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I don't find $100k ad spend on FB disturbing at all, that's not even minuscule. As we both said, there was no measurable impact. To put things in perspective Clinton raised $1.2B for her campaign. I find that much more disturbing than $100k spent on memes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia...
As someone who dealt with severe depression during high school, I feel like the SATs really helped me out during college admissions time. Just getting out of bed every day was a real struggle for me and as a result my attendance was poor, my grades were spotty, and I didn’t have any formal extra curriculars I could show off. But I did get the highest SAT scores in my class, and I feel like that helped demonstrate that I had some raw potential even if it wasn’t expressed in all the traditional ways.

It made my high school teachers and principal who might otherwise have written me off pay more attention to me. This was helpful in terms of getting recommendation letters, and also just being allowed to graduate despite a substantial number of absences. It helped get me into a college with a decent computer science program, and I met with much more success there than I had in high school. The freedom and challenges of the college environment really brought something out of me that high school hadn’t.

I think there are a lot of kids in my situation, who are smart but haven’t really “figured it all out yet” in high school. Hopefully there are other ways aside from standardized tests for them to demonstrate that they have potential, and hopefully teachers and colleges are paying attention.
The whole FAA needs to be shitcanned is what needs to happen.

Their job is to test these planes. It's not like there's 100s of models coming out every year. The 737 is America's best selling and most used plane - bar none.

And that one hasn't been tested by the FAA? They just believed Boeing and stamped their approval on it?

Well...
> If you pick several of these fractions between 1 and 2 (such as 3/2, 4/3, 5/4, 2/1, etc

A point of strong debate I’ve had with mathematical, but non musical friends: is a scale an ordered or unordered set of such fractions?
You sound like the Chinese government.
Have you looked at bankruptcy options? Medical debt ruined my life. Bankruptcy got my life back.
If someone wants to claim that Russia made a measurable impact on the 2016 election with $100k ad spend, then they're going to have to provide proof.
Google ads are digital pollution.
If you go with AWS (like I did) and you forget to turn it off (like I did) they won't hesitate to charge you full price. For me that was a $700 surprise. Then you will discover how impossible talking to anyone at AWS is without a paid support plan. Two or three months later you may get your money back if you suffer through enough hours on hold with them after fighting through the non-paid customer service channels.

So don't use AWS please, for me.

You could try Parsec. They are specifically for gaming PCs. Sadly, if I'm remembering right they use AWS.
I suppose we dont know what the reaction was do we? Afterall, if Boeing took his complaints seriously and redesigned aspects of the plane, that would be one thing. If he was complaining about the version that subsequently crashed, that would be another.
Celebrated early yesterday by replacing 5 capacitors on my stereo receiver's HDMI I/O board for $1.00 total and 15 minutes of work, saving me from having to replace it with a $X00 new one.
free speech is different than amplified speech. what people are allowed to say on a platform shouldnt equal what people can pay to have amplified and targeted towards peoples attention.

But I agree with you, that "he gets it" in the sense that as a leader and figurehead his job is to inspire confidence. It may not be working for you, but his mantra for a long time now has been to extol the virtues of what is possible if people dream and focus on the benefits. Unlike much of the userbase here, he chooses to project the public personification of his self as a glass half full person, where optimism, hard work, engineering, and money are put towards a better future. He knows that if he relaxes and steps back from that ruse, charade, or whatever you want to call it, that it leads to a crumbling house of cards. Not unlike a president, confidence in the system starts with the top of the house. Don''t forget, his job is also to keep his stock prices up for his shareholders, who are primarily himself. And despite what the fifth estate and a subset of techies want to believe, facebook and its suite of products are as popular as ever. Sure, growth has slowed, but thats bound to happen once you count 1/3rd of the words population as those that your tool serves.
Given the title I was expecting an article on the EOL for Windows XP or Vista
I still think it’s the critics who don’t get it. The technology was always going to obviously move in this direction. The critics confoundingly both complain about the power of tech behemoths AND that they should be arbiting freedom on their platforms.
They obviously have a head and tail indicator already, so they don't merge all the trains together. The issue is that they overload the axle mod 256 counter with the train indicator, instead of using a separate byte.
apparently Edison took credit for all his employees' invrntions
> In the context of a game or simulation, such classes can absolutely do all these things

Sure, but the point of TFA is that even then it still doesn't (necessarily) make sense to give them an OO hierarchy similar to their real-world taxonomy.

