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Promotions are just a form of vendor lock-in that (especially) small companies employ to keep people longer. I’ve seen barely two years out of college non cs majors promoted to senior engineer based on finishing some “large project” which anyone else in the engineering team could have done.

The real sleezy thing is that by promoting someone to senior who isn’t nearly qualified at all, the company has now made it exponentially more difficult for these engineers to switch companies. Esp funny is the promotion of unqualified individuals to “project lead”.

I’ve seen many of these individuals move to next companies and revert back to standard level software engineer.

It’s never about titles - you need to be aware that companies are using the titles against you rather than for you.

Also it pisses off the engineers in your organization who do deserve a raise to see unqualified promotions. Its a one way ticket for a small company to very quickly lose its true talent (80/20 rule) and talent follows talent. Once you get a few supporting cast leave, even the actually qualified senior engineers won’t want to stick around longer because they will feel intellectually isolated as well as feel like the engineering management are inept.
Why do paper systems require more effort to hack? People just have to be able to predict where close elections are located and botch a few elections. The incentive to do so is everywhere. There have been so many close elections in modern memory.

What do you do when you detect anomaly? Have an unpalatably expensive recount? That can be expensive enough to use as a reliable weapon. How do you know if the final count is complete? Do you track down every voter? These things sound expensive enough to simply not happen.

Instead one side detects enough anomaly for a court to intervene, and the court considers blunt options or leaving the results as-is. For things like Bush v Gore the court is under enormous pressure to act quickly and perfectly, and they voted along party lines.
> Here's a thought experiment: What would happen if, by the end of 2019, true, 100% self-driving cars became a reality. I know this is not going to happen, but it no longer seems a far-fetched fantasy. In the US, driving is the number one job for the majority of states. What are all of these people supposed to do, become self-driving car programmers?

In the "let them eat cake" scenario, those people will have plenty of free time to stage a revolution and take their piece of the cake by force. Below the threshold of civil war, you get a Wild West where armed bandits hold up trains of self-driving trucks and loot them, creating a thriving job market for security guards protecting the trucks.

Of course both of those scenarios are highly undesirable, so it's more likely that some kind of tax will be introduced to take automating jobs from extremely profitable to barely profitable, with the proceeds used to pay for unemployment benefits and retraining for the displaced workers. (With the amount of retraining depending on how many other jobs haven't been automated yet.)

That said, some people are going to see their standard of living decrease without any way to escape. Such people have existed since forever, and they usually end up homeless if not dead. Automation doesn't create any new problems in that regard, it just makes them large enough that they can no longer be ignored easily.
Completely un-scientific analysis; people don’t mind ad targeting if it’s relevant to them. Example - don’t show me ads for swim suits and beach umbrellas if I live in Montana.

What people object to is the detailed, strange and onerous collection and dissemination of this data - eg, the location data controversy...
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect" [1]

For some people, the bar is a little low.

[1] https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a15810/tell...
With JavaScript, you can also use `for-await-of` loops to process asynchronous data as an alternative to using callbacks or green threads.

I've been doing a lot of open source work on this in the past few months: https://hackernoon.com/getting-started-with-asyngular-bbe3dd...
Adding DMARC would put a stop to that.
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Thanks, yes, agree that the "opposites" (as you've listed them) are likely to lead to ineffective meetings. I think that most organizations can learn from how Amazon runs meetings and makes decisions, but those tools and techniques should definitely not be "cargo-culted" in wholesale without thinking through how the organization and its broader context are different from Amazon.
"Do you want to be forced to watch an advert you have no interest in?"

"Do you want to pay to have your advert shown to somebody who has no interest in your product?"

The same answer to both these questions is why why ad-personalization is "good" - and why TV, printing and all the rest are having their collective arse handed to them by on-line.

Now we can move onto discussions around fraud, ethics, leaking, micro-transactions and a million other things - but that study is clearly stupid.
The lack of explicit intent doesn’t absolve these companies from responsibility. They are culpable for their externalities.
As someone who never had a problem with it, I would be interested in learning what drew you away from Ada to D.
Because it sets up an incentive structure for advertising businesses to engage in sweeping and intrusive data collection and user surveillance.

The technology that results is nigh indispensable from the foundations of a panopticon.

Algorithms can end up exacerbating echo chambers, and reinforcing negative biases many people aren't comfortable with.

And it's just bloody creepy when you sit down and think about it.

That's just what I could think of off the top of my head.
To impress you even further, cubesats were a thing long before Kickstarter existed.

