Thanks. I wonder how hard it is for an English speaker to learn. I speak some French and passable Japanese, but neither of those is likely to be much help.
There seem to be plenty of tech jobs there at least. A little daunting when you can't even pronounce the names of half the town's though:-)
Recently big gains have been made in physical security. Many phones are encrypted by default and relatively difficult for unauthorized persons to unlock. Encrypted storage is increasingly common for computers too, although open source support for technologies like OPALv2 seems to be lagging behind closed source systems. In 2017 AMD introduced encrypted RAM.
All of these rely on special hardware to protect encryption keys and perform encryption functions at speeds fast enough to avoid any significant performance loss. It seems like hardware is necessary for very high levels of physical security anyway, e.g. tamper-proof boot ROMs.
How can open source provide this level of security when high end hardware is increasingly difficult for individuals to fabricate? Should we be thinking about how we can fabricate our own security processors and key storage, or is there another way achieve high levels of physical security?
How can we more open source medical software? Given that medical devices are so heavily regulated it seems like it will be hard to get, say, an open source pacemaker system that users can hack, or at least audit.
Radio software seems to be in a similar state - cellular modems, wifi chipsets etc. are all heavily regulated and closed source, with signed code required for updates.
Yes. For example, when applying for a mortgage the decision making process is highly regulated and an explanation of the refusal can be obtained challenged. It's not just some random bank employee's opinion.
That protects the bank as much as the customer. The bank is going to want to understand the AI's decision too.
For a country built on immigration in the relatively recent past, and where the employment route makes you an indentured servant, it doesn't seem that easy or fair.
Immigration is a lot like the war on drugs. Fighting it just creates more, even worse problems than it solves. Having a sensible policy that gives people a chance to immigrate legally and fairly, managed so that it doesn't adversely affect people already there, is good for everyone.
Alogrithmic transparency can only be a good thing. When AI makes a decision that affects you, you should have a right to understand how and why the decision was made, and to challenge it. That will prevent a lot of the problems we have already started to see with things like algorithmic sentencing of criminals.
Interesting. I've seen silly stuff like 45k for a "senior" developer from American companies. Irish companies in the same area offering 65k.
The other big difference is that the Irish ones offer things like relocation and pay your travel costs for interviews.
Maybe the difference is that US companies have bigger teams on average, so you are just a cog and get very little. Smaller Irish companies prefer quality over quantity.
I guess I am full stack... Everything from R&D to requirements to electronic design to firmware to validation and debugging to production support.
It's definitely undervalued. If you grow into it at one company the raises don't usually match your new skill set. If you are looking to move most places will be looking for specific skills and won't value your full stack abilities properly. That's just the way hiring works it seems.
I've noticed that US companies operating in Ireland pay very low wages. They contact me with offers that are â20k below anything I'd even consider, but want the skills and experience I have. They usually have very poor benefits too. Minimum holiday, no real perks. I don't know how they manage to recruit anyone. UK companies are often the same.
EU companies tend to be a bit better. The Netherlands is a great example. Good pay, 30% tax free income for foreigners, good holidays, holiday buy-back, lunch provided, car chargers, bike facilities, nice offices etc. Sweden and Norway seem good too, if the climate is okay for you. Language could be an issue.
For one month there was an issue where paying interns was scheduled to happen before sponsors paid the foundation, and because the programme was growing quickly there was a temporary shortfall. It was resolved quickly and without drama.
This was at the height of the anti-SJW movement. Vox Day wrote some nonsense about it (your third link), others reposted (your second link is just a Day repost) and the narrative that the Outreachy programme was destroying GNOME became fake news.
Do you have any evidence that everything you do on a Chromebook is being uploaded to Google? Do you think that no one in the security community has bothered to check, say with a packet sniffer or MITM attack?
Chrome OS has a lot of other stuff that no other Linux distro replicates, at least not without extensive hacking. Secure boot, for example. Do you know what is involved in setting that up on a random laptop with random Linux distro? Or sandboxing apps to the degree that Chrome OS does by default?
Being security experts they are probably more interested in what they can measure, rather than paranoid forum posts. So they likely use some of their most basic tools, like Wireshark, to verify that their Chromebooks were not spying on them.
