skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> quite confused at [broadly this is just luck], what studies?

I would recommend reading Success and Luck [1]; it's well-researched.

>> relying on this dynamic entrenches privilege

> this is quite ridiculous, this is only believable if you consider...

There are pretty good [2] papers [3] about it, which convinced me and might convince you.

> so? heard of 'lisa su'?

Your post uses a lot of anecdotal evidence, which is a fallacy [4]. I encourage you to build up a habit of diving deeper. Oftentimes our intuitions are wrong because they're influenced by our local experiences, which are very rarely representative. It's why we do things like run studies and experiments, because we've learned we can't trust our experiences and intuitions. This pattern is, unfortunately, widespread and leads to a lot of problems.

This is actually a great little microcosm of one such problem: income inequality is a huge problem in the US; societies with dramatic income inequality are historically corrupt and unstable. However, it's counter to a lot of people's intuitions and experiences. So whenever someone tries to rally people to address it, people like you toss out lots of unrepresentative anecdotes (and employ other common fallacies) to try and convince people either it's not a problem, or that it's a feature and not a bug. And it works, because these fallacies are common bugs in the way people think about things.

It's up to us to recognize these patterns in ourselves and others and work against them.

[1]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167404/su...

[2]: https://www.nber.org/papers/w23733

[3]: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Do you make a post looking for a job while you're still working at another company? Wouldn't this raise red flags at your existing workplace? I've been told that it's a good idea to look for your next job while you're already working somewhere else, and I'm curious how the 'writing posts' strategy would hold up in this situation.

+1 to the hundreds of views that posts get. LinkedIn is insane that way.
It may work with physical work, but at FANG companies software engineers will just make up for it on the weekends at nights. Stack ranking works wonderfully at making engineers to compete in working as much as they can (which is not a bad thing, just how the system works).
Why is there a 1/4“ jack in my oven?
This is nonsense economics. Whether monetary policy or "natural", Capitalism as we know it relies on huge growth to have good outcomes.

If you want a steady-state economy, you're going to need far more reforms than this, and if you want capitalism without interest you're shit out of luck.
Interesting, I wonder if all the new TLDs have eased the pressure on .com/.net/.org/etc.

10-15 years ago, any remotely intelligible expired .com/.net domain would be picked up by bots as soon as it was available and held for years.

They would put them on sale for a much higher price (10x+ the yearly fee, much more if they were good domain names).

That was the last time I cared about domain names, as did many other people it seems.
Now it's just whatever. Make up a word that's easy to spell/pronounce/remember, even if it's nonsensical, and build a brand around it.
The whole paper doesn't go beyond surface-level analysis. The main point is that language models reflect the same biases as its training data. Very little of it is technical. Most of it is about examples of how language models aren't as politically correct as the authors want it to be (e.g. calling female doctors "female doctors" when it's not relevant to the context). It's a legitimate concern, but anyone who remembered Microsoft Tay would know that.
Digital Will/Estate Planning Template
Why should pointing out problems come with solutions? If some corporation causes me or my community harm, I'm gonna point it out. If they pay me to, I'll come up with solutions.
If they can only do it for specific purposes and their actions are reviewed then it’s possible they could gain union memberships.

For example foremen hire, train, supervise and evaluate workers. Yet they have a union.

I can’t say for certain if it’s a protected union but it is a large and existent one in the US.
They are being identified. It's causing problems for some home-owners. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/08/28/the-cladding-trap-thousan...
While the Spectator is one of the more Conservative newspapers in the UK, in US they would be way to the left of the current Republican party. On the whole they're probably even to the left of many Conservative politicians in the UK.
Sorry, the article or the report? I don't see anything in the article.
As i understood it, using raw input keeps the system awake and that may be working as intended (hence they suggest that Microsoft better document that//reflect it in powercfg /requests). The issue is that GeForce experience was requesting raw input when it wasn't necessary.
Every person who cares about their privacy, should run a real firewall (NAT is not a firewall, DNS/hosts is not a firewall either) to control everything what goes in and out of their home network.

Unfortunately packet filtering is considerably obscure and most of the people (including most of the programmers and other techies who don't specialize in network administration) are afraid of approaching it.
I’m dealing with my own fire safety related conflict at the moment. Maybe I am the asshole in the story but my building recently announced its annual fire inspection to all residents of the ~350 apartments, by email, the day before it was to happen. They said there was no choice. They provided no information about the pandemic response plan of the contractor or the infection control measures they would be taking.

Since both myself and my wife are quite serious immunocompromised I objected. I told them I couldn’t let them in with all this lacking and instead to call me when they reached my apartment and we could do it via phone or video call or I could separately take videos of what they need. Now I’ve seen these guys when they do this work before (having lived here for a number of years) and they just open the door step in and then slam it behind them. They don’t knock and wait. It’s absurd. I stuck a notice on my door telling them to call or video call first when arriving. They didn’t enter but didn’t call.

