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Python, JavaScript mostly. Not sure the processor (it’s a 2019 model year, tho). 16GB memory.

Snappier/more responsive UI-wise than the 16” MB Pro I got from work, fwiw.
On a personal level I sacrifice income in order to work for an environmental nonprofit. I believe my work is important to my organization and that my organization truly provides value to the world. I also think that very few people have the luxury of making choices misaligned with economic incentives and that preaching personal responsibility is a ridiculous cop out that is often argued in bad faith by leaders that want to avoid addressing an issue. So I think the only way to change the incentives is to change the governance. Vote, protest, advocate, make campaign contributions, run for local political office. Political action may seem like an underwhelming answer, but it is how us humans organize our societies.
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I'm not ready for ad networks start using targeted deepfakes of my parents on me to buy skincare products or something.
this is literally impossible and completely ridiculous
These people are in their 70s. Preshared list of words? You are lucky they even accept a password.
I don't know how this misinformation started spreading but I'm pretty sure 20% is nowhere near enough for herd immunity and I have not seen anything authoritative to the contrary. Barring something compelling to the contrary I see no reason to believe that the disease couldn't spike in NYC again.
MPEG 4 (taken as a the whole body of standards, not as two particular video codecs) actually has provisions for text content, vector video layers and even rudimentary 3D objects. On the other hand I'm almost sure that there are no practical implementations of any of that.
Well, you can download it for desktop from the store, so presumably?
> I've yet to see any "uncomfortable truth" from psychometric research that wasn't relatively easily explained as culturally tied.

So you're not aware of race and IQ studies, where differences have persisted relatively consistently over a hundred years of research despite decades of effort to reduce any possible influence of cultural components?

If you're not aware of this, it's literally because it's an uncomfortable truth that is deliberately obfuscated and underreported to avoid controversy. Nevertheless, it persists as a datapoint.

> The point is that neither this study nor the homosexuality study have a relatively consistent relationship to observable reality.

You assert this, but I don't know it to be the case. There's also no reason to immediately discount early research in this direction; you run the risk of being like Minsky, fighting against the utility of the Perceptron, which has become the basis of these shiny new ML systems after a long hiatus.

> And "predicting" some arbitrary social attribute based on social conditioning is just encoding social bias into the model, which is bad.

This is silly, because it means you want to pretend we live in a vaccuum where society doesn't exist and where people don't have outward indications of internal traits (whether deliberate or not). Sure, such things are hard to predict totally accurately and are highly context specific, but not out of the question for reasonable predictions given a big enough dataset. Again, I won't pretend these things have been trained on really solid, representative data, yet... but that's only a matter of time, and when it does happen, it has to be data that represents reality _as it is_, not some dreamed up reality where the social issues and complexities we have today aren't included.

You can look at a person and tell me a lot about them and you can be pretty confident; you can guess their background, gender, how much they take care of themselves, what their likely socioeconomic status is, maybe even more just from looking at them. Not perfectly, but enough to inform predictions that have evolutionary consequences - otherwise, Nature would not have wasted massive amounts of neural wetware on them to start with. You do this every day whether you'd like to admit it or not; depending on where you live your personal safety may highly depend upon it, too.

Think about this: you may not like this research, but just like with gun control, trying to prevent people from doing it will just push it underground, and if there is predictive power with this, if it is only underground, it will only be used for bad purposes.
well, today I learned troll has other verb definitions.
Not spend money in yet another phone and try to limit the usage of the current one?
You're completely skipping over the positivity rate; many countries are testing a heck of a lot more than the US is; and they're showing positivity rates in the 1-5% range.

If your hypothesis is correct, and infection rate is going up just because of more testing, then we should be pacing with other countries that are also testing more. We're seeing positivity rates of almost 25% in Arizona and 19% in Florida and Texas; which way out strips countries that have this more under control. At that rate of 15% or more, how many people are being missed (or are you also assuming we're catching 100% of all cases)? The more likely interpretation of the data is that not only are we testing more, but there are more cases; which fits with the overall data trend of BOTH more tests AND more infections.

I'm going to nip your goalpost moving in the bud here - since I'm sure you'll come back with "yeah, but deaths are going down."

