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Morality has a dark side. When used to judge yourself, it's a powerful way to cut through the rationalizations for bad behavior, and hopefully lead to better behavior.

When used to judge others, morality almost always leads to self-righteousness, and contempt for people that don't live up to your standards. Usually the "standards" also change rapidly in a cycle to feed one's own self-worth by judging others more and more harshly.

The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, and the Red Scare are all examples of morality going awry. And we are in one of these cycles now... there is no doubt in my mind.
This is great actionable advice no matter where you’re working. Had to login just to upvote this.
> Why does that quote mean she's racist?

She’s taken negative characteristics, ascribed them to a group of people based on skin color, and implied that it’s a good thing to try and be “less white.” Its bigotry plain and simple and I’m actually taken aback that I have to explain it to you.
I understand it's not a very common one and can be kind of confusing. Here's a pretty good definition:

"the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time"

In this case, the conflicting belief that these words are okay in the course you are taking, but that these words are not okay if you are discussing the course material.
I think you have answered the question of why they only are releasing a 100 cars. Tesla has million cars on the road, yet everyone talks about the car that runs into a truck or fire-engine.

Considering the odds, it is likely you would see no accidents if you only look at just 100 Tesla cars.

This would be more impressive they put 100,000 cars on the road and then we saw the stats.
That's interesting, thanks. But as you note, an in vitro study is still a long way from proof of claim -- just because something can happen does not mean that it does happen in actual people, and it certainly doesn't mean that it happens often. I would characterize this as evidence suggestive of a plausible mechanism.

One thing missing, for example, is why this doesn't appear to happen frequently. Most of the highly touted claims of cardiac involvement from summer 2020 have been debunked (e.g. in athletes).
The family which manages the author's estate pulled the books.

> The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company, which was founded by Seuss’ family, told AP.

Also, should eBay really be forced to carry books? Should the Seuss family really be forced to publish? When does the right to speech translate into someone else's obligation to publish?
There is a whole lot of low hanging fruit in the world. When I am new at a job if I don’t find several order or two of magnitude improvements I am impressed.
First, the book is a hilarious Kafka trap. It's explicit basis is this: All whites are racist, and any white that denies this is demonstrating "fragility", and therefore is even MORE racist than whites that admit they're racist.

See the trap? If you deny you're racist, it's proof that you're actually even more racist.

The second part I want to point out, as someone who actually read this absolute rubbish, is that D'Angelo is absolutely hardcore racist. She, for example, spends an intro to a chapter explaining how she was invited to some event at a public park, and upon arrival, she saw two large groups of people, one black, the other white. For a brief moment, she describes, she was stricken with anxiety, worried that the group she was meeting might be the black group.

She extrapolates her own internal racism to the default state of all white people.

Seriously, read the book. She's out of her tree. Anybody recommending this book either hasn't read it and is virtue signalling, or has read it and is so deep into the magisterium of the Church of Woke that they're not worth trying to save.
It does make Upper Class the wrong word for them however.
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By being part of a group, or likely groups, their individual actions can be ascertained.
> What the author calls Upper Class I would call "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" or WASP

I haven't read the book, just this review of it. But the review says:

> The upper class is old money. The people you think of as rich and famous - tech billionaires, celebrities, whatever - aren't upper class. However privileged they started off, they still had to put in at least a smidgeon of work to get their money, which disqualifies them. Real uppers inherit.

By that definition, the vast majority of "WASP" people are not "Upper Class". The "Upper Class" in the US would be heavily "WASP", but I would expect it is gradually becoming somewhat more diverse.
Why is it better for the government to restrict speech than for elites to restrict speech? The government has a monopoly on force so in countries where the government also controls speech, you can face criminal penalties for not complying. No company can do that.
Another Indian here who is tired of Apu jokes.

I didn't even grow up in America, but it's irritating when your coworkers think that they are meaningfully connecting with you based on what they "learned" from some hackneyed stereotype in a mildly funny adult cartoon. Doubly so when that coworker happens to be in a management position above you.

My advice: if you have a South Asian coworker, put away the Apu jokes unless they like it and bring it up for some reason.
Another idea for folks who are either less paranoid or doing lower stakes hobby projects -- I often search for the domain I want but without the TLD. If I wanted "foobar.rocks" I search for "foobar" on my registrar (Hover) and they run a search for "foobar" on all TLDs they support and I can tell if the one I want is available or not. Not 100% fool-proof against front running but it's good enough when I search/buy domains for my low stakes projects.
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I agree with a lot of this.

