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> Gains in instructions-per-clock start to flatten out. And that's where the gains were coming from in the last years.

This is commonly claimed but it's actually false for x86_64 desktop parts. For a single core scalar integer workload the IPC boost from i7-2700k to i7-7700k was maybe 20-25% on a great day, but the base frequency increase was a further 20%, and max boost freq increase ~15%. The frequency increase is of similar importance as the IPC increase.
I think it would be remarkably weird if the state inside me were entirely uncoupled from 'exterior things'.

In the zen view, the 'trick' is that there are no exterior things because the distinction between the exterior and interior is artificial. Processes of change may reach across that boundary just as they cross any other boundary we care to draw, so there is no absolutely self-governed component.

Assuming (perhaps wrongly, let me know if I'm overreaching) that you see your self as a stoic or happy to interpret them, what do you think the Aurelius quote above means? What is the soul which it's talking about?

We can identify patterns that remain stable for a bit, so you might say that my soul is whatever essential features or patterns remain unchanged, but on the long span I find it hard to imagine such features. After all I will be eaten by worms or incinerated sooner or later.
> In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked.

a month ago.

> ... said he initially shared the 3,300-word memo internally a month ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/fired-goo...
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If I'm X telecom company and I want to inject a billion roboscam phone calls into AT&T's mobile network, I'm going to pay them for that privilege.

These phone calls are no longer expensive, generally speaking, which is one of the reasons it is now cost effective.
(Edit moved to here from the wrong thread)

This comes up on each SVG thread and I post the same comment each time (so excuse me if you've heard this from me before).

We render SVG that contain beyond 100k nodes in the browser and find that it works fine. You need to be careful with your manipulations and we've developed a couple of tricks to keep things snappy, but the final experience is great.

Here's a demo of it in action with a smaller SVG

https://www.countfire.com/product-demo/
So they are patenting capacitive sensing in the context of detecting a finger? you know, like a touchscreen? Wow. The USPO fucking sucks.

For the record, I don't even know how the sensing actually works in the saws. I'm just guessing because its fricken OBVIOUS.
It's cool they used Blend4Web engine to show the model on the internet. Really, WebGL is the future of interactive 3D.
I haven't read the works of Ayn Rand, but this quote makes her sound like a cult leader.

Does the author of this documentary have a bit of a disdain for her, or is he merely saying that her readers/followers are misguided in some way?
> Unless Damore (or someone else) can reasonably estimate whether their theory around 'biological' differences result in a natural 10/90 ratio or a natural 49.9/51.1 ratio then there isn't really a case to be made to change actual real-world HR policies on that basis.

I agree with your argument but fail to see how it allows you to defend a discriminating policy. It's the other way around: You can't discriminate people without evidence that what you are doing is reasonable. You're the sexist in this case.

You can't defend a discriminatory policy by saying you understand it's discriminatory but to keep it because no one can tell how much.

This line of reasoning is inconsistent unless you are only opposed to discrimination of some groups. In that case I think we sadly have to agree to disagree.
Is there any evidence that woman face more social blockers than men? Being a teenage computer geek comes with a range of negative social pressures from peers.
Selection bias makes it also easier to implement special measures. You know where the hot spots are and they are not diffuse.

(FWIW I live in Poland and had a short run with our private education system on both ends.)

What has to be fought is discrimination in employment based on the origin of degrees. All too common. There is enough of this based on connections already.
I'm not defending or attacking affirmative action itself, since the topic is so politically charged that arguing about it on the internet with strangers is futile.

My claim is a much narrower one, that you can hire a disproportionate amount of female developers without lowering the bar if you bias your incoming hires. It can be simultaneously true that Google's diversity policies are harmful to quality (because they restrict where Google hires from) while their female developers are as qualified as their male developers (because they came from the same place and meet the same standards).
The specific case was in 2015, Sweden, Kristianstad (if you want to search for sources). The media storm grow a bit extra since the individual had worked as a substitute in 26 different schools and the potential list of victims was very large. Now in 2017 I hope that most of the male-only restrictions are gone. People forget, new fears replaces old fears, and risk assessments get realign.

Random article of the time: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/pedofilanklagelserna...

Random article #2: http://www.tv4.se/efter-tio/klipp/barnsk%C3%B6taren-mitt-liv...

It was a couple years ago and I could not hope to find all the media articles from that time, including radio and TV reports. But I wish that no teachers should ever need to be wary of being alone with a child. It seems similar when I hear people that they should be wary of being alone with female coworkers in fear of being accused of sexual assault.

