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You> Aviation and weapons research depend heavily on exotic materials that are almost certainly NOT found in civilian applications

Me> They only get significantly ahead of the industry when nobody else is doing research.
> 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.

Salary aside (because I do doubt she earned $1M+/year, my guess is probably more on the ballpark of $300k~$500k and either way not really denting Google's finances), you are not wrong, but also it's worth understanding here we're entering the realm of the notion that companies can (and for many reasons should) be about more than maximizing shareholder value.

Also, if I'm being completely honest, from a PR perspective this could be worse than Timnit's paper might've been just given how public it has become and the people involved. People internally are perhaps more comfortable having that paper not be published and not having Timnit in their ranks, but as far as PR for Google goes this isn't great.
Or if they were children books ;)
I agree with that. But it would be strange for HR to be handling peer review for scientific papers.
That's a solid good point. But that still doesn't explain how you end up with t-shirts and shorts at the goodwill.
Even if they did, it'd be trivial for a developer to exclude the ads, and why wouldn't they? Obviously Reddit could try and enforce that via ToS, but even then they'd have to track offenders down and threaten them with revocation.
This is a very interesting document, but where does it discuss a 20% increase in violent crime? I read the section about organized crime involved with cultivation and assume that bring some violent elements.

While this is an ostensibly neutral collection of data, it reads to me very favorably about effects of legalization. Surprisingly even vehicle fatalities decreased significantly over the measured time period.
>It might be a cultural thing or lack a wealth thing but I've never fully understood the concept of second hand clothes. I mean, who gives away used clothes that are still in good conditions?

Well, if you have a "lack of wealth thing", then you should immediately be able to grasp some advantages of this:

(1) second hand clothes are cheaper to buy (or free in some cases).

(2) second hand clothes means you make some money selling your old clothes, instead of throwing them away.

If what's alien to you is how would anyone "throw clothes away", that still seems like a strange question.

Unless we're talking about some developing country, tons of people in the West and elsewhere get new clothes and stop wearing old ones, which can then give away. Women sterotypically (and statistically) more so, following seasonal fashion, but also tons of men.

You don't need to have "wealth" to do so. Even people living with average wages do stop wearing old clothes all the time.

And of course some do so by necessitity too, because their kids outgrow their clothes sizes, or because they themselves got fatter/skinner and their old clothes wont do them anymore.

>At no point have I ever said "I no longer want to wear this, I'll sell it for a buck and buy something new".

Well, did you ever consider that you're in the minority here? I've myself never considered to do some things millions of people do, but I do know that most others do them....
> you have to be able to capture the difference between the value of someone else’s work and what you pay them to do it

This is the textbook definition for how wealth is created, and it's exactly what's supposed to happen in every transaction in the marketplace.

You buy an apple for $1 and it brings you $1.10 in value. You have captured the difference between its value to you and its value to the seller, and the ten cents is wealth that didn't exist before.

This also works for the seller, who sold her apple for $1 even though it only cost her $0.95. She captures five cents of the wealth created by the transaction.

Wealth is created because things have contextual value. It's the same when we exchange our labor for money. They wanted our labor more than the money. We wanted the money more than the time. Win/win for both of us.
No, it's absolutely a strawman. The exploitation billionaires create isn't direct. The problem is that Billionaires amass this wealth while people beneath them struggle.

Jeff Bezos shouldn't be making 12-figure gains while his warehouse workers are on welfare. Those warehouse workers shouldn't be paying a higher tax rate than he does on their income.

That IS an unquestionably exploitive relationship between a CEO and his employees, even if he isn't personally being an exploitive monster he isn't doing anything about the systemic exploitation he lead the way in creating.

This is pretty much true of any billionaire, regardless of their personality or views.

The existence of billionaires is a economic luxury that should only be afforded once society as a whole has taken care of its people. The co-existence of billionaires and homelessness is an economic failure, especially when some billionaires possess more capital individually than the entire homeless population of this country.
LaTeX itself is a big mess...
If they did though, wouldn’t a third party client at least give the option to strip them out given their presence makes the app worse for most users?
But presumably you understand that your opponent may call you. The relevant MW definition is "a false threat or claim intended to deter or deceive someone." So in this context, it's a claim you won't really leave if you don't get your way. But the other party may decide to get rid of you anyway based on the bluff. (Thinking about it, it's probably reasonable to call it a bluff but that doesn't mean there aren't consequences if the other party calls you on it.)
"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."

