RecallMadness @ RecallMadness @lemmy.nz

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This is the sort of thing machine learning algorithms are pretty good at at.

Coupled with however many millions of interactions a day, you would have no problem correlating changes to your algorithm against increases in revenue.

But. It’s often not that impressive. Humans are equally good at noticing patterns.

All it takes is for one person at FB to see their wife or daughter delete a post, ask them “why did you delete that post” and take away from the response of “It made me look fat” to go “there’s a new targeted ad that’ll get me a bonus”.

In a similar vein, 80% of your banks anti-fraud systems isn’t deep learning models that detect fraudulent behaviour. Instead it’s “if the user is based in Russia, add 80 points, and if the account is at a branch in 10km of Heinersdorf Berlin, add another 50…. We’re pretty sure a Russian scammer goes on holiday every 6 months and opens a bunch of accounts there, we just don’t know which ones”.

long time New Zealand moose researcher

I bet this man’s skills are hotly demanded

Why a second? Your first couldn’t have been any more than 5 years old.

In the UK, if a the registered owner is unable to name the driver, or unable to provide a satisfactory reason why they can’t, it’s a £1000 (~NZ$2000) fine.

I’m pretty sure some people might use company owned vehicles to get out of demerits, but it’s expensive.

Becomes the death jingle when you follow through.

In NZ we can transfer fines to other people, why not demerits? Other countries handle it fine.

Don’t want demerits for when you’re not driving? Don’t let dickheads drive your car.

I’m not 100% caught up on NZ driving penalties.

But my understanding is you can only get demerits in person, from another person, at the time, on the side of the road.

This seems like a flaw. I can cope with a low-tier speeding fine easily. $30? Shit, that’s “don’t buy a coffee that month” territory. I can just not do that all year, if I get caught speeding by a camera every month it’s not great but it’s handleable.

Demerits? I’m not fucking with that shit. I can’t offset them with lifestyle changes. Too many of them and I’m up shits creek.

But you’re not getting demerits from fixed cameras or camera vans. Ie, all the speed cameras on motorways. You’ve got to be speeding enough to get pulled over. And if you do, it’s still up to the officers discretion.

Without the mandatory hours, why even have a restricted class?

What’s the difference between our law abiding citizen ‘NightShiftNate’ getting his restricted, waiting 12 months with no driving (because he only needs to drive at night), then applying for his full.

Or NightShiftNate just getting his full immediately after getting his restricted?

I’d argue the latter is better, as it gets him on the road straight after his training is fresh in his mind, and confidence is up.

This isn’t foolproof.

The same car might be manufactured in multiple factories for multiple markets, to multiple levels of certification.

Your “new car” in one country, could be the previous years European model if the euro regs have changed.

This is the reason I haven’t given it a chance.

Not that I’m unwilling, but with no common hardware, I’m reluctant to go out and buy something.

I can go buy a pinephone for postmarket, but won’t work for sailfish. I can get an Xperia for sailfish, but I’m out of luck for postmarket.

Not to mention, I’m reluctant to drop a chunk of cash on aged hardware, whose successor doesn’t look to be as well supported.

VW can’t use the factories they have.

Ironically, “running the country like a business”.

Have policy outline an objective, Set KPIs, thresholds, etc. If the policy fails to meet them it gets automatically canned. Otherwise it’s safe.

Want to lower road deaths, that is your policy “lower road deaths by 2030 by 10%”. (Largely) A goal everyone can get behind.

But you’ve got to specify how you measure it, allow all parties to add their own metrics like “average journey time must not increase by 5%” or “maintain 99% licensing in rural communities”.

How you achieve the policy is (mostly) irrelevant. Want to do it by lowering speed? Fine. But that might increase journey time significantly. You could improve driver training, but that might impact rural communities.

Subsequent governments could cancel it, but only if it’s failing its KPIs, or if their new policy is “don’t lower road deaths” or “make cars go faster”

But do their products phone home?

HA integration is one thing, manufacturer independence is another.

How long until “Yeah, we’re withdrawing HomeAssistant support. You have 30 days to migrate your automations to SwitchBotPlus”

But none of that is going to stop them from detaining you until you give them the pin.

US citizens might have it a little easier. But foreigners are certainly going to regret their choices if anyone ‘close’ to the border has an issue with them.

Someone GraphQLs

But how far should that consent exert its authority?

If this was anything other than nudes then totally different laws would apply.

Ie. if it was a terribly embarrassing non-pornographic film that woman sold it online. You put yourself online doing something you didn’t want family to see and now your upset. At best I would imagine she could claim it was piracy.

But because it’s pornographic, she’s suddenly allowed full authority over her works? In my opinion she gave up that right when she sold it for commercial gain.

If anyone else with a modicum of fame turned around and went “yeah I didn’t want my professional porn redistributed, here’s every website with my tits on it that did a crime” they would be laughed at.

I re-immigrated after 15 years away shortly after COVID. Why the fuck I chose NZ and not Australia is beyond me.

Sure, compared to London, It’s very nice here. To my knowledge nobody has been mugged, raped, stabbed, murdered or any combination of in any local parks. Unlike the near weekly occurrence in London. Schools don’t have 10ft fences around them and metal detectors. 45mins in a car gets you somewhere interesting.

But it’s cold, the houses aren’t built for the weather and they’re (along with everything else) expensive; the pay is bad, and even if the pay was better the workplaces are petty and unproductive, not that there’s many opportunities;

Maybe Oz would have been a better choice? But equally, could just be a “grass is greener” situation.

I had an idea a while ago on how you could lightly regulate social media platforms.

Require them to:

• Group users into cohorts of a size greater than X. ie, individual level targeting isn’t allowed. The higher this number the better.
• make available to users the cohort they are in
• publish openly every single cohort and their size
• make it possible to view feeds as if you were in a specific cohort.

Will this stop them funnelling customers into rabbit holes? No, probably not.

But it would make “targeted indoctrination” harder as they would have to try and indoctrinate multiple people at once. And it would make it more transparent just how many people are being fed propaganda or whatever you want to call it.

Hard to say. NZ cuisine is like British cuisine, but it got stuck in the 80s.

The Flat White. But that’s not strictly food.

Or maybe a potato top pie.

This. But Pandas and Numpy.

Pandas and Numpy and Bash.