skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toward the beginning of the memo, Damore lists personality differences, on average, between men and women. The third item is that women have more “ Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance)”. I don’t know Damore so I can’t tell you whether he is a mysoginist or not, but he certainly uses arguments and language that mysogonists do. This is just one example of problematic areas of his memo. I realize there’s more to his memo, but I wanted to bring up a concrete example.

Here’s the thing. I get that our current research says men and women are in some ways different, and I don’t think stating that is controversial. But to use that as an argument for why some degree of inequality in the workplace is ok, just doesn’t pass muster. To your point, there’s a lot we still don’t understand about how our biology works, so if you’re going to use research as a reason to limit people, that’s a whole other bar to clear.
Crush has been around < 1 year. Perl has been around for 32. Of course more people know Perl.

If I’m being honest, you’re not adding anything constructive at all here - it seems you’re in a competition with yourself as to how much you can degrade Crush for whatever reason.

You act like it’s a choice between Crush and Perl. People don’t have to learn Crush. People don’t have to learn Perl. Will picking between the two have any substantial effect on one’s career outcomes these days? Probably not, as candidates will have already learned the important
languages for getting a job anyway.
Didn't mean to come off as attacking, sorry :)
It looks like LitElement but more TypeScript first. The decorators do make it a bit more approachable for me.
History showed us that governments are lazy and will go after the biggest fish and tons of small actors will evade the gov ban. So I believe no app store (or allow sideloading) is better for the peoples
> You see what other people have liked, or what's popular or lots of other things I don't want to see.

If you use a third-party app, you won't get most of that. You'll just get a reverse-chronological timeline of people's tweets and retweets, and I think some allow you to filter out retweets.
is this just a searx instance that's been loaded with ads?
Dynamite Shaped the World
As someone working in power systems (electrical engineer) and who programs in Julia for fun a bit. I'm curious about y'all's business model. I've asked before and only gotten something about load forecasting which I can't see supporting 30 people. Can you shed any light on the business model? Contract work? Do y'all have an actual software product? Please note that I'm not being critical, I am legitimately curious as the work y'all do seems to be very academic which I tend to see more coming out of universities. 400k loc is a lot btw, so it seems like y'all are pretty busy!
$10k per 330M residents is $3.3T which is too big to be the SBA loans, those are bailout size numbers but the bailouts get repaid
My ctrl key seems to mimic my Command key for most of these command and not do anything in other cases (Firefox & Word). Is there some setting I need to change?
It's literally run by the CCP in an authoritarian regime (i.e. dictatorship).
MOTD - message of the day, it's the small text blurb that's printed when you start a new shell instance on linux or mac computers. Not sure if it's a thing on windows.

Readline refers to the GNU readline library [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline
But what is the effect on lifetime of not having any CNO present? If a present-day massive star would have a lifetime of 10 million years, how long would it live if it was a population III star with no CNO?
What? I think macs being more consistent is in your head. It suffers the exact same issue as Windows and Linux. The issue can't be solved since app developers choose which the shortcuts and not os developers.
> purposefully ugly

I've been using OpenBSD for about 20 years so I feel like I can talk about this issue.

If you browse web.archive.org for old copies of the www.openbsd.org site, you'll notice that the current design is from many years ago, back when lots of websites looked like that.

It appears that the current design is from around the year 2000:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010118233800/http://www.openbs...

And that one of the oldest archived versions of the page, from 1997, already had much of the same information and organization, just with less color:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970327004719/http://www.openbs...

Over the years there have been attempts by users to redesign the site. Each had their own problems. I think that for a site redesign to be accepted, it would need to be a major improvement both technically and aesthetically, and for maintenance of the new site to be real easy. OpenBSD devs don't want a bunch of churny work hoisted on them.

Just as an aside, I've noticed in this thread that you're making low-effort, kind of rude posts about an important project that's not even related to the actual subject, which is Raspberry Pi. Why are you doing that?
The foundation package sounds a lot like the Lion components that ING Bank open sourced last year. It is indeed super handy to not have to worry about all the browser compatibility and accessibility issues!
Guilty as charged. And though I haven’t had a chance to read the Ed Yong article yet, I agree with the general stance that it’s surprising we understand anything at all about immunology, and what we do understand is incredibly surface level. As someone who has worked with both software/tech and science, I encourage you all to learn more about immunology— it’s a giant, multi-agent network that is incredibly complex, but the limitations of tooling mean we study it one parameter at a time, mostly using rudimentary classification frameworks (eg, cell types as determined by particular cell markers), rather than large data-driven approaches.
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I don't think there was a vote for invading Iraq, or any of the other countries targeted by the wrecking ball that is US hegemony.