Rei is right, fast charging is important. That's why the Leaf 40 charging issues are a big deal - basically it can do about 1 rapid charge every couple of days max before the charge rate drops off rapidly, if you will excuse the pun.
Quite a lot of Leaf owners do multiple rapid charges per day in the normal course of things, and even the ones that don't rely on being able to do at least a couple for the kind of trip you might do in a day or overnight.
V1 was using tech from MobileEye. Tesla fell out with them and introduced V2, which was their own tech.
V2 has fewer sensors than V1. It relies more heavily on cameras and neural networks to interpret their images. They even got rid of things like the rain sensor and replaced it with image processing from the front facing camera, although it took over a year to deliver and doesn't work as well as the $10 sensor most cars have.
Tesla promised that it would do full self driving one day via software update, and has been selling that capability with new cars for $3000, for about 18 months.
The V2 system started off vastly inferior to V1. Today it's nearly caught up in many regards. There ares till some very noticeable deficiencies though. For example the V1 system can recognize motorcycles, the V2 system usually sees them but can't distinguish them from cars. The V2 system also seems to ping-pong between the lane markers more, and has a harder time tracking them as seen on the instrument cluster display.
What spec though? They have been fulfilling the LR version orders first, with high spec ones (AP + other options) getting priority. AFAIK no SR cars, the base spec of which is $35k, have been manufactured or shipped.
There isn't even a date for the availability of RHD models either, so in RHD countries you can't even get the LR version. In fact I don't think there have been any deliveries at all to Europe yet, even in LHD countries.
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Thanks. I wonder how hard it is for an English speaker to learn. I speak some French and passable Japanese, but neither of those is likely to be much help.
There seem to be plenty of tech jobs there at least. A little daunting when you can't even pronounce the names of half the town's though :-)
Recently big gains have been made in physical security. Many phones are encrypted by default and relatively difficult for unauthorized persons to unlock. Encrypted storage is increasingly common for computers too, although open source support for technologies like OPALv2 seems to be lagging behind closed source systems. In 2017 AMD introduced encrypted RAM.
All of these rely on special hardware to protect encryption keys and perform encryption functions at speeds fast enough to avoid any significant performance loss. It seems like hardware is necessary for very high levels of physical security anyway, e.g. tamper-proof boot ROMs.
How can open source provide this level of security when high end hardware is increasingly difficult for individuals to fabricate? Should we be thinking about how we can fabricate our own security processors and key storage, or is there another way achieve high levels of physical security?
How can we more open source medical software? Given that medical devices are so heavily regulated it seems like it will be hard to get, say, an open source pacemaker system that users can hack, or at least audit.
Radio software seems to be in a similar state - cellular modems, wifi chipsets etc. are all heavily regulated and closed source, with signed code required for updates.
You are correct, I was misinformed.
April 1st is the one day when people pause to consider if things they read on the internet are true. If only they would do that for the other 364...
In one paragraph you complain about the president overstepping into the domain of the judicial branch.
In the next you complain about a court preventing the president from overstepping into the domain of the judicial branch.
That's some impressive doublethink.
The GP is saying that Trump's only position is to pander to his base, with stunts like the wish list drempt up by his staff. Staff who he later fired.
If you need to be obtuse and create a straw man then it seems you actually know this to be true.
Yes. For example, when applying for a mortgage the decision making process is highly regulated and an explanation of the refusal can be obtained challenged. It's not just some random bank employee's opinion.
That protects the bank as much as the customer. The bank is going to want to understand the AI's decision too.
For a country built on immigration in the relatively recent past, and where the employment route makes you an indentured servant, it doesn't seem that easy or fair.
Immigration is a lot like the war on drugs. Fighting it just creates more, even worse problems than it solves. Having a sensible policy that gives people a chance to immigrate legally and fairly, managed so that it doesn't adversely affect people already there, is good for everyone.
Alogrithmic transparency can only be a good thing. When AI makes a decision that affects you, you should have a right to understand how and why the decision was made, and to challenge it. That will prevent a lot of the problems we have already started to see with things like algorithmic sentencing of criminals.
Interesting. I've seen silly stuff like 45k for a "senior" developer from American companies. Irish companies in the same area offering 65k.
