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by ythn 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by ythn 10y ago
I don't doubt we will be able to do great things with machine learning in the coming years. What I do doubt is that machine learning will become generic anytime soon. I predict machine learning will always need some degree of specializ
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by ythn 10y ago
Thousands of years? Who knows how long before the Wright Brothers people have been attempting flight?
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by ythn 10y ago
> This is like heavier-than-air flight. Yes, this is like heavier-than-air flight. It would be like if we didn't really understand how flight works so we are just imitating birds by gluing feathers to cardboard wings, flapping them,
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by ythn 10y ago
It's one thing to say "VR will be commonplace in 10 years" or "Self driving cars will be commonplace in 10 years". That, I can believe because we already have prototypes and I've messed with them and could imag
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by ythn 10y ago
> These things are going to grow up very, very soon! We know that. It's scary. I'll believe it when I see it. Your post has just a bit too much futurologist science fantasy wishful thinking in it.
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by ythn 10y ago
Perhaps it's because most people buy said laptop at apple.com and not amazon.com
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by ythn 10y ago
FontAwesome is amazing, so useful
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by ythn 10y ago
> But alcohol is ok because... It's not okay. It's an evil drug that kills tens of thousands of people in the USA annually, both innocents and users. If we were honest with ourselves we would take a good look at alcohol and its
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by ythn 10y ago
Are these consenting adults going to accidentally harm/kill other non-consenting adults/children when they decide they can drive a car, for example? If yes -> that's what some people have reservations not necessarily about
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by ythn 10y ago
7 and 9 are on either side of 8, and the sum is 16.
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by ythn 10y ago
It's a word that represents a series of digits. "Otto" represents 8, tredici represents 13, etc
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by ythn 10y ago
I too am interested to see how long it takes assuming the attacker knows the generator ruleset (which he will have had to work out previously from two plaintext passwords of mine). Still, I don't think it's that easy to figure out
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by ythn 10y ago
> Worse, an attacker who sees one of your passwords has a pretty decent shot at brute forcing the rules you use, and an attacker who sees two of them has the rules and has totally cracked your scheme. If an attacker is specifically targe
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by ythn 10y ago
That's very true. I forgot to mention that I also have a spreadsheet that has site-specific password rules so that I can do a lookup and see how I need to adapt my generated password. Maybe what we really need instead of deterministic
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by ythn 10y ago
The only deterministic password manager you need is your own mind. Come up with a set of password rules that are generic enough to accommodate all these issues. For example my deterministic password manager might be: 1. random english wordx
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by ythn 10y ago
> Yea, sure. What's so hard about that? The hard part is coming to grips with consciousness merely being an abstract or concrete system changing states and nothing more. If rocks on the ground can be (slowly) self aware, then doesn&
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by ythn 10y ago
Thought experiment: if sentient AI is possible with nothing more than software, does that mean if you "load" the sentient AI program into a "computer" made of cardboard and marbles, that the cardboard and marbles will be
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by ythn 10y ago
I've rationalized somehow that HN is okay because the content is relevant, insightful, etc.
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by ythn 10y ago
My alternative is small federal government that leaves a lot more power to states.
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by ythn 10y ago
> Could the curled up dimensions string theory postulates be actually be another consequence of powerful entities doing wide-scale manipulation of the universe? So what you are saying is that there is a chance Godlike beings with advance
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by ythn 10y ago
Good job everyone for letting the government gain so much power. I've said it before and I'll say it again: monolithic governments that have fingers into every aspect of your lives are dangerous.
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by ythn 10y ago
> I must getting older, because I see this statement a lot and when you look back, its clear we never do learn from our past mistakes. Hence the current JavaScript development stack(s)
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by ythn 10y ago
Surprisingly, BitKeeper is still around somehow
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by ythn 10y ago
So it's not really "guessing", it's just seeing if my drawing matches a predetermined bank of answers? Makes sense, since one time it asked me to draw a "police car" and before I had even finished drawing the c
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by ythn 10y ago
It seems biased. When it said draw the moon, I drew a circle with a smaller crater shaped circle inside it, and it immediately guessed "the moon". Later when it asked me to draw a cookie, I drew the same exact shape (circle with s
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by ythn 10y ago
I know there is no scientific evidence of a spirit or soul inside a person. But, given that most world religions teach that every person has a spirit/soul which is somehow connected to your identity/consciousness, I think it will
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by ythn 10y ago
Are police, parks, libraries and such federally regulated? I thought it was controlled more at the state level. I mean yeah, FBI is federal, but if I call 911, I'm going to get state-level police care.
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by ythn 10y ago
What about an article by a woman entitled: "Elementary school unions explained to my husband" Would that make you feel like the education community is unwelcoming of all genders?
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by ythn 10y ago
I hate when the political correctness police jump on person for being slightly, unintentionally politically incorrect. It's obvious the guy that wrote these articles isn't trying to trigger anyone, so can we all just not get trigg

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