chrischapman

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White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets(bbc.co.uk)
152 points by chrischapman 5mo ago|81 comments
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OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by chrischapman 1y ago|0 comments
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AI could cause 'social ruptures' between people who disagree on its sentience(theguardian.com)
10 points by chrischapman 2y ago|9 comments
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NatWest blocks staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by chrischapman 2y ago|0 comments
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Social media faces big changes under new Ofcom rules(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by chrischapman 2y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Does Starship mean that data centers will soon be in orbit?
3 points by chrischapman 3y ago|8 comments
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by chrischapman 3y ago
Maybe move all data centers into geostationary orbit. They would be solar powered with direct communication between each orbiting center and transmitters/receiver stations on the planet surface. With that sort of lifting capacity, it w
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Kuwait news outlet unveils AI-generated presenter Fedha(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by chrischapman 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrischapman 5y ago
> thus alleviating the need for the developer to release a new version through the app store review process I'm not an native app developer but this seems like a win, right? I wonder what app store owners will make of it? > All u
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I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die(theguardian.com)
9 points by chrischapman 5y ago|5 comments
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by chrischapman 5y ago
> it seems rather clear to me that all these things cannot and will not be resolved on the implementation level Absolutely! This is why we need good legislation. Tech issues will never be solved by tech builders. All tech measures invari
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by chrischapman 5y ago
> surgeon general moment I get the impression that the GDPR is ushering in the surgeon general moment that you mention. It's slowly starting to improve the health of the web. The latest rulings may even finally kill the cookie banne
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Not sure if you're being humorous but just in case, it means the 'making of a sigh' as in 'generating something new' rather than a 'group of people'. As a joke, it works for my generation. The older I get
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Nice read. Firm supporter of Web Pi (3.1415). When it comes to building for the web today, I'm always amazed that "so much can be done with so little" and yet the default is the opposite - "so much is needed to deliver s
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Upvote for 'Oh Goodie' and the humour in general. But had to reflect on the sad reality of the following being in green! > spend 99.58% less money on health care That is apparently a 'benefit' of living in the Democra
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Disagree. The key information is no longer than an average privacy policy (and frankly, less complex) and whereas there are millions of privacy policies (which no one ever reads), there is only one GDPR. Give it one hour of close reading an
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by chrischapman 5y ago
This kind of 'leakage' is key to personal profiling. If this ruling becomes widespread, profiling may prove much harder to do (which is a good thing). Edit: clarification
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by chrischapman 5y ago
I really like that quote. It seems like it would work just as well for programmers too: "I didn't have time to write a 100 SLOC, so I wrote 1000."
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by chrischapman 5y ago
> And, a high percentage of websites load as slowly as a sick turtle awaking from a long slumber. I love that the full page makes just 2 requests (1 html file and one favicon). 20KB transferred. 1 second to load. No JavaScript, no cooki
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by chrischapman 5y ago
> More importantly, topics are thoughtfully curated to exclude sensitive categories, such as gender or race. 'Thoughtfully curated' by whom? The user or Google? This seems like it's less about privacy and more about advert
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by chrischapman 5y ago
> Again, all I am arguing is that if you use a sequential test, you should analyze it accordingly. I hate to be picky and negative but this doesn't seem like a justification for the use of the word 'harmful' in the title.
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Wow. This is so useful. I'm always left a bit speechless when I come across something really useful like this. It should be a first stop for all would be entrepreneurs. Thanks.
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Thanks. That was a really good explanation and covered all the bases. Makes you wonder if there's a business case for implementing a one-off payment mechanism for response time. For instance, 'free' means "we're lis
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Yep. Kind of like "we value your privacy" means "we don't give a shit about your privacy". I guess the only way to uncover a platitude is to test it. The problem with "We are listening to your feedback" is
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Excellent idea. If they tied it to a fitness calculator it would show your life extending when you exercise and shrinking when you don't. Spend more time on the couch and watch your life get shorter. Go for a long walk and watch it gro
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by chrischapman 5y ago
This reminds me so much of the ACID tests[1] from the late 90's, early 2000s. I wonder if it will have a similar effect, i.e. to drive people away from Chrome in the same way it eventually drove people away from IE. [1] https:/&#
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Wow - he would have been 14 years old. Also, the second comment is from Dave Winer.
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by chrischapman 5y ago
Nope. You probably just had JavaScript disabled (which would be the sensible thing to do). Or maybe they haven't got round to it yet and in a few weeks all of what you mention will be implemented along with 48 tracking cookies, 4MB of
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by chrischapman 5y ago
I'm just seeing arrays everywhere. 1, 2, and 3 seems wrong to me. I reckon it should either be 1, 2, 3 or 1, 2 and 3. When a comma is followed directly by 'and' (or by 'or'), one of them just seems superfluous. On a
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by chrischapman 5y ago
The ability to 'value a result' seems to me to be linked to consciousness. How do machines belong to that axis? Do you really think machines can value something in the same way you and I do? I would assume they can't (and may

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