skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vendor lock-in, and buying IP from companies who had much better records. People in open source have been pissed at Oracle since they pissed on OpenSolaris and started suing everybody who uses Java after buying Sun.

Oracle is famous for having a corporate philosophy of "make lots of money, nothing else matters".

Larry Ellison is famous for being a selfish megalomaniac: he owns an island on which hawaiian natives labor for him as serfs, and he has made two donations to charity in his whole life: one in exchange for dropping charges in a security fraud scandal, and one to establish an anti-senescence research institute for his own use.

Don't take a job at Oracle, don't buy their products when possible, they are the back alley mobsters of silicon valley.
I think complaining about new stuff is part of some people's "process."

Meaning they hate/complain, work through their frustration, and once they're quiet they're also happy. I think it is much more common than people realize, many just don't leave their comfort zones.

There is a difference however between being internally frustrated and hating the [new thing] and being toxic to everyone else. Shows immaturity, and can often be mitigated by having a polite sit-down and discussing it.

Reminds me of the expression: "You can only change yourself no one else." Which would have me consider what can I do as a coworker to help this new employee fit in and to generate less friction. Not because you caused it, but because you may have the power to mitigate it.
I've not seen any indication of any "obnoxious and dishonest marketing campaign" on his part. All I know is that in his books he presents what I feel is very credible research and offers no conclusions.

The missing persons cases he examines are truly remarkable. I don't expect to persuade you of this, but I am responding to you for the possible benefit of anyone else who may be reading these remarks.
Thanks, I haven't had a chance to try them out because the few Google products I'm actually interested are apparently only for the US marked. I'll look at some comparison pictures and make up my mind.
The above commenter probably spoke a little too hastily. "Building Machines" is indeed not a paper about a neural network method, but a survey of problems that we should expect neural networks to do better on, but they currently aren't. That said, the paper isn't down on deep learning, but rather says "we need extra stuff, either additional methods or more inductive biases in our models".
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Do you have a reference to such statistics? I'd love to use them as yet another reason against vendoring dependencies when I talk to colleagues.
a quick intro to the concept is given by an author of the paper here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/a65v5r/neu...
I guess you don't live near sea-level, then.
ERROR> https://webassembly.z19.web.core.windows.net/Calculator/mono...: Uncaught RangeError: WebAssembly.Memory(): could not allocate memory
>> We have a vision net like computers that can be fooled with the same tricks (just google "optical illusion").

I don't know of any optical illusions where a bus turned upside down is perceived as a plowshare, or an image of an elephant superimposed on the image of a room causes the other objects in the room to be misidentified.

Human optical illusions reveal the structural bias in the way we see, but that has nothing to do with adversarial examples and overfitting to a few pixels.
The left also thinks of racism in terms of intent. But they think that outcome implies intent. That is the real difference, IMO.
Optometrists and Ophthalmologists both have training to check for disease in the eyes. In fact a dilated eye exam is a non-invasive way to get an actual look into your circulatory system to check for things like diabetes. So even people without glasses should be getting regular checkups.

Ophthalmologists also have specialized training for cutting the eye that they learn in medical school (eg: lasik), but for eye exams, an optometrist has the skill-set necessary to perform these kinds of screenings.

A lot of people just get auto-refracted or a checkup by an optician and assume that's enough to get new glasses, but those people can be among the tens of millions of Americans who don't realize they have pre-diabetes.
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Thanks, yeah I was tempted by the Pixelbook, but it is not being sold here so I can't just try it out in a store or try it out and send it back. I'll try to research it some more.
I think the point was that you can make memory allocation very fast if you do not care about ever freeing memory, but obviously that is not exactly sustainable strategy. So that is why making claims about performance before figuring out memory management story is bit premature.
So what will happen to the small Cloud team in NY? I thought they were developing their own dc.
I suspect this may be the result of a lower fertility rate - if you have less children, you're bound to spread your affection/attention across less children meaning that you get "overly attached" to the ones you do have.
Without getting into a language debate per se - what does Uber have against Python?

(If indeed, as it sounds, there's an across-the-board ban against it).
Why wouldn't they all use encrypted channels?
yes, and yet "perfect is the enemy of good" ...

I think the article encompasses your objections, to paraphrase : "algorithms can never be perfectly 'fair', because logic itself can never be perfectly fair"

Can we even define 'fair', perhaps we just know unfair when we see it. We seem to be seeing more of it - poverty, homelessness, racism, fact/science-denial, gerrymandering, police violence, gun violence, etc.

Yet, we should still strive for fairness.

