skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Axios article says:

According to a source, Mitchell had been using automated scripts to look through her messages to find examples showing discriminatory treatment of Gebru before her account was locked.

Google's own statement, quoted by Axios, says:

Yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts.

You're taking those as if they say the researcher was just using her mail client the way everybody does, but that's not what they say at all. The first one ("using automated scripts to look through her messages") says nothing about downloading at all; the second, official one, says that "thousands of files" were "shared with multiple external accounts." The allegation is clearly that the researcher wrote scripts to select (an apparently large number of) specific messages and forwarded those messages to people outside the company.

Nobody is saying "OMG SHE USED IMAP!". They're saying "She sent internal corporate emails to people outside the corporation."
It’s a mistake. It’s certainly meant to say reserved by Powershell. Of course it will also not do the desired thing in POSIX shells, but in Powershell, rather than cut a URL short but likely keep it valid + fork, it will error out since & is reserved in Powershell. In reality what it should be telling you to do is shell escape the ampersand.
The share prices of tech firms that make no money have rocketed [in 2020]
I was referring to the exam for the HAM license, which I don't want or find interesting because it doesn't allow encryption. Encryption is pretty basic at this point. I want to set up long-range, encrypted, decentralized, p2p mesh networks with my friends. Because I'm accustomed to private conversations, and HAM radio represents a huge step backwards in that regard.

I find it more believable that the government is scared of such technology than that encryption would be such a detriment to the HAM radio community.
The thing is, I don't even consider myself particularly pro-CCP. But CCP is the only party that actually advances the interests of Chinese civilization. All the other parties only care about destroying CCP, no matter the negative consequences to Chinese society. Also, half of the reasons people use to oppose the CCP, are either false, or based on twisted half-truths. When I see such unwarranted attacks, how can I not help but feel defensive? It's my and my relatives' future that's at stake.

I don't need everyone to become CCP fans. I'd already be happy if people can see CCP in a more realistic, nuanced manner, rather than a cartoon villain.

> However, I have a very strong distaste for the CCP and really would like to see them dismantled. For this reason, I doubt I will ever visit China, simply because I've been very publicly vocal in this position.

This reminds me of myself more than 10 years ago. Back then I had been indoctrinated by western media and western views of China for 15 years. China is bad, China is communism, China kills people, Mao killed millions, one child policy bad, etc. When at the airport and police stations I saw government workers with those typical hats on, an alarm bell goes off in my head: OMG communism!!!!

But years later, I got married to my Chinese wife. I started having more interactions with Chinese people. I started researching Chinese recent history. I started researching Chinese society. I started talking to westerners actually living in China.

And I found out that a lot of the stuff people here say about the CCP are twisted half-truths, either deliberately or based on misunderstandings due to different culture and values. The Chinese police, rather than brutal enforces, and actually very friendly, don't carry guns, and it's very common for people to quarrel with the police without suffering consequences. Try that in some western countries.
Statistics, measurements, are the only lens on reality that we have. It's something we have to be able to talk about.

Be very wary of someone who thinks their intuition is stronger than our best pursuits of data. And, based on what, Reddit r/videos and Twitter?
okay granted. I think it's likely whistleblowing given what we have heard about the treatment of Gebru so far. However what it is definitely not is 'damning', and at this point I'm out of goodwill for Google to be honest. Less of a bias and more a healthier attitude towards big business.
You are correct. Literally is commonly used as an intensifier and has been for ages.

Complaining that modern people are literally ruining the word literally is a popular internet gripe.
Well yeah, but at the same time, exfiltrating internal company data is still grounds for dismissal. It could be ethical and the Right Thing to Do, but you still crossed a boundary.

She's lost her job; if she's lucky that's the end of it. She can probably sue to get her job back or a compensation depending on whether a judge or jury rules that leaking the data served a higher purpose, but it's debatable.
Wonder if this would increase the risk of cancer in the process.
ah yes, so much public good comes from rich people being allowed to commit crime.
I worked at Google and we used gmail, not IMAP, to view email. Corporate laptops allowed logging in to your corporate gmail, but I never saw anyone use IMAP and I have a feeling it wouldn’t be allowed. Once I left Google I had no access to my old corporate emails and I’m sure that’s the way they want it. I did thought experiments about data exfiltration and it would certainly be difficult. They control the OS on your system, they control the network, and they authenticate everything so no anonymous access is allowed. That’s why people get caught - they can see basically everything you’re doing on corporate machines or corporate networks and they know who you are.
> I am witnessing the reality that it’s never been easier and cheaper in the history of the world to reach almost everyone in the world within seconds.

Then please go ahead and build a website, make a statement on it and have, say, some 2 billion people read the statement.

