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Consistency is the word here.

Facebook has a policy that they put in place that's fairly reasonable, they have outside fact-checkers they acknowledge as experts. They deliberately set aside the mechanism they put in place to avoid this kind of nonsense.

It is entirely reasonable to expect Facebook to apply the policy that they themselves created in order to avoid having to make these kind of calls.
> How does the foul-smelling substance prevent easily finding the prize cans? I don't get it.

The fluid was used to artificially weight the can so people couldn't easily detect. The foul smell was simply to prevent not-so-bright consumers from trying to drink the fluid.

> Did that fluid actually touch the money? If not, why not make that fluid just also cola?

The fluid was sealed in the can and segregated from the spring loaded payload (money or certificates). So, two chambers: one with fluid for weight decoy, and a second for the payload prize. As for why they didn't just use cola vice chlorinated water, it could have been a number of reasons (e.g. corossivity of cola on the sealed chamber material, cost at scale), but if I had to guess it was that the magican's we produced in a separate facility using separate tooling than the cola filled cans.

I have no idea why I'm spending my time writing this, but I do appreciate the post as I vividly remember being enthralled with the prospect of money popping out of a coke can as a child and wanting to then rip-open the can to see how it worked. Though this never happened for me or any of my friends who were pretty avid coke drinkers back in the day :_(
>Privacy exists in name only.

Given that this information is the companies own info, voluntarily shared as a private business, I wonder if we can make a comparison to free speech and the notion that free speech still exists despite most avenues of communication now being privatized and having control over what speech is allowed. Conceptually, if free speech can still be considered to exist in such a realm, cannot privacy? Yes, you may have to choose to note engage in companies that share their data if you want to keep your privacy, but that is much like what happens if you want to be able to speak without having to follow the limits those companies have in place. This is not to say the arguments are identical, but that there does seem to be similarity in their structure.

If one can takes the argument that you can keep your privacy by just refusing to use airlines, credit cards, hotels, etc. and says that being forced to give up so much to maintain privacy means that privacy is dead (or exists in name only), then shouldn't it also be possible to make the argument that you can keep your free speech as long as you avoid the growing list of companies who refuse to business with individuals who engage in certain forms of speech (especially who do so loudly) mean that free speech is also dead?

If instead the 'private businesses doing what they want' argument wins, then shouldn't it also apply in the case of privacy? That the company sharing whom they are offering a service to doesn't violate privacy because it is information you willingly gave them that they can then give others. (The case where the information is gathered through overly broad warrants stands out as an exception, being that it is forced by the government.)
Has always been a terrible name for "take a guess, then try to come up with a better guess." It's not rocket science. Although rocket scientists probably use it.
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Then it's a library, which I stated in my first comment "If you have a website with a couple of React components here and there, then you have React the library.". I'm mostly just trying to point out was seems to be an aversion to the word framework by the react community, when in most cases it is. It's not bad to be a framework, it has loads of benefits, but it's not a bad word that needs to be reviled at all times.
An awful lot of good teaching is interpersonal. There is a long history of didn't-work's in educational tech and often it is because the hard part is not the material, it is having students form the right mental models. That involves motivating them, adjusting the flow of information, and helping them as they go through a sequence of successive approximations. Basically, at least until now, it involves working with people.

Of course, things can change and this course is certainly very admirable. It will be interesting to see where it goes.
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I wondered the same but the text was also confusing so I thought maybe there was something else there.

At least for me hooks dramatically clean up the code.

Outside of error boundaries (I think those still have to be classes) any new component for me is a function component and if it needs state, has hooks.

Granted I still maintain a lot of class components back from before the days of hooks.
You can come up with a plain text format for any data. The more interesting question is the day to day use.

Right now for most programmers we general work in an editor which does little over the text representation and sometimes edit the first directly as text. We also review code almost entirely as a diff of text. The only exception to this is that we break the text into multiple files and handle each somewhat separately.

This is in start contrast to SAP or Salesforce where the primary interaction is with a specialized UI which treats the "code" more as a graph than text. And dumping to text is primarily used as a backup and is rarely interacted with in that form.
Did they replace a property tax with a tax paid on property?
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And the opposition to climate science was maybe motivated by greed and this strange US obsession with everything that’s harmful to nature or people they don’t like.