Yes China is quite flawed, but this attempt at maintaining the status quo really only serves to halt progress.
I know six people that lost their jobs and were not looking for new ones because they were making more money on unemployment than employed. That is a perverse incentive.
Capitalism is built around competition and anti-monopoly, philosophically.

Unfortunately in reality people believe that the only good monopoly is the one they (think) they control. This leads them to pile more and more power into that institution -- Government. This makes the government a prize to win, ripe for abuse and takeover by special interest. In turn the government doesn't do the one thing it is supposed to do, which is ensure competition and prevent monopolies.

The basic premise of anti-trust is that you can't use your power in one area (say search) to gain marketshare in another area (say shopping, or videos). Google should have been broken up a long time ago. This doesn't go against any foundation of capitalism.
If you love the Readline bindings, you should upgrade to Emacs! You're halfway there.
Love the spirit. Especially with the free time that comes with covid, I have no excuses not to make things and start projects
> The benefit of shell scripting is that it is simple enough to have as a tertiary language that you can pickup and use after a six month hiatus.

I definitely did not find that to be the case. I've learned and relearned shell scripting a bunch of times. I always forget it and need to relearn it. Worse than perl.
How do you define worse? Number of deaths? If so, the US is doing better than many countries.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/05/8993658...
I just went in to migrate a site of mine as a test and it broke every single image and most or all of the internal links. If they can't even migrate the basics like images and internal links, then they really didn't put much effort into this at all and most people will have lots of work to actually migrate their site.
> Everything costs way more than it does here in the US

Except the big one of health care. Daycare, tuition, infrastructure, etc. are also mostly covered depending on where you are. So a lot more is paid for by taxes.

> job offers I turned down from Toronto based tech companies.

Tech salaries are much lower here to be sure, but we just have satellite offices of large tech firms beyond Shopify.

The brain drain south is a well known issue up here. If it were not for the healthcare nonsense in the USA, I probably would have gone too.
I think they're speculating prepare for something like this in the future because this is not the last time this will happen.
>China has a large, modern and highly capable navy.

China's navy CANNOT project power into the strait of Hormuz to secure their oil supply. Any one of the regional middle eastern powers could cut off their supply if they wanted to. They can defend their own shores, that's about it.

>US hospitals would rapidly degrade to third-world conditions without imports of Chinese-made supplies and materials.

Yes, for a period of a year or two until manufacturing can be brought up elsewhere. In the meantime the CCP would likely have fallen while dealing with mass riots due to a cratered economy and forced relocation of hundreds of millions from the cities back to rural areas so they could feed themselves without mass imports.

Look, it would absolutely be a terrible time to live through in the US, and whatever party was in charge during this period of time would likely lose power in the next election. But for the CCP, it would be game over, and I think they know it.
Because conglomerate is a technical term. They aren't making Google washing machines or google munitions. GE is an actual conglomerate.
If marketing departments do the work to direct their efforts and funds to other advertising channels, they may keep using them even after the virtue signaling -- or earnest signaling -- expires.

Continuity in marketing metrics can also be important.
I've been thinking about jumping on the Julia ship for a while. I like the LISP-like nature of R and miss its flexibility very much while working in Python (a language I also enjoy, but not particularly for data science). Julia, specifically its macro story and speed, fascinate me.

One of the things that still keeps me at bay is the JIT and the pre-compilation in general. It seems like it's still not very easy to actually compile a Julia library or an executable. There is PackageCompiler.jl, but my understanding is that it necessitates pulling in sys.so, which is some 130 MB in size, making it prohibitive for many projects.
Where did I lie? Apple was hit with a $500 million fine for nothing?

I'm not an Apple hater by any means. I understand they had their technical reasons, I was just pointing out the dichotomy between their perceived willingness to support older models and the lawsuit that says they are slowing them down.
This deserves some clarification. FamilySearch has a massive crowd-sourcing organization for volunteer indexing. Anybody can participate in their free time.
I remember back when I was an industry analyst talking to someone at IBM about some initiative other. And one of the things he said--I might not have the number/metric quite right but the idea is the important thing--was that if an initiative isn't going to bring in a billion dollars, it just doesn't move the needle enough to bother with.

Every little project takes some number of cycles from everyone up the management chain as well as finance, HR, etc. etc. At some point, even if it is profitable on its own, it's just too small of a blip to bother with. Plus, of course, no one is going to want to work on it because it's that dead end thing that the company doesn't care about and may randomly cancel at any time.
> In some aspects, absolutely. In things like "did they invade, subjugate, enslave, and pillage?", you absolutely can. Just because they didn't have porcelain toilets and lightbulbs doesn't mean what the British Empire got up to was ok, for example.

