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> does anyone at all train DL models on Windows?

Yes. My last job was at a financial shop that was all Windows. They were doing ML with Python on Windows. Azure has boxes available for this.
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I usually write my own data handling functions rather than trying to play PyTorch’s game here. I find their abstractions here confusing or not useful.
Google is absolutely selling clicks when an advertiser can perch their website on top of a search query for its competitor.
There are stories that he always wanted to announce the discoveries instead of the real archeologist. Also that he demanded to be part of tv shows for foreign production companies to get permission to access to archaeological sites. At the same time he was the person that could issue these permissions.
Fusion doesn’t work on M1s.
As long as we are talking about “leaks”, someone at Clubhouse might want to look into being compliant with California’s Consumer Privacy Act:

https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1360014416087945222?s=21
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that is a very good observation. one that wasn't even consciously on my mind. so thank you for pointing that out. you are right. i don't trust the people that work for me to understand what are the best hiring choices to achieve my companies vision. not yet, anyways.

but please consider where i am coming from:

i mainly work with junior engineers who don't have enough experience to judge others.

i work in a country where personal favors to friends and family are the cultural norm. it's not even considered corruption, it is expected, and almost required that someone recommends their friends or relatives regardless of the actual qualifications.

because of that, embellishments of qualifications is also common.

in order to trust someone with hiring recommendations i need to work with them for a while to be sure we understand each other and know the goals of our company. especially when it comes to decisions about diversity.

that said, if you can make a good case why we should hire someone, i am not going to dismiss that, but i'll listen. i'll consider recommendations, but i am not giving the team a vote. this is not a democracy.
Yeah I really have no idea what's going on but I can say for sure that I didn't think of the possibility of it being a canary of some sort until I read that, so it was eye opening to me. I was (and still am) definitely under-informed on Moxie's past interviews about the coin and the other stuff -- I just looked around and it was discussed on HN in 2017[0] (!!).

I honestly mostly steer clear of Moxie and the other stuff related to Signal -- I personally was really annoyed with the phone number thing, but I can make peace with the fact that Signal is concerned with privacy, mass appeal, and then maybe some anonymity. I am getting a ton of value for absolutely free.

In the end, the code is open source, and that is the difference that puts it above the other choices with mass appeal. For me it was basically Signal or Telegram -- there are some other F/OSS options, but they just don't have the mass appeal for me to use with friends.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935583
> > Calories in, calories out absolutely work.

> Is this really true and known empirically?

If you are very careful about how you define “in” and “out”, to the point where it is nearly circular, and are concerned only about weight, not health, yes. It is still problematic in a number of ways, e.g.: if you just attack thr calories in side and have a relatively sedentary lifestyle, you will disproportionately lose lean body mass rather than fat, this not only is less than ideal as an end outcome, it also makes further weight loss more difficult because it reduces resting metabolic rate (and, therefore, minimum calories out) and makes it harder to do additional exercise to increase calories out.

It is likewis known empirically that, as actionable advice, its not particularly useful on its own besides those problems, for the same reason “don’t write bugs” is as advice on how to create correct software. Most serious weightoss advice incorporates CICO, but also adds layers on top dealing with the pragmatics of how to acheive that in a maintainable way (and usually also has at least some thought in how to do it in a way dealing with problems of naive CICO like those discussed above.)
Both his works of fiction and travel writing are thoroughly enjoyable and, unlike many other writers, he's shown an ability to evolve with the time. If you enjoy his fiction writing I would also recommend some of the works of his son, Marcel Theroux, who's quite talented as well.
The unstated implication is that these investment vehicles are for suckers, as in any ponzi scheme.
A position I've come to via free markets is public information.

If you look at economic inefficiency, a lot of models depend on some kind of information problem, eg the famous lemon cars.

Consequently, I think far more of how society works should be made public:

- Actual incomes from various sources. Maybe anonymize it, but I've looked up my Norwegian friends' incomes and it hasn't caused a revolution or an epidemic of kidnappings yet. X person is a doctor, he needs a 10 year degree to do that, he get paid £120k, he gets this much pension, these are his working hours. Again, as you grow up you find out some of this but it's very not easy to find, especially when you're deciding.

- Actual business models. "We provide a search engine, where we dynamically auction off advertising space, it makes x amount of money, and we thin y and z are critical to our profitability. Here's book about how it works." To some degree we know this about certain large businesses, but apart from the huge firms whose models have Ben Thompson writing about them, it's not actually that easy. It should be easy for everyone who's graduated high school to find out how the largest 10k firms in the country operate, so that people can think about how to improve things.

- Actual business models, part 2. "We make x millions from y thousand widgets, which we sell to these people. Our suppliers are these firms, and we paid this much to them." Which again is one of those things where you can say "Google pays Apple to be default" but I also want to know if there's some other relationship that maybe I could get my company into. Or it may be that there's some social negative such as monopoly that we want to know sooner rather than later.

