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by Cacti 8y ago
None of those people are lawyers, and asking Snowden and Greenwald is like asking a defendants mother if their kid did it.
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One more new cloud service intended to fix what’s wrong with existing cloud services. At what point do you just go back to traditional app architecture with normal servers?
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If you have no specific case to point to then what the hell are you talking about? You can’t just make up hypothetical scenarios and then blame someone for something that never happened. Also, while we are at it, how ridiculously simplistic
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a customer acceptance fight is a shitty way to go
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Well, it sounds like they turned off the autopilot but then turned it back on, which is not part of the checklist. It’s not clear from the reporting exactly what happened and I would hesitate to jump to conclusions. Accidents like this are
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My understanding is that the recovery scenario wasn’t supposed to be complicated at all, because in the event of a MCAS failure, it would always manifest as a runaway trim scenario, and that pilots are trained heavily on recognizing as corr
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No, why would you? It’s typically highly, highly proprietary.
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It was largely true in the US and EU. Unfortunately everyone is so happy to crap on Boeing (in some cases deservedly, in some cases not) that they forget the carriers bear a significant share of the blame here, particularly after the first
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So what does it pay then?
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Yes, because that was the exact crash that led to a number of improvements in air safety in the US...
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There has been one death in the past decade of US commercial flights. One in a decade of over 90 million flights.
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That journalist is not disagreeing, they are simply stating that they don’t remember a time like this in the 4 years he covered them. That is very different from what you are implying.
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These people have spent their entire life in the Valley, they don't know any better.
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When an adult chimp kills another adult chimp and doesn’t eat them, is that not because of beliefs? There are many animals that don’t eat everything that comes their way, and it is clearly a conscious decision.
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More like “nukes are safer when we control them and the rest of you cite them”
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But a Mechanical Turk is traceable and definitely not anonymous. Using a self contained model somewhere on a server/cluster/workstation could be. Regarding an agenda, sure, good pasta is fine and all, and regular ol people are fin
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No, a more effective PR stunt would be to release the model, and better ones, and make it so easy any idiot could use them. THAT would catch the attention of Congress, and THAT would result in funds and lesiglation to combat it. This won’t
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You’re fooling yourself if you think there are no significant uses of text generation. Fake news, propaganda, advertising, fake reviews, fake everything. Fabricated email from friends family and colleagues. Whole online communities fabricat
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No one is saying "I demand everyone do it." There are two points: - If they are going to publish the research, and want to claim it as research (which they will, either by submitting it to a conference or putting on arxiv for the
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> - The _whole point_ is that our model is not special and that other people can reproduce and improve upon what we did. We hope that when they do so, they too will reflect about the consequences of releasing their very powerful text gen
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No one uses or needs ML for overfitting 4 variables. You can do that with regular statistics just fine. And how you interpret ML results is just as fraught with error as any statistical argument—just because the technique gives you some res
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Not even the people who write the software understand what patterns are being found. All they can do is point to the results that seem good at a glance. This isn’t really true. For example, we can pass in an image to a convolutiona
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Burying the spying disclosure in the TOS, and obfuscating the language used to describe that spying, is attempted secrecy. Also, it’s irrelevant, because disclosure of potentially illegal acts doesn’t make them any more legal (“but I told t
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It's a good question, and the answer is very likely "yes". I have no doubt they will be to export these systems to other politically- or economically- or militarily- friendly countries, once they've developed the dataset
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The US, despite all its flaws, still has legal and political structures to prevent the worst abuses. Not all, and not for everyone, but in general people do have actual, real rights. Say what you will about the US political process, but if
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During the mid GOP primaries, Trump was starting to pull ahead, to the disbelief of nearly everyone. Newt Gingrich was on TV at that point and asked about the likelihood of Trump actually capturing the nomination, and he said, I think very
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Possibly, sure. Depends on what IP blocks it has and how well known they are. Ultimately there is great incentive to track any retail VPN service, even the less well known ones.
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You can run the DNS through your VPN and have it use secure DNS outside of your home ISP, and then cache the DNS results on a DNS server at home. It's not perfect but leaks will end up being pretty minimal, even in accidental situation
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I mean, unless you're going through additional effort, you're still identifiable through a VPN. Any web tracking, whether through cookies or through fingerprinting, still works just fine. At best you're merely making it more
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I agree with you, but, to be clear, the issue isn't VPNs, it's that the VPNs you are using are also used by spammers/bots/etc. or a large amount of other people. If you set up your own VPN somewhere that is just used by

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