skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I work in medical research and was headhunted by (but turned down) Juul to work on sponsored trials and research related to smoking cessation and health improvement in patients who are switching to pods.

Per the article, "Google has recruited top scientists with promises of research freedom, but the limits are tested as researchers increasingly write about the negative effects of technology and offer unflattering perspectives on their employer's products."

Like... these AI researchers are delusional if they think their work is truly unbiased and that they can work at a company and get paid by that company to produce unbiased research. If I took that job at Juul even though it was ridiculous $$ I would have known what I was getting into and who was buttering my bread.

It's either sell your soul and move to industry and enjoy the industry $$ or stay in academia and enjoy your moral purity and being able to look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day but not being able to buy a house in the Bay Area.
Sure, but bank deposits are very secure anyway. They are protected by insurance and by central banks which provide liquidity to commercial banks that are experiencing financial distress.
You make it sound like politics was invented at Google... As opposed to being something that people have engaged in, since before recorded history[1], during times of upheaval of social and cultural norms.

[1] Certainly, since before 1998. The recent past was not some apolitical paradise.
One of the theoretical reverse time travel machines I read about in the past involved stabilizing a wormhole first and then dragging it somewhere else, like to the future relative to current time by traveling near light speed with it, so you could get back to the earlier time.

Kip Thorne wrote of something that involved an extreme amount of mass in a spinning cylinder. That kind of mass was imagined to be at a huge scale like harnessing a number of stars and compressing them, iirc.

A device theorized or implemented by Salvatore Pais involves use of superconductors and microwaves to create an effective vacuum, like dragging part of spacetime. It could allow FTL relocation without actual speed. This could also create an area of effectively high masses that could allow time travel, even eventually reverse time travel, under theoretical conditions.
Her call outs had nothing to do with AI ethics, though, and centered almost entirely on alleged perceived sexism, racism, shady HR practices with a sprinkle of political correctness on top, with regards to her colleagues firing.

She started slandering her employer on Twitter in front of the whole world, when that conversation should CLEARLY have been private, and she got fired for it.
That depends on the rules of the particular tax system(s) you are subject to. In the UK one it's kind of a grey area. Buying and selling a crypto at a profit would probably be treated as a capital gain but betting with a bookies or spreadbetter isn't.
There is a lot of thought diversity, it is easier than ever to find crackpot theories.

The difference is that as science advances, it is becoming harder and harder to simply understand what's going on.

Research on the beginning of the universe involve taking into account huge amount of observation data. Come up with a theory and you are going to get questions like "how do you take into account this spectrum density of that oddball galaxy no one but specialists heard about?". And if you don't come up with a satisfactory answer, then your theory is simply wrong, especially if the official theory explains this.

Global warming? People on TV make is sound easy, far from it. We suspected it long ago but definite evidence is relatively recent. It involves complex statistical models and again, because it is real science, tons of observation. How to tackle it is even harder because you add a political/economic dimension to it. Scientists can say "if we do that, this will happen", and they are not even sure, but if the "solution" involves, say, killing half of the human population, this is clearly unacceptable (and you are going to piss off the Avengers).

Covid19 research is actually a bit looser than usual because of the emergency, but again, hard stuff. But it is interesting to see that scientists tried whacky stuff, and these mostly failed.
Plus you can also use a boox as an HDMI screen from any output.
Well Lisp was not in the budget and the responsible person (the Dr. he is talking about) insisted on it. So he gave him what he could, but was not convinced that it was the right choice. If my project lead asks me to solve a problem with unreasonable requirements I will point out the problems but will still do it, in the end it's not my call. But I'm still free to criticize the work.
yeah, I guess even 64 gb ought to be enough for everyone (/billgates ;p)

Memory is cheap, and you could always buy a bigger SD card afterwards, but processing power is what's relevant, if the correct SoC and Ram combo is not present, especially in e-readers that are essentially just android tablets with color e-ink screens (allowing you to sideload apps) then that will be a major drawback

just because your screen refreshes slow doesn't mean the actual app can run on 2gb ram
Agreed.

We as human beings need to choose not to be manipulated through these very effective communications means.

Outrage is just not good enough without constructiveness.

Villifying everyone who disagrees with your "clan", is not fair argument.

That "one's own side wins" through these means.. nothing good will come out of it!
Wow, great! Thanks for sharing!
This is a fork of this gallery on github:

https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards

It was also featured in HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922698

It appears to have extra keyboards.

However several are not properly tagged because they were missing when I used the filters.

This initially made me think the gallery was incomplete before I realized it is a fork of the other gallery.
> I’m reasonably convinced that Facebook would like to remove all news from their platform.

