skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Toxic" is one of those terms like "problematic" that rely on in-group knowledge to understand. I've often heard it in reference to masculinity; often used by feminists who have a more concrete definition in mind. And, sure you can look at any violent crime stats to see masculinity has its problems, but instead of the more reasonable claim they're making a very nasty one that's indefensible.

Allusions to people being poisonous are particularly destructive. This was very common in the military, if a soldier didn't fit in, he was labeled as something similar to toxic so that others knew not to associate with him. Even then, when the military does it, there's a practical solution: the soldiers get out of the military.

If you claim a larger group is toxic, you have to ask: these are our neighbors, what do we do with them?

> But decisions regarding such deals are made by a small handful of people at the top

Yeah, that really blew the article for me. Something like not-invented-here syndrome is a cultural issue, not bad corporate strategy.
Kind of seems like justin.tv became kind of an incubator of it's own building a $5m/yr platform. That spun off a couple pretty cool businesses.
If you google 'toxic culture', all the top results (other than this article) refer to harassment and bullying rather than slowness to adapt to change. Same with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_workplace. So a descriptive linguist would agree with me.
That’s a good insight. Is there like some progression of this?
I love riding them at mission beach! I was sort of sad about the version 2. It had a speedometer but only would go 10mph, and the brake was so weird. The version 1s are much better.
I volunteer myself. I promise to make only the best decisions. Forever.
I'd add to this that, among the changes that happen to language, there are those that are true, organic, and grass-roots, but also there are those that are forced, manipulative, and agenda-driven. :-)
Not so. They split the data between "bearded faces" and "non-bearded faces" and compute the vector from one to the other, and use that to alter a given face. (It reminds me of the typical word2vec example of man - woman + queen = king.)

See their code snippet halfway down their page, or "Semantic Manipulation" on page 8 of their linked paper.
I'm not the person you were responding to, nor do I claim any knowledge of jet fighters, but at a top speed of Mach 1.6 (1,200 mph), it would seem to me that relaying data back and forth from the jet would be a serious technical challenge.

A pilot on board the jet receives input from the environment with effectively 0 latency, and responds with 0 latency as well. The only latency would be human reaction latency, which the remote pilot would have to. Except that remote pilot would also have to contend with network latency to a plane that's thousands of miles away.

That's assuming the connection doesn't break, which with a plane moving away at 1,200 mph in various arbitrary directions, seems likely.
You can deeply care about the country and where things are headed and still find humor in the absurdity of a lot of his actions. This is quite literally what every late night talk show host does every single day - Trevor Noah, Colbert, Kimmel, etc.

If we are on the express to hell, I am at the very least going to enjoy the ride. Just as I will make sure I vote.
Better yet would be for the press to stop covering Musk-related activities except when they are newsworthy.
That's right. Can't believe I forgot to include that. Firefox Developer Edition, macOS High Sierra, 13" MBP 2017. Everything latest update.
Sometimes I try to implement a common task in a new library, and I find that if I chain these 4 API calls and then extract some data with a regex, it will do what I want. I rarely actually implement the task this way though, because I know it's a common task, and there must be a better way. Sure enough, after some more research and reading of documentation I find one simple API call that does what I want.

I take this to the extreme, I probably wouldn't implement the complicated API / regex chain without 4+ hours of reading documentation and other research. It bothers me that much. If it seems like a simple and common task, I refuse to believe that there isn't a simple API call already to do what I want, I just have to find it. Sometimes, the simple API call really doesn't exist though, and you have to do what you can, with some comments explaining why.

I've noticed some developers will implement the 4 API chain followed by a regex as soon as they find it, and never give a second thought that there might be a simpler way.
I prefer a combination of videos and books. It doesn't seem realistic with how content is packaged and delivered that one or the other entirely can work on their own.

I'm not sure where the idea of powerpoints came from. Well written books generally read like videos. Books have the added benefit that it's easier to jump around and drill down right to what you are looking for, something that's generally harder to hop around on the timeline of a video.

Still, Videos are excellent to watch for many things.

Updating videos though is tough, and it can cause videos to not be as up to date and indepth.
Soviet states were Russian the same way that Oregonians are American or Taiwanese are Chinese. My qualm with this title is that the use of "German" is a subtle form of Nazi erasure that white nationalists cling onto.
Maybe the phrase 'toxic culture' was imprecise and lazy to begin with. Now people are adapting it in a more precise way.

That wiki page was started in 2011 and it's based on a pop-management book. It's hardly an established term.
I worked at Intel 2005-2007. I read the article hoping to see an independent description of the culture I observed. I hoped to see someone use words to explain something that I can't explain.

The thing about Intel's culture that I observed was that it wasn't toxic at all. The worst thing that I could say about it was that it was boring, which was why I left so quickly.

If anything was "toxic," it could be that some managers and co-workers had very bad people skills... But that happens at all large companies. HR can't witness and guide every interaction between employees. In reality, when I was there, Intel's HR made every effort to create a culture where, if something "toxic" happened, they could fix the situation as quickly as possible.

Granted, things did happen. The "toxic" situations were more of ordinary human nature, and can happen anywhere, even in non work situations.
Both are usually unnecessary, just pass down functions that call setState as props. That method works for 95% of problems and has the added benefit of being idiomatic react, thus making it easier to read, maintain and reason about. There are some rare cases where something like redux makes sense, e.g. you're hooked into some kind of streaming wire protocol and your UI needs to make many updates in real time based on a variety of diverse messages streaming over the wire. Most of the time though, these opinionated state management solutions are overkill.
I mean, it has potential. But lot's of things have potential. I think I'll be more interested in a few years, but right now it mostly just looks too weird (not even uncanny valley) to feel like it could be used for anything.
Ok, there are public libraries in US in most places that have them. Most schools have at least a handful.

When I was going to school, we had one outdated 286 for hundreds of kids. Not until parents donated a few more were we able to build up a classroom with 5 machines.

US is so infinitely better off than most other places, it really bothers me how little we appreciate it. This same misery no longer is true in most of Eastern Europe, but still plays out daily in many other countries.

People there make it work, but knowledge does empower and many lack that knowledge.
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I'm all for improving bikeability/walkability of cities, I'd just like to see it done with community input rather than a VC funded private company dumping their externalities on others.
Interesting discussion here on the toxic culture reference. As I understand it, especially given the food analogy, Jean Gassee believes that the culture that Intel has evolved over time, prevents them from taking the steps that are necessary to continue to move forward. This culture is 'toxic' in that it is weakening the company rather than strengthening it.

Gassee also makes the point that the culture of the company is more influential on its success or failure than its financial position.

I found his argument fairly persuasive. Of course I worked at Intel during the Andy Grove years and understood that Intel is addicted to the high margins the x86 processors commanded. So when Gassee describes it as a cultural aversion to anything that might impact margins negatively, I can see that as a valid way of looking at it.
So often people talk about social mobility as in people rising to the top, I’d be interested to read about those who descend; illness, bad luck, or they just don’t want to be rich.

Any suggestions?
TXR Lisp has iflet, whenlet and condlet built in. They are used in places in the standard library. A bunch of occurrences (of all three!) are in the compiler, for example:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/compil...

Note that they all support multiple bindings, but not the and semantics: only the last binding is tested. Treating a nil value out of any of the bindings as a failure is way too constraining.

It is also permissible to omit the variable name from the last binding; in that case the expression is used as the controlling expression; e.g.

(whenlet ((a (expr1))
(b (expr2))) ;; we can delete b, if not needed
...)

Therefore, this is possible:

(whenlet ((x (expr1))
(y (expr2))
...
((complex-expr x y ...)))
...)

That is, bind some variables (that may or may not be nil: they are not being tested), and then reference them in a complex test expression.
You’re wasting your time, don’t become a programmer!

My gut feeling is you won’t like that statement because you do want to be a programmer. Stick at it, you will be fine.

You are lacking in confidence. I created a saas product 10 years ago as a sysadmin with a quality of coding that would bring a tear to many programmer’s eyes.

My kids appreciate the code though as it has paid for about half a dozen trips to Disney.

If you want to work in programming you will. Part of the problem with your age group is expectation. Society has told you that you are all awesome which obviously can’t be true. You may be awesome, you may be good, you may be ok. Be confident and do the best you can when you get a job.

Ps. Some of my coding errors have involved editing the wrong file and spending several hours troubleshooting. A colleage also nicknamed me arraybreaker as I often abused 0 index arrays. Your problems are much more advanced :-)
Real 4G.
The article seems to imply that Toronto contacted Google, not the other way around.
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Those happened at completely different times.

First was hard time where they had to let go people.

Second was for people who stayed and worked hard to make it profitable.
Time Well Spent Movement: technology platforms to stop hijacking our minds
The comparison you are trying to make is like saying why can’t a city bus perform like an F1 car. I mean it’s just 4 wheels right?
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We have three RN production apps, only one is using Redux because the developer was familiar with it, not because we necessarily needed it. The other two are using Apollo Link for client-side state.
Enjoy your Nectar foam mattress made in China!
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These scooters are a menace in Oakland -- people are riding them down crowded sidewalks at 20 MPH
Increasing blondness made a photo of me look like Draco Malfoy -- and I have dark brown hair! Everyone in our lab is trying it.

Our negative so far is that most of the interpolations really seem more like two existing pictures were photoshopped together than like a new face was generated from a latent space and knowledge of faces. Sorry, I don't have the vocabulary and concepts of visual composition to say why. It just looks "shooped".
+1. Simplicity won't work if it isn't correct.

Simple correctness is the best way to create beginners that use software to get faster results. Fast isn't all about computation - it's taking the least amount of the user's time as reasonably neccesary.
That happens in Portland as well, especially in front of streetcar and MAX stations. I think pretty much everyone dislikes that, but that would be more like standing still on your phone in front of an escalator than tossing a scooter on a sidewalk. Plus, there are laws in place that are supposed to prevent people from idling in active lanes, it's just a question of enforcement.
Agree. In many (most?) cases there is no formal, verifiable correctness proof.
And then you are way better of with the simpler solution once feedback from the real world arrives.
With deepfakes this was being discussed. When a group of redditors managed to create a network architecture to put celebs in porn with surprisingly decent results (in some cases), I think a sponsored research group can get better results.

- https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/05/25/t...

- https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/fake-obama-warnin...

- https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/forget-deepfakes-deep-vide...
Please don't. Yes, the paywalls are annoying, but HN would be much worse without articles from NYT, WSJ, Economist, New Yorker, etc. So as long as there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17490516 and marked it off-topic.
It is common in the US and Canada to use progesterone during early gestation for IVF pregnancies, to support the endometrium after embryo implantation.
What I found most interesting from the article was that the effectiveness of Soviet scorched earth tactics was due to expert Soviet planning and the German military engineers' naivete about railroad operations.

The Soviet decision of precisely what to scorch was made by railroad logistics experts. They tore up some tracks here and there, but paid especial attention to wrecking all locomotive depots before retreating, and taking all operational locomotives back with the retreating forces, leaving no equipment for the enemy.

The German military engineers spent their efforts on repairing and regauging the tracks, but didn't pay as much attention to the condition of the depots, failing to realize that without a fully operational depot per every 80 km of track, the line's overall capacity was severely degraded. This left front units starved of supplies as soon as the length of captured and "repaired" railroad lines got long enough.
'Deserve' seems like a very odd word choice here. Startups can do a lot of great work and still fail unless they can 'Justify' more funding.

Unless I am missing some nuance you where going for?
At least they are not having them as colonies, plundering, invading...

I totally agree.

But, surely, one can do better than a mere comparison to perpetrators of invasion, enslavement, colonialism, racism and genocide.

Is there a stronger defense and explanation of China's role in Africa?
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I think the core consideration is that software isn't static, and a machine that is held together with chewing-gum and silly string can produce the correct output and be a terrible machine at the same time.

What happens when it breaks? What happens when you need to produce doodads as well as gizmos, or a different size gizmo is desired? Who wants to reach inside the silly string and hope for the best?

I'm reminded of that old saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day; an overly complicated piece of software that produces the correct output is only coincidentally correct. Which I think is the point of the article.
most applications don't need to schedule events into the future though and its a smart strategy if all you need to worry about is the past
Extravagant display was a problem for Darwin, who realized it could make individuals vulnerable to predation, until he realized that it actually supported his theory, as it is the sort of thing that could arise where selection matters, and harder to justify as the work of an omniscient creator.

Current theory often explains such displays as hard-to-fake signals of health and general fitness, but I do not know if this idea originated with Darwin.

The size of male ostrocod genitalia is a different matter, as (I assume) it is not about display, but about emphasizing reproduction at a possible cost to the survival part of the strategy.