There is a lot of ground between where we are now and 'perfect' - and this is AOCs point, essentially - our system of [self?]-rule is palpably unfair for most people, yet we are busily encoding more of that unfairness into algorithms with little oversight.

AOC [ and Bernie, and others ] want us to seek a better implementation of society, and encode that in our algorithms and laws - fairer voting laws, fairer district maps, fairer pay, fairer penalties. Or the converse - encode more fairness, as a means to realize it.

For example, it may be a hard math problem to design optimally fair district boundaries, but its noncontroversial to suggest we can reduce gerrymandering significantly.

One problem seems to be that most people equate socialism with communism [ 'evil' ], when in fact you are always picking from mix of Democracy, Capitalism, Socialism, Oligarchy etc. After Bernies campaign, and a couple years into the Trump experiment, people are now starting to listen to these old but useful ideas.

Ultimately if we don't share any wealth with the poor we will have a bloody revolution, and if we don't reduce Carbon emissions then no wall will keep out the displaced millions of climate refugees.

A bit more Socialism in our Capitalist/Democratic/Oligarchic/Socialist mix, is sorely needed right about now.
Yeah, I got Lasik done 15 years ago at UCSF, where they trained ophthalmologists. It costed around $6000, with insurance covered around $1000. Best money I ever spent. The improvement to quality of life was incredible. Still get 20/20 at left eye and right eye degraded slightly to 20/30.
You don't have to use a web-only flow for MFA. We use a tool that prompts for MFA the execs any CLI with the environment setup with the STS credentials e.g. https://gist.github.com/rectalogic/e99c10bd43a2a8f6542680953...
>I'm just saying having read that gorilla story doesn't imply any degree of technical understanding.

Is great technical understanding required before one can evaluate whether a program that labels black people as gorillas is functioning appropriately?

>Iirc there are even physical reasons why it is more difficult to identify black faces than white faces. Is that then racist, if an algorithm struggles more with identifying black faces?

So you're saying that black people are innately similar to gorillas, and an algorithm can't be blamed for failing to distinguish them? -

If you're trotting out that grand old "black people all look the same" thing, then yep, that's racist too. Black people tend to have different points of variation in facial features (jaw, chin, ear, and brow shape instead of eye and lip shape and color for white people). Inability to differentiate one face from another means not tracking the correct identifying features, which means racist algorithmic design.
The price difference was an extra 50% when I looked - and only came with 16.04 when I looked in December.
I just got my eye exam done this morning, and I agree it really does make a way better experience.

I think it's a state-level law thing. Here in WA State it's illegal for a optician to refuse you a plain eye exam or refuse to give you your prescription information, including pupillary distance: https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=18.195&full=tru...
How to avoid conflicts between developers and marketers
I think you're greatly underestimating how difficult it is to preserve this sort of knowledge. A particle accelerator is not a case where you're going to build exactly the same thing again, like you might do with an F-22. Any new accelerator is going to inevitably try to do something new. Therefore, the most important kind of knowledge is the knowledge of the planning and development process, and of all the things that went wrong (or could have gone wrong, but didn't), and how the design was changed to accommodate those. I think this sort of knowledge is incredibly difficult to capture, in large part because people usually don't think about it explicitly; it's almost a reflex as much as anything else.

There was a paper a while back about Google's software engineering practices, and one of the interesting points that I didn't see discussed much was that "most software at Google gets rewritten every few years" [1]. The paper includes some justifications, but I think one of the biggest reasons is that it's very hard to institutionalize the sort of knowledge that you get by building something yourself. For the same reasons, I think Lockheed's documentation effort might be sufficient to build an F-22 identical to what they do now, but wouldn't be sufficient to design a new plane inspired by the F-22; and similarly knowing exactly how to build an LHC wouldn't be sufficient to build the next big accelerator.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf (see section 2.11)
Because to a company using ML to impart control over your behavior, you are a $. They want to extract value from you, just like every other company, government, etc... If they become really, really good at this, you are going to have a low standard of living (because you are being mined for value), and make noncoherent decisions constantly (you will no longer be rational, nor have a functional personality).

To some degree, this has already been happening for decades, since psychologists began formalising advertising into a science. Look at the increasing percentage of lower class families and how diminished their average value is. This isn't caused by time localized events, like a 5 year recession or a housing market bubble. This is the result of extremely fine-tuned and effective advertising, that has caused cultural shifts towards greater and more irrational consumerism.

