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Without the ads business, Twitter will be operating at huge loss, much larger than recent times. The best way to monetize attention is through ads. I'm not saying that I am happy with that, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest tha
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by axg11 4y ago
Isn’t the use case the ability to change the encryption key in case it’s compromised?
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This is false. Not that it matters to the wider argument but UK has plenty of power projection capabilities to mount an offensive in Morocco. Morocco is even within reasonable distance for the UK to run sorties from UK air bases, let alone
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Cookies are just completely broken. The EU should never have got involved in the way that it did. No matter how positive the intentions, the web is a worse experience as a result, with marginal privacy gains.
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It would be fascinating to see the design review document and resulting launch metrics for this. Somewhere deep in Google there is a written justification for the previous dark pattern.
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Any strategies for how to make the praise more meaningful? Is it more meaningful if it comes directly from leadership?
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I think you have it half backwards. Existing transportation options and infrastructure are bad. That has meant that travel cost in time and money is too high when compared to the post-pandemic benefit we get from co-working. The internet an
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Ask HN: Do you use tools/software to recognise your employees?
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Why did it happen? Because the average consumer of the apps and logs doesn’t care. Change logs are also another surface that has to be vetted by legal, approved etc. Why do the extra work for no gain?
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A few initial thoughts: - This is a win for the polygon network and USDC adoption - Twitter payouts is a small (in value) but high profile place to start - I can see this being great for use cases where your bank might restrict withdrawals
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I suspect the mechanism driving this goes all the way down to basic biology. Everything is a spectrum. Take gene regulation networks or protein-protein interaction networks. They are both extremely complex and nonlinear. Perturbations to on
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Bingo. Filter bubbles are nothing new. Newspapers are lo-fi filter bubbles. Each newspaper occupied a different part of the political spectrum with its own biases. The concept of "following" is also a filter bubble. People will na
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For sure - @arshamg_ on Twitter. DMs are open.
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This is only possible for content that is flagged in a binary way. Most of these systems will also have a score for content and up/down rank the content based on the score. Using a score is actually a way to reduce the harm done by the
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I work on FAANG-scale recommender systems. Most of the time, due to the scale of the problem, the algorithms powering these systems are not anywhere near state of the art. On the other hand, they are highly optimised for the situation. You
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> West wants to have reliable access to chips without potential war with China. The West also wants reliable access to chips _despite_ war with China.
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I found some of these genuinely interesting and useful, so thanks. Overall I don't see a reason to come back to the website and not interested in the newsletter format. Nevertheless, I think you can turn this into _something_ if you ar
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I disagree. If it’s on the web it should be fair game. These models are not directly cutting and pasting, it’s my opinion that they’re learning some higher level features and attributes. Admittedly, not everyone shares that opinion. Humans
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The authors of the Dall-E 2 / unCLIP paper describe some of their efforts to mitigate biases in the paper. ML models will always exhibit the biases present in their training dataset, without intervention. It's not really possible
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This is a cute question. Not today! I hope someone comes back to read this question in 10-15 years time, when we will all have the ability to train Dall-E quality models on our AR glasses.
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This is only surprising if you're not familiar with product launches that result from R&D. In this case DALL-E 2 is the consumer-facing name, unCLIP is the name used during research and in this case for publication. OpenAI may also
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by axg11 5y ago
I'm not a journalist but I do sympathize with these types of mistakes in the media. Journalists have two essential parts to their roles: (1) understand the topic, (2) communicate the topic. The issue that comes up again and again is th
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Why assume that all artists are against this? Universal aren't adding watermarks out of pure evil intent and desire to ruin the music industry. They're adding watermarks because they think there is an economic case. It's just
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One aspect I haven't seen mentioned in other comments is that secrecy and control is part of the core Apple culture, in a positive way. Out of all the big tech co's, Apple has the strongest brand and marketing. They have built an
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Generative models cannot do better than a well balanced and representative training dataset. I've worked on generative models in the medical space in the past. If you are looking to use a generative model to fix class imbalance, there
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I think the real long term solution involves compromise from both extreme sides of the climate change debate. I’ll call them left and right here but that’s a vast oversimplification. Right: Climate change deniers will have to acknowledge th
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An interesting perspective, but I think the key difference is that Uber has built no lasting infrastructure. I do agree that Uber has improved the taxi/private vehicle transport industry in essentially every market it entered. In Londo
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I'm the complete opposite to you. I respect your opinion, so I think the question is even more important to ask. I'm not interested in working for a company where everyone is antisocial and the only interaction is through code rev
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Thanks for sharing this. Why do more companies not follow this philosophy? Perhaps one advantage for Netflix is that they’re largely a one-trick pony. They don’t have 20+ products fighting for attention and engineers within the company.
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Direct value: no. Indirect value: there are many facets to every field of maths/science/philosophy and each facet makes progress at a different pace. This type of paper doesn’t have any impact on my day-to-day thinking but I don’t

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