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Ring’s Ukraine arm appears to be working on facial recognition technology(buzzfeednews.com)
50 points by s_Hogg 7y ago|12 comments
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this was posted a while back (maybe a month or two)?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
There are a few candidates for a crisis, sovereign debt is one. At this point corporate debt is no less scary. My guess is it won't be about one specific thing, because there are so many interlinked ways for things to jack up at this p
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
It's amazing how much of a revelation this can be! I remember it was shocking for me at first. The implications of being even a little less rigid in self-perception open up this entire giant conversation with yourself about how your wo
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I really hope we have. There was some clown a while back that tried to sell a clothing line and did basically no promotion, so her supplier cancelled because on launch day she didn't manage to put together 30 orders for shirts. I think
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Economics as a discipline has been pretty relaxed about the need for state intervention in some cases and the idea that some government debt can be good - these aren't wacky, out-there ideas in the panoply of economic thought. But they
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I don't think meaningful work has to be necessarily something with crap pay and the workload of a donkey in the first world war. The key is the word "meaningful". I know a lot of people (and I used to be one), who would shift
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Exactly. Another example of the same thing: how quickly did your parents go bonkers after the last of your siblings moved out? Now make this happen like 30 years early. There's a lot to be said for having a job but not needing it. It g
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
So man in the middle in the developing world is bad, but pervasive tracking in the developed world is absolutely fine. Got it. Edit for replies to this message: I accept the distinction being made, but that doesn't mean I'm more h
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
it would have to be relatively cheap given the amount of debt you'd have to take on as part of the transaction. Really dilutes the value of the equity. Edit: if anyone can work out a fair market value for, say, the lower 48 states I&#x
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
rare instance of someone taking the lower ground and higher ground at the same time lol, bravo
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
from memory GNU parallel has been advertising on the command line for ages, specifically: " This helps funding further development; AND IT WON'T COST YOU A CENT. If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel w
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Australia avoided recession in 2008-09 by doing almost precisely this. Everyone got A$900 or thereabouts (a month's rent or more for some). Worked fantastically. Think of it as applying a defibrilator to all parts of the body at once b
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
In large part, overseas. Japan has long been known for what's called "the carry trade". This is where you borrow money at whatever ridiculously low rate is available in your jurisdiction (e.g. Japan) and then "carry&quot
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Given that even the proponents of MMT don't agree on what it is, I wouldn't. Economics as a discipline has problems(1), but I don't think MMT goes anywhere near to addressing them, nor to providing a scientific basis for doin
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I'm aware of that. I was talking about their pragmatic streak that enables actually doing something about climate change, rather than their authoritarian one that thinks corporal punishment is fine.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Parent is talking about all the vulnerabilities and slowness that can come with it. Fair enough, it runs, but it can also open the door to fingerprinting and other weird nasties. Particularly anything reliant on the `npm install` way of man
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
It definitely can, but it's not guaranteed. Japan has been effectively printing money for ages, but it hasn't really led to inflation because demand is so weak - nothing gets bid up.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Apropos of this, one wonders if the Swiss shouldn't permanently take on exchange rate instead of inflation rate targeting. It works very well for the Singaporeans and their economies could be said to be similar in some ways.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
More power to you, I'm shifting today
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I just went for a look because of your JS remark and holy moses that's a fast site. I still sometimes forget how slow stuff is relative to what's possible, even though I frequent HN.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I really love the pragmatism of the Singaporean Government sometimes. Other countries are nowhere near as pushed for resources and consequently don't do anywhere near as good a job as them of facing big, gnarly problems like this. Kind
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Hear, hear. This whole trust-us-we're-the-good-guys come-on line self-regulation is giving us is clearly not good for much of anything beyond an orgy of self-interested PR. It doesn't matter how many times people say the market wo
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
As an NLP person who had to work on some object detection stuff recently for an unrelated matter, it's amazing what a difference transfer learning makes. Whole task becomes brainless. You could argue that BERT was a first go at it, but
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I wonder if these guys are a bit quick to give themselves credit. There's a lengthy (and depressing) series of posts by Ben Recht[1] that basically outlines all the reasons that model-free RL is effectively bunk if you have access to a
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Somewhat off topic: any chance you know how come Google doesn't have an explicitly cantonese model for translation?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Fine, but it seems reasonable for someone to check. It's much easier to make a decision about whether a programming language is what you want if you've got evidence from someone who has tried something similar to you, as opposed t
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Hmm, at your suggestion I've just tried Bing and it doesn't seem to know what to do with the Romanisation? Interesting to know that Bing explicitly has Cantonese translation catered for but Google doesn't. Wonder why that is?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Yeah, I just tried it and didn't know which characters to pick after the initial "heung gong" in "heung gong ya gan yau". So even if it doesn't actually break automatic translation, it does break the user like
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I thought the idea of a game of cat and mouse is that you never actually reach a conclusion? Pace the obvious and awesome power of the Chinese surveillance state, nothing is foregone. Edit: it's true that you could eventually translate

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