ML allows the advertisers to be much much more effective; they no longer even have to manually understand their market to manipulate it. Again, look at the growing disparity between the richest 1% and the rest of the schmucks. That 1% is soaking up the profits of extremely effective advertising, which the rest of us are paying for.
> it isn't what, it is where. It is in SV. I don't know what it takes here to be in 1%. A former colleague got a unicorn recently - he probably would qualify. Half-a-mil does seem to allow to be a middle class here. At least this is what neighbors working at Google, FB, etc. and some friends/acquaintances from other places are.

What does any of that have to do with the national discussion above?
Its hard to belive anything this person claims to be truth

The LEFT are at an stage they refuse to accept

* Truth

* Stats

* Biology

* Common Sense
My comment a little bit rushed. What I meant is not that an HTML+CSS dev cannot move to the other side, but that the frontend developers I saw in the last ten years falled in the one of the two categories. Those willing to move to UI/app development already did — or are vocal about wanting to do it.

Totally quote on hiring.
when they ask - you say "no, thank you".

They get away with it by training the vast majority to consent for no particular reason.
> What's my way forward here? How do I do my part and take part in the solution?

Maybe not the answer you wanted, but the best solution would be to let go of implementing AI algorithms altogether. The second best thing that we can do is to try and sabotage/sap the system from the inside (by "we" I mean us, the programmers and the data people involved in implementing these algorithms). You cannot "correct" a system like this using feedback loops and the like, because the system would over-correct and would follow new paths we didn't even thought had been possible. And yes, I'm a hard determinist [1] and proud to be one:

> Hard determinists would view technology as developing independent from social concerns. They would say that technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our social activity and its meaning. According to this view of determinism we organize ourselves to meet the needs of technology and the outcome of this organization is beyond our control or we do not have the freedom to make a choice regarding the outcome (autonomous technology)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism#Hard...
We should ask him if he carries a rolodex with him all the time or he just text to his secretary to forward his messages during his busride.
They made the CEO leave, layoffs just before he left, another round of layoffs after we were repeatedly told there wouldn't be when the new CEO came on board, spun off a successful unit, it devastates morale and makes you pretty keen to leave quickly. I figure it works for them but it sucks to work at a company they're doing that to.
As others have commented yes Glasses Direct are who I’ve used. They let you choose some frames to have sent to you to try on in a selection box. I did this the first time.

They require you to send your prescription (a photo is fine) before they make them, which makes me think they are being required to do that legally, or at least concerned they don’t want to get it wrong.

So this doesn’t turn into an advert for one company, I did notice that lots of other companies seem to offer a very similar service and they all seem to offer various guarantees regarding your happiness with the product, presumably because people are still wary of this way to buy glasses.

Another reason I’m slightly evangelistic about using these ‘online’ glasses services is that the high street opticians are obviously overpriced and I don’t think it’s right to make so much money unnecessarily from people who just want/need to see well - some of whom really struggle to afford the costs.
Many of the first phones that launched with USB-C connectors were USB 2.0.
Ok, so would the tens of thousands of people dying or going bankrupt every year due to a (lack of) medical insurance be a better stat for you?

Or perhaps that nearly half of Americans earn less than $30,000 annually?

The point stands.
How long before 'Jeff' gets into this industry? [1]

[1] Amazon of course is what I mean.
Consider Groovy if you're interested in something Python or Ruby-like but with access to the JVM and its ecosystem. It's basically the best of of both worlds with almost none of the downsides.
Same. Here all LE corps use encrypted radio, TETRA iirc
FWIW, your usage of the the term 'racism' is not at all what most people mean when they use the term. The vast, overwhelming majority of people do not think in terms of systems. They think in terms of agency.
I always thought that man made fibres were most prone to generating static. Wool, cotton and other natural fibres being least likely. Borne out by putting on or removing so many of those clever outdoors base layers accompanied by crackle that wool never has. Artificial commercial carpets positively encourage static too.

Something something long chain molecules something something better insulators, or something. :)
While at Oracle (5yrs) I’ve never seen somebody get a promotion. And at Oracle a promotion doesn’t automatically come with a raise (I understand that it rarely ever does). If anything they offer stock instead of salary to “level up” which isn’t really meant to level up so much as lock in.

However the company does seem to be in a large transition - and as a result we’re seeing some divisions starved out, while others are getting fat and carefree. The division I work in accounts for the lions share of “blessed revenue”, yet we’re starved for resources and people. You can’t back fill positions, and don’t even think about new headcount. So as attrition happens, the picture gets worse. While the sister division accounts for a tiny fraction of “blessed revenue” but they have what seems like unlimited resources and headcount.

