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> I never claimed to be 100x.

You actually did - look 2 posts up, "i.e. I'm a 10x (100x) dev". But I suspect you didn't actually read that link, just the URL - not fair to chide me for mentioning the number if you didn't read what that meant.

> how to approach a problem, sift out the relevant details, formulate a plan, understand the trade-offs

That's exactly my claim, that you add more value with this sort of activity than the "execute it" part; doing that plus teaching others to do it, you add exponentially more value to the company, than just coding stuff in a corner .

You cling on the fact that a junior dev can't possibly code faster than you - even though it's a completely irrelevant detail. And yes they can, if you remove qualifications like "correct code" or "maintainable" or whatever (I never claimed junior devs will do the right thing all by themselves, that'd make them seniors, right? But - I participated in coding competitions in high-school, got a silver medal at IOI - I know very well that my younger self could code circles around my older self when it comes to raw speed. And I've seen other people like that later; experience can't fight youth when it comes to speed and enthusiasm... it just can't. It's more likely that you just never worked with a good junior dev before, than it is that you can always code everything faster).
The project I'm working on currently, it's 95% Chef. The remainder is Ansible. We use Ansible for what it's good at, and Chef for the rest.
Ok, where is the line drawn?

Can a Russian, Israeli or Saudi or Mexican citizen in their respective country buy political ads targeting Americans and favoring or disfavoring a particular American candidate for office?

What if they are on vacation in the US?

What if they have jobs in the US, are not citizens, but live here and have an interest in politics?

What if they are here illegally and buy ads favoring or disfavoring a candidate for office?

What if in some cases it was their own money, what if in other cases they were hired by people in their home countries to buy ads?

What if they work in DC and act as foreign agents and pay for lobbying?

Does FB, Tw, etc. track all that?
I think parent is referring to Engineers Australia (formally, the Institution of Engineers, Australia), which is the professional body to which most engineery-engineers belong.

Most "Bachelor of Software Engineering" degrees offered by Australian universities are EA-accredited and contain mandatory engineering courses that EA requires. Most CS/IT degrees that don't have "Engineering" in the degree name are only accredited by the ACS (or potentially not accredited at all).

I'm also an Australian software "engineer", I don't have an EA-accredited degree, and the more I see of this industry, the less certain I am that we get to claim the mantle of "engineer" with the professional responsibilities that go with it.
Unfortunately I don't. The Professor isn't putting anything online.

He did recommend some online resources for us to use though.

There's this youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx2M2bGHtXBszG6tuR_NIbQ

And this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0689822243/

I also have this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Origami-Design-Secrets-Mathematical-M...

But find it to be very difficult. Not for beginners by any means.

That should help get you started.
Thank you for sharing your stories. I hope you and your family was able to immigrate someplace more stable.
Also is there not always a conflict of interest with bug bounties anyway, as a friend of an employee could always 'find a bug' somewhere. I'm not sure I see the how being Project Zero or a normal user makes a difference.
It is a shame escher isn't maintained.
How about a nice, simple, 2 + 2 = 5? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/28818
I've found myself in a "mid-level" limbo. I have lots of knowledge and a fair amount of skill from a lifetime of programming, but I have trouble keeping what feels like an insane pace some others around me seem to manage. I was flat-out told that my output isn't what they expect from a "senior" developer.

Thing is, I never claimed that I was a "senior" developer, whatever that means. I just seem to have been slotted into that category based on years of experience. I didn't want to mislead an employer into thinking I was more capable than I actually was.

I went job searching and specifically said to recruiters and hiring managers that I was "mid-level" and would set my salary requests accordingly. If that meant I'm held to expectations somewhere between junior and senior, and get paid somewhere between junior and senior, that would be just fine.

I found that pretty much everyone was looking for senior devs, a few places advertised junior openings, and interest in mid-level seemed rarest of all.

It's like they think everyone is either a junior who needs to be mentored, or a senior who can deliver a story every day or two. I feel perfectly capable of doing the work, but need some time to think my way through it. I don't quite understand why I'm finding that to be such a hard sell in a job market where it's supposedly so hard to find developers.
I would personally rather a single OK bookshelf speaker with a T-Amp or any small amp.

Bouncing sounds in every direction is bound to sound crap even with the Apple magic fairy dust sprinkled everywhere. "Beam forming", Lol!

What does "this is a living area speaker" actually mean anyway?