Representing a more truthful reality is not 'softening'.

It's only 'softening' for those who have an already accepted, extremist view, and for whom any evidence to the contrary doesn't help their arguments.

While initially sympathetic to the author - the more I read - the more I have completely the opposite view.
anecdotally, it seems like valve has mitigated the smurfing issue pretty well in recent years. I very rarely see obvious smurfs in the gold nova range these days. unfortunately, the side effect is that there are now a bunch of hoops that a fresh account needs to jump through to get into MM.

I think the current state is a decent compromise. it's totally viable to make a new account whenever you have a new friend that starts playing. as long as you only play with them on the smurf account, it will stay in a close MMR range. your friend has to go through the grind anyway, so you may as well do it with them. the grinding does make it pretty annoying to make new accounts over and over again just to tear through the ranks.
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This seems like the same thing as "diamonds come from the ground".
if you can't figure this out on your own, what makes you think you can figure out the actual job?
Paris and surroundings is a really dense region [1], which tbh makes the actual functioning of public transit quite impressive in this city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul...
A lot of people mistakenly think Google is part of their family and has incentives other than making profit and avoiding bad PR. It's not really a surprise they took the first opportunity they could to fire someone who has in the past threatened them with Lawsuits... Don't be evil Google died a long time ago, there's nothing to see here, just business as usual.
51 years after a man planted one nation's flag, another nation's robot planted theirs.

Congrats to them, I guess, but it's far less impressive, especially considering the vast tech advancements in that 51 years.
> I think that there isn't internal academic review of the sort implied by Jeff at Google.

Why do you think that?
What would you call it if it was "beef," where the name of the meat is already different than the name of the animal?
every time it is the same - somebody got the power to enforce the prevalent ideology of the time and place, they happily do it under the premise that it is the most right and good ideology, and because of being such visibly pious followers and strict enforcers these self-declared occupants of high moral ground start to feel and behave themselves as more entitled and better than others. They highjack the cause and frame any disagreement with or critique toward them as a heretical attack on the cause. The main point here is that once something becomes an ideology the "right", "good", etc. gradually lose any meaning in that context, and the only thing which really continues to matter and grows more and more is the enforcement of the ideology.
If I have to be honest I don't see much from this either, but a potential upside is structural separation of text and presentation in a way that's different from HTML/CSS, in this case the content would be pure ASCII text as opposed to a tree structure/object model.

I'm not sure I agree with this premise either, the hierarchical structure seems inherently semantical to me, but the argument of the OP is it isn't the case.

> what's the point of making it a text format at all?

The text part is ASCII, so it make sense to represent it as such. The "presentation" part could be binary.
it got approved without the review from what i understand
If they are getting working prototypes now this must have been in the pipeline for multiple years.
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I prefer to test everything. The parts you don't test are the parts that break.

For example, here's a case where I incremented the wrong metric:

https://github.com/jrockway/alertmanager-status/commit/fccae...

I noticed the bug when I went to look at a dashboard with that metric on it, and noticed it had the wrong name. If go's Prometheus library had an easy way to run "metric.CurrentValue()", I would have tested it... but it didn't, so I didn't. And then had to patch it, release it, and update all my servers. Writing the test (with that API) would have taken less than a second. Finding the bug in production and fixing it took an hour.

(That codebase has 100% line coverage, but of course, I know that 100% test coverage is a meaningless metric. That the code ran is a prerequisite to the program behaving correctly, but it also has to do the right thing.)
It's doable: https://youtu.be/F_Uiy40vEj8?t=412
Most people aren't responding because they're defending the actions of a "large corporate entity". They're relating to the people, such as Jeff Dean, that made that decision. A decision that definitely wasn't taken lightly. The people that had to work closely with her, with whom she has publicly ridiculed on Twitter.

