Amazon engineers live in safe upper class White communities, so it only makes sense they'd design a product to prevent a stray Tyrone or Pedro from stealing their order
Except that these are prime targets and exactly where you'd want to go to steal shit, or if you're using your spare time for some extra cash to deliver amazon goods, exactly the kind of neighborhood you'd want to deliver to and rob from if you got to pick.
I even went to the school in TFA, and I can say for a fact that Grad students in their programs were kind of held hostage (used to be anyway). I have heard this is a common practice all over the US. Prof's would do anything possible to drag out their service and only students on visa's had to put up with it. All of us with citizenship would either rush out the door with our degree...or without, after what we deemed a reasonable course-load.
The problem is this: employers largely need highly educated AND highly skilled labor to fill their needs. Their needs are rarely about developing new technology, they're focused on using new technology to make new products. Schools are providing highly educated workers, more of them in my opinion than demand requires. The problem is schools are not providing highly SKILLED workers. Their education is primarily theoretical. Very little hands on, very little about tools and practices, etc. The only way to acquire skills is to work in a particular function.
So you get your bachelor's and leave school and get a job. You're set, you will get shuffled into a niche that some company has an opening in. You will receive no formal training, but over time develop good OTJ training in that one little niche. And provided that niche doesn't move overseas or become obsolete, you're set for life. If however it does, you end up being one of the many unemployed people with the right degrees that just can't find a job. It happens more often than anyone wants to talk about.
If however you get stuck too long getting a grad degree, particularly a a PhD, you have a bigger problem. You will not have the training, and you will be seen as needing a salary level that puts you at a disadvantage compared to the above. Not a problem if there's a plethora of growth phase companies out there looking to develop a new technology, but that's not really a common situation. So now you have a big degree and a deep theoretical education but your career options are significantly more limited.
Universities would do better by balancing their research aims with a more balanced approach of actually doing real work too, and having students (particularly grad students) fill some of that labor requirement. It will produce better qualified workers and give smart students who may have research ambitions a reason to feel like they're not hanging themselves. It would of course also help if when companies were taken out of growth and stuffed into "value" phase that research was not the first thing that got axed... but that seems like an impossibility.
This is not enough. People have to know that you are doing it and everyone else is. The biggest problem with this all is that there are Trillions of dollars that are completely hidden from the system that nobody knows about from people who are benefiting from the security provided to them by the western democracies but aren't contributing their fair share.
Yes. But the headlines need to stop insinuating that these people are cheating the system or doing something illegal. The articles need to be very clear: so and so has earned hundreds of billions and has paid $0 in taxes. Does that match our perception of the law's intent? Chances are it does not.
By pitching this as "so and so is cheating hte system" it sounds like a matter for the courts and criminal law, which ties up more of OUR money investigating someone or something that often isn't a crime and will yield very little positive results other than a few more headlines that make people feel good.
Seeing as how the experts canâ(TM)t figure out if it is a crime and the victim is the idiot a very large village had to try very hard to send away the most appropriate punishment is to throw he book at him.
By which I mean the biggest book Donald Trump can personally read and explain correctly. So basically pelt this guy with some Seuss and letâ(TM)s be done with it.
This isn't high level access. High level access means telecom, email and backup files of senior execs, possibly access to the people in question to support them, proximity to their cubes, permission to listen in on board meetings, that sort of thing. These high level employees aren't usually very good with data (or any more discrete), you probably wouldn't necessarily want them managing it.
It's all necessarily low level access. But clearly they are not protecting customer data well, or putting a high value on privacy.
In this case their revenue stream was in the way of progress, and Google's investment was in support of it. And unquestionably access to higher bandwidth networking is supporting progress. Don't be a tool.
Louisville was merely one of the most well known cases of AT&T being dicks, but they were doing it all over the country. It's very likely that they were partially responsible for Google giving up. The other thing that went sideways was the whole alphabet thing, which I think allowed shareholders more control over what Google was doing...probably by the very same people who own AT&T stock and were worried about their "investment".
I'm just adding them to the list of people to throw against the wall when the day comes. Anyone who stands in the way of progress for any reason at all deserves his space up there.
They care, their scholarships usually need a minimum GPA. If they don't care it's because someone is fixing it for them, or the prof makes sure the team doesn't lose its star because he couldn't quite add a couple numbers.
My experience with the Perl hate is it's usually from younger people (by which I mean anyone under about 40). It violates everything some may have been taught as part of their software engineering program: it's difficult to read, maintain, and support.
