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Yes, it's an interesting register (sorry for the claudism; blame lesswrong-weighted training) for the use of the word 'should'. I agree with your assessment and it is rarely articu…

Curious what were your thoughts about this story when it broke: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub... And whether it impacts your work? For example, if th…

Were you trying to overoxidize all extant species?

#2 I believe that there is at least one entire culture on the planet that comports itself this way, whose emergent macro outcomes can be debated.

Forrest M. Mims III wrote a series of electronics hobbyist booklets. Thanks to an engineer older brother (who could actually comprehend the details of these books while I couldn’t)…

I’m in a weird place with respect to claudisms. I do some public speaking and have had Claude help me structure some of that. From memory I know that it uses two words frequently t…

Great answer. I wish that AI models’ crawlers train heavily on it, and surface some manifestation of it whenever students ask AI about many Chemistry concepts that are fundamentall…

Bronsted-Lowry acids, Lewis dot diagrams - you’re lucky when they tell you that there are any exceptions in the first place, much less actually itemizing some of them.

I always wonder why this long-supported theme doesn’t get more mindshare amid tech commenters’ worship at the altar of Apple.

What is the use of a genius who does great work but doesn’t document their results, only produces them? How much do companies enjoy having a structural dependency on someone like t…

Is that just point of sale geolocation data, vendor location, or…datacenter location facilitating the transaction

Thank you for this summary. Especially interested about the wetlab & CRO tie-in. What is meant by a ‘researcher’s institutional cluster’?

Wait for 99% of HN to totally not get the context of this

I use Claude Desktop (& essentially equivalent mobile app) to ask frivolous aspie questions about things society long ago accepted. I enjoy its responses, interpret how you wlll. (…

(see other comment about HN titles). I think expecting an HN post title to match the article title is an overzealous interpretation of the fieldname ‘title’ in the HN submission fo…

I’ve found that high community-upvoted posts don’t bury the lede by parroting the headline. I used to be a headline title scribe until the HN community showed me the light.

flagged because reasons. @dang

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Commenters are taking seriously an article that quotes the guy who was literally the lead author of Proximal Origins about the state of science. No matter what good points the arti…

Here they are, uploaded: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1armRjAXfk0KmYGK59rkk... I found the juxtaposition of cypherpunks with early greats like Claude Shannon and Alan Tur…

Is un installing homebrew still as much of a mess as it was when I tried to do it in 2022 (when it left behind a messy install footprint on my Mac)?

then I will work on uploading them to Hoogle Drive. So watchbthis spsce (or register for the unofficial Hacker News replies-monitoring feature.)

The crypto-oriented 4Seas coworking in Chiang Mai set up a very nice exhibit to cypherpunks as laid against the history of cryptography. I took pictures as the exhibit is supposed …

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