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Happy to give it a try but I have 10 years using tiling wms exclusively for research and work and I never wanted to have more than 5 workspaces. I think the nice thing about wms is that mental model to keep things lean and simple, similar to how I also don't have a thousand tabs open and in fact I try to close all of the by the end of every day. I also fail to see the benefit of that many workspaces given you have other tools such as tmux etc.

I think the difference may be LLMs may not be laundered clean of copyright data anytime soon. Even if chatgpt got big and profitable, it's not so clear that it won't contain copyrighted data as that may simply be necessary to train the best models.

Warlords period soon?

We are in a collective mask off moment in this nation's history.

https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero what about this one?

I used to own one Garmin GPS and replaced it with my cellphone plus a mount. Updating the map was a major pain point.

Now I'm really pleasantly surprised at how good the descent mk3 is which I wear all day and there's also inreach etc. Garmin products are really safe buys when it comes to fitness devices. Other smart watches suffer mostly from the software side whereas Garmin connect syncs well and has good UX.

Ha, I guess Trump is the pro business president after all since he's so transparently open for business himself. At least as of now it seems Bytedance outsmarted the detractors.

Given its origin and involvement in these high profile cases I always thought Crowdstrike is a government subsidized company which barely has any real function or real product. I stand corrected I guess.

She also believed she may have been unfairly retaliated against regarding her perf. That's probably the main reason she resigned. Not necessarily that the speaker was not approved.

Also it's not that rare that the other party forgets what their original stance on something is and in turn argue against you on that issue. Reminding them that hey this was your idea too can help you resolve that debate if it's unnecessary.

Although I do feel the same I think given the world we are in today, I wouldn't necessarily bet big on its failure. That would probably make too much sense.

I think it's either an embarrassingly stupid business move made by execs who have no idea what they are doing (best case). Or worse it'll be a success and make Facebook an even more dystopian force. The potential for VR/AR to deeply damage society and sow discord is huge...assuming it's ever a thing.

Not related to the article, but I feel like as active engineers we own it to ourselves to always be preparing for the next play. I recently started doing more interview prep even though I'm not unsatisfied with my position. And I even took a few phone screens just for entertaining the idea and testing the water.

Gotta say it just feels nice to be able to go through a couple of those smoothly. I think that actually relieved some latent stress I've been having all this time and made me more at east even at work. Feels good to know that I'm ready when the time comes, even if not now.

At the end of the day it's the human's duty to provide a diagnosis. The lack of a complete product solution sure isn't helping, but even if there's a company that provides that, most people still wouldn't trust that if it's purely driven by AI. The way AI should go into these fields is to first provide tools for the specialists already in the field, to increase their productivity.

I have no complaints of keepass on my desktop. I tried using it on mobile but decided it wasn't worth the trouble to get it working as I wanted in terms of syncing and autofill. Instead I just use a select few logged in apps that I either memorize the password or use fingerprints. I don't really like the idea of syncing all my passwords with any online service.

I think in articles like this there are verifiable claims about facts, and reasonable speculations that have mostly been circling for a while now. These are of course worth considering.

And then there's the completely over the top narrative building based on non-evidence (which also swings wildly based on current trends), legends about mavericks doing secret fact finding missions online etc... stuff that should stay in a bad movie script.

At the end of the day I still think the facts will come up with enough time. If for example the hypothesis is that it's through GoF research, then a group of experts can examine the plausibility and the genomic evidence, try to replicate some of the possible steps etc. Real world research is hard and incremental, it's not done with black magic no one can find out about.

Grant writing was also one of the aspects that most discouraged me from pursuing an academic career as well. I witnessed first hand the stress it induced in even the most capable professors and the level of result oriented thinking it mandated throughout the scientific process. Being a professor is a bit like being a lead contractor for NIH and NSF. If you want the resources (money) you need to chase where the fad is at. Failing that you will have to do a lot of teaching just to sustain yourself, and will cause your grad students to have a bad time throughout their career in your lab.

With all that said...the amount of academic freedom even within this flawed system is still greater than most other places I know of. Perhaps if you are a distinguished researcher working on your own terms and funded by one of the big tech companies things are better.

No need for you to preach to the choir about not trusting the Chinese government. As can be seen in the thread, people would much prefer to trust conspiracy theorists and fringe scientists before they put any trust in the Chinese government.

