arisAlexis

I thought probabilistic thinking was the way programmers and rational people in the tech & science world used. Lately I see b&w messaging like: "We will never cure aging". "We will never reach AGI in our lifetimes". "AI…

I have regular conversations with fellow developers and their mindset goes like: today X can't be done so tomorrow AI will also not be able to do X for Y biased reason. In the meanwhile the most important people in tech…

I have written an article on medium. I posted it here with my username and got 2! Upvotes. I said ok the HN crowd doesn't like the article. After a few days, I see my article link submitted by some random (but from…

I just received notice from Google that I need to upload a new version of an app. My developer acount has an active app, I have active users. I do not need any other features and I don't have anything to update to app…

This is such a naive take I am astonished it's a very common answer in the threads. OK like there is software you can download right now form the dark web, hack loads of laptops and copy any code you like there. It's so…

I just fired up a new browser installation and logged in from a VPN while I had another browser logged in Gmail so I guess it would throw some alerts but google made me solve straight 17!!!! captchas with images which I…

Given that during the last month: A) Two of the most important scientists actually the most given the h-index, wrote articles that sound the alarm for existential risks for humanity and societal collapse and B) both…

The link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35765373 which is an important article about the AI discussion went missing from the front or second page soon after it started gathering lots of upvotes. Can you find it…

I find myself thinking more and more about it. I read the book Superintelligence back in 2020 and that seemed a bit far in the future. I am now in the process of realizing we are running a massive risk very soon and…

I am unsure what to do, I don't usually complain publicly. So I have this app and I managed to get some users interested that want to pay! There is a bug on the subscription screen of Google play which effectively…

I just read that Russians are even more united in favor of Putin after the war started and made me despair. I want to somehow help. What are some startups that try to solve the problem of disinformation? Maybe some open…

Just thinking about the equivalent of a nuclear bomb in technology. Is it theoretically possible that their closed source includes some doom switch? I suppose it can't be can't be done with Android being open source.…

Hi fellow hackers! As anyone that is creating side projects for himself or working at a startup , I always had doubts about my design. I resorted to asking friends for critique and in the rare case I would know a good…

Is there an active DoS or something similar? Suddenly Google logged me out and when I try to login it says "Couldn't find your account". Anybody else with the problem?