It might make sense of course, but it might not - you can't tell without looking at the code. The point here is that duck/bird analogies imply that the real-world relationship between ducks and birds tells you something about whether your Duck class should inherit from a Bird class, when in fact it doesn't.
America Wasn't Founded on White Supremacy
It theoretically doesn't, but practically speaking, you're talking about risk pools. Those work better when they're larger.
It does exist! There are lots of answers to what you’re asking for. But here’s the best answer:

https://course.fast.ai/

This course uses python and pytorch and will have you building something that can tell 30+ breeds of cats and dogs apart in the first lesson. While the old course from Andrew ng you mentioned starts with theory and by the end gets to doing something useful, the fastai course starts with best practices and moves into the underlying theory later.

Also Andrew Ng has a newer deeplaearning.ai course on coursera that is all python and doesn’t do Octave.
I am waiting 3.7 compatibility for dict insertion order which I rely in my last project. I know I could use workarounds but now it is safe and stable and I am not in a hurry. Until then waiting in CPython.
You're talking like Russia is the only government doing this.
Are you this naive or just not informed?
Every government tries to swing elections in countries that are in their interest.It would be abnormal if this wasn't the case.

I'm neither from US nor russia(as an eastern european you can imagine our resentment towards russia and their imperialistic views).

And FB(alongside google,twitter and other corporations that have social networks that allow -- public -- discourse) are not simple "private platforms/companies", they enjoy subsidies from the government,act as private companies(which they are) while also having the privilege of acting as a publisher(like outlets) meaning they are not directly responsible for the content on their platforms.Legally is is a very gray area due to US constitution, especially when your platforms hosts legally elected representatives of the government(this is why they can't just "shut down trump on twitter").

Facebook is toxic, Google is very toxic aswell as of late.The internet needs to be more open,decentralized and distributed if we ever want to have a chance of avoiding tyranny and suppression of thought.
Sounds very "apocalyptic" but take a glimpse of what's happening in China,they're de facto using and indirectly cooperating with western corporations to implement very nasty social programs.
See also:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/us-army-signs-con...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30498/the-army-wants-t...
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Unless your friends looking at your computer are going to write down your whole social graph manually, I doubt that’s the the same threat.

Also, most people use one of three browsers. I don’t trust Google but I doubt they are surreptitiously using everyone’s FB login to crawl their social graph.
Naming things is hard. These names are pretty good though
Stories like these are why I feel like the medical system in America is extremist, and not a rational, pragmatic, or effective system. We are like the North Korea of healthcare.
Music and speech are two separate domains according to McLuhan (or the article?).

Poor hearing is a technical fault, one that can be fixed by e.g. upping the volume or speaking more clearly, and thus shouldn't infer discrimination in cool/hot category.

Poe's Law[0] basically states that it's impossible to decipher sarcasm on the (text-based) Internet without a clear indication of intent. The same can hardly be said for speech, or it basically misses its point. I believe that is the author's intended discrimination between "cold" and "hot" media.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I not sure whether this is the point you were making or not, but without the inflammation perhaps you would have simply died from the flu infection due to insufficient white blood cells around to kill it before it spread elsewhere in your body.

But it's perfectly possible to acknowledge the damage inflammation does while also acknowledging its necessity (or at least the possibility of its necessity). Just like e.g. you can acknowledge that chemotherapy drugs do damage to the body while still acknowledging that they're necessary sometimes.
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, so they're not in a position to lecture any other country about freedom.
No movie theater in America will play Gemini Man as it was meant to be seen
What if Swiss trains consist of 30-40 cars at most? Then the rule is purely technical and doesn't even have to be remembered.
Because any use of Tor's network is a good use. If you only use Tor for child porn and other communication that can get you behind bars in your jurisdiction, any Tor user is an automatic suspect. Using Tor's bandwidth for mundane things helps the whole network.
That’s the theory that people keep repeating, but research keeps failing to substantiate that. University syllabuses keep teaching people things that is not going to be useful to anyone, or will only be useful to tiny fraction of people, who’d likely just learn it as needed anyway. Experiments show that transfer learning basically doesn’t exist, average people simply cannot apply principles they’ve learned in one context in a completely different context. Finally, many people have very successful careers in one field despite having a degree in a completely different field, which suggests that whatever people learn in their degrees doesn’t really matter all that much.

Again, I’d like to emphasize that I personally have greatly enjoyed my time at the university, and have learned a lot of extremely interesting things. It’s just not the learning you get that is responsible for correlation between higher education and life outcomes. I recommend Bryan Caplan’s book “The Case Against Education”.
Because it's not actually "money", the problem is the bank's rather than your own, and no bank has thought fit to advertise "less chance of having to fill out a bunch of annoying paperwork" or "no need to check your account every month" as points of competition. Furthermore, any change that makes fraudulent transactions harder is tempting to use as a justification to shift liability onto customers, which is something you definitely don't want.

