skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it's clearly more complex than that. To be fair, it seems that she has made it about that to an extent and media ran with it. We haven't heard from google or her superiors. It's clear they didn't agree but to what extent? And why did she need to publicly quit? Again, she quit. She wasn't asked to leave or resign. She volunteered to do so because she had a moral disagreement with the company. And that's fair. We don't really know if she was treated fairly or unfairly just her claims of what happened.
"Old men's club" is real and need a shakeup. However, the elite clubs hurt both genders, not just one of them. It is not balanced by an equally forceful swing the other direction, but by emphasis on mutual respect for diversity of people. Sometimes measures need to be put in place to get the ball rolling, but they should be temporary.
https://learnings2share.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/a-simple-de...
It’s easy to recommend others to leave their jobs. Do you like absolutely all the aspects of the business you work for?
Thanks for the feedback.

Sorry that you found a registered domain. Because of how everything works, I can only make sure, that most domains are free, but there are some in ther, that might be taken. Also, .cc and .tv are not cleaned at all, currently. So there might be a lot more taken ones of these tlds.

Concerning the filters: You can search for one or multiple tdls and also exclude numbers or dashes, but only on desktop. Wildcards are not yet supported, but might be in the future.
At least one of the demands was, quoting Jeff Dean's email, "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."
I hate this trope on Reddit and I hate it even more here.
I hope this does encourage more workers in this industry to unionize.

It's unfortunate that people aren't sufficiently concerned that their employer holds a significant amount of power over them - or at least, not enough that they'll do anything much about it - even if they do happen to have a job that pays higher than average.

Unions can be valuable resources for all workers.
I think one should not withhold from the Python generation the fact that molecular biology is much more complex than one might realize in just looking at a few data. It's fine that AI can make scientifically relevant contributions, but to call it the greatest of all discoveries and Nobel Prize candidate, as done in many posts, is rather pretentious.
"...that will wipe out the Australian ecosystem as we know it"

You mean like Homo sapiens? :-)
Are you thinking radiation hormesis? That is still controversial and current radiation safety standards adhere to "no safe dose of radiation".

But hormesis as a general theory (i.e. "small doses are beneficial, large doses harmful") isn't really that controversial.
Yes, I notice the tinny hearing effect, and something specific to the sensitive nasal membranes (basically my nostrils feel like they've dried up). I have also turned down the power of any transmitters that are close to where I sit. But I'm also a nerd so am surrounded by equipment, with at least eight pieces of wireless equipment in my office.

A part of me wonders if by denying this sensitivity, I'm shutting that sense out, regardless it still has a background effect. If it exists at all, which is the other problem (I can at least claim to be a critical neurotic).
When I was a youngster growing up with dialup internet we had a problem: when it rained, static filled the line and the internet died.

The repair tech sympathetically said that he was trying, but their policy at the time said the interference was at acceptable levels for voice and he wasn’t able to convince his management to trace the problem upstream and replace the line to fix one rural customer’s service.

On his fourth trip out he slipped dad a post it note with a phone number. It was the state public utility commission. My dad called on Thursday.

That Saturday, the district manager knocks on our door. He informs us of how sorry the entire Bell family is for the trouble we’ve had, that they have teams tracing lines from the central office to our house and will have the problem identified and fixed by Sunday, and that we will receive a rather significant discount to our bill over the next year to help “make it right”. His only ask was that we call the PSC and let them know if AT&T had solved the problem to our satisfaction.
Maybe they just have nothing interesting to say?

But yeah, it's annoying on a lot of levels, one that you mentioned and secondly, this matter is far from settled. I would think sarcastic gloating would be bad form.
This is an excellent talk on the importance of philosophy and an initial sketch of its structure.

https://courses.aynrand.org/works/philosophy-who-needs-it
I have inspired several young developers simply by showing them just how quickly you can deliver compelling functionality to customers and the positive reaction that generates. For us, speed of delivery is an explicit feature.

Thinking in terms of "fun" tech, these are more-or-less antithetical to the idea of quickly shipping something that is predictable. The coolest piece of tech we use is probably a toss-up between .NET Core, Blazor and SQLite.
I am not an expert on the ageing-related hormesis topic and have not kept up with status quo but this was the most recent and interesting interactive lecture I enjoyed this year on the topic:

https://youtu.be/zjQ5Z7v6csk
In the US, in countries with more worker protections it is not. (unless they pay you for that 2-week, month, 3-month period when you aren't working for them, but they can't remove you from worker list).
I just wanted to point out that another comment came to the opposite conclusion, it's unclear to me who is right.
>"that modern parenting"

Back in my days we would chop off heads and assisinate politicans! These kids can't do anything right!
Good point. I think its important to leave a link to the paper here for HN. Please read it or at least its intro & conclusion.

https://gofile.io/d/WfcxoF

After reading, it seems very much in line with her role as an ethicist. She merely states that there are various risks associated with processing large datasets.

