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Ask HN: Has anyone successfully POC-ed a math-based alien communications primer?
3 points by unsui 2y ago|2 comments
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by unsui 2y ago
Because the hype will always outdistance the utility, on average. Yes, you'll get peaks where innovation takes everyone by surprise. Then the salesbots will pivot, catch up, and ingest the innovation into the pitch machine as per usual
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by unsui 2y ago
Reminiscent of the recent HN submission for "Security is a Useless Controls Problem", re: 5 monkeys & ladder expt.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110149 The crutch isn't the EdTech itself. The n
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by unsui 2y ago
There is a certain mindset amongst engineers and developers that reachest its zenith in SV: pathological optimization for its own sake. I say pathological because it's a mindset that optimizes for optimization. This mindset is exceedin
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by unsui 2y ago
> it's disheartening to see people actually defend companies when they set these policies. HN is full of temporarily-embarrassed CEO-wannabes-in-waiting who tend to side with the disruptor, not so much with the disruptees.
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by unsui 2y ago
Completely agree. Am luckily in a postition where my org is 100% remote (for the time being), and I am cherishing it for as long as it lasts. Many (most?) HN posts that discuss WFH seem to be from the POV of the employer/management, wi
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by unsui 2y ago
2nd this. Bought 2 of them since I "lost" the first one (then later found it), and now that it's been discontinued, one of my best backup purchases ever. Daily driver for my 85" gaming TV/media center. Tried other
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by unsui 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems that you're taking the wrong lesson from the above quote. It's not an instruction manual on what parts of the human experience are not yet fully captured by AI. It's a condemnat
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by unsui 2y ago
why would they have that right?
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by unsui 3y ago
The only thing that seems to work nowadays is name-and-shame (unless you run for president, apparently). Who are these folks that deserve to be outted for gutting an American institution? I'm sure they're still around, practicing
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by unsui 3y ago
> Although this is incredibly shady Understatement, to put it kindly. Likely taking advantage of EULA-burnout, most users likely just agreed and installed on good faith. Yes, caveat emptor and all that, but unethical (if still legal).
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by unsui 3y ago
no they don't. They were effectively working at embedded scale, trying to capture state within tremendously limiting constraints. This is a case of interpreting past decisions based on current criteria, when those same conditions would
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by unsui 3y ago
source? (I am challenging you :) ). The quote "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" is a fairly robust heuristic for determing what skillsets are valued today by Big Tech. I'm su
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by unsui 3y ago
brought to you by GabeN-vidia
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by unsui 3y ago
"rent" is the most common mental model that most accurately describes the transaction. It may not have 100% fidelity, but people understand what renting means instinctively. A different term, even "licensing", loses that
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by unsui 3y ago
While I appreciate the sentiment for bending your mind, rather than the spoon, the practical reality is that developer time is far costlier than compute time. It is easier to map compute structures and syntax to existing mental models than
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by unsui 3y ago
we've actually had the opposite, insofar as we are leverging remote technologies to enhance mentoring and training where meatspace critically falls flat. Things like (a) using remote screen sharing for facilitating pair programming (mu
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by unsui 3y ago
legal personhood (such as corporate personhood) are tools/frameworks which facilitate certain economic actions, such as the creation of charters for specific initiatives. Like any useful force amplifier, legal personhood has effectivel
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by unsui 3y ago
> There seemed to be a general understanding of "people are running their business off of this stuff so we need to make it work". I think this is the part that Microsoft gets, at a deep level, and Google doesn't (or, more
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by unsui 3y ago
Responding to some of the comments saying that jamboard had a good run and people shouldn't be outraged that google made a decision in their own interest... Everybody remembers the old saying, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM
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by unsui 3y ago
seems a bit hyperbolic, especially for a supposed free-speech bastion like HN.
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by unsui 3y ago
While I do think that is a great example, it would appear that your peer group might have a self-selection bias for increased security, vs the normal population. A quick google search leads to multiple articles suggesting that the vast majo
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by unsui 3y ago
> Give people power and they will use literally every single bit of it and then some This is going back to slippery slope argument issue. What makes you think there isn't pushback to create an equilibrium of policies? Why does it ne
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by unsui 3y ago
Why does it have to be absolute/binary? If I can't have full, unfettered free speech, then it's the end of the world. Let's put aside the slippery-slope arguments. The real world is messy, with ridiculously obscure corn
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by unsui 3y ago
> Why is it so important to reduce inequality Generally said by those who benefit from said inequality.
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by unsui 3y ago
Agreed. Those are all straw men, rather than the the natural consequence of a journalism education.
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by unsui 3y ago
> I guess I should have applied for a grant. But you didn't. Echoing the sentiment from many of the replies, it's easy to arm-chair quarterback and criticize others' work (and moreover, the existence of the work itself) as
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by unsui 3y ago
> but what would you have them do? I dunno....maybe SUPPORT THE DAMNED PRODUCT? As much crap as microsoft gets, they know how to support a product. Spin it off? Open-source it? so many other options..... Do something to return the inves
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by unsui 3y ago
yeah, it's a ridiculous idea that a company that has repeatedly stated in the past that its focus is on the community and 3rd-party app outreach would renege on its mission to foster and support the communities that made it a place wit
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by unsui 3y ago
> And the fact that usually the term is just dropped in the conversation. And no actually realistic solution or alternative is even provided. Description of an issue doesn't necessarily require resolving the issue. It's ok to

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