skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted a split keyboard but wasn't ready for ortholinear (yet) so I built one of these last year: https://keeb.io/products/quefrency-60-65-split-staggered-key...

I love it. I added some tilt but it doesn't come with any, and it can be easily flashed with QMK. I just stuck some bumpers on it for the tilt so you could easily go negative. I don't even have mine in a case, so it is very low profile.

Since it does not have a standard function key row, the esc key is not where you would expect it to be (mine is on the extra left bit with the function keys) but otherwise the keys are more or less where you would expect them to be. If you want a dedicated function row there is also this: https://keeb.io/collections/sinc/products/sinc-split-stagger...

I love the split layout and especially the split spacebar, as I made the left spacebar the macro key for my first layer. The rotary encoders are fun too.
And Jeff Dean doesn’t resign yet, no surprise.
So PoS is vaporware because it hasn't solved a problem where the miners can act against their economic best interests and mine a fork?

How does "there's a theoretical issue, and also it shares a problem with PoW" follow from "PoS is vaporware"?
No, that doesn't address the question at all.
There have been countless Googlers who came out to support Gebru. Did Google fire all of them? Or maybe Margaret's support was particularly outspoken, but I doubt it.
I have this. I always imagine these are bubbling up one last time to the surface and I never experience these thoughts ever again.
This is very cool! What do you envision as the applications of this app?
Also, what is that wall made of?
Funny coincidence, I also spent the lockdown + winter working on an app for gym climbing. You can check it out at https://www.cling-app.com/.

Best of luck to you!
Don't try to compare this to rolling your own crypto. The stakes are nowhere near the same for IDs as for crypto, and the stakes are the defining feature of the "don't roll your own crypto" meme.
I don't know her well enough to ask.
So you have one example of someone being fired at...Evergreen college or whatever

And some guy who was temporarily suspended and then immediately reinstated.

And this proves profs with tenure have the same or worse protections than employees of private industry?

Have you ever heard of "at-will employment"?
https://bitcointreasuries.org/ indicates that $51,841,521,637 has been paid in just over the last few years and that's just a few companies.

Your figure is off by an order of magnitude. Greyscale alone has purchased more than that amount.
I used the term "justice system" because that's what everyone calls it. If we want to rename it to something else, that's fine with me.
The GPL doesn't "infect" things. It merely requires software that uses it to be free software. For instance, you can extend GPL software, and dual-license your extension under MIT and GPL, though the GPL applies as long as your software is using the GPL component.

In this case, the software you've written to extend the GPL, is not "infected" by it.

It does not REQUIRE you to use only GPL, it requires you to make it AVAILABLE under GPL.
It's the same problem having a dog. You can't go mentioning its name willy-nilly or it'll respond. But dogs go one step further and adapt to misuse of their name by unlearning it. I refer to ours as various insulting names even when she's not around, out of habit.
Blind and Low-Vision Unix Users Group (BLVUUG)
Probably she thought she’ll get away with it, like thousands of her colleagues have.
I was writing a cookiecutter template for this kind of stack but never finished it. After using similar stacks for a couple of projects I am going to get back to it soon with many improvements and publish it.
> If you were in the ethics department of a company, unpacked deep seated entrenched breach of social norms and were blocked from talking about it but still believed in ethics, what would you do?

Whatever you do, just don't try to engage in things that go against the rules of employment (and quite possibly are illegal) like downloading and send confidential documents to third-parties.
Gladly hiring Sr. Fullstack Engineers. Multiple positions.
"it's weird to want nice things" is the sort of attitude that means you might have been a web developer for too long :)
I don't think what he said triggered anyone to find and kill US Congress people. You're making that claim and connection, but there is no evidence to prove that causality and I am simply not convinced. If someone takes his rhetoric (which I find disagreeable) and thinks it means they should go commit such an act, I feel like almost the entirety of the responsibility is on them as individuals.

Also, consider that Democrats frequently use the same rhetoric when they are talking to their own audiences as well. The Trump defense team showed a 9 minute clip of Democrats using the word "fight" in the recent impeachment proceedings (https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-defense-team-sh...).
possible vs. probably is a factor here. It doesn't help a "no warming" scenario, but it's also not a silver bullet.
Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says
> It seems that there are some "cognitive prerequisites for dreaming", which are mostly developed around the age of 5-7

But seeing cats and dogs dreaming is fairly common.
You see, it’s quite useful to talk about it, I was looking for a charity/NGO/open-source software to sponsor and, for a specific reason, Postgres or Debian (which we use) don’t comply to our requirements. You are giving me a new group of charities/social companies to search into.
You should check out Robert Baruch[1] on YouTube, he has a very interesting series on designing a RISC-V cpu where he also uses nMigen.