Last time FLoC came up, I commented that the idea of FLoC missed the point of why we oppose tracking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25906791

The EFF writes:

> The power to target is the power to discriminate.

I would extend on this point: the power to target information that the user is not choosing to share is the power to discriminate. Part of recognizing people's agency online is giving them the ability to choose how they present themselves and to choose what they share. It's not inherently wrong to say that someone might want to signal something about themselves that they find important or even just convenient to share. But that should always be their choice, it should not be a top down decision about what information is "safe" or "dangerous".

FLoC has some benefits (although they won't matter once every website decides to use FLoC as a fingerprinting vector), but even saying that FLoC has benefits, it is still based on the idea that users should not be in charge of their identities. It's got to be automated, it's got to happen in the background, it's got to use machine learning and be something that users can't inspect. I oppose the philosophy behind both current tracking systems and proposals like FLoC.

Last time this came up I also theorized about what a privacy-respecting version of FLoC could look like for people who do want to see ads or who do want personalized content online -- what a version of FLoC could be that I would be more supportive of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907079

None of those ideas are fleshed out, but they try to get at the heart of what the fundamental difference is between allowing a user to easily signal that they want to see personalized content about shoes, and trying to intuit behind a user's back that they will buy shoes if you show them a particular ad.
Origin in tech is electronics.

Master/slave has seen quite a good history of use due to the relationship the master switch has to downstream elements. It's state, determines the state of those that follow. Downstream elements are 'slaved' to the "master's" state, which is a valid, ahistorical description that's been around since my grandparent's time at least.

The fact there are folks who can't seperate their own discomfort with certain aspects of American history from technical contexts is not the fields' or practitioners problem.
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The biggest improvement we made to our dailies was to break up the traditional three question structure. Nobody really cares about your status from yesterday. Especially since we work together every day and are a self-organizing team that does not need to report to a manager on a daily basis.

Instead we talk about our plans for the day, ask a lot of questions and plan our collaboration and problem solving sessions. These dailies are usually shorter and I feel like I get much more value from them.
Good to remember when someone tries to help homelessness with a better object X.

It's the processes around it that need solving.

For instance how do you secure a mix of people with mental health issues and drug addictions. Even if you reduce sexual assault, if it happens on your watch you are responsible.

It's similar to the inability to invent self cleaning toilets. This commentary about $30 a flush sounds a lot, but dealing with human feces on the street would cost more.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/san-francisco-public-pit-...
Did you mean to say you're a big fan of countries where opt-out is the default for organ donation? So by default, you will donate your organs

Not sure why anyone would want opt-out to be the default?
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Checked the home page it says "This approach encourages companies to continue to support data portability, knowing that their proprietary technologies are not threatened by data portability requirements. For a detailed taxonomy of such data, see ISO/IEC 19944:2017."

Went to look for ISO standart, and founs out thet it's status is "Withdrawn"

https://www.iso.org/standard/66674.html
I'd be interested to hear from someone with geological expertise what the likelihood of a dense inner core of fissible elements (uranium, plutonium, etc.), and/or their decay products (ultimately lead), within the iron-nickel inner core might be.

I'm aware that radioactive decay from such heavy elements accounts for about half of the heat production within the Earth (the remainder being the legacy of gravitational potential energy of formation). But it's been unclear whether density differentials and plasticity are sufficient for heavier elements to sink within or remain distributed throughout the nickel-iron of the imputed interior.
Don't grow: an argument for ethical startups
Nitpick: mm-wave is just one of the dozen things that are in the 5G cornucopia of random technologies, it's not more or less "true 5G" than eg 5G edge computing.
> Thanks for taking the time.

likewise :)

In terms of practicality, a wolf needs to eat too. Without wolves (or predators) we find over-population which leads to food scarcity which leads to suffering (queue yoda reference.)

I think there is a big difference between slavery (a dark human endeavor) and the natural order of the world. Humans didn't invent predators. At best, we conquered them and at worst, we became them while growing to become the second most dominant (and largely unchecked) biomass on the planet.

Given that plants have been shown to have feelings, I'm not sure where our idea that eating plants is morally superior to eating animals comes from. Some plants poison animals in order to fertilize their soil. Some people poison plants in order to have a somewhat pleasant looking front-yard. Many plants have developed obvious defenses against being eaten, much like animals. By eating fruit that has dropped to the ground, you are denying the plant its intent to reproduce.

