Finch2193 | 7 years ago | on: Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time
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Finch2193 | 7 years ago | on: Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies
could you explain this comment?
Finch2193 | 7 years ago | on: “Not Safe for Brand” (NSFB) or How Reddit Will Censor Controversial Content
I have been patiently waiting for an alternative to Reddit. In this time, I have been reading books, and hacker news. Going back to Reddit feels like an extreme regression.
Should I give up on the hope that one day we'll see another, better Reddit? Digg died when they redesigned their site, I was hoping we'd see the same thing with reddit, rinse and repeat...
Finch2193 | 7 years ago | on: Do We Worship Complexity?
Is there really such a thing as left or right brained? Here's [1] an article discussing this. In this talk, what defined a person as "left brained" or "right brained"
1: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/right-brainleft-brain-ri...
Finch2193 | 7 years ago | on: Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
I'm confused. Do you really think this outweighs all the other downsides of losing net neutrality?
Finch2193 | 7 years ago | on: Laziness Does Not Exist
I saw it as a somewhat hyperbolized reminder that the fundamental attribution error is a thing. 'Crazy people aren't necessarily crazy' -Elliot Aronson
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's actually in Coca Cola?
I'm curious: in what ways is Europe more 'backward' than the states?
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?
You don't advocate drugs, but everyone should take mushrooms?
That's advocating drugs!
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis
Any recommended literature on the matter? 19 from bay area, lived here all my life and the "FU, i got mine" attitude is absolutely real, but i wasn't aware that this was a well known phenomenon, let alone that there were books on the matter.
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: Google Home Max is now available
Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful? Echo, home, etc. All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful. It barely works for even simple queries. The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home, and can't even add reminders. The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'. It's really good at understanding the words that I say but this really illustrates the gap between natural language transcribing and understanding. The only reason I use it is that it's perfect as a handsfree music player and that has its uses in the shower, etc.
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: A New Twist on Neural Networks
Does this mean you expect AI to be able to train on one video of one cat from different angles?
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
what are the drawbacks of the current crouton implementation making giving you pause?
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: In Vietnam, the Best Education Can Lead to Worse Job Prospects
Wait, your argument is that PC culture has wrecked all rational discourse? In all cases, at every University? I do see cases where what you would refer to as 'PC ideology' has eschewed rational discourse with cleverly disguised emotionally charged discourse. But to say that PC culture has unilaterally reduced the value of college to near zero, is quite a stretch.
Finch2193 | 8 years ago | on: A hypothesis about how you might discover the next Twitter
Could you list a few of those subs you find interesting, business related or otherwise?
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I do. Nobody who goes on HN will be. But the layman who spends 80 hours a week working a minimum wage job who has no time for computers and just wants a Disney vacation for his kids, absolutely would be floored by this. It seems very reasonable to apply conventional logic to computers. You can write all you want on a piece of paper and then throw it away and nobody would see it. The same doesn't apply on the internet, but it's not a big leap for people who barely know how to log in.