Edit: sorry for sounding aggressive... It's just not a product that I'd buy. Good luck to you.
>But this runs into a problem - if you don't know that the piece was created by a machine, you might assume intent and judge it as an art. Does it stop being an art when you learn that there was no intent? What if you learn that about a human piece of art?

I don't see this as that big of a problem? Something can be beautiful without being art, but art tends to elicit a different kind of discussion specifically because there is intent behind it.

As a thought experiment, consider a particularly beautiful natural formation (like corals or intricately eroded rock). It can be beautiful without it being art. If someone then told me that it was actually sculpted by a person, then to me it's now art. I can ponder what the person was trying to express when they created it. If someone else then told me the previous person lied and it's really just a natural formation, then it's back to being not art.

If we were able to detect "intent" in an algorithm (although that is a hairy discussion in and of itself - arguably we could consider objective functions intents, but in that case I defer to the individual's interpretation as to whether that's intent or just clean study of a mathematical process), then yes, it would become art.
I could give you the same reply I gave OP. If you determine what is art based on the process of its creation, and not solely on the result, then you deny AI the capability to create art.

I personally don't need to know anything about the circumstances of the creation of art piece to think of it as art (or sometimes not). If the author relies on this (for his work to be judged as art), he should have put it into the work itself.
Aye, but you probably can't code faster if you have to read a manual first? It is easy to construct scenarios where someone from a bootcamp could code "faster" than a principal, senior lead, or CTO of all things. It's just a matter of picking the problem.

A better point is that this drought of new talent is just the other side of the pendulum. In the odd years, the problem is layoffs and difficulty finding work without being a new-grad or knowing the latest tech fad. You've seen some of those summers, too?
Or you could use a camera of your own. Remember 90s when all tape cameras would show blips of light in front of IR remotes?
So, you're basically saying that you don't trust anyone's terms of service enough to use their email. You rolling your own, then?

If so, more power to you. But let's be real, that's a damn lot of time that takes to do right. And if you're not doing it right, then why do it yourself.

I don't love google, but google does a better job with email than I'm willing to do for myself.

Fastmail does an even better job, in my opinion, which is why I pay them actual money to do that job. Could I manage all this myself? Sure. I guess. But I want to fuck around with other things.

You've got to be in a weird situation where Fastmail's TOS is more frightening to you than Google or Apple or Micrososft's.
The value isn't inherent. We overlay the value on to it, and we can also take it away.
I posted a link to a company making secure laptops and iphones on a previous, similar thread and got down-voted and accused of shilling/trolling.

If you are interested look for : laptops and phones where you are in control and have complete visibility into the operating system, all bundled software, and the deeper levels of your computer.

(The phone has not been released yet.)
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Cynical? I'd call it realistic. If anyone wants to fight the problem, delete your account. That is the only value that you can take away from that company.
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It has arguably already eaten communism in many ways -even Yannis says so... Even good old Cuba is capitulating.
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I posted a link to a company making secure laptops and iphones on a previous, similar thread and got down-voted and accused of shilling/trolling.
If you are interested look for : laptops and phones where you are in control and have complete visibility into the operating system, all bundled software, and the deeper levels of your computer.

(The phone has not been released yet.)
Nikola Tesla, the late 19th / early 20th century inventor. Induction motors have been around for over a century.
A quick google search turns up at least one devboard with a beefy FPGA and HMC:

https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/dk-u1-vcu110...

Not cheap, and probably not available in bulk, but cheaper than custom PCB R&D.
Baseline for activity is too low - 30 minutes five days a week.

To prevent brain tissue loss one should walk 35km per week, it is one hour daily. And that amount is to stop decline of mental capabilities, one need to increase that amount of exercise or add fasting or weight training to start to regain "younger" brain.

So I am not impressed.
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Why and when we need Machine Learning
Yikes- wow, even from my computer browser- not even from my cell phone? If I have facebook password autosaved, log in, check facebook, and close the window without logging out, is it still tracking me? Damn. I did NOT realize this.
I never learned any music. My only understanding of music came from the physics labs at school, messing around with signal generators. My wife was trained in piano, I've asked her countless times, so what frequency are you playing when you hit this key? Why is this key, called middle C, yet C repeats further down the keyboard? Doesn't a C map to a unique frequency? I've been asking her for a translation of music into physical terms for years -- to no avail (she's a doctor). I'm looking for a "for dummies" type book, but instead, it would be "Music for Engineers with no music background." Also why are there pure C notes and C chords... I want that book!
I've been trying as much as possible to stick to Packer[1] (create AMI's / Images) and Terraform[2] for executing arbitrary commands and shell scripts. Some may argue this is not truly configuration management because it does not constantly check and maintain desired state.

