skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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He only overpromises when it comes to timelines. Most other things he actually achieves. Elontime is a real thing though...
> Scholarship

>Last year, some guy made an experiment with evolving neural networks for Super Mario Bros and made a YouTube video out of it. The video certainly reached more people on the internet than my work did; it makes no mention of any previous work. Seen as tinkering, that work and video is good work; seen as research, it is atrocious because of the complete lack of scholarship. The guy didn't even know he was reinventing the wheel, and didn't care to look it up.

Then publish your damn results in a damn open journal, dammit.
Not protected, simply not pursued, although it’s usually outright fraud that is the target of most prosecutions.

Watching the SEC closely to see how many ICOs they prosecute. Also was helpful to see someone involved with their breech response who attempted to profit from non public material information prosecuted (although that’s tangential to the breach itself).

Someone relatively important is going to have to get burned before more software professionals are pursued for grossly negligent security failings.
Alt-tab behavior is more of a preference thing.

>It's basically shitty linux with outlook.

Linux is shitty Linux. Except on the server. (IMO, of course).
Some Senators might already have such arrangements ;)
Television is censored. So is radio. In exchange for the use of spectrum, media companies agreed to restrictions on content. Even beyond the injunctions against certain behavior (swearing, nudity, etc.) broadcasters are subject to positive responsibilities about how they use their airtime. TV networks are legally obligated to run news programming.

The FCC is insulated enough from partisan politics that its censorship doesn't run along partisan lines, and is therefore not very controversial. But TV is absolutely censored.
No, the same rationale does not apply at all. It's not even close. Cruise control does nothing but maintain a set speed. No steering, no lane assist, nothing else. All drivers know that if they set cruise control, they are still in control of the car and have to remain aware of the road to handle all the actual driving while their foot gets a break. On the other hand, here was a conversation with my dad in his Model 3 yesterday:

Me: Why aren't your hands on the wheel?

Him: They don't need to be. It tells me once in a while when I need to touch the wheel.

Think about that for a minute. This is representative of your average driver. People are so blindly trusting of autopilot that they deliberately don't even touch the wheel at all, opting instead to play with their phone until the car nags them to pay attention for one second.

This is so completely different than cruise control that the two are barely comparable in terms of driver mindset.
It is important to distinguish that in the Uber case it was a fully self driving car that had a safety supervisor killing a pedestrian. The responsibility for the fatality was overwhelmingly Ubers. A small responsibility falls on the pedestrian who should not have been jaywalking and should have been looking. In the Tesla case it was not a fully self driving car and the driver who had responsibility to be attentive died. One would expect autopilot to do better and the road markings to do better, but the responsibility is still overwhelmingly with the driver.
A Brilliant Sign That Your IQ Is High
Zapier (YC S12) is hiring a VPE to grow our 100% remote team
This doesn't exactly abide by the RFC but I name all my computers after dead rockstars e.g. "david-bowie", "george-harrison", "jimi-hendrix", "elvis-presley" It's become a tradition of mine :)
The lab computers at Rutgers use design patterns, unix commands, and programming languages for the names: https://report.cs.rutgers.edu/nagiosnotes/iLab-machines.html
> Windows as a separate company probably cannot make it long term.

That is surely overstating it, at least for definitions of "long" meaning <= 20 years. If you assume that Windows is more or less "done" their engineering expenses could be low, and revenue significant, merely serving the corporate and various niche (gaming, etc) markets which are still heavily bound to Windows. Their market share is declining in some niches (such as CAD) and maybe even overall (to OS X), but negative revenue and market share growth does not necessarily mean quick extinction. Some dinosaurs take decades to bleed out.
I use elements from the periodic table. The ones that sound cool!

Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Neon, Tungsten, Helium, Sodium, etc

Wifi names are after noble gases.

PC hardware are all stable metals.

iPhone/iPad accessories are all non-metals.

and finally, random IOT devices are radioactive elements.
What years?

