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tremere commented on Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code engadget.com/nvidia-sued-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

crazygringo · 2 years ago

I seriously do not understand why any employee would steal their previous employers' code to use at a new employer.

There's little-to-no personal upside, and only horrible downside if you get caught.

I mean, this guy:

> Moniruzzaman allegedly gave his personal email unauthorized access to Valeo's systems to steal "tens of thousands of files" and 6GB of source code shortly after that development... Valeo said its former employee admitted to stealing its software and that German police found its documentation and hardware pinned on Moniruzzaman's walls when his home was raided.

And while Nvidia presumably hired him for his expertise, they certainly didn't expect him to be stealing code, not even wink-wink-nudge-nudge. Corporate lawyers at trillion-dollar-companies take this stuff super seriously.

So this guy puts himself at massive legal risk... for what? So he can slack off for a few months while he pretends to write code that's already been written -- and gets to browse Reddit? Or so he can deliver code extra-fast in hopes of a quicker promotion -- that may or may not come? Is that really worth it?

It's crazy to me. Why would you risk that?

tremere · 2 years ago

There is tremendous upside. You can look like a rockstar at the new company and propel yourself upwards with that momentum.

tremere commented on Omegle 2009-2023 omegle.com/... · Posted by u/liamcottle

jhatemyjob · 2 years ago

nice try

tremere · 2 years ago

Wasn't trying anything, I was legit curious about places where intellectual conversation happens. I suppose you are right that exposing such places to air will risk their integrity, then you'll be left in the same situation as me. Forget I ever asked.

tremere commented on Interview with Jeff Geerling raspberrypi.com/news/meet... · Posted by u/mikece

pachouli-please · 2 years ago

I love all Geerling's projects, writings, and videos over the years. I was actually concerned that based on the brevity of the title that something tragic had happened. Glad that's not the case!

tremere · 2 years ago

I share this sentiment. Whenever I see his name I end up reading his article and whether I agree with him or not, the quality of content he puts out sets a very high bar. Whenever he writes a comment on HN it's one of those rare instances where I'll stop and read it carefully rather than blaze through it. Jeff is truly a gem in the community.

FWIW I did not expect bad news since I didn't see a date range after the name in parens.

tremere commented on Omegle 2009-2023 omegle.com/... · Posted by u/liamcottle

jhatemyjob · 2 years ago

The public internet has always been garbage dude. Ever since eternal september in 93. The trick is a good filter. It seems like you lucked into some good filters in the past, but forgot to rotate them when they stopped working

tremere · 2 years ago

Humor me. Recommend a filter for me to get me started. It doesn't even have to be that good and if I'm disappointed I won't be able to reply anyway.

tremere commented on Omegle 2009-2023 omegle.com/... · Posted by u/liamcottle

okasaki · 2 years ago

The internet's not great, but unless you live in an elite city with a well-paying job, you're not going to find better interactions outside.

tremere · 2 years ago

I have taken out the word "outside" from my post, because you seem to be addressing a very minor component of my overall message. Please note: My main point is that pure, intellectual connection is almost nowhere to be found. It is drowned out in a sea of shit.

While I did criticize HN in my post, I will note that it is sort of a last bastion of intellectual conversation. I believe the motives are not as pure as before, and I lament that. There simply is not a space for intellectual conversation for intellectual conversation's sake on the internet anymore. It is all twisted.

tremere commented on Omegle 2009-2023 omegle.com/... · Posted by u/liamcottle

tremere · 2 years ago

The site was rife with perverts, Neo-Nazi propaganda, CSAM distribution, and honeypot operations. I think people are idealizing what it was in recent years, believing it was the same fun as in the early 2010s. It was an absolute shitshow.

The owner acts like Omegle was about innocent curious internet explorers asking cute questions and spreading knowledge. Bull shit. I never met a professor on Omegle. The most common encounter is a pervert who quickly ends the chat. I probably would have needed to sink 300+ hours on the platform in order to meet one. And by the time I would have met this professor, I would most likely have gained nothing from the exchange. Therefore, in my experience, I have found such innocent encounters to be the exception. By far. There is no corner on the internet where that happens organically. Even on HN, where comments are verbose and technical, it's only because of the perceived clout and proximity to VC money. The open connectedness of the internet has little to do with it.

If you access Tor, which is considered the peak of anonymous interconnectedness, you will also find a draught of intellectual activity. I would love to find intellectual discussions occurring on Tor, if anyone knows one please let me know the onion address. (Pro-tip: it's an impossible quest.) Instead all you will find are CSAM, scams, and honeypots.

I have found that my life has gotten immeasurably better since I generally stopped using the internet. The reddit API lockdown woke me up and I realized pretty much everything on the internet is garbage. Even HN is of lower quality than before, with the average post being a flex of one's social status rather than a helpful tip from one hacker to another.

Fuck all this noise. The internet is so full of low quality social content that it is overall not worth using for social connection.

tremere commented on Immanuel Kant – What can we know? ralphammer.com/immanuel-k... · Posted by u/momirlan

tremere · 2 years ago

Call me naive, but I don't see why we need Kant's ideas of noumena and phenomena when we have Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Analogy of the Divided Line. In my limited experience, Plato's philosophical primitives prove more useful for thinking about whether LLMs possess intelligence and what reality really is. In my opinion the most groundbreaking contribution of Kant is adding in the a priori and a posteriori distinctions to how belief is constructed. Even so, nothing of Kant's work impresses me more than Plato's allegory.

tremere commented on Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy businessinsider.com/auto-... · Posted by u/momirlan

aaronbrethorst · 2 years ago

I don't want some ridiculous 3 ton electric truck that needs a 131 kWh battery.

I want an adorable, tiny EV Mitsubishi Delica for $13,000 new. https://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/newsrelease/2023/detail...

Or this adorable, tiny EV SUV for about the same price: https://www.thedrive.com/news/gms-tiny-electric-pickup-is-an...

tremere · 2 years ago

>adorable, tiny

Or maybe, just maybe, realize your consumer preferences are not universal and are in fact the minority view

tremere commented on U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021 ers.usda.gov/webdocs/char... · Posted by u/462436347

ablyveiled · 2 years ago

Added sugar is not necessarily problematic, but consumption of anti-thyroid substances like high amounts of PUFA (especially seed oils), chlorine, bromine, fluoride (in absence of iodine) can make it so, by way of increasing energy supply which is not properly consumed. Industrial pollutants like PFAS and hexane byproducts also play a role.

There's a very good reason why sugar is so "addictive" -- it's good for you! It's an obscenely easily digestible source of energy, whose products are used very easily by the cells. In the case of fructose, its consumption is relatively more insulin-friendly than the glucose-heavy starches. Sucrose is half glucose and half fructose.

Seriously "addictive" sugary foods are psychologically problematic usually for other reasons. Pure cane sugar is not very addictive when consumed alone. Try it.

tremere · 2 years ago

Agreed entirely. Even more glycemic foods than sugar (which is only half glucose), are not a metabolic problem. I started eating pasta, white bread, and white rice and have been able to lose weight. People on this very forum will tell me that what I do is impossible, but I'm done taking the advice of bots and people who aren't fit. I am downright skinny now. Go ahead and downvote my post, after all HN is an echo chamber full of IYIs and shills, is it not?