The point is, your fortune at Oracle depends heavily on which division you work in, and whether or not Oracle wants your revenue. If your division is out of favor, Oracle wants your line of business to deplete through attrition - so no raises, no promotions, no new headcount and of course rif’s. If your division is appreciated - you see raises, promotions, new headcount etc.

As someone else pointed out, you can’t change divisions or positions and expect a pay raise. You can’t leave and come back and expect a pay raise. If you’re at oracle you can pretty much expect stagnant career and financial growth (unless you’re TK making terrible decisions and 35mm dollars).

I’m not surprised people at Oracle don’t make market pay. Or that other people systematically make more. I don’t think it has so much to do with gender though. They do systematically hire H1b’s though so that they can pay less and get that sweet sweet employee lock in.
The tendency to instantly formulate an answer to every question and a solution to every problem, and express it with the phrase "just do X".
Sounds like the Boy Scouts. Although, still worth it
So your argument is that 7z's insecure AES encryptor is not a problem because nobody _should_ use it?
I already have the XPS15 and have nothing but good things to say about it. I have had zero issues with it and love it.

What issues do you have? I do not notice a difference from the xps13 quality.
Unfortunately, when rigor crawls in, excitement flies out. Rigorous machine learning would be really boring for everyone except its most dedicated followers. It's probably how Geoff Hinton and his students soldiered on with their research through alternating waves of lay hype and disappointment.
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Yup, if you want to see the state of the art in this, here it is from libsodium:

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsod...

They sum it up in their docs like this:

- On Windows systems, the RtlGenRandom() function is used

- On OpenBSD and Bitrig, the arc4random() function is used

- On recent Linux kernels, the getrandom system call is used

- On other Unices, the /dev/urandom device is used
The problem I see is that people simply don't have children anymore. We are surrounded by couples in their 20s-50s living in houses without children. When my kids want to visit friends they have to ride their bikes 1+ miles to the next family with kids (and we don't live in a rural area, we live in a densely populated suburban area) and from their those 2 kids will ride another 1+ miles to the next family with kids. I suppose the real culprit is people can't afford to have kids anymore (though we managed to have 7 kids on a single income, so it is possible).
Why do you assume all employed SWEs have 4 year CS degrees? Or any degree at all?
ISTR that the 15” of all generation had 4 lane TB3 ports on both sides. The distinction was the older 13” had two lanes on the right.
Curious: are you aware of how much misery is actually caused by the US' economic sanctions?

"Make the economy scream" was a statement actually uttered by a US president in response to a democratically elected socialist in Chile[1].

According to Jorge Arreaza, Venezuelan foreign minister[2]:

> We cannot repatriate the profit from our company in the United States to invest it in food and medicine in Venezuela.

Economic sanctions ensure that the pain of imperialism is felt by the most vulnerable[3].

We need to wake up to the misery that we impose on the world.

1. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

2. https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14239

3. https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-sanctions-make-econ...
Jack Dorsey says Mark Zuckerberg served him a goat he apparently killed himself
Qualities of Highly Effective Designers
You're qenerally quite limited in the languages / protocols you can use at any decent shop.

It's not about oppressive top-down control or anything like that. It's a matter of choice. And the better shops tend to make these kinds of choices... very carefully.

If you agree with their choices - then maybe they're great places for you. If you don't - to the extent that you wouldn't want to work there - that's also fine (and they'd probably respect that).

But those "anything goes" shops where you can write a microservice in whatever language you fancy? Those are the places you definitely want to stay away from.
The eyes don't care about what's in front of it. The brain does the image processing, so that's the only thing that's affected by a bad prescription. If your glasses are so wrong that it causes eye strain, it may cause damage, but you'd have to purposefully put yourself into that ordeal.

https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/locations/la-crosse/servi...
I always suspected this. Particularly when you're typing something long-winded, and the agent's response is a bit too quick for having to read it all.

Although, this will certainly depend on the Chat software used. Back when we used Olark at our company, there was no preview available, although we could "co-browse" and redirect the user's webpage, which was helpful in some cases.
I guess some people disagree?

But if any response in the redirect chain is served over HTTP, it can be replaced with a different response containing any "Location" header of the attacker's choosing instead of the original one. So it doesn't matter if the eventual intended URL is an HTTPS URL, because it will never be reached. The redirect will go to the attacker's site instead. (And in the case of a download, the user will never notice because the file URL is usually not prominently displayed.)

So a HTTP response anywhere in a redirect chain is equivalent to serving it over HTTP. Perhaps this was exactly the point of the parent post, but I thought it would be useful to make it explicit.
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Reminds me of a similar debate my friends had when Google Wave first came out.