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Are AI image and video generators trained with lots of porn images and video? They seem very capable of generating porn (even though they are filtered/moderated not to do so) with realistic physics and movement of nude…

I know that AI is improving, but for the sake of argument, if AI makes no progress in the next few years, are current capabilities enough to justify current valuations and investment? That is, is the economic value that…

I've been thinking that founders over the age of 50 (I'm one of them) have some unique challenges, experience, insights, etc and so would be good to have a forum to exchange tips, strategies, information. We could meet…

As I recall, as of a few years ago, that was the case, ie web apps could not do some of the things Flash was able to do. But maybe web technologies have advanced recently so that that’s no longer the case.

Not sure if people have studied this in detail, but my anecdotal evidence is that when I read a tweet related to politics, the top response is a contrarian one (i.e. disagrees with the tweet) This is even the case when…

Assuming you're a programmer, researcher, or an entrepreneur (which I assume is a good chunk of HN readers), what would you be doing if you had enough money that you didn't have to work for a living? Would you still be…

I have set up a website for presidential election predictions (http://prespredict.com), and it is now up and running for the 2016 election. It uses daily state poll data and calculates the probability that each…

The new feature that was recently added to HN, which is to be able to toggle the collapse of the comment threads, has the toggle switch at the end of the comment header. The script below puts it at the beginning of the…

I see they have a list of papers at https://deepmind.com/publications.html Which ones are the most acclaimed/well-sited?

There is something I remember seeing on HN a couple of years ago, and that was a website that, if I recall correctly, maps your address to unique tiles, and does this for different zoom levels. Each tile gets a unique,…

Excluding the morality of her political background for now, what can Condi Rice actually offer Dropbox by being on its board? I guess I'm ignorant of how company boards work, and I assume in some vague sense she will…

It seems that many if not most entrepreneurs who strike it rich end up becoming VC's (or some variation thereof) This seems to indicate that it's easier/more profitable to turn your millions into more millions by not…

I assume the coding to implement this is beyond trivial, so maybe there is a well thought out reason for not implementing them. Any ideas what that reason might be? Has PG addressed this in the past?

Whenever a big acquisition is made, e.g. Instagram for $1B or WhatsApp for $19B, there are lots of posts here on HN about "why is it worth so much? this is insane! we are in a bubble" And those posts are invariably met…

I have a new iPad Mini with Retina, and it amazes me how often the browser crashes. Also, when not crashing, it still has issues with far more websites than my laptop browser does (either in OSX or Win7) Why is this the…

Several spammers are sending email from fake email addresses from my domain (e.g. bob@mydomain.com, where bob is not a valid email address). Not sure if they are 1) Sending them from other computers and just spoofing…

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I don't like it

I loathe flat design, which has recently become the "in" thing. I don't want to get into reasons, since design preferences are subjective and there is no "proof" as to why it's good or bad. (One thing I am pretty sure…

I am neutral

I hate it