skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made me curious: did you have a role model yourself?

I'm BAME and Welsh and my role model was Scotty, who was white and Scottish. I consider myself to be completely normal. A million white kids idolise black sportsmen and musicians. It's completely normal, or it was.

It's only in the last few years that it's been race, race, race. From my perspective things have taken a huge step backwards. Take it from me, this "role model" stuff is harmful to the very people who you claim to want to help.

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Replying here as I am "posting too fast" (code for upsetting the moderators)

Yes, I believe that teaching people in general and children in particular that their skin pigmentation is their defining characteristic harms progress. I believe that teaching people that unless they have a matching role model they can't do something harms progress. I believe that hiring people to make up quotas harms progress. Things are worse now than they were 10 or 20 years ago in terms of race relations.
It will be a combination of things. Make sure you are getting enough sleep and exercise.
Pretty mind boggling that they are still asking brain teasers in interviews. If that is the type of question they are asking you can practice brain teaser and consulting type questions before an interview to.
Have a good grasp of the fundamentals of any subject matter before an interview. Practice is key.

Outside of that apply the concept of katas daily (http://codekata.com)
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There is already a complete methodology!
https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
You don’t have direct access to memory and V8’s optimizations just aren’t THAT helpful for this sort of thing.

You do: ArrayBuffer works great.

I have a lot of love for JS and there are many domains it does well in but unless you show numbers that prove otherwise, I’m quite sure you are totally wrong here.

I speak from experience :) Here's a demo of Javascript doing what it's unsuited for: buttery-smooth 60FPS on iOS https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1222280670908600321

Voice recognition: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1151613837264732167

It's fair to say that writing a matrix multiply in pure JS might not be the best way to deploy your production code. But curing that is a matter of "run profiler, see clear hotspot, optimize hotspot." Especially now that you have so many options for dropping down to a lower-level stack.

JS is merely the wrapper, in many cases.
There are both sides to everything. Just ask the president of the United States of America. Just call the protesters losers and be done with it.
> you're really just incentivizing everyone to loudly claim that they have it the absolute worst and need the most help

I understand where you are coming from. What this argument highlights is that there are black sheep everywhere. Should this be the reason to toss support for the rest out of the window? In fact your argument can be applied to every social program, and it is. And to the surprise of every one, it is mostly brought up by privileged people (politicians, lobbyists, employers) who e.g. like to cut social spending.

> And then you'll need somebody to decide whose complaints are true and whose are fake, aka you'll need somebody to feel truth and rule accordingly.

Does this not already exist in other parts of social security programs? Or taking loans? What is the difference, what is new?
IIRC from the Everything Store there was some conjecture that the Amazon "read the first chapter" feature paved the way to mass digitalization of books. So they were well positioned to launch with decent selection and ramp up faster than if they relied on the pace of distributors.
If any amazonians from around that time could confirm that would be cool...

There is art in execution too.
TikTok blocks itself. Others are blocked by the government. Name another major application/social network that does the same?
The same could be said for storage and ram chips.

But apple really wants you to buy a new device as often as your paycheck allows you, so this kind of things (removable secure enclave) isn't going to happen, most likely.
The most likely culprit for display issues on these old calculators in my experience is the ribbon cables. You can take a multimeter and check the resistance of each connection, if any of them read too high you can solder a thin wire in parallel with it.

Or it could be the contrast potentiometer giving too high of a resistance, you can try cleaning the internal contacts or replacing it.
Purely from a business perspective, they do not want boobs and dick picks, it would die as quickly as chatroulette.

Not only would most people flee, advertisers would as well.

FYI advertisers don't like hate speech as well, which is why there are rules about that.

The perplexing issue comes down to things that are not 'hate speech' so much as a) insensitive things and b) truly 'fake news' ie QAnon, anti-vax etc.

You're right to point out that it is this stuff at the 'fringe' that keeps a lot of people engaged. Hence the paradox.
>None of them were at fault.
That doesn't make the injuries less severe
So they are a sub-group of whites. they have distinct culture and also some distinct genetic make up (look for Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel)

If this sub group has more privilege, don't we want equity for other sub groups?
I fondly remember talking to some class mates in 2002.