Edit: I did consider when I wrote the above comment yesterday that I might be doing the exact same harm that the Female engineers in the article was worried about by bringing up the case. At the same time it was one of the reasons why it so strongly reminded me of this case. As a teacher, do you find it that writing this on HN is harming teachers by bringing up pedophilia in the context of kindergarten teachers?
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The article's hypothetical gubernatorial scenario is a big turn off. It states that Mississippi has higher SAT scores than Connecticut so Connecticut's Teacher Unions are bad.

As the article doesn't at all remark on the suspicious causality of that, it makes me more skeptical of the rest of the article.
I was thinking something like this the other day. Home and office cleaners are typically 30-55 yo (in my experience), but work like that would be character-building for teenagers learning domestic skills, persistence, etc. So many wouldn't have the resilience, but it wouldn't be wasted trying to acquire some.
It's been a while since I played with OCaml, but I'm pretty sure that modules are stateless. A quick googling shows that you can use global state, but it's not the same as one instance of state per one instance of struct as in Rust.
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Again, they talk about oral intake, not about injections.
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I didn't say he was, though I can see why you might have parsed it that way. I was referring to African elections where that sort of result is fairly common.

Even in the last election you label as "free" the Nazis had stormtroopers on the street, no? And a significant reason they were able to win the Enabling Act was because they simply blocked other politicians from turning up at all, and violently threatened the ones who did? Or am I misremembering history?
The really bonus of the internet of old was that text was most of its content. Today you have video, pictures, emojys and music and - in my opinnion it reduces the experience.
Take the example of plumber, any girls are expected to be a plumber? Engineer is a bit alike as techical. The different part in google case is more mental but not physical.
First off, sorry if it seems a bit incoherent, on a mobile so hard to keep an overview.

While it has (at least vocally) gotten a lot of backlash, the memo did give me an opportunity to have a deep conversation about both it, and sexism in general, not just in tech and not just towards one gender, with a female friend of mine that I study with.

We came into a lot of what annoys us both about the way the topic is treated in PC culture, and also gave us a bit of a better understanding of what types of things both gender face in society as a whole. Quite enjoyable conversation, but honestly you can do with someone you trust. So at least in that regard the memo “worked” for us.

One thing in the OP that stuck with me was

> When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another?

Which in my opinion is what happens when you go about “fixing” the gender disparity by such metrics as hiring. I really liked the suggestion to measure retention, how long they stayed and how happy they were, instead of some artificial quota for which you stop thinking after checking that box off. I really think we need to re-evaluate what works, and I hope at least the ongoing discussions bring us a little bit closer to that.
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A proper analysis will attempt to identify such factors and how important they are. Since the sample size is big enough it is not impossible to determine how much of the effect is those other measurable factors.

Selection bias might be measured by the rejection rates on admission (esp. scores rejected)
Legacy code and development time.

When I write C++ code that deals with large datasets, I try to avoid large continuous buffers as much as possible.
For cache locality, an aligned 1GB buffer is practically the same as a set of 64 aligned continuous buffers, 16MB/each. You’ll only hit RAM latency when crossing the boundary between the buffers, i.e. only 63 times through the whole 1GB of data.

One problem is std::vector. The standard says the whole vector must be continuous, i.e. to split large buffer into smaller chunks, one needs to implement a custom container on top of that.

Apparently, authors of C++ think the problem will go away by itself, with the switch to 64-bit platforms.
While true in the short term, it should be noted Intel is moving more towards the GPU model with its many slower core CPUs and very wide vector units. There is value in a large core capable of fast out of order execution for control purposes. But data processing can be done much faster with a GPU model.

You can even implement explicit speculative execution - simply use a warp for each path and choose at the end. It is very wasteful but can often come out ahead.
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Yes, it's confusing and no, it isn't due to a translation.
There is quite a bit of other unnecessarily convoluted jargon and grammar in the report as well, so I think it's just that one or more of the authors has misguided ideals about academic writing style.
If more comments were like their story then this would be a way higher value comments section.
Unfortunately, as a Portuguese, that wouldn't surprise me. Do you have a link to the Reddit thread?
Just had a look at furioussloth's comments. Every single one is an Uber related story and an Uber related comment.

Reminder to us all to please declare your interests if you have them. even if it's only:

Full disclosure: I quite like Uber.