Its a bit sad that they attempted to censure such an innocuous paper that without malice states “there are risks to consider.”
> but that action alone would be enough to fire you on the spot.

They are not as strong as you think then.

In countries where there are strong work protections law striking is a right, you don't get paid for the time you don't show up at work but you can obviously convince an entire department or an entire company workforce to go on strike, without consequences.

Without it the protection is not strong, it means an entire company against the individual worker, which is obviously unfair (regardless of what you think about work protections law, Google against a single human being it's an unfair battle, that's why "strong protection" means that the worker deson't have to fight alone and can call other workers to join the fight).
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That comment appears to be attempting neither. The healthcare situation in the US is complex and does not fit into any simple narrative without omitting information.
This is just not how employment works, really anywhere in the world. The company is well within it's right to ask you to leave earlier to protect it's IP.
It reminds me very much of coding, where people strive very hard not to have this type of coupling, but it inevitably still happens.
Recent dupe, seemingly from one of OP’s other HN accounts[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23955140

OP, folks have been remarkably receptive to your submissions, but it’s been way less than a year (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/dosyago, https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/cris691, https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/c9fe
This project seems to be a fantastic advertisement of why large companies can't innovate. Rather than building a product that people can use - even in a very limited setting, Libra has been a series of big announcements followed by enormously expensive negotiations with regulators. How long has this been going on for and how many people are using this? That's not how you innovate.
Reading the comments here I feel like HN lives in a completely parallel universe. The number of employees who have the ability to threaten to quit and not immediately get fired are very very few. Even at the executive level you can't just make ultimatums for your employment and expect that they won't consider just firing you. Even if you're the representative of a union speaking on behalf of thousands of employees you need make sure you have enough leverage before making demands like that.

This not some crazy conspiracy that she got fired. It would be noteworthy if someone who did what she did didn't get fired.
What does the election has anything to do with this? We have only spent more on homelessness since the last election?
If the employee says "I'm giving you 1 month formal notice of resignation", and the company responds with "effective immediately you are terminated without pay or benefits", at that point it's not a resignation any more, it's a termination.

In most countries (which are not "at will"), I believe if the employee had not breached their contract they could claim wrongful termination in this scenario and likely be awarded the pay they would have received for the missing notice period.

This doesn't mean the company is obliged to keep the employee on premises, on the network, active etc. It is not uncommon to ask the employee to leave the premises, have security walk them out, disconnect from the network etc out of security/IP/morale/whatever concerns. But they would still be either technically employed and paid while the notice worked out or paid in lieu of notice.
> Now my question is, how did they make the site so fast?

Simple. First, it uses a CDN (Cloudflare). Second, the site doesn't have 20 useless tracking scripts (I only see Google Analytics) or 10 useless pictures, the entire web page is only 446.37 KiB. The website is more than qualified to join the "1 MB Club" (recently discussed on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151773). Third, all images are lazy-loaded (I see the WordPress plugin a3-lazy-load was used), so heavy images won't be downloaded until you need them. Fourth, it uses an aggressive caching policy:

> Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, public

> Expires: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 17:06:47 GMT

So after the first click, 95% of the static resources will be cached and it significantly reduce the download size, which is a good practice (add version number to the file name, so you can always use aggressive caching). Although it's sad to see the website digital.com has become a web hosting marketing site, but at least the site owner did do her SEO homework by not creating yet another toxic webpage, I can consider it a positive (or at least, non-negative) contribution to the web.
>I wish someone would make something equal for the AMD drivers.

AFAIK amd's driver installer allows you to select the driver only, and the radeon control panel won't be installed
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Ask HN: Copyleft Model for Literature?
Hey!

Does anyone see a Copyleft Licensing Model being "Mainstream Embraced" for literature, in the way that it has worked for operating systems like Linux?

