skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think what they mean is that when a minority goes to SO and they get a condescending response it's because of their race/ethnicity/gender.

What they mean is that, since minorities might have insecurities about their ability to code because there are not that many people who look like them in the industry, when they receive a condescending response their insecurities aggravate. Therefore, SO can be consider more hostile for minorities.
It looks that way, but if you're in a dark room you can see the light's still actually on.
An important hidden cost here is coding a model which can take advantage of mixed-precision training. It is not trivial: you have to empirically discover scaling factors for loss functions, at the very least.

It's great that there is now wider choice of (pre-trained?) models formulated for mixed-precision training.

When I was comparing Titan V (~V100) and 1080ti 5 months ago, I was only able to get 90% increase in forward-pass speed for Titan V (same batch-size), even with mixed-precision. And that was for an attention-heavy model, where I expected Titan V to show its best. Admittedly, I was able to use almost double the batch-size on Titan V, when doing mixed-precision. And Titan V draws half the power of 1080ti too :)

At the end my conclusion was: I am not a researcher, I am a practitioner - I want to do transfer learning or just use existing pre-trained models - without tweaking them. For that, tensor cores give no benefit.
> I don't post much because that's usually a waste of time

That's the particular problem that they're trying to figure out, with a broader version of "waste of time". Either "asking a question is met with hostility", or "posting a response is met with hostility".
> the people who work in the trades have a rep as rabidly anti-intellectual, for whom Playboy magazine is "too snooty."

This is an odd example; Playboy's whole thing was that it featured high-class literary content, so you could read it "for the articles". It was intentionally snooty as a branding choice helping it contrast with, say, Hustler.
Yeah comments are probably meant to talk about the actual post, while answers are meant for the problem.
I always thought Stack Overflow/Exchange should have a way to filter questions from users with less than a certain amount of karma and any of those questions/ansers/comments should not be able to be down voted or closed as duplicate or low quality or off-topic (the most annoying close reason).

Anybody that gets annoyed by those questions can opt to not see them and focus on higher quality. Anyone that wants to help newbies can. Those people can also be marked as unfriendly or hostile and won't be able to answer newbie questions if they get a certain number of reports.

This seems like it would solve two problems: oft-repeated low quality questions annoying users who want more complex help, and encouraging newbies bc they won't be afraid of retribution.
Are you saying that Stack Overflow is lying about the response from people who belong to marginalized groups? From the article:

> Many people, especially those in marginalized groups do feel less welcome. We know because they tell us.

It may not not stand out to you, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Ok, we've removed the blowing fuses from the title above.
About 10x, as they raised $35M in 2014: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/weebly
It's probably silly but I like it when logos/mascots are like that—you know, slightly helpless and not oozing of focused branding efforts. It makes me feel more certain that the language/technology is used because of its actual merits rather than its branding.
I've done REST API calls with Google sheets. I don't have the code right off, but it even ran in the background every so often too.
Really sad. Everyone suffers.
>Because I needed to maintain a normal work schedule, I also decided to keep the lights on until 18:00, although I switched my laptop to ‘night mode’ after sunset.

So, they didn't "live without artificial light". They just used candle-light after dark, and didn't watch TV. Not impressed.
I dunno, but in my experience generally speaking the folks at top companies are well adjusted and have lots of interesting hobbies, at least the ones I know of at FB and a few startups. My guess is it's a consequence of graduating from elite institutions.
Don't "need" to change jobs, but ensure you're not complacent, under-paid, or unemployable elsewhere. Best way to do this is to regularly interview.

I advocate every 6-12 months, even (or especially if) you're happy where you are. There's virtually no downside to doing this except for an unpleasant vacation day. Worst case is you still have your job you like. Best case is you get an offer that gets you a raise (either where you are or with a better company).

(Doing this I've gotten about a 10% raise every year for the past ~8 years - sometimes changing jobs but usually just presenting an offer to current employer - and I'm not a rockstar interviewer or anything.)
> I might want it maximized on another screen.

Then move it to that screen first.

> The maximize button is also super tiny and harder to hit compared to the title bar.

Then the button needs to be bigger.

> I also think that in those rare cases you actually want to put a window at the top without maximizing it you are better off with a tiling window manager with keyboard shortcuts.

That may be true for you; it isn't for me.

I find keyboard shortcuts hard to remember and often inadvertantly press keys (don't know which one I've pressed) with shortcuts which do things I don't like.
I have not, but I think the point they're trying to make (but don't really agree with) is that of cultural norms, or more specifically, the cultural norm of overly-assertive, insensitive nerds (most of which who are younger white males), so that it's an unwelcoming environment to outsiders.
Ya, looks just like other escrow proposals that have been put forth - high level, there's no real escrow mechanism that won't, or can't be abused.
I am not a branding expert, and that's a good thing, because it took a full 5 minutes to really figure out what the heck they are doing here. They wanted something "Simple & Speed" to be associated with Go which are certainly attributes of Go I have read about.
How did this advocate of e-waste reuse end up behind bars?