- A who-owns-what database that doesn't have anonymizing entities in it. How will we know how society works if we don't have this? There's no way to know who has an interest in what without this. Again, you can say "kidnappings" but there's got to be some middle ground here. It's also a bit strange for society's major legal invention, property law, to work in favor of people when they ask for it, but the rest of the time society doesn't know who it is protecting. I'm no expert but you'd think a sane system would say "so-and-so owns this land, and in exchange for a bit of tax we'll make sure they can use it as they see fit".

- Government needs to be transparent. People already believe this, it's just quite hard and boring to get done. But for instance David Cameron trying to lobby his old mates, it's a great thing that we can see it.

As for this specific article, the interesting thing is that if ads were traded on a security market, a whole can of worms would be opened. We discovered a long time ago that it's bad to favor certain participants, so some stringent rules were put in place regarding fairness. But if I make a market for some other thing and behave the same way, it's not nearly as serious. I mean sure maybe they'll get done for this, but will it be proportional to the harm? Write to me when they're broken up, as the LSE would be if they made a principal business that front-runs the customers.
Aside from the infuriating clickbait title (which I shall not dignify with an upvote), this is part of why I preprocess augmented images. I don't like too much magic in my custom derived (PyTorch) Dataset objects.
We waive invoices when there's a mistake like this (we racked up a $20k Google bill a few years ago, we get it).

We also work hard to keep bandwidth costs down. At $0.02/GB, even 2.5TB of traffic is ~$50. Which is why it's easy to forgive invoices.
Why on earth would the right to bear guns be seen as a good thing? My mind boggles at this.
I’ve been looking for this for a while, not sure when or if it will get done. X86 emulation on an M1… I wonder if there will be a massive hit
Spirit of the law vs letter of the law.
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Node scripts, even with dependencies, are pretty much 100% equivalent across all platforms :)
Israel may be experiencing herd immunity to COVID
Oh wow, what the hell. It's not enough to just blend all the honey into one, they add sweeteners and filler? Must be really profitable, I guess.

Heating, I can understand, it's a way to re-liquify crystallized honey. It's done at a low temperature over some time, so the taste remains mostly the same. Fresh honey straight out of the hive is the best, though.

Now I wonder if people would even buy real, untouched honey. It's less viscous than the usual stuff in stores, and it crystallizes/hardens after a while, so it may actually seem fake, but that's natural honey.
>Social media holds a mirror up to society

People also say cocaine brings out the true self, but I wouldn’t know.

> Facebook is not some giant monolith.

Harboring this thought has no actionable constructive value. Assuming the best intent, people here aren’t disgusted at fb engineers because they think they are making day-to-day evil decisions. They’re disgusted because they think fb engineers would have to believe facebook is overall a force for good, or at least neutral, to be able to continue working at facebook.

But rarely does an fb engineer here have the courage or the care to defend facebook in such a way. Often, they just point out that facebook is not a monolith.

I remember reading about a collection of interviews with drug dealers. The interviewer said the most common refrain they often heard from them was, “if I didn’t do it, someone else would.”

Even so, everyday I thank whoever took these specific FAANG decisions (off the top my head):

…adding the “Add to Home Screen” button on iOS safari for web apps.

…adding Firefox support for Google Meet (Microsoft teams and Zoom are still Chrome only I think)

I say this despite knowing these decisions were most likely not taken with altruistic intent and probably came from the top, relatively speaking.
Looks interesting. Good luck
All these sophisticated comments and no one has mentioned that the stock market has turned into a giant scam since companies stopped paying dividends either completely or reduced them to a meaningless amount. Stocks have zero intrinsic value without dividends.
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Not too different than the concept of precious metals depositories I guess. I don't know what the yearly tithe is in places like Singapore for this service, but one problem would be the physical size of the cash.

Maybe they should reissue the $100k federal reserve note for public consumption.
Under dozens of feet of flood sediment?
Honestly, I have no idea why I'm so surprised. This is what happens when you put desktop dev tools on an (albeit modified) desktop desktop environment on an (albeit modified) desktop operating system on a phone. Can't wait for these devices to mature!
Loopholes like this are why I balk when any politician talks about raising corporate taxes. I agree that businesses should pay more, but until loopholes like this get plugged I don't believe it will do any good. At best it's a way to placate voters without accomplishing anything of value. At worst, it can make our horrifically complex tax code even more complex, making it even easier to hide loopholes.
Well someone brought it up, and I thought it was an interesting tin foil hat theory -- It could have happened, I'm not sure what to make of that. I can also probably say at this point I don't care enough to really do something about it.

