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by adamsb6 4y ago
Their models just weren't that useful: https://towardsdatascience.com/effect-of-cambridge-analytica... > Sumpter analyzed the accuracy of Cambridge Analytica’s regression models in his book ‘Outnumbered.’ He used a
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I won't rehash the A/B discussion, there's plenty of other people talking about it. The Cambridge Analytica thing probably didn't have a meaningful impact on the elections. Facebook was dumb to allow partner apps access
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I left Facebook in March after having worked there for seven years. It was always a struggle to hire enough engineers to accomplish my team's goals, and it only got worse as time went on. We didn't have a terrible on-call or terri
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by adamsb6 4y ago
If you want to work on interesting massive-scale infra problems there are few better places than Meta.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Starting around 2016 the New York Times decided that coverage had to be negative: https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192 Consider how this may have helped you to develop your opinion.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Look at this graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS See the discontinuity? That's not an artifact of changes to how money supply is measured. It's a real, unprecedented increase in the money supply.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
High speed ferry to offshore platform? That should address both noise and safety. All the check-in gets handled on shore, then a fifteen minute ride out to the platform on a high speed ferry, 20 minutes to onboard, then 30 minutes to any ot
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by adamsb6 4y ago
If you hire people that can't 80/20 their way to learning a new framework or language within a few weeks, what are you going to do with those folks when you need to adopt some new framework or language? Replace them? Halt developm
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Yes. At a previous gig we had alarms that would fire when we were making too much money, because it probably meant something had gone wrong and we were over-serving ads, which was bad for long term user engagement.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I think the difference is the interface. The interface to the shared-use datacenter, if you're lucky, is a spreadsheet that declares the static resources you own and a remote hands guy that can tackle things beyond the capabilities of
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by adamsb6 4y ago
That any disparity between any demographic groups is wholly attributable to bias.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I've never worked in this space, but I'm curious about the need for massive egress. What's driving the need to bring all that data back to the institution? Could whatever actions have to be performed on the data also be perfo
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Truly religious people value their religion and its values over the pursuit of profit.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Laws are not the only way that government can violate your rights. If a random cop stops by your house and tells you to take down the sign on your lawn, the government has violated your rights. The allegations in the article are of that sor
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by adamsb6 4y ago
The article isn't about the harm caused by failing to adopt the Great Barrington Declaration. Its assertion is that the government was meeting with companies in an effort to get them to suppress the Great Barrington Declaration and oth
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I think the original title, "The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime," is more accurate and no more link-baity than yours. The article is about traditional media as well as tech companies and social media.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Does the author have a fixed IP? If not, figure out how to get a new one and see if the blocking recurs. If it does, the bad activity is probably coming from inside the house -- or CloudFlare has a way to identify you across an IP change.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought Facebook's solution to the Washington law was to no longer run political ads in Washington. Testing this out right now, from my home in Washington, if I try to create an ad and mark it as po
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by adamsb6 4y ago
This is exactly why. It's also not just the interpreter, it's also one-time costs involved in unpacking PAR files, but deploys are frequent enough that you might hit those delays many times per day.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I don't understand how these records were sent, and how it was confirmed they weren't deleted. It can't be tracking info, Facebook doesn't give access to such things outside the company, so the authors wouldn't have
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by adamsb6 5y ago
Agreed, there's a lot of unthinking Sinophobia. I wish we had visa-less travel so more people could visit and see that it's not a scary place. It's a different system for sure, and you can be jailed for saying certain things,
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by adamsb6 5y ago
Why would Shanghai police care to manufacture opinion abroad? I consume a decent amount of news and rarely see Shanghai mentioned in American newspapers. Or is this supposed to be one part of a larger effort, tasked to work on stories that
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by adamsb6 5y ago
There are a lot of incurious paint-by-numbers doctors in the US. Doing your job by rote won't get you fired.
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by adamsb6 5y ago
Most examples of nominative determinism don't cover both first and last names. This is like a geologist being named Rocky Fields. And if Mr. Hillhouse has even the smallest sense of humor about himself I'm sure he enjoys the coinc
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by adamsb6 5y ago
There are many problems in the world that only a handful of companies have. You could make money joining those companies and helping them solve the problem as an employee. You could potentially make much more money by creating a company tha
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by adamsb6 5y ago
When I've joined startups in the past they've been up front about their exit strategies during interviews. Everyone knows that they're making a risky bet that might end with the company folding or might result in a big windfa
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by adamsb6 5y ago
In the US overtime pay is already guaranteed by law, unless you're salaried.
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by adamsb6 5y ago
> I wish I could put money into an account that would then only disburse small amounts of it over the year, and I couldn’t override that. Work for a company with stock trading blackout periods. Setup a 10b5-1 plan to periodically sell yo
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by adamsb6 7y ago
I’ve worked at a couple of mid-late stage startups and currently at a FAANG and I’ve observed very few engineers that I would put in the “bro” category. I don’t know how this became the stereotype when nerd is still the dominant character c
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by adamsb6 7y ago
The alternative sources in the post still aren’t at gender parity, though they do show a higher percentage of women. If you can hire equal amounts of men and women from those sources then you’ll move your metric up, but you won’t get to 50%

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