Specifically one like the Creative Commons CC BY-SA ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ) licensing model, for the purpose of creative collaboration that is simultaneously worthy of a "Commericialy Viable Pursuit" .. assuming such a thing applies to quality books in the first place ;)

Genuinely curious. Am an "aspiring writer" who is into World/Character creation but don't have anyone to talk about these kinds of ideas with.

Any insight would be appreciated.
That’s such an interesting perspective. I’d expect nothing less of Djikstra!
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I think it's telling that you're posting this on a throwaway account. Even you aren't willing to stand behind such argument as "science is meaningless" and "if somebody once died, it's ok for greedy people to kill in pursuit of profit, no matter the laws".

Regulations happen in the real world, where we face untidy compromises between moral goods like "people should be prosperous" and "people should be healthy". There is no good answer to the question, "What is the right level of pollution," but it's still a question we must answer. And then enforce.
I think the parent is talking about the Apple II and you are talking about early Macs?
I don't have fillings or similar, but something like coil whine could certainly be a factor. The question then becomes, does coil whine have any adverse effects, like loss of sensitivity in its spectrum, or via distraction?
This article is less about actual assassins and more about history of people who have been assassinated.
Same for walking- in many towns there is no sidewalk which forces anyone walking onto the gutter.

For bike trails, there is an effort to connect Maine to Florida called the East Coast Greenway:
https://www.greenway.org/

Having used it myself, it's not continuous but certainly better than nothing.
Generally you get some explanation with peer review, to revise and submit. It's a process of revisions and improvements. As far as I've read, not only did the authors not receive any such actionable feedback, but actually a demand to retract. In her shoes, I would think many of us would want to know who is the one behind a decision like that. Someone is putting a roadblock in the standard process and normal execution of my job.
I wish the US still had that culture. Our federal legislature has been intentionally deadlocked by a single man for years, without any hope of that changing.
It took years before the cardiovascular risk of Vioxx was discovered and it was pulled from the market. It's not outside the realm of possibility there is some unknown adverse event that won't show itself until a few years from now.

But as you said, there is a pressing need to address the current risk of contracting Covid. It's all a balance. And it's not like the drug will be approved and that's it - the FDA will be closely monitoring for adverse events (as it does for all the drugs it approves) and will make adjustments as needed.
Yeah, not immediately after. The phrase they used is better, "outside of the recovery window". It's all hearsay handwavey stuff anyway until replicated. What I like is that it sort of concurs with the default wisdom of pre scientific/quantified self era paranoia about best practices, which was "don't eat right before exercise". People take this stuff way to seriously IMHO. If you need a scientist to tell you when to eat, you've got bigger problems.
> research into people who are medically hyper-sensitive

> There has been research - these people don't exist.

OTOH, RF reception through dental fillings or bridgework is a bit more plausible.
True. I don't want to imply that they don't have control of things - just, there's no secret strategy they have other than continuous application of harsh measures wherever spread is detected.
What does that have to do with crypto?
For further reading on what exactly they were trying to do in the first place: Libra Shrugged by David Gerard

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/libra/
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How don't recruiters see through this? I mean, you need some network of friends. It seems to me that this account didn't have many connections.
Or more likely, the corps realize that the walkouts are an ineffective form of virtue signaling and it would be a PR nightmare to do anything about them, so might as well let them happen since they really mean very little.
> So your contacts app knows just which contacts to highlight/suggest based on your org chart

This is so funny, because Outlook does exactly the opposite and it's so annoying. Seems like such an obvious thing but hey, it's only 2020...
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"What should be a fairly reasonable question – is this person a good employee or not is immediately contaminated by questions they have nothing to do with job performance."

There are all sorts of non-performance considerations that are important, not just at Google, but at pretty much every other company.

One of those considerations is ethics. Another is legality. Another is public relations.

Which of these do you think companies should ignore?
This is such a bad-faith, shallow take. Ascribing the act of bringing awareness to “participation trophies” is nonsense.

I also disagree with the parent. Bringing change is almost always easiest from within. “Don’t like it? Leave.” stances aim to do more to attack the person involved than it does to take a critical look at whatever problem it is that’s being discussed.
A boss controls the work that you, via a contract, agreed to do.

If you want out of the contract the boss cannot make you do the work. You have agency, they cannot threaten you with violence as a dictator could.
This is neat.

Quite funny to put in some 'naughty' words to see what comes up
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This is completely untrue, at least with 'at will' employments. Once you resign, you quit.

