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shon
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Comment #48928616
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Comment #48714436
The good ole days ;) In San Francisco, you can still find buildings where the elevators have ashtrays, though usually the actual tray is gone.
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Comment #48714422
Yes! I remember. It was bad lol.
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Comment #48713281
When I was a 20-something big-4 consultant traveling weeks on end for work, I took up smoking for exactly the reasons you suggest. I had nothing to do in my down time and knew nobo…
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Comment #47735408
Stop reading HN and read the book now. You’re welcome. ;)
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Comment #46935473
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Comment #46914445
Hmm I had an ST. I think I vaguely remember this. Was it a PD game or commercial?
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Comment #46914411
Thanks! working on multiplayer now...
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Comment #46914113
The Gibson! Very cool. did you make this? I made a Tron lightcycle game: https://new.af/tron Now that AI accelerates dev so much, I suspect we'll get to see a lot of cool throwback…
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Comment #46913919
+1 for explorers
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Comment #46428844
Manus has been the best agent for turning text into work --useable slides, code, extracting data from websites, etc. that I've seen. There are better tools for specific cases like …
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Comment #46427135
Bummer. Manus was the best actual agent for my money. I literally have it working for me right now so I can goof off on HN… no joke.
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Comment #46059114
I just bought this vintage magazine on eBay. It’s too good not to. There are a few more out there if you want to thumb-through the deal thing
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Comment #45734028
I honestly think that if you were to show the tech we have today, to someone at OpenAI back in 2015, they would say “we did it!!” Outside of robotics / embodied AI, SOTA models hav…
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Comment #42117018
Such a great book… should be required reading for anyone managing engineers.
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Comment #42014528
Interesting, I hadn’t see the Knowledge Navigator before. I would argue that we’re very close to the capabilities shown in that video. Isn’t this already that? A new business model…
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Comment #41861295
Complete with milkdrop and skins.. love it
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Comment #41221181
> Everything sounds like it's just a bunch of hackers It is! This is run by George Hotz, aka geohot, aka the kid who cracked the iPhone SIM lock at 17yo, released the 1-click jailb…
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Comment #40830990
The article is short on details. If you want to see the actual jailbreak prompts check out Pliny on X: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1806446304010412227?s=46&...
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Comment #40401270
The article mentions it briefly but Jan Leike, is talking: Reference: https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494?s=46&t=pO4... He clearly states why he left. He believes tha…
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Comment #39709441
lol.. probably
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Comment #39709080
No, my argument is that building an employee retention tool is not the same from an ethical perspective as building a weapon system. One is like a hammer, it was envisioned for and…
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Comment #39707834
Yeah!
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Comment #39707461
Yep.. and grocery stores