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seaman1921··on Google is cracking down on ad blockers, but here's how you can fight back
How can they get away for not providing you free services ?
seaman1921··on Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
well the paper also contains the code so I doubt anyone who looked at the paper cares about this paste - for folks who did not read the paper this is not very readable
seaman1921··on Children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way
nice excuse for not being able to maintain relationships. Going by your logic, maintaining one in poorer countries should be impossible
seaman1921··on Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
sure Brave is a saint, pitchforks only allowed for Google
seaman1921··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
sure :eye-roll:
seaman1921··on Retirement savings simulator
thats how you boil a frog
seaman1921··on Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
kk
seaman1921··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
if you want to pick who you want to work with, maybe start your own company

and then you will probably figure out yourself that you need the H-1Bs

seaman1921··on Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
What if I visited the US for business/as a tourist during this period but reside in EU ? Can I still claim ?
seaman1921··on Got laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 10.000 people
please - layoff with fat severance does not give them a license to spread misinformation
seaman1921··on France prepares for possibility of electricity blackouts during winter months
Its funny how this is just a usual night in Indian cities where electricity cut happens daily - people will adjust and will be fine there is no need to panic, just put on more blankets and dont sleep naked
seaman1921··on Layoff spree in Silicon Valley spells end of an era for Big Tech
Agreed. Cutting out the under-performers while still increasing the overall headcount is perfect for the companies, I wish Alphabet did that too
seaman1921··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
take people out of their comfy lives for 2 days and they feel their petty problems are comparable to apartheid-era SA
seaman1921··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
so ?
seaman1921··on The Age of PageRank Is Over
he was expecting nobody to check his BS
seaman1921··on Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?
not sure why this is being downvoted - apparently you need to post only "feel-good" advice else your voice will be suppressed lol
seaman1921··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
empathy for customers not paying ? lol
seaman1921··on El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker
heh.. it seems the small rise after their first few purchases really made them confident - not to mention, everyone around the world talking about them might be a factor why they 'stayed in character' and kept buying
seaman1921··on Tell HN: My wife was banned from WhatsApp without reason or recourse
So your solution is to fine the cr*p out of it until it becomes a smaller company Hard disagree - in a billion users a few thousands are bound to be misclassified - no ML model (or HUMAN) is 100% accurate

I would rather the company focusses innovation on the next big step rather than incrementally taking care of these few long-tail and corner cases.

Moreover, its the users who make a company big or small, if there are better options users would anyway migrate away - the comment sounds a bit entitled if I am being honest - you want a great product + great customer service, for free. (I don't buy the 'but i am giving them my personal data in return' argument)

seaman1921··on Apple and Google’s mobile browser ‘stranglehold’ may face UK investigation
fill their pockets and then shut up for a few years
seaman1921··on Sunsetting Atom
just fork it, no one is stopping ;)
seaman1921··on A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]
I think he is talking about the youtube API limit..
seaman1921··on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
yea but now they aren't giving people more data-points to attack them with such nonsense arguments.
seaman1921··on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
Yup this is what happens when people who want headlines nitpick for bullshit in a state-of-the-art model which simply reflects the state of the society. Better not to release the model itself than keep explaining over and over how a model is never perfect.
seaman1921··on The problem with Bitcoin miners
so as long as we are under average passenger vehicle its ok to do anything - great argument dude - justify an evil with a bigger evil
seaman1921··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
maybe we should also mention the downsides?
seaman1921··on Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
Thank you for taking the time to explain your modelling. Unfortunately I will need to read more on this topic, because I do not understand the intuition behind the priors "uniform prior of alpha_prior = 1, and beta_prior = 1".

The way I would generally approach such a problem is by running monte carlo simulations. Assuming the true rate of nurses quitting is X, what is the chance that a random sample of 200 nurses has the expectation of quitting >= 90%. To get the lower bound of the confidence interval, I will run this simulation for several values of X, starting at say X=60%, increasing until I get >95% chance that a random sample of 200 nurses has E(quitting) > 90%. Do you think this approach makes sense ?

seaman1921··on Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
lol.. what kind of calculation is this? n is 1 in this case, the survey was not repeated 200 times from which you derived 90% as the mean number of nurses quitting.
seaman1921··on Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results
maybe you should get off the high horse and do some research as to the factors that could lead the stock price goes up during splits - not going to list it here due to your condescending tone
seaman1921··on twitter/the-algorithm
Who is that guy even ? Is he even associated with twitter ? Calling it an announcement seems like a stretch
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