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Comment · 2 months ago
Any chance I could integrate or import data from Readwise Reader? (Link archival tool)
Comment · 2 months ago
Curry Hyuga, Burlingame, CA
Comment · 2 months ago
I skimmed through a few articles. These look really high quality and engaging. Makes me feel like a kid reading some of the cool STEM Encyclopedia-type books like from DK.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank goodness
Comment · 3 months ago
San Francisco is an example of a place with higher than average Japanese population where you have a chance of getting some really good authentic stuff. I recently ate at a place that caught my eye with chicken katsu curry, and that meal teleported me back to Japan.
Comment · 3 months ago
An obnoxiously ignorant suggestion for Japan, of all places.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hopefully in decades hallucinations will be largely solved.
Comment · 3 months ago
Uggghhh, I hate Lua. I hate the syntax, everything being tables, and.... dun dun dun 1-indexed arrays.

I wish we wouldn't keep going back to it. I understand the appeal for some use cases, but pleeeeeeease can we just move on to a new language that fulfills the same use cases but with more typical conventions?

Comment · 3 months ago
You're free to express most things except the things they really don't like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7

Quote from the NSPM-7: > There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.” These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fascist” to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution. This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization)

Comment · 3 months ago
Keeps them running until a breakpoint they hope is coming where all the AI investments and infrastructure they have places them at the top of the world. I (and it seems most tech companies) believe high quality data corpus and access to compute will become strong forms of hard power in the near future. The question is if they can survive long enough for that to come fruition, and if it's before all their investments deteriorate and deprecate.
Comment · 3 months ago
This feels like an attempted primer and justification for major bailouts to the big AI companies. And this is all a problem that the companies have created for themselves by going so hard into AI investments based on wild speculation about the near future of AI. And the bailouts will probably happen because A: these companies have politicians in their pocket, and B: most of the government / politicians will frame this as a national security problem we can't afford to ignore. This all serves to entrench and centralize power and access to data for the major AI companies that managed to stay in the game up to this point.
Comment · 3 months ago
When science is already experiencing a funding stranglehold, how do you expect researchers to have access to do experiments in space?
Comment · 3 months ago
Asteroid detection is certainly affected by satellites. The ever increasing number of satellites makes observations that normally detect asteroids very difficult. It is very easy to miss asteroids we would have seen otherwise if not for satellites giving off glare, reflections, and light. We don't just look for asteroids coming directly towards earth, we keep track of all sorts of large objects and their orbits in our solar system. The tracking authority is usually the IAUC Minor Planet Center.
Comment · 4 months ago
I agree with your point.

I also agree that parents taking zero accountability for their kids is BS. I think we are due for some improved tooling to provide for parents to monitor and control internet access. I'm tired of parents acting like there is nothing they can do except support broad invasion of privacy and anonimity with no regard for the cultural and political repercussions.

Comment · 4 months ago
Look up Benn Jordan's video on datacenter infrasound. Just because you can't perceive the noise doesn't mean it's not there and it doesn't have an effect on the human body, especially over very long periods of time.

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