Fast forward a week. They’re now giving me notice they’ll come in against my objection. They won’t answer any questions about the pandemic response plan or what vetting they did of their contractor and it seems the contractor doesn’t have one (or it’s embarrassingly bad). They said for PPE they use cloth masks, which are quite inadequate for protecting us. They said they take their temperatures but as the UK’s Chochrane review showed that is next to useless in screening infected people.

I provided thorough videos of me testing every alarm in the apartment and showing every sprinkler head in detail. I captured a video of the building alarms sounding in every room on the day of the inspection. They will not view these and tell me what is inadequate about them. They simply say they must do a physical inspection but won’t tell me who says or what regulation says it must be physical.

Now by my very napkin math these inspectors - if they’re doing inspections like this day in day out - could comfortably enter up to a thousand homes in a week. In the middle of the worst peak yet in this pandemic. Without proper protection for both protecting themselves and if they are infected from protecting the occupants. And without any testing regime in place to catch them early if they are sick. No plan in place to notify buildings or residents they have visited if an employee does get sick. None of that. They don’t even ask the residents if they have any symptoms or are sick before barging in. It seems like a high risk job and a poorly controlled vector of transmission. Entirely because the corporate landlord is lazy and doesn’t care. And the fire inspection contractor company is lazy and doesn’t care. And they can all get away with being lazy and not caring.
In the case of skyscrapers it breaks the basic safety concept.

Fires won't propagate up or down a properly built skyscraper except by the flames lapping up from floor 14 starting a fire on a floor 15.
When nVidia launched ShadowPlay eons ago I gave it a try. But few hours in I decided it's too annoying and resumed to use OBS for my streaming/game recording activities hence ShadowPlay is always disabled. When I fresh install a new Windows it's on the checklist - disable ShadowPlay
Apple – Accessibility
Your home is presumably only 2-4 stories. So in the event of a bad fire you just evacuate. Probably the fire can be extinguished, but maybe it can't, either way you aren't inside, your insurer is on the hook for any increase in costs from products that did not perform. Maybe "the invisible hand" will fix that, maybe it won't, but nobody dies.

In a high rise residential building it's a nightmare to evacuate, so until that becomes necessary (as it did at Grenfell and one of the other phases looked at whether emergency services were wrong to delay so long and why that happened) the preference is to compartmentalize as you would on a ship (can't evacuate those either). As a result of this approach to fire fighting it's critical that fire cannot spread between compartments. Flat #1 is on fire, a team comes out, they fight the fire, maybe Flat #1 is completely ruined, but the people in Flat #2 are just annoyed by the smell of smoke and the debris, they aren't actually in danger. At Grenfell this cladding meant the fire was able to spread outside the building defeating compartmentalization, in hindsight once that happened it would be impossible to contain it.

So the height of the building isn't just why this is news, it's also why it was a problem.
The summary of the report is the first hyperlink in the article. It mentions:

> Multiple hypotheses and mechanisms have been proposed to explain these clinical cases, but evidence has been lacking, no hypothesis has been proven, and the circumstances remain unclear.
I have heard better arguments in scientific discourse ;-)

Given that vitamin C supplementation is generally understood to inhibit some training adaptations (e.g. reduced skeletal muscle growth), it sounds reasonable to me that it might also prevent insulin sensitivity improvements.

Insulin triggers glycogen synthesis and muscles are one of the places where this happens. Reduced muscle growth -> reduced change in glycogenesis capacity.
My comment was about the 1200 workers who condemned the firing.

There have been similar recent public statements such as MS workers about use of AI for the pentagon, FB employees on content, etc..

Simply I mean the best way to support a wrongfully ousted ethicist would be to leave yourself, rather than keep getting paid by the execs who wronged her.

The work of AI ethics - especially in the vein of Timnit Gebru - is essential. My statement, was one of support for her.
"she started playing those ultimatum games with her boss"

Is it a game or is it just a negotiation?
> But when you say you are going to resign at a future date, especially when you say you are going to resign at a future date only if certain conditions occur but will not resign if they don't... then you haven't resigned yet

Maybe if you want to play semantics, sure. In the eyes of the employer though, you have effectively resigned.
I use Pocket to postpone reading articles during the work week. I then go through the list over morning coffee on weekends on my e-reader. Once I removed that impulse to read articles immediately as I stumble upon them, I found out that I simply delete like 50-60% of collected links without consuming them.

I read books either after work / later on weekends / before bed.
I think it's pretty rare for copying GC to be extended to the JIT'd machine code. That is, it only makes a difference if you're moving around the machine code in memory, not if you're moving around data. (The vtables can still be moved around.. all of the function pointers in them are absolute.)