I think that most humans are more capable of empathizing with other animals than with plants and that's the root of the sense of morality here. The hard truth is that no living thing wants to be eaten to death but every living thing needs to eat. The circle of life is a real thing, the carbon cycle relies on plants recycling decayed organic matter including animals.
Hope they dont ban hindustan times for this article.
Yes. Also the main point is: this means most of the gains (almost all) of a company go to the employees. The idea 9f let's redistribute income so the rich get less and everybody gets more would not make a real difference. (that is also the reason why the middle class has the highest total tax)
A literal destructor.
Are there any examples in history or literary fiction (including sci-fi) where the ones that ban books and punish thoughts are the good guys?

It's just crazy to me. Electing Trump was pretty crazy, too, but the idea that "liberals" would be on the side of burning books and militarizing the capital would have been unimaginable mere months ago.
I’d probably hit that wall too. I wonder how many non-teslas have hit the same spot.
I mean... what do you expect from Google, or any internet advertiser for that matter? If 90% of your revenue comes from advertising, getting rid of tracking is like pulling the chair out from under your bum. Having a committee of advertisers sitting on a board governing advertising & tracking in the W3C is going to go about as well as you expect. Conflict of interest: massive.

Their only concern is maximizing their revenue in any way possible, because otherwise they will cease being competitive and go out of business. Ergo this lovely new "Privacy Sandbox" that provides advertisers with a standardized, direct way to get to you. As long as Google or any other advertiser has sway over Internet standards, there will be a fox guarding the henhouse type situation. Moral of the story: don't use Chrome.
I recently ended up using swapfiles because I refactored my disk layout and it was just simpler to chuck the swap on an existing nvme partition. I realised an extra benefit: you can make it a sparse file, so it never even uses disk space at all until you actually need it, which could be never.
Twitter made several hundred million in net profit last quarter
> but for me personally, I hate it with a fervour

Is it possible to fall in love with someone so quickly over one line written on the web?
How does that change something the amount of time it takes to build each of them?

If you start now, it'll still take you almost a decade (or maybe it even will be a decade. You never know with NPPs because they always take longer and cost more than projected) and in that decade renewables will jump generations of development. In the end you just wasted money which could have been invested into true clean energy which is still improving fast.
So I don't know for sure but my understanding is that what you pay for each service does not include any support cost. It just goes to the operations of the service. The support team/division is entirely funded by the support line-item in the bill.
It's not different for psychiatry. You need to have done a bachelor + master in medicine and on top of that a specialization. I don't know how long that takes though, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 8+ years.
> is another framing where

It’s just another framing that gives you an exemption to discriminate based on skin color and pretend you’re doing it for good reasons.
There might be some interesting macro-scale effects if Cancel Culture causes conservative Democrat voters to move to purple counties/states and turns them slightly but consistently blue.
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Stats matter, Tesla has a million cars on the road. Choose a random 100 and odds are very favorable you see no accidents.

If Honda had a million cars on the road, I would not be surprised if the accident rate was well over that of even humans drivers.
They'll just say if you sell or show it in Utah, it has to have that warning. So everyone will add a "this contains chemicals known to the state of California" type pre-roll ad.
Since you work at Google, you should be well aware of the deprecations. You don't need evidence of their existence, you just don't see it as a problem. Which you are free to do, since it's not a problem for you, it's just a problem for GCP clients, many of whose complaints you seem to be dismissing as not being "data".

GCP doesn't seem to provide a full list of deprecations, but the list for just one service[1] is pretty terrifying when you consider that your app might depend on two or three dozen services, and a deprecation in just one of them forces you to rewrite perfectly good code. A cursory search reveals a number of reports of being repeatedly bitten by deprecations[2][3][4], so no one should be mislead by the dismissals here. [2] has a good cautionary tale of a forced "upgrade" leading to potentially much greater cost.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations
[2] https://nilsnh.no/2019/11/09/managing-the-google-cloud-platf...
[3] https://www.slideshare.net/async_io/lessons-learned-from-bui...
[4] https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/whit...
There are no laws against selling right hand drive cars in the US.
Yeah I'm sure you'd have been able to calm the people and tell them to stay around a nuclear reactor which might have become the next Tshernobyl while the earth was still shaking....you people are unbelievable sometimes.
What's not mentioned in all the othe english based articles is that Honda's system only works on highways at speeds below 50km/h. It's a system specifically designed for dealing with traffic jams on highways, and is not comparable to, say, Tesla's autopilot.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Honda-launches-...

> It can free drivers from driving in congested traffic on an expressway when travelling slower than 50 kilometers per hour.