She's even tweeted that she suspects there was a team of people behind the decision to accept her resignation. All those people don't put Google first. The hard truth is that she was probably extremely unpleasant to work with it (this is my reading of the above link and from what I've witnessed on Twitter) and they had just reached their limits. Not Google, but the people that had to work with her (I'm clearly not referring to her subordinates who are all apparently "indebted" to her which is a whole other issue onto itself). She comes across as very entitled and quite frankly, although I hate to say it as it's a bit of a cliche at this point, narcissistic.

These are all based on what I've been able to find online. I've never met her in person. I'm trying very hard to not see her negatively but it's also hard finding evidence that's she's not hostile to those that don't 100% accept and agree with her. I'm definitely open to seeing her in a different light if anyone wants to share links. However, just because you research ethics doesn't mean you practice what you preach nor that you're a saint who can do no wrong.
> Vertical integration is what allows Apple to be ahead on both price and performance.

I don't know about that. The processor is the main thing they have vertically integrated, right? And if I go look at a flagship like a Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G I see a BOM of $57 for the processor. (It does have a hideously expensive modem for 5G but it didn't need to have that.)
>We'll never get the full story (and should we? it is an internal company matter made public, after all))

Not really sure what the point of an 'ethical AI' department is when there's no transparency or accountability facing the public because if it can be cancelled internally at any point if it threatens the company you've basically recreated some kind of Soviet ministry for truth
After reading the transcript, I’m in shock that any of the republicans who voted against the bill receive any votes.

The arguments they make are awful: 1) still hammering in the nonsense about gateway drugs, 2) comparing marijuana to the opioid epidemic, and 3) saying that marijuana causes more societal damage than alcohol.

It’s disappointing that our legislators are unable to make any forwards progress even in the 21st century.
No, she did not want to part ways. If she did, she would have quit. Instead, she said she needed certain things to keep working there. That pretty obviously indicates a desire to keep working.
AJAX is part of the request response cycle?

Let's face facts...AJAX is the real secret sauce with JS and what makes it truly useful.
I think we’re starting to see companies discover the limits of how far they’re willing to let employees push their “woke” agenda using the company’s name.

It seems disparaging your own company while ignoring research that counters yours is Google’s limit, but we’ll have to wait to see the research paper if it leaks.
Hi all. Before touching ergonomics, I want to tackle the issue of back pain due to sedentary desk work. Because honestly, between ergonomic and pain free… I’d take getting pain free first.

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Science time! It turns out, spinal discs are the largest structure in the body with no direct blood supply. It relies on increasing and decreasing pressure on it to ‘breath’ / get blood to diffuse through it. How do you consistently increase and decrease pressure on the spine? You got it, movement! (check out this cool illustration by the same people: https://www.movably.com/chart-2)

The trick is how do we get movement in our lower spine during our workday without disrupting our focus and workflow? That is the exact problem the startup I work for tackled. We have come up with a super cool, effective and non-ridiculous smart chair that works with your body to get the movement we all need.

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> So what should happen to your assets when the total of their market capitalization crosses the $1B line?

People who created enormous value in the past were rich but not filthy rich and that was not their goal in the first place. Most of them were happy enough to be paid back in respect, recognition, credit, fanfare, veneration etc..
This seems uselessly contrarian. Just because there are some philosophical edge cases/open questions about how we identify intrinsic versus extrinsic value doesn't change the fact that today, for human beings, the most useful and practical definition is one in which paper bills don't have intrinsic value but bread does.
Either way the supply is controlled. Controlling the supply is the problem, not who does the controlling.
> 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.

Unless corporate tells you to kill the paper and you need something that resembles legal cover.
Oddly, this article made me understand the case that exists for deletionism (though it's still awful). It always seemed to be one of those weird things that keeps happening despite nobody being willing to stand up for it. I think I see now, that to the people who consider themselves the self-appointed guardians of Wikipedia's quality, each extra page spreads the work of guarding a little thinner.

The counter to which is, of course, that Wikipedia doesn't have to be run by a relatively-tiny number of highly-dedicated editors. Over the hill somewhere just out of sight is a set of technologies, policies and social norms that would lead to still more people participating.
I'll be honest, F3, while the most hated was the one that I had the most fun. It was the more serious of the entire franchise and I liked the change of pace and the kingdom-wide choices (and becoming the King/Queen of the entire thing? Great fun.) that could happen based on your changes was a lot more 'real' than the previous two games.

