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Tech founder reimagining making learning+video personal.

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j45··on I give to charity – but never to people on the street. Is that wrong?
Thank you for sharing.

I agree.

When giving it's about the heart it's given in.

To address the worst stereotype directly, too many people can act righteous on a wild weekend out, when if they were homeless, they'd probably be even more out of control than someone who's experiencing being unhoused.

I've learned it's good to support both. Dignity doesn't have a price and it can do more than support services that are too often non-profits going through the motions of generating statistics to keep their funding rolling.

The humanity you see in others is the humanity you see in yourself.

j45··on Don't Call It a Decision Model
I agree with this.

Decisions/Judgements in LLMs are not logic gates like a deterministic piece of software, they are simulations cosplaying it more often than not.

Depending on how it's worded it's pretty remarkable how much it can improve, but it ultimately is not deterministic.

j45··on Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
Another way to say it might be - the current version or approach of AI Agents don't do much for users in that use case.
j45··on Progress on provable inference for large language models
I wonder if this is partially letting agents.. agent, agentically and not know where ideas come form or how they come together, only whether it works or not.
j45··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
The framing of using PHP as a legacy technology is the greatest sin of this article and they can't be freed of it.

I'm not a PHP person, but so much of the world actively runs on it silently.

All technologies have gaps. PHP was affected differently not because it's old, but because it's so ubiquitous. Python is as old, so is Javascript, and many others.

j45··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Where LLMs as a genie are being forced out of the bottle early, the size and scale of it can like only be met by the same tools, better used and equipped and directed by humans vs the LLM iterating until it seems to work.
j45··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
At least it can potentially help close the bugs too at scale.
j45··on Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
I was hoping the lists would start from a count of 0
j45··on Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
It's a massive risk, and only a matter of time. Especially for hardware that's no longer updated firmware wise.

I'm thinking of what to do myself.

The ghost of android releasing 6 month old patches every month is going to come home to roost.

j45··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Adjustable nose pads and spring loaded arms are priceless. So are hybrid metal/plastic frame that offer the best of both worlds.
j45··on Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
Could it be because spending it internally means they can’t receive retail prices for the tokens?
j45··on My Favourite Laptop
If that m1 today came out as a 12” retina MacBook (2lb) it would be the first Apple product I’d ever line up for.

Neo is way too bulky/heavy.

j45··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
The website could also link the post where it was found from and explore the conversation too.
j45··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Tvs can themselves have their privacy improved by never connecting it to WIFI, except, maybe for software updates, if needed (rare).

The smarts you connect to the TV can vary.

Apple Ts manage things in some good ways.

NVidia Shields are good in others for Android TV.

The Android TV platform is likely more customizable (check youtube the past few weeks) to get it how you want.

Last, but not least, some poeple may just hook up a web browser to the TV and then contain that.

j45··on Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
In a world where people trade time for money, they effectively collect time as money, and money can be used to buy back time through the correct conveniences if they choose to buy back the freedom in their time, first through high leverage low cost items, and then over time more.
j45··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
He did have a very varied life story, but I'm sharing what I did because it's what he expressed about his entire life, especially in the most recent years.

https://www.looper.com/1516934/patrick-stewart-tragic-true-l...

j45··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Stories where characters bring forward their humanness (and not being perfect) can share a lot to learn from.
j45··on Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
To become HackerAI, applying for YC.

My favourite part of Startup School is when people ask you what you're working on, and then their profile and application can change.

j45··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Patrick Stewart didn’t teach this.

A character he acted did.

Patrick Stewart on his deathbed referred being estranged from his children from always putting work before his kids in his own words.

j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
Everything doesn’t have to be for everyone.

The reason why this product exists is for homes in places where there is no telephone or cable tv wiring to the house.

This is a massive part of the world and part of why the countries that didn’t have a wired setup in many cars jumped straight to wireless.

j45··on Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Only a tiny amount of people use ai this productively or know its possible
j45··on Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Yet some people still use them.

Why don’t you create an alternative?

j45··on Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Doubt worshipping finds ways to not find a way to make something happen. Just because one person can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
j45··on Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Time isn’t money, money is time.

Money that doesn’t need to be spent is freedom of time.

j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
I recall seeing some that were offered in Asia but might not be elsewhere.

It looked like an office desk phone but instead of Ethernet, a SIM card goes only. Some came with a cordless handset with it too. seeing

j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
I believe there are VOIP phones that are sim card based. Imagine a country that doesn't have land lines but folks want a home phone.
j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
Probably for a while - lots of IoT uses it, especially with the push away from 3G.
j45··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
I thought I had finished my sentence - the companies have different GTM, and maybe different trust/experience.
j45··on Casio Watches of the 1980s
This site is a great flex in innovation over decades.
j45··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
Claude may have captured a different mindshare of the past year who tried AI before and it didn't work.

The more people see AI is still just software (albeit a different kind), the more they will remember to instead start with where/how it works.

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