Just because mortality has been going down doesn't mean that it isn't affecting the younger group and they're just magically recovering back to baseline. There's good evidence that there are lasting lung and immune response issues post "recovery" if it doesn't kill you. Further, deaths are a lagging indicator, and unfortunately what timeframe on that is unknown now because the age group is skewing younger and a large portion of our dataset is skewed towards the 65+ group due to how the initial wave of the disease spread.
Sorry, but this comment shows that you don't understand the physics that would be involved in something like this.
How many more people would additive if they received the kind of financial aid that companies are receiving? For example, even a freeze on rents would probably significantly reduce the number of people who are desperate for work at the moment.
>The pandemic is particularly challenging for a school like Harvard, as it makes the implicit thing obvious: a prestige school like Harvard is about the social connections far more than the education.

I wouldn't say "far" more. There are multiple valuable components to a top tier education:

1. Social connections with your peers, as you mention.

2. Social connections with your professors, their graduate students, and their network.

3. The education itself, which should be intellectually challenging (more or less depending on subject, with STEM subjects usually moreso, especially at top tier schools)

4. The pedigree, which is a factor of the previous three, and should prove to employers etc that, at minimum, you can handle a large and difficult work load with precision and attention to detail, regardless who your connections are.

5. Various support services tailored to the stresses of a demanding undergraduate education.

Of those, an online education from a top tier school still gets you some of #2 & #5, and all of #3 and #4. A 20-30% tuition discount for losing #1 may be fair, but I think it's still worth it for students who get into a top tier school to finish their degree there, even online.
And obviously the flaws in thr product itself...
Ok I guess just ignore what I said and spout off random stuff.. great response.

>Even now, the fatality rate is 0.001% for all Americans and it's much lower if you're under 40.

Uh, 0.001%? Are you dividing like deaths by the full population? Not sure what you are trying to infer from that. Maybe if the country had done nothing in response then looking at the death rate like that after a long time makes some sense.. but that's not the case.

Think about it this way. Let's say there is a virus with 100% death rate. It starts killing people, but then we are able to quarantine the people that have it and stop the infection. You would be like.. omg the death rate is only 3 / 330,000,000 it's sooooo low!

Well no, it's because we stopped the outbreak early. Are you going to sit here and tell me that locking down a lot of the country for months did nothing to vastly reduce the death rate, and you are going to act like lockdown deathrate = death rate of doing nothing?

>Go to the beaches of Indiana or Florida or Texas. 1000s of people have been out there every week for over a month, and there are no massive increases in fatalities

It's a beach. Outside. People are not packed right next to each other. It's windy. People bring their own things, they aren't going around constantly touching things other people are, etc. A beach is probably one of the sanest things you can do right now.

Have you noticed that since things like bars have opened up now cases are rising like crazy in Florida/Texas because people are packed in breathing the same area and touching all the same stuff?

Look- we have LEADING EXPERTS in the fields who basically dedicate their lives toward this kind of virus and what should be done.. but oh you are claiming it's 100% mass-hysteria. I guess you are the smartest person in the world who no one listens too. Must be hard to be you every day.
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There's nothing wrong with apprenticeships but if senior hiring remains unfixed then what is the apprenticeship for? As long as going from one company to another is a major hardship with risks and drop out tech is not really a career path.
Nice replication of the Tron theme! Perhaps this can actually do something unexpected like feed actual working experience back in to the realm of the Sci-Fi UX designers to let them know how much of it doesn't work, but let them know about the things that do. Still looks and feels great.
> From a strategic perspective, I can see universities like Harvard strengthening their brand by opening up more of their classes to the general public

The most important part of Harvard's brand is the prestige of their exclusivity
Was it that obvious that NVidia would specifically and inevitably be the beneficiary (rather than AMD, Matrox, Evans&Sutherland, or a new entrant)? I mean, it did turn out that way, but I'm not sure that it was obvious in 2014. (Transparently, you can read that I didn't invest in nVidia back then. :) )
When will Sony start supporting Vulkan on PS?
Thanks for this link!!! I just claimed $12 from a balance overpayment on a credit card, but my sister-in-law seems to have at least $250 in unclaimed cash awaiting her.
But trolling is also a type of fishing - you drag a line and try to catch people/fish on your bait (the phone call from the supposed son). That seems the perfect metaphor for what they were doing? They weren't dragging a big industrial net trying to catch anything at random passively (trawling) because they were trying to get individual people by calling them up one by one trying to get them to bite.
> Robotic factories are by no means a final solution for manufacturing.

