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Assuming that he started out not liking cancel culture and then searched around for how to denounce them, what's wrong with it?

I'm generally opposed to cancel culture but generally can't be bothered to clearly articulate my objections, i.e. search around for the best words to denounce them.

I think it's generally positive that some people, such as pg, are willing to articulate their objections to cancel culture.
This is pure make-belief. You should buy if a purchase is cheaper than renting. Guess what, it never is when interest rates are at zero.

Rent is determined by what people with jobs can pay, property prices are determined by what international investors with deep pockets and easy credit can pay. Which one are you? If you are the former, you will be paying down a mortgage that you can barely afford. You will be a slave to the property. What if you lose the ability to pay? How secure is your paycheck really?

Keep your cash, and invest it somewhere else. You can find a new place to rent. You can leave if your community turns to shit.
> But that could be all a part of coordinated effort to be more transparent about their service status, an effort that should be applauded.

Microsoft could be pushing for transparency. Or people are more relaxed about transparency now that GitHub has its exit. How long did GitHub know they were looking to be acquired? Maybe this analysis should look at a longer time interval..
Steroids are a typical treatment option for auto-immune conditions. The steroid Dexamethasone has proven effective at decreasing the mortality rate among COVID-19 patients who experience a cytokine storm leading to severe respiratory illness. Sure you may want to use antivirals/antibiotics alongside, but I don't know if it's always necessary.

I don't have a medical background but from what little I do understand, the cytokine storm is the result of a secondary immune response kicking into high-gear when the primary immune response fails to respond in a timely manner (perhaps due to poor health). Suppressing the secondary immune response enough to keep it from killing the organism allows the primary immune response to catch up and defeat the infection.

In other words, clamping down on cancel culture will grant reasoned discourse a chance to convince people to abandon right-wing ideologies without imposing severe economic penalties.

Of course, this assumes that right-wing ideology is a pathogen that is uniformly harmful to the body politic (which it may not be) but all metaphors have their limitations.

EDIT: I should clarify that I see the deplatforming as the cytokine storm. I.e. an unhealthy immune response that is damaging to our social organism.
As soon as COVID allows it... you can keep in touch with clientservices@givelegacy.com.

PS many of us are Canadian so we get this question from friends. A temporary measure, once the borders re-open, is to simply drive anywhere across the US border, have it picked up that day, and then return to Canada.
We could never use gfortran, and other open source compilers were not really great for us either. We used Intel's fortran compiler, and it stood out as a pure gem. At the time it was free for educational/research purposes, which is why we used it, but if we had to pay (I think the license was like $1k/yr) we would have done it in a heartbeat.

Our code was entirely FORTRAN 66 and 77, so that may explain why it worked so well for us.
I think it would be a good start, but would still require some human vetting.
We played with some simple NLP solutions (trying to run TF-IDF on the keywords/description/readme of packages to determine the category), the results weren't great honestly, so we opted of curating everything manually for now.
> I have heard people say things like "all politics is identity politics."

Which, to me, is a very apt statement in context. For example, when dealing with someone trying to dismiss an important point without consideration by labeling it with his own subculture's spun definition.

To wit: online libertarians screaming about how terrible identity politics is as a way to disparage their political enemies are absolutely practicing identity politics.
She will just say that the process is designed to minimize false positives and the expense of more false negatives. A bad hire is more expensive than a no hire.

The problem is this isn't what gets you the smartest people on the planet. A small number might be interested in DS&A to that level, but most are not. They will learn enough to know how to google what they need and move on to what they are interested in. Smart people are constantly getting job offers from coworkers and bosses who move to other companies if they don't start their own.

The few smart people who do put in the effort necessary to go to the FAANG companies always leave after getting the golden sticker on their resume. They leave behind them a residue of SAT preppers who have PhD's in inversing binary trees.
Syndicated at:
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These systems are not OBS. You can pan and zoom as required to match your stream resolution, and it doesn't need to be the same as your desktop resolution.
I've been building a Django web project for a while now, it has several modules, started out with two, now it has around 5. But that's not the point, right? It kind of is. A simple project with a dozen modules within it can be complex in terms of memory usage whereas a single app that performs various asynchronous tasks can be complex in terms of CPU usage.
What I'm trying to say here is that everyone's metric differs on what a complex application. To me and probably a lot of people, a web app getting 10000 requests a day is small-scale but along the upper lines of small scale and can be considered medium scale if it's something along the line of a web application like a video hosting service that just took off. Time since the site is up also matters.
And yeah, both the number of models and background processing logic matters in defining a complex application. Refer to my first paragraph.
As for microservices, the more clusters you have, the more complex your service gets and the more the database get requests ( GET, POST, PUT, DELETE ), the more your project would need to scale.
In conclusion, the complexity of an application depends on CPU Usage ( having to use 2 VCPUs with 16 Gb of ram within a month of usage by 10000 people daily is a rough idea of what complex could look like but there is really no definition that defines where complex starts, a lot of factors matter ), Memory Usage, Database usage, Data Transfer and more.
I don't doubt that Tesla's are less reliable by other definitions, but I agree that this isn't a great measure.

