skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't one of their core competencies though.

If you look in the medical industry for example ethical decisions are always managed by a different group than Product/Legal because it's a completely different set of skills and competencies.

Even more so at places like Twitter which are heavily dependent on ML models to make real-time decisions. And so you need a dedicated team that is proactive rather then reactive like a Legal team would be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Breaking the law often starts with unethical behavior. Bad ethics often leads to new law (often impacting ROI), too; see the GDPR for an example.
> I thought trans was about changing gender, not changing sex.

Mostly true, but it's confusing. Historically, sex and gender have been used interchangeably. That is slowly changing. There are a lot of places that refer to "sex" where "biological sex", as you put it, is not what is meant. See e.g. how trans people can still get their "sex" updated on documents that refer to sex and not gender, and how many places described as single-sex are actually closer to single-gender.
True story: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/b16b00b5/amp
And the new new generation would use Node.js and JavaScript instead of Ada or C++, and browser applications in the cockpit to reduce complexity, isn't it? Or maybe even Python to be able to recruit sufficient developers?
Over here in Germany I am seeing those fridges getting doors when supermarkets are being renovated as well. But still many open ones exist.

(While I assume that some of those are opened quite often, where shutting doors might push a lot of warm air back in, while keeping them open with less air movement might even be more efficient)
The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team. i find it interesting Twitter need a ethics, transparency and accountability team for ML. is Twitter worry about creating a Skynet or something?
> I simply don't understand why literally everyone immediately jumps at CNNs, RNNs (transformers et al.) -- they're extremely expensive, slow

Because for text they work a lot better.

HTMs are competitive with other non-NN techniques on small datasets (see [1] you listed) but nothing particularly amazing.

I'd speculate this is because they use bag-of-word variants like LSI and TF-IDF. Prior to Transformers this was a competitive technique and you could get state-of-the-art results on most things using similar techniques.

This representation of data matters a lot. Even just switching to a word embedding representation and using a SVM or something gives a decent gain in most circumstances.

But transformers are much better, particularly on harder tasks (eg question answering on long documents). You can't really see how significant this difference is on these small datasets, but as an example BertGCN is getting over 89% accuracy (HTM in [1] gets 83%).

It's possible (likely!) some of this gain is from the better representation Transformers use, not just the model.

> definitely not usable for SIGINT-sized intel projects

If SIGINT in this context means signal intelligence (on text data) then I assure you that they are being used.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.14820.pdf

[2] https://paperswithcode.com/paper/bertgcn-transductive-text-c...
I don't see how you could give legitimate advance notice before you are in control of the company.
> You want stability? Join stripe

Didn't Stripe just announce their own set of layoffs because they over-hired? That doesn't seem that stable.

You want actual stability, join a fortune 500 company.
I live in a modern central European nation.

Yes, and most of the time the fired employee will be sent home during his notice period, so im not sure what you are talking about?

The thing is, mass layoffs are often discussed widely in Europe since its mostly blue collar employees and the unions and politicians are often trying to prevent the layoffs.
notion is great. It gives you the opportunity to structure your knowledge, easily restructure as you grow.

It's also possible to do basic project management via kanban boards.

It might take a little to set everything up to your needs but I think it's a great tool for a small team.

Regarding the other comment: notion is basically just "a few webpages".
The NY Times makes it sound like there might be a legal case for a different reason:

> While federal and California laws require companies to provide advance notice of mass layoffs, it was not clear whether Mr. Musk had done so. A spokesman for California’s Employment Development Department said on Thursday evening that it had received no such notices from Twitter, which is based in San Francisco and is expected to report mass layoffs to the agency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/technology/twitter-layoff...
The EU PayPal entity seems to be PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. Attention: Legal Department, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg.

Legal claims fall under the Luxembourgish laws. I'm not seeing any language in the Dutch terms of service that mention any arbitrage.

Another thing to note is that the European branch of PayPal actually has a banking license. The Dutch national bank lists the permits (though the registration was done in Luxembourg, obviously): https://www.dnb.nl/en/public-register/information-detail/?re...

It looks like the 2007 basic banking license was extended around 2018.
Not only that, they were the ones that brought in the Unibomber.
For me on various browsers:

Firefox:
CPU: Windows NT 10
Memory: undefinedGB
Screen: 2560x1440

Brave:
CPU: undefined
Memory: 0.5GB
Screen: 2560x1440

Edge:
CPU: undefined
Memory: 8GB
Screen: 2560x1440

Actual values: Windows 10, 128GB, 3820x2160
Exactly. The original article's "WHY"'s are narrow sighted and only focusing on energy efficiency. There's a whole load of other factors that led to the more popular fridge design and thinking about it for just one minute would have led them to realise that.
> NN based sentiment analysis is certainly a lot better than non-NN based techniques.

