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I was in a call with an Alexa on Zoom and every time anyone mentions her name, my Echo would be triggered. I had to go mute Echo for the entire duration.
She was fired for violating company confidentiality, anything she says otherwise about her gender, race, culture, etc is just a deflection, but it’s probably coming.
She gave a talk at my school once, she was invited by my then advisor. This was in 2017 right after she left MSR. We had a brief change, and even back then you can tell she’s not into kowtowing to the patriarchy. It’s quite hard for ambitious women in compsci, they have to walk a tight edge between firm and “motherly”. Men have no such constraints.

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Clarification: I’m speaking about women researchers in an academic setting in general. And hoping to lend a bit of detail on this researcher as a person.
NewsBlur (newsblur.com). If you're a site that requires regular visitation, and you don't have an RSS feed, you don't exist to me.

(HackerNews RSS via http://hnapp.com/, FYI)
Why can't there be a docker-like Electron running a base version of Chromium with additional layers for other versions support for different apps on top of it? This would both save more resources and lower each app's bundle size significantly.
> But this killer is also very much a slave to their brain in the same way as the tumour individual.

I think there’s an element of, ironically, survivorship bias there. We notice psychopathic serial killers because they kill people, and then we say they lack agency like the tumor victim. But the psychopaths who don’t kill people are invisible. We just call them CEOs (jk, but only kind of).
Based on the feedback here it may soon be time to do a follow-up talk on MindsDB at a future ClickHouse meetup. :)
She was Google's other AI ethics lead. There were two (the other was Timnit Gebru), now there aren't any, I guess.
The bio still mentions the position:

> Founder/Lead, Google Ethical AI team; Interdisciplinary researcher focused on shaping AI towards long-term positive goals.

The pinned tweet from Feb 6:

> I am concerned about @timnitGebru
's firing from Google and its relationship to sexism and discrimination. I wanted to share the email I wrote to Google press the day my access was cut off.

No reason to speculate without more details. I'm sure if it was unfair we'll get a follow-up (from her).
A $5 VSP server hosts all the social networking I need and it's owned and controlled by me.

I think people overestimate the value that Facebook gives them because of the social graph it holds ransom.
There is unfair == against current employment law and norms.

There is unfair == legal but retaliatory.

There is unfair == legal, not retaliatory but stupid.

Are you a reductionist, arguing

There is no evidence this is unfair

because to me, strict evidence aside,the causal chain as told in public strongly suggests its retaliatory,and, due to underlying issues which go to academic view of freedom and peer support

Or are you just unwilling to accept this could be legal, but unfair and stupid?

Nobody really knows is often better said as "this is speculative" if you don't like speculative statements, fine too. I love 'em. I'm not assuming this is unfair dismissal but it sure as hell looks retributive.
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The entire multi-billion BTC ecosystem is built on software that still hasn't reached "Version 1.0"? Bitcoin Core 0.21? A development beta? LOL.
> via a wargame

Oh, I know, I know! "The only winning move is not to play"
I feel the need to mention, whenever leftpad comes up, that it's impossible for that incident to ever happen again. Packages can no longer be unpublished after a brief window (48 hours I think?), so if you lock to specific patch numbers your dependencies are effectively immutable
Alexa, Karen, Chad...Yours could be next.
you mean apart from her twitter bio next to that tweet (or a tap away, depending on how you access twitter) stating:

"Founder/Lead, Google Ethical AI team; Interdisciplinary researcher focused on shaping AI towards long-term positive goals. Opinions my own."
> but even that is not 100% safe, especially when it comes to forensic labs with the ability to read and analyze platters removed from a complete, sealed disk.

No, this is completely impossible and noone has ever done it. (An exception would be HDDs with bad block mapping because they might not actually erase some sector.)

SSDs don't even have platters and you could probably recover things from the flash, but you can avoid this with disk encryption by simply losing the keys.

> Really safe deleters will overwrite the segments of memory multiple times to scramble magnetic signatures

Deletion programs do this because it looks cool. It's not necessary - literally noone has ever recovered anything from a zeroed out HD sector.
Agree, the electricity for the mining is even more centralised. That really is the point of control on this whole thing.
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Also healthcare and education.

It also destroys the wealth of those not holding assets and robs the poor by lowering their inflation adjusted income.
Tip: Messenger.com is a stand alone facebook messenger webapp.

No need to load all of facebook.com
No PoS algorithm has yet managed to solve the Nothing-at-stake problem, nor are they any more resistant to the abovementioned kind of hostile takeover by the nation state player compared to PoW.

