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Advantech to Host a Virtual Conference Aimed for 30k Attendees
Advantech, a pioneer of advanced IoT intelligence systems and embedded platforms, kicks-off its global Advantech Connect Online Partner Conference from January 24 to March 18th. With an expected attendance of over 30,000, the upcoming Advantech Connect virtual conference will bring together global c-suite executives and technical leaders to innovate and collaborate on how best to leverage IoT solutions to tackle current challenges around the world.

“The world projected 50 billion connected IoT devices by 2020; however, the reality is that we fell short of this goal due to IoT ecosystems needing to evolve one step at a time, and the requirement for interconnectivity between platforms,” said K.C. Liu, CEO of Advantech. “Advantech Connect will help address these IoT growth shortcomings and drive ecosystems to a better, brighter future by delivering innovative ideas that will overcome the hurdles the industry is currently facing. Our goal is to equip global technology leaders with the tools and knowledge to advance the world of IoT, so they can enable quicker and more efficient digital transformation within their organizations.”

The conference will be divided into a series of themed sessions among which “AI” “5G Wireless” “Edge Computing” and “Cloud Services” attracted the most registrations.

Webinar Topic: The Future of Edge & AI
Addressing the real-world AIoT use cases and trends, new innovations co-created by Intel, Advantech and partners. Click to See Details
https://connect.advantech.com/topic/ae8307b3-89df-4a7b-aa27-0d8690c37e0b?tc=NA_EI_USE1_BZ

Webinar Topic: Industrial Wireless & 5G
Get to know ready-to-market wireless solutions with faster speed, millisecond latency, and reduce congestion of mobile networks with Qualcomm, NXP, DEKRA. Click to See Details

https://connect.advantech.com/topic/441ce2ea-c8f9-4f82-b5cc-408b67cdfb6b?tc=NA_EI_USE5_BZ
They should have never hired those socialist activists.

As for the people who got fired, if they are any good they will do great after their outstanding achievements at Google.

It's a win-win situation.
You still might need a legal order to obtain the documents.
She probably should have discussed this plan with her lawyer before exfiltrating the documents.
AIUI the RM2 still only has the official OS, which has no promises not to break APIs. There's Parabola-RM (ported by Davis R, see www.davisr.me) which gets you e.g. Xfce, but I don't know how well it works with the hardware (e.g. battery life, proper use of the RM screen's partial refresh) or unofficial RM apps (rmkit.dev and libremarkable-baswd apps right now AIUI).

Avoid Onyx Boox, they explicitly refused to honor the GPL. https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...

If you're looking for non-RM alternatives, I'd start by evaluating (I haven't) the Quirklogic Papyr.

Personally, I don't think the RM is a good long-term partner for the Free Software community - half the reason the modding community exists is because the RM team refuses to provide some basic features in the name of "simplicity". They'll never want to support a wide variety of use-cases, they want to be like Apple. I imagine the solution here is making an RM-specific distro (and community explicitly segmented from the "RM OS with mods" community), adding support for other ewriters, then deemphasizing the RM.
How much is a wrongful termination going to cost them? Max a couple million?

How much do they lose from the PR of gutting their AI ethics division of people who didn't toe the company line? More than a couple million easily, IMO.

I can see them being just willing to take the loss on the wrongful termination if they get to smear her on the way out and think they can get her to accept a deal in the end that comes with a more stringent NDA.
Pinboard is amazing. I’m surprised people here are surprised and saying it looked derelict - I haven’t had an issue with it in 3 years of use.
Waze CEO on Leaving Google: ‘I Was Just Worn Down by the Nature of the Beast’
I’ve seen this bait and switch a couple of times now, but there’s not really any reason to expect a researcher working in an Ethics Research team to only do ethical things, in the same way that you wouldn’t expect someone working on a Truth Team to only do true things. The nominal mandate over her team does not extend as if a veneer to all of her personal actions. It’s just a name.