I wouldn't say this. Sentiment analysis trained on the standard datasets is one place where performance is barely better than old-school linear classifiers. They remained brittle and easy to trick until recent flexible systems systems based on question answering, zero-shot entailment or lotsa instruction finetuning (improving in that order). I strongly advice against using something fine-tuned solely on sentiment datasets. It'd be a total waste.
Same! The number of times they claim I'm logging in from a new, unknown device has gone up significantly, even though I'm using the same browser on the same device all the time, and I don't clear cookies between sessions. The most egregious thing to me is that after solving the captcha, you are thrown back to the login form claiming that the password you entered is incorrect - which is impossible, as I just pasted it from my password manager. I'm happy about every web shop adding GiroPay as an alternative payment method in Germany.
Twitter sued by employees amid mass layoffs
Use free software?
Maybe it wouldn't rub me the wrong way if it wouldn't come from the same guy who said that Tesla employees have to come in 40 h per week, the rest they can work from home (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/musk-to-tesla-an...). Well, he seems ready to embrace home office when it suits him...
Most people with a basement, garage or root cellar.
Refrigerants typically have a greenhouse effect that is thousands of times more potent than CO2.

For example, the refrigerant R-410A does about 2000 more greenhouse warming over a 100 year period. So a leak of 1 kg of R-410A is equivalent to about 2 metric tons of CO2 emissions.
Many fridges start beeping after 30 seconds of the door being open.

People quickly learn to ignore the beep while they "quickly make breakfast" and then put the sausages and eggs back in the fridge and close the door after eating breakfast. #billpayerfrustratedwithhisfamily
And good luck to Twitter if they are looking to implement a Hunger Games style culture. However this type of attitude to work is extremely immature, counter-productive and proven to be harmful to both individuals and the company.

People are most productive over the long term when they feel encouraged, supported, self-motivated etc.

Positive emotions not negative ones like fear, coercion, hostility etc.
> print out the code you wrote in the last 30-60 days

This is either a joke or Musk (or his team) doesn't know about something called version control and how it can be used.
I don't have the same experience. I find s-expressions more pleasant to read. On the other hand, I find the syntax of C, Python, etc. to be jarring! The syntax of Rust and C++ feels like nails on chalkboard to me. What I find even more uncomfortable about C++ and Rust (and Python to some extent) is that they keep innovating on syntax and the syntax becomes more and more complex as years go by.

Compared to that mess, Lisp's s-expression is a breath of fresh air. The brain ignores the parentheses soon (just as the brain ignores the braces in C-like languages) and relies on the indentation to understand the structure of the code.

Having said that I do find the prefix notation slightly unintuitive for complex math formulas. Simple stuff like (< x y) is clear to me. No confusion there. But something like the formula for finding quadratic roots feels a bit unwieldy in s-expression syntax. I am sure that is because of years of conditioning of infix notation. Because pre-fix (or post-fix) are purer and unambiguous representations of the mathematical operations we perform. Yet conditioning has made pre-fix or post-fix hard to read for complex math formulas.
What would be the challenge to write OS kernel in Lisp?
Just X86, for the sake of umm simplicity, something like xv6:
https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public

Yes, I've read about Lisp machines. Sounds like a super expensive machine only accessible by big-budgeted research companies.

Most of Lisp folks on the net talk about how homoiconic language is elegant, or how REPL makes development faster, or how useful Lisp is for automatic theorem prover etc etc but very rarely I see Lisp folks talk about system programming, unlike C/C++/Rust folks.
> I'm just saying that the claim that it's not a dead language is wrong

Well your claim is just simply false. People have clearly demonstrated to you that CL is used today in production
Since apparently nobody else in the thread has any empathy for those who've lost their jobs, future access to healthcare (in the US and less civilized countries), and financial security, I guess I'll be the first: I feel bad for people who are laid off by the machinations of billionaires. I wish we lived in a society where it wasn't optimal to act like raving lunatics will tear down every bit of security you have at a moments notice.

For those who are cheering this on - good thing its not you getting mauled by tigers in the gladiator pit, huh?
> I imagine seeing all that cold air being sucked out by the opening door and falling on the ground.

Air has negligible thermal mass compared to everything else solid or liquid in the fridge. As long as you don't leave the door open long enough that fridge contents themselves start warming up, the energy losses are minimal.

