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I always wondered if there is still an ROI for writing a well researched in depth article.

If the insight in the article is actually unique, it'll just get regurgitated by other writers and AIs a hundred times, maybe even with better visuals and diagrams and that'll be the article that gets all the clicks.

Scrimba is really cool. When I first got into programming, a few years ago, I tried to build something similar using rrweb but with server side code execution in docker containers so that it could support all the programming languages like replit.

When I first heard about Scrimba, I abandoned my project because I thought you guys would already go down that path. Why didn't you guys go down that route?

I don't think killing is a natural act. Most people throughout history died from disease, not war.

In the past, if you killed someone, like in a battle, there is a good chance you're going to die in the next battle of the military campaign. Few soldiers survived the military campaigns of the past. Maybe that's why we don't hear much about PTSD among past soldiers.

How would you rig whatever is in the stable diffusion generated image automatically? You'd have to find a way to identify the objects in the image, segment them into their individual limbs/pieces and rig and animate them.

Maybe Meta's open source segmentation tool would be handy. Maybe you can rig the person/animal/object in the image using one of the object detection tools on HuggingFace.

This seems like a really interesting project. I'd love to check it out if you plan on open sourcing it!

That sounds really cool. How would you create such a thing?

It seems the first few batches of YC were VERY successful. But, the number of successful YC companies I can think of from the last 10 years of batches is very minimal despite them investing in thousands of companies.

Makes you wonder, does the funding landscape need a new YC level disruption because YC seems to have peeked, return wise (not hype wise).

Maybe AI might be their saving grace if everything works out

How does a repo get 15k stars in just 2 days?

Many years back, I wanted to learn Arabic, but, the problem is, there isn't one "Arabic". It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic...

When faced with this question, I just decided Farsi seemed a lot more interesting and accessible.

By that logic, you can also say seconds ago...

If you go back far enough, you'll realize both groups are of the same ethnicity. It's just that they converted to Christianity and Islam and, as a result, a few hundred years later, we now call them Palestinians.

But Istanbul does have a stray dog problem. Dogs in this city are either obese and sunbathing or extremely aggressive.

That's like saying the Midwest has a squirrel problem

Istanbul isn't too hot. I think it has more to do with the fact all the buildings in Istanbul are made of concrete.

The city is like a giant concrete pool. No rotting wood buildings for rats to move within the walls of.

There's a huge price difference between o3-mini and o1 ($4.40 vs $60 per million output tokens), what trade-offs in performance would justify such a large price gap?

Are there specific use cases where o1's higher cost is justified anymore?

I don't think this is so much a "shift in culture" more than a generation getting older. Most Millennials are in their 30s now.

I shouldn't be speaking for you guys because I'm genZ... but it's probably to do with the new responsibilities and the increased risk aversion that comes with them.

> I think because they are trained on Claude/O1, they tend to have comparable performance.

Why does having comparable performance indicate having been trained on a preexisting model's output?

I read a similar claim in relation to another model in the past, so I'm just curious how this works technically.

Not until very recently, ChatGPT was responding to If Israel had a right to exist with "of course ..." and If Palestine had a right to exist with "It's complicated ..."

So I don't think our version is completely free of bias. I'm sure there are many other examples, I just wouldn't be able to point them out, considering the training data fed into ChatGPT was also fed into our human brains.

Is it just a coincidence that Martin Luther King day is on the same day as the inauguration of the next president?

It's really hard to define slavery. I don't see any difference between indentured servitude and modern student loans. If a bank is projecting your future earning potential and how risky you are when deciding whether to give you a loan in student loans, mortgages, credit card ... How is that any different from slavery? They're literally projecting if you can pay off a loan amortized over ~30 years.

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a very brutal form of slavery. Slavery existed in many forms throughout history and I don't think our current iteration of "employment" and lending is very different from many of slavery's historical forms

Are the Palestinians in the West Bank supposed to love their armed illegal settler neighbors?

It feels like almost ever day that I see a video of a Palestinian's home in the West Bank being demolished or a Palestinian family being harassed by armed settlers

I don't know what an "AI Engineer" is, but, is reading research papers actually necessary if the half life of the relevancy of many of these papers is only a few months until the next breakthrough happens?

I have a feeling, unless you're dabbling at the cutting edge of AI, there's no point in reading research papers. Just get a feel for how these LLMs respond then build a pretty and user friendly app on top of them. Knowing the difference between "multi head attention" and "single head attention" isn't very useful if you're just using OpenAI or Groq's API.

Am I missing something here? I'd love to know where I'm wrong

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Lenin

Following the news feels more and more like watching a very entertaining tv show, especially with all the plot twists.

While I like frameworks like Rails and Django, Golang with AI makes me very productive. Especially because of how Golang codebases don't use too many dependencies so an LLM never recommends code that has an old dependency or mismatched version...

I'm just curious, how well does Ruby integrate with AI tools?

> The National Guard - along with thousands of firefighters (many of them prisoners working for $10 a day or less) - have been deployed to help tackle the conflagration.

I hope their compensation is a little more than $10 a day! By the looks of the fire, those guys/gals are heros.

Surprisingly, Facebook has 2.1 billion daily active users. I primarily use the app for its Marketplace feature as an alternative to Craigslist.

> Turkey had a well functioning democracy

Turkey has a functioning democracy it's just that most of the population loves populist rhetoric. Erdogan's party lost mayoral elections in all the major cities.

> Solid economics

Turkey had a GDP PPP of $3.45 trillion in 2024 (12th in the world)

> Didn't have the death penalty

Turkey doesn't have the death penalty.

> Found some sort of resolution to conflicts on its borders

The conflict in Syria is resolved in Turkey's favor. The potential conflict with Greece is a different issue though.

I don't think Turkey's EU application being in limbo is because of whatever excuse EU politicians can conjure up at any moment in time. It's because Turkey, if accepted into the EU, would be the most populous country, the biggest country by landmass, the most powerful country militarily, and the youngest country in the EU. Turkish agriculture and manufacturing would be a lot more competitive compared to EU products.

I've experienced living with bed bugs during my boarding school years. Despite getting multiple bug bites a week consistently for a couple years, I never actually got to see a live bed bug.

Bed bugs are no joke

>leaving Gaza alone for 15+ years

There's been a blockade of Gaza. The Israelis determine the caloric intake of the inhabitants of Gaza. Everyone in Gaza has an Israeli issued ID card.

I thought Israel's strategy as it related to Gaza was to "mow the grass" every couple of years. The Dahiya doctrine.