Does Ravenbook also use copying for machine code?
He could've had someone test this directly, by clicking on the affiliate link and purchasing a product, ideally while recording their screen so there's hard evidence. Then if the company still claimed there were no conversions, he would know for a fact that they were lying.
I recommend "History of philosophy without gaps". It starts from "scratch" and also ventures out in Islam, India and Africana. So it's not entirely Western.
https://historyofphilosophy.net
Wow, I had no idea this was a thing. Looks like I have a lot of material to go through. Thank you for posting.
The answer is: even if any of the above held, Facebook are doing it to:

(1) build a giant sucking data-miner atop all consumer commerce;

(2) print their own money in such quantities that governments can't tell them what to do any more;

(3) establish themselves as providers of the digital identity standard for the world, so that you need to go through Facebook to use money at all.

There are those who have proposed Libra-like basket currencies seriously; Yanis Varoufakis seriously proposed that the Libra 1.0 plan would be a great idea - if done by a public institution such as the IMF, and not by a private company. https://archive.is/YKgQ9
Lol, the guy is probably only 15 years old. He just 'knows' good advice from bad:)
Genius and madness often appear to go together (e.g., Vincent van Gogh, etc.) and this is no exception. It seems like he was perhaps afflicted by something like bipolar disorder. It is all very sad indeed.
I believe his issue was that I'd was poorly documented, and that NVIDIA needed to use a more exclusive id. Presumably, it's not clear in the documentation that the input class NVIDIA chose also included the controller input too.
Why do so many people still buy into Kanye West?
The better question is if the 99.99th percentile on Youtube maps over, in quantity or quality, the 99.99th percentile of old TV documentaries.
Is this a new finding? I'm not an expert on the deeper mathematical side of ML, but I remember a friend of mine already telling me about something that sounded exactly like this (ca. 2016-17).
Biggest noticeable difference is that latency is about half that of 4G.
It's pretty well known that the HN algorithm punishes stories which have a lot more comments than points. So describing them as "discussion points" exactly misses the mark. You're likely wrong (and a bit silly).
Would disagree that it's obvious companies like "Beats by Dre" (Apple) or GitHub/LinkedIn (Microsoft) are subsidiaries from styling/branding
They are faster, easier to reason about, less prone to leak memory and are always what you want. Everyone except maybe the chicken scheme people agree, but call/cc is free for them due to their GC strategy.
MasterCard to investigate allegations against Pornhub
”Celotex even inquired about using the [Grenfell] tower as a case study for the suitability of its product for high rises. So it has turned out, although not in the way the company hoped.” To say the least... :(
No part of the Libra/Diem plan required or requires a blockchain.

The reason for the blockchain: Libra was founded by four bitcoiners (Morgan Beller, David Marcus, Kevin Weil, Christian Catalini) who wanted something like bitcoin, but not volatile, and run by sensible people, i.e. them.
Simple syntax is just one of countless crucial features.

Here is just a trivial sample: https://twitter.com/HexstreamSoft/status/1334220825281654785

Fairly extensive advocacy pieces already exist, and we need even more sophisticated ones, and better infrastructure overall, and it would be much easier to do that with proper funding.
Isn't one of the features of high-dimensional spaces that local minima are rare and there's usually some direction that slopes towards a lower loss?
The fact that they're working at Google in the first place shows they're not that ethical to begin with.

But nearly everyone has limits, and the petition signing limit was reached for these 1200 Google employees.

We'll see if the quitting limit is ever reached for any of them.
Tealdeer: A fast implementation of tldr in Rust
Teams proves that working reasonably well is not actually required.
An unwise hobby. I know recruiters and hiring managers that see low tenure jobhopping as a red flag
I don't really know that particular GC, but not necessarily. Code objects are usually stored in a separate area and might be managed differently than regular objects. So a copying GC might not relocate code - maybe not even collect it. In case objects are relocated by the GC, there is usually "relocation information" which can be used to patch the code after it got relocated.
Do you have any use case for these?
When I entered the industry in 2010, it was the middle of a recession and I was coming from a non comp sci STEM degree.

My first job was a 40k per year IT job. I changed jobs every 1.5 years or so, and was able to find a niche in Big Data followed by Real time bidding in ad-tech, and now ML work in one of the FANG’s as a senior engineer.

Not many people care about tenure at this point, and working in multiple environments has served me well. It’s worth calling out that I usually took a pay cut when I switched in order to better align with my career objectives (although the raises always made up for the opportunity cost )

I found every opportunity through LinkedIn, along with many that I passed on. I was always immediately connected with a person (recruiter) rather than a blind resume/email response.
I was always baffled at why Slack doesn't support syntax highlighting? It's almost as if Slack developers themselves never use their own product or never share any code - otherwise how come they're not frustrated at it?

