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> Also want to point out: I'm seriously going to college just for the name + network. I can easily learn everything at home via MIT open courseware or the syllabus many Stanford courses put online nowadays.

> Can't emphasize this enough. College is still necessary for something like 95% of the planet's population. If you are not born into wealth or have well connected parents.

Haven't we already seen that this mindset is exactly what plagues academia with the most recent Admissions scandal? I mean parents of Wealth use that to leverage their children getting into that system to further entrench it and admissions offices use that to base their admissions on more than anything else.

I'm beyond the University Model, I have gotten to do some of the coolest things in my career not even mentioning I went to University and only based on merit and networking--though most assumed and asked loaded questions that reveal that I had indeed gone. But none of them asked for a transcript, as I don't even know where they are at this point.

I went to a low-tier (but highly applied to) CSU/UC, that has/had strong Research History, but saw it was all mis-allocated to serve a series of career academics with clout and had no real purpose other than to keep up the with 'publish or die' model and fluff their CVs. We as undergrads often had to work with broken lab equipment, limited class availability that prolonged your graduation date, and other budget cuts and this is was in an impacted major! As a student from the 2008 financial crises I don't envy what your time will be like in a STEM in this environment, frankly.

I dislike University for the horrible unforgivable debt loads it places on young people, but I HATE it for the waste of Human Capital it ultimately creates. It does occasionally offer some amazing discoveries but that seems more consequential than it does like the intended purpose; you need only see how University takes it's inflated share of researcher's grants and are legally allowed to take any and all IP from the research done.

You're free to do as you please, and you seem like a bright person so I hope its a full scholarship, but please understand that its disheartening to see what was supposed to be your most intellectually formulative years be wasted on such a horrible and corrupt system. Especially because as even before going in you understand the substance of the degree can be learned elsewhere and it serves no real purpose besides a form of perverse virtue signalling to HR.
But but but... there was Cyrillic in the metadata of an attached Word document, and the timestamp matched working hours in Moscow! That's all you need for years of investigation, isn't it?
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So, if YOUR family members were being hunted and murdered by a gang of thugs who operate with impunity, you would be wrong to be angry and fed up, as the 10th cousin of yours gets shot by this gang?

Why would this be about "being cool" and not the rage of being constantly targeted and NO systemic change since the Jim Crow law era?

It's been the same since Emmett Till, and frankly, your reaction is a bit hard to believe.
Can a human truly be ignorant of the facts on the ground in the USA of being black or white and the differing treatment you get?

I'll wager that you don't watch CNN, as you smell a little Foxy, but they had 2 reporter crews on the ground 1 block apart in Minneapolis, and the black anchor and his crew got arrested ON-AIR, and the white guys crew got politely asked to move after their credentials were checked.
Google Chrome already ships with an ad blocker (it is in the "site settings"). It is, however, very weak.

I think Google would love to block ads more aggressively, but the conflict of interest is so obvious it is going to be raining lawsuits the instant they do that.
Having tried to fly with the TSA TWIC card - which ironically is issued by TSA and required endless hoop jumping to get including biometrics, TSA denied it as a valid ID. I had to use my regular DL.

I've always wondered if the agent was clueless or just govt as a whole - why issue these worthless IDs if your own agency can't use them.
> Why not have addresses like ::42 for devices in your local network?

That is possible: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/IPv6_Static_Addresses_using_Tok...
Because the technology isn't/wasn't there and is "good enough" as it is. But it doesn't compare to the efficiency of millions of years of evolution.

Eg. Feathers for flying + flexible bone structure and absorbing skin for water pressure.

I will react with the question: although we can dive and fly. Wouldn't it be better, if we adapt to nature's evolution? Eg. Put on a feather- suit, jump start the engine to get off the ground and then float to the destination and only let the engine kick in when we need to go higher/land? Riding on earth's natural wind and sparing fuel resources ( going off topic here)

On topic: ML/AI should be able to datafy all related information that human eyes perceive.

And those datapoints need to be handled by every situation that occurs. The article clearly shows that this is not the case yet.

While a brain has more adaptability, Tesla should be able to counteract this with more data of the vehicles that drive around.
I think you might be right, but is the problem here really a lack of depth perception? Even a single camera is enough to show you a rapidly-growing rectangle in your field of view.

