skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your gigabit network switch runs Linux. Even the securities exchanges' gigabit switches run Linux (on a FPGA).
I am curious how much actual vs perceived anti-semitism there is. I've seen more people conflate "Criticism of the state of Israel" with "criticism of Jewish people" and further still with "discrimination against Jewish people" than I have seen actual antisemitic sentiment on the left.
Honestly I didn't make it very far before the smell made me turn around and walk out.

> Through shrewd acquisitions, blatantly copying the exclusivity of rivals (read: Snapchat, TikTok), Facebook managed to become an integral part of our lives in less than a decade.

Maybe some of that is true? Facebook has been "an integral part of our lives" for longer than a decade. I remember returning home from college in 2008 and seeing my small town papered in facebook usernames for just about every business that had a sign. That was well before Snapchat or TikTok existed, and I don't think they'd done any acquisitions of note up to then. This guy's not completely wrong here, but the framing is myopic enough for me to look for another source of information about the advertising change.
I suppose it's tough to balance detail with complexity when it comes to a general wiki like Wikipedia. Especially with math and its domain language.

I believe that the issue you're outlining was the precursor to simple.wikipedia.org. Sorry... I couldn't come up with a math example on the spot but here's a good CompSci example:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra's_algorithm
I was homeschooled k-11, then GED'd, went to college, came out with a Master's. My sibling did the same route, but ended up with a PhD from an Ivy.

Neither of us recommend it; my sib is more antagonistic than I am. There are a number of conjoined factors, but it, as conventionally understood, is not a sufficient system for forming a child's development. People talk about "socialization" and "friends", those are subtly wrong. The key question is integration with society and understanding how it works.

As a parent now of a 4yo, I am passionately planning to put him in public schools. I would STILL have yanked him into homeschool for 2020-2021 school year and sucked it up. Local public school districts were a cluster. Zoom school seems to be a hilariously bad idea for people who aren't like, e.g., my sib, who is incredibly disciplined and great at self teaching.

Edit: Happy to answer questions; if it relates to things that might be disparaging to others or requires a very serious & thoughtful response, please just email me at my listed address in the profile.
are there any companies hoarding 0days? I know the CIA does, but asking for ethical behavior from them seems like such a long-shot that it would make sense to decouple it from more achievable goals.
They held a strike because they refused to handle south African goods which is essentially a boycott. Their actions led to a lot of publicity in the country and internationally at the time which put pressure on the Government to act.

“We got an awful lot of knocks back. People who we thought would have supported us: the Church, the government – who were all members of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement at the time,” she said.

The Dunnes strikers were given their greatest endorsement when the South African Bishop Desmond Tutu – at the time a vocal and renowned critic of apartheid – asked to meet them as he travelled to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in the December after the strike started.

https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-strike-8-3690382-Nov...

If a boycott gets popular it's eventually going to get media coverage no?
a meta-plug is in order for pipx, then: https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/

which wholly abstracts "pip install this thing that has an entry_point without hating your life."
"If taxation is such an inherent good then why does it need to be hidden from people?"

It isn't an inherent good. It's just required to reduce demand and release people so the public sector can purchase them with its money.

Without it you would have inflation - or none of the public services we voted for.

The reason you pay tax is that your income is higher than it otherwise would have been without the government spending.

What people who don't like tax forget is that should you eliminate it, the increased income will be eliminated too. But not in a smooth way. Jobs will be decimated, and one of those might be yours.
That was one of the most heinous, blatantly bigoted screeds I'd read in quite a long time. There isn't anything defensible about it.
The biggest problem is that supersonic just steals first-class passengers from other routes, where the profits are higher.

Also, far higher climate impacts, which is what concerns me the most. Lets just be happy with crossing an entire ocean in 6 hours.
Not only does the manager have to have low empathy and questionable morals, they also have to get throwaway head count, collude with bar raisers to hire low performing employees, and they need to fool their directors. Like the OP stated, it's bad overall for the company / organization, and doubtful executives at the organizational level will let you get away with it if found out.

It stretches imagination that all of the above align and this is a common practice at Amazon.
You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
> The claim that most people will have a disability (not necessarily permanent) at some point in their life

I think it was Microsoft that came up with a great infographic illustrating that disabilities aren't a black/white thing. It broke things down by permanent vs temporary vs situational.

