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There's a hacker news link at the end of the document, under "Blocklist used for Humanity’s Last Exam". It links to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694191

According to my App Store history, on May 30, 2010, I downloaded the app "Ian's Laces — How to tie and lace shoes (Lite)". Since then, I've very rarely had to tie my shoes :)

AIs should look at something like this to have more humility when interacting with humans: Andrés Gómez Emilsson making AIs "aware" of their own lack of awareness: https://x.com/al…

I’m wondering if anything in their setup is worth incorporating into the “status quo” The most immediately relevant thing is equity-based comp that doesn’t have a tax hit. Another …

I wonder whether AT Proto, the protocol used in bluesky, might make for a good base for a decentralized reddit alternative. - public - extensible - bring your own client - domains …

"In the province of the mind, there are no limits." I do wonder to what degree this is true There are claims that other animals see more colors than us. But what if that's not actu…

Apple wants the iPad OS developer experience to be bad Their #1 focus is lock-in, preventing being commodified, and extracting value No apps that run operating systems, no apps wit…

Congrats on the launch!! Any plans on adding "in-memory" / "virtual" file support to Bun.build? I'd be interested in using it for notebook-style use cases -- Also, ways to do "on-t…

Had a homeless guy sit behind me on the bart repeatedly saying he'd slice my neck if I turned around or moved at all. It was a mostly-empty car, and it seemed like he was serious a…

What I meant was I expected numpy to be faster than the js libraries I was testing, simply because people use it so much more, for real "scientific computing" work. And indeed it i…

You're right, it's not a fair comparison -- I think it's still interesting though, since numpy is the standard people would reach for, which made me think it would be the fastest /…

Speaking of python performance, I recently benchmarked "numpy vs js" matrix multiplication performance, and was surprised to find js significantly outperforming numpy. For multiply…

I find building react native apps much faster than building native apps. You don't need to recompile if you're just changing the javascript, and only a couple weeks out of the year…

Interesting! As a quick test on Chrome ("Version 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) (x86_64)") t0 = new Date(); a = Array(100000000).fill(0); console.log("time elapsed: ", new Date() - …

This is such a wonderful initiative and could bring so many kids into programming! So many people start programming in order to make games and I could see this developing into the …

I really loved "Valley of Genius" 500 pages of straight quotes. It reads like everyone is gathered around a campfire talking about the past, and you're there with them. Great book …

I like the way @wongmjane put it, "Basically margin is like side-effect" https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1242370883320049664?s=2... I remember @jpochtar and @gablg1 had a simi…

I don't have much experience in the market, but "invest in index funds" seems like a way to inflate the values of all the companies in the index fund, deserved or not, and I find i…

Hey all! Just tossed up https://unread.chat It's a chrome extension that blocks read receipts and typing indicators on messenger The goal is to make it less stressful to check mess…

Sounds like we should put labels on our inputs, and a better error message :) thanks for the response!

Looking into it - sent you an email!