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7y ago
Imagine the shitshow this will cause once law enforcement adopts this. Currently eyewitness criminal sketches are still drawn by artist so they are naturally low fidelity. That will change once you can generate a photo of a face (like http
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7y ago
Are there any open sourced attempts at (ab)using all of these at once with some multicloud wrapper interface?
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> Why can't you criticize your own model, though? I do but lunchtime only lasted so long before it imploded > Your assertion that hiring more women will lower standards is premised on a belief that men are inherently better. Isn&
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7y ago
Yes! This is the kind of response I would like to have from my coworkers. Attack my models, my assumptions, my arguments. Don't just silently disagree and then label me a sexist afterwards. Your presumption that I have some agenda and
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7y ago
Just to chime in, I also unknowingly got myself labeled sexist when the topic came up during a random lunch with "friends" (company provided lunch so it had random people from HR and recruiting). Somehow or another the topic of wh
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Data laundering This means crawling or using illegally obtained datasets then processing it with "machine learning" until you have enough plausible deniability to use it. This could be used for bypassing copyrights. For example yo
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Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t... there's at least two cases that are by professors (Xiaoxing Xi and Yi-Chi Shih). But honestly the vast majority of the knowledge transfer
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7y ago
This is an anonymous account. The unscrupulous part of my user name is in reference to another thread where I used stealing and sharing interview questions as an example so I am not really trying to hide anything: https://news.yc
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Ask HN: Do you backup your data when leaving a company?
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7y ago
> It is not uncommon for tech companies, which fiercely guard their intellectual property, to sue former employees or the firms they join after they leave. Is it really that common? I feel like most software engineers don't really t