I wrote my masters thesis on one back in 2003, and it was launched in 2004. Even back then this was such an established concepts there were niche conferences for it.
Government positions have to be filled by people who are willing to and can get clearance. This decidedly diminishes people willing to apply and capable of applying.
Yes email. At least at work, I don't have any notifications on my desktop. I check email a few times a day and otherwise work on what I have planned for that day.

The people at work who have chat and email notifications turned on just spend their days reacting to whatever comes in.

I find that if something is urgent enough, somebody will call me or come to my office to get my attention.
Perhaps the era of general purpose computing will come to an end. But what I see is a shift away from single CPUs supporting thousands of complex instructions to GPUs with simpler instructions sets capable of running calculations in parallel. It's more of a shift from serial to parallel computing than a shift from general purpose to special purpose computing
"I think juice may be a _LITTLE_ better than soda. I still choose to drink neither, and think I am better off for it."

You're making a very good choice. I would encourage you and others to consider the raw oranges 31-40 GI as, itself, very high and akin to something like dessert or a special treat.

Or, to expand on what a child of your post expressed:

soda < juice < fruit < ... < ... < vegetables/nuts
Thanks a lot Daniel for such an awesome article. It helps a lot for startups like us.
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Thanks.
Any anyone doing deep learning.
Interesting angle. The tool I have doesn’t record or playback the audio. I’m using a transcribing engine to convert it to text to see what it captures. I figured that if a machine can figure it out, then almost any human can understand what I said.

I then use a summarizing machine learning algorithm to see if the output matches the summary of what I wanted to convey.
The drive was in a corrupt state the first time it got unplugged. And it's nothing to shrug off, it might have been in the middle of rewriting a directory and lose all the contents.

So what are the odds that A) you get it back into a non-corrupt state B) the sectors affected by finishing the write will re-corrupt it C) you do this in one minute?
However if you've been furiously googling for holiday destinations in Maui - maybe I'd slip you some adverts for swimwear, but hold-off on beach umbrellas as you'll never get one on the plane.
And this is why we have a represenative democracy instead of direct ones

Let represenatives and legislative assistants do the real research before passing some emotion based law so often
On the contrary, the significance has everything to do with the category-theoretical pattern, albeit the reasoning for that is not immediately obvious and has to do with a further category-theoretical tool known as the Kleisli category. A monad with no enforced "outside" structure is known as a free monad, and is basically the equivalent of what most people outside FP call the Command pattern (or rather, a well-behaved version thereof). And "Commands" have everything to do with specifying side effects!
17% believe it's moral..but what were the options, e.g. was it something like moral vs. Immoral or was not sure an option? People might have very different impressions of what constitutes ad-targeting, e.g. technically going to a bikes website and showing a bike ad would be a form of targeting, not as invasive as tracking a person around the web. I would like to see a question asked like, should companies keep track of what sites you've visited so they can better advertise to you? IMO that would give a clearer picture of the situation.
"Following the E.coli outbreak, an outbreak that was caused by Odwalla not following proper sanitary procedures that caused the death of at least one child, Odwalla adopted flash pasteurization and other sanitization procedures."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odwalla
Brian, did you miss the word "voter" before the word "fraud"? If you read the article in the quoted part of the comment, it's pretty clear about what it's discussing.

It's important to keep the details straight, because you'd hate to justify requiring photo ID for in-person voting based on the existence of a different kind of fraud which is not helped by requiring photo ID for in-person voting.
Ah, an ad person. I'm sure you can see this from the inside, the advertising industry has built a large surveillance apparatus in order to sell us thing we don't need. The whole selling things we don't need is already immoral -- but that's a general criticism against advertising and marketing; In this case we have something already dubious turned into a panopticon nightmare. As we grow closer to our technology, this technology is constantly spying on us to order to optimize selling us things we don't need.

You can't build trust in technology when that same technology is grassing you out to every huckster who wants to pour junk into your eyeballs.
Actually, from my experience, the people that get creeped out by this get creeped out the most when an ad is extremely relevant to them. I would also like to see a baseline of how many people think ads in general are immoral. We find it normal, having grown up with it, but I personally detest the constant psychological manipulation waged by ads in general. It gets even worse when those ads are personalized.
I don't get how finding out about the lives of two dead people can possibly be intrusive. It's not like they're harmed by the inquiry. What's the big deal?

And no one's pretending literary biography is equivalent to literary criticism.

As a fan of literature I like reading analysis of literature, and also enjoy finding out about the lives of my favorite writers. Why is that so wrong? How is my curiosity about or knowledge of their lives harming them?
Thanks for the thoughtful comments; Amazon's methods are certainly not the way to do things, but they are a way that works for them and I think it's worthwhile to understand how and why, in depth.

