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I think to build "truly intelligent" machines, what you need above all else - and which I never hear discussed - is want . Everything about natural intelligence derives from the or…

I'm interested in why this is an HN post. I'm not saying it should or shouldn't be, but I'm curious what other people find interesting about it since I don't see anything here besi…

If a regime wants to make up a crime and arrest some targets, what difference does it make if there's a genealogy database?

I was one of the backers of this, and have had it for a couple weeks. The product is of extremely high quality and it's really fun. Happy to answer any questions.

What country? How much do you anticipate needing to start it? Do you have experience in hospitality?

Where are you quoting this from? A link would be nice, I don't see this in the article.

What do you make of this one's approach? Just wondering since you're on opposite ends of the spectrum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022113

What do you make of this one's approach? Just wondering since you're on opposite ends of the spectrum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022113

Sounds to me like that younger teen needs an intervention, i.e. more oversight. I wouldn't grit my teeth and bare it on that.

fantastic analogy, A+ if you came up with that

> racebent This is the first time I've encountered this term! What an excellent word.

As someone who didn't read the book, the dune adaptation felt pretty hollow. A lot of visual splendor, but a very thin story with very empty characters. Extremely shallow interacti…

This tangentially reminds me of a very interesting idea I think I encountered in a Borges story - for a map to be useful, it must be inaccurate. That is to say, a perfectly accurat…

I see a flag.

Definitely took less time to type these few sentences than it would take to read that wall of text

Ah that is truly a very obvious scam

Why would he send them money though? Like what was the given reason why he would be sending them anything?

Could anyone be so kind as to comment a tl;dr of this one? I am curious but it was very long and I haven't the time at this moment.

I'm a bit confused - this doesn't look like a quick tool built to solve one issue - this links to what appears to be a whole company with many sophisticated products. You did this …

Hmm. > My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes and beds. This…

Oddly that was that account's only comment and they never commented again in the 9 years since.

How do you go about asking it a question like this? I would like to ask it for recommendations in other genres LOL.

I wouldn't say so....90k is low for someone with a lot of experience. New grads expect more than that.

This comment conveys to me Asperger's levels of superrational thinking and lack of empathy. "How could someone be resentful at losing their job to a nonsensical decision making pro…

I had never heard of this feature before but I'm having a hard time seeing why it's useful. It doesn't seem to add anything substantial beyond what a commit message already allows.…