skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dang / @dang — this post was flagged; yet it is from a reputable source, and is arguably a tenable position; i.e. the very skepticism and anger (as opposed to mere curiosity) that people hold towards her could be collectively be viewed as an example of institutional racism itself. Could you look at removing the flag?
Finally got over my fear of posting on Hacker News so here I am :))
The distraction aspect is due primarily to having so much information available instantly. That is a result of the internet, but smartphones supercharged it as they add constant availability to the mix.

The issue with social media is that it is specifically designed to distract and grab attention, and the information they use is mostly gossip crowd sourced by their users to sell advertising against.

There needs to be some real education about how to use social media responsibly during schooling, and the companies also need some strong regulation to stop the exploitation.

The harm done is similar to gambling in my view and needs to be regulated in a similar way. Some people have the self restraint to log off and focus on real life, for others it is an addiction.
Off-topic I'll give you, but wildly?

That strikes me as wildly hyperbolic.
And you posted this US military vulnerability on a publicly searchable internet site?

head desk
I'd love this. Nowadays frameworks are so complicated and opaque that it's hard to understand what's going on. Simple templates would be amazing. Maybe start simple with e-mail templates? Those are notoriously hard to get right.
> Given that Google is not going to grow its headcount any time soon, how could you possibly achieve racial equity?

Most of your comment doesn't make sense to me, but for this one at least, I can point out your mistake. Even if Google is maintaining a mostly constant head count, people change jobs all the time, and to account for this Google is continuously hiring. This is part of the process, where tech companies have already focused on fixing problems. The other part of the problem is that tech companies can be quite hostile to underrepresented minorities, and the comments on this post are a perfect example, especially all the trolling dead comments. In real life, URM experience those comments and they don't get deleted from their memories. So making the work environment less hostile is essential to, in addition to the hiring practices.
It's definitely not ungrammatical. But it is uncommon today, especially in General American English.
I honestly think this is what free market economics will get us, due to the high barriers to selling on the black market (ethically, legally, and logistically). The bug bounty targets with high payouts from the company line up roughly with the ones with high payouts on Zerodium etc.

As I stated elsewhere in the thread, I'm not honestly convinced the fallout from a company being breached is that high, which leads to the current pricing for bug bounties. Twitter stock is massively up from when their incident happened in July. We'll see what happens with SolarWinds.
I guess you rather meant 4000 miligrams :)
I wrote once similar one using heat map ages ago (document structure on HN changed at least twice in mean time, I didn't care about being logged in), I always wanted to better it a bit to show (it is color-blind friendly half way - right?, when number of comments is to big regarding vertical resolution don't mind the oldest - right?, shall the bar be on the right side maybe? is it right to add new history entry if clicked on timestamp instead of open comment? etc.) - but now you have to/may enjoy it as it is:

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Interesting. When I was a kid, I enjoyed the taste of Tylenol a lot. One night, I elaborated a very bold plan to get the medicine and drink it without my parents seeing. Fortunately, I was caught. Your comment made me realize how lucky I was.
> One of them might get you laid, the other won't ?

as a guitar player, I'm very sorry to inform you that this is not the case. you get a small bump in attractiveness once you master the chords to wonderwall, but after that you don't really make any progress unless your band becomes popular.

as a cs player, I can't say I agree with the rest of your comment either. counterstrike is a very harsh and unforgiving game. plateauing at the same skill level feels very bad. you will get rekt by twelve year olds and they will mock you mercilessly. I would also contest that musical instruments create any inherent drive for improvement. plenty of people just learn the basic barre chords and a couple major/minor scale shapes and go on to happily jam with friends for thousands of hours.
The question isn't really about whether she was qualified to make ultimatums. She's not an idiot - she knew that there was little chance of it going well for her, career-wise, when she did so. Everyone who's saying "She should have expected to lose her job" is missing that she did.

The question is why she felt she needed to make one anyway.

In particular, she was hired into effectively an adversarial role: to note when Google was engaging in unethical practices. This is not particularly uncommon in business: internal audit teams do this in their own way, for instance. Or security teams, or legal teams, or whoever. All of them have the job of occasionally telling the company "Don't do this."

If an internal auditor (or security engineer, or counsel) says, I feel like I am unable to do my job under the terms you've set and if you don't change those terms I see no choice but to leave, it's worth asking why. It's possible that the auditor has an unreasonable view of how to do their job. But it's also entirely possible that the company is intentionally preventing the auditor from being able to do their job because they have something they don't want seen, that upper management wants to do something that they know their audit team won't agree with.