Personally the code being F/OSS is enough for me -- if I need to run my own instance of the server then I could, and if the many-eyes theory holds true and signal's security audit is any good, then I'm pretty happy with that. I already assumed I wasn't quite out of the reach of three letter agencies because I had to use a phone number to get started. Phones are essentially pwned by default and easily pwnable for the agencies.
I don't think that my statement about Renzi is in conflict with your explanation. I summarized it as "drop support for him", and avoided a longer explanation.

I am roughly in agreement with your longer explanation. And, by the way: thanks for your work with his campaign; I wish he stayed and enacted these reforms.
1/8 km = 0.125km = 125m = 12500cm

So freaking what. Use decimals and you can easily convert anything into everything. And you don’t have to rely on those few cases where you can exactly divide.

6.8m = 680cm = 0.0068km, etc.

Who writes out prices in fractions?

Its even worse with baking. Scaling up units from recipes is really hard if you have fractions of different units like tee spoon, table spoon and cup and when ounces can both mean a volume and a weight. (“fl. is not always specified”) No thank you.

Also your examples are really poor, when the base systems keep changing in the same dimensions (e.g. length) there is not benefit at all, just confusion or reluctance to convert to other units because it would be too awkward.
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How do you tackle issues with manipulation? Can’t I get together with my friends and wash trade each other’s tokens?
> That's not how to align text on gimp. The text tool has an alignment feature. It aligns the text within the text box

I'm talking about horizontally or vertically aligning a layer relative to the image, not the text within the rectangle bounding box of the text input box when you have the text tool activated.

It's such a common use case to want to take a layer (whether or not it's text isn't important) and center it horizontally or vertically relative to the entire image or another object.
I don’t believe it. I get target ads in gmail based on search or browsing queries.
That’s correct. For me, the effect is about four pounds. It comes off as fast as it went on.

But if I continue to eat high carb, there is a weight gain that is much harder to shed.
Powershell Core is so much better. It’s updated much more frequently, and they address bugs so fast.
OneWeb, SpaceX satellites dodged a potential collision in orbit
Car companies have had many documented effort to kill control and mitigation efforts. Most debate are fairly straightforward and aligned: less pollution, less death from speed. And they have done very little in that direction.

Facebook aggressively tries to mitigate issues, but struggles to get its critic to admit that they can’t ask for more interoperability in one sentence and more privacy in the next; for more freedom to say what you please and more control of unacceptable speech; for respect for local mores and universally understandable rules. Facebook employees are constantly trying to argue for nuance, offering solutions and getting downvoted and silenced because Facebook=Bad.

Find me one employee of a car company willing to breath from a the exhaust of an ICE. Even suggesting you might rightfully gets you sent to a psych ward on suicide watch. But we can make cars non-polluting, they just chose not to; they refused so hard that electric cars, a technology that is a century old was presented as inconceivable until they started loosing sales to a weirdo a little too much fan of anime.

What every employee of a traditional car company can easily conceive, and is very keen willing to excuse is a slimy tale of Union reps and executives paying prostitutes to convince Environment authorities to look the other way when they evade basic pollution control (seriously, the VW scandal is dark and human trafficking isn’t the bottom of it). Talk to your local oil & gas executive about “human rights violation as a cost of doing business in certain part of the world”. All that the cost of dozens of millionth of people dying of respiratory complications, and billions risking environmental disaster.

How to have fewer than a million people killed in accidents every year? There’s many way, but a very easy one would be to prevent cars from driving faster than maximum speed limit on a highway. It’s an elementary tool. Find me one employee from a car company who wouldn’t laugh you out of the room for suggesting it. “Nobody would accept to not be able to repeatedly break the law if that meant we could save millions of lives.”

There is nothing in common with that nightmare and the debate around the legibility of privacy controls, or the rate of false positive on automated translations used for violent content detection when dealing with non-Ascii language.
With 70% of the population either vaccinated or post infection Israel appears to have reached herd immunity.

I really hope it’s true! Still, despite my vaccine I am going to be careful for the next few months.
That's not zero information leakage. That's just leaking another statistic that is somewhat correlated to the one you want to hide (you're leaking the production of trial AOL CDs, and production of trial AOL CDs have some correlation to number of new users).
IMO the graphics performance when running macOS Big Sur VMs under Fusion is better but still atrocious. Not anything like a native experience.

