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by password11 4y ago
> what we're talking about here is a protocol for performing eugenics... No. What we're talking about is if it's ethical to essentially create a race of monster-people by altering their DNA. GP is saying, no way it'
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by password11 4y ago
Harder to track down the person. Unless the hotel is logging every packet on its network and paying to archive the TBs of encrypted video streaming data that goes through every day. And it's a purely local network, so not like the NSA
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by password11 4y ago
The threat to the perpetrator -- of 90 days prison time and a permanent criminal record of being a mischief-maker -- prevents people from pulling the alarm. Same way sheepdogs herd sheep.
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by password11 4y ago
> We’re so focused on grades because they are a believed to be an important part of the credentialing process for getting jobs. Various colleges (ex: Reed, Brown) in the U.S. don't have grades. Their graduates do just fine, afaik. I
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by password11 4y ago
> How are they protected against that, exactly? You can literally walk up to any fire emergency button on any wall Cameras near fire alarms and it's a crime in the U.S. to give a false alarm.
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by password11 4y ago
> At least one point of those ethicists is to stop people who are naive from doing things with permanent consequences without first checking to see what those consequences would be. Are the consequences really that permanent? It's
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by password11 4y ago
Sorry I edited out all the discussions about WW2. Assumed this was a dead thread and it was safe if I did it quickly. I'll edit this and address them here... please forgive me. Edit: > The US didn't forgive Von Braun and Japan
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by password11 4y ago
Anonymity is the forgiveness of the internet machine. > The broader question is how any of us – but especially children and young people – can become comfortable with our own freedom, our own spontaneity, against the backdrop of surveil
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by password11 4y ago
Agree with everything you said. I also did the same thing basically, undergrad CS and grad math classes. The author basically did all of undergrad math and physics, and now apparently they're planning to self-study all the grad math. T
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by password11 4y ago
If you go through for the "great books" approach, just be aware that it's not the same curriculum as a major in mathematics: > Mathematics is one of the many subjects studied in the college’s interdisciplinary great books
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by password11 4y ago
> Who is this? Brilliantly gifted high school student it turns out. > https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2023/02/21/diego-vera-mit-c... > Interviewer: Tell me a bit about your life situation at
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by password11 4y ago
> but the claim made by several people in that thread (at least one who said they are a hiring manager) that Databricks has recently hired multiple people who were laid off is verifiable as true or false How exactly, again, did you ver
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by password11 4y ago
What I find strange in OP's story is that HC and recruiter actually gave a reason for the rejection. Most companies after they reject you are tight-lipped. > denied by multiple Databricks employees in the [Blind] thread, who clearl
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by password11 4y ago
> The 39-year-old immigrant from India, who works in Seattle on a H-1B visa, said as soon as he heard the question “Do you eat meat?” from his Indian manager he knew he was in trouble. > By admitting to eating meat, the tech worker
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by password11 4y ago
> [your lifestyle] is pretty unhealthy honestly I still vaguely remember this discussion from Walden from when I read it 10 years ago: > "I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even w
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by password11 4y ago
> In my generation it seems like everyone has something they are really into that isn't work or their immediate family. Not all zoomers. I pretty much confine myself to work, lurking online, occasional periods of HN commenting, dr
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by password11 4y ago
Padding is an important part of CBC.
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by password11 4y ago
> Or... you can have a more nuanced viewpoint The nuanced viewpoint is never implement your own cryptography. > Its so stupid simple I don't think that even a novice would make a critical error. Ask Microsoft about that one:
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by password11 4y ago
> CBC is far easier to implement... Never implement your own cryptography. Edit: In fact an incorrect implementation of CBC mode famously caused a vulnerability in Microsoft's ASP.NET in 2010 ( https://learn.microsoft.
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by password11 4y ago
Thanks for addressing my edit -- > Depends on the society. In Asia it's still by far the most popular aesthetic, especially for women. I guess I outed myself as an American. I'm not sure I want to compare attractiveness stand
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by password11 4y ago
Paywalled, but > It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin It is economically rational for all ambitious people to try as hard as possible to fit into the accepted standard of attractivene
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by password11 4y ago
> but that university administrations began to worry that they were giving too much away. Personally: in industry, in various software companies I've met about 10-15 grads from Harvard, MIT, and CMU. From meeting them, I assure yo
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by password11 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1102/ We're always having this same rehashed argument over and over again on HN. "My [CPU manufacturer] grew by 100% this year." Market share is an absolute percentage, so you should tal
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by password11 4y ago
> If you're rendering thousands of items on an SVG data visualisation, sure [virtual dom] matters. I am not educated on the no-virtual-DOM-hype. What actually costs more here: (1) the diff and vdom algorithm or (2) the actual DOM
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by password11 4y ago
I generally agree with your criticism of the education system as an instrument of filtering/segregation but I would argue school has some practical value. > Three - grade people into quality batches, based off their punctuality and
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by password11 4y ago
> fundamental concern about the health of the company Although Twilio has never turned a profit, they've cornered the "SMS via API" market and could theoretically start to turn one at any point.
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by password11 4y ago
>> 3. It encourages a ton of code churn with very low signal. > 3) “Code churn” is a very uncharitable description of day-to-day maintenance of an active codebase. Also implicit in the discussion is the fact that Google and oth
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by password11 4y ago
FWIW commercial aviation is already far safer than driving and the telemetry allows us to call out incidents like this and get to the bottom of what happened.
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by password11 4y ago
> The incident was first reported by The Air Current, which analyzed granular data supplied by Flightradar24... UA1722 took off at 00:49.28.882 UTC on 19 December (14:49 local time 18 Dec). It climbed to a maximum altitude of 2,200 feet
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by password11 4y ago
This interview was mostly a puff piece until this ominous quote: > "The first set of categories in which we should use these powerful models are where humans, unambiguously, unquestionably, are in charge," Nadella said. "

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