That's just a fraction of the world's population, so it shouldn't be too hard. I'll wait.
Please don't cross into nationalistic flamewar. I respect and am grateful for how much your HN comments have improved over the years, in terms of sticking to the intended use of the site. And I'm aware that you know a lot about these topics. But your posts in this thread are sliding back into the sort of pattern we're trying to avoid here. Please go the other way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A democratic system should have separation of powers [1]. This clearly is a part where politics has power where it shouldn't have.

I know the intend behind this 'pardoning' idea, but both in theory and practice this seems very bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Compariso...
Could you train a GAN on pages of text, so that it learns what words look correct next to each other, and produces a readable page?
I think you're referring to Optimistic Rollups which is now live on Ethereum. It can help BAT in lowering the transaction fees and makes the it faster. Optimistic Rollups is one of the scheduled solutions leading up to Ethereum 2.0 with sharding.
Construal Level Theory
That’s kinda unrelated. The title here could have been “SQLite in serverless apps” or something to avoid the confusion.
People who elected these politicians evidently approve of their performance.
For a post-industrial economy, it's marketing all the way down, for the "fast-growing" segments. Tesla and Apple valuations come to mind. Good marketing goes above the activities you list, creating a sub-culture pushing the hype for the brand instead.

VCs are not there, and probably never will be, but they dream of it, as some of their self-aggrandizing visionary guru posturing can attest.
Credit is due for taking advantage of the west's naivete and greed.

Most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status renewal came with conditions. Few if any were met by CCP China and yet American administrations continually renewed MFN for CCP China. Ultimately President Bush (#43) made it permanent.

They opened the door that enabled CCP China to drink the West's milkshake.
The Trump saga lasted 4 years though it will probably take the rest of my lifetime for the US to heal from Trump and all the acolytes his administration emboldened; from the radical right, to enabling grifters, to draconian and in humane immigration policies (kids in cages, wtf?!?), and a whole lack and mistrust of science, not to mention the rise of QAnon and just the overall tarnishing of any semblance of American leadership abroad (because he is such a joke and his administration, too).
Disagree.

If a change diminishes the clarity, efficiency or even the beauty of the language for no good reason, then it's a bad change, at least for the purposes of communication.
Bye Bye Svn.haxx.se
Gearslutz will be changing its name
OpenBazaar Is Shutting Down
Far-right extremists take over UK land sales Facebook page
> If true, that is damning

Sure, and, if false, its also damning — in both cases, of Google management.

Either:

(1) They have received an early indication which may indicate either unauthorized or legally protected activity, and are publicly naming and blaming and specific employee before completing an investigation, which is merely grossly unprofessional and unethical though probably not actually illegal, or

(2) They are lying and libeling a current employee.
That is the default for the screenshot, pdf and one of the html archives: they use your chrome cookies.
To me this makes most sense, otherwise putting people who would vote for an opponent in jail makes it so you can stay in power.
I'm not a US citizen, but to me it seems to be ridiculous to give one person the ability to unilaterally make decisions on the lives of individuals. Not just these pardons, but also the barbaric rushed executions Trump performed. It appears to me to be antithetical to a democracy that claims to have a separation of power.
> ... or maybe they are competent and knows how to advance the public good.

I think corrupt is the right word.
A. We did not know anything on Nov 3

B. There is a process in the US that involves state electors having their votes counted and certified and the new government installed

C. No country in the world instantly swaps governments at election result time.
Honestly, I think the page's "edge-sql" title is more descriptive. This is running SQLite within "edge" workers, as a nifty little proof-of-concept.
I thought the term was FaaS?
It was eye opening to do one of those training exercises about motivation with colleagues once and seeing who put money as their number one priority. Combined with a somewhat secretive culture of bonuses there (some people got them, some didn't, no one knew what they rewarded), it really killed any sense of camaraderie I had with them.
Well, I'd just have to respectfully disagree then. As someone who runs my own company, I know better than to pick a quarrel with my customers, even if I don't agree with those customers on a political or whatever level.

It's not at all strange to have multiple factions in an organizations who are after multiple vendors, as tool for an internal power war. Maybe if I piss off the guy who chose me as vendor, then his rivals will use that fact against him.

My point is, social relations are complex. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence.
That could be a lot of round trips.
In a highly unethical environment, all ethicists are activists by necessity.
I agree! Our work on TruffleSqueak [1] and on Polyglot Live Programming [2] has shown that it's possible to build language-agnostic live programming tools with GraalVM. If Espresso implements the required Truffle APIs correctly, our tools should also just work for Java. :)

[1] https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/
[2] https://github.com/hpi-swa/polyglot-live-programming
Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
Have you seen http://sigusr2.net/serving-traffic-directly-from-sqlite.html ?
Billionaire Peter Thiel and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey supported Levandowski’s pardon according to the White House. In March, Levandowski declared bankruptcy after a court said he had to pay $179 million to Google, so there is still some sense of justice having being served despite the full pardon on his 18 month sentence.
> Few people are idiots.

