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by jml7c5 6y ago
I wonder if something more like a smooth probability map would make more sense, rather than overlapping borders. The hard lines can give an unreasonable sense of certainty, even if the intent is to indicate uncertainty.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
I'm not so sure. Reddit skews young, yet the narrative there is that TikTok and the Chinese gov are just shy of evil. The iOS clipboard bug in particular has startled reddit into a wave of self-reinforcing "TikTok is spyware"
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by jml7c5 6y ago
All that may be true, yet it still does not mean rationality should be thrown out the window when evaluating claims about TikTok.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Are they wrong?
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Made a (very) brief scan of the filing. The notable personal information mentioned: phone/social network contacts, MAC, IMEI, IMSI, device serial #, browsing history, cookies, "metadata", location. Pretty par for the course.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
The way I understood that passage, soldiers were expecting to lose around 30% of their flour in the deal, but some bakers figured out they could take a larger cut by adding more water. That doesn't necessarily mean the practice of taki
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by jml7c5 6y ago
My objection is that it's no longer clear if you're dealing with content addressing or server addressing. If I see example.com in the URL bar, is it a server pointed from the DNS record example.com (a CDN that server tells me to v
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by jml7c5 6y ago
I could see some sort of alternative URL bar (" https://nyt.com/somearticle/ | served by https://somecdn.example.org/blah" ), but complete replacement is far too dangerous and confusing in that
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by jml7c5 6y ago
After a brief search and glance at the citations, leading to "Supplying Washington's Army" by Erna Risch (written for the US Army Center of Military History), then to the original Washington Papers, here is the original lette
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Amusingly, given the starting point for this discussion, what you've described part of how the "OK" sign became associated with racism. In 2017, someone on 4chan's /pol/ board suggested "Operation O-KKK&qu
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by jml7c5 6y ago
As I understand, it is closed-source code causing the problem described. Erran Berger linked to that Hakawai commit as an example of a different, open-source project under the LinkedIn umbrella that has the same problem.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
HN has been oddly eager about conspiracy theories over the last year. That Navy UFO story (and various other articles from The Drive) got more play than I would have expected. More recently, the TikTok "reveal" from a reddit comme
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by jml7c5 6y ago
He is. Read "quits Twitter" as "has decided to stop using Twitter".
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by jml7c5 6y ago
You are correct about the 'quote', as it does not seem Gebru ever wrote that. I am surprised none of these sibling comments have affirmed that. While personally I presume that parent poster meant the 'quote' only as an i
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by jml7c5 6y ago
I don't think they're off the mark with linking the reckless exuberance about this post to anti-China sentiment. Distrust and outright hostility has grown substantially over the past 18 months, particularly on reddit. It's a
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Silicon Valley.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
That article is incorrect; their guess of equivalent GPUs was about $5600 too high. The FirePro D700 used in the Mac Pro was essentially a rebadged consumer card. (It's surprising, but none of the GPUs in the Mac Pro officially support
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by jml7c5 6y ago
You're free to disagree with the author, but this: >Now you learned that and you can delete your article. is just rudely dismissive, and not part of good-faith debate.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
The positivity rate* increased by 50% in two weeks. That the jump is from 4 pixels to 6 pixels obscures the magnitude of the change. *one week moving average
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by jml7c5 6y ago
A note to those using Firefox who get stuck at "Loading stories...": Enhanced Tracking Protection (on by default?) blocks the request. To disable it for this page, click the little purple shield next to the URL.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Perhaps an ad-blocker is hiding the "you've hit a paywall" message? The article should be 386 words over four paragraphs.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Be careful reading this graph. The x-axis is "share of total deaths, %", but these are relative measures, not absolute ones. One way for the US to match the other countries would be to intentionally kill a bunch of old people. A
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by jml7c5 6y ago
In the legal world it apparently goes by the moniker "Prosecutor's Fallacy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor%27s_fallacy
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by jml7c5 6y ago
Just to be clear, parent is describing fictional software, not the system in the article. You seem to be conflating the two.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
You're confusing megabits with megabytes. The correct number for your example is 162 GB per day. For reference, a 4K Blu-ray runs about 100 Mbit/s, and requires 1.08 TB for 24 hours of content. (395 TB for a year.) Netflix streams
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by jml7c5 6y ago
This is quite wild. Is there any finer-grained summary of the sort of data leaked, and how extensive it is? Even a million documents could be anything from mundane to incredibly sensitive, depending on the sort of content.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
It looks like the PDF is a 1-bit scan, so the text is a bit wobbly. Though I concur that Lucida Bright is lovely. I wonder if the MIT Press — or the author — has the source files (presumably LaTeX) somewhere. It would be a shame to have a l
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by jml7c5 6y ago
It's misleading to call that a false flag, as it was not an act intended to deceive the public. While the operation used methods of dubious legality and morality to gather information, the 2000 or so guns that were allowed to walk cons
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by jml7c5 6y ago
The daughter is his stylist's, not his.
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by jml7c5 6y ago
This is unreasonably inflammatory (both the language, and the way it's being associated with current anger at policing) for what is an interesting but not cutthroat topic. Swearing a lot is attention-grabbing (see the success of "

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