skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't hold your breath for the Senate.
However--the fact of House passage should be allowed as mitigation evidence in all pending federal marijuana prosecutions. Till now mentioning legalization was prohibited. Judges should start handing out probationary sentences at worst.
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I'm not saying it can't be done, it just needs to be better without all the chicanery.

Mine are on Arch & dwm, one with a 4k scaled down 150% (or 133% depending on my mood), for me it mostly works. But it would be much nicer to just not worry about it.
I think part of the answer here is that you can more easily verify than you can determine. Are x y and z where we expect them? Yes? Looks good.
Yes, but conflating rights you are born with (freedom of speech) with rights you are granted (healthcare) does not seem like a productive way to use language. They are different things with different implications.

I prefer to call the former "human rights" and the latter "societal rights". My problem with the EU and others is that they call everything "human rights" with no regard for the distinction, in what I believe to be an attempt to stall out discussion about the latter: "How can you be against this thing? It's a human right, you monster." Except they are different. The latter kind of "rights" are given to you by your society and require the labor of others on your behalf in order to work. This makes them not so simple.

To my mind, every society everywhere should enshrine the former, and the latter kind need to be decided on a society-by-society basis, and also might change with time.
Those billionaire nerds may have been brilliant builders and may even started out with 'good' motivations but with their new found wealth and power, they are no longer the same people once they are inaugurated into the B. club. - 'Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
which usually doesn't end well for the person saying it. are you suggesting Google will belly flop into the pool of custom chips?
> It doesn't have to be this way, it's a product of our laws and can be changed

I don't think any of your three statements are true, based on my (limited) knowledge of history. Far as I know, the only way to break the feedback loop is to restart it - a revolution or the like - and build something in its place that maximizes the time until the loop has to be broken again.

If anything, I'd guess that it's human nature to try and amass power/money/influence/cows, and the more you have the easier it is to get more. That's not a fault with our laws, it's what people do - on average, in aggregate.
That's right. I recently wrote on this topic: https://jmmv.dev/2020/10/powershell-cmdlet-params.html
Mutmut author here. Great to hear you're using mutmut!

I think it's pretty important that we who know about MT and have used it keep talking about it. It's a pretty great tool that more people should have in their tool belt.
That's interesting and I think I can understand being in that same frame of mind. I wonder, if the implication doesn't match up with what you want the implication to be, how do you break that stalemate?

Here, I guess I'm of the belief that there's nothing wrong with billionaires; the wrong thing is how little there is for a billion people in the world.
It seems reasonable to choose to publish something you wrote yourself (and presumably cleared with legal/PR) and not publish something written by someone else with an intended internal audience. It would be WAY worse if they unilaterally published Timnit's private emails publicly.
Loving this!

As a nit:

> Let the user escape. Make it clear how to get out. (Don’t do what vim does.) If your program hangs on network I/O etc, always make Ctrl-C still work. If it’s a wrapper around program execution where Ctrl-C can’t quit (SSH, tmux, telnet, etc), make it clear how to do that. For example, SSH allows escape sequences with the ~ escape character.

I find it confusing that vim is considered less discoverable here than SSH. In either case, you can find the information in the manual (not ideal, but a baseline). In the case of vim, when you hit ctrl-c it tells you how to leave for real. So far as I'm aware, there's no real way to discover the magic ~ invocations in SSH except resorting to the manual or exhaustively trying every key combo with no evidence that you're on the right track or that there's even a track to be on.

Also, vim is (in part) a wrapper around program execution.
And worth pointing out, there are not just random people saying it but members of the US Congress with many millions of supporters.
Advent Calendar about PWAs
Can you share the leaked email?
Mozart: Leck mich im Arsch
Leck mich im Arsch ('Kiss my arse!', or literally 'Lick me in the arse') is a canon in B-flat major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 231 (K. 382c), with lyrics in German.
I really actually like PHP in a lot of contexts (and think I could make a better case for it than the author), but on the project I'm working on now, we recently got hit with the real time requirements and I'm feeling some regrets that I didn't pick Elixir+Phoenix to start with.
Lmao, he is obligated by some MIL standard to make really soft rotor noise the enitire time too.
If somebody used HR as the mechanism to communicate feedback on the scientific rigor of research I was leading I would also find that concerning and objectionable. Human Resources is not peer review.
I’m 33 Years Old. I Got Covid-19 Eight Months Ago. I’m Still Sick
Ah, I see what you did here. Brilliant.
It never occurred to me how logical it would be to require adult performers, even amateurs, to verify themselves to the platform before allowing their videos to be shown online.

