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I've found that working in a style similar to this is very useful for managing multiple threads of work at the same time. I use virtual desktops, where each desktop contains a sing…

> On the other hand we don't give technology the same pass we give to humans, meaning that we don't tolerate machine incidents the same way we tolerate human ones. I completely dis…

From my experience, "Big pedigree, top of the line personality, zero results" isn't about hiring a CEO, it's about hiring in general. Hiring is really hard and its relatively commo…

This issue isn't specific to the Kindle, you can go and buy books on Apple or Google or Kobo or Barnes and Noble and its the same story. Many books can only be bought this way. Pub…

Is the only way to use it to break the DRM? I wish there was a path to being able to use all these devices with kindle ebooks legally

One man's offensive penetration tool is another mans defensive tool. In the recent HuggingFace/OpenAI incident the safety controls stood in the way of the defenders, not the attack…

What’s different between “slop” and “bad”

Why do we need anything more than good/bad? If there is a great post on a topic and the author used AI when generating it, what’s so bad about that?

Interestingly, this website reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory. Claude's TLDR of what's causing the problem (may or may not be accurate): "That ani…

I also think that the people who are complaining loudest about Anthropics pricing and changes are the customers Anthropic is least interested in retaining. From my experience peopl…

A tangential observation: the video on the linked page wasn't what I expected. I thought Mistral was a european AI company, so I didnt expect the video to be filmed in San Francisc…

It's beyond tech. Optimism in general is out of fashion, and pessimism is pervasive. The technology for delivering bad news and highly-engaging outrage-bait has developed much fast…

If you want to understand the likely capabilities of AI technology in the future, listen to software engineers like this guy. If you want to understand the impact of AI technology …

There is no fixed demand for jobs, nor fixed supply of housing. Immigrant consumption creates a lot of jobs and immigrant labor creates a lot of housing

When a person relocates to a country where their labor is more productive, a large amount of new economic value is created. Much of that value is captured by the migrant through hi…

The worst part of organic produce is that it is worse on two things that matter a lot: climate change and biodiversity. Most of the negative impact of agriculture on the climate an…

I think it's a completely reasonable position that companies making self-driving cars and question/answer systems are legally liable for any errors. But if you hold that position, …

Both can be true. They can be charging what the market will bear, and still be charging less than their costs of running it.

Any idea how soon dynamic workflows might be available in Cowork?

I don't agree with this. But I also found the article really unsatisfying. The idea that middle management should spend enormous amounts of time building relationships because othe…

Claude works in Rails apps extremely well. As the author of this blog points points out, Ruby allows you to get a ton done with minimal coding. Also, Rails uses convention over con…

The idea that Japanese companies provide more stability and lower returns on capital isn't a hypothesis, it's backed up by data https://www.nber.org/papers/w1762 https://ideas.repe…

Japanese and American companies have different purposes. In Japan the corporation primarily provides stable income and employment for society, and secondarily returns on capital in…

Apple has absolutely been dragging its feet on RCS. The DoJ explicitly accused them of degrading cross-platform messaging to protect their smartphone dominance. Internal Apple comm…

Hacker news holds Apple and Google to different standards, so I doubt this post will get much traction. (I'm still angry about how I must use an iPhone if I want to be able to text…