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> Or if you just tend to leave stuff out (throw your clothes on the floor or forget to return stuff), the robot can put it back. You don't need the robot for the first part. I never found the second part that valuable.
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Seems like it's back up, with no changes to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po...
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All these confidence interval discussions (both from the original study and from the critique) have no value besides entertaining professors who have more knowledge of math than common sense. Nothing good will ever come from buzzwords such
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How do people find confidence to risk their life (and their kids' happiness) for a cause, when most people around don't care about that cause and seem to be happy with the status quo?
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What was the lecture about? I don't suppose there were any recordings?
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Andrej Karpathy taught cs231n. The question is about Sam Altman who didn't teach anything related to NL. He's on the board of OpenAI because he was one of its founding investors.
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(Answering a parent post) > So you want him to succeed? Xi pursues many different objectives, and I don't know what most of them are. I suspect I would support some but not all of his objectives, and some but not all of the methods
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It appears some have prepared their escape in advance: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3019443/hon...
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The inside story of Hong Kong Extradition Bill(scmp.com)
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The hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters had no masks. The small group who vandalized the Legislative Council wore masks because they knew they were breaking HK laws. Indeed, they would be arrested and charged for such actions in an
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I find it hard to believe that HK doesn't matter. Even leaving aside the city's economic importance, uncontrolled civil unrest carries the risk of an overthrow of the city government, leading to a rejection of the Chinese sovereig
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When managing a special territory like Hong Kong, I think Beijing's goal is to promote its interests as much as possible, at the lowest possible cost in terms of instability. What is the reason we observe seemingly the opposite policy:
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If that's the case, hopefully, he can learn from the clear screwups like this that his team fails at keeping him informed. And hopefully he can still find people who can do more than flatter and kowtow, and get them to advise him. I do
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I expected the Beijing government would (a) continuously improve its image in Hong Kong, and (b) monitor HK public opinion to ensure they don't push its agenda to the point where it would risk instability. How in the world did they mes
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> Also, the purpose of any funding program is complete the moment that a politician steps up to a TV camera to accept credit for creating it. Anything that happens after that is pointless/just a bonus. This is the mechanism by which
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Ah thanks, I wish I had better sources, the one I quoted was all I could find. Yeah at $10B/year, the tables are turned I think. Strictly speaking, it's still a lot less than the money paid by the Chinese citizens to Apple. But th
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I was curious to compare Apple's revenues from China with the payments it sends to China for manufacturing. Revenues (official data): ~$50B/year, down from $80B/year a year ago. Costs attributed to China are very hard to meas
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I'd be very surprised if that was so. People move often between the two companies, and in my experience speak of each other quite positively. More generally, I doubt any employee of a large tech firm has so much loyalty and devotion to
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Interesting. What else, besides privacy concerns, could be at play?
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> I think hackernews has a strong anti-facebook bias Is HN really more anti-Facebook than the general population? If so, why?
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Why is not only the conservative, but even the liberal media so strongly anti-tech? Google, Facebook, and the majority of other tech firms are extraordinarily liberal, far beyond the normal California bias. And not only are their executives
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It is not a secret that some famous game studios turned away experienced software engineers simply because they didn't play video games. Expecting employees to work on weekends is even more common, and not just in the gaming industry.
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I believe this is incorrect. Disparate impact is not a violation of the US law (neither federal nor state). If the disparate impact is related to the job, it's legal. (For example, a movie studio that turns away old actors who apply to
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Let's say the CTO said "I'm concerned the candidate won't fit in because he's not into video games or partying with coworkers or working on the weekends, all the things that help us bond and keep a cohesive team&quo
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I think the rule about not editorializing needs an exception so that someone can point out an important or interesting fact using an article whose original title is too generic. Another example would be "Press release from XYZ". I
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Why change the title of the post? Almost every one of the ~100 comments is in response to the original title that Storm switched from Clojure to Java. Now this context is lost.
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How long does it take a strong developer to learn Clojure? Is it really a big a barrier to new contributors? Presumably people who consider contributing to the open source have some spare time and love programming. Wouldn't they find i
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I see. I misunderstood then. IMO, that is not a good description of a Marxist uprising.
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> what may be digital equivalent of the Marxist proletariat uprising. What do you mean by this analogy?
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Then what would prevent people whose videos were banned from suing Facebook because Facebook didn't get their intent correctly? And similarly, people appearing in videos that aren't banned could sue because Facebook didn't se

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