Robotic factories are by no means a final solution for manufacturing...Yet
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But it's still garbage collected. And GC should be done by the python interpreter proper, so it would be in native code.
and don't "google" for the phone number. Get it from the back of the bank card or your statement.
Whether burn-in is still an issue depends very heavily on how you use the OLED TV. I have my OLED TV for almost three years and no burn-in. I know there are tests that show that you can provoke burn-in, but that is with rather extreme scenarios. If you don't have static elements on for hours at a time, you generally shouldn't have an issue. One thing I've heard, but that doesn't apply to my usage is that e.g. putting on TV stations with static chyrons in bold colors can lead to burn-in.
Could use a height adjustable desk and a book as a mouspad. That's what I do for my keebs that are too tall lol
All of Europe’s existing and planned coal power plants
Given the title, you’ve also got 7 weeks off, that’s a luxury to not complain about. If you work all the time, 190k a year is around the same hourly.

Is the “average” a mean or median? With or without benefits? Source please.
Many think this is true (even I did) but it's not. You have to certify the product anyway, even if you use an off-the-shelf module.

The only difference is that you can "certify with test" and "certify without test" (and price changes, starting from 5K a pop). Even evaluation boards and for prototyping, so I guess a end-user keyboard has to be certified[1].

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1352...
Massive kudos to the newly unemployed!
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As you mention, the article you link says that the majority of HKers want to be a part of China. That's where I'm getting that from. I do believe China could do better in terms of securing individual liberty for their citizens, but if that comes at the cost of its sovereignty, then obviously some concessions have to be made.

For example, the majority of people would agree that they do not want their taxes to be raised (https://news.gallup.com/poll/1714/taxes.aspx). Those same people might not like the ramifications of that, but that wouldn't necessarily change their opinion.

Back to HK. The existence of HK as a semi-autonomous region that is still part of China provides a great way for foreign powers to extend their influence into China's domestic affairs. In this scenario, the US clearly has its hand in HK domestic affairs. US leaders are meeting with protest leaders. US organizations are funding protests. Flip this with domestic affairs in America, and you'll see that there is something deeply wrong with this picture. Although it isn't 1 to 1, imagine if China were funding BLM protests and inviting BLM leaders to Beijing.

I'm going to add a few links which support these claims if you were unaware. You could find some more yourself if you'd like:

US role in Hong Kong protests - https://www.workers.org/2019/06/42820/?fbclid=IwAR2ZjOUSl2Bt...

US Senator Ted Cruz visiting Hong Kong - https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1182937896795246593

American Gov’t, NGOs Fuel and Fund Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests - https://www.mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-protests/259202/

Sidenote: I am American. I have learned about Western-style "freedoms" and find them very contradictory with America as it exists today. For example, the American rate of incarceration is the highest in the world, surpassing even the highest rates of incarceration of Stalin's USSR. Obviously, not everything China does is good and not everything America does is bad, but I'd encourage you to take a more critical eye to any mainstream Western sentiment on foreign countries, especially when that sentiment usually results in thousands being killed.
> I never understood why people promote Marxism. Leaving aside the fact that Marx was racist, any society that went in this direction has suffered horribly.

Since Marx’s time, basically every country in the developed West has gone in the direction of Marx’s prescriptions, driven largely by Marxists and other socialists (often through the labor movements as vehicles).

You're probably confused by confusing Leninism and it's descendants with Marxism, a piece of Leninist propaganda that capitalists have been prone to adopt as their own. But Leninism abandons central features of Marxism to avoid Marxists dependendencies on the existence of advanced capitalism and broad working-class consciousness, in favor of an centralized authoritarian system designed to be implemented in pre-capitalist societies under a narrow elite. But even if Leninism can be seen as a form of Marxism rather than a massive deviation from it, itself a debatable point, it clearly would even then be a subset of, and not coextensive with Marxism, so it would be still improper to limit “went in that [Marxist] direction” to adopting Leninism or one of it's descendants.

The states non-Leninist socialists, including Marxist Communists, described as “state capitalism” aren't “more socialist” (and certainly not more Marxist) than the states which adopted a subset of the Marxist program in the conditions for which Marx prescribed them.
These are not mutually exclusive strategies. Back during the 1980s, activists in the US tried to get the Reagan administration to pass sanctions against apartheid South Africa. While Reagan stalled, they successfully got individual companies to stop doing business with South Africa.

None of these individual actions stopped white-only rule in South Africa. Nor did anyone involved in the process think it would. But it was part of a worldwide movement that did ultimately lead to US sanctions and the end of apartheid.

In fact, one of the things that encourages government action is seeing that the change being suggested has become mainstream. Businesses boycotting the oil and gas industries could be an effective part of that.
Tests that target the surfaces of the project (public APIs, endpoints, etc) and code examples start to blend together at some point. "Here's a basic example that should do X" sounds a lot like "Do something basic and assert it does X".
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Recently had one of my projects go to the front page of this very website and won a recent HackAthon. I would be happy to respond to any message big or small, no contact is a waste of time.
Only if people plan ahead and make some attempt to help contain the disease (wearing masks, limiting non-essential indoor stops, social distancing), which it's now been proven we can't rely on (at least in the US).

