ngokevin

They are useful only in providing convenience to people. But life's purpose is not convenience, and we have sacrificed a lot for this convenience.

Convenient to have everything in one big super store.

Convenient to get packages shipped to you.

Convenient to get answers to any question at your fingertips.

Convenient to message other people, whenever you want.

In the process, we've destroyed small business, mental health, independent newspapers, authentic connections, the climate, privacy, etc.

And yes, jobs. Many will argue for meritocracy, that if those jobs are displaced, they deserve to be. The result is that all the money is just going to get pocketed by the 1% as result. A vicious cycle where fewer and fewer people will own more and more.

This includes a large portion of big tech workers, many of whom reading this.

Avatar: The Last Airbender books. Yangchen's series. Nothing you'd use to try to show off your knowledge over coffee, but fun well-written read with great world building.

I feel it's better for LLMs. For each class name, the LLM doesn't have to go out and consume CSS files and read all the cascading rules and determine what other classes elsewhere might have an effect. It has everything it needs to determine the styling and layout right in its immediate context

You can click your own piece and see the move order to see if it's a possibility you'll be moving into a discovered attack. You can sort of predict that pieces will move if they can go from a non-threatening state to a threatening state.

Potentially geocaching too

HNers aren't just using AI for articles — they're redefining the hacking of news.

In 1985, a Ross Dress for Less exploded due to methane gas, and congressman Henry Waxman representing the westside used that to federally ban any idea of a subway for decades.

Prior to that, Henry Wilshire, who donated the land for Wilshire Blvd in 1895, made a condition that no rail lines would be built on Wilshire.

Played violin, sounds nothing like a (plucked/pizzicato) violin.

I believe in modern medicine but I lost some faith in the American institutions around it when I "diagnosed" my partner with the correct disease that the first rheumatologist dismissed and told them to just stretch. It was officially diagnosed years later, and we lost a lot of time because of it.

Airdrop has not felt reliable to me all the time, and completely fails on anything larger than a picture or short video. Especially if you are storing your files on iCloud and the pictures and videos don't live on your phone.

Been using Localsend to transfer bigger files between phone / laptops, never fails or has trouble finding a device, or stalling.

I use Blood on the Clocktower to do this, it's a social deduction game (that's just not randomly accusing each other) so it gets everyone talking easily

This short-term thinking makes me pessimistic about UBI. Everyone's addicted to work despite automation and AI creating less need for work. And thinking we live in a zero-sum game where if someone else is benefiting, it must be hurting them somehow so they must block it. If someone's getting a "handout", they're a lazy bum.

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You dropped your emdash. This comment actually sounds more human than the original post!

The most AI headline I've ever read