Dead-end strategies are not a threat to Darwinian evolution, as it only optimizes for the short term, and are harder to justify as the work of an intelligent creator.
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I'm surprised Jean-Louis didn't highlight the similarity between Intel's refusal to focus on mobile and his own push-back on licensing MacOS a decade earlier. Both decisions (cultures) have to do with switching from a high-margin product to a low-margin product, with no guarantee that you'll make up the difference in volume.
> 1. World without political boundaries, weapons, pollution, carbon emissions.

Oh, please. Without weapons? The first group to get a hold of them will be de-facto rulers -- by force.
“It’s sort of a case where the dog actually caught the bus,”
Gillis told me. “Now what’s it going to do?”

(https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/how-the-...)

Referring to American car manufacturers' anti-CAFE wishlist being adopted by Scott Pruitt's EPA. The wishlist was submitted as a sort of bargaining piece, the idea being that industry demand something extreme expecting the incoming administration to meet them halfway. Except Pruitt just accepted it without reservation[1], and the industry was caught flat-footed. So now they're actually _repudiating_ some of their arguments.

The dirty little secret of the car industry is that efficiency and safety regulations help drive the upgrade cycle. When every car from this year has feature X, then all used cars instantly become out-dated and even unsafe in the minds of consumers. And the timelines set out by the regulators help to coordinate competition in a way that would be illegal otherwise. For example, if a new efficiency or safety standard is still 5 years out, then everybody knows to a high degree of certainty how each competitor will time and stage their rollout (not too early, not too late). The benefits may not exceed the overall costs of the regulation, but the industry is built around the system and pulling the rug out creates chaos.

[1] I guess this was a case of the Trump administration taking industry's rhetoric literally and not seriously.
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As usual with questions related to mind and cognition, the definitions of the terms are nebulous to the point of meaninglessness until you explicitly state the definition you're using.

To say that slime molds "remember" things is to simply define the word "remember" to include: "chemical changes in biological organisms that persist over time". Using the word "remember" makes it seem like there's something more interesting going on, because it evokes our anthropocentric notions of vivid recollection and high level cognition.

As Djikstra stated decades ago, all of these nebulous questions are meaningless until you make them explicit. "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
It's an active expense that doesn't directly benefit the user, and disables your otherwise mechanically sound vehicle when it runs out; both of which tend to rub people the wrong way. Also I think there was something about german companies colluding over adblue tank size to force more refills, but don't quote me on that.
You decide to escape to a deserted island to live away from the oppressive regime of the technocrats. A few months later you land on your own island. It's not really yours, but nobody has installed cameras yet. You begin your new life and find happiness.

One day a bottle washes up on shore. You open it to find a message!

"We've updated our privacy policy..."
Whites can't be the victim of racism because they are the oppressors. When 1000 years of slavery and capitalist exploitation are reversed, then I'll stop enjoying white people tears.

Men cannot be victims of sexism, because see above.
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>Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

I do
Since you're no newbie, you know that you can't attack others like that here. We've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
It comes down to designing according to a set of principles, rather than fads. Then, you use the best available tools to align as tightly to those principles as possible.

It doesn't have to be boring either. A principle of Wired in the early 90s was to be outrageous and loud. Clashing colors and unreadable type completely aligned with their principles - and it was great.

When new technology comes around, you evolve if it allows you to get closer to your principles.

Look at fashion – as full of fads as anything. Yet there are timeless items: well constructed denim; simple and unadorned. A basic, nicely cut tee-shirt. A simple black dress. Oxfords, Vans. Why are they timeless? Because they align with principles that are unchanging: Simple, honest, functional, versatile, easy to maintain.

And if your fashion principle is to stand out, then yea, each individual item of clothing will not be timeless. But the principle will be.

Same applies to design in any medium.
> And yet, I don't see you or anyone else committing to buy ultra-simple non-pipelined non-OOO desktop/server CPUs.

If you can find a CPU that has the same number of non-cache[1] transistors as a Intel/AMD chip, but spends them on a larger number of simple (and preferably independent/non-hyperthreaded) cores, rather than squandering them on speculative execution and ten thousand obscure model specific registers, I would absolutely buy several of them.

1: and similar amounts of cache, of course.
Hehe, it starts with a sand table...

Or maybe with reinforcing your floor joists :)

So maybe carpentry would be a good start?
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Not intentionally trying to be a downer, but look at Albuquerque.
>It's hardly an established term

Yet you said...

>You can't prescribe how language is used. Toxic culture now means this.

So apparently you can.