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEeZWGE3PwbZTypHq00G-yEX8...
> Imagine your own name being used as a term for ridicule or poking fun.

You mean like "a John"? Or "Dick"? Or "a big Charlie"? These things are old as sin, stuff like this will probably exist forever. Forbid it as much as you want, it will always come back one way or another. Or is the problem that now they "trend female", whereas they historically trended male?

I have a pretty simple name, but because it was used in the title of a popular movie at one point, I've endured jokes about it all my life. What are we going to do, have all characters nameless in media? Of course not.

Sometimes the answer really is "grow a thicker skin". Either that or abandon the "tainted" name, like it happened to Adolph/Adolf.
I think I agree with you and think there's a parallel to other conventional currencies.

Controlling the hash is similar to controlling a central bank - you've got the power to trash your currency, but that's coupled with you probably having the most to lose if you do so.

You could maybe do something stupid short-term - Say you own a controlling amount of hash, but a fraction of the currency. You could seize the currency, but by doing do you devalue it all. Who in their right mind would buy a seized bitcoin from you for any price, knowing you could seize it right back?

Currency equivalent would be the Fed suddenly stating a dollar was worth half-as-much as it was before (compared to some external thing) and compensating all US citizens by doubling their dollar earnings. As a dollar earner/spender you'd notionally be unaffected.

Dollar debt the US owed would be halved - Yay!

However the effect on non-US dollar holders would be cataclysmic - "You made half my money vanish, you might do it again, I don't want to ever hold US dollars again" and bricks of your currency is being used by children worldwide to build forts.

The entire selling point of BTC is that it's outside of conventional government control. If proved otherwise, it's without value.

More realistically, "Chinese Miners" aren't the government. They're miners, who happen to be in China, due to cheap power costs. At the first whiff of any meddling, their ASICs going to be on a plane and plugged into the Hoover Damn or Iceland's geothermals.
The irony is that given that they are such low margin customers, it is likely that a few semiconductor businesses will not end up honoring long term supply guarantees (i.e. by selling off the division), so car manufacturers might not be able to fix them either.
While not completely customizable, it is already configurable. The Alexa/Echo devices currently support 4 wake words - Alexa, Amazon, Computer, and Echo.

I work with an Aleksa that I refer to frequently during calls, and was quite excited when I stumbled on the wake word setting in the Alexa app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26199273
How was this a Black Swan event? This happened in 2011 too.
If you fire your "Ethical AI" team lead for disagreeing with you... maybe you are only interested in the appearance of being ethical. Just a thought.
Google fires second researcher leader
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. I fail to see how it applies in this context
She called the decision (presumably his) to fire Dr. Gebru "obviously very dumb"
It’s a bit like saying a software bug is caused by “differing levels of electricity”.
In the article they discuss that known SSRIs weakly bind a different receptor which may be why they have an antidepressant effect. It would explain why more specific SSRIs that are thought to target serotonin receptors selectively do not work.
That they see a bunch of them doing the same thing is pretty convincing.

to quote:
"Now to the BDNF hypothesis. I used the phrase “unknown mechanism” above, and that’s exactly what this work may have cleared up. The authors show that when the TrkB protein forms a dimer in the cell membrane, a binding site for small molecules is formed at the interface. A whole list of known antidepressants (fluoxetine, imipramine, venlafaxine, moclobemide, ketamine, esketamine, and R,R-hydroxynorketamine) bind to this site at about 1 micromolar levels (and can displace each other in binding assays(, while a set of control CNS compounds like chlorpromazine, diphenhydramine, and indeed S,S-hydroxynorketamine do not. It will not be lost on those who’ve done research in the field that the antidepressant compounds listed above have been thought to work through completely different mechanisms. "
Its google says vs she says - honestly i take neither at face value, but i'd expect repercussions if i started download/sharing internal files en masse.
Everytime someone mentions UO, my heart start racing.

I spent several years within this world, met hundreds of friends I already forgot, tried countless tournaments, fights and lived so many memories.

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but this game showed me, what it means to love something you spend your free time with. Maybe it even transfered somehow to programming later on.
Diversity and inclusion?
That sounds great! I’ve always kept an eye on how Hasura does things. Do you have any open projects using this stack?
Your comment has nothing to do with the post you're replying to. The post asked something very specific:

> How does research in an industrial lab vs. a university work, insofar as independence is concerned?
I wonder if it's because an invented language has a gigantic number of permutations, the frequency of which swamps English-language replies. Then the most likely next word/statement that completes the input prompt is always going to be the latter due to the relative frequencies.
I was saying relative to the range I offered. $0.44 versus the low end of my range at $0.50 is not a very significant difference, so the numbers I was using in my original comment would still be largely valid. It is possible that the transport costs I cited were invalid as those are also from 2005 and may have kept pace with inflation, or it is possible that the authors of that paper did not correct for inflation relative to their earlier cited study from 1993, but that would still only amount to an 84% nominal price increase, so even if we take the absolute worst case interpretation that would be a ~$0.09/m^3 per 100 km versus a $0.44/m^3 which would mean it is only price competitive at ~500 km. If we take a more central position, we could reasonably assume the study accounted for inflation from 1993-2005, so we are only looking at the same nominal 34% increase you mentioned and we should compare against the existing plants in Israel rather than planned plants which are at ~$0.64/m^3. This would be ~$0.065/m^3 versus $0.64/m^3 which is back to price competitive at ~1000 km as I mentioned previously.

My primary point is that piping water in bulk is mind-bogglingly cheap compared to what most people think. In fact, desalination is also mind-bogglingly cheap. The per-capita usage of water in the US is ~2800 m^3, so even if the US had no fresh water and had to get all of it from desalination that would only account for a $1400/person cost increase which is only 4.5% of the median income in the US. However, despite that, piping is even more insanely cheap to such a degree that it is still cheaper to ship it vast distances which is why we continue to deplete freshwater reserves even though desalination is actually an economically viable solution, it is just not market competitive yet.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/graphic-science-h....
Yes, but it is freely accessible and doesn't require you to find a free proxy, which might still be a less secure proposition than Tor on Brave.
They saw Munro's video and shart themselves. Of course they all knew it from public FCC teardowns but Munro really twisted the knife to their investors. https://youtu.be/NOjvYOEaja4?t=88
Your description of Bret Weinstein and Evergreen is substantially inaccurate, perhaps because you read Bret Weinstein's dishonest description of it (linked below).

There was no "no-white-people-on-campus" day. There was an optional off-campus field trip for a seminar aimed at people living with a white perspective.

Bret Weinstein was not fired. He resigned with $500K severance as part of a settlement agreement arising from his lawsuit against the school for failing to protect him from students who verbally harassed him.

Primary Source:
https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Document/1705...

Long-term summary of events: https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/education/article1750...

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein#Evergreen_State...

Likewise, your description of the Gordon Klein incident was grossly inaccurate, even compared to the right-wing NYPost's version of the events:

https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/ucla-suspends-professor-for-re...

He was suspended for unprofessionally mocking his students.
I wonder if other industrial-revolution monopolies in history also led to corporate-disobedience - akin to civil disobedience - where employees intentionally break rules considered unethical.
It's more relevant to call them baby names when considering popularity since that's the age of the person when their name is chosen. This recent decline is only a decline in baby names, not necessarily adult names.
That is actually quite brilliant.

1. The refugee crisis that Germany brought in not only on itself but on the rest of the EU.

2. The same Germany has recently spearheaded a trade deal with the devil.

Germany used nationalism for the wrong reasons (short term gain and long term pain)
Actually it's the opposite. I know my users care more about cross platform support, or any other feature I could whip up, rather than 100MB HDD space.
Hiring an ethics in AI research team presupposes you want to have ethics in your AI. It's disappointing, but not surprising, to find they want a bunch of syncopants. Perhaps they shouldn't have bothered creating the department if they didn't want people working there to speak out.
But then the IMF actually uses a basket of currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights

(which has some similarity to the original libra proposal from FB)
I have serious doubts you actually believe that
Excellent info, thank you!
I've always been searching for another MMO experience. Eve Online was close but not quite the same. While not exactly an MMO experience, Rust is the closet modern approximation that I've experienced.
There is disagreeing with your employer and then flagrantly breaking rules and confidentiality and comparing the two like you are doing here is disingenuous.
Ok maybe not BTC but can it mine something with a lower level of difficulty?
> Had someone on my team decided to write a similar doc like the one Margaret published, I'd have fired them on the spot

I sometimes don't agree with decisions my (present and past) employers have made. But I'd never go to the media or public forums with those disagreements. If I thought it was so important that I had to do that, I'd resign first.

I strenuously avoid making any public comment about my current employer. (Even past employers, I may be a little more open, but I'm still careful about what I publicly say – don't want to violate any confidentiality obligations, and don't want to unnecessarily burn bridges in case I want to seek re-employment or other commercial relations with them in the future.)

If any of my employers (current or past) caught me downloading company documents/emails/etc in order to share them with the media or other external parties – I'd expect to be fired.
Last I remember, our main bottleneck is getting data to the cpu fast enough that it's not idling all day, so icreasing the number of instructions by a large margin sounds counterproductive. It'll be interesting to see where it goes.
A company with 100 000 people will have to quite a number of staff, literally daily, for all sorts of things, it doesn't remotely imply anything about the overall relationship between staff and management.

