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The problem is the assumption that any one idea is "Right". I in general disagree with the disease model of psychology but most of people don't and they are genuinely helped by that. Trying to teach them to adopt a more existential model of psychology probably won't help them, it's not one-size fits all. I agree with the author but I also acknowledge this approach doesn't work for everyone.

Psychology is based on the idea of "conceptualizations" or in CS lingo, abstractions. No Psych conceptualization actually carves at the joints of nature, they're all imperfect but each works for different situations or people.

(Humanistic Psychology)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_psychology] is great unless you're dealing with a psychopath. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)[https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cognitive-behavi...] is great unless you actually have issues from your childhood to process which surprise surprise most of us do. [Psychoanalysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis) is great unless you're you know, not rich and don't have four days a week to do it.

We can't get away from "euphamisms" as you call them, but it shouldn't be a treadmill, most should exist side-by-side.
This would have been excellent. It's really shocking that the offenders had the knowledge/power to get into the twitter account but didn't do something like this.
> I assume that's not an outcome you actually advocate.

I don't wish misfortune on anyone, and I expect there would be a transitional period in any real-world implementation, but just the same I cannot possibly justify continuing this parasitic situation any longer than absolutely necessary. If I were presented with a button that would eliminate copyright law instantly, globally, and permanently, I would press it without hesitation—and then get to work dealing with the inevitable fallout.

> For most of history, property and other rights were determined by whoever had the biggest army. Jesus, many people still don't have the right to their own bodies in some places in the world.

You are obviously referring to legal recognition of rights, not the rights themselves. The law is artificial, founded for the most part on non-defensive application of force to achieve a desired outcome, and doesn't correlate very well with the rights that people naturally possess. Some legal systems are better than other in this regard. No law which comes from a government will ever fully recognize natural human rights because, quite simply, that would put them out of business. However, here in the U.S. we at least explicitly recognize that there are rights which humans naturally possess ("endowed by their Creator"—whatever that happens to mean to you) which do not derive from the law, but rather have priority over it. There is a difference between what the law says you may do without penalty and what you may rightfully do, and when the two are in conflict it is the law which is wrong, no matter how popular the law might be or how much force can be brought to bear to back it up.

> You surely can't blame people for wanting to be entertained? Are you saying you never watch something fun?

I'm not blaming them. I'm just saying that there isn't a strong market right now for actual journalism. It's thankless work, for the most part, with or without copyright.

> In any case, weak and misapplied copyright laws have enabled Google and Facebook, in particular, to concentrate the important elements of journalism and present it to their users in a way which reduces the diversity of all journalism. They show just enough to get away with "fair use" while ensuring that the likelihood of people clicking outside the walled garden is minimised.

Are you trying to say that copyright should be expanded to cover facts and not just expression? That it should be illegal to quote or paraphrase a small portion of a copyrighted work? I believe the majority would side with me in vehemently disagreeing. Keep in mind that (in the U.S.) the exceptions for fair use are the only reason why copyright law was not declared wholly unconstitutional on 1st Amendment grounds. Freedom of speech is far more important than this runaway social engineering experiment known as copyright. (IMHO they gave in too easily. Copyright law violates the 1st Amendment and freedom of speech even with fair use.)
There are two factors at play here; both you and the GP are making points that are correct.

1) As you say, "If you're abusing data, you're going to have a hard time- and that's good." Companies that are built on selling your data (e.g. data brokers in the marketing / finance industry) or sharing it without your consent (e.g. Facebook with Cambridge Analytica) will have to stop those practices. GDPR working as designed, win.

2) For business models that are viable under GDPR, then at the margin GDPR is going to prevent small companies from entering the space, to the benefit of larger companies. Your example of Joe the Shoemaker is the trivial case. What if your business has a need to collect PII, banking information, perform Know Your Customer checks, and retain that data for 5 years under the US Banking Secrecy Act? Or collect electronic personal health information? Or submit to any other conflicting regulatory regime? You're missing the fact that lots of businesses have a legitimate need to collect more than just an email, and that other regulations directly conflict (per country) with GDPR. In these cases, adhering to GDPR is more than just slapping a GDPR dialog onto your email submission modal; it might require a significant amount of time talking to expensive lawyers to figure out how to comply with all of the applicable regulations.

