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Timnit’s backpedaling regarding her email and her ultimatum was absurd. You seem completely unwilling to factor Timnit’s own behavior into the chain of events, so it doesn’t make sense to continue this. This elimination of personal responsibility when it’s inconvenient to the narrative has become endemic among the activist employees. To your credit, it seems like your heart is in the right place with wanting to help her and others.

None of that disputes what I said or excuses her behavior. The “resonant” email is public, we can’t pretend it was in any way professional or appropriate.

Vanishingly few people can get away with acting like that at work without getting fired. She thought she was an exception and she wasn’t.

I suspect it was Timnit’s behavior after the paper didn’t pass internal review that actually got her fired (issuing an ultimatum and threatening to resign unless the company met her demands; telling her coworkers to stop writing documents because their work didn’t matter; insinuations of racist/misogynistic treatment from leadership when she didn’t get her way).

Will my car still get broken into every few months? Will I still have to walk over needles and human waste on my walk home? Will toothpaste still be locked up? San Francisco has a long way to go before it’s an attractive place to live and work again

It’s odd they label the voices as “soprano” and “baritone,” because they don’t sound like it.

I suspect it’s to avoid labeling the speakers as “male” and “female.” What a joke.

Yes, he believed the covert cheating device was an industrial-strength vibrator powerful enough to visibly shake the chair she was sitting in. Because that wouldn’t arouse suspicion. Truly a brilliant theory by Doug.

You’re linking to the “report” by the accuser that consisted entirely of character attacks and borderline paranoid speculation. It contained none of the evidence he had promised.

Similarly, nothing we’ve said is any more than speculation. That’s fine, but that’s all this is.

This sums up the problem with the pro-cheating side – the argument boils down to:

“This person didn’t behave how I think I would behave in this situation, so she’s probably guilty.”

But many people get extremely defensive and indignant when caught cheating or lying. Do returning half the money when cornered by Adelstein is evidence of nothing, either way.

Yes, there were enough coincidences to at least make cheating a possibility, but without any credible evidence I don’t think the “100% guilty” people should be taken seriously.

If you’re bad enough to cheat like that, you’re not good enough to avoid a pattern of suspicious behavior.

This arguably makes cheating less likely. If someone in production knew both players’ hole cards, which was the theory, this would be a nonsensical place to cheat. It was still a coin flip to either lose everything or, best case scenario, win a hand with a remarkable call that was sure to draw scrutiny.

If they were that unbelievably reckless, this wouldn’t be the only hand they cheated in. Yet there weren’t other examples of notable calls or folds that indicated cheating.

The simplest explanation in my mind is that this rather inexperienced player made a very loose call and got lucky. I can’t rule out the possibility of cheating, but there’s not enough evidence to make it more than a conspiracy theory.

It’s common knowledge to keep your mouth shut at this point. You don’t need to have highly-regarded lawyers advising you to know this, but SBF had (at least) two: his parents, who were with him in the Bahamas.

Even if he was under a delusion that the rules wouldn’t apply to him, we can assume his parents would do everything in their power to reign him in if this was not some sort of strategy.

From what I understand of the interviews, he carefully avoided going into details, and instead used the opportunity to present himself as an “aw, shucks” borderline simpleton with a heart of gold who just got in over his head. He was going to be arrested either way, so how do you see this as not a carefully-planned attempt to improve his public image?

Nearly everyone in a field starts out behind.

MS and PhD students start out behind and they’ll spend most of their time during the next 2-5 years on irrelevant things (e.g. 95%+ of their graduate coursework will be behind the state of the art; most PhDs will focus on a niche project that fails to have major impact or relevance by the time they graduate).

It sounds like OP just wants to learn out of general interest, which is fine. But others shouldn’t be discouraged. A sufficiently-dedicated person with talent and a strong classic ML foundation can catch up reasonably fast, to the point of getting their foot in the door professionally.

ChatGPT solves this problem readily. Maybe they should hire ChatGPT.

The problem always bugged me though. The word “inverting” makes me think of flipping something upside down rather than horizontally. Although that’s not strictly necessary, I’ve never heard the word “invert” used elsewhere in the same way.

He’s playing stupid.

The jury will need to decide if was incompetent or evil, and in that case, you definitely want them thinking you’re incompetent.

Most people would be advised to say nothing in this situation.