[1] - https://packer.io

[2] - https://terraform.io
Both sides use GIS to do their jobs. The scada part is a little different since one-line diagrams are all that is needed for that. But the dispatching is all GIS based.

We make significant revenue based on accurate maps and good data as well. Just fixing our attachment rental inventory and keeping it accurate pays for all of the GIS system and upkeep with money to spare.
No problem. I actually spent a couple of months working on the system for user payments. I had a number of discussions with the community and received thousands of comments with feedback and suggestions for what they wanted to see. I took everything into consideration, included the extra perks that people suggested, and made the payments work seamlessly with the site. The system is also advertised well throughout the community.

I'm saying this because I want people to know I gave the option a fair chance, and this isn't a random PayPal link I tucked into an obscure location.
There are two options. Either the AI is intelligent and creative in the same sense as a human being, or the AI is an automaton doing nothing but following the instructions given to it by its creator(s).

In the first case, the art is Art; the AI is an artist.

In the second case, the art is also Art; the creator of the AI is the artist.
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I guess the reason is that it isn't available for free.

It it is an understandable decision, as they aren't a charity.

However they aren't also an OS vendor, so it remains to be seen how it will evolve.
I hate this trend. I think all the major messenger apps do this now, it was an awful surprise in LINE. The yelp app is basically unusable now for researching new restaurants since they go so far as to prevent people from popping out into a real browser, and now the Gmail app attempts to lock you in now too.
Quirks exception?
Is there a better alternative to CMake? I find its syntax painful and inconsistent, but once a project is configured, it works reasonably well for producing cross-platform builds.
You're right that we exclude "works of nature" from art, despite having objective artistic qualities (being beautiful, eliciting emotions, etc.). In that sense, art must be created by humans.

The question then becomes - is the thing created by AI still considered to be created by human, or by nature? And based on this, we can then classify it as art or not.
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This applies to all big corporations, not only government related projects.
I'd like to share a perspective based on an anecdote. The first company that I'd worked for had come to our college to hire interns. They wanted 2. I'd find out later that the CEO had intended one male hire and one female hire, but they ended up hiring 3 (all men) including me.
Two of us that got hired were from financially poor background, had lived in tier 3 cities, went to underfunded-corrupt schools with bad educators (as was common in the region we were from), had taken out huge education loans and were possibly the only source of retirement income for our parents (I'm based out of India, poor people have to rely on their children's success here). There were around 10-15 women in our batch. Most were from well off families, had well-educated parents who were also bankrolling their daughters' education, were from tier-1 cities and were exposed to tech long before us. They'd had better opportunities for growth even before joining college and only equal opportunities after, like the rest of us.
In retrospect I feel that I had been lucky in a certain sense. Thankfully the recruiters weren't people with the >`But it's discrimination with a higher purpose.` mindset. It would've been a very difficult road to recovery for me otherwise.

I would urge you to reconsider the notion that affirmative action is a sustainable solution for anything. It's hack. You only need to look at the current state of India's government, which over the course of more than 50 years of affirmative action (and other varying factors) has managed to convert the government sector into a cesspool of corruption and bad management.
> Until someone makes an organizing tool that can break the network effect facebook has with my friend group, I'll have a facebook account.
92 of the top 100 tokens and something like 40 of the top 100 crypto assets (tokens and coins), by market capitalization, are Ethereum-based tokens, so that is a substantial potential market.
Thanks for sharing. Reminds me a bit of Numerai
That supposed conflict exists with any bounty program no matter who the bounty hunter works for.
> Because you have a God-given right to any show you want to see?

Practically, speaking, yes. What are you going to do about it? You can keep railing about the morality of piracy but it's been 17 years since Napster and still nobody cares.

Thanks to Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, I don't know anyone who pirates music anymore. The solution is right there.
> judge it for what it is, not what it isn’t

It's 7 minuscule speakers crammed into a shiny box within a 6" space.

Comparing it in a blind test to a single bookshelf speaker with a small amp, I guarantee such a $50-$100 setup would sound better.