Sure, it increases the moderation burden on the site, but that seems like a worthwhile cost. In general online content platforms like have been given way too much slack in shoveling responsibility and manual labor onto other parties.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307167
I have been on call for a few occasions years ago and it paid clearly more than 50 EUR for a single week.
Woke politics is a red-herring. Google is typically cool with woke politics, as "anti-sjw" types are usually quick to point out. If you take it out of the culture-war context its a lot easier to see what this story is all about.
I don't think google are saying they weren't aware of the paper prior to the day-before, just that they hadn't seen the actual paper itself before then.

Out of curiosity do people think that a company either should or would publish self-funded research that's detrimental to their PR? I'm not sure that this is a realistic expectation with our current methods of company governance (which should probably be changed). I'm assuming the research isn't overly safety oriented and is more like "overuse of google leads to decreased overall well-being" rather that "use of the cigarettes that we sell leads to significantly reduced life expectancy". Of course that statement begs the question of where the line between the two lies.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25307167 .
She shared what she claimed was an email from her manager. It said her employment was terminated immediately because of her email to non management employees. I believe it was sent before the first tweet. She shared it before the media picked it up.

The employee remains employed in your scenario. Just without duties or access. Terminating employment immediately and not saying anything about severance implies not paying.
Same. I have a workout shirt from when I was 15 (I'm in my 30s now) that has seen literally hundreds, even a thousand+ workouts.

However the cotton fabric used in most off the shelf clothing is also not what it used to be. My dad, who doesn't like to throw things away, still has his old clothes from when he was in his 30s (he is in his late 70s now). They've retained their shape far better than my 3 year old clothes.
Scientists have mapped the “in-between neurons” of our brains
I wonder if stories like these should be off-limits for accounts that were created specifically to spread FUD. Several accounts just like this one appeared simultaneously in one of the other submissions as well. They added nothing to the discussion other than to make ad hominem attacks on Gebru. We’re seeing the same thing here.

edit: typo
this big advertisement company has no business developing chips. With all due respect to engineers working on those, one little tweak in search result ranking or another smart sneaking behind unaware user earn them lot more than any new chip however good will ever. from pure business perspective, there's no a single one real intensive to develop such chips.
Also, they have failed to develop far less complex chips in the past, despite very competent teams. There will be a failure this time around too.
Places that don’t get snow often also don’t have the equipment or expertise to deal with it. In the South (US), the plan is literally to shut everything down and wait a few days for it to melt. There are no stockpiles of salt or sand to use on the roads, and even Northerners who “know how to handle themselves in the snow” can’t navigate it as easily as they think.

Also, this is the story of climate change. It doesn’t really matter if something is common in another part of the planet— if it’s a new thing somewhere else, then it actually is news. Droughts, fires, flooding, and tornadoes are all going to start showing up in places they didn’t used to before.
Yeah, put more simply, they pushed out someone in their Ethical AI department because they did not soften critiques against AI enough. They couch these in terms of rigour, but the substance of the problem has to do with her criticisms against AI.

Ultimately it makes the whole Ethical AI department look more like a rubber stamp for Google.
Ask HN: Is LinkedIn tracking every keystroke?
Input fields are awfully slow on LinkedIn.
I'd be shocked if this ever made it to production.

I'd be more shocked if they did this for 2 generations of pixels.

The problem with vertical integration is how fast you can be obsolete by competitors. You only need 1 competitor to make a better product and your internal Engineers are going to be begging for it.

Unlike Apple customers, the rest of the population is sensitive to performance and cost. If Google can't compete people move on.

Edit- Samsung is not a flagship company, their high pricing has nothing to do with performance. At best they are mid tier.
I think Google can't be force to admit that when postmodernist racial theory ideologues are in the research / leadership ranks this kind of review is necessary. So Google is just going to say this is how we do it (or did it always).
Thanks for replying! Continued good luck with the project.
I think there is a bit of a double standard here. I try in general to be as charitable to both sides of an agreement possible. If your standard for uncharitability is such that the linked tweet is a proof of racism, I don't understand why one would take a tweet claiming against overwhelming evidence at face value.

Personally, I don't think either indicate racism. I see the link you tweeted as an excessively abrasive response at a dismissive and reductive understanding of an issue, bias in learning system, despite research old and new. At the same time, I see LeCun's dismissal as a genuinely held position in error.

To see the first as racist but the second as okay seems to be a case of being much more charitable to one side than the other, though I understand how it may look this way.
Let's think it through together. What can be tracked from that?