This seems similar to a different fatal Tesla crash in 2016, where the system for some reason couldn't detect a white truck against a bright sky. Maybe what they need is better dynamic range in their camera(s)?
No matter the name of the feature, I think it can only be blamed if it had totally removed control from the driver. This accident would've been avoided had the driver been paying attention.

Cars are heavy death machines, not apps, and I have zero sympathy for people who take them for granted.
See also from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899458
It seems you only have to get to the polls before the registered voter to carry out an effective attack against that vote.

If someone gets to the polls before me and votes under my name, what happens when the real me shows up? They surely can’t go fish “the other me’s” ballot out of the box, because it’s not tied to my name.

Where I vote, it would be trivial to do this, as the rolls of voters are openly published and it’s often the case that the poll worker asks you to help find your name and it’s clear which names have been ticked off. Couple that with week-plus early voting and it would be easy to attack an individual vote. Now, I don’t think it’s likely to affect elections because it’s extremely rare for a small number of votes to decide anything but pretending that we have a secure system without ID is fanciful IMO.

To be clear, I’m fine with the current setup and appreciate/support the week-plus of early voting.
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"What we almost certainly have here is the result of someone selecting every http://ci.minneapolis.mn.us email address from old breaches or credential stuffing lists and passing it off as something it isn't. There's no evidence whatsoever to suggest this is legitimate."
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Maybe this will give them enough time to redesign that hideous two tone controller.
> Push a static site to netlify for free and all of this is taken care of you for free. The burden is necessary given the proliferation of bad actors

This heavily pushes the web toward centralization, which I see as a really bad thing, in many ways the cure is worse than the disease. It's happening in so many ways (have you tried standing up your own email server?) and this sort of thing drives it the hardest.

I don't think Google is all bad, in fact I appreciate a lot of what they have done for the world (you mention some of these things). But as with nearly everything in life, it's complicated. I worry a lot that we're headed towards an internet where the individual is at the mercy of organizations to allow them to have a voice.
An interesting development from an Australian Court. If you can't hold Facebook accountable for defamatory comments on posts, make the organization who posted the original article and "invited comments"
> Radar (notoriously high false positive rate for standstill targets aka clutter, they need to be suppressed to be driving without hard braking every now and then)

Really? My adaptive cruise on my bog-standard GM Volt seems to have no problem seeing static obstacles with it's "primitive" radar.
I think existing communities is interchangeable with incumbent residents. There are probably better ways to protect mass displacement of low-income residents since rent control only applies to certain really old buildings. Preserving the community in itself is not a bad thing to do but a lot of these policies have also been blocking the building of higher density housing, which could satisfy everyone (keep old residents AND let in new residents).
You absolutely cannot imagine a situation where a car will most likely cause damage but the driver (be that a computer or a human) can influence where it hits? And if it can be influenced, why wouldn't you want the least amount of damage vs some random amount of damage?

I'm not talking about Descartes and his all-powerful god that may fool him. "Which of your kids do you send to college if you don't have enough money to send both?" is a similar question, and that may be unthinkable and totally unrealistic for a SWE, but it's a pretty normal situation for lots of people.
Assuming that's remotely feasible. My alma mater only had 7 students graduate with a 4.0 ... In 60 years of existence.

I went to a top tier school and struggled with various parts of the curriculum (CHEM52, I'm looking at you). I convinced myself that I wasn't smart/good enough for various futures I'd previously envisioned, like academia or research. My confidence was shot and it affected where I applied for jobs out of college.

I ended up taking a contract position at Microsoft. I thrived, got my confidence back, and got hired full-time.

Two years after graduation an acquitance from my college reached out to me- he was coming to Microsoft Research for the summer, could I help him find a place to rent? We reconnected and got talking- It turned out his undergrad GPA was lower then mine! I never did find why he was more confident than me, but he had no problem thinking he was still qualified for a PhD program and was clearly doing well enough there to get picked up by prestigious research lab.

I'm pretty happy with the way my life has turned out, I have no reason to go back and change any decisions. In fact, many of the most valuable experience I had were unrelated to the classroom- student government, interactions with the board of trustees, putting together funding for various small projects. And I've had a great career since college. The only thing I wish I could change was how I felt about myself- I wish I'd been able to tell 20-year old me "you are doing fine! It'll be awesome in the end!" and have 20-year me believe me.