I probably wouldn't call myself an audiophile because I've seen how serious some people can be about audio, but I am an enthusiast who is interested in getting the best sound quality for my buck. I wouldn't put this product in any room of my house, and for $350 it's ridiculous.
Bug bounties provide a legal/white-hat path to payout for the 8-billion member external testing department.
Buy movies or shows you like on Blu Ray, and use Plex. It takes a few years to break even, but by that point you have hundreds of movies and shows you like. This really only falls down if you want to watch a show within a year of the season ending.

Discovery is good, works on every platform, offline sync with transcoding so you can decide how much space it takes up, hdhomerun for dvr-ing live OTA sports, camera backup on vacation in full resolution. It's amazing if you're a little patient on the ramp-up.
Absolutely, but it's a long way from a solution.
Spotify is a music service with the background of compulsory licensing. If we had compulsory licensing for motion pictures, the landscape would be a lot different.
How trustworthy are these people?

I have not heard anything bad about the Monero people, but given the number of bad actors in the cryptocurrency space they should probably describe what steps they are taking to ensure that nothing like what I'm about to describe can occur.

> Moving forward, developers will seek to protect the network’s ASIC resistance by slightly modifying its PoW algorithm at every scheduled hard fork, which generally occurs twice annually. These changes will not be noticeable to ordinary XMR users, but they will alter the network’s hashing algorithm enough that Cryptonight ASIC miners would become obsolete following every fork

Suppose an insider is conspiring with one of the ASIC makers. The insider gets the modifications to the ASIC maker before they go public. The ASIC maker gets a head start on making new ASICs.

During the time between the modifications going public and other ASIC makers getting chips out, the conspiring maker does NOT sell their chips. They use them themselves, splitting the results of their mining with the insider.
It's also nice to see how many of their engineers work on the product and how many of them work on ad targeting. I suspect that product layer is very thin compared to all ML plumbing behind it.
This seems to say otherwise (?)

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

Does it have exceptions somewhere / am I not reading close enough?
Why doesn't the "original title" rule apply here?
Education is a good point. New algorithms are often found in academia that aren't exactly on Hacker News all of the time. It doesn't matter which field either - micro architecture, high performance computing, UX, databases, PL, computational linguistics, you name it. Or hell, math has been around for a long time and you might not know planar graph algorithms off-hand unless you were really smart or had taken the course two months ago.

This whole debate is nutty. I personally would welcome as much strategic and intellectual diversity as possible onto teams I'm running. I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket, either.
Aren't we just quibbling over definitions?

"If you determine what is art based on the process of its creation, and not solely on the result, then you deny AI the capability to create art."

OK and?
Yeah I wondered that too, probably comes out of a different budget so they can manipulate their finances to manage their perception. It also stinks of trying to appear socially responsible with a hint of ‘not our problem’.

What ever happens to those (alleged) ex-intel security / testing employees who left or were laid off as Intel management pushed for sales over stability?
I remember I bought a TNT card instead of a Voodoo for my first computer because it had a nicer looking box in the advertisement from the local electronics store. I didn't have internet at that time, so I used box art instead of user reviews for deciding on purchases. I think the box had a fighter jet.
As a mere set of eyeballs... why are they (E.g. Netflix vs CBS) different? And why should I care?

To me they are all channels. Just some don't allow binge watching or time-shifting well and others do.
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"But while I have a full time job and a large-ish family to support, it's hard to fit "3 years of professional React.js experience" into my spare time ..."

I'm sure your got the bugs, but the gp ain't got the time
Any cost required to be paid to a third party to conduct a transaction between two parties is "rent". Any entity attempting to establish or increase such a cost is "rent-seeking". Ad agencies try to encourage companies to buy more advertising. If they are successful, then other competitors will be forced to buy more advertising to maintain their existing customers. Whatever it cost before to have 5% of the market, it now costs more to maintain the same 5%. The additional advertising expenditure required because of the ad agency's actions is very much rent that was being seeked. The fact that the rent may not be paid to the same ad agency, or that ad agencies have costs themselves (such as content creators), does not change the nature of their actions.

Personally, I would like to live in a world where advertising was limited to industry/geographic-specific publications published by the government. A generic list of products, randomized once a day. Listings have a fixed fee and identical formats. Each listing has a description of the product, its price, and one or two photos. You can show people using the product but no faces. No other products/aspirational imagery/language unless it is required to demonstrate the use of the product. Plus curated confirmed reviews.

Or just a law that said that ad-supported business models were illegal. You can sell a product or a service but that's it. No "give it away for free and sell ads".