And image search.
Readit NewsIt's very hard to actually demonstrate without a doubt, but a lot of the blog spam you see basically has a very clear numbers station vibe. No links, just fairly obviously machine generated word salad.
I can absolutely confirm that as a thing, but I can't confirm my employment history.
Larger forums like HN and Reddit have the economies of scale on their side. They have a lot more time and money to throw on solving the problem than a blogger or someone who runs a phpBB-forum as a hobby.
> They have a lot more time and money to throw on solving the problem
No, they get others to do it
hlbjhblbljib commented on Tell HN: HN is not the first result for “Hacker News” on DuckDuckGo · Posted by u/behnamoh
Looks like a good ranking of results to me.
hlbjhblbljib commented on A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function neuralnetworksanddeeplear... · Posted by u/graderjs
it can't learn exponents. it can only multiply.
there's also a difference between memorizing part of a line, and being able to extrapolate it.
They can with the right activation function. I'm thinking inverse log.
hlbjhblbljib commented on Russia halts deliveries of rocket engines to the U.S. reuters.com/world/russia-... · Posted by u/perihelions
A good way to lower possibility of conflicts is to deepen interdependencies between countries. This is how EU works, for example.
Loose ties on the other hand lower the barrier for countries to initiate a war.
This conflict would have been simpler if the EU wasn't dependent on Russian Gas.
hlbjhblbljib commented on Russia halts deliveries of rocket engines to the U.S. reuters.com/world/russia-... · Posted by u/perihelions
On pretty much any metric that matters life is worse for the typical Russian citizen today as compared with before the collapse of the USSR. Educational attainment, lifespan, gender equity, homelessness rates, nutrition
I'm not sure why people bring up that time as if it were somehow worse, turns out selling off all your public institutions to corporations at firesale prices isn't a good foundation for democracy. Many of those oligarchs that made out well became the powerbase of Putin, whom MI6 funded and supported.
The West creates its own monsters
You somehow blame the west for Putin? Other countries have managed.
India has better average wages than Russia.
Why oh why is one of the support tiers a fishing mini-game? I will say this whenever it it shows its ugly head in video games, you will see my comments I promise, there is no such thing as a good fishing mini-game. Developers need to stop wasting time on something that will actually make their game worse, I feel like its actually a sick joke at this point every time there is a fishing mini-game as part of any game.
I will die on this hill.
The game looks awesome though! I loved shovel knight and I think they'll knock it out of the park with this one too.
A strange hill to die on, but I'll fight for your right to die there.
hlbjhblbljib commented on Big tech makes a big bet: Offices are still the future nytimes.com/2022/02/22/te... · Posted by u/jedberg
This is probably unpopular but...
Commute time is a choice against other expenses. I live 10 minutes from the office because I didn't want to commute. I don't begrudge you for living further but I will say it was a WLB choice the employee made, not the employer.
You're right, that is a horrible thing to force employees to do. To manage their entire lives and where they lived for their employer. Glad we're seeing an end to this.
This is an unpersuasive argument because it ignores all the computer users who are not "members". Whether or not "members" trust LinkedIn should have no bearning on whether other computer users who may or may not be "members" can retrieve others' public information.
Even more, this statement does not decry so-called scraping only "unauthorised" scraping. Who provides "authorisation". Surely not the LinkedIn members.
It is presumptuous if not ridiculous for "tech" companies to claim computer users "trust" them. Most of these companies recieve no feedback from the majority of their "members". Tech companies generally have no "customer service" for the members they target with data collection.
Further, there is an absence of meaningful choice. It is like saying people "trust" credit bureaus with their information. History shows these data collection intermediaries could not be trusted and that is why Americans have the Fair Credit Reporting Act.