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by high_derivative 6y ago
This seems on the surface about protecting LGBTQ+, but it seems the kicker is really about treatment for transgender teenagers. There is a movement to stop any kind of discussion about therapy on gender dysphoria other than transition. Tran
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by high_derivative 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I despise white board and leet code. I hate it when we (at a FAANG) cannot hire some otherwise excellent candidate. One interesting thing though is that from a market perspective, it still ends up making se
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by high_derivative 6y ago
The main difference to me seems that some in the West are vehemently denying anything is even happening. 'There is no cancel culture. You are just being held accountable. People just don't like you. You have no right to social med
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by high_derivative 6y ago
What kind of content do you actually need to store as a student on cloud that takes substantial storage? Genuine question. I used dropbox free tier with 2 GBs throughout all of undergrad + masters + phd, and I never had problems. Lecture vi
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Just as a user feedback - I do not want to have to sign up or login with your account to see what's what. You need a landing page showing some content. My suggestion would be to delete this submission until you have prepared a landing
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Saving you a click: leads to an empty signup page with no content to explain what it is.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
>. I don’t want to downplay the deep instutionalised sexism and racism that is at play in Gebru’s firing — that is there for all to see. This is a very badly written and uniformed article, and sentences like these essentially illustrate
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Yes - I felt it went into a lot of conjecture about certain events and Scott's responsibility/involvement (and very polarising interpretation of these events). I found that less useful and it would have probably been better to sep
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by high_derivative 6y ago
A submission comment since this is very long: Like many hn readers, I personally enjoy Scott Alexander's writing. This is a rather scathing but very long criticism of his style, so I thought it may make for interesting discussion here.
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Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method(eruditorumpress.com)
14 points by high_derivative 6y ago|25 comments
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Strategically, this seems like a mistake. It's better to fire the activists outright now - the problem is not gone, just deferred, until the next confrontation.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Im fairly certain he means 'plain old not doing a great job'.
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Tech company pulls Bay Area job posting that listed 'non-Asian' as requirement(sfgate.com)
4 points by high_derivative 6y ago|1 comments
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Agreed and I think what consumers should do is vote with their wallets and attention: - Cancel NYT subscriptions - Subscribe to independent journalists and writers on Substack or via other means - Flag NYT articles
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by high_derivative 6y ago
S4TF from my (external) perspective was always more a (very cool!) programming language research project than anything else, at least since Lattner left. I would personally assume the shutdown was due to a combination of reasons: - There si
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Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down(github.com)
502 points by high_derivative 6y ago|420 comments
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by high_derivative 6y ago
I really really really hope Substack does not get acquired. Cue content policies, moderation, and basically another outlet of big tech media.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
As a non-American, the intellectual infantilization around bad words is completely insane to me.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
The NYT has a reckoning coming. They went all in on neoliberal culture war - and it worked, it gained them subscribers. People still treat them like a serious institution, but if they continue down this path, that's over.
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NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur(greenwald.substack.com)
452 points by high_derivative 6y ago|331 comments
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Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of AI(quillette.com)
32 points by high_derivative 6y ago|14 comments
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by high_derivative 6y ago
It's certainly been interesting to see this narrative be manufactured and adopted within a very short amount of time and now accepted as truth widely.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
The initial 4 year schedule is largely irrelevant, considering high performers get large refreshers.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
This is a nice idea if they were trying to change the process to work better for everyone. That's not what's happening. They just demand explicit quotas for themselves. The whole 'diversity and inclusion/feminism makes t
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by high_derivative 6y ago
At my company (FAANG), 2/3 of intern and entry level opportunities are given to women. Ironically virtually all of them come from the same few elite universities and were hardly held back by anyone, as far as I can tell. Some of them p
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Does this mean Pycharm et al. will also have support?
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by high_derivative 6y ago
> The MSM has mostly done an outstanding job, newspapers in particular. I really genuinely cannot tell whether you are being sarcastic.
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We must stop militant liberals from politicizing artificial intelligence(spectator.us)
8 points by high_derivative 6y ago|1 comments
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by high_derivative 6y ago
There are multiple types of impact. The question is whether it brings value to Google as a corporation, and thus leverage to her as an employee.
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by high_derivative 6y ago
Sure - I am just observing this from the power dynamics here. A relatively low-level employee making aggressive and public demands to a large corporation should think carefully about their position. Unless the goal is a scandal for publicit

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