> The system automatically accelerates, brakes and steers while monitoring the vehicle's surroundings, using data from high-definition mapping and external sensors.
Taking these in order:

Our hiring process more or less selects for intrinsic motivation at every stage -- that's very important to us. As for "judging" the output of folks: I would say Oxide is just a more extreme example of something that one sees in lots of places, where it is exceedingly difficult (and dangerous!) to make those kinds of comparisons. Not only because the work is highly varied (though certainly that) and not only because it is deeply technical (though that too!), but also because we rely so much on helping one another out. How does one evaluate that? And perhaps a blunter question: what would be the purpose of that evaluation?

When I talk about "seeing someone contribute to the company as much as anyone else", I very much mean in the future tense -- namely, during the hiring process. I think it's not an unfair characterization to say that we would much rather take the energy typically wasted on comp, and spend that energy on careful hiring.

As for more On the Metal, yes definitely: Steve, Jess, and I very much look forward to being vaccinated and back in the garage!
Agreed, Cypher was the thing I loved most about neo4j.
This is a paid ad. “Leading” by doing less than the competition and having 100 cars to become available. This article is a joke. Kudos to Honda, but this ain’t leading.
I think that's something many people miss in these discussions. Bad/negative/stereotyped portrayals are one thing - those being the only ones is another.

EDIT to ask: how do the Dr. Seuss books fare in that regard?
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Minstrel+man it doesn't seem like eBay cares enough about the subject to take its own initiative against it
"It paints them into a corner - either state that you want to be misgendered, or out yourself as trans."
Huh? What do you mean? How would not listing pronouns help?
I am still not sure how and what google are doing to generate these cohorts or label a browser accordingly.

This article talks about simhash. My understanding is that simhash does NOT perform any such analysis but generates a fingerprint based on the content that is comparable to those of similar content - for example, a checksum of my HN homepage is different to yours, as it contains user-specific information. Simhash, however, gives us a comparable "fingerprint".

In short, this only works for identifying pages of similar content - by itself i cant see how it could be used for cohort analysis unless there is either a client-side ML model involved, or millions of simhashes are shipped with the browser.

I raised this question the other day, and a googler pointed me to the "code". That code contained no reference to an ML model, its construction, or datasets. The code also contained no pool of simhashes. To me, that means that there is no way to label the browser with cohorts. Furthermore, the code appears to generate these simhashes, and then sync them to google via (the account identifiable) chrome sync. It is there that analysis is performed. Maybe this is why it's called "Federated LEARNING", instead of "Federated INFERENCE"?

Is this truly what we can expect from this? That instead of google tracking our behaviour from ONLY their analytics and advertising partners, they will now be secretly collecting a hash of EVERY page we visit and sending it to google directly? How is this private? The whole point of a simhash is to establish similarity between pages - and google has a huge rainbow table of simhashes for their search.

I got downvoted for raising this concern before. I would appreciate if someone would tell me what I have wrong instead of piling on the downvotes. Noone seems to be talking about this.
Because unlike auto-pilot the implication of co-pilot is that you're still primarily in charge of flying/driving/piloting the vehicle.
I went to University in Australia and I don’t recall this term being in use. (Could be my faulty memory, though. It was a long time ago!)

I’m still a little puzzled by exactly what is meant when people and orgs offer an “office hours” concept.

I’d love a clear but concise definition that’s not simply “like office hours in university”.
With Starlink I think the competition will get more real for them.

In the rare markets with actual competition the shitty cable companies provide at least okay service. In Palo Alto I can get 1gbps down/35mbps up on Comcast for $89 (with 1TB data cap I have to pay $50 extra to remove).

That's not too bad.

They also offer a 2gbps down and up service called gigabit pro, but it requires installation and it's pretty expensive: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/fs6un2/comc.... It's also hard to get because the reps on the phone are not well trained and don't know about it.

This is only because there are a few internet options here. Where I grew up there is one provider (Spectrum, was Time Warner, and Adelphia before that), the service is bad and the price is at least double.

I recently moved to SF and I'm in a newer building with Google Fiber Webpass, it's 1gbps down and up with no cap for $57/month - it's awesome.

The worst part about Comcast (ignoring the 35mbps up which is pretty bad) is everything around the service. Their website is extremely hostile. It's impossible to do anything online. Their pricing is heavily obscured. They push shitty TV packages I don't want or care about. It's hard to cancel without going through retention.

Google Webpass? I signed up online in 5min, connected my own equipment and was good to go.

Hopefully with real competition the old services will either get competitive or die. I don't really care which.
I am getting some conflicting messages about support. There is a small group of people working on ROCm for Julia (in AMDGPU.jl) and while that work is still alpha quality, they seem to expect even devices as old as RX 580 to work.

Are all of these support issues something that is on the ROCm/AMD/driver side, or are they on the side of libraries like pytorch?