> Most people are just as smart as you are.

Well which is it?
I'm confused by this comment. It isn't an "or" situation. Thiel is a billionaire and Luckey is pretty close. Those two are powerful primarily because they are rich and they aren't the only two on that list with at least 9 digit fortunes.

EDIT: Or did I completely miss that this was a joke and "powerful" was playing off "white power".
Donald Trump Pardons Ex-Waymo, Uber Engineer Anthony Levandowski
A large part of them believe that a researcher has to be an activist, i.e. research=activism. Many recent textbooks on social science see the following as credible resarch:

"Emancipatory research: Research that exposes underlying ideologies in order to liberate those oppressed by them."
(Zina O'Leary textbook, used by many schools, over 2K citations for multiple editions)

So if a corporate behemoth such as Google wants to ethicswash itself by hiring individuals with the above approach, what outcome did it expect?
Now use it on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836085
Is there an annotated list of this? I am pretty sure I cannot trust whatever is on that website describing the people pardoned.
> No you don’t. But you might find your work visa renewal denied.

Daniel Dumbrill, a vlogger in China, literally criticized the Guangzhou government for its negligent behavior against African workers. I did the same. We did this more than a year ago and we're both still fine.

> Then Jeff Bezos sues the government, which is exactly what happened.

You missed the point. You can't sue the government into continuing to do business with you.
Trump appointees in the intelligence services were attacking members who investigated far- right threats.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/why-dhs-failed-to-wa...
Train SimSiam on cifar10 to 91% accuracy
Now that Trump is out, and virtue signaling is passe, I hope we see Bay Area companies start an inquisition against SJWs, their cancerous "woke" ideology, and activist employees.

The tide is slowly turning on them, for the betterment of society.
Yeah, it's a serious question. In the 2015 Canadian General Election[0] the new Prime Minister and cabinet were sworn in two weeks later (though others seem to be often about a month later). I recently saw someone talking about their country swearing in the new party the actual next day(!), though I can't seem to find what country that was. Two months seems crazy to me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Canadian_federal_election
Isn’t YC an example of VC successfully creating such a “subculture pushing the hype for the brand”? After all, we are having this conversation on their website...
Ask HN: Epics, Themes, Initiatives, Features, Stories. Clear Articulation Needed
There seems to be so much written online. Unfortunately in a lot of publications, a lot of the terms are synonymous/interchangeable and/or open to interpretation.

Agile has it's roots in Software Development but is seeping more and more into other disciplines. Entire organisations are now going Agile.

However, most people have wild and varying understanding of the these terms.

How would you ELI5 the relationships/hierarchies between Epics, Themes, Initiatives, Features, Stories, Tasks, etc. and do you have any templates that you recommend to ensure people have the same understanding?
How to Run Exceptional One-on-Ones
Pandemrix, an influenza vaccine, was associated to an increased risk of narcolepsy for up to two years after administration.
I remember when cars started to honk and beep when they were locked. It happened in the 90s. I'm not sure if they were aftermarket additions done by those people that must be heard. I haven't heard cars do it for years now. None of mine have.

Nowadays the people that must be heard just have obnoxiously loud engines instead. Looking forward to that being outlawed.

Also, what is with that stupid beeping that American cars make when the door is open? You need a beep to tell you the door is open? Seriously?
Gebru's (and co-author's) work on racial error in facial recognition was done while they were academics at Stanford and MIT respectively and not while a Google AI ethicist to my knowledge. Roko's Basilisk is a banned comment from Less Wrong (though interesting) and doesn't really represent the totality of that site or the associated ideas.

https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-finds-gender-skin-type-bias-...
The Careful Work of Breathing Life into the Corpse Flower
And yet it provides features that I desperately would want in Firefox, such as tab tiling. Really miss that from Vivaldi.
Homeless - of no fixed abode.

Catchy like vagrant but perhaps a bit insensitive (unless it was used to highlight the plight of the homeless).

Less catchy - Poste Restante or General Delivery

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poste_restante
No that is wrong. Just read about the Spanish Flu.

