skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that Perseverance is running your standard rad hardened PPC from the late 90's, I think that speaks a bit to the expected lifespan and importance of Ingenuity. If the POC goes well, I expect we will see hardened components in the next revision. Then again, if Ingenuity is doing anything too modern, I doubt a PPC 750 will be able to keep up.
Anti-vaxxers like the President and Vice President?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-covid-19-vaccin...
Are Chinese Miners a Threat to Bitcoin?
You made my day! I worked on Snapdragon 801 many years ago.

It doesn't look like Ingenuity is using its GPU for anything, but knowing thet a tiny bit of the work we did is now on another planet fills me with joy.
Maybe it doesn't need to be quite so married to one particular set of politics.
Yeah but I am interested in looking at the trend line then doing a regression discontinuity analysis.
Miners don't control the price but they control the upgrade. Why would the miner vote (with their hashpower) to upgrade to a PoS consensus and kill their business?
How is Google in the wrong exactly?

Gebru was fired because she gave an ultimatum to her boss threatening to resign if they don't disclose names of all reviewers who criticized her work AND blasted group emails calling for sabotage https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...

Mitchell was fired for exfiltrating thousands of files illegally and sending to external accounts https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/google-targets-ai-ethics-...
Opposing nuclear was the worst strategic mistake made by the environmental movement. We could have been a country that generated 2/3 of its energy needs from nuclear by now. What a missed opportunity.
Make a product and link to it
No, China is not a person with a single will. The assumption/assertion that the mining equipment may as well all be sitting under MSS guard in Beijing is horsecrap.
It seems to me like there is no possible situation where searching (dredged is a weirdly loaded word) through ones own email is a fire able offense. In fact, the idea that one can be fired for reading ones own work email strikes me as kind of absurd and unworkable.

Perhaps there are things one can do with the emails you found that are fireable, that’s beyond my (lack of) legal expertise, but searching? That doesn’t seem right.
Well, the problem with hiring an Ethics specialist will tend to be that they already have a strong ethical compass.
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Thanks for the feedback.

Quip aside, I also learned a lot writing it. Always bet on the Scientific Method and if we know something works, we should have to justify not using it.
> The whole idea of this "Ethics Board" was only ever done for PR

Probably, but this also means that they didn't hire the best people for the job, just the people who would have looked better in the position.
micropython targets huge microcontrollers.

I guess for makers that's not a huge deal though.
It’s a really common refrain here that if you are employee critical of your employer you should expect to get fired…
Well perhaps, but you’d think that specifically someone in AI ethics needs to be empowered to speak up against both internal external issues. Or did google just want an research ethics hit team against other companies technologies?

Makes me wonder if project zero is really trying as hard as possible with googles own products. Clearly it’s impossible to be an independent team at google.
They're making great progress, it works and I have a friend who otherwise doesn't work in Linux happily use it on his homelab server.

For anyone experienced it's probably just a hinderance.
A right to free speech, and freedom from employer discrimination due to political beliefs.
It seems like she was passing stuff on outside of Google, but then we don't really know the details of those activities to know if it was an inappropriate action.
The parent said:

> 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.

I was referring to "releasing", in general, as it was written in the comment. Obviously the protection is very conditional on how exactly it is done.
There are residential air source heat pumps that can work well at those temperatures. Mitsubishi has some [1] that provide 100% capacity down to 23 F and then fall off fairly linearly to 76% capacity at -13 F. Fujitsu has some [2] that go down to -15 F.

It's probably a good as people's existing systems reach replacement age to replace them with that kind of system.

[1] https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/articles/technology/keep-w...

[2] https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/residential/technology/xlt...
“My employer is doing something wrong” is not a political belief
By the way the point I’m making is about echo chambers not women being wiser than men. If you are the only white man in the room the same rule might hold. I feel like people are making an excessively shallow reading of what I just wrote.
What exactly did they contributing to their major field of research? I saw too many fake Dr.s
Somehow Microsoft Research manages to be a much more open place than Google and has researchers publish critical pieces all the time. It's ultimately a bit sad that Google, the company started by two PhD students, is incapable of creating a similar culture to MSR.
A part about "bad" designs regularly winning both in software and in hardware: https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=556

Jim Keller's thoughts of the relationship between productivity and chaos: https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=1468

His father's later years: https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=1726

The fast and slow versions of Moore's Law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4&t=2572s

On Chris Lattner and Swift: https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=3961

Do you dream? https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=6114

Advice to young people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4&t=8155s
just make sure you have everything configured correctly on your system if using UUIDs:

https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80

In the types of systems that need UUIDs there is probably no easy way to check for collisions. The prospect of mystery data corruption with no ability to trace it down frightens the hell out of me.

