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throwaway211··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
I'm not high. What are you implying?
throwaway211··on Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906)
Quite different from then too.

But as 'Railway Economy', it does align with the ancient meaning.

Like the word is used today in 'modern' subjects, Green Economy, Circular Economy (which is not Circular Flow), etc.

BTW, welcome, new user.

throwaway211··on The Only App That Always Wins the Battle for Your Attention
Is that headline writing by a news org that demands your subscription and your personal data's liberty?

https://archive.is/6tGoK

The article's about Duolingo. Mainly about whether Duolingo's sending aggressive notifications leading it to getting pageviews (engagement in today's parlance) can be replicated by other apps sending aggressive notifications too in a sick zero sum game of garnering your attention.

throwaway211··on You can only cook what's in the fridge
A sub title may be: One more ingredient in the fridge multiplies the dishes you can make.

Meta: Link is an approx 6 minute video that I found to the point. It's about reading more to expand one's self.

throwaway211··on Tell HN: Hacker News BigQuery dataset is updated daily again
How big is it?
throwaway211··on Example.com
A very small amount of the fee every ISP pays to access the internet actually pays for the hosting.
throwaway211··on Has anyone used AI to diagnose system logs?
You're better at abstracting. I'd guess you'd also be relatively comfortable/competent with complex and/or higher order dimensions.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
One early part of your post is about being productive.

Much of the rest is about creating nostalgia and reliving a past trip through these.

Is there a paradox, or contradiction, in these themes?

throwaway211··on Elon Musk's Boundary-Blurring Relationships with Women at SpaceX
The WSJ's policy for you agreeing to share your information with countless 'vendors' including to...

* identify you across devices;

* actively scan your device for identification;

* create profiles about you;

* combine data to measure how much revenue you generate for them even before paying...

...blurs a boundary with requiring to pay them for the pleasure of doing to.

Who's paying, and how?

I'd [] the above, but even the expanded cookie banner doesn't have a canonical url to these demands.

throwaway211··on Chinese tech companies reportedly hiring 'cheerleaders' to motivate programmers (2015)
2015.

And no, it was not a thing.

throwaway211··on Musk warns that he will ban Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at OS level
Apple have built a business model around that since iTunes.

Not that I disagree with it being dystopian. And then there's hardware encoding of codecs. In the end, this all stops with Apple and Microsoft.

throwaway211··on Musk warns that he will ban Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at OS level
This is Chuck Norris vs an immobile object.
throwaway211··on Austrian Airlines Flight Damaged in Vienna
Not a 737. Imagine if it was a 737.

But I love the photos. A certain 1970s feel to the exposure, colors.

throwaway211··on Show HN: AI-powered API that instantly obtains website information
It does scrape the site in order to summarise it, no?
throwaway211··on Sam Altman's high-school English teacher hoped he wouldn't go into technology
According to the article, Altman is a donor to the school. And this former Altman teacher is now the head of the school. I assume they're still on talking terms.

Generally, I'd agree.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: What is the easiest way to scrape websites today?
LLMs lower the bar for being correct.

You don't need to scrape sites if you dictate your truth.

Therefore read some psychology papers about how people create their realities. Then make stuff up; what gets believed is going to be mostly correct in your audience's reality, which should feed back into your model. The cost of getting stuff wrong is profit if you exploit it. Let your audience filter do it for you, and who are you to dictate what's correct for someone else anyway? Make it sound catchy and convincing for a variety of tastes. Generate a few short video creators with different personas like Street Fighter characters from yesteryear that viewers can project themselves on to.

throwaway211··on The Uses and Misuses of Spinoza
If there is no God, some are depend on other things, and all things are in the collection of all things. Therefore the transitivity is that if God is all things, all things are all things and God does depend on God. One is also a set of many into one, just as the word all represents things through time and beyond.
throwaway211··on Create a Checkbox That Returns Boolean Value for Htmx
Only use Checkboxes when None, Undefined and False are equivalent. Use Radios or Selects otherwise.
throwaway211··on Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?
You be you. Haters gonna hate. Problem's inside them.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: What is your best domain name?
localhost

I do all my best work on it.

throwaway211··on [dead]
With hostages still held, I don't see Israel giving up.

Would the USA if a terrorist group in Mexico had attacked and retreated with hostages to Mexico? A wall would not be on the agenda.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: What keyboard and keyboard layout are you using?
A ThinkPad keyboard. Why any other?
throwaway211··on Slow-spinning radio neutron star breaks all the rules
It's not a silly question. The USS Enterprise used to stop by pulsars and neutron stars all the time to observe them
throwaway211··on Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
Anothere 'e' is required in this sentence.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Predictions for when GPT-5 will be released and how safe it will be?
Like Superman V there will be generally positive reviews, but post V, VI will be in a different form as marketing's already wearing thin.
throwaway211··on Bad weather hills and dark deter cyclists, particularly women, what can we do?
Use more commas.
throwaway211··on Inbox Ten
This is when you start billing other departments.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Why are we still using CVs like old times?
If people can't format a CV, they'd likely not fit self-selection for what I need.

If companies insist on filling in a web template, my experience is they have inflexible ERP systems and I'd rather not work there so I don't demand that either.

A CV's fine. I also print them. It costs less than $0.10 per page. How 1993.

throwaway211··on Silent Downgrade: Apple Misstates That the M2 iPad Air Has a 10-Core GPU
Are we counting from 0 or 1?
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Why does this online IRS form have an hours of operation?
Nothing like a baseless HN comment proporting to be an expert, in this case on the EIN application system.

Short username the equivalent of a low /. number. Unfortunately, -1 Insightful isn't possible in the more groupthinky HN.

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