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>>"The message should be first and foremost that they can do it if they try hard"

There is a difference between the message "you can do better if you try harder" and the message "you can do everything if you try harder".

The first is a good life lesson, the second is self-help books marketing.

This way of thinking infect society and then we have to read things, normally wrote by millionaires, like "everyone can be rich". I suppose that it's the equivalent to "every country can be a net exporter at the same time" thinking in economics.

Education should be about understanding how the world works, so, it should be also about understanding your limits. We would save in neurosis treatments.
You are right.

Then the trick used in the UK is that it's not "a person" buying a property, it is "a company" (could be registered in the UK or elsewhere). It could be even a company owned by other companies

Example: https://www.transparency.org.uk/press-releases/bbc-panorama-...

There is a good amount of brexit supporters that want to make these regulations even laxer.
>...judging from some of his comments) Mr. Zuckerberg himself don’t believe in such a thing as meaningful privacy in the first place.

>Having said all that, I think it’s important to separate Facebook’s corporate actions from Zuckerberg’s private life.

Those two statements don't jive. If he doesn't believe in meaningful personal privacy then your argument is just a distinction without a difference.

I think the reality is that he cares about his privacy and also likes to make money by monetizing the personal details of other people.
I did better with cars, for the simple reason that when I took them apart, I could see how everything worked. With electronics, you need an oscilloscope to see the magic. All I had was a VOM.

Ironically, there were lots of kids taking cars apart in high school, so I could help and get help. But in college, nobody, and I mean nobody, was interested in cars. It's still hard to find anyone who is, hardly anyone has a modified car. My (medium modified) dodge wouldn't merit a glance in my high school daze, but today people go ape when I drive by in it.
IMO, it depends on how many mailboxes and aliases you need. Providers like Fastmail charge by the mailbox (with up to 600 aliases for each). Same with Runbox, Mailbox.org, etc. (the number of aliases varies). Migadu provides unlimited domains, mailboxes and aliases for a fixed price that decides how many outgoing mails you can send everyday from all mailboxes in that account.
That was what I heard too, that in PyTorch you could adaptively build your graph. In Keras you could in principle emulate this in a brute-force way: you define the graph, train it, saving the weights, analyze them, decide what nodes to remove and what nodes to add, and then rebuild the graphs from scratch and use the adjusted weights from the previous round. I say in principle, personally I never did it. Some people hint that in PT this is a breeze, I'd be curious to see some example. If you have any links, that would be much, much appreciated.
This. I have long argued that schools should optimize teaching and learning, not double in being certification authorities. The current scheme just devolves into a lot of stress for the students and selection according to school "prestige" because grades between schools are not comparable. It is also extremely stressful for students which is not optimal for the learning process.

Learning should be about wanting to acquire knowledge, not being forced into it like tuna in a tuna can factory.
I love Kaua'i and been there many times and consider the garden island my spiritual home. What Zuckerberg is doing to all those that are poorer than him is evil. I closed my Facebook account earlier this year and I think that people who still are on this platform should take some time to reflect about their values and where to place their trust.

The source of money that powers all these actions, from world-wide democracy wrecking algorithms, to the lack of any kind of decent oversight, to hundreds of Hawaiians losing their land, it is ultimately from the usage of Facebook and its sister products. If that kind of behavior is not OK with you folks, then, why not vote with your wallet and leave? There is a whole decentralized web in the making and and it feels much like the blogosphere. Leave those sillos, stop funding evil people.
Depression is a medical condition, not an emotion. Great to see the title changed.
Agreed. If your kid learns best by competing, then there are competitions for that, you know?

I never performed too well on those (all the International Math/Physics/Informatics Olympiads), but I did love them!

On the other hand, the final-leaving exams were weird. So much stakes on a single test, everybody nervous about it, some questions really obtuse, others seemed too easy, and then you read that some colleges want you to be in top percentile to get in, and I am like "go make your own admission test you lazy ..." ...
With a bit of further reflection, I have a 15 year old that lives for computers esp games, taught himself multiple computer languages from Youtube and Khan etc. He actually writes OK code and thinks about it the right way.

He won bits and pieces like Minecraft Mod of the Month, the school EMITS (STEM) prize, at a school that specialises in it etc etc

I thought he was going to program games, but he has decided he wants to be an electrical engineer (which I am) still not sure of the exact motivation, I have a pretty good life with lots of interesting work, maybe he hopes for that.

But, if he wasn't so highly motivated towards computers, I think I would tell him to spend the equivalent time he would spend getting a 4 year or 6 year EE degree and learn to make fine hand crafted shoes. Send him to Florence. Some big money in custom shoes if you build a name and quite rewarding if you like that sort of thing.

