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by apostacy 6y ago
> What percentage of the "general population" do you think has ever used FTP. Access to a feature is a feature. I have not had to change a tire in over a decade, but my unused spare tire in my car's trunk is actually being
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by apostacy 6y ago
I strongly suspect that the author of this article does not have much background or interest in AI, and is merely part of a push to politicize it. I have spoken to people who are adamant that AI is racist and needs to be forced to change, b
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by apostacy 6y ago
> What is arbitrary about it? do you assume that because you don't have a list of their rules of engagement, that you don't have the "warrant" for these takedowns yourself, that it is arbitrary and politically biased
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by apostacy 6y ago
> I understand the gut feeling to be suspicious of any large org to filter information. People on this very thread are screaming "censorship!" as if they were Orwell in the streets warning us the end is nigh. I mean, these comp
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by apostacy 6y ago
I thought my comment was pretty clear. Most of the tools for trying to extract information about people by how they write is helpful. An example from the list is "Gender Detection from Names" under the "Discrimination" h
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by apostacy 6y ago
Trying to build in safeguards before deploying anything is an unreasonable standard, and would severely cripple the good work that many of us are trying to do. I have worked on crime analysis software to help people. It is important to me t
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by apostacy 6y ago
This list presents an incredibly pessimistic and alarmist view on these technologies, assuming only worst case abuses. And I don't know what solutions are advocated, so it feels like it is just against these technologies in general. An
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by apostacy 6y ago
> It's not conspiracy theories, it's any story about a big company doing something bad or evil. Or any story that confirms the worldview of the most active HN commenters. > Any story about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Googl
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by apostacy 6y ago
> Most of the bullshit that is circulating on the internet at the moment, for example as it relates to the pandemic say is balls to the wall craziness along the lines of bill gates inserting microchips in your brain or 5G infecting you w
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by apostacy 6y ago
Telling people to buy a mask last February was dangerous misinformation that threatened to cause a panic. Facebook expat groups in China were trying to get the word out, and were deleted with extreme prejudice. Obviously, they were right, a
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by apostacy 6y ago
While I do think that there is a lot of hype and "productivity porn", there's a good 10% of it that is really on to something. There is obviously an itch that needs scratching in personal knowledge base software. That has cer
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by apostacy 6y ago
Yeah I usually have no open tabs at the end of a session. The point is that with the right tools, you can bulk capture the essence of what you were browsing without letting clutter accumulate.
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by apostacy 6y ago
I'm sorry to hear that Nobody should have to wade through 1500+ tabs. It's frustrating to hear anyone struggle with that in this day and age. I've been there myself. But there are technical solutions. I haven't had to de
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by apostacy 6y ago
Visual Basic was one of the first languages I learned, and I was able to quickly make complex graphical applications. I feel like we have regressed in a lot of ways. Contrast building a GUI app in 1990 vs 2020. Compare Visual Basic to somet
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by apostacy 6y ago
Back in 2010, a teacher spied on a student through the webcam on a school issued laptop, and called the police when they thought they saw them taking drugs (it was candy). I can't imagine how bad it has gotten now https://ww
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by apostacy 6y ago
> Interestingly, Black students in the United States are subject to disciplinary action at rates much higher than their white counterparts. These disciplinary actions put students at higher risk for negative life outcomes, including invo
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by apostacy 6y ago
They have wanted to kill the URL for a long time. The mask often slips. There have been so many half baked attempts trotted out, and nobody liked them. every browser has tried de-emphasizing the URL, and Chrome even tried completely elimina
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by apostacy 6y ago
Stenotype might very well be on the way out, but I still want every trial transcript to be edited by an actual human with expert training and who is strictly regulated and held responsible. I'm fine with lawyers using software to optim
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by apostacy 6y ago
I think it's also that court reporters are legal officers of the court. They have some legal training, and are highly regulated. They can be held responsible for what happens, in the same way as other court officers, like court clerks.
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by apostacy 6y ago
Actually, it's more like the court reporter is the official witness. They are attesting to what happened in the courtroom. The actual instrument that the reporter uses is much less important. And trials have the audio recorded anyway.
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by apostacy 6y ago
Can confirm. My uncle is a stenographer, I learned all about it. If I remember correctly, just to get his license he had to hit 270w/m. He said he can get up to about 300w/m. The raw transcripts are composed of shorthand codes, an
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by apostacy 6y ago
But I think that quote is usually invoked by people when they blatantly disregard the wishes of their customers. It's just a way to justify "screw the users, they have no idea what they want, I know what they want, because I'
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by apostacy 6y ago
Actually, a case might be made that Facebook be required to carry political advertisements. One thing that springs to mind is how the NYC Subway system was forced to carry Zionist ads. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012&#x2
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by apostacy 6y ago
At what point would you say Facebook is big enough that they need to be regulated? In The Philippines, Facebook has a de-facto monopoly on communication. There are only two major cellphone companies (Globe and Smart), and they essentially j
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by apostacy 6y ago
For people defending Verizon censoring things, would you still defend Verizon so vigorously if they were bowing to Conservative groups and blocking text messages related to women's health? Because they actually did that. [1] It's
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by apostacy 6y ago
> The government forces me to fund speech I hate? Yup. You already do it anyway with many other platforms. "Nazis" are still entitled to cellphones and mailing addresses. And you help subsidize them. And that is a good thing. H
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by apostacy 6y ago
It will surely increase China's influence over the WHO itself, but so what? It will substantially decrease the influence of the WHO in general. It is likely that Australia and other countries will cut funding as well. The real story ma
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by apostacy 6y ago
Has it just been decided by Twitter now that the truth is that mail in ballots are 100% secure and anyone questioning our election integrity is just spreading dangerous misinformation? Seriously? It seems like a really open-ended thing to f
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by apostacy 6y ago
> Eh? Twitter bans accounts _all the time_. It hides stuff from search, and hides potentially explicit content behind an "are you sure you want to see this?" Right, so why are they trying to claim that they are a neutral platfo
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by apostacy 6y ago
If I remember correctly, there was never any conclusive proof that voting fraud happened with the insecure Diebold voting machines in 2004.[1] Those machines stored voting tallies on unencrypted compact flash cards, and there were massive o

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