Quick back-of-the-envelope calculation:

My fridge is around 1.0 x 0.5 x 0.5 m, giving a volume of 0.25 m3.

Outside temp is around 25 C, inside the fridge is around 5 C.

Air specific heat capacity is around 1000 J/m3/K.

If the fridge only contains air (it does not), and all air gets cycled out when I open the door (it does not), the fridge needs to pump out 5 kJ of heat after each door opening.

I don't know what's the typical efficiency, but let's say the fridge pumps out as much heat as you put electrical work into it (COP=2).

That's around 0.0014 kWh wasted per door opening.

It's nothing compared to just steady state consumption of a closed fridge.
It's a pyramid, so it gets harder because there are fewer roles to pick from that feels worthwhile, and you also need to overcome a fear from employers that you're too experienced and will get bored and leave.

I'm at 27 years experience, and my problem is not finding positions that I could get (with some finessing about how I want to stay hands on and/or love their specific company), but finding places that have sufficiently senior roles at the kind of salaries I expect. Most smaller companies don't need someone as experienced as me and/or can't afford me, and I don't really want to work at a FAANG or similar (had one big corporate experience and don't particularly need another) unless something truly exceptional is on offer.

Here's a tip to those looking:

If you struggle, look for roles that look undervalued and/or are slightly below your level, and apply anyway. Be honest about what you expect as long as you're not overvaluing yourself relative to your experience. Recruiters are often fine with putting forward a few expensive candidates if they look good enough. Especially external recruiters whose pay is usually at least partially linked to the salary you're hired at, but also because a spread helps give hiring managers an idea of the tradeoffs they're facing.

Undervalued roles (roles advertised with too low salary for what they're looking for) tend to attract fewer applications, so you're both more likely to get a shot and negotiating salary up beyond the stated level is usually possible. Applying to roles slightly below your level makes it easier to get past the first level recruiter filter because they like to give a range and for lower level roles they're less likely to have applicants to push on the upper end.

Shift your target down until you get the interviews. Then work on getting offers. Then work on lifting the offers to the level you need.

It's usually far more important to get past the recruiter than it is to get a perfect match with the role because a lot of companies have a lot of flexibility in what they're actually looking for. Especially for more senior roles the hiring manager will also often have reasonable influence and ability to get the budget lifted for a candidate that stands out.

E.g. in my current job search, my currently most promising prospect is a role where I told the recruiter I would not consider offers lower than 20% above the high end of their advertised range because I thought the advertised range was too low for the years of experience they wanted. And they wanted someone with less experience than me. She put me forward anyway, and on the back of seeing my CV they came back and wanted to interview me for a more senior role that has not been advertised, and where I'm currently the only candidate. I may or may not end up there, but to me that's a pretty normal experience when approaching companies about roles which fit those criteria.
For sure, as far as LBOs go, this is probably one of the worst ever. Normally the raider pays a bit of a premium over the assets, then divides them, props them up a bit, and collects a profit. I can't imagine this being possible with Twitter. Nothing to break up. Nothing to prop up. And if he gets his way, he will be competing with Parlor for the niche market it caters to. Or 4chan :)
I mean, you're probably not freakishly ugly and cringe-inducing like most of the crazies on HN. Oddly enough, it's not my sharp mind, good looks or impeccable charm that keeps the ladies interested IRL. It's my reputation for being utterly despised by dang.
ZLib was always just an interface for Library Genesis, which remains hale and hearty here: https://libgen.is

It seems like ZLib was seized mainly because they started running donation drives and potentially earning money on piracy, although that's just conjecture. Libgen does not do any such thing.
So Twitter employees can work at home "forever", but they should work 80 hours a week while under explicit threat of layoffs, and return to the office for 12 hours a day, meanwhile the office is closed, go home if you are in the office now!

This is really what has happened inside of just the last 8 weeks. I can't blame anyone who just can't keep up, especially while that 12 hour a day death march was going on. This is really not how you should treat people, even for a day.
Tell HN: How to get your Twitter account fubar
Six months ago, I decided to rename my business and I got the twitter account. Then, finally this past week, everything was good to go, and I updated the photos for profile/icon. For this account's first follower, I decided to follow it from my personal account. That was a mistake, apparently.

Within seconds, my personal account was locked and kicked out of Twitter ads (according to the emails I received). This makes no logical sense to me, but here we are.

So, apparently, the way to screw up a twitter account is simple: follow a dormant account.