But the campaign against science was informed by the previous decades’ obsession with evolution.
Curious what you found difficult to deploy/ configure? Is this in a self-managed context?
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Wow it has been close to a decade since then. Is there a simple made Easy 2? He presents a number of grandiose ideas, it would be interesting to see what he thinks he got right and what went off the rails.
There are a lot of cool advances in AI and physics. In my particular field of condensed matter physics, a number come to mind. One is trying to automatically extract synthesis recipes from the literature. Imagine that you want to see how people have synthesized a given solid state compound. Then searching through the literature can be painful. A great collaboration from MIT/Berkeley did this using NLP. I don't know what blood oaths they signed, but they were able to obtain a huge corpus of articles. But, how to know if an article contains a synthesis recipe? They set up their internal version of Mechanical Turk and had their students label a number of articles. Then they had to find the recipes, represent them as a DAG, etc. They have now incorporated the result with the Materials project (https://materialsproject.org/apps/synthesis/#).

There are groups that are using graph neural networks to understand statistical mechanics and microscopy. There are also a number of groups working on trying to automate synthesis (most of it is Gaussian process based, a handful of us are trying reinforcement learning--it's painful). On the theory side, there is work speeding up simulation efforts (ex. DFT functionals) as well as determining if models and experiment agree (Eun Ah Kim rocks!).

Outside of my field, there has been a push with Lagrangian/Hamiltonian NNs that is really cool in that you get interpretability for "free" when you encode physics into the structure of the network. Back to my field, Patrick Riley (Google) has played with this in the context of encoding symmetries in a material into the structure of NNs.

There are of course challenges. In some fields, there is a huge amount of data--in others, we have relatively small data, but rich models. There are questions on what are the correct representations to use. Not to mention the usual issues of trust/interpretability. There's also a question of talent given opportunities in industry.
I see, of course in physics you have the advantage that the phase space already has a canonical volume form, which coincides with the normal uniform measure if you use canonical coordinates and, amazingly, is preserved by the equations of motion.

In most statistical problems you don't have such a nice measure, and it is always good to keep in mind that choosing a uniform 'improper prior', even implicitly, will mean your choice of coordinates will influence your result.

Edit: Hang on, I just noticed the names on the lecture notes you sent me. Uhlenbeck, Wheeler and Schwinger? That's one heck of a line-up. With the part you linked by Uhlenbeck it seems, I'm going to set aside some time to read that one more carefully.
May I chime in with some more practical experience WRT writing down worries:

- I tried something similar to this Negative Thinking Analysis Form [1]

- In my experience this takes a lot of time, when you try to do it right. You really have to let a thought sink in for a long time to actually find out where it is distorted. And it sometimes even takes longer to find the underlying thought behind a series of thougts and worries.

- But once done the thinking is usually over and sometimes I learned something about the beliefs that underpin my thinking.

[1] http://discoveryoursolutions.com/toolkit/negative_thinking.h...
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I've been running wikis the last 20 years, but I too use static files for note taking, a wiki is not for everything IMHO. Zettelkasten just feel like a low tech wiki to me. Is it really that great or is it just the simplicity that makes you a convert?
There's a bunch of ways which don't involve manual database access? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords
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I definitely would have done that if I had the choice.

However the endpoint owner just insisted I just send nulls for the fields I didn't have.
They'll use the R1102G which has the same power envelope as the T40E released 8 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_proces...
Is there a voting mechanism? who picks the companies
Interesting article. The Null Process seems at least somewhat analogous to the phenomenon described in the essay "The Tyranny of Structureless" [1] (that when people claim there is no hierarchy/structure in a group of people, in truth there is an informal but very powerful hierarchy that's hidden from you and whose rules you are not familiar with). If there are "no processes" in truth there is a process and you don't know its rules because they aren't stated anywhere. Aka the "unspoken expectations" mentioned in TFA.

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[1] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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Solutions are dead simple and they are mostly about discipline and life style. But, you have to believe that they are going to work. Otherwise you will give up quickly before seeing any results.

I heard so many times that writing is effective. But I couldn't believe it until I've forced myself to try it. I think a lot of people are just waiting for a magic course or a pill to solve this issue. But in reality solutions are all those simple things that we've heard many times.

- I set daily goals. I do it every night before going to sleep. I have on average 3 daily goals(Sometimes more). You are guaranteed to achieve something every day. And that's so rewarding that you want to do more

- I write down my goals. It's as effective as having a good friend that keeps you in check.

