sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
I wrote that I am against the current legal retaliations for exactly the reason you describe.
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sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
Yes they do. I don't know why but I really should just stop using these forums.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
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sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: GM fungus can rapidly kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, study suggests
Another criticism of this haste is that you set yourself up to be taken advantage of by profiteers or genuine malicious actors. I understand the urgency to save lives as soon as possible; but the risk is high and uncertain.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: An exoplanet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’
A nice user created this Wikipedia page[1] in the few hours since your comment was written:
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
I wonder if the personality test Amazon has during the prelim-interview can detect if you've read such books in the past.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: A Revolution in Your Pocket
Federated Learning[1] you can train across multiple customer data by sending the in-training model to every device, then exfiltrating only the backprop adjustments you get back. In-theory, user data never leaves the device. In-practice, the backprop data has the information encoded within it to an extent, it's very difficult to secure.
[1] https://medium.com/syncedreview/federated-learning-the-futur...
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia
Yes, youtube links to it below many "conspiracy theory" videos
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Germany proposes $2,800 fine for parents skipping measles vaccination
The rich/poor gap in the vaccine debate is pretty shocking. Not just these legal fines (cheap if you're rich), but the "alternative vaccine schedule" that some (very few) doctors recommend is also expensive and not covered by commoner insurance.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: How the News Took over Reality
What causes that need? Your job requires it? Or your social group will ostracize if you don't keep up?
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Sources of remote dev work with minimal human interaction?
To twist this slightly more positively: standups where remote or wfh people can join in and watch silently, and instead of forcing everyone to say something, just let people share what they want. And have a doc of notes for people who missed it and care. Way better than traditional standups.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006
I feel this too, the "Tools -> Results within the Last Year" (&tbs=qdr:y) is necessary for searching programming issues these days.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs
This was a conscious decisions by the developers of these libraries, characterized by the cultural shift from GPLv1 to LGPL, explicitly to allow closed-source releases that build on open-source libraries.
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI?
Random forests produce the same kind of decision trees that used to be hand-crafted, but admittedly, the ones they generate look distinctly "non-human"
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth
The exploding tooth thing is true, caused by gases released by the decay building up pressure, can be very very painful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barodontalgia#Barotrauma
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
Self-fulfilling prophecy, probably a reason you want to be in this trap
sorryforthethro | 6 years ago | on: It takes a net worth of millions to be comfortable in Silicon Valley
I can't picture what percentiles look like, but $120k in SF was a hard life compared to the $90k in Seattle I get now. And I consider myself plenty rich.
sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware
Might be wrong, Co-Bots start at $35k and Kukas are custom-built, often get over 6 figures.
sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability
I don't support CO2 pollution, but yes, the period of the Younger Dryas experienced global shift of 2.5 degrees celsius within hundreds, or perhaps possible singles of years, of presumed natural causes.
> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/07/revisi...
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