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> Are you suggesting there is no such thing as dangerous speech? Are you suggesting that having someone decide what speech is dangerous is actually worse than the dangerous speech itself?

How is that working out in the People's Republic of China? They have a very concrete definition of what dangerous speech and have legions of people to decide whether individual instances are dangerous and to remove them.

Clearly, their system illustrates the hazard of your viewpoint.
I mean you don't know that until recently? I'm pretty sure if you ask any Chinese IT worker about this, they probably have some story to share.

BTW, now you know if Chinese programmers are seeking oversea jobs, they are probably not trying to enter your company to steal your techs. No, more likely they're just 996 refugees :)
This depends on the company - where I work I regularly see people retire after 25-30 years of tenure, and it is a large, publicly traded company. The CEO/board sets the tone. It is possible to meet a company's bottom line AND treat your employees at the same footing as your clients/customers.
I think the lead speaker was full of hot air, but let's not fall into the trap of overestimating the changes in 2 years and underestimating the changes in 10, assuming the US government doesn't have a response to china's AI initiatives.
Actually, their point isn't "only idiots" more than it is "everyone." Cognitive biases are real and hard to overcome and we all can succumb to them.
Look for signals.
Pretty simple: the caliber of the CEO, CTO or the caliber and experience of the VP Eng.
Then look at the VC's funding the company, and the names of the partners on the board. If top tier VC (say Sequoia, Benchmark, or A16) invested in series A after having invested in seed, then you are good. VC's can be be wrong for sure but they have done a ton of background checks on founders, the tech, why customers would buy, etc..
There is no way you can do as much and have as many contacts.
Ignore vanity signs such as "Fancy Advisors", they bring next to nothing. Same for "Fancy Big Client", just a free test on some ancillary product.
Good luck
I think of them as the trust fund babies among the tech giants. A lot of people who have actually worked on both Azure and AWS/Google Cloud remark that Azure is awful in comparison, but its their only option because (some reason which ties back to Microsoft's dominance 15+ years ago). In search, after MSN Search, Windows Live Search, Bing Rewards and what not, Microsoft still didn't really put a dent into Google's marketshare. In mobile, they are an also ran. They had to do a 180 on their open source policy to come back to relevance. In other words, if you took away their OS/Office stronghold, it is hard to see them actually competing and winning in any business which has strong competitors.

Which reminds me. I knew some folks who worked at Microsoft who used to talk about open source as if it was cancer - in 2005. Now they display equal enthusiasm for the opposite view. If you have actually seen it, it looks quite like a comedy scene from one of those movies which spoof corporate life, where all employees act gung-ho no matter what.
I can see you point but it depends. Assuming a developer was half decent in the first place then moving from Winforms to React is easy, depending on what they've done along the way react is actually pretty similar to old school asp/php and adapting from desktop to web technologies is the hard part. On the other hand a lot of people that gravitated toward Winforms development weren't half decent in the first place, but that's an issue with individuals not a technology gap. VSS to git is similarly easy, assuming they're comfortable using the command line, which may be a big if.

And that's just the UI, a real developer would be doing a lot of logic behind the UI, database design, debugging production issues, talking to stakeholders, etc, that's an enormous wealth of transferable skills.
The rabbit hole of whataboutism goes nowhere.

These people have been shooting up places of worship and running people over with their cars, all the while their supporters cheer them on.

They can get right the fuck out. Black Israelites start doing the same then by all means do the same to them.
What if the car is flying through the air aside a suspension bridge at 23:59:59 and :60, and crashes into the water a second or two later? Has the loss occurred the moment the impact with terrain becomes inevitable, or not until impact?
Ouch, that hits close to home. It's like you've sat in on all the same meetings I have, word for word.
That isn't true.
There was a direct benefit to waiving their rights:

> Employees were offered severance worth a month’s salary, continuing health and life insurance coverage for a period depending on time with the firm, free career counseling, and up to $2,500 for skills training
Let's not leave out decades of state budget cuts. Higher ed took most of the brunt of it. Baby boomers went to college for free, then as soon as they got theirs, voted up all the tax cuts and right wing people leaving the next generation with much less.
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To be honest, it’s not really all that unusual once you start paying attention to it — plenty of women have deeper voices than mine.

I transitioned from male to female some years back and trained my voice from a deep, masculine voice to one solidly in the female range. Pitch is only one aspect of how we gender speech, and I think that’s why it feels off to you.