We were in an IT school and I told them that I wanted to become a software developer.

They laughed at me and said they want to become
admins, because basically everything has already be developed.

They had edonkey for music and films, they had video games, they had IRC for chat, what else was there?
> However, it's also easy to find such memory leak.

How? By manually inspecting all code in the project + dependencies marked with "unsafe"? The approach doesn't scale past "hello world" level of complexity.

I don't code Rust, using C# for same purpose. I remember couple times I spend hours debugging weird crashes caused by stupid bugs in totally unrelated unsafe C# code.

It's much easier to find memory leaks or native memory corruptions in C++, than in unsafe subset of a memory safe language. C++ has lots of runtime support for that (especially in debug builds), and many great tools, both in the compilers and external ones. Unsafe C# has none of them.
"Thus knowing your place in space means some model of the world and your relative place within it." Soooo you are saying a GPS module plus a GIS database? :)

If someone puts me in a pitch dark barrel, and then carries the barrel to an unknown to me location will I cease to be conscious by that definition even if I'm kicking and screaming and yelling for help?

I'm working on self driving cars. They know very precisely where they are, and they know very accurately what is around them. (They even have a sense of where things will be!) Does that make them self-aware?
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The US left the moral high ground some time ago. (About 4 years ago)
> I cannot for the life of me fathom why the impending death of 60,000 fellow citizens, and 600,000 disabled with chronic illness wouldn't convince someone that a vaccine is needed ASAP.

I deliberately wrote that a _rushed_ vaccine is not needed. All the side effects need to be carefully considered. Even some vaccines that weren't necessarily rushed proved to have really horrible side effects when deployed to the population at scale.

I'm simply saying Stockholm is probably approaching 50% immunity soon (T-cell + antibody). If you isolate the outlier event that is the very poor treatment at the elderly homes at the start of the outbreak, causing a huge part of our deaths numbers, you get a completely different picture.
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One, if it can change color
I had that as a kid for a while; when it reached its peak, I ended up in hospital with meningitis. From that period, I distinctively remember feeling small and the room walls and ceiling receding somewhat, and also some weird stuff with colors - I could focus on the visual noise I saw (kind of like the noise you get in a digital camera in low-light condition), and focusing on that would trigger the feeling of the world expanding / me shrinking. All of this only happened at night.
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> The point of connecting portable A/Cs to a Nest is:

> The usual "smart" stuff that Nest provides

Reminder: https://michaelblume.tumblr.com/post/169525456166/tech-enthu...

> Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

>
Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

>
Security technicians: takes a deep swig of whiskey I wish I had been born in the neolithic.
> "stop trying to make it "gracefully" fail. Just fail! That way people can address the root problem."

So the root problem is not having the right hardware?

Personally, I would hate to use software which tells me to upgrade my GPU, especially when there's a software fallback which could have been implemented... albeit with poorer performance...
Thank you for sharing your experience! I see "race" as a problematic variable as well. That's why I like to talk about origin, as in "what did the parents do?", "do the kids have access to careers outside of what their family showed them?".

When you say "taken a huge step backwards", do you mean the discussion actively harms progress? Or that you do not support the way it is discussed?

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adding to your edit:

> A million white kids idolise black sportsmen and musicians. It's completely normal, or it was.

If I see correctly, the choice of "identification variables" is what you primarily criticize (here: race). We don't differ here.

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adding to your second edit..:

> Yes, I believe that teaching people in general..

I'll take this with me, thank you!
Cancel culture at it's best.

This isn't some soccer game that would bring in billions and legitimise the country.

This is books being banned in a country that needs them most.

This is creators of books not visiting country's that need to hear and be understood by them.

Selling out real homosexuals for virtual signalling is where the SciFi community is at.
Your software will gain a reputation of being slow and there will be nothing you can do about that.
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+1, and that is why the question "And what about parents?" might play an even bigger role than others.
I presume you mean this: https://github.com/nasa/VICAR/blob/master/vos/docsource/vica....
what is hate speech?
Sure, but in my anecdotal experience, things where you care about acceleration are next to unusable without acceleration and by silently (its ok to do it noisily) falling back to cpu, you just give the user (who doesn’t necessarily realise its using the fallback) the impression that your software is slow garbage.
Since this supports doing image convolutions I guess it can be used to do efficient CNN inference. Are there any examples doing that?