Something like:

- Touch / tactile - arm/hand amputation (permanent), arm in a sling (temporary), new parent cradling a baby (situational)

- Vision - blindness (permanent), cataracts (temporary), distracted driver (situational)

- Hearing - deafness (permanent), ear infection (temporary), bartender in a noisy bar (situational)

- Speaking - non-verbal (permanent), laryngitis (temporary), interacting with a heavy accent (situational)

When framed like this, it seems much easier to make the case for accessible products, versus as an afterthought.
From what I've seen Facebook pays better than just about anyone else for the same engineer. So while they're not having trouble doing that, it seems likely that they are paying a premium to overcome people's stomachs.
zerodium?
This won't really work. Many governments and intelligence agencies will pay an extreme premium for 0days and basically hoard them for future use. How do you stop the CIA or NSA from buying 0days? How do you prevent foreign governments or actors from buying them?

The ability to inflict massive damage to a nations infrastructure is now part of modern weaponry. It's akin to asking militaries to stop buying weapons. We have basically split the atom here, we aren't going back.

If you don't want people hacking into your systems you need to go full Galactica, disabling networks and have stopgap measures on every critical device.

There's a great book that talks about this ecosystem (of buying bugs, vulnerabilities, and other 0days), among other cyber security related things:

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/16355760...
Something says to me that if he said "Europeans" instead, it would be ok. Of course, it is hard for me to back up this claim, other than with the anecdotal data that such comments are common on (liberal) Twitter and the like. In a world with so many protected classes, this former head of diversity made the really foolish mistake of not making a remark at the expense of one of the lesser protected classes, instead.

Edit: found in a related comment that he did make such a comment, and that those such comments are precisely the ones not really mentioned or cared about in the media...
Maybe it was taught in the wrong order. Matrix multiplication makes perfect sense if you see (a) that linear transformations can be represented as matrices, I.e A = f, B = g and (b) you define matrix multiplication so that the composition of linear transformations I.e. f(g(x)) = ABx gives the same result. That’s a pretty cool idea, that you can represent a function by a matrix and that you can compose those functions and the composition is the same as multiplying the matrices together. So let’s say f(x) computes the derivative of a polynomial, and you have a matrix representation for that, say A. Now what if I want the second derivative? That would be f(f(x)) or just AAx.

I suppose I would tell a student that asks “why would I want to remember the stupid rule for multiplying matrices together in that way?” to try and figure out a rule for multiplying two matrices together such that you could represent functional composition by it, and they would self-discover the matrix multiplication rule and see why it would be useful to do it that way.
Newer versions of MacOS are doing this with filesystem permissions to an extent, and apps like Little Snitch make it pretty easy to control network connections, though they do cost extra...
I still use Facebook on iOS only through the browser. Have a little shortcut in my Home Screen and it takes me straight there.
I don't know how to answer your question, but a thing to keep in mind is that Jewish people are usually less than 1% or 2% of the population. For example (in France), I'm worried about Christian and especially Muslim homophobia, but Jewish not so much because it's way easier to navigate around. I don't even have anecdotal evidence of Jewish presence or absence of homophobia because I didn't meet many of them.

Edit because I realized I may not have been clear: what I mean is that in a lot of country Christian and Muslims are in power. For Jewish people, it's the case in one country, and there's not much big minorities like there are Muslim minorities in Chrisian countries and the opposite.
“My teacher friends (younger age groups than yours) said essentially the same thing. Some fraction of students simply disappeared during remote learning and no amount of phone calls to their parents could get them back.”

We were sending staff door to door everyday, but it is unclear how much of an impact that (or any of our other interventions) really made. A lot of these kids were depressed, anxious, unmoored.

“It seems the challenge now is that the most prepared students have gotten further ahead while the least prepared students fell further behind. Managing the increased divergence in coming years will be a challenge.”

Anxiety over that divergence is already building amongst the teaching staff.
Italy was unified back in the 1800s, so this is stretching the truth a little. It existed as a kingdom well before becoming a republic.

It also has a surprisingly long list of separatist movements[0], which it has has thus far refrained from bombing with US-funded F16s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_move...
You have to consider the use case in addition to the technology. The relatively simple implementation of CPython ensures you have fast startup, but trade-off other optimizations which affect long-running programs.

Lots of Python scripts only run for a short time. Code in the REPL needs to return results really quickly. The .NET JIT added significant startup costs to the point where the IronPython team had to add an interpreted mode for first runs before handing off the JIT. This is complex and arguably takes time away from CPython compatibility work.

It seems that the .NET team is coming around to the concerns around startup time, but I don't know if they have landed on an AOT solution. It probably will help executables running on .NET Core more than scripts running under IronPython. I've not kept up with JITs very much, but I don't think this pattern is limited to the .NET JIT, and is a general trade-off. I feel like JavaScript JITs may be closer to what IronPython would have wanted though.
Reading his blog post it seems to me like he is commenting on Israeli state politics and the extremists within its borders rather than "any" jew. Yes he uses the word jew in a general way, which of course is unfortunate as Israel does not solely consist of jewish people.

