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My big-picture takeaway is the AI labs looking to own the customer interface, not just the models. Expect this trend to continue.

My wife has terrible motion sickness in cars (just riding, reading is out of the question) and these glasses help a lot.

Seiko 5 is the go-to recommendation for inexpensive mechanical watches

My instinct is also to retreat to technical solutions. But, unfortunately, it appears we engineers need to fight back in the legal and political domain to stand a chance.

Yes, that's correct. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437907

You need to separate land value and house value. When regulations are reduced to allow more density, the value of the land goes up because its productivity increases. The land can do more now, e.g. ho…

Same here. “Do you want the one useful tip related to this topic that most people miss? It’s quite surprising.” If it were so useful, just tell me in the first place! If you say “Yes” then it’s usuall…

Same here, that literally just changed my life

Also shout out to https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ for converting email subscriptions to RSS feeds

It’s been awhile since I’ve played Minecraft, but when I built large redstone projects before, I built out each circuit manually and then used mods to copy/paste it within the game.

There are mods that let you copy/paste sections of blocks.

LLMs are making open source programs both more viable and more valuable. I have many programs I use that I wish were a little different, but even if they were open source, it would take a while to acq…

I was taught in high school that during the Cold War, there were maps with the US centered and USSR divided on either side to imply American unity in the face of opposition. Example: https:/…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902

Made me think of It was only in college, when I read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, that I came to understand cells as recursively self-modifying programs. The language alone was evoc…

Can you share the conversation? I just tried o4-mini and it got it wrong. https://chatgpt.com/share/680b8a7b-454c-800d-8048-da865aa99c... …

"Aaron and Beren are playing a game on an infinite complete binary tree. At the beginning of the game, every edge of the tree is independently labeled A with probability p and B otherwise. Both p…

Tell that to the embedded Facebook trackers ubiquitous throughout the web

https://discourse.writefreesoftware.org/t/anti-cla-action-wh... …

Same here. A main point of I, Robot was to show why the three laws don't work.

This is a few years old, but interesting to see Miyzaki's reaction to AI generated video. “An insult to life itself”: Hayao Miyazaki critiques an animation made by artificial intelligence https:…

Sort of like open source AI model destroys $600B in market cap

You joke, but critics were literally saying this. Stuff like "it's only $9, people will just ignore that and continue to drive"

> Turing test was surpassed years ago I keep seeing this thrown around, but did anyone actually like go out and do this? I feel like I could distinguish between an AI (even the latest models) and a…

Have you checked out Marp? https://marp.app/ Basically it generates slides from markdown, which is great even without LLMs. But you can get LLMs to output in markdown/Marp format…

Proportional representation is more important than RCV vs approval voting for single-winner elections. And, in the US, multi-winner RCV (single transferable vote) is the most viable approach to achiev…

> subsidizing fossil fuels to 7 trillion a year globally This is misleading. See https://www.slowboring.com/i/145942190/the-case-of-the-myste... > The vast majority of…