barelyauser

Salaries is one thing. Your lifestyle choices are another thing entirely.

What if my principle is to survive?

Dying like that seems like a computer who can't avoid but to crash when it hits a single wrong bit on an ocean of memory. Why? Why choose rigid principles that might lead you straight to doom? Why people think this is honorable? His enemy lost nothing, and the allies left behind have to fight with less men.

Does reliability increases or decreases when more components are added?

There are things called 'proxies'. The same way you can assess the crime rate of a certain area by the amount of littering by the side of the road.

It is useful to keep in mind the difference of 'music' and 'musical industry'. Musical industry relies on 'celebrity' and social interactions. It relies very little on its efficiency or performance at 'making music'. People want to hear what person 'X' is singing, and what 'story' they are telling.

To the very few that care only about the sound waves, AI will triumph because it will craft music that is perfect for that specific persons taste, and even include other parameters like tone, mood, state of mind, place of residence, weather...

If you're testing said buttons with a custom machine, don't you already know where the buttons are beforehand? Why would one need to analyze single frames and look for buttons using machine vision?

How do they segregate these sophisticated hackers from regular society? I suppose they must live in some kind of designed space, where they can keep with technological developments and global information.

They usually don't take months. Would be optimal if I could catch them at the get go. Not what happens most of the time. When that happen most of the times you will se a manager who is not technical leading a group selected by "professional" recruiters. There is a lot of waste out there.

When building models it is useful to spend some time finding out what you already know about the problem. Things you yet don't know you know. This kind of knowledge will greatly simplify the model.

I see newcomers making this mistake very often. In industrial vision, for example, the newcomers like to create very complicated models. I then show them that the "box" you trained a entire model to recognize will actually always be there in this position for the camera, because it sits in a conveyor belt which restricts its lateral movement. The problem can simply be solved with simple image processing. Stuff like that happens all the time.

A man with nothing to lose is the most dangerous.

The statement that "women invented programming" is as meaningless as "men invented mathematics". It is blind to all the contributions of everyone that preceded and entire field.

It is OK because caring is loving. From those who can, for those who need. If a profession demands masculine traits (consider underground mining) then it should be performed by those who can make the most of it. If we insist on having under performing people on those positions based on some ideology then all will suffer . When someone dies we will have to face the reality that the cure could have been here now if the local mining facility had produced more steel, to make one more car, to get that researcher to the lab in time, to produce the cure. Everything has consequences, and it is logical that we should do our best.

This problem can easily be solved without any device at all. Of course, it demands education and "intelligent behavior". If people only had the curiosity to read the specs on a heater and see "2000W" of power, and compare it to "15W" of power on the specs of the LED bulb. Same for water. One can just place a bowl under the faucet and measure the time it takes to fill up. Now you have your water consumption rate. We can choose the "device based" route, but this road end with Idiocracy and problems so "big" nobody can solve them.

Is this satire?

If the cow you've been milking doesn't seem to run out of milk, what you do? Squeeze harder!

Value blindness is the bane of my existence. Thin walled plastic everywhere. Things are difficult to clean because they are filled with grooves, because you need grooves and bends to make thin walled plastic stiffer. A very good criteria for quality and value is: how easy is it to clean? If it is hard then you probably are dealing with a low value disposable product. Consider porcelain, lasts forever, cleans beautifully and does not stain. Or spoons made with solid stainless steel. Spoons made with thin sheet steel often have bends and corners as to make the thin sheet stiffer. But then dirt accumulates on these corners.

At this point my main motivation to survive the next decades is to be able to watch the whole thing spiral out of control. Society is composed of three types of people on this subject: the ignorant, the deluded and the realist.

The ignorant will face horrors beyond his comprehension. The deluded kind thinks technology will benefit his estate, like those in the past that argued that by year 2000 man would only need to work 1h per week because "technology". The realist knows technology is a moving train that will leave people behind to starve. Because if you don't have any "money shells" then you don't get to enjoy any technology, you loser.

Depends. Can you provide your date of exposure and a equivalent exposure of yourself against a neutral background so we can average you out?

How many connections per minute can result from being on HN frontpage?

Also highly capable of completely destroying significant things like Twitter.

Because when you under deliver on a government contract they can throw your ass into jail faster than you can say "Quidditch".

I suppose this is a better arrangement than the current system, where they key figures know exactly where the money printer is at all times.

The average HN user defends the "common guy" or "the masses", perhaps because he fears being perceived as condescending. I've come to the conclusion that the masses don't deserve any of this. Many drink and drive, indulge in destructive addictions (not only to themselves). Many can't bother recycling or even maintaining a clean home environment, waste time and resources in every activity they engage in and don't even care for their neighbors well being (loud music, etc).

Concluding remarks. As man succeeded in creating high mechanical precision from the chaotic natural environment, he will succeed in creating a superior artificial entity. This entity shall "spy" (better described as "care" for) every human being, maximizing our happiness.

Gotta disagree with number 4. I've found out that respect is far more important than "love". After multiple relationships I've concluded the only woman to truly love me was my mother.

Number 12 is spot on, people wasting your time should be eliminated very quickly. Money can be gained again, time is lost forever.

Since this is HN, he probably is. And not only that, he is probably going to select this as his hill to die on. Good luck.

> in some millions of years Sounds like a meaningless "problem" to me. Global warming is right here right now. Renewables should be put to use.

I'm not Jacob Stark...

False dichotomy. You and your children are not the only humans to exist on earth.

A friend of mine used to live in Brazil and he payed close to half a percent.