This is the basic dirty truth about regulation; large companies can typically afford to lobby to make sure the regulation isn't going to ruin them, and then they can afford to implement the regulations even if they are very complex. After implementation, regulation like GDPR becomes a moat. Consider how hard it is to start a company in highly-regulated spaces like finance or healthcare. Though I don't claim that GDPR is as deep a moat as those industries' regulation, it's the same idea. The regulations as a whole can still be net-positive to society, but the risk is that when regulators (and those commenting on regulation) don't understand the real costs of complexity, it's easy to pile on rules that have the opposite effect than intended.

Note, a common misconception about Google is that it sells/shares your data; it does not in general do that. Google sells targeted ads, and your data is Google's competitive advantage; Google built Gmail, Android, and a host of other products in order to get data that others cannot; your data is Google's moat. GDPR just talks about sharing your data with other companies; Google is fine under the GDPR. Sure, the death of Privacy Shield might make Google's various international entities less able to share data, but the fundamental business model they follow of collecting first-party data on users is alive and well.
have you ever shot a gun? The rapid gas expansion which expels the bullet can get quite big for big guns like 50cal. Now scale that up to a bullet 8" (20cm) in diameter which has an ultrasonic muzzle velocity. The shock wave from a shot fired could push a person so hard, they go over a railing into the water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJbzEKdlvQ
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I think his ideas and cultural critiques are a little more complicated than that — his book Island in particular is worth reading — it is the ideal mirror to the dystopia he describes in brave new world.

Essentialism is a moral critique. If you stick a tiger in a small cage it doesn’t breed — that is an objective observation rather than a moral critique. Huxleys argument is of the same nature — that society is becoming a cage to natural impulse and instinct.
> If anything, it seems like Covid-19 has proved a surprising number of preppers right in some sense.

Most preppers I've run into are preparing for scenarios in which they finally get to shoot people that they don't like, and expect that people who don't like them will try to take their stuff and kill them, too. A lot of them are preparing for fantasy situations that they're strangely excited about. Through that lens, prepping isn't very different than live action role-playing.
Because liking someone doesn’t mean they can do the job. Just because you’re excited about a problem domain and someone else seems to also be excited doesn’t mean the can or will do the job well. They probe for past examples of you doing a job well because it’s a proxy for you doing a future job well. They acknowledge any interview process is imperfect but they also decided randomly pointing at resumes and saying “tell me about X” either doesn’t correlate or correlates negatively. This is in addition to the bias problem which was the other big reason they gave.
I wonder if an example of randomization might be: put 80% of your apps in AWS, but randomly deploy the remaining 10% in Azure and 10% in GCP just so that your team has expertise in the latter two.
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Performance is super critical in high frequency trading, so Rust sounds like reasonable choice. Having your code run a millisecond faster means beating out a competitor with the same algorithm as you, getting you a better price.
Why are they in distress though? Is the root cause external or is it something under one’s control, such as diet, sleep, and exercise?
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One of the underpinnings of many preppers' operating model was "we'll use the MREs to wait for law enforcement to collapse and then use ammo to become king of the hill in post-apocalyptic society". They weren't preparing for all apocalypses, just the ones that would let them use military strength to become unchallenged fief lords. In any scenario where law enforcement is still operating, their stashes are of little use.
I am wondering if Github ever consider switching to Postgre?
Right, but given that panicing was already allowable behavior, why was the new behavior chosen to be one likely to introduce subtle bugs? It seems much better to loudly proclaim the existence of an erroneous precondition, which is consistent with how things like array indexing behave.

I guess I’ll have to go dig up the RFC discussion on this one; it should make for interesting reading.
I'm not sure. I posted that to point out the danger of these statistics. We have to be careful. People can tell whatever kind of story they want to tell (at either extreme) and cite the same statistics. Mark Twain made this quip widely known, and it is relevant:

"Lies. Damned Lies. And statistics"
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He probably meant $5 million USD in BTC.
And it still produces more than 30% less CO2 per capita than the us. The sources are in another comment of me.
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Infrastructure-as-code is just automation. Automation eliminates the capacity for human error which can occur wherever a person manually follows some steps that might be read wrong or recalled incorrectly, and it eliminates human bottlenecks like waiting for a person to set up a server, waiting for a person to update documentation, waiting for a person to publish new packages etc. I think human error and human bottlenecks are the root cause of a lot of stress in our industry and with automation we can minimize this burden on ourselves.
Complex systems can be considered to have "chemical imbalances" - the climate, for example.
It would be great if there was a call to action button on each entry on the map. Who do I call to complain about the license plate readers (or whatever)?
Does pattern recognition, even sophisticated pattern recognition, ever constitute artificial intelligence? It reeks of popsci to me, and makes it out to be something more than it is.
Doesn't seem to worry them too much: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/tsmc-posts-record-q2-pro...
Many preppers just want to play soldier and imagine they will get to shoot up marauding neighbors.