His points are presented without hyperboles, and while they certainly do not paint Israels state politics in a good light, how is this anti semitism (which in wikipedia is defined as "hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews")?

Antisemitism is of course as inexcusable as any other form of racism, but criticism of a country's or groups political views and policies is not hate nor discrimination.

In my opinion his removal is an overreaction, but with how polarizing this subject I don't see how it could have gone any other way.
The original plan was for Python 2 support to end in 2015.
Thanks for the commentary, it's a useful perspective. Perhaps it depends on many things, but i feel like this post is not attributing these actions to you, in any way. My reading of the actual actions being criticised in that there is no way the author could mean anything other than the jewish state of israel. Working backwards from there, it's clear to me that any reference to jew is simply because AIPAC and western media in general have spent the last ~50 years blurring the discourse to the point where Jew ~= Israeli.
Sounds like you're the one with the problem then. He barely said anything offensive, just misspoke - if you look at the full blog post text, the intent is clear.
Jfc. You had me there. I need to calm down and get back to work. This whole thread is way too much.
Do note that the issue, in the media reporting of the incident, mentions and highlights one and not the other.
I guess it depends on how much is owned.

A percent or two would be very different to 30-40% (which would probably be a controlling interest).
> All this publicity now may have ruined this guy's career forever,

You do seem to live in extremely polite and enlightened world where just a transfer is ruining career. Out in real world today one would have their ass out of job instead of mild reprimand for such blog post.
It sounds like you have a shitty manager. You should more clearly lay out your work / life balance to him/her.
I don't get it. He's pointing out five problems with Google's efforts. I don't know whether they're correct or not, but I don't see anything here to criticize. If these are true, and they seem plausible, they do need to be fixed.
In terms of getting people fired/removed/cancelled for remarks, yes absolutely. That may be a function of social media and the scale of communication in modern times, but either way the sensitivity of the vocal minority has definitely changed even in my relatively short life.
Home Depot Cyber attack from 2014: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/11/06/hom...

And Goodwill in 2014:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/09/03/goodwill-stor...

And JP Morgan:
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/hackers-attack-crack...

Target cyber attack from 2013: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/target-settle...

2014 had at least 3 major cyberattacks covered by the mainstream media. I'm sure there are more, but I don't have Lexis Nexus or whatever to do that kind of research; just google.

Edit: And that target cyber attack got TONS of coverage. I remember it quite well. Everyone was talking about it at work. So this stuff didn't fly under the radar.
Outlaw torrenting while you're at it
> Abolish religion, and you free the people to the reality of the universe.

You'd be better off abolishing politics/politicians[1]: religion is but one way of "othering". Religion/sectarianism is only a hot-button issue because it serves hard-liner politicians well on both sides of any conflict/blood-feud

1. Good luck with that! Especially when politicians make the laws.
In revolutionary France the self-destruction process was fast, less than 10 years. What historical lessons can be applied to the current situation?
>this fallacy

It's a garden variety false equivalence.
Everything I see from Peter Norvig is just always so incredibly well written and coded. I'd love to know what it's like to work for him.

Every year looking at his solutions for advent of code [0] brings just so much learnings. Strongly recommend.

[0] https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Advent%2...
Here's the thing I don't get.

If a groups behavior doesn't match your expectations based on your perspective of their history but you dont have the benefit of their lived experiences, wouldn't that be a tell-tale sign to try to recognize you MUST not have an understanding of the topic or enough information to formulate an opinion?
First of all, don't be surprised if a goal of “the cost of a business class ticket” translates into something like 50% or 100% more.

Also the Concorde was not that much of a premium over first class on, say, a 747. I'm remembering +30% or +50%. Of course, that first class ticket was very expensive if you inflate it to today's money.
The nazis were not especially religious in nature. And russian communists were specifically anti-religious.
That puts the cart before the horse. People voted for them, so they are provided - and the people required to run them removed from the private sector.

To invert that, what exactly are you planning on doing with the people currently in the public service, which the people voted for, that is so much more important than providing the services the people voted for?

It is for the private sector to justify its use of resources, not the public sector. The public sector has a democratic mandate.
Is it false? Doesn't seem like something he would assert without a cite.
Worked out quite well for Theranos didn't it?
> I've always viewed work as means to an end, and that end is getting paid to take care of my family

For most of us, it's also something we're being forced to do for 40-50 hours a week. We spend the best, more productive hours of the prime years of our lives working. So it might as well be something engaging.

