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by artemisyna 6y ago
The city has put in Port-a-potties and there are maps of nearby businesses friendly and with restrooms. Iirc, there is also some sort of plan for trash collection. The coronavirus bit still isn’t good, but the city has learned for the hygie
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by artemisyna 6y ago
Not sure how easy/difficult this would be from am implementation perspective, but perhaps transcription could be provided as a pay-as-you-go service. Ie, users could pay into a pool for live transcription of a stream for a certain peri
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by artemisyna 6y ago
Can someone copy/paste the original text or post a non-paywall link?
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Depending on what you think your kids would be interested, looking through a few university courses might be a good call. Most top CS schools (Stanford, MIT, CMU) have some sort of online lectures. There's also always Udacity/edx
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by artemisyna 7y ago
I think that’s more of a matter that human lifespan is finite while the halting problem proof for Turing machines is across every single program. (Which is to say... humans aren’t more powerful — it’s that we’re so limited, we will never re
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Very curious to see how this plays out. There's a bunch of underinsured (or outright not insured) folk in the very locations where Walmart is opening these, so it has the potential to kill a couple of different birds with one stone. Fr
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by artemisyna 7y ago
...because previously, the academics would use an army of undergrads to do the same data labeling that ML accomplishes. (The dis-economy of scale hurts less if you're already starting from a point with the manual labor.)
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by artemisyna 7y ago
I think your conflating a few different issues here. IP stealing is a problem. However, IP stealing is a little orthogonal from 1) entities in the U.S. economy being small enough to create/take advantage of innovation and 2) entities b
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by artemisyna 7y ago
I can see where you're coming from (that bigness is an issue, regardless of whatever role China may play), however I do think the China example helps better concretely illustrate some of the author's points. In particular, 'b
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by artemisyna 7y ago
To prime the populous for when other types of media manipulation occur - folk aren't going to dig into media manipulation if it's done by someone they like and never realize the sheer mass of it. But if it's by someone they d
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Conspiracy theory: Bloomberg is doing this cash-pump campaign so that folk are forced to talk about (and become aware of) the shady techniques that campaigns use normally anyway.
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by artemisyna 7y ago
To further my assertion here - most big tech companies that I know of (at least, the ones I've had direct experience with myself) literally puts people with undergraduate/master's degrees into the same hiring pool -- even if
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by artemisyna 7y ago
I strictly disagree with you here. Most of the content in a master's program can be found online (or otherwise in the relevant textbooks) -- if you're paying to do it as a class, you're paying for structure and the piece of p
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Note it down, bring it up to HR/your manager's manager. Best case scenario, your manager is well-intentioned but is misinformed (or under-informed) about what is/isn't okay to say. Mild kerfuffle, not a big deal. Worst c
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Cause someone will make this comment eventually: "Caltech" not "CalTech". :)
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by artemisyna 7y ago
TikTok was also spending something ludicrous (probably the majority of whatever investment $$ it had?) on ads in its early days in order to build a userbase. (Don’t remember the exact details, but I recalled being surprised at seeing their
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Among other things: lots of other companies (including Google) were doing the same thing, wasn’t an app for general distribution (the kid had already had his parents permission for using said app), order of magnitude a thousand people ever
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Not going to comment on whether or not it was philosophically correct, but I will note that Google (not to mention dozens of other companies) were doing the exact same thing — just that they didn’t get called out for it until a few days aft
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by artemisyna 7y ago
I'm amused by this assessment given how you could pretty much say the exact same comment in reverse. Specifically, between these "intelligent people [on Hacker News]" and a "guy [with] dubious insights", one of thes
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by artemisyna 7y ago
As someone that knows the person that originally tipped Apple off about the tracking... this is such a misinformed editorialization of what actually happened where I don't even know where to start.
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by artemisyna 7y ago
The number of people in this thread that apparently know the secret, nefarious intentions that Zuckerberg truly has is... Well, not surprising, given that this is the internet and Hacker News. :)
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by artemisyna 7y ago
As an example of this -- one of the comments below mentions iClickers. Those have been a thing for a few years now (mostly bio, but still).
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Caltech of a few decades ago was great... but even it isn't exempt from the infantization that's been happening everywhere. (Just talk to any of the current undergrads or recent alums -- a shift started happening with some new dea
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by artemisyna 7y ago
I'm not sure if the correct takeaway here is "unlearn how to hack systems" but something more akin to "prioritize the right hacks you need to do". Making a good product (with whatever shortcuts/hacks come wit
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Ehhhh I’ve heard the predecessor engine had much to be desired, so it probably wasn’t only just the performance bit. That said, I could see performance (in addition to execution guarantees) being part of the factors. Sorry, not parsing the
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by artemisyna 7y ago
You are correct that it is easier to use functional languages in some domains. There are quite a few messaging clients that use Erlang under the hood. Facebook uses Haskell for its spam engine, where being very explicit about if a long chai
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Different large companies do things in different ways. Some companies do things very top-down to the point where "execs getting the right info" is merely "some report down the chain seeing something or other has to be delayed
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by artemisyna 7y ago
For ancillary roles, sometimes they do use contractors. However, for code that needs maintenance of any sort, it makes a lot more sense to bring the expertise in-house. Maybe it's more expensive in a myopic sense, but by being able to
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by artemisyna 7y ago
Strong opinions exist in any industry. However, few industries have as many things going on (and actively vyying for your attention, whether for $$ or mindshare or otherwise) as software.
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by artemisyna 7y ago
See slide 18. :) https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2019/Q2...

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