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thunkshift1··on How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain
> Visible images he will rapidly collect in his memory, but these must be selected, and his first associations must not be trusted to accident.

Welp, there goes a generation fed on mindless content on screens

thunkshift1··on Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life
Huberman is one of the few reliable names among influencers.. the ‘criticism’ you quote from wiki here is extremely trivial and a non issue in todays time imo. Others with less knowledge/authenticity and more followers have done a lot worse.
thunkshift1··on Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
Why salesforce?? It seems the want in on everything fancy in the market (looking at slack)
thunkshift1··on India launches contest to build homegrown web browser
> IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate

This is rather condescending take considering that all of the web standards were set and adopted in US for the rest of the world..has any country other than us created a major brand new browser from scratch? Even most of major us based browsers are rip offs of each other, except maybe netscape —which isnt major anymore. IE based on spyglass, mozilla on netscape, brave and edge on chromium.. which itself uses modified webkit, which came from open source KHTML … ‘invitation to copy and duplicate’ seems to be the norm here, no?

thunkshift1··on San Francisco Landlords may lose everything [video]
This is big boost for airbnb.. tenants will continue to get screwed
thunkshift1··on Apple reports third quarter results
Not sure about a car, but healthcare definitely
thunkshift1··on Intel returns to profitability after two quarters of losses
All semi manufacturers are getting subsidies.. tsmc and samsung have contributions measured in percentage of gdp of the respective countries. Its hard to believe they are not getting any
thunkshift1··on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
Can someone pls explain what is happening and why this is bad
thunkshift1··on Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)
All comments seem to focus on the cost/energy requirements of the filtration process.. but the elephant in the room is the waste. How to safely dispose off the waste water after filtration completes? That water is virtually useless
thunkshift1··on Ask HN: How is the Software Engineer market for 45 year olds?
Sometimes you are asked to put in dates such as year you graduated, which companies you were part of when etc to arrive at your age
thunkshift1··on GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better
What in the whole wide world is an ‘AI influencer’
thunkshift1··on Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy
X doubt
thunkshift1··on Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI
Fwiw tech support for any indian based company especially startups is pretty damn good. I. US you have to move mountains to be able to talk to a human.
thunkshift1··on Introducing Superalignment
There is no justification for all this hype either
thunkshift1··on Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movies on a Plane
People are going to trash the vision pro for the next couple of years. In the next 5 years or so its going to be apples best selling product to date.
thunkshift1··on Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it
Are there any decent alternatives to stripe or is it the only game in town?
thunkshift1··on Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth
Very nice einstein..now write a paper and get it reviewed by scientists
thunkshift1··on White supremacist changes beliefs after taking MDMA for a study
Powerful..This why the drug was banned before
thunkshift1··on Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?
Its not so much about smartness, its about knowing what is the right move to make. That some one who isnt familiar with the product internals or the market knows better than the founders/engineers because of some innate ability is a bit far fetched
thunkshift1··on Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?
Statistically speaking you are wrong.. can you list five tech products that became big after the PM types you talk about took over the product?
thunkshift1··on Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?
I think this take is rather disingenuous, especially the tech vs non-tech comparison you mentioned. Most, if not all, of the market winning products have come from tech founders/engineers. So tech people actually do know things better about what customers want. Its when the product has gained traction and it goes beyond a certain inflection point that these non tech pm types swoon in. They hype up tropes about tech folks lacking people skills or not knowing how to deal with customers. This is ultimately self serving for them because then they get to sit in the very lucrative position between the customers and a growing product, without actually doing any of the hard work involved in getting the product tech stack up and running and fine tuned.
thunkshift1··on Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?
And what is the difference in job function between those two?
thunkshift1··on Growing from engineer to manager
This article was a nothing burger.. so id say it was a successful EM type message
thunkshift1··on Ask HN: Lots of AWS credits expiring soon, ideas?
Train a new llm.. or btc mine
thunkshift1··on DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter
Is this the same tech stanford is using to cure depression
thunkshift1··on Tackling plastic pollution: ‘We can't recycle our way out of this’
Excellent question, you should ask your representative in the next townhall
thunkshift1··on Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation
Thats exactly my point.

Its clear why sam altman wants it, the comment was about why people should have fair, just regulation— not the ones pushed by corporate agenda.

thunkshift1··on YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
That extension wouldn’t probably last 6 months on the google owned chrome extension store
thunkshift1··on Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold
From the wiki article on this book:

> Reviewing the book in The Sunday Times, Max Hastings wrote:

To put the matter brutally, millions of Indians were allowed to starve so that available shipping—including vessels normally based in India—could be used to further British purposes elsewhere. When Churchill's nation was engaged in a desperate struggle, perhaps this reflected strategic logic.

thunkshift1··on Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold
I doubt if “encyclopedia Britannica” would be a reliable source in this matter..
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