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by gjulianm 5y ago
Some radiologists think that AI will be really good for filtering out normal images, so that they only have to review anomalies. But I don't think that a model that detects diseases will be too successful, even if they manage to make i
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by gjulianm 5y ago
To give another data point, in my company we're running Gitlab (we started 3,4 years ago maybe?) with some pretty heavy use of CI and we've had no issues, even with automatic upgrades enabled (we have tested backups, we're no
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Coding with contracts has always been interesting to me but I haven't had the option/time to try it seriously in a project. I assume you've had experience with it, how much productivity/code maintanability you gain compa
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by gjulianm 5y ago
For one, you're cherry-picking two examples. Some professors don't get fired for jokes nearly instantly and others get immediately fired for abusing their students. Second, amplification plays a part. A story with "two sides&
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by gjulianm 5y ago
ptrdiff_t is signed, while size_t is unsigned. A size is only positive, a difference might be positive or negative, so you avoid overflow problems.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Why couldn't it be that the people who use spaces are the ones with stronger principles?
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I don't know which editor you use but in my experience using tabs or spaces is just changing a single setting and then forgetting about it. The most likely explanation is that a lot of languages recommend spaces for indentation, so pro
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I'd be wary of going with a customer/inventor, you might end up building a solution too tailored for them that you can't resell easily; and there are conflicts of interest for them. Given the growth you're having organic
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> For example, on Linux with overcommit (the default), even if the system is out of memory, malloc won't return null. It returns a pointer that's not null, such that your if(ptr == nullptr) will act as if everything is "ok
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by gjulianm 6y ago
And in many cases it's private investors buying houses for speculation (either by increasing rent or by using them for AirBnBs) the ones that drive prices up, not an increase of supply. In any case, my point is that applying market rul
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by gjulianm 6y ago
They might think it's more profitable to wait so that they can sell or rent the unit later at a higher price.
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by gjulianm 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Idealizing... People can't live without housing so demand is not elastic. Plus the housing market is special regarding spatial location. Applying regular market ru
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I see quite a lot of potential for abuse, and very low benefits for the apps to implement that process properly.
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I think that in that context, investing means putting money back in circulation. For example you invest in a company and that money goes to pay providers, salaries, taxes, etc. It gets back into circulation straight away. But I don't t
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> If renting is too expensive, you buy, and if buying is too expensive, you rent. Buying a house is not that easy. You need a bank to approve your mortgage, plus pay upfront money (plus pay for furniture and such) that people might not h
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by gjulianm 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768793
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Language, physical location, type of work, religion... so many possible divisions that just focusing on race does not make sense. In some countries race might not be as dividing. You are thinking as if the US framework was the same as in th
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by gjulianm 6y ago
You started this thread by saying that the fear of technology does not have to do with the political and economic system but with Machiavellian people, and now that “incorrect” uses are the problems of other people. But I’m not talking abou
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I'll rephrase my point so we can steer clear of the pedantic discussion about machiavellianism and "good" or "bad": There's a lot of people doing things they consider bad without actually wanting to do them. Th
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by gjulianm 6y ago
We're going in a loop. GP comment said that it was easier to implement certain policies in an homogeneous country (and we all understand that the poster means "racially homogeneous"). My point is that racially homogeneous or
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Re-read my comment, please. I'm not saying that race doesn't play a role, I'm saying it's not the only thing, and not always.
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Exactly, we all knew what it meant, that's why I said it's racist. Thinking that people of the same race will vote the same policies in different countries, or that the only division that makes implementing policies harder is the
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> No group is truly homogeneous. We're talking about racial homogeneity. So you do agree that saying that a country is "homogeneous" just because it is racially homogeneous does not make sense?
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I didn't downvote but I do think that a lot of comments didn't bother with actually trying to read the article and understand the points. The article doesn't talk at all about totalitarianism but about people's livelihoo
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> In countries like America you have to target and pander to multiple communities with different priorities at the same time to get their vote. Exactly the same as in any other country. Implying that a community is homogeneous just becau
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by gjulianm 6y ago
I think this is naive. I really wish that all bad in the world came from machiavellian people and no one else. But there is a lot of good people (or at least not outright evil people) doing bad things, either through incompetence, ignorance
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> technology such as A.I. as a means for exerting illiberal control on citizens is not inherently a feature of capitalism. It is, though. Say, for example, student loans, where an AI will score how likely is a single person to default on
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by gjulianm 6y ago
The book "Weapons of math destruction" contains a myriad of real examples of big data and AI punishing people and making their situation worse, in the US, with no totalitarianism needed. For example, use of AI in credit scores or
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. What you see as a technicality is actually a big difference. No one on wikiFeet would have seen the pictures of the interviewer if someone h
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Not a doctor, but from what I've read there are quite a lot of problems in the way: - Lead time bias. If you discover cancers early and patients survive more, is it because you're treating better or because you discovered (and st

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