I would say this voice uses pretty male-coded speech patterns with a higher pitch than you’d normally hear a man speak in. The pattern of clear starts and stops between words and limited range of pitch used sounds “male” to my ears.
You help them by explaining that it would be a mistake to regard an 80% - 85% decline as brutal?
Ofcourse. What else can we expect from someone who has been there for just 2 years. It takes some audacity to speak about the tech scene of a company as large as Amazon with such limited time spent. Unless he has the overall view of the org ( like a VP of Engineering), I would take any assessment with a pinch of salt.
Buy it on steam. Leave a positive review so other people see it and buy it.
Equivalent increases in mining difficulty is the goal, as that secures the blockchain.
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Standard espeak at 1000 wpm on the setting I put on the other comment.

eSpeak NG text-to-speech: 1.49.2
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On the dog weight and trade deficit charts, I'd argue there's merit to the originals. The essence of a linear relationship between two data series X and Y is that X and Y are identical up to position and scale. The "better" charts represent the data more accurately, but the original charts make it easier to see the relationship between the two series.

Also the trade deficit chart is confusing in part because the negative sign isn't obviously a negative sign.

Edit: the last chart is fine. It's maybe not very sexy, and it takes a moment to absorb, but the data is clearly displayed.
Listening right now, thanks for the share.
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Where are your casually observing eyes focused? If Hacker News is your main internet watering hole, maybe expansion is called for...
What about this for an idea (and I'm not sure I love it, but it's just spitballing): We allow expression of any _ideas_, but we put a limit on _recruitment_. I.e., anybody gets to say "White people need a home country" or "the Caliphate shall reign supreme", but nobody gets to say "come to the meeting at 10th and Main 5 o'clock". That way we at least know what's on people's mind so we can engage them but we're putting a limit on helping them grow the movement (until and unless we decide they have some sort of valid point, which is part the point of letting them speak).
Not sure how you got this impression, the concluding paragraph is "However, we are not the only other option. Other options students have are to become involved in extracurricular programs, such as math teams. Math contests should be selected with some care: those that encourage mass memorization or just test standard curricular tools tend to exacerbate the ills of the calculus trap rather than enhance problem-solving ability. Students can also pursue independent study if they are able to find mentors. University professors are occasionally willing to fill this role to some degree. There are also many summer programs and good books for extracurricular study, and some communities have developed grassroots programs to provide opportunities for eager students. These options are usually not as easy as “enroll in the next course,” but they will be far more rewarding than settling into the calculus trap."

Also these articles are normally targeted to those already invested in the AoPS ecosystem, whether it be books, courses, or their forums.
IBM is in a bind. They were so behind for so many years that anyone talented left. The ones who stayed were around were there because of tenure, not talent. What do you do when your best employees are gone and your best days are past? Share buybacks, overmarketing, and aggressive pursuit of license audits. But none of those require a large senior employee base. So they took the most aggressive policy possible while still plausibly remaining inside the law.
Real programmers only use punch cards for Jacquard looms.
> MLK was heavily persecuted in the sixties for his views and message by private and public entities.

And people should be okay with his persecution by the people who had the political upper hand in that era? No? Then why should anyone be okay with deplatforming Alex Jones (as bad as he is) by whoever has the political upper hand at the moment?
As an Australian, I can confirm this. It's not necessarily their fault, but cyclists are extremely irritating for drivers, and an outright danger in some cases. Due to our road designs being mostly car-centric and our laws, it is hard to share the road with them.

We are required to give 1 metre clearance when driving at < 60km/h, and 1.5m at 60km/h or over. If it is no other lane available and we cannot cross the dividing line due to oncoming traffic, we are forced to reduce our speed to that of the cyclist (which often means halving it or more) until we can overtake them safely.

The government is attempting to retrofit bike lanes, but this does not remove the requirement to give space, and the lanes are co-located with parking spaces, which forces cyclists to move back onto the roads. This also leads to a lot of mirrors being damaged, mostly accidental but some cyclists brag about damaging cars that regularly park in the same place and block bike lanes. This leads to a lot of resentment from car owners.

As an aside, cyclists are also allowed on our footpaths, and this has led to quite a lot of pedestrians being injured by cyclists colliding with them at speed.

I could go on about this at length, but the point is that there is a considerable amount of frustration, resentment, and anger towards cyclists.

One of the major bones of contention is the government refusing to require the registration of bicycles for road use (number plate) as it would discourage bicycle use, which would be at odds with the government promoting it for health benefits. But I know multiple people who've been injured or had there cars side-swiped by cyclists, and have no recourse due to being unable to identify them for a police report.
Your analysis doesn't consider defense. Actors on the international stage aren't always rational, so you need to consider defending yourself against others, however irrational.

I'm not saying that tips the argument one way or another. But you can't not talk about it.
>My criticism applies to them as well, and as far as I can tell, they are also banned from Facebook.