Asked and answered:

“I don’t think anybody in that courtroom understood what a restore disk was,” Lundgren said.
I checked out their site and their example sites look really nice. Seems like Weebly.com is running on their platform too (good sign).
I imagine the investors are after 10x the valuation, not the amount raised.
How about this paper from the IEEE for data:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6542459/

From the paper: "although the computing field is generally unbalanced towards men, the community around this Q&A site [StackOverflow] seems to create and maintain higher barriers to entry for women."
You can't really get a rate fixed over the entire amortization period in Canada, our 'fixed rate' mortgages are a 5 year lockin typically.
I wish the ICMP source quench thing had worked out better.

Nowadays it's a struggle even to get Fragmentation Needed but DF Bit Set ICMPs generated. Too many important routers have to interrupt the main CPU to generate these, and either this then defaults to off or the operators turn it off. Fortunately now we have ICMP-less PMTUD, but it's crazy how long it's taken to get that widely adopted.
Go's language design is fundamentally about rigidity and consistency -- and I'm not saying that's bad -- but it's pretty far from playful.

I'd consider languages like JavaScript, Ruby, and Python to be playful languages by comparison.
I assume this was a strategic move - Square seems to be buying businesses in adjacent markets that are more profitable than credit card processing and that are complementary to their offering.

I'm guessing that small local businesses tend to use website creators, and it's mostly profit (once you have a good tool).

Does anyone have any more insight?
​Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: The Linux for AI, clouds, and containers
I've experienced a form of hostility in StackOverflow just recently--as in a couple of days ago. On a whim, I visited the website and answered a couple questions, something I'd never done before. I realized it was actually a lot of fun, so I started rapidly answering the all JavaScript questions I could as they were asked.

Suddenly a "higher ranking" individual started leaving comments on my answers that I needed to stop answering certain questions, and only address "well asked" questions. After reading the guidelines, I noted that neither I or the asker had broken any rules, so I commented that I felt I was being treated unfairly, and I asked where I could discuss further since the comments on my questions seemed inappropriate.

Suddenly another, even higher scoring person, deleted all the comments and locked my answer, noting that the discussion had stopped being productive. After that, my answers were left alone with no more meta criticism.

In my limited experience, it's a bizarre community.
> Furthermore, sustainable implies that there would be no providers at medicares rates but that is not true: there would be less because they pay less, but you would still have providers.

In most regions, Medicare reimburses rates that are less than COGS. If you have to pay $100 wholesale just for the supplies to perform a procedure, and you're only allowed to charge $93 for the procedure, you're going to go out of business very quickly.

Your assertion that "there would still be providers" is wrong, because unless Medicare dramatically raised its reimbursement rates[0], most providers would go out of business overnight. Even if it were true that there would still be providers, just fewer of them (which is not true), you're at best arguing for something which, in your own words, would exacerbate the current shortage of practicing clinicians, which would drive up prices for self-paying patients even further and dramatically lower the quality of care for the entire country.

> Second, accepting medicare is a hassle for providers but I assure you they dont do it out of charity. They give you infinite demand which means you can fill your non-private insurers slots with medicare and provide lots of revenue.

Medicare doesn't give you "infinite" demand. But furthermore, having more patients doesn't help you if you're literally losing money on a per-patient basis. You can't lose money on margin but "make it up in volume".

This is exactly why Medicare has to provide separate stipend programs to providers who aren't able to overcharge privately-insured patients and make up for their losses on Medicare patients that way.

[0] which is the entire point of the comment that began this whole thread - Medicare would have to dramatically raise its reimbursement rates if it covered all patients
Many do not see the artistic expression in games. That includes many game creators. They create fictional worlds that have to be inherently woven from their own beliefs about how the world works, and they don't even think they're making any kind of a statement. I've always actually thought of SimCity specifically when considering this. You hire more police, and crime is reduced. The creators clearly had absolutely no concern with oppression. They had no historical sense or failed to recognize that there's actually a reason that there has never been, and will never be, a happy, productive police state.
> creates its own aggregated newsfeed/filter

I am trying to build this very thing but Facebook's recent privacy issues have caused it to over react and I keep getting the below error:

"Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active apps or apps that have not recently accessed this data due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform."

The API call getting the error is to retrieve the list of posts from a page. Getting an error for that is just silly. If anyone can help please contact me!
Isn't that what is slowly happening? My understanding is that it's becoming harder and harder to send email to a Gmail address of you are not yourself using Gmail (without being tagged as spam/junk I mean)
Yikes. What's next, using syntax highlighting on presentations?
When those fixed rates end and they have to refix a ton of overleveraged people will force mortgagee sales.

