bernf · HackerTrans

4 years agodiscuss

This was already an incredibly stupid concept pushed by large megacorp polluters to make individuals feel bad about their miniscule contributions. The term "carbon footprint" was literally invented by marketing/lobby firms to make a person using a straw feel worse than oil spills. I couldn't name a single person who cares about that random number.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

Meanwhile, ISPs and mobile data providers sell your cell phone data to 3rd parties all the time to make money. More people keep phones on them than they do cars. Remember when NYT bought data in DC region and could track down secret security guards just by doing simple polygon selections around the WH?

DC for example also pays TENS of millions of dollars to Raytheon for the speed cameras they install only for them to be utterly useless.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

You have no idea what you're talking about, there was no "insider attack" she had scripts the equivalent of a web scraper/sniffer.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

AWS CDK exists and IMO is way better than terraform if you're on AWS. So much so that terraform is making their own variant to be more CDK like.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

Plaid would be one of the worst companies to compare yourself to for privacy compliance.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

TLDR: This guy doesn't know what social engineering is. Guy probably thinks the bartender winking at him also is hitting on him.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

How to tell someone has never been in charge of a meaningful number of people. Growth and scale is hard. Multiple people interviewing is to de risk bias and have minimal critical exposure to a single person to what can cost a company a lot of money (especially for engineers). Blows my mind people nerd out on things like redundancy in spacecraft/ safety mechanism yet cannot see the corollaries to social mechanisms.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

Not sure how I feel about this. I see a similar issue in what I consider mistreatment of delivery workers. There have been delivery services and transport services for disabled/elderly for a while now. People have been replacing them with gig workers and I'm not exactly sure who to blame or feel sorry for.

A post a while ago on reddit was someone who was complaining about a doordasher who didn't want to wait and bring like multiple bags of cat litter like up 3 flights of stairs. The amount of inconsiderate abuse people have towards them (making them wait, navigate buildings) is a poor allocation of resources.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

Isn't this all extremely elementary and common knowledge for someone designing these workflows? Next blog post about how to not waste money by just not doing something extremely poorly optimized.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

Coin market cap is also a made up term for alt coins. They equate it to how MV of a company is share price * outstanding shares. For a coin you can mint a million coins, and sell 5 of them for 10$ (to yourself most likely), and boom crypto exchanges list it as having a 100M Mkt cap, despite liquidity being zero. If it was truly liquid market all of these are worthless.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

From practice the Platform MLE is non existent in most cases except for places like OpenAI and maybe Google. The key thing not addressed here is that in software, the right levels of abstraction provide ways for pluralities of downstream tasks. That level of abstraction has not really been found in ML (yet). Every time you start making a larger system, researchers then have to onboard to that system and I find they really don't like how much time it wastes.

bernf

4 years agodiscuss

This is not really correct. Art and a lot of jobs that don't pay well go to children of rich people because they don't need the money, their parents are usually already in the network of influence and patrons. The current state of art is at the mercy of them anyway to keep up the illusion - the rich donate and get their benefits/private events and tax write offs. And since they're rich they end up becoming public figures themselves and bring even more attention to their institute.

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