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931.
by whack 6y ago
> When will platforms start to be charged for their mistakes? Pretty sure if they had to make financial compensations for their mistakes, they would start using humans more often to support this crap automated system. How exactly would
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by whack 6y ago
I looked up the first example you gave, and it doesn't seem even remotely close. Harry Reid is saying that the US government is covering up evidence of "possible close encounters with UFOs" . And that we should "at lea
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by whack 6y ago
This is absolutely wild. I've never entertained conspiracy theories about aliens for a minute. But this guy's credentials are as legit as they come. I don't understand why this isn't bigger news than it currently is. &gt
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says the US should give every American C (cont)(businessinsider.com)
2 points by whack 6y ago|7 comments
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by whack 6y ago
This sounds like a classic case of "simplicity is in the eye of the beholder" . If you're someone who has experience with, or can easily grok concepts such as "pointer to a pointer", then the second snippet seems o
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'There's a gaping hole in our knowledge': the scientists studying why gam (cont)(theguardian.com)
3 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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ImHex: A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that VA (cont)(github.com)
4 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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by whack 6y ago
I'm not intimately familiar with "fuzzing" techniques, and by "randomized inputs", I am indeed referring to tests that could be flaky in the presence of bugs. Organizational discipline is indeed needed here, in orde
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by whack 6y ago
> “What’s your most controversial programming opinion?” ... What follows are twenty of the highest voted answers By definition, the highest voted answers are also the least controversial. "Anti-establishment" and "populi
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Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox(pnas.org)
1 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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by whack 6y ago
> There was recently an article about successful startups from Utah that worked 9-to-5 and still had a good and scalable business running. I see similar things in Germany. We do not have unicorns You just answered your own question. Mo
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by whack 6y ago
The article appears to be mostly discussing regional accents, but I've noticed the same thing with international accents as well. In America, European accents are seen very positively - even for ESL speakers such as the French or Germa
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by whack 6y ago
Very long article that buries the lede: > We need a market ecosystem of moderation vendors who provide different kinds of value to different kinds of users. A moderation marketplace is good for platforms because they don’t want to be th
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Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years(github.com)
44 points by whack 6y ago|15 comments
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Humanity is not a Zero-Sum Game(outlookzen.com)
1 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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by whack 6y ago
Now you're assuming that what I said applies only to FANG companies. I've also worked and gotten job offers from many non-FANG companies, across multiple industries, and they were all using the above data points to make entry-leve
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Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, (cont)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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by whack 6y ago
This is patently false. The following are all ways you can stand out for a junior position: - Attending a university that is hard to get into and has a strong CS program - Having an impressive GPA - Winning academic or software-related awar
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How Spotify Codes Work(boonepeter.github.io)
3 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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Can't open apps on macOS: an OCSP disaster waiting to happen(blog.cryptohack.org)
2 points by whack 6y ago|1 comments
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by whack 6y ago
I was really hoping to avoid going off on this tangent. To be more precise, I was comparing existing-in-perpetuity vs maximizing-investor-returns, and the latter is a more important goal. Whether corporations should prioritize morality and
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by whack 6y ago
This is a controversial opinion, but I don't agree with the idea that big corporations should make an entry into every single adjacent market. If the company has core expertise and advantages that can deliver a decisive win in a known-
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Don’t Be an Evolutionary Programmer(software.rajivprab.com)
2 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
954.
by whack 6y ago
Unfortunately, the study finds that the bias persists even past the initial stages: > These outcome gaps do not cancel-out in the later stages, as female and White applicants are more likely to receive an interview and offer. Though it
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by whack 6y ago
> If you roll that same die 10 times and you get a 6 each time, then we can say that your probability estimate was wrong. But that's what happened with the polling of these states. The 538 model is explicitly based on the assumpti
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by whack 6y ago
And why do you think they failed to provide an accurate probability estimate? If I tell you that the odds of your dice roll being a 6 is only 16%, and you roll a 6, does that mean I failed to provide an accurate probability estimate? The on
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We Don’t Need Elections to Figure Out What People Want(outlookzen.com)
15 points by whack 6y ago|4 comments
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by whack 6y ago
> Contemporary society puts much more effort and individual attention toward raising individual kids then majority of past societies used to. The "kids raise each other" complain is very modern, precisely because we expect mor
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Limits of human thought and how these limits define philosophy(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by whack 6y ago|0 comments
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Soccer match ruined when AI-controlled camera mistakes ref’s bald head for ball(sbnation.com)
38 points by whack 6y ago|4 comments

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