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throway453sde··on The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child
The project website is active and they are accepting donations, why is this project a failure when it still active?
throway453sde··on Universal basic income could come to California colleges
Sure dude. Make sure you children's never get educated, that would solve all the problem. We need lesser education.
throway453sde··on Matrix Multiplication
In place of slider having a button with the label of current step would be nice.
throway453sde··on LibreTexts – Free The Textbook
"ligen.is" is all you need for textbook
throway453sde··on Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India
The right wing discourse is about advocating the replacement of existing democratic law in place of the vedic laws just like the olden days of pre british era. Vedas are the Hindu religious book that provides structure by which a society should be run by dividing people in to varna system(caste system).

India can never go back to vedic days, simply because there is no incentive for all Hindus. All Hindus are not the same in Hinduism. Vedic book advocates only a particular caste should have monopoly over education and only another to the right of having weapons, etc. This worked well prior to british colonilzation because people were not educated and could not see the big picture. That changed after the british rule and every one was given education which woke enough people to see the bigger picture of caste system.

The right wing advocates know that just with Hinduism they can not unite. They need another religion to hate and unite over that hate. This is where ISLAM comes in. Indian Muslims like the rest of the world can not take a joke on koran or Allah. This is very convenient for the right wing to spread hate and unite people over it. In contrast there is lot of atheist movement especially in South India where they can trash talk Hindu gods and their scriptures on public media at least for now. South India is more progressive and educated compared to North states.

throway453sde··on GNU Radio
You mean there are binary blobs without source code in the linux repo?
throway453sde··on GNU Radio
If i run linux can i modify the firmware? Also the regulations differ from country to country so this should be legal in some of the country.
throway453sde··on Cost of Attrition
> So that generally means that governments need to step in, and help the people and companies to do the right thing.

Then its not democracy any more. Its slavery. If People want to leave let them leave.

throway453sde··on Toxic culture is driving the great resignation
They don't pay upfront. That's not how management thinks. Until attrition is below 50% hiring new people with a good hike is profitable than paying to people who don't leave.
throway453sde··on Ask HN: Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?
Remote Work. That's the answer. I wear wig and place the camera and lighting in such an angle that my wrinkles don't show up much. This covid situation has forced to conduct interviews online and its been amazing. I have never been asked my age in online interviews for some reason.
throway453sde··on Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
"youtube-dl" plugin has one neat idea with respect to tests. Both the test and the plugin code for a particular website are in the same file.If the website changes and breaks the plugin updating the tests is much easier way to fix the code. This makes sure tests are always updated, rather the other way of not updating the tests due to no incentive since the problem is already solved which leads to tests being useless.
throway453sde··on Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?
But not monetizing tells about character and motivation certainly.
throway453sde··on Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
When it comes to ageism Work From Home certainly helps. All interviews are online and i wear wig during interviews and thankfully my skin is not wrinkled so much. Also with the current progress in AI i am betting on wrinkle free video masks softwares in the near future. I will never go back to full time office jobs.
throway453sde··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
In a democratic country the "ruling party" and "love towards their country" can be independent. But in an authoritarian country this feeling is supressed.
throway453sde··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
PaulGraham hypothesized this way earlier in a tweet. But the important realization to me was that not all riches are the same. Not all rich people have access to the most important information. Certainly being rich in tech sector is powerful.
throway453sde··on Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says
That statement was in the context of implementing well known algorithms rather than researching unknown ideas. ART is totally a new approach in comparison to backward prop, hope it inspires some to continue research in this area. Deep Learning has so many use cases yet to be implemented that has business value but from the point of research its close to saturation. Time to explore new ideas.
throway453sde··on Brian Kernighan's Home Page
Did not knew Brian Kernighan has authored so many books. This is useful.
throway453sde··on How to quit like a boss
> I am a manager in a large tech company and we care about our employees.

This is the problem with management roles. Managers opportunity to find new job is so low they are forced to think they are part of the company. The company does not think the same. The same is not true for IC devs, this may not be for long, but currently this the case. I hope people be honest at least over internet.

throway453sde··on Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released
As a language are there any parallels between "Wolfram Mathematica" and "Elixir", since both talk about pattern match, search and replace in the context of evaluation a lot.
throway453sde··on Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)
Since antivirus companies existence depends on the malware, has there been any documented case where the antivirus company is the creator of malware.
throway453sde··on Lab Leak 2.0?
With state actor funding it like 30 mins.
throway453sde··on Lab Leak 2.0?
In USA at least for now nobody can claim leader for life like the CCP has done so. That a huge diff.
throway453sde··on Ten Lessons from Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i [pdf]
To be clear visiting the posted link to "gwern.net" does not ask for pay to view the pdf.
throway453sde··on The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust
Does the 3d games today still use ray tracing or some other algorithm?
throway453sde··on Notes on BPF and eBPF
Are you saying this is factually wrong? I assume eBPF is designed to only access certain points explicitly coded in the kernel but the exploits can access any part of kernel. Is this what you are hinting at? Could you please clarify the statement.
throway453sde··on Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
> I trust the wikimedia foundation

The board members change so it can go wrong.

> ..where you cannot trust any single person..

You are missing the point. Obviously society runs based on mutual trust. One can not ignore the fact that a few people or group in power can create great damage. Crypto makes it possible to create "trust by design" systems so that a small group can not do great damage or censor things that undermine their power.

throway453sde··on Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
Wikipedia database is managed by the wikimedia staff. You have the permission to edit it for now but can not guarantee it will be make available always. This is what the author meant.
throway453sde··on Ask HN: Where are all the “end of year review” posts?
But the remote work has been amazing
throway453sde··on Papers We Love
Somethings I don't understand. How do they cover the cost for the event?

Does the attendees pay for this and is it enough to cover the cost or is it profitable?

How is meeting people who are not authors of the paper more useful than organizing online?

throway453sde··on Amazon agreed to allow only five-star reviews for Xi’s book in China
dude i spilled my coffee. Funny and true at the same time.
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