Not sure about Parallels.
A couple of years ago I ended up having access to the assessment software that does all these tests. Kind of a sandbox version with a few tests preloaded. I did one for fun, then one of the colleagues,then the entire department. Eventually, all the management did it too. Well guess what, none of us could have gotten even a job to sweep leaves off the pavement not to mention our current jobs, based on those tests...
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At the end of a day it's still a token, so all the usual scams (eg. pump & dump) still apply.
>This sort of inflammatory mind set is not helpful

It's not inflammatory because it's an accurate description of the capitalist mindset. You wouldn't get a CEO to admit it out loud, but they all believe that in their heart, otherwise they would be replaced by someone who does.
Ahh, so it’s just Parallels then. Don’t yet own an M1 Mac myself, but saw Parallels had made the jump an assumed VMWare followed.
The future outlined by these new and exciting investment vehicles is horrifying.
Thanks, that's a really useful perspective, sounds like you did a lot of thinking/observations on that :)
These two comments don't contradict each other.
Specifically, the languages of West Papua, coloured by family. (It’s a really well-done map, actually; it very clearly outlines language families such as Lakes Plains, Trans–New Guinea, Tor–Kwerba, Austronesian, East Bird’s Head etc. The only thing missing is a legend.)
From the article or abstract?
Ya, that's pretty terrific. Having the diagrams paired with the code is a boon. My GoF study group (of mostly Java and C++ devs) spent way too much time divining how to "realize" (something short of implementation) the design patterns. I wish we had the SmallTalk version of these graphs.
And of course the same goes for the PinePhone (albeit slower).
I especially like that you can choose different languages for development although this is not a Librem/PinePhone feature of course.
So, you draw the text box in the size and position you need? All of these "features" sound like training wheels for graphic designers. It's not hard whatsoever to accomplish, and assuredly not worth paying monthly for. If you know in general how to edit graphics the tool you use is irrelevant
A better characterization, from memory, was that they don't bother with the ultra-rich because it's difficult to win. 200k-1M is probably the danger zone.
That someone who wrote an iOS app with such a lame concept of security that anyone could dump the entire database (even if its only "public" data) in a script is not surprising, as most startups and even big companies don't give a crap about security. I've seen this way too often. If you are so cavalier about security in simple rest queries, imagine what lurks beneath not yet discovered.
ad technology admittedly provides a possibility for monetization, which can justify something to an accountant, but it is completely perpendicular to use-value and technical feasibility. it does not "enable" anything to exist.
That's it. I'm ordering a Librem 5!
Our request volume has a strict upper bound that we can depend on. The part of the user base touching JSON+SQL code paths is well-constrained.

For the most contentious area of our application - updating business state instance per user - We find that we are able to serve on the order of 1~10k requests per second. The size of these datasets is around 0.5~15 megabytes.

There isn't a whole lot of other magic involved. WAL is the most important thing for improving throughput.
This has the redacted document:

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1381057389265321989

So you can see they redact "Bernanke" as in "Project Bernanke". Why? What possible trade secret is there involved in naming something after a guy that never worked for you? What kind of judge acquiesces to this bullshit?

Where is Alsup to tell these clowns to no more redactions?
(Any links or direct quotes?that sounds more like interpretation than a report but I'd be curious to see! Thx)
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This is also true of the pinephone. My entire dev set up for for the pinephone is on my pinephone. All I do is hook up a USB cable and SSH into it (which makes testing a lot easier since mmsd needs to talk to the modem).

What is really neat though is any apps that I develop on my pinephone work on the librem 5 too! Some of the bugs found and fixed on mmsd are from Librem 5 users, and I have been collaborating with the chatty dev (I assume he has a Librem 5, I'm 90% sure he is a Purism employee) with the work I do on the pinephone.
Will watch, thanks. That was the Holy Grail, back when I cared about these things. So much time wasted with tools like Rational Rose et al. It'd be very satisfying if it's finally feasible, or better.
Unlike a ponzi scheme (which is guaranteed to be a loss overall), a ISA token could theoretically work out for all parties involved. The article mentions that lambda school's business model is based off it. The problem is that the market for such tokens is a market for lemons, and the amount of due diligence you have to do to weed out the scammers vastly outweighs whatever risk-adjusted-returns you can get compared to the s&p 500. It's the p2p loan craze all over again.
If you live in the US, correct! It's best to form an LLC in the state you live in.

If you live internationally, you can actually choose any state to form an LLC in (and Wyoming + Delaware tend to be the two most popular options, Wyoming for online digital businesses due to the lower ongoing annual costs = $50 per year to the state vs $300 per year in Delaware!)
that is not what i meant. at a certain stage of growth in a company, hiring decisions are no longer made by the top leaders but are delegated downwards. leaders of divisions are empowered to make those decisions. if i am at the top i (or we, if it's a team of founders) will choose those leaders carefully, but then expect them to make their own hiring choices.

if i am one of those chosen leaders, then this is not "my leadership should trust me because i am good" but "i became a leader because they trust me"

if hiring is my responsibility then it's just that. i am responsible, hence i make the decisions. if i hire the wrong person, then i have to take the responsibility for that too.

if i ask my team, and follow their recommendation, it is still my responsibility.