For me, full disclosure, I do actually, quite like Uber. (Although not everything they do, or endorse all their policies or individual employee abhorrent behavior etc).
Your suspicion is correct. Your number gets out there because you give it out, and then 10 years later the company goes under and liquidates their assets which includes a load of customer phone numbers; or because you give it out when you open a credit card or buy a mortgage or car, and you legally can't limit the sharing of your personal info to third parties, who can share your personal info as widely as they want... point is, not having a phone number will be tantamount to not having a social security number in many situations.
Just give them the number of a pay phone somewhere.
What kilburn is referring to is that the business model that telco's use more or less stimulate this type of calls.

If a telemarketeer has to pay for setting up a call, rather than the end-user for accepting it (no matter how small the charge is), then placing millions of automated calls all over a sudden start costing money to the marketeer.

Think of it: the caller has the will to talk to someone - why should (at least in the past) this someone pay for that? The Euro-zone does it the other way round: you want to talk, you call, you pay.

Either way, in both situations with call volumes going down and people switching to data-type connections you see the price of calling/receiving calls drop sharply and as listed above the money telco's make comes from the data plans.
The question is: Who has tucked in your children? You or your wife? Children know which parent has the same sex and they like to play grown up.

Regarding the shooting and the building, are you sure that you have encouraged your daughter the same way as your sons? Have you looked your daughter into the eyes and smiled when she first tried to fight with you?

And even if you were all supportive in that development, it's still not a fair experiment. As long as your children have friends with traditional values and your children watch TV with advertisements that present pink female princesses and male worriers and builders, children are locked down into their roles.
It would be fun if Bosch countersued with some of their patents (but I guess most of table saw patents are expired now)

Yes, this seems like rent-seeking on SawStop so they can go and eat a sausage.

As a sibling comment said, detecting the finger is the obvious part (and there should be ample prior art)
Google apparently already had a women-only program that was predicated on the assumption that women have a harder time leading than men. So it doesn't seem like Damore's claim was particularly unusual within Google.
Hmm, but aren't these reverse discrimination arguments? Fisher v. University of Texas makes those a long shot at best.
I love and use Inkscape exclusively for any SVG editing, but this particular feature in Inkscape is woefully under anything I've seen vector magic provides.
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It would be more useful for them if it could be controlled at the source level. The management engine would be fine if it were free software and could be replaced.

I'm very unhappy with my old Sun servers, for example, because the management system cannot be upgraded and the servers are no longer supported. I'm stuck with proprietary insecure software that I depend on and that I have no way of changing. It's all worse if the insecure outdated software can only be replaced by soldering wires to a chip on the board.
Why would you want to mix two languages?
What would be the difference between multiple models and one model containing all of them? You can keep adding on to the model, or mixing and matching models, and you will never get one that immune to go goedel. Either you have model of physics with contradictions, or you have one where there exist questions that cannot be proven true or false, in other words, undecidable.
How can they borrow against that cash that's overseas? Wouldn't the lender be thinking that Apple has to pay 20% in taxes to repatriate the cash in the event of an emergency? Is Apple able to borrow more than 80% of the value of cash they have overseas?
What does that have to do with Blockstream's small block agenda? The fees are too high and don't need to be compared to existing shitty solutions.
Sure. But I think the reason people are so attached to this explanation, I think, is that other possible reasons sound like justifications for bias. I think both good and bad people get confused between the two.
Yes it might be although it's very unlikely to happen. I wrote about it in another comment but in short: once you start hiring more (proportionally) from a smaller pool then that pool become less qualified on average (because you fished out better candidates). Over time this can only result in you doing more and more to overlook candidates from the bigger pool if want to sustain your policy.

If more companies are doing that then it's impossible to sustain without lowering the bar. If only you are doing that there is no point because then others will hire more men (as there is more qualified men left proportionally as you took bigger % of qualified women).

I am saying that the policy of "we don't lower the bar, we just look more into avenues to hire more women specifically" is somewhere between pointless and dishonest (dishonest as in created to hide the discrimination based on sex).

EDIT:
As to affirmative action: I agree it's not the place for debating ethics of it. I am saying that affirmative action = lowering the bar either directly or indirectly and there is no way around that fact (at least industry wise, you can maybe sustain it locally if you are ok with others skewing their ratio in the other direction).
I don't mean it relatively to the small blocks, but to the satellite.
"When I present my own ideas in a group, you ignore them"

I've seen a lot of young or shy or not well spoken men get the same treatment. But - here is where I'll assume a lot about you - seeing what other people especially different people endure requires empathy and being a little less self-centered.

