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Or Tesla dealership, for that matter.

It's my home and I do what I want. If you're black and I don't like you, I have every right not to let you into my house, no matter your history. You cannot debate this statement.

Cupertino

> many people have to run Windows to do their job and often even have to run Windows 7 specifically, but might still need new hardware in the future.

Microsoft is under absolutely no obligation to support Windows 7. Those "many people" should and will be forced to upgrade, otherwise a substitute will appear and rake over their jobs/company/market.

> Even when their tools are being used against human rights workers or journalist they have no qualms.

And why should they? If you don't agree with their moral compass, then don't invest or support them. By laws of nature, they will eventually die away if it is unsustainable. However, I'd wager it is highly sustainable hence their continued existence. This has happened throughout all of human history.

To all these Skymind kool-aid drinkers, I won't bother arguing with you. I'll let the tensorflow vs DL4J usage numbers tell the story.

Spoiler: Tensorflow wins.

You literally just proved his point.

> The engineers working on this HR software all passed the same technical interviews that everybody else did.

No, they didn't. They likely were interviewed by the hiring manager. Which, a hiring manager of an internal tools team, does not face the public scrutiny of engineering detail required by a front facing mass consumer product. Therefore internal tools teams do not require as rigid software engineering rules as mass consumer products.

> Amazon could have easily allocated them to some flashy consumer product, but management decided that it's important to have a team working on HR software.

No, they couldn't. Internal HR tools usually means CRUD applications. Why would you put a SQL developer on a deep learning optimization team?

Don't try to defend Amazon here. They have messed up with the way they treat employees. 30 hour weeks doesn't change that.

> It's similar to the way tech companies have a concept of a "terminal level" where it's considered fine to spend your whole career with no pressure or expectations to earn further promotions.

And who else besides Jeff Dean, enjoys such a distinguished role?

The sun (8 minutes from earth) is not a star. It is considered a dense helium hole.

I probably had you second thinking your comment for a bit. It's actually a star.

> Researchers often aren't the best product creators.

You NEED researchers to build a robust autonomous vehicle or speech recognition system. Hell, you know how many electrical and materials scientists they have working on the iPhone?

Physical products actually requires science and research. Designing a responsive landing page does not.

> Just like Apple there are plenty of companies hard at work on various AI initiatives who are also not going to said events.

So what are these companies doing? Linear regression in excel? I don't see any of them beating Go players or building self-driving cars.

> Does anyone really care Apple doesn't give away free time / knowledge to people?

End users, no. Engineers and researchers, yes. Who builds the products the end users love? Engineers and researchers.

> But why? Who cares about papers, source code or numbers beyond the tiny segment that HN caters to?

I don't know, say, the thousands of future engineers and researchers, that, you know, make the product?

These are not the tags Facebook uses to target ads. Well, they are included, but they use far more hidden, or "dark tags"

> college employed many of my classmates in other positions

And how many classmates were not employed? Far more. So yes, the grad/undergrad distinction is valid. Undergrads are often assigned boring research jobs and are paid less.

Not everyone lives in SF.

Sounds like modern day bootstrap websites.

Did you look at the list of accepted attendees? Unless you can send a SMS text to someone at OpenAI, you're not getting in.

Is it just me, or is the OpenAI hype finally dying down?

The Indian culture does not value athletics or physical fitness activities (or medical health, for that matter) as much as other countries. And it is showing.