All of the above is a long way of saying- don't worry too much about your grades. Don't blow them off, but in the end they aren't as important as we often make them out to be.
I don't see why changing the law is "slapping the hand" of a court telling us what the law used to be.
You're totally right and I shouldn't have referred to them as one entity. Even so, I think that Twitter accounts "representing" Anonymous spreading misinformation really discredits the work other Anonymous members do.
User == user

Advertiser == 0.6 * customer

Their revenues are increasingly diversified, Google received far more dollars from myself and company via non ad revenues, more than $1000 / month now and growing (re: gcloud)
Hard to believe BBC gave a green light to this column considering the recent publishing's have been public knowledge, including the so-called hack. Twitter has become a disease in the last few months and most of this stuff originates from there.
None. And I would not trust a service today that depends on any Google service either.

I'll visit YouTube for free entertainment sometimes, but I hardly depend on it for anything, and I really wish more creators posted their content elsewhere, even at a price.
> I cannot condone violence nor encourage it, but you have to admit that the first few protests and property damage drastically influenced the quick arrest of an officer that may not have been arrested or even fired if it didn't happen.

It is especially important for people to condemn violence that leads to outcomes they are in favor of. Otherwise, groups that are in favor of something else, decide "hey, violence works, voting doesn't" and you descend into horror as different groups all use violence to get their ways.
That it works is table stakes. A web application your parents wouldn't be able to use to order groceries because it was so broken wouldn't even be discussed, it would be pulled off the Internet and replaced with something that works.

The criticism about cruft is one level up. Not about how to accomplish something, but how to do it in a way that isn't extremely wasteful of both computer resources and end-user's time.
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The planes don't use radar but rely on transponder data and have TCAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...) that would coordinate with each other, and yell at one plane's pilot to go up and the other's to go down.

In that accident the smaller plane had its transponder switched off.

A passenger on the smaller plane (which had zero casualties) wrote about it from his point of view: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/03road.html
Now go look at the page source for the home page of Google.
There are many people in this community, and undoubtedly your own professional network, who did not go to university.

The tech industry generally rewards those who can self-teach (tech is constantly changing), self-organize, and put in the effort.

A lot of people say university helps build a professional network.

Well anything you put put 4-8 years of concentrated effort into will help build a professional network. And if you go the route of internships and jr. level roles, you'll be paid while you do it.
I got in an argument with a philosophy professor. He put a stick in water and said 'look... the stick is broken'. I said "no, the stick is not broken. it appears broken because the index of refraction is different in water than air, which causes light to bed". he didn't like that very much. It's still not clear to me what point he was trying to make (that human senses are limited?)
no, I meant that to save space, more complete docs are replaced by one or two terse files (that also also gzipped).
Functioning democracy is the key to what OP was saying.
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't mind ads being targeted to me based on any info that I choose to make publicly available. If I have to see ads, at least give me relevant ones.

I know Facebook goes well beyond that into some pretty creepy territory, but that's not what I'm talking about.
thank you! checking out EMDR now ... I think I will ask my therapist about it.
User == user, in the sense of a drug user. Hooked up, can't say no, will suffer through almost anything, and is a disposable commodity from the supplier's POV.
and don't forget that Woz's dad was an EE who brought computer manuals home from Lockheed for Woz to read.
That's patently false,
0C fresh water freezes
0F a specific brine freezes
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It's in their interest not to understand it because the story is much more appealing and cinematic this way.
Airliners have the large benefit that solid obstacles don't tend to suddenly appear in their flight paths (and the most likely candidate, other planes, is being kept away by ATC and failing that warned about by transponder systems), so the cruise-altitude "follows the obvious path" is a lot more useful.

