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I'm willing to bet that free access to this research has saved lives. It has certainly improved mine. This article reads like the first step in a character assassination attempt. I…

>What is it about life that makes us want to value it? That's an excellent question. All the questions about consciousness are probably an attempt to better understand (and avoid?)…

I'm impressed by how low the score of your comment is. I know computer scientists aren't "real" scientists but I thought the lack of rigor in this one was apparent and it was only …

I feel like most of these experiments don't control for air temperature. I feel like cold air has a much more rejuvenating effect than just lowering CO2 levels. Not that they don't…

I recently tried to book over AirBnB just for the convenience of it. They requested government id and a new photo of me for verification. They also (indirectly and insidiously) ask…

HN is right-biased and quite nationalist.I'm always amused to realize that some people actually believe that Facebook's "moderation efforts" are a good think, while WeChat's or VK'…

This is a text message. Unless you're doing it horribly wrong, ops/s should be very close to the number of messages.

This is a 2018 internet-connected app, not a 1985 GSM network. 1 billion 100 Byte messages sums up to an almost trivial 100GB. This might be a technical challenge for the neighborh…

NVidia's demo video is staggering.

Looking back at this after the Huawei scandal, it seems very likely it was a preliminary step to create a negative impression regarding Chinese manufacturing. Bloomberg could have …

Google is a jumbled mess of multiple pieces of software, and you get access to none of them, only a search service, and it is loosely defined. Also Google isn't particularly good a…

To be fair SaaS destroyed the previous financial model of the software industry, which was much better for the end user imo. Back then, software companies tried to make good, compr…

Not necessarily.

They have to choose one of the two, publish their decision, and act accordingly. Honestly the real problem is that they pose as a raw communications medium while they are definitel…

Exactly. Although facebook has the power to change mainstream politics on long timescales, claiming that all those protests are products of AI brainwashing is just wrong. Even more…

It's being solved. Given how important this is, we'll have very good models fairly soon.

Scary. I never thought I'd hate to see protein folding being solved.

In my opinion, the majority of useful work done by CERN is not in the domain of theoretical physics, but in that of engineering. A lot of really bizarre configurations are build (w…

The article actually argues against self-improvement. There are issues with trying excessively too hard or sacrificing too much to reach certain goals, there are issues with trying…

Last month I canceled my account application when I realized my new bank would not provide support to unathenticated users. By this I mean you really couldn't get hold of anyone wi…

That's a great point. But it takes a lot of time and effort to filter the content your child consumes. That's because the system is designed so the end user has almost no control o…

Congrats, you presented the one and only case where the manufacturers are right: Nobody should tamper with critical control systems. I don't want a DIY arduino-hacked suspension co…

They could be replaced, but the question becomes which one would be better (or worse). Additionally there are other ways to tackle this problem. Ensure usage is not allowed near re…

I remember looking into the mentioned paper last year. The only childish thing is the reconstruction methods they used. Yes, they where painted in skin tones, but not like in #ff33…