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The article is not about this stuff being useful for making money off of prediction markets.

from the article: I asked the guy who turned $35 into $2 million in seven months on Kalshi whether, in another seven months, he would be able to 100,000x his money a second time to…

No extra hardware, stock macbooks and an imac. No fancy apps either, RayCast is probably the only one that overrides default system behavior. It used to be better, a few years ago …

hope not : ) I observed these across three computers on different versions of macOS.

A couple of years ago I noticed that my mac starts collecting weird little bugs if I don’t reboot for a really long time. The cursor starts misbehaving (it won’t reliably change ov…

fun fact, CH is an ISO code of Switzerland, and China is CN

> our team was blown away > by how much Codex was able > to accelerate its own development they forgot to add “Can’t wait to see what you do with it”

I didn’t mean collaboration features. I clumsily used 10,000-users as a measure of the app completeness.

Building (or vibecoding) a markdown editor for a single user and their specific use case, for a 100 users, and for 10,000 users takes different amount of time and effort. In the pr…

in this quote ↑6 describes the wealth level and ↑7 the number of people at that level. the author gives every number in log form.

seeing how much power shifted from legislative branch to executive, and how often executive branch changes its mind, I wouldn’t count on the unwavering government support

great benchmark!

does anyone know how would e-ink compare to oldschool reflective TN LCD displays (those in Casios from the nineties)? I have a Playdate device with this type of screen and it seems…

Hey, I’m the author of Shottr. It’s super gratifying to know that there are people who see the app that way : ) thank you for saying this!

Great analysis! a couple of comments: 1. the airfare inflation chart is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI which is calculated differently from the other metrics in the ar…

I wonder how modern models fair on NovelQA and FLenQA (benchmarks that test ability to understand long context beyond needle in a haystack retrieval). The only such test on a reaso…

I’m curious what the policy with the highest long-term benefit would be. The country needs external talent, but would skewing H-1B towards high skill be good? The economy seems to …

From where I stand, AI seems to enjoy lightning fast adoption. Personal computers became a viable technology in the eighties, slowly penetrated workplace in the nineties, and suppo…

> So, any smart simulation would only be simulating a small very percentage of itself at any given time does a falling tree make a sound if the simulation is not running? : )

The things like window buttons, remote keyfobs or radio units will have higher margin when sold individually, allowing to lower the base model price.

curious that both YAGNI and YAGRI arguments could realistically be made for the same fields. guess it boils down to whether someone’s YAGRI is stronger than their colleague’s YAGNI…

somewhat unrelated to the topic, but I really liked this part of one of the sentences: “did not not only did not”. it does make sense in the sentence btw.

The share of adults with a higher education degree almost doubled during the author’s teaching career. No surprise a median student is less capable and motivated today.

for what it’s worth, my afternoon projects tend to take over four days even if no llm is involved

this satisfaction sells. there are companies built on the premise that after the last 1% of effort the sales skyrocket. the marketing narrative of having a complete, high quality p…