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There are other sources on the record, but they contradict Musk's claim. Block quote from an Ars Technica article[1]:

Some activists who attended the meeting tweeted to confirm that they never made such a deal with Musk, including Free Press co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez, who helped drive a #StopToxicTwitter coalition pressuring Twitter's top 20 advertisers to boycott the platform.

“Not sure who Musk is talking about here, but I met with him a few weeks ago with civil rights leaders, and I also co-lead the #StopToxicTwitter coalition that is calling on advertisers to pause ads until he rights the ship,” Gonzalez tweeted. “I never made any such deal.”

NAACP President Derrick Johnson backed Gonzalez in his own tweet denying activists made a deal with Musk.

“We would never make such a deal,” Johnson tweeted. “Democracy always comes first. The decisions being made at Twitter are dangerous, and it is our duty, as it has been since our founding, to speak out against threats to our democracy. Hate speech and violent conspiracies can have no safe harbor.”

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-breaks-prom...

I use the the bookmarklet (https://pinboard.in/howto/#saving) and save one page at a time. It only takes a moment so I've never felt the need to automate it, but I'm sure one could.

Forget the "social." Pinboard's utility is that it's a website that privately stores all my bookmarks, so I can access them on any computer. You can add tags to help you organize your bookmarks, plaintext notes or descriptions of bookmarks, and so on.

I find it extremely useful for saving the results of internet deep dives, where I might end up with ten tabs open that I want to save to revisit later.

My story? 10x developers don't exist. I've worked with incredibly smart people -- geniuses, even -- who contributed ideas and value that I never could, but they weren't "worth" or performing at 10 times the rate of an average developer. They were valuable in their own ways, but never irreplaceable, and certainly came with their own problems; e.g. antisocial behaviors, inability to collaborate well, inability to document and explain their code so that others could maintain it.

Don't chase 10x developers; chase people with soft skills who can work as a team. A team of five people working well together is worth far more than any hypothetical 10x dev.

NVIDIA has a large autonomous vehicle software team and releases public products (such as Driveworks: https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/driveworks) as well as custom products for specific clients.

Swap out NVIDIA for Netflix and you can still have AANG.

And then the fire nation attacks.

Florida is the first-order loser here. They now have to pay for services like fire and road maintenance that Reedy Creek used to cover. Orange County (which along with Osceola is one of the two most affected) will see its taxes rise as much as 20%. Similarly, Florida is now on the hook for nearly a billion dollars of debt previously held by Disney.

The performance advantages of transformer architectures have little to do with "transformers" themselves, but rather other architecture changes that were made along the way. They can be matched or beat in performance by tweaked conventional CNNs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545

There were 2000+ COVID deaths a day for months. At its worst (January 2021) the US was seeing nearly 4000 COVID deaths a day.

You're almost certainly mistaken. An employment contract is a very specific legal document that ensures certain rights (including pay) and obligations. You (almost certainly) do not have a contract, you work "at will." Your pay could be changed to minimum wage tomorrow and you'd have no legal recourse other than to quit. Similarly, you could quit your job with no notice today and your employer could do nothing. Neither of those would be true if you had an actual contract.

Very few workers in the U.S. have actual employment contracts. If you work in the tech sector in the U.S. you almost certainly don't. Instead, your employment is "at-will"; i.e. terminable by either party, with or without cause or notice (unless you live and work in Montana). You may have received a written offer of employment when you were hired (outlining your title, salary, hiring bonuses, etc.), but that is not an employment contract. The important distinction for the OP is that a written offer of employment is not legally binding. They can lie or change their minds.

That's a well-known aspect of "expert" level chess player thinking! There's a famous experiment that demonstrated this. Researchers briefly showed set-up chess boards to novices (little to no chess experience) and expert players (2000+ ELO) and then asked the players to recreate the board they just saw. If the set-up was from a real game (not necessarily a famous or studied game) experts performed far, far better. However, if the chess board was just a random scramble of pieces, novices and experts had the same recall ability. Essentially, expert players saw the patterns at work in legitimate mid-game set-ups and this helped the recall task.

You're far too pessimistic (or maybe you don't know the field well). The problem of estimating the relative poses of the cameras responsible for a set of photos is a long standing and essentially "solved" problem in computer vision. I say "solved" because there is still active research (increasing accuracy, faster, more robust, etc.) but there are decades-old, well known techniques that any dedicated programmer could implement in a week.

If you're genuinely curious, look into structure from motion, visual odometry, or SLAM.

You don't even need anything that fancy. Traditional structure-from-motion, or visual odometry gives accurate enough position estimations.

If you want to experiment, take a bunch (~100) of photos of an object, and use COLMAP to generate the poses. COLMAP implements a global SfM technique, so it will be very accurate but very slow.

If you installed the drivers using the PPAs, you can't then update using the NVIDIA-provided binaries without doing a very thorough purge, including deleting all dependent installs (CUDNN, CUBLAS, etc.)

I highly recommend sticking with one technique or the other; never intermix them.

Those suburbanites were probably doing some variation of coppicing their trees, to keep them stunted and bushy for aesthetics.

I lived in San Francisco, too, and helped to plant dozens of trees with FUF (https://www.fuf.net/). You can't just randomly plant a tree along a sidewalk; some trees do badly in cities, attract pests, or drop inedible fruit that attracts vermin.

You're probably correct. GPL is (unreasonably) radioactive to many companies.

The law includes language that says an employer must make a “good faith” determination of the lowest and highest salary it would pay for that position. However, the law itself law does not define what “salary” is; presumably that definition exists elsewhere.

I would therefore hope that if a company posted a range of $1-$1,000,000 for a job (let alone all jobs) they would get some scrutiny from regulators. But I don't know. I don't live there and I'm not a lawyer.

New York City has such a law, and New York state has a law like it up for vote soon: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s5598

"Requires employers to disclose compensation or range of compensation to applicants and employees upon issuing an employment opportunity for internal or public viewing or upon employee request."

If you watch the video, it shows exactly that at the end (albeit quickly).

Here's the code: https://github.com/UoMResearchIT/Gryphon/blob/main/gryphon.p...

Based on a brief read, it looks like the "breakthrough" is discarding the two measurements in a point group that are the furthest outliers from the mean. That can't be it, can it? Because that's an afternoon's work for an intern, not a breakthrough.

Autonomous drone navigation (forest trail following) using a TX2: https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/redtail

You're forgetting the TX2 as well as the Jetson Nano

The purpose of that step is exactly the opposite: to use data that represents (as much as possible) the full generality of the space you seek to model. And on a more practical level, there are datasets that can't be used for commercial purposes but are useful for research (a well known but not the best example would be ImageNet).

The Netflix app doesn't require you to use Apple Pay. Why should Hey be treated differently?

Not since 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act

You're forgetting about the increased risks to campus workers, administrators, staff, professors, people with compromised immune systems, people who live or near or with the elderly or people with compromised immune systems, and the workers at local businesses just to name a few.

You're correct; I misread the comment.

Are you sure? I have a 4th gen iPad (A1460) and it's stuck forever at iOS 10.3.4, so I imagine an older one would also be end-of-lifed.

Yes! I was looking for that essay but couldn't remember the title. Thank you!