serioussecurity

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by serioussecurity 16d ago
pragh@ (Prabhakar) (yes his ldap is an anagram of graph) absolutely gutted the fire wall between search and ads. To pick a specific piece of public information to support my claim: the previous SVP of ads quit immediately before the coup to
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by serioussecurity 6mo ago
We win battles and lose wars. Haven't won a war since WW2 and arguably Russia would have won without us.
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by serioussecurity 6mo ago
0. These things take an enormous amount of time and coordinating to release.
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by serioussecurity 6mo ago
Only from disingenuous folks trying to control them.
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by serioussecurity 6mo ago
Exercise, therapy, meditation, writing. I've valued my time alone, in retrospect, tho it was scary and challenging.
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by serioussecurity 7mo ago
They're a user hostile attempt to extract money from people. They make their website hard to use.
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by serioussecurity 7mo ago
I've worked as a contractor for a safety system that turned out to be for a foreign military. I was given a signal, and told to write software to fit it. The signal could plausibly be collected for a wide variety of civilian purposes.
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by serioussecurity 1y ago
Highs had a delay of 49 years from paper to prize, though he got the prize the year after his theory was experimentally confirmed.
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by serioussecurity 1y ago
I'm sorry you're blaming the Biden admin for a bush era policy why?
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by serioussecurity 1y ago
Anti authoritarian patriots?
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by serioussecurity 1y ago
Every technical paper I've read that IBM publish at an ML conference has been P-hacked to hell. Stay away.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
I've spent much of my last four years systematically turning down every project a specific director has launched. The turn downs save enormous amounts of our hardware budget, and each time are measured as not happening users. No one ha
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Your surprise over a £3 fee strikes me as a perfect illustration of crypto: profoundly naive, inexperienced investors getting a hard lesson in how unregulated markets work. I hope, some years down the line, you take the broader life lesson
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Heavy drinking. Usually they're choosing between a set of bad options.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
The masters might help you better explore why this is not a realistic concern :) I got a lot of value from mine. The risk in CS that I worry about right now is suppressed wages as more folks enter the field and the large companies get bett
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Not to diminish the achievement, but not making that graph log scale was deeply dishonest.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Yerba Mate is brewed, like tea. You can buy the herb and brew it yourself, like loose tea. Yerba Mate is not a company, it's a drink with three thousand of years of history. The reason many energy drink companies add so much sugar is t
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Done much crying at your desk recently? My boss at Amazon told me he was happy that his baby was born prematurely, because it meant he could be back at work in time for a launch.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Ruthless environments where low performers are stack ranked out of the company creates a psychologically unsafe working environment that encourages toxic competition and makes it hard to retain your best people. I got out a long time ago, b
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Yes, it's how people used to do it. I spent my first decade without mentorship. A month isn't enough time; I consider what I do a craft that I'm honing over the course of a life time.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Punitive damages were a large fraction of the award.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Gary Marcus' contribution to the field is to post the same rant about how it's not real intelligence, every 6 months. Why does he keep getting up voted?
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
https://static.twentyoverten.com/5980d16bbfb1c93238ad9c24/rJ...
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
This is incorrect. https://static.twentyoverten.com/5980d16bbfb1c93238ad9c24/rJ...
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
Hawkins is a notorious con artist with nothing to show for almost two decades of work.
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by serioussecurity 4y ago
HN is mostly people trying to get rich selling themselves to VCs, so I'm not convinced that this is where the spirit of "hacker" is kept alive.
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by serioussecurity 5y ago
In NYC? They're living without health insurance, 8 people in a 3 bedroom, with less than $500 in savings, and credit card debt, yes. Or they commute two hours each way from Philly. America does not treat it's people well. https:&
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by serioussecurity 5y ago
I'm very frustrated by this perspective. I want to live in a world full of intellectually curious, creative people who build things. I think we can best do that by giving people access to education, health care, housing, food, and phys
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by serioussecurity 5y ago
But there are competent folks in the field... ? Waymo's easily five years ahead of Tesla. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182141
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by serioussecurity 5y ago
The parent post is joking that your human brain doesn't reset between games, unlike the other neural network being trained in this game.

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