I see there are some other libraries to run deep learning networks in the browser (like Tensorflow.js), but it seems they have some limitation regarding the use of the GPU.

It may be interesting in pushing the boundaries of this project to get an efficient and generic CNN library. They seem to not use CUDA, which may be a limitation...
I'm glad that we have the option to self-host, and would be curious to learn more if you have other self-hosted youtube frontend options. As it stands now I think if invidious isn't maintained it will likely break soon. Newpipe breaks every other week and it's actively maintained.

Invidious I found to be uniquely and particularly convenient because, for a while at least, it ran like any other website and I could skip the steps needed to self host.
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I recommend you to check out NLP research regarding the Czech language. It has high quality researchers keen on making use of the language's features (it's a highly regular and expressive grammar). Sadly not much research is done, but what is done is interesting.
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That is completely true, and I imagine that if any of the atrocities committed against Irish, Scottish, Polish, Catholics (the list goes on really) had been as prominent in our culture as study of the Holocaust has been, then you would find the same hypocrisy there too. Questioning the scope and scale of Jewish oppression is (quite rightly) absolutely not tolerated in our society, however doing the same for Irish oppression for instance is perfectly acceptable.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3790116?seq=1

More recently this line of reasoning has been quite thoroughly debunked, but you’d be forgiven if you never really knew the Irish were ever oppressed, not noticing that disputing this was common place or not noticing that such denials have been proven false. Outside of some high Irish density areas, these topics have never been a significant part of our culture. So a white Irishman saying “I too have grievances of historical oppression” isn’t going to be taken all that seriously, whereas a Jewish complaint would be.

Which is really what my whole point has been in this thread. When you start grouping people together in large numbers, you deny them any level of individual identity, or shared culture that may set them apart from other group members. When you do this along the lines of skin color or ethnicity, you’re just being racist.
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If Kodak CEO had called me before and said "pssst, buy shares they're going to shoot up tomorrow" would I be completely fine legally to follow his tip?

Or can both sides get prosecuted, with one being an accessory to the other's crime?
That's still sounds like a wild and unfounded accusation.

And that was partially already the case a few years ago:

TIM started free WhatsApp plans in 2014 [1].

Claro started in 2015 [2].

Oi started later, but it already had a similar plan in 2013 for Facebook Messenger, before WhatsApp acquisition [3].

Vivo seems to be the only holdout, starting in 2018, but that's far from proof that they were in bed with judges just to damage WhatsApp.

And frankly, "you have to read between the lines" sounds like code for unfounded conspiracy theories. Unfortunately something that is currently destroying the country.

[1] https://tecnoblog.net/170330/tim-controle-whatsapp-internet-...

[2] https://gizmodo.uol.com.br/claro-turbinada-detalhes/

[3] https://tecnoblog.net/131671/oi-facebook-messenger-de-graca/
Good. World's 4th biggest economy should be able to defend itself.
GFC....only 85? That puts him in his 50’s when he played an old person in Cacoon..... and he looked old AF.
Not necessarily, as historic rates of Jewish interfaith marriage were until recently extremely low. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism:

Interfaith marriage in Judaism was historically looked upon with very strong disfavour by Jewish leaders, and it remains a controversial issue among them today. [..] In the early 19th century, in some less modernised regions of the world, exogamy was extremely rare—less than 0.1% of the Jews of Algeria, for example, practiced exogamy. In the early 20th century, even in most Germanic regions of central Europe there were still only a mere 5% of Jews marrying non-Jews.