In Auckland there's been talk of that for at least 5-6 years. For example, people I personally know only earn $80-90k/yr and yet own a $500k house (absolute entry level livable house in Auckland). They also got in under our old rules which meant they only needed 5% deposit instead of the 20% required now.

They're only being propped up by their record low interest rates. If those interest rates went up 2-3% they'd be in serious trouble.

EDIT: for more context the average fixed period for any home loan in NZ is roughly 2-3 yrs. The term is a 30 year term typically.
Maybe women and people of color just perceived SO as a more hostile place because they imagined the person on the other side of the keyboard as a white male (true or not) and took it as an attack on their gender/race, forgetting that they are anonymous.
Square already does websites for your online store https://squareup.com/online-store easy way to get customers if you already have their website to offer a store for them as well.
Existing site is like half-resume/half-portfolio. Simple "funny" style, currently working on a new and modernized site. http://cgermano.com
Old AM radio broadcast towers get a new life
I recall a time of nearly 20% interest rates here in Australia a few decades ago. As far as I can remember, it was all just business as normal for most people. It all comes down to just how much debt you own.

If I recall, people who were highly leveraged or had negatively geared property were hit the hardest. People with actual savings in the bank were actually happy with their interest returns being so high.

Household debt was not as bad back then as it is nowadays, so I don't expect it to go as well if we ever hit those levels again tomorrow.
Eh, I'm really not feeling this. I mean, I just really loved that silly little cartoon gopher and his goofy little eyes. It had a personality.

This is something that really irritates me about Google and their products, services, "stuff" if you will. Their branding is contemporary but at the same time has absolutely no excitement or personality to it. I mean, it's till contemporary, it still uses interesting colors and stuff, but they strip away all personality from everything that they do in the interest of appealing to a worldwide audience.

Whatever, joke's on them, I'm going to vehemently deny that this new brand exists. I'm not going to let a branding agency ruin things for me.
>Worst possible outcome is that the oil supply redirects to the developing world and millions of lawn mower style engines are put into high utilization

This is exactly what will happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8PavA4rUypE
Looks like they are loosing the bespoke Go fonts (https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts) and going with Work Sans and Roboto. I understand the reasoning.

Personally, I have a big soft spot in my heart for the go fonts . Whenever I feel like coding like it's 1979 again, I load them up in my editor and pretend I'm looking at well written documentation from my childhood.

[edit: Yay, Go fonts remain for source code display!]
Haha I wish I was a less cynical person when it comes to political reform.

I don't quite agree with Sanders' approach because I think it's very hard to make his numbers work without meaningfully detracting from aggregate economic performance.

But I also think there are far better measures that can be taken and I'm not sure he ever mentioned (some) of them: (1) adjust federal student aid/loan programs to prevent manipulation; that unregulated money has actually done more than to inflate college costs than almost anything else, (2) eliminate medical industry price gouging through regulation, particularly around Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA spend and perhaps more directly if legally viable, (3) incrementally (as opposed to wholesale) widen the social safety net from the bottom up in a fiscally responsible way, which is precisely how ACA was structured and deployed imo, (4) cut military spending dramatically. Maybe one day we can get to a place where this is possible.

Of course none of that helps any of us in this particular wealth/income gray zone :)

Good luck with the college financing though! Hope you figure out something that works.
You may be right if that is how the decision is being framed by their parents or guardians. This is similar to kids who want to go into the Arts. Everyone jokes that the arts are a fast track to being a barista. There exist prestigious private art schools that people are not ashamed to attend, and I think a trade school equivalent without the crippling debt would go a long way to increase employment rates in the trades.
I think that would probably already happen if it weren't for the fact that there are more high paying jobs then there are MIT/Stanford/etc grads.
I like your explanation--I hadn't thought of it and it's less cynical/more charitable than the obvious alternative (virtue signaling). But wouldn't the same be true of anyone with heightened insecurities? Why highlight minorities?
Actually, if you browse up to the top, it tells you what question it's a duplicate of. But even I was thrown off a few days ago, when I couldn't find that link after a question I answered was marked as duplicate. It's just bad UX, I suppose.
I've always wondered about that. The law says

Criminal Procedure Code: Article 230, modified by Law No. 2001-1062
and Law No. 2014-1353 requires the disclosure of encryption keys upon
the authorization of a judge.

So what happens if the connection uses diffie-hellman or double ratchet (as Matrix can use)? the intermediate doesn't have any useful keys to turn over.
Perhaps not, but we do (should) tell our kids to do the work they enjoy.

Mine wanted to be a game programmer when he was 12. Now, at 17, he's discovered that he loves welding and is pretty good at it. He wants to get certified and be a professional welder.