I don't think so. Politics and "political fighting" seem amazing for engagement.
I think you could kinda get there with Arguman, maybe with some small UI modifications ? e.g. see how https://en.arguman.org/following-a-rule-is-a-practice-ground... works
It's possible to engineer a stable boat in this simulation based on that principle for stability.

https://ibb.co/T1KG5DM

The trick is to draw a low-mass object with high displacement, which happens to be possible because of the existence of, uh, anti-iceberg? that has negative mass.
I think you can do this with a stock Kindle, by sending the epub to the email address of your Kindle (which you can find in your account settings).
I've set up tons of monitoring, and automated what I could – if an app server goes down, it gets removed from load balancer rotation. If a load balancer goes down, it gets removed from DNS. I haven't automated DB failover, because it's just a too hard problem for me, with too many edge cases.

For critical notifications I use Pushover with an emergency setting – a repeating full volume alert on phone, regardless of volume settings or Do Not Disturb mode.

I do have a "go bag" with a dedicated, prepared laptop that I take with me on longer trips (not that there have been many in the past year).
Along these lines, any reading recommendations other than https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC12C8/ ?
No I'm not talking about trans people, I'm talking about people who bring up the phobias and the -isms anytime a statistical model comes out.

We're all abnormal, which is why it's important to be careful how we use statistical models, but the acknowledgment and exploitation of normality is not an attack against people who deviate from it, it is the foundation of statistics and all of science.
Calling the authors bigots does nothing to improve these issues, rather the opposite.
It also has some nice properties:

- because you have all your queries written in the same place, when you create a db migration, you know where to look for code to update, and can even perform some automatically.

- sql queries could be turned into a stored procedure with a simple marking, without changing any code.

Of course the downside is that dynamically exploring data is not as easy as with an ORM.
As a german I don't see it. We had the "Postbarscheck", which is now gone. Since maybe about 20 years? That is not the direction they/them/the Reptiloids want to march the human cattle in. There need to be more efficient 'dig it all' threadmills. Anyways. Don't care. Am banked. Multiple times. Even have Alipay, Yay!
It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about taking the credit.
Yes, small boats are often constrained by shallow water, so they cannot have too much ballast not to mention things like bulb-keel. This means the hull needs to be sufficiently broad and flat.
She proposed discussing a resignation date.

She threatened them with resignation; they called her bluff and accepted.

Like I said - loaded title.
Tracking a user online using a favicon
I made my first account just to respond since no one else has.

Think back to something that made you angry, that annoyed or frustrated you. Think back to a time where you got really riled up. A time where you were really pissed off at someone.

You're going to close your eyes for 20 seconds and think about it, feel it, really try to go back to that day and immerse yourself in that moment. Now, close your eyes.

Did you notice anything? Did anything in your body change in the last 20 seconds?

By thought alone, you can change your physiology, your mental state, your blood pressure and heart rate. Nothing in your environment changed, you're still sitting here reading this, yet to your brain you were momentarily somewhere else. For me, stuck in traffic and some wanker just cut me off, nearly caused an accident and seemed oblivious to it all. I wanted to crash my car into his just to teach him a lesson. It can make your blood boil just thinking back to past events where you were wronged.

I had you think back to something that made you angry, and you probably felt that same way you did that day but to a slightly lesser degree. If you continue to think about it, think about how wrong it was, you can feel EVEN MORE ANGRY. But you don't have to.

You can think back to these moments in your life and feel less or more of the emotion by altering the memory, or your perception of the event.

Your past influences who you are. Your past only exists as memories within your mind. Memories can be recalled and changed by your mind.

You can think back to past events and change the way you perceive them. That's the practice of NLP from my perspective. Changing your memories so that they benefit you.

All those times you've been embarrassed, angry, frustrated or annoyed, you can look back at these moments and laugh at them. Think about some negative moment in your life and then literally laugh out loud about how absurd it was.

Seeing a memory in your minds eye you can turn the colour down so it's only in greyscale. You can mute the person saying hurtful things, or change their voice to that of a cartoon character, something absurd and comical. While you're doing all this, recalling past events and memory manipulation, you're comparing your emotions and how your body is responding, before and after each change.

This might be something you can learn how to do in one session, but for me it took lots of purposeful practice. Like a muscle you develop, you become better at this over time.
Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...
You are missing the network.

When you start with gRPC and connect to localhost, usually the worst that can happen with a RPC call is that the process crashes, and your RPC call eventually times out.

But other than that everything else seems to work as a local function call.

Now when you move the server into another computer, maybe it didn't crash, it was just a network hiccup and now you are getting a message back that the calling process is no longer waiting, or you do two asynchronous calls, but due to the network latency and packet distribution, they get processed out of order.

Or eventually one server is not enough for the load, and you decide to add another one, so you get some kind of load mechanism in place, but also need to take care for unprocessed messages that one of the nodes took responsibility over, and so forth.

