skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am convinced that the sort of Web API compatibility so many people demand is only a few native libraries away. I would like to start experimenting in this area but I can only get rust-sciter DLLs working with "vanilla" Sciter and not Sciter.js, and I don't want to use other languages.
I'm doing my PhD on topics related to mRNA and took a seminar class with Meselson in college. Really crazy how quickly our field has gone from obscure to mainstream this last year.
She’s not a broad professional ethicist at Google. She’s part of an ethical AI team.

It’s one thing to write a critical research paper on Google AI. It’s quite another to spend months publicly trashing your employer on social media.

You would think someone who is working in ethics would understand the difference.

Share your critical opinions internally, or at minimum share them in a professional manner. Act like a professional adult.
One real-world example: All the textbook algorithms for triangulation by ear-clipping (i.e. turning a convex shape into a bunch of triangles) are broken if executed using IEEE floats, some formulations of them are worse than others. Typically they loop forever. If you take an implementation that appears to work on x86 and compile it for powerpc, it might break.

In general you can be taking textbook accurate math based on rock solid proofs and then when you turn it into code it's busted, so nsan seems like it could be really valuable for flushing out some of those problems.
Indeed. So with monolith usually we already have 3-4 (or more) somewhat reliable systems, and one non-reliable system which is your monolithic app. Why add other non reliable systems if you don't really need it?

Making a system to be reliable is really really hard and take many resources, which seldom companies pursuit.
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Maybe there's no channel. Incompetent bureaucracies are usually like that. There is simply no way for someone in arm A to talk to arm B.

Maybe you haven't worked in a place like this, but I lived in one for a while. It would be completely normal for someone at the government office to claim that the bank-supplied identification you brought with you isn't real, both of them owned wholly by the state with the bank ID being intended for the purpose you're using it for.

Will they do the simple thing of calling the bank? No. They will just say you're SOL. "But I am a Very Important Person with Very Important Things". Yeah yeah, everyone is, we hear that all the time. Bring back a real bank ID next time, you faker. Next in line!

So then you go back to the highest authority you know, get a letter from them, and you walk it up there to the guy, who instantly panics and delivers on what he was supposed to do.

If you don't know what these bureaucracies are like, you are blessed.
Interrogating corporate behavior and publicly embarrassing the corporation are two totally different things.

You can employ someone and have them develop and even publicly espouse ethics principles, while also instructing them to keep their criticism of corporate behavior confidential to the corporation.

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.
Yes. I leave this as an object lesson to self. I do often find the one finger points out, three point in rule, generally applies.
Gotcha, yeah not who were replying too, but I read/skimmed most of your post first thinking was a new DBMS specifically for machine learning (especially given the name), which is a lot less interesting to me and I was about to close the tab. I much prefer the phrasing you used on the GitHub, I think it's more clear: "Predictive AI layer for existing databases"

Anyway, I'm seriously going to look into using this on a product for work, thanks for sharing & your work on this! We are in the process of triaging a few different features for a product in education (can chat more about it if your curious!), including some fairly bog-standard predictive text features. We are also trying to avoid strictly depending on any one proprietary PaaS, so this might just fit the bill!
Is this the Year of Linux on the Planet?
Not my experience at all. C was super easy for me to learn. However, having said that, I did learn Z80 assembler programming before learning C. That might have made it easier.
Anyone else ever fall asleep awake? I've been able to lucid dream for a while now, but I started meditating recently and I've discovered I can meditate myself to sleep while still being "awake". I have to be really tired to do it, like physically exhausted, but mentally awake, so usually during naps, but it's really strange. First time I freaked out because I could feel my body going into sleep paralysis I felt like I was choking / couldn't breathe. Unfortunately I've only managed to stay awake for a few moments and didn't procede to a lucid dream yet.
Maybe you are right, I was working in Switzerland, not in US.