And ultimately like many systemic failures in the US it really only affects the underclass - debit card, cashflow confined to one checking account, and an unfamiliarity with expecting results from institutions.
> folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded.

LOL. I run Linux to keep "Big Brother" off of my systems, Microsoft and Windows 10 to be specific. Every company in China is beholden to the state, and state actors in China are insanely scary if you start to look into it.

There's been an incredible amount of instances where China has slipped backdoors into ... well just about everything. I think it'd be ignorant to assume they wouldn't do this for an OS.
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Over the past eight years as I've been following this whole category of "you don't really control it" home electronics with cloud based services, the more I agree with the twitter account Internet of Shit.

https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en
What's wrong about search by name/group/description?
Quite a bit of testing is done. Mandatory groundwater tests are done near every single one. Your guess, that it wouldn't occur to scientists that people throw away stuff that they should not, is silly.
Yup, a relative of mine, who shall remain nameless, will get into college thanks to his test scores. And like you, it has insulated him from being completely written off by his teachers.
I use literally nothing I learnt in college in my day to day work.

At the same time, I’m almost 100% sure I wouldn’t be half as good at my job if it wasn’t for the stuff I learned in college.

Right from technical courses which taught me to analyze, and convert words and images (documentation) into actual working products, to the writing courses which mean I communicate much better than I would have otherwise to the economic and financial courses that help me understand the dynamics of the company that I work for.
> "However, I’ve only ever needed a tiny fraction of what I learned there in my jobs at Google and Facebook."

That's interesting. What did you do at those positions?

I was at a different FAANG and used the hell out what I learned at university. RF knowledge, embedded systems, creating physics simulations, and a bunch of other stuff. Hell, I wish I'd learned more; some DSP knowledge would be hella handy right about now.

If people are finding that they aren't using what they learned at university in their career, it's the career that's the problem, not the university education. The university is not responsible for the career path people choose to take.
>Facebook was used in 2016 by the Kremlin for disinformation warfare with the express purpose of swaying the results of our presidential election

As if a $100k ad buy [1] will sway voters. $100K is insignificant for social media ad spend and won't influence anything and marketers knows this, but the masses do not. Both candidates spent $81 Million on facebook ads [3] and $100K is a joke representing 0.05 of ad-spend.

The media and democratic party knows people are clueless about advertising and has made this "russia hacked elections using FB", a talking point that helps their narrative. FB ads are not that effective.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/
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And the key part of the problem is understanding that hierarchies and categories are completely arbitrary, and their value is determined by how useful they are. There's no one holy taxonomy.

Real-world examples can be used to point that out. Whales are mammals to biologists, but they're essentially fish to the economy. A bat is a mammal and an airplane is a vehicle, but both of them go into the same bag as birds if your main concern is "things that can fly" vs. "things that can't". Square is a special form of rectangle to mathematicians, but it's the other way around if your main concern is how much information you need to draw it. "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." Etc.

Once you crack the student's belief in there being one proper taxonomy for everything (a belief that strangely seems common even in adults in general population), you can then effectively show them that one of the main tasks of a programmer is finding the most useful way of categorizing things they're dealing with - and once that's done, the programming languages tend to have tools that let the programmer exploit such categorizations to minimize complexity.
Batteries?
I think OSRS is still all Java, no?
At first I thought it was about implementing an ML like language. Then the realisation hit pretty fast..
No, defamation laws are to protect someone who is defamed (unjustly harms their reputation, and usually constitutes a tort or a crime). They are not intended to protect you from false ideas. Can you sue for defamation if I publish an essay saying there are aliens on Pluto? Is it false? Yes. Has it defamed anyone? No.
This argument is preposterous.

There are so many reasons poor people find it difficult to appear in court. A huge, and very easy to imagine, issue is that poor people tend not to have time flexibility; with everyone screaming at them to pick up another job, how could they possibly appear in court as well?

Another very easy to imagine issue is getting healthcare outside of this “town” everyone seems to live in in the above argument, could make appearing in court difficult as well.

The argument that “all poor people are fat and ill” is not just lazy, but outright ridiculous.
It is not very different. People don't show up for a variety of reasons, including inability[1] and plaintiff shenanigans[2].