An Arduino isn't going to keep my feet warm, dry and stylish, for $800 (or even $5000 in extreme cases) a pair.

And that need isn't going away because Arduinos exist.
Eh, the West Side Highway replacement in New York was a 6-8 lane surface road, which has been just fine; on the far side of the road from the city are very successful, busy parks and the busiest bike trail in the city.
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Larger blocks of text are often quite eerie or surreal now. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/bxe3rn/i_...
Okay, interesting! Your story has been an amazing and educational one beginning to end, one I can identify with as far as the cross-cultural aspects are concerned. Sorry for what you have been put through. Kudos to you for your amazing skills, energy and creativity! I hope (or, fairly confident) you will persevere in spite it all. Looking forward to hearing the whole story some day.
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Thinking of it, just the fact to give back the tests and saying the grade out loud isn’t a good idea
This article comes across as being really fake. You can clearly tell that the goal is to to drive additional traffic to their v1.0001 instead of actually diving into what they did wrong. Were they really investigating an entire new DB and user interface in the few days after launch? If your initial design is so far off that it requires a complete rewrite on day 1 of launch, then you have serious problems. That is not “avoiding pre-mature optimization”. That is an architectural failure.
... And sorry for the personal post. I often avoid posting from the heart here but I spent the last 16 years going to Kaua'i, basically a large part of my adulthood and what I perceive as myself is linked that to the experiences in that island. I get a bit emotional when multibillionaires go wrecking the place (which already has its share of crap millionaires to be honest).
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It's a strange type of depression where you come right back for more. "Learned helplessness"? Masochism?

I'm slightly irked by this use of "depression" anyway. It somewhat trivialises one of the top 10 deadliest diseases, whose sufferers are already facing the constant pain of their disease being considered "fake" or a lack of character or laziness etc.

Sorry for being the "language police". It's just a minor point, and I know the word is commonly used in this way. But even ignoring the issue above, I think there are simply better words for the specific situation: "depression" evokes the spectre of inactivity, of helpless, and of despair. But you did tackle the problems that came up, so words such as "challenging" (yeah, I know), "frustrating", "stress", "maelstrom", or "adventure" may not only improve the text's language, but also project a more positive image for potential customer.
If I read some code like that, I would expect a comment like:

// silly hack to get the tab control into a good state.
// it gets confused when ...
// and this seems to fix it.

Because setting a property can be a function call, it isn’t necessarily a no-op to set a property to itself.

Having said that, the code is still quite bad but maybe it was auto generated by a ui builder or refactoring tool.
To keep code+schema in sync, try using liquibase or flyway or similar tools to manage all SQL DDL, end ensure your build+deploy process always runs your liquibase/flyway scripts.
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“Is it possible to fly backward if you have strong headwind?”
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I agree about the title change but it's not exclusively medical (eg the Great Depression)
You are completely right, but I was answering to parent post.

I don’t think your mother, or mine, can ask herself this question of trusting the JavaScript or not :-)
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Is "illegals" not also just an emotionally charged word? They're just people.

I know it wasn't you who used that word, but it seems unfair to not point it out.
>> Well, I replicated 1.5B.

Is there some way to test this claim, other than waiting for the model to be released on the 1st July?
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I was pleasantly surprised when I visited a Waterstones recently. They were much improved over what they used to be.
Where are the records? I've done some cursory searches for things like that before and haven't found anything easily accessible
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> says learning is not competition

The children are still graded. Grading, or at least its interpretation, depends on the students performance. How is this not a competition?
Have you actually read those articles? Did you really find them convincing?
It's of utmost importance that we remember the Holocaust for a few hours a day every single day until the end of time.
Taint yourself with illegal source code? What does that even mean?
Obviously in my comment "it" meant having good grades.

Call me an optimist but I believe that the overwhelming majority of children have the abilities to have good grades if they are pushed and kept motivated.
In my experience, we would leave the cheats in retail builds of those old games mostly because leaving them in was less risky than removing them. They had been there during all of development and testing, and we were reasonably certain of the build’s stability, but.. pull them out and your compiled code layout changes, data layout potentially changes, and who knows whether it’ll expose a new misbehaviour we’ve never seen before or know to regression test.

It’s just much much much safer to leave the debugging assistants (level skip, etc) in place. Especially back in the days when we couldn’t issue patches after release!

(Also, depending on era, you could feed a cheat code or two to magazines/websites/etc to get another article written about your game.. doubt that trick works any more, though!)
Maro, I don't know if you're familiar with the whole story but when this started he used some laws to force the lands into auction against the will of the people who lived there. It is not as if he was knocking on the door, announcing a nice deal and accepting no as an answer, which even I who don't like the guy would think it is ok.

