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I have only one resolution: to do the greatest year of work of my life. With that in mind, I bid you a very fond farewell, HN.

Tip for anyone suffering from viral fatigue - I had a bad case a few years ago and it was only strength training that turned it round. That's as simple as learning to use the weigh…

Crazy as it might sound, you can literally do this by listening to your feet!

Yourself or others may find _it is exactly what has fallen apart_. Exercise is magical, it gives you superpowers of focus and confidence that you can solve all problems. If everyth…

What you’re missing here regards diversity and volume. Diversity: because language models are in some sense capturing an average (even if that average can be from a subset of train…

Does that mean murdering people in the cause of climate change prevention is ok? I don’t think literally everything else matters less. I don’t think there’s a simple “matters” scal…

Merry Christmas everyone, even those who argued with me despite clearly being incorrect :-) thanks for continually challenging and educating me, HN. I know of no better way to keep…

Also note that the cultural change around advertising within an AI chat interface could then lead to similar monetisation within human conversations too, ie WhatsApp -> WhatsAd

Bit OT but generally speaking if you care about company culture and want to build something great, acquiring mature companies is not the way to go. You end up with an alien culture…

I think the more generous reading here is that “usual” = “net positive for the world”

Interesting, but is the “date flexible” approach really workable? How does the rest of the business work if the deadline is May, then August, then the following year? At least with…

PG left because of censorship. Now he’s back. He’s a smart considered guy so it’s interesting to ask why he went back. We all have to make similar decisions, and one way we do that…

Is there a list of universities that don't do this kind of thing? I wouldn't want to send my kids to a university that published this, I want them to think for themselves. I certai…

How do we know if this is a joke or not. Some of them definitely read tongue in cheek.

The Startup way: make a list of features you want to build for your next "release" / deadline. Make that really minimal, what really matters to your users? Tell people you're doing…

What is the difference between copying and pasting an essay from the internet and copy and pasting an essay from Chat-GPT, which is a sample from a large training set of essays fro…

Following up - according to the FT today, Turnitin (widely used academic anti-plagiarism tool) are developing a detector.

Not sure his recent behaviour ruins his legacy. It’s likely far more will be remembered of say SpaceX than of this Twitter debacle. At least - to date. But overall yes agree a grea…

Whilst I strongly disagree with the banning of links and accounts without good reason, it is true for me that Twitter has greatly improved since Musk took over. Part of that is tha…

A useful metaverse is already here and it’s called Google Maps.

I think that position confuses ethics with condemnation of an individual. You can be ethically against stealing, but still see the positive elements in the life of a thief. It is a…

Because the OP had taken generalised from that issue to a general polarised Musk fanboys vs haters debate.

Incidentally, one of my heuristics to avoid this: if your team are not contradicting you on a regular basis, you are probably not a good manager. They should feel free to float opp…

Thanks. So essentially: stereotypes are shortcuts? Good point. That’s an instinct we can and should avoid in general debate though.

> I don't think the parent was calling people people cheerleaders merely for defending him on any level. Ah, I definitely read it that way. The use of “cheerleaders” leaves little …