skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They literally denied firing her to begin with, stating that they had instead had simply accepted her resignation.

Gebru sent a conditional resignation(ultimatum) letter to Google. Google rejected those conditions and accepted her resignation. Whether or not you count that as resigned or fired is a definitional issue. But legally there are many jurisdictions that consider an ultimatum letter a resignation. The general rule has been "Would a reasonable person who read this letter conclude they had the intention of quitting if their conditions were not met?". And Gebru's letter really made it seem like she has every intention of quitting if her conditions were not met.

So this is definitely not lying in an easily verifiable way.

> No I'm saying there's probably more information that we're missing that completely changes the circumstances (as was the case if you only looked at Google's statements on Gebru's firing).

This is probably true, I'm not saying we know the whole story. I'm arguing that it is highly probably(>90%) she exfiltrated data from Google.

> The word on the street is that she saw a wrongful termination coming and made backups of emails to discuss with her lawyers.

This might be entirely possible, but this also gave them reason to terminate her so it seems like a very bad move.
HVAC systems. The outgoing air goes through a heat exchanger to transfer heat to the colder incoming air.
Dr Gebru was talking with a lawyer before they fired her. Mitchell was likely contributing to the case because she herself was experiencing retaliation from Google. At this point it doesn’t really matter if it goes to the press or ends up in a complaint—- Google’s retaliation here is illegal. You can’t reproach an employee for simply talking to a lawyer and that’s exactly what Jeff Dean and co did.
Accusing a fired employee in such a public way of stealing documents could be argued to be blowing up her career forever. That's maybr 20 years at let's say 600k/year, ballpark what someone her level was making there (maybe even low, sheay have been L7+). That's a chunky enough defamation suit that it shouldn't be hard to find a really solid firm to defend you on spec, and it'd be worth enough that it would be pretty crazy not to pursue.

So I guess we'll find out, when she either files this suit or does not. But if you were a lawyer at Google, would you have let this statement go out without quadruple demanding to see the proof?
The more nodes you put the more crazy the motion.
There is also servo, which may not be as complete as Chromium, but is definitely interesting architecture wise, especially with the number of virtual machines and compilers written in Rust these days.
The chart here provides context:

https://twitter.com/JohnStCapital/status/1362859527230672896

In case the tweet is deleted, a summary. Coinbase is now being valued at over half the combined market value of the companies that collectively own most major global markets outside of China. Those markets trade everything from currencies to stocks and bonds to commodities.

For scale of asset pools: The value of all Bitcoins ever mined just hit $1 trillion. The CME Group exchanges trade nearly 6x that daily. This funding values Coinbase ~50% higher than CME Group.
Anyone can promise anything they want. I prefer to lean on my track record. Not a lot of sites can brag about staying continuously online and not losing data for over a decade (exceptions include stavros right here on HN, who runs a competing site to mine). Pinboard is certainly business performance art, but part of the schtick is taking it seriously.
No, they just hired the wrong people. They employed political activists instead of real professionals which was initially great for PR. Not the best long term decision they've made.
Koreader is said to run on the rm2. The ddvk hacks are pretty good either. I don't know about the state of alternative launchers though.

The onyx boox have bluetooth and you can connect as keyboard to it and since they have access to the play store you could probably also run vim on it. This is something I miss on the rm2.
Why would you skim the web, when there are manpages? OFC their quality and usefulness varies, depending on UNIXoid platform.

From my point of view this skimming the web for documentation started with/came from the countless Microsoft users. One still don't need to skim the web with good manpages.
the sun with its magnetic force lines?
Couldn’t sink an iceberg shaped like Swiss cheese.
It's usable, but only just, and you have to fiddle with your colorscheme (most of the defaults are unusable for some colors).

My major problem with basically all the BOOX devices is they're violating the GPL by not releasing their kernel/uboot sources.[1]

[1]: http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/install-linux-or-alterna...
Qt is (still) very good at being cross platform and native looking. Actually, I think qml is easier than the webstack for newbies, perhaps not C++ though.
Having kosher food doesn't mean we can't have ham. People eat other things at Christmas anyway. And calling it a holiday party doesn't take anything away from anyone.
The slaves themselves had many a rebellion and uprising and ran away without assistance, they didn't need the Quakers or anyone else to tell them what the "standard of the day" was.

