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> Much of wikipedia is written by one person, Steven Pruitt. He has created more than 33,000 Wikipedia articles.

There are over 7m articles in English Wikipedia.

I have listened to Alive 2007 more than any other live album. I am unbelievably jealous.

I want to see the Sphere in Vegas, but so far there hasn’t been an act that interest me. Frankly, all I need are two actors in robot costumes to press play on Alive 2007.

This is not an option for everyone, but as someone who gave up TV several years ago (not entirely, just mostly), not feeling the draw of these platforms or having to put up with their costs and changes is really nice.

TV is sort of like caffeine (another thing I gave up - though that one wasn't by choice, but required by my doctors) in that you cannot imagine yourself living without it and wouldn't want to. And the first few months of abstinence are genuinely very difficult.

But eventually it gets easier, and then it gets completely easy, and then you actually feel as good or better than before. And once you finally become accustomed to it, you can't imagine going back to the old way.

Kindness, honesty, patience, and critical thinking. Everything else will work out if he has those.

It reminded me of Dune: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

The Most Forbidden Technique by Zvi Mowshowitz, Mar 12, 2025:

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-most-forbidden-technique

I have nothing to add other than this is very relaxing and I love duck’s names.

He writes about it like it’s amazing that it still works. Meanwhile, I bought a no-name cheapo splitter for maybe $5 15 years ago that still works perfectly fine.

Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years!

These are issues that come up in legal disputes.

The question isn’t who or what made the decision, per se. It’s who is responsible for the outcome. The entity making the decision might be the actual cause but not the proximate cause (the cause most closely connected to legal liability) for the harm that occurred.

I solved (managed) my computer-use-related RSI. Here’s how:

1. Multiple mouse input methods: I switch between a vertical mouse and a Wacom tablet throughout the day.

2. Good armrests: I have an ergo chair with some of the most adjustable armrests you can get. Armrest position is a big factor. You want your arms close to in plane with the desk.

3. Mouse and keyboard wrist rests.

4. Stretching: I do forearm stretches every hour or so.

5. Grip trainers: just like it’s not good for your eyes to only look at a screen inches away continuously, it’s not good for your muscles to only do fine, precision work for hours. Break it up with some strength training. I’m fond of the gyroball style or the basic spring tension trainers.

Same. We made our own accelerometers and brought them with us to Great Adventure. It was the end of the year perk for taking the physics elective.

I did marketing work for a major vegetation management company. These are the guys climbing trees, up in cherry pickers, and flying helicopters with dangling chainsaws to trim along power lines. It’s very dangerous work.

They do not hide the fact that it’s dangerous work. They focus on their safety procedures, training, and record. They want both potential clients and employment candidates to feel they are in good hands.

Very little standing still. Everyone is running around. It's a bit like capture the flag, except when you tag someone you compare index cards to see who is higher rank.

I also enjoyed it. We even used to play live Stratego at camp with index cards in our socks with our ranks.

What was the secret of your success?

I was a high schooler working at CompUSA when 56K modems were first available and it was a sensation. They were flying off the shelves. I still had a 28.8 modem at home at the time.

There was an HN post recently about “startup anti-patterns” [0]. And the broad takeaway was that most failures stem from preventing facts on the ground from reaching you, i.e., the company plows ahead with a strategy that misses or actively ignores countervailing data.

[0] https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-s...

I just started 1Q84. I’m only on chapter 7. It was recommended to me by a friend who is a big reader, and the last book this person recommended was Parable of the Sower, which absolutely floored me, so I’ll read anything they suggest. That said, 1Q84 is a very different book. I definitely feel an ominous tension growing, but the pacing is very measured and unhurried. I haven’t decided if I’m liking the book or not yet.

These are all accurate and bad, but I have to wonder how many of these issues are just our current “ai can’t do hands” that will eventually be solved.

I’ve read so many posts like these on hn, but I just don’t relate to them. I have loved internet access since my first dial in to a BBS in the 90s. I’ve been cruising the information superhighway at top speed every day since. There is always something new to discover.

They keep announcing new 3.8 variants. I wonder why they still haven't updated 3.1 Pro yet.

I guess that means you are officially the creator of a "classic" LLM test. Congrats!

> We are not just loosing our voice or identity we are also loosing our thinking capability.

They bolded that section. I’m not saying we need to give over all thinking to AI, but it is helpful for spotting typos.

Words are cheap, and Altman is a salesman. He’s just staying whatever he needs to say to keep people off his back. I don’t put any stock into this statement whatsoever. He may slow development, or he may not, but whether he does will depend almost entirely on what’s best for him and his company, not humanity.

It can’t do what he’s trying to do. It can’t one shot a giant project. Not reliably. It still can’t. Not even Astra. Not even close.

You need to use LLMs to build the individual components and then put it together yourself. The human architect is still needed.

Just saying: “build this complete project” is not architecting. It’s more like wishing. You will find rare examples where someone’s LLM wish came true (more or less), but I think most of these people are just burning tokens.

It's the same story every time OpenAI or Anthropic releases a new model. They are generous with compute for the first few days, and use maximum fidelity with uncompressed weights. Everything runs at its best to make a good first impression. But eventually they pare things back and the models perform a little worse.

I’m not an expert at body language, but I think anyone can see she is trying really, really hard to appear friendly and trustworthy. But when someone is trying that hard to convince you they are benign, it makes you suspicious.

I find the whole Skills.md idea a little silly. We have a technology that struggles to stay within rails due to its inherent makeup. And you think you can fix that by just telling it to?

It makes as much sense as the so-called “humanizer” tools that purport to make LLMs stop using their well-known verbal tells.

All you are doing is saying: “Hey you know that thing you can’t stop doing? Can you stop doing that?” The machine will say “Absolutely!” but eventually start doing it again.

My suggestion is to get a plain old bicycle (not an electric or stationary bike). One hour outdoors on a bike clears away at least a day’s worth of mental detritus for me.

“It’s better to be lucky than good.” - Lefty Gomez