Don't even get me started on the total farce that was the Fable: The Journey was. Cool concept, poor implementation.
On of my friends hunts for vintage Levis. The new ones are not built nearly as well as even the ones 10 years ago which were commonly selvedge denim too (now levis wants >$100 for that).
I was taught about greenhouse gasses in 6th grade science. (In the 1980's)
Lets assume it is not a strawman, what empirical evidence suggests that this is not the case?

I mean, as an example, billionaires have access to top notch lawyers that lower their tax bill, look at Trump’s recent tax filings for example. Can you reasonably argue that they are not unfairly taking advantage of society, and by extension its people?

What about government lobbying etc. I mean the list goes on.

Personally I think PG just attacks the weakest form of the argument against his view. He obviously benefits from billionaires being created as he is an investor. Getting a large payout is literally the purpose of his job.
I don't know what content you're looking for on Reddit, but my experience is the opposite. Reddit makes it very easy for me to find focused, high-quality conversations about specific topics. As others have said, the trick is to stick to small subreddits. AskReddit, like most of the big subreddits, is a cesspool.

Also, I find that searching Reddit with Google yields much more trustworthy information than just searching Google, which tends to return a bunch of sponsored results, ads, and SEO garbage. Folks on Reddit (especially focused subreddits) do a very good job of filtering all that stuff out already. It's not perfect, but it's often vastly better than Google alone.
Also sometimes comments.
This. It used to be normal to be pride of your craft. You do your best because that's what you do.

Now it seems that true craftsmen are the exception now, people are just hustlers in it for the money. Do it as cheap and fast as possible, bill fas much as you can and off to the next job.
I think it's a close enough analog. If there is sufficient ventilation, you might not smell it in one area but very strongly in another. If you place an infectious person in place of the smoker, you can guess where the danger zone is (not in the area free of smell).

You're right, of course, that cigarette smoke carries further and many more people will be able to smell it than there are people at risk of infection in the same situation.
https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/528619-pfizer...

“Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Dateline host Lester Holt that the pharmaceutical company was “not certain” if the vaccine prevented the coronavirus from being transmitted, saying, “This is something that needs to be examined.””

December 03, 2020 - 02:36 PM EST
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25304738

This might be a relevant story I read today on China.
You might be on to something. The paper doesn't seem too controversial or especially amazing, the objections seem minor (some citations and updates), maybe it's just a pretext. Could be about a lawsuit.
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As a manager I would only do this if I really wanted to fire the person already. For employees I care about I would give them an out.

Part of being a good manager is understanding your employees and helping them succeed. If someone makes a statement like this in the heat of frustration it doesn't necessarily mean they will actually quit. If they're a valuable member of the team you should present them with an opportunity to save face and remain.

To me this seems like taking an opportunity to fire someone they already wanted to get rid of. Either that or a bad manager who wanted to flex their power as a threat to the rest of the team.
It has not yet been demonstrated that any of the vaccines eliminate transmission.
When these discussions come up, there often tend to be suggestions durable brands for "big ticket" items like shoes, boots and outerwear (as other comments have suggested).

Does anyone have recommendations for longer lasting every day clothes? I feel like I often have dress shirts and pants/jeans that wear out more quickly than they should. Dress shirts tend to have holes wear in the elbow area and pants tend to wear in the pockets where I have phone/keys.
At the See Also section, there is a link to "Mozart and scatology" explaining it. Definitely not a particular aspect of his life that they teach you in primary school Music class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology
The funny thing is she isn’t going to be harmed by this. In fact if she felt like she needed a different job this is one way to do it. I personally would hate the stress, but some people like it.

One thing I rarely see is people talking about her email where she said “give me a and b or else I’ll leave” - paraphrasing slightly. This isn’t in dispute, she readily admits this.

What ... is an employer supposed to do with this? Also she’s a manager, so there are extra lame legal crap. It feels like they could have not taken her bait - which sounds like hyperbole to me - but I guess they did, and do they have to?

I can’t say about any of the review things, if she is being over reviewed or not, could be. Demanding to know everyone who looked at her work so she could... wage a Twitter war of destruction, well I could understand not wanting to do that. I mean if I was asked to review her paper, I would decline. Who would get into that?