He started by using a legal maneuver called "quiet title and partition" which forces under developed land into auction to the highest bidder (which will of course be him). Once he sues using this, the defendant has about 20 days to respond. Since there is a "quiet" part to this maneuver, it means you might not know what is happening until it is too late.

Hawaii land laws are tricky. The history of its monarchy and its demise is heartbreaking but it helps one understand what has happened to land rights over there over time. Zuckerberg is just another rich white person, going there and doing anything necessary to secure a large estate to the detriment of natives and whoever lives there now.
I find both your comment and jandrese's comment perfectly convincing. So now I'm horribly confused and I have no idea who is right. I guess there just isn't enough information to rely on to figure out what exactly happened?
The fairs can be reworked into something non-profit, though.
I have 3 layers: Privacy Badger (with some custom made work), NoScript, AdBlockPlus. I have 'maxed out' all Firefox privacy settings (battery monitoring, geolocation, 3rd party cookies, etc.). I also got some strong hosts file (https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/)

I feel pretty private :)

Also when I go to a website that it doesn't ring a bell, I spend a few seconds 'working on it' (PrivacyBadger, NoScript, ABP) so I won't have to bother again with their crap.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/...
I always ask my clients wanting to sell their manufactured products online : are you ready if the website is successful fast ? Can you handle twice your actual sales ? Ten times ?

You never know. Are you ready for success ?

This story looks like that.
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If you are an adtech company who's primary business was selling personal information of users, then yes, of course GDPR will have had a big impact. Google has put a lot of effort into being GDPR compliant, so I'd assume a lot of busineses switched away from smaller competitors for that reason.

I run a small SaaS business, which doesn't do anything ethically questional with user data, and becoming compliant involved:

- writing a document on GDPR compliance

- changing a few settings so IPs aren't logged or are at least anonymised

- verifying log files aren't kept longer than needed and don't contain personal information that isn't needed

I don't even need a popup asking for users to give permission to store personal information, because I'm not doing anything that needs that.
No, they did not. JSlint has a license that says “may not be used for evil.” which is ill-defined. What’s evil? Is what you consider evil what I consider evil? So they asked for a well-specified license. In return they were granted a license to use JSlint for evil purposes, which is obviously a good joke at their expense, but combined with the original license encompasses all uses, and, as such, is well-defined.
> That is an architectural failure.

Let's not jump the guns too soon. Analytic products are notoriously hard from scaling perspective. UI, APIs, Infra that works crisply for 1x data, starts to become sluggish at 10x and really breaks down at 100x.

Startups solve the 100x scale problem when they get there (sensibly so). In this case, they got there way too quickly thanks to HN traffic.
> I’ve only asserted that it is impossible to prove any absolute truth.

No, you have also asserted that there is no way to distinguish different levels of justification for "non-absolute truths", or else your whole argument makes no sense. Which is also exactly what an equivocation fallacy is: Claiming that two things are the same because you can decide to ignore the differences.
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Stablecoins aren't supposed to float freely, they're pegged. So I assume it doesn't mean that.
I honestly have no idea. We might. There's very likely to be tons of regulation around it to make everything as safe and practical as possible for everybody.
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It might not be, but there may be value in pointing out that it's a systemic problem rather than one limited to one party.

Besides, "we all know the current state of affairs" is an assumption I would be quite careful about.
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I find the idea that people who make mistakes don't deserve "comfortable lives" repulsive. I believe that much of the world's pain is caused by it. If people everywhere tried just a bit harder to forgive and forget, the world really would be a better place. Entire wars would be prevented.

It looks to me that these people (this Dale figure, the Vice reporters etc) aren't impossible dickheads who belong in jail, but well-meaning people who made (grave) errors in judgment. They deserve "comfortable lives" just like everybody else. I bet you've made grave errors in judgment once or twice. I sure have.

(little sidenote: I don't have a strong opinion about this particular debate. I didn't dive deep, I don't know who the key players are. It seems to me that Naomi Wu is obviously the victim here, so I'm on "your side"- but that doesn't mean I agree with your hardline approach)
Don't look at it in terms of fault, see it as ways to create opportunities.
> I've spent some time watching the bottom barrel movies from the past and they seem even worse than Today's movies

That's because back then we didn't have the internet. No matter how bad a movie was, people would go see it for at least a week before the word got out how bad it was. Looking up movie times was a pain, you had to plan ahead and check the newspaper. If you went on a date Friday/Saturday night, the most likely thing to do was show up the movie theater after dinner and buy a ticket for the movie that started next, since you probably hadn't heard of any of them, or you would buy a ticket that you'd seen the most advertising for.

