skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what qualifies anyone to be an 'AI ethicist' anyhow?

This is a heavy question - it's problematically like elevating an individuals personal moral position, with all their little trivial baggage to something more than it is.

The challenge with these roles is very real: self awareness, objectivity, and processes for arriving at that are probably key. I suggest it would require a lot of engagement, feedback, possibly legal knowledge, reference etc..

AI credibility aside, the individuals chosen by Google previously were not remotely up for the job on a professional level, this was apparent from their public posture and even writing skills, and that's not slander, it's hard job.

As the OP indicates, some degree of objectivity as well, which may be difficult from within the company.

Finally, I would say it's entirely doubtful if AI requires it's own special branch of ethics. Everything Google does touches on ethical issues, and 'plain old search' much more so than perhaps anything else - certainly more than any of their core AI. It's a business and technology issue, not an AI issue. It just may require some insight from those familiar with the company.

All of that said, Google may lose the 'PR cover' of having a woman or PoC in the driver's seat.
Legumes too. Lots of traditional diets around the world have at least one kind of bean at their foundation.
That article really doesn't give a very good explanation at all, it doesn't make sense.
When CO2 breaks down it produces oxygen and carbon, so if oxygen gets burned to produce CO2 it's just gonna get converted back into oxygen when the CO2 breaks down.
If the oxygen reacts with the atmospheric nitrogen then surely this will also get broken down since AFAIK less energy is needed to break down NO2 than CO2.
Currently the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is over 500x more than the amount of CO2, so where is all that oxygen going to go?
Sure, but the horse era was before efficient solutions to those problems as well. Cf, "night soil" and the processes used to (try) to keep it from stinking up the city.
Is there a requirement for or against an automatic or voluntary paycheck deduction for union dues?
as a browser, duckduckgo works a lot better for me then google. try it. you may still need google occasionally for specific searches and to cross reference search results, but i find it highly satisfactory. Remember, DDG is American-based and even I, a UK resident can use it well.
Correct, animal welfare in factory farms is already at an diabolical level.

You just have to ask yourself why AG-GAG laws exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
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They exist to distinguish the element being operated on (the LHS) and what it is operated on by (the RHS).

Total technicality, but I could see myself using the term multiplicand/multiplier in my code if I had to implement e.g. a stack-based parser for arithmetic expressions.
They have an entire book on the basic typographic conventions they're supposed to follow there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Manual_of_S...

The one that always looks odd to me is C.I.A. and F.B.I.
China is not innocent by any means, but I sense some hypocrisy from those that arrogantly think they have a higher moral ground here. Pretty much every country has their own "Trail of Tears", even the progressive and almighty Canada only closed their oppressive Indian Residence school systems recently.

Are we supposed to boycott everyone then, and go back to hunting and gathering?
Arrant nonsense. We get it. You hate authority AND science.
China really is more like fascism than Marxism in my opinion. I occasionally follow some communists on Twitter, and they are surprisingly pro-China even though China is a far cry from their Marxist ideals.
Gaming uses more energy than Bitcoin.

Shall we place carbon taxes on gaming too?

How about a carbon tax on Gold and Silver, and on the whole of the banking system, which also consume more energy than Bitcoin?

In any case, feel free to contact the Bitcoin CEO and discuss your ideas on how to implement those taxes.
My thoughts. China will sell. Perhaps not in USA, Edit: EU (not UA), Japan, etc. But how about India, Pakistan, all African countries, all Arab countries?

They play the loooooooong game, and they are winning it. I believe that Russia's (and Russians) ideology is closed to Europe & USA's, while China is a full-on dictatorship.
No. A sighted user can perceive the placement of the icon within its context, e.g. a checked circle within a row in a table, and deduce that it represents confirmation of whatever information the column of the table represents in the context of the row. This information is not available to a screen reader user unless the visually hidden text makes it explicitly available to them.

By the way, your comment shows an ableist bias: an analogous assumption would be that a person who cannot walk is content because they are used to a wheelchair.
What language runtime provides mocking/spy support? This seems excessively catered to IOC OO design, not the kind of thing a multi-paradigm language usually supports.
> The Huafu Textile Company is located on the edge of a grey industrial estate in the city of Huaibei, in China's eastern province of Anhui.

I more or less grew up in the states, but this is the exact town I was born in, and grey couldn't be a better description for it. It was a mining town when I was little, and I recall trainloads of coal being taken out of tunnels in the mountains, very West Virginia feel to it.
So I have to accept all of Heise's cookies or I have to pay?

Wow. Heise had a better reputation than that in my mind.
I've written here once before that AI ethics researchers are like hiring hackers working in security, where they hold your products to an exogenous standard or ideal, which can add value, but has risks.

