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by pdkl95 7y ago
> At most you can ban outcomes You can also change incentives. If aggregating faces into a database makes you liable for the damage that happens when that database is used, the "Guatemalan farmer" (and any business that wants r
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While the DBMS itself isn't Turing complete, you probably need a Turing equivalent machine to implement the DBMS. Turing machines can implement less complex types of automation, but the underlying machine is still Turing complete. I w
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> Who decides what qualifies as a general purpose Alan Turing and Alanzo Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness How
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> How is everything with a processor not a general purpose computer? They are general purpose computers; this does apply to most products with a processor. However, there are practical differences in what you can implement on an iPhone c
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Yes, we did. So what? Someone that buys an iPhone can use their property as they desire. Apple is selling a general purpose computer (even if they wish they were selling an appliance with a specific limited set of features). They can (and
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by pdkl95 7y ago
You could still delegating the decision to Apple without restricting other people use of their general purpose computer [1] if Apple simply ran a curation service. Your choice to only use apps that have Apple's stamp of approval doesn
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by pdkl95 7y ago
I strongly recommend watching hbomberguy's video about flat earthers, "Flat Earth: A Measured Response" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gFsOoKAHZg The short summary is that flat earthers are probably seen as
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> But then, later, I'd see them making the exact same argument to someone else. When someone continues to cargo culting useful fragments of knowledge instead of actually learning how/why those fragments actually work, the cargo
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> But how do you know they're using the same one? You can easily discover reused keys if you can guess any part of either plaintext. From that guessed fragment, you can recover both plaintexts and the entire key (pad) using the &q
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> What regulation are people proposing that would prevent compilation and sale of this kind of data Liability! (with the option of avoiding that liability by explicitly not allowing yourself access to content/personal-data, aka
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> so far The really clever ways to abuse this kind of data haven't even been invented yet. We are still fumbling around with these technologies. Most of the currently visible examples of data misuse are "high tech"/
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Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread(youtube.com)
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. https://marxist.ca/article/why-there-is-no-ethical-consumpti... > I bet you can’t even survive if you don’t abuse employees So what? It's still abuse.
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This type of problematic parasocial relationship is amplified by the internet, because the internet changed the mechanics of fame . In the past, becoming famous required infrastructure . Media access was scarce; you had to actively work w
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This comment seemed like generic "doesn't affect me" flamebait at first; after a 2nd reading I'm not sure if that's the right interpretation. The format of 3 repeating dismissive statements followed by a final state
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It sounds like "Dual Photography". https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1186822.1073257 "We present a novel photographic technique called dual photography, which exploits Helmholtz reciprocity to intercha
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> Power of Attorney If I remember correctly, there might have been something about PoA in my contract. I already hand several reasons to not sign it, so I only skimmed the last ~1/3 of the document. For comparison, I had a minor sur
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by pdkl95 7y ago
"Unless we scan your card, you can't buy alcohol." PhilosophyTube recently posted a great video essay (Socratic dialogue?) that explores that exact situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUTX1jurJ4
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Speaking of medical billing insanity... I recently had a MRI, and in the process of filling out the usual new-patient form at the imaging center, they wanted me to sign a blank LCD touchscreen. No indication whatsoever what I would be signi
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by pdkl95 7y ago
GA gives Google surveillance over a large portion of the web. Even if the author of a webpage trusts google with their data, they shouldn't be forcing their opinion of Google on others. Trust isn't transitive! Google receiving bro
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reCAPTCHA increasingly doesn't even give me a captcha. Instead, they simply deny me from even trying; They send this instead of the challenge: <div> <noscript> Please enable JavaScript to get a reCAPTCHA
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> That would make the existence of anonymous data practically speaking impossible to have on the web For almost every type of data that is true. Transforming or substituting data doesn't make it anonymous; the patters in the data
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This is impressive doublespeak. > This ... header ... will not contain any personally identifiable information > a seed number which is randomly selected on first run ... chosen between 0 and 7999 (13 bits of entropy) They are not inc
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Viewing a document on the web needs to be decidable . The original design of the web was HTML documents with forms. This IBM 3270 style design used the browser as the user interface to server-side programs. The browser's job of presen
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Does anyone know if these models use floating point? If the do, are they properly handling the many subtleties[1] of IEEE 754 (and other floating point implementations)? Many years ago I read something about a model that produced very diffe
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by pdkl95 7y ago
While this interview explores a wide variety of topics, I think the HN community might be especially interested in the detailed explanation of his game dev startup from a "creating a successful business out of your Cool Idea" pers
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Extended Interview with Lorne Lanning of Oddworld Inhabitants(youtube.com)
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Since the proper API isn't available, the principle of least privilege suggests that abusing a high-privilege, easily abused feature in an unorthodox manner to work around that problem might be a bad idea. Maybe MacOS shouldn't ha
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There is no demand because of the limited upload bandwidth and ISPs only providing limited IPv4 addresses. When customers are forced use NAT with very little upstream bandwidth, they are de facto a lower-class network host that cannot u
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> ‘Just get started’ An unexpected side-effect of learning to use version control tools (esp. git) was significantly reduced friction before starting something. I might delay or avoid a messy refactoring or architectural change that I in

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