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Only 36% of US citizens support Trump[1] and yet we don't see calls for deposing him from abroad. We don't see sanctions freezing the assets of US-based multinational corporations because Trump has shut down the US government[2].

This is essentially a coup. Recognizing an unelected oligarch is a continuation of the US's policy of undemocratic meddling in latin american countries.

1. https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-approval-falls...

2. https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14239
>don’t know what you do if Facebook decides your a robot and suddenly 50,000 people can’t authenticate to your site

This is exactly why I am paranoid about depending entirely on social sign up/in. So if the API provides it, I believe it's a good idea to capture the email address associated with the social account and either generate a hard password for later reset if necessary or request the user set one up. The latter obviously reduces a little convenience of the social sign up, but does hint to the user that they can sign-in otherwise and gives them control.

Authentication is just too important to completely outsource without recourse.
If this is too much trouble, you can connect over serial, like 25+ years ago. Transfer files with zmodem from an internet-connected host. A Raspberry Pi with a serial port would be perfect for this.
Its not so bad if you make good use of your hotkeys. E.g. on Ubuntu the "windows key" + number will switch to that program in your dock. I have it setup like this: win+1 = IDE, win+2 = terminal, win+3 = test browser, win+4 = documentation, win+5=notes.

Then you can easily run everything on fullscreen and not worry about alt-tab-hell.
What is a "mandatory member search"?
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The latest version of VLC (3.# iirc) now supports Chromecast, under video > renderer menu. Works much more smoothly than Videostream in my experience
> She got a 600k loan as a student based on bank statements which is insane.

She got a 600K loan against a property she already owned a substantial share of (not a purchase money loan with nothing down) as a working home health aide who is also a nursing student.

> In 5 years it’s very possible it could become unaffordable.

In 5 years it's quite likely that higher income and lower loan to asset value will let her refinance it down, too.

> What about the other people? The atricle mentions these loans grew by 25% in 2018.

Subprime mortgages aren't generally a problem on their own, absent the kind of incentives to misrepresent their quality for sales of securities that existed in the last housing crisis. To the extent that hasn't been corrected, that's a problem, but let's not target subprime lending as the problem (heck, in the last crisis, a lot of the problem loans weren't even subprime.)
The title is clickbaity, but the article is a nice introduction to one weird animal.
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And yet, people insist on using heavy, slow development tools and SDKs, which make much more of an impact on productivity and iteration times than a 2 year difference in hardware.
Try the latest version of VLC, which now supports Chromecast. Works better for me
As long as you're too big to fail and get bailed out, it's someone else's problem.

EDIT: I didn't say this was just or right, just the current state.
Businesses just buy Precisions instead... same chassis and better internals
> Is hair color or texture a relevant way of subdividing people for instance? Are we being "fair" to red haired people? What if red haired people for some reason seem to be less likely to pay back loans?

Machine learning is going to be very good at identifying proxies for features we don't like, even if we don't directly provide those features. Weighting red hair color could be a proxy for the Irish, targeting hair texture could be a proxy for african americans, targeting zip codes has always been a proxy for race, etc.

If we want machine learning to ignore these kind of things it's probably going to have to be a separately weighted training goal that racial groups and so on need to have equal outcomes in the final results.

That's really what AOC is going for here. The black box will happily learn racist ways to weight things all on its own, we can't just throw up our hands and say oh well, if the algorithm is denying black people for home loans then we just have to accept it.

Because, in the short term, being racist is an effective greedy strategy. It's not your business's problem that, say, black people have higher rates of default (or whatever, example). But it also leads to bad social outcomes in the aggregate, and we've agreed that shouldn't be a factor in home loans. And we have to find a way to make sure that The Algorithm (tm) doesn't just find a way to machine-learn redlining or some other proxy for race or other protected characteristics.
not really, manipulating it via human intervention, like he is claiming, makes it opposite of "driven by math".

He wants no human intervention in both cases.
I'm referring to the security controls that Mozilla and their Apple-like fan group claims give it an advantage over Chromium. I am saying that I do not believe that it has any security or privacy advantage to Chromium, and the performance is worse, so there is no reason to be in the Mozilla cult-like fan club.
Just because someone is talented and lucky, it doesn't justify them making $100 billion while others die from lack of basic health care.

Parental income is the highest predictor of a person's income. Nothing you have said counters this argument.

If you have any stats or data that counter it, then please provide them.
Why are they still using Killer WiFi NIC's on these things. They are absolutely terrible. We have a bunch of XPS 13 and 15's at our office (9360's up to 9570's) and every single one of them has random connectivity problems on our office WiFi and people's home networks.

