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by Maro 4y ago
If you read Cal Newport's biography, he works in academia, he has never worked a 9-5 industry job, eg. at Meta or any other (software) company. CMIIW. So, he doesn't really have any personal experience to comment on what works or
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by Maro 4y ago
Hey man, don't worry, it will be all right! About ~10 years ago in 2012-2013, within a ~6 month period (i) my startup [1] which I've been doing for 4 years failed / we shut it down (ii) my wife left me (we've been togeth
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by Maro 4y ago
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Our-Problem-Self-Help-Societies...
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by Maro 4y ago
Multiple format options (ebook, audiobook) here: https://waitbutwhy.com
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Waitbutwhy creator Tim Urban's new book is out(twitter.com)
4 points by Maro 4y ago|2 comments
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by Maro 4y ago
High quality knifes (eg. Victorinox, Winkler): https://winklerknives.com/ Rotring metal pens and pencils: https://www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B00AZX0GOM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_... High quality leather
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by Maro 4y ago
To me it feels like the range of $90k-900k is for all SWE IC levels, whereas the job post is specifically for L5. It cannot be that the range is so broad for a specific SWE level. By posting the overall range of SWE, the whole exercise beco
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by Maro 4y ago
I once worked at a startup and reported to the CTO. This guy was a genuinely smart guy, a little bit of a genius, in the sense that he had a knack for approaching problems from a different perspective and coming up with different/creat
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by Maro 4y ago
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-fire-emplo...
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Elon Musk's letter to all Twitter employees
11 points by Maro 4y ago|14 comments
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by Maro 4y ago
Facebook (and Google Search) are the most widely used software on Earth, ~3-4B MAUs each. I don't know what else something needs to do to qualify for "world runs on [it]".
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by Maro 4y ago
Many libraries have this, eg. Prophet. The technical term is 'external regressor'.
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Ask HN: Data Scientists, what libraries do you use for timeseries forecasting?
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by Maro 4y ago
I don't know if this will help you, but I'll try to give you a possible way out. It's in line with Feynman's famous "shut up and calculate" advice on QM. Field theory and QFT in themselves are mathematical fram
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by Maro 4y ago
I studied queueing theory at school 20 years ago for my CompSci degree. Last year I implemented a QT model (relatively simple version of M/M/1) to control the queueing length at a very large chain of hypermarkets (core mechanism:
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by Maro 4y ago
Classically, isn't the reverse program just (?): X = 5 X = 4 I feel like 2 things are being mixed. In QM/QC, the operators must be unitary, which roughly means they "rotate" states and their inverse "rotation"
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by Maro 4y ago
Assuming Android: your pictures may be "parsed" by Google once they make it into Google Photos. Also, Meta may think that "parsing" the images in your local Whatsapp folder of Google Photos (or all of your local images)
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by Maro 4y ago
Yes, this is a bit similar to my 3. option, but more sophisticated..
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by Maro 4y ago
Disclaimer: I worked at FB, but not on Whatsapp or ads. I agree, I'm pretty sure 2. is not the case; I just listed it as a theoretical possibility. Despite all the bad press and problems, FB has very (very) high integrity and standards
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by Maro 4y ago
Whatsapp FAQ: WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is used when you chat with another person using WhatsApp Messenger. End-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to what is sent,
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by Maro 4y ago
Some options: 1. Nobody is reading your WA messages, the same topics can be learned from your browsing activity or other msgs, eg. by reading your sms texts. 2. Meta is reading your messages directly in-transit, server-side. 3. Meta is not
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by Maro 4y ago
I'm 41, originally from Hungary. I live 5,000 km / 5 hr flight away from my parents in Dubai, and only see them a couple times per year. This is great because they're toxic. When I do meet them, often I (or we, if my wife is
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by Maro 4y ago
I agree that the sweeping statement "had all the math done by his wife Mileva Marić Einstein" is too much. Also, they got divorced at some point and Einstein didn't stop working then; although they were married in the miracl
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by Maro 4y ago
Shameless plug: https://bytepawn.com/culture-docs-facebook-netflix-and-valve...
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by Maro 4y ago
I was in London. As far as I remember, speakers showed up and were very professional. I distinctly remember, FB feeled like a hedge fund [1] and a startup [2] had a baby. [1] Lots of people in shirts, lots of people making a lot of money, c
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by Maro 4y ago
I worked at FB in 2016-17. The bootcamp _was_ amazing, but we didn't go live on day #2. (Maybe this was true earlier.) I think I got something live on week #2. Day #2 was not realistic, you need to set up the macbook, accounts, receive
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by Maro 4y ago
I think the article's second part is missing the point [where a bunch of tools are recommended to remove metadata from eg. pdf files]. I suspect by "metadata" the general meant: A is a verified terrorist, B communicates a lot
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I wasn't stressed about the auto-upload. I was stressed because half my baby's face went paralyzed. The fact that the pics/videos get auto-uploaded and Google scans them didn't occur to me until I read the OP.
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Europe. Blood test happened already, nothing found.
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As a parent, I feel for this fellow parent. About 10 days ago, my 3 year old son developed Bell's palsy in a period of 24 hours. This means the right side of his face became paralyzed, for no good/known reason. Most cases of Bell&

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