Her team was very specifically engaged in culture war, and wanted to wield Google’s clout in that war. Google disagreed. That disagreement led to her co-lead refusing to withdraw and edit a paper, so that co-lead was terminated. This really shouldn’t have escalated as much as it did, but it happened, tough shit. Meg was understandably upset about this, but then [appears to have] made the unforced error of sending internal documents to external accounts, and thus was canned.

Companies generally need to be able to trust that you aren’t going to violate their security policies, even when you’re upset about and disagree with their decisions. That’s why she was fired. Every other goddamn thing about this is an irritating optics war between the people that want to use this as ammunition in a crusade to prove that Google doesn’t care about ethics-and-also-minorities [which is manifestly not the case], versus the people that are legally obligated to never say anything publicly about internal matters.

It’s shitty and tiresome, but it has nothing to do with ethics.
Coca-Cola accused of telling employees to ‘be less white’ in training course
What a cool idea.

Drawing a star is fun.

If you draw something in the basic shape of a Y, with two thick arms and one thin arm, my instinct tells me that the two thick arms should end up on the top, with the thin one pointing down into the water. Is that accurate? There's not much jostling in the demo; any of the arms might end up pointing down.

EDIT: You can also pretty easily get something to float in either an M or a W configuration. Now I want a slider for turbulence; I bet some shapes are hard to dislodge from their current orientation and some are easy.
Both comments were a joke, in case it went past you :)
"she was getting paid handsomely while calling out her bosses by name and taking them through the dirt. I have nothing but respect for people willing to fall on their sword for the sake of making the world a better place. "

There is a major implied assumption here that those she was 'calling out' were actually doing bad things.

I sincerely doubt this of Jeff Dean & Co. and a look at this specifics of the Timnit case I don't think make Google look bad.

In summary - she was castigating her managers and peers who were actually acting within reason.

This employee was toxic, furthering more toxicity.

Just because you believe that you're 'doing good' doesn't mean that you are, or those who you disagree with are evil.

This is the big blind spot of (some of) the ostensible promoters of Social Justice: the self absolution and assumption of perfect moral clarity.

Ironically, Google is full of good people, more or less, by virtue of their every day practices, making the world a tiny bit of a better places. (Except for the anti-competitive things of course, but that's more strategic impetus)
I have a recent generation Kindle Paperwhite, and you don't have to do anything special to "side-load" ebooks onto it. As long as they're in a compatible format, you just copy them into a specific directory -- IIRC it's something like /documents/Downloads -- and they'll show up on the device once it's disconnected from your computer.
Yeha I’ve noticed structural programs that help women, especially at the undergrad level. And the grad level (where people mentioned operated) it’s highly advisor/manager dependent. At the academy, each PI run their own independent fiefdom so some can be very abusive across the board. This is where being a minority makes it worse because it’s more difficult to form commodory with those around you. These are all first hand accounts and observations I’m reporting. So both can be true: favored at the institutional level but still lagging at the personal level.
In what universe do prometheus and elastic search enable you to manage containers and administer storage?
> "science, fuck yeah" "big bang theory" bros

So being excited about science makes you a bro? Is the word bro really needed or are you purposefully injecting that here to lower the perceived status of men as irrational retards at leasts the ones who aren't like you, the sophisticated bunch, where you'd probably never use a misogynistic term.

> blowing on the kindling of the next big breakthrough

You'd be a fucking idiot to think that is uniformly the case in science. Like any other human field every field will have its dose of douchebags who stand for nothing but self-promoting hypocrisy.

> the modern western world

Who the fuck are you to keep calling what I presume US/Europe, the modern western world. Stop your obsession to create groups of others just to make a point about dogma in science.
I was thinking the same thing. They do call them 1%-ers after all...
Tech jobs are the most well-paid in China, sometimes better than gov jobs that require connections, since tech companies have access to the global excess money flow； if you want to buy a condo and get married in big cities, tech jobs are one of the few chances that plebs can get to have a shot, even then, the typical condo prices is like 20 to 40 times their annual income.

