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> Even Samsung is running into this issue now [...] These large corpos are so greedy to the point they harm themselves. I remember something similar with Amazon, where the Amazon s…

Which is why humans use tech and tricks to get things done. Gravity Blast is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir_KZNsTNiQ

If you have a large set of lets say floats in the range between 0 and 1 and you add them up, there is the straightforward way to do it and there is a way to pair them all up, add t…

> It’s like saying sunglasses protect you from the sun It is actually much closer than you think. There are the standard sunglasses and then you have actually rated sunglasses for …

There can be verification for such things.

Your spine doesn't care why an ejection happened.

> the primaries are defined by the display, not by ambient illumination In itself that is correct, but as you've noted, our own vision system isn't operating like that. The same di…

The problem is that it permeates writing in so many places. For example, games get more and more littered with this sort of nonsense, too. And worse, it is often also used as a veh…

I haven't read the actual paper, but alone from the abstract many questions come up. Personally, I doubt the any "near" to "mid" term population decline will have larger effects on…

It is like Sim City 1 where crossroads generated traffic, so you'd replace them with parks.

It can, but it requires the track to be free in front of it and being allowed to go at the required speed to catch up.

If I look at one of the photography books in my shelf, they are even talking about 18 stops and such for some film material, and how this doesn't translate to paper and all the thi…

There is no system that fulfills your requirements. It is even easy to explain why: Humans are part of all the moving pieces in such a system and they will always subvert it to the…

I will tell you one example with inheritance: The Linux kernel.

Doesn't need video anymore, high end cameras can run wild on taking picture after picture and start doing so before you even fully pressed the shutter, to account for human delays …

If I see something like "At least on Linux, long and long long are both 64 bits in size." my skin starts to crawl. Not only that, but GCC defines __builtin_popcount() with unsigned…

So that is how the US is helping with reaching the climate goals ...

This has a lot to do with framing in photography, architecture, and all these other things where "design" is involved that humans perceive as pleasing. It also means that not every…

> Memory bandwidth. It is the thermal envelope that defines pretty much everything nowadays. Without active management of it chips would die a heat death very fast. Which also mean…

> Then you'll get code that passes the tests you generate Just recently I think here on HN there was a discussion about how neural networks optimize towards the goal they are given…

> Even if the tech freezes in place, I think it will yield substantial economic value in the coming years. The question is, where will this "economic value" be? Because "economic v…

Neural networks are generalizing things as part of their optimization scheme. The current approach is just to dump many layered neural networks (at the core) as in "deep learning" …

Yeah, it is down to the apps, not the phone as a device as such. Engagement driven software exists on consoles and PCs / laptops as well, and I'm not even talking about "social med…

Over the years I was wondering why management is often so bad to begin with. There are terms like "stupid" that are often used -- I certainly did and still do -- but more often tha…