertising delivery devices.

I wish there was a way to convince the average non-technical person of the merits of owner control. Given the enthusiastic responses in favor of allowing device manufacturers to mistreat owners I see from the Hacker News community, though, even convincing technical people is a lost cause. It feels like most people really want to be subjugated. It doesn't seem ratioinal.

I do recognize that the Hacker News community also includes some of the people who profit from subjugation of device owners. Their motivation seems rational (if not sociopathic).
There's a good writeup that looks at a range of other languages implementation of enum, linked at the end of the RFC: https://github.com/Crell/enum-comparison
Online Secret Santa tool for quarantine
Hi all!

I wanted to share my side project with everyone and hopefully gather some useful feedback.

I created a Secret Santa webpage to organize groups with friends, family, work, or even unknown people! The main objective is to simplify the organization of such groups, even with people that you do not know that well or that you will not see over Christmas. In my case, that fits perfectly with my company.

The project allows an admin to share a link so members can register themselves, add some info about their hobbies, and a postal address if needed; removing the burden from the organizer.

I tried to make it as simple as possible but it still has many possible improvements! However, it took longer than I had hoped and probably most people have already organized their groups. Feel free to try it out and provide some feedback.

The page is accessible here: https://www.tinysecretsanta.com/

I am also planning to add anonymous messaging between the people who have been drawn.
My state just banned studied winter tires because it was tearing up the streets too much and it really hasn't snowed and quite a long time as the climate changes
Hypersay Events
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Oh come on. It's not like making an account is overly difficult or demanding. You are not required to send two forms of ID or a blood sample by mail.

Anyone who really wants to contribute to the project (and scratch their itch) will not have a problem with entering a username, password, and perhaps use a validation link from an e-mail. It might discourage people with just fleeting interest.

And as a hypothetical FOSS project maintainer, I know I'd rather have one of the first kind of contributor than ten of the second kind. Especially if the alternative is to be beholden to the likes of Microsoft.

Of course, the best solution would be something like ForgeFed, but I can't see that meaningfully taking off (there's no way Github will ever adopt it). I'd love to be wrong, though.
It might be just me, but having reached over a half of what the series promised, I don't find any of presented ideas "exotic". (I do find posts by their own are good and enjoyable, just that I don't agree to the series title.) They are of course less popular than, well, C, but---reusing the analogy made in the very first post---they are much more like Finnish or Korean more than Navajo or Klingon.
Well, I’m not sure I agree with the emphasis on mental models. It’s 100% possible to understand exactly how the world works and be poor/homeless. In fact if you start out that way in life I’d wager your mental models are likely to be bang on, the world forces you to look at it.

Certainly the other upper class person who became homeless had bad mental models (“I understand finance so it’s wrong that I’m homeless”), but that seems more like a psychological defense than anything. Being poor is traumatic, being homeless is traumatic; you’d expect defense mechanisms.

The bit about MeFi is darkly funny, but I never spent much time there to say more than that. It certainly isn’t surprising that a bunch of liberal techie types think the world of themselves but actually treat those in need like shit.
oooohhh - OK now I get it ...

thank you

(spoiler - opening scene of the fifth element)
That's just because you view them in less. I usually view them in emacs, so links work just fine for me.
At first, conventional commits sounds neat because they say you can

> Automatically generating CHANGELOGs.
> Automatically determining a semantic version bump (based on the types of commits landed).

And I would really like those features. However it seems like this assumes 1 commit per feature, which I think is not the conventional wisdom. Am I missing something?

For example, the feature is to add a new page to the site where the user can view all their posts. That should break down into several commits: add new route, add parser on frontend, add html structure, etc. But each of those commits would have to start with `feat: add route to fetch user's posts` and so on. Wouldn't that result in a unhelpfully verbose changelog, when the changelog should really feature one line: "Allow users to view all of their posts in one place"
The Starship SN8: Elon Musk’s Latest Adventure
Physical projects have a construction phase, because they don't have the luxury of zero-cost copying. If you want to construct two identical houses, you still need people to lay bricks twice. If you want two identical websites, you deploy the same files twice.

