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by hezag 6y ago
Related: Solid Project - HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989698 - A great article about the project: https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2020/12/07/a-data-ecosystem-...
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by hezag 6y ago
This post[0] by Ruben Verborgh helped me understand the problem Solid is trying to solve: > In December 2019, Google and Facebook proudly announced a major milestone, which was echoed in news media all around the world: it is now possib
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by hezag 6y ago
> [...] we’re designing Birdwatch to encourage contributions from people with diverse perspectives, and to reward contributions that are found helpful by a wide range of people. > For example, rather than ranking and selecting top
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by hezag 6y ago
Yep, another one. This time it's from a Credit bureau.
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by hezag 6y ago
> A society characterized by generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. If we don’t have to balance every exchange instantly, we can get a lot more
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by hezag 6y ago
You can just ask the person to let you know when they are available to talk to you. This way you are less prone to interrupt the person and also don't expose sensitive information.
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by hezag 6y ago
About "long-term side effects"[0]: "For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months. The condition kno
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by hezag 6y ago
> Amassing data lets one (and mankind) make decisions not on random conjecture or feeling, but on a solid footing, which results in better decisions on how to allocate resources "Better" is extremely relative. Better for whom?
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by hezag 6y ago
I think a better question would be: "Do you want to enjoy your life while you're young, thus increasing your odds to live longer and better[1], or bet you'll live to an older age and, hopefully, enjoy life when you're ol
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Automated tool to study and reverse-engineer algorithmic recommendation systems(github.com)
31 points by hezag 6y ago|1 comments
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by hezag 6y ago
A possible explanation: > As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story emerges: Poor communities are hot spots for COVID transmission. The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be staggeringly hig
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by hezag 6y ago
Or a pretty good reason to click "I WILL WAIT"
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by hezag 6y ago
> I don't see what's wrong with showing people content they want. But ranked newsfeeds are not about showing people content they want, but about showing people content that will generate more revenue for the company.
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by hezag 6y ago
Yes, Product Hunt.
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by hezag 6y ago
I'm an ADHD person who is tired of being trapped by the doomscroll, but like the idea of sharing random thoughts with some friends. Sometimes I just want to write something, but without receiving instant feedback, and I think Typefully
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by hezag 6y ago
The hope of not letting thousands of people being easily attacked by some shady organization, maybe?
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by hezag 6y ago
But was the improvement on people's lives produced by the work of Gates or Musk alone? Or it required hundreds of people working to make it possible?
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by hezag 6y ago
I did not read the paper (just like most people here), but by the title — “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” — it does not look like the CO2 emissions thing is the main topic of this research. BTW, &quot
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by hezag 6y ago
> I was little disappointed in the quality of this research But the research is not even published yet
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by hezag 6y ago
No, the paper is not on arxiv > [...] Though Bender asked us not to publish the paper itself because the authors didn’t want such an early draft circulating online, it gives some insight into the questions Gebru and her colleagues were r
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by hezag 6y ago
Because the demands are related to some internal project covered by a NDA, maybe?
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by hezag 6y ago
> Neither Google nor any other company should tolerate employees using the power of the company to advance their personal ideological beliefs. Are you saying that this extreme "personal ideological belief" you just stated is ap
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by hezag 6y ago
> "Why do you want to end the world?" > "CAE is devoted to practical, pragmatic solutions. We’re interested in the how, not the why." I don't know why, but it reminded me Facebook.
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by hezag 6y ago
> The intent is to prevent all copying, both counterfeit copies and legal copies of one's own content (for example, format shifting). > > Verance claims on their website that, while the watermark is able to survive r
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by hezag 6y ago
> Sadow sees the act of salvaging so-called “total loss” Teslas as, paradoxically, part of Tesla’s corporate mission to promote sustainable energy. “We (collective white hats) have saved thousands of cars from the scrap heap and put them
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Please Reinvent the Wheel(mindsdb.com)
3 points by hezag 6y ago|0 comments
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by hezag 6y ago
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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by hezag 6y ago
When someone donate money to support cracking efforts they are not just buying the game (in an unusual way). Publicly available cracked software makes it accessible to thousands of other people who would not have enough money to access it o
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by hezag 6y ago
> So, that is the story of Alar and V. Krishna, the beauty of open data, and the incredible and infinite ways in which tiny, random events such as an overheard conversation, changes timelines, the Butterfly effect. Awesome article, thank
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by hezag 6y ago
My favorite unusual map is probably AuthaGraph: > This rectangular world map called AuthaGraph World Map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining areas proporti

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