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Companies who fail to take advantage of the cognitive multiplication effect of LLM will be replaced by those who do.

And what if the LLMs start producing the highest rated and most alluring science fiction? Isn’t banning them then tantamount to a cognitive bias against non-human intelligence? Wha…

tl;dr student doesn’t appreciate the extreme privilege they live in (LA rent free?!?!?) and don’t realize this is totally untenable for someone scraping by trying to afford college…

Let me know how that works from the 43rd floor.

As an American living in Germany I bike to work every day, even in the snow in winter. There are dedicated bicycle paths which are free from obstruction where I can commute, get gr…

Reference for the uninitiated, a good read. Its veracity on the individual level may be questionable, but the techniques of subduing third world countries via heavy debt burdens is…

I thought spam was not allowed by HN’s content policies?

Not actually $0, just rents another property on the same land. Would like to know the actual property taxes, maintenance and utility costs. No one except perhaps royalty pays $0.

I worked that long in another country, as an American, and had kids there. Then I was laid off. The government didn’t care, my employer didn’t care, I had to leave and uproot every…

Working from home is no picnic, and neither is it a sin; I rue those who think it is other than labor and struggle within. Simply refuse, my comrades, stand fast and don’t go in; p…

Oh no, consequences for the coastal elites, the horror.

After watching the video several times, I would definitely have slowed down seeing the pedestrian near the cross walk a hundred meters back, and would definitely have stopped in th…

‘Socrates: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have t…

“ After using CRISPR to knock out a gene and render the males sterile, the team implanted them with sperm-producing stem cells from another pig. The normally sterile males would th…

In a developed country low birth rates are the norm. The exception is certain religious subgroups within these countries. Notably Mormons with 50% higher fertility rates than avera…

Don’t sweat it. I’ve invested multiple hundreds of thousands in venture-backed startups over the past two decades, and lost all of it. None of the startups was successful. These we…

Here's an idea for those who want to achieve a fast high ranking on Stack Overflow: 1. Use their API 2.3 to get the latest questions for your area of interest (Javascript/React, wh…

And yet, at exactly this time last year: "Microsoft to Nearly Double Salary Budgets, Expand Stock Compensation" https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensatio... So t…

Having friends and former colleagues who work in the "yuppie Wall Street job", it doesn't pay the obscene salaries you think it does, even at the major hedge funds and investment b…

The origins of Magical Realism are (appropriately) obscure: "German magic-realist paintings influenced the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli, who has been called the first to appl…

The latest CDC Homicide Mortality by State numbers show neither Florida nor Texas even in the top 20: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality... Although many …

San Marcos is one of the most overpriced and fastest growing markets in Texas, right next to Austin, priced to the stratosphere since the Californians moved in. Austin is my home t…

Where can I find this cheap land? When I check online zillow, or via Alaskan state land auctions, the price of building lots even without road access in the deep interior is more t…