I can't speak for every PoS coin out there but Cardano/Ouroborous explicitly assumes partial synchrony which is arguably never a good idea for a supposedly permissionless blockchain.
Cheap solar in the west (California, Arizona, Nevada) coupled with desalination plants. We'll be fine for *urban/residential* water needs for the foreseeable future.
The platters I've seen are aluminum alloy.
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What I'm hearing you say is 'eat more bacon'.

Sorry what was that? You're breaking up. I'm off to the store, ttyl.
Related: Being married to an actual Siri made it easy for us to rule out one of the home automation platforms. (I asked, but somehow she didn’t feel like changing her name.)
Baseless accusations aside, please see my reply elsewhere in this thread for a response.
Germany actually halted military service a couple of years ago. There are talks of reintroducing a more universal service but so far that has not happened.
If you are careful yes. Doing job shop work (making other peoples parts) is hard to make a good profit as people expect overseas dumping rates.

The real profit comes from making your own products, as then you can force competition to also build their own factory to compete. By having lean production we can have a very large part catalog without having large amounts of inventory for low sales velocity parts.

We have at least a hundred variants that may only sell a dozen or two $100 parts per year, but they only cost us a line in the catalog to maintain the SKU. Since the products are for industrial use, most of our customers like the fact that we have in some cases been making the exact same part for nearly 30 years, which encourages them to design our products into theirs as we never discontinue products, so they don’t have to re-engineer theirs (our products in turn get used in machinery that might have a 10-100 unit/year global market).
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> Flash, of course, is different. I suspect that writing zeros/random once is probably enough.

SSDs won't necessarily actually erase a block when you tell them to, due to wear-leveling and weird internal RAID setups they could be doing anything in there.
Using Haskell style IO types - couldn't we lift and shift anything at build time between a network call and a function call? Monolith that could shard at any function boundary into microservices.
For a second I read it as GNU Propulsion Laboratory.
Least favorite would definitely be California campaign finance data.
I've never moonlighted, but I agree about the approachability.

Some time ago I lived in an industrial city with lots of small machine shops and especially lots of Screw Machine shops. I found that they really appreciated that I was interested in what they did and were willing to show me around.

Fast forward to about a year or two ago and I had to call on a prospective customer with a sales person. I didn't know until I got there that they were a branch of a well known workholding manufacturer and our contact offered to give me a tour of their machine shop. Pure heaven: I've never seen such a collection of modern, massive machine tools. The toolchanger alone on one of these machines was bigger than most VMC's I had ever seen. Their pallets were multiple feet long (not even sure if you call them pallets at that point) and ran on external tracks from machine to machine. Easily the biggest lights-out shop I've ever seen.

That was by far the most fun part of the sales call :-)
Here [0] is the paper describing the hardware of Ingenuity in more detail

Things that stand out to me: It uses mostly off-the-shelf electronic components that are only automotive/industrial grade!

- 2.26 GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 801

- Texas Instruments TMS570LC43x (2x for tolerance)

- Sony 18650 LiIon batteries

- Zig-Bee to communicate with the rover

The only part that is somewhat special is the radiation tolerant FPGA ProASIC3 that ties everything together and takes care of power cycling other components when they lock up.

Too bad that they probably will only fly it a few times as the rover has to move on and it's just a tech demo. I so wish it will follow Perseverance on her mission, that would be so awesome to see. It's certainly capable of doing that!

0: https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/46229/CL%2317...
You are correct, thanks for providing those sources.
> previously you were pretending the term "infect" is neutral.

Nope.

I said "`Infect` accurately describes a particular view of GPL."

This is true, and it says nothing about that point of view being neutral. In fact, quite the opposite.
I'm completely the opposite. 50 years old and I have never once in my life remembered a dream. Never. I see things about dreams, such as this like, as interesting, but can relate to them at all, because they are things that happen to other people. I assume I have dreams, but when I wake up, I never have any recall of them.
Not withstanding what you say, how do you counter this with related responses to your parent comment which note corporate research is legally bound and ownership vests strongly in IP law and not your research your brain.
We don't have a scientifically proven method to greatly reduce body fat over the long term. (Yes, that includes calorie counting, keto, or whatever other fad diet.) Until we do there isn't much that officials and healthcare providers can to except give out diet and exercise advice that people won't follow.
>No, this is completely impossible and noone has ever done it.

Pedantic devil's advocate - nobody has claimed to do it. When dealing with international espionage and possibly the DoD or DHS examining the drive, I wouldn't bet on that assumption.
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Chad and Dick too
This is one reason why US visa application forms include a question which basically asks "Are you a spy?". Which might seem silly because obviously a real spy would never answer yes. But the real point of the question is that if the government finds later that someone lied on the form it becomes easier to charge them with a crime or deport them.

Edit: some of you take comments way too literally so for your benefit here is the exact question on form DS-160.