I've worked for companies who hired and then had to fire hackers for publishing vulnerabilities in their own and in customer products. Security is fundamentally a technology governance function, and AI ethics piece is also a technology governance function, where both hackers and AI ethics researchers are in-effect activists to create awareness for change, but aren't typically who you would put in the actual governance role.

An AI ethics conference has analogies to Defcon or Blackhat, in that shunning vendors because the attendees perceived that some prominent hackers were treated unfairly may have some precedents. Microsoft's relationship with Defcon in the 90's vs. post 2000 is an example of how this both happened and changed.

Extending that analogy, the disconnect in the relationship between researchers and vendors was a symptom of what a disadvantage the vendors were at to the asymmetric risk that activists/hackers posed because the media story of the conflict between giant corporations being vulnerable to scrappy hackers writes itself. In terms of how to handle it, google can probably use precedents from MSFT vs. defcon, and AI ethics researchers can look at how hackers both succeeded and failed to change security and tech governance.
>In this case, evidence of illegal shorts is what one would need to provide to back their claim

Okay, what's the evidence of illegal shorts?
I often wonder if it's in the best interest of humans to exterminate bats. Seems like it's only a matter of time until the next horrendous virus, created by bats, wreaks havoc.
>Now enter plant based / animal free diets, how are people gonna get to satiety without all that dense meat / fish / chicken?

There was a time when animal products were a lot more expensive and scarce. When you add more foods with water in them (provided you're not overloading those foods with fat and oils) you end up feeling more satiated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRrD58Ah3Q&t=967s
Beautiful empty factories, it seems.
Eating unprocessed uranium order that isn't giving off very much radiation is a bit different. It just passes out of his body without bioaccumulating.

Source for the claim he worked around plutonium "elbow deep" please.
> cheese consumption is through the roof

As an aside, cheese consumption doesn't have to be bad since there are really delicious cheeses which have almost no fat but plenty of protein like the whole branch of "Harzer" cheeses with one example I buy and eat quite often being "Hausmacher"[0] (grinding a little bit of pepper on top of the cheese slices makes it even more delicious). Short summary of its contents by weight: 30% protein, 0.5% fat, <0.1% carbohydrates, which AFAIU is quite normal for sour milk cheeses.

[0]: https://www.loose.de/sauermilchkaese/hausmacher/
> While grain free and free range is always best, even commercially produced grain fed cooked healthy is miles better than mickey d chicken nuggets.

Since you're upset about the weakness of these studies, can you point to any that rigorously show any of the claims here? In particular that free range animals are somehow healthier to eat? Grain free next. Followed by the claim that fast food meat is inherently less healthy than meat I can obtain elsewhere.

None of the claims would surprise me if true, but there's a lot of commentary in this post about how flawed these studies are while making very strong claims about what is healthy (no carbs, free range meat, etc).
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The Soviets were never in a position to overtake the world, and the idea that they were was a US misreading of the spread of communism and the influence of Soviet agitators - who showed up everywhere - as though they weren't doing exactly the same things the CIA were.

The Vietnam war, for instance, was prosecuted entirely on the faulty assumption that a communist Vietnam was just going to become a subsumed extension of the Chinese government, rather then what actually happened, which was it became communist Vietnam and continued to vigorously oppose Chinese influence, as well as ultimately becoming fairly integral to the eventual downfall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the war.

The "domino effect" was American institutional panic that was encouraged because it led to policy decisions with favorable, easy domestic political consequences and huge handouts to business interests.
Thank you for your very well observed and written reply.
> it certainly saddens me to be witnessing probably the largest scale mass extinction of one of the defining features of human evolution, as the world trends towards easier communication for the masses.

It saddens you that more people can communicate? As a fellow language fan, I appreciate languages as much as anyone else, but I would definitely have the whole world speaking one language fluently and be on a level playing field than have people unable to participate in global society because they didn't happen to be raised speaking the language (or don't have resources/motivation to learn as an adult).
Yes, what I was saying was that the book didn't place a damning moral judgement on the character/person; would a present day big studio movie take a similar line?
Surely you can appreciate the distinction between countries that stopped their ethnic campaigns and those that persist, right?
I'm curious, why do you think this is an anti pattern?
Says Wired.com
Do you have a reference by chance? Would love to dig in a bit. I know that high sugar consumption raises triglycerides. But haven't seen anything yet on cholesterol.
Any sound clips released as of now? I heard they had a microphone on board unlike so many of the probes till now.
This is predicted by the hypothesis that the origin of intelligent life requires the occurrence of several hard steps, each of which take at least several billion years (but with no upper bound) in expectation.

If that hypothesis holds, then conditional on all the steps having completed on a given planet, they will have done so roughly equally spaced in the time allotted, regardless of their relative difficulty.

