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> it's socially acceptable to do 'yet another translation', but not a newer version in the same language I wish they'd teach with modern English translations of Shakespeare in high…

> allocating a large part of my portfolio into AI companies Even if you were certain that AI would take over virtually everything, the problem is deciding which AI companies to inv…

I was looking at rank by karma (not rank by word count): https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

There's something about the numbers I can't figure out. Look at the top three HN contributors by karma[1]: username words karma 1. tptacek 4,310,896 416351 2. jacquesm 3,841,209 23…

As someone who hasn't used Windows in a long time, could you explain the benefit of doing a double install like that? I.e., if you stopped at step #1, it's activated, so what purpo…

> $600 in the 1920s (1930s?), not inflation adjusted I consulted the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator: $600 in 1925 would be $11,264 today $600 in 1935 would be $14,…

> With widespread AI adoption we plausibly could consume 10x or more of the service: Legal services, for example, plausibly fit this bill. A ten-fold productivity gain in legal ser…

> ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users 0 to 800,000,000 in 3 years? The fastest adoption of a product or service in human history?

Do you still get fingerprinted under the visa-free transit policy for foreigners? I can accept a facial scan, but I draw the line at fingerprints and more invasive biometrics.

Why don't early investors put clauses in their investment to protect themselves against being screwed over by later investors? It seems like an obvious thing to ask for if you're g…

> go to about:config and setting privacy.resistFingerprinting = true in your Firefox browser Two questions jump to mind: Why isn't this the default in Firefox? What is the downside…

> As someone who worked in airline revenue management, it always seemed odd that the sales tactics people use everywhere else weren't being used by airlines Remember the really old…

Does anybody know why? How was ChatGPT able to develop a style that's so different from its training data?

Let me second your comment. That webpage really needs to define POTS and give a brief explanation. It's written as if everyone knows what it is. I've never encountered the term Pos…

I'm hoping someone can answer a question that's been bugging me for years: When I take blood pressure medication my blood pressure goes down but my heart rate goes up [1]. That can…

I found the article interesting but I don't think "debug" is the right word here. I was thinking the article would be about debugging a software or electronics bug that causes my l…

> Schools, (K-12, Univ) Didn't Apple make a great deal of their revenue in the early days (1976-1985) by selling to schools? I seem to recall that schools were their main focus. A …

> In 2017, the CBC demonstrated how hackers only needed a Canadian MP’s cell number to intercept his movements, text messages and phone calls. > From the linked article: First, the…

Actually, yes. I recall that the high school textbook and lecture did talk about mitochondria having its own DNA and that mitochondria traced the maternal tree. Although those are …

> The first occurred about 2.2 billion years ago, when an archaea swallowed a bacterium that became the mitochondria. The second time happened about 1.6 billion years ago, when cel…

It's nice that the nuclear explosion of novas and supernovas occur on a human perceptible timescale -- taking weeks to months, instead of a nanosecond or ten million years. I'm not…

Here's a site that does live tracking of ships: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:1.7/center... "Since December 2004, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) …

For how many years had you been earning the $560k ballpark? Had you kept it up for 10 years total, another option would have been to retire permanently, move someplace cheap, and l…