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by colllectorof 6y ago
>the police is desperately trying to set a narrative to justify a history of violence by escalating more violence, but please, someone, restore my faith Seems fairly accurate. I'm just annoyed that many people can't grasp tha
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by colllectorof 6y ago
Multiple choice voting. (I.e. you give 1 point to all candidates you like, the ones with most amount of points wins. Very simple to understand system with no spoiler effect.) It will fix the issue within one set of elections and I don'
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by colllectorof 6y ago
>These are not contradictory views. You think the supposed contradiction is between legality and morality of not censoring certain speech. The actual contradiction is between claiming to support people's right to free speech while
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Anyone can put a complicated CI/CD pipeline on top of any language, including PHP. What does this have to do with the amount of hoops certain languages force their users to jump through just to see some dynamic content?
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by colllectorof 7y ago
A properly enforced static type would not need to emit Maybe, because it would be impossible to set it to the wrong value in the first place. Not to mention that to be truly useful a static type would need some sort of literal that would em
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>Technically speaking, anyway. Here’s a type for “strings that end with a dot”: These are just two functions that wrap and unwrap a string. Your "type" doesn't generate a compile-time error when constructed with the wron
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by colllectorof 7y ago
OCaml has real objects and classes. Moreover, it is trivial to demonstrate that your example doesn't work in practice: module Foo = struct let first() = 1 let second() = first() + 1 end module Bar = struct include Fo
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Firefox could make a long-need replacement for DNS, but they chose to spend all this effort on adding more ducktape to the current system, while also contributing to its centralization (more control to Cloduflare, yay). DNS was a passable s
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Firstly, late binding is orthogonal to inheritance. It simply means that methods are looked up based on runtime information, rather than determined at compile time. You can have late binding in a language with no inheritance or classes at a
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Functional programmers will reply that you can use partial evaluation and higher-order functions to do that. The sad reality is that since so many people are only familiar with the strawman version of OOP rather than the real thing intellig
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>In good OO programming, we don’t make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our inner Linnaeus. This correctly identifies one of the worst problems with how people construct OO programs when they get out of college. They are infected
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by colllectorof 7y ago
How do you respond? A bit too late for that. Traditionally, reasonable companies preempted this kind of stuff by creating a clear separation between professional and personal matters, and not mixing the two. But hey, these days many people
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Facebook has their privacy policy too. So what? Even if all the listed policies are followed, even if they don't have loopholes (and they almost certainly do), Google still collects and retains metric fuckton of information that isn&#x
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>>google is a bigger concern for privacy and personal liberty >Big claim. Any proofs? All this skepticism around Google's capacity to abuse their troves of data and invasive services is a clear indicator that this discussion
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Pseudo-intellectual clickbait. I hate that I know this will get bazillion upvotes here simply because of phrases like "carefully-considered cognitive model at their foundation". > but the medium does have an implicit model
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Stop peddling meaningless hype. Current 3D rendering technology is lightyears ahead[1] of these AI toys and you can trivially parametrize it. Many games already do. So if you want to generate people, you already can do that while having f
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>a radical is one who stands against the status quo. A radical is someone who is willing to use extreme measures to achieve their political objectives. Nothing to do with the status quo. Totalitarian regimes, for example, usually maint
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>We do not explain how to read handwriting, we teach by example - and that is exactly how ML works. Teaching children to read is an interactive process that has pretty much nothing in common with data steamrolling in modern machine l
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>Can you explain how you, as a human being, understand handwriting? We explain how to understand handwriting to every single child that goes to school. It's not the answer you want, but it's the answer that actually matters h
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Well, there are some statistical learning models that are explainable. Decision trees can be induced and can "explain themselves", just like in expert systems. Additive models are self-explanatory. Not sure I'm sold on LIME a
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by colllectorof 7y ago
Models that are used for anything important should be explainable. That is, you should be able to get a definitive answer as to why a particular result was achieved in any particular case . If a model does not have this property, it should
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by colllectorof 7y ago
So maybe we should not be using opaque ML algorithms for life-and-death situations to begin with? Instead of, you know, hoping that whomever is screwed by them has an active advocacy group in places like MIT.
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by colllectorof 7y ago
If you want more, there is an excellent course on "introductory" topology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXSSz0gZI4 It is made by a physicist, not mathematician, and it's a great combination of
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>Is it legal for a journalist to assist another person in invading someone's home, for the purpose of obtaining information that could be published? You clearly don't understand the concept of whistleblowing. And you did not
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>And who cares what prominent people think? Well, I happen to value Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the impact this prosecution will have on journalism a tad more than unsubstantiated comments from random people on Hacker News.
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by colllectorof 7y ago
>Had Assange not provided the hacking tools, and had he not attempted to crack the passwords, this indictment would never have happened. He has not been under trial yet, so how do you know with such certainty he actually did that? &gt
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by colllectorof 7y ago
What does moral high ground have to do with being charged and extradited?
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by colllectorof 8y ago
>This is clearly hipocrisy and there's no right answer here. There is a lot of hypocrisy going on, but this doesn't mean there is no right answer or that the right answer is to invite government fucking censors to control eve
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by colllectorof 8y ago
Not to mention that it's entirely possible to create very bad effects via benign content. Facebook (and other social media) use has been linked to a significant rise in depression. https://www.thisisinsider.com/social-m
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by colllectorof 8y ago
>Deplatforming is the most effective way to fight the spread of hate. As evidenced by what? From everything I see, deplatforming creates filter bubbles, which lead to radicalization, which lead to hate. After the rise of deplatforming

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