But, it exists for a reason and it's ridiculously good at that purpose. If I want to process lots of text, I do not use Python, I whip out perl. And usually it's fine, the little bits of perl here and there that glue the world together aren't usually that egregious to maintain (particularly in context of the overall mechanism it's being used to glue together, usually).
If I'm going to write serious code, code that may formulate the basis for my corporations revenue model or may seriously improve our cost structure, I use a serious language (C/C++, usually) and spend significant amounts of time architecting it properly. The problem is that more and more people are using scripting languages for this purpose, and it's becoming socially acceptable to do so. The slippery slope being loved by children and idiots alike, one might say "I know Perl, let's use that!" and countless innocents are harmed.
I would put it the other way. If you want to quickly identify any photo's that may have questionable material and make them go away, searching on these sorts of terms might be useful.
I don't think this is an invasion of privacy... it's cataloging what you already have in there. But it may help you get through thousands of naughty photos quickly.
Different problem maybe. Tarkin and Leia are generated from pictures of real people. The lighting and animation of them seems to make them look a little plastic and fake. Tarkin worked best, I think because the actor was playing such a stiff role that he hardly had to move his mouth.
This is more about generating fake people... animating them is still going to be a problem.
We now have a grammar nazi post on the front page. Slashdot has really evolved, from the nascent grammar troll posts, through the mercurial grammar nazi years, to a full fledged front page grammar post.
I'm going to continue to say Daylight Savings Time, because that is how nearly everyone says it, and alter the language irrevocably. In 50 years, hopefully we will have done away with daylight savings time completely and this topic will be dead, but if we have not, Daylight Savings Time will be the correct way to say it.
They could try simply asking if the person is suicidal.
They did, evidently that's how they got 17 volunteers who reported suicidal ideation. Then they compared against people who actually tried to commit suicide, and got a pretty damned good match with admittedly a small dataset.
It's not clear to me why we want to do any of this, but it maybe it has application in more useful fields. I'm not sure why we want to stop people from committing suicide, I think we'd want to help them do it quickly and painlessly, under the proviso that they take care of their worldly business first (declare bankruptcy if necessary, liquidate and assign assets, locate caretakers for their children, etc.)
The whole stigma about suicide comes from religion, it's considered a mortal sin. But, for those not so handicapped by things invisible, who are going to hell anyway, it seems like a valid option if life isn't delivering on its promises. If someone has a treatable physiological problem, definitely try that first. But otherwise, it seems like we're trying to cure a religious concern not a social problem.
Back in my HW design days, we would routinely design 2-3x the products with different vendor's chips and either make a business decision to scrap the one(s) not chosen, or if we had the money and resources, bring both to market under the same product name. In a few cases (usually when dealing with Intel) that wasn't possible, there was usually some co-marketing money that demanded separate products, and the design had to be so different anyway that it really wasn't the same product anyhow. But in embedded, it's totally possible. It's not so much about secrecy as it is not putting all your eggs in one basket: sometimes the vendor you want doesn't deliver/has a critical bug/goes belly up, you need to be able to succeed anyway.
I guess no one should treat this as news. We should simply assume that any hardware vendor is going to be designing with multiple options in mind. It's what they go to market with that is interesting (at least to day traders), and that's hard to guess until around launch time unless you have some well placed spies. Very likely most of the HW designers themselves do not know until they get sent to make the sweatshop not screw up.
Legacy of Valor - Returning home missing an arm or a leg, being passed over for employment because, it turns out, limbs are helpful. Having to pay for your groceries with food stamps while everyone cheerfully tells you "Thank you for your service". Then as the teenage boy loads your pickup, you hop in and drive with hand controls.
Hero's Courage - Players can experience constant flashbacks (maybe this can be shaped by sanity bar or savior point balance) to that time when you saw your friends torso blown off, or when you had to mercy kill them.
Defender of Democracy - As you lay on your deathbed, decades too early because of some drug they gave you before being sent to the field that hadn't been fully vetted, you can witness yourself in a gurney hooked up to a dialysis machine watching the guy who was the director of the research team that produced that drug, who has since been promoted to CEO, receive his multi-million dollar golden parachute as you finally suffer one last stroke and die.
Gay is neither good or bad. Gay is just a label. Google should be able to recognize that 'gay' means one thing when a bigot uses it, but it should also recognize that 'gay' means something else when others use it.
Homosexuality in the majority of the world is anywhere from merely tolerated to a capital offense. It's not hard to see why their AI gets it wrong. It's only in the west where we've taken measures to try to change it, and even then it's something we want to say we support, but not something we want to happen to us.
I suspect even in the western world, people are disappointed when their kids come out as gay. They may try to accept and move past that disappointment, but it's there. So I'm not sure how they're going to program this AI without making it insane.
