skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The popular narrative is that these crimes are due to Americans still thinking that Asian people caused the pandemic. It's even become a bit of international propaganda against the US. There's likely some truth to it. But also, the US has a broken mental health system, and our cities are overrun with people who may not be capable of understanding the consequences of their actions, so it's hard to prove or disprove. I will say that Trump calling it the "China flu" probably helped radicalize those who are incapable of knowing better.
>>Freud spoke of the narcissism of small differences, saying that “it is precisely communities with adjoining territories, and related to each other in other ways as well, who are engaged in constant feuds and ridiculing each other”.<<

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Editorializing as little as possible:

This paper was originally going to be coauthored by Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, Emily Bender, and a few other collaborators from Google and UW.

The paper, at a high level, offers criticisms of large language models (including BERT, a Google model). In ~October/November, the paper went through the normal Google paper review process and was approved to be published externally (i.e. submitted to a conference). Later, Gebru was informed that the paper was not fit for publication due to some additional review, and needed to be unsubmitted from the conference, or the Google coauthors needed to removed their names. Initially, this was provided with no context or reason.

Upon pushing back, Gebru was given some information on why the paper was unfit for publication. Publicly, what we know is that Google's reasoning here was that the paper did not cite relevant work and was not up to Google's publication standards (of note here, the paper cites nearly 200 other works, which is huge for a CS paper, and it later passed peer review at the conference, so this claim seems dubious).

Gebru complained that this feedback was essentially trying to bury the paper, especially given that she was not given the opportunity to address or incorporate the feedback, only drop the paper. She sent two emails, one to her management stating that this kind of process was not conducive to research and stating that she would consider resigning if things didn't change. She also sent an email complaining about the process to a mailing list about diversity and inclusion work, noting that DE&I work was going to continue to be a waste of time without executive buy-in.

Google "accepted Gebru's resignation", noting that the second email she sent was unprofessional. Under the relevant law, Gebru didn't resign and was fired by Google. Google has since partially walked back their statements, and refers to the situation as her "departure", leaving it amusingly vague.

The paper is published in January, after passing peer review, coauthroed by "Schmargaret Schmitchell", among others. It's since come to light that some other papers have also gone through this additional review since then, this additional review process was formalized, it seems, only after Gebru's paper was submitted. The sensitive review process involves legal approval and requires authors to remove statements like "having concerns". [0]

Margaret Mitchell, Gebru's co-lead is also fired, for sharing confidential information. The investigation into her misconduct took over a month, and she was fired the same day as a reorganization of the AI ethics team was announced.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-...
Warp Drives Are No Longer Science Fiction
You're making a tortured semantic argument. We were talking about whether Malthus is still relevant, whether we can still use him to make predictions. Malthus being "correct up until the 17th century" is beside the point.

You've also made bizarre arguments elsewhere in this thread. Apparently Malthus can't be proven wrong because the Earth can't support an infinite number of people. That's true, of course, but it's not a model. It's the statement of an obvious fact.
It seems analogous to not asking a dog to do a trick you know it can’t perform.
>"...I use because I’m stuck with it; I use it for
positive reasons. "

I absolutely agree with that statement. When I do firmware for small MCUs I feel big fat zero need for any other language.
You could have read the entire README in the time you spent posting something based off your assumptions.
> But there's plenty of people being cancelled:

That second link is telling - they list 9 people; one lost a book deal, one had a book withdrawn, one had to switch to smaller publisher, and one lost an honorary charity position. How is this being cancelled?
The $750 is just for the board. Four SFP+ ports, some onboard SATA ports, an open PCIe 3.0 x8 port and a 16-core Cortex A72 CPU on a mini-itx compatible board is still a decent price given it's not a mass-market product. Hell, development kits for many ARM SOCs cost more than that for way less.

That said, you are absolutely correct that rackmount equipment is expensive by it's form-factor - but given this is a mini-itx board clearly not designed for use in a rackmounted chassis (given clearance for CPU cooling and orientation of the memory modules) it's not a factor here.
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I don't totally disagree with you, but the leftist infighting is of a very different nature than left vs. the establishment. For one, those on the left don't actually have the power to cancel each other. The platforms are owned by the neo-liberals, which direct the canceling through who they allow to speak their mind and who they don't.

> And there is also of neoliberals that pretend to be leftist, yes, so called "Radlibs".

These are the people doing the canceling (both to the left and the right of them). It's worth nothing the distinction as it's this group with the power.
it's all "satisfy the compiler"

That’s not at all like the experience programming with Idris. Idris is more like working with a powerful assistant that can infer all kinds of stuff about the shape of your function. In some cases, it can even infer the entire function implementation from the type. In cases where it can’t infer that it can give you a bunch of information about what terms are in scope with the appropriate types.
I don't see how this is a strawman. My argument is an existence proof. There exists people who cannot be lifted out of poverty by giving them money. I can trivially prove my claim by giving examples of such people[1]. I never claimed that all or most people are like this. But its undeniable that some people are simply irresponsible / lazy.

