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by hintymad 4y ago
I can get why people blamed the SF politics but not why people blamed the homeless. Both in my experience and by statistics, homeless are not particularly aggressive or violent. It's unfortunately enough that they became homeless, and
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by hintymad 4y ago
As much as I don't like SF's progressive politics, the data showed that the recalled SF DA Boudin didn't charge less on murders or narcotics: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/We-obtained-nev
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by hintymad 4y ago
In addition, do check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zhixin , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Zhao , and https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/politics-gui
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Not sure what the Chinese term was but the Soviets used the word "bourgeoisie" or sometimes "kulaks" Yup, Chinese did use "bourgeoisie" too. It's called Xiaozi （小资）, though the connotation of the word
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by hintymad 4y ago
I honestly hope that people didn’t downvote the comment because of the mention of “right”. The “right” in China (or the third Internationale in general) is akin to the liberals in the western world. The whole point of the comment is that tr
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by hintymad 4y ago
Oh my god, are you serious? Or I just naively assumed that the dark history of China back in the 50s and 60s are well known? The Great Leap Forward. The Anti-Right Campaign (BTW, “right” in Marxism terms are akin to the left in the western
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by hintymad 4y ago
And whoever publicly even doubted the decision of Mao was labeled as right-wing who spread misinformation, or counter-revolutionaries who sabotaged the great socialism movement. Maybe there is some truth in the question: who's the arbi
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by hintymad 4y ago
A criticism of NPR that I often see online is that NPR is leftists' propaganda machine (not government's, mind you, but democrat's). However, is this criticism true, though? To me, a propaganda machine would lie or weave fact
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by hintymad 4y ago
My experience in small companies told me that younger generation didn’t choose Go because Go is objectively better than Java, but because they actively hate Java for it being out of fashion.
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by hintymad 4y ago
Serious question: why are we not concerned about losing manufacturing jobs for decades? They caused great pains to our nation, right? They weakened our nation too to the point that China seems unstoppable, right? How is that job loss differ
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by hintymad 4y ago
Ben Thompson also has a take on the the claim that AI will replace jobs. He basically said that those people were being hypocritical. The US has been steadily losing jobs for moving their supply chains overseas, yet those people jumped out
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by hintymad 4y ago
I was paraphrasing the debate between LeCun and Gebru. The point is not whether LeCun's point about bias in data is correct or not. The point is that his view was different from Gebru, and Gebru called him out as a bigot (Anima Anandku
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by hintymad 4y ago
> "racism, sexism, and abuse" without backing it up with facts. Yeah, I was turned off by this too. Unfortunately this is the psyche of the western world. You disagree with me? You're racist. You think bias in an ML model
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by hintymad 4y ago
That's an interesting view. If there's no landlord, who will supply the rental properties? Government?
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by hintymad 4y ago
Ah, yes. Thanks!
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by hintymad 4y ago
> I think it's an oversimplification and ignores the fact that a large number of renters in SF were displaced all along the way. And the government's answer is always rent control, eviction moratorium, and etc, despite that man
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by hintymad 4y ago
Very true. I've seen too many engineers lose focus easily due to poor sleep. What's even worse is that many of my fellow engineers lost curiosity over time. They thought it was due to age or burden from raising a family, but it&#x
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Progressive DA's and a neutered police force are to blame for the rise in violent crime There are reports that police would book a criminal, yet DA simply released them right away. I'm not sure how much police can do about it
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by hintymad 4y ago
Huh, it seems Bob further optimized his code. The one I remember used the similar approach, but employed a doubly-linked list for backtracking. The pleasant surprise that I got from his code was that recursion plus a linked list still beat
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by hintymad 4y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, but I agree with everything you said. Whether the left is doing what you implied, though, is a different discussion.
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by hintymad 4y ago
I don't see what's wrong with SF. /sarcasm SF is the people's choice, no? The people in SF elected DAs who release booked violent criminals right away, multiple times. The people in SF elected politicians who told us, re
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by hintymad 4y ago
What a tragedy. I remember Bob’s code that generates certain numbers: https://www.beust.com/weblog/coding-challenge/ . Bob’s code is in Java, yet uses clever backtracking techniques to achieve the best performance
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by hintymad 4y ago
Process has to do with people. Hire mature and proactive people, you don't need process but context. As company grows, both culture and talent gets diluted and managers get increasingly removed from reality while more mediocre managers
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by hintymad 4y ago
They lost to MS because, at least to a large part, they optimized for the wrong thing. They were just like WordPerfect, placing raw performance above everything. As a result, Borland C++ was way behind the release cycle of Win32 as the comp
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by hintymad 4y ago
Of course there is, just as there was a way for poor rural kids in China to go to the top universities: have public schools offer excellent educations. Pay teachers to offer after-school programs. Pay teachers to give challenging course wor
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by hintymad 4y ago
Isn't it the poor but talent kids who got hurt? Family with means will simply send their kids to private tutors or good after schools. What's really mind boggling is that the constituents in the SF school district were okay with t
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by hintymad 4y ago
Do people in the Bay Area still remember how much of a thread Microsoft is to the Bay Area companies? How many tech CEOs went to the capitol hill to cry to the congress how evil MS is? Until in the 2000s did Google rise up, producing obviou
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by hintymad 4y ago
Does the letter cite any specific danger of the current LLM backed by examples? I hope this is not another Gebru moment that a bunch of people cite moral high ground without substance.
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by hintymad 4y ago
I'd go one step further if it is not happening yet: smaller companies should really pool their resources to train open LLMs. Say, form a consortium and work with the open source community to build ChatGPT-equivalent. Companies will be
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by hintymad 4y ago
I don't get how Marvel's movies are getting worse too. Take Black Panther, for instance, why would people even not consider it premise insulting? Maybe Americans thought it was perfectly normal to depict Wankanda like that, but le

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