What I remember clearly though is that Google's training contained material about how I am allowed to socialize with coworkers outside work, which may be allowed in the US, but it was clearly against the Swiss constitution (my job security was more important to me than speaking up about this though)
The game could just read the files on your computer or report your internet browsing. Games have all sorts of access to peoples machines. Game privacy policies often contain some invasive permissions, check them out sometime
I have doubts that a Dutch prison is quite the same environment as a child being kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to fight in the LRA.
I can't agree because the alternative would be exposing those unstable private APIs over the Wayland protocol, which would probably not please you either. Some of those X11 APIs are not actually stable and don't actually work everywhere too, they require special support from the window manager.
Keep spendin' dem trillions, boss.
The original claim was that Google uses their political power to push leftish views and censor right/far right views, so that particular claim is not consistent
I'll play this, but all these remasters make me wonder if Blizzard is running out of ideas.
Yes, because they were not peer reviewers, and they had no business reviewing the paper in the first place. She went through the process for internal publication review (which does not involve anonymous reviewers, any more than a code review or a preparing-to-open-source-something review or a branding-guidelines review involves anonymous reviewers), and the paper was approved, and then management told her there was a secret extra process and she couldn't know who was involved in the process.

The paper was eventually anonymously peer reviewed by other scientists at other institutions in a process run by the journal (not by anyone's manager) without incident.
This is interesting to me, because Maciej has repeatedly defended (and joked about) Pinboard having a "bus factor" of 1 (if one person gets hit by a bus, the service is done). To be clear, what I'm saying isn't intended as a criticism, in fact I'm very sympathetic to someone who wants to run a web business solo and maintain control over their own project.

But it makes me wonder. What Maciej is effectively doing here is asking for donations. Which is great. But the fact that many Pinboard users would willingly upgrade to a "paid" plan as a token of their support indicates to me that while at the 10,000 foot level signing up for Pinboard is just a market exchange like any other, at a closer level Pinboard users are members and not just customers. This despite the fact that Pinboard eschews the social features that are common among other bookmarking platforms!

I bring this up because this kind of thing arises in open source software development as well. For instance, when the developer of htop disappeared for a while, and the community forked it. But we (Internet culture) have not developed the same approaches to handling administration of services that are useful to a group of people. This surprises me. I think there's room for some movement in this direction, where a group of people can maintain a service that is useful to them and made available to the whole group. Perhaps various chat servers / Mastodon approximate this, but even in this case they're often run by individuals and susceptible to the same kinds of outages.
So do you pick the wildest conjecture to test, or one of the somewhat more plausible ones? And how much money should go into one before you move on?
If anything, a government might even like a public ledger of all transactions. Sure, you can sell in person, and then it's about as secretive as cash.
>> It’s a really common refrain here that if you are employee critical of your employer you should expect to get fired

I was just critical of my employer, I called them out on how evil they were, I cost them money, I embarrassed them publicly, and then, all of the sudden out of nowhere I was fired!

That's sort of your assertion, right? Am I misrepresenting anything?
I know this is super off-topic but I’ve needed to design this web experience myself over the past few years (and ended up making visitors use Google Sheets with filters they adjust).

It seems you've got some property/binary/numeric filters already in there and if you could load the data from a js/json file, this UI could be entirely open source and customizable. I’d just fork and put my own data, set my own sliders and good to go.

Just a thought if you ever wanted to open source it. It would be a superb experience for many developers.
No, IE is still the same. But Edge has moved to Chromium.
It is no better an assumption than assuming the OP is a man.
Path of Exile locks some player QoL behind microtransactions (not pay to win but you're going to have a less fun time without it).

Namely, stash tabs, as inventory takes up a lot of space. It's not too expensive though.
> You could switch to Proof of Work

Wait, you mean "move away from" ?
I signed up to it. I’m curious how it goes. Diablo 3 was such a letdown, about as bad as GOT season 8.
I played hots and it wasn't bad at all. New heroes would be first ban pick in ranked when overpowered anyway, and they usually stayed like that a couple of weeks until they were balanced.

I'm completely fine with that monetization since you still can't beat better players with money and you can still do everything without spending a penny. You at most get a tiny MMR inflation for a week or two if you buy every new hero on release (which wasnt even that often) and that was nowhere near enough to jump a higher league. Hell, given that it still didn't make them enough money maybe it was too little monetization..
Free speech is a principle and a constitutional right.
Yeah that's what I want to know. If it's a physical problem like low gas pressure or pipes freezing, I don't see why so many plants would shut down at the same time. If they were shut down for economic reasons, that suggests that there was a huge market failure, especially now, almost five days later and they're still not fully operational.
> Is there a reason why successfully running software on a server is so much harder than running software on your phone?

