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If you find yourself explaining the intricacies of CNN algorithms in your suicide note, consider that you are too "dug into" a bespoke topic. In 2 years, none of these math problem…

I wonder, are there an infinite number of proofs of the theorem, each more complex than the last? Can I rephrase what they did, make it more convoluted, and call it a new proof?

Whoever wrote this piece is a bad communicator who thinks he's a good communicator, and then goes through life getting confused about why no one understands him. For example, in th…

This post claims that the answer to "why white" is because of the beneficial effects it has on the disposition of the writer. But that's hardly a reason to write, that's just a hel…

As someone without a lot of math background, the most confusing part of this is k. Is k a number, like 7.45 or whatever? Or something else? Everything else is just normal mathy stu…

> So then you need users. Elon has 115 million followers on Twitter. He'd get users no matter what he built, so he's solved that problem too No. He got that number of followers bec…

> Some of them, like Dolphins, sure seem damned close to our own capabilities with likely fully formed languages ... Because we're definitely trying to communicate with the species…

> But as for "could"? Shit you can do that at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Yes, these are some of the highest paying companies on the planet. Your statement is not a put-down of…

> anymore than there is a clear winner between tabs and spaces. But there is a clear winner here. Tabs won, almost all code files use spaces. Of course everyone uses the tab key on…

I don't think solar energy is the only type of energy. And if you are at "we are running out of square meters of land to put solar panels on", space might actually be viable at tha…

No that's their point. We could provide for everyone but we do not. I disagree with that like you might, but you're missing the point.

> Not being able to send things into space is not scarcity. Strictly speaking, this is false.

> Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way? I think it's clear from Paul Graham's essays that he always basically defined "hacking" as j…

Who decides what's right for humanity? Someone has to. How about the owners... aka the shareholders.

People will overgeneralize this. The biggest similarity is that they are both personal finance / money related subreddits. The other connections are mostly the human mind making a …

This isn't good news. The title says it's more resistant to the vaccine. That is the worst possible thing.

The author seems to be confusing distributed systems with market systems. Cloud services are a market system, but it isn't distributed... it's all in central servers. The technolog…

I have most of my money invested with Vanguard, but I will say that they don't actually have the lowest fees in the industry.

This is weaponized verbiage. "My opponents are wrong because I assume they have harmful motivations." Way to dodge the actual point of contention: whether modern art styles are ugl…

No, there is no reason to believe that.

The capacity to practice is itself partially innate. Take a person with ADHD - they will naturally have a harder time practicing piano. I myself was unable to practice piano as a c…

He didn't misrepresent or disagree with the author. He added extra commentary on something the author brought up.

As per gold: I agree with that common objection. If bitcoin is a ponzi, so is gold. > First, few if any gold investors have expectations of profits. They generally invest in gold a…