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Destruction for anyone who would "stall the vision"

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> offspring of immigrants who escaped a closed society

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> Gender politics is politics

I don't understand how that statement discredits anything I said.

Politics is peoples' opinions and is subjective/normative (eg. things "ought" to be this way). Science attempts to explain how nature works (eg. this is why things are this way), and is objective. That memo was not political.
Why are you generalizing from Musk to "billionaires"? How is that relevant?
He also quit in frustration after they wouldn’t listen to his pitch about an arbitrage opportunity
Kinda presumptive. From what I read, this is for windows. The OP clearly is using a *nix system.
Circular Dependencies in Software (and Lockdowns)
I don’t think it is a rational argument though?
I was just upholding the undying tradition of correcting grammar while including a typo.
This is tribal politics. If you're not with us, you must be in the other tribe.

Reasoned ideology has long ago left the room.

This goes for both tribes, of course. With some exceptions on both sides.
There is a broader underlying thing going on here: Japan has removed all humanities at their universities.

There are only 4 interesting fundamental categories of knowledge: Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology; everything else is made up by man from nothing and it will return to nothing after all surplus energy (that gave humans the possibility to dream up all that crap in the first place) is consumed!

Hang on to your knowledge of nature people; because this society is going Kansas.
Those are entirely different concerns. A professor dedicates his career to advance his field of expertise. If you spend 5 years of your time and resources on a student teaching him to be a leading mechanical engineer but in the end after he graduates he decides to pursue a career as a pastry chef, you'd feel you wasted your time with him as well.
I always find this argument nonsense. Most people will be on their computer for 99% of the time and sacrificing for the rest of 1% doesn't make sense.
I had a colleague who had been using vim without customization because of that reason and he's always on his computer but I find the reasoning very odd.
I have done a LOT of development using Spring and have very rarely used AOP. I don't think it is a complex technology to work with though.
>Buffet fan

Well not like you have more money than him anyways
The infrastructure to connect your house to the public street network has to built and paid for by someone. It is the same for other types of infrastructure such as gas and electricity. Do you think it morally repugnant to charge people to connect their house to those networks?
> What kind of drug crime are you referring to?

Having, using, and selling drugs. The first two should be considered personal liberties, and the commerce should be taxed/regulated but not criminalized.
Ignore him. Not because finance/consulting is glamorous or high paying (it really isn't on average), but because 1. there's many ways to get value out of an education, 2. your professor won't be there for you when you need the money or want to live in a certain city. In general when people give advice but don't bear the risk, the value of their advice is dubious.
So took a low end job - internship. Learned about banking and money. Then built a payment system that was better than the available alternatives of the time. Then he took the money he earned from building better mousetrap and bought / founded two other companies that are killing it by making things better than anyone before them. And now starlink.

He's doing exactly what he says, and the world is rewarding him for making better stuff every day.

His words and actions are in complete agreement.
Elon Musk prefers his knowledge and skill workers financially and legally illiterate, understandably so.
Maybe not "liberal" but certainly "not-conservative"

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20983053/google-fires-fo...
They're not looking for open source per se, they're looking for you to demonstrate range/depth of experience. If you haven't been able to pick it up from your job, because they're too limited in the types of projects and assignments you can work on, then they're hoping that you can get it yourself from open source.

Now, you may already have the abilities that they want you to have, then what you lack is the ability to show so in the interview.

edit: Just to clarify, in technical interviews, they often don't even look at your resume, they just ask you the questions and judge you on how you answer them. Stating your years of experience or lines of code written have no bearing.
I suppose that depends on where you live. In Canada, at least, law programs continue to have very competitive entry requirements and the market for lawyers is rather saturated meaning salaries are relatively low for post-graduate professions.
It's absurd but, by and large, people don't actually care about science, let alone understand it. They may occasionally appreciate the rewards of science, but only when it makes them happy. When it sends a negative signal, people are quick to ignore science, or only pay attention to tidbits of science that reinforces their world view. It's not even a question of intelligence. Smart people all the time, including on this very site, fall prey to both anti-science and "scientism" at about the same rate. The only difference between a smart human and a dumb human in this space is the smart human has a bigger vocabulary and knows how to cherry-pick data.

Damore might have been granted some more understanding if he had presented his memo to some scientists. Even then, there would have been a high probability that he would have been told to hush-hush or be asked to leave.
I don’t know if it’s on the decline, but I do know that a whole lot of people graduate college and have a “now what? Law school.” Moment
He/she means that because you can read it doesn't mean everyone can.

I can read it fine too, but because I care about accessibility I also noticed that it's very likely to be unreadable by many people.

This is proved by the lack of contrast; by the WCAG standards it's a failure.
Sure, if they are publishing documents about how straight people are less effective at their job then they’re causing unnecessary issues in the workplace.
In 2005 President George W. Bush clearly stated that we needed to prepare for a global pandemic. No one laughed at him for that.

There are some strains of avian flu that cause a ~50% fatality rate in humans. Those aren't very transmissible between humans, but a mutation could change that.
If you consider homebrew a public achievement, then yes: https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?la...
I did read through it hence the criticism but I didn't go past the Evan Spielberg and Mark Zuckerberg articles. If someone writes an article based on the emails, you would look at the emails because they are the source.

Why should I bother reading opinion of a writer when I can look at the source?

If your first few links don't show the problem, people wouldn't be willing to put in effort. I thought that was obvious.
That's all very well, but to buy a family-sized home within a half hour walk of my office, I would need a salary north of £250k. Renting an appropriately sized home is not cheap either.
hope so - as US legal tradition is pretty much a negative-sum-game
Imho this isn't a modern problems. Library of Alexandria got burned, Classic books prevailed therefore those are the only "good" information. If you are overwhelm just focus the selection e.g Bible , The Harvard Classics. Instead of reading classics books without any selection you'll get overwhelmed. Just see how much self help books are there compared to a few old books
Better reported wellbeing is not that important.

I would also report being happy if I think saying the opposite could cost me this nice additional income.
Possible, but he also didn’t have to go on TV with them. You can’t go on a TV channel repeatedly and then try to pretend that it doesn’t affect your reputation in one way or another.
I mean, you can do anything you want, it's just code, but I would argue that I can get more maintainability and better results with less code by using AOP to implement application-wide profiling.
>Note that this isn't a conspiracy

It is, since Silicon valley and big media companies have always hated the PC's power to copy files. Anyone who has any idea of the history of silicon valley and isn't a retard, knows this has been in the cards for a long time going back to pre internet days when businesses were trying to screw other businesses.

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...

So they openly state they want to undermine local executable files and make every piece of software client server.
Finance, when done right, is just the art of efficient capital allocation. Producing the right thing is also important.
Yea I'm about the farthest left on the political spectrum as one can get without being outright communist, so it's hilarious if anyone calls me "conservative" for thinking that maybe just maybe biology influences our life choices, and that people should have the freedom to express their opinions and debate issues without being censored or shamed for having contrarian viewpoints (kind of like what the memo, which is titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", talks about, and which ironically got the author fired).
What leads you to the conclusion minecraft has cost 20x more.
Maybe 15 years ago. Not today.
Also ad optimization has brought in revenue for a commercial entity (Alphabet) that is willing and eager to pour its resources into amazing and beneficial things that a Law firm or Bank simply would never think to invest in building themselves.
The margin is a measure of how much you might reasonably expect to lose. IB was clearly miscalculating it.
Nobody goes to jail unless they want to, unless they make themselves get caught.

Henry Hill, Goodfellas
Name me a profession where people don’t feel like they wasted their time. Who cares.
Same here. Dvorak is so much more ergonomic than QWERTY.

Wrist discomfort with QWERTY completely disappeared upon switching to Dvorak.
Would you mind sharing the name of your product?
Those "complaints" aren't even focused on the language but instead the developer. I still don't know what your original comment was about other than seemingly being irritated PHP isn't still in the same state it was 15 years ago.
1. I don't recall him ever "asking for forgiveness," or doing anything besides doubling down on his memo.

2. The "outrage mob" isn't real. You know who got James Damore fired? Himself. It's especially telling that you, and people who defend him, attribute zero fault whatsoever to the person who actually wrote the memo.
Is it though? The alternative being an exciting career in HVAC, which many MEs find themselves in. Those air conditioners don't install themselves. I've been there and done that, and really I have no regrets moving on from an underpaid, underappreciated field of study.
And then he became really wise and started calling innocent people paedophiles online.

Musk is a casino player. A firefly if you wish.
Less than you think, because of the planet's axial tilt. You put your satellite in orbit over a fixed spot on the equator:

> satellites in geostationary orbit will spend some time in the shadow during what we call “eclipse seasons.” Each eclipse season lasts 44 days, during which the time that a satellite spends in eclipse (shadow) builds gradually from about a minute or two at the start of the season, to a maximum of 72 minutes at each equinox. It then gradually retreats over the next 22 days, at which point the solar arrays are again in the sunlight on a 24×7 basis.

https://corpblog.viasat.com/how-satellites-are-affected-by-t...

So you do have a little bit of downtime, but so do coal, gas, and nuclear plants. The few hours of shadow per year still leaves a capacity factor of over 99%.
Thanks for the Monty Python one.
>I expect the FCC would have a much better understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum than the military

Why? The FCC is concerned with coordinating peaceful use of commercial RF products (and experimentation that could lead to new commercial products). The military operates in hostile RF environments, conducts Signals Intelligence, and has to mitigate signal intelligence conducted against them. The demand for the absolute cutting edge of RF expertise is all on the military side.
I like Ruby for prototyping and quick throwaway scrips. I can write code really fast in it. Still my favorite language. But reading unfamiliar code or cooperating with others is hard. This is a good step forward in that direction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23118161
This appeal to authority is enormously frustrating when the authorities are also blindly political.

Think for yourself. The physical differences between men and women are patently obvious, and how they translate to different performance in sports is clear. We understand why men and women are different physically - because specialization had strong selective pressure.

Now why on earth would this specialization only apply to physical differences?

And if you're still not convinced, and if the consistent studies showing differences in verbal/spatial IQ and the like aren't enough, how can we use brainscans to differentiate between cis and trans people?

This is literally only political because, for this issue, one side in western politics is determined to deny reality in order to shape the world into what they think it should be. That's childish idealism - you cannot solve a "problem" without addressing it's actual causes.
That's a dismissive viewpoint. To be consistent with your view, nobody should be commenting in this thread.

Moreover, a person's field of expertise doesn't have any bearing on whether their ideas are correct. It may go to explain why their views are the way they are, but it doesn't necessarily follow that a person is wrong about something scientific because they aren't a scientist, for instance.
Because some hacks, like aimbots are always going to be possible no matter what, even if all the client does is displays a video stream.
Are spaces completely meaningless in Japanese? I was under the impression they separated phrases.
I know engineers who dropped out of the tech years ago and couldn't be happier. The truth is, no matter how much you're getting paid, many many of these jobs are terrible. Hopefully some people use this as an opportunity for a new beginning.
Wow. HN commenters really missed the point here.

The point is that not that smart people who went into finance and law somehow fucked up. It may be a perfectly rational and good choice for them.

The point is that smart, hard-working people tend to get funneled into one of a handful of professions, and at this point, I would even include software in that handful. It would better if we had smart people also going into other, more underserved fields that are in dire need of innovation.
Your average insurance company's software team behaves like this? Whilst tweaking the payroll software?

Because, if you really, really want gender parity, most programmers don't work at Uber or Snapchat. They work in mundane jobs at faceless companies.

Even more so when you leave the USA. (Since this is about principle).
Those professors are narrow minded. There's no such thing as a wasted education unless you do something like commit suicide or get yourself thrown in solitary confinement for life.
I think these pruning methods do work if you put some effort into engineering them properly.

But I came here to agree about most researchers having no interest in actual inference time performance. I just tried a library that was meant to be a "drop in replacement" for an embedding table that as meant to use a lot less memory, and after a little bit of fiddling, yes, it was a good drop in replacement for an embedding table if all you wanted to do was write papers and compute compression rations using theoretical bits needed. In practice, only the training/eval version of the code was written and nobody had actually written the the theoretically possible efficient inference path in the 3 implementations I looked at, and all the numbers in the paper were on theoretical memory savings, so my memory usage actually went up...
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In this case, you satisfy the group that spends disproportionate amounts of time weaponizing social media, activists, and blog journalists for their cause.
>Now this is funny

You keep believing that! Anyone who reads the indsutries own breifings known that this was the plan for a long time.

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...

But don't let the facts get in the way of your feelings for modern games that can be destroyed at the push of a button from company HQ.
Oh so you're a nihilistic skeptic that those were authentic misogynistic emails from Evan Spielberg, and that it's only the opinion of the The Atlantic and Tech Crunch and all the other sources who wrote about it, including the Provost of Stanford University himself?

https://vator.tv/news/2014-05-31-stanford-denounces-spiegel-...

>In a letter sent to that was sent out to the entire Stanford undergraduate community, and obtained by the Huffington Post, Stanford University Provost John Etchemendy called the e-mails "crude, offensive, and demeaning to women."

>"Like most of you, male and female, I found those messages abhorrent. I am writing now to convey clearly that the sentiments expressed in these emails do not reflect what we, as members of the Stanford community, expect of one another," the letter said.

Have you got anything to stand on better than your "boys will be boys ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" argument?

Can you provide some evidence for your conspiracy theory, such as a quote of Evan denying that he wrote those emails, or Stanford University Provost John Etchemendy retracting his statement that Evan's e-mails were "crude, offensive, and demeaning to women"?

Is there a source for your conspiracy theory, or did you make it up yourself just now? I thought you had better things to do with your time that defending the honor of Frat Bros. So give me a link to your proof Evan Spielberg didn't send those emails.
Bad analogy, because Damore didn’t do that. I don’t know why this falsehood lives on, the paper is public, and it clearly says not that.
The worst thing about chargebacks and fraud in general is that there's no incentive for payment processors / card issuers to fix the issue as they are benefiting from it by charging the merchant a fee when a chargeback is filled.

There's also a whole business made on the basis of providing anti-fraud services.

By now, credit card security should absolutely be a solved problem and it's crazy that we still in 2020, have to input numbers printed on the card to pay online.
Too many people listen to Elon Musk.
But that's surely not true. Programs to encourage women in software engineering are generally seen as apolitical. (And that's not a judo move or anything - they get broad bipartisan support whenever it comes up in Congress.)
Re-engineering cities, even if there was a popular will to do so and it served the right business interests, would in the US be a multi-generational project.

I'm not going to outright reject "it needs to be more than reduced speed limits," but speed limits are a change that can be made in the short-term that would lower noise levels, lower pollution, lower traffic fatalities, and increase tax revenue.
Demand for Stationary Energy Storage Exceeds Tesla's Supply
> I feel like that list is a bit misleading and your comment ignores how the PC gaming community always wanted to run their own dedicated servers and games not allowing to do so often got a lot of flack.

I was responding to the parents assertion that server software shipped with games 10-12 years ago, I did a google search for "games shipped in 2008" (to be charitable and check the oldest games) and I took the first online capable games that were available on PC with no cherry picking.

Whether they got flack or not is irrelevant, the vocal minority, especially in PC gaming is very dangerous. To give an example we got a lot of feedback on our game that we needed a dedicated PVP mode, so we spent a year (and many multiple millions of euros) making it, and never achieved anything over 100 concurrent players. It was well marketed, and you could say it's "not good", but our evidence shows that nobody even tried it enough to determine it's not good.

> Call of Duty games come to mind and afaik Battlefield games used to have that option too until EA changed it to “You can rent servers from us!”.

renting servers from us(tm) is decidedly _not_ a server package that you host yourself, although it's paid for, I'm not sure if it covers the costs of running. I think it probably doesn't given the fact that this isn't an option anymore.

There's a small irony here because if it's expensive, less people will buy it, which means maintaining the software that lets you do it becomes more expensive because it's not amortised among lots of people and so it gets even more expensive. (in a death spiral kind of way).

Regardless; your comment talks exclusively about PC titles, but the majority of AAA titles that have server backends are cross platform. I think this is part of the problem when talking about games in general. The PC guys like games tailored to their platform and really despise (or generally dislike) console players and how they interact with games.

I can't say it's unfair but if we were to sell only on PC, releasing a server package and making directory services, we would not have covered the cost of making the game by even a third. And I know that because we have pretty decent consumer market knowledge, it's a requisite.
The good ole page scraping into a minimal index. And some Google custom search trickery to supplement the search functionality. Moz api for the final ranking and filtering.

Haha yea, except the function call everything is just placeholder for now.
>"we dismantled all that stuff"

Not intentionally though. Globalization has led to most of it.

Manufacturing leaving for cheaper climes hollowed out the middle class, made unions impotent, etc.

Hypercompetition has forced companies to be ruthless.

In academia, administrators have taken absolute power for themselves and now enrich themselves at the expense of education and research.

It's quite a mess we've stumbled into.
> rather saturated meaning salaries are relatively low for post-graduate professions.

Not a contradiction. This is exactly why the proportion of very smart people going into law is decreasing.
Sure! Just add more paywalls!