IP address, which can be linked to an individual. Origin / Referer. Is that it? Does google analytics add request headers?

So, at least "this individual visited this site at this time"
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat developed the system called MapReduce at Google and published a paper about it. They didn't invent the map or reduce functions, nor is the MapReduce system they published really about map or reduce functions.

The correct name is really MapShuffleReduce and the most important step is the shuffle, because it's a distributed sort. Of course, they didn't invent distributed sort, but combining these three concepts together in a distributed fashion and running it as a production system is really what was important.
Possibly just like the over hyped release of their pixel... I was very disappointed
One of the most weird examples of this: To this day they run a live-thread on the HK protests that's advertised in the "Announcements" part of r/worldnews

Yet there is no live-thread or advertisement like this for the BLM protests that escalated way more, not just in scale but also intensity, than anything that happened in Hong Kong.

Tbh I can't remember if that "Announcements" box ever had anything other that HK livethread in there.
Anyone's recollection after decades is untrustworthy. Memory is simply not very reliable.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052105

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443860

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17834514
> Jeff gives the impression that they demanded retraction (!) because they wanted Timnit and her coauthors to soften their critique. The more I read about this, the worse it looks.

I get the impression that she wrote a hit piece on Google and published with Google's name. For me, it's correct they demand a retraction. It's simply unprofessional to critque your company for something while not mentioning the work they're doing to combat that.
I would be absolutely furious if a manager blocked my work from being published. Even a manager who has worked as a researcher, in my experience, significantly lacks the expertise to be making such judgments. A research manager’s job is to be familiar with work across an entire portfolio, so they will be necessarily less knowledgeable than individual senior researchers. Presumably Google generally also feels this way seeing as this appears to be the first case where prepublication approval was denied for content. I would never work somewhere where management had such a lack of respect for my own judgment as a researcher.
sounds to me that google hired this ethics researcher but now they don’t like what she found
Dynamically types languages are just plane unsuitable for the type of large project where you need to break your end to tests down into unit tests. If you have a trivial program (under 100,000 lines of code or so), your end to end tests won't take that long to run if you take care, you will never be able to maintain that much in a dynamic language just because change becomes so hard without static types.
Don't you have some more subordinates to sexually harass?
After a million-year journey, a meteor explodes above Syracuse in 2020
After a decade or so working remotely I'd describe that differently. If someone working remotely finds a company with culture where remote work is fully functional rather than something odd that people have to work around, they hit jackpot. Unless everything's documented online, every meeting is online, every water-cooler chat has a link published, etc. then remote work is going to suck for everyone.
So.....why are you still using Reddit?
Genuine question.
Building x86_64 Docker containers on Apple Silicon
> Edit to add: I don't think they'll kill off the old.reddit interface. I think they'll just stop updating and more and more things won't work there, like i.reddit.com.

I've noticed this drift is already happening. It's like there are two reddits. It can be really confusing as a moderator when you are looking at a different website from your users. Eg new sidebar and the old sidebar.
I don't know - the outcome was desired by the management (who jumped at the opportunity to "accept" it) but not by her (who publicly complained about it). That tilts it towards "fired" for me - I believe she miscalculated how desirable she was (as an employee), and made the resignation threat believing management would do their best to avoid that outcome.
Google isnt publicly funded academic institution. Whatever they are doing, in particular publishing, is part of the business/PR. So if the management sees something not good for business it is a reasonable that they decided to not do it. If i were a shareholder i can see how i may have questioned why a person being paid $1M+/year (my understanding this is minimum what a manager in AI at Google would be making) for publicly disparaging Google.

Even more, it sounds like Google didn't ask originally for retraction, they just asked to take into account the newer research contradicting the paper - the thing that any researcher valuing integrity over agenda wouldn't refuse.

If somebody wants to do that research and publishing they just have to find another source of funding, i guess.

Anyway, the firing wasn't over the paper, the firing was over the unacceptably unprofessional reaction to it.
> there's a large number of voters (myself included) who oppose legalization

After seeing what has happened in Colorado (and many other states) and the entire country of Canada, I'm curious to learn why you oppose legalization?

I don't use it, and personally don't really care, but I see it like same-sex marriage - let people do what makes them happy and lets move onto actual important issues.
I believe that the claim is that the workers are exploited, because they produced value but received less than the value they produced. And that does sound like exploitation. But consider the alternative.

Let's say that every worker was paid for the full value that they produced. That would mean that the profit of every company was $0, because the workers got all the value produced. How many companies would we have? Probably not very many. Risk my capital to start a business, for a return of $0? Yeah, no. I'll pass. So will most people.