Tesla's have lots of new and untested technology. That's their appeal. If toyota wanted to be less conservative and start using blazing new technologies in their cars, I'm sure we'd see the same issues there.

Teslas are notorious for software bugs that eventually get fixed. What i'm more interested in is whether Teslas end up lasting a long time. Electric motors are a lot simpler and so in a sense, I suspect they have the potential to last for more years with fewer issues.
There Mobian which IMO is as close to a supported Debian OS on Pinephonr as you can get. https://mobian-project.org/
EDIT: These were several wild hours of an AMA - thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion. Feel free to post more comments, I'll reply to them in due time. Or just poke me via mail or on Freenode.
Corey Quinn (Quinnypig) at Duckbill Group would be my suggestion as well.
Since the pandemic I started getting up around 6 am without an alarm clock. I never did that before. A big part of that is I go to bed earlier, as there is nothing worth staying up late for.

I've found I can focus so much more if I get up early and have been super productive these past few months. I am going to keep doing this when the pandemic is over.
Right, nobody actually paid 60%. They used their money to build factories and create jobs instead. Which drove growth. Now they can just keep the money.

The actual taxes paid aren't as important as the incentives they create.
A lot of candidates can't reason past the simple stuff so rarely do I have go beyond a simple coding problem. The FAANGs and unicorns maybe get lots of candidates so they can be very choosy.
I would assume 95% of startups that use ml do it for stupid marketing and fundraising reasons.

I also think once you are done with your PhD the field will have changed in a way you simplycant forecast.

I suggest it's more important to find your interest and passion. That will enhance your. Chance of a great thesis and lead to better outcomes.
> Poor whites are still more privileged via historicity of assets

At the point you reach “poor”, the assets are gone, so this doesn’t work.

> When there was an opioid crisis the nation responded with sympathy and urgency. When we had weed, we decided to have a war against drug users and send black and latino people to jail en masse, and there they sit still.

The opioid epidemic was never solved, let alone “urgently”. I remember it emerging as a campaign issue in 2016. 2019 had a record high number of deaths by opioid overdose and it looks like things are going up as well. The US government reports that “fentanyl trafficking offenders have increased by 3,940.9% since fiscal year 2015.” ( https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/fentanyl-trafficki... ) so it doesn’t seem like they’re taking a hands-off enforcement approach either.

To some degree there is a difference, but that’s because we already tried the War on Drugs and learned from our mistakes.

> Does anyone remember the term "super-predator"? That's not an allusion to poor people in general, but rather a reference for black people.

Like everything, it’s more complicated than that.

Here’s Mother Jones on “superpredators”: ( https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/very-brief-hi... ). The term refers to a criminological observation that many violent juvenile criminals fit a specific type that is particularly dangerous and untreatable. It turns out that the cause for this was childhood lead exposure and that the super predator theory was out of date already by the time it was developed.

It also turns out that childhood lead exposure disproportionately affected black children.

The Clinton-era crime bills that led to mass incarceration also had a fair amount of support among black leaders. One reason for this was that crime was much higher in the early 90’s, and black people were disproportionately the victims of that crime. Cracking down on crime (including drugs) was seen as a benefit to the black community rather than a detriment. ( https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/09/473648819... )
Not only nuclear weapons, but I’m also worried that if nuclear power plants proliferate, we will start seeing deregulation and hap-hazard safety standards that could lead to something like a nuclear scale Bhopal disaster. Not to mention proliferation of nuclear waste which would really escalate in a world where we can move these plants to an area with more lax standards.
Totally with you there. I switched jobs from a 100% in-office software engineering gig to a remote-first software company. The upshot was that there was an office in my city that I could go into and work from a couple days a week. The WFH-default, office-optional model is what I prefer now.
Founded on what exactly?
> A video of five or 10 or 30 seconds does not tell the whole story, of course. It does not depict what happened before the camera started rolling. It is unclear from the videos, for instance, what the officers’ intentions were or why protesters were being arrested or told to move.