We've had to replace all of them with Intel 9260's and the problems instantly disappear. I don't know how this is not a customer support nightmare for them, and why they continue using them given the relatively low cost of the Intel cards.
If salaries are completely transparent, including external to the company, salary negotiation will all but disappear. You'll apply for a senior developer job, see that all the senior developers there make $95k (or whatever), and you're either okay with or you're not.

The flipside, which is largely why I am not in favor of legally enforced salary transparency, is that you ask for the salary range, they say $90-100k (or whatever), and you can justify why you should get 100 or 105 or 110 with examples. Or you can ask for $90k because you're happy with that and know you won't price yourself out of the position, or any number of other possibilities.

It just makes the entire process much less flexible, which I know a lot of us developers love, but in the business world it doesn't make much sense.
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In terms of tech literacy, which was my point, give this example I think she seems like she's doing quite well, regardless of her personal politics.
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Explains exactly why I think managers who don't code have no business telling a capable coder what to do. So many software companies underestimate the amount of creativity that is needed for a successful programmer, and they insist on structuring their hierarchy with the top people not knowing how to code but have learned how to navigate the hierarchical structure. This obviously leads to work flowing down from those who don't have the knowledge to create what it is that they are commanding others to do. tl;dr: if you can't code you shouldn't be in a leadership position (in a software company) that affects the project directly. Who would that person be leading? Like a head chef that doesn't know how to cook.
It streamlined the process of meeting interesting and nice people. I don't see a problem in that. If you are treating them as trivial dates that might be the problem. It is a chance to see if you might be interested in seeing each other again, low pressure, no stupid pickup lines, just a nice conversation and go from there. I have made friends from a number of dates that didn't work out in that capacity.

I don't understand what your second paragraph has to do with anything I said, it's basically rambling. Maybe off topic rants isnt helping your dating life.

Tech definitely facilitates the ability to meet someone and have a drink or coffee. Someone you probably wouldn't have ever ran into otherwise. I see nothing wrong with that.
This is a very real problem, and one I learned to deal with for the just under two years I was in evangelism. It was a big shift from 'doing the doing' to trying to influence the doers (product, engineering) from the outside. What I learned though was that I had a unique perspective into customer's needs since I was a partner to them and not trying to sell them anything (thankfully the company backed up this philosophy). Once I learned how valuable that perspective was, I was able to use those learnings to get leverage with the product team to effect change. So while it was a few degrees away from writing the code to make a customer's life easier directly, ultimately I got the same satisfaction from being the customer's advocate. And it made it possible to transition to a PM role.
Unless you are literally building the dev tools you are using that doesn't make any sense. That shop lost tons of money on wasted dev cycles. You spend much more time building the app than running the app.

They should have bought everyone a second low spec machine to test on, and let them use proper dev machines for building the software.

I guess if is a shop where the management feels they need to remind developers suffering through that for 8+ hours a day "who works for who", that was probably the least terrible part of working there.
It's a gender-inclusive term for latinos and latinas, which themselves are terms mostly in use in the US.

I have not seen "Latinx" receive a warm welcome in Spanish-speaking countries, but it seems to be gaining traction in the US. I think it's pronounced, in English, "latin-ecks". I'm not sure anyone has attempted a Spanish pronunciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx
IMO, most are already working in the Bay Area at the big companies or unicorns. If you know how to find that ultra top tier talent remotely I'd love to hear what's worked for you.
Costco till the day I die.
There's a greater issue that is often ignored here. If React is so large/complex that one ought not create their own version from scratch (I actually question this assertion, but will grant it for the sake of discussion), it begs the question as to how risky it is to bring into your stack. How trivial is it to replace if its so complex? Vendor lock-in can be a real problem for teams.

Remember the React license fiasco? What if Facebook hadn't caved there and removed all the controversial patent language (by relicensing as MIT)? What if, as a matter of existential risk, you had to make the business decision to remove React from your app?

As such, I think the other component of this particular decision tree should include how much you become dependent on a particular library/module/framework and the consequent risks that introduces to your organization.
Yes. Cultural advantages exist. It's a part of the issue of income inequality.

Cultural advantages not only exist, but they clearly have tremendous effects. Not only are the effects large, but they also tend to be very efficient with respect to cost. If people are really serious about addressing poverty, then this should be one of the first places they look.

