It’s funny because that is a guy with enough sense to both see what is going on and also not short it, because he knows that none of this actually matters with regard to stock performance for a properly frothy investor class.
It’s really not though. There is no personalized algorithm, which is 98% of the issue with social media. It may seem pedantic, but it’s like saying a horse and a car are essentially the same thing, the car just has an engine.
The personalized algorithm is not the root issue though. The root issue is that social media sites live by increasing engagement of its viewers. Because of this, they all get away from the original stated purpose of bringing people together, and go all in on maximizing engagement by increasingly shady ways. Of course, the personalized algorithm is a huge one, but there are also things like "Show HN" controlling what is on the front page, selectively taking down flagged material. Remember, HN has advertisements as well, and will regularly post job ads for positions in startups. They know that outright going in the direction of 'personalized algorithm' would alienate their viewerbase, so they avoid it, but still do all of the other practices that social media sites do.
I think it can be argued that, because human interests are so different and fractal, there's only so much damage that can be done with non-personalized algorithm. Ads for a certain demographic will just alienate the other demographic. But with personalized algorithm, the poison can be customized for each person and be more fatal.
Not necessarily, if the effect was due to exposure to levels beyond what you’d even get in sunnier climates. It also could be possible those in sunnier climates do experience this effect and it was unnoticed, due to political and socioeconomic issues associated with typical equatorial countries
My read was they were not saying they’re actually, literally, the same, but for the purposes of prioritization there’s no point in differentiating feature from bug when you use the same “how does this impact my products value to users” as the deciding factor for what gets scoped.
It’s an interesting insight but I’m also not sure it’s valuable in practice. Sort of like “we’re just bags of chemicals that tricked rocks into thinking”.
>but for the purposes of prioritization there’s no point in differentiating feature from bug when you use the same “how does this impact my products value to users” as the deciding factor for what gets scoped.
Then they could just say that, not that in general "a feature is the same as a bug" without qualification.
This is nice. Friday demos with your partner is a little weird by my standards but when you’re in love you’re allowed to do weird things. Totally agree with OP, when you find true partnership, you really don’t feel the need to seek validation from other people in your life.
> you really don’t feel the need to seek validation from other people in your life.
This might be confusing the lack of need for validation with the lack of need for other people. Sure, taking confidence from your partner is wonderful but it's not "seeking validation" to maintain other relationships.
Putting everything on one person can quickly become codependency and enmeshment. At some level some codependency/enmeshment is inevitable ("healthy interdependence") when you spend your time with one person, however it can also be very unhealthy.
You can lose your own identity, and end up putting all your needs on the other person. That makes conflict difficult, distance difficult, and you lose your support network.
I think Friday demos are really cute, and a healthy relationship can certainly touch on all areas, but it's important to invest in both other relationships (friends/family/partners) AND yourself. Investing in time with yourself means investing in your hobbies, doing things just for you and maintaining that individual identity.
Other posters have said something similar, but I wanted to be more direct: nobody should ever seek validation from outside of themselves (not that I don't have problems with this, I am just saying how it should be).
It's inevitable in childhood, but the parents' role is to create an independent individual. This often not the case, so we see ourselves in need of validation from our spouses, bosses, etc. and it can cause people to stay in bad working or personal relationships.
The trick is to be proud of yourself in an all-encompassing form, admit where you are not good at and improve, if you want to. Advice is welcome but critique should not lessen how you feel about yourself.
Just my 2c and what my experience in life taught me.
This is young love, puppy love. People at such stage of a relationship find everything facinating. I think there is a hormone that makes them forget or not care how gushy and idiotic such things appear to outsiders. Give it a year and the author will quietly delete the article.
I was in the throes of this 30 years ago and gave a quote to a friend writing an article about hacker culture that was overly sappy about my new partner. The relationship is long-since dead but that damned quote is still there. (At least it was an article that I doubt a lot of people read...)
I agree this is just young love. They’ve known each other less than a year. It’s either honeymoon phase or deep codependency. I hope the former.
> there is a hormone that makes them forget or not care how gushy and idiotic such things appear to outsiders
Honestly, it’s sad that people outside these relationships feel that way. Young love is great and anyone lucky enough to experience it should not be ashamed of it, then or later.
I would imagine because at scales where most folks use parquet files, you’re generally no longer really thinking in terms of individual diffs to your data (and also does imply some level of batch processing, vs e.g. a DB).
We have some custom data diff tools at my ultracorp that provide a browsable interface, but the customer tends to be more operations folk than engineers or DS etc who would be more familiar with actual version control concepts. But these work against the data store and not on something like csv or parquet.
Sorta? Maybe I'm weird. I tend to use Parquet files inside my project instead of reading directly from and writing directly to our data warehouse. That lets me cut out a lot of overhead spent on just waiting for data to flow over the network, and also as a side benefit lets me track everything with DVC, which itself has a lot of benefits like being able to summon all project data with `dvc pull`.
I consider that a completely distinct use case from, say, Iceberg tables in S3.
I thought similarly, but the article actually was published prior to Backrooms movie release and popularity, though there is a nod they were aware the concept was being optioned to A24. Though I agree, “defining” might be a bit strong.
It’s not useless though. It allows you to engage your default mode network, which is otherwise insanely suppressed in the barrage of constant stimulation that is modern life.
It’s because for whatever reason a large number of doctors do not fundamentally believe some of these conditions exist (especially with syndromes with no clearly understood underlying cause).
I could not tell you the number of doctors who have rolled eyes at the mention of ehlers danlos and hypermobility disorders.
I’ll also agree with you, this is not a topic that needs nuance, it’s as straightforward as fuck the billionaire class.
If you want nuance, the obvious answer to this is that the rules that apply at our level do not apply to them. Raising money is an inevitability and does not require any fundamental basis other than the name behind it.
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