So, for example, if the window on Earth is 5 billion years, and there are four hard steps to complete, then, conditional on all four steps finishing, we expect each step to have taken about 1 billion years, give or take, with about 1 billion years left to go.

(See the Technical Appendix to Robin Hanson's Great Filter essay: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html#appendix, or his more detailed discussion of this particular point: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/HARDSTEP.PS)
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>You cannot just beat ideas out of peoples' heads, whether it's nazis, BLM, communists or whoever really.

This isn't the goal of such laws; the goal is to hobble the spread and reach of those ideas, not to change individual peoples' minds. It's forward-looking, not present-looking. It is also a show of the state's policy towards a particular ideology, and it carries the state's discursive authority with it. In a similar way, the point of laws against child pornography isn't to change the mind of the child pornographer, it's to slow and aim to stop the spread of the material, while attaching the state's authority to the idea that child abuse and its recording and distribution is wrong.

As a counterexample, it's documented that segregation laws had two effects; the first is keeping blacks and whites separate, the second is the authority of the law, as crafted by the sovereign body of the country, enshrined the inferiority of blacks, which reflected in the attitudes of whites and the psychology of blacks at the time. Something being legally enshrined has a very similar effect to how taxes discourage the goods they are levied on in the marketplace.
This is such a bad take. Just because something bad happened in a countries history doesn’t mean it excludes them from speaking up about human rights atrocities for the remainder of their existence.
New research indicates the whole universe could be a giant neural network
The availability of credit is a separate question from the interest rate, and may indeed fall.

Rising real interest rates directly impact borrowers and their ability to borrow, as their debt burden increases without any changes to interest rates. Borrowers are therefore both less likely and less able to borrow. Lenders may simultaneously decide not to lend. Japan is a good case study and has suffered from both phenomena. But interest rates in Japan are very low and fell substantially as soon as the economy got stuck in a deflation rut:

The charts below are illustrative if you set them both from 1979 to now:

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/bank-lending-rate

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi
Let’s be balanced; China is not as bad as Nazi Germany. Not even close. But it is true that this soft cultural erasure that they are attempting is very evil.

Lol me: let’s be balanced

You: DIE APOSTATE

Usually I’m the one going all nonlinear! That’s my job guys!
Beyond all the technical specification, this is just a cool looking drone. I remember as a kid thinking how cool it would be if I had a camera on an RC car. Now, we're flying first person through the sky. So cool.
While I don’t personally think her race or gender should matter, the new head of their AI ethics org is Marion Croak, so they’ll retain the PR cover you’re describing.
Interesting that we live in a world where these are problems. I mean, I understand why it is, but when you say it that way, it actually sounds like a much better and friendlier experience.
I think innovation based on providing minimum wage jobs is not much of innovation, it is a story as old as humanity. The case is even worse for the low salaried work force of the gig economy where a job no longer even qualifies you for 'job' benefits.

If you think other regions aren't producing value in the tech ecosystem, nationalism is getting in the way of your eye.
The obscenity laws are left behind, but the cancel culture is on Lolita's heels. There was an admonitory letter in the Sunday Book Review section of the Times earlier this year.
If you can figure out how to successfully market and sell "Eat less, eat quality" to American consumers while maintaining food supplier revenue growth, you'll solve a lot of problems.

My personal opinion is that we're so growth and value oriented - and that's fundamentally incompatible with a healthy diet.

Look at CostCo! They have an amazing amount of fresh, healthy meats and vegetables. But you're still walking out of that store with a twelve-pack of fish and the barrel of cheese puffs you saw on the way out. The majority of Americans simply lack the self control. The food production companies know this and take full advantage of it.
If it's any consolation, the Common Lisp community nowadays is very welcoming!
> Now enter plant based / animal free diets, how are people gonna get to satiety without all that dense meat / fish / chicken?

I thought vegetarians were famous for eating lots of beans and tofu. Is this no longer part of the stereotype?
This would rock with boustrophedon script!
I think we can all but rule out a dead, ancient planet-spanning civilization on Mars now. We have medium resolution imagery of the entire planet and high resolution (meter or submeter) imagery of a lot of the surface, in a wide distribution. Mars hasn’t had enough volcanic activity to hide evidence of a planet-spanning civilization unless it occurred while large asteroid impacts were much more common.

Venus, however, is sheathed in clouds. So we only have low resolution radar images of most of the planet, and we’ve only sent a few very short-lived landers with low resolution cameras to the surface. They could have landed in areas that were once oceans or otherwise uninhabited. And secondly, Venus has been basically completely resurfaced with lava over time. Venus may once have had large oceans before runaway greenhouse effect. (And keep in mind that the Sun has gotten significantly brighter over billions of years, besides the increased greenhouse effect on Venus.) And so we can’t even rule out a planet-spanning civilization like our own. It’d take a lot more exploration and drilling to rule that out.
And add these adverts plugging "factional" shares at naive first time investors to the list, tbh I think the SEC should encourage share splits once a share gets to Tesla levels.