Sure (exaggerating)

phone - reboot is your FIRST option

server - reboot is your LAST option
Sectioning off those features to paid only subscribers requires additional work too.
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On Reddit only the admins can shadowban, not the mods.
I'm curious why you think she was fired for having critical opinions as opposed to grossly unprofessional conduct. She could have done her job just fine without throwing her colleagues under a bus, badmouthing her employer in the press, and having a paranoid meltdown because her paper didn't pass peer review. Being an ethicist doesn't give you the right to act like an asshole.
The economy is growing 2-3% these days, so another point on that is about a 30% increase in growth and would be a spectacular for humanity.

Your privacy is not compromised by Facebook. Nobody is harmed. There are zero cases of people being hurt or their lives being denigrated due to targeted advertising.

FB is not perfect, I think there are better ways, I don't like them, but it's hyperbolic to suggest there is material systematic harm. Nobody is really losing that much.
The legal way to handle that is for Dr. Gebru to sue Google and get the emails through discovery. (If Google didn't do anything that Gebru can/is willing to sue over, well, she doesn't have any legal right to the emails.) Exfiltrating confidential documents will get you fired, and saying you did it to assist a friend in badmouthing your employer on Twitter is not going to help matters.
I don't browse it daily though. I browse it nightly ;).
That's a good solution for you. That's not a good solution for 99.9% of the population who have no idea what "ssh" is.
What is wrong with you? Why do you talk like that? It's like you take a normal sentence, then swap out some random words until it no longer makes sense.

It's not cool, it's just weird.
Offtopic. Oracle does something similar, but on a bigger scale. They approach potential clients with two stacks of papers: one is a contract and the other is a lawsuit. A discreet way to nudge clients to do business with you.
Any links to more details about this?
Does this explain the nonsensical state of the MBTA Blue Line, which despite going RIGHT INTO EAST BOSTON manages to barely graze Logan?

I had heard that the cab companies made sure the T doesn't have a grade-separated line to the airport, so as to ensure fares. I wouldn't put it past them...
Allowing Alexa devices to respond to the more generic "computer" is a not-insignificant win for Amazon IMO.

Though it can get a little confused when I'm watching Star Trek variants on a nearby TV...
The recent Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 was pretty good. Blizzard has absorbed the studio that made it too
I assume that there are exceptions. Off the top of my head I believe whistleblowing would be a legally protected use of corporate emails. Maybe there are others, I’m not a lawyer. But I definitely accept that in general sharing work emails without authorization is a fireable offense.

Honestly this whole thing strikes me as something more legally complex than engineers can analyze. I for one want to hear an actual expert weigh in on this, once enough facts are known. Anything else has too high a risk of foolish things being said.
I'm an old timer. I paid a small, one-time fee over ten years ago and have used Pinboard (not without some frustration) ever since. I paid the subscription fee when I received the email a couple days ago. It only seems fair.
Because I, and possibly others, don't know, what could be an example of a person in danger?
> 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.

I'd be interested in reading about guidelines for people tasked with "enforcing ethical and legal corporate behavior" in other industries, do you have any references?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26047444
I own or have owned several of these. The Kinesis Advantage 2 is the only one I regularly recommend. It's very expensive, but also refined, thoroughly tested, and highly customizable.

It did not take me long to adjust. I'm now as fast on the Advantage as on any mechanical standard.
World of Warcraft Classic was resisted as the CEO infamously said "You think you want it, but you don't."

When that turned out to be completely wrong and WoW Classic turned out to be a smash success, chances are Blizzard shifted development priority toward more nostalgia.
> If you take nothing else away from this post, take this: a sufficiently skilled manager can take the same body of work and make it work for you OR against you.

This is definitely true, and I want to add to it, just a little. When I was new to the world, I believed the world was unfair and I had no control over if I get promoted or not.
Here is what you do to overcome having a bad boss: YOU FIND OTHER BOSSES. You do work for you immediately boss. But you also do stuff for his/her peers (tip: you couch it as teamwork, so your boss likes you for it). You make sure your boss's boss knows about the work you do, and you do stuff for him/her. You be your own advocate. You find the influencesers and makesure they know about you and your work.

Then, when calibrations come along, and each of the bosses are pitching how well everyone has done, you have all of these people who ACTUALLY KNOW what you did. Just like a "good boss can spin your work", so too can ALL OF THESE BOSSES spin YOUR WORK as good.
Also, seek out good bosses.
Again with the false equivalence. You're just doubling down on being wrong. I'm out of this conversation.
> she didn't see herself as invulnerable

Yet:

Dr. Gebru and I had just been promoted to “Staff” Research Scientist, which is meaningful in the world of STEM, with the sort of honor associated with becoming tenured. We had thought it meant a certain amount of job security.
Yeah it's pretty much witchcraft at this point still.
It could happen, but it generally doesn't.