"Do you seek to engage in espionage, sabotage, export control violations, or any other illegal activity while in the United States?"
"it's harmful" and."I don't like it" doesn't make it unsucessful. Cigarettes are wildly successful. Thousands of people, from uninteresting individuals to billionaires and banks, are spending their resources to engage with it.
Can you point me to some sites where I can use NFT's to get loans?
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Thanks. Your comment got me to wondering about the almond harvest's impact.

Quick inference from the top hits:

almonds use 10% of the water to generate 12% of the revenue

compared to rice, almonds use 40% more water and generate x3 the dollar per acre-foot.

https://fruitgrowers.com/what-california-crops-use-the-most-...

https://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CA-Ag-Water-U...

So while growing almonds in California is insane ecologically, it's pretty damn good economically.
Try being called Beavis in the 90s with MTVs show.
As written, it's obvious you should be doing something else like `values()` or `values_list()`. You're much more likely to fall victim to this anti-pattern if it's done within a standard for-loop that has a bunch of other stuff going on. I just wrote it as a list comprehension to avoid having to muck about with formatting on my phone.
Nothing like a lying RWNJ blaming wind turbines for the energy systems liabilities.
I made a site that shuffles my list of daily reads

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/

I bookmark https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/redirect so I can click it to "channel surf" the web
... yes ? That's how debate works
considering that there are no market forces at play in the universities, it is almost guaranteed that intellectual freedom is much lesser due to the very polarizing, take no prisoners approach currently in place.

Dissent is not being tolerated, when in former times, it even used to be welcome.
> doing a lot of undos and redos makes the history quickly unwieldy to navigate

Are you aware of the `undo-only` (and `undo-redo`) functions? They make it a breeze to navigate even the most complex undo history.
Here[1] is a document she wrote on the subject of Dr. Timnit Gebru's recent firing from Google.

1 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ERi2crDToYhYjEjxRoOzO-uO...
I'm very aware of that, and I think the availability of such powerful hand computers is a very important development, one that changes many things and holds enormous potential for improving the human condition. That's one reason I think it's important who's in charge of who gets to use these tools to speak, because that's going to privilege certain voices and suppress others. In addition to directly hurting the people suppressed, suppressing too many voices leads to collectively irrational decisions like the catastrophic mishandling of the covid pandemic in America and Europe.

I don't want hand computers to go away. I just want them to be loyal to their owners, not to their manufacturers.
Don't worry the wake word will be customizable soon enough;
Signal is the bare minimum and can run along side Element and ActivityPub just fine.

If you want to avoid Google Play-Services then Element and ActivityPub are much easier to use.
I can't help but imagine the rover crash landing on Mars due to a forced windows system update that wasn't able to be delayed.
"Low serotonin" was never the actual medical position on why antidepressants worked, it was marketing. The medical position is "we don't know why they work"; some antidepressants actually lower serotonin (SNRI) and some increase it (SSRI) and they both seem to help.

Also, they take weeks to take effect which doesn't make sense for a neurotransmitter effect, since Adderall (which raises dopamine) works instantly for ADHD.

I've heard theories that just doing anything to your brain knocks it out of state enough to stop being depressed (eg psychadelics do this), or that antidepressants actually improve your sleep quality and your brain cleans itself up over time.
I had an account for YEARS here. One day I was shadow banned because I accidentally responded to the wrong comment, it was just out of context, and boom. Found out a f’n year later when some nice person told me I was banned. I spent so much time and effort “helping” people for nothing during that year. I don’t help anymore as that was a d** move. I’ll probably be banned again for this comment.
They sent one but it crashed because mission control were still only halfway through reading the EULA when it reached Mars after 8 months of flight.
I don't know, I think when someone is acquired, there are two things going on:

- people have finally cashed out so motivations are changing

- an investment has been made, so people start accepting business goals are important.

So reading this story I wonder if EA is the villain here, or human nature.

Now I do blame EA for popcap. I'll never forgive Plants vs Zombies 2 with literal pricetags in dollars on all the plants.
No power controlling Bitcoin is a good thing (at least for Bitcoin). That's true for China, who could force its miners to do what it wants, as it is for the US, which could make it arbitrarily hard to transact or hold BTC (and which also has the habit if imposing sanctions on other states' entities).
what makes you assert that were she male, she would have gotten different treatment in this case? genuinely asking..
It may be 0.21 but it is one of the best reviewed software in tbe worls for security issues. Also there's a trillion dollar bounty especially on the public signature infrastructure.
It is curious how the trauma from his kidnapping is considered different than if he had been a 2nd generation war criminal.

