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by hooande 7y ago
90% of what I watch on tv is PBS. I could see myself switching to YouTube TV just for this. Granted PBS is over the air for free and all of their shows are online for $5/mo. but I like my local station's lineup selections, etc
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by hooande 7y ago
read the actual report instead of just the bullet points. the speed improvement is a function of cost on cloud hardware
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by hooande 7y ago
It's possible that the idea of a Bell Labs is outdated, because individuals now have more access to information and cheap resources than they did in the 50s and 60s. Instead of needing a big company to bring the best minds together and
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by hooande 7y ago
I just spent three weeks going through your research. Thank you for that work, especially the supplementary materials.I wish I'd known how much the ideas in the pluribus paper depended on reading the libratus paper. I see what you&#x27
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by hooande 7y ago
I know that learning how to hack systems is valuable because that's how I got into YCombinator. I set out specifically to hack the application process and succeeded. It wasn't even that difficult to do. If pg believes what he&#x27
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by hooande 7y ago
they (basically) applied the ideas from a bot that plays poker to another game. it's interesting work, though perhaps not groundbreaking. This idea of selfplay + counterfactual regret minimization does seem to be the superior way to so
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by hooande 7y ago
Just wait until somebody thinks it's a good idea to declare war, based on the advice of someone in their cabinet
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by hooande 7y ago
also, I would be stunned if China decided to target HN with professional propoganda. It's just not that large or well known. If, say, eight out of ten people haven't heard of hn then why even bother? just put more resources into s
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by hooande 7y ago
do the companies who currently make alcohol breathalyzers donate profits to charity? and do you question their motives as well?
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by hooande 7y ago
They chose to work at Amazon, and most people don't second guess their own decisions. If amazon is evil it would reflect poorly on them for deciding to work there. And again, it's incredibly rare for major corporations to tell eas
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by hooande 7y ago
Do we know if this is a corporate social media team, or actual employees who volunteered? Many of the accounts claim to be warehouse workers. It's rare for a major corporation to lie about something like that so blatantly. I imagine th
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by hooande 7y ago
cloudfare has way too much power over the internet at large. there have been days where twitter and other major sites all go down at once because (i suspect) some one tripped over a cable at cloudfare Their S-1 looks financially strong and
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by hooande 7y ago
This looks useful. I wonder if the concept could be used to make predictions about data instead of just preparing it. ie, to interpolate likely missing values like in collaborative filtering? There are probably several datasets that could b
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Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution(arxiv.org)
3 points by hooande 7y ago|0 comments
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by hooande 7y ago
Tools are only as effective as the minds that utilize them. Human experience isn't becoming more homogenous now, despite everyone having similar access to the internet. Life will change with advanced BCI, but it's difficult to ant
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by hooande 7y ago
This has little to do with how code is written. It's so much more than "visualize an array". The gap from brain reading thread to what you described is like the gap between DeepMind and AGI
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by hooande 7y ago
Given the scale, I would suspect a ring of professional criminals more than people with low credit scores from "bad neighborhoods". This is Hacker News, after all. This is a system and someone hacked it. "In several cases,
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by hooande 7y ago
If you're really smart, you won't need someone to tell you that. It will be evident. Once you realize you're playing a level up, you won't need encouragement from authority figures. You'll be trying to reach and sur
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by hooande 7y ago
ok, controversial counterpoint: maybe some number of deaths is worth it. We all know that the fastest and most reliable way to find and fix bugs is to implement the thing in production and see what happens. As you point out, it exposes prob
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by hooande 7y ago
The purpose of a business is not to create jobs. If you think jobs as we know them are necessary for society, then a government run Dept of Jobs that pays people to dig holes and fill them back in (or whatever) might be a better solution. A
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Autodesk’s Lego model-building robot is the future of manufacturing(fastcompany.com)
2 points by hooande 8y ago|0 comments
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by hooande 8y ago
The military is using open source software to sort images, with consulting help from Google. No killbots, no acts of war, just doing the only thing that machine learning has any practical use for. Science fiction writing is hard. I don&#x
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Modern Machine Learning Algorithms: Strengths and Weaknesses(elitedatascience.com)
4 points by hooande 9y ago|0 comments
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by hooande 9y ago
Note on this topic: "Solar panels imported from China already have hefty tariffs, but proponents of heavier tariffs say Chinese manufacturers get around those trade remedies by establishing operations in Vietnam and Malaysia and export
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by hooande 9y ago
"This is all I could afford" is not a valid reason to make a bad investment
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by hooande 10y ago
It seems like you're doing a dry run of your ability to censor the community. By asking members to flag posts pertaining to politics, you're going to drastically offer what people see by default. And when are you going to use this
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by hooande 11y ago
"Be Nice". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627
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by hooande 11y ago
I'm not sure about considering upvotes. People might send out message to all their friends saying "There's this thing called hackernews, can you sign up and vote for me?". Similar to how someone would launch a kickstarte
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by hooande 11y ago
But I believe what really separates the 1% from the 99% is financial knowledge more than anything else. Wealth = Access + Capital. Getting in early on the Facebook IPO is going to beat the hell out of saving your pennies, but you can only
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by hooande 11y ago
Why not just open source the code and make the data easy to import/export? My thought is that Svbtle is two things: 1) a website 2) a company/brand. This promise seems to be mostly about the website. As long as I can export the da

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