ejfox

Why is > Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing!

the most popular joke between jokes? Is this the epitome of all humor?

I believe the moral of the story is to run your opening line by literally any human ("Modern software engineering is rotten. I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019." - literally laugh out loud funny) before submitting it to one of the main discussion boards on modern software engineering - sometimes you reap what you sow

I learned photoshop for the first time to make signatures for my forum buddies, little did I know I was setting the path of my entire life...

ah, my favorite type of hacker news post: "smart" western person finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it

dork finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it that impacted the decision, write your own metaphor

Does it work on people of color? Seems like a potentially deadly oversight considering what we know about existing failures in object-detection.

> The Navy email to Navy Times contained hidden computer coding designed to extract the IP address of the Navy Times computer network and to send that information back to a server located in San Diego. Under U.S. criminal law, authorities normally have to obtain a subpoena or court order to acquire IP addresses or other metadata. Not using one could be a violation of existing privacy laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

They lay it out pretty clearly in the article. What you are describing might be true for a private company, but that same behavior from a military branch of our government is very different.

This is a really interesting area of law that I don't think has been settled.

One could argue that attaching this tracking pixel to an email is similar to attaching a GPS tracker to a vehicle. In United States v Jones in 2012, the supreme court ruled that placing a GPS device on violated the 4th amendment.

> "the Government's installation of a GPS device on a target's vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitutes a 'search'"

Regardless of whether it was "well within normal usage of email" or not is kind of irrelevant.

It is also very different coming from the government as opposed to a private institution.

It is also very different to be targeting a news outlet (especially one that has been critical of you!).

I would absolutely challenge you on both points - this is ABSOLUTELY suspicious, and as they pointed out in the article, likely illegal – and I haven't gone crazy mad with paranoia.

I have had exactly the opposite reaction to the "frat boy monoculture"- self-taught and self-motivated, maybe, but I have run into more people than I can count who came into the industry for the money.

10 years ago they would have been on Wall St.

You are saying some very out-there things without citation.

"The justice system is far more sexist than racist" - what evidence do you have for this statement?

"a black man that is unjustly shot by police is more likely to be shot because he is a man than because he is black" What about this one?

I love that nowhere in this post do they explain what Ghost is or who their customers are or any of that. At first I thought, I guess, IA Writer competitor? Then, maybe, 2017 Wordpress alternative? Super unclear.

I am really curious to hear your responses to the questions I raised

What is the difference between creation and generation?

What is the difference between me selecting the specific frame made by a generative algorithm and photographer picking a specific moment in time to capture a frame?

What's the difference between me using a generative algorithm and Michelangelo using assistants to paint the Sistine Chapel?

Art- and in fact, most creative endeavors often DO involve creating many things until you discover something "cool".

With my personal experiments with generative art, I think of the machine almost as a work assistant. I have a rough idea of what I'm going for, and the ways to attempt it, and I teach that to my computer using code. But then I go away from the computer and out into the world and drink coffee, sketch in my notebook, and in the meantime my computerized assistant is back home working on draft after draft of my latest piece of art.

I come home and I see what he's done, and most of it isn't great, but occasionally there is a gem! I look at what he did for that gem and then encourage him to do more of that, and then go back out into the world. I highly disagree that machine learning is the opposite of art.

If you go to any traditional artist's studio you will often find notebooks filled with discarded sketches and ideas. Paintings with color combinations or techniques that weren't ideal. This is almost exactly the same process. And I would argue that process is exactly what art is.