There is a bar on personal projects. Period. Period.
Either you're misunderstanding logic, law or society. If Karparthy fails he runs a real risk of having his life very closely examined. The rules are different for different people.
I do machine learning medical work for the coronavirus. I work at near optimal as humanly possible. Occasional hackernews is one of my few indulgences.
His job affects peoples lives. He certainly is human. I'm not criticising his project. I'm not saying he can't have personal hobbies.
And I'm not the one that decides the bar.
I'm saying that there is a bar and it's higher when lives depend on it.
There is a long list of activities that people could do in their personal time that would be considered inappropriate. What is done outside of work is relevant. It can form part of a character assessment which can have political and legal ramifications.
If Tesla ends up with a dangerous product then it becomes very relevant.
Society has given Kaparty et al a lot of latitude to take liberties with other peoples lives. In my view this creates an obligation to do the best job humanly possible.
If they’re giving up on autopilot then fine. But if people’s lives are riding on the quality of the work then I think it sets a high bar for personal projects.
Maintain 3 gigs simultaneously and drop the lowest paid one on occasion. Or devote fewer hours to it. Negotiation becomes, “sorry I can’t do more hours for you, someone else is paying me more for my time.” This will also mean you don’t have to worry about who gets what cut, just your cut. It means only doing part time and keeping a float of 40-60hour weeks.
The one thing I liked about MS was that it didn’t have a successful social media asset. This allowed it to stay generally apolitical and out of the fray.
This will be the beginning of the end of MS. (As opposed to the middle of the end of a very drawn out decline.)
I’m sure they see it as another Skype. The US govt subsidizing an acquisition to get access to data.
TikTok optimizes hard for popularity which involves many unpleasant choices in their algorithm. MS will feel compelled to ‘fix’ this both for a perceived social good but also for the benefit of the US government who is no doubt subsidizing this.
MS will become a target for lobbying by interest groups and the US government to a degree it has never dealt with and I don’t think MS can handle it. This is not the same as criticism for being a monopoly or making crappy software.
The best case scenario will be they screw with the algorithm early enough and bad enough that people leave en mass.
These are the same people who couldn’t leave Skype alone.
I wonder if it’s inevitable that we will get denial of entry based facial recognition systems. It’s legally difficult to stop people from leaving the store whereas it’ll be much easier to prevent them from entering.
If someone shoplifts then they get banned from the chain, or a network of chains. This would be an alternative to police involvement. Restitution could be done proportionality and privately.
Of course there will be issues with it but I’m sure it could be cheaper to figure this out than the alternative loss prevention solutions.
If rich people sold the assets they wouldn’t have them anymore. The mechanism is more that rich have access to lower interest rates. The proportional difference of interest rates between the rich and poor increases as the risk free interest rate decrease.
I wonder if people are paying more in a patron or only fans way. Supporting it as an attack on their least favorite blue check mark.
Also, I wonder if more of the value of the blackmail could captured with an auction mechanic; as in donate to X for public release or donate to Y to keep it private at a certain time the account with the most money wins. This mechanic could be manipulated behind the scenes for even more money.
My group of hard core ML friends went fully private. I don’t even pay attention to the public ML discourse (except on HN.) I think a big part of it is a low barrier to an international culture and academia which can be toxic in their own ways.
The media tells us who to care about and by how much. I find the whole thing very irrational and very isolating.
I’m quasi American and I have always hated the people who worked in those towers. The primary business of financialization is to rob the masses of their wealth / pensions. They are a well dressed and well behaved parasitical class.
Osama Bin Laden’s stated intention was to drag the US in to a quagmire and the US obliged.
Despite what MMT people may believe, the US will now have to get used to being a much poorer country. That adjustment will not be easy.
That is rough. I was unaware of the heavy import taxes. But they’re the ones buying so they should pay the tax, expecting me to sell internationally tax inclusive was weird, and possibly a miscommunication with an intermediary, or someone was trying to pull a trick. I think my competitor must have done some transfer pricing with a local branch.
I understand the rational for protectionism and at the same time worry about the future it will lead to. The ability to buy just about anything from just about anywhere was one of the things I really liked about the US.