> This is very much a cultural thing. It's extremely difficult to apply to just your meetings.

This is so, so true. But keep trying, if you believe in it.
> Listing a large amount of historical artists does nothing to refute that we have more today than ever before.

Of course it doesn’t, I agree with this statement wholeheartedly. However, the changes brought by the internet don’t feel categorically different than the ones that came from steamships, telegraphs, radio, film, telephone, railroads, or airplanes. Each of these innovations changed the world as we know it by making it easier for new ideas to spread, and a corresponding increase in the quantity of available content. You may be right that the internet has ushered in a new Renaissance, but history may also decide that the old one never really stopped, or that the seminal invention of this era was one of these earlier ones, or even one that doesn’t get invented for another decade — predicting how history will judge the present is always difficult, and never certain.
Positive feedback is bad. All engineers know that.

These are Dawkin's memetic viruses being spread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind

BTW, why does he post Youtube conspiracy links? He should at least suggest using incognito/private!
It does have the start button. Does this mean that after a single click you can play sounds as much as you can?

If that is the case, I guess it's fine.
I'll ignore the over sexism here, and post my salary negotiation tips as a "white man".

0. If I'm employed and get an offer that's better, all things considered, I take it. Counter offers never work out.

1. Else, if I have multiple offers, I take the best one, all things considered.

2. Else, if I have only one offer, I take it if it seems likely to have a better outcome than continuing to search.

Also, stock options, etc., are garbage. Cash is king.

You'll notice that there's nothing here about complaining about others' compensation. I don't care.
Egyptian hieroglyph for "horse": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_E6...
FWIW, details from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_orange :

> William Wolfskill .. migrating to California .. hybridized the Valencia orange, a sweet orange, naming it for Valencia, Spain, which had a reputation for its sweet orange trees. .. The success of this crop in Southern California led to the naming of Valencia, California.

> ... In the mid 20th century, Florida botanist Lena B. Smithers Hughes introduced major improvements to the Valencia orange .. the Hughes Valencia bud line [make] up some 60 percent of all Valencia oranges propagated for cultivation in Florida
for reference found https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing to be a great theoretical reference however I wonder of the practicality of the implementation
There's reason to be suspicious of both systems, and insert the proper fraud and auditing measures for either system. It's not like election fraud didn't happen with paper ballots: ballot box stuffing and entire ballot boxes sunk into lakes.

The thing is, mitigating this for a physical system like paper ballots, requires fairly basic training to become a poll monitor. Whereas the auditing of electronic systems is substantially more complicated, not least of which when for-profit companies compel the county/state into NDA's baring 3rd party audits, which happens to be the case in Georgia.
"Won over" or "won over"? More shitty writing from The Guardian.
Even Vulkan compositor wants to compose OpenGL (or other non-Vulkan) clients, so it needs a generic way to work with a cross-API handles to buffers allocated in Video RAM. That's what GBM/EGLstreams/that stalled Nvidia memory manager solve.
I'm not entirely sure how I can substantiate an assumption.
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The big threat is that if ML/AI works out, they’ll become far more efficient at it than ever before. That is, we’re following a trend/path that as a society we probably shouldn’t
It is a feature, not a bug. Variation in the system makes it harder for a single exploit or actor to rig the entire system.
With apologies for Appeal to Authority: Paul Graham elucidates the low value of Ad Hominem in his post How To Disagree: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

It's not as though the author's biases or background are completely irrelevant; but discussing them is unhelpful without additional clarifications on the mistakes, ignorances, or dishonesties alleged.

Imagine a different context: maybe I have a strong opinion as a lay citizen on campaign finance issues. It's all well and good for someone to enter saying "I'm a political operative/lobbyist/etc, and you don't know what you're talking about"; but it's a zero-information statement until they describe what they know that I don't (which would be just as helpful and pertinent if I had turned out to be an expert anyway).
I was talking about gaming. RHEL/CentOS are server distros, not gaming oriented by any means. Fedora is more like it in such cases, if you prefer that family of distros.

> it doesn’t show a shift away from NVIDIA

It does, as confirmed by many users who choose AMD for their next upgrades. Their choice of Nvidia was due to better performing drivers in the past, which is a non existent difference these days. So they choose to drop Nvidia and get AMD because of much better Linux integration (from kernel to the whole graphics stack and DEs), which is a consequence of AMD drivers being open.

> but over in the professional CG/VFX and AI/ML spaces, AMD is rarely touched

Not from what I've heard. AMD is better for GPGPU due to real asynchronous compute which Nvidia lacks. If anything, AMD hardware is more compute oriented, and Nvidia one is more gaming oriented.