FWIW, the dormant account was managed by my phone (logged into my personal and this account), but I did the following from my computer, which wasn't logged into both accounts (ever).
> Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

Because Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have gotten under fire multiple times for the shit their artificial "intelligence" did - promoting content harmful to society (antivaxxers, flat-earthers, antisemitism, ...), sending them into outright radicalization spirals (YT autoplay), banning of people by automation based on shoddy input or without context...

If you're running AI that has a direct impact on wide society and you're not running an ethics oversight program, you should be arrested for endangerment of society.
Pretty awesome.

SLA Guarantees is spelt wrong: https://supertokens.com/pricing
Now is a good time for us all to chill, take inventory as the year draws to an end and uncertain economic conditions have us all a little on edge.

Change happens, it's uncomfortable at first but it can be made to work for you too. Change isn't always bad. Can anyone look at Twitters performance as a public company and say that no changes were warranted? Twitters "mission" wasn't exactly being well executed either. Something was bound to happen eventually and this was a long time coming.

Had it been some Generic Private Equity Company that took Twitter private nobody would even be talking about this at all. But since you-know-who lead the buyout a lot of people have their tails in a knot over it. Has anyone considered what a giant hornets nest Elon has kicked in all this? I personally feel sorry for the poor bastard myself and I bet he wishes he could go back in time and ctrl-z all this terrible idea.

More or less he's put a big chunk of his lifes work on the line over a silly tweet about buying Twitter. You know this all started off as a silly tweet, that turned into a funny joke, that got serious and became a potentially career wrecking mistake with too much momentum to stop.
Agreed. That was dystopian.
Thanks, I didn't know that syntax. What are the advantages of Wisp over sweet-expressions?
> OP didn't really make a point. He just said that he would like posts about lisp being used in production

+1. I am the OP that asked the question. I wasn't making a point. I was asking a question. The company list provided in the response to that was helpful.
Exactly, they have a monopoly and abuse it in the worst possible way. I'm glad someone sued them and won, his politics don't matter to me.
This is embarrassingly bad industry propaganda.

Just ignore the content for a moment and look at the rhetoric.

If they have an actual argument to make that backs up the headline, why is all the name calling and tribal insults necessary or desirable?

> I cannot wait for Skylar and her activist friends to spread the word to Maasai herders, to chuck away their milk while declaiming a “plant-based future”.

What are they trying to say here?
If you're basing part of your comment on this event, it might be worth noting that the article states the layoffs were being mentioned before Musk.
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They're suing under Californian law, which requires 60 days' notice for mass layoffs AFAIK.
The only people who use it these days are a particular type of person, the type that I generally enjoy reading the thoughts and work of.

Then you might enjoy reading your own thoughts, since it's possible to read HN via gopher.

Sorry I don't have the address right now. It's bookmarked on my TRS-80.
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I run a site on Gemini, which is a modern sibling of Gopher.

I haven't really put the effort into it necessary to generate a "following," which in the Gemini world really seems to just mean people emailing each other. That hits a nostalgia vibe for me.
I quit PayPal as I heard they can take 2500$ from your account for "misinformation".

https://bgr.com/business/new-paypal-rule-the-company-can-tak...
It's not. It's marketing. The focus of Nix is reproducability in the same wain as docker: Same dependencies for the same behavior. They can't guarantee bit-for-bit reproducability any more then your average distribution.

Arch Linux has a rebuilder setup and you can safely reproduce between 85% and 89% of the repository packages.

Nix has never done such a thing, and would be far away from any comparable numbers.
Don't tell Elon then, because he definitely paid a growth multiple for Twitter. If Twitter never grows beyond its current size then his investment is a giant failure no matter how much he manages to cut costs.
It's possible to engineer around hurdles like this:

- Put the fridge under a counter on rollers (with a cableway for the necessary electrical hookup).

- Put rolling shelves(with lips) inside the fridge to allow ready access to the bottom storage areas.

Even if consumers won't trade off a little bit of convenience for energy efficiency today, they probably will when electricity is much more expensive.
Common in higher-end stores in India.
All these people are making 200k a year and will have no problem finding another job.
I'm sure you can provide me a similar list if we replace Lisp with Cobold. But nobody would objectively claim that Cobold is not dead.

It's not because some companies have legacy projects or bad CTOs that the language is still actively used.
parted -s "${diskpath}" mklabel gpt
parted -s "${diskpath}" mkpart primary 1MiB 2MiB

Isn't "primary" wrong here? It assumes your `mklabel` command used label-type of msdos or dvh. You are using gpt though. In case of gpt "primary" is a label, not a partition type.

You can use a descriptive string here instead of "primary" (e.g. "boot partition", or "esp partition").

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/parted/parted.8.en.html...