That doesn't protect against operator errors of various kinds (set course into a mountain, didn't realize the autopilot was disengaged, ...), but is a large difference from streets. Even in planes pilots taking over when automation encounters a situation it can't handle is a risk due to potential confusion about the current situation, and on streets the reaction times necessarily to react to an autopilot failure are typically way shorter.
that's a flippant guess. the underlying reasons or the reasoning for others' decisions may not be apparent to you (i.e., under-explained).

beyond that, if decisions others make often seem not reasonable, it's probable that you disagree with the values on which those decisions are based, rather than those business decisions being without reason. you may be entirely justified in your disagreement, but that's a different animal from unreasonableness.

also, most business decisions are made under uncertainty and with imperfect information (under-informed), and many can seem less reasonable in hindsight as a result.

in any case, it's really unlikely that decision makers are chaos monkeys even if it seems that way from your vantage point.
Debian adds a lot of value in tracking and patching security issues.

Debian adds a lot of value in dependency management.

Debian adds a lot of value in community.

All of these things can and are done by other organizations, but Debian is definitely doing it.
>but if I'm told to watch my unconscious biases in check

Assuming this phrase is about biases about race, then this is a dumb comparison. Biases about race and minorities are different than biases about political positions and opinions. Political positions aren't a protected class.
How do you think the objects are detected with "vision" by autopilot? Are you considerig classifying all the objects in the world in all the possible situations so that that dumb computer can avoid them? So far that seems the plan.
This is a good point about complexity. I started with pip + virtualenv, and I'd recommend pip + venv to anyone learning Python. venv is in the standard library, so there's official documentation for it.

I picked up Pipenv when a point-point release of a dependency broke a production deployment. Pipenv's dependency locking meant that I wouldn't get surprised like that again.

Part of why this topic comes up so much is the desire to run with a language before learning to walk with it, perhaps. I'm a big fan of Poetry, but I like it because I know what it gives me compared to vanilla pip and a setup.py file.

Installing dependencies at the OS level will get you far as a beginner. And when the time comes that you need a virtual environment, you'll probably know.
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Why Hertz in particular then? They aren't the only rental car company.
> literally mechanical computers hooked up with sense transformers to the high voltage lines) that read thousands of amps and 10s if not 100s of thousands of volts, often times with the megawatts of power traveling just on the other side of the panel!

So you are saying the explodey plasma conduits in Star Trek consoles are not that far-fetched after all?
> You do realize that your argument works against you, right?

i dont

> Assume the pronouns refer to the protesting workers instead of the organization and see what happens.

facebooks not trying to force its employees to change a decision they made regarding free speech, so how does that make sense?
Sure, but when you have a Facebook page, a drivers license, a passport, and a bunch of records that mean the government can identify you pretty easily anyways why not just get over it and get the benefits of having an e-ID
Right, well given that they HAVE obviously done a lot of things, I would interpret them to mean “they haven’t done anything I’ve liked or wanted or expected”, which is certainly fine to express. I don’t see why this justifies brushing away google’s decline with “but their products have engagement”. It’s like arguing because people buy an iphone, the iphone is the smartphone people want—in reality it’s just necessary and mildly better in some subjective way than the competition.
Well, Tesla puts disclaimers that their "assistant" demands the driver to always be paying attention so they would accept blame could only if the system completely ignores correct user input.

I don't know if there is any instance where it would completely ignore user input and Tesla agrees the users wasn't at fault.
> None working on the farm.

You seem to be proud, but sound derogatory towards those who actually work on a farm and are proud of it.
This rules are changing development and business dramatically
Some Airbus planes have them, but I think it’s an optional extra.
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I agree that Google search is horrendous but Youtube is actually manageable. If you want decent recommendations you need to curate your viewing history. If you watch some random video and find a lot of annoying related videos showing up in your recommendations then go into your history and delete that one video from the history. Now Youtube will "forget" you watched that video and stop recommending things related to it.

I use Youtube in a very specific way: I subscribe to a bunch of channels that I like and only watch what those people post. My recommendations tend to be very focused around things related to my interests. Occasionally I will look up a random video for whatever reason and I'm always careful to delete it from my history unless I actually want more recommendations related to it.
If you have a successful bed making business, and I decide to start making beds too, you'll certainly make less profit, but I haven't stolen from you. Deprivation of income is not theft, practically any action you take deprives someone of income.

Most justifications for property (both personal property and real estate) invoke the fact that pieces of property are rivalrous (one person's use interferes with another's). Calling unlicensed copying "stealing" ignores the crucial difference between physical goods and digital files.