I'm pretty sure the intersection of time between Panera's spread to the east coast and map quest's prevalence don't line up
> I want to have a final meeting with my father -- I’d like to correct course.

Attitude matters, if you think you'll get a war -- you'll get a war.

Perceptions dominate ALL parts of negotiation. When people become angry and uncertain, mistrustful -- they physiologically hear less.

Relative to your father -- is important to take his 'emotional temperature' Figure out the pictures in his head and deal with it. See if those perceptions match.

You're right to love to your folks, support them the best you can. You know your Old Man better than anyone -- What will it take to persuade him?

Where the circle overlaps with your career and business interests -- sadly, lots of people have learned to keep them separated.

Incidentally, you might find Stuart Diamond helpful > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtZ-vObJrk
But why is propaganda your preferred option over traditional content moderation? I doubt many people would considering it controversial to censor calls to violence. However when you start to focus on "hate speech" (which is where this line of reasoning will take you) and add propaganda to your moderation toolkit, then you start to cross the line into full blown dystopia territory.

Again, this may be a more compelling example of how you might define "hate speech". But if you think facebook has a responsibility to start moderating speech based on its perceived "hatefulness", then you're still going to end up at the same destination, where genuine public discourse is gradually replaced with corporate approved discourse.
I totally believe that reading resumes can support the conclusion, but stannol claimed they knew this info from personal experience.
I certainly have a few open reports to companies that I've been trying to reach for, in several cases, _years_. Or, in other cases, I found something but trying to reach the right person is nigh impossible. security@ bounces, general support is useless, no one responds on linkedin, no one responds to direct emails, pinging them on twitter does nil. Extremely sad.
Mac OS is far closer to death than Windows.
We went with Dakota (not Lakota) names for numbers. Admittedly we might have skipped some of the longer names. Recently we added some named after color. Every department was supposed to find a way to include the language somewhere. [edit: servers only, PCs get names based on room / building]
Having tried to find image-processing research/scholarship around 2009, before the neural net explosion really set-in, I have to say the field was a complete rag-bag of fragile, vague methods. And efforts to extend these didn't help them.

Which is to say that no all incremental, scholarly research is necessarily what's needed. In fact, I think what the OP describes is effectively what Thomas Kuhn calls "normal science" [1], which can be great until it becomes terrible - ie, "normal science" periodically reaches crises that require a different approach (inspiration, insight, iconoclasm, etc, whatever).

But that shouldn't detract from the point that anyone should know what traditional research, that if someone is going to engage in something other than normal science, they would benefit from being really aware of why and how they are doing this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_science
I use space missions. Soyuz--MS-02 for the one I'm currently using.
I run an IMac with 32gb because I’m a SharePoint developer. A 2012 VM running AD, DNS, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and a SharePoint farm all running takes up 16gb easily. The other 16gb goes to VS Code, XCode, Slack, multiple browsers, Outlook, Docker at times...etc.. Then I gotta shut it down and boot up the SharePoint 2010 VM sometimes which gets 12gb a little less I suppose.
A) The DOJ had been looking at Anderson for years prior to Enron due to irregularities with other major firms like Waste Management Inc. Enron was not an isolated incident.

B) They were prosecuted for the very specific crime of obstruction of justice after they were caught destroying evidence. It wasn't some backlash against a nebulous problem.

C) Their conviction was overturned!

I'm not sure you could have picked a worse example for arguing your point.
Autopilot is only $10,000, but you are still supposed to be attentive.
Because you only realize how terrible smoking is once you've been stuck with it for a few years.
Flatly, This isn't true.

I can still go into /etc/ssh sudo vim sshd_config, can my values, and they stick.

Just to test it, I did it right now, and I'm running 10.13.4, for what its worth.

What exactly was the issue with changing the sshd config? This isn't a SIP protected directory, which is the only thing that would prevent such a move.

