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It will make me a mac owner for the first time in 25 years. I was just looking at a mac book air yesterday but I just can't get over the complete ripoff of a memory upgrade from th…

Murray Gell-Mann - "The quality of information" lecture on youtube from 1997 is also worth a listen. Murray basically points out how much communication in general is really just ex…

I would personally like to a join a breakaway HN for people who actually want to use these tools. "AI positive Hacker News" or something like that. There is just really not much po…

I have been deeply involved with monitoring my diet and nutrition for almost 40 years now. My own metabolism and body is so different than when I started 40 years ago. Current nutr…

There is a problem too that scientism has a dual meaning. There is the belief in science as the best means to get at the truth and then the pejorative of using science as a type of…

You wouldn't have to be a professor of music for this. Chopin has a unique style and it is a waltz. This would have been a trivial question for any piano music lover. The only reas…

This latest update to Sonnet is super impressive. We are really already past the point of being able to discuss these matters though in large groups. The herd speaks as if all LLMs…

You can't run a 120 billion dollar bond trading operation with like 4 people. That amount of money is a huge amount of work to manage no matter what you are trading. The simple exp…

It is a ridiculous article but did you really expect more? Journalism is really a type of opinion piece, social lubricant in 2024. The purpose is so you and I have something to tal…

You could even say it started with things like Thomas Paine's pamphlet propaganda. It seems the problem is we have a system that was born from the printing press and this system si…

I think this is actually a deeper issue. The CEO would trust the personal assistant to do this if they have a deep trust in the assistance competence. They would also need to know …

It is clear to me that people who make these comments, simple don't use the models much. To say it is faster to get information from Google than the latest update to Sonnet is simp…

These are basically narratives from Romantic fiction of the starving artist that are still being repeated as if they are not just fiction. Of course, the starving artist can not be…

It reminds me when I was young thinking I couldn't get a date because I didn't have six pack abs. Then when I got in really good shape I thought it was because I didn't make enough…

It is rather comical. Everyone knows that panning for gold is a fools game so we have a gold pan/shovel bubble. It is like having a massive lumber bubble and calling it a real esta…

I would think there is some kind of information entropy and scaling laws at work. It could all be represented by a graph but it is a huge measurement problem. Minimize the variance…

This type of thinking is why we are ultimately doomed. Yen is not the world's reserve currency. It won't matter until it does. Then the consequences are unimaginably devastating wh…

Exactly. I remember the first time someone had an iphone. It was with a whole group of people and everyone was simply amazed by it. The use cases couldn't be more obvious. If you g…

An even better example is the city of Chongqing. Looking at pictures of Chongqing from when I was in high school, I would say what stands today is simply not possible. Yet there it…

I think we need to stop making an argument about personal rights with the drug war and make it about what most of this document is about. The drug war is empowering the most danger…

I am an amateur but the reason I love React is because there is so much learning material. Robin Wieruch's The Road To Learn React book started with building a HN reader. I think C…

Krita destroyed Gimp years ago. This debate is always by people who obviously don't even use these tools. No one would compare GIMP to Photoshop in 2024 that has any idea what they…

I haven't used Photoshop in about 15 years. Gimp was never close to Photoshop Krita on the other hand is basically everything I remember about old Photoshop. Even the keyboard shor…

I think I have only been on camera 3 or 4 times since 2020. The value has always been in the audio or what someone is sharing on their screen. Video is mostly a distraction. If it …

Absurd comment. No one is going into a hash bar basically to not smoke weed.