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I can relate very closely with grandparent. For me, I don't consider it "traumatizing" as much as "moderating" from a very clear perspective of how well I have it now, how rare that actually is, and how much ridiculous excess most people are comfortable with.
I don’t think we ever can overcome the fear of being poor again. I struggle with it as well.
Definitely agree the first and second stages should be purpose-built!
The notion that children don't deserve the spoils of their parents is really crazy to me. Parents work so that they can give their children a better life. Heck, they even choose their partners to maximize odds for a better life for their offspring (wealth, good genes, and so on - it does not even depend on capitalism).

To take that away from people is truly dehumanizing, but sounds like a typical socialist scheme (destroy the family, destroy individualism, everything has to be the same).
No one will take over CUDA's dominance until they realize that one reason why most researchers flocked into it were its polyglot capabilities, and graphical debuggers.
Well said. It is also why a lot of people struggle with retirement. They don't feel any other self-worth. Find a hobby (keep learning new things until you find something) and you will always have something to look forward to.
| This is truly the dark age of the information era.

I think statements like this are hysterical and ahistorical. The amount of actual censorship and the way moral panics occurred throughout history make twitter dogpiling look absolutely quaint in comparison.

I don't disagree with Kazuo Ishiguro one bit, but I think all it means is that authors need to get thicker skin, because unlike the past, they can read their readers opinions.
> Last time I checked, UNIX and POSIX go hand in hand, no one is moving goalposts here.

Nobody said a POSIX file system was required.

The comment says that because iOS is a Unix, therefore it has a filesystem.

It doesn’t say anything about it needing to be POSIX.

The idea that anyone was saying it needed to be posix was introduced only by you and is moving the goalposts.

> The existence of a file system has nothing to do with UNIX,

The existence of the iOS filesystem has lot to do with Unix.

> unless you now mean only UNIX has filesystems.

I’m not sure why you’d think anyone would mean that.

Nothing in your comment addresses the problem with your analogy.

To recap:

iOS provides all levels of Unix file system access from posix and libc upwards. Many apps and libraries make use of lower level access than Swift and Obj-C apis.

In addition, even those abstractions won’t work without a file system. They depend on concepts like files and directories.

This is why iOS had to have one when it shipped, and why a car power train is not a valid analogy.
To add to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307485, the government may be in a position to turn that $100 directly into food or housing for Steve.
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Which will obviously go precisely nowhere. Maybe they are a handful of people in Congress saying that, but it will never come anywhere near being law and even if it did it would be struck down immediately.
> I'm genuinely curious if this is a good strategy, relationship-wise.

Not in the naive "always apologize" sense. That has the risk of creating a dynamic where the apology can't be trusted to be sincere and problems don't actually get addressed.

Sure, if you actually did something wrong, by all means apologize. But if it's somewhat of a gray matter, a healthier dynamic would be to establish a baseline, something that is only built over the long term, that whatever happened it wasn't either person's intention to create conflict or upset the other person. That might mean apologizing for triggering something.

With a bit of space, ideally both people could talk about what they were thinking or perceiving, understand why the other person behaved the way they did, and come up with ideas for how to prevent the same problem from happening next time.

Obviously that only works if both people are well-intended, able to deescalate conflicts, and willing to put in the work. No amount of this would fix fundamental differences or relationship red flags.
>American company will collect data to show you ads and profit

Unless you get a target on your back, in which case the American company will provide the American law enforcement agencies with whatever data they want to take action against you and your family.

Your assertion is just a variation of "if you're not doing anything wrong you shouldn't worry about spying".
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Seems very interesting. Seems like doing Erlang OTP in Rust. But this is one of those projects where a simple tutorial would be super helpful. WhatsApp is famously written in Erlang. Perhaps, a simple tutorial of building a distributed chat backend using this library/system would help a lot of people see how this would be used.
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Maybe the first point or four. The subsequent ones? They actually seem pretty serious.
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I don't think anyone claimed that what happened to the Dixie Chicks was OK. Also, it sounds as if you think that cancellation is better if it's democratic. If so, you need to address the 150-year old argument made by Mill, that democratic popular opinion can be particularly oppressive and dangerous to minority viewpoints:

"Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant — society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it — its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself."
MLK was hated by most and persecuted by the FBI as an evil communist because he spoke out against the war machine, and called for a radical revolution of values.

Semmelweis was locked in a mental prison and beaten to death for suggesting that doctors should wash their hands.

Socrates was sentenced to death for questioning the state.

Jesus was crucified for challenging the established religious order.

