skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We haven't heard any arguments, only that management can do as they please when they don't like results of AI Ethics Research. We'll likely not get anything substantial, ever, either.

As I've stated in other post, this is very, very troublesome for AI and Google.

OTOH, Google has much emphasis on ethics in AI/ML otherwise. But the whole company, especially management, need to put actions in alignment with their words on this matter.
I think it's good to remind people how terrible the US is when it comes to worker rights. Many people don't realize just how bad they've got it over there.
A lambda, at least as understood in a functional programming context, is pure.

Whereas what is proposed here is simply syntactic sugar for creating an anonymous function; from the little that is said in the announcement there is no reason to think this syntax would provide any guarantees that state changes due to lexical scoping won't affect the function's output.
Managers are supposed to exercise power on behalf of the company. In this case, it’s unclear whether the manager was exercising power in the best interests of the company or of himself.

In my opinion, might doesn’t make right. Managers aren’t de facto right purely by virtue of being a manager.
I am reading articles during my way to work (short period) and books before sleep (long period).
Is she really a manager? In factories the foreman was considered part of the Union rank and file. PMs and other developer leadership could be integrated into a union.

Basically if you can be promoted up into a position it can be a union job. If you need a business degree to do it though then it’s non union.
From Tokyo to Beijing, growing old is hard to do
"You'll never find [More than X GitHub workers condemn removal of meritocracy rug], despite that also being the case"

How would you know it's the case unless, say, 1200 GitHub workers sign a letter of protest as they did in the case of Google?

Sure, we could imagine that 1200 GitHub employees objected, but that's not the same thing, is it?
There are some userspace scripts that will dry-run updates and email you the results. Generally it's just new config files that differ from your current versions, usually it's just whitespace differences or settings that have changed manually.

https://github.com/tavinus/opkg-upgrade is one.

As it notes, the reasons you don't want updates on auto-pilot are those config differences, and limited space available on routers.
Enumerating problems is the first step toward a solution. It's also valuable in making people aware of the problems. If you feel like you have read enough about the problems already, congrats, you're informed enough that you're not the intended audience.

And if someone's tiredness is, as you apparently believe, the most important criterion for whether something gets written, allow me to point out that I'm tired of the "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" routine. I associate it with bad, authoritarian managers. And I think it's even less justifiable when the complainer a) isn't who the article was addressed to, and b) is complaining about a problem without offering a solution.
Most of the problem comes from Pandas which is of course R-inspired.
My Problem with Spaced Repetition
It's absolutely insanity. A cruel question I came up with the other day, based on it - What is the result of:

std::is_signed<decltype(1L * 2U)>()

?
See also W. Brendel and M. Bethge. "Approximating CNNs with bag-of-local-features models works surprisingly well on ImageNet." https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00760 (which is referenced in this paper) and explains "[t]his suggests that the improvements of DNNs over previous bag-of-feature classifiers in the last few years is mostly achieved by better fine-tuning rather than by qualitatively different decision strategies."
> I think another problem for the minicomputer companies is that they were doing everything themselves: CPU design, board design & manufacturing, system design & manufacturing, OS, compilers, and other required software, sales, support, etc.

Aside from manufacture maybe, isn't Apple doing exactly all that? And not only succeeding, but dragging everyone else along with them; M1 Macs seem to be getting better third-party support at a faster rate in mere months than other attempts at ARM desktops/laptops did in years, like Microsoft/Windows.
Because people are debating whether it is a resignation (where the employee is in control of events), or a termination ("firing", where the company is in control of events).

Although US has 'at will' in most states, in many respects the way employment issues are judged in the US is similar to elsewhere. So the perspective elsewhere on what counts as termination seems relevant.

You're free to disagree, but that's why it's brought into the conversation.
Completely different property rights enforcement (programmable and decentralized). Sure a theft may still have to be resolved via the courts, but it significantly reduces many overheads.
> they could claim wrongful termination in this scenario and likely be awarded the pay they would have received for the missing notice period.

Correct.

That's what happens in Italy for example and I believe in large parts of Europe (I know for sure France, Germany, Sweden and Spain)

The missing pay is granted anyway, but with a wrongful termination the employer will most likely obtain a fair compensation.

A couple decades ago I was awarded a year of salary + the 3 months of notice we agreed upon when I was hired, for a wrongful termination after an acquisition.
Employers just need to pay you whatever period is written in your contract (which may be longer or shorter than 1 month). Which may very well be what happened here - nobody claimed she's no longer paid a dime, just that she no longer has access to Google resources.

