While I agree with the 3-pm food in France sentiment. As a french person returning to France after 15 years away the "french tacos" seem like the most vile cultural mashup and taste made into a log of soggy fries and cheese sauce.
In general my rule of thumb is : stick to french food in France. Culturally imported dishes are often a very poor adaptation and I am often disappointed.
Thanks for sharing those evilolive! I haven't come across the Toronto Univ annotation suite before --- polygon auto-segmentation is an interesting problem. We have embedded a simple auto-segmentation algorithm into our GUI that run without a model but are looking to add DL-enabled auto segmentation in the near future.
Would be curious to hear why V7 is your favourite?
V7 does one of the best auto segmentation I’ve tried, but on a complex scene fixing its worse case can be slower than not using any proposal. That’s where Toronto annotation suite shines
I can go over more details over over email/pm if you’d like
- from your tone it sounds that you have never been faced with such hardships and decisions to make.
- "quickly and efficiently" to me would be anything that would allow you to pay the next bills. Esp. since 78% of american workers live paycheck to paycheck with no cushion to absorb downtime looking for new work.
I'm detecting a bit of dishonesty (trolling?) in your answers too.
Is it dishonest to ask questions, probe, push-back, challenge, disagree, whatever you want to call it? I'm respectfully inquiring as to what another human thinks (and that human was not you unless you speak for them?).
1. not being able to empathize with someone who is economically vulnerable. can't tell if it's on purpose, or just difficult.
2. attach yourself to the definition of vulnerability. I just gave you one : people living paycheck to paycheck. It's a pretty mundane concept, and it's trite or dishonest to have to revisit this.
It literally says: "Rather than download the software on her computer, she opted out."
That's all I'm saying, everyone has and makes their own choices about what they will or won't put up with. As to other article subjects , I can't/won't speak for them.
Can you find a person who is not choosing one way or the other?
My point is we all get to choose...and im not saying there are not trade-offs, or its easy, etc. But you, me, those mentioned in this article (and those who will never be notices/mentioned) we all have the power of choice!
Not everyone is an engineer who have employers fawning over them. A lot of people have few prospects of employment - especially right now - and have bills to pay. So weighing the two options : no food this month, or installing spyware willingly they take the easiest route.
"... A lot of people have few prospects of employment - especially right now - and have bills to pay."
Have you considered that you may be engaging with and replying to someone who falls into this category? What makes you think I am or speaking from the POV of an engineer who has employers fawning over them?
Beyond that though - why do you think that people do not have the ability to exercise their own choice in the matter? The final paragraph of this article literally underscores my point:
"Rather than download the software on her computer, she opted out."
So your assumptions of who you are interacting with on this topic appear ignorant, your belief in other people inability to choose whats best for them suggests you do not respect their power, meanwhile you've created the only extreme - as in extremely unlikely scenario - whereby people are forced to choose between self-administered surveillance or starvation.
So is it the case? Do you have very few prospects of employments and yet would willingly chose living in poverty over surveillance of your laptop?
I don't think it's as unlikely as you seem to believe. There are no stats being brought forward on either side, so I don't see how your scenario is less or more likely than mine. And I am merely trying to empathize with the people for whom this is the sad reality.
I'm not convinced whatsoever that this surveil or starve ultimatum you have made up represents anyone's reality in the first place...let alone those examples in this article.
It's beyond your imagination to conceive that there are people who would have to accept something they loathe because they must feed their family and pay the mortgage in a very immediate future?
I'm totally open to changing my mind that this hypothetical person doesn't exist in the US, if you'd like to bring forward a peer reviewed study on the subject.
You haven't heard of anyone working a job they hate in general? Why do you think they continue working? Is it because they just love feeling miserable for 8 hours a day? Or maybe it is because if they quit, they won't have an easily available opportunity waiting for them, that would allow to feed their family, pay bills, etc.?
This is one of the very few times I've seen someone make a serious argument on HN so ridiculous, I cannot believe this is real. And not only make it in the first place, but then also double- and triple-down on it.
"You haven't heard of anyone working a job they hate in general?"
Yes I hear from people like this often.
Why do you think they continue working?
Some do continue doing things they hate, while others don't and they change their situation. Those that hate their job but don't change, I don't know their reasoning? Learned helplessness? Lazyness?
"Or maybe it is because if they quit, they won't have an easily available opportunity waiting for them, that would allow to feed their family, pay bills, etc.?"
What is easy? What is hard? That's too subjective - I'm not passing judgement in that area, just know that it's possible to change - always - no matter what anyone on HN says.
I take drugs to do interviews. Modafinil. It gets me a little bit jittery and all over the place. But programmers tend to like that nervous energy
There is just no way for me to stay on point for all of four or five hours of successive grilling. It's a lot more exhausting than thinking about anything on my own
I've been wondering about getting a razer blade stealth 13" for some time, I'm just worried a bit about its built quality.
I do prefer Mac OS as a daily driver, but I would like to be able to do some light proof of concept ML training on a laptop with an nvidia card, and also sometimes some CAD (I've had terrible experience dual booting windows on this current mbp)
I'm currently trying google colab to see how much I can do with doing everything in the cloud