People are paying tens of thousands to get employee referral to get into these big tech companies, and I'd say that the majority of their employee are deeply patriotic and believe what they are doing is necessary and right since they are the winners of the social system.
> This is super common in other professions sometimes charged with enforcing ethical and legal corporate behavior, including law and accounting. It's not a new idea.

It has not worked out well. Making employees keep unethical behaviour on the down-low has resulted in immense, catastrophic harm.

If we are to maintain a healthy society we need a lot more whistleblowing. We need to put work into being better.
No one in this scenario reported an ethics breach right? So how would it apply?

There are whistleblower laws now but they apply to illegal actions.
why must it come down?

there is no gravity.
I suspect launching cars into space makes him feel powerful, while pumping memecoins makes him feel somewhat entertained.
Go Diggerdoos!! Go Tech Go!
You cherry picked examples. I'm talking 99% of cases.
> at the end of the day we are all losers who have decided to spend our precious time on a Friday night glued to HN.

It gets worse. Many of us are probably reading HN while listening to Clubhouse at the same time.
Bizarrely, using institutional access gives me [0]...

EDIT: Though it does note that it is for publication in March, so it might not be intended to be generally available yet.

[0]: https://cdn.remexre.xyz/screenshots/842f6f91029e6d956cb287d6...
>Either people who get away with it undetected in the very short term are so good that they manage to suppress all evidence completely and it never comes out (which seems an implausible binodality in outcomes)

Why do you think that's implausible? What evidence of election fraud would you expect to be left behind that would be difficult to dispose of?

>is allowed to stand by corrupt institutions despite being widely decried.

By whom?

>If it were, you'd expect there to be examples of cases undetectable in the short-run but later discovered.

Why would that be expected? Many crimes are much harder to prove if the perpetrator is not caught in the act. Why would you not expect election fraud to be among them?
So far the only thing that I've found to be broken is Google's Slideshow presentation mode.
I wish Coinbase would support more cryptos or allow storage of ERC-20 tokens so people would be more encouraged to spin up ETH projects. Feels like Coinbase is trying to be the big corporate face of crypto, kind of going against the spirit of it IMO.
The rest of the network could fork the chain to "NOCCP" chain or whatever. There are also a lot of other cryptocurrencies out there now.
Gebru was a very bright individual who could have gotten a job in academia, but instead chose to work for Google. Part of that arrangement was Google got discretion on what she could print. They wanted her to change what was printed because they believed the paper was unfairly critical of technologies Google had a stake in.

She disagreed, threatened to resign, wrote an unprofessional email and then Google accepted her resignation.

Where's the scandal?
It's Saturday afternoon, I've already driven to another town to inspect a car and purchased and planted 10 trees today. Speak for yourself.
All bubbles pop eventually. I think there's little doubt crypto is a bubble right now.

Maybe it pops tomorrow, maybe it goes on for years. I don't know, nobody really does.
I understand, but I want to feel the problem solved once and forever and I am not going to have to pay any more ever. This is not really rational, I just feel this way. I am not going to be mad if the author actually discontinues the service (provided he lets me export the data).

This probably is because I'm a gig survivalist and have never had a long-term stable source of income. What I buy during a prosperity time is what is going to keep me warm during a broke time and help me out of it.

Regular payment obligations are a danger, a paid-forever thing is an asset.
Yes this is pretty cool! It’d be awesome if you could link to the drawings. Though I bet descriptions of most of the images would rhyme with “ice rocks”.
People in other parts of the world are not in your timezone fyi.
Recently bought the Boox Nova3 and in terms of being hackable it's pretty good. It runs android so you can install anything from the app store. Runs chrome pretty well on the slight ghosting setting. I returned it for the kindle because I couldn't really see my self using it over my phone for browsing and anything I want to read long form I can get there. If you want to go all in on e-ink though I'd recommend it.

https://www.boox.com/nova3
It's a kind of service that I would never use and have never used the advanced features of. I guess I barely use even the basic ones. Not because it's not a great service, but I am too much of a passive user of it - I just don't do this (any more).

