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Monetizing kills passion in 99.999% of cases. In the US, or many other developing countries (i.e., those without a robust social security mechanism), the only way most of us can af…

This is truly lovely. Whether you're faithful or not, the wisdom of these lines resonates to this day. Thanks for sharing.

I love this. Could you someday add a login system or sharing system so I can save recommended books I want to bookmark to read later. Thank you!

It would be great if I had a bathtub full of ice cream as well, and if we all lived in a world overflowing with love, respect and joy for all living things. Until then, I'm happy t…

This makes me wonder, has anyone scraped all of HN's archive and done any LLM thematic, textual or other kind of content analysis? Seems like it would be such a useful data source …

Evidence for this claim? Counterclaim: I live in Dubai, have several trans friends and colleagues who live and work here, and they have many other trans friends who come to visit f…

I hope it fails miserably, but there's probably enough VC / PE vampires out there to still make it pop. PS - Fuck Spez

How did you get Mixtral to run an a 32gb M1? I tried using Ollama on my machine (same specs as above) and it told me I needed 49gb RAM minimum.

One of the most enjoyable, stimulating and profound authors I stumbled across in 2023, thanks!

This is just brilliant. Thanks for sharing! The question is, where can we buy one? Or even better, where can we buy one with 16 knobs to replace my MidiFighter Twister? :-)

Garbage Day is great, BTW

Wesley Faulkner (or maybe the person doing the interview) needs to differentiate between the future they want to see (aspirational or values-based futures) and the likely or probab…

A bitter pill, indeed.

Meraki also means "done with love", which gives it a slightly different spin than just pride. You're proud of it because it comes from the heart!

Claude has been able to do 100k for months and is as good, if not better (IMHO) than GPT4 for some things.

I went to a liberal arts college that allowed you to design you own degree. The process of design was half the degree itself. Whilst it make seem that "sociospatial analysis & desi…

I've been many times. It's far less nefarious than it seems. Ever been to a corporate Christmas party? It's basically that with a lot more money. There are some very interesting ta…

Normalize transition in your kids lives'. It will serve them so much better in the long run. I had my own dramatic "mid-life crisis" a few years ago in my early 40's and have two t…

This exists right now! Not as an app exactly, but you should check out Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurt’s suite of tools called “Holly Plus”: https://holly.plus/ I’m pretty sure you c…

Business Insider is such a crap rag. This kind of poor journalism, taking a momentary online scandal and turning it into "news", is both symptom and cause of the ongoing degradatio…

Don't take it personally. The Dutch are notorious misanthropes!

I got a DIY device online for about $200. Check out the r/TCDS subreddit for great suggestions.

Ditto. Please share the launch when you can, OP!

Yes but due to malnutrition, dysentery, accidents and a general lack of public health and medical care, not because their parents crushed them in their sleep. I slept with my kid (…