However, when I look at the policy positions of my chosen tribe (the Left) I see it favoring policies which erode the transmission of wealth-generating cultural knowledge. I see policies which encourage isolation communities. I see policies which have resulted in the dissolution of families. I see the glorification of subcultures which are anti-education.

I am talking about capping wealth or income and redistributing it.

I think some American billionaires would do well to be more like wealthy elites in Japan and Sweden. I think it would be very good to see some of that wealth go towards the building up of the physical and cultural commons. I suspect it would be far better if that were voluntary, than if we set a precedent by making it forced.
The idea you're trying to advance here is just plain silly.

You need your doctor more than your doctor needs you. That doesn't change the fact that your doctor is doing work for you, and not the other way around. Same for lawyers, plumbers, electricians, architects, and anyone else working in any number of other skilled professions.
This may very well be, i cannot verify it :) Nevertheless is the thought of Steven Jobs having read all of Knuths books quite entertaining.
> I think regular people just naturally can't fend for themselves, and maybe they need some form of protection..

Oh they can, but for regular people, a job is a privilege. It's not easy to find one, and a lot of people don't have enough financial reserves to afford a long search. The risk/reward analysis ends up leaning heavily towards staying.
> sometimes 'w' button seems to be 'stuck' in pressed

I've had several XPS13s with keyboard issues. I honestly cannot consider it a "developer edition" when the keyboard is wonky. Contacted HP support every time, found them trying to ignore the issue while whole support forums where mobbing up in anger over the issue. Finally they admitted, but nothing happened. I'm on a T420 now, while I really-really wanted to support suppliers that provide Linux-out-of-the-box machines.
I can somewhat understand glossy on a desktop display where you at least have a decent chance of some control over the lighting.

However on a laptop it seems silly. Last thing I want to see in my new expensive screen is my ugly mug reflected back at me.
Except..she's right...
I'm pretty happy to let companies and candidates figure that out. If companies are only hiring foreigners because of "cheap!", greater H1B freedom would curtail that - or possibly just lead the company to open an office in another, cheaper country. I don't think it's really the business of the government to decide who is worthy and who isn't.
A good practice is, unless necessary (or intentional), your API shouldn't send back raw outputs from your model. i.e. if you're running a classifier, return back only top 5 predictions, if you're running face recognition, directly send back names.

All deep learning model outputs are by design differentiable, and anyone with access to the full output of your model can potentially reverse engineer it using model distillation.

If you're running a cloud service, it's pretty easy, just make sure your API sends back processed inputs.

If it's on device, things become a bit more involved, but ideally, the embeddings should be stored as encrypted files (and not directly loadable matrices), and only readable by a small part of your overall program, which sends back the name of the person after performing similarity match, to other parts of the program. Your entire program should not have access to the embedding.
It's not technical debt, it's more like technical ex-girlfriends.
Maybe don't split groups on genetics/biology/birth.

Also make sure the data you use is not a proxy for the above criteria
In either case, managers would not entertain talk about a raise unless there ware actually not that many people willing to do the same work for less. So a secret negotiation allows them to hide that information from the rest of the workers and only compensate those aware of their market worth. An open negotiation would not lower compensation for the latter since they can always just quit, it would raise salaries for the less informed.
To be legally above board, an online provide must attempt to confirm the Rx you enter is correct AND still valid. But few if any do because its a race to the bottom on quality and price. At Topology Eyewear, we spare no expense to ensure you get the best custom frames (like a custom suit) AND the best optics money can buy. We take 100% compensated Rx very seriously!
>Why does a "developer edition" notebook come with a glossy screen?

Because developers like sharp text (as opposed to smudged due to the diffusion filter) and better color and saturation too.

Not all of us work under back lights we cannot avoid...

I mean, it might be a personal preference, but it's not like some objective law that developer === matte screen (like eg. 3D artist === discreet GPU).
What are you doing where people are making close to 2x what you need to be in top 1% of income?
>There is still a traversal of spacetime at a limited speed between the creation and destruction.

From your point of view, that is correct.

From the hypothetical point of view of a photon, an object moving at the speed of light, time does not pass and the distance gets squished into zero.

You can observe a partial effect by looking at cosmic rays. We can detect several decay products of cosmic rays on the ground despite these decay products being far too short lived and too slow to have actually reached the ground. However, due to their high speed, their internal clock runs "slower" compared to ours and the distance between the top of the atmosphere where they are created in a collision or decay and the ground is much shorter than they can travel at their speed.