Again, I can't link to either of the documents because censorship but the facebook group of the mosque that was shotup in Christchurch absolutely did have a video explaining why the Christian west was doomed due to having a birthrate of 1.x children per woman and why Muslims were going to inherit the countries because their birthrate was 5 children per woman.

That was left up long enough for the terrorist to find it, put it in his manifesto and me look at it an hour after the shooting had happened.

Good luck banning the FB page of that mosque after the terrorist attack against them though.
> We can't phase lock real seconds to calendar seconds, because calendar seconds are a moving target. As the Earth's rotation slows, calendar seconds get longer. Seconds that get longer are not acceptable in science.

Sure you can, and yes they are. There can be a difference between calendar seconds and atomic seconds. For most applications the difference is irrelevant. People doing science can explicitly account for the differences. And since most time-keeping in science is much more inaccurate than the difference between the speeds of TAI and UT1R, those folks won't care.

Most of the applications that do require very precise timekeeping actually only care about having a very consistent timebase, they don't necessarily care as much about the speed of time. So even if we steered GPS time by enough to use it as a broadcast source of UT1R, the majority of users who use GNSS to synchronize their measurements also don't care.

The remaining handful that do care are going to be purchasing atomic clocks anyway, and there are dedicated mechanisms available to synchronize those to TAI.
>ISIS is (or was) an explicit political group, an organized proto-state. It literally called itself a State. It was very clearly defined.

Are you suggesting that groups like the daily stormer, the national policy institute, etc. are not organized political groups? The national policy institute is quite literally a lobbying organization.

>As I stated earlier, multiple people have told me that desiring stronger border security and building the border wall is white nationalist.

Like I said, if I were being confused with a white nationalist with any regularity, I would take steps to correct that perception, perhaps by trying to understand why people think such things. Through conversation, directly, with those people, or on my own with research. Not by trying to appeal to some higher ethics that the people who think I might be a white nationalist are wrong.

Something about everywhere you walk smelling like shit and all.
I wish I could upvote your first paragraph and downvote your second -- the latter is a fully general counterargument against the possibility of delusional bubbles, since, in most such cases, the people bidding up the bubble asset do have skin in the game.
And how exactly would you define it to ban it? Germany already has some of the most extensive hate speech / anti-extremism laws in Europe. I mean, it's not just censorship, but e.g. outright bans on parties expressing certain views in their platform, or even just insufficiently democratic internally, and with various specialized institutions that enforce all that proactively. And all that wasn't enough to prevent AfD from operating legally.

Facebook can just ban them by name without any explanation, of course. Are you suggesting that it's a good thing - that, because we seemingly can't write fair laws on this, we should delegate both the laws and their enforcement to private industry, where it can be done without any checks and balances?
> And as with any government effort, it is still less efficient because of its much bigger bureaucratic overhead.

Government programmes aren’t always less efficient than their private equivalents, e.g. the NHS in the UK is more efficient than many private healthcare systems (source: https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5143)
I posted something related to this a couple weeks ago.
Chase banned my web client because its not Windows/OSX.
It works fine if I change my user agent...
FWIW the RV series is the ex-linksys stuff so it should all be thrown in the trash anyways.
I don't think MS really hires many chinese nationals. There certainly aren't nearly as many chinese nationals at MS compared to facebook and uber
I have one of these routers :\ So far I'm unable to get the PoCs to work but that doesn't make me confident.

I'm curious how pen testers reverse the .bin firmware download into source code, anyone have any insight there?
> We discarded college faculty in the same way that we discarded cab drivers: by leveling the profession and allowing anyone to participate, as long as they had a minimum credential and didn’t need much money.

This is hardly an apt comparison. The skills required to drive a cab were never worthy of credentials beyond a driver's license and and a background check. The ride sharing companies didn't lower the bar for this job at all. They just rightly opened it up to a lot more people.
That's the point: the majority of college classes in the US today are not taught by tenured or tenure track faculty, but rather by adjunct faculty who are paid by the course rather than an annual salary. My wife used to teach five classes per year as an adjunct and made under $20,000 for it, and she had zero job security from one semester to the next. (Sometimes her contract for a class wouldn't show up until a week before it was due to start.) Tenured professors at the same college teach six classes per year, and make... rather a lot more. (We've got expectations for scholarship and service, too, so some additional pay is reasonable, but that would have to be more than half the job to make that ratio reasonable, and it's definitely not.)
Successful companies don't have this sort of framework churn. You see it in the startup world because companies are always starting up right when some new framework came out. But anything out of the MVP stage doesn't churn on frameworks, unless something went horribly wrong - like passing on experienced engineers.
The word smile was mentioned once in the article.