Even when CNN, MSNBC, Business Insider 'team up' to overrepresent an issue because 'some number of Google employees walked out for some reason' - it really doesn't help tell the story of 'relations' because it's hard to fathom what the rest of the 99% of Google staff think.
I'm not interested in the details of this, but from a distance - people sure do make life difficult for themselves, bringing politics and their opinions and controversy into workplaces. It's always tech and academia, too - you'd think it'd be enough to get just paid shitloads of money for interesting knowledge work and save the drama for friends in the pub (or the bar, or whatever).
Unit Testing as a first-class Citizen
there is a type of reorg attack I proposed that's now been dubbed a "purge attack", that has the effect of destabalising the network by creating a window for all affected users to double spend their previously "finalised" transactions: https://medium.com/deribitofficial/destabilizing-bitcoin-con...
The Evergreen example is incorrect, Bret Weinstein was not fired from Evergreen. He sued the college and resigned as part of a settlement in which he and his wife received a combined $500,000 payout.
No, it's not that simple. The question isn't literally "are you a spy", I'm sure it's a more relaxed version, e.g. "have you ever been employed by a foreign government" or some such. The point is to lower the barrier of proof. The government doesn't have to prove someone is an actual "spy", with the gray area that can entail, only that they lied on the form.

It's a similar idea behind the recent "Have you traded in any cryptocurrency" IRS question on tax returns. The idea is that it prevents anyone from claiming ignorance as to their responsibilities to disclose.
I did not, because I thought enough others had done so already. Asking other people to do your thinking for you is noise, and belongs at the bottom of the thread. It's fine if you can't be bothered to read it right away: HN has a save feature just for that. But don't inflict your laziness on the commons, especially for an article that is so very short.
> because people need to be able to talk about the hegemony of the group that identifies itself as white at the expense of the groups that are excluded from that identification.

The answer to this is to use it only when dealing with people who go around "identifying" themselves as white. You find a "white dating" site, you know they're the jerks, and then we have to have this discussion about why that's stupid and those people suck.

But there is also a modern tendency to use it in entirely other contexts. For example, it's more the rule than the exception that the good school district in an area is gated by high real estate costs. If you can't afford the more expensive house, your kid can't go to the better school.

It's easy to cast this and similar situations in racial rather than economic terms because the people who can't afford the more expensive real estate are disproportionately black. Then you get fake anti-racists talking about "white people" (implying the upper middle class) and "black people" (implying the poor), and for a specific reason.

Because that city will have 30,000 upper middle class "white people" and 25,000 poor "white people" and 25,000 poor "black people" and if the affluent can make it about race rather than economics then they get 55,000 votes to 25,000 in their favor instead of 50,000 to 30,000 against. It's an attempt -- often successful -- to preserve racism to serve as a wedge between poor black people and poor white people who would otherwise see that they have common interests.

Notice how many of the people who do this are college educated "white people" who for inexplicable reasons speak against the self-interest of their supposed ingroup, until you notice that the reason is actually quite explicable.
I understand that but disagree. Moving keycapses may be useful to adapt if you will going to make your job with the new layout immediately, without an option to switch back. Especially when you are living qwerty. Let your friends to type on your kbd to share the good idea about existing of non-qwerties. Let your eyes to love a new layout. BTW Colemak is not so non-qwerty so my opinion it is OK not to move capses for Colemak.
From a developmental economist's perspective: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/india-s-farmers-are-pr...
Try financial times. They are very high on the least biased newspapers list and cover pretty interesting topics,not just finance as one may think. The Economist is okay too,albeit leaning a bit towards their own way of thinking, but covers many parts of the world one wouldn't even be think about
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188710
I realise that the corporatisation of universities and increasing monoculture/groupthink is eroding many of the protections offered to even tenured professors, but that's a different discussion. Do you have anything specific about the topic to add?
So, after all, Google deciding to use "OK, google" as introductory phrase was the better choice?
You’d have to think there was some middle ground between investigating and adding ethical accountability to AI programs and exfiltrating thousands of sensitive files.
Coinbase valued over $100b, revenue numbers disclosed
Facebook uses/used PHP, that scales too. If you make it stateless and use it only as a glue. Dropbox uses Python too. Eve Online used Stackless Python.

Of course Reddit/FB/EVE/Dropbox shards everything, there's no global state to manage via Python. The state lives in the data store layer.

And for that there are these monstrous/elegant things like Vitess, that YouTube used (uses?): https://vitess.io/docs/overview/architecture/ which is basically a sharding/routing layer on top of independent MySQL instances.
F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
Releasing even a single internal document without permission is cause for firing, and possible legal action. I can't even fathom this being up for debate.
First I read this as JPL, which probably the same thing can be said about.