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for suggesting that the stars in the night sky were just like our sun, with their own planets in orbit.

>Are any of these places where the next big leap in intellectual progress is going to come from?

Iconoclastic ideas, whether erroneous or true, are always deeply offensive to society at large, and humanity always viciously seeks to silence them with the popular approval of the status quo.
You can also use the Touch ID / power button as a shortcut to autofill a 1Password password:

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Is this some meta joke or a reference to anything?
This was basically the idea behind the Windows registry - a single configuration store. With mostly the same tree structure on Machine and User level, so your local prefs could override machine-level prefs. The 'user' part was portable between machines on a domain. And you have a single API to access or change settings

Opinions may differ on how well it was executed in practice. I'm not sure /etc/ with its hundreds of different file formats and Ansible or Chefs as an 'API' is that much better
>Xiaomi worth billions of dollars, not 1.4 trillion, but way more than most companies.

I'm referring to Google with that valuation.

>We don't commonly call billionaires who live in the middle east, china, and other non-western countries "oligarchs", do you know why?

Propaganda? An oligarch is a rich person with a lot of political influence. Sounds like an average billionaire to me.

>People call out Google all. the. time. There's an article here weekly about dumping Google, finding alternatives, praying for antitrust regulation, etc

I don't think I have ever seen a mainstream publication refer to Google apps and services as spyware. Which of course is what they are.

>Why are you so upset about Xiaomi getting called out?

Only annoyed at the obviously biased language.
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You do understand that "my entertainment takes 6 minutes to load" is a very different problem from "my essential transportation kills people"? And therefore call for different approaches?
This is a very reasonable thing to fear. The concept of "уравниловка" in Russian exists precisely because the government tried to do just that in many cases. Making everyone the same (in terms of equality of outcomes) is a lot easier to do by making all the outcomes bad.

I should note that "equity" need not mean "equality of outcomes", but when pressed for how one evaluates "equity" far too many proponents fall back to "equality (and proportionality) of outcomes" in practice....
No.

The other answer is also correct, that it's Yes.

In other words, the question is wrong.

Applicative parser combinators are an interface. The backing implementation is pretty open. It might be recursive descent. It might be the Earley algorithm. It might be a packrat parser.

The interesting thing about Applicative parser combinators is that the way they are composed is amenable to static analysis. That allows a wide variety of implementation strategies, all behind a simple uniform interface...

... So long as you ignore that there are still things left unspecified by the interface, especially related to backtracking behavior. (I really hate how much mindspace Parsec-like libraries have in Haskell. They have the worst backtracking behavior.)
You can never be sure what's hiding in the hardware, if you already don't trust the software.
The text lines are just a single textarea element, you can copy from and paste into it. But saving and loading files would be convenient too.
You can use your power button as a shortcut to autofill it from 1password or another password manager:

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Its actually quite a good claim, for example if we examine UK: we have more empty houses than we have homeless people, and we have more food thrown away as waste than what would be needed to feed said homeless people.

Furthermore, suppose you were to budget 3000 calories of basic food for every person in Uk, you'd find it's a tiny fraction of national budget.
They give away low cost hardware because it's a military branch of the government whose purpose is establishing a global surveillance network. Being profitable is a nice to have but not a primary purpose as they get subsidized by the state regardless.
Absolutely agreed.

Not just that but 1U servers also use a fair percentage of their wattage moving air with 40mm fans. The hotter the TDP of all the electronics in your server is, the more air you need to move. 40x28mm high RPM 12VDC fans are quite inefficient in terms of a ratio of cubic meters of air moved per hour vs their watt-hours consumed.

In a 2U chassis if you can find a way to pack in multiple motherboards and use 60mm height fans the possible efficiencies are much greater.

If you look at the 'wall of fans' in the center of something like a Dell 1U dual socket system, there's eight or ten fans each of which if running at full speed can be an 8W to 10W load. This is necessary because you might have two 120W TDP CPUs under passive heatsinks that need a LOT of air pushed past them.

Additionally a stack of 30 or 40 1U servers each with its own discrete 110-240VAC input, DC output power supply is quite inefficient in large numbers. A fair bit of wattage is wasted to spinning the 40mm fan in the power supply and in the densely packed AC to DC conversion circuitry. This is one reason why things like the FB Open Compute platform servers are sometimes 1.5RU high (so they can use 60mm fans), and use a single large AC-to-DC power supply that can take in 277VAC (or even 480VAC!), and output 12VDC to 48VDC to each motherboard in the same rack cabinet.
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While there are ways to disable mitigation against many of the side-channel issues, this is not one of them. I believe this one is mitigated by the "sbb;and" sequence here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

There is no way to enable or disable this particular mitigation. That's probably because it's an extremely cheap mitigation.

Disclaimer: I work on Linux at Intel.