An ethicist is much the same.

It would be one thing if she was fired by her boss. She was not, and her boss was blindsided. She was fired by her skip-boss on the orders of her skip-skip-boss, neither of whom are on the ethics team, but who are in the larger Google AI organizational unit.
Not defending that guy's claim, but relevant: do you know where the word 'slave' comes from?
> How does that work in practical reality so it doesn't just turn into a money making scheme with no real impact akin to Catholic indulgences?

As a matter of policy? Universal carbon-tax with increasing fee schedules. Everyone pays for their carbon emissions. The sum is then distributed back to everyone evenly as a Green Dividend minus admin costs. Net zero cash to the government, whopping undirected green energy subsidy possible by tuning amounts. It already worked for Sulphur Dioxide.

As a matter of personal preference? Well, I get nothing from this except the right to brag I'm carbon negative so really it could totally be equivalent to indulgences. As it so happens I do care to be doing my part, but you're right in that there's no incentive for that.

> How many emissions in the US come from the use of AC and heating due to basically zero federal building standards for energy efficiency?

Right, but I live in California and have no AC.
>Paperwork Reduction Act

sounds funny as they just disturbed the hives of the probably best financed legal departments out there and they did it using the core issue for the companies owning those legal departments.
"Infrastructure As Code" is a misnomer in my opinion. The underlying mechanism is more "Infrastructure as Configuration". Terraform syntax is called HCL "HashiCorp Configuration Language". The "code" aspect of (consuming) Terraform is oriented around providing dynamic configuration capabilities utilising reusable code Modules. As GraphQL has led people to question the applicability of REST type API's in SPA contexts, so I believe IaC will eventually suggest a transition towards single Cloud API endpoints where the entire required state is described; reducing IaC to configuration. Currently the programming or Code aspect is required as a function of API design and the corresponding wiring of components together. Potentially not necessary and not particularly helpful.
Are there any good Discord Servers as well? I find discord as a much better and updated community tool than IRC.
It's the psychology of human moral panics that's identical. If there's a new pastime, whether it's novels or Pokemon Go, people will get up in arms saying it's ruining the youth.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2154881-did-pokemon-go-...
Don’t. Just pay attention.

Ibuprofen is awful for your kidneys. You should go back and demand more appropriate pain relief instead of CYA bullshit from a doctor.
Well.. slaves comes from slavs how have been sold by Tatars. Here in my Slavic country we even have some classical books that write about slavery of our people
All very good points.

You should absolutely read the labels of your pain medications and know what's in them. If you aren't sure about interactions, Don't screw around. Just take one and follow the directions.

Be particularly aware of cold medicines as they very commonly like to do the mixing for you.
Source for Zen3 having 4x per cycle?
That's impressive and I'd like to read more about it.

Another comment mentioned 4, 2 of which are fma. Works this imply that a matmul kernel for zen3 should have a 2:1 ratio of fmas to mul+add?
> Slack or not, online communication lacks etiquette.

Its probably you not them. If you dont like people message you about non work topics, just ignore their message or directly tell them that you are busy. They will get the message and stop being friendly with you.
Does it drain me entirely every day? No. Does it drain me some days or in particular instances? Certainly! Are some people far less resilient than I, and are perhaps drained to a larger degree? It stands to reason so.

To be clear I'm not saying any one advertiser is directly attempting to demean any particular person into buying their particular product, because clearly this isn't a winning strategy. It's the dose that makes the poison, however.

If one person walks up to me on the street and says "I've got some shirts that would make you look really slim" I would shrug it off as a weird happening. When the second person say "I used to look large, but this brand really made the pounds seem less obvious", I think it's been an odd day. When this continues to happen over the course of the month, perhaps I begin to think I'm looking a bit large around the middle.

Taken in isolation, no one instance is going to break me. Taken together, over a lifetime? That could change my own perception of myself in ways I can't even begin to estimate.
Is there anything similar for the Apple II?

I loved my Apple //e back in 1984. Played a few games. Did a ton of assembly language programming, built my own IO cards etc.

The manuals, with full schematics, dissections of how the DOS worked, etc, were absolutely fascinating to me as a geeky teenage boy.
The problem with calling everybody and everything racist all the time, is that the word will start to lose meaning.
> 4000g

That's a very unfortunate typo.
I've been in a few discussions on Reddit where people said this is a half-truth. Perhaps someone can confirm?