The real preppers are Mormon families who follow LDS guidelines for keeping their pantry stocked with one-year's supply of food to provide for their family.
pretty much confirming my hunch that it's not an Eternal September problem with Twitter, but that it started being shit after Oprah and all the other celebrities started using it and it being popular as a source of news.

It's not an influx of newbies at all. Social media can be full of literal clueless newcomers - it just needs to be social and not corporate.

It's why reddit is dying too - everyone suspects it and the actual effect is less opaque that it's also jumped the shark and is no longer democratically social but corporate / PR influenced.
I can only respond to what you said, not an endless list.
The fact that people think they're somehow fundamentally incomparable is the problem.
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Not a surprise when there is rioting and the police do next to nothing. (I say that as a European that is happy we don't have the same gun culture over here).
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Why would you say that? The state wants to modernise and they decided to do away with something that is not safe.

Could you explain the political side in it? We already had motorcycles in Lagos because Gokada arrived on the scene. A lot of other okadas owned by thousands of people were also knocked out. Even keke
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ELI5: how will they get the money out of there without getting busted?
They should make Twitter cost $1 per month (non prepaid card) and have the default setting to block all verified users.
It’s also like the Facebook effect. For the most part, people post only the best photos, so we only see their best 10%. Yet it’s easy to forget that and compare that to all our photos/experiences even though it’s not apples to apples.

And out of 100 friends, if 5-10 post something cool it’s easy to overlook that the other 90-95 didn’t.

fB is but an example. These effects happen more or less with everything.
I am unreasonably excited about this. Gregg is a treasure.
I bought an e-reader when I went off to do an internship one summer and wouldn't have access to the university library.

Internship ended up being a dud (they paid me for 40 hours a week but only had work for me to do about 5-10 hours a week). I read over 50 books that summer, mostly classics that I got free from Project Gutenberg. Definitely got my money's worth.
AI gets bandied about these days. Would stoplights fall under AI?
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> This idea of "don't say it's a machine, you're oversimplifying it" is what's harmful in my eyes.

And honestly, there's a lot of complexity to even the smallest thing. A particularly good read, "I, Pencil" goes into how nobody knows how to make even a simple pencil.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
> That's why it's so important to reach to people who support you or simply create a content you like (blog posts, webinars, etc) and say: "thanks, I found a lot of value here".

I've been trying to start up a blog this year (three posts in 7 months, woo!) and someone recently contacted me to tell me that my RSS feed was down and they didn't want to miss the next post. It carried me into the next week it meant so much.
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> I've noticed that stripped binary sizes for a simple "Hello, World!" example are significantly larger with Rust. Is this just the way things are and the "cost of protection"?

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496107
This is the biggest problem with stack ranking software engineers, the practice I had to endure while at a well known software company. All it does is create a zero-sum game, so I have no incentive to compliment anyone else. I needed to make sure that my rank was as high as I could make it, which really sucked during performance time. It was very stressful, even though I was a high performer, because it didn't foster the type of environment I wanted to work at, which is collaborative.

I heard from my friends at Facebook that the environment there is equally crazy. Everyone knows that the performance reviews are based on lazy stats, so they game the stats. Every time someone requests a meeting, they are expected to give a "thank you" which is one of the measures for performance. Also, things like the number of reviews commented on could be easily gamed by adding a "+1!" as a comment which sounds like another undesirable place to work at. Maybe current Facebook employees can comment, however.
The velocity of the star in the paper, and our star, are both with respect to galactic nucleus. The star is still following orbit, just presumably a very eccentric one. I never said it is not impressive, just that it is similar to typical orbital velocities in our galaxy. The eccentricity of the orbit is the atypical thing here.
Sure I do - I get to see what people in various fields are writing and thinking about at a broad level, which I find interesting. I see the work of the many artists and creators I follow. I get to see what people think of my own work, which is the whole point of producing it in the first place.

I don't use Twitter to get in-depth information, and I'm not sure why you'd think that was the purpose (although people might link to where you can get that information, obviously).