Subjectively, Discord is just better. The client is faster and nicer, it's better at managing big communities, there's proper syntax highlighting etc.
I haven't seen much by myself, but I witnessed that flame with Y.LeCunn and that alone gave a lot of information.

I can't understand WHY so many people obviously think that it is totally fine to be behave utterly unethical, especially when a person whose behaviour is in question is "professional ethics researcher". Looks like they think that a big goal justifies the means. Welcome to Russia circa 1917, or Germany of 193x.

Insanity((
I would love to see the performance comparison too to other Nvidia GPUs. I thought TFlops is not a good way to gauge performance when the architecture are different? You cannot even compare Nvidia Pascal and Turing with TFlops meaningfully (?).
Glances: Cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python
All that stuff sounds like systematic abuses that a union would reduce.

The problem of the effectiveness of Facebook employee walkouts stems from the fact that they aren’t a real union, so the employer can just force them to make it up without providing for any additional compensation.

Any protest is a null option until the whole thing catalyzes and they form a union to address the repeated disregard the company shows them.

The only way for the company to avoid this is to self regulate or at least pay lip service to buy more time.
Fortune Telling Businesses Booming During Covid-19 Pandemic
The whole article complains that 1) corporations give users everything they could ever want, 2) making it an "impossible dream" to build public cooperative platforms.

They already know what the solution is, but they pretend it's impossible in the premise of their argument, so they don't have to face reality and actually start building it.
I agree with you and would even go a bit further. Actually the word "boring" is completely misused in my opinion. It is all about choosing the right solution. This has nothing to do with things being boring or fancy. The word boring is clearly defined by a dictionaries and is subject to personal emotions. One could say the JVM is totally amazing while the other says it is dull and boring. This can not be the basis for an educated decision.

The points you mentioned are also part of the questions one has to ask for finding a suitable approach.

I think that all those who say "use boring ..." effectively want to say something else but either do not dare to do so or are otherwise unable to express their intentions. Nevertheless redefining the word "boring" is not a solution.
The reality is that the research organizations at big tech companies have always been a very different kind of labor relationship than typical rank-and-file business units. Many of the senior or otherwise high-profile researchers at FAANG companies would otherwise be professors or academics, in positions where there is essentially unbridled academic freedom and no expectation of separating personal convictions and principles from the academic environment.

Google lured many of these researchers away from academic roles, with the tacit promise that they would be able to continue their research - and at times political - endeavors relatively unencumbered. Google has built a research empire on this promise, which has been responsible in part for their continued dominance in various markets.

My point here is that these researchers have a lot of leverage. Advocating for action within an organization, counter to the current immediate goals of management, is only taboo (and thus “fireable”) in most companies because workers have almost no leverage, generally speaking. Not because it’s some inherently “bad” thing. If Google becomes seen as a place that fires researchers for advocating for their beliefs, especially in a capacity that they’ve been explicitly hired to do, then I think a lot of researchers would - and rightly should - reconsider whether such an environment is consistent with their values as academics and, often times, activists. Google’s research group is enormously valuable to the company, and there’s only so much reputational damage of this nature the organization can sustain before academics decide to take their talents elsewhere.
If, as in this paper, we allow ourselves to set the kernel after seeing the data, then the statement in the title is trivial: if my learning algorithm outputs function f, I can take the kernel K(x,x')=f(x)*f(x').

The result is interesting insofar as the path kernel is interesting, which requires some more thought.
> I found out that I simply delete like 50-60% of collected links without consuming them.

This is an interesting result! Why do you suppose this is?
>Simply I mean the best way to support a wrongfully ousted ethicist would be to leave yourself

What are you basing this on? I can think of at least one example where this pressure actually worked (caused google management to reverse course). ICE contracts, I think?

Your strategy would seem to be more in Google management's favor - clearing out all the people who might kick up a fuss when they try to engage in unethical behavior.
I want to use concepts, but it's not integrated with the STL yet (which is a baffling decision - aren't you supposed to dogfood new features into the standard library if you want to encourage its usage and test its strengths and weaknesses?...) My code is not that heavily templated (and wouldn't benefit that much in doing so), so the only reason concepts would be good for me right now are having better error messages in other heavily templated libraries like STL and Eigen.
Sharding based on customer is an attractive way to get to shards, potentially with minimal interference in ops or data model, but truly sucks when your biggest customers don’t fit on one shard anymore.
Economics is improving rapidly but it’s definitely not shown itself to be prescriptive yet. It’s a crap shoot how well an idea gets executed in the real world and I’d argue that’s not acceptable for something this drastic.