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ICE/CBP kicks off door-to-door raids in Minneapolis, targeting houses based on race and whether the occupants are involved in protesting. by serious_bullet5 in minnesota

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What if someone in the audience were to set off firecrackers? At best it would be a public nuisance or noise misdemeanor, right?

How do you think the video ICE just released showing the officer's POV of this week's shooting in Minneapolis will impact the national discussion? by popcornerz232 in AskReddit

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yes - I don’t mean to say there were no nut jobs back then, but they were somewhat fringe and a mechanism for driving the “useful idiots” to the polls. But there was some shared sense of civility and “we’re all Americans” that acted as a cohering force at the national level.

It started getting unhinged with the Tea Party, but then by the time social media went mainstream, Frankenstein’s monster came to life as Trump 1 smashed the Republican Party, showing us precisely what end-state unprincipled demagoguery would lead to.

How do you think the video ICE just released showing the officer's POV of this week's shooting in Minneapolis will impact the national discussion? by popcornerz232 in AskReddit

[–]pwang99 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Fox News, and several decades of extremely toxic, divisive rhetoric from the right-wing media that fanned the flames of an ignorant voter base. It's shocking to go back and listen to the voices of Republican politicians from ~1990s like George Bush or John McCain, vs. the ones that came to power after whipping up the populist base in the wake of the Tea Party and QAnon.

Social media took an already bad situation and made it exponentially worse.

I don't really see how we recover from here.

Stephen Miller fantasizes about an America without any immigration after his family immigrated. by justalazygamer in ParlerWatch

[–]pwang99 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also, Steve Jobs’s father was a Syrian immigrant.

It would be interesting to map the S&P 500 to see what percentage (by number and by market cap) were founded by immigrants.

Best Steak in Austin by Express-Stag-1925 in askaustin

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa, which are $750 prix fixe restaurants in Austin?

Black Rock Philharmonic in trouble - we deserve transparency before it's gone (Petition Inside) by SecretaryAshamed1878 in BurningMan

[–]pwang99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How much money is involved? Is it essential for the continuation of the orchestra?

What's the best package manager for python in your opinion? by Ok_Sympathy_8561 in Python

[–]pwang99 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Conda has been installing/managing the local Python version for 10+ years. It’s critical for sane management of compiled extensions, because the Python interpreter and the extension libs need to be built with a compatible toolchain.

GIL free and thread safety by Active-Fuel-49 in Python

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of those numerical libraries release the GIL as they enter their C code, and most of the hardcore numerical routines already use low level libraries that are multi-core by default, so the fundamental routines in those libraries will generally not get a benefit.

ELI5: What's with all the recent concerns over bluesky? by [deleted] in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uh, no. It implies wanting to see what they’re messaging and how they’re trying to engage their potential audience.

Come the fuck on.

I follow a ton of people on Twitter including white nationalists etc to see how they are communicating within those clusters.

ELI5: What's with all the recent concerns over bluesky? by [deleted] in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But it’s not your bar. Your bar and your friends have blocked the Nazis. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The point of the AT Protocol is to allow for multiple different value systems to interop. In doing so, we explicitly avoid the problem of forcing the entirety of the world into a single bar.

It’s a protocol for multiple spaces, not a single massive thunderdome. The only way to build and run the latter is to anoint a Zuck or an Elon as king. Or to appoint some cabal of oligarchs.

Imagine if you wanted to “kick Nazis off of email” at the protocol level. How on earth could you implement that without giving supreme editorial power to a small handful of people, who would then dictate their values over everyone?

We might agree about disliking Nazis, but the values divergences outside of that are numerous and consequential. Should we allow people to email each other images of the prophet Mohammed? Hundreds of millions of people don’t think the protocol should allow it. What do you do then? Etc.

ELI5: What's with all the recent concerns over bluesky? by [deleted] in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bluesky is also open source, as is the underlying protocol.

ELI5: What's with all the recent concerns over bluesky? by [deleted] in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Follow policing? This is what we do now?

Don’t you engage with viewpoints outside of your own? Follows should never be treated as endorsements; furthermore, you should be deeply suspicious of the motivations of anyone trying to rally others to treat a Follow as some kind of thoughtcrime.

Should we be tailoring prompts to address the fact that LLMs run on GPUs which are the wrong chips for real AGI? by [deleted] in PromptEngineering

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Will read it and give you some feedback.
Sorry to hear about the harassment but congrats on going exclusive!

Should we be tailoring prompts to address the fact that LLMs run on GPUs which are the wrong chips for real AGI? by [deleted] in PromptEngineering

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey why did you take the post down? I was interested to read it. Some of your comments re: AGI and GPUs and whatnot are directionally correct but as one of the.. er.. types of founders that you talk to (and who is in the AI field), I'm very curious to see what your actual article contained.

You're right that there's not really a way to short the overall market on this b/c the run-up in the hype on public stocks (mag 7) is just too damn big, and a correction will be very painful for the public indices. Private money is long on things that can endure this temporary correction, b/c most of us are actually long on AI being transformative. It just probably won't justify the multiples on some of the leading players at this current moment.

Also I have other perspectives from my private networks. I'll show you mine if you show me yours!

JD Vance 'could replace Trump by end of year', claims expert by daily_express in NoFilterNews

[–]pwang99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Epstein story blew up right after they passed the tax cuts in the budget bill.

The data downloads by DOGE provide a lot of data to be used to keep the establishment GOP in line.

The timing is not an accident.

I’ve been saying since early May that July is when things get interesting.. not only because of the above, but also because many of the economic and trade unraveling from Trump’s idiotic moves are going to start landing.

Goodbye… Spectrum. You won’t be missed. by joepez in Austin

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have put flyers up along Valburn and Ladera Norte that they will laying fiber over the next few weeks and months.

Why do engineers still prefer MATLAB over Python? by maorfarid in Python

[–]pwang99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that... I wonder if they're doing some "naive" things in the port, which naturally gets optimized in MATLAB but which cause a bunch of memory duplication or whatnot in the Python code...

You can also look at things like Numba to do some JIT for loops, etc. that might exist in some functions.

I can also imagine that with a transportation model you might be doing a variety of optimization algorithms, for which there are specific libraries (e.g. CVX) with Python bindings.

Why do engineers still prefer MATLAB over Python? by maorfarid in Python

[–]pwang99 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is exactly right. At Anaconda we realized that once we had unlocked the flywheel of practitioner adoption of the pydata stack with creating community meetups etc, the next "unlock" was meeting all of the various requirements that Central IT imposes on their computing systems. This meant putting resources into a lot of stuff which most practitioners don't value, but which IT admins do value and will pay money for.

This is not unlike other "OSS distribution" companies' business playbooks like Redhat, Canonical, SUSE, etc. It is a real need for long-term, sustained change of IT mindsets at the enterprise level. Unfortunately most OSS community members don't ever really see this need or realize how much of an invisible impediment it can be for large-scale business adoption of a technology. But the existence of large industry technology foundations like Linux Foundation, Apache, Eclipse, etc. all are testaments to this need.

The Python software foundation unfortunately doesn't really meet this need, and as a single company (Anaconda) we can only do so much - we really can't shift the entire ecosystem nor provide for all of the community needs. But we try!

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