There is a reason why there are so many CS books and papers on distributed systems.

Using them as mitigation for teams that don't understand how to write modular code, only escalates the problem, you move from spaghetti calls in process, to spaghetti RPC calls and having to handle network failures in the process.
Here's a phenomenal long read deep dive about CA water rights and farmers vs Sacramento and the surprisingly rich family behind the biggest farm in the US- the PomWonderful branded pomegranate drinks in the LATimes California Sunday magazine that I highly recommend- might not get into the technical legalities but at least relevant to your fight: https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-du...

Also it's a fascinating read.
I'm not sure if I can trust a random article on the internet but I do (mostly) trust my eyes. I have lots of small bird-feet-tracks outside my window where they have melted the snow. So clearly either they are not freezing because they are warm or they are covered in anti-freeze.
That's a feature, not a bug. It prevents losing energy.
She's also not publishing this as just herself, she works for Google and is publishing on their behalf. Of course they have veto power over what she publishes. You take issue with that; quit. Which, I believe she did (she didn't get fired AFAIK)
Honorifics are cultural.

In undergraduate -- It was always Professor LastName.
In grad school, other cost, it was Doctor Lastname. We had a discussion there, and learned that in Germany, it was Herr Doctor Professor Lastname.
That is the selling theme of DCOM and MTS, CORBA and many other IPC mechanisms, until there is a network failure of some sort that the runtime alone cannot mitigate.
I don't know. On the surface of it, it seems a very good opportunity to work in an area with lots of potential, but which also need lots of regulations. You get to ensure decisions by machines will improve lives and not be unintentionally biased by any means. It's also good money, knowledgeable peers and pretty wide net for R&D. Good times!

It's just a bitch that for-profit company lobby for no regulations, and fire people who speak up to power.

However, we all know company culture do not tolerate speaking up to power. So these people also went about it the wrong way, and going public too soon over something that was just theoretical.

What you need to do is gather evidence, and escalate as security violations internally. Use the proper channels. This is harder work than crying wolf, obviously.
One can spend all of eternity forming a "proper opinion", based on third-party information ten times removed, and end up having not moved an inch... -or- actually take a leap of faith and try it, and have a real first-hand experience and information knowledge.
Interesting take on Python there, not sure it's aged well:

> Well, they're just like the Smalltalk folks, who waited forever to replace C++, and then Java came along and screwed them royally, and permanently. Oops. Ruby's doing exactly that to Python, right now, today. Practically overnight.

> Python would have taken over the world, but it has two fatal flaws: the whitespace thing, and the permafrost thing.
Is it just me or is there something funky with the cursor offset? It seems to draw the line under my cursor more as I draw closer to the bottom edge.

Other than that, pretty cool!
But without solid evidence of some sort, one cannot establish that there is a case fit to be heard in court, and so there will be no discovery. It is a bootstrapping problem.
I bought, and returned the Note Air.

The build quality is impressive. I had it for 2 weeks, used it for about an hour daily, and set it to only poweroff after a day of inactivity.

Its battery dropped from 100% to 48% over that time. Yes, I was quite positively impressed.

However, their theft of code (which is what you do, if you do not respect the code license, eg, gpl), the fact that even a brand new model tablet was 3+ monthly Android security updates behind, and the pcaps I took showing all the phoning home, including IPs in China...

Well...

As I said, returned. Quite sad, loved the hardware.
This (good article) from The Guardian, who in their ludicrously-titled "Comment is Free" section and others ban discussions on any articles and opinion pieces they fear dissent on.

In keeping with that - I note there is no comment section on this piece...
In Permutation City, there's a fantastic moment when they realise that they can speed the simulation up, but they can't slow it down below a certain point, and they work out that the reason for this is because they are the ones being simulated by what they think of as their simulation. When they think they're speeding it up, they're actually just slowing down its simulation of them, and there's no lower limit to that, but there is an upper limit to how fast it can simulate them.
I tried with a timeglass-like shape. It flew around the map, going in and out of view and eventually setting on/in the water https://i.imgur.com/kcT9elV.jpg
Maciej's writing is always hilarious. highly recommend his "Gluetenfree Antarctica" and others (but especially the Glutenfree Antarctica) https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
The language that Google use is consistent with simply bcc-ing outgoing e-mails to a personal account and a lawyer's account.

That is exactly what I have done and would do whenever my job has been threatened - so that I have access to relevant written evidence after my e-mail is switched off.
This is so calming for me. I could draw myself to sleep.
Needing new buyers for price to increase is not the definition of a Ponzi scheme. Because that is true for any speculative asset due to the price setting mechanism.
Your argument entails that the price of Bitcoin is highly inflated over its fundamental value, i.e. that it is a speculative bubble. Speculative bubbles are very different from Ponzi schemes. A Ponzi scheme has the following definition according to the SEC:

>“A Ponzi scheme is an invest­ment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often promise to invest your money and generate high returns with little or no risk. But in many Ponzi schemes, the fraud­sters do not invest the money. Instead, they use it to pay those who invested earlier and may keep some for themselves."