It's right there in the article, after you scroll past all the videos. Many of these videos are totally missing their context. Here in Chicago, I saw police force a woman to the concrete as she was screaming ... after she threw something into a police cruiser that set it on fire.

Why did we see so much more violence from these protests than we've ever seen before? Part of it is COVID and the anxiety from being bottle up and out of work, but part of it is also the normalization of the masks:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/#masks-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_point
Bulgaria sort of fits this - low cost of living, flat 10% income tax, fast internet, reasonable number of tech companies and startups.
It would be really interesting to take brands that have improved dramatically over the years, and do a thorough analysis of what internal processes they changed to achieve that result. You know that there are QA folks within each company doing that kind of analysis.

After doing that analysis, it would then be a fun project to try to apply those manufacturing or design process changes to software development.

I suppose in such a competitive and proprietary industry, such transparency is not likely.
I'm all for brushing off a transgression, but once a user starts ban evading then I would side with reporting them.
Here's another source (consumer reports) that backs up the idea that Teslas are on the less reliable end:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-makes-big-leap-consume...

My thoughts are that Tesla is a newer company, they are trying things that others aren't, and third, reliability never seemed to be a top goal for them.
I have a feeling the civil projects in Pakistan have a different success rate than maybe other places. And even apart from that one sample is not really conclusive of anything.
There's plenty of blame to go around.

If I ask someone to do something and they do it, do I really bear no responsibility?
Most product failures happen very early on, or very late in the design lifespan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
wow that is incredible, they didn't offer to postpone or anything?
pg has (for a long time) asserted that he has opinions that would get him pilloried in the public square. He's advocated that one shouldn't share those opinions. And he's continued to frequently allude to their existence.

Having already dismissed the common people's ability to process unorthodox beliefs, he then goes on to complain that people shouldn't speculate or make assumptions about those beliefs that he keeps alluding to?

He further asserts that people who advocate open discussion must be dullards, whose minds are only filled with the opinions of others?

I don't agree. What should a rational, Bayesian person conclude about someone who keeps alluding to beliefs they can't say? What's the most frequent such belief?

Conservative: I have been censored for my
conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting
lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

-- https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...

Caveats: I'm not saying that pg holds any particular views, racist or otherwise. I don't know what it's like to be someone in his position. I expect there are a lot of people who are eager to take his statements out of context and that can be wearying. And although the above tweet is a pithy illustration, I don't think pg qualifies as a conservative either.

But I'm pretty sure that pg is not hiding a belief like "Amazon should be broken up", or "recycling is mostly a sham" or "actually nuclear power is green" or even "I oppose reparations for slavery". The beliefs at issue these days on social media tend to be about _personhood_ - acceptance of trans people, the acceptance of certain identities as oppressed, and so on. Someone popping up in the discussion and saying that he holds beliefs he can't say - well, what am I supposed to think?

And if I was being generous and assuming they were constructive views that were inexpressible right now, what am I supposed to do? What action does pg want us to take to fix that? I don't even know what direction pg wants the discussion to go in.
> Why not just summarizes the traits of the technical skills you expect from the candidate, lay it out, and come up appropriate questions for each interview?

That won't work; it's aimed at a different kind of skill.

The skill the GP is looking for is ability to solve a problem you have never seen before, for a problem that bears little resemblance to anything you've done before, by transferring your existing general problem solving skills. It's a test of your ability to solve new things, which is a capability the company finds useful.

This is a very useful skill, and you can learn to do it better, but it's not a "technical" skill as we usually mean it. However it is one of the things which might be associated with "great engineer".

Listing technical skills and testing them will not tell you if the candidate has developed the above capability.
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I interviewed a lot of people while I was at Google, and sometimes the people were clearly, clearly too anxious to interview. Like one fresh-grad who's hands were shaking. I thought about how much pressure the kid must have been under.

You try to help them relax, but you don't have much time, and the whole thing is just so unnatural.

Other places I've since been at, and interviewed with, give you a laptop, a problem to solve, and some time. You can focus on the problem instead of the situation much better, and I think that really helps. As an interviewer, it also helps keep some distance from the interviewer. It's too easy to try to micromanage the interview and keep the candidate uneasy. But there's a natural "don't interrupt someone when working" instinct that keeps interviewers more distant when the candidate's programming.

