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abhishek0318··on Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54
Only a very small fraction of Indians care or are aware about privacy. Even if there was no Jio, you wouldn't still have privacy. American/Chinese government and businesses already have access to your data. To think that governments will voluntarily abandon control over data is wishful. That ship has already sailed. I would rather give my data to Indian government and companies than foreign.

Also, you are really underemphasising the role of Jio in the digital revolution in India. If you live in India, you would remember the exorbitant data charges by telecom companies in the pre-Jio era. At least because of Jio, internet has more become accessible to the masses.

abhishek0318··on Linux 5.7
"As far as Linux 5.7 goes there are many new features and improvements like an Apple USB "Fast Charge" driver, Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" graphics are now deemed stable and promoted out of the experimental flag, AMD Renoir graphics are in good shape, F2FS Zstd support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 support on this mainline kernel, and a lot more."

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....

abhishek0318··on Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
Really? Most of the chatbots in production are rule based systems.
abhishek0318··on Earth’s continental plate movement can cause problems for GPS (2016)
This article is from 2016. Edit: They fixed the title.
abhishek0318··on Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
"Choose your home country" doesn't work on Firefox 63.
abhishek0318··on Student Team Wins Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge
Prof. Zhou Yu explains her work on Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems here. You might find this useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39T9ukI9HnQ

abhishek0318··on Project Fi Is Now Google Fi
Being from India, I confirm this. Broadband plans cost around that. Mobile 4G plans are around 6$ per month for 1.5GB per day of usage. Though the speeds are more like 3G.
abhishek0318··on First gene-edited babies claimed in China
Sure. Western countries are all good and pure.
abhishek0318··on Use a neural network to generate the perfect color scheme
Didn't work for me.
abhishek0318··on Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (2006)
This is only true for young urban middle class people.
abhishek0318··on Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (2006)
Every number doesn't have its own name. If you observe closely there is a pattern. From 21 to 99, you can observe that every digit at tens place decides the suffix and the digit at ones place decides the prefix.
abhishek0318··on AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
If we are to mass deploy self driving cars, we must solve this problem. No one would want to travel by cars that could be tricked so easily.

This also leads to a moral and legal questions. If a self driving car injures someone, who will be responsible, the person owning the car or the manufacturer?

abhishek0318··on Images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands
The history of US fascinates me as a foreigner. How it went from a totally unknown land to a super power within few centuries.
abhishek0318··on Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)
Perhaps, linking this post to this link would be better: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women-have-periods-What-is-the-...
abhishek0318··on [dead]
Not exactly. The number of people with unsalaried jobs is large because of the fact that a large number of people (60%) are still employed in agricultural sector.
abhishek0318··on Show HN: Chomper – An Internet Blocker for Linux
How is it better than any Firefox/Chrome extension (like say Leech block)?
abhishek0318··on Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones
Chrome and Firefox consume more memory. UC browser is faster. It can act as replacement of sports, news and Facebook app.
abhishek0318··on Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures
Though Firefox on Android has improved a lot with the recent quantum update, you can still feel it's a little laggy as compared to Chrome.

Specifically, scrolling on Firefox feels very laggy. Also, Firefox doesn't play videos on same tab. That becomes very frustrating.

abhishek0318··on India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year
These people are mainly relatively unskilled. These companies are notorious for hiring entire batches of graduating students.

Situation in top tier colleges is lot better. This can be seen from increase in placements in IITs this year.

abhishek0318··on Should computer scientists keep the Lena picture?
Can someone tell me how this photo is offending to some? Am I missing something?
abhishek0318··on One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
The algorithm mentioned in the paper doesn't need any information about the internal structure of the image classifier.
abhishek0318··on Judge Recommends ISP and Search Engine Blocking of Sci-Hub in the US
"Sci-Hub itself doesn’t seem to be too bothered by the blocking prospect or the millions in damages it faces. The site has a Tor version which can’t be blocked by Internet providers, so determined scientists will still be able to access the site if they want."
abhishek0318··on How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
This article's headline is ironic.
abhishek0318··on Voice Synthesis for in-the-Wild Speakers via a Phonological Loop
Mix this with AI creating video from audio (http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intel...) and you can make anyone say anything.