skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will learn a lot about Margaret Mitchell's firing by simply reading this piece she shared publicly on Twitter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ERi2crDToYhYjEjxRoOzO-uO...

A few punchlines:

"Every moment where Jeff Dean and Megan Kacholia do not take responsibility for their actions is another moment where the company as a whole stands by silently as if to intentionally send the horrifying message that Dr. Gebru deserves to be treated this way."

"Dr. Gebru refused to subjugate herself to a system requiring her to belittle her integrity as a researcher and degrade herself below her fellow researchers. 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 that devalued one of the world’s leading scientists, and keep something like this from ever happening again."

In short, 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. But if she thought even for a second that she could possibly be a martyr and also keep her job, she's delusional. I have a hard time aligning myself with people who are fighting for the right cause, but have completely lost their touch with reality.

Perhaps she expected to get fired and knew that moving the files was only going to accelerate the inevitable? In that case, she deserved to be celebrated. But if she thought that she was untouchable, and in addition to being a major PITA for her employer also ended up so easily getting caught red-handed for a fireable offense - then I start questioning her judgement and have to wonder if her arguments against Google are equally skewed.
Well, there are several scenarios:

- The consulate has no need for the information about an expat's employer, and never reads it.

- The consulate checks up on the employer information for some reason best known to them. Maybe they call the employer and ask "does this person work for you?" Or maybe they look up the employer in some kind of database. Or maybe they already know the employer and automatically recognize the name.

But there's no case where the expat needs to submit secondary documentation saying how her official employment is a false front. No matter what happens, that information should be delivered to the consulate, if they need it, by some other means. They could answer the phone at Beijing Xi Diaoyutai and say "yes, she works here". Or they could have a special diplomatic database entry. Or the consulate staff might deal with them all the time and recognize the Beijing Xi Diaoyutai name. What purpose is served by sending the information through the expat?
Grim Dawn is another alternative, without much of PoE's online functionality
Russian Spy and FBI Traitor Robert Hanssen Arrested 20 Years Ago Today
conservative and skeptical are not the same thing

Science should be absolutely progressive in that ALL questions are asked and ALL hypotheses are tested, with a significant amount of skepticism and critical analysis.
This reminds me of the x files episode where a serial killer asks psychics “why do I do the things that I do?” before he kills them. Peter Boyle answers: “that’s easy, you do the things you do because you’re a homicidal maniac!”

More seriously, going all-in on biological determinism is just as much an article of faith at this point as looking for agency. This is one of the questions of western philosophy and science, let’s not pretend it’s settled or that we’re going to solve it in an hn thread either way.

Also I don’t think this is what you intend, but where the line you’re proposing leads is “phrenology, but with magnets this time so it looks like science.” No thanks, and even if it does turn out to be where we’re going it seems a mite early to take it for granted.
You can't just ask a random person to mine Bitcoin (well you can't, it just won't do much). It needs to be someone who has the mining hardware. So how many miners there are (specifically, how much mining hardware there is) matters.
The best alternative to antibiotics I've personally found is water fasting. By cutting off available food sources for the bacteria, I've been able to get over typically antibiotics-treated maladies without them. I'm not a licensed doctor, and this is not medical advice, just anecdata.
There are traditionally 4-6 purposes of justice. The four most common are deterrence, incapacitation, retribution, rehabilitation, and the other two less common are restoration and denunciation. These purposes are not mutually exclusive, not always possible to achieve (hard to restore dead people to life), and IMO there are valid reasons for all of them, even retribution (although of course it is possible to go to far).

Deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and restoration are pretty self-explanatory, and the reasons for those are clear. Denunciation means crimes are punished in order to send a message that such behaviour is condemned. But is there a good reason for retribution?

The meaning of retribution is that those who have hurt others suffer real consequences. This isn't necessarily something sadistic, as there are a number of reasons why this can be a valid purpose. You want people to have faith in the justice system, to not believe that people are getting off with slaps on the wrist, that mass murderers aren't being pampered, and so on, so that they don't turn to vigilante justice. It could be the case that, e.g., Brock Turner was unlikely to ever sexually assault a woman ever again after three months' jail time. But the perception that he was let off lightly could undermine faith in the justice system.

In a case like this, it may be that his victims need to see that he is punished so that they can have faith in their justice system. Whether or not that is the right call here, I don't know enough to make a judgement. But I don't think one can entirely ignore retribution as a purpose.
“Escape from Tarkov” raises the hand
Cookie Clicker is such a good game though.

It’s so meta and interesting. It almost single-handedly cured a friend of mine of his video gaming addiction.