Unfortunately the people who feel most comfortable leaving the house are the people who are least likely to take precautions, which seems like a recipe for lots of super spreaders to me.
Have you considered that "more socialist" countries might have done better had other countries not felt the need to "bring democracy to," or "liberate" them? Or lured them into massive arms races that ultimately neither side could afford?
I feel like it would help a lot to require cashiers or gift cards give warnings, something like, "gift cards should be bought for people you know and not as payment." Sort of like the "Don't drink and drive" at liquor stores.

There are no legitimate businesses that take gift card payments. Even trading/buying gift cards locally is risky because one could take a picture of the gift card and use the code before the buyer.
Online communities self-select and self-censor. A student with a contrary, incorrect, or controversial viewpoint in a classroom has a voice and can spark discussion given they operate with best intentions and have a decent instructor. They can be wrong one day, come in the next day and continue to speak. Such a user in an online community gets downvoted, muted, banned, ignored, hidden, or any of those things that keep the chamber full of its own echoes.

In theory these communities can exist online. In reality, the vast majority of online communities are not open to being a classroom setting.
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Great. Next time just move on to something else and spare us your useless and rude comment.
Please also note that the HK police's power to ban messages violating NSL is extraterritorial. This is regardless of whether the message/intermediary/hosting/internet service provider is within or outside Hong Kong.

https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1280184488857710592
What is your motivation here?

I like the idea, but I'm curious what sort of things you are hoping to accomplish.

For instance is human deformity important? Do you want to take into account mild to severe birth defects or dismemberment? How about things like severe burn scars or other medical conditions which can limit maneuverability?
Exactly. It takes 3-14 days for symptoms to appear and 10-14 for happy path resolution.

The big protests were about two weeks ago. Hence the spoke. The holiday just passed. So two weeks from now you’ll see a big wave of deaths and increasing caseloads.

If we are fortunate, the hospitals in the south will keep up with the surges in caseload and limited beds. If not, you’ll have the freezer trailers with stacked corpses like you saw in Queens.
Almost 90% of admitted HSB students are under 30.
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> I can't imagine the PS5 will be much more than an upgrade

An upgrade is very much needed. Mobile phones are surpassing the current generation of consoles.
Stores already do tons of stuff to try to thwart these.

I worked at a store years ago and we had all these things implemented:

- Limit on gift card purchase amounts per customer, per day.

- Stopped stocking Western Union cards because they were such a scam target.

- There was also a scam where scammers would call the store itself to pose as a "corporate employee" who was "trying to verify that the gift card redemption system was working" and would have the cashier activate a gift card, run it as cash, and read off the numbers. And apparently that worked well enough that every time we activated certain gift cards, a massive box popped up on the POS screen saying "IF THIS TRANSACTION IS HAPPENING OVER THE PHONE, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY AND CANCEL THE TRANSACTION."

At a certain point there's only so much that can be done by the store itself.
Dominion and Duke Energy also cancelled the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline the same day this deal was announced, citing mounting costs from legal uncertainties.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-energy-and...
I think this is the way that hiring will work in the future, and companies will be slow to adapt it... until a few companies show amazing results, then everyone will get onboard, in order to lock down good results early.

Seems similar to https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/02/10/processing-interns...

I imagine a big part of the success of this approach, though, is that the companies have the proper orientation towards the technical apprenticeship.

So, if the technical apprenticeship goes well, of course the apprentices benefit, but I suspect the members of their teams that support them also derive massive benefit.

What a cool opportunity for less-senior developers, to play a role in helping the technical apprentices make a large impact.

I'd love to talk more about this with you. I didn't find your email address - would you be willing to share it, or send me an email at josh@josh.works?

this is a domain I've spent a lot of time on, and have only scratched the surface.
This strain of thinking that every spare minute must be accounted for and be in the service of improving one’s circumstances is something all too common in tech.

We’re not ants.
> and you pay for it

But just think about all of those business people that want free work and to hire people that are willing to throw themselves in to the project for no extra comp. /s

I agree.. also that sets boundaries.
It seems like you could play this game using a Qwirkle set. The rules are very similar, but Qwirkle looks at the entire run a tile is involved in, not just the 4 immediately adjacent pieces. And the board is unbounded in Qwirkle. (Other minor differences, too)