The pizza delivery guy gives me one to sign for my pizza, or to swipe my credit card. Package delivery guys asks me to sign one. AT&T attempted to give me a bad deal on DSL on one just the other day. I order meals from one in some restaurants. My doctor has me fill out forms on one. There are a lot of actual uses that anyone can see if they're looking.
I use mine for web browsing while i'm on the couch, I control my PC at home with one when I'm at work or away from my home, I watch TV/movies in the same situation. Can I live without it? Yes. Can my PC do all those things better? Yes. But is it useful? Absolutely.
Tablets are useful, don't be a dolt. They are not desktop replacements. They are not laptop replacements. They are not essential-must have items.
For kids they're great pacifiers. But my son, who is 9, is at the point where he wants a PCMR PC, and tablets are becoming more of a utility rather than the center of his world.
The problem is that some marketing dolt somewhere kept trying to push the idea that tablets were going to replace computers. It didn't happen, it's not going to happen.
Most of us are complaining that we can't see it because stupid broadcasting decision. Once that problem is resolved, THEN we will complain about how it's not as good as the previous.
Since drug testing shows prior use and not current use (and not impairment at all) the point that drug testing is silly, and stupid, and abusive, remains.
Here in Austin there is one drug testing center, if you're local you probably know which one, that seems to use a RNG. I have had numerous friends talk about having ended up with positive results for various drugs they do not use, or their very young children being tested positive for those drugs when required to for sports screening. They have no real reason to lie, or even bring it up.
My experience on the last job that required testing there was my address and home address were mixed up with someone elses. In this case I continue, 8 years later, to get calls from a collection agency asking for that person by name for the cost of that drug test.
Whatever is going on there is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and any employer who thinks they're adequately screening potential candidates is mistaken. And the worst part is, there's often no way to argue or appeal these things when they happen. Nice new job throws you out because someone switched labels on the vials, or a contaminated sample was tested. It's a mess.
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Amazon engineers live in safe upper class White communities, so it only makes sense they'd design a product to prevent a stray Tyrone or Pedro from stealing their order
Except that these are prime targets and exactly where you'd want to go to steal shit, or if you're using your spare time for some extra cash to deliver amazon goods, exactly the kind of neighborhood you'd want to deliver to and rob from if you got to pick.
I even went to the school in TFA, and I can say for a fact that Grad students in their programs were kind of held hostage (used to be anyway). I have heard this is a common practice all over the US. Prof's would do anything possible to drag out their service and only students on visa's had to put up with it. All of us with citizenship would either rush out the door with our degree...or without, after what we deemed a reasonable course-load.
The problem is this: employers largely need highly educated AND highly skilled labor to fill their needs. Their needs are rarely about developing new technology, they're focused on using new technology to make new products. Schools are providing highly educated workers, more of them in my opinion than demand requires. The problem is schools are not providing highly SKILLED workers. Their education is primarily theoretical. Very little hands on, very little about tools and practices, etc. The only way to acquire skills is to work in a particular function.
So you get your bachelor's and leave school and get a job. You're set, you will get shuffled into a niche that some company has an opening in. You will receive no formal training, but over time develop good OTJ training in that one little niche. And provided that niche doesn't move overseas or become obsolete, you're set for life. If however it does, you end up being one of the many unemployed people with the right degrees that just can't find a job. It happens more often than anyone wants to talk about.
If however you get stuck too long getting a grad degree, particularly a a PhD, you have a bigger problem. You will not have the training, and you will be seen as needing a salary level that puts you at a disadvantage compared to the above. Not a problem if there's a plethora of growth phase companies out there looking to develop a new technology, but that's not really a common situation. So now you have a big degree and a deep theoretical education but your career options are significantly more limited.
Universities would do better by balancing their research aims with a more balanced approach of actually doing real work too, and having students (particularly grad students) fill some of that labor requirement. It will produce better qualified workers and give smart students who may have research ambitions a reason to feel like they're not hanging themselves. It would of course also help if when companies were taken out of growth and stuffed into "value" phase that research was not the first thing that got axed... but that seems like an impossibility.
This is not enough. People have to know that you are doing it and everyone else is. The biggest problem with this all is that there are Trillions of dollars that are completely hidden from the system that nobody knows about from people who are benefiting from the security provided to them by the western democracies but aren't contributing their fair share.
Yes. But the headlines need to stop insinuating that these people are cheating the system or doing something illegal. The articles need to be very clear: so and so has earned hundreds of billions and has paid $0 in taxes. Does that match our perception of the law's intent? Chances are it does not.