- I have a Trello board for every side project that I do. Pretty much like a Jira board. I have backlog, in-progress, testing, and done columns. It's like releasing space from your mind. So you don't have to track everything in your head and be busy thinking about them all the time. Also when you are working, you don't have to stop and think what is the next thing to do.

- I've created my home office. I have my own room but it doesn't have to be a room. It's important to keep it consistent. So you train your brain to stay focused when you are at your office. Also your family knows when you aren't available.

- Find healthy hobbies. I do hiking, cycling, and tennis. The time you spend there helps your body and your health. And after a while you enjoy it so much that you don't want to waste your time with social media or video game. I also do it with my wife which keeps her more satisfied as we spend the time together. Happy wife, happy life.

- Find your big time wasting distractions and only do them as a reward for your weekly achievements. Mine was video games and I was really good at it. I started limiting myself to a two-hours session per week. After a while, I have weeks that I don't want to play at all. I just enjoy spend my time playing tennis or go for cycling.

Maintain a good lifestyle. Good food, enough sleep, enough physical activity, rest enough, use your holidays.
In other words, minimize regret.
Recent HN thread Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids [1]. The phone was released in late 2018 by a Chinese manufacturer known for releasing malware [2] in the past:

> The app, named "Weather Forecast-World Weather Accurate Radar," was developed by TCL Corporation, a Chinese electronics company that among other things owns the Alcatel, BlackBerry, and Palm brands.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659871

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-found-preinstalled-on-...
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Edit: I edited this comment to reflect the 'vast majority of cases transferred to adult court are for non-violent offences' - not - 'the vast majority of juvenile cases are waived to adult court' which was my original interpretation.

Only about 1/2 of Juvenile cases are even processed, and a tiny amount, about 0.6% go to adult court. [1]

And if by 'vast majority of cases are for non-violent offences' you mean to say about 1/2 - then that's about right. (About 1/2 of the cases that are waived to adult court involve 'crimes against the person', the other 1/2 are property theft, drugs, public disorder).

That some are for violent offences, some are for other types of crimes is relevant, but less so in the context that very few cases go to adult court.

As for race: Black people are more likely to be waived to 'adult court' but it's mostly a function of the fact they are significantly more likely to be involved in physical crimes against the person, i.e. assault. Though they are overrepresented in all crimes. - for drugs and theft, they are less overrepresented, and White kids, for example are relatively more likely to go to 'adult court' for such crimes (i.e. drugs and theft) given the case rate. Because of the seriousness of violent crimes, which are inherently more likely to be referred to adult court, and the significant overrepresentation of Black kids in that category - more of them in are referred to adult court in relative terms. But the differential between races is small, and, the overall share of cases waived to adult court is quite small.

Again: we have completely different systems for adults and juveniles.

[1] https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/njcda/pdf/jcs2016.pdf
I have questions buzzing through my head.

How does this work?

If it's this good, why aren't VC's already doing this amongst portfolio founders?

How do you catch companies founded at the same time with close valuations to do "shared pools" equitably given all parameters?
And still virtually every single phone released in the past 3 years is bigger than say 140x68cm, which is about the maximum you could call a "small" phone.
All of the Rich Hickey talks I watched (there are many!) are insightful and entertaining. He manages to talk about technical things on a abstract, sometimes philosophical level. I even re-watched some talks after a couple of years and got something new out of them.