Presumably the child of a war criminal would also have suffered trauma in youth, but there would no consideration of mercy, or sympathetic longform articles for the 30something 2nd generation war criminal. They would be simply be treated as evil.
Exactly.

The other machine adventures are not even on planets :)
To their credit, when they write about Los Angeles they usually prepare by re-watching "LA Story" and writing about the tourist spots they visited 15 years ago. In this case they actually had a writer on the ground in Texas.
"Favorite" is probably the wrong word but the most 'insightful' data viz could be the one that shows the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on different racial groups. Here's an example for San Francisco. https://missionlocal.org/2021/02/2-19-tracker/
That's why we sent GPL software. It will destroy the alien civilization from within!
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I don’t think just an ssh client is exactly what he is going for/talking about. Check out the GitHub he references further on down in this thread.
Looks like you can schedule HealthKit exports with this app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/health-auto-export-json-csv/id...
Yes agreed. There is no good solution. True hate speech is one of the reasons we can’t have good things. But “hate speech” is a cudgel used to control people and get them used to being controlled.

That said, things like speed limits for example. We all on principle agree to this type of enforcement. One via the licensing and second via legislation. We could make changes if we thought it important enough.

Look at prop 47. People erroneously thought we were prosecuting too many minor thefts. So the law was changed. Now many people are looking to reverse it given the unintended consequences. Point is, at least we can affect legislation directly. Not so with ToSes unless Congress takes up the issue -which so far they are loath to do.
I just love that they have different "patterns", which truly makes this a flexible platform.

I'm personally a big fan of the "Lockdown" [0] pattern, which avoids spinning up a local server and has a far more conservative security model.

[0] https://tauri.studio/en/docs/usage/patterns/lockdown
The relationship between the United States and Israeli, Finnish, and German militaries is slightly different to the one with the Chinese.
We are writing checks that we cannot cash for our future, and they will bounce
Totally agree about not providing ammo and my personal philosophy is if you, pardon my french, didn’t have the balls to say it in-person, you should not put it in writing on 360 review (or whatever MBA name they use for this in your org). Especially when it comes to peers or folks below you (doing that to higher ups is just not smart to begin with).

It’s kind of a delicate dance though because they try to twist your arm with a “what can they improve?” section
Eating cholesterol doesn't affect your levels of internal cholesterol.

(Do people who like bacon know they can just eat chashu?)
Just switched from npm to yarn and I love it. Thanks for your work.
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Kill your managers. Sawing off their heads is a good thing. You could have stopped the next 9/11 or financial crisis. But you didn't.

Decapitate the corporate psychopath Cankut Orakcal at Bloomberg
L.P. You can stop the coronavirus pandemic. Sever his head at 200 E 90th St 28F.
Where is the briny/salty water in ariz/nev? Cal, yes, lots.
Under the maladaptive neuroplasticity theory which motivates the BDNF connection, I think anxiety could be taken into account naturally: just as depression is a maladaptive persistent overlearned estimate of the world as threatening, unrewarding, and pointless, which persists despite regular experiences which should falsify those beliefs and lead to learning (but doesn't), anxiety is persistent overestimation of risks which persist despite regular experiences of dangerous risks not happening which should lead to learning (but doesn't). So if boosts to neuroplasticity can help a depressive learn that life doesn't suck, it makes sense if boosts could also help an anxious person learn that life isn't so dangerous.
Excellent news
Not really disagreeing with you, but Hacker News guidelines prohibits making negative comments about a person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Everyone is biased, so it would be far more productive to just refute the central point, which in the case of mrzimmerman's comments on this thread (as you may realize) is rather straightforward[1] to do.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[1] For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198380
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Great read. Loved the part on a "good activation definition." Rallying a team behind this is key...
In what sense it is an alternative to ElectronJS?

If size than not that much as Tauri is based on Node.JS that is 56 Mb executable by itself.

Yet Node.JS is pure C/C++ code. It is not clear what does "written in Rust" mean at all and what benefits Rust provides in that setup.

For the comparison: my scapp.js.exe ( https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk#demos ) that is Sciter.JS packaged as standalone exe without dependencies is of size 5.3mb - at least 10 times less than Node.JS, Tauri and ElectronJS.

That exe includes HTML/CSS, QuickJS (ES2020) engines and essential portions of Node.JS runtime: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/docs/md/m...

So is the question above, alternative in what sense?
> Within the next year, let those of us in positions of privilege and power come to terms with the discomfort of being part of an unjust system

If you have this pinned to your Twitter (on 2/5) about your employer why are you still working there and not resigning? It took Google 14 days to fire her, which I suppose is the typical two weeks notice since that date.
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Debate is literally all about contrasting opinions.

>I feel X is the solution to Y!

>No! Z is clearly the solution to Y.