I'm not going to excuse these things. What I will let slide is that it was individuals who did this, not "white males". I think associating race and gender with a particular ideology is deeply harmful to our culture, especially when those people were products of their time. They didn't know any differently.

> In terms of political, cultural, etc. power, they are, that's the point - you don't pick on people with less power than you (see also: British Empire.)

I guess we just disagree. I don't believe a person of colour has any more or less 'power' than me, solely based on racial divide. What is a problem in our society is class divide, but that isn't related to race. Or are you going to suggest I'm move privileged than Will Smith (or another rich/famous/powerful person of colour)?
> it may be the case we've simply successfully kept the disease away from places children frequent.

That might be true to a degree, however the discrepancy is so huge, 2-3 orders of magnitude, that it should be pretty clear kids really do have much less to fear. I think some Olympic-level contortionism is needed to come to any other conclusion.
That makes blowing up TSMC remotely by hacking a better proposition - leaves all the players at a level playing field while maintaining plausible deniability.
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The "fast slider" is a perfect example of how animations make something perceptually slower, and might even be problematic as it implies the underlying value change is lagging behind the UI update.
The landlord can only outbid others because there is rental demand. So that doesn't do anything but force renters out of the market.
Those are ISO symbols. The US English versons have more words.
twitter is for scene kids like myspace was; it's ruined by adults with opinions and their job descriptions in their bios.
> let china spy on the 12 year olds

That's a ton of kompromat. Even if irrelevant on average and on the whole, it'll impact enough individuals. Why give that kind of leverage away for free?

Though agreed regardless, we need to move towards E2E encryption, local storage, and local key management (i.e. no password resets... or complex recovery schemes).
Then maybe you need to switch to the simpler iOS
Part of the problem is how thick the Pi's are. They're small computers on their own. But in a laptop case, they're chunky. Much thicker than your average off-the-shelf laptop. Plus, there's still rough edges when trying to use them as desktops. The Pi Zero would work in terms of size, but is very underpowered for desktops. The Pi Compute would probably be the perfect fit, but that hasn't been updated in a rather long time. Also underpowered.

So I can see why there's not much of a market. The hobbyists are largely doing something other than standard desktop use, and the people who need laptops (even cheap ones) are better served with something off-the-shelf. The best bet for the future are the handful of laptop-style docks coming out. Just plug your phone or pi into one of the external ports and go.
>have been constructed to build a specific narrative about diversity and inclusion

Just for reference, the first line in the memo is literally: "I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using
stereotypes"

But you kapnobatairza, you actually know what was in Damore's heart better than he himself. You are an oracle and a prophet and the bringer of truth. 2+2=5 amirite.
You can't see that Twitter slants far left?
How to Make Less Dumb Mistakes When Programming [video]
> To say that “the West doesn’t care about the human rights violations” is absurd, as if you could paint nearly a billion people (Europe plus US) with a single brush.

It should be pretty clear from the context that I am talking about western governments, not people.

Also, as an European, it doesn't look to me like we have much in terms of independent foreign policy.

> The idea that by supporting one repressive state you forfeit your ability to critique other repressive states is also absurd.

One? Please. We support plenty of other dictators all across the world. Or is Egypt's Sisi not a dictator? What about the UAE, Qatar etc.?

What about human rights violations by democratic countries? We don't seem to care much about illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

> in retrospect, keeping Saddam in power and not invading Iraq is considered a fairly reasonable opinion; i.e. even though we got rid of a dictator, the consequences were arguably worse

The assumption that the goal at the start was to get rid of a dictator because he was one is fairly well established to not be true. Basically a bunch of neocons who were bitter we didn't dispose Saddam in the FGW wanted to settle scores.

> The reality is that the West tends to not get involved politically if the state in question is insular enough to not affect other countries.

Really, what about the likes of Venezuela/Nicaragua?

> I don’t disagree that the West has sunk democratic movements which were against its interests, but that to say all such attempts will be shut down is overly-simplistic.

I hope you're right.
What Europe considers "free speech" isn't the same as what America considers "free speech."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-03-19/free-s...

>On free speech, the U.S. and Europe have also gone different ways. The German minister of justice threatened Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc.’s Google search back in December, telling them they needed to move faster and better to remove hateful posts that violate German law. Now the minister is proposing a new law in fulfillment of the threat.

>To Americans, the idea of the government forcing social media to censor posts may seem to resemble China’s internet censorship. Such legislation wouldn’t just be unconstitutional; it would be almost unthinkable. Facebook and Twitter are private actors who could censor voluntarily under the Constitution -- indeed, their voluntary censorship would itself be protected speech.

