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by Asdfbla 8y ago
On the topic of algorithms helping you discover your own 'taste' (whatever that may be), some time ago when the topic came up on HN someone linked this interesting paper: "Recommender Systems for Self-Actualization" [1],
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Understandably, since that press release is devoid of any real information. Seems quite reasonable to disregard it. That's one thing that bothers me about security in general, that it's so super political and it's a bit hard
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Either we make life on Earth sustainable before that or we won't have enough time to develop the technology to settle on Mars anyway, so thinking of Mars as a backup Earth does not seem like a particularly good idea.
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
I guess you could argue that the nodes can reject the hard fork. Decentralization doesn't preclude nodes coming to a consensus to change (or not change) the protocol.
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Yeah, I also never liked that kind of advice. For me personally just doing something that roughly seems somewhat interesting was usually enough - if you get good at something, the motivation can often follow. If I had spent more time thinki
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
I find it pretty hard to curate even interesting lists of researchers on Twitter without running into too much fluff or political tweets. I don't blame them for using the medium as it might be intended and of course they are free to sh
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
I suspect some people are guessing that a multipolar world will be less interventionist (since the great powers might block each other from interfering too much) and therefore adventures like the Iraq war are less likely to happen again. Th
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
The problem is that reinforcement learning is far from solved and doesn't work all that well yet, so these toy problems are probably what researchers will stick with for some time to come.
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
There's certainly enough opportunity to work for a more peaceful world instead - scenarios where two large military powers clash should probably better be avoided anyway, so it's probably even a more productive use of one's t
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
While that may be the reality of things, it surely can't be a justification in any way. If anything, I'd be afraid to revert back to those dark times where technological advancements were driven mainly by military needs.
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Didn't record labels complain some time ago that Spotify had supposedly commissioned music for its instrumental playlists (presumably to save money on royalties)? There's probably a danger that large record labels will threaten to
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Yeah, the figure[1] on the side in the article seems to show something different, because there the response goes over the recursive resolver again. Maybe the text is wrong? All seems to hinge on the recursive resolver acting as a proxy, so
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
While I like the distributed approach technically, it solves none of the social problems that social networks bring. Filter bubbles, propaganda and competition for users' attention with clickbait and other cheap stories might even bec
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Thanks a lot, that was what I looking for. Seems most realistic to configure DNS-over-TLS on the OS level then.
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
>supports encrypted DNS as well as DNS over HTTPS Are encrypted DNS requests used by default? Does 1.1.1.1 somehow advertise to your client (whether it's a browser, the OS or a router) that encryption is possible? Do I have to confi
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Does someone have more information about how they implemented serializable in such a way that, as they claim, performance isn't negatively impacted? Seems pretty hard to achieve that.
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
As I understood it, the author didn't really claim that working at such a company makes you a god or super hacker, just that it might give you such a reputation among certain circles (not you, but others perhaps) - which many people wi
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
> You can't remove it with a software bandage Though some people might argue that the biases software reproduces will in turn reinforce biases held by the users at large. Conversely, you may reduce human bias if you algorithmically
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
It's a difficult discussion because if you look at the literature regarding algorithmic fairness, there really is no measure of equality that satisfies all notions of fairness. If you force representation of seemingly underrepresented
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
I probably expressed that wrong, I was more wondering if the packet sniffing had any beneficial impact on the performance in the sense of QoS or congestion control or something like that. After all, they have to do it for a reason. But your
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
As someone only superficially familiar with networking, I think it would be interesting to know what impact the current packet inspection practices by the middleboxes have on network performance. After all, the article mentions that those m
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
I love the concept of differential privacy, but it seems hard to incentivize the "data hoarders" to actually use it, even if you ignore the challenges of building real-world differentially private systems. Google and Apple use it
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by Asdfbla 8y ago
Did banks and other network operators who require monitoring their traffic just deem the MITM proxies too expensive or complex, or what was the reason for their protest?
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Machine learning models leaking private information is a real problem though, unless mechanisms to ensure something like differential privacy are applied. Those approaches may still be too theoretical and hard to reason about for many machi
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Seems like the publishers could relatively easily figure out whose credentials are being used by searching for presumably uncached files, which will then trigger an access to the file using the credentials Sci-Hub is using, no? But I suppos
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
This seems to be one of the less surprising false-positives of Youtube's copyright detection algorithm. You match millions of hours of copyrighted material vs. noise, seems like you have a multiple testing problem and at least one thin
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Fair enough, I wasn't aware of the original meaning since I only came across it multiple times on the web in this drawn, comic-like form.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I never got Zines. Beyond their cutesy art style, they generally don't seem particularly effective at conveying information in a somewhat concise manner. And if you don't want to be concise, why use such a very visual medium then
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Even though I'm also more of a cryptocurrency-skeptic (though mostly in regards to their utility vs. the environmental cost of proof-of-work), one thing I appreciate about Ethereum is that its design decisions and the building blocks o
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
How long does a computation step in a quantum computer (which I guess is technically a measurement) actually take? I'm (at a superficial level) aware of Grover's and Shor's algorithms, but only in the sense that they provide

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