Chronic9q

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by Chronic9q 10y ago
So the unemployment rate is actually higher than we thought...
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
> Messages are end-to-end encrypted in iMessage, meaning Apple cannot read the message contents. Ha. Cute.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Correct
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
It appears that, as expected, a young millennial is trying to blame this on human accelerated climate change. (not necessarily you, but someone in the above comment chain). And yes, I agree that human accelerated climate change is causing f
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
> So the value of ivory going up as a result of being tougher on poachers would be proof that it is working. Have you taken Economics 101? You do remember what happens when the selling price of a good gets too high? Lots of profit to be
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, the above comments are excellent examples of millennials who have no business moving to a place they can barely afford. If you need to significantly lower your quality of life just to work in a cool place, you seriou
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Do democratic/left/liberal states generate or attract more homelessness? Seems to happen with many other liberal city hubs.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
I know for a fact (and you can check online too), that Google's non-public datasets are magnitudes larger in training size and far superior in learning signal (labels are very close to their task). Google has thousands of real robotic
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
It sure as hell seems like natural evolution is being applied to the social sphere. Statistically, children from "well off" families do consistently better across all life pillars (health, money, family, friends) than poorer fami
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Agreed
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
I'm rich and part of the financial 1%. I can indeed confirm the rich get richer. I'm not going to enumerate the specific methods, but I do feel bad that middle class or bay area software engineers cannot employ certain financial t
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Hacker News has a huge boner for Elon Musk. They forget that others beat Musk and are well known for beating Musk (re: spaceships).
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
So Nexus phones have been 4x more expensive since Nexus 4.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
By accepting the job, you should know exactly what you signed up for. Just like "you should know" all laws directly relevant to your life.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Why would I share the secret to success? If you could predict the stock market, you surely wouldn't tell CNN.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
He is saying you cannot change gender norms. If you try, you will fail in your own life.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Everyone thinks they can download tensorflow, hook it up to some stock market or Twitter api, hack a system in a week, and become a ML engineer. It is simply not this simple. It takes many months or years to achieve this experience. Sometim
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
> What I'm finding is that in the end, most of the good / important stuff ends up condensed into a nice O'Reilly (or similar) volume that you can read at you leisure' later on when the hype has evaporated. If you are
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
> If you are a great software engineer that can solve hard problems yourself [...] then people will hire with no questions asked. False. Being a great software engineer is not enough to get a job in deep learning. For the same price, or
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Gitlab is a dying product.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Reddit is better than HN political discussions, which overwhelming praise Hilary Clinton and call any Trump supporter a bigot.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
> Harvard cute
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
n alive = 2 n dead = too many to count
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Not anytime soon. And not with their current sensor suite.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Nearly every car maker offers it as a $2,000 to $5,000 technology/driver assistance package.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
They have solved everything in Scandinavia. They've just about solved black vs white racism too. Yes, go look it up.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Isn't that what startups do these days? Collect every piece of damn information from each user visiting their site? Log when they hover over a link and all?
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
This is correct. Those at the top, like myself, will continue to develop AI and automation tools while doing our best to keep workers from "becoming smart" through low wages/benefits/minimally satisfying regulations. You
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
You are part of the 10% that didn't know. Welcome to Hacker News.
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by Chronic9q 10y ago
Ask any postal carrier if they would take a job that paid $20K more. I guarantee they will say yes. Stop thinking everyone is happy with their job because they have "a good life." Money still rules this world. Why else do people s

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