Wikipedia article on Maroons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons?wprov=sfla1

Read Aptheker's American Negro Slave Revolts for some amazing stories (what they don't teach in school)

And there were plenty of anti eugenicists even among the progressive crowds; it’s deeply annoying that eugenics is presented as some kind of de facto worldview in the early 20th century, when it was 100% a minority-held position - unfortunately the minority holding it were the ruling elite and primarily aimed at the most vulnerable and least politically connected members of our society.
Something similar that intrigued me recently is that Airbnb is valued at more than all the USA publicly listed hotel chains put together (Marriott etc)
Jeff Dean is getting paid two orders of magnitude more and yet he let the fire burn for several months before things went critical. Everybody in this story is making too much money, but some way way way more than others.
Indeed. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions lays this out well
This is basically the business model of all online bookmarking except Pinterest. You pay to not feel guilty about never looking at the stuff again.
If it's not true, it's a high-level multiple-executive strategic decision, probably including the CEO who has apparently been actively involved at least since the response to Gebru’s firing boiled over, not a rogue employee.

Which isn't to say you are wrong that they should be fired, but it's kind of like saying whoever in the US government was involved in inciting in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should have been fired.
http://archive.is/HFVPU
You'd probably be sending out a lot of information that can be used to identify you (telemetry, logins, other fingerprintable info about your system). Just using Tails seems like a better option.
Fun side note - as of today, that's actually the one trillion dollar BTC ecosystem.
Do you think this is going to work out for her?
I remember reading that when all OS data cost money half of their income came from other government departments, so once you add dealing with all that licensing there's not much extra cost to just fund it out of general revenue.
Wow, this is a good example of sounds-smart nonsense. Deepak Chopra style.

> The only time one player can dominate a limited number of niches is when there are few niches to begin with.

What?? What are you even saying? It's an entire world filled with niches. There's no sense in which niches are limited. How does it ever make sense to talk about "a limited number of niches"??
Does someone have a mirror? That garbage website has some anti-adblock malware it seems
What software do you use for reading and syncing with your BOOX?
Yup. I honestly believe The Structure of Scientific Revolutions should be required reading
Yea... that's a scaaaaam. Its not sustained value.
Remember people, if its not made in the US, there's something suspicious about it.
The big tech oligarchs in the US should have free reign across the planet, but anyone else, well they first need to answer a few questions.
In that case, the comparison is between a capital-efficient tech company and a real estate management company where capital is tied up in real estate around the world.

If there's a similar distinction between the business models of Coinbase and e.g. CME Group, I have yet to hear it.
Destructible icebergs would be a favorite as well. I drew a barbell in the air and desperately wanted it to crack in half when it hit the surface.
Show HN: Everything about Same origin policy
Yes, especially since X11 code isn't badly written. It gives me the feeling X devs were fed up with a huge codebase and wanted to write something new and shiny, albeit with 10% of features, pushing the maintenance burden downstream. The Wayland evangelists touting it as desktop-ready and no-true-scottsman'ing any critique also smells fishy. What Wayland did bring was more fragmentation.

And yes, their attitude toward missing features is the same as GNOME's: WONTFIX parade 24/7.
Point 1 depends on the internal channels. If you have never had the experience of management not listening to you, I congratulate you on your luck and/or your youth.

As to point 2, I think that if Google didn't put "make a public stink if necessary" in the job description itself, they should have known it was part of the deal. You can't hire people for their independence and their ethics and then not expect them to be independent and ethical.
You would know pretty quickly if Pinboard stopped being maintained.

Try the new Pins for Pinboard app, which just came out.

I'm hopeful that once I get the new API out, it will be a lot less painful to build on top of, and we'll see some life in the apps department. The current API is a calque of the 2004 delicious API and lacks a lot of basic features (like "tell me what changed since time X") that clients need.
Written testimony of Keith Gill (starter of GameStop mania) to Congress [pdf]
Video of his testimony via Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNRttPfeSI
cough Back then in the old days you used page down/up because the computer was too slow to make scrolling line by line useful. You can live without scrolling.
> But legally there are many jurisdictions that consider an ultimatum letter a resignation.

California is not one of those jurisdictions. She was fired. That is a verifiable fact.

> This might be entirely possible, but this also gave them reason to terminate her so it seems like a very bad move.

Unless she was working under the assumption that they already were going to fire her.
Sure, it first ruined the name Amazon.
What a great time to sell and completely avoid this cryptocurrency bubble.

Elon Musk and others have already made a killing over pumping Bitcoin and they are certainly not going to hold it. We don't know what price they bought it at. Possibly before the <$40k+ pump, but they'll definitely sell it and announce it very late, only for them to cause a sharp crash to buy back at even lower prices.
> e-ink screens are objectively worse for our eyes than an IPS panel screen.

That's not actually true. I have glasses explicitly to prevent eye-strain for when I'm working on the computer, even when it is an IPS/retina display with 2X pixel scaling. However I don't need glasses at all when reading books on a kindle or kobo.
Is this sarcasm? Is it based on anything in the article?
the "send to kindle" browser extension does a great job of sending web content at least. and you can email word docs etc to kindle.
> Forcing the company to comply with legal standards is often literally the job of a corporate attorney in an employment or compliance department.