It’s also a great meditation on exponential economic growth models.
As noted in the writeup, Squad is part of a triptych of interpreters working within the same constraints; the other two interpreters are Applejak[0] and Bulb[1].

[0] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/applejak

[1] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/bulb
Weird, it shows up as Diablo IV on their game selector page.

I clicked the beta button. I probably don't need another game I won't play (or play for an hour once every 5 years). So the beta is probably just about right. A couple hours of gameplay will satisfy my needs.

That is sort of my Path Of Exile habit too. About once a year I will get a hankering for a good old slaughter fest. Except POE keeps adjusting their skills tree, and destroying my characters. Or so it seems, since I can never remember the exact builds for some of these 5+ year old characters.
Never. Rust will never be good enough to replace C.
Making something patently obtuse appear effortless is a tenet of coffeeshop
hipsterism. See also tandem bicycles and beards.
I had a similar thing happen to me, not here but on Reddit. Was shadowbanned for no reason (never learned what it was) on an account where i treated everybody with respect. I created a new account, but from that day on i started behaving like shit on the website. I knew accounts were worth nothing if they could get randomly shadowbanned so I started acting like so.
Diablo 3 has hardcore too!
But how can community accountability practices work in an organization like Google, which hires from many different communities? It seems like it inevitably produces loud, angry, unresolvable conflict whenever your community and my community don't agree on a decision.
Works really well in cases of sepsis or multiresistant tuberculosis or gonorrhoea. Just saying.
Out of curiosity, do you do much creative writing? I agree that the second version is clearer and more grammatically sensible, but the first version bends the normal usage of syntax to evoke emotion, although a word here or there could be adjusted.

Here's an example of a similar update; would you say you like the second version more?

"Halting, stuttering, his words slurred, his eyes watery, his knees trembling, he thrust forth the knife, and with a cry the blow was struck-"

vs.

"His knees trembled, his eyes were watery, and spoke in a steady stream of unintelligible nonsense. With a cry, he thrust forth the knife, and the blow was struck."
I was dripping a faucet in every room with water, and also making sure the hot water(tankless) lines were getting some movement.

Was super worried after the reports of water supply issues that the pressure would drop and the pipes would freeze while I was sleeping in my 41 degree house :/ Fortunately we are in the lower elevation zone so it never dropped more than a quarter or so(pressure or flow, couldn't tell).
It seems AI ethics are on the decline. But in 10-20 years weapons of math destruction which includes AI will be the subject of Congressional and Senate hearings. I would go into public policy in the government/think tank, maybe with an academic gig as well. The Ethics on the medical and criminal justice side seem more pressing than search itself.
I was looking at the graphics and wondering if they just had those 3D models all this time, because they had to make them for 2.5D rendering in D2 and just swapped the assets now in a sense (and the engine too of course)
I'm curious how you think someone who is a professional ethicist is supposed to do their job without being allowed to comment on ethics.

It's not a cog-in-a-machine profession. Having critical opinions is what the job is about.

It's literally stupid for a corporation to employ an ethicist and then somehow be outraged and appalled when they have their ethics questioned and challenged.
It can also be a matter of pride, I think. People can like their name enough to not change it simply because some company chose to use it for their product.
I think the exact opposite is true - morality and free will share a symbiotic relationship [1]. When I find a bug in my code, I don't ascribe a moral judgement to its erroneous output. I fix the problem and make a new program. Applying this to criminal justice, there would no longer be any retributive justice, just deterrence and rehabilitation [2]. While for many this is a foregone conclusion eagerly awaited, not so much for the victims and their families, who now must believe that some cosmic forces crushed them, not the work of an individual. The individual can no longer be blamed for their actions, their circumstances are to be blamed, further and further into the past until it becomes a pointless exercise. Where does that leave the victim who is still there when the perpetrator is gone? We must be intellectually honest and say when there is no culpability for wrongdoing, there cannot be victims either, only unlucky segments of memory randomly corrupted by a faulty program.

[1] https://ethics.org.au/what-is-the-definition-of-free-will-et...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retributive_justice
Wait until you hear about Minecraft hardcore.
> There’s also the question of why the PLA would bother to assign an active duty soldier

This is a real reach; her non-fictitious employer was the Air Force General Hospital. Being employed by the military doesn't make you a soldier.
Do you have a source? I have been keeping an eye out for stats regarding this but everything is mostly just derived from the Cambridge data.
> Instead of writing platform specific apps

You've answered your own question as to why people write then.

> What value does electron add to the user?

