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acollins1331··on McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France
It's pretty simple at face value. You're interacting with a person instead of a screen, that's basically like a game where you try to "win" by getting the best price for all the stuff you're ordering. Of course you might know it's wrong but you don't see anyone (and can likely assume) no one directly involved will take the fall for it. Compared to a cashier that gives away something for free, they might get yelled at or lose their job. It's empathy, it's human, and it makes a lot of sense.
acollins1331··on Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s ocean currents
See, I would think that it will do the opposite. As the poles heat up faster, it would lower the gradient between the hot waters in the equator and the cold waters at the poles that drive the thermo haline cycle.

At least thats what is happening in the atmosphere. Its why the polar jet stream is weaker, and rossby waves are more prone to break off and send a polar vortex to the US, because the gradient across the boundary is lessened by the quickly warming poles.

acollins1331··on Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
The only thing I have problems finding something that works is Google maps. As an Android user there are a few different options but Google did make a damn good maps app.
acollins1331··on Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly
Probably by using the child lock you can't get out the back but someone else can come in the front and stick you up.
acollins1331··on The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)
I know plenty of drug addicts that don't break into people's homes putting themselves and others at risk. Hurting other people to benefit yourself is exactly the type of person that is just asking to be categorized as 'human trash'.
acollins1331··on The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)
Sorry buddy, but there around millions of people around the world that go through very painful withdraws and don't break into people houses. The withdraws don't make them bad people, the criminal neglect for others does.
acollins1331··on Windows 10 is getting an easier way to update and install drivers
2 days out of action over 10 years seems like a fairly good uptime imo
acollins1331··on Cell Segmentation with U-Net and Others
U-net is great and there are plenty of different versions of it for a variety of problems that have yet to be discovered!
acollins1331··on Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race?
Interpolation between known sets? You could have an envelope of real world conditions and create thousands of samples that are variations in between for purposes of training.
acollins1331··on Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess‎
I agree with all your comments about the non-linearity that is extremely obvious in chess is not captured in the current engines everyone uses, which does lead to all the draw's we are seeing. I'm interested in your results from your engines when they're complete!
acollins1331··on JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
Woah the tech tips guy wrote Linux
acollins1331··on Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading
The cost of removing carbon from the atmosphere far outweighs the cost of not putting it there in the first place. We need bold leadership.
acollins1331··on WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel
That's only for extremely popular streamers. For 99% of them they can only play the one game that made them get viewers in the first place. They didn't get popular because someone googled "Ninja" they got popular because they were playing Fortnite and people wanted to watch fortnite get played. .1% of those guys get big enough they can switch games.
acollins1331··on 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
Not trying to set myself to be a target of hacking with this comment, but what's wrong with that? Why does a password that wasn't hacked need to be changed a lot? If someone is going to try to break into my account my password being similar to one I used 6 months ago increases my vulnerability how?
acollins1331··on We need to adopt a no-commute culture
It's a huge problem that makes the hypocrisy argument palpable when thousands of climate scientists fly across the world every year for conferences on climate change. Teleconferences should be a thing for nearly everyone but the presenters, but it'll never happen because of prestige and elitism.
acollins1331··on ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
Actually it looks like the two problems with your obvious solutions (political and companies being cranky about you noticing you're on a different tower) are complete bullshit and can be solved with very simple legislation. The more complicated and expensive solution doesn't need to happen.
acollins1331··on Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
Hire me. I love to get paid to watch MIT lectures that will benefit my work.
acollins1331··on Climate change and nutrient pollution are depleting oxygen from oceans: study
Warmer waters increase CO2 dissolution into the water.
acollins1331··on FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine
That argument works assuming you're the only one being watched. "Oh chris hasn't done anything bad even though he's hiding, we can just ignore him now". It's more like "99.8% of people don't hide, chrischen is one that does, monitor that guy".
acollins1331··on What does a healthy game publisher/developer relationship look like?
Where the publisher and developer are the same company.
acollins1331··on PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
Thanks for confirming that PIA is full of shit with this comment. Mullvad never looked better.
acollins1331··on Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (2000)
Yeah, this is just one reason why I wouldn't be super concerned with your hacker news points.
acollins1331··on Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious
I feel like anyone should be anxious if they don't understand math. How does one get through life without understanding math? Probably by getting had a lot.
acollins1331··on Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (2000)
I wouldn't worry much when your e-rep takes a few hits from people with nothing better to do.
acollins1331··on YouTube channel owners: Is your content directed to children?
Spiderman and Elsa videos just got the vanned
acollins1331··on Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay
Sorry to inform you but the world isnt as simple as your dictionary definition of exploitation.
acollins1331··on The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
Iron seeding of the oceans to increase producer activity is currently being done but on large enough scales to sequester enough CO2 to make a difference it's basically impossible.
acollins1331··on Deep Learning with PyTorch
I echo this. While 2.0 initially made me happy building some models from scratch, as soon as I needed to write my own optimizers, losses, class weights, etc. it became a nightmare. Also not to mention the data pipeline for large imagesets required you to serialize the data first into tfrecords. Please just stream AND shuffle images in a folder tensorflow.
acollins1331··on The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
Carbon capture is the dumbest and most expensive way to move forward. It would be cheaper to just turn every coal plant into a solar farm then it would be to capture the carbon out of the air so why even bother. Oh yeah, corporate interests.
acollins1331··on Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
Capsule networks are not failed experiments! Where is this coming from? They merely haven't been applied as much as CNNs or FCNs but there are lots of papers out there where capsule networks outperform those architectures.

Source: my thesis using capsule networks for semantic segmentation of aerial imagery

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