Working for any additional length of time after that often occurs if it is in both parties best interests. If it isn't though, the relationship is usually terminated immediately after resignation.
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There is probably a ton of isomorphism between different models. It may come down to what is easiest to understand and fastest to implement in code.
That was not Ken Olsen, I can assure you. It might have been Bob Palmer, but I don't think he was ru(i)nning the company until the early 90s.

Ken was a frugal and deeply religious man. The first time I met him, he was picking up trash in the parking lot outside the Mill, and he offered to hold the door for me because I was carrying a stack of books. Ken Olsen made Digital a great place to work, until he was forced out. The company would not subsidize birth control with their health insurance, but would pay for a couple to have up to 3 IVF proceedures, which were 5 or 6 figures back in the day.
>> go work somewhere else

That may play into the company's long term goals to winnow out the people not willing to tow the party line.

Not sure what the best option is, maybe for those that have accrued weeks of PTO they can all take it at the same time.
For people asking how one could possibly ever manage to chain operations in python without a pipe operator: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/chain-ops-python

Same principle in octave: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/chain-ops-octave
Initially I took Google's side given Gebru has history of bullying so aggressively and has no qualms to play race/gender cards at every opportunity she gets. But now that more details (including the paper in question) has been revealed, it's hard to stay on Google's side. It is clear that the peer review process that Jeff Dean had described has been optional for all intent and purpose. It says along similar lines that right there on their internal website. Too many Googlers have attested that they have bypassed the process with no consequences. Gebru's paper itself has no real technical novelty. There was no reason to fire her. It doesn't seem out of line that Gebru was befuddled, frustrated and made a threat on the basis that she had right for the information. Jeff Dean could have easily offered her feedback and transparency in decision process. He could have agreed to let her make corrections later in the submission process. He did none of that and doesn't want to come out clean.

Having said that I still feel Gebru is extra-ordinarily self-entitled person. Few months ago she insisted that Jeff Dean take her side in Twitter feud she initiated. She has the mindset of either you are with me all the time or you are racist+misogynist. She complains about "micro agressions" towards her from everyone but she herself is super aggressive. When disagreement arise, she marks you down as enemy and launches attacks to destroy you completely with sole purpose of making you homeless, jobless and making sure your kids die of hunger. I wouldn't wish upon her as colleague to anyone. You might have right to disagree with me but this is what I have felt. I still take her side in this current episode nonetheless because I think she is on the right side.

Ultimately we are all playing opinion game here and only few people knows what really happened.
Well, she wasn't reprimanded for writing the paper nor for publishing it. In fact, she wasn't even reprimanded as far as I know for telling other employees to stop working on DEI. She told them she wanted confidental information or she will quit on a date she would like. They said they would not give her that information and that she is no longer welcome at the company. This isn't really reprimanding or even a normal firing. If I tell my boss do X or I quit and they say "Thanks for your work, we accept your resigination and the legal notice period applies." Fair play.
I still don’t see why anyone should use crypto in place of fiat. The space is dominated by commercial interests and they’re not at all focused on dislodging traditional financial institutions that are entrenched which is the source of all the problems.
I imagine your entire database would fit easily in memory, so you should consider caching instead of hitting your database on every request.
Highly recommend checking out "Well There's Your Problem" which is a podcast/YouTube series on engineering disasters. They have an episode on Grenfell, specifically, and give some engineering details on how the fire got so bad so quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epkCrB8aKXA
What’s the opposite of “participation culture”? Not participating?

I feel like signing a letter of protest is doing something “real”. It’s communicating to leadership of the company that you have concerns about what has transpired. It’s not nothing.
Personally I just use the Finder.

I go into list view, turn on "calculate all sizes", sort by size, and just go down the list, expanding and collapsing directories with the left and right arrow keys to see what's in them.
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> She merely states that there are various risks associated with processing large datasets.

What's the strongest argument against her "merely" doing this?
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No, but I'm not at the point where I'm signing an open letter to condemn my employer for something. However if you are at that point, you may at least consider that you should be working elsewhere.
I absolutely hate my workplace. But I've hated most of the other workplaces I've been at. My ideal situation would be to work at NASA, but I've heard some questionable things about that workplace too. Point is, unless you run the show, you have little control over the culture and something will always suck because humans are individuals and not all of us like conforming. So, I just suck it up and work so I can live. Maybe one day I can do my own thing and establish the culture, but I have to be willing to sacrifice and do what it takes to build a successful business. My guess is that if I do that I might just end up becoming the very thing I hate. It's easy to be morally superior when I have nothing on the line.
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