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How wonderful! Was it a japan specific book? I might've missed it but does Morioka operate the book store daily, or the author, or someone else? So many questions..

Ya. I'm seeing some, and a few of them are very promising. The volume of good visualizations will definitely grow. But that growth seems different from the type of growth that happ…

A lot of these visual tutorials/explainers remind me there's some disconnect between their creation and compensation. We never really get whole curriculums of them. There's no equi…

Is there any open world game in any genre that manages the "bustling city" effect well? I didn't play Cyberpunk 2077 but Witcher 3 never quite got there either. It seems like 'deta…

tomhow explains they gave the story another shot here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158443

I made the G602 to G604 to ?? transition. I ended up on the Razer Naga v2 Hyperspeed because I couldn't give up the dual mode scrolling. It functions very well but I'm waiting for …

What privacy guarantees do these deployments make to end users? If you call a bar in SF or a concierge in Vegas, you'll often get a voice chat agent. There's no terms of service yo…

I've thought about that for a while and agree that's a big problem. I wonder if people unwilling to 'exit' bear some responsibility too? I agree most owners are incentivized to hav…

From Section 3: "require all prime contractors and subcontractors at any tier to map and illuminate, as further described in subsection (b) of this section, critical supply chains"…

Does this have the affordances to work well with a pretty standard agentic coding setup (e.g. claude code/codex) on macos? I don't really have a good mental model of how ports/file…

In the introduction video they say 5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained 5.6 Luna. Curious what this means.

The cost & output token charts are useful but I wish I could view them more like a 3D surface. Like the CS:APP memory mountain charts. I wonder how long model size and effort will …

"trains on the Nambu Line have been operated by a team of two staff members, a driver up front and a conductor in the back [...] It turns out that in order to play the station-spec…

Latent Space (AI), old Conversations with Tyler (econ-ish?), Odd Lots (financy?), Unpacking Japan (autological?)... Social media algorithms, newsletters and guest slots expanded my…

Are these typical build speeds on static sites these days? It's slower than I expected for a rust re-write. (Or I guess maybe the portion re-written in rust is only a small part of…

I've come to view a lot of these things as questions of a kind of conversational (/computational) tractability. People have limited time and so most discussions are subject to nume…

Is it well regarded in either place? I've somehow not come across these preparations. I like barley tea and have made it via other coffee methods. (cold brew/french press.) So I gu…

pg had his 'pending comments'[0] a long time ago. I think you work so hard for everyone here. Maybe it's a kind of cultural gardening. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=744…

"... display shows Mach 1.07, but the aircraft is actually at Mach 1.0. The difference comes from the system's calibration" (from the youtube description) What causes something lik…

Are there any autonomous air freight companies? Not the zipline style last mile delivery, but something larger. Seems like there's suddenly a lot of autonomous military aircraft, b…