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by shon 2mo ago
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by shon 3mo ago
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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by shon 3mo ago
Yes! I remember. It was bad lol.
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by shon 3mo ago
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 nobody, but I could sit in hotel bar with a smoke and strangers
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by shon 5mo ago
Stop reading HN and read the book now. You’re welcome. ;)
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by shon 7mo ago
Hmm I had an ST. I think I vaguely remember this. Was it a PD game or commercial?
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by shon 7mo ago
Thanks! working on multiplayer now...
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by shon 7mo ago
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 throwbacks.
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by shon 7mo ago
+1 for explorers
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by shon 9mo ago
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 coding, but for one tool that could handle agentic work
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by shon 9mo ago
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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by shon 10mo ago
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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by shon 11mo ago
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 have already achieved Sci-Fi level capability.
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by shon 2y ago
Such a great book… should be required reading for anyone managing engineers.
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by shon 2y ago
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? Something like OpenAI’s search or Perplexity can run on it
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by shon 2y ago
Complete with milkdrop and skins.. love it
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by shon 2y ago
> 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 jailbreak for iOS before he was 20, and then went ahead a
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by shon 2y ago
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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by shon 2y ago
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 that OpenAI leadership is prior
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by shon 3y ago
lol.. probably
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by shon 3y ago
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 can be used for good, like building free houses for the poo
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by shon 3y ago
Yeah!
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by shon 3y ago
Yep.. and grocery stores
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by shon 3y ago
Lololol
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by shon 3y ago
Sorry, I’m being a little dramatic. I mean the data part is a little scary. Look up People Data Labs. There are lots of these data aggregators and that data can be used for a lot of scary things. HR in practice is probably the least scary.
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by shon 3y ago
Really? You think this is that bad? I always said “at least we’re not building weapons we are trying to get people jobs (or keep them in jobs)” But aside from weapons, if you think building a retention tool for HR is bad, you certainly shou
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by shon 3y ago
Typically these tools are bought and used by HR or Talent Acq departments, not managers so the type of detailed decision-making you’re describing wasn’t a use-case in my experience. It’s more like a roll-up metric that can be looked at glob
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by shon 3y ago
Yes, actually. Hiring sucks. We wanted to make it better. I believe we did do that by showing the HR world that data driven insights could be a better indicator than what school someone went to or whether they played Ultimate Frisbee (a rea
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by shon 3y ago
Sold the company to Allegis.
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by shon 3y ago
It’s worse and deeper than you’d want to know. That said most HR Tech companies and large corporate HR departments are incompetent so it’s not really as scary in practice as it sounds. Also GDPR/CCPA has hamstrung a lot of this and HR

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