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by tw1010 8y ago
If I ignore GDPR for the next year or so, waiting until this all simmers down to a level of abstraction below the surface level I care about, will I be any worse off?
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by tw1010 8y ago
It's funny how incredibly highly the money and success narrative is emphasized in the news, and the drug-like high aspect of the work is rarely mentioned. The truth is that a lot of us would do it (and do do it) for free, and the high
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by tw1010 8y ago
Also true: The news maximizes fearmongering.
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by tw1010 8y ago
and the question persists; how can this insight earn me profit?
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by tw1010 8y ago
The whole rss is dead -> long live rss narrative has been an eye-opening experience for me in terms of practically illustrating just how powerful and influential the news is on technological development. Engineers can apparantely be a lo
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by tw1010 8y ago
In psychology there's this concept called body mirroring . Monkeys do it, as does humans. It's the idea that the subordinate ape tends to mirror the posture of the dominant one. Mental models are obviously a useful tool, but I al
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by tw1010 8y ago
I always found it funny, the idea that age or agism should in any way stop you from achieving cool shit in business. Entrepreneurship is a jungle. Your customers, largely speaking, doesn't know your age or gender or whether or not you
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by tw1010 8y ago
To me this just smells like there's some hidden force – not necessarily nefarious but definitely with the power to incentivize an exaggerated lens – pushing OpenAI to make these claims. Maybe it's the desire to keep AI in the lime
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by tw1010 8y ago
Isn't this just an example of automation? Other than sunk cost, by what argument is it reasonable that the sysadmin job should in any way deserve to be protected or aught to continue to be a thing? To my ears containers sounds like the
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by tw1010 8y ago
The simultaneity of your and mkandas89's comment is what I'd call a canonical example of spooky action at a distance.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Sometimes the most significant aspects of something is unmeasurable.
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by tw1010 8y ago
While I sympathize with your sentiment – and share the mindset during my day job – I believe that this type of "what practical applications does this have"-thinking is making us short-sighted and preventing us from being able to m
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by tw1010 8y ago
This is excellent. But man, I don't think I can ever go back to not feeling like there's a huge pedagogical gap between the local maxima the functional programming explanations engineers are typically exposed to, and the much high
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by tw1010 8y ago
You're right. "Help you stop watching" effectively shifts the blame from the corporation onto the consumer. It's an entirely self serving strategy made under the guise of ethics.
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by tw1010 8y ago
It's interesting to personally experience the rise of politically motivated technology like this.
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by tw1010 8y ago
The narrowness of a niche is wholly dependent on how much demand there is for the thing in the grander scheme of things. Programming used to be incredibly narrow, and I would bet ya there were people complaining along similar lines back whe
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by tw1010 8y ago
You're probably right, but a lot of these points aren't particularly strong dude. You'll be more listened to if you make reduce the entropy of your arguments.
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by tw1010 8y ago
I can't wait to open this app and be faced with shame as I stoop lower into my depression induced by attention-maximizing technology. I want to change, google throwing low key shade on me via specific details about my habits isn't
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by tw1010 8y ago
Interesting, so if you want to cultivate a diverse set of opinions and ideas in your company, it's enough to place them on different floors – no need to move them to different cities.
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by tw1010 8y ago
We shouldn't ostracise someone merely for presenting the case for something.
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by tw1010 8y ago
What if the depression subspace can't be escaped from by just twiddling with the break schedule?
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by tw1010 8y ago
The lever is the quick firing and the curt response "Employees who abuse these controls will be fired — period."
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by tw1010 8y ago
What makes you think this is the only lever they're playing with to change public perception? This is an easy lever that costs little but is dangerous and risky if not pulled. But the entirety of their strategy obviously consists of ma
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by tw1010 8y ago
I don't understand why there's such a massive focus on autism research, both on HN and in the news in general. It doesn't seem like a pareto optimal use of attention resources.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Despite using statistics daily, I still feel utterly uncomfortable about its philosophical grounding. Are there any resources HN can suggest to soothe the heart of a sceptic?
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by tw1010 9y ago
I like how engineers have expanded their ambition from starting as almost clerks to scientists (when the job of a programmer was almost exclusively data entry a few decades ago) to nowdays feeling like they can understand and modify everyth
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by tw1010 9y ago
Clickbait titles does a disservice to the purpose of the body of an article in the sense that it gives easy ammunition to naysayers who will default to pointing out that the degree to which the argument is valid is incorrect. Yes, algorithm
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by tw1010 9y ago
Imagine what effects could cascade throughout society if the slope of the learning curve to master a paper was reduced just a tiny amount. Sure, regular everyday people might not be directly affected by it. But what it would mean is more re
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by tw1010 9y ago
Convince me this isn't just a ploy by designers to justify their existence over templates.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Please, please, please more group theory and pure mathematics on HN! The year we see visual and interactive descriptions about subjects in pure mathematics, as we today see about MDPs, will be the year we reach a true new adaptive valley, r

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