You can't just say "i'm giving you 1 month of formal notice of resignation" and expect the company to be bound to that month... otherwise, to take it to extremes, what's stopping you from giving them a 20years formal notice of resignation?
The strongest argument for Google is it not wanting people to know that there are risks, no?

The strongest argument for her not doing it is keeping her job vs maintaining her professional responsibility as an ethicist, no?
I thought those are also job performance considerations?
Have built a domain registrar.

The industry term for this business is called “drop catching” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_drop_catching

Domain registries provide registrars with reports of domains which are set to expire, and if you’re not a registrar yourself, you can often purchase these lists on a secondary market or use APIs built upon serving this information.

But even if you don’t have that list, you can do a Whois search for any domain and know its expiration. You could build your own database!

Note that most domains have a grace period (eg, 30 days) where the original owner can renew even after it has expired. So it’s not like you’d be able to steal someone’s domain just because of a clerical error.
Pretty sure it means a complex algorithm can be approximated by a super simple model.
Python Financial Stock Analysis [YouTube]
> But they won't succeed forever. Just now they had to maintain their lead by vertically integrating processors.

They had been one of the richest companies years before vertically integrating processors.

> How many more buffers does Apple have to stay in front?

Because they seem to be the only ones who know what to TAKE OUT and when, and yes, as per the meme, the courage to go ahead and fucking do it.

Disc drives, legacy ports, headphone jacks, blinking lights, chargers...

Every other hurr-durr company seems to think that the only way forward is to keep piling crap on top of crap. Apple shows everyone when it's time to take something out and leave it in the past.

And people fucking love it. That's their biggest "buffer".

Microsoft & Samsung et al. are the kings of "Me Too", whereas Apple (like Nintendo) is "Not me".

There are people that don't give a fuck about specs and numbers, but what something can do and how pleasant it is to use. Until other companies can figure that shit out, Apple is always going to have a lead.
still a hell to the no
She said "at a later date" leaving it up to her discretion. Google accepted a resignation that didn't exist, and will probably be liable for it in some way.
I don’t really know what to say except that your experience doesn’t match mine.

I could look up research articles on best practices but I often find that those things just pay lip service to what we are “supposed” to do and not what actually happens.

Also I take exception to this notion that unless your country has economic power in the top 20 of the world, then whatever practices you have has no value.

Extreme specialization is a byproduct of rich economies but that shouldn’t be confused with it being a good practice in all cases.
Thank you! I read your links with great interest, they're an amazing resource (even though I'm sorry you had to go through them to be able to share them).

Buying a stay at a hotel is something I'd never thought of. I'll be looking into this. I wonder if local hotels might be willing to come to some sort of 'coupon/giftcard' arrangement...
It's funny to think "obviously polyethylene is flammable, how did nobody notice" then realize my own house has expanded polystyrene and polyester fiber batts insulation under the floor. I wondered about fire risk but saw some vague claims by the manufacturers and that the local authority approved them, and just trusted that, despite these local authorities having a history of approving bad products. Decades ago, my dad was very critical of all polymer building insulation because of the fire danger. I thought he was just out of touch and obviously it wouldn't be allowed if it wasn't safe. This isn't the olden days! We're more strictly regulated now!
It was not too long ago that Ireland ruled that there was so much sugar in the Subway bread it was 'cake'. Sugar made up 10% of the weight of the flour.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919189045/for-subway-a-ruling...
Thank the Fed for the Stock Market’s Run–and the Plodding Pace to Come
I only have it installed to stream via moonlight. Now that steam link is on iOS though, I haven't used it in a long time.
The framework is supposed to work on AMD64 too, so Pros with 32GB+ RAM.
I think there's a weird seam of irrational rage around the mere suggestion that tech isn't some utopian meritocracy.

I find it jarring.
"I will walk through your walls" is somehow incredibly intimidating despite being a totally nonsensical threat. Great book, but they didn't make it seem like a lot of fun to work on NT.
That's only from your perspective.

Website owners are still sending visitors IP-addresses your way. They have to trust you to do the hashing and deleting the salt (and pepper?) and not delivering data to others (4th party).

Another problem you - and others like goatcounter have - is described here https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2020/07/plausible-analytics....
My read was that he doesn’t speak English very well and that he meant to say, “that we are not paying you...”
> Maybe if the entire SRE department went on strike and stopped maintaining the datacenters that would put a dent in the numbers due to degraded service, but something like that would probably just doom the company entirely even if they went back to work after a bit.

It's the threat of being able to strike and potentially cause that much damage to the business that makes it powerful.

No-one really wants to strike, actually going through with it is the final step when the company fails to meet the workers' demands - no point in making a threat if you don't demonstrate it when the circumstances arise, it's toothless otherwise.
Stanford encyclopedia is a good reference:
https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Interesting. They went from "Libra" (implying Freedom) to "Diem" (which sounds a lot like Die or Dying).
If employee is found using company resources inappropriately (in this case, mailing list to rant) then you can't give that employee 2 weeks notice. Google will then have to consider possibility that she will abuse their mailing lists.
It's sort of meta but...

The article repeatedly mentions Gebru's race and sex and includes it for the only Google employee quoted. Why does that matter? Is she more reliable because of her skin colour? Is he less reliable because of his genitals?

The cynic in me feels like I'm being subtly trolled. Or maybe I'm just oversensitive? :)
I wouldn’t recommend buying them - generally, registrars and ICANN seek to avoid trademark infringing behavior and would likely disable your site if Nintendo were to complain.

(Source: Have built a domain registrar)
> Back in my days we would chop off heads and assisinate politicans!

back in my days, we would unionize and block the factories until the company died or we got what we wanted
I'm still trying to gather more insight into what actually happened here. But you have to know upper management calculated there'd be blowback for firing someone of her stature, position, background, race, gender, etc. They did it anyway. That to me says that keeping her around was worse than the storm they knew they'd generate by firing her.
So if the company does something unsavory, just walk away? Not even trying to change it first?

If you don’t like a policy, go live somewhere else?

If you find mold in a fruit, go shopping in a different place?

I mean, it’s a valid strategy. But obviously not the only valid one.

It’s not wrong to like the other aspects of the job and try to change the quality that they disagree with.
> for aesthetic reasons

It doesn't make much material difference, but I think it was more to do with insulation and saving energy, rather than aesthetics.
Good idea: “don’t use your primary email for LinkedIn at all” should also be on the list
Why not try this first though? You complain, and if complaints aren't met you then quit. It's kind of childish, in a way, to not voice problems you have until you just up and quit one day. It's much more professional to at least try and communicate.
Yes this is correct. The primary difference in at will employment is that I also am not required to give my employer notice, whereas in the countries you mentioned I am.
> Back in my days we would chop off heads

Ironic that guillotine memes are so popular among the kids these days, no?
It does — as does getting mugged for your $1200 phone!
This is a global project, so it will be used in countries where this just isn't accurate.
Year the http stack was rewritten, But mvc handling was barley different between 4 and Core (besides namespaces)
Has anyone tried using this with GPT-2? I’m curious if it would run locally at usable speeds.
1080? 1080 is an high end GPU that cost 700$.
I think it's funny that the "Spectator" was a conservative newspaper long before we had a Republican party in America... And they run articles like this!
How does this relate to continuing education/professional development?

It seems to me that engineers choose non-boring technology because that's the only thing that most companies provide for professional development.
I don't think it's illegal because I know a lot of people are doing the same thing. Mostly from marketing sectors. I have couple of clients who makes a lot of fake profiles.
Self promotion is a skill directly translated into $$$ in terms of raw compensation.

It's one of the biggest blocks I see from developers who are otherwise qualified for positions like that but they don't know how to advocate for themselves.

There is a games element to hiring and you have to put aside the thoughts of it being gross because at the end of the day it's a major component in earning more which for most people is one of the reasons they work.

I say this as a dev myself and not a recruiter.
So, are you basically saying that you feel uncomfortable having the ugly, naked truth made more obvious to you?
This is what makes HN HN, thanks for sharing.
> I'm so tired of articles like this that never enumerate solutions. Anyone can enumerate the bad things about something. You don't need to know anything about the situation to do that, so why leave the analysis at the minimally-developed step?

Amen. It seems like 99.9% of all online content that address already well-known problems are like this. I find myself increasingly tuning out, no matter how well-written, if there isn't a good portion dedicated to actual solutions.
Umm. I’m not saying force TVs to stop being smart. I’m saying that you can level the playing field by saying that TV manufacturers aren’t allowed to collect user information or display ads. That’s the race to the bottom where users lose.
It is not "don't like it? leave.", it is "stop working for immoral organizations". Would you consider a guard of a concentration camp ethical if they "condemned" the actions of the government but continued to support them via their work? I wouldn't.
Neat! Would you be willing to share your source for the info? Are you accredited yourself, or are you using a 3rd party api?

(Just curious! I used to be in the registrar business myself, always interested in what people are building!)
The pandemic boosted food delivery companies. Soon they may face a reality check
There are various characters and shared universes that have been 'open sourced' in some way. Here are a couple of starting points:

https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Open_Source_Characters

http://free-universe.myartsonline.com/

https://paradisichronicles.wordpress.com/

https://www.thefifthworld.com/about/shared-universe

http://www.scpwiki.com/
This article read like her paper was on bias. But isn't the paper on the environmental effects of large models? The article reads like Google tried to slience her on something racial.
I hope they are able to reopen some day. Still hurts that they had to let everyone go
I’ve heard people talk about how similar Dylan and Julia are for a long time, but have never used Dylan myself. Are there any things that are standouts for Dylan as compared to Julia that are worth checking out?

I feel like Julia is pretty great, and has a good amount of inertia behind it in the domains that I frequent, but I’m curious about (Open)Dylan from the perspective of someone who’s used both.
Or like... your country decides it no longer likes Apple and blocks all connections to it
'There's a gaping hole in our knowledge': the scientists studying why gam (cont)
I suppose the $64,000 question is this: how many other Grenfell Towers are out there, and how can they be identified? The scope would probably be pretty clear if it were just a matter of one negligent construction company, but it seems like this is a problem that spans the whole chain of approving, selecting, selling, and installing this product category.
I think they're trying to make out it's racial and she was slienced on pointing out a racial issue.
Nonsense. We shouldn’t pretend the “herd immunity” people have any scientific backing, because by and large they don’t.
Fair point, but I have used Zoom and GoToMeeting’s integrations with Outlook and there may be some similar (or identical) features, but the experience with Teams is a far more integrated experience in Outlook.

As far as I understand, it is Microsoft who are putting third parties at an unfair disadvantage by not offering them the same level of integration.
I would highly highly recommend this podcast. I've listened to every single episode from phase 2 (from episode 114), and a large majority of those from phase 1. I believe listening to this podcast should almost be mandatory for any engineer involved with any form of safety system.

For those interested in the engineering side of the scandal, phase 2 is amazing listening. The amount of detail the enquiry goes into is incredible. The number of failings across the construction industry with this project from architecture to fire consultants to insulation providers is shocking, but despite this you can also see why those failings occured at the time. The enquirers are knowledgeable and ask extremely probing questions, you can almost hear witnesses squirm.

Phase 1 is worth listening to part of, it's all about what happened on the night, the fire service response and failings, call center communication, broken lifts, inadequate equipment and more. However, it is very heavy and depressing listening, and quite repetitive (Phase 1 the podcast was done each day of the enquiry, phase 2 is done weekly).
From the numbers it looks like performance is similar to TensorFlow-DirectML from Microsoft. Which, unfortunately, also means it is ~6 times slower than CUDA on the same hardware.
So yes, you can buy some land to store your stuff.
This is my reading of it too. I think a lot in government - and let's no forget Grenfell was government housing - would love for the blame to placed elsewhere.
A more personal account: https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro...
Three Health and Wellness Categories Venture Capitalists Are Betting Big On
I read for one hour every day in a book and one hour online articles. Most of the time, however, I invest less time in articles because I read most of them only roughly.
That's not how finance works. If you don't follow the rules, you get cut off from the rest of the ecosystem which is tightly controlled by the US. So if diem wants to operate at all, they must adhere to the rules regardless of which countries they are operating in.
Diem is known from "Carpe Diem", in English "Seize the Day". Hence Diem possibly means Day. I don't know why the name. Though, if you call it Noctum it has a negative/blackhat connotation, IMO.
Libra was never interesting. A centralised fiat currency run by arguably one of the most unethical, unscrupulous, invasive surveillance capitalists in the world was never going to be interesting, at least not in any technical or socially useful sense. Adding the ever-popular "but blockchain" into the mix still didn't make it a real cryptocurrency, never will. Rebranding it changes nothing.
Yep. People mistake means for the ends.

Anybody may be susceptible to such ideology and short-circuited bias. However, technical people are often so focused on their details, we are probably even more vulnerable to this than most.
You may be thinking of the benchmarks that ranked it alongside a 1050 Ti
>The learning curve is finally low enough that it is practical. I think it is fair to say that C++17 is the first version where that is true.

What are the specific C++17 features that make this a reality?