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> we have to be there to contradict the people who take it as justification for the (evidence-based) unlevel playing field in tech, sexism etc, and we will be the ones affected if we don't ensure that our colleagues and people we respect don't go therefore shrug and decide that everyone thinks that way.

If you are concerned about third parties being swayed if you stay silent, that makes it even more important to not engage in the behavior I am decrying. Doing nothing is unlikely to impact most people's opinions. Appealing to platitudes (or worse, actively misrepresenting your opponent) will be actively counterproductive.
I wonder why you got voted down. I'd rather see a counter-argument to this than a greying of it.

Of course, the burden of justifying cutting out speech falls on those with the power and ability to do it. Today we all agree that white supremacy is evil and so on.

But in the 1950s half of America didn't mind that the other half had fingers pointing at them that they were communists. Jobs were lost, reputations sullied, jailtime given. It felt really righteous at the time, because, it was said, the communists were traitors and even potentially spies. A police state was established, perhaps not as severe as that of Soviet Russia or East Germany, but a surveillance state nonetheless.

During World War I we passed the Sedition Act, which made it a jailable, criminal offense to oppose World War I.

Go ahead, let's pile it on the white supremacists. But what happens when the same forces come for you? The same precedent: to protect the public, your views will have to go underground.

I speak as someone who is for all intents and purposes anti-fascist. However, I also speak as someone who recognizes that technology can make a far more repressive dystopia of limited ideas than Fascism of the 1930s was able to achieve.

I wish people had a better reading of history before they beat their chests with this shut down of hate speech.
No, that there's a hard number that Google recruiters are supposed to achieve (50% seems to what I've seen repeated around here.)

Does anyone have any actual proof that Google is aiming for 50% or to represent the general population 1-1?
If you ever walk through a crosswalk, ride a bicycle (or motorcycle), or drive a car, you may pay with your life for ignoring self-driving cars that violate traffic laws and/or fail to react intelligently to unusual situations.
Damore's memo was in favor of diversity.

Left and Right alike favor diversity, it how you get there where they disagree.

Diversity does not mean supporting the thought police, encouraging mob mentalities, and adopting zero tolerance attitudes.

A sizable majority of Americans do support gay marriage by almost 2:1, but they are very closely divided on other LGBT issues, particularly around what should and shouldn't be funded by the tax payer, etc.

And while Americans value diversity they also value freedom.

Scientifically the role of biology in gender behavior is not a settled issue, despite the many wishing to declare it so. I do not agree with the conclusions to which Damore jumped, nor do I feel strongly that biology was particularly relevant to the point he was trying to make. But it amazes me how even broaching the discussion triggers people.
I think he's saying he applied for the Stanford MSCS and didn't get in, not OMSCS.
But you don't get to account for systematic bias, such as who has had opportunities and encouragement to even apply in the first place.
that comment is over 2000 days old. wow
After the election there was a commentator who attributed Trump's win to "whitelash". If true, I think one could say in the media we're experiencing an aggravated allergy to anything that does not toe the PC-line.

No doubt the most of the protestors were white supremacists and sympathizers, but to equate everyone who coincidentally shares anything with them (they vote R, they support NRA) is automatically binned with such groups is just as bad as what the left complains about when people on the right equate people who share some values with extremist-terrorists as equal to being a member in those kinds of groups.
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A billion trees sounds like a lot.

>>> sqrt(1e9)
31622.776601683792 # trees on a side
>>> 31623*4/5280 # assume they're planted on 4' centers
23.956818181818182 # miles square

So like a medium US national park. A decent contribution.
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Electric vehicle batteries may get much more valuable soon
I'm against free speech in certain circumstances; free speech is idealistic, for it assumes Bad Ideas will be shot down in fair public debate, and people are rational. When people say things along the lines of "I don't like what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it", they're really saying that they don't care about the consequences that may come of that speech out of principle. It's a very reductionist mindset.

This is a fantasy, and I think a level of control is needed to stop the rousing of genocidal ideology propagated through rhetoric and providing its proponents platforms to speak on.
That's very interesting. Would be cool to see a generalized example of the kinds of interfaces you're building.
The Daily Stormer read like a parody of the alt-right. But, unlike ISIS videos, it had zero persuasion power. https://web.archive.org/web/20170813051230/http://dailystorm... If anything, it was a testament to what's wrong with the movement. Leave the website up, for everyone to disprove and make fun of.
You don't build them on a drawing board, do you?

Yea actually we (collectively) kind of do. I mean the massive institutional educational system, secondary, post secondary, neonatal care, preschool, faber, Montessori, Parenting books, videos blogs etc... are all systems and mechanisms and processes etc that are prescriptive for how to produce a positive, healthy functioning adult in [insert] society.