AMD plan to address it with their next architecture (so called "super-SIMD"). But compute hardware support is already good there.

You might refer to CUDA lock-in, and some higher end libraries for AI being CUDA only. That's surely a problem, but not with hardware itself. AMD are working on addressing that as well (ROCm project).
You missed the part where Ghostery is anti-user. They even went open source last March in an attempt to turn around the growing bad faith but the motives were very transparent.
Do you want to be forced to watch an advert you have no interest in?

I wouldn't know until I watched it. As opposed to seeing an ad of something I recently bought.

Do you want to pay to have your advert shown to somebody who has no interest in your product?

How do we know that? Having no information about a given person is not equal to knowing that that person is not interested.

It's not that simple.
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A "U" is a Unit, which was arbitrarily defined as a 10x10x10 cm cube.
I don't want to be forced to watch anything, ad, movie or programme.

I don't want a personal tail following everything I, and my family who periodically share devices, do over years in order to "infer" what's suitable to target me for. Ever.

I am more than happy to have ads on the page that are relevant to the page, or to the search terms I've just used. I would even whitelist them in my adblocking if they were served from a first party domain and were free of JS crap.

Ad personalisation is not good, unless I have requested it on that particular site. Which for some sites, I very well might, so long as it remained siloed. Which would require trust. Which rules out everyone currently in Adtech.
Google Maps AR navigation is rolling out to a handful of users
"Political correctness must go, before we regret our inaction. There is no group better placed to take that cause forward in a positive and liberal light than progressives."

I wish there was a market where I could make money shorting this outcome.
This becomes an especially crude way of purging when you realize that various systems deal with "complex" names differently.
I operate several workstations and some have notifications while some don't. For various sites and email addresses. Some notifications are sparse and important, some are frequent and unimportant. There's no reason not to let the sparse and important ones come through. It's efficient.
One of the less highlighted shocks here is that sterilization is not perfect.
The steps of fixing your eyeballs in place and peeling back the cut-out flap require physical contact with tools.
Property tracking is a solved problem. Simply chose a model based on budget.
The historical context helps here. Monads came to Haskell to deal with IO. Once there, people realised that a whole host of things are monads under the hood, most of which are pure. The word "effectful", somewhat confusingly, is often used for applicative/monadic code that is in fact pure under the hood. A good example is the State monad which does not mutate state in any way, it's completely pure computation that happens to model state.
We have made some fundamental mistake...

I was just thinking about how Schroedinger 'worked up' his famed equation. A physics historian told me (not in these words) that he didn't actually 'derive it' but sort of ... 'arrived at' it.

The WP bio says that in his fourth paper on the subject (which first involves time), he greatly simplified the -equation- by introducing complex numbers ... and then:

"something magical happened, and all of wave mechanics was at his feet.... Schrödinger was not entirely comfortable with the implications of quantum theory. He wrote about the probability interpretation of quantum mechanics, saying: 'I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.'"

Introducing complex numbers -made the equation more beautiful-. The equation e^(i*pi) = i^2 is amazing, but may also suggest that we're not looking at the math's basement level.

It's been suggested that all of the pyramids' stones couldn't have been cut with two-foot-long copper saws. It may be that the 'beauty' people are seeking is limited by their tools, as much as their imaginations.
> "Do you want to be forced to watch an advert you have no interest in?"

Compared to being forced into watching something an AI-bubble mistakenly believes I’m interested in, for the 20th time, sure.

Also, not being tracked is pretty great.
> I think, therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM)

Begs the question: it assume the existence of "I" (a subject) in proving the existence of "I". The fallacy-free version is, "this is a thought, therefore thoughts exist".
Well it says there are 600,000 pieces of space junk.

But that's spread out over a large area.

The area of the earth is 510million km2, so worst case (all on the same plane, at ground level) that's 850km2 for every item of 'junk'. I don't see that being sufficient density for a domino effect. I suppose it depends on how uniform the cloud density is.
Time spent matters for Netflix, sure, but the decision at the end of the month is still also a function of whether the user thought it was time well spent. If I spent all day on Netflix but thought the content was trash I would unsubscribe. YouTube algo doesn’t care if the time on site makes you crazy, and the lack of a conscious decision to sign up for the service tips the scales much, much more for addiction peddling.
In California (which has a lot of vote by mail), it’s also legal to use a camera in the voting area. In this regards, I don’t think there’s particular weaknesses.

In general the voting system can guard against false positives or false negatives. By that it can either bar legitimate voters or allow illegitimate voters. Since the USA has a historic tendency of barring the poor, minorities and women from voting; elections officials should take that into account when considering trade offs.