Ponzi schemes require a central fraudster to pass on money directly from old to new investors with the underlying asset obfuscatedly held on promise by the fraudster.

With cryptocurrency the buyer has control of the commodity, you actually have control of the crypto, there is no promise of a consistent return with little risk, there is no central entity defrauding targets with promises that hold the asset in reserve passing on money directly from new to old investors.

What we do have is a speculative bubble which will no doubt be devastating for new investors when it collapses. But the definition of a Ponzi scheme is not met.
It’s also highly correlated to issues with dopamine, which is why it’s an extremely strong symptom in opioid withdrawal
I think that's the case on Mac OS and Windows, but on Linux you can press Shift/Ctrl on one keyboard, and a letter on another.

Alt doesn't seem to work though.
It's prettier than my boat. :-)

I believe it works because the sail consists of negative mass. The overall mass of the boat is therefore lower, but the part of the hull that's under water produces the same amount of bouyancy based on the area of displaced water. Because of the width of the hull, it's a stable equallibrium.

Interestingly, if the sail were to become submerged, it would create negative bouyancy and the boat would sink!
Google has already publicly misrepresented facts in this saga.
Eliminating the man in the middle(What you call normal banks). Saving costs(Fuck them all!). Tracking(Harr Harr!). Control(Control!). Whatever(Yes. Really.)

Btw. from my point of view the central bank thing would be the normal, what we have now is an inversion, IMO. We're just used
to it because that's how it was and is until now.
This guy is indeed awesome, a very valuable resource, however he only reviews from the perspective of usage, not covering things like security updates, gpl compliance, phoning home, etc.
I'm flying to Thailand tomorrow. Feel free to DM me if you wanna connect :)
If you’re looking for more, the game Control [1] has some amazing SCP/etc vibes to it.

https://youtu.be/m-As1OGqJkU

https://youtu.be/-oXCMFX9H8g
Making sure that an academic or honorific title is correctly interpreted in a German data models is a little project in itself. I once had the pleasure to write out the business logic that generates the correct honorific address for printed letters. It was surprising how much time we spend on that part and how often it had to be revised because of some special exception or case no one had thought about. To give you an Idea, every class: clergy, government administration, political, academic, nobility and professional, has their own rules, which can be mixed and combined, but these rules differ in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It was a quite archaic and exciting problem to solve.
One rule that I have is that if I need to repeat or rephrase a previous comment without adding anything new, I need to stop the conversation.

1. Comment by me.

2. Response by someone else.

If my reaction to 2 is to reiterate 1, that's a sign that the conversation isn't going anywhere and it's better if I don't participate further.

Also, if you're on twitter, facebook or reddit, you need to heavily restrict your input and output and not take part in arguments altogether. Or just not be on those platforms in their current form.
This tweet, what's wrong about it?

Timnit Gebru
Jul 2, 2020
Yep generally you did, thanks. But not about me, Deb and others being attacked by White supremacists, anonymous accounts etc. Clear support means taking a clear stand. And this doesn’t seem to be ending.
Can you please explain what seratonin syndrome is, particularly (like the above hypnosis / nlp split) where the edge of medical literature is? Highly interested, however for some reason was previously inclided to believe the phenomenon did not exist, akin to how adrenal fatigue can't be proven.
With all the phoning home, and lack of security updates, you may want to reconsider ever entering anything sensitive into a Boox product.
I don’t see how this approach is better than just using modules with pure functions that operate on arrays and hashes.
Why not just use a functional language? Elixir and Clojure are dynamic like Ruby.
Only if the disagreeing was in relation to ethical AI.

As far as I know, she's made this about perceived sexism, racism, and personally attacking hermanagers for failing to step up regarding various topics NOT related to AI ethics. There hasn't been much discussion about actual AI ethics, at least not on her behalf.
Re-reading this in the morning, just to be clear, this will actually steer routing engines away and is not just something for humans to read. Routing engines take the access tag into consideration and it can also be specific to certain kinds of traffic (e.g. no cycling allowed here, no trucks, no pedestrians...).
There are laws against hording. Currently government is the biggest seller of grain charging 3 cents per a kilo.
Ha!

I have never ever heard anyone compare L6 (staff) to tenure. That's absurd!
Sure thing, I'll do both :-)
Remember, China is a country with concentration camps, so they (the CCP) clearly have the ability and desire to do extreme things and convince their people it's the right thing or that it's not happening.