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diamond_hands··on Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
And we wonder why people seem more uninformed than ever...
diamond_hands··on King County, WA bans facial recognition software
The math is incorrect with Black people's faces more than White people's faces.

"Can't ban math", that's like saying "can't ban words". Yes, but you can ban a combination of words in a location, such a "There's a fire!" in a crowded theater. You can ban a combination of math in a police station that leads to people going to jail.

diamond_hands··on King County, WA bans facial recognition software
We have survived as a society for long time without the need for this.

You could say the same thing about the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments. "what about the children"

diamond_hands··on Stage 3 Proposal: Array.prototype.at
There's still a ton of overhead for WASM and it's not first class. Using WASM is a lot like using C code in python. It's still nice to have features as first class citizens :)
diamond_hands··on OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups
I'd say money is cheap right now and fund managers would rather have people with information asymmetry invest their money, which OpenAI does via their API. I think it's a natural fit to invest in companies that use their API. This isn't a new idea, Stripe and Slack both do this.
diamond_hands··on The anus is an evolutionary marvel
It has for fish!
diamond_hands··on Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research
Do you happen to have a link? Would love to share it with some friends showing signs of depression who are heavy social media users
diamond_hands··on Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)
For the same reason many companies software gets lower quality over time. They grow and hire people who don't care. Everyone who did care leaves to start their next company that cares.
diamond_hands··on Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
I think you want https://texts.com/ (not affiliated)
diamond_hands··on Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web
It's two clicks. "Let's Go", then "Hello World"
diamond_hands··on Securing a Postgres Database
3.2.0 came out 5 years ago. I think it's okay now.
diamond_hands··on [dead]
This seems like a clear scam, asking for donations via paypal to "buy facebook" for $360B US
diamond_hands··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
https://xn--tr8hi8e.kz/