Two days later, the city shut down most public gatherings and quarantined victims in their homes. The cases slowed.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-citie...
The "ok" hand sign isn't a white power sign just because some people have decided it to be. It's meant ok since as long as anyone can remember. I'm not willing to accept I can't say okay now because some liberal thinkers have decided that that's now become racist. People need to lighten up a bit and not make everything an affront.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. Can you please not do that? It's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and it's the line across which we start banning accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), regardless of which politics they're battling for. This is because it destroys what HN is supposed to exist for, which is curious conversation on a wide range of topics.

If there are other accounts doing this, I'd like to know who they are (irrespective of which politics they're for or against). It's impossible for us to look at the history of every account posting like this, but this is a serious problem and it's getting worse, so we're raising the bar.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You can’t record people without their consent, I believe. No idea about the limitations of this for e.g. security cameras! But I’m sure for dashcams.
Adding voice to the touch screen experience
Well, then, there are at least a few paths of reasoning you can follow:

* Google automatically flags this by the volume of data transferred and alerts human eyes

* Google's alert erroneously fired and they made a press release about it

* Google is lying

* Your premise that it is a common and allowed use case is false

Why stop when your conclusion is absurd. These paths don't appear to take great creativity to identify.
> The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation. He should be in prison for much more than he got.

Evil scientist
Boo
Evil scientist
Boo
True, they only support their own political faction under the guise of "identity politics", not all people.

For example Andrew Ng is considered "white adjacent" because he's the only non-white in an article about the history of AI. Asians are not favored with this group of activists.
They may be wealthy countries, but they're also capitalist countries; that mindset optimizes for profits, for return on investment, for getting the most out of a workforce for the lowest cost.

Currently, and I'm not an economist so this is an armchair thing, I think two big factors are wage vs cost of living.

Minimum wage has not kept up with inflation or cost of living.

Job security has spiraled downwards, with employers preferring temporary, part-time or 0-hour/on-call contracts, or doing away with employees entirely and having temps or contractors instead (also looking at the gig economy here).

And cost of living has skyrocketed up, it was steadily increasing in the 2000's, and after recovering from the 2008 crisis they've gone up crazily. Additional factors in that are low interest rates, meaning that on the one side mortgages have record low interest rates and on the other low risk savings accounts have no interest anymore, so people are looking to invest. Given how the prices of housing have gone up because of these factors, people see buying a house as a great investment.

Anyway, all of these factors combined mean that fewer people can afford to live in a house, there's much more of the "working poor", etc etc etc.
This is interesting. The polar opposite of what I was thinking.
Comprehensive Survey of Papers on A.I. Value Alignment [Spreadsheet]
so are people claiming that it is unethical. we just need to wait for more information.
I think there's a bit of bias in the games you played. There have been externalities affecting game design since the NES.

Early NES games were modeled (or ported) after arcades, which incentivized you to put in a quarter, play a handful of minutes, then put in a quarter to continue. This didn't translated well at home. So game designs moved away from that format.

When movie rental places started offering games (late NES early SNES days) they started making games take longer than a rental period to beat (2-3 days). One well known example is the monkey puzzle in the Lion King game [1]. I distinctly remember renting NES games and beating them in a few days before returning them. Specifically, one of the later Mega Man games. Granted, I owned other Mega Man games so I was familiar with the format. I still would have loved to play that game over and over, but I only rarely was able to buy games.

[1] https://www.thegamer.com/lion-king-remaster-monkey-level-con...
cron to the rescue
Yellen getting paid millions for public speaking to banks and hedge funds. And now she's going to regulate them. I'm sure those million dollar paychecks won't affect her judgement at all. I'm sure the insight based on intelligence and expertise, completely outside of getting an advantage understanding and/or influencing regulatory behaviour is what they all felt was worth the money.

I'm sure it's all completely legal but it's completely corrupt. The best we can hope for is she doesn't let these intended bribes influence her - and she may not.

Fame you say? Do you really believe that? If you do does it matter that the optics are foul and most won't agree? Square that when people are going broke and wondering about food and children's future when considering her millions in fees.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a... is a summary of the paper that started it, full of actionable points – and co-authored with Emily Bender, no less!

Also, if you're into the LessWrong mindset and are susceptible to think that that which can be destroyed by the truth should be, you might find this tidbit interesting:

> Buried in the recent trillion parameter language model paper is how the dataset to train it was created. Any page that contained one of these words was excluded: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... Two sample banned words: "twink" and "sex"
https://twitter.com/willie_agnew/status/1350551463718621184
I'll tell you how: by being open to the notion that maybe "tiranical, genocidal and dictatorial" are false. And that Chinese people have different values, which are equally valid, but that are nevertheless not forced upon you.

If you actually want to discuss this, I'd be happy to. But I need to know whether you are genuine, or whether you merely mean to diss me.
So you're calling for a purge, just so we're clear?