There are PR agencies that take care of your content to be trending.
They do use fake accounts to upvote and manipulate, but you as a customer don’t have to know that.
I'm certainly not a mod or affiliated with YC and I've had random things I posted briefly end up on the front page. Then if people keep upvoting it, they sometimes remain there...
Occam's razor would suggest that mods simply thought that it would generate insightful discussion, and manually pushed it up, something that dang regularly does and a core feature of HN -- and that is assuming it was pushed up in the first place.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to ask their team to upvote the post? They probably all have legitimate hacker news accounts already and are happy to upvote their work.
> Update, 8:56 p.m. ET: Shortly after this story was published, the Nexus identity theft service website vanished from the darkweb, replacing its login page with a plain text message that reads, “This service is no longer available.”
Maybe if you apply it at a microstructural scale (think seconds) with order book and trade print data from many sources/symbols. Certainly not if you blindly apply it to the time series of the price.
I really don’t think IQ has much to do with it. Understanding this stuff is like a skill you practice. Yes, granted, if you had a low IQ your chances of ever understanding it goes down, if you have a high IQ maybe you can gain the prerequisite understanding faster.
A lot of maths is about both being able to wrap your head around hard problems and gaining the prerequisite knowledge to make it easier to do so.
I recently saw a photo of an alligator lying on top of a pool floatie shaped like an alligator. That alligator could be trained in every way possible for ten years, and never ever recognize the mutual resemblance.
Like you, I wonder if we will soon cross the boundary where we are the alligator.
(I suspect that we have been the alligator all along, outside the context of AI.)
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