"Statistically speaking, biology does give me one edge: longer life span."

I would not be sure it is biology. I'd like to see the stats 50 years from now when people who bailed on the "sole breadwinner of the family" track are in. Gender roles are also disappearing for men. Slower but they're waking up to new opportunities this give them.
Do a Google Search for 'multi channel ecommerce software' and you will get lists of inventory management software that connects to marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay.

For example:
https://www.sellbrite.com/
http://www.linnworks.com/
https://www.channelgrabber.com/ - UK based

Or if you have the startup capital have custom inventory management software created to fit your business by a software development company.
This does make me wonder whether a single party having such a disproportionately large broadcast capacity would make a 51% attack more feasible.
I thought god-fearing usually refers to religious people. It's a positive term, too (when used in self-description, at least).
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And if you get a disability insurance then also do not forget to also get a legal insurance b/c insurance companies will try every way to sneak out of their obligations, recklessly capitalizing on the fact that a disabled person is likely too weak to effectively fight for their rights.
I don't think "diversity in tech" is actually overrepresented in the public, although the current affair has temporarily made it more prominent. But if you are in tech, you are more likely to hear about debates that involve tech. Diversity in tech, JavaScript fatigue, the Rust Evangelism Strike Force, whatever. Just because it's popular on HN doesn't mean it's popular everywhere.
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> smugly pointing out that free speech doesn't apply to businesses

Unless it is about wedding cakes, and then the business has no right to self-determine what they can or cannot put on the cake. I have a hard time understanding how a bakery is a public accommodation, but an internet registrar isn't.
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Does anyone here know someone who works on these various management engines? It'd be interesting to see if the security services were involved or if they really were back dooring all computers right?

My guess is it's definitely possible but it would have been popped by foreign agencies by now too and there would have been a leak of tools to exploit such devices? I guess maybe it's very tempting to be able to hack any device though so knowing the NSA they are probably for doing this, fuck the consequences?
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Can't be worse than someone cheating during party nominations, receiving monies from Saudits to perpetuate war on Syria and then dividing your own country between "right" or "left" non-sense.

With this said, I think my good friends across the Atlantic are screwed if this is the upcoming candidate for your country. You're welcome in Europe, as always.
The issue seems to be that people are conflating free speech with discrimination.

Legally speaking, businesses and people are free to discriminate against anyone that isn't part of a protected class[1], but many fail to understand that and assume it's some sort of slippery slope.

I argue that the progressives you mention have no issues with business discriminating against certain groups, provided they don't do it against protected classes. Objectionable political content, like inciting vololence or discrimination against certain groups based on their race has already been ruled by society as not ok. Hence why they're a protected class.

Certain groups such as LGBT are in need of further clarification as a protected class by the courts, as there are conflicting interpretations depending on jurisdiction. This is why the Colorado baker case is so important [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

[2] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/supreme-co...
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Don't confuse the ideal of free speech, with its legal implementation in the 1st Amendment.
I found most of these threads via comments and active.
Bosch have a better system that doesn't destroy the blade or require the cartridge to be replaced every time because it merely retracts the blade very quickly into the bed, but SawStop are using their patents to stop Bosch from selling it. Apparently they went to the effort of patenting every possible approach that doesn't require the expensive but profitable single-use cartridge even though they have no intention of using them, just to stop competitors from doing it.
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> And it's easier to do what other women do.

That factor hasn’t stopped women from becoming e.g. doctors and lawyers.

Just 50 years ago, very few women did that, because discrimination (e.g. for healthcare in America, gender-based discrimination was only banned in 1975) and culture norms.

But now it’s pretty close to 50/50 gender ratio in these areas (females are 47.3% of law students in 2007, 46.7% of medical students in 2013).
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Hey there. You have to know an employee to get a tour. Shoot me an email: tpae@tesla.com and I'll see if I can set you up.

Sometimes they don't have enough slots available, so there's a chance we might not get it. I'll give it a shot for you.
>People don't seem to have problems buying safety with cars

Compare the introduction of three-point seat-belts. These were legally required while they were still under patent, but unlike SawStop, Volvo shared their invention with other manufacturers for free. They didn't try to use regulatory capture to force people to pay them.

https://www.media.volvocars.com/uk/en-gb/media/pressreleases...