Perhaps the requirement of sudo? I feel like most linux distros force that in the /etc directory too.
That's not always an option. Your career very much depends on consistently publishing in "A" venues (conference/journal). So it depends on your subcommunity's opinion on open access. For example, programming language people as a community are super keen on it, so most top venues are becoming open access. If that's not the case for your field, it's basically academic suicide unless you already have an amazing reputation.
That’s right. The numbers I’ve seen have been 10 million for the Mercer’s initial investment. This is a pathetic amount of money to bankroll an operation with such large scale effects. Assuming the Mercer’s eventual expenditure reached 10 times that, $100 million is like building a library in a middling size city. It’s an incredible return on a pittance of an investment.
I'm a fan of the names of the "First Generation" computers like ENIAC, EDVAC, ILLIAC, etc. My Raspberry Pi honors Pi inventor Eben Upton and is named EBENAC, the Economical British Educational Networked ARM Computer.
Wouldn't we just need to generate more velocity?
> Unfortunately, the above is the best available resolution of slides. Thanks for understanding. We're always learning and improving.

Hmm something doesn't sit right with me on this one. It's not just slides, it's videos too. It seems like they're apologizing for a mistake they might have made as opposed to intentionally downscaled the videos. Is it just a coincidence that the first time some of these videos are shown (not all) they happen to be extremely low res?
Not to incite a holy war, but it is kind of hard to defend Islam in this regard when the role model for every Muslim had multiple wives.
Netflix doesn't care who your DNS resolver is. They might care if you access it through a VPN, which I don't.
Mergers of companies of that size need to be approached with the presumption that they will substantially lessen competition, because they almost always do. The companies should have to go to extreme lengths to prove that the merger will not substantially lessen competition and hence are not prohibited by the Clayton Act. These companies get off far too easily when it comes to scrutiny of mergers, when a straightforward reading of the Clayton Act would prohibit nearly any merger of large companies that operate in similar industries.
I would like to see you address the AliExpress free worldwide shipping point please.
I agree. It's one thing to say "the technology won't always save you from an accident" and entirely different to say "sometimes the technology will drive you into a wall".
Might be a good idea to setup an email at your work dedicated solely for receiving job applications.
You misunderstand my point. Are there examples of other sorts of engineers being brought up on charges?

It only happens in the most egregious of negligence cases as it is and even then convictions are rare.

I'm saying your impression that software engineering is protected is wrong, because no engineers (to any normal approximate) are brought up on criminal charges.
Sure, but "could do" isn't remotely the same thing as "already faster" now, is it?
You see, I read that clause in particular as "The difference between research and tinkering is whether you belong to an organisation that's willing to spend 30k+ a year on journal access".

And fuck that. If that's the attitude that academia is going to take, clearly we need to kill it off, tinker for a while, and start fresh.

Maybe we can refresh some standards for academic writing while we're at it.
It’s still possible to completely blow up the world with nuclear weapons.
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I think Musk is outstanding, but I could never see how he could run SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI, the Boaring Company, Hyperloop all at the same time. It could be twice as Smart as the next smartest individual on the planet but there’s no free lunch. Time spent in one place is time given up somewhere else. We’ve known that Tesla has had production problems for a long time and if I was on the board I would have said drop all of your side projects and focus on fixing this company. I’m sure Musk has fired people for a lot less.
I’ve been running through names of Greek and Roma deities for my machines, which work super well. They can even be themed (all mobile / wireless clients are named after dieties of death).
Yes! This site may be of interest: https://namingschemes.com/
I catch your drift, but I'm pretty sure I disagree. I would just like it if, say, r/programmerhumor was actually programmer humor, without all the software gore and bad UI. Because all those things are easier to find, they'll crowd out the desired content. That will continue if you try to move to /r/realprogrammerhumor per DanBC's suggestion, unless the new mods are more zealous.
> For example, amorphous names such as rivers, mythological places and other impossibilities are very suitable. ("earth" is not yet a domain name.)