To underscore how very disfavored mixed marriages were, Bernard S. Bachrach's Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe states (speaking about the 6th century, but it is unclear how wide-ranging this policy was):

According to Jewish custom a woman who willingly and openly went to live with a non-Jew was considered dead by her family and by the Jewish community. Legally it was the duty of the community to stone her to death if she could be found.
I've read quite a few posts on the thread and all I got is "Jeff did this,Jeff did that.Jeff is amazing,Jeff is cool. Jeff is brilliant.Jeff,Jeff,Jeff..". Of course he was pushy and demanding to get the results,but come on,give some credit to others too.
That shows you how decrepit people were at that age back in the day.
Thanks for sharing the information. I find it saddening that there is no broad discussion on the measures taken and their effectiveness. This would be rather important as many different groups of people suffered disproportionally during the lockdown. (Everywhere)

While I’m sure that this void of dicsussions will be filled by researchers, I’m not sure that the derived knowledge will arrive at the decision makers.
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Nice job, this is exactly what I'll be using on my weekend project to show my other projects! (makers.page, a place for makers to show their projects, blog etc.)
A sad but not too surprising outcome. The US is not the only place with laughably bad police accountability though.

For a quick estimate, switch the filters and take a look at your scrollbar shrinking once you go to "Pending".
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There is a hockey substitution going on in education (in the Us) this year where many teachers are leaving. The change is being driven by two factors: fear of getting coronavirus and discomfort with teaching via internet. My wife changed jobs and got a raise as a result.
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JS is really fast assuming you don’t do anything in JS is not a convincing argument for this.

My point is that if you are using JS as a wrapper for a big black box of gpu computations that are close to the metal then you are not really using JS in any meaningful sense and can wrap anything else that has a much better library ecosystem and performance qualities for anything that you’re not just getting the gpu to crank out in a server context (which is implied by nodejs).

There’s the speed of generating inputs, the speed of transforming and passing data at the input/output boundaries, and the ability to conveniently and performantly work with data in memory natively (i.e. while not outsourcing the computations elsewhere) that matters here. Is JS a great choice for any of these things? Most importantly, the last thing? This library isn’t using ArrayBuffers for setting up all data or working on the data in JS so even if they work great for performance it seems totally irrelevant and let’s be honest, if it were working with ArrayBuffers directly you would be so far away from usual JS and any convenience JS offers, you might as well not be writing JS.
I always wonder when I see these demos: what is it like in a real world workload?

I remember some years ago everyone was going nuts over how WebGL was able to render a detailed model in the browser, native games are dead! Except it was a single non-animated 3D model, in a simple or non-existent background.
real games had many animated models, in complex environments, with complex interaction, physics, AI, audio and gameplay logic.

Ever since that comparison, I think, yeah, those demos look cool and indeed silky smooth, but most are a single simple thing. Real workloads tend to be much more complex: how does it fare with those?

(Of course if the vast majority of the processing time is in the GPU, then it really doesn’t matter what language, fast or slow, you use to control or feed it.)
News "regarding a new manufacturing initiative" would hardly be negative. Key word being "new".
Haven't clicked on TFA but I wouldn't be surprised if some government parasite came up with the idea to tax satellites.

This provides a great incentive for the rich to emigrate to the Moon or Mars and set up SpaceOps there.
It's not that simple; explaining one reason why something would not work means re-examing many of the underlying assumptions and not many like to go deeper than that one problem at hand in isolation. The "ok, how would you do it" forces thinking about underlying issues, because the solution you propose has to account for factors you otherwise wouldn't think of.

It is not a new problem either; this video is 9 years old already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0. It is almost one hour long, but well worth to watch to see the two different approaches to clash.
Sync hasn't worked for me in months. Let's hope they start 'overdoing' the kindle any day now.
I stumbled onto brilliant.org recently and while it’s a bit narrow (Math skills), it seems better suited to cognitive training than most other attempts I’ve seen
what the fuck have you done, seriously?

you come back down to earth.

it takes a lot of hubris to put yourself above others who have achieve something by pretending they're below you or their achievements don't matter, remember that, arrogant man.
Other high level languages exist already that are oriented to gpu friendly data models. eg Futhark, Halide.

Basic gpu kernels are easy to write in low level gpu languages too so a hll that covers only that case is not very useful.
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Which means the universe is really just spacetime arguing with itself.