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Adam runs a clone of chatgpt (poe platform). It's right there on his Twitter account. Isnt this conflict of interest and motive?
Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:14PM (#22708635)
It's a matter priority.

If it's a real problem, go sue them. Do you need a Havard op ed to tell you?

Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:46PM (#22707585)
Wow, hackernews is a cesspool of self-serving "intellectuals". We're in the middle of a pandemic, which already killed 27 thousands people. And the #1 post is privacy act? Can't you guys admit that you didn't come up with video calling company worth 37 Billion dollars. Maybe it's worth talking the positive impact on Zoom during this crisis.
Election software made by Shadow, inc. No joke
Made by shadow, inc. No joke
Re:U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Declines to Smallest in Three Years on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:17PM (#21926219)
No one understands economics.
Re:Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016) on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:06AM (#21905118)
Not very good to be honest. Nothing about schedulers, bootstrap, and most of it is very general information. it doesn't give actual clear picture how everything comes together, and it is very system specifics (unix). CS should be agnostic to any system architecture. You do cover binary , but the more fundamental question what is the foundation of binary mathematics. It goes back to Turing machine, and how transistors are built and how you compose them into bigger units, and then you talk about CPU architecture, the adder, multiplexer, the PLU, etc.
Re:The type of char + char on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:10PM (#21278596)
Does it matter if it is signed or unsigned int or char? Bitwise it contains the same amount of information. That's the most important thing.
Re:Four Years in Startups on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:46AM (#21068343)
I read it as 12 year a slave.
Re:How Bitcoin Ends on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:40PM (#21032410)
Aside from the flaws of the article, there are something to be said about how centralized bitcoin has become. Most of the bitcoins are held by centralized exchanges, or "qualified" custodian (locked up in ETF and other exchanges). They essentially act like centralized banks, the exact thing we're trying to avoid. The only saving grace is we can send to native wallet, giving us some freedom from the institutions.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:32PM (#20760748)
Not sure if anyone saw Dr. Robert Epstein testimony. It was scary to hear that Google not only introduced bias into search that could affect 15M voters, and Facebook could send selective "Go vote" to one voting class or another. I'm encouraged to see that Epstein's team has been building monitoring systems for these scenarios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMU2Vo6_CEQ

Re:Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:48PM (#20597630)
Might as well.
Re:Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:31PM (#20597549)
I think is bad for instagram and whatsapp credibility. Facebook has the lowest credibility among the 3 brands. Makes no sense. People literally say i hate fb, thats why i use instagram. And people say, I hate fb messenger, which spies on them.

Ask HN: Alternative Data to Google Search (Brainstorm)

I was inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20440079 thread regarding building a new search index. Technically it is feasible with CommonCrawl + cloud map reduce jobs. Clearly, you would be killed if you build google search, but I started thinking what kind of alternative data that you could build which could be valuable.Here's some of my ideas:- Ecommerce products ranking based on...

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:35PM (#20503507)
Everyone: AI will one day destroy the human race.

Microsoft: Let's invest $1 Billion in it.

Sort of hard to avoid google when they control 90% ads traffic.
Im glad to see more of this. You can learn a lot more from failures which arent discussed well online.
My thoughts exactly.
Said by the company that uses .io
Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:38AM (#15147189)
Ryan Dahl's advice for building high performance web server: Use Go.
How ironic, FB uses its data to squash competitors from an app Onavo (a company FB bought) that promotes itself to protect its user's privacy.
Unexpected lazy solution.
Re:How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:11PM (#14754999)
Don't try, most of them go into QUANT Finance.
Re:Tezos: a self-amending cryptographic ledger on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:23AM (#14634510)
This one has lots of potential. TDLR, this one has built in governance to allow update to the cryptocurrency, which both bitcoin and ethereum had issues with. Bitcoin has scaling problem, and eth had to fork. Ironically, cryptocurrency purpose is the decentralized but the core team retains too much control, which exactly what they're trying to avoid. I'm planning to fund ICO.
Re:AI Playbook on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:30PM (#14346956)
Agreed. It wasn't very insightful in terms of novel methods.
Re:UK virtual reality firm Improbable raises $500M on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:25AM (#14322271)
That's a fitting name. "Improbable"
Re:Simple Lane Detection on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @02:55PM (#12849037)
Good for educational purpose. But for practical purpose, this may have unpredictable issues under different lighting conditions, debris, broken markings, etc.
Re:The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:54PM (#12687439)
This is really informative. Thanks!
Re:A Grain of Salt on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:29AM (#11875413)
Edward Neidermeyer is a douchebag. Look at all the articles he wrote. http://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ARwBOWvU7QI/edwar...
Re:Siri creator shows off first public demo of Viv on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:04AM (#11665801)
I've seen the demo in their office. It's conversational.

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