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by Gravyness 5y ago
If the model starts having "racial bias" then the answer is to remove the "race" and "skin color" parameters and opensource it, not make propaganda against machine learning because it has biases. Of course it h
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Understanding the bias of the author is important: He is an optimistic guy who dislikes capitalism and has been writing some posts critizing crypto for a while. Seems to be someone focused on macro economy.
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Went looking for conclusions and found that: >After nine months of compiling data, they found that China’s Great Firewall currently blocks around 311,000 domains, with 270,000 blocks working as intended, while 41,000 domains appear to ha
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by Gravyness 5y ago
I disagree. He's not cancelable because his followers don't have the "cancelling" mindset. "He says mean things" is not a convincing argument.
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Password were easy to guess so they now must contain two special character, spaces, commas and at least one key that is not in your keyboard. In the end it doesn't even matter because passwords are useless. Why is security becoming thi
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by Gravyness 5y ago
I hate to be this condescending but why is this not just ordinary laziness? Do we really need to go to a doctor so that we hear that we have a problem, and we might need medicine, to focus? Isn't it more likely that a constant stream o
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by Gravyness 5y ago
> I'm really surprised such an attack hasn't happened already. If you count npm packages this happened quite a few times already. People (who don't understand security very well) seems to be migrating to python now.
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Much like games life is full of challenges. Games are just easier than life because their rules are pre-defined. I was an addict gamer not long ago. I thought myself one of the very best at the game and one day it became meaningless, boring
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by Gravyness 5y ago
> But sooner or later, this will become an untenable position. Why can't the "decision makers" make the decision to disregard everyone who isn't a decision maker?
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Angering the wrong people in the past got you killed, today it just gets you banned from the internet. Edit: I also got banned from instagram recently for no reason, this pratice of self doxxing where they say "Whoops something went wr
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Sometimes the client of the project you're working on just wants to know what they're paying for.
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by Gravyness 5y ago
If big smartphone companies like google or apple decided they could do this literally tomorrow.
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by Gravyness 5y ago
Fascinating. To me this just speaks about how humans did not evolve to create large, complex societies of the current scale we have in the world. Its like electing a group of 5 people to represent and speak for the entire world in case an a
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by Gravyness 5y ago
What's an awesome bar?
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by Gravyness 5y ago
yes, if only we came to that conclusion before! This virus kills 0.01% of one group of people and 8% of another. We should really learn to use statistic to direct our limited efforts efficiently.
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by Gravyness 5y ago
> Most people prefer lighting from the left when resolving a convex–concave ambiguity, and this preference may be stronger for right-handed people. interesting, that's probably why box shadows are primarily to the bottom right in we
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by Gravyness 5y ago
You can't do that because of the anti-anti-anti-fingerprinting, I know this because of reasons
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by Gravyness 5y ago
You can download an css injection extension for this in minutes. I love this simplicity about hackernews. Try that on google, twitter, reddit, instagram and you'll see html elements with classes like "_9AhH0" that change dail
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by Gravyness 5y ago
True, a better would be: "WebGL is used for fingerprinting on most major websites" But if we wanted to create click bait: "Most major website implement browser fingerprinting that completely disregard VPNs and the Browser&#x2
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by Gravyness 5y ago
I propose a "This website wants to use WebGL" browser dialog before returning `getContext("webgl")`
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by Gravyness 5y ago
This tracking method (WebGL) disregards VPNs, user agent changes and incognito mode. Browser fingerprinting is the ability of the website you are accessing to differentiate between you and other people because of a "fingerprint":
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by Gravyness 6y ago
Please show you typing with it :)
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by Gravyness 6y ago
Hmm, how odd that there is a convenient list of conspiracies... wait a second! This list was made by lizard people to tell me what to believe! These green looking humanoid were the ones who planted the Illuminati! They're aliens, I tel
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by Gravyness 6y ago
It seems that The Guardian is trying to fight Facebook. This is the second article today, here's the other: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777374 I don't assume malevolence on Facebook's part, it just
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by Gravyness 6y ago
What's up with this articles that jump into "facebook is evil" so fast? Its obvious that a huge, worldwide company is slow to address manipulative ads in small communities.
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by Gravyness 6y ago
The world is terrible at creating software because the developers are the last to be paid.
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by Gravyness 6y ago
If paper is so cheap, how come books be so expensive?
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by Gravyness 6y ago
I wonder what's up with the lack of discussion going around here on hacker news.
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by Gravyness 6y ago
For some reason the OP's link failed so here's an image: https://i.imgur.com/kG6z9gK.png I got a bit paranoid when I got the "Sorry something went wrong" page
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by Gravyness 6y ago
What can we (as a society) do with this kind of people?

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