I guess that's a nice thought until you actually see your child, then it goes out of the window. But I'm guessing here.

Almost across the board, parents say the best thing they have ever done is to raise children. That their kids are smarter and kinder and better etc...than they were and on and on. Millions of words have been spilled for these legacies. Especially parents with disabled children, frequently laud how much more grounded and spiritual and "in the now" their children are. Whether they believe it, or it's objectively true or not is certainly up for debate, however it is true that people get pleasure in seeing their children grow up and are generally ok dying knowing their children will take on their legacy.

You're too focused on the fade into oblivion part. I'm hoping and AGI will help us figure out our existential problems - but maybe it can't or wont. Maybe it can help is figure out how to keep us all in a state of bliss forever, or upload us to computer paradise (ahem, matrix) or cure all of our diseases, or help us merge with it. Who knows, all I know is that we can't get past any kind of "singularity" level of technology with the slow pace of biological evolution.

It's simply a philosophical point that with a superhuman AGI we need not worry about what our fate as a human species is anymore because something else is taking the top spot in the food chain. It's a much more passive statement than you're interpreting it as.
> Imagine for a second you have imposter syndrome. Now imagine that you've been told (not necessarily by Damore) that you're the (not quoting you here) "diversity hire". Imagine how much worse that imposter syndrome now is.

And this, I believe, is the strongest possible argument against discriminatory hiring practices.

If I hire someone who's black, or female, or gay/bi, or any other 'protected group', I want them to know that I hired them for their ability, not to fill some quota. And the only way to do that is to hire based purely on ability.

By setting 'diversity hire' quotas, Google's own HR department is telling anyone who qualifies for any of those quotas that they're not good enough.
Many people initially responded angrily because it was reported on by the media as an anti-diversity memo and purposely mischaracterized Damore's intentions. Also the versions initially published had all citations removed making it look like he was just pontificating.
Good points. For what its worth there are other successful MongoDB hosting providers - mLab (originally MongoLab), compose (originally MongoHQ), and ObjectRocket - so they (MongoDB, Inc) don't have complete control over the ecosystem, despite the AGPL licensing. Well, they do have the market for support cornered, but long term the margins on that are much lower than DBaaS.

I think a larger issue for MongoDB (& Hortonworks/Cloudera/MapR) is Amazon/GCS/Microsoft hosted services that obsolete them for many use cases. MS already has Azure DocumentDB that supports ACID transactions and has a MongoDB compatible API.
>you can't have it both ways and choose who can speak freely and who cannot...

Why not, exactly? I hear that people say "it's a slippery slope", or "who decides?" as if this puts an end to the argument. It doesn't. If one can formulate a set of rules and further judge on a case-by-case basis, there is little ambiguity left. I am against giving people who advocate or defend genocide or killing people for their ideas/race/etc. a platform to speak on. There's nothing ambiguous about this.

You won't find me "defending to the death" the right for people to advocate killing of my friends.
That's an interesting position. And I understand it. It's not easy. But it exposes the discomfort they have with defending the first amendment.

It's like saying you support the right to an attorney but since someone is a murderer you hope the State Appointed defense attorney is a lackey or they don't appoint any.
Had to do almost the same thing in 2013 with internet lightbulbs. I had to draw a page without buffering as even page's full html was bigger that MCU's ram
This is such an absurdly HN comment.
Words have lost all meaning when the asshole that introduced twitter's tracking url shorteners is said to have helped create the open web.
Example: understanding compound interest gets a lot easier if you understand exponential functions. Not understanding compound interest makes you more vulnerable to people who do.
His thesis is that relying on cameras makes it easier, since the entire preexisting road network is literally designed around optical navigability.

Adding other sensors isn't free. Every minute you spend on developing techniques to process inputs from other sensors, not to mention integrating their conclusions with that of other sensors, is time, money, and energy you could have used to improve your optical system.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree (though I find his position intuitively compelling), but he clearly thinks that it's easier, faster, and cheaper to bring an optical-only system to a point of reliability than it is to bring a mixed-sensor system to the same point.
>your body has an unlimited potential to heal itself when given the chance.

So the OP is Wolverine? Damn.
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True, but it was Mobileye _one_ quite low res BW camera system that decapitated the driver.
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So what did they do instead to increase diversity? Do they pay disproportionately more to certain groups? Or do they have some other way to attract more 'diverse' candidates to achieve their quotas?
Well this is an interesting situation. I don't mind reading absurdly offensive things that I disagree with, so I went looking for what happened to them. Seems they were rejected a total of 3 times for registrars for their .com domain, and were briefly online via a .wang domain which they claimed to have discovered was superior, but has since been shut down also. They are currently online via a Tor hidden site, and they still seem to have a Twitter feed, for now. They claim to be actively searching for a new .com registrar. They also seem to have been dropped by several other cloud services, including Zoho, Sendgrid, and Discourse.