By pitching this as "so and so is cheating hte system" it sounds like a matter for the courts and criminal law, which ties up more of OUR money investigating someone or something that often isn't a crime and will yield very little positive results other than a few more headlines that make people feel good.
Now that tax avoidance is proven to work we should all do it
Tax avoidance has always worked.
It's irresponsible to pay money when you don't have to.
It actually is, or else the rules will never be changed.
Seeing as how the experts canâ(TM)t figure out if it is a crime and the victim is the idiot a very large village had to try very hard to send away the most appropriate punishment is to throw he book at him.
By which I mean the biggest book Donald Trump can personally read and explain correctly. So basically pelt this guy with some Seuss and letâ(TM)s be done with it.
This isn't high level access. High level access means telecom, email and backup files of senior execs, possibly access to the people in question to support them, proximity to their cubes, permission to listen in on board meetings, that sort of thing. These high level employees aren't usually very good with data (or any more discrete), you probably wouldn't necessarily want them managing it.
It's all necessarily low level access. But clearly they are not protecting customer data well, or putting a high value on privacy.
I for one enjoy slowly growing old one day at a time in a small tin box that slowly moves through stop-and-go traffic for hours at a time
The term is rolling sarcophagus.
Note that you and OP are both posting to slashdot during work. I do not trust either of you to work on your own.
In fact why don't you come to my office so we can have a little chat?
In this case their revenue stream was in the way of progress, and Google's investment was in support of it. And unquestionably access to higher bandwidth networking is supporting progress. Don't be a tool.
Louisville was merely one of the most well known cases of AT&T being dicks, but they were doing it all over the country. It's very likely that they were partially responsible for Google giving up. The other thing that went sideways was the whole alphabet thing, which I think allowed shareholders more control over what Google was doing...probably by the very same people who own AT&T stock and were worried about their "investment".
I'm just adding them to the list of people to throw against the wall when the day comes. Anyone who stands in the way of progress for any reason at all deserves his space up there.
Smart would have been to study, do the homework and pay attention.
They care, their scholarships usually need a minimum GPA. If they don't care it's because someone is fixing it for them, or the prof makes sure the team doesn't lose its star because he couldn't quite add a couple numbers.
My experience with the Perl hate is it's usually from younger people (by which I mean anyone under about 40). It violates everything some may have been taught as part of their software engineering program: it's difficult to read, maintain, and support.
But, it exists for a reason and it's ridiculously good at that purpose. If I want to process lots of text, I do not use Python, I whip out perl. And usually it's fine, the little bits of perl here and there that glue the world together aren't usually that egregious to maintain (particularly in context of the overall mechanism it's being used to glue together, usually).
If I'm going to write serious code, code that may formulate the basis for my corporations revenue model or may seriously improve our cost structure, I use a serious language (C/C++, usually) and spend significant amounts of time architecting it properly. The problem is that more and more people are using scripting languages for this purpose, and it's becoming socially acceptable to do so. The slippery slope being loved by children and idiots alike, one might say "I know Perl, let's use that!" and countless innocents are harmed.
I suspect he's not an Apple customer, so he really has nothing to worry about.
I would put it the other way. If you want to quickly identify any photo's that may have questionable material and make them go away, searching on these sorts of terms might be useful.
I don't think this is an invasion of privacy... it's cataloging what you already have in there. But it may help you get through thousands of naughty photos quickly.
Different problem maybe. Tarkin and Leia are generated from pictures of real people. The lighting and animation of them seems to make them look a little plastic and fake. Tarkin worked best, I think because the actor was playing such a stiff role that he hardly had to move his mouth.
This is more about generating fake people... animating them is still going to be a problem.
We now have a grammar nazi post on the front page. Slashdot has really evolved, from the nascent grammar troll posts, through the mercurial grammar nazi years, to a full fledged front page grammar post.
I'm going to continue to say Daylight Savings Time, because that is how nearly everyone says it, and alter the language irrevocably. In 50 years, hopefully we will have done away with daylight savings time completely and this topic will be dead, but if we have not, Daylight Savings Time will be the correct way to say it.
They could try simply asking if the person is suicidal.
They did, evidently that's how they got 17 volunteers who reported suicidal ideation. Then they compared against people who actually tried to commit suicide, and got a pretty damned good match with admittedly a small dataset.
It's not clear to me why we want to do any of this, but it maybe it has application in more useful fields. I'm not sure why we want to stop people from committing suicide, I think we'd want to help them do it quickly and painlessly, under the proviso that they take care of their worldly business first (declare bankruptcy if necessary, liquidate and assign assets, locate caretakers for their children, etc.)
