hackerpacker's comments

that study is a case study in selection bias by someone with a political agenda.

You can't just look at actions by one somewhat arbitrary group against another, and not look at the actions of anyone else, unless you are expressly trying to be misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime_in_Germa...

You can see that the other "group" here, whos actions are deliberately being ignored by the author and everyone else with an agenda, have brought a lot of violence of their own to the table. Or at least have enough conflicting data points to not pretend to "know" something about facebook and framed studies.

"The group represented roughly 2 percent of the German population by end of 2017,[10] but was suspected of committing 8.5 percent of crimes (violations off the German alien law are not included). The numbers suggest that the differences could at least to some extent have to do with the fact that the refugees are younger and more often male than the average German. The statistics show that the asylum-group is highly overrepresented for some types of crime. They account for 14.3 percent of all suspects in crimes against life (which include murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter), 12.2 percent of sexual offences, 11.4 percent of thefts and 9.7 percent of body injuries The report also shows differences between the origin of migrants. Syrians are underrepresented as suspects, whereas citizens from most African countries, especially northern Africans are strongly overerrepresented. Afghans and Pakistanis are particularly overerrepresented in sexual offenses.[7][10]"

"Given what we know about social media and violence"

you mean how social media is akin to a pressure relief valve, and how actual violence has gone down since it took off? And how this is probably about clicks and stirring the pot than actual violence, and how this is just going to completely backfire? Shall we burn some books too?

so, Louis Farrakhan is "Far-Left" then?!?

can we just make a law that the driver is responsible/liable for the car they drive, regardless how they drive it? I mean breaks failing while you are actively driving is one thing, but to completely surrender control, that is a choice.

In my experience, is usually the ones proclaiming moral superiority that have the most to hide (or are the most willfully blind).

There is no moral dichotomy between reps and dems, they are pretty much equally depraved from what I can tell.

fwiw, I took a stab at replacing a bunch of => with . and ran it: time ./crb-vec-omp real 0m0.764s

which is more than twice as fast as the rust example,

but it didn't create the right output...

if you get bored would you mind taking a stab at adding parallel and modifying crb-vec.c https://github.com/niofis/raybench , I definitely think you might be on to something here.

fwiw, I looked at some of the quicker c/rust examples, without too much other analysis

  crb-vec-omp //I added some #pragma omp to crb-vec
  executable size:
    18k
  time:
    real 0m3.630s
  valgrind: 
    ==17703== HEAP SUMMARY:
    ==17703==     in use at exit: 7,408 bytes in 15 blocks
    ==17703==   total heap usage: 20 allocs, 5 frees, 
  14,790,856 bytes allocated

  rsrb_alt_mt.rs
  executable size:
      426k
  time: 
    real 0m1.630s
  valgrind: 
    ==7221== HEAP SUMMARY:
    ==7221==     in use at exit: 43,120 bytes in 216 blocks
    ==7221==   total heap usage: 256 allocs, 40 frees, 
  11,113,784 bytes allocated

and because we have a number of tiny single cpu vm's out there (which would also benefit from a performant language) I gave it a shot there:

  :~# time ./rsrb_alt_mt
  ./rsrb_alt_mt: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not 
  found (required by ./rsrb_alt_mt)

  real 0m0.002s
  user 0m0.002s
  sys 0m0.000s

  :~# time ./crb-vec-omp 

  real 0m24.234s
  user 0m24.160s
  sys 0m0.035s

so rust appears broken on centos 7.5 (no, I'm not going to edit the binary). But that is an insta-deal breaker for us.

shouldn't rust being faster than C be something of a red flag that they aren't quite the same algorithm? Or that the algorithm is sub-optimal?

that isn't a very random test then.

re: performance, as someone who isn't particularly enamored with rust or go (or any language), how is this thing only doing 16MBps local to local?!?

so, you might be dealing with some half/truths here.

Netflix does NOT use aws for their meat and potatoes streaming, just the housekeeping. They use OWS for the heavy lifting.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/netflix-is-not-...

But re: maintaining hardware, I only maintain my dev box these days. We are fine with hosted linux services, but backup/monitoring/updating is just too trivial, and the hosting so affordable (and predictable) w/linux it would have to be a hype/marketing/nepotic decision to switch to aws in our case. The internet is still built on a backbone and run by linux, any programmer would be foolhardy to ignore that bit of reality for very long.

so, what is to stop them from running code from the app?!? Who do you call when something breaks? Do you expect the dev to not be able to log in and investigate at 3am or whenever?

I mean if you can't trust your dev team, or the procedures surrounding them, you are kinda screwed.

hype maybe? Got a backroom deal for the exposure? Oh, and you probably aren't netflix either. But they have a pretty severe case of vendor lock in now, will be interesting to see how it plays out. As of 2018 they spend 40 million on cloud services, 23 million of that on aws.

Do you think you are gonna get AWS's attention with that $10 s3 instance when something goes wrong?!? You will have negative leverage after signing up for vendor lock in.

I'll take linux servers any day, thanks.

Nor the realities of various languages. I've seen hashes break down exponentially with "big data". (inb4 "then it wasn't a 'true' hash). There are countless variables beyond "+ x"

If it is important, then you test/profile it. Otherwise it isn't important, and this is mostly theory crafting.

" first major tech company "

I don't think that is even remotely an accurate statement, unless EVERY company with a website is now a "tech company".

I took a peek at the data object in https://www.kickstarter.com/team

And to me it looks like an art company, with very little focus on tech.

"favorite category" counts by # team members Art: 32 Film & Video: 29 Design: 27 Publishing: 15 Games: 14 Technology: 8 Music: 5 Comics: 3 Food: 3 Photography: 2 Theater: 2 null: 2 Journalism: 1

# of backed projects by "favorite category" Film & Video: 6264 Design: 2372 Games: 2325 Art: 2238 Technology: 1228 Publishing: 777 Theater: 310 Music: 181 Food: 119 Comics: 44 Photography: 28 Journalism: 5 null: 0

I would add that I find it incredibly ironic for a "creative" company to have such rigid categories for what it deems "creative".

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder :) I think a lot of people don't realize what is so immediately available with a cut and paste. Though search works pretty well too ;)

inb4 "how do I make it work with webpack?"

unless they invented it, then it is flying monkeys everywhere.

"because they continue to make more money than every demographic in America regardless of skills, education, and experience."

That doesn't seem even remotely accurate: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/20...

My advice would be to become hindi or jewish if you like money. No anti-nothing, just an observation, and another case of in-grouping.

Yah none of those really do it for me. I mean sure they sound good, but I know it is just another form of "inclusivity" which is really there to exclude.

I don't like imposing my values on people, least of all at work, nor having them imposed on me. But that isn't an option, so sort of a forced poll.

Oh, and the number expands the more you click, so not very useful...

edit, where is the checkbox that says "doesn't make bloated 3mb (compressed) cheezy websites"?

Well they get upset if you tell them to learn how to code, could even get you banned from twitter.

I prefer independants these days, folks on bitchute and youtube and etc. The "organized press" has been gunning for shutting down independants with crap like six degrees of hitler, like what happened with gab. But ultimately it has next to zero overhead to start your own "channel", and you find people that actually do a pretty decent analysis without being obvious political tools or otherwise completely manipulative all the time.