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Is GitHub Down?
40 points by Mahn 1y ago|23 comments
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence (2015)(waitbutwhy.com)
1 points by Mahn 1y ago|0 comments
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by Mahn 1y ago
At its core what it really reflects is that the technology is a blackbox that wasn't "programmed" but rather "emerged". In this context, this is the best we can do to fine tune behavior without retraining it.
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by Mahn 1y ago
At this point you have to start entertaining the question of what is the difference between general intelligence and a "sufficiently complicated" next token prediction algorithm.
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by Mahn 2y ago
European here, I do not think that electing Trump makes the US a laughing stock; there were legitimate reasons to disagree with the Biden administration, and, given that Kamala was essentially a continuation of Biden's policies, there
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by Mahn 2y ago
Key quote from the article: > Many have argued that the lack of large-scale applications for the past ten years proves that crypto is useless. I have always argued against this: pretty much every crypto application that is not financial
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by Mahn 3y ago
I would think that Cloudflare is reputable enough that they would not state that claim without at least having some knowledge about it.
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Ask HN: Is it just me or does Linode lately go down more frequently than usual?
2 points by Mahn 4y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Is Reddit Becoming Dumber?
50 points by Mahn 5y ago|57 comments
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by Mahn 5y ago
That's funny, I've been doing this (appending searches with "reddit") for a while, but I thought it was just a random thing I did, not the universal experience of so many people. It's probably not so much search tha
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by Mahn 6y ago
And therein lies the problem, algorithms can't tell if you click and spend time with something because you enjoy it, or because it enraged you.
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by Mahn 6y ago
More importantly, if you want China, India and Africa to pollute less, the only way to do so is leading by example and figuring out a way to achieve cost-effective, environmental-friendly path for economic growth for yourself. If it works,
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by Mahn 6y ago
"We want" here is a figure of speech. The world doesn't actually care if you don't want other people to live as comfortably as you, because it's gonna happen either way, no country in the world is going to stop pu
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There are 4,378 CHIP-8 emulators on GitHub(google.com)
2 points by Mahn 6y ago|0 comments
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by Mahn 7y ago
Tangential, but it's strange to me the sort of culture that Quora has cultivated over the years. It seems to tolerate and even encourage low quality content and contributors to the point that ignorance, misinformation and poorly resear
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The Surprising Endurance of the EReader(kobo.com)
2 points by Mahn 7y ago|0 comments
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by Mahn 7y ago
According to Dr. Sapolsky (Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Behave), there's ample evidence of enlarged, hyperactive amygdalas in chronically stressed individuals, both on artificially stressed lab rats and when looking at differences
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by Mahn 7y ago
This thread makes it sound like it's impossible to make a medium scale application work without FKs constrains. I work on a commercial application that depends on relational relationships without FKs and the number of data corruption c
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by Mahn 7y ago
There are ways to prevent invalid states in a database without foreign keys, for example enforcing "all or nothing" operations via transactions.
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by Mahn 8y ago
And it will be their undoing, since now that people are not upgrading their iPhones continued growth will depend on how well they can transition to become a services company, which, for the most part, you can only do phoning home the way Go
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by Mahn 8y ago
What laws did Facebook break that warranted seizing and publishing internal documents?
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by Mahn 8y ago
There's nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn't have done. And for the record, Facebook did not "share data with Cambridge Analytica for shady research purposes". A rogue thi
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by Mahn 8y ago
I think this sets an awful precedent and it's astonishing that an action like this would be applauded. But you do you.
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by Mahn 8y ago
> Google is well known for suppressing search results and banning people on YouTube etc. based on political ideology. Can you give some examples of this?
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by Mahn 8y ago
We should simply stop referring to MVC as a "pattern", and call it what it is instead, a high level, abstract, general idea on how to structure an application. There isn't a right or wrong interpretation or implementation, ju
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by Mahn 8y ago
Imagine if those 3B were used to seed 3000 startups with 1M each. Even if only one third of these worked out, what an incredible golden age of productivity would that mean for the country.
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by Mahn 8y ago
Sure, I understand the argument. Critical thinking, questioning everything that is around us, is important. I'm just saying that it's also important that this argument doesn't provide ground for holding ideas that are objecti
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by Mahn 8y ago
I hate this line of reasoning that not accepting "contrarian" ideas is narrow minded, because while it's not wrong, 90% of the time it's used to justify believing the earth is flat, vaccines cause autism, and climate cha
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by Mahn 8y ago
Tangential, but it's worth noting that if what you are looking for is a portable development machine with tablet-like capatibilities, the Microsoft Surface series is arguably a better choice.
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by Mahn 8y ago
A lot of what goes on in t_d is artificial, so the actual size of the community is probably a lot less than what it appears here.

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