The whole stigma about suicide comes from religion, it's considered a mortal sin. But, for those not so handicapped by things invisible, who are going to hell anyway, it seems like a valid option if life isn't delivering on its promises. If someone has a treatable physiological problem, definitely try that first. But otherwise, it seems like we're trying to cure a religious concern not a social problem.
Back in my HW design days, we would routinely design 2-3x the products with different vendor's chips and either make a business decision to scrap the one(s) not chosen, or if we had the money and resources, bring both to market under the same product name. In a few cases (usually when dealing with Intel) that wasn't possible, there was usually some co-marketing money that demanded separate products, and the design had to be so different anyway that it really wasn't the same product anyhow. But in embedded, it's totally possible. It's not so much about secrecy as it is not putting all your eggs in one basket: sometimes the vendor you want doesn't deliver/has a critical bug/goes belly up, you need to be able to succeed anyway.
I guess no one should treat this as news. We should simply assume that any hardware vendor is going to be designing with multiple options in mind. It's what they go to market with that is interesting (at least to day traders), and that's hard to guess until around launch time unless you have some well placed spies. Very likely most of the HW designers themselves do not know until they get sent to make the sweatshop not screw up.
Legacy of Valor - Returning home missing an arm or a leg, being passed over for employment because, it turns out, limbs are helpful. Having to pay for your groceries with food stamps while everyone cheerfully tells you "Thank you for your service". Then as the teenage boy loads your pickup, you hop in and drive with hand controls.
Hero's Courage - Players can experience constant flashbacks (maybe this can be shaped by sanity bar or savior point balance) to that time when you saw your friends torso blown off, or when you had to mercy kill them.
Defender of Democracy - As you lay on your deathbed, decades too early because of some drug they gave you before being sent to the field that hadn't been fully vetted, you can witness yourself in a gurney hooked up to a dialysis machine watching the guy who was the director of the research team that produced that drug, who has since been promoted to CEO, receive his multi-million dollar golden parachute as you finally suffer one last stroke and die.
Gay is neither good or bad. Gay is just a label. Google should be able to recognize that 'gay' means one thing when a bigot uses it, but it should also recognize that 'gay' means something else when others use it.
Homosexuality in the majority of the world is anywhere from merely tolerated to a capital offense. It's not hard to see why their AI gets it wrong. It's only in the west where we've taken measures to try to change it, and even then it's something we want to say we support, but not something we want to happen to us.
I suspect even in the western world, people are disappointed when their kids come out as gay. They may try to accept and move past that disappointment, but it's there. So I'm not sure how they're going to program this AI without making it insane.
The pizza delivery guy gives me one to sign for my pizza, or to swipe my credit card. Package delivery guys asks me to sign one. AT&T attempted to give me a bad deal on DSL on one just the other day. I order meals from one in some restaurants. My doctor has me fill out forms on one. There are a lot of actual uses that anyone can see if they're looking.
I use mine for web browsing while i'm on the couch, I control my PC at home with one when I'm at work or away from my home, I watch TV/movies in the same situation. Can I live without it? Yes. Can my PC do all those things better? Yes. But is it useful? Absolutely.
Tablets are useful, don't be a dolt. They are not desktop replacements. They are not laptop replacements. They are not essential-must have items.
For kids they're great pacifiers. But my son, who is 9, is at the point where he wants a PCMR PC, and tablets are becoming more of a utility rather than the center of his world.
The problem is that some marketing dolt somewhere kept trying to push the idea that tablets were going to replace computers. It didn't happen, it's not going to happen.
Most of us are complaining that we can't see it because stupid broadcasting decision. Once that problem is resolved, THEN we will complain about how it's not as good as the previous.
Since drug testing shows prior use and not current use (and not impairment at all) the point that drug testing is silly, and stupid, and abusive, remains.
Here in Austin there is one drug testing center, if you're local you probably know which one, that seems to use a RNG. I have had numerous friends talk about having ended up with positive results for various drugs they do not use, or their very young children being tested positive for those drugs when required to for sports screening. They have no real reason to lie, or even bring it up.
My experience on the last job that required testing there was my address and home address were mixed up with someone elses. In this case I continue, 8 years later, to get calls from a collection agency asking for that person by name for the cost of that drug test.
Whatever is going on there is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and any employer who thinks they're adequately screening potential candidates is mistaken. And the worst part is, there's often no way to argue or appeal these things when they happen. Nice new job throws you out because someone switched labels on the vials, or a contaminated sample was tested. It's a mess.