By the nature of software the "construction" part doesn't really apply. If you only replicate already-designed pieces of software, that's more like creating accounts in SaaS or deploying code to new servers.
I'd want to assume good faith here, but it's difficult
Privacy Policy Changelog
So then you have a team using java struts, jquery deploying to IBM websphere using SourceSafe as a VCS.

Slowly but surely you won't be able to hire new people into the team and your development won't be as efficient as in newer technologies.
It isn’t, no. It’s based on a protocol we’ve developed called Radicle Link, which provides a gossip layer on top of git.
>Bernie will never have a platform again.

Under what scenario will Bernie be deplatformed? Because Section 230 isn't anything new or upcoming.
> Where’s PHP’s equivalent of let/const?

Olde PHP used to declare global variables for all http get/post params, so "linter rules" basically said no undeclared globals.

Of course the linter was a sternly-worded comment in the first <? block.

Then we had the $POST array and $GLOBALS which, iirc, are considered bad-practice to interact with directly.
Neural Teleportation
Do you have any good (ie busy father orientated) instructions on buying and setting up a basic telescope ?
There are essentially 3 options for Wave function collapse.

Their are some hidden variables which means it’s deterministic and there is no amplitudes involved. The universe has some sort of random number generator which determines the outcome. They don’t actually collapse, which is what the many worlds theory essentially posits.
I have worked with many bright people whose day job was programming in PHP. In their free time, some maintained Haskell libraries, others wrote libraries facilitating pure fp in PHP.
That’s not the point. Being removed by executives you rarely interact with because they want you to retract a paper is extremely suspicious. And the community has responded with disappointment.

You are the only person postulating the intention of her firing. I am merely calling out your assumptions because the consensus from the entire community involved has declared otherwise.

Most other people who found her refutations horrible are outsiders who don’t fully grasp the topic LeCun and Gebru and everyone else was alluding to.

Who are the respected in the industry that are against her? Not even LeCun, who has said he thinks her work is important. Nothing in your post has facts at all.
JavaScript is such a crappy programming language, that its only saving grace, is that people keep building other programming languages that transpiles down to it.

So now, you have a poor language, with another layer of a different programming language. Is it any surprise that the web is so slow these days, with all these indirections?
>But why do you agree with the comment saying real GDP per capita in Africa hasn't increased in the same sentence that you say it has increased (by 1.1% annually)?

Because:

* 1.1% annual growth is a) terrible at any point after c. 1800, and b) sustained over decades (during which bien-pensant commentators repeatedly proclaimed that Africa was about to/already had/surely would grow at enormous speed and soon catch up with the developed world). Comparing it to the industrial revolution-era statistics is meaningless unless the rest of the world is also at that level.

* The data shows that multiple countries within Africa have regressed. Like, full on collapsed. Zimbabwe was not invaded by an outside enemy. A volcano did not destroy Madagascar's markets. Gabon's political disruptions are not unusual compared to what has happened elsewhere on the continent and in the developing world. And yet their economies have collapsed, and not in a Western-style "country x's economy is in recession" meaning of 'collapse'. Outside Africa this has not happened in such scale across multiple countries in a region/continent without some discrete factor, such as the imposition of Communism in Eastern Europe and Cuba, or the Maoist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. And even Eastern Europe and Cuba, while far poorer than they would be without Communism in their history, are better off than the Ivory Coast.
You're right to be suspicious. The DNS-over-HTTPS model favors those who run the servers (because they get exclusive access to monetizable end user name resolution data) and those who control the resolvers.

You might control the resolver on your personal computer (for now). You probably don't control it on your phone. You most likely won't control it on your embedded devices.
If you're starting a blog, chances are you're going to care a lot about SEO.

Wordpress is a much better starting point from a SEO perspective than a react app built from scratch.

Performance is quick if you put it behind a CDN and disable things like comments (which I suppose you also wouldn't have in a react blog, unless you're building a commenting system from the ground up, too)
Where I live we mostly only have public coal electricity still tons of Teslas around here so yes all the electric cars I see throughout my life are worse polluters and for some reason they all want to drag race me in my BMW because they think their cars are faster (they're not)