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Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by samcal »

zarkov99 wrote: post #165
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From the article: "I would rather not have to write this post at all. However I know that people will ask about why my talk isn’t available on the JupyterCon site, so I felt that I should explain exactly what happened. In particular, I was concerned that if only partial information became available, the anti-CoC crowd might jump on this as an example of problems with codes of conduct more generally, or might point at…

I did, and if anything I am even more certain COC's have degenerated into a plaything for narcissist, useless fools and we are better off throwing the whole thing out until we can figure out how to keep the psychopathic nannies away. This guy, who could not be more decent, was treated horribly. One shudders to think what would happen to less virtuous or politically correct people. I much rather keep hearing from bril…

There's a whole lot of ad hominem in this argument. Are you scared that the CoC crowd is going to take all the funny away? That seems unlikely to me.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by JustinGarrison »

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Rendering is different because the assets are very interdependent and the tooling is very POSIX specific. Rendering a scene (especially with ray tracing) can use thousands of assets from the movie even if they aren't directly on screen. Artists draw and save files in tools like Autodesk Maya and renderers read files from disk and work on them while in memory. For some assets and tooling FUSE mounted s3 can work but g…

Interesting. Is Kubernetes ever used as the orchestrator in HPC workloads, or rather are even containers used there? Also what are some good resources to get better at kubernetes? Currently I am mostly playing with managed k8s like digital ocean's and thinking about transitioning to k3s based bare-metal solution. So, I would really like to learn what's the right way of doing this.

There are some HPC environments that use Kubernetes but they likely use custom schedulers optimized for batch workloads (e.g. https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano).

"containers" are often used but not always docker containers. HPC environments I've seen will often use container primitives (e.g. cgroups, namespaces).

There's a lot you can learn with managed Kubernetes and it's a great place to start. You can learn a lot of the parts of Kubernetes with running through https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way or reading https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infras...

I'll email you to follow-up since tracking HN comments isn't a great way to have a conversation.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by lhoff »

bionade24 wrote: post #112
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I think the main reason is the tradition. It was in the beginning a small get together of some nerds that had vacations due to Christmas but were bored. Then it got bigger and bigger. And now there are many reasons to keep it that way. No competing events, free choice of the venue, free hotels, school holidays and so on. I'd also say that there are more atheists in the hacker community then in the general population.

In what respect does the days from 27th to 30th matter for religious persons? That's just traditional "Family time".

Well the time before that matters as well. Someone has to prepare everything.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by terryedwin »

Matti Picus' talk on Getting Involved with NumPy. It's one of the main libraries used in data science, so the talk is very useful. He discusses its start, development, governance, how to contribute and with an example of a pull request. It's a great resource on getting started with open source in python. https://youtu.be/lHJqOE5j6xE

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by zarkov99 »

samcal wrote: post #171
zarkov99 wrote: post #165

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I did, and if anything I am even more certain COC's have degenerated into a plaything for narcissist, useless fools and we are better off throwing the whole thing out until we can figure out how to keep the psychopathic nannies away. This guy, who could not be more decent, was treated horribly. One shudders to think what would happen to less virtuous or politically correct people. I much rather keep hearing from bril…

There's a whole lot of ad hominem in this argument. Are you scared that the CoC crowd is going to take all the funny away? That seems unlikely to me.

Scared is not the word. I am outraged that the community I belong to is so cowardly that it has allowed itself to be stifled and bullied by people with nothing to offer but their self-awarded moral virtue, a situation that I feel should be denounced loudly and often.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by dubya »

theodpHN wrote: post #114
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Very cool-should be required watching for educators (K-12+ teachers/administrators, MOOC instructors), as well as developers for Zoom, WebEx, Teams.

Here's a short (4.5 min) remote teaching demo by Kellermann - compare this to your average Zoom/Teams/WebEx meeting! What comes after Zoom teaching? Surface Hub, Teams and XSplit demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ecT6inCio&list=PLHSIfioizV...

This is nearly exactly the same presentation he does with Hanselman, which makes it seem likes he's only got a small amount of content. This and the parent video are really just a tech demo. More interesting would be an actual class recording.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by wtk »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #155
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I'm pretty sure I saw people getting banned on twitter for disagreeing/challenging him (in a civil way).

That would be strange - why would Twitter give him a preferential treatment? Any source you can provide?

I'm sorry, I did not mean "ban". What I meant was "block". On one occasion I'm pretty sure he responsed to somebody with "virtue signalling" followed by a block, which seemed ridiculous on a platform for exchanging views.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by samcal »

zarkov99 wrote: post #175
samcal wrote: post #171

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There's a whole lot of ad hominem in this argument. Are you scared that the CoC crowd is going to take all the funny away? That seems unlikely to me.

Scared is not the word. I am outraged that the community I belong to is so cowardly that it has allowed itself to be stifled and bullied by people with nothing to offer but their self-awarded moral virtue, a situation that I feel should be denounced loudly and often.

We can quibble over words for sure, but you're certainly implying that if nothing is done, these folks will bully people into having a bad sense of humor. Like I said, that seems unlikely. Folks like being seen as funny, and will strive to be funny in front of people

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by zarkov99 »

samcal wrote: post #178
zarkov99 wrote: post #175

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Scared is not the word. I am outraged that the community I belong to is so cowardly that it has allowed itself to be stifled and bullied by people with nothing to offer but their self-awarded moral virtue, a situation that I feel should be denounced loudly and often.

We can quibble over words for sure, but you're certainly implying that if nothing is done, these folks will bully people into having a bad sense of humor. Like I said, that seems unlikely. Folks like being seen as funny, and will strive to be funny in front of people

I think we are looking at this very differently. For me the lack of humor is just a canary in the mine for authoritarianism and ideological mono-culture - the very opposite of the values that always attracted me in the tech scene. It seems you think the situation is not that dire and that these folks are doing more good than harm. I suspect the difference in our perspectives is greatly informed by our own political leanings.
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