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Copenjin··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
For those wondering: https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1276326634195259392

If someone would link this to me, I'll interpret it as extremely dismissing. A declaration of war.

Copenjin··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
And let's not forget that in most(all?) of the other 1st world countries you are lucky if you make one tenth of that base salary. It's easy to forget. Very easy.
Copenjin··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
Not saying that it's desirable or that's not horrible, but isn't that the default mode? Or at least that's the world I've lived in, if you are an employee, in the end your opinions don't actually count, you are just a cog. Your position in the hierarchy is what matter.

And that's why at some point you need labor unions (not saying high paid tech workers needs them) and at some other point you start considering stop being an employee.

Copenjin··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
I understand what you are saying, but I doubt they hired her to be some kind of controller with unlimited enforcing power (as she says: "I understand that the only things that mean anything at Google are levels").

Only highlighting issues without power to enforce anything is not enough to have any tangible results? That's for sure.

But she was not the CEO.

Copenjin··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
> This happened to me last year. I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google

Self entitlement or she forgot she was just an employee, and not some sort of independent tribal leader fighting google from the inside.

Copenjin··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
I wonder why these privileged people (I don't have her huge salary, I don't live in the us or work for a FAANG) keeps forgetting that after all they are just _employees_.
Copenjin··on Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
In my experience, most java developers even in this field (or "embedded" that has similar requirements) tend to resist when someone proposes to use "c-like java", too used to their fancy libraries and APIs.
Copenjin··on Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
> Maybe it's time to ask security questions during SE interviews instead of algos?

Please no, but I agree that security questions could be a very good addition. But please let's not replace something used as an under par proxy for the ability to program with something likely even worse.

Copenjin··on Better disposable coffee cups can be made with waste from sugar cane
No, they don't. Non-american cars don't even have the hole for the cup (that Ford ones for example have). So, not remotely common, at all.
Copenjin··on A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack
This guy with his Screeps-Main repo is interesting, he also removed a txt file with some description of what he wanted to do: https://github.com/NihilRex/Screeps-Main/commit/e2c34e211226...

The last things he did were in 2017.

Edit: Nope, same user is on the forum, https://screeps.com/forum/user/nihilrex

Copenjin··on How HN crushed David Walsh's blog
Be static my friend.
Copenjin··on Bongo Cat
Thanks, this is going to be perfect for my daily remote stand-ups!
Copenjin··on Swift System Is Now Open Source
Is this just a wrapper around a subset of system calls? Looking at the code it seems to be, not sure.
Copenjin··on Boston Dynamics' Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi
Also this one: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/mini-raspberry-pi-boston-dy...
Copenjin··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
I don't even need to make videos but this is so polished I'd like to try it out anyway, great work.
Copenjin··on Building Domain Driven Microservices
There is a lot of very interesting work to be done in this area (amazing books coming out lately from O'Reilly about these topics) but I feel there is still some piece of the puzzle missing. We need more tools/practices for the developers to guide their development and understand how an architecture behave while they are still building it, to drive design decisions (and also check/correct them along the way).
Copenjin··on TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong
Are we supposed to believe that TikTok cares about the privacy of its users and protects them from any inquiry from the chinese officials, or that is even starting a privacy fight with the CCP?! Laughable, c'mon.
Copenjin··on Building Domain Driven Microservices
I'm really having a hard time finding the willpower to read articles that just even mention "microservices" in the title after working on such architectures (with Java) for a while.

Nice idea but most of the times horribly implemented, with no care about monitoring and logging as someone has already said.

It requires a degree of attention to details during design and development that few are willing to put in. It's easy to go for a prepackaged solution/framework thinking that you are building something that could be considered state of the art, when instead you end up with something that takes multiple tries to even boot correctly or 10 minutes or so to "stabilize" a garbled mess of inter-dependant components.

Designing these systems require a whole new set of skills that were not required when designing monoliths.

Copenjin··on Setting up Git identities
Exactly, have a similar setup, I would recommend against using the approach suggested in the post if you want to be 100% sure of always using the right account.
Copenjin··on Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
You just need to find something that fits you definition of fun, I'd try different activities :)
Copenjin··on Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift
My comment was an invite to monetize, regardless of the motivations he could have, right now.
Copenjin··on Ask HN: Would you mind being monitored at work?
> Logically, they have the right to do it

Says who? Please let's not start thinking that this kind of silly absurdities are logical or acceptable. What's next, random monitoring to identify wronthink?

Copenjin··on Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift
Thanks for making the code public, but since it's the first time I see something like this, I don't see why you shouldn't slap a $5 price tag on it on the Appstore :)
Copenjin··on FastMRI initiative releases neuroimaging data set
Is this accessible only to people affiliated with some research institution as it seems[1]?

[1] https://fastmri.med.nyu.edu/

Copenjin··on Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
They say that the performance is similar to n1 and the price is lower, but they are not talking about preemptible price, that's more or less the same for both types.
Copenjin··on Facebook Pay
No.
Copenjin··on Soli
I hope it's hardware or they would be selling vaporware.
Copenjin··on Soli
Note at the bottom:

> 1) Pixel 4’s Soli implementation does not include all capabilities and interactions described here

Copenjin··on Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Economy
> but that won't stop them from doing it "in real life."

Ban them on online platforms, ostracize them in real life.

It may sound harsh, but it's not, considering all the people you'll save from them.

Copenjin··on Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Economy
> by citing that even "fit" people are victims of heart diseases etc.

Yes, but with waaay lower incidence as thousands of studies (0 issues on reproducibility here) show.

> by talking about how we should focus on complete health like mind + body.

Sure, as long as she realizes that the two are interconnected and that at some point you'll have to do something, for real, for the body too.

Also in this case, there is an astronomical amount of research that shows the benefits of being in the "fit zone" irt body composition and of living an active lifestyle.

And for you, my sincere compliments for having turned around your life and changed your lifestyle, you rock.

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