Hacker News

MARCH 6, 2024

Todd Klein's online book exploring little-known aspects of comics: lettering, letterers, logo design and more.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Letters with: Letters written by J.R.R.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The joy of letter writing At one point, there were long form letters exchanged between experts in their field. I was noodling on an app design that helped folks create and manage small social groups focused on thoughtful writings and conversation. Artists and writers would write to one another and share their latest struggles.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

In July 2021 Facebook sent me a cease-and-desist letter because I made a browser extension, Unfollow Everything, which helped people use Facebook less. Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a subject I’m developing for a potential future challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A group of artists have organized an open letter to Congress, arguing that generative AI isn’t so bad and, more importantly, the creative community should be included … Artists are among the many groups who will feel the effects of AI over the next few years, but it’s not doom and gloom for everyone.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In four heartfelt letters to his mother he explained why The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife.

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MARCH 31, 2023

A group of well-known AI ethicists have written a counterpoint to this week’s controversial letter asking for a six-month “pause” on AI development, criticizing it for a focus on hypothetical future threats when real harms are attributable to misuse of the tech today. Thousands of people, including …

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Hacker News

APRIL 4, 2024

Anyone who has had to deal with HTML emails on a technical level has probably reached the point where they wanted to quit their job or just set fire to all the mail clients due to their inconsistent implementations. But HTML emails are not just a source of frustration, they can also be a serious security risk.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella focused on artificial intelligence in his annual shareholders letter published Thursday, detailing why “this is Microsoft’s moment.” Read the letter here. The CEO highlighted two “breakthroughs” to define the new era of AI: natural language and powerful new reasoning engines.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Paper sizes and formats explained: learn more about the difference between A4 and Letter paper formats.

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MARCH 29, 2023

The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed. More than 30,000 people—including Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, politician Andrew Yang, and a few leading AI researchers—have signed …

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Hacker News

MAY 3, 2024

It was the 28th of June, 2020; the perfect summer day. I remember it distinctly because of two important events that took place on that day. The first was the unfortunate discovery that I am highly sensitive to the venomous hairs of the Oak processionary caterpillar.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Mandy, a professional career coach on TikTok, shared the story of how someone applying to a job on her team used ChatGPT to write a cover letter. The story sparked a discussion on the role of emerging AI technology in our lives.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Cover Letter … When looking for a job, you're likely applying to several positions at a time -- each requiring a uniquely hand-crafted application.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The Microsoft cofounder published a seven-page letter on Tuesday, titled "The Age of AI has Begun," outlining his views on the future of artificial intelligence. Bill Gates has been thinking a lot about AI, and now he's put those thoughts to paper. He wrote that developing AI is "as fundamental as …

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APRIL 13, 2023

Amazon chief executive officer Andy Jassy has written his second-ever letter to shareholders after taking over the top job from Jeff Bezos. The letter addresses the economic difficulties of 2022, which Jassy described as "one of the harder" years in recent memory. He addressed the firm's cuts to its …

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Hacker News

APRIL 25, 2024

Whether x86 needs to die and what about AMD?

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MARCH 31, 2023

Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla Motors, has joined forces with several other industry experts to pen an open letter calling for a pause on the further development of AI tools like OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4. The letter cites potential “risks to society and humanity” as the primary reason for this request.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 4, 2023

After being impressed by ChatGPT, I created an innovative AI cover letter generator that matches user skills to job requirements to automate customized and relevant application letters.

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Hacker News

MAY 2, 2024

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MARCH 26, 2024

From expensive rent to efforts to keep up with fashion, a young man’s missives on display in Cumbria are relatable to today

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MARCH 2, 2023

Although she hadn't requested a cover letter, the job seeker sent her one. Mandy Tang, a career coach and business owner, said she received an application for a part-time resume writer role around five minutes after she posted the job on UpWork. At first glance, they looked like a perfect fit.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Nikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure” is an entertaining and informative homage to philosophers at Oxford.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

My 1-year kid has a plastic ball that is decorated with all 26 letters from the English alphabet and besides each letter is an image. I suppose the images are of words in English that begin with ea.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s similar to a game where the object is to use the fewest letters possible to get the desired result. Introduction Code golfing is a fascinating concept in programming, where developers compete to write the shortest code to solve a given problem.

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Data Science Dojo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The role of the Q* discovery in Sam Altman’s removal A significant development in the Q* saga involves OpenAI researchers writing a letter to the board about the powerful AI discovery. The letter’s content remains undisclosed, but it adds an intriguing layer to the narrative.

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Hacker News

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 21, a group of anonymous authors and non-anonymous signatories published a lengthy open letter to the Nix community and Nix founder Eelco Dolstra calling for his resignation from the project. Since its release, the letter has gained more than 100 signatures.

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Towards AI

APRIL 5, 2023

Picture created with Dall-E-2 Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun, three computer scientists and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, were jointly awarded the 2018 Turing Prize for their contributions to deep learning, a subfield of AI.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After three bugs, the first unused one turns out as of 2023-09-29 to be the three-letter acronym ‘CQK’, with another 2.6k TLA unused, and 393k four-letter acronyms unused. Exploratory analysis suggests alphabetical order effects as well as letter-frequency.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Now, after OpenAI’s release of their latest AI text prediction software called GPT-4, over 1,000 tech leaders have signed an open letter, including Elon Musk, calling for an immediate halt on the development of AI tools until humans can impose proper safety measures to prevent them from taking over. Veuer's Tony Spitz has the details.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Buying domestic data from data brokers is just something the government does all the time. Bypassing restraints enacted by the Supreme Court, federal agencies (along with local law enforcement agencies) are hoovering up whatever domestic data they can from private companies all too happy to be part of the problem.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Open letters warning over AI’s risks are amassing — with top technologists and researchers sounding the alarm on uncontrollable development, pressing existential threats, and the lack of regulation. Now, just a week before the AI Summit in London, a new letter calls on companies and governments to …

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

CNN — Happy birthday, ChatGPT. You were born into this world only a year ago, but you’ve already accomplished so much in your 12 short months on this planet. The speed in which you have matured and advanced has been incredible to watch. It has been a real sight to behold. When you were first born, you …

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