Instead, he’s launching an aggressive PR tour to rebrand himself from a genius wunderkind to a hapless fool who made some innocent mistakes. It’s a risky strategy, but he has two lawyer parents who are almost definitely helping him thread this needle, legally speaking, plus who knows who else through their connections.

Dialing into BBSs at 11-13 years old, making ANSI art, downloading shareware games, and playing MUDs was so much fun, and makes me so nostalgic.

I don’t know what the equivalent is for todays kids. Maybe Roblox or Minecraft.

Sustained profitable growth for nearly 24 years is the exception, not the rule.

“so many people are apathetic to the atrocities commited by Google.”

Maybe so many people simply don’t view these as “atrocities”? Your wording suggests a privileged life, and ignorance of the practices of the vast majority of companies in the US, abroad, and throughout history. This is particularly true if Google is your idea of a company that treats its employees poorly, to the point that this almost must be taken as parody.

EDIT: Ah, it seems that spreading pro-Amazon, anti-Google sentiment is your main purpose here on HN. A short sample of recent posts:

Apple and Amazon are adding real values to the economy and making positive contribution to society. Google and Meta are parasites

I wonder if this bugs exists on FireOS. It's obvious that bugs like this will happen in a spyware company product like Google.

I wish everyone would start using Twitch, so that we can have a proper alternative of Google/Youtube.

Everyone should move to Twitch and make it a proper alternative to Youtube. I trust Amazon way more than an ad company like Google.

Thank you for posting this. Moreover Google is a spyware company that holds users hostages for money. I wish Twitch can replace Youtube someday.

I really wish Amazon would take charge of the internet infrastructure. I prefer customer obsessed infrastructure Amazon than spyware and adware companies like Google and Meta.

This is outrageous. We need to find a way to stop Google. Google invades our privacy. Google holds us hostages for more money.

I wish people would use Twitch more to make it a more viable Youtube alternative. Amazon doesn't have user hostile attitude like Google.

I wouldn't trust any Google hardware - decomissioned or not. You don't know what kind of spyware they are running on their hardware.

Exactly. IDK how people can use Google software. You never know when they will quietly inserts some spyware or adware into their so called open source software.

Amazon is an amazing customer focus company. Google is a spyware company that only wants to make more by invading our privacy. Of course Amazon products will be better than Google.

And so on and so on. Very strange.

EDIT 2: Even more egregious, your submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=johndfsgdgdfg

The same way money is often repaid: take it from future income.

The Democratic committees raised $853M in the 2022 election cycle, compared to $805M for the Republicans. If they had to deduct $50M next cycle to account for the illegitimate funds, it wouldn’t ruin them.

They’ll be among the few tech employees whose equity didn’t get decimated this year.

n=2, I was on the fence about a 4th shot, but decided on a whim to get it. No side effects previously, but this one gave me full bodies aches and extreme fatigue for about 36 hours.

“Sure, we’re moving in the wrong direction, but at least we’re not as bad as those guys yet” isn’t that comforting.

the abysmal dating prospects

It really is bad, right, and not my imagination? I feel like I’ve wasted a decade of my life here on an endless string of bad first dates with no mutual attraction.

It wasn’t like that in other places I’ve lived. I mentioned this to a family member recently, and they said it’s harder because I’m getting older. That’s probably true, but I swear it’s rough in this city.

It’s a bit like buying a house here: you spend a huge amount of time, effort, and money, and end up with less than you’d get back home.

Hope NYC worked out better for you.

When it comes to remote work, WFH, and WFO, and realized that I do like working from an office, just not if it requires living in the Bay Area. It’s way, way too overpriced if you want to own a home here, and the marginally higher Bay Area compensation is washed away once you’re in the market to buy a house.

So my personal preference is (1) WFO for a Bay Area company in a non-Bay Area office to combine good comp and good quality of life, (2) WFH remotely, (3) WFO in the Bay Area, and lastly (4) WFH in the Bay Area.

Judging by elite college representation

Elite college representation is a poor metric because of legacy admissions, influence of donors, and the reported efforts to limit Asian admissions.

Look at schools with more merit-based admissions (MIT, Caltech, etc.). Asians are overrepresented to a much higher degree.

They won’t let that effort go to waste.

I’ve told this to myself many times over my career. And been wrong so many times.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/25/politics/havana-syndrome-...

Ah yes, nothing piques my interest in joining the CIA quite like the idea of being sent to Cuba and getting my brain zapped.

My history books tell a different story.