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by lacker 6y ago
The author is referring to the rise of crime and homelessness in San Francisco. The Walgreens comment is referring to how several Walgreens are shutting down in San Francisco, partially because they have been unable to stop shoplifting. ht
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by lacker 6y ago
It is probably not a derived work. To be a derived work it is not enough to simply use the original work in its construction; it must contain major copyrightable elements of the original work. The weights and parameters present in the model
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by lacker 6y ago
I don’t quite understand your summary. You say “GitLab should grow a pair”, but also that any infrastructure using Google Cloud will block Iranian IPs, so many companies will end up unusable from Iranian IPs regardless of their own opinions
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by lacker 6y ago
The only thing worse than global mutable state is a complicated and buggy structure that does the exact same thing that global mutable state does
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by lacker 6y ago
This means that either a particle has to completely 'vanish' from the physical world during tunnelling or that μ and ε don't apply during this time, or that they change value. The standard quantum mechanical interpretation
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by lacker 6y ago
I think your intuition is correct and that Steinberg is agreeing with you here. Steinberg is just saying that a single particle alone cannot generate a causality paradox. But it still isn't obvious why you couldn't use this effe
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by lacker 6y ago
TLDR: reinforcement learning cannot handle AGI, because reinforcement learning rewards must be finite, but a true artificial intelligence could reason about infinite numbers. I think this is complete nonsense. Humans don't receive infi
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by lacker 6y ago
At this point another AI winter seems impossible. AI has such a strong foothold in functionality like voice recognition or image manipulation that are core to big tech company products, it wouldn't make sense for them to give up on the
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by lacker 6y ago
Instead of actively negotiating with the state It isn’t normal for a company to negotiate with the government to figure out how much it pays its employees! If you want rules like minimum wage or mandatory health insurance for all, by all
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by lacker 6y ago
That seems fair. It wouldn't make sense for Google to generally rank The Online Slang Dictionary higher; Urban Dictionary is more popular and algorithms like PageRank would naturally prefer Urban Dictionary. When The Online Slang Dicti
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by lacker 6y ago
The explanation of "Google Juice" given in the article is generally incorrect. Google very often does penalize sites by kicking them out of the index entirely. For example, see https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2
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by lacker 6y ago
It doesn't look like there is any penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. Google even one-boxes their site as the preferred answer for some searches! For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=slang+dictionary+%2
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by lacker 6y ago
TLDR: they aren’t making money from it any more, so they aren’t going to bother with more features. They’ll keep the servers running and keep tweaking the balance to keep things fun because that’s not too hard, but the number of full-time e
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by lacker 6y ago
Your company expects that you follow along the deliveries, setting quality standards, making sure the team has the support they need and upper management the feedback they need. This part seemed a little weakly worded to me. An engineerin
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by lacker 6y ago
You just cannot expect a person to stay focused monitoring something for more than couple minutes. It seems reasonable to expect someone to at least not be watching Hulu when they are supposed to be a safety driver. This wasn't a cas
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by lacker 6y ago
What if a pill could change your sexual orientation? That one would cause quite the chaos.
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by lacker 6y ago
Well, yes, definitely. It isn’t a peer-to-peer architecture, so at some point Zoom is storing files that correspond to your video calls. At some point I’m sure they’re deleted but someone with a subpoena can access them before they are. End
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by lacker 6y ago
The point of end-to-end encryption is to prevent a government from being able to access your communications afterwards. Zoom or any other private company is much more able to implement a standard technical solution like end-to-end encryptio
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by lacker 6y ago
I don't get it. He contacted Oculus support, Oculus support asked if he had followed these 4 steps for reactivating his account, and then... what? At that point gave up and posted on Reddit to complain? Yeah, this sucks. But mistaken a
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by lacker 6y ago
Vitalik Buterin is another well-known example.
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by lacker 6y ago
During my time as a manager at Facebook there at least 4 different engineers on my team who did not have a college degree. It’s certainly harder to break in without one, but it’s possible.
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by lacker 6y ago
On the other hand, if software engineers were interviewed like doctors, anyone who didn’t have a U.S. graduate degree would be immediately rejected. Anyone with great experience in another country would be immediately rejected. That is most
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by lacker 6y ago
You make a good point, but in the past the same argument was used to say that Slavs or Latins (southern Europeans) would never be perceived as the same race as the people of Germanic descent. I think you're right that Hispanic is close
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by lacker 6y ago
You may find it interesting to read the book Whiteshift - https://www.amazon.com/Whiteshift-Populism-Immigration-Futur... . The thesis of the book is that over time, Hispanic and Asian Americans will start to be considered
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by lacker 6y ago
A 3.5 is a pretty low bar for a school like TJ. The problem isn't switching to GPA per se, it's that this is a massive lowering of standards.
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by lacker 6y ago
The key point I learned from this that I didn't really realize before: even if you already have tenure, you're surrounded by smart people that you want to work with, and they're often earlier in their careers and don't h
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by lacker 6y ago
It's ironic that all their talk about diversity and inclusion is being used so that they can increase the number of rich white people they admit.
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by lacker 6y ago
My experience at large companies is that you have some team who is responsible for securely using third-party software. Making sure that it actually authenticates right so that only employees can see it, that sort of thing. This team doesn’
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by lacker 6y ago
An exciting day to launch a new prediction market, when Trump announces he's caught Covid and Betfair has to suspend their presidential election odds market....

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