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by zkmon 1mo ago
Time, quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and boring days - are all the same thing - escape from being busy. This assumes being busy is common, which is actually not that common for an age of 60+. The real luxury, for any ag
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by zkmon 1mo ago
Wasn't that the idea? Withe cars on roads, didn't we literally lose the touch with the ground? I guess the desire was to "lose" touch with all dirty and hard work areas.
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by zkmon 1mo ago
Depends on what you define "internet" as, and what you expect it to be. So if it becomes a garbage, probably that's the equilibrium state it could get to, due to the forces around it. There are no isolated phenomena.
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Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3(axios.com)
5 points by zkmon 1mo ago|0 comments
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by zkmon 1mo ago
When you buy something from a medium-sized shop in India, they would insist for your phone number, as their POS app have that field as almost mandatory. I had to fight at a pharmacy checkout, holding up the queue behind me, as I refuse to g
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by zkmon 1mo ago
It's amazing to see Qwen3.8-27B occupying a respectable central place among the giants.
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by zkmon 1mo ago
> the percentage of the U.S. labor force that does not have a full-time job ... What is the "U.S. labor force" defined as? Is it a age group thing?
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by zkmon 1mo ago
Skillful people did amazing things in the past because of 3 reasons - they have ample time available (slow world), don't have the basic struggle such as thinking about next meal (must be in a peaceful country), no technology to divert
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by zkmon 1mo ago
We are in the era of techfluenza that suffocates and removes normal ways of living.
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by zkmon 1mo ago
"Hacking" when used in the context of furniture actually means breaking it with an axe.
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by zkmon 1mo ago
The observations appear like disconnected pieces or isolated trends. They are not. You need to step back and look at the full picture. It's just one trend with multiple manifestations. It doesn't require lengthy essays if you look
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by zkmon 1mo ago
This is for immigrant visas, not non-immigrant ones. H1B is a non-immigrant visa which is mostly used for work. So I think this is a click bait culture affecting all media houses from top to bottom.
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by zkmon 1mo ago
The observer (Mr Gates) is inside the tech ecosystem, so his observations would be colored by the pace of things happening around him, in the tech space. The world outside has much more friction and many other things going on. Tech had a wi
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by zkmon 1mo ago
What happened to IBM?
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by zkmon 1mo ago
Nope. It's a true story. And how it relates to thread is given below in another of my comments. "Things change with time" should have given you some relation. Statistics is seen by the current generation as hard work, rightly
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by zkmon 1mo ago
Statistical literacy, or any literacy for that matter, requires hard work that is seen as a normal way of life. When machines do that hard work for us, it is no longer seen as a normal thing, but some unnecessary hard work (when we have car
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Back in the 90's, there was a game called "Midtown Madness" by Microsft. They simulated SF and London very well. This game now takes it to another level.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
There is hardly any invention-based moat a startup can have these days, in this fully connected world. The only moat is laziness of people sticking to known products and solutions, real world assets that others can't replicate easily a
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Xyz's law: Anything built by community will be sold by someone when it is ripe.
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Ask HN: Enable web search for my local Qwen?
1 points by zkmon 2mo ago|1 comments
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by zkmon 2mo ago
I guess Moore's law analogy is weak. CPU speed has hit a limit in that case. What has hit a limit in AI case? Newer versions of the models are still flowing with more and more capability. For the users, I feel it is more like "fre
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by zkmon 2mo ago
I'm struggling to get the point. Which one these? * Use pangram for catching AI slop * Be good at spotting AI slop * Beware of website built for AI crawlers only * Do not buy stuff from China * Do not consume peptide supplements * Pept
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by zkmon 2mo ago
> "FOUR CENTS A POUND." It's never about money. It's a life style, belief system, social group or community that drives that kind of passion. It happens everywhere, all the time with everyone. It's about how they
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by zkmon 2mo ago
There is no mystery. Imagine a huge radius of rotation. Then a small rotation is almost like a linear shift due to the large radius. Two reflections around a small angle would mean two "half roll-overs" making it a full roll-over.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Isn't it just exercise of his right on his property? Since when did the data on someone's phone has become a shared property?
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Cause-and-effect could quickly turn into butterfly effect. Let's say you were fixing a screw on a device in a low light conditions, the screw head is badly manufactured and the screwdriver isn't made according to standards, the to
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by zkmon 2mo ago
I hope people don't call automations as "teams". If you are calling it a team just because it "does" work, then CPU cores and threads are also a team, though not so probabilistic (intelligent). They do get the work
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Comparisons such as 5 years and $6M are meaningless. Instead, they should compare with other AI, such as how much it would have cost using self-hosted open-weight models, or using a API that offers open-weight models etc.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
I think it misses the whole point of Pi. Turns are for angles. Pi is not a measure of angle. It is a number that can be used to find the length of an arc. For example, it gives half-length of an arc, given an angle in Turns. So it deals wit
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Kids don't need dad's time. They observe and learn. Dad might minimally guide occasionally, but there shouldn't be an expectation for dads to sit with kids. This kind of expectations makes it hard to have more kids.

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