Your first investments should never be in individual shares - start with an tracker ETF for a few years before branching out to active management or even individual shares.
If the image stands alone such that sighted users must parse it, then your logic is correct. But if the image is merely decorative due to adjacent text such that sighted users gloss over the image, aria-hidden affords users of screen readers that exact same efficiency instead of wasting their time.

In other words, eyes can skip over decorations without the developer needing to flag them as such, but audio can't auto-skip.
From the Austrian food survey study:

> Our results revealed that a vegetarian diet is related to a lower BMI and less frequent alcohol consumption

Wouldn't you say lower BMI is healthier?
But still it would be trivial to write a program that could demonstrate this, no? Something that you could show that perhaps broke an unreasonably short RSA key in a shorter time than expected.
If Dr. Seuss can be cancelled everything is up for grabs.
I can imagine a scenario where civilization collapses and humankind exists in a permanent dark age without abundant oil to launch a new industrial revolution.

Edit: Another alternative is technology progresses but political and cultural institutions do not, so the requisite level of global cooperation never materializes.
mirror: https://archive.is/iPM0A
No, Google should never have messed with their researchers’ publications; it’s always the coverup that becomes the story. Contrast Google Research with Microsoft Research, which enjoys a stellar reputation and independence.
Uh oh the humans are on to us
This is a tired argument. It’s not hypocritical or unreasonable to expect better behavior out of governments around the world. And certainly in the case of China, it’s an old enough civilization that we should be able to expect its barbaric Trail of Tears days to be long past.
As you use and configure and modify the system, it starts to drift into a functionally random state.

An example: directories of plugins/etc. where the update won't have any content, but content exists in the current install. Upgrading/overwriting the app wouldn't 'catch' these directories of stuff, without having/keeping track of every place in the entire fs that functions like that. A checksum would let you know that the directory is different, but not 'how', per se.

By just nuking the whole fs from orbit and unrolling a new one, you have a 'known' state without any of that tracking internally (which is probably impossible to get right organizationally).
> to distinguish the element being operated on (the LHS)

I'm not sure what you mean, they are both operated on, it is a binary operator and commutative, there is literally no difference.
The idea is that they group you with N other similar people where N is large enough to anonymise you enough to stop the worst complaints but small enough that advertisers still find it useful.

Some sort of principal component analysis to determine your "cohort".

An advertiser isn't that interested that you are you. They care that you are, for example, 55 with an interest in gardening and have been looking at lawnmower review sites.
Currently Robinhood won't send me my tax forms from 2020. I have a trivial amount of money in the account but it's the only thing preventing me from filing taxes yet. Everything else has been ready since early March.
Try reading a book about carnivore diet. It's the complete opposite of the bone-breaking with no muscle-mass vegan diet, maybe it has some type of truth in it ;).
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on embedded boards which are deployed 100x more than desktops and are typically resource restricted you have to use posix shell instead of the mega-bytes bash there.
Sure, but who is going to have a fair look? Someone who is employed by the company or someone who is independent?

VW faked their emissions - EPA uncovered it.
Google is harming people with bad AI models - Google is uncovering it?

This works if the company is actually interested in finding the mistakes (i.e. MS finding security bugs in Windows), but not if the findings threaten your business.

MS has an interest in fixing security bugs, because it makes their product better.

No big corp has an interest in fixing their ethics, it's usually bad for their profit margins.
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Ah, "generally" excludes a country with 330 million people. Got it.
We personally do, we've been using Lambdas and serverless for the past 4 years. And we've never had to worry about scaling or downtime. We are a small team, so this has a real impact on us.
I basically did that by using Oracle's always free VPS [1] and we set up a jitsi instance. We did our Scholastic Bowl practices over it. But Oracle just killed my VM and said "System terminated your account and unfortunately we can't reactivate or restore the account. Thank youfor chatting with us. Have a good day". Should have seen it coming from Oracle...

1: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
As far as your latter point about life spreading, what’s interesting to me is that the most strict interpretation of our “planetary protection” guidelines at NASA actually prohibit life spreading to other worlds.

Red Tape as the real Great Filter...
I find it easy to sneak up on 16gb of memory when running basic apps (editor, bunch of browser tabs, zoom, spotify) plus a complete environment for a mid sized web app (multiple services, dbs, message queue, caches, js bundler, workers etc), especially if I’m running tests and have mobile device VMs up. Pretty cheap insurance over the life of a machine to get 32gb of RAM and never have to think about it.
Again, no matter how secure you make the cryptography, the weakpoint is the key. Why would someone "tweak" a key, provide it to a "big commercial company" (who for some reason doesn't generate their own key?), instead of just keeping a copy of the key?