That's the kind of thing that happens when someone is paid pennies per edit and given insufficient resources to guide those edits, which really only happens when someone points a hose of money at a contractor.

I've long been a fan of a mandatory time field! Now to get Stack Overflow to implement it too :)
Sure, there are "activist employees", and sometimes companies may be justified in thinking that some of these employees engage in soapboxing to an extent that it's detrimental to the goals of the company or a distraction from their actual jobs, as you say.

But if a company serially butts heads with people whose actual jobs ARE to hold said company accountable in some way, I find it suspicious.

If a company keeps firing accountants "because they kept yapping about GAAP", wouldn't that raise a red flag with you? Or if a company told their auditor's managers that they'd take their business elsewhere unless more reasonable auditing standards were applied — a practice only all too common in the lead up to financial scandals.

If a president keeps firing inspector generals because apparently they are all part of a Grand Conspiracy against America, wouldn't that be a bit suspicious?

So if Google serially fires AI ethicists, some HN commenters keep insisting that all of them must have been uniquely unreasonable and toxic people, but my money would be on Google having increasing issues with being held to certain ethical standards.

As an aside, paradoxically, it may not be a good sign either if such watchdogs stay at a company forever, appear to be perpetually content and grow highly prosperous. The reason why is left as an exercise to the reader.
I don't understand. Why would it be?
> So do you pick the wildest conjecture to test, or one of the somewhat more plausible ones?

20% of the former, 80% of the latter.

> And how much money should go into one before you move on?

3% of the available funds each year.

Hope this helps!
I beat Ultima 1 on an HP 200 LX. It barely has a number before the (86) on the processor :) Fun fact: it ran fine on half height CGA.

You should be fine with DOSBox.
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These were researchers though, their jobs were to publish papers externally.
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Note that unlike W3R, the Diablo II Remake will be made internally (via the recent Vicarious Visions subsidiary)
Sure, the student organized event asked that white participants who supported this misguided movement stay off campus. Sure, that's a pretty dumb thing to ask of anyone and Bret Weinstein has no obligation to adhere to it, and furthermore adhering to it is pretty dumb...

But that's not the college's doing nor is it the college's responsibility.
"Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution"
> Somehow Microsoft Research manages to be a much more open place than Google and has researchers publish critical pieces all the time.

Can you give examples of these critical pieces? I can't think of any, but MSR publishes a lot of stuff...
Not sure I follow fully. I agree with the clean history but what if, as a user, I have multiple Google accounts and I simply login to my other accounts from time to time to check on things? Google "adds" that other account, and the process of removing it is really confusing. I don't recall doing it successfully without logging out first.

This seems to be a very common use case among my friends as well - they all have at least 3 Google accounts out of which they only use one account for chrome linking.
Torchlight requires mods to be playable.

The recent rereleases of Torchlight 2 for console (even with some QoL additions) that did not support mods were...not good.
Many people (me included) would consider Bitcoin to have failed at that point. It's pretty clear that the ecosystem believed in the cap, and removing it is a bait-and-switch.

Given we're currently floating around 10-15% fee-supported at the moment, I'd say most people are optimistic that we will succeed in moving Bitcoin into its final economic phase (i.e. in 10 years it will be 50% fees).

Personally, I still consider it a risk.
OTOH, one intolerant/militant person can force an entire group to accept their opinion, if the people would rather accept their opinion than abandon contact/friendships with that person.

If you force people to choose between using Signal and no longer being able to talk to you, they will make a choice. That choice could end with you being abandoned or ignored, or with a large group that would rather prefer WhatsApp using Signal, at least for this group.

Especially if it's multiple militant people, this effect can be quite powerful.
this is the aspect of science that is not talked about in the media and among "science, fuck yeah" "big bang theory" bros. science is full of dogma, politics and downright dirtiness. people who do research are often showmen more than scientists, because the system selects for people who can sleazily promote their own research to win grants, or people who just hop onto whatever bandwagon is popular. and the worst part is that people who are blowing on the kindling of the next big breakthrough are not only discarded by the scientific establishment, they are ridiculed viciously. anyone who says we should "listen to science" needs to open a history book. dogma, dogma, dogma. its the most insidious parasite in the modern western world and has happily escaped completely the confines of its old religious home.