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901.
by toxik 5y ago
There are so many sleights of hand type maneuvers you can pull to moderate sitewide. Tiktok, for example, bans LBTQ content not outright but just sets some flag in their database that ascertains the posts never go viral. Control the medium,
902.
by toxik 5y ago
The author himself has stated upthread that this is not novel.
903.
by toxik 5y ago
Control over media platforms is basically control over the agenda in democracies. It is worth a lot of money.
904.
by toxik 5y ago
We once said the ocean is huge too.
905.
by toxik 5y ago
A lot of these people would much rather live in what you disparagingly call a minimum security prison than the comparative anarchy of what we call freedom. Freedom to get stabbed if I don’t give the junkie my belongings. I don’t think well
906.
by toxik 5y ago
Imagine the thundering herd problems you experience when all of your users have the same three hour time slots.
907.
by toxik 5y ago
That’s a good subtitle for my PhD thesis. “Novel but disappointing”.
908.
by toxik 5y ago
That’s a ratio of near twice what the article recommends, it’s really weak. And I don’t make it like this for guests because it’s too weak. Well, maybe okay for Americans.
909.
by toxik 5y ago
I pour about 1500 ml water over about 50 grams of coffee. It’s fine. It tastes good for some time. What makes coffee taste especially bad is just sitting out. It gets sour and real bitter.
910.
by toxik 5y ago
Like others have noted, it is actually harder to read and grok the code when your function is able to do literally anything. Before, you got what you saw. After, the callback might as well set off WW3 for all you know. This fits poorly with
911.
by toxik 5y ago
The difference is that landlords pocket the excess and whoever isn’t subsidized gets fucked over.
912.
by toxik 5y ago
Correct, in Stockholm for example, it is absolutely not as simple as “investors turn away”, far from it. In fact, they did build housing. Luxury housing that doesn’t solve the problem at all. Student apartments that are so expensive to live
913.
by toxik 5y ago
Rent control is not the cause. These suburbs you correctly identify as undesirable would not become more palatable just because landlords were allowed to extract extortionate rents from an inherently limited supply resource. What you sugges
914.
by toxik 5y ago
Block all non-NSFW? Are you saying it'll turn into PornHub but without the educational videos?
915.
by toxik 5y ago
Where is Sutton and Barto?
916.
by toxik 5y ago
Interesting connection to this comment thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222108
917.
by toxik 5y ago
Doctors are no better or worse than car mechanics. Some are meticulous and think about the end result, others follow Mitchell’s or whatever and feel threatened whenever customers try to tell them what they think is wrong.
918.
by toxik 5y ago
I find this an unconvincing argument as well, you're saying that because Apple made a false claim, any claim may be valid. This is obviously not the case, what they did was to, albeit likely knowingly, calculate the hash collision prob
919.
by toxik 5y ago
You (or at least Apple's customers) trust in and rely on Apple's proprietary software to do its job all the time. How is this different? I find this argument very weak.
920.
by toxik 5y ago
The point in the NeuralHash and PSI system is to preserve user privacy as far as possible. From a technical standpoint, it is not essential - a NeuralHash function that returns 0x0000… for everything would still catch CSAM. It's just t
921.
by toxik 5y ago
Sigh, for the last time, it doesn't actually matter if the NeuralHash is identical. You need multiple images matching, and then the images are compared by another system on Apple's end, which you don't know anything about. Th
922.
by toxik 5y ago
Refuse to buy products like this, please. We don't need our USB mice turning into printer-level headaches.
923.
by toxik 5y ago
GALS? SLAG?
924.
by toxik 5y ago
Interesting nerdsnipe. Tell people (incorrectly) how an AC system works, then segue into a full-blown ad piece for some "new" tech.
925.
by toxik 5y ago
It’s exp abs, and it’s a beautiful feature.
926.
by toxik 5y ago
So we defined abs(NaN), sounds like a feature to me ;-)
927.
by toxik 5y ago
They absolutely won't backtrack from this, the damage is done and it was hardly noticed by mainstream news outlets.
928.
by toxik 5y ago
I think if you read what I wrote more carefully, you'll see I never claimed that the model cannot generate "candy" as the successor word, but that it wouldn't do so simply out of having seen the words colocated. The rela
929.
by toxik 5y ago
I don't think you've fully understood how far "statistical associations", as your derisively call it, can get you in understanding text. Modern language models absolutely make both sentiment and semantic distinctions, an
930.
by toxik 5y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a JavaScript whitelisting extension or method for macOS Safari?

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