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Show HN: Prompt-based Software Development is the Future(github.com)
1 points by ridewinter 2y ago|0 comments
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by ridewinter 3y ago
There's 40 million American teenagers who are very interested in being a part of petty social circles.
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by ridewinter 3y ago
Anything preventing Bard/etc from using these plugins as well? Would be nice to keep the ecosystem open.
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by ridewinter 5y ago
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.
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by ridewinter 5y ago
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 on in life. You can write "I don't
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by ridewinter 5y ago
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?
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by ridewinter 5y ago
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://www.bbc.com/future/arti
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by ridewinter 5y ago
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.
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by ridewinter 5y ago
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 benefit us all, and remove much disease & suffering from this
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by ridewinter 5y ago
How far away are we from rendering realistic humans in real-time?
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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 Bomb book was published, global population has doubled while h
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by ridewinter 6y ago
This is the top voted Battery Day thread? Weak, HN... Where should I go for geeky insight into it?
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Third Atomic Bomb Attack – Japan 1945(youtu.be)
2 points by ridewinter 6y ago|0 comments
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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. Is that a desirable outcome?
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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 of solutions to be developed, they forced the entire world t
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Don't they know we need the vaccine by Tuesday, November 3rd??
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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 speech isn't just a cultural preference: https:&#x2F
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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 mostly about pre-agricultural life, not pre-industrial life.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Perhaps the difference is hourly pay vs. median income. The lowest tier of workers hasn't risen as much as the median income.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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 looking at caloric intake over the past 800 years:
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by ridewinter 6y ago
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: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perso
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Silicon Valley Can’t Be Neutral in the U.S.-China Cold War(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by ridewinter 6y ago|0 comments
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Paul Graham tweeted the other day about the opportunity to supplant Zoom with something better. Zoom doesn't seem to have much of a moat, right? Most users aren't even logged in.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Who here doesn't think that China has similar things and much much worse added to Tiktok, Zoom, etc?
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Beautiful use of strong language.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
I don't, in fact. Principles are important.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Interesting point. And the riots today are nothing compared to the late 60's. Yet.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Could someone explain the downvoting please?

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