From Wikipedia[0]: § 512(c) also requires that the OSP: 1) not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, 2) not be aware of the presence of infringing material or know any facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent, and 3) upon receiving notice from copyright owners or their agents, act expeditiously to remove the purported infringing material.

This is an 'and' which I take to mean safe harbour takedown (the 3rd clause) only applies if the other two are also true. So the host must not know it exists (plausible for YouTube) and not receive a direct financial benefit (does Ad revenue count?).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
FWIW, I flagged this post because the submitter ('hintymad) also started out discussion with a sarcastic comment satirizing the tenable position in an untenable and uncharitable way.

I think this article sets out an entirely tenable position and the source is entirely reputable. I just also do not think that it was submitted in good faith and I don't expect the comments to "gratify one's intellectual curiosity," just promote culture-war flaming.
I've slept on the Harwich-Hook of Holland ferry a few times. It is very comfortable, and much quieter than a sleeper train -- it was like being in a slowly rocking "cabin hotel", where you don't have a window and the room is tiny.

(You can get a room with a window, but for an overnight trip it seemed a bit pointless.)

I find it difficult to sleep on sleeper trains, and usually arrive tired at the destination. Where there is the option I will use a night train out of principle (it's still usually more comfortable than a plane) but, if I have time, a daytime rail journey is much nicer.
Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
My very-low-confidence prediction is that we'll see a burst of experimentation once foldable screens become viable.
Apple Message is a message service. Its features include a way to personalize messages. It's not collecting personal/demographic information, it's not trying to increase user engagement (addictiveness), it's not serving ads. So, it clearly is outside the scope of the information that the FTC is trying to gather.
The problem with delay slots is that their optimal size is somewhat tied to the particular micro-architecture. I.e., different MIPS CPU implementations would have different optimal branch delay slot sizes.
This doesn't matter too much if your compiler is allowed to optimize for your particular implementation, but we are still mostly shipping binaries and thus you would have to make trade-offs for portability reasons.
I’ve got mostly Below Average days this month. I can see my number decreasing from the summer, where I’m a lot more active.

December is trending down.

is this accurate?
How is that Slack;s fault?
What kind of car?
As they should!
I get 12+ hours battery like from my HP Stream (it kept going through the last several blackout). Configuring my laser printer driver is a slight hassle but it works. A touch-screen laptop sounds icky, never tried it.

The reason I use Linux is nothing is going to be pulled out from under me. No long random updates, the computer is mine.

Linux makes good enough use of the massive resources a modern laptop has.
> but in the PC space you're not getting anything close to what Apple has with the LPDDR4x on package.

You can run basically any Intel CPU at DDR4-4266 without any issue. Or you can go thread ripper and laugh in quad channel memory. Or Intel x299 and triple-channel memory.

You don't have to tune anything, either, the RAM comes pre-tuned with the right timings in the XMP profile.
> I've heard anecdotally that if Tylenol were invented today the FDA wouldn't approve it because it's relatively easy to OD.

That seems a little suspect to me. It's a very useful medicine, and a better choice than Advil for some people. And it really is safe at the right dose.
Nope you're giving him too much credit. He meant projections as in to a different view on the problem. Not anything more well defined than that. Your manner of explaining it is much better.
Ear plugs and a sleeping mask is key. Neck rest recommended. Skip sleeping the night before boarding. Works for me anyway.
I would say use XML Schema at least. DTD looks alien to XML anyway.
Some thoughts:

1. I love how half the comments here are about disc/disk, which was just a passing comment in the article.

2. I really like reading these sorts of stories where modern hackers figure out the tricks used in vintage technology. They're interesting, and makes me feel a little better that all the clever hackers haven't died off yet. Sometimes I feel like the power of modern computers has made people lazy and we're going to lose our ability for clever solutions. But maybe the clever people are still there.

3. If you like reading about copy protection and (I can't believe I'm about to call the PS1 vintage) vintage tech, you might like this story about the copy protection for Spyro on the PS1. It wasn't so much copy protection as it was punishment after the copying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYSeXLr5sY
Grow Businesses with Habits Not Tactics
What's the legal situation of the 6502? Would there be risks in making them at scale?
Here's Dominion Voting Systems' SolarWinds Instance Still Running
Like they have any bargaining power against Google.
Is an apology enough considering they deliberately concealed the state of the game? At some stage it's false advertising, and I think promising an uncompromised experience and covering up the huge problems in your product certainly qualifies.

