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According to one estimate, his vaccines save nearly eight million lives each year.

These emissions [for wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries] could amount to a cumulative 15-35 gigatonnes of CO₂ equivalent over the next 30 years: but that compares with around 40 Gt CO₂ equivalent produced every year by the fossil fuel based energy system.

Hyperbole, but it is a pretty great editor.

Heard a familiar sound while watching Tár

comprehensive list of his income and assets. Great thing to be public

made worse by the effects of weathering on the plastic

in classic HN style the first comment was “write free software to prevent authoritarian regimes”.

It depends on the book. Talks about different authors approaches to describing the same scene; the focus is completely different for each, and so each would be read very differently.

Interesting to re-read How I read and see if anything has changed.

sucks that most of these are “overcome all your instincts and natural reactions and do this instead”.

Stay loose, don’t hit your head.

Great reconstruction video

Also this:

Question was, “What is the story behind Blood on the Motorway and is there a meaning to the song?” On The Private Press I wanted to force myself to dig deep into emotional territory…including contemplating death and dying, which is a somewhat consistent theme on a few of my albums. The loud thumping noises 2/3 of the way into the song represent death rattles and everything after is the afterlife. Sorry if this answer is too literal. Thanks for asking Ross

Big list of LLM papers, the topic breakdown alone is helpful for understanding all this craziness

Netflix’s ostensible goal is to win the Moment of Truth: when you’re home from work and too tired to do anything but vegetate, are they your first choice?

making a chrome extension. Some good notes on things like version mismatches (it used manifest v2) and followup/correction prompting

a place to go that isn’t home or work

this seems like a good alternative to crushing them into cubes

Or as Grandi puts it, “Their ‘tradition’ was trