skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're again using a historical example to characterize the extent of the current sway of a particular intellectual heritage, and a tenuous one at that: autonomism does not imply revolutionary spontaneism at all (again, evidence please!), and it is rather closer associated with left-communism, a historical and current communist movement best associated with early Lenin and a return to Marx, rejecting Stalinism and Maoism. Operaismo/workerism and later autonomism rejected Third-Worldism, even in a time when it was popular.

"The plight of Trotskyism had been even more bleak, reduced to eking out a semi-clandestine existence within the PCI. Neither of these fates par-ticularly appealed to the editors of Classe Operaia; nor, for that matter, did they show any great interest in the first murmurings of Italian Maoism. Their reasons for such diffidence, beyond the vagaries of sectarian politiCS, were rational enough, being based on the realisation that a new organisation unable to command the support of a large slice of the working class was doomed to failure. This lesson, moreover, had been reinforced for the Venetians by their unsuccessful attempts to build workplace committees outside the offiCial labour movement, a failure that led them temporarily to advance a more cautious approach to autonomous organisation. Both the Northerners and Romans, then, were initially united in rejecting what they called 'Trotskyist tactics' and 'Chinese dances' (Tronti 1966: 32), even if their motives for doing so were rather different." (from Storming Heaven by Steve Wright[0]).

You're going to need a stronger case than saying that the West German movement was Maoist and therefore Antifa in the US and elsewhere today is Maoist too - especially when you contradict your own claim that by the 1980s they'd moved on to autonomism. Please provide an analysis of the prevalence of Maoism or Maoist ideas as it exists today within the mainstream American radical left.

[0] https://libcom.org/files/Wright%20S%20-%20Storming%20Heaven%...
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Simple: it's not over yet, but it might be for some hard hit areas of Sweden. We'll see. Then there is another question whether it was worth it to shut down the world economy over a 0.05% death rate, or a few years worth of flu at once. I'd say probably no. We didn't know this back in Feb/March, which is why I was very much for a quarantine then, but not now. I don't think the powers that be would have done a complete shutdown if they'd known what they know now.
an interesting anecdote on the pessimism aspect.

As someone from another northern european country, "pessimism" seems to be a phenomenon that is very common in most western/northern european countries. People are critical about radical ideas (usually for good reason imo) and blind optimism makes you look like a fool.
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This seems like a legitimate question worth examining.

Are efforts to clean up terminology worthwhile? For who?

My 2c, based on my personal feelings and hope... no evidence. This is low hanging fruit. Get people involved and thinking about current issues. Their employees, customers, and stakeholders might grumble or question the value of this work, but it does start conversations (like this one) and that seems good.

We think and speak in the words we know and see.
This individual change is not going to end racism across the world but I believe in aggregate, enough small changes over a long enough timeline, these things can matter.

I think instead of criticizing changes like this we should appreciate that they are doing something. I mean, it is capitalism and at the end of the day they are making a choice that this is a better 'look' than to do nothing. A choice more and more capitalist enterprises have made in recent months. To me, this speaks to the continued change in our culture.

On the other hand it does seem to bring about a strong reaction from some counter culture (? idk what to call it). Maybe this sort of thing makes folks dig in their heels more than it helps?

Idk. I think it helps. But maybe not today.
The downside is this is pretty meaningless. The words "master" and "slave" are not cause of pain and suffering and even erasing them from the vocabulary is not going to change anything.

Never in my life even for a second I had any connotation between words master and slave used in IT and any derogatory meaning for anybody. I don't remember a single instance in the past 20 years when I could possibly link any utterance of these words in IT setting to any kind of discrimination, derogatory meaning.

These words are just statement of facts, describing relationship. If not these, there will be other words to state exact same relationship with exact same meaning. Contrast this with the N word which is clearly derogatory.

Are we going to be renaming colors, too? Am I going to find a new name for the color of my car?

If you care for black lives, cooperating to find and work on an actual solution seems to me much more worth your while and shooting in everything that moves is wasting time at a critical point when time is of the essence.

These kinds of moves are only going to entrench the opposition, giving more arguments against and achieve nothing.
I need to defend theory of computer science here, it seems. Please note that this computer science, not computer engineering. The idea of automata, regular languages, turing machines, and whatnot inform some of the most fundamental results of computer science.

At least in the fields where I work [compilers, formal verification], all of the above theory is common parlance. Everyone working on this stuff knows all of the above theory, since it forms the bedrock of a large part of what we do and how we think about the world. Knowing the complexity of the algorithms we use, the languages we parse, issues of decidability, etc. all crop up. That's because it's science, not engineering. GATE is meant as an entrance exam to pursue a graduate degree in computer science.

The fact that one does not need this during their day job is, dare I say it, irrelevant. This feels to me like people complaining that number theory is completely useless in the 19th century; Indeed it was... until it wasn't, and we needed cryptography.

This stuff is useful right now in a 'how to think about the world' kind of way. Knowing the power differences between automata, transducers, push down automata, and turing machines is critical in disparate applications involving formal verification. The difference in power of these different representations impacts what we can "do" with them. The knowledge of this hierarchy fundamentally shapes how I view the world.
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I'd phrase it another way.

> Flat earthers believe in something that empirically and rigorously has been proven to be false by there existing a contradictory proof that the earth is mostly spherical.

I'd suggest that rather than prove the earth wasn't flat, it was proved it was ~sperical, a proof that was in direct contradiction to the flat theory, thereby nullifying it.

So, should the flat earthers have their videos removed? I dunno. It used to be funny, but now seems to have turned rather toxic. Some people might religiously believe that it's flat, and they should be allowed to continue to believe that if it makes them happy, and part of that faith, as with many others it seems, is attempting to convince others of your delusions.
I assume (perhaps naively) that Google must have a non trivial amount of CL development if they have a style guide for the language... anyone know what they use CL for?
"The app is incredibly slow"

I wish the forces didn't align to make every "enterprise" application drop performance down the priority list to somewhere around position 20 or 30. I understand how it happens, but I don't have to like it.

Slack has been slowing down on me lately too. It seems like every couple of months, the amount of time between typing someone's @name and it finally resolving is growing longer, meaning I have more time to type more stuff before the cursor snaps back to just after the @name.

(I wish there was a "hey, be less rounded and polished and deeply nested in HTML tags and be fast" mode....)
That might be true for analog/mixed signal design, but not for CMOS. The design rules are built into the CAD. The design itself is a immense network of switches.

Not having an advanced degree doesn’t mean you can’t master complexity. It’s the same as with software.
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I double-majored in computer and electrical engineering. In those courses, I learned how to create PCBs and wrote code for FPGAs, microcontrollers, and a few desktop applications. As my sibling commenter mentioned, a ton of the actual implementation is vendor-specific and there's a mix of RTFM, on-the-job training, and vendor classes. Also, quite a bit of https://xkcd.com/627/.

One of the most important parts of my education learning that there is no black magic in technology. Everything we manufacture is a pyramid that builds complexity using leaky abstractions. At the lowest levels, you have atomic physics of doped silicon and charge carriers. At the highest levels of abstraction, you interact with those atoms by saying "Hey, Siri, do I need an umbrella today?" Someone, somewhere, either understands or wrote a tool that understands every layer between those two. We're a few decades out from the time when someone could think about the whole stack all at once.

If you want to really program robots, you need to understand a bit of the technology with which they're built (encoders and servomotors, control loops, motion planning, real-time operating systems) and then just pick up a teach pendant, and apply what you know. Do be aware of the value in abstractions, and don't try to reinvent the wheel, but if you don't know the fundamentals you'll be tripped up every time the abstraction leaks a little.

I didn't touch a PLC or robot until after college when the job required it. It's true that working effectively is all about familiarity the toolsets provided by various manufacturers, but I don't think that would be an effective thing to teach in a university setting. If you posted a listing for a recent graduate controls job requiring experience in your particular flavor of robots or PLCs, you're going to have a bad time - anyone with a CS/CE/EE/ME background could do it. Learn how to work, learn how to learn, learn how to plan, and by that time picking up a teach pendant and getting the robot to run a loop from point A to B and back to A will be the easy part.
Downvoted for whataboutism
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Yeah, I feel like listing out the "raspberry pi, brass and wood" created the expectation that those were the crucial elements. Really the crucial element is a pre-made geiger counter and what they built is a beautiful enclosure and display. It's a cool project and they didn't lie, but it was misleading, and it seems it was the author of the piece who posted it so the confusion is reasonable to call out.
>It may be less than you suspect because the regular bubble in their ordering pipeline might give them time to deal with suppliers, maintain stock, improve their website, maintain systems, relax and refocus, etc.

the thing is, the bubble they have includes not doing anything on this list :)
If Warren Buffet wants to pay more taxes than legally required, I don't think he could do it. But Ayn Rand went out of her way to grab gvt handout while disparaging those doing the same thing. In my book, only of them is a hypocrite.
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Thanks. I didn't see that this was updated 10 days ago.

Now my comment has been down voted into oblivion.
By "core" I'm not talking about self-appointed leadership; I'm talking about the BLM advocates who are directly affected by the issue (ie, PoCs). There is plenty of grassroots discussion on social media amongst those who feel changes the the Githubs and Redhats of the world will have zero impact on their plight.
It is definitely many times worse than the flu, but probably not 10 and definitely not 100 times.
What about claims of the Earth being only five minutes old?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#Five-minut...
HN's debaiting software took it out. We put it back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23756384

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/29/substitute-damn/
Totally agree, and I think this is important to emphasize. I was involved in researching the requirements for a PPP loan for a nonprofit. I can guarantee that the vast majority of businesses (like 95%+) took out these loans with the intention they would never be paid back. Indeed, that was a feature, not a bug, of the whole "loan" program. If you took out the loans to keep employees on staff (and did so), then you had to fuck up hard to not have the loans be forgiven.

So it kind of irks me to see some people frame this like a large percentage of these loans will be paid back. Not only is that not the case, it was never intended to be the case.
Fair enough. My Obj-C experience was all years before Swift existed... mostly pre-ARC, even!
Just like we do in the USA for the crime of 'suspicion of selling loose cigarettes'!
It's clear, that the GDPR should be amended so the only way that tracking will be allowed is to have user send a notary signed letter every year saying that s/he wants to be tracked with a minimum 3 pages of attachment explanation why tracking is so great (in own words, no templates allowed). The company will be required to keep physical copies of these letters for 10 years for random checkups.

Fuck the adtech industry.
Maybe you should read the perspective of why a black programmer finds it offensive and took action about it: https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially...

Also, this isn't a "New" issue/ BLM issue, while it's been sped up by BLM, companies have been moving this way for some time. Python dropped Master/ Slave 2 years ago, before it was trendy.
There's a comparable program in Canada where the government covers up to $750/week in wages - essentially $40k/year - from March to August depending on your revenues. Feels a little better than the $100k cap (although probably a bit on the low side).
One thought that I had seen elsewhere on this subject really stood out to me.

When these phrases are being replaced, their replacements are almost always more descriptive terms for that specific project, and the way those servers interact.

For example- In Jenkins you run a "master" which schedules jobs, and "slaves" which run the jobs.
After they updated their terminology, they referred to the job-runner as a "Agents."

This makes it much clearer what the relationship is between them, and clarifies that the "Slave" servers aren't some sort of failover server, which is how a DB might use the same terms.

I've seem other projects use primary/replica, and several other variations, but they almost always seem to be much better fits for what the software is actually doing.
That is why you use apple maps ;)
The Democrats. They've been trying for a while, are easily misled, and are generally a clusterfuck, but at least they're tring. Though there have been some Republican attempts -- attempt in the loosest sense -- believe it or not.

The Hil-Dog was talking about universal healthcare during her husband's (Slick Willy's) administration in the 90's. Didn't go anywhere -- not with Newt G in Congress -- but was a key item on her platform running against Trump. And most of the Dems went in on Obamacare, though several balked at the Public Option (I beleive it was one particular).

Mitt Romney kicked off Romneycare in MA, and Obamacare is essentially just a knock-off of that. Both were based off of a Heritage Foundation white paper about free-market universal healthcare (which Heritage has since disawovwed, as has Romney; see below). Unfortunte that Romney didn't embrace that while running against Obama, but that's probably the only way to score a GOP nomination.

See also:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-... (decent overview)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19...

https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/assuring-aff...
The problem with developing AI is the potential power it has to oppress. Think of the AI China is deploying in Xinjiang. Maybe inclusiveness is a safeguard against AI being used for oppression, but it makes me think of Peter Thiel's quote "AI is the technology supporting dictatorships, blockchain is the technology supporting libertarian government"(paraphrasing). With easy to use open-source AI platforms like the ones Jeff Dean helped create. I think we really need to be concerned about the use cases.
Eh, the Titan V I bought last year broke even vs AWS inside of a month ($2000 vs $2234).

Obviously there are factors going in to that -- I could live without paying the Tesla tax (didn't need to virtualize, didn't need the vram, did need the fp64), I bought used, I didn't have a problem keeping it fed, I didn't need to burst, etc, but my point is that for some GPU workloads the cloud GPUs are really expensive and the break-even utilization is far south of 100%, more like 5%.
If you need links, I'll dig up links to the discussions I'm talking about. That said, this level of discourse sounds like it's devolving to what I'd expect on T_D or similar.
This is cool! But I fear the workflow to get a chip out the door requires a lot of niche specialized knowledge. Making a logic design work on an FPGA is much easier, because the chip overhead (stuff like I/O pins) is all handled for you. If I had to design my own I/O pins at the silicon level, I wouldn't know where to start. And having access to open-source tools that give me the ABILITY to build a chip doesn't help with the knowledge I'm missing.

I think, however, that this may help Google integrate into academia. I can imagine a lot of MSEE and PhD students are looking at this hungrily.
Okay, then I'll give some: outreach/mentorship/internships of PoC who might never be aware of coding or have a hard time breaking down the early barriers to getting involved.

Top comment from an earlier discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23501861
There was a Mega Mouse accessory that was supported by various games, but it doesn’t look like Dune is one of them (http://web.archive.org/web/20120304195213/http://my.execpc.c...)
You pay taxes. You should take what the government gives you in return. I suppose there are many opinions here, but I have plenty of friends who refuse to take unemployment insurance, when they've paid into it for years (sometimes decades).
> And what do we do to white supremacists?

Recent experience would say: not a whole lot. Well, maybe elect them president. You know, real scary stuff for the white supremacists.

> Except the vast majority of people who are iffy about what's going on aren't supremacists of any sort.

So is your entire complaint that, in truth, you believe in the goals that BLM has, you just are really miffed by their characterization of you as a "white supremacist", which carries too negative a connotation, and because of that you just can't bring yourself to support them?

I mean it's really easy to acknowledge that one benefits from white supremacy. I do, all the time. That doesn't inherently make me a bad person, it makes me a (white) person who lives in a society. That I happen to benefit from the same structures that put other people down, on its own, doesn't impact my moral character. What I do with that knowledge though, now that does.
I think these are all technical hurdles that would be solved by the hosting middlewares that pop up to serve such an ecosystem. While it would be possible for a creator to host their own, my expectation would be that they would upload them to "Source as a Service" type hosting platforms that handle this. You would also get aggregators of all sizes and advancement. From small aggregators of niche model train videos serving directly from the source, to large aggregators with their own hosting solutions they serve the source from.

You're right though of course, which is why we have a YouTube monopoly in the first place.
Jews are the most racist people, read the Talmud
My guess: Google bought ITA Software about 10 years ago, and their search engine was written in Common Lisp.
Interesting. Describe real wage growth over that time period.
The current death rate, 10-15 people a day, is insignificant compared to other causes of death. It is not reasonable to talk about percentage differences when we're talking 15 vs 3 deaths a day.
Slack does a lot more than your basic IRC server. It offers search, SSO integration, mobile app with offline notifications, phone / video chat, screen sharing.

Sure you could build that on a small server with open source tools, but is it really worth the effort to build and maintain it for most people?
Hey dang, how come stuff like “card carrying commies“ never gets the standard “don’t post in a flamebait style here” rebuke, the same rebuke that I get every time I call a fascist a fascist? I flag it every time I see it, but crickets. Oh, right “we can’t see everything”, except you see plenty when it’s convenient to you. Enforce the rules fairly.
one could see it through the lens of infantilization, which is most certainly negative.