It adds a lot of value to Linux and to a lesser extent Mac users: before a electron a lot of apps didn't have a version for these platform at all.
Someone asked you a question and you belittled them assuming worst intent. Please don't be THAT person. For one not everyone speaks english as a first language, two while i _think_ i understand what your getting at you picked a very obtuse way to phrase it and even i'm uncertain if i understand, three when speaking to a diverse audience from around the globe who probably are not aware of the language used when speaking about diversity you should default to simple clear explanations and language, not packing it all up into a dense phrase like that.
Ultima music on the Mockingboard was the best. Thinking of the Ultima II-IV era IIRC. I listened to it hour after hour at my buddy's house and never got tired of it.
As can be seen above, current team members state that Google is running a smear campaign against both of them. We should emphatically not take Google's words at face value here either.

I don’t get this. Google’s words are that she exfiltrated company documents. She either did or didn’t do this. And is google going to risk making this into a much bigger story by committing libel against a former employee?

Or should AI ethics researchers be empowered to steal corporate documents?

I try to maintain an open mind, but things seem almost straightforward in this case.
You're implying that nobody with her job should ever be fired for any reason. That's probably not what you were trying to communicate.
A hardcore mode isn't super rare in gaming. Tell your kids to try Minecraft's hardcore mode; that'll change their answer.
Also make sure to turn off the water heater so you don't start a fire.
I wonder how it’s free? I know two business models for free things, pay to win micro-transactions like EA and selling out user’s data like FB, and I’m not a fan of either of them.
An example would be that X11 has protocols to allow the manipulation of currently selected text. In Wayland no such protocol exists as it's entirely agnostic of how clients handle input and render text.

The result is that on X11 I have a hotkey that automatically normalizes strings to their unicode normal form, something that is not as easily implementable in Wayland, or at all.

A far more basic example is that in order to open new card packs in Hearthstone, to buypass the chore that that involves I can in X11 quite easily send an endless string of space keypreses to an application window without having that window even open or focused. — this is not generally possible in Wayland. Looking it up, a tool ydotool exists to bypass this limitation, which requires root access and directly accesses the input devices to do so.
Ha this always made me laugh since 96.

- It doesn't work on Linux

- It doesn't work on Mac
Interesting. Is there a maximum price as well to support those who buy food? Usually when you are talking about agriculture, the big risk is in a sudden supply collapse leading to price spikes, not a sudden supply explosion leading to price drops.
"overblown_now" but April was bad? In April we were seeing roughly 2K deaths per day. The average the last month has been over 3K. Or perhaps you live in Taiwan, or NZ where they actually handled COVID properly. But in the US, it's been a shitstorm.
Like I said it reminded me most of Gauntlet. An arcadey, hack and slash game focused more on slaughtering enemies with a character that progresses relatively linearly.

It's not a terrible game, I just found it very shallow. It removed most of the element of choice from character builds and streamlined things in a way I just didn't really like very much.

Path of exile had the opposite problem, it tried too hard to be like diablo 2, while focusing too much on random loot and excessive choice.

Diablo 2 managed to walk that fine line between pointless loot clicker and mindless progression clicker and kept it fun by giving players agency, but not drowning them in choices.
You would think that (((Larry Page))) and (((Sergey Brin))) would have made a company that appreciates outing minorities is a bad thing. I guess (((they))) don't mind and will stop deplatforming people who merely point out how (((they))) represent over 40% of billionaires despite making up less than 2% of the population.

Or, and hear out this crazy idea, we stop it with the racism from the left and right and treat people according to their circumstances and their character instead of who their grandparents were.
Their browser is. But Windows' webview is still the IE11 engine.
Also wanted to chime in here and say thank you for maintaining Yarn. I don’t use js often but yarn has always been my preferred tool when I do. Great to know that it has an awesome maintainer like you
this is c++
Can't you just change the prompt for the device to one of the other options? Though I dunno why they can't make it use any wake word you choose.
the age of empires 2 remaster has done well
> If she didn't do it and they don't have good reason to believe she did, then she could and should easily win a large lawsuit against them, since they have publicly accused her of illegal activity.

Despite the popular refrain of “truth is an absolute defense” in the context of defamation law, in US law falsity is an element of the tort, which means that the plaintiff bears the burden of making a prima facie case that the accusation was false by at least some evidence, the defendant doesn't bear the initial burden of showing that it is true or reasonably believed.

Also, there is a very good chance, since Mitchell was publicly involved in the controversy over Google's firing of Timnit Gebru before Google made the accusation, that Mitchell would be found to be a public figure within the context of Google's alleged defamation, which would heighten the requirement from falsity plus harm to proving actual malice.