There were no ratings to check, no reviews to read, unless you happen to read them in the paper that morning.

Nowadays, they know they have to produce at least something minimally good, because word will get out very quickly that something is bad, and it's super easy for people to check rating when they arrive at the theater, or even before they arrive.
and you think 90m is enough? he got only 50m when google bought android. whatsup and ig got billions. I think he deserved much more. 90m is peanuts compared to what he did for google and how important is android for them.
That is something I really don't understand, they and a bunch of other sites seemingly implemented this thing for GDPR compliance. However it's not at all GDPR compliant if you have to opt out. If they are going to violate GDPR anyways then why bother at all?
Stanford project page:

http://snap.stanford.edu/graphwave/

Paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10321
To summarise: if a system is not understood there exists the possibility of sudden, unexpected harm. The system is unsafe. This is (probably) ok if the system is putting icing on donuts (you might get a bad batch) but is definitely not ok if the system is deciding on dosing levels for drugs or controlling machines that could suddenly smash into queues of school children.
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The moral significance of a rock might be minor. It isn't most people's first choice for a murder weapon. If I saw someone carrying a weapon-sized rock, I might somewhat suspicious, but I wouldn't be seriously alarmed, like I would if they were holding a gun or knife.

> Tools simply enhance a users ability to affect the world around them.

Some tools are very general. It's hard to imagine faulting the tool, as it is so useful that it isn't an serious option to abandon it, even if some people use it for bad purposes.

Other tools are not so general. A straight-forward example may be high-explosives. They can used for good, but those situations are very specific and easily recognizable. If high-explosives are found outside of those contexts, the moral significance is obvious. There is a decent chance that someone has bad intentions. A very clear and compelling explanation would be needed to resolve the matter.

Most tools are fairly benign. Or the beneficial usage significantly outnumbers any malicious examples, especially in common contexts. But I don't think means that all tools are by default neutral.

At risk of belaboring the point, here are two more examples:

* Utility knife: (1) When camping: good (2) In an elementary school: bad

* Cameras: (1) 99% of the time: good (2) In the public showers or changing room: bad

In the above "bad" scenarios, I would say the tool itself takes on a negative moral significance. Obviously, there can be caveats -- e.g. you might be filming a movie -- but you get the idea. I'm curious what you think of this.
I love that you think that Oath is a privacy settings service and not an enormous media company. These dark patterns are hurting their brand.
You may want to consider switching from ABP to uBlock Origin. There's lots of articles explaining it in detail, but essentially uBO is open source and ABP is a $50mm/yr business that allows some ads through and I think (but am not positive) have a history of data sharing.
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Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For part of the year

Technologies: Javascript (Node.js), Go, Python, Haskell, C, Java, and more

Resume: I keep an up to date resume at Toptal: https://www.toptal.com/resume/marcos-pereira (you don't have to hire me through them)

Email: marcospereiradev@gmail.com

Backend developer working a lot with Node.js, but also love Python and Go. Have worked on many projects with big companies, led small developer teams, modernized legacy systems, and worked on a browser extension that identified twitter bots using deep learning. Happy to try out new technologies.
I did. When my headphones run out of battery.
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To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2M birds
Welp, there we go. I was surprised to see Apple introduce a feature that improved things for their customers without some ridiculous restriction and here we are: mandatory inclusion for app developers.

Good job Apple, you raised your image only to crush it again with anticompetitive bullshit.
You kind of seem to miss the major point of stuff being a hobby or interest in the first place. For other people the enjoyment comes from the process of making and understanding, not necessarily having a shiny end product.

For hobby projects (both software and hardware) I generally don't care if they leave my house or if one or thousands see them, that's something I do for me, not to fulfill some hypothetical need of the world.
The code has many 'smells' indeed but was written by a high schooler. If you take that into account it's really quite commendable how polished and thought-out the app is.

Sadly, I have seen 'senior' engineers write much worse code than this...
Sorry if my answer sounded too harsh.

I think there is a kind of dichotomy between pushing and motivation and, very frequently, we forget to search the reason why there is not motivation and we only push.
Can you elaborate? "Print is expensive" isn't a great reason for an investment fund to pour millions into a magazine publisher. What was the potential upside?
Legal not so solid...courts have previously held that private free speech is protected see encryption battles during the invention of RSA for the court cases...also noted in many of Lessig's books...if device has private info force them to get the warrant as than you have legal rights to have your case argued before a judge..cops are INVESTIGATORS and not trained to know the law..