4-5 bookmarks in 2020, 7-8 in 2019, and 2 in 2018. I have around total 900 bookmarks most of them from delicious import from the days when I bookmarked.

So yeah, while I am afraid I'd not be paying for it, I guess I'd just move everything to Firefox or iCloud or something (which I use anyway as of now).

One way I can definitely help is by emptying my (almost) freeloading spot at this point.

Services like this deserve a regular payment model I guess.
The market can stay irrational something something.
As soon as I realized there was an archival variant I signed up - 15k bookmarks archived using 45GB of space, which I can download anytime I want. The profile page even shows filters for any dead links (and why they're dead) so I can fix links if I feel like it.

Still the best online service I've ever signed up for.
Who's to say she didn't. Some of the wrongful termination suits I've seen personally lived and died based on if an employee had their own copy of emails. Discovery doesn't always work against an entity that's already behaving illegally.
Ah yes, possibly the 5th company that I wished I joined this past 18 months...

Historically there were some exchanges that have been hacked. This caused not only the company to go bankrupt but people losing a lot of money. How does coinbase prevent this from happening? This is very much one of the reasons I will never hold crypto (FYI: I've wrote my own Golang flavour of ethereum blockchain and solidity when it first came out, since im gonna get bashed for this post. I also regret not putting 1k during ethereums ICO when that was the only money I had in my bank account. This is not an investment advice). If my etrade or bank account got hacked, I can still get my money back through FDIC and SIPC. If a non-tech personstarted hyping a cryptocurrency and placed 100k in it, and they get hacked, essentially their 100k evaporates right? I guess there are worse ways to gamble your money

What I like about crypto though is the 24/7 market. I wish there was something like this in the stock market.
Or you might not. Different jurisdictions have different rules.
Whoa - cool. After 3 tries I got one that didn't move at all!
I thought in order to copyright code, you need to disclose the source code as part of the registration process, no?
I've been using a separate browser for sites that I log into -- like Gmail, Twitter, etc.

It's not foolproof, but it separates at least some of my identity from my browsing history.
Why the Texas Power Grid Failed
> Peer review happens after it's submitted, in a blinded review process, by other researchers who don't have a conflict of interest - i.e., people who are at other institutions. It does not happen internally by people hand-picked by management.

This is absolutely untrue. Your confusing peer review of journal with peer review prior to submitting to the journal. It’s super common to have papers reviewed prior to submission anywhere, and that review is usually done by peers or even superiors.
After writing Bulb, I'd say it took about two afternoons to write Squad. Most of the "terminal IO" routines have been reused.

The loop structures in Squad are different, and somewhat simpler than, the usual Forth looping words. I think `loop ... (again|until|while)` may be my own invention; I've used these in most of my Forths.

Apologies for lack of tablet accessibility.
> According to Google.

You do understand that if Google is lying, they'd be get sued for libel and potentially millions of dollars in settlement and even more in PR damage.
It’s Saturday morning for me in Thailand right now. I’m gonna drive a bit around on the 2nd hand motorcycle I bought this week - my own very first motorcycle. Lots of fun!
It was the only one I ever played, I got a copy with my soundcard in the first PC my parents bought (along with Wing Commander and Syndicate). I loved it, despite it being really challenging for me.
look. I have been using an internet browser since 2005. Each an every day. Then since 2008, i have used an iphone and for the past 4 years used an android because i couldnt afford apple. Never in these years i have had the desire to "keep my bookmarks in sync". Absolutely never.
I just don't get the appeal of the "sync" features. I remember apple introducing it long time ago with "your open tabs are available everywhere" and i was like "why would i even want that".

Same for passwords. i have been using a keepass file to keep everything in one place and its not like i have to change every password every day that it needs to be in sync 24x7.

Just so you know, i spend almost 90 hours a week infront of my desktop/laptop/phone so i use a browser a lot, just not "connected" features.