Obligatory disclaimer - open Nazi-ism, every bit as offensive as you think it is. Browse at your own risk to your sanity and browser history. Thought about posting the Tor link, but honestly, you can find it with a couple of Google searches.

As someone else here said, I'm not so sure that defending the right of Nazis to speak and publish websites is the hill to die on here. But this does raise the question of who they will go after next. Exactly how offensive or outside of the mainstream do you have to be to get 90% of registrars and cloud services to terminate your services?
That gets called globalist (or nationalist, or whateverist) propaganda

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/05/05/billionair...

https://knightfoundation.org/ seems to avoid getting hate, though
> Parents don't send their kids to college to become better people, they do it to make sure they have a skill that can lead to a career so they can survive on their own.

That's correct, yes, but it's not the whole story.

(Some of) us students hold the same opinions, regardless of whether or not our parents do.

Indeed, I would gladly shed any of the "good person" parts of my personality, if doing so gave me better aptitude in the field that I'm studying.

(Sadly, genetic engineering is still a pipe dream, and won't work on already-living humans anyway.)
Amen!

And yet, stereotypes do play a role in generating prejudice. In a utopic unprejudiced society, where all people are treated exactly the same by everyone and where there's no pre-conceived notion of "gendered careers", then each person would stand for themselves and their choice of career wouldn't be affected by externalities.

As is, this is 2017 and we have white supremacists chanting about Jews and ramming cars into people. Clearly, we are not even close to that Utopia.
Google doesn't operate that way, they has strict hiring policies and procedures. Recruiter or anyone else has no way to influence hiring without doing something shady (doing selective interview like what Damore claimed they were doing).
Google was being already investigated/accused of extreme gender pay discrimination. I'm not sure how anyone could think they'd want to engage in any kind of discussion that could be interpreted as discriminating to women while being under investigation for discriminating women. sigh
I've run that light myself by accident. It's a hard light for humans too. This light is in the middle of a block rather than at the end. The area is full of activity including people walking but also popular sights. That brick building to the right is SFMOMA. Its hard to notice the traffic lights amongst all this activity not to mention that you don't look for it. Also that middle lane can easily have its views obstructed on both sides.

That area is also messed up because you need to be in the correct lane else you will be forced up different streets so you have many cars trying to change lanes. Lastly, that area has its share of asshole drivers that cut you off, speed, etc....

From my perspective, that car is behaving like someone not aware of the light and not sensitive to context (should have driven more slowly). You can call that asshole behavior if you wish.
Well, her peers in her research program probably have grad students...

I mean, she's working in collaboration with someone, right?
I am too.

What happened to Bat'ko (if this is the Communist you talk about) on Youtube isn't good. But I think there is a clear difference in what he was saying compared to, for example, The Daily Stormer.

But it's possible on a matter of principle to be against Nazi speech and applaud when it is removed. Being the victim of suppression of speech designed to liberate people (Socialism) does not mean that you must also be against the suppression of speech designed to advocate genocide and racism (Nazism).
Batteries in EV cars do need to be replaced at significant expense as well.
That's exactly were the USA is headed. The vocal minority wants the civil war to happen. They want to affirm their own epic narrative (https://sivers.org/drama). David defeats Goliath, for the common good.

A lot of young people can't get a hold of their identity, so they grab on to their gender, race, being liberal, whatever. They make a virtue out of anything they already are. Then the journalists exploit the collective search for meaning by selling outrage and a scapegoat. Some people need the "nazis": their identity depends on it.
I saw there were samples but is this similar to how BloomBerry comes up with "topics" for popular questions for a keyword? They use some sort of NLP extraction of noun/verb phrases.

Example: Most popular topics/themes related to Vodafone: https://app.bloomberry.com/questions;q=vodafone
Systems Biology doesn't generally have much to do with the study of gender and sexuality.
> You refuse to consider his arguments because of your prejudiced, emotional reaction

GP gave a hypothetical, and I'm responding to that hypothetical.

In fact, I did not refuse to consider his arguments. I considered them. They're poorly sourced, terribly reasoned, and not very well communicated. FWIW I do feel bad that they guy lost his job for what amounts to poor communication, worse argumentation skills, and a misplaced belief that engineers are special enough to be exempt from the generally shitty employee/employer relationship as it exists in the USA.

But that's all beside the point, because I'm responding to a hypothetical.

> You'll never find the truth if you irrationally dismiss arguments

My point is that you'll ALSO never find truth if you climb every adversary-constructed hill in the state space. Your suggested method for finding truth is even worse than mine, and what's more, you're claiming the opposite.

I'm at least admitting that I have to use heuristics. You're just watching the tower of exponentials crank up and claiming "no problem! We can compute that!"