A photon experiences the same effect times infinity; distance and time no longer have a reasonable meaning other than being 0.
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Seems like it would have been better to omit the third port entirely, then—or, better yet, put a USB-A port there instead.
It gains you the ability to replace a broken pair of glasses for just the cost of the glasses, rather than also having to pay for another eye exam.
The matte finish has horrible optical qualities, causing ambient light to scatter ("antiglare") washing out colors, and also causing light from individual pixels to scatter and refract back into neighboring pixels. This reduces the quality of displayed images, and in high density LCD displays it causes pixel-fine details (small text) to appear smeary.

By contrast, well-designed glossy displays minimize internal refraction and also cause light at high angles to reflect, reducing the amount of ambient light which pollutes the display. The result is that the display appears much brighter in any setting, black are blacker and do not get washed out by brights. Colors show higher dynamic range, and small details are crisper. In addition, well-designed glass glossy displays (such as those on the MacBook Pro) are actually visible and easy to use outdoors in full daylight. Even when reflections show up on glass displays, it's easy to see past them because they're full optical reflections with correct depth in stereo vision, meaning that you can correctly focus on the screen without focusing on the reflection.

Glossy displays are bad under basically two conditions:

* They are warped plastic, such as on older Dell laptops, causing weird shiny glossy glare at all angles that cannot be ignored.

* You have positioned your screen so that there is a small but very very bright reflection behind you, and cannot tilt your display.
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Have you ever looked at the DoL classifications? Very easy to make a level 3 "software engineer" at 135k a level 1 "programmer" at 65k and everything in between depending on your comfort. And it's all above board and by the law.
I understand it's a whole 0.1% of physical memory for the program you're spending most of your time. Better reduce that to 0.06 quick.
Got mine in South Africa (albeit with blue light filters) for roughly the same price. Possibly an almost universal thing for normal optometrists (ie not start ups).
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I wish these market forces were a hell of a lot stronger

I seem to be able to get $250k+ in Silicon Valley and ~$200k in Seattle (which is almost the same after cost of living and state tax), but last time I looked in Tokyo I couldn't get any offers for over 15M JPY/year and even that was a stretch (150k USD at a 100-1 exchange rate, but more like 130k USD at the time)

Likewise, I haven't been able to rustle up any remote job offers for over $150k. I'd LOVE to work from home on a giant ranch out in Flyover, USA for the same mortgage cost as a grungy condo in San Jose, but not if it's going to set back my retirement plans by 10 years

And I've got a news flash for you remote-friendly entrepreneurs: You're competing with people paying $250k/year in the bay area whether you like it or not. Sooner or later some top-paying behemoth is going to put an elite 5 man team on it and make a product that puts your 50 person company out of business. By all means, try to lowball people into $120-$150k/year offers if you can, but if they're not having it, you should consider ponying up.
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You could probably order glasses from Zenni and have them shipped internationally. Even if you had to go through a reshipper, it should be a fraction of what you're paying.
> Personally I think ego is part of the issue - VCs don't want to admit they don't always need "the best of the best talent" for their application.

I'm sorry, but isn't that the same bigoted mindset?

Unless there's real evidence that the valley actually has "the best of the best talent". Every time I see that claim, though, it boils down to some kind of circular logic.

I would definitely agree SV folks think they're the best, but real evidence is lacking.
That is what makes it fun to read, is it not?

The sentence stood out to me as well, but because I liked it.
I myself will take a small computer and a fast connection anyday, I do not think money is the biggest issue here just what is practical.
Most laptops are sitting in either desktops or places like airports coffee shops.

In all three places you can move it easily (and it being a laptop makes moving it even easier).

Hundreds of thousands of developers have MBPr's which are glossy only.
I love how all the suggestions are right in the "helicopter parent" wheelhouse. No "kick them outside and tell them you don't care what they do, just be home for supper."
Then why not just say 'Julia has macros'? Lightly perusing the description of Julia's features, that seems like a clear way of expressing what it is.

(I also vaguely recall Julia describing its type system as "dependent" in way that goes against convention. Maybe they just liked controversy in the early days!)
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Perhaps quantum computers will help break the deadlock? They'll make it possible to extrapolate the consequences of theories that were previously intractable. This might mean that a large number of candidate theories could be tested wholesale to see of they match existing evidence. In particular I know that it's currently very hard to get predictions from quantum chromodynamics, which means that the standard model hasn't yet been fully tested.
All: we're going to try turning off the flags on this story. If you're going to comment here, do it civilly and substantively. I can already see signs of thought-degrading flame-entropy appearing, and if it continues we'll restore the community defense mechanism.
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