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by kbenson 4y ago
You’re probably going to have to fake enthusiasm for the AI-enabled TikTok outfit generator you will be working on. No, it’s not going to make the world a better place. Yes, it might even make the world a worse place. Let's be honest
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by kbenson 4y ago
Insist? No. Make a plea because you think it's stupid or harmful or counterproductive? Everyone should feel free to do that.
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Sometimes, paperwork is there to force some other condition to have been met, such as time and review and notification of others. So, it it more "right" to make people that want to commit suicide take a bit of time to consider wh
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> The interesting thing is my professor kinda knew we do this, he just acknowledged it as part of the dance of their system. Professor's diary: It's so tiring coming up with broken experiments that still have some possible meri
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The difference is in the motivations for asking the question and what's done with the answer (so agenda ). People are assuming and agenda of others in this thread, and are crafting responses to head of that perceived agenda without ac
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It depends on the speed of capture. If you can capture faster than conversion reduces, and there are time constraints that mean reducing carbon now is better than later, then it can make sense. It's the same as whether you should redu
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by kbenson 4y ago
> long term, value investors - Buffett etc. Isn't Buffett's (Berkshire Hathaway's) strategy to actually take over companies where they see a way to cut expenses, change direction, synergize with other companies, etc and ma
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> more often than they have prevented your house from being broken into The whole point is that you can't tell whether that's happened with the data presented, regardless of what you compare it to, and no, once is not too many
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> It's a program that employs people who have caused more incidents of crime than they have intervened to prevent. Whether that's problematic depends on a lot of things, including whether arresting people is actually the main b
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> ARS is a pretty pedestrian source. Are you discounting it because of the site name over the content? The Ars article just links to the Project Zero blog post (a very recent one). > And your second source is Google, so take that with
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>> - Sue them, aggressively. > On what grounds? Love it or (more likely) hate it, the DMCA has anti-circumvention provisions in it, and breaking out of a sandbox sounds like it matches that. > Are you saying Google should publis
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> They have no problems copping CVEs on competitors like Mozilla, Microsoft, or Apple.... but squirrel away zero days on their own products for the better part of a year or more and then quietly publish blog posts without actually filing
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Always nice to see a vendor respond quickly and adequately. Even better when they go above and beyond, as seems to be indicated here by the timeline posted and the assessment of what fixes were put in place by the researcher(s). Good job
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TikTok does in some ways seem like the anti-Instagram or Facebook, or at least my feed does. It's all people using their hardships or quirks as humor and a way to connect, or couples examining the annoyances of marriage and relationshi
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by kbenson 4y ago
Yeah, the one thing people familiar with TikTok seen to agree on and be impressed by is its ability to cater the content it serves to your desires. That's actually what got me to try it out. There were multiple cases where I heard that
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There have been a few people that examined the topic of YouTube thumbnails, even with a/b testing and statistical analysis (since YouTube allows you to change it and gives good stats). It really does matter to getting views.
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That's just the "following" section of TikTok, which only shows content of those you follow.
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Even if it started that way, who is to say life hasn't imitated art to the point that now people truly believe it because they can't tell the different between a straight-faced joke that's only detectable because of the ridic
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Eh, ycombinator definitely benefits from HN as an advertising method and has information on people that use HN, so there's only no sort of business relationship if you also believe that other major advertisers (such as Google) have no
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I agree it's not always cut and dry which module to use, or whether to use a module for something extremely simple (which is why I mentioned it being more than a few lines, which should weed out stuff like left-pad I would hope), but I
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There's a reason many languages have large overflowing repositories of modules (or there are well known libraries) that can be downloaded and used that provide boilerplate solutions for many things. Most people don't like writing
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> which- maybe you could call it naive to assume they wouldn't Definitely. I think the correct way to think about public corporate behavior is as if they're psychopaths. I don't mean that necessarily with the negative po
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From what I'm seeing online Stanford has about 22k students in 2022. 2700 does seem like a large number compared to the student population, and given it seems like it isn't meant to house all the administrative staff, that does se
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There's a long history in news of using a play on words for your story title to make it more catchy. I wonder if it's just that it's a less common term in your own experience that makes it more objectionable? I could see Ars
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I imagine this is in response to the rumors that Twitter employees had to print out the code changes they did in the last month to justify their jobs. This, and stories like it, are what I thought of when I heard that.
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Kinda strange which parts you decided to view as metaphorical and transplant, such as shareholders, and which you decided we're integral to the idea and needed to stay, such as the death of hive members. I think there might actually be
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The best individual components don't necessarily result in the best system. There may well be benefits to diversity that are not easily quantified at the individual level. The classic example of the development team that created a comp
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> That’s like someone who has no idea how to cook leaving a bad review for food they could never hope to improve on. I agree it's like that but disagree there's a problem with that. Ultimately it's the consumers that are
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Honestly, I think the perfect music app that never existed is Pandora with the ability to play specific songs. I always found Pandora to a have a much better recommendation system and was actually happier and didn't play specific song
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The current media gives you facts. They just present them in specific ways or downplay or omit other facts. Getting all the facts is as bad as getting no facts, because we aren't capable of paraing then all. Curation of facts is what

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