This'll probably be changing soon...
I think a lot of that praise in American media was an extension of neoconservatism that permeated the administrations around that time
White House criticises China for $3bn tariffs on US imports
The x86 emulation is far from reliable. It's far more likely that corporations just get the intel laptop because processors just are simply just a small fraction of the total price of a laptop. When you're buying a dell laptop that costs $1300 then spending another $200 for the intel laptop is a drop in the bucket.
>random IOT devices are radioactive elements.

Scheme-compliant _and_ metaphorically apt. Love it.
Also, don’t use automatically generated names based on a person’s name without a review. Sharon Hiterman[1] will not be amused.

1) not a real person, but a real family name paired with a common first name
There are enough Pokemon to name my servers. ;)
Does ex post facto exist at the state level?
NASA has a rigid host naming scheme that is based on the center, the org code, and the property tag number. Fortunately, we can use aliases, or I would go mad.
Well, certainly I think a part of it was that they could unify on one Chip with the rest of the industry did provide some economies of scale advantages, though rumor has it that Apple has always paid a little bit more for its chips so they could guarantee certain things and dictate as such.

I believe the main driver though, as pointed out in this CNET article https://www.cnet.com/news/four-years-later-why-did-apple-dro... was that IBM could not deliver on a powerful enough powerpc chip that would also meet the other constraints, namely, at this time, one of the biggest markets Apple had was the notebook market, and its sales there were exploding. IBM was unable to deliver a lower thermal envelope for its portable chipsets on top of performance issues.

I think this more than anything else pushed that reality.
OpenBSD's target audience? From what I've seen, it's OpenBSD developers. Your other question was answered in the OpenBSD FAQ. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhatIs
Actually there are multiple reasons.

First of all a lot of people here believe that our cars are the best in the world and no one could even compete close. A lot of this is based on tradition, think about that gas and diesel engines were both invented by germans.
A foreign company getting so much hype just doesn't fit to their ideology. Especially an american one, there is no general bad reputation for american products here (rather the opposite), except for cars though. American cars are considered generally as poor made and technological far behind here. A Tesla (who is this anyway?) more innovative than a Mercedes, BMW, Audi or even Porsche??? It cannot be, what must not be.

Then there is still a general rejection of electric cars by most people, it's ridiculous how many fake news gets widespread around that topic here in media, always to worship the diesel engine as the holy grail.

The only reasonable point ist that there is a big fear that electric cars will cause a lot of people to lose their jobs, because they are much easier to build.
Keep in mind, that the automotive industry is the heart of germanys economy. But instead of accepting that technologies change over time and supporting and pushing our industry to make a good transition to keep their world wide market share, they still hope this could be prevented at all in some kind.
Indeed. If/When another major conflict comes to the developed world, you better believe major cloud DCs will be pretty high up on the cyber and (if it comes to it) kinetic target lists. Never have so few facilities been relied upon for so much by so many.
There are plenty of real applications for inferring every frame of video. Any real time monitoring application would run all the frames, even if you cut it to 1 FPS with multiple video sources the monthly price doesn't make sense.

One application would be nudity detection for a family friendly site, lots of video would need to be checked.

The argument that you would want to run your own machine validates my point. However the same could have been said for video encoding or any other form of intense processing which all now have cloud alternatives.
Not exactly, they obtained data of friends of people who consented. That doesn't mean the friends consented. That is almost the same as Cambridge Analytica did with their quiz. I don't see much of a difference.
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I do not agree.

People should be allowed to communicate period.

People should not be allowed to harm other people.
A guy I worked with would name the machines based on the atomic number of the last part of the IP address, i.e. 192.168.1.2 would be helium.

Eventually it becomes really annoying, don’t do this.
I just had a flashback to the G4 and G5 era. The day they announced Apple announced the move to Intel there was a huge sigh of relief from everybody I knew, especially those in the Media industry.

I don't see a lot of good coming from this move.
That (failure to keep the public welfare in mind) is not the goal of the system though, but rather a failure case due to antagonist agents both within and outside the system.

It comes down to money in politics, where said money is a necessity to maintain an agent position within the system. This motive alone is enough to turn protagonist agents within the system into antagonist agents against the system.