To me, the only constructive discussion that can be had at this point needs to be around actual evidence, and not the absence of it. The first documented cases, first traces of positive samples etc etc. It's clearly still in the early stages of discoveries so all theories are just theories. That said I don't expect this to remain a mystery forever. It will just take time, because eventually the natural origins will be pinned down and reasonable chain of events of first spread will be identified.

Yeah it really depends on how the numbers match up and how much risks you are willing to take given the degree of confidence in those numbers.

By current accounts the vaccines will still work against this variant. So the last thing you want to happen is for the virus to catch the vulnerables in the last moment before they are vaccinated and essentially renders the whole vaccination program ineffective.

Of course there's the debate of this whole pandemic about the harm to economy and people's lives etc. To me the majority of the damage has already been done and can't be undone. So I'd like the measures to be taken to end this ASAP, even if they are even stricter, and to mitigate the harm as much as possible. But I highly doubt that's what's going to happen. The actual policy effects may be neither here nor there.

Been using it for more than two years at work via remote desktop but I'd still choose xmonad if I were to run one locally on a bigger display. Xmonad is really powerful in allowing you to reposition and resize multiple windows while i3 is more avaible and pain free to setup.

Facebook can absolutely operate in each country following their laws. They just have to change their own company structure and data policies. For example, they may need to physically separate EU data from US data completely and have separate employees with access to each.

I don't see any reason they cannot do that. It will hurt their bottom line for sure, but it's completely reasonable imo.

Despite the myriad of caveats I still like these attempts to rein in big tech, probably against my own interest as well. Well, let's see how it pans out.

There seems to be a lot of employee surveillance technologies that are being developed and pushed by Microsoft. I recall them advertising what they have in mind for AI in the whole Office ecosystem and they were both depressing to think about from an employee perspective and also unsound from a technical perspective. I think employees should demand more transparency at least and know how their everyday behavior is being monitored and analyzed, especially as it relates to emails and messaging.

In principle it sounds convincing but in practice we are currently giving up our data for free so it reminds me a bit of the free software argument. Sure I agree but isn't something better than nothing? We are not giving up rights to make future advancements by asking for a compromise that may be more within reach.

In particular, I think this idea of trading your data is easy to understand and communicate. Also, could it be the case that as soon as companies are forced to offer a price for your data a lot of the predatory data collection schemes may not be profitable enough as a result? I imagine you can't just make a crappy app and start collecting user info en masse because it now incurs a real cost. Also I think data should be traded precisely where every data point generated should be worth something. Not just as a one time thing.

One other factor to consider is that this is an mRNA vaccine, which is of a newer generation of technology in vaccine production.

From what I've read it is the first large scale adoption of mRNA vaccines so the really long term risks are less known. That said, theoretically mRNA vaccines should have a lot of advantages. Later in 2021 there may be a few other options for vaccines to take as well, so I'd do some research at least.

I dunno, reading the article I get some mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it doesn't seem that bad that regulators can rein in even the biggest players and at least judging from the description the move may not be that bad for consumers. What if Ant is indeed taking too much risks and now is on its way to grow to too big to fail? On the other hand, the timing and turn of events look very capricious to say the very least.

His point is less about what customers want but more about the value of the data being collected. By providing a payment service you are harvesting a large amount of data "for free" that can be directly turned into money.

I do have a few thoughts on this issue but chief among them is: does this really matter when the election is around the corner and so much instability is in plain sight? I'm not sure I care about a specific policy change driven by this administration when so much about everything may change in the next few months, one way or another. What I am sure is I sure do have my plan B if things don't go my way, and I hope other people have one too if they can afford to.

Some very valid points. As a PhD student I had similar considerations and on top of that my biggest reason was that I did not want to go into a painful postdoc career only to start on the arduous path of obtaining tenure. That said, despite the limitations, academia is still by far the best place do research (on average). Especially as a professor, you really do enjoy freedoms that are rarely if ever found in other realms.

I think that's the best thing to do for the general public.

Most social media already obey GDPR for European users (I suspect TikTok included), so having this law in the US will benefit every user everywhere by forcing companies to treat everyone uniformly with a higher level of protection by default due to the majority of their userbase being covered by such laws.