And the F35 was always going to be shared with allies for cost and geopolitical reasons so not sure how that can be considered a negative.

The US structured the F35 program to specifically avoid the F22 failures.
There's so many people in the second category for so many reasons, its pretty much made "PhD" a "don't hire unless good reason" filter for me.

Reasons might include: couldn't make it in real jobs and delayed joining the the job force for as long as possible

doesn't want to be held accountable for actual working solutions and likes working towards "novelty"

enjoys approaching every problem with the most complicated possible solution they are aware of

thinks generalization is the only way to approach specific special-case problems, if they can't find a generalized solution then they think its unsolvable even when the special-case solution is fine

has grand research ideas they weren't able to convince anybody in academia to fund and think they can chip away at those ideas by cowing coworkers into working on it for them

likes being the "smart guy in the room" and builds a career of talking a lot with complex technobabble and buzzwords but has no idea what they're saying (I've encountered many many of these myself) -- often has mile long CVs as well

creditialists who think racking up pretend education credits is the most important thing in life

failed academics who point to their large private sector salaries as why they've ended up on the superior path than their old peers

and so on....these are literally descriptions of people I've encountered just in my current job over the past 5 years...it keeps going on and on.
That's historical accident and wont(can't) continue to hold.
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There are dozens of local auto mechanics within a few miles of me, and most of them seem to be doing steady business. So I fail to see how we discarded them?
The idea that this has anything to do with fighting a war is absurd. The wars are also not about any specific goals. Does the F-35 have any relevance in a fight against the Taliban? I'd be surprised if the Taliban had even one plane, or heck even a radar.

The reason this plane was built was: to spend so much money. It was to support a high-tech industry that needs a guaranteed buyer to develop expensive sensors, joysticks, and so on. You might ask yourself: but why this use? Surely all of that engineering talent can be put to good use building more useful, non-destructive technologies?

The answer, I think, is only a historical accident: after World War II the military became a money faucet to industry, and that tap proved difficult to control or turn off. The Department of Defense has been resisting an audit for the last 30 years; it is a paragon of profligacy. It pumps half a trillion dollars into the economy every year, and for the most part Americans are oblivious or approving. There is no great public outcry to reduce the military budget; but there are a great number of industries eager to keep the money flowing. Thus, we get this kind of pointless waste of everyone's time.
You opt into participating that process by accepting the job, though. So from Australia's perspective, the way to comply with their law is to not take such jobs, and to leave if the process changes prevent you from complying.
Let's say all the claims in this article are correct.

What happens when one gets shot down (as it inevitably will), and the enemy reverse-engineers the stealth tech to either copy or find weaknesses in its capabilities?

If they can reverse-engineer faster than we can improve our stealth tech, which seems reasonable, whatever claimed advantages this plane has will be temporary.

Or is there another way of looking at this?
We do a lot of digitisation in the public sector of Denmark, in fact we’re world leaders in it along side Estonia.

Being an old social democracy we tend to build solutions to be inclusive. This means you can opt out of a range of our digitised options, and it also means we do extensive service design and benchmarking to make sure meaningful software gets to the citizens and that they know how to use it.

Almost every elderly citizen in my municipality is a digitally competent citizen. The ones who aren’t, often suffer from sicknesses like dementia or mental disabilities.

By contrast we have twenty year olds who don’t know how to install a program that isn’t part of “the App Store” or don’t know double clicking with a mouse is a thing.

In the tech part of it, we have old developers who’ve been through decades of soa vs microservices and a billion frameworks who can build solutions that require minimal maintenance. While some of our freshly educated engineers build things that can’t even last a year without needing major updates or refactoring because their hipster packages broke. We also have extremely talented youngsters and old engineers that can’t write a for loop, but in general, age is extremely valuable if you want to actually operate the software after you build it.

Ageism is simply put silly, unfortunately it isn’t just a thing in tech l. I see it in several areas, even in the public sector of a Scandinavian country. I’m not sure what we can do about it, but we need to do something.
Fun fact: US teachers are paid, adjusted for purchasing power, above the OECD average: http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/48631286..... Around the same level as Norway, England, and Finland, and above France or Sweden.
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(a) Pilots rarely specialise in just one aircraft.

(b) F35 at this point in its lifecycle is always going to be much more expensive more than a last generation model.
Even assuming that this premise were true, FB, Google, or any other tech company deciding who is a "literal Nazi" is a terrible idea.

And of all the ways FB is making the world worse, "letting Nazis have a soapbox" is least of their problems.