This billion dollar company took calculated and deliberate steps to conceal problems in a product they sold for money.

8 years.
Noise cancelling headphones, a small amount of alcohol(1-2 find), (and preferably a lie flat bed) combined with staying up the night before travel (if going west) has a fairly high success rate for me.
We are seeing all email to Gmail sent through sendgrid bounce with this error currently

Email routed through SES is getting through though.

This is going to be a mess to clean up due to automated blocking of bounced addresses
"Country" is also ambiguous. Lots of "countries" are not independent, e.g. the UK is made up of four "countries" - England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Similarly, the "Land" example I used above for the German federal subjects literally means "country".

"Governmental actor" would be a better international-friendly term for use in computer security, outside of the parochial world of US national security discourse.
Aye, this is the 'Cryptograph Doom Principle'[0].

To very lossily summarize: always authenticate before looking at the message.

Its a handy rule of thumb when you're making choices like how to validate a message.

https://moxie.org/2011/12/13/the-cryptographic-doom-principl....
No, there has been protests on lockdowns... Trump rallies are not it. He's the president of the US of A, he has actual power to affect things. He just doesn't like responsibility. It's a purely vain exercise.

And I'm not defending some logic around the numbers of BLM vs covid, and it's unfortunate they coincided. I'm saying that the BLM protests had been bubbling for years and through a few incidents came to a real boil this year. I fully agree that it's irresponsible covid-wise to be out in the streets.

Feel free to disagree about scale, but what if the March on Washington of 1963 coincided with a viral outbreak. Should it not have happened? I'll respect your opinion, I'm merely stating that it served a real purpose, and it's hard to pick the right time for it.
> I have no doubts that she has experienced institutional racism at Google

I think Google saw a black female PhD and jumped to hire her. All the boxes, and a well respected PhD. So it's hard to imagine how they'd be racist against someone they head hunted and desperately wanted. It's not like they hired her from behind a curtain and only found out who they hired once they said yes.

> Based on conversations with managers ... nearly an explicit policy HR holds ... that ultimatums would never be tolerated and could result in termination.

Yes, but it's would not could. And especially quickly when the demand could never be fulfilled.

I've heard of only one ultimatum that worked, but it was for the benefit of both parties. A senior engineer said they'd be leaving at the end of the quarter if the company didn't let them hire a team around them, including a peer. They gave two choices, fold the project and move me into a supported team, or support this one.

> one would hope that a company would trust an established ethicist about whether it were appropriate to issue an ultimatum

If she'd said "stop, don't release that AI, it's got a critical bug that will hurt people" then they probably would. That's the role they hired her for.

But I imagine they'd think she's a bit too close to her own situation, and out of her area, to take her word here and tell her the names of the anonymous reviewers for great justice.
Somehow if my teenaged kids spent as much time in LinkedIn networking business relationships as they did in Snapchat I wouldn't quite mind as much.

Regardless, I think you've missed the part where the FTC said what they were gathering information on, e.g. "how[social media] practices affect children and teens."
I know they don't teach real history in school or in the media anymore and you have an entirely skewed perception of history at this point, but it's the truth. Or course the word "every" is probably too much, because there's been exceptions. Just pick any random country/civilization and google "history of slavery in X". For example England, Ireland, Turkey, any country you enter, you'll find a history of it.
You're right, colleges don't reflect our population. Compare for example Harvard to the overall US (degree of overrepresentation in parenthesis):

Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.15% (6.51x)
Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x)
Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x)
Native American: 1.8% vs 0.7% (2.57x)
African American: 14.3% vs 12.7% (1.13x)
Latino: 12.2% vs 17.6% (0.69x)
White: 33.0% vs 58.9% (0.56x)

Or Princeton:

Asian: 20.9% vs 5.3% (3.94x)
Jewish: 8.0% vs 2.15% (3.72x)
Black: 7.7% vs 12.7% (0.61x)
White: 34.7% vs 59.4% (0.58x)
Latino: 9.5% vs 17.6% (0.54x)

Sources:

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...

https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews

https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifesty...

https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-unive...

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university...
> Is "disc" British English?

Yes, more or less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
when I hear 'software craftsman' I assume it's a regular software engineer who wants to elevate their status.
They also did this with Google Voice before they axed it. The original Gmail was such a tight app, I still quite miss it. Next thing they're going to make it harder to get your emails in and out and I'll be done with them.