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by dexen 6y ago
Upon reading your, and GP, it occurred to me that we've lost the idea that it is the buyer that is responsible for the purchases . It used to be that people and organizations making unethical purchases were the ones we considered, and
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Semi related: there's a browser plugin[1] available to "de-mainstream" Youtube. It removes from recommendations the well known channels of the big name media brands[2]. You can add more to the list. -- [1] https://
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by dexen 6y ago
Systemic fixes are needed. In the meantime you can improve your own experience (and hopefully others a bit too). When you hover over a recommendation, there's a menu icon to the right side (three vertical dots, gray). Clicking it opens
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by dexen 6y ago
Recommendation bubbles are partly privacy matter -- without the ability to track users, there would be no recommendation bubbles. It may sound like a far-fetched possibility -- how to maintain privacy of logged in users? But I figure it is
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3D printed sundial displays the time digitally (2016)(youtube.com)
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>If we say e.g. YouTube is not allowed to remove content, that's actually a restriction of freedom of speech. In particular, YouTube's freedom of speech. This is not quite right, legally speaking. Currently Youtube and other
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by dexen 6y ago
>The receiver account can still be seized by government institutions That is hardly an advantage for the victim. Come to think of it, that's a (rare but realistic) threat for normal, licit commerce.
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by dexen 6y ago
>[Twitter] amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms Doubtful, given how popular it is among people and ogranisations that carefully measure the RoI of their marketing & outreach operations, an
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by dexen 6y ago
Your point is correct and important; I like to think of it as the proverbial "speak softly and carry a big stick". There's however one key, pivotal change that happened during the wartime - scaling out the manufacturing and
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by dexen 6y ago
Google Jigsaw might have what you are looking for, under the "Harassment" headline [1]. Note however both Google (Alphabet, really) and the tool specifically, were accused of various forms of bias [2] by various sides of discourse
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by dexen 6y ago
Didn't know about "ncd", ended up re-inventing it. The following script, named 'F', takes regexp(3) pattern in $1 and works reasonably well in the 'all text is hypertex' environment of (p9p) Acme. If it fi
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by dexen 6y ago
Your question is essentially one of "general composabilitiy vs specialized tool". There's two (opposing) philosophical answers, and three (opposing) practical answers, and who am I to say which is better for you? For me, Tar
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Tekgence sends an email to prospective clients listing H-1B/OPT workers(twitter.com)
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A sharp change in labor supply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_of_foreign_born_in_... due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
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by dexen 6y ago
Funny how QR codes scanning pictures of people has more content, and is more engaging, than the "Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes" [1]. In all seriousness, impressive work - and very pragmatic delivery, queue system and all.
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by dexen 6y ago
This is also a security vulnerability: one decision by Apple, or by a court of law in a far-away country, and an app is gone from your phone. You lose access to the data held by this app. Easy, reliably DoS -- and the user has no means of f
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by dexen 6y ago
Two observations: 1. The crazy ideas jacquesm decries have a limited influence on one's life. Those are (predominantly) singular topics rather than all-encompassing ideologies. They are more of conversation starters than life guide
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It's worth noting the same holds true for UI: data dominates. Design your widgets, layout, and workflow around the data.
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>why they'd add an interface that accumulates everything into a giant array by default While I can't speak for Go's authors' mindset, here's my view: One array of records is about as simple interface as possibl
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Ah apologies for having been unclear. No, not like that - I was thinking about more meta aspects of it: - shared context (shared biological & cultural heritage) - recognition & willingness to ascribe intelligence Basically trying
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A good example of a website that stood the test of time: the C2 Wiki, aka Portland Pattern Repository: https://wiki.c2.com/ Sadly it's been recently made read-only, and development shifted to a convoluted "Web 2.0
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In AI research, the territory is not the map. A half-joking prediction: at some point we'll solve all arbitrarily hard milestones for AIs and will still find ourselves 'nowhere near having real general intelligence'. At tha
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In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is
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With intelligence, the territory is not the map :-)
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A half-joking prediction: at some point we'll solve all arbitrarily hard milestones for AIs and yet find ourselves 'nowhere near having real general intelligence'. At that point we might start questioning our assumptions ab
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>Are both of us HackerNews' products? Yes. We the users of HN are product - both individually, and also as a market segment, and also as a smart[0] crowd. From [1], Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. To Y Comb
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by dexen 6y ago
An exploratory thread by Zach Goldberg [1] where he discusses more words & expressions, and compares to other, broader trends. -- [1] https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888
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Under the somewhat clickbait-y title, the post is both insightful and also encourages further thinking and exploration.
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>a true democracy only exists when a huge number of very complicated systems and institutions are working properly Falsehood. True democracy only exists when the voters' will is unimpeded by very complicated systems or institution
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It's true. Sadly it takes strong familiarity with wide range of subjects to be able to point out the biases of omission, and a big name to point it out without attracting too much of dismissive shrugs. In my opinion, the bias is primar

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