I personally see this as a solution to a problem that doesnt exist. Look, why should a person who has only one phone need a syncing tool? to sync to what? I have my phone which is using firefox focus so that is that but i also have regular firefox but it is just another dumb browser. I use kdeconnect which gets me everything i need.

I last time asked why don't these newfang browser makes not adopt firefox as their codebase instead of chrome and the general consensus was "yada yada yada its too difficult, oh chrome so fun and easy" and then you have yesterdays' brave tor dns leak news which tells me exactly why the tor project chose firefox instead of "chromium".
Low interest rates definitely increase the amount of money chasing equities. There's no where else to get a good return.

This pushes up the price of equities and decreases their return too.

Also Peter Lynch is no fool, so I'd like a source for you saying he thinks there is no connection before I believe he said that.
This must be such a cool feeling.

Congratulations. And thank you.
Not sure what the operating costs look like for Coinbase, but here's some napkin math based on just the Coinbase Pro exchange .

They get roughly $200 per bitcoin trade. That's on both sides, so $400 per bitcoin transaction. Today was a slightly higher volume day but they did $1.6B in BTC-USD, so around ~30k bitcoin changed hands.

30k * 400 = $12Million

Bitcoin is 1/3 of their volume (they have a lot of other crypto currency pairs), so let's take 3x of that = $36 Million in trading fees today.

Bitcoin is a 24/7 market, so 365 days = $13.14 Billion per year.

This does not even count what used to be (still is?) their main business of just buying and holding bitcoin for people through DCA buys or on their app. They also are starting to have a bunch of other revenue streams through loans, debit cards, etc and invest in a number of early crypto projects.

I'm not sure what the multiple is going to be like since I don't know their expenses, but since most tech companies are valued from revenue and future growth expectations anyway, who knows.
`<inflammatory-statement>The very concept of "Intellectual Property" is madness</inflammatory-statement>`

Anyone have a local copy of the repo they'd be willing to share?
The shuttle from Airport to the terminals at Logan is frequent and takes like 5 minutes. It’s not terribly arduous. The Silver Line goes terminal to terminal too.
> once the world population starts shrinking

What's your reason for such a firm belief that this is absolutely going to happen in any timeframe that matters to this valuation?
Maybe coinbase stock becomes the next cryptocurrency! One coinbase is one coinbase?
Here’s more about commenting style:

https://github.com/DotNetAnalyzers/StyleCopAnalyzers/blob/ma...

StyleCop is used for analyzing code style in C# code.

Specifically:

> If the comment is being used to comment out a line of code, begin the comment with four forward slashes rather than two.

StyleCop relies on this to tell the difference between commented code and code comments. If you use ReSharper, it can do some nifty transformation to strike these out in the IDE which is kinda cool too.

I’m a big fan of StyleCop to enforce consistent code styles. (Even if it’s not always what I may aesthetically prefer.)
I got one to float upwards into the air? Can that really happen?
There’s a lot of stimulus so assets are being inflated. It will pop at some point though and yea lots of people will get burned so don’t get too greedy on the ride up!
What private internal documents did she publish?
I have the X-Bows. It's my first ergo keyboard, and I really like it so far. I even use it for gaming. They just released one with a Mac layout, so I might be picking up a second one.
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I'm a long time (yearly plan) user with a similar experience.

The crux of the issue is that Pinboard's centralized architecture is unsustainable in the long run. It's essentially an on-demand archive.org service with the same ever-increasing storage requirements, which becomes a bigger problem as more users join.

It must be difficult for a one (or two) person team to manage, especially since they also chose to manage their own hardware. I assume this is to avoid cloud storage and hosting costs, and I respect the decision, but this can add a lot of overhead on top of just keeping the software performing optimally.

The sustainable model for this type of service is self-hosted. https://archivebox.io/ seems like a nice solution I've been meaning to try.
This reminds me a lot the "seams" and breaking dependencies that Michael Feathers talks about in his book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code"
Draw a horizontal line under the water, then return back to its start with a wavy line crossing over the first line repeatedly. Very strange things happen. The first time i tried, it leapt out of the water then flapped around..