skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Black people are killers, thieves, and lazy layabouts.

Introducing "killers" and "thieves" to this example distances it from the discussion we are having, since you introduced words with violent connotations. Let's leave it at:

> Black people are... ...lazy layabouts.

This is still a far cry from the contents of the memo, but we can work with it. There are a lot of negative adjectives that can be applied to this sentiment: Racist, wrong, counterproductive, even evil. But aggressive is still wrong. It just doesn't fit the definition. Stereotyping a group of people as "lazy" or even "useless" is not violent. It doesn't threaten violence, and it's intention is not necessarily to cause harm. Have a talk some time with an actual racist who is otherwise a peaceful person. They used to be very common. You'll hear them make all sorts of generalizations about black people that sound totally insane and horrible to us, but they don't mean it in an aggressive way. They wouldn't wish harm, physical or otherwise, on anybody. They genuinely believe that that is simply "how God made them" or something like that. Judging from the tone of the memo, plus the benefit of the doubt which we owe even those we disagree with, I think it's plain that the author of the original memo feels similarly.

Again, aggression is all about intent. You have little evidence to back the idea that our author guy wishes women, or any other person or group, harm.
>You mean there is not enough angry outrage on the right? Are you serious?

My point was not that there is not enough angry outrage on the right. There certainly is. My point was that the right's angry outraged is not as organized and focused as the left's. In addition to random angry tweets, they need to wage public campaigns against the employers or businesses of their counterparts on the left to get them fired or professionally destroyed, the way the left does to people on the right who express badthink in public.

I'm an example of the unorganized, unfocused anger on the right. I've never yet taken concrete steps to bring about the change I'd like to see, beyond talking about it on HN.
Makes sense. Nice proof :)
No, NYC's subway is particularly messed up for unique political reasons.

They don't have these problems in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore.. it's not a problem with subways, it is a problem with the MTA.
> focused our efforts on containment instead of extinguishment (i.e. make a best effort to keep it away from human settlements)

The line between extinguishment and containment blurs as human settlement expands.

Also, shouldn't humans just stop settling near forests altogether? Easy way to incentivize this - stop extinguishing the fires - they're supposed to burn anyway.
Even if it's not a foregone conclusion, it's an important topic to discuss before entering a long-term relationship.

If one partner wants children, and is counting on that happening, and the other partner wants to not have children, and is counting on that happening, that's a huge point of relationship friction.

So, yeah, it's really important to make sure your potential partner is on the same parenting page as you are, even if
(especially if) that page is "let's not be parents".
See, that's kind of the problem right there. You define the ideas to be "unreasoned", and therefore any presentation of those ideas is unacceptable, no matter how stated.

Can you state why you find the ideas unreasonable, without some variant of "all right-thinking people know", and without misrepresenting the ideas?
TL;DR: Postmodernists don't like it because it abandons locality in favor of determinism. Modernists like it for the exact same reason.
https://youtu.be/An8vtD1FDqs
The Native Americans of the Appalachians used to burn the brush down in the forests and otherwise cultivate the land, yes.
I don't agree with your diagnosis for one simple reason: The Carnarsie line (AKA the L train). The L train is unique because it is the only line in the system that doesn't share track with any other line. It is well used but if it shut down for a day (or even a week) the effect on the system wouldn't be so bad. Yet attempts to upgrade the L line have still failed. How do you explain this?
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Our lives are now heavily mediated by technology (emailing, social media, e-banking etc). We are increasingly and often continuously online, open to engagement in a myriad of services and simultaneously open to cyberattack.
Making sure clients are satisfied. Prices are heavily dependent on the problem you want us to solve
He seems to be claiming that black people, gay people, women, trans folk and the poor were in no way oppressed and it was all made up by Communists to take down capitalism.

You can probably find some people who agree with individual parts of that but if you get a full bingo then you're basically dealing with a Nazi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Ma...
It seems to be getting worse as well. Not just here, but everywhere online.
The people rioting in Baltimore are gangs, not starving, hard working poor people you talk about. The hard working poor people are having their shops vandalized by the rioting gangs.
>it's easy to retool the factories.

I don't work in an automotive factory, but everyone I've asked about process engineering and factory tooling, has told me the opposite, that it is in fact quite expensive, both in capital and time, to retool.

