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Hi my name is Dan, I created a tool called Ballistic that connects your LLM chats and artifacts directly to your software project. The latest SOTA LLMs are so good that I found mys…

There's 40 million American teenagers who are very interested in being a part of petty social circles.

Anything preventing Bard/etc from using these plugins as well? Would be nice to keep the ecosystem open.

Can't AI be used to "fill in" 3D models without having to scan from all directions? That seems the killer app to me. Just use your camera like normal.

It's the same mechanism as Morning Pages - write exactly 3 pages right when you wake up, whatever is on your mind. It's tremendously helpful to move you past whatever you're stuck …

Utterly fascinating article. The OG steampunk hackers. I wonder what the latest is in 2021, have they decided that smartphones are anti-community? What can we learn from them?

Agreed, perhaps there's a lot we can learn from their experiment. For example, by not using artificial lighting do they have a habit of "two sleeps" like our ancestors did? https:/…

If China went democratic then Taiwan wouldn't have much issue with becoming part of it, right? Once people taste freedom they tend to not want to give it up, no matter how messy.

Just like smartphones are only for the super-rich? Technology becomes affordable to all over time. I for one cheer on the billionaires trying to extend their lives - it will benefi…

How far away are we from rendering realistic humans in real-time?

I believe that species loss is inversely proportional to wealth. The poorer the country the faster its loss. And due to advances in agricultural technology, since the Population Bo…

This is the top voted Battery Day thread? Weak, HN... Where should I go for geeky insight into it?

Hypomania is sometimes called the Entrepreneur's Disease. Let's say Elon Musk has hypomania (it does seem like it). Treatment levels him out and dulls his creativity at same time. …

These would be good problems to have because they'd mean the apps were successful in the first place! Problems are solvable if we have the chance to solve them.

The whole reason for Apple-Google getting involved in the first place was a technical issue that prevents Android from seeing iOS. Instead of solving that issue to allow a variety …

Don't they know we need the vaccine by Tuesday, November 3rd??

Well said. How different is that from Obama's ill-fated TIPP? It could at least have been a starting point for a greater alliance.

Isolating China like NK seems to be the direction we're heading, and not sure that I disagree. The lack of error correction in the ability to replace bad leaders and freedom of spe…

How has life expectancy gone since the height of the early industrial revolution? How has life expectancy gone in the developing world of our day? I believe Yuval Noah writes mostl…

Perhaps the difference is hourly pay vs. median income. The lowest tier of workers hasn't risen as much as the median income.

The article really does glamorize the pre-industrial past. Since the author doesn't use facts to back up the claim that industrialization has made people's lives worse, how about l…

Like many liberals, I thought it was a fact that US wages had stagnated in the past 40 years. And rich were the only beneficiaries. But in fact the median income has steadily risen…