And that would mean that we wouldn't have the things that large businesses produce, from computers to airplanes to vaccines.

Even for the workers, is that a net win? I don't think so.
> they strike me as the sort of thing that is routinely addressed in the camera-ready version of papers by adding a few lines to the related work section

What I don't understand is why in the discussion nobody proposed amending the paper rather than withdrawing it. If Dean's issue was it didn't cite papers X,Y and Z, rather than demand a withdrawal, why didn't he just demand "I want you to amend the paper to add cites to X,Y,Z". And then, if Gebru and her coauthors were willing to add those cites, that would resolve it.

Indeed, from what I understand, "you should add a cite to X" is common peer review feedback, and a lot of papers get citations added due to requests from peer reviewers. So this isn't hugely different from that scenario.

It would seem that withdrawal over this issue would only make sense if Gebru and her coauthors refused to amend the paper to add the requested citations, but I haven't heard anything saying that she did refuse to do so. It isn't clear if the alternative solution of amending rather than withdrawing was ever brought up in the discussion by either party.

Not that I'm a researcher or anything, but if I was, and a superior told me "we need you to withdraw your paper because it doesn't cite X,Y,Z", my immediate response would be "How about I add the citations you are requesting and resubmit it with those additions?"
Non-car-owners pay taxes which go towards the cost of reserving land for car owners to park their cars on.
Wait, I thought the tech industry was literally North Korea, and as long as you sing the woke anthem every morning, you could never get fired?
Anyone looking for a c# implementation of Comb guid can check NHibernate codebase.

https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/blob/master/sr...
You have to think of it like cigarette smoke. Aerosolized virus particles linger, and fill a room. If someone is close enough to you that you would smell them smoking a cigarette, they are close enough to infect you. It's why "social distancing" is just meaningless safety theater in an indoors setting.
The mild version of that is to start looking for a new job ASAP.
#removemodern.
I don't disagree, but can you please not create accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Elm is definitely not ready for production, hostile compiler maintainers.
Honestly, if someone had to use HR to give feedback on anything, I would be more concerned as to why they couldn't say it directly to me.

HR wouldn't have made the final decision here, it seems other departments did. HR was just how someone felt it was safe to communicate that feedback, which for me is a major issue in a workplace.
Dunno, do you want a GTX 3070 for $499 or a AMD 6800 for $580? The benchmarks come out at about the same per $ (AMD wins by 10-15%). Sure you could get the 3080 ... or the 6800XT. Pick your price point and AMD and Nvidia will have something close. Sure AMD has nothing to compete at the $1500 price point, but the reviews I've seen claim that the $1500 nvidia is just a big waste not close to justifying the price.

PS5, Xbox X/S, and Apple have been preferring AMD lately. Even Tesla seems excited by the RNDA2 cards.
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For certain definitions of Christ.

The modern gun totting intolerant Christ is a lot different from the compassionate one who taught about "Loving your neighbor" and "Forgiveness" we learned about in bible school...
The original text on the site is “Testing out video appeals for channel suspensions”
oh yes absolutely, i would love for timmit or jeff to release this paper as-is so we can see what happened. could be a good read.
See also: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418...

Dismissive maintainers indeed!
There's nothing offensive in your message. But you're right that in the current climate it's wiser to use anon accounts.
That’s pretty strange though, I don’t think I’ve seen a subway with a time table before. It’s too frequent for it to matter in the first place, you just need to know when the next train towards your destination is coming!
People bluff but you generally have to be prepared to walk if your bluff is called. If I walk into a manager's office and demand 2x salary or I walk and the response is "we believe you are fairly compensated," you're now in a rather uncomfortable situation.

Which is of course not to say you can't have a more measured negotiation. But it can be hard to walk back from give me X or I do Y, especially if there isn't a lot of middle ground between giving you X or not giving you X.
He was also extremely vague, perhaps intentionally, about what the issue actually was. His sentence about when the paper was submitted and approved and all that is impossible to parse and make sense of who did what and when.
According to her Twitter feed, Timnit was asking for the same transparency that normally goes with Google pub reviews -- where all the reviewers and their feedback are known to the reviewee. This red-stamp "review" did not follow the normal review process. Not a Googler, just going on what she says:

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334881120920498180
It's fine to call bluffs. In fact, the definition of a bluff is something that, with perfect action on the other end, should be called.
Especially considering the source: Knuth was a ruthless micro-optimizer, but his micro-optimizations actually made sense.