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I struggle to think of another example of an organization of this scale placing such a massive companywide bet on a new direction so far away from their core business or any existing mature market. An…

There was a really interesting NYTimes piece [0] about Gen X comedy icon Janeane Garafolo earlier this week that touched on similar themes of “not selling out.” I have often wondered over the years wh…

There’s insufficient information in this article to draw any meaningful conclusions. For example, was the Tesla in autopilot mode or was this purely human error?

I’ve updated the original post to remove the restaurant name. After a little more digging, I’m more confused than ever. Yelp and other sites list the website I used as the official website, the pictur…

Cool - I probably shouldn’t be surprised that the smart minds in machine learning and natural language processing are well ahead of me, an interested lay person! Any good links or HN comment threads t…

Not directly related to this API, but I’ve begun wondering if the next revolution in speech synthesis is to integrate with a natural language model like gpt-3 in order to gain semantic awareness, and …

I mentioned this in the iPadOS thread, but it bears repeating here: Of all the features mentioned, the one feature that I’m really excited for is the ability to mark text messages as unread. On the ot…

Of all the features mentioned, the one feature that I’m really excited for is the ability to mark text messages as unread. On the other hand, did it really have to take 15 years to get here?

If the window you’re looking at is just below your camera, when you look at the window it almost appears that you’re looking into the camera.

> Used this way, the thin-film loudspeaker could provide active noise cancellation in clamorous environments, such as an airplane cockpit, by generating sound of the same amplitude but opposite pha…

Are there specific advancements in statistics that you’re thinking of? An explanation or link would be great!

This post gave me a bit of an existential crisis the first time I read it. I’m used to the universe making me seem infinitesimally small. I’m not used to large numbers doing the same to the universe i…

Top Career (from the article): AI Safety Technical Research > “To mitigate the risks posed by the development of artificial intelligence, it’s imperative to research how to solve technical challen…

As the person who originally posted this to HN, after reading some of the refutations of Matt Y’s piece (the OP), I’ve come to believe the evidence for zoonotic origin is stronger than Matt Y gives cr…

That paragraph is around two thirds of the way through the full post that subscribers see.

I think your comment is in keeping with Matt’s point, that virus spread among humans or animals at the Wuhan seafood market doesn’t on its own contradict the possibility of a lab leak.

While I am an Yglesias fan, I don’t think your take is unfair. Matt often describes himself as a professional take-haver, and admits to trying to put out somewhat contrarian takes on topics. One of my…

The article (by Matt Yglesias) is more nuanced than the title may suggest. Here’s a quote that gets at the gist of the piece: “The evidence really does show pretty clearly that there were one or more …