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MBP:s don't dissipate heat either. They can't hit their CPU performance ceiling for more than a few seconds.
If we ever figure out fusion, would this become a moot point or even more important than ever?
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> Genuine question as I haven’t been to college (yet?): is this actually a thing? I’ve also heard it doesn’t help with that.

As someone who DIDN'T network in college and compares to peers who did - it is utterly devastating. It is hugely influential.

Admittedly, your networking won't matter as much if there isn't high movement from the school to your work region... In my case, I went to a school where most of the student body had no intentions of leaving the region. I was also in an extremely anti-social department that was overly competitive.
I'm confused why there is still so much fear and abnormal life in the US when the US CDC says the mortality rate is miniscule, e.g. [1]. We're not completely back to normal yet in Vietnam, but a lot closer.

[1] https://reason.com/2020/05/24/the-cdcs-new-best-estimate-imp...
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The kind of journalism that these people do is dead as a professional information-delivery job because it is outcompeted by obsessive bloggers since the advent of the ubiquitous Internet. It is an entertainment business and behaves like an entertainment business, which means that the participants are incentivized to create buzz, etc.

If your news sources are primarily these, then you’re missing out on a lot of actionable information. All that stuff is now in private conversations because the general audience is gotcha-obsessed. P
Good point. But it takes a journalist with a specific purpose in mind, and a public that cares to be outraged in the first place about private people whose specific past behaviors have no bearing on history, to dig back into the past and bring such stuff out into the public eye, with specific names and dates attached.
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I hope they and other universities increase vision insurance/benefits. From experience, staying glued to a Zoom screen for over >6hrs a day for an extended period of time places tremendous strain on the eyes.
They talk about saving 50% of bits over h.265, but also talk about it being designed especially for 4K/8K video.

Are normal 1080p videos going to see this fabled 50% savings over h.265? Or is the 50% only for 4K/8K, while 1080p gets maybe only 10-20% savings?

The press release unfortunately seems rather ambiguous about this.
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Al Capone's theme is so great.
Aside from abusive/toxic workers, do you think some diversity (not necessarily racial but cultural as well, different age groups,etc) would do any harm?

I personally enjoy working alongside older folks who I find invaluable, they have been around for a long time and have lots of stories to share, but are not as quick to jump on a new technology bandwagon. Lots of companies seem to want to keep the young vibe and avoid hiring these folks.
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> C64 shipped something like 20 Million units over its lifetime. You could use it as a gaming machine (many did) - or you could go further if you wanted to.

How is this state much different from installing Steam on a PC with a couple controllers and sticking it in your living room, besides the C64 being extremely cheap and (as far as I know) not as customizable?
No it's not. Knowledge should provide access to future opportunities, not prestige. The system is the problem.
> half of the population (the people with power) directly benefits from an unjust system...

Fix what? Slavery (including the enslavement of whites) is not legal, at least not in the US. Everything is de-segregated and we have laws to protect certain classes of minorities. Beyond legalities I see black-promotion constantly in media. Everything looks perfectly fine from my perspective (I could do without the propaganda though). As a reminder our last president was (half) black.

You're imagining that the US is not beneficial historically to everyone. There's a reason people from Europe, Asia, latin america, etc. immigrated to America. They didn't come because "America is only benefits white slave-owners!" The entire point of the "american dream" is that people without power can find a way to prosper. Are we supposed to pretend none of that ever happened?

So what is this injustice du jour that suddenly, over the last few weeks, has become so pressing? Policing? I don't think there's evidence to support that blacks are targetted by cops because they're black. Poor neighborhoods probably do require more policing than non-poor neighborhoods as, naturally, criminal activity is more prevalent amongst the poor. Relative to other minorities my understanding is that blacks are underperforming in various ways. Surely you can't be so easily deluded into believing statements like "our black kids are being killed by cops every minute!" More whites are killed by cops. Blacks are overrepresented in proportion to their population. That blacks are overrepresented in certain figures does not support a radical claim like "systemic racism," contrary to Twitter logic.

Is it some other "injustice" you're so worked up about? Is it some imaginary injustice that is not even possible to resolve? Why don't you be specific about your radical claims; your statements are empty Twitter platitudes as far as I'm concerned.

Frankly, I resent the implication that I, as a white, am somehow benefiting from "injustice."
Though this is an older article from back when the book "Bullshit Jobs" was being promoted, this topic is perhaps worth a new look. In the era of COVID office closings and lists of "essential workers," the past few months have amounted to a massive experiment in which jobs did productive work in our society, and which did not. Many companies switching to remote work have noticed no drop in productivity, but there's two possible explanations for that. Either people are just as productive at home or most workers were never producing much in the first place.

