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by danuker 4y ago
Indeed, they might say they're not influenced by Google, or even believe it themselves, but when your job security relies on not addressing user needs, you won't.
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by danuker 4y ago
This is where the corruption coming from Google money shows through. I'd add that to store the Firefox search engines, they developed a custom file format. This is to make it more difficult to configure search engines (and make you mor
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by danuker 4y ago
I bet people will crawl back to Firefox when all Chromium based browsers will have much worse ad blockers due to Manifest V3. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
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by danuker 4y ago
> to use it but done freely without Google's complete control. This will never happen. In fact, Google's intention is to sabotage every other browser, and shove ads everywhere. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin&#x
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by danuker 4y ago
I agree with Google here. I am generally of the opinion that a person is responsible of what they do with information, rather than the provider of that information. It should be your responsibility to distinguish fact from fiction, signal f
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by danuker 4y ago
I am very curious what the damages awarded to Facebook will be. On one hand, none of the surveillance were possible without Facebook. On the other hand, a lot of the people have public profiles, which is expressing interest in being discove
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by danuker 4y ago
It's a nice article. If you resubmit, I'll vote you up!
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by danuker 4y ago
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/i-disconnected-from-...
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by danuker 4y ago
I don't know. Firmware can be cryptographically signed. Some anti-tamper devices even burn physical fuses. A car is expensive to brick, so not a lot of people would play around with it. For instance, here's what free-software devs
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by danuker 4y ago
> and it's debatable if it'll ever be able to make and test conjectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist Adam is capable of: - hypothesizing to explain observations
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by danuker 4y ago
If a developer codes up an AI to scour the web, write an article, and submit it to a scientific journal without letting the developer see the article, is the developer doing science? If someone trains a translation model between languages t
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by danuker 4y ago
Getting through peer review is the ultimate Turing test.
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> Even if everything is fake, the code has value for further research. I'd call that human-computer science partnership. If it checks out, it's not fake. Nonhuman scientists are still scientists.
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by danuker 4y ago
Ouch @ inflation
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Error diffusion is by far my favorite. Works while zooming out also.
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by danuker 4y ago
Here're the most-greased top 20. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E01&cy...
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by danuker 4y ago
If you click on "past" under this submission, you see two identical URLs: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Geoffrey%20Hinton%20publishes%...
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by danuker 4y ago
As a programmer, I wish I could somehow weigh the amount of software in a car. I'd buy the one with the least.
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by danuker 4y ago
> guessing my email address based on my employer domain Recruiters contacting you through your work facilities !? That's new to me. Poaching straight to their face.
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by danuker 4y ago
That sounds like a lot of custom development (with permissions/visibility and all), but it might make for a great experience.
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by danuker 4y ago
The Fediverse has a much smaller reach than mainstream social networks. Your target audience might not be on it.
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by danuker 4y ago
Alternatives to PoW are centralization (i.e. Linden Dollars or national currencies) and proof-of-stake (Ethereum). With centralization, there is the problem of trust. The issuer can just dilute the currency supply, go bankrupt, get bribed,
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by danuker 4y ago
Wow. An enormous cost indeed. I think you made the right choice, at least for now. When climate becomes enough of a problem that governments start taxing fossil fuel instead of subsidizing it, the story may be different. But for now I would
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by danuker 4y ago
$20k sounds a lot to me. What peak power did you need (BTU/h or kW)? Have you shopped around for offers?
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Yield products without a banking license, "proof that a Nexo client [...] was a person officially designated as financing terrorism". You'd think crypto exchanges would be more cautious, given the controversial nature of thei
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by danuker 4y ago
The tech industry was seeing high debt and high valuations. With near-zero interest rates, this is fine for a while: it lets companies gain market share (at least until saturation). But once interest rates go up, investors start expecting h
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Does https://search.marginalia.nu/ work?
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I have heard good things about the food in Thessaloniki.
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How would you apply TDD to a backup system? By writing backup and restore tests? What if one test fails unreproducibly?
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Years since 1970 with the inflation rate below the supposed 2% target: 2020 2019 2013-2016 2010 2009 2002 and 1986. For a 52-year period, that's not too many years. Just a fifth. If the Fed were genuinely targeting 2%, I'd expect

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