>huge networks of dealers and service centers, which means that customers who value reliability and/or stress-free repairs are more likely to buy a BigCo car

It could be that I've simply had a completely different experience from you, but I've never really heard anyone I know say that the dealer experience was stress free or that the repairs made at dealers were reliable. In fact, almost everyone I know who is knowledgable about cars stays away from dealer service centers like the plague.

For some context I drive a 17 year old Civic that I mostly work on myself, although I do take it to a trustworthy independent shop for bigger repairs.

I actually think the current dealer network as well as the current private car ownership system might prove to be the biggest risks for the established players.
Some years back, the federal government in the US decided to get strict about protecting certain natural areas. This resulted in a build up of dry brush because people were not allowed to do things like collect firewood. The end result was some of the worst forest fires in US history.

Humans need to be good stewards to the land and stop framing themselves as somehow not a part of "nature."
>Show them how wrong they are by becoming like them? That's... not very wise. Also cowardly.

I have no interest in showing them they're wrong. I just want them to stop trying to destroy people who publicly express opinions which with they disagree.

As to whether or not that's "cowardly", I'm not really concerned.
It depends on which ion(s) in particular was in the solution.

If it was something relatively pleasant, like the referenced sulfuric, carbonic, and chloric acids, the heat would almost certainly be more of a problem in the short term. In the long term you'd be missing significant portions of your anatomy due to the dehydration of your skin by the sulfuric acid, but that could certainly wait.

On the other hand, if it were (for example) hydrofluoric acid, you'd have nerve transmission issues and your heart would stop well before you'd be cooked thoroughly.

Here's an interesting video by Nile Red showing that it's not the acid, per se, that is especially dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVZQoJ5FdE

Now, when you heat things, all the reactions speed up. So it'd certainly be only a few seconds before things would get very drastic.
Welfare encourages a culture of dependency. Before welfare the social structure formed by religious and civic groups took care of charity and required more accountability and a change in mindset to go along with material aid.
Firefighters are dying to protect the private property of people who live in the forests so they can save money not building a fire-safe house. We need regular burns to keep the brush down, but we can't because rich people's houses are in the path. The forest was there first; it's time to stop protecting people from financial loss because of their poor decisions.
> A woman wrote the first compiler.

That was actually just a linker/loader. What we call a "compiler" today is very different than what Hopper called back then.

This was the first actual compiler, in today's meaning of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode
Perhaps if I reversed the order of these sentences:

> I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more. [But] Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, ....

This just makes no sense to me. As the $650B number suggests, whatever Google is doing it sure works for them. However Trump now wants his Justice Department to look into affirmative action as a form of anti-white discrimination [1] so maybe you will have the law on your side.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/02/o...
you should try l-theanine and see if that works at all, should give you the calmness of having drank a lot of green tea -
without any of the caffeine of green tea and without the toxicity of alcohol

https://examine.com/supplements/theanine/
You've missed the point. The point is that just because you've pointed out a biological fact doesn't mean that you can extend that to societal truths. Cancer also has a genetic basis. Does that mean we should stop researching how to cure it? The point is that arguing over how Homosexuality is like or unlike Cancer is completely pointless and irrelevant to the wider conversation.

Likewise, biological arguments are irrelevant to the overall conversation about diversity in tech. And I'm speaking as someone who thinks that there are a lot of flaws with the current attempts to solve these problems. I think diversity policies are often misguided and lead to suboptimal solutions. But I think this is a hard problem, and there are not going to be any easy solutions. The argument that women aren't biologically suited for working in tech is the lazy and stupid solution. All it does is draw lines between us and them and give newspapers a bunch of trash to print.
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Our lives are now heavily mediated by technology (emailing, social media, e-banking etc). We are increasingly and often continuously online, open to engagement in a myriad of services and simultaneously open to cyberattack.
Making sure clients are satisfied. Prices are heavily dependent on the problem you want us to solve
I agree with you, however, I just want to point out that a completely destroyed house in a drug binge orgy party isn't even close to the worse case scenario, at least then you can "only" lose 100% of the value of your physical property, maybe ~$300,000. The worse case scenario is someone getting seriously hurt or dying, that could cost millions and has virtually no upper limit - https://medium.com/matter/living-and-dying-on-airbnb-6bff8d6...
> official spec for webtorrent

