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I think there should be explicit penalties for passing off movies with special effects as movies. There are externalities to society when you create something that isn't real! There should be a "MadeWith" stack for all special effects you use - no more undisclosed animatronics, makeup, or miniatures! Soon, all our trust in film will be destroyed from everyone making stop-motion movies!

This is monumentally stupid lmao

Can someone leak the weights please

Google: kings of releasing papers but never shipping anything

I interviewed with them a few months ago, got rejected, and then was contacted by the SAME RECRUITER to interview again a month and a half later. He'd forgotten who I was or that I interviewed. From what I could tell, they're a mess; this doesn't surprise me at all

I interviewed with them recently, they've brought on lots of (expensive) new MLE type employees to provide ML SaaS services. Open-source might be putting pressure on them as these things become more commoditized

Yeah suuuure, Emad

Just call yourself diverse if you have a problem with this. It's dumb and illiberal, but there are easy hacks to get around it

Clothing manufacturing ethics: will you be a textile manufacturing vegan?

Pretty big red flag that Max Hodak and now Merolla have departed

Yeah idk what OP was on about, the EU is huge for allowing Europe to punch at the level of the US, China etc

Counterpoint: not necessarily?

Only on HN do you only get like 2 "nice" comments smh

Sounds like Michael Scott is going to need to organize another fun run

That's a lot of words to rationalize away what is very clearly and obviously a cloaking device at work!!

You'd need negative mass either way. Bending spacetime is the most plausible implementation of FTL travel a la Star Trek; doesn't matter a whole lot if you're using the negative matter to keep the wormhole open or create an Alcubierre drive-style spacetime wave on which to surf

He discusses it extensively in The Physics of Star Trek.

Also, supposed locally FTL travel for subatomic particles is pretty different from locally non-FTL but globally FTL travel a la Star Trek, Alcubierre drives, etc

Generally I'm suspicious whenever anyone seems to imply that an entire field is barking up the wrong tree

Probably a pretty good analogy! Even now, it's not known whether time has directionality in any way that is meaningful in physics. FTL travel would resolve the "Arrow of Time" question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time) but this wouldn't invalidate much/any of physics because the arrow is essentially non-observable at the micro level

I don't know if 69% seems suspicious as much as it seems...nice

Causality isn't nearly as central to physics as it may be to your worldview. Lawrence Krauss and others who have commented on the matter have argued that FTL travel, would mostly require a re-evaluation of our perspectives rather than a re-evaluation of physics

Dude just pirate it and then if you really want send a donation directly to the content creator so you're not sending part of the money to Disney/Comcast/etc lol

There's no point in paying for essentially any streaming service these days. Piracy legitimately provides a better user experience for free if you know how to do it right

Only viable solution

I'm neither a Lambda School hater nor a patent lawyer, but it seems a little far-fetched to me that a company can lay claim to a letter of the Greek alphabet. I wonder if the settlement made Lambda School's name change absolutely necessary, or if it simply provided convenient cover

Taking Tether's PR statements at face value is like doing the same for Bernie Madoff

At risk of continuing the devolution of this thread, anti-vax != "Republicans bad". Disingenuous false equivalence. One is the pinnacle of dangerous, malicious misinformation and the other is just a political opinion held by some that is at worst reductionistic

That's what I saw claimed, but that wouldn't go away the very second Facebook came online again

LOL - score one against building out all tooling internally (a la Amazon and apparently Facebook too)

That's why you don't store money in your bank account, you keep it in investment vehicles which also appreciate in value over the long run (not the best inflation foil, but an OK one)