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by serioussecurity 7y ago
An uptick in crop failures due to irregular growing seasons has lead to things like the Syrian civil war, which is a fairly direct cause of the immigrant crisis in Europe which is a fairly direct cause of the rise of ethno nationalism in Eu
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
Despite high hopes, incompetent new comers discover they can't compete in new industry...
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
So many arm chair lawyers on HN. The parent is wrong. It's illegal because it violates the NLRA, not whistleblower protections. "Protected concerted activity". If you want a good primer, "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
:-/ I make $300k / yr. I live in a 10 x 18 room, in an apartment with 3 room mates that has an acceptable kitchen and a cramped living room. I save > 50% of my income, which is nice. But I also spend ~ 80k / yr on medical
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
Most of the big tech companies (amazon, google, facebook most notably) have discovered an extremely strong correlation between latency and $$$. Every saved millisecond of average load time tends to generate an incredible amount of money (li
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
Unsure if joking. Look up stuxnet
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
Their datasets aren't useful for the problems that make driving hard. Musk is making claims which are paper thin false. If he weren't making these kinds of claims I'd take him more seriously. I promise you that the reasons th
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
This is one of those "you need to be an expert to evaluate the claim" problems. Talk to anyone with research experience who are building world scale ML systems that are used by real people, and it's unambiguous that Elon Musk
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
Because ad click through rates are so low and the signal is so incredibly sparse. It's all measured against a test set which the researchers rarely look at directly (because the data set is so large). So if something lifts ad vlicks by
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
It's called "protected concerted activity". It is protected under the national labor relations act. These laws were passed in the context of mine owners hiring armed mecenaries (the pinkertons for example) to break up strikes
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
It's called "protected concerted activity". It is protected under the national labor relations act. These laws were passed in the context of mine owners hiring armed mecenaries (the pinkertons for example) to break up strikes
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
The NLRA is pretty complicated and it comes down to what you can get the NLRB to agree about, but this does qualify as protected concerted activity. Anything which is collective organizing in the interests of the employees w.r.t. working co
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
The history of labor is in this form of protest. Googlers are more comfortable than many others. The further down the chain you go the more precarious the workers and dependent on their pay checks, and the easier time management has retalia
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
Yes they are. It's called "protected concerted activity" and it's protected under the national labor relations act. These laws were passed because they were seen as better than the status quo, which was employers firebom
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by serioussecurity 7y ago
depends what you mean. If you think of it as a "replacement" of another launch they could have sold, then yes, it's the same cost. Lost profit opportunity is lost profit is a cost. But if it means they can increase the # of r
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Strong disagree. I started learning machine learning back in 2010, before neural networks really took off. The understanding of where the field was before and why DNNs were useful advancement puts me way ahead of peers who don't unders
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Maybe we reckon with the issue that "understand" doesn't mean anything in the absence of it's implications and we rephrase the question. What do you view as consequences of deciding that it "understands"?
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Also selling it to the military to "increase lethality". https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236116/microsoft-holole...
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Book rec: The Body Keeps the Score. Bessel van der Kolk has been one of the most important PTSD researchers of the last 40 years, and his work on the embodied aspects of trauma and stress is fantastic.
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Things I found changed my life: * read The Body Keeps the Score * get a massage at least once a month * Start a regular yoga practice * Start journalling with pen and paper * Find ways to get outside in nature / around water God speed
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Yoga and massage are great for chronic anxiety and depression. Actually taking seriously the "your feelings live in your body, let yourself go where you feel" stuff while doing yoga / massage can be really emotionally cathart
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Clearly you've never experienced a psychotic break....
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
uhhh, you mean "encrypted text messages were shared with Mueller's office"?
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Yeah, to be clear, Watson failing is good news. This is marketing people losing their minds because they didn't understand the products they were selling, and hospitals failing to do due diligence. I've talked to literally dozens
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Tesla are clowns. It's possible to do this right, but they're shipping a product they know isn't suited to the task. (Lidar really does matter, but also extremely rigorous testing.)
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
So there's a couple things at play. Lidar range is more than double visual range, in practice. When figuring out collision avoidance paths for an object you actually end up approximating some np hard problems to find a path that won&#x
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
I keep seeing this meme about Tesla and it keeps making me grumpy. Basic lane keeping is simple, and Tesla is only doing that. And they're doing it badly. Tesla's autopilot is a PR move to try to raise more capital. They are not a
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
Hm? At this point there's really nothing controversial about "racist data makes racist models" (I'm being flippant in my phrasing, but, more rigorously: "the model will reflect and reify the biases of the person tra
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
The cloudflare bug was a memory safety issue in C code, which is basically the whole point of trust
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by serioussecurity 8y ago
"condo" implies a specific ownership and monthly fee structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium

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