Huh, where do you see that? Not seeing any ctrl-f hits for webtorrent or webrtc.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

No matter how you read the original manifesto or the responses to it, I think there's a level of separation one must achieve before they pass judgement on it. If you let yourself live in the binary black-and-white world that the manifesto author created, where views are either left _or_ right, you're bound to get fired up. This is a natural reaction to the fact that party identification and attacking identity tend to trigger much more primal responses than if party was removed. In my humble opinion, Google is a very good example of a company with a mixed culture. They're a hugely conservative company in how they manage their finances, pay taxes, hire employees, and operate their company to the normal world. At the same time, they attempt to create "Googley" spaces where thinking and diversity are promoted. Are these necessarily right wing and left wing ideologies? Maybe. But it's definitely a mix -- you don't see Google spending 100% of its money on social programs, nor do you see it spending 0% of its money on social programs.

Does the manifesto author have a reason to write? Yes. He's clearly scared, and clearly feels attacked, perhaps on a regular basis, in the workplace. Like many an engineer before him, he attempted to identify the problem and presented several solutions that may or may not work.

Now, were the solutions he presented the correct ones? I personally am inclined to say no. Just as Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The article was eloquent and well pointed at specific "problem areas" the author presumed to be at fault. The author did not provide anything to corroborate his hypothesis that things like removal of empathy would do any good to help the situation at Google. Similarly, the author's attack on outreach programs aimed at minorities did not make any effort to show how these programs were exclusively harming non-minority participants.

Now, obviously, there are questions on the other side of the plane too -- specifically on whether or not diversity initiatives help or whether or not empathy helps either. I haven't done this research -- but the author hasn't done his research, so I feel this is fair. I'm just pointing out that Google is a for-profit company. They tend to make decisions that are economically viable, and they may or may not have done research on these types of things in the past -- though I would assume they have. Again, this is a company infamous for A/B testing shades of blue for engagement. It would be silly if they were burning their cash pile on programs known to be detrimental or non-working.

To summarize: if you write a manifesto, I expect you to pull some figures and prove some points before you start pulling the political party card and getting everyone riled up about your thoughts and opinions. If you read a manifesto, don't conflate perceptions as fact without examining and thinking about them closely for a long period of time. It will ONLY lead to pointless arguing and senseless fighting, while the real issue gets ignored.
If a doctor misdiangosis someone based on an outside errant lab test, what happens?

I think the situations would be viewed identically. I don't know the exact processes, but lots of documentation would go into it and if the lab that gave the errant lab test has a history of poor results, they may get investigated and closed down.

If this was a one-off error, that will get chalked up to a one-off error. Even if the patient dies.
I hope this signals the demise of patents that are basically "take something people have been doing since forever, but do it with a computer." In this case, publishing a sequence of stories.
Discovering this and [Clojerl](https://github.com/jfacorro/clojerl) within a week of each other is like Christmas come early.
What's the stuff about "proof layers", is that new in this v2? The paper briefly talks about proof layer requests. Is this something merkle-tree related? What is the purpose? Is it to prevent clients from lying about having pieces they do not have by requesting a verifiable random hash chunk?
Because, do you think sitting eight hours a day behind a desk trying to find a way to instruct a machine to do something you already know how to do, is a particularly appealing job? Can you imagine the amount of fulfilling human interactions a nurse has every day in the hours you spend looking at that damn screen? I mean, maybe they don't do it just because they can actually do something better.
It's cute, but isn't going to completely obsolete ML/DL expertise. (And believe me, as a prospective supplier of DL compute, I would love for the answer to be "more compute").

To give you an idea of how much compute it took, they spent two million dollars for one run on a relatively toy dataset, CIFAR-10. Imagine how much it would take on an imagenet sized dataset! Can your company afford ~$20 million+ per dataset?