Compliance departments may include attorneys, but plenty of people aren't. The force comes not because of their attorney-ness, but because they're part of a department tasked with enforcement. Lawyers in general definitely are not at a company to enforce the law.

> And the primary concern isn't to avoid "going to jail,"

Allow me to introduce you to the notion of hyperbole.
And drawing them at the bottom yields very different results than partially or fully above the surface!
At my last position, everyone got an email in mid-December saying that the company would be giving each employee a holiday gift... just click the link to select one from the options. It seemed very out of character for the company, so I ignored it.

Many people were upset to find out that the free gift was, surprise, extra security refresher training.
Distorting the Electron Gun
From browsing r/ErgoMechKeyboards and GeekHack, I think the main group of people making these custom keyboards are devs actually. Consider how foot pedals are a long-standing emacs thing :)

I use a 40% layout on a custom board with palm keys for coding and writing in LaTeX mainly (like the Model 01 with 3x6 alphas 3 thumbs 1 palm on each side). It took some effort to re-train, but I'll never go back to a keyboard without palm keys now, I love the setup. They palm keys are perfect for activating the layers for arrows/navigation or numpad. But typing style plays a role too, it's definitely probably not everyone!
Huh? We reboot our servers all the time. We would never design an app that isn’t tolerant to losing servers somewhat arbitrarily. How else could you ever handle hardware failures?
it's much better!
I'm in Houston. I was using Griddy, saving about $50-100 a month with their model. Through Monday, however, my bill was $1200 for the month, with $900 of that on Saturday and Sunday. (I did switch to a standard provider this week)
It's great for coinbase, but I don't understand why it's winning the competition. It's fees are incredible, and it doesn't even seem to offer basic features like limit orders.
For anyone reading this and not keen on DIYing or the quefrency generally or looking for a "normal" layout: checkout Mistel keyboards. I've seen a few on amazon. It's pretty much a normal keyboard layout cut in two.
That makes me feel less smart
Even if they add up, they still pale in comparison to the amount of energy you can offset with a couple of windmills.
My Max Lumi can be used as a monitor, and it is possible to work on it, but visual feedback is sluggish and you have to accept a lot of artifacts for the sake of speed.

I do hope to try coding in the sun with it some time. Got it in winter though, so haven't yet.
The original security model of bitcoins also assumes that:

1. Every network node participates in mining. So everybody is incentivized to keep, validate and forward the blocks they receive as quickly as possible.

2. Anybody should be able to bootstrap a network node and verify the entire blockchain from the genesis block without explicitly trusting any other node. Thus when a new block arrives one can independently verify it.

#1 has not been the case for a few years since the advent of mining pools, whereas #2 might as well be a lost cause. The entire bitcoin blockchain sits at 330GB and counting, and the live UTXO database is rarely below 3GB.

Hence people have argued against making the blocks larger as it could bloat the blockchain to the point that only people with very powerful computers could afford to validate the chain on their own. However with the status quo we are already seeing the number of network nodes stagnate around 10k since 2017 as running one is largely an altruistic effort.

>But isn’t amount of data depend on tx count? No matter how big chunks you split them into, it’s the same bytes per minute in the end. Why hard limit at all?

That is correct. You could also see the limit as putting a minimum cost for putting information on the chain and this could benefit the miners too.
I agree wholeheartedly but it can’t go without saying that this is most true when you take into account the Forge of Virtue expansion and to a lesser extent The Silver Seed which added even more detail to the world.
You use the term "these activists" and describe a problem of two people. I think you are trying to imply that activists in general have the problem. That would be the "hasty generalization" fallacy [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy#Hasty_generalization
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-precision-of-senso...
There was a cap and it was removed mid-storm:

https://thetexan.news/texas-utility-regulator-increased-elec...
I drew a triangle with a small part sticking out above water and the whole thing flipped into V.
Go to an allergist. You may end up getting referred to a GI. But it's a sure-fire way to know if you have actual allergies or not.

Source: Wife's visit to allergist & subsequent referral to GI doc today (no allergies).
This wasn't the first time Griddy has had this issue, but it's the worst. Aside from Griddy, no one really cared because it was always the retail electric providers who had to eat the cost.

On Saturday, Griddy sent out emails basically telling all of their customers they should leave their service (I was a Griddy customer; I switched, but not before running up $900 of charges over the weekend)
So I just checked, and I joined in July 2009 for a one-time fee of, I want to say $11 (the price went up based on how many people signed up or something, I don't quite remember).

