I think Cursor tab-completion is entirely in-house, right? That feature on its own is worth at least $5/month, it's super well done.
Readit Newsthurn commented on Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer middlelayer.substack.com/... · Posted by u/logan1085
thurn commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail
Are we close to having generic semaglutides e.g. available in India? Or locked into high prices for the foreseeable future?
thurn commented on Evolving OpenAI's Structure openai.com/index/evolving... · Posted by u/rohitpaulk
I'd really love to talk to someone that both really believes this to be true, and has a hands-on experience with building and using generative AI.
The intersection of the two seems to be quite hard to find.
At the state that we're in the AIs we're building are just really useful input/output devices that respond to a stimuli (e.g., a "prompt"). No stimuli, no output.
This isn't a nuclear weapon. We're not going to accidentally create Skynet. The only thing it's going to go nuclear on is the market for jobs that are going to get automated in an economy that may not be ready for it.
If anything, the "danger" here is that AGI is going to be a printing press. A cotton gin. A horseless carriage -- all at the same time and then some, into a world that may not be ready for it economically.
Progress of technology should not be artitrarily held back to protect automateable jobs though. We need to adapt.
Which of these statements do you disagree with?
- Superintelligence poses an existential threat to humanity
- Predicting the future is famously difficult
- Given that uncertainty, we can't rule out the chance of our current AI approach leading to superintelligence
- Even a 1-in-1000 existential threat would be extremely serious. If an asteroid had a 1-in-1000 chance of hitting Earth and obliterating humanity we should make serious contingency plans.
Second question: how confident are you that you're correct? Are you 99.9% sure? Confident enough to gamble billions of lives on your beliefs? There are almost no statements about the future which I'd assign this level of confidence to.
thurn commented on Show HN: BugStalker - a modern Rust debugger github.com/godzie44/BugSt... · Posted by u/godzie
is this necessarily linux for dependency reasons, or could it be on OSX in the future?
If Star Wars were in the public domain now it would be making even more money. Money that would go into the general economy and not just into a single studio.
Also copyright duration when Star Wars was created was a maximum of 56 years, and obviously George Lucas felt that was sufficient incentive to create it!
thurn commented on Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy eso.org/public/news/eso25... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
In the sense that the point of “age” is supposed to indicate some kind of progress by which cohorts can be compared and classified into discrete groups.
But increasingly, there is no correlation between age and specific developmental stages. It is merely a number that indicates how long something has been around but not what its current status may be.
this doesn't seem to provide much of a justification for an extraordinary claim like "the widely accepted number for the age of the universe is wrong by 4 billion years"?
Kind of surprised that this book could be published by O'Reilly and also freely available online? Seems unusually generous.
thurn commented on Operator research preview openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
So far HN users seem to be doing a pretty job of flagging them.
Of course, the big question is what to do if/when they're smart enough to fool everybody.
hm, wouldn't you almost by definition think you were doing a good job of flagging them at any level of actual effectiveness?
thurn commented on Ask HN: Teams using AI – how do you prevent it from breaking your codebase? · Posted by u/namanyayg
If you've hired an intern before, think of Cursor like that. When you come up with an intern project plan, you usually need to give a very clear specification of what you expect, and you usually need to have the project be pretty self-contained. A lot of real problems are really bad intern projects, and a lot of problems are a really bad fit for AI. You have to be strategic about it.
Liking it so far, although the 'task' progression isn't my favorite. Feels like there are way too many tasks to do that seem like tedious busywork.
Honestly a really simple game design fix for this would be to unlock tasks more slowly as the player demonstrates more engagement with the system. That way if you are like me and mostly find them boring and repetitive, you don't feel as bad about not getting them done.