I'd prefer it if it was an open platform, but it is what it is.
> I think the move to "chemical" explanations is largely because the "chemical" treatments have been wildly successful

This. The fact that "the mechanism of action remains a mystery" doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about it. Those drugs work, and AFAIK they are pretty safe. The same can be said about many other disorders that we don't know the mechanisms of action, but we still use drugs that seem to be successful (schizophrenia, OCD, Tourette, etc.). Depression and anxiety seem to be much more stigmatized when drugs are involved. I agree the diagnostics are all over the place, though. You can be sad and not be depressed, and you can be stressed without having an anxiety disorder. Doctors should be more rigorous and not default to antidepressants for every patient they see.
My ideal language is something like F# but with HKTs, trait, macros, union types (without discriminator), basically most features dotty aka scala 3 introduced.
1. Python's list slicing and indexing is the perfect mix of simplicity, intuition and power. It is surprising how few languages have similar implementations.

2. Currying like in Haskell.
It's more about the granularity of the architecture than it is any specific technology used within it.
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"Just only follow the accounts that interest you" is the lie we were all fed when we were forced off RSS and onto Twitter.

It's just not true, politics and verified accounts creep through the woodwork like a silverfish infestation sooner or later no matter who you follow. Either by algorithm or by someone you followed for a different reason turning their account into a politics account.

Twitter could have a global switch to turn all this stuff off but chooses not to because the power to show you this stuff is more desirable than providing you a stress free space.
They are much more complex, but ultimately, a machine. Without admin access or an operating manual. We don't understand how it works.

It's kind of like trying to put a rocket into space in the stone/bronze age. Or figuring out the Google codebase if it was handed to you in Assembly.
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> Cloudflare stole this from SGI, who patented the idea.

Why the accusation that Cloudflare stole this? The patent expired in 2016 and Cloudflare acknowledges SGI on their page.
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The description reminds me a bit of learning classifier systems.

Edit: and a bit of fuzzy rule systems. Which just goes to suggest that I am probably well out of my depth.
I was more thinking of correctness - static typing + memory safety would reduce likelihood of runtime errors.
I’ve been checking periodically and they finally removed the data from this vector. It was up for at least 12 hours longer than the rest of the site.
It is not sarcastic - my bank (ING) has these in the forms, for instance when getting started with their stock buying program.
I use Duck Duck Go’s video search. Most results are from YouTube, but it completely solves this problem (to the point where I didn’t even know YouTube bubbling was a thing for most people).
Yes, this definitely happens. The incentive system should align with good behavior, otherwise you get massive gaming of the performance system. I've seen this in a few companies I've been at, moreso the large ones because no one can keep complete track of everyone's gaming of the system.
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I guess a question I have is how does a platform promote "truthful" content when only user actions are present (voting, viewing, subscribing, etc.) with resorting to an omnipresent, final "arbiter of truth" or "presenting all view points as equal"?
There should be an annual twitter holiday where they shut off all blue checkmarks to celebrate the hapless masses that constitute the bulk of the social capital behind the checkmark itself.
Body cameras are still a form of surveillance even if you agree with it.
I agree function builders have a lot of potential for abuse. But I prefer to take a "with great power comes great responsibility" approach over saying a feature should _never_ be allowed in a language.

If I'm promoting a DSL that makes heavy use of something like function builders, I should provide robust documentation so other developers know what to expect. And those developers should, on the other hand, at least skim the docs in order to get a basic understanding of how the DSL works. If someone goes through the trouble of providing docs to accompany a DSL, and a downstream developer doesn't bother to read them, is that really the original developer's fault?
> it seems like Covid-19 has proved a surprising number of preppers right in some sense

Right in some senses, wrong in others. The world went a little crazy, but there wasn't a total collapse of society. Grocery stores still have food in them, the world still turns.
If these actually eliminate the need for prescription ground lenses, that's it: killer app that will eliminate the prescription eye glasses industry as we know it, immediately placing Apple at the revenue and control peak. With everything taking place in manufacturing, I'm surprised dynamic precision shaped lenses are not already here.
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China is looked down for its draconian surveillance. However US is just another side of the same coin.

Our big Tech FAANG loves gobbling up everything they can get their hands upon in the name of training AIs that shove more personalized creepy ads.
Its funny though, as I am personally switching to scala 3 for the features I mentioned. I find the features particularly handy for building distributed systems using Akka. And I wished they'd get tooling just right out of the bat. (sbt doesn't seem great)