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So much of HN is half-baked anecdotes about and by LLMs or philosophizing from VCs who talked to an LLM about Rene Girard for twenty minutes or pop sci articles that appear to be p…

Another great book of his is House , which chronicles the building of a house for a young couple somewhere in New England, complete with character sketches of the architects, worke…

I have re-read this comment several times and cannot tell who "most creative minds" means. Artists? AIs? People who AI will help become artists?

Is "land value" the right term here? The NYC example uses assessed property value, which I think is a function of both the land under a property and the building itself. In that ca…

I've been an AC (the person who manages the reviewing process and translates reviews into accept/reject decisions) at ICML and similar conferences a few times. In my experience, gr…

> In fact if we're being honest, there is some weird unprompted bitterness in your response Politely, I suggest that prefacing a claim about a stranger's emotions by saying that th…

The "cannon" one is maybe the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in months. It almost makes me want to add autoplaying music to my own website, just to add that too.

I found this bit interesting: > Basically, one reason I’ve lost a lot of will to do anything is because of AI’s existence, and I don’t want to use it. Because I have zero personal …

There's at least one paper (though pretty recent) about it: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.00164v1

This is an interesting profile of Terence Tao as an ~8 year old: https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf , written by somebody who seems to have been well-versed in wo…

Somebody wrote a file encoder to take advantage of Flickr's free photo storage, too (though based on its Github repo I don't think a ton of people used it): https://alexcbecker.net…

Google at least claims that noindex will keep your site from getting crawled [1]. Do people think this is false? [1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...…

The linked article says the US has threatened to reduce its support, not committed to leave. Things are bad enough without exaggerating like this.

I did a theoretical computer science PhD a few years ago and write one or two papers a year in industry. I have not had much success getting models to come up with novel ideas or e…

Hm, this doesn't seemed to be backed up by, say, PISA scores [1], by which the US looks very similar to its OECD peers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_Internationa…

Yeah, on the spectrum of ways to make money, running a sports betting site is pretty bad. It's zero-sum (unlike, say, founding a company and getting rich from shares that were init…

My understanding is that it's not subject to the same tax it would have been as income, since the federal estate tax only applies to value above ~14 million per individual. So, my …

I'm not sure if "options" is the relevant word in your post, but it does seem like capital gains tax is significantly reduced in inheritances? Here's an example source that says th…

I think the claimed issue is that these people do receive income from those assets indirectly. My understanding is that if your assets are worth much more than the amount you're bo…

> And that's also pretty simply explained by this classic quote: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. I've com…

> The rest of the decline is (in my evaluation) best explained with the increase in average age of the 18-64 year old demographic. I wondered about this before reading the article,…

> Americans: why isn't anyone having sex anymore?? Also Americans: Abstinence only! You'll get pregnant! No abortions! STDs will kill you! Men deserve sex! We're not going to teach…

This level of generalization and certainty shouted down from the moral high ground is the hallmark of a great comment!