People we would rather not be around, I agree. I unfortunately have to deal with some of these online as well though. Ideally this is something that can be discussed with one's manager so that we are no longer forced to work with said people.
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I'm on my phone, so the history lesson is going to be pithy.

The Jewish insurgency in mandatory Palestine was prompted by British indications that it was going to create a multi-racial, democratic state in Palestine, as they did in many of their other colonies once they departed. I believe there was a policy white paper published but I don't recall the name.

After substantial British civilian/government worker deaths at the hands of insurgent bombs (ie. King David Hotel bombing), the British retreated and gave it to the UN, who did the partition.

> Palestine had its last election in 2006 and chose a party that literally killed its opponents.

I may be misremembering, but I believe a large reason elections haven't been held since then was because the party elected in 2006 was ejected in a coup by the party supported by the US and Israel.

So, 14 years since an election in Palestine, and Netanyahu has been prime minister for 14 years.
As a package this seems perfectly reasonable, but I'm skeptical of the use of Monte Carlo being a technical buzzword rather than a choice made because it was the appropriate tool for the task. I wasn't able to find any technical details in the "How it works" section, but if you assume the distribution of time to complete a task is uniform on the interval [worst case, best case], then at any time point the underlying distribution seems to be a composition of sums and minima of uniform distributions. These are available in closed form. I see in another comment the distributions are assumed to be log-normal -- that's fine too, there are good approximation to these. On the website it says thousands of trajectories are generated. It seems likely that one can straightforwardly compute the result that the Monte Carlo approach would give in the limit of infinitely many generated trajectories.
Something like this surely could never be used by toxic workplaces to monitor and control their employees. Surely.
Is the cancellation of Galileo by the Church a good example? A way a civilized society should function?

If not, if we consider historical examples like these as failures of past societies, then things "not being any different than today" suggests our society is also failing.
This guy expressed views that would reasonably call into question whether or not he would do the position he was in. Merely the appearance of such views might make it impossible for him to be able to e.g. get the respect of communities he might have to work with as part of his role.

For many other positions I would agree with you, but not a position like this.
Wallets, the kind that fit in your pocket, containing cash, the folding kind of money, are an example of capabilities that are widely used.

People don't just hand over their wallet, they chose the amount to tender in a transaction, which is the most they could lose.

If someone asks me to hand over my wallet, I know I'm being robbed.

In a capabilities based system, you pick what files to give to an application, instead of the application showing you a dialog and then getting them itself. As far as the user is concerned, the UI doesn't even need to change.

It is my long held belief (2005!) that capability based systems are the only way out of this nightmare.
I don't have all the facts, but this article [1] seems to refute your accounting.

The memo was initially sent to Diversity Training, then after a non-response, Damore himself circulated to a wider internal audience.

According to Google [2], he was fired because portions of his memo were found to be a violation of Google's Code of Conduct, specifically "each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination."

But again, this all misses the point--a 2007 blog post when you were not an employee is much different than sending a memo internally while on the clock.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...

2: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/note-empl...
Yeah that makes sense. Additionally, like some other commenter pointed out, did they ever suffer from limited interactions with people of their own age? My high school friends stayed my friends well into adulthood and I would've been much lonelier had I been homeschooled.
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It's universally acknowledged that men are more violent than women.
I hate the 1. "let's stick our heads in the sand and not talk about something important because of what could happen" and the 2. "I'm going to flag this, dv, and silence you because I'm in a different group who's going to punish you collectively for you being you."

Is there unintentional antisemitism in the sense of conflating all Jews with the subset of Israel/Likud/Israeli military/extreme settlers vs. the intentional antisemitism of "all Jews are X"?

How should we distinguish, treat, and respond to this to make such instances teachable moments and interrupt the lack of nuance and/or the othering conspiracy theories/hate?

(I think hate is taught or memetically-acquired in the absence of sane reasonableness and the Golden Rule; and ignorance is the lack of experience, knowledge, or wisdom. The Nature of Prejudice by Allport and Anti-Semite and Jew by Sarte are good reads.)
I mean that's a bad characterization. Most Americans don't have savings to be inherited, so "many Americans" should be quantified first. The gains are only taxed when they are realized, so you don't owe taxes on inheritance - only when you sell the assets. You would not owe at the top rate unless your income (including realized gains) eclipses the threshold.

That's not a death tax. It's an income tax. You don't get out of it by dying.