Over the years, I've paid for the archive feature, mostly as a way to continue to support Pinboard/Maciej -- even though I really don't ever use the archive feature.

I haven't received the email/the convert feature hasn't been flagged on my account yet, but if it is flagged, I'll be happy to convert. That said, if I do that, I almost certainly will not continue to pay for the archive feature, as I don't use that and just pay for it to support Maciej.

So my question is -- and I should probably just wait until I receive an email asking me to do this, but since we're having this discussion, I'll just ask now: Will you get more benefit from me paying $39 for archiving or is the hard cost of that service/the ~92GB of data I have greater than the $22 a year for a recurring sub? Because I'll do whatever option gives you the greatest income -- but I'm not quite prepared to pay $61 a year for bookmarking (not that an extra $22 a year means anything to me...it's just hard to justify paying about the same as I pay for my password manager for my whole family for a bookmarking service).
I see a lot of people talking about the market being in a bubble, and that they’re holding cash waiting for a crash.

Even if that’s true, I recently read about the bubble potentially “bursting up”: instead of prices coming crashing down, prices stay stagnant or grow slowly, while earnings grow quickly. The net result is the same (P/E ratios stabilize), but you lose out on a lot by staying out of the market.
Who said she ran a script to exfiltrate a bunch of emails related to Gebru? The Google statements I saw weren't so specific.

She allegedly copied the documents a month ago. The simplest explanation of why they aren't public is she didn't want them to be.

I don't think it's useful to speculate about her motives when we don't even know what she did specifically.
What is the fuss over central-bank digital currencies?
It doesn't do machine learning. It does stereo reconstruction, hazard analysis, map generation, and path planning using stuff like D* and Gestalt.
Fake input under X11 (XTEST) is marked as fake input and any application receiving such events can choose to ignore it. Wine does it, for example.
Talk about yourself, I am waiting for my build to finish compiling... (seriously)

while checking out HN, TikTok, Clubhouse and Facebook at the same time
What to do if you forgot your Fastlane Match passphrase
Staff at Google is L6, which is a mid-high rank at best. For comparison, fresh grads are typically L3, while a Fellow is L12.
Yeah, it works well, and Onyx Boox has a similar extension.

I have both, and.I have used it on both and found the experience great. Much preferred to pocket style save for later.

If an online article is too long for me to get throug, and I want to, I will always send to a device.
http://archive.is/LHY7L
It really depends on your definition of "only".
How to make your employees hate your security team and undermine all their efforts out of spite: 101...
Unusual data point (I'm not sure if South African practice is applicable elsewhere) , but most bigger corps I've worked at have provided a mechanism to declare external interests, pending management approval, to work around these global clauses.

On paper any IP would be default belong to the Corp, but after some discussion/negotiations with your line manager and his higher-ups, you could do the paper work to declare.
Wow. How tragic for those impacted.

The linked story lends quite a fascinating vigilante-ethicist vibe to the events. If I understand correctly, the allegedly-malfeasant corporation's corporate ethicist detected a vile ethics breach in the system, and in turn decided to breach the system in order to detect the corporate malfeasance.

If true, this is a pretty stunning example of the problem of qualitative ethics. They are deep, like the fractal the ethicist mentions. This is not limited to AI. You can't checklist them. They are everywhere, and just when you think you've figured them out, there's another blind corner ahead.

And a big problem with that: Corporations, as group-oriented, yet still subjective, inward-facing/loving organisms, tend to struggle with the depth required to even parse situations like this. Parsing is itself far from deep-diving--I hope the best for all involved...
Yup -- I get that too, and I am paying for archiving. I asked in another comment, but I'll ask directly here too: is it more financially beneficial for me to pay you $39 a year for archiving for would the $22 a year for the service work better? I assume it is the former (especially given the relatively small size of my archive amortized over storage prices per year), but I'll go with whatever option gives you the most money.
Awesome PCB design.
Does anyone know a good source of educational material on this topic that I can pass around to non-technical coworkers?
For screenshots or screensharing, please use the xdg-desktop-portal API. That should work correctly in X11, Wayland, and within a sandbox. For generating fake inputs, a library is being worked on called libei, that also should work in X11, Wayland, and within a sandbox.

For controlling monitor outputs and open windows, those APIs are different because each compositor has a different set of features for what those mean. Generally you should not be using random applications to configure monitor outputs, only your compositor's configuration tool is going to be reliable there. Applications that need to set custom resolutions can use the viewporter or use fullscreen-shell.

Worst case scenario if you need to duplicate parts of the code for all three, I don't think that's a problem. Just put it in a library if it needs to be re-used, the only alternative there is that upstream maintains the relevant bits of that duplicate code, which I'm sure you can see why they would be reluctant to do that.