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by dagss 2y ago
People CAN see multiple viewpoints in minutes, and some do, problem is hundreds of millions more prefer to let TikTok select what views to see. And TikTok has immense data available about what series of reels sway what subpopulation in what
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by dagss 2y ago
You joke, but with the power these companies have over peoples minds (enough people to sway elections) it is a reality we may be going towards; each power constellation a different social media universe. TikTok has the power to sway any ele
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by dagss 2y ago
So...have you first hand read and deployed the code? TikTok could be using blind algorithms as you hint at, but they could also bump content they wanted to. I am convinced that if China put their best minds to it they could use TikTok t
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by dagss 2y ago
Not for sale as much as adjusting to the new reality of feudalism.
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by dagss 2y ago
You talk about censorship but if things are happening it will be a lot more subtle than that; more about what you show than what you hide . Peoples opinions are already shifted a lot by what reels they watch. By controlling what people s
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by dagss 2y ago
I feel like the free speech enthusiasts are missing some imagination and failing to see the situation we are in post-algorithms. By now -- people have used their free speech to make reels for every possibly viewpoint convincing any possible
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by dagss 2y ago
The odds [edit: ^W^W^W^Wchances] are just lower that Google and Meta would rig the algorithm to subtly color peoples opinion in favor of China and Russia. If TikTok is doing propaganda by subtly promoting some reels over others -- who would
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by dagss 2y ago
There is by now "free speech" being published for every single combination of personal interests, demographic, and personal opinion and personality traits. If you wanted to push, say, white supremacy, to a trans mountain bike ridi
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by dagss 2y ago
Is your idea that 6 to 15 year olds are going to suddenly discover Anki cards on their own and start using them? How high is that %? I think you should focus more on teachers introducing Anki cards and less on not throwing screens out then
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by dagss 2y ago
Downvotes is for removing thoughtless comments and spam. I try to upvote someone making a well thought out argument that brings clarity to the discussion even if I disagree with it. And I try to downvote something I agree with if it was sta
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by dagss 2y ago
I have been writing a ton of SQL -- implementing a lot of the business logic of a (stream processing) application in it. I really really like it, especially that I bring the computation to the data instead of the data to the computation. I
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by dagss 2y ago
The specification appears to be very similar to FeedAPI which I have been involved with: https://github.com/vippsas/feedapi-spec Our focus was kind of the opposite though: Remove the event broker instead of adding one.
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by dagss 2y ago
TL;DR about spherical harmonics: It is what you use instead of Fourier transforms if what you transform is on the surface of a sphere. My experience is from cosmology (CMB) where they are heavily used just like Fourier transforms, I think t
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by dagss 2y ago
In what context? You are assuming the poster is doing something like your typical IO-bound backend, and not, say, a High Performance Computing simulation on a compute cluster. I have done this kind of optimization to go from 24 hour compute
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by dagss 2y ago
Plenty of bad side effects: Harming your brains development, ability to concentrate, harm the ability to find joy in non-screen activities, mental health and so on.
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by dagss 2y ago
I take keeping the lights on to mean, e.g., customer support and fixing bugs an incidents. Not necessarily uptime alone.
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by dagss 2y ago
JS having BigInt type has nothing to do with JSON. Backend languages have had BigInt types forever. It isn't relevant to JSON as a format. Just one example: Azure Cosmos DB stores JSON documents. If you try to store integers larger tha
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by dagss 2y ago
Stronger regulation would help everyone also those with more defenses. Who in the world is saying "I spend too little of my life doomscrolling"? And IIUC it is the same with narcotics/alcohol/nicotine: Not everyone are e
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by dagss 2y ago
They may be equally long, but length when written is IMO not a good measure of complexity. The 2nd I would need pen and paper for to keep my head straight doing the distributive law. The 1st I can do in my head as: "If b is larger than
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by dagss 2y ago
And, if you intend to deceive, there are many examples of solid looking written algebraic proofs that 1 = 2. That doesn't disqualify written proofs...
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by dagss 2y ago
I would say the exact same thing as you. But, that is Norway for you... I think the issue might be that in Norway the teachers would not be allowed to confiscate the phone; concerns about school being liable if device is damaged etc. This a
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by dagss 2y ago
Kudos to the parent for setting clear limits to their kids cell phone use. Most of us on HN can be grateful for having been able to fully develop our faculties in an age where instant dopamine shots weren't available 24/7. Looking
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by dagss 2y ago
I say, kudos to the parent for being restrictive about phone use. At least they are aware of the problem and doing something -- debating the exact technical limits imposed is just nitpicking. But not doing anything is irresponsible. Do you
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by dagss 2y ago
Not sure if it helps, but trying: In a sense area isn't anything else than multiplication. It isn't like you have a) multiplication and b) area and then prove that a=b. Rather, area IS multiplication. The unit of "square mete
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by dagss 2y ago
That appears to be constructed in order to deceive though. Someone who was thinking about a problem and drawing something would always with a drawing like that either intend the angle to be the same, or otherwise highlight the fact that one
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by dagss 2y ago
This additional justification is so trivial it's just left out for brevity. In general a lot of statements are accepted even if not each and every detail is spelled out.
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by dagss 2y ago
Pounds is definitely not something I "regularly encounter" -- at least in the sense that I need to know more than that it is more than 100g and less than 900g. It just doesn't come up. Perhaps different European countries are
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by dagss 2y ago
Well after reading this thread I will remember 2:1 forever... Really is is just a measurement of how often you encounter facts. What you encounter often you cache and remember. Trivia you never use you don't. As a 41 year old Norwegian
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by dagss 2y ago
Well I do I know that pounds are same order of magnitude as kg, miles same order of magnitude as km, and so on. That is really enough for most reading. As another commenter said, you can read novels from the 70s involving dollars just fine
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by dagss 2y ago
As a metric European, blue whales give me a lot more intuition to work on than pounds. Tons would be nice though.

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