Mauricio_
Joined 13 years ago
Joined 13 years ago
And what if what you're searching exists only in a non good website? Isn't it better to show a result from a non good website than showing nothing?
Wrong. Internal reddit search has bad results too, and why even let you filter by last month.
Just searched it and it's literally the first result.
>That's actually a pretty good idea. When I'm in a position to get a rootable handset,
I meant easy for any security researcher, to the point where one would've found something by now. But if you have assistant or siri on your phone then the microphone is always on, so it wouldn't really be trivially easy to test.
https://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/is-your-smartpho...
In the mean time: I think it would be trivially easy to verify: just take a rooted phone and log accesses to the microphone. Somebody would've found that it's being activated when it shouldn't by now.
>I'll admit that it's quite likely that advertising algorithms are sophisticated enough to anticipate our needs based on previous behaviours with uncanny precision and timing.
Or it could be that among the hundreds of random ads we see online everyday one of two happen to be related to one of the dozens of conversations we had in the past days.
No way in hell that's true. Things are bad enough, you don't need to make stuff up.
Have you heard of startpage.com? It's literally that. Essentially it's to Google what DDG is to Bing.
The best that can be done is to try to keep the correlation between the "test" and what it's trying to measure add high as possible and to teach everyone how to hack it, that way everyone is on a level play field. If everyone hacks it then the difference in scores will be mostly about what is being measured and not about who hacked it and who didn't.
That's why big companies actually advice interview candidates to practice on leetcode and give them example interview questions.
But I agree with the main point that being good only at "hacking tests" in life instead of being good at your profession is very bad.