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Looking for a Software Engineering Job in Utah but having trouble landing anything. I am not sure if this is the right place to put this but any help with my resume or site or any leads would be so awesome.
There's absolutely no evidence that MXNet is faster than TF. At the high end, all three (TF/PyTorch/MXNet) are similarly performant. The reality is that implementation matters more than framework when you are talking about performance.
You don't need a full fledged 4G chip for NB-IoT - something like Quectel BC66 would work. Its ~€10/each for QTY250 [0], or €29 for QTY1 on a Arduino compatible dev board [1]. Ublox has a similar product for a similar price [2].

[0] https://www.avnet.com/shop/emea/products/quectel-wireless-so...

[1] https://www.tekmodul.de/produkt/bc66-dvk/

[2] https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/sara-r4-series
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I see trans people engage in the kinds of behavior described in this thread all the time. Trans women engineers with good paying jobs at companies like Google, Twitter, GitHub, Hashicorp, etc. who post a lot more creepy sexual stuff publicly and nobody bats an eye. Why is that?
Some people might not share your primitive ambitions for witch hunts, which is all this is.
How dare a private megacorp whose business model relies on eyeballs watching ads do whatever it takes to avoid driving said eyeballs away.

A common pattern I've found among the HN or 'liberterian' crowd is that they correctly point out a problem then come up with the most absolute wrong 'solution'. In this example, the problem being 'maybe we shouldn't have surrendered public speaking places to a handful of adtech megacorps that only care about maximizing engagement', the correct solution being 'we should abandon and dismantle these platforms for federated or decentralized alternatives', and the solution most people on here come up with being 'actually they should just unban Nazis'.
Yeah. It's not clear to me whether or not RMS still believes these things. He may need time to collect himself. In the mean time, I don't understand blog posts like this one that completely gloss over his past statements which remain the same without further comment.
Maybe I've lost the line of thinking here. I thought we were talking about black face, and why people are offended by it. It's an offensive racial stereotype. I really don't see anything comparable about thugs. I'm not even clear on what you mean by thug outrage: is it that thugs exist? Is it media portrayal of thugs? Is it that thugs do or say bad things? I am honestly confused by this comparison.
Thank you for the link. My impression is that RMS mainly had some opinions which were leftover from the “free love” movement of the 1960s and 1970s which were not particularly shocking or out of line back then, but are considered job-losing toxic opinions here in 2019.

For the record, as someone who saw that whole movement first hand, I disagree with the whole “free love” movement and think sex should only be done in a lifetime monogamous commitment.

I have met and have had dinner with RMS; he came off to me as a very kind person who has very strong principles. I do not see the imaginary monster that the outrage clickbait media is trying to make RMS be in him.
I don't know if this is why it's being downvoted, but there are a few too many assumptions here for my taste. To start, it's unclear why they'd do much better if it wasn't for the embargo while you also claim they benefit from keeping themselves away from "american greedy companies."

For example: How do you expect trade resulting from an end to the embargo would be handled differently, and how would Cuba be less susceptible to the relative economic dependence on the US that affects many other countries in the region?
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They were on the wikipedia page, so I went off that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fashion#List_of_fast_fash...
I am not talking about using the pager network for that, I am talking about the 2G network.

I am not opposed to using more efficient network protocols, more that we are endlessly replacing old technologies with completely new systems. The selling point of 3G/4G/5G has been that they will have more bandwidth, so people can watch videos or use self driving cars.

What is more interesting to me is embedding cheap low-bandwidth smarts in more devices. The costs of the new and immature hardware gets in the way of that.
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Also: https://medium.com/@richardsmith_76348/richard-stallman-was-...
An AC motor for a car might be in the 100-200 pound range or so. DC motors tend to be a little heavier. Along with the motor, you'd need a motor controller and cabling.

Example conversion motors: https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=8

A general rule-of-thumb is that it takes about 100 watt-hours to move a thousand pounds of car one mile. I just started on a project to convert a Mazda RX-8 to electric. That's a 3,000 pound car (before the conversion), and I'm planning to use a Netgain Hyper9 AC motor, which is 120 pounds, which is pretty small compared to the rest of the car (or compared to the original rotary engine). Battery weight is the bigger concern; if I can keep the pack under 400 pounds I'm doing pretty good, and I'll be lucky if that gets me 100 miles of range.
I read that quote, too, but here's the thing -- I can't imagine a Code of Conduct actually demanding that staff go out of their way to explicitly write other user's pronouns just for the sake of demonstrating that they will, in fact, use the pronouns the users are requesting.

If moderators are really, truly being directed the way that quote suggests, then yeah, that's a bad directive, whether or not the intentions are good. But some comments here suggested that this had to do with a trans moderator, not a trans user, which makes me suspect the pronouns in question may have been not on public-facing Stack Exchange but in moderator chats/forums. And if moderator X is pointedly avoiding ever "engaging" with moderator Y when the position requires it, then that's going to be a personnel problem.
When I tutor my siblings if the steps aren't satisfactory I make them repeat the answer from scratch. I immediately stop them when they're taking too many shortcuts. "Oh I just forgot this!" "Yes, now start over."

Each shortcut or omitted step is more mental load and for these beginners they will slip. Just missing a negative sign or adding a constant would cost the points on the test. Worse, if the tests are multiple choice questions (which are stupid imo) they get 0.

So to build their mechanical ability I don't even allow them to show how smart they are. I stop them when they're being too smart. I only reward complete steps.

It sounds rough and it kind of is but after using these methods for years they still come to me and ask me to tutor them, rather than our parents or a private tutor. They know that my diligent checking of their work cuts down on their study time and I'm still tutoring them into college now.
reneweconomy.com.au is sometimes correct but rarely reliable.
I always put something suggestive of prostitution when I Zelle money to my partner. Have not seized our money, yet.
It’s not about disregarding uncomfortable truths, it’s recognizing that speaking truth in an uncomfortable way accomplishes very little. To get someone to change their behavior, you need to first show them that you understand their perspective, even if you disagree with it.

Otherwise, they’ll mentally dismiss your arguments as coming from a different tribe without really listening— emotions and group identity are very strong psycological forces, so you need to take them into account when crafting your own actions.
I think the distinction of JPMorgan being the processor that denied the transactions is relevant here. IANAL but it's unclear to me that Square Canada is at fault for depending on a company that happens to comply with US laws.
There's a rule: If Stallman is invited to speak at your conference under NO circumstances should you allow him to stay at your place, nor at the home of anyone you care about or even don't outright hate (ask Miguel de Icaza about it some time).

Why does that rule exist? Because he has, many times, shown up and refused to leave for weeks. He brings random flings back to your place. He refuses to shower or observe basic hygiene. He's the worst houseguest imaginable.

Hell, why did VA Linux send an email all female employees letting them know when Stallman would be visiting so they could work from home or make themselves scarce? For that matter, how many people (especially women) dropped out of MIT, moved to another major, or left the lab because of Stallman?

Why does Stallman feel entitled to abuse other people's hospitality? Why does he get to do as he pleases? Why are his feelings and his experiences the only ones that matter?

I think this has bearing on the current issues: Stallman has been protected by those around him. He was protected by Minsky early on. This taught him that he could do as he pleased without consequences. He was never forced to learn socially acceptable behavior.

You sometimes see the same thing with child stars or pampered celebrities: No one ever tells them "no". They never face real consequences for their actions. Everyone around them makes excuses, either because they look up to them or because they're the gravy train. Things escalate until a) they cross the line so badly they can't weasel out of it or b) some "straw that broke the camel's back" situation arises. In situation "a" the person is often confused and bewildered because they've done as they pleased for a very long time. They don't understand why the current situation should be different. In situation "b" people often focus on the trivialities of the current incident, ignoring everything that came before it.

Am I saying Stallman should have been run out on a rail early on? Not at all... but Minsky shouldn't have excused Stallman's behavior. The first time Stallman cornered a woman in an elevator at MIT and blocked her from leaving Minsky should have, at the least, sat him down and said "stop it or you are out". We do a great disservice by sweeping complaints under the rug or excusing "geniuses". Bad behavior doesn't usually magically clear up, it tends to get worse over time as people learn they are the chosen ones and won't be questioned.

Does Stallman deserve the hate he's getting as a result of some posts to an email list? I don't know.

Should Stallman have been kicked off the FSF board a long time ago? Absolutely.
Could a judge hold the sheriff in contempt for not executing the confinement order?
Frankly, Bushnell and the response to him clearly show none of this should be decided in the court of public opinion. Even if either of these people are correct, none of what we've read or heard so far is in any way sufficient to condemn Stallmann and ruin his career and none of us is in an appropriate position to make that determination. He underwent utter character assassination in the media who went to great lengths to pretend his argument regarding that other MIT professor was about defending Epstein and pedophilia and I'm still mad that so many people fell for it. Maybe Stallmann might possibly be a terrible piece of shit, but this wasn't the way to go.
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They're called soft because the standards are very low when compared to the harder sciences, and it's basically impossible to do perfect controls or replications.
Anyone got pics of how pagers looked and worked in 1968?
The Dallas Mavericks were plagued by a toxic culture. She is turning it around
there was always something new to keep myself busy

Doing phd research didn’t keep you busy?
Would be great if statuspage.io has a button when pushed publishes message similar to your suggestion.
Fun story: A GitHub employee renamed my user account because his buddy wanted the name. Nothing was ever done about it.
Same here. What I noticed PhD people are more good candidate for research but not coding/finishing product. They put all their career in research tackling completely different set of problems. Most of time they are not aware of industry tools and applications like VCS, coding-styles etc and lack attitude to know context and more focused on (re)inventing something.

On other side engineer guys good to finish product, learn many half-assd tools and tacking different set of problems every day. This builds good intuition. But most of time they lack concept and they berate academics (at least in their early career days)

Now this is not universally applicable to everyone and may be wrong. I have seen some good people who rock both worlds.
The catch is that radial motors are balanced magnetically and these are not. All that magnetic force is added to axial pull between the stator and rotor. That means they need a thrust bearing in addition to the guide bearings. This causes increased heat and mechanical losses and probably limits efficiency to somewhat less than a standard electric motor. Hi-E standard motors cap out around 98.8%, these will probably cap a point or two lower.
Just a few points to present another perspective.

- RMS's main reason for introducing "per, pers, ..." was to use them in written English; this was just his own weird solution to a problem that a lot of people have noticed in modern English, the lack of a good singular pronoun for "a person" in general, without referring to anyone in particular. Lots of people have come up with crazy ideas for this, not many people are passionate enough about their use of language to write long blog posts about them, but, well, rms isn't everyone.

- Using people's preferred names is a matter of common courtesy, and this has been the case pretty much for all time. People having preferred pronouns, in contrast, is relatively new, and even 50 years ago nobody would have been familiar with this idea. It would be charitable to not judge an older generation by the standards of the young when something is changing even within our lifetimes.

- Insisting on using only full names would be bizarre, but surely nobody would take that as a personal attack, because presumably nobody would feel "singled out" by this. I think if you want to know if RMS was trying to antagonize non-binary folks or if he was rather just being prickly and a little eccentric about language, you would need to look further than this one idea of his. As far as I know, he is rather progressive on these issues, and he also has a history of passionately advocating unusual word choices, almost none of which have caught on, so I would lean towards this being just another example of his eccentric opinions about language, rather than trying to antagonize anyone.
Amusingly, they literally show someone serving coffee with an endorsement from a coffee shop on their Canadian sign-up page for food & beverage services.
https://squareup.com/ca/en/solutions/quick-service
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By being a US-based company, they are also subject to US law.

If you believe you have a general solution to the problem of incompatible edge cases in international financial regulation, there are many, many companies who would be willing to make you a very rich person in exchange for that information.
South Australia has been doing some good work as well. But most interesting is the state's plan to become a 100% renewable fueled "hydrogen economy". Using the renewable energy to produce hydrogen for sale and export, not for energy.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-unveils-plans-fo...
They can't do that because the same spare parts are used by the manufacturer's official support. Νow in case they say that spare part X costs 100euros but only 10 if we do the repair, the regulators could easily jump in and fine the company for unfair tactics. Of course such tactics should be taken into account in the relevant legislation

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I agree. As I mentioned to another commenter, I have a suspicion that the fired moderator was insisting that they be able to basically avoid interacting with a trans moderator, and that this is indeed an HR problem (or the equivalent when you're talking about volunteer moderators). I have a suspicion that when/if a new Code of Conduct is revealed for Stack Exchange it's not going to be particularly controversial except with the crowd who gets up in arms at anything that says "no bigotry" and "no harassment" (which the current COC actually already says).
No, not really.

> Now if I avoid pronouns altogether by sticking to proper names or disengaging from the individual, that's being considered an insult too.

It seems like the new CoC requires that not only you don't disparage another's belief, which is fine and everyone agrees with, but you have to actively show that you agree with their point of view as well. You can't remain impartial.
Kudos both to Cynthia Marshall for executing and to Mark Cuban for bringing her in. This story shows what can be achieved when change gets a strong mandate.
There are many ways to logically argue this. I myself find it very confusing, and I am even a bit skeptical that people who cry racism actually understand it themselves. The Canadian PM was just in a brownface scandal for wearing dark makeup as part of an Arabian themed costume party. Canada never had minstrel shows making fun of brown people, yet this was abhorrent racism that may cost him the election, for essentially paying homage with his costume. It now seems to be the case that any white person who darkens their skin for any reason is a racist, which is obviously absurd.
First piece of advice is to make things as easy as possible for others (recruiters, future managers, random online mentors).

For example, put the link to your site in here at least, and a link to resume would be good too.
I’ve been talking about this for years. This could conclusion is beyond obvious to anyone who has looked at the realities of climate change rather than the politically fed frenzy the thing has become.

Plant trees.
Those dark grey on black comments are annoyingly hard to read. Web inspector to the rescue.
A nuanced response, but my main point is about self censorship, what does one do if ultimately their conclusion is contradictory to their opponents. Acquiesce to maintain the peace or state their claim? I personally will always back truth regardless of its comfort to the audience whoever they might be
In other news, Trump seems to be doing fine.
A very elegant stunt he did was play simultaneously against 9 chess players, some of them at master level, and end up with a positive finish. The trick was that he paired eight players into four groups of two and simply reproduced the moves one made on the other member of the group. The eight masters were essentially playing against each other, with a neutral finish. The ninth player was the weakest one and Brown simply beat him normally.
Are you looking for advanced models that you can train on your data pretty much out-of-the-box or simple, easy-to-read models that help you learn the underlying concepts?

If it's the first case, what you want to do is find the best GitHub repos for the task(s) you are trying to do. Make sure the GitHub repo has a model zoo and good support and start from there. In CV, if you are trying to do high-end work, the repos to check out are:

- https://github.com/facebookresearch/maskrcnn-benchmark (don't be misled by the name, it has support for lots of the high-end modern CV models)

- https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection

- https://github.com/TuSimple/simpledet (haven't explored this one as much, but it looks very solid)

If you want easy-to-read code for non-trivial tasks, I would suggest taking a look at Gluon (GluonCV - https://gluon-cv.mxnet.io/ and GluonNLP - https://gluon-nlp.mxnet.io/). I haven't worked much with the fast.ai library, but that's probably also a good suggestion.
And refrigerators?
That’s pretty darn far. Are you trying to say Chantilly? Leesburg? Or more like Front Royal?
It’s funny because this is exactly the type of argument that RMS would probably make.
I was working at British Telecom when they bought their 3G licenses for the UK. The stock dropped by 50%, making my options worthless. Not that I am salty.

I wonder if it is optimum for society to price the spectrum so high that it is barely possible to build on it, then transfer the costs to the consumer. Basically it's a tax on technology. Or if it's not so high, then it's a windfall to the carriers.
That wording kinda ticked me off because our volume was completely inaccessible. Rebooting did not mount it at all.
I'd actually love to have this implemented client side - i.e if an employee views accesses your info, the client gets an alert.
I don’t really want to discuss further, but after rereading OPs post I don’t really see how he’s making an argument exclusively supported by feelings that flatly dismisses logic as a tool for discussion. I encourage you to step away from this for some time, and calmly reread the comment later.

In particular, OP does not claim that logic is not a useful tool for discussion. OP seems to claim that it’s use to shut down important voices and experience that isn’t framed in those terms, by people who don’t have the power to be heard, allows those who do to deny those people inclusion into discussion. OP even says that he fights fire with fire, ie uses logic against logical people to try to bring those silenced people’s experiences into conversation.

I see your dismissal of OP’s argument, as an example of OP’s point. Not only does the “facts” your pointing out seem awfully defensive to a personal, emotional image of “logicalness” that OP’s point calls into question (ie your “facts” aren’t just “facts”), but the next step is to call for that line of thought to be dismissed entirely because it stands outside your personally invested framework.

Nor do I fundamentally agree that statements made from feelings have no place in discussion just because they aren’t framed in the same logical framework as the hyper rational people who shoot those types of statements down. People’s feelings are typically based on lived experience relevant to a topic and contain content that, while not neatly packaged into the cogent, easily digestible logical argument you’re looking for, remain informative for ethically ambiguous topics.

To tie it to the literal situation that Stallman has found himself in, he has made dispassionate arguments about things like children being able to consent to sexual encounters with adults. If you’re expecting an abused child to give you a well formed, logical argument for why those actions are or are not ethical, then you’ve found quite the exceptional victim. Otherwise, the lack of that argument effectively silences the child’s ability to convey the importance of their trauma, and empowers influential people like Stallman to make those hyper-rational arguments that ignore and actively erode those people’s legitimate experiences.

It’s the adults who listen to the incoherent pain of those children, who are able to have those children’s voices heard in discussion, and therein lies the value of listening to, not dismissing, “emotional” appeal in debate.

Stallman’s case is a very cut and dry example of the kind of dispassion that represents my take of OP’s post, about how excessive application of “logic” corrodes productive discussion. This doesn’t just happen to children, this happens to capable adults whose cultural backgrounds (non-Western bluntness? doesn’t speak your language?), or complicated circumstances (traumatized rape victim?) make speaking clearly, logically and dispassionately about an ethical issue difficult.
The first time I ran a program on a remote computer, and used its UI over the Internet, was 1992. In fact that’s how I discovered Mosaic. Running random executables in the bin directory of lab machines.