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Years ago, people would have said machine learning (right), devops (okay), iot (yeah, no). what's the new exciting thing 10 years later?

I thought that was satire. I can't believe someone actually wrote that.

I suppose any feature you need is a design pattern, and everything from functions onup are whys of implementing features your language doesn't natively support.

This feels... grotesque? The free market is meant to ensure that competitors lower their prices to compete with Disney+. If instead corporations raise prices to compete with... pro…

It seems like a lot of people these days are doing generative adversarial AI and the pretending like they invented a new thing.

People should stop downvoting respectful disagreement. This isn't reddit.

The slow drip of government interference means people forget what a free and open interent was like. Slowly, its becoming segmented by chickenshit regulation, censorship, and corpo…

Especially considering wordle has no unique gameplay. Its a very, very old game with a million variations. There was even a TV show called lingo or something that did competetive w…

Sounds like a minor dispute blown up into something sinister.

No.

I wonder if there are continents we'll never know about because they get completely subducted and aren't part of any existing continent today.

> , it shocked me and raised awareness to how poor my indoor ventilation is. Do you want indoor circulation? Wouldn't that just mean your apartment loses heat/AC?

Well, Michael J. Fox was diagnosed exceptionally young. Most people only suffer when they're of retired age.

That's a good question. I'm not sure. But it feels like something I'd want to either prepare myself for or just have the relief it won't happen to me.

My grandmother had Parkinson's and it was awful. How long until I can go to the doctor, get some blood drawn, and see if I'll develop it one day?

Caller ID is an optional feature and currently phone calls can be made while spoofing the source. This is why people get so many scam calls. As I understand it, the industry is sti…

If it did, then every comet would be full of life.

This is quite similar to Sumerian numerals and countless other tally-based numerals. I fail to see what's totally unique about this number system.

HackerNews isn't actually a news site. Intellectually stimulating articles are and always have been allowed.

So I remember looking into this a while ago, and I don't really have proof, but it seems like the description of "dance" is probably misleading. There's, for instance, something ca…

Good research question, bad research.

As per 1, my understanding was that the training corpus is a well-known, and human-curated dataset. Its not just scraping the internet or anything.

I've seen this with CGI. CGI still looks awful somehow, but people about my age think it looks cinematic, and people a decade younger think it looks incredibly realistic.

That is inscrutably abstract and jargony.

It seems natural that people living in the mountains would have a robust topographical tradition.