In a related note, there's a front page news article about the PS4's manufacturing being almost completely automated by robots that have even replaced the fine motor skills of human hands, handling flexible tapes and ribbons. There is a series of photos of a factory with more robot arms than people. Much has been made over the past few years of automation and machine learning. Maybe, just maybe the prognosticators were not wrong, just early.
Eh. That depends what you're programming. I've definitely worked on some projects that left me wondering why it was considered useful.
In what sense do you believe HK wants to be controlled by Beijing? The last poll I saw put support for the pro-democracy protests at 51%, opposition at 34%. Opposition to the security law is 56%, support 34%. Hardly unanimous, but in a democracy that would count as a strong public position.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-poll-ex...

As you note, a much smaller fraction want independence. That doesn't mean they want to be subject to PRC law, though I agree the thing the people of HK seem to want (autonomy without independence) isn't usually how international (intranational?) relations work, especially when the "protecting power" is a dictatorship.

And yes, the linguistic argument was embarrassing; Westerners should learn more about Asia, and he'll surely abandon such arguments once he learns what language they speak in Taiwan. You could likewise learn more about life with Western-style freedoms, and you might understand why the people of Hong Kong (and America, misinformed as we might often be) so value them.
The PS(4) hardware and its exclusive software exist to sell each other. I don't think there is any desire to complicate that relationship from Sony's perspective.
"The slow web" is already there :) It's also called "write a paper letter to a friend".

It's amazing how much more satisfying reading an article can be, if you got it as a slightly crumbled paper printout mailed to you by a trusted friend, who is awaiting your thoughtful comments on it in the upcoming weeks.
I'd say the future of Uber is perfecting their crown jewels first.

I'm a huge fan of the business model, but the app crashes, the customer service is non-existent, payments get rejected inexplicably and when you reach customer service they respond "I'm sorry you are having difficultly logging in."

I couldnt make it worse if I tried. Every rule of SWE-UX is violated. Got a problem? No code, no incident ID, you need to call a number with no context and re-contextualize. No follow-thru, nothing.
Sure. The role (and myself) are in the aerodynamics department, developing and maintaining software for the aerodynamicists. The role of the aerodynamicist is to develop the bodywork of the car (wings, ducts, chassis shape etc) to improve aerodynamic efficiency. This is done primarily in computational fluid dynamics simulations [1] (virtual) and scale model testing in a wind tunnel [2] (physical) before being tested on the actual race car. My group works on the software to analyse the data output. Think data science dashboards with lots of real time and historical data. Due to our requirements, the tools are designed in house with input from users. In my time here I have worked on interfacing with the HPC cluster, improving visualisations and improving our backend stack amongst other things.

For your last question, it is a bit of both. I went to university with the goal of working in F1 and the competitive aspect is definitely there but as I was not a comp sci student the technical problems are still interesting. Developing aero is very visual heavy as ideas are implemented as 3D CAD designs and often reviewed as such. So it's not just a more complicated stock ticker that needs to be shown.

[1]: https://static.carthrottle.com/workspace/uploads/posts/2016/...

[2]: https://images.cdn.circlesix.co/image/2/1000/425/5/uploads/p...
Imagine paying the fee for a Harvard MBA and missing out on arguably the most valuable aspect of it - nepotism and networking.
> The nuclear family is the last bastion of independent thought.

What does this even mean?
What if you work at social media company? i.e., Facebook newsfeed algorithm.
Speaking as a UK university grad (14 years ago), this was absolutely not a thing for me. I made some friends, but went into web development at a small company rather than a large grad training scheme. I spent a year there and I have been self-employed ever since. I think precisely none of my career development has been due to my university-related network.

But perhaps it is different at US colleges (or for others in the UK). I personally couldn't wait to put academia behind me and get into the real world.

I now live off-grid in Central Portugal. I have clients I still work for, and I get referrals to new clients too. I'm also starting a wireless ISP here, which is great for networking and meeting people :-)
On the other hand, if there are a lot of students deferring, there is a huge line behind them willing (and able!) to get into Harvard. Harvard and other elite institutions will not suffer for students for quite a while.
My position is that the United States should de-escalate an arms race. I don't want to argue about details from examples that I use to support my point.

If you want to labour the point, here's the specific law: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul...

I'd consider birth defects to be "unnecessary suffering" (this exact wording was used in the Guardian article).

The topic is elaborated on here:
Here's an additional link: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/VicULawJJl/2015/6.html
You can learn almost everything you can learn in university outside of it. The true value are the people you’ll meet that share the same interests as you do. Life is hell a lot of easier if you know the right / enough people.
Someone always suggests this. The issue is that if you did this, 95% of the candidates that would agree to this kind of setup would be the kind you didn't want.