But yes, people looking for a reason to blame the victim will use process arguments like that to ignore the reality of what is happening.

[1] We're talking about people with medical issues and no money; that can mean no car or no house or no personal mobility.

[2] As anecdata, someone I know was sued for nonpayment of a loan. Papers were served by mail and arrived the day of the hearing; postal carrier timing meant it arrived right as she would have had to appear, even if she hadn't been at work. Default judgement, and she didn't have the money to hire a lawyer to contest it. See how that works?
>>but you should know that illness is a choice.

So I got this friendly reminder from life few months ago that you can tick all the "healthy lifestyle" boxes and still get fucked over. Long story short, I work a completely normal IT office job, exercise, eat healthy, etc etc, and yet I contracted a human Parvovirus from someone, probably completely randomly as it's contagious before you get any symptops and it spreads by air. It absolutely fucked me over - was out of action for 2 months just non-stop in bed with weekly visits to the hospital, super high fever, lack of energy to do literally anything, and then as I was starting to feel better - it has completely messed up my knee, to a point where it's still completely arthretic and I need to have physio sessions weekly just to be able to walk without pain.

No, I will not believe this was by choice in any way. If you don't have a built-in parvovirus immunity from having had it as a child(when the symptoms are super mild), you can contract it at any point in your life and there's nothing a "healthy lifestyle" will help there.

And I'm sure that's not the only thing you can catch randomly from someone that can completely upend your life for a while.
It's amazing how it is unrelated to the level of concentration that is seen in the photos that illustrate the press articles https://www.google.com/search?q=Great+Pacific+garbage+patch&...
I tried to find the source of the first one, I guess it's from a bay or some place that concentrate garbage. There are some kind of mountains or islands on the left ...

Probably it is more effective to clean the stream of a few rivers that carry most of the plastics to the sea. The concentration in higher and it's easier to setup, repair and operate the nets.
> The sad truth is that most people are too vulnerable to misinformation and the older centralized distribution of information is probably the best for stability.

So information can be dangerous and should be controlled for the sake of an orderly society? There's a rising superpower that shares your view: China. But at the rate support for socialism is rising around the world, I'm pretty sure that America will be there too in about 40 years.
How has voting in the election worked? Neither the Presidential election, or either body of Congress has represented the will of the popular vote in the last few elections.

I’m much more worried about getting stopped by the police because I look like I don’t belong in my own neighborhood and the abuses of the “justice system” than I am about “corporate abuses”. It wasn’t the major corporations that were enforcing Jim Crow laws or that are now trying to take the rights from the LGBT community. They were offering same sex couples benefits before the government forced them to.

How many “Christian Conservatives” would love to “Defend Marriage” now? Yes I know the Democrats don’t have clean hands when it comes to either that or the “War on Crime” which escalated under Clinton.

More recently, California passed a law trying to “help” Uber drivers but ended up making it harder for people who actually wanted to be freelancers and other independent contractors. Whether the government is actively malicious or just incompetent, there are usually unintended consequences.

The “War on Crime” was supported by many Black legislators because they were dumb enough to trust the government.
The obvious answer is to learn the metrics itself too. OpenAI does interesting work in this area: "Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences", for example. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741
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Riemann communicated his paper to the Monatsberichte der Berliner Akademie on October 19, 1859, and Kummer read the paper at the meeting of the academy on November 3.
The question was "Why there are no reports on Catalonia protest from Western media?". As I showed, in Norway there has been plenty of reports. I consider Norway one of the Western countries. As with most news it's obviously geared towards the locals, Norwegians, which for the most part can read Norwegian.

But ok, what about something a bit more international like Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/search/news?blob=Catalonia&sortBy=da...

Multiple daily reports for days.

Ok how about The Guardian?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/catalonia

Multiple daily reports for days.

So maybe the question is rather, why is the US media rather silent on this?

https://www.nytimes.com/section/world/europe (nothing recent I could see)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ (has one recent report but that's it)
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What if universe was managed as code? (Twitter thread)
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And yet no one seems to care about audio quality, so I'd argue it's more of a design revolution than an audio one. Most music is made uniformly "loud" with dynamic compression, and sounds like ass. As long as your overpriced headphone is flashy, and you can hear some semblance of the song, it seems to be OK for the vast majority.
Having heard about this while never using it and having used other "hot" frameworks that Microsoft gave up on (Xamarin) and having checked out hyped products that turned out to be underdeveloped (windows iot) I have doubts about how good their chat framework is since the future didn't turn out to be all about chat bots like they said it would.

Have you used it? What do you think? Be honest.