Living on a farm, he's used to hard work outdoors at temperature extremes and does it without complaint. If he wants to be a welder instead of a software engineer, I'm all for it.
...and apparently it was raised at a $455M valuation. Hmm.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/22/weebly-series-c/
But an older stagnant person's skills tend to be much more out of date.

Younger ones have the benefit that their skills are still likely to be relevant at a larger subset of the employer pool.
I sometimes like to contribute, but there are these hurdles, like you first have to build karma. So basically I just let it be.
Just going on zillow and looking up any local apartment listing in 2000-2500 range you can see prices have increased by 400-500 a month since 2011 yet the index shows 10% increase barely.
I am curious. If what you described is a standard technique people can use, what prevents the recruiters/talent acquisition to, by default, discard resumes/CVs without exact dates?
The losses to the human species caused by the relentless drive to work longer and longer hours, destroying all leisure time, are utterly incalculable. Almost all great advances in art, science, and culture occurred as either a direct or indirect consequence of people working towards things which interested them during their leisure time. Bertrand Russel's "In Praise of Idleness" is more relevant now than ever before.
My rule of thumb: solar power generates 10 watts per square meter.

There's a fixed maximum of 1300 watts per square meter of sunlight. For large scale technology, assume 10% efficiency. Another 10% from that survives air occlusion, clouds, night, angles, dust/snow cover, buffer battery efficiency, maintenance, breakage, etc. Round down, and we see 10W/m^2 practical output.

Professional quantification of this back-of-the-napkin calculation welcome.
Mammoth Biosciences, founded by Jennifer Doudna, comes out of stealth
Use case for RDB backups: for rather large redis datasets (>50GB) with long living keys (90days and beyond) I found it useful to be able to parse an RDB snapshot using the python rdbtools and iterate over the whole dataset, e.g. in order to migrate data to a different format. I found this usually more stable and reliable than using SCAN and the likes.
> I cannot recall ever, even once, seeing someone's race, sex, or orientation being mocked or even mentioned.

If all you're doing is googling for mature, well-curated answers, then you're not seeing this. Go post a "dumb question" and see how you're treated.

And the contention isn't that people are being deliberately mocked, it's that they don't feel welcome, which is a different thing.

So... how might a woman (or whoever) not feel welcome? Maybe because the forum she's on sees people regularly doing stuff like saying discrimination is "not even possible", or mocking those talking about it for "pointless virtue signaling"? I mean, seriously: go back and read the very post you just typed: does that seem "welcoming" to you?

It's not.
They kept the gopher. But they provide a model sheet.

"The gopher is not a logo.
However, when appropriate,
it can and should be used on
communications that are Go
branded, but should not be used in
place of our logo, nor should it be
placed too closely around the logo,
so as to infer it's an alternate logo."

Hey, they linked to a talk by Renee French about her design of the gopher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rw_B4yY69k
I agree. The ligature thing looks neat at first but I have spent far too many years looking at regular ASCII text.

I mean, spot the difference between ==, = and ＝. Or <= and ≤. I especially hate != as ≠.

And since at some point we have to use a different editor or read a git diff, we need to read the regular ASCII form anyway. So what's the point and why bother learning ligatures?
Perhaps they can learn from Wikipedia?
My issue with the site is the opposite.

Asking a specific nuanced question results in a response of a) tell me what you are really trying to accomplish and i'll answer that question or b) don't do what you are doing.

Don't presume I don't know what I'm doing or know the right question to ask. This happens so often and is such a time waster I hesitate to use the site. Their culture even invites it by giving it a fancy name of the "xy problem".

Please provide a way to flag a question as "Don't respond with an XY question" or alternatively "I know what I am doing and still have a question".
This seems like a good way for them to differentiate against Stripe.
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Perhaps this won't be a popular sentiment, but since when did programming languages need brand identity?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942.
Making Art with Growing Neural Gas
In the US around 65% of households own their home. A collapse of the housing market would be catastrophic for their finances. I'm sure this is true of other countries as well.

You might argue that many people don't actually own their home since they still have a large mortgage, but this just makes the situation worse: now you have a mortgage that's more than your house is worth.
Great exit for a team that hadn't raised much $ + great acquisition for Square given the easy upsell path to all its SMB customers.

For perspective, competitor Wix is a $4B market cap company at a ~$500M revenue run-rate. Shopify, which is quite different, has a $12B market cap at ~$1B run-rate. This is a massive market.
How well does being a pilot pay, eg. entry level and at the 2, 5 and 10 year marks?
Given that mac oses have only to support their hardware and that they limit what the user can do, not, not at all.

The gnu/linux stack is richer and more complex.
Time and Order
How about that tribe of people who aren't mentally capable of phrasing a consice question and include proper context? They are constantly being discriminated against. I know, I used to be one.