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Jet engines are significantly more complex. You don’t know whah you are talking about.

As someone in the industry it is amusing to watch HN do some cursory googling and then make definitive statements with confidence.

I would argue that testing code is “Risk Mitigation” not “Risk Management”. It is nuanced, but at least in large Systems Engineering orgs, Risk Management is typically a different …

If he already knew how to code in other object oriented languages, and was really just learning C++ syntax over the weekend, it’s not as much of a stretch.

Asking in good faith, what incentives changed exactly?

And once AGI occurs, will the value of the original investment even matter?

Based on what?

I would buy one today if I had somewhere to reliably and conveniently charge it. I live in an apartment complex without charging infrastructure. Don’t want to drive to nearby charg…

Not sure why, but I found this gave me a lot of anxiety. I think maybe the focus and fine motor control needed to keep the ball within the lines…

I’m assuming the generative AI functions are not running purely locally and would be sharing your data to Microsoft/OpenAI ?

When I was younger I routinely worked late nights (I’d work normal business hours, then go grab a subway and come back to the office and work until 10-12. I enjoy working alone at …

If you are using the OpenAI APIs then are all your user’s emails making it onto their servers?

Any references for this? I would like to read further.

I agree. I am currently stuck in a rut where everything seems meaningless, and I can’t find the motivation to do much of anything. I desperately yearn for a meaning/purpose to serv…

Yea, ruined the experiment. Not that someone else couldn’t recreate it…

Anyone that actually cares about the privacy of their data isn’t going to be satisfied with just a “promise”.

Some of the anecdotes seem completely fabricated to provide a convenient example (i.e. the guy’s wife was very observantly watching him play a round of golf with a colleague and ca…

The best pizza in NY is in New Haven.

New Haven CT has the best pizza in the US (and arguably the world)

I really don’t understand why we as a society have found it acceptable to experiment like this on other sentient beings for our own advancement. Why are these animal lives worth le…

I feel that children have no obligation to take care of their elderly parents. They don’t owe them anything. The alternative seems more insane to me.

True video capability would entail describing a scene as a prompt and getting a video in return. Not interpolating between a handful of images as is being done now (not to discredi…

My therapist mentioned the same thing to me recently so I suppose it is worth investigating further. I had never considered it before that, probably due to lack of understanding of…

I’d be interested to hear more. I have come to realize that I am very self centered, but I can’t quite figure out why. I tend to get very caught up and focused on what is going on …

I have had to deal with at least one of those things. It still doesn’t change my opinion. I feel that it is ethically wrong to enslave and torture animals for humanities benefit. I…