One of the most entertaining ones I watched was "Spec-ulation". It is less general than some of the more shared/cited ones but really funny.
@dang has made repeated remarks that the censorship isn’t ideologically driven; I’m commenting that’s false.
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I think this is brilliant, anyone who has been in Berlin knows that having your bike stolen is not a matter of if but when, now we can offload the costs of that onto VCs!
I definitely agree with this. I think this is one of the hardest parts of doing IF. Removing the typical dinner for me personally would be a big change, let alone trying to explain to my partner, family, and friends.
Anyone from Europe will be happy to but a house without closets. They are super uncommon there. If you aren't gonna use a room as a bedroom, it's nice not to lose the space to the closet.
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I mentioned it elsewhere[1], but conveniently VisualEditor should be getting easier to install in an upcoming Mediawiki release (probably 1.35, which is coming next), because of a bunch of parser centralization work. Fingers crossed, but the hassle that you just went through shouldn't be needed soon.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23907291
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Influx laid off pretty much the entire DevRel team in the last 6 months, but ok.
Take aside the crew that does all the filming and editing and the fact that they can have guests like Zuckerberg or Ballmer,and you have a passionate tutor,who is willing to go extra mile. When I was at school, I only had 2 teachers like this- won't forget them for my entire life. At uni, most were so so( as the whole uni itsel) and often more interested in anything but teaching. However, briefly,we had an ex HSBC guy,who was the finance professor. The guy was funny, captivating and knew his shit inside out. When asked why he left banking,he did say he was finding academia more interesting. And he was a perfect fit. A lot of people are good at doing research but they may not be very good teachers,or not at least in the setting most of us are familiar with( large audiences,one guy delivering knowledge). I had a chance to watch som recorded lectures from MIT, Harvard,and some other famous institutions and the quality of teaching some( not all though) manage to deliver is exceptional.
Not true. They upsell things like "early bird", since 2009 for example. And they charged for bicycle boxes as long ago as the early 90's. Charging for bags would use the same setup.

They do have some notable historical challenges though. Like foreign currency. They still cannot do that, despite flying to Costa Rica, Mexico, etc.
For those unfamiliar with the term, it's in the article about two-thirds of the way down.

> Commonly it’s just known as a ‘developer relations’ role (so ‘DevRel’ for short)

No, it's not a typo for Dev Reels, which would be an interesting alternative to open source repositories, but I guess you'd have to get good at video editing first!
The point isn’t to be cynical and say nothing works, it’s to look at what works over the long term (at least >2 years).

The only thing I’ve ever heard of working on this time scale is plain text files. Maybe with some tool over the top to make it easier to manage than just with an editor, but in the end just plain text.
Great advice! I have to say though, I love the irony of the author mentioning reducing investment losses by asking the question "Am I diversifying enough to prevent long term loss?" when Munger+Buffett have the opposite view of diversification for the savvy investor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJzu_xItNkY
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> Removing an article which says ...

This is no different from removing an article which says you shouldn't use vaccines because they are ineffective and cause Autism.

When the facts which are used to back the opinion are false, then the factual portions of that opinion piece are subject to fact checking. Otherwise, there is zero point to having Fact checkers or any sort of moderation.
I will be mentoring/managing an intern, any advice for me?
Later this year I'll be mentoring/managing an intern (rising Junior at a local college). I work for a large-ish company in the Bay Area, but the internship will be entirely remote.

This will be my first time having an intern, so I'm looking for some advice.

General advice is very welcome, but here are some specific questions I have:

- Since we're remote, should I schedule a recurring meeting for us to chat every day? Or should I keep it more free-form?

- How can I help my intern grow technically and professionally?

- Should I ask him for feedback on how I'm doing every couple of weeks?
It's super great! I loved it. Hope to re-read in a year or two as a reminder.

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
This is a really cool way for founders to work together. Would it be organized into rounds or a general pool?
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Ha - great idea. Does it help with memory in any way?
Pardon my ignorance, but is prop drilling a problem once you've bought into Redux or similar?
AI means you have managed to throw a shitton of processing power at a problem and P-hack the shit out your results so it shows you made a significant improvement.
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Maybe the problem isn't so much the text representation but the absence of a canonical representation. If there was a well define canonical representation for any program then it would be trivial to view and edit it in my prefered style without messing up the diffs in the repo.

Code formatters help, some more than others but most are far from producing a canonical format. This means that I either need to edit in the projects prefered style or have my editor carefully track which sections I haven't modified and be sure to write them back exactly as the originally appeared.
> By that logic, Bill Gates should have sold Microsoft to IBM

False analogy, because:

- Software provides the most utility, not the hardware, which is why IBM needed Microsoft more than vice versa, and why Android wouldn't have been nearly as much of a success if they'd been absorbed into a single phone hardware company.

- Google in 2005-2010 was a very different company to IBM in 1980; i.e., much more innovative, fast-moving and highly motivated to grow fast to rival the iPhone.
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You’re disproving your point by noting the Times speaking against this, showing that it was never more than a ridiculous minority opinion.

Additionally, enough time has now passed to assess the danger of these protests. Considering they mostly happened in the large cities of the north, there is absolutely no evidence that they had any major effect in the resurgence of the virus, which is mostly spreading in the south and west. Even there, rural areas are often hit harder than cities.