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by chillacy 6y ago
Context: The claim is that Tik Tok uses an ML model to rate the attractiveness of subjects in videos and uses that as input into a second model to predict a video's potential virality. https://www.tiktok.com/@benthamite
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TikTok uses Facial Beauty as Recommendation Model Input(tiktokbeautiful.com)
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Wow those Facebook comments on the post... nobody on any side is happy. Is moderation an un-winnable position?
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There are so many non-native speakers of english (owing to it being the current international language) I don't even bother correcting grammar anymore in code comments in pull requests anymore. Unless it's like, user facing or som
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by chillacy 6y ago
How do you know the author is a native speaker?
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The essay reads as satirical to me. Especially the ending line: > My sole desire is that when future generations come of age, they will inherit a mature academic tradition, and will not have to travel such long distances and endure these
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Fourth, life is dry and boring, you don’t have friends or family, and you can’t sit around every day talking about the meaning of life. With time, you wind up really lonely, which makes you appreciate the vitality of life in China. W
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by chillacy 6y ago
Searching your phone might be more like searching your mind, as phone usage is almost an extension of your mind: containing notes, photos, messages, etc. That it's protected with a password which would require compelling self incrimina
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by chillacy 6y ago
> After the quiet decision by Facebook, the coalition says it and other groups that attack consensus climate science can share content that climate scientists have labeled as misleading because Facebook will consider it "opinion&quo
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by chillacy 6y ago
Supposedly if it's outside it's not as bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QwnzbRUyA
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I don't know the truthfulness of the claim but I've spoken with several colleagues on H1B and they were all very reluctant to take any risks due to their visa status. But I also know others who have gone on to change companies for
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by chillacy 6y ago
We've already started geo-engineering, just not intentionally.
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Doctors were once upon a time not very highly trained, medicine was a crapshoot, now things have changed. I'm sure it was a tremendous upheaval at the time. That it's a lot of work doesn't mean it can't be done. A more i
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It seems to me that protecting sources and mandating some degree of truthfulness (like don't outright lie about verifiable facts, as some statements are not disprovable) are orthogonal to dictating the subject of the stories? The AMA a
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I actually found that most of the police in China are not particularly scary. I'm sure they can mess up your day if they wanted to, but the day to day officers are unarmed, not particularly physically imposing (lots of normal looking m
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is a tragedy, Scott Alexander is such a thoughtful writer. I wish journalists would come up with some professional standards and make the title licensed, like doctor or lawyer. Right now we all recognize how important journalism is but
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by chillacy 6y ago
True, I looked it up and per quarter it was maybe $30 in the US per quarter per big ad-tech company. A digital VAT would be easier to reason about IMO, but this idea of handing money directly to people has some populist appeal I suspect. Pe
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by chillacy 6y ago
Really depends how you measure the value of data. Rich people being served ads is more valuable, but the targeting algorithms probably churn on all the data at large. I imagine given Yang's history he'd argue for the latter and cu
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by chillacy 6y ago
Perhaps a "digital bill of rights"? > Earlier in his campaign, Yang said that data should be classified as property, and users should have certain rights over how their data is collected and used by tech companies. Yang offers
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yang jokes around a bunch (and swears a lot in speeches too) but if you listen to his long form interviews he does go into a tremendous amount of depth, more-so than many other politicians do. Andrew Yang talks racism in America with Bakari
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yang himself is not really a tech guy (he's an econ grad who became a lawyer, then ran companies and non-profits). But looking at his book and platform, one can't help but notice that it heavily incorporates ideas that are popular
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I think the parent is implying that it's a good time to buy outdoor apparel ads _because_ Patagonia is no longer buying ads. Ad impressions are sold as price per impression, so if a major player is no longer there to bid up the prices,
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by chillacy 6y ago
Didn't the supreme court basically rule otherwise, that the 1st amendment rights of the merchant supersede the discrimination of the recipient? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora... It do
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It's noble but somehow not as noble as it would be if the company actually suffered harm from it. Otherwise it's just a "strategy credit": https://stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit/
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> If people are volunteering that information Given the articles and comments I've read in the past year, I don't think a lot of people are exactly thrilled with the exchange. Outside of HN I think there's some feeling of
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> And what about Nigerians who come to the U.S. and don’t succeed? Wey, the activist chef, says there’s a lot of pressure to fit a certain mold when you’re Nigerian. Choosing the right career is only one part of that. “You have to be het
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don't use nextdoor so I don't know, but how much is caused by the platform's design and how much of that is just "these suburbanites are racist"?
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I think the idea is that despite the time difference, some black americans in industry find it distasteful because identity is a tricky thing which persists. Though this HN thread is really missing that perspective... Anyways, there are ple
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Well to be fair it's not like Cap Hill wasn't already full of "homeless people and drug addicts" before, and that hasn't stopped it from also being a hip neighborhood. It'll be a decent experiment to see if the
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Government agency spokesperson says something => most people automatically give it higher credibility. Of course technically that's a logical fallacy but in practice I don't think most people are used to questioning the truthfu

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