If I'm sitting on 2 offers, one is a hire and one is a "Let's see how this works out after 2 weeks of work", I'm going to take the first one. And that says nothing for the necessary benefits question in the states, where changing jobs often involves expensive (in money or time) changes to health care insurance.
The fact that they arent even aware of the contradiction of saying that it's journalists who have too much power while complaining that someone is powerless because they don't have a lot of social media followers or that journalists are driven by the need to go viral on social media is scary to say the least.
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1. There isn't much trust in what the government is saying at the moment, especially since their communication is usually mismanaged, incorrect or contradictory. For example, some states have passed laws/orders blocking the public release of COVID data.

2. People are also afraid of simply getting COVID, not just dying from it. It has been shown to cause permanent health issues even in young people.
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Every 4 to 5 years I buy a new laptop for 1000 euro that looks nice and put xUbuntu on it, that's all.
ML is a huge field outside of modelling humans and their behavior. For instance, image recognition of vehicles, financial data prediction and analytics, and weather forecasting, to name a couple examples. Those don't draw scrutiny. The problem comes with generalizing humans. And generalizing using biased data. And applying generalized algorithms in areas that cause a lot of harm. I think these researchers should properly be placed under the microscope since they have the potential to be very hurtful to society. I do not think they should be subject to death threats or loss of income or whatever the social media mob throws at them these days, but I don't think researchers should be cavalier in creating algorithms that generalize humans without taking very careful steps to not create bias in the end result.
My connections helped me little. If I just worked during that time I think I would have been way farther up on the hard metrics of career progress.
Not to say that I didn't get anything out of college. The campus radio stations introduced me to people who have had a tremendous amount of influence on me.
American media is spreading fear in pursuit of views and clicks.
Apparently it does. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Panasonic_CF-SV9
Honest question, not a criticism: What do you mean by "black/whitelist renaming"? I know what it means to black or whitelist something based on it's name [IP address, domain, whatever], but I'm not sure what it means to "blacklist rename" something -- it's the "renaming" part that throws me off.
> many folks here didn't actually read the article

I've seen some dreck on PsychologyToday. After the author used a weak metaphor as an excuse to lead the article with Kim Kardashian's bust, and slammed other opinions as "kindergarten brain science", I didn't bother to see if there was anything subtle or worthwhile here. It's not the fault of readers if most of them were alienated quickly and bailed out. It's the fault of poor writing and editing that were indicative of time being wasted.
I don't misunderstand the premise at all. Whether your job has purpose or not isn't for the employee to decide. Thats for the employer to decide. It's your job to decide whether you want to trade your time for their money.

If they decide they want to pay you to do something, and you decide that you want to take their money, than your subjective evaluation of whether the job has purpose is irrelevant as long as you keep the job.
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Have you tried notion.so ? How it performs on bridging "timeful" and "timeless" data ?
I think the peek was an episode essentially about cut-and-paste and on the web which had something to do with Ray Ozzie on the Gilmore Gang.
This sounds like what most internships are intended to be?

How much does it cost to employ one of these apprentices?
This is quite common with many recent books: they are an extended essay. Most essays: an extension of one catchy phrase.
Remdesivir doesn't work against coronavirus. See either

"Does Remdesivir Really Work Against Novel Coronavirus?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/does-remdesivir-rea...

or

"DESPITE THE HYPE, GILEAD’S REMDESIVIR WILL DO NOTHING TO END THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC":

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/26/coronavirus-gileand-remd...

FTFA:

>"“Remdesivir doesn’t work at all, as far as I can tell, or has only a minor effect. It is comparable to Tamiflu and maybe not even as good,” William Haseltine, a scientist who has spent decades studying viruses and helped lead the U.S. government response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, said."<
Ah, I see.

That said, the political interpretation of the science depends a lot on what questions you ask and what facts you pick. It would be pretty east to portray science as being anti-gay or anti-trans just by asking different questions. E.g. you could ask about the proportion of exclusively homosexual animals or looks at homosexuality incidence rates in different environments. For trans you could do comparisons of prevalence of various personality traits that have differing frequencies by gender.

Reality doesn't normally wholely favour a particular political party, there's normally some facts you can spin in for a particular party.
IFR isn't the whole story. There's evidence that it causes long lasting complications (lung damage, chronic fatigue) as well
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Cool project! :)

I could've sworn I'd seen a similar dashboard, but web-based. Can't find it... anyone know/remember?
I used to live in that area and it would regularly take 45+ minutes to get to/from Bellevue and could take over an hour to Seattle.