I do think that hyperparameter twiddling aspect might get automated, but believe me, that is much welcomed by the DL research community! I would much rather spend my time on new ideas rather than trying ten different initializations :)
Can you link to this information? Americans came from extremely hard conditions, much harder than anyone today experiences and there was not the level of violence and crime we see today. Perhaps you can pay off the violent criminals in the short term but in the long term the criminals will cause social breakdown. People always want more, and if violence and the threat of violence is how they get more that is what they will continue to do.
Can anybody tell whether it supports multimethods and protocols?
There was a time where I would assume this title from the gaurdian was simply click bait with over the top claims made on out of context tidbits.

I miss that time.
I need to download the latest version that was submitted to MPEG for the file and serial data format and get it on OTOY.com like the 1st doc (intro PDF) linked in my post above. Will share a link as soon as that's done. The container and stream are just one layer, the full node schema and module system is mapped out on docs.otoy.com for users and developers.

We're working on a flat C API for ORBX script nodes which will (we hope) leverage WASM+WEBGPU/VK to add novel functionality within the node graph itself instead of needing it to be in an arbitrary external renderer. This was how we first implements ORBX1 video in pure JavaScript back in 2013

Note that Graphs can further 'render' a scene to valid glTF/mesh and volume formats, not just texture/image output buffers.

I don't think glTF will be able to fully replace alembic/FBX soon in the schema
sadly, based on last KHR discussion at siggraph (I understand the reasoning, do not going to advocate they change it); glTF is still a useful asset format for proxy volumes or baking to webgl pipelines.
Corecursion doesn't require base cases, and it's a perfectly useful way to write programs in languages that support lazy evaluation.

I'm not sure base cases are as important as you suggest.
I like Clojure for its encouragement of functional, immutable-first programming. That, and I find its syntax for function parameters, data-structure literals, etc to be preferable.
"This article is aimed to introduce and explain a number of topics and ideas that will help you when practicing recursive problems."

I know I'm not supposed to shit talk the article. I know someone spent a lot of time making it for me and others. However, we've gotta move forward as a community. We have to raise the bar. We have to stop this nonsense.

There is an issue here greater than recursion. I know that's bold of me to say, but I'm serious. Programmers need STOP fucking telling people that they can explain something that requires practice to understand. You cannot learn multiplication from reading a blog post. It has to be drilled into you over and over again. And only after it's been drilled into you what numbers are, what addition and subtraction are, and what carrying and borrowing mean. You learn this over the course of YEARS not 5 minutes reading some shitpost on the internet. Recursion is just like math. It has to be drilled into you. I had zero understanding of this for YEARS. And then I picked up a book that drills recursion into you. Only after writing function after function (functions essentially identical to one another in structure), was I able to understand the IMPORTANCE of recursion. Not by thinking about it, or reasoning about it, by actually doing it, over and over again. Recursion can be explained in 10 seconds. I'll do it right now. Recursion is when a set of instructions starts over from step 1. Or for us programmers, a function which calls itself. Bam. all you need to know about recursion. Guess what. It's not enough to understand what multiplication is, you actually have to be able to use it. You actually have to be able to use recursion. Explaining why multiplication is important is frankly retarded. This post is frankly retarded. STOP pretending that you can explain in 5 minutes what took you months and years to understand. STOP. All you do is make people like me think they're dumb for not getting it. I'M SMARTER THAN YOU! But it took me months of ACTUALLY WRITING RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS to realize HOW FUCKING DUMB YOU ALL ARE. Stop fucking telling people you can teach them calculus in 5 minutes. Stop telling them that all it takes is this one clear explanation. It doesn't! It takes actual work. Fuck the guy who wrote that post. You have no idea how many years I wasted thinking blog posts like this were how to learn. If you don't get why recursion is a big deal, do yourself a favor and forget everything you read in that post, grab a pencil, some paper, and a copy of the Little Lisper. Email me in 6 months when you're finished, so that you can thank me for being the only one to tell you the truth about recursion.
Viewing the site in iOS Safari, I get several pages of what appears to be random binary gunk rendered as HTML. Something wrong with compression headers?
Whoops, i skimmed and they mentioned the end user web browser and I assumed they had.

I guess this is why they say when you assume you make an ass out of you and me.
Yes the non-physical work is not automatable.
Isn't that true of any of the major "interpretations" of QM? Copenhagen etc.
what makes his sentence not an amphiboly? What's the grammatical rule that fixes the "they" to apply to the people not the pattern?