Also, if Google is lying, they almost certainly also spent over a month building a constructed evidence trail and doctoring records to support the lie between the very public lockout and the actual firing.

So, no, winning a defamation case wouldn't be easy, wouldn't be quick, and wouldn't fail to be extremely expensive in litigation costs.

Plus, every step Google takes on this is just resulting in more of the remaining people in the affected area of the company going public with problems, and it’s not like Mitchell seems to be hurting for alternative employment so as likely the only value of winning the lawsuit would be a PR poke in Google's eye that they are getting on their own anyway...why bother?
You were naive, not dumb, usual thing with young people
Kids these days have it easy. They've never had to leave a nes turned on overnight just because a game lacks a save feature or continues and is unreasonably long...then their mom turns it off while their sleeping...:(

Oh Blaster Master...someday i'll complete you...
Pretty debatable. Is the law equivalent to morality? If not then I can't see how corporate law is either, since corporations aren't even democracies.
In his initial thesis on Erlang, and in any talk I've seen him give, or anything I've seen him write, he attributes reliability to the model, not to BEAM.
> I'm thinking shovelware and apps that can't be deleted becoming part and parcel with providing a phone service through a carrier.

I would think anything that required Apple to open up the OS would apply equally as well to carriers. Who cares if the carriers put crap on your phone if you can easily wipe what they provide with a clean copy? It's slightly more complicated than Windows in that the carrier is also providing drivers, but not entirely without precedent (much of Dell system innards are their own design, and they re-brand or develop their own drivers for chipsets to better suit their systems). That would be another differentiator to open the market though. IF X provider is hostile to replacing their OS and makes the experience suck, the market can deal with that. At least it's a small chunk of the stack, and not everything from the base hardware to web services all locking you in to one choice.

As for Early Access and opening up Steam, i've actually not found it to be a problem. Some of my favorite games and experiences started out as (and in some cases still are) Early Access. And even the ones that started strong and went to shit, I count 6-12 months of a fun game as well worth the $20-$30 an Early Access game generally costs.

I've also found the Steam ratings, and the reviews people put in that generate it to be extremely useful and accurate. You just have to zero in on the reviews that relate it to existing experiences that you're familiar with so you get a good idea of what it is like. Worst case you find some streamer on Twitch or YouTube to watch for a bit to get a feel for it.
See, I could probably get on board with being passively opposed to about half the stuff on that triangle. The other half is either outright bs or stuff I've never heard of.
I basically failed the numerical analysis part of my CS degree forty years ago so forgive me if I misunderstand. The abstract implies by holding and calculating a shadow higher precision version of the fp value the nsan logic can detect faults in code.

The specific faults we were taught about back then, would seem to be accumulated, loop embedded rounding error. Is there some other calls of merit it can handle? I took (40 years ago) a message that precision and repetition went hand in hand in this problem. I could see that eg incorrect precision handling across function call boundaries could promote ints to speciously accurate floats maybe, but that's a trivially detected type problem surely?

Not saying this isn't good work. Seeking clue about its scale and applicability.
I do believe Linus Torvald would be very happy to hear that Linux has arrived on Mars. Long live the Penguin!
Go "inconito". I think something I had filled the date to make me too young. It's ridiculous that entering drop down fields proves your age.
And if you have a way to get people, on a mass scale, to stick to a reduced calorie diet long-term then you may have a scientifically proven solution. Until you have that you do not have a scientifically proven solution. You have a method of weight loss which only works as long as people stick to it (which scientific studies show they won't).
Bureaucracy. Recently I had to submit some document to the Korean court, and they demanded an official document certifying that I'm residing in the US (and hence cannot present myself in person), so I had to go to the consulate's office, fill out a form asking the government to verify that I'm in the US, wait a few days until the form is mailed to my house, and then go to USPS to send it back to the Korean court.

And this is just regular run-of-the-mill yes-I'm-really-here documentation with nothing like secret front hospitals.
I remember towards the end of my time playing d2, bots were everywhere. At some point, I will admit I started to do it too. I actually really enjoyed the scripting behind it (in Lua) and the technical challenges behind it. Funny, it looks like d2jsp is still a thing.
Irrational exuberance is an amazing phenomenon... I've seen this before.
Because on X11 I can rul tools to trace and debug the windowing system as it is running, introspect it's state and make changes to it.

For instance, I run a variety of scripts that automate the placement of windows as I desire it based on hotkeys. These scripts do not have any window of their own; they simply manipulate the placement of other windows or otherwise query their status to do this. — this is not generally possible on Wayland at this moment.

Such programs are also possible under Windows and are utilized by many users to enhance the functionality of their windowing system.