The other big difference is that the Irish ones offer things like relocation and pay your travel costs for interviews.
Maybe the difference is that US companies have bigger teams on average, so you are just a cog and get very little. Smaller Irish companies prefer quality over quantity.
I think Norwegian is closer to Russian...
I guess I am full stack... Everything from R&D to requirements to electronic design to firmware to validation and debugging to production support.
It's definitely undervalued. If you grow into it at one company the raises don't usually match your new skill set. If you are looking to move most places will be looking for specific skills and won't value your full stack abilities properly. That's just the way hiring works it seems.
I've noticed that US companies operating in Ireland pay very low wages. They contact me with offers that are â20k below anything I'd even consider, but want the skills and experience I have. They usually have very poor benefits too. Minimum holiday, no real perks. I don't know how they manage to recruit anyone. UK companies are often the same.
EU companies tend to be a bit better. The Netherlands is a great example. Good pay, 30% tax free income for foreigners, good holidays, holiday buy-back, lunch provided, car chargers, bike facilities, nice offices etc. Sweden and Norway seem good too, if the climate is okay for you. Language could be an issue.
Having a womb that employers are afraid of isn't a choice.
What does that even mean? Can you give a specific example?
Also, where are the ads in Chrome OS?
She is more on the GNU side. She did a lot of work with GNOME and tried for more than a decade to get the source code to her heart implant.
Kinda scary that a person can have to rely on closed source code just to stay alive.
For one month there was an issue where paying interns was scheduled to happen before sponsors paid the foundation, and because the programme was growing quickly there was a temporary shortfall. It was resolved quickly and without drama.
This was at the height of the anti-SJW movement. Vox Day wrote some nonsense about it (your third link), others reposted (your second link is just a Day repost) and the narrative that the Outreachy programme was destroying GNOME became fake news.
What is it you can do with an iPad that you can't do with a Chromebook? Keeping in mind that you can run android apps.
Do you have any evidence that everything you do on a Chromebook is being uploaded to Google? Do you think that no one in the security community has bothered to check, say with a packet sniffer or MITM attack?
Chrome OS has a lot of other stuff that no other Linux distro replicates, at least not without extensive hacking. Secure boot, for example. Do you know what is involved in setting that up on a random laptop with random Linux distro? Or sandboxing apps to the degree that Chrome OS does by default?
Being security experts they are probably more interested in what they can measure, rather than paranoid forum posts. So they likely use some of their most basic tools, like Wireshark, to verify that their Chromebooks were not spying on them.
A few years back some lady painted her bird box yellow. It looked kinda like a speed camera from a distance. Pretty effective against human drivers.
Rei is right, fast charging is important. That's why the Leaf 40 charging issues are a big deal - basically it can do about 1 rapid charge every couple of days max before the charge rate drops off rapidly, if you will excuse the pun.
Quite a lot of Leaf owners do multiple rapid charges per day in the normal course of things, and even the ones that don't rely on being able to do at least a couple for the kind of trip you might do in a day or overnight.
V1 was using tech from MobileEye. Tesla fell out with them and introduced V2, which was their own tech.
V2 has fewer sensors than V1. It relies more heavily on cameras and neural networks to interpret their images. They even got rid of things like the rain sensor and replaced it with image processing from the front facing camera, although it took over a year to deliver and doesn't work as well as the $10 sensor most cars have.
Tesla promised that it would do full self driving one day via software update, and has been selling that capability with new cars for $3000, for about 18 months.
The V2 system started off vastly inferior to V1. Today it's nearly caught up in many regards. There ares till some very noticeable deficiencies though. For example the V1 system can recognize motorcycles, the V2 system usually sees them but can't distinguish them from cars. The V2 system also seems to ping-pong between the lane markers more, and has a harder time tracking them as seen on the instrument cluster display.
What spec though? They have been fulfilling the LR version orders first, with high spec ones (AP + other options) getting priority. AFAIK no SR cars, the base spec of which is $35k, have been manufactured or shipped.
There isn't even a date for the availability of RHD models either, so in RHD countries you can't even get the LR version. In fact I don't think there have been any deliveries at all to Europe yet, even in LHD countries.