Edit: also a home like that would probably have been like 450k just 4yrs ago. Prices have skyrocketed around here
We've had nearly 3 million cases with over 130k fatalities. If the numbers are being grossly underreported, then it's certainly possible the mortality rate is < 1%, but given the numbers we have now, our mortality rate is closer to 4.5%.
It's not (or at least, doesn't have to be) a binary question; it's a sliding scale of ROI.
> Re drug development: Why should they get an exception?

Because we've decided that drugs need to be safe and effective to get approval. And the process for proving that a drug is safe and effective is extremely expensive. If you don't reward companies that do the R&D, there just won't be incentives for private industry to develop drugs. If company A spends $1 billion dollars to develop a new compound and then run clinical trials to prove it's safety, and then company B comes along and manufacturers the same drug but says "it's already been tested on patients by company B, so we shouldn't have to bear any of that cost again, but just the cost of manufacturing the drug itself which is trivial" then you'll have a lot of company Bs but no company As.

That said, maybe patents aren't the right mechanism for this. Maybe just extend the term on existing exclusivity to something similar to the term that patents cover.

> You still get a huge market share/reputation and likely can keep that by being the first to market which is enough reward imo to a product to market.

The data doesn't bear this out. When drugs go generic, the brand drugs' market share overwhelmingly drops in favor of people who buy the generic (insurance companies usually force you to by not paying for the brand). There are exceptions for certain types of drugs.
The pixels are self-emitting (similar to OLED).
Do you mean the lack of self awareness on the part of Vice?
I thought the third quote could have been something out of The Onion.

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With that very dubious estimate, that's still over a million deaths and millions more occupied ICU beds if everyone in the US got infected (which we are trying hard to do, apparently).
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There is a perfectly valid argument to be made for not helping to do a bad thing more efficiently.

Sand in a machine that you don't want, is not necessarily a bad thing, even if right now today, because of inertia, you still need the machine.

The people who own the machine and get the most out of it disagree, but I don't think anyone has any obligation to care about them.

I think, you don't get to call it short-sighted or ignorant. You only get to call it a position and a course of action you don't agree with.

Otherwise, I would say that anyone making the argument you are making is the short-sighted and ignorant one. Being unwilling to suffer any pain today as part of a long term investment to bring about some eventual change, instead just handwaving that something should happen ("people should use more renewable energy") without suggesting how it could be done or putting up with any inconvenience to see it done. My guess you would object to that.
The elderly have a massive hold on the American political system that outweighs the fraction of the population they represent. They are typically consistent voters, and if you go to a polling place, it will likely be an elderly lady or gentleman running it. Given that they represent they vast majority of casualties, putting them at risk is a political non-starter, even if the most logical realpolitik solution.
Any ideas on how to get GPU compute on the cheap? I see some old teslas on ebay but not sure if that would be more effective than newer geforce cards.

Not for commercial use
Severe COVID cases cause permanent disability, ranging from permanent respiratory disability to rendering the patient diabetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIJYfsOyO4M
> - Autodesk is partly owned by fossil fuels investor BlackRock (8.3%).

They're the biggest investment company by NAV, so of course they're going to be invested in fossil fuels. This is the same blackrock that says they would begin to exit certain investments that "present a high sustainability-related risk" earlier this year[1], so I'm not sure why the hate.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-14/blackr...
Well, the packaging is done by humans.
Abnormal does not even begin to describe it. At least on the West Coast. No one is doing anything, most people remain in their houses all day, every day. The few people I see out are simply buying groceries or going for a walk.

A lot of bars and restaurants where I live have SELF ELECTED to re-close even after the county allowed them to open back up under very strict regulations.

It's a nightmare. There's really no other way to describe it. Either the West Coast is entirely different from the East Coast or we haven't even begun to realize the economic impact this situation is going to bring. Anything short of a complete collapse will be a miracle.
What we really need is online courses from Reed, Davidson, Amherst, and similar.
Sounds like an excuse to pay people who aren't as good at leetcode less...
Aha, color me confused. Which would be those?
I want to read this but I literally cannot figure out how to scroll the webpage.
I used to like watching it, until it became boring.

The cars got wider and more sensitive to the car in front, that overtakes became rare, even with DRS (*Drag Reduction System - that allows the back wing of the car in the back to fold to reduce drag at certain points in the track, if the car is close enough to the car in front).

Also, Mercedes started dominating it, to a point that the only battle in the race was in the mid-field. The winners were almost always, already decided at qualifying (unless some reliability issues happened during the race).
Just like the job interview screening game.
That’s about what I expected. It doesn’t make sense for any parties involved to enforce the 7 day deadline, including users. This is a reasonable solution.