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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: "Recommen…

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…

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…

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.

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 …

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…

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 adve…

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 …

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 p…

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 advancemen…

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 …

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 se…

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…

Thanks a lot, that was what I looking for. Seems most realistic to configure DNS-over-TLS on the OS level then.

>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 rou…

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 th…

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 circl…

> 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. Conversel…

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 …

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 lik…

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 netwo…

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 differ…

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?

Machine learning models leaking private information is a real problem though, unless mechanisms to ensure something like differential privacy are applied. Those approaches may stil…

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 f…