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Ask HN: Am I crazy or are runaway AIs causing havoc plausibly imminent?
14 points by realize 3y ago|15 comments
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by realize 5y ago
Operations research is the art and science of obtaining bad answers to questions to which otherwise worse answers would be given.
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by realize 8y ago
I’ve always wondered about this, perhaps someone who understands this subject could explain. Say matter and antimatter were created in roughly equal proportions then some collided to create energy. Couldn’t then this energy coalesce back to
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by realize 13y ago
Typical Marco: "I respect you too much to put up an email solicitation box or fake queue." It's not enough to have good taste, you have to point out to people what good taste you have, in case they miss it. Which, ironicall
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by realize 13y ago
I'm interested to see what he comes up with. Given their main job, playing podcasts, most existing apps seem good enough. I use Downcast, and generally like it. There are some things I would prefer worked differently, but 10 people mig
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by realize 13y ago
The best way to learn is by doing. Set yourself a small goal, perhaps a website with a database back-end. It doesn't matter how good the final product is, you will learn loads by making it and having to research each thing you try to d
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by realize 13y ago
If read the right way the responses could still allow for direct access to all their users data through a special API. Direct access to the server itself isn't necessary to get at all the data at will.
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by realize 14y ago
His main point (and the title of his article) is that people are stating as fact that apple has fallen, whereas their profits are still stronger than anyone's. This is true, and he must feel like hes in a world of crazy people that its even
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Introducing Minimax: an LP solver for iPhone(simplexify.net)
6 points by realize 14y ago|0 comments
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by realize 14y ago
I've found myself caring less and less what woz thinks lately. He is a significant historical figure in tech and wrt apple, but these days not very relevant.
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by realize 14y ago
This really needs screenshots. 95% of my initial judgement of whether I want to investigate an app further is based on screenshots.
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by realize 14y ago
Doesn't the principle of universality of computation mean that any processing that happens in a human brain, i.e., "intelligence", can also happen on another computing platform, with sufficient time and memory?
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by realize 14y ago
The ability of some traders to make consistent significant profits should be an "existence proof" of the inefficiency of markets. The EMH is just wrong.
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by realize 14y ago
Not at all, I think they're insane to think their users will put up with ads. But the amount of revenue from people willing to pay is insignificant. Another way is needed.
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by realize 14y ago
Getting pretty tired of these "dear company, let me pay for your product instead of showing me ads" arguments. They show a lack of understanding of business models.
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by realize 14y ago
There is nothing at all stunning about that site. Boring corporate design, the link to "try" it blocks you with a login popup, the whole idea of bothering to register or "subscribe" or a dictionary. What is the opposite of stunning?
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by realize 14y ago
That headline is serious linkbait. The main point is that the dock connector changing will be a bit inconvenient for existing owners. How does that not make it the best ever? There are so many improvements that it would be stupid to argue t
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by realize 14y ago
"So the essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard,and it does not solve the problem well."
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by realize 14y ago
The first I know of is "The Fountains of Paradise" by A.C. Clarke. Great book.
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by realize 14y ago
I do this when developing and it's great. I don't mind things small if I can see twice as many of them.
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by realize 14y ago
This thread is doomed to become complaints from vim and emacs users. I agree with Marco on the hard to learn, but mainly the ugly comments. As a recent convert to ST2 from eclipse, I agree with his choice. Also, recently having to use w
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by realize 14y ago
After a few hours I've switched back to 1920x1200. I still love the huge native resolution, and will switch to it in certain circumstances, but for regular web-browsing, email, text writing, etc, it is more comfortable at 1920x1200. When I'
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by realize 14y ago
I have an rMBP. I had been running it at the largest supported resolution (1920x1200). I just downloaded SwitchResX and set it to 2880x1800. It seems to work perfectly. Everything is smaller, but perfectly proportioned, and there don't app
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by realize 14y ago
If there was a period of rest in between two sessions then some teams would keep working and get an unfair advantage. It would effectively turn into a 2-day hackathon rather than a 1-day hackathon. And isn't an extremely big effort kind of
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by realize 14y ago
1. Convince yourself that success is a lottery and they were just mostly lucky. 2. Embrace your envy and let it push you to strive harder. 3. Stop thinking about others and use your mental energy to focus on what you're doing yourself. 4. A
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by realize 14y ago
As soon as a company goes public the share price becomes what people talk about instead of other factors. Seems like a disincentive to go public.
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by realize 14y ago
It's an interesting idea. There is a possibility though, that Hacker News itself is the only HN-type site that can be successful. What makes HN work isn't the software, it's the behaviour of the community, which vigorously votes up and fla
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by realize 14y ago
True, but if the aircraft carrier is heading in a direction that makes its presence a bit pointless then it needs to be turned, and the captain is probably the one to set that in motion.
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by realize 14y ago
It was constant experiences like this that made me try Mac in 2010, and I've never looked back since. Kind of weird that Bill Gates just sends an email about it rather than actually restructuring his business to fix it.
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by realize 14y ago
Yes, I gave up at "dichotomously opposed".

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