Coderpads on video conference, I think, are pretty good when the candidate has a good space to work in. They're in comfortable territory and you can see them by their keystrokes. The interviewer feels like they're getting more accurate data about how the candidate really operates. I just wish it could do keyboard shortcuts better -- emacs users like me hate seeing Ctrl-N bring up a new window.

The issue of IDE/compiler/keyboard/keybindings is also there, but that's easier to work with.
Yes, that's the a common talking point that is false, "Nuclear energy does not produce CO2, or almost none". But you only see that it is false if you look at complete lifecycle analysis of building the plants, running the plants, mining and transporting the uranium, transportintg the waste, dismantling the plant etc.

You can try to argue that the US would have less carbon emissions than today - something I'm inclined to believe given how much fossil fuels are used today - but in no way would it be zero.
Ok, I think I understand you better now.
Radical idea: don't test them. Train them.
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Windows is Microsoft own product. Anyone can run anything on it without anyone's permission.
Possibly. Though the apartments I’ve been in that have elevators that open directly into the unit here in NYC have had doormen at the front entrance. Generally if you’re rich enough for that sort of setup the building is rich enough for a doorman (I’m sure there are exceptions though).
At my company we interviewed two people. Both did fairly poorly in different ways. One we hired because he was a referral and came highly recommended despite a not great interview. He's been great.

The second guy was rejected but later hired as a contractor and he's worked out well as well and now we're looking at offering him a full-time position.

My conclusion is that our interview process isn't good at determining if a candidate would be a good employee.

My preference would be to hire someone as a contractor and give them a project then use that to determine their quality and fit. Unfortunately, HR tells me that's not feasible for reasons I don't understand.
https://archive.vn/bBRH3
I tried to read the comment, but don't quite understand: what is the problem GCC is trying to solve there?
Maybe I'm showing my age, but this is the first release of a phone I have been eagerly awaiting.
Wait, will you really repeat this until you no longer see a "github down" link on HN frontpage?

That is dedication.
I think this is a bit misleading. The metric is "problems" per 100 cars. That could mean the car's transmission gave out or it could mean there is a software bug or paint issue that is causing the driver problems. In the case of Tesla it could be the case a lot of problems are due to software bugs that can be corrected over the air seamlessly for free. I think classifying each problem into categories with associated weights would help to make the metric more meaningful
But "many" isn't all - it might or might not be the majority.

In any case, the expected growth in the smallsat market is significant and the market might exceed the "traditional" satellite market by 2025 [1].

This leaves plenty of room for "boutique" launch services, especially considering that SpaceX will be their own best customer with their StarLink launch campaign.

So while they might be cheaper as far as $/kg is concerned, other factors (launch window, target orbit, payload integration, logistics, ...) have to be considered as well and the bigger the market, the more room for competition.

I'm not saying that no one will use (SpaceX) rideshare services - I'm just pointing out that SpaceX won't be the only reasonable option since $/kg isn't the only relevant metric to consider.

[1] https://www.satellitetoday.com/business/2018/10/22/just-a-sm...
That's a great idea! Was it for an MLE job?
One nice moderation trick I've done for my company is building a slack integration that posts new reports into a dedicated channel, each of which has a "ban user" button. This way onboarding new moderators is as simple as adding them to the channel, and you automatically get push notifications and access from all of your devices with configurable controls (i.e. you can mute the channel when you're busy w/o having to build this functionality yourself).

We do the same for moderating user photos (they get posted into slack with a "remove" button) as well as for other moderation features. I highly recommend this approach for when the volume of reports is manageable.
Depending on your use case it does not enforce git. What would you prefer?
A friend of mine from high school left a PhD program in Latin American studies for basically this reason. His mother was Mexican, he spoke Spanish and English natively, and a lot of people in the department wanted him to identify as an oppressed Chicano, but both of his parents were white and wealthy, people never questioned his whiteness, and when he visited his mother's family every summer in Mexico, he lived in their walled compound with tennis courts and armed guards. He didn't have great disagreements with those other people in the department over ideology or politics (no greater than they had with each other) but they treated him personally very poorly because he couldn't feel emotionally invested in identifying as oppressed. The non-Chicanos in the department resented and distrusted him because they thought he had a special ethnic "in" with the Chicanos, so he left and went to a different program.
The end is justice, so is justified the means.

Sit down, shut up, your crown bequeathe.