>But the government can’t order private censorship any more than it can censor directly. That’s because U.S. constitutional tradition treats hate speech as the advocacy of racist or sexist ideas. They may be repellent, but because they count as ideas, they get full First Amendment protection.
Ask HN: How do you start getting into VC?
With the lack of substantial capital and experience, how can someone learn more about venture capital? How did you get started?
I'd say it is. The number of countries that want to go super-authoritarian and are able to do so via control of information and data gathering (instead of simply putting a police guy with an AK47 on each corner and install an inquisitor) is small. China seems to be the only one that's capable of doing it and really wants to. Russia might at some point in the future if the establishment's grip on power lessens, but their issues are different.

Other countries would certainly like to, but lack the abilities. Maybe China will supply them, but I don't know whether the Chinese system of surveillance and control would work in e.g. Turkey or Saudi-Arabia with very different cultures.
Lately I've been having more conversations with older people. It's fascinating hearing stories about such a different world.
This could be a good forcing function for them to get their act together on cloud. However, I've heard that teams internally can't build on google cloud for various reasons. It may even make more sense for them to directly spin off onto AWS. Even "seperate" companies like Waymo build their systems on the internal google infra.
That's not true. I know several people that work in the restaurant industry who have gotten COVID-19 while wearing PPE, probably because of how many people refuse to wear masks, or don't wear them properly. And it isn't just about getting infected yourself. How would you feel if you got infected and ended up accidentally infecting someone you love who ends up dying? There needs to be a national mandate and actual enforcement of mask wearing to stop the spread.
"Archiving" means that each site will be converted into an HTML export and placed in their Google Drive, and a separate copy will be converted to a new site and placed in a draft (unpublished) state in their Google Drive. They can choose to republish that new Site, or take the HTML export and move it to a new platform of their choosing.
You must never get condensation on your finger or phone. That scanner is so ineffective with just a little moisture.

That said, I still like it better than face.
Seems a little pedantic or legalistic to argue that kids aren’t functionally immune to covid. Less than 2% of cases in the US have been kids under the age of 18. Of the ones that tested positive, less than 10% had symptoms.

Three total children have died in the US from complications relating to covid. It’s more dangerous to drive your kid to the park than it is to let your kid play in the park.
Was it a new project using Julia from scratch ?
Incorrect in the case of Apple. The government first approved their iBooks Store and iTunes Movies, then six month later, in 2016, shut them down, in what the NYT called a "startling about face". Apparently the Chinese authorities could not abide by the possibility of a foreign company purveying books and movies in China. There is nothing straightforward about "playing by Chinese rules".

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/technology/apple-no-longe...
Is that what you meant to link? It looks like the official docs, and not a blog post.
Excellent point but you're also advocating for a race to the bottom and us-versus-them mentality, which would certainly weaken your product. If anything we need greater attention to the employment-at-will legal standard in most industries, so that poor management can be dealt with effectively (if at all). Anyway it's hard to believe that widespread corruption could be rooted out by an uprising of young angry geeks :)

Is there actual literature on unionizing in software engineering, or is it mostly impassioned blog posts?
Clearly that doesn't make any sense as you stated it, however the premise that "we must do the same thing that we think is bad" is a false premise. All else equal, barring companies from operating is a bad thing, that makes all of us worse off. But when China is doing that to us, "all else" is not "equal". The same goes for when Chinese companies are effectively appendages of a genocidal Chinese state -- all else is most certainly not equal.

A very simple analogy is to that of interpersonal violence. All else equal, it's bad to point a gun at someone. But if they're threatening you with a gun first and unjustifiably, then it's no longer bad. In fact its bad not to fight back, since to not do so would allow wickedness to flourish. And any argument along the lines of "two wrongs don't make a right" is of course absurd.
The short answer is yes, it's possible and easy. The longer answer is, that's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. Pytorch is calling optimized c++ kernels, whereas Flux is completely generic and can do GPU and CPU codegen (including AMD). Flux can do things Pytorch just doesn't have CUDA code for, It's more generic and composable and it's getting there with a much smaller team/budget. That means it has more potential, with the drawback that it isn't quite as fast, for now, in some of the common use cases the pytorch has been hard coded/ hyperoptimized for.

In other more complex cases beyond big fat matmuls and such, it's much faster, even comparing to torchscript (sciml, neural ODEs etc).

Still, the codegen is getting there with the funded work on the GPU compiler and memory allocation and there eventually won't be any sort of tradeoff.

In the meantime, Yes, there is a package at allows calling pytorch kernels without modifying your code. This is also only possible with such finesse due to Julia's power and composability. See here for the package: https://fluxml.ai/2020/06/29/acclerating-flux-torch.html