> But believing you've already arrived at the truth would be arrogant and closed-minded, right?

It's possible to remain open to new ideas and also not waste time on evaluating or responding to arguments that aren't motivated by a genuine search for truth. (Again, this comment was in response to a hypothetical.)

I highly doubt you actually disagree with me in practice, because such a life would surely doom you to misery and unemployment. Do you spend all your free time reading and/or responding to arguments from flat earthers, BS science posted on white supremacy forums, and marketing claims made by infomercials and bill boards? Do you engage with every crank preacher and evangelist who comes to your door or yells at you on the street? Of course not.
And yet, with a small fraction of just one year of NASA's budget, look what SpaceX has accomplished.
Because not everyone can afford to spend $20k on extra sensors that make the car 1% safer. And holding back autonomous cars until they're perfect can kill more people than near-perfect autonomous cars. It's an economic tradeoff like any other.
Everything has texture, even things that appear solid, this is how optical mice can work on glass. Throw in NIR/UV camera, or maybe thermal for good measure, slap LSTM on top and you are covered for everything human would spot.
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Here we go. Yet another "the workplace is like a combat zone and we should all be SEAL's" fawning article. No it isn't. And no we shouldn't. I most definitely can't do the job of a SEAL. And SEAL's most definitely can't do my job (developing software that run airlines). And the 5 "leadership skills" the article waffle on about? That is leadership 101. The same kind of obvious common sense stuff you learn from any management consultant wanna-be. On top of that, I actually had a manager years ago who was an ex-special operations whatever guy. He was the most incompetent manager I have ever had. And he had some stiff competition.
Interesting. But it sounds like non-local hidden variables are still possible. My assumption is that non-local hidden variables is non-falsifiable, which is why I said this was a philosophical question.
It's nice that we've got the most valuable part of Flash: a vector rendering engine. I do miss Flash's editor for these types of content, though.
If you can do an XSLT transformation to different versions I wonder how important the change was in the first place?
I am also interested to course but 7k USD is still high to be paid as lumpsum upfront. Is someone aware if that would be a staggered payment schedule so that I can pay from my savings as I accrue them.

Thanks
Is this Intel's response to AMD Threadripper and EPYC?
My feelings as a white male...who happens to have 2 kids.

Sometimes my kids will "why?" "why?" me to death. They really don't care about the answer and can never be persuaded. They are just trying to stretch out the moment of truth before they actually have to do the thing they don't want to do.

Everyone: it is the 21st century. In the 20th century, we had that discussion and debate about whether or not half of the human race is biologically able comprehend CS.

At this point, there are some people who refuse to be persuaded. I feel that Google did the correct thing.

Q: "Is it o.k. for me to have these attitudes about a high percentage of (present, past and future) my co-workers?"

A: "No"

Q: "Why?"

A: "Because we are running the company and we said so."

Q: "Why?"

A: "We are done explaining this."

(Damore writes his memo)

A: "We said we are done explaining. Maybe you can get the answer you want at another company."
If the numbers are true and the gender distribution in STEM graduates is 80/20, and you are intent on increasing your number of female employees, you have two choices. You either lower the bar on the 20% or you raise the bar on the 80%. In the end, the net effect is the same. The employees from the 20% group had a granted advantage against the 80% group. The better solution is to change the 80/20 distribution of graduates. Personally, I'm unsure of the 'proper' way to accomplish that goal.

Note: I find it interesting/disturbing/sad/telling that I've been sitting here for a long time contemplating if I should even submit this message since I use my real name here. The fact that we, as a society, have come to a point where we are afraid to even have this discussion really makes me sad. I respect every one of my colleagues deeply, male and female alike. The idea that someone could twist my words and paint me as a misogynist is beyond troubling.
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Having been through the U.S. public school system (plus an IB diploma; too little, too late) ... your description of the Australian system makes me very much regret that I was not born+raised in Australia, as I am probably dumber for it.
As a consumer, it's great to see competition picking up in the CPU market. Intel does not seem to be able to hold the edge in node process as tsmc and Samsung are matching intel. It has to resort to architecture design.
Yes, that's who I'm talking about. And you're absolutely right about the difference between the two.

And believe me, I'm shedding no tears for the Stormer. If it never comes back we're all better off for it. I'm just unsettled by market-based countermeasures against "extremism" and the way some people seem to be cheering it on. In the case of Nazis it's not so controversial, but what if sites/accounts associated with Hezbollah or the PKK were targeted under the same terms? These are US-designated terror groups but there are plenty of people who see them as positive forces in their respective regions. Not to mention those who might have an unbiased scholarly interest in them.

EDIT @ ue_/etplayer below me:

Looks like people also can't directly reply to you lol. I agree with 100% of what you wrote.
Cheers! That seems like a much better article.