The only reason that issue was reported is because someone was actually doing the collision checking. That's not going to be the norm in UUID systems. Think about it.
Can we, maybe, look at antibiotics instead? There is enough cancer money sloshing around, cancer research is very profitable, in this field the market actually works. But the antibiotic crisis is on our doorstep, and for pharmaceuticals of last resort the market system fails badly.
In what will be an entirely self-serving, "everything is evidence for my existing worldview" claim...

...I would promote race-blindness as the solution to this. The more we talk about and focus on race, especially in a zero-sum context like "buy black-owned", the worse the racial tensions and competition will become.

People confuse cultural power with economic power...just because many powerful people/businesses support black enterprise right now, doesn't mean the wider society will just blindly follow with fists full of cash.

Racism is terrible. "Antiracism", with no regard to the actual outcomes, is hardly better. These businesses were not being harassed by awful people until Google tried to leverage them over their non-black-owned competitors.
Link to the actual court document:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265...
another way to frame it is she got fired for transferring a bulk dump of her corporate email to someone outside the company. I'm extremely sympathetic to the cause but I don't think it does any good to have such a blinkered approach to what happened
They fired another person whose LITERAL job is to help them not be evil.

Before long people won't believe it if you tell them Google's initial motto was "Don't Be Evil."
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Morality is not incompatible with free will.

Needlessly killing all criminals is unjust because it devalues human life, and the right of individuals to exist.
You don't need agency to experience happiness, love, intrigue, or anything else that makes life worth living.
> What I'd love to see is a "106% keyboard", where a couple columns are duplicated on both the left/right side. Does anybody make such a keyboard?

I've seen some where the '6' is present on both the left and right-hand side of a split keyboard but '6' is really the one and only key on which there can be a disagreement as to where is the correct placement.

On non-staggered keyboard the '6' is, of course, on the right hand side of the keyboard but on staggered split keyboard it is, very often, on the left hand side.

Most split keyboards in that gallery that do have a numbers row (ie 60% of more, not 40%) do have the '6' correctly located on the right hand side.

Yet most (not all) split-staggered keyboard have the '6' located on the left hand side of the keyboard.

People who learned to touch-type using the "6 with left hand" school have a very hard time adapting to an ortholinear split keyboard. While those who learned to touch-type using the "6 with the right hand" have a much easier time adapting to an ortholinear split keyboard.
Unfortunately, free speech protections are generally to protect you from government action that may suppress speech, while private entities have a lot more discretion.
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> What are you going to eat then?

18% of California irrigation water is used for alfalfa as livestock feed and is exported to other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California#Uses_of_wa...
Of course. Few people are willing to actually put their money where their mouth is.
Free speech is almost purely limited to interactions with a state. Why are people trying to shoehorn it into everything?
I’m not familiar with tor, but isn’t it possible to run it on a pi and route traffic through it? This way nothing would leak. Are there any disadvantages of that?
To me it is important to start recalling my dream as literally the first thing after I wake up. Anything else... and the dream is probably lost.

It helps to have enough sleep, not wake up with an alarm, not have anything important to do after waking up. Have a pen and paper next to the bed, to remind you. Think about how you want to remember your dream, as you are falling asleep.
I have been looking for a keyboard, but fails to find one.
- ergonomics
- wireless (bluetooth or a tiny USB dongle is OK)
- mechanical keys
- mac cmd-key
- below $200 USD

I am not sure why it is so difficult to find one like that :-(
" tying executive pay companywide to diversity and inclusion efforts." - how does this work? I cannot imagine the CTO doing recruiting of minorities to meet diversity targets instead of doing the work one was hired for. I saw this happening in other companies and that had devastating effects on hiring quality, employee morale and productivity.
The gulf between "I know what I am supposed to say" and "I truly believe in this" grows wider by the day.

Rarely do people resign out of principle...but when you're claiming that your employer actively does evil and harms the least among us, and then continue to work for them, it is obvious that you are either entirely without morals OR you are saying what is socially rewarded to say, without meaning it.

Neither position is good for the soul.
> In a university, aside from well-defined ethics guidelines for conducting research (e.g., involving animal or human subjects), staff are generally free to publish the findings of their research at any venue they see fit.

I'm not sure what university were you at where that was true - academia is horribly political (in many ways more than corporations in some ways less) and until you get tenure your job is to put up and shut up. Your career is dependant on good recommendation letters and goodwill of quality advisors.

Attacking your organization, supervisor or lab will end your career faster than Google cancels products.

Even after you gain tenure, you're still dependant on external funding to keep your research going and employ postdocs and other researchers. That funding disappears really quickly if you decide to start an assault against your organization or people paying you. Like these Googlers did.
Bitcoin holders will probably migrate their funds to wBTC and live on Ethereum.
The firing seem related to a conflict between CRT morals and normative western moral systems. The ethics researcher in question seem to subscribe to the Critical Race Theory way of looking at the problem, "it's not a question if X is present, but how it manifest", which is in direct opposition with normative western morals.
There are no miners in a PoS chain, and PoS participants technically have nothing to lose through double forging. There are myriad different ways to find and punish the bad actors in such a situation. I don't claim to know about all of them, however they all make the same assumption you made that staked validators are rational people who look after their interest on the blockchain. But what if they are not rational, or worse, could make gains by disrupting the chain?

This is far from a solved problem, and this is the reason why PoS coins exist mostly on the fringe and ETH is taking very slow baby steps towards a ETH2. Nobody is certain that PoS will stand the test of time and my prediction is that it never will.

One might argue that they don't have to worry about anything judging from how well exchanges has been able to coordinate with the developers to pick a side whenever a major fork is spotted. But then it calls into the question whether we actually need a blockchain when a couple of interested party are the ones who gets to decide which fork is valid.
Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps (2020)
quoting from your wikipedia link. ...

> the event asked white participants to stay off campus

That by itself is illiberal and ludicrous.
They want to discourage people from doing the things with which she is charged; lying on visa applications, obstructing justice, and making false statements. Those all seem like good goals to me?
> What is the Department of State up to?

Is not enforcing existing law one of their functions?
As the cancel culture supports love to point out, freedom of speech is freedom from government persecution, not freedom from consequences.
"Google fires another AI ethics leader."

Somewhat loaded title, as it implies a previous one was fired, which was not at all established as the case.
Is it fair to say this is a subset of the general problem of majoritary-consensus networks (which includes PoW, PoS, PoA, PoR, PoET, and PoTS cryptocurrencies)? https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2020.2969706
problem is you'd then need to place them quite far apart from each other (while many of the "fixed" split keyboard have each half only slightly tilted) but... From an USB point of view I think this just works?
To quote many commenters when this has happened to people on the wrong side of the political divide:

"Well, they're a private company and they can fire who they want to." Or if you prefer, "freedom of speech doesn't apply to companies".

Personally, I think this weird mash-up of the personal and the private has landed us in a new and fresh hell and it's only going to get worse. Eventually we'll need to find a way out or we'll get to the zainy ends of your employer firing you because of the way you voted or what you wrote in your diary - but we need to be consistent in our separation between personal and corporate.
Would be useful for vector graphics or fonts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449

"This is literally what Slack moved from years ago, because it was very problematic, let me tell you why since I'm the one who did it.

* Adding new APIs was a huge pain in the ass, you had to write all of this ugly bridge code in Objective C, and the APIs ended up being super unnatural on the JS side. As a result, desktop integration wasn't done much since it felt like a "Black Magic" type thing. Writing new APIs in Electron is Just JavaScript, so you can make something much more natural.

* We could literally do fuck-all for people running old versions of macOS - you can't upgrade Safari on old machines, you just Get What You Get. For awhile, every YouTube video on older macOS versions had a pink shade to it. Users write in, "This is clearly wrong!" "Yep, but we can't fix it. Sorry."

* And big spoiler - WKWebView uses _basically_ the same amount of memory give-or-take a few MBs as Chromium. It's the content that sets the memory usage bar, not the host. "
If she did not do that, I am sure she could sue Google for libel.
I wouldn't be surprised to find more companies shifting to a "leave politics and religion at the door" stance again: https://jakeseliger.com/2020/12/03/dissent-insiders-and-outs...
That's one of the main reasons to use a media center. Kodi will do that. Jellyfin for AndroidTV will do that.

Others like VLC only do motion interpolation, and some work is ongoing for VRR support (notably, AMD GPUs on Linux, but they work with Low Framerate Compensation so it's conside red hacky and with a higher power draw).

Of course, higher refresh rates are better, but it's quite wasteful anyway if you only have a 24 FPS. Moreover, not evvery mode is a multiple of that.
Free speech is a moral value. The First Amendment is limited to the Government.
1) GMail

2) My https://www.usertrack.net dashboard

3) HackerNews

4) StackOverflow

5) https://indiehackers.com/
That's a weird and telling use of the word resignation, that says a lot about your mindset.

Either you didn't mean that word, or you projected into parents' comment something that you believe but that he didn't say nor seem to believe himself.
It's not an error, it's a different (yet common) usage of the word "inflation" to mean expansion of the money supply, rather than the more common usage meaning a decrease in the purchasing power of money.
The "?" operator doesn't turn them into exceptions, it's just a "return-early-if-error" shortcut. The main difference being that the caller still has to handle the error of a function using "?". (even if it's by punting further up the call stack with more "?", which you could argue is exactly how exceptions work, but it is at least explicit in what functions can fail and which don't)
Bankrupt engineer Levandowski is hiding millions from creditors
I don’t think it’s just for PR, I think any organisation that invests heavily into the development and use of ML/AI needs wants to keep a close eye on whether the outcomes are in line with positive humanistic values.

I don’t know how these ethics professionals added value to Google. I _do_ know that repeatedly belittling your CEO and employer on a public forum might win you lots of virtue signalling points but not be constructive for the company paying you a salary.
> There are a lot of things in industrial automation that cost more than they should. Motors with encoders, for example.

Not really. Motors with encoders aren't really much different in price from the alternatives at industrial sizes.

What you do see is that the transition from hobbyist machines to production machines is quite a significant price change. The jump from, say, a Tormach to a Haas is almost x10 (about $10,000 to $100,000).

This is not a surprise. Those machines are expected to run 24/7 and, if they don't, people are going to get angry and reputations come into play.

This space is optimized for production and if you're not, you're the outlier. Pre-Covid I accidentally tripped a Sunday delivery at the office from one of the machine tool suppliers--scared the hell out of me when someone knocked on my office door at 3:00PM on a Sunday. The delivery guy was just as confused--he had never delivered to such a nice office area. We both had a good chuckle about it all.

(Side anecdote: I had a really nice conversation with the late founder of Tormach many moons ago at a LittleMachineShop open house about servomotors vs steppers. He was quite blunt--the issue wasn't motor cost but customer service cost. His customer service budget would need to go up about $300K per year for about 3 years every time he introduced or changed some major machine feature. So, any change needed to earn $1M over 3 years and then be net positive after that in order to get implemented. Servomotors wouldn't pass that threshold--so unless a competitor forced him to, that upgrade wasn't happening.)
Please don't post duplicate comments to HN. It strictly lowers signal/noise ratio and makes merging threads a pain.
Except the trust of the currency itself, as if you're attacking a currency you have a lot of stake in, you reduce the value of your stake because you attacked it.
I agree, however that is part of the argument for why Electron RAM usage should be compared against browser tabs, instead of assuming that Electron must be using a lot more ust on principle because it's separate.
Ethereum doesn't store Bitcoin wallets. I'm assuming you mean tokenized BTC (wBTC/rBTC)?
is "black-owned business" not an opt-in flag?
If I am understanding you correctly, dark patterns are meant to be a psychological hit to you, it's not tech savvyness but clarity of mind and knowing that most every big business out there wants to make money off you and will do anything to get that money. This is a huge reason I am not on Facebook (among others, including the standard ones), and other social media platforms. I investigate claims myself, and do not trust what is thrown at me. Perhaps this is the biggest reason dark patterns have never worked on me. Also keeping a strong privacy/security setup that you don't compromise on helps too.
I thought life sucked and was on anti anxiety medications for year then realized I was simply allergic to half the food I was eating.

Your ancestors and my ancestors stuck around long enough to reproduce and raise their kids without offing themselves from depression, has something changed to make the environment less conducive to being a living human?
2 was always better than 3
Is there a reason why successfully running software on a server is so much harder than running software on your phone?

I don't think it needs to be this way. Someone needs to figure out server software for consumers.

Just like PCs became more accessible, so should servers!

Edit:
Brainstorming here: specifically, I'd like a more accessible UI, automatic updates, sensible defaults on all apps, an easier way to get started and so on.
Agreed. Arguments about relative agency is just pattern matching behavior to expectations.

Justice shouldn't be based on the violation of expectations. It should be based on maximizing harm prevention.
The Thunderf00t video is wrong, see my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36o4UrS9OS4
I agree that employees should be allowed to criticize their employers, but there's nothing inherent to an Ethics specialist that would weight things even more in that direction. Ostensibly, she was hired to report internally on ethics considerations. Unless part of her job description was to liaise with the public on those ethical issues, public exposure would come as a bit of a surprise to her employer.