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The US has proved it can do horizontal scaling, as the majority of adults gets a college degree. The horizontal capacity is ineffectively used by having many degree mills and low-v…

Not OP but I've tried using all the major frontier models to find niche items in a field that I collect. The models get confused and hallucinate items that sounds complete reasonab…

I read Google's business incentive as "in it to not lose". AI is a new consumer endpoint and Google currently captures a lot of the endpoints. > I think HN skews coding agent focus…

I've learned this applies to a lot of life. Being a good manager, tech lead, consultant, etc, advisor, parent, friend, etc, is sometimes just half being a good therapist and helpin…

Go seems like a pragmatic fit, even though it was obviously not designed for LLMs and nor is it purely functional. I review a lot of Go code, which means I review a lot of LLM Go c…

I think one of the key differences is that math is abstract whereas CS is relatively concrete. CS examples are often easy to picture and understand the motivation for. You can use …

A human reader for a popular product is generally a paid actor who reads the script nearly verbatim, not a domain expert, so it has no bearing on the technical quality of the scrip…

I can see them as a shared fate for a couple reasons: * the obvious one is Elon - both valuations are largely propped up on belief in Elon. Whenever he falters, his companies that …

Same. And since I won with an age, company, and title that is literally me right now... Well, I'm not exactly sure what to do with it information but some internalization is in ord…

I'm simply impressed they're releasing at all. This has to be literally the worst 6 month time window in the last 20+ years to launch a new computing device at scale and have to bu…

Yeah, I imagine Linux support would be more like a supported Linux distro rather than generic Linux support. Something like SteamOS but with kernel anti-cheat and secure boot from …

Even though I balked at the Steam Deck prices on the recent inventory restock, as they were up ~30% presumably due to the same hardware shortages, I got one anyway. Prices won't dr…

People want to do X, so the metric is how much X can be done. Everyone is over-complicating the explanation. The answer for "why are we fixating on this bad metric" is almost alway…

They added $80 out of a $4.5T market cap, which means redistributing ~1.67% of value from shares outstanding to the new shares. So being down 1.7% is literally exactly what you'd e…

I'm with you. Australia calls December "summer". If climate patterns changed and shifted our weather patterns by a month, we'd shift our season vernacular to match. Seasons refer t…

> I've had to spend week and a half battling Gmail daily email account limits sending batches of 500 emails just to notify people in her address book, receiving hundreds of respons…

Yawing seems like it must be adventurous, the contagious part not so much. Even the mention of a yawn can trigger it. Perhaps we are almost always in a state of needing a yawn, but…

I know this guy from his videos over the years on hiking topics, like how to safely purify water with the minimum fuel and how to pack calorie efficient food. His videos are incred…

Any time an app has bizarre functionality gap on iOS, I assume it's because of Apple's anti-consumer bullshit app restrictions. No idea if that's actually what's going on, but Appl…

I used to have that strip on a t-shirt as a teen.

So if the top 10% is $2m net worth, then what's the 1%? Are we supposed to mentally extrapolate? I hate when only part of the criteria are provided. Arrives like this need a table.…

This is exactly what I've said for a decade. When people talk about the 1% they almost always mean the 0.1%>

Preserving more than one lineage and providing a cohesive family name isn't practically easy, and society did not go that direction, and that likely isn't a coincidence. Discarding…

What societies? Keyword being "practically". Just because there is an alternative doesn't mean society will adjust. And hyphenation isn't a solution, it only works for one generati…

It hails from when family lines were important, and you can practically only have one line reflected in a name. Unsurprisingly, most societies considered the male's name to be the …