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> The only problem? Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn't seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. Looks like they're still working out the kinks. I look forward to the internet thre
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This can be said about 99% of GitHub repositories. When I first started using GitHub, I thought there must be some reason that no one ever included images in their README. Maybe it's not considered cool, I thought.
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> Tools like ChatGPT further open up the creative process to larger numbers of people. It removes the traditional gatekeepers which is why they are pushing back so hard. In what way was the "creative process" closed off to thos
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It's now being pushed by some self-driving startups as the solution to all the problems that have so far been unsolvable for them. Check out the language SenseAuto is using in this press release. It's truly bonkers. > AGI is th
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I once worked on an application where the user would write a description of their character's traits, and the character's outfit would update based on their input. We got a complaint from a customer who put the word "murderer
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It sounds like you thought "full self driving" meant that the car would be able to fully drive itself. That's a common misconception. What "full self driving" means is that the car can stop at traffic lights. I hope
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HN wasn't much better during the whole LK-99 debacle. The crowd wasn't at all welcoming to skeptics.
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Main roads and buildings are both yellow? It would be better to make one of them purple or something.
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According to the latest developments, "nearly 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the startup's board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO". That seems like it's
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He can court developers he has existing relationships with.
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That's a strange thing to say. I find a lot of value in the developer community on Twitter. I wouldn't have my career without it. I also wasn't being facetious. If there are other places to share work and ideas with developer
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I thought they switched to a "capped profit" model, where investors are capped at a 100x return on investment.
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> It's always been my observation that the actual heavyweights of any hardcore engineering project are the ones that avoid snarky lightweight platforms like twitter like the plague. What other places are there to engage with the dev
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Dr. Sbaitso(en.wikipedia.org)
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In my experience, it's best to accept these things come in waves. For most of us, it's not realistic to maintain maximum creative energy for an extended period of time, just as it's not realistic to maintain maximum happiness
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If you're doing CS50 and struggling with the exercises, I think this points to a problem with your study habits. I had the same problem for the first few years of my programming career (and honestly still fall into the same trap from t
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As Sun Tzu said, when you are strong, appear weak.
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Serious question, can't they just scrape it? They haven't needed permission to scrape the rest of the internet, have they?
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I agree. Critics will say something like "but don't you think it's sad that a machine was trained on the work of artists without their permission, and is now decimating the lives of the very artists who made its existence pos
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Just do what I do and never open the start menu.
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> The thing is, how do we outlaw this without also preventing children from using AI to learn at a faster rate than their teachers can give them. Can you teach me, an adult, to do that?
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I'm not sure that people who post here necessarily know what YC is. I was on the site for about a year before I learned who Paul Graham was.
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If you want to make an omelette, you need to crack a few eggs.
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If you 'never ever' visited Twitter, maybe you would have liked the old one too?
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30 seconds is a lot of time to stare at one thing. It sounds to me like it entranced you just as much as it did the others. How long would you expect a single graphic to hold your attention before you can deem it impressive? Five minutes?
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The photography version is the original. It was retold as ceramics in the book 'Art & Fear', because the authors (who were photographers themselves) were trying to appeal to a broader range of artists. https://austi
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If one group submitted 100 photos and the other group submitted only one, I’d argue that the first group was simply given 99 more chances to impress their professor.
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And yet the url is still twitter.con
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> “We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate and take appropriate action to address this unintended behavior,” says Caitlin Roulston, director of communications, in a statement to The Verge. I w
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> I can't imagine ever gaining satisfaction from reducing productivity since the process of programming isn't that interesting to me. It's what I can do with it that motivates me. The faster and easier I get to the state o

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