skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did she not resign? She gave them an ultimatum demanding that the identities of peer reviewers be revealed to her and said that she would not work there if her demands were not met. That is a resignation since those conditions cannot be met. Even leaving aside the threat of resignation, such a list of demands worded as they were, simply shows that this person is unprofessional, aggressive, and immature. And that's leaving aside the fact that the paper in question seems very scattered and unimpressive (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...). Frankly, reading the MIT Technology Review article makes me question the legitimacy of this entire field of AI Ethics and those who participate in it.

As a reminder, this isn't the first problematic incident involving Timnit Gebru either. She previously went on an unhinged Twitter attack against Yann LeCunn, one of the pioneers of deep learning. He won a Turing award for his work on this topic and is one of the foremost experts on it, and understands its various nuances very well. When she was challenged, Timnit's line of attack was leveraging a word soup of progressive identity politics, demanding Yann LeCunn apologize to her, claiming harm was done to the community, etc. This highlighted her aggressive tactics (weaponization of her Twitter following and leveraging cancel culture) and it is clear she must be a very difficult employee to manage or work with.

Coming back to the article linked here: whenever there is some incident (a firing, a walkout, a protest) at one of these big tech companies with a large activist employee population, articles get written that purport to present the opinion of the employee base at large. But usually, these articles only represent the loud minority that is willing to speak up and faces no repercussions. The employees that agree with Timnit Gebru leaving the company (supporting the company's stance) don't have psychological safety. Timnit wields the power of a big following of social justice activists on Twitter, and could shame/destroy people who speak up against her. The small number of employees voicing their support for her, even with total psychological safety, is a tiny percentage of Google's employee base. Those numbers paint a false picture that she has broad support when she doesn't. Perspectives from other Google employees are only available on anonymous forums like Blind (https://www.teamblind.com/post/We-stand-with-Jeff-Dean-and-Y...) and Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...).

Lastly, this has all been discussed in depth previously in a few different discussions on HN. The one with the most comments is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292386.
Anyone who has used Tinder for 5 minutes knows there's very little to estimate for most users
Business purposes include:

"Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction"

So, they don't go to Data Brokers Inc and say "I'll sell you an estimate of gnicholas's IQ for $xxx", but they will go to Scams Inc and say "Hey, wanna target ads to people we think are stupid?"
For your game did you open an LLC to publish it.

I'm debating doing that now, but it comes off as a ton of work where I don't particularly think I'll make money .
Yes, a few hundred dollars is a _lot_ of money to many people. And those people aren't buying newly constructed houses.

Someone buying a newly constructed house for whom an additional few hundred on the mortgage (which will add about $2/month to their mortgage payment) is a big deal is someone who is not anywhere near ready financially to be buying a house.
There is an fundamental complexity in the semantics of x86_64 instructions that makes them expensive to implement. I worked for Transmeta and am at another microprocessor company today so I do have 1st hand experience.

There are other things in M1 that helps make M1-based systems fast. I'm not talking about that. I'm exclusively referring to pure-core performance. It is true that the latency improvement and high-bandwidth of the nearby DRAM does help here, but it is far from the major factor.

FWIW, there's no evidence that TSMC's N5 node is the major factor, beyond letting Apple spend a lot of transistors.

Intel/AMD have so far been able to overcome the overhead with lots transistors and power, afforded by leading edge nodes. Apple is now at the same playing field and especially the power efficiency difference is obvious.
No not really. Just as I probably wouldn't care if Boeing fired one of their plane testers or Rolls Royce for one of their engine testers.

It's 1 employee out of 120k. There are probably other ethicists in AI at Google.

Also the story seems to have devolved more specifically to employment rather than talking about the specific ethical issues relating to Google's language models.
Pretty sure NY had a pretty heinous violent crime streak in the 70s. If memory serves SF was pretty gritty in the 70s/80s as well.

The thing with SF is that the media and a large portion of the US loves to hate it - theres a narrative that keeps getting the replay button. They always will, and it will always die just like Silicon Valley is over and the next Silicon Valley will be in (insert any city, or china). These stories have been around forever, and they will continue forever. Yes SF will go through a down cycle as a result of pressure being taken off of the rental market, and it will fill right back in when people want to live in the city again and the pandemic has passed.

Pretty sure college is going to be in person again (UCB, UCSF, Stanford) as are the National Labs.

The media has overhyped this ... of all sources Business Insider.
Agreed. Unless the long-term need for software begins to decline, if you are skilled, hard-working, and able to communicate and work well with others, a lot of people will hire you.
Yes of course, hence 'obstensibly'. Maybe that's not quite the right word, but I mean the reason claimed by officials, not the true reason.
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30. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548
this is the best article on the topic. Probably my favorite article ever, actually. I also like how it frames Selbee as an average joe-turned-convenience store owner with a side interest in math, instead of how TFA frames him as a mathematician.

Previous discussion on the good article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494280

Honestly, the currently linked article seems to me like low-effort blogspam.
"Mr Lanzone -- we're about to get a flurry of negative press about our shady business practices!"

"Quick! Call down to People Ops -- lets expand our D&I business operation. Put out a presser on how we are donating to the BIPOC project!"
The `blue-x00` is just the default, you can override which colors are available via the tailwind.config.js file, as detailed in the documentation:

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/customizing-colors
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As a bay area native (since 1980) thought I would add my reasons for moving and my thought process. These are my observations and opinions only. YMMV

I recently sold my house and moved to Las Vegas. It was largely for quality of life and failed gov't policies which seem like they are only going to continue.

I moved from a 1800sqft family home to a 5000sqft fully furnished mansion for the same price. It's actually cheaper when you consider not having state income tax and having roommates brings the cost down even more. Granted I'm currently renting but plan on buying again within the next few years if I decide I like it here.

Once COVID-19 happened it seemed like remote work was going to become the new norm, even after the pandemic passes. I'm predicting downward home price pressure in the SF bay area and a slight increase in other metro areas where tech workers are migrating to (slightly in Vegas but much more so in Austin). I wanted to sell my home before that happened. I also think the suburbs further away from SF but commutable once or twice a week won't be hit as hard as people in SF will get homes still in the bay area but further out.

Within the last year I was seeing a rise of homelessness in my neighborhood. Been woken up in the middle of the night a few times from people yelling and fighting. That never was an issue 2-3 years ago. Local stores had been closing more and more with many prime locations remaining vacant for years. I'm predicting COVID/gov't lockdowns and the homeless situation will only accelerate that.

Politically the bay area is definitely an echo chamber. In Vegas, I have friends who are both extreme left and extreme right and we all get along fine. In the bay area it felt like everyone was far left and anyone moderate or to the right remained silent for fear of being attacked or retaliated against. "Tolerance" and "diversity" seemed like they were in name only, at least when it comes to politics.

The high taxes was definitely a strong motivation for moving as well. Remote jobs don't pay as well and I think over time there will be downward pressure on tech salaries as workers become more spread out but in terms of compensation compared to standard of living I think it is an improvement.

Everything also feels modern and clean compared to the bay area. Roads are maintained, dramatically less traffic, parking is easy to find (especially problematic for those who have a truck in the bay area), utility rates and internet are cheaper. Stores and restaurants are open later. The bay area, especially SF seemed really cramped and kind of grungy in comparison.

It will be interesting to see what happens after the pandemic but my thinking is that there will still be an exodus due to remote work still being common place and accepted.

Socially I was able to make friends and network extremely fast. That might be a Vegas thing specifically though.

After a few months now I have no regrets and am very happy with how things are turning out.
You are looking at wet weight, which is highly misleading. You should be looking at dry weight.

> In general terms fresh potatoes contain ~20% dry matter (DM) of which 60–80% is starch

That's 60-80% by dry weight. I assure you that the types of potatoes eaten in Eastern Europe contain approximately 109% starch by dry weight.
That’d cause their costs to skyrocket.
It is an option and they will, it will start slowly though. First offering a job to someone out of state. Maybe they save some money and the next hire, they look à little further and they pick up an employee from another English speaking country, they save even more salary. The more these tests work out the more companies will expirement. Eventually hiring an American will seem unnecessary and costly if you're distributed anyways.

It's great news for non-Americans though, USD goes a long way in a lot of the world.
According to them, "the alternative, privacy respecting, front page of internet." I doubt the legality of that though.
And for more information on why "24" there isn't just an arbitrary magic number like it was in the original inline style: https://styled-system.com/guides/why-powers-of-two/
My recent employer was one of the ISP providing rural telecom service. These subsidies accounted for a hefty percentage of our income and the company was still perpetually on the edge of failure. Most of our competitors were in similar situations, loaded down with breathtakingly large amounts of debt and expensive to maintain decaying infrastructure, much of it purchased from the Baby Bells when they got out of the market. I can't say that the company was particularly well run but am certain that without the government subsidies, the business would collapse and large numbers of rural customers would be without telecom services, which extend beyond just internet access.

Not sure what Starlink's existence is going to do to the company. Offering 25 Mbps aDSL with low reliability isn't going to compete very well if a customer can get 100 Mbsp service for a similar price and higher reliability. On the other hand, this might be justification the company can use to stop servicing the most expensive of the rural accounts to service while focusing on small town gigabit service that can compete with a reasonable expense to service.
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I can only really think of two times in history where we talk about a major disease outbreak: the Black Death, and the Plague of Justinian, and the latter one is really marginal (unless you're covering Late Antiquity in detail, it's going to be unknown). Other than these two, there's the less specific discussion of disease during the New World colonization epoch.

I suspect that COVID-19 will replace the Spanish Flu as the "pandemic everyone talks about when there's a pandemic concern," but this is the sort of mention that requires explanation because it's not really part of the expected repertoire of history the same way the Black Death is.
something similar happened to me. I returned to my target weight naturally just by being away from office snack temptations (and possibly additional stress from WFH).
Exactly - Apple "sells" experience, not parts or specs.
Web Periodic Table v0.0.1
> never completed their end of the bargain. Without consequence, of course

That's exactly why they need more money!! Because, maybe, this time they will?

If not, give them a bit more!!

Government subsidies at their finest! /s
They commented on HN at the time. 7 years later and this incident is still brought up which I gotta imagine is making them cringe right now.

Don't make genitalia jokes unless you have balls of steel.
SpaceX has had 42,000 satellites approved. They have just under 1000 operational and are about half-way to phase 1. Which will only be able to provide broadband for a limited number of users at latitudes for Canada and some northern US states. (That is why they are doing beta programs, they don't have the capacity for more.)

Money to launch more satellites will give the company the ability to get broadband for more people in more of the rural USA much more quickly. It also helps Starlink through a chicken and egg problem where they can't make money unless they have satellites up, and they can't put satellites up unless they get money.
They address this in the article. Smaller nations were chosen to focus on the issue at hand, and not to get caught up in politics.
That's not how it works at all. How would that even work?

They make their money from the same fee merchants pay to any other card issuer.

https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012046114-H...
> Heck if I can't edit mouse acceleration with ease

Mouse/trackpad/trackpoint configuration can be one of the most painful things to do on Linux. Netflix and friends are easy (unless you want HD sometimes >.>)
How I managed this on a team:

If there is a style disagreement, documented style rules prevail. If there is a documented style rule, follow it. If there is not a documented style rule, you cannot block this PR with the style objection.

This avoids really annoying issues of "I don't like how this is written [for style reasons]" in PR feedback. I'm not a mind reader, I don't whether you prefer for..in over Array.foreach or whatever, my PR shouldn't be blocked because of that. If you want new rule, go propose one and we can discuss & vote on it later but it doesn't apply to this PR.

This avoids the issue of "style rules are determined by whoever has the greatest capacity for argument & is willing to block PRs over it." It goes to a discussion & vote and everyone can agree once then stop talking about it. :)
All excellent points, happily ignored by every large company.

Every time I come for an interview, I ask: did you check out my github? Only once in a while somebody responds with a yes. I mean, it's not a big deal - I just have a bunch of weekend projects there, nothing really outstanding, but it might give more information than any 15 minute coding quiz can give you.

And, always the whiteboard coding... madness!
You might know already, but https://www.protondb.com/ has user reports for Proton games, the reports often include tweaks if a game doesn't work without tweaking.
One of them requires the user to click run on a file, much like running an EXE. The other, simply saves potentially malicious data to external storage which would then have to be run by a separate malicious third-party app. This are far from RCE exploits that execute immediately without poor user decision making, and Rust is not impervious to security exploits similar to these.
Just a nudge from a stranger: Please take a moment to consider the extremely difficult position "the individual" may be in, the frustrations leading up to this, and the possible negative impact this has on their career that they had to weigh before naively thinking that they "love the fame." that's gamergate mentality in action and will work against you.
Yes, let’s take a fast moving industry and make them take exams based on what was hot 10 years ago.

I work with actuaries. Basically they are accredited data scientists. Oh scratch that, they would have been data scientists if the CAS exams hadn’t stagnated their knowledge. instead of keeping abreast of the industry, they devote all their time to study for antiquated exams that just serve as barriers to entry, but it does keep their jobs safe.

Also ones of the key arguments the article uses isn’t just applicable to accredited professions, everyone can go to jail or be fined if they lie to a judge. This is the first major reason the authors cites... I propose authors should have to be accredited so they can lose their license when they produce negligently thought out arguments.

> “Its drafters could also borrow ideas from actuary licensing, such as a thorough understanding of linear algebra and statistics”

Dear lord! Noooo. This Person is out of their mind. The cas exams promote rote memorization of simplified formulas and problems rather than actually reasoning statistics.
SpaceX is a defense contractor that is disrupting the market considerably. While much of the existing industry is slowly adopting modern development strategies (design, manufacturing, etc. in SW and HW), SpaceX is leading the agile front here.

More distinctly, SpaceX has the corporate intention of interplanetary exploration and settling. SpaceX's integration into the established defense/NASA business table will help this end come to fruition.
CA has partnered with Google and Apple on a COVID19 tracking app CA Notify
I hear that hitler opposed blowing up the entire earth.
You’re missing the forest for the trees.

We know how to beat this virus, other countries have done it (South Korea, Taiwan, NZ). The solution is incisive contact tracing, short effective and targeted lock downs, social distancing, etc...

The problem is that in the US our institutions have failed us so badly that those solutions are not an option. Because of the delayed (and insufficient) response and our hollowed out institutions the virus has become so widespread (and our institutions so rickety) that we can’t effectively apply the solutions we know exist because it’s too late.

This is where the problem lies. Instead of talking about the solutions we know work, we are forced into a position where our only options are extreme (full lock downs and such) and they can't even fix the problem, only mitigate the damage (with significant collateral damage). Our binary choice is essentially death or destruction, and that is a direct result of our own failures. These are not the only two existing options, they are just the only ones presented to us in the US.

I am not trying to say that epidemiologists all agree on full lock downs. But no epidemiologist worth their salt will say we should do absolutely nothing about this virus, they will argue over specific strategies and their collateral damage, but they will not say that we should do nothing.

You're being dishonest however in saying "look the excess deaths are so low" without considering that their have been significant measures put in place to reduce that death count. That's logically equivalent to saying "see we don't need seatbelts because the number of people dying is not that high" after seat belt laws have been implemented. In this case, the reason excess mortality is lower is not because the virus isn't deadly to many people, but precisely because the measures we have taken.
I would hope not, I would assume the GDPR includes all info collected, including that on an application - so it would be included in that information - doesn't necessarily mean they would.

but wouldn't surprise me one bit
Every single example on that page was clear bunk -- showing the worst habits of some developers, and making clear why they are terrible.

I think if you've gotten as far as that chapter, it would be pretty impossible not to realize it was tongue in cheek.

At the top of the page is a big warning triangle that says "Irony detected."

No other chapter includes such a prominent warning. I think it's pretty clear that the "gag" is specific to that chapter.
You can always do it like Stallman:

https://stallman.org/extra/personal.html
Then surely the article focus should be described and focused on precisely the issues raised in the controversial paper no?

> She tweeted Wednesday that Google had abruptly fired her after a disagreement about a research paper that scrutinized possible bias in large-language AI models, which the company asked her to retract.

The article should be focusing on the disagreement here.

Instead the article focuses on employment which I don't care about.
I'm not sure why I never bothered googling for this, but thank you.
HBM's latency characteristics are about the same as any other DRAM however (including DDR4 or LPDDR4x).

So you have a high-bandwidth, but no better latency, L4 chip. And that's kind of hard to deal with and optimized against.

Xeon Phi had a DDR4 + HMC (where HMC was a early competitor to HBM), and getting good performance out of that was unusual. DDR4 ended up having slightly better latency, so the HMC cache would hurt some workloads.
It is not unreasonable to believe the US government has some kind of system capable of this.

There is a consumer system available for years now that can fire small arms at long range to hit a laser-designated stationary or moving target tracked with computer vision. https://youtu.be/watch?v=IUVikGxQJBE

American helicopters have used laser-targeted autocannons that "aim where you look" for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Acquisition_and_Designa...

Given modern computer vision, and satellite control of drones for decades now, this is totally plausible.

The hardest part would be finding someone local willing to drive a truck around and keep their mouth shut, which is also why it's easier to do this than hire a team of trained shooters.
for/of is an iterator. It consumes the Symbol.iterator interface and is totally different from the for(i++) statement.

That eslint rule is a good example of a cargo cult. The second link in its rationalization argues for using underscore over touching a dangerous loop yourself.
Two thoughts:

Even if all users read the fine print, this would probably dissuade <1% of users.

Wish there was a "standard" way to read and view TOS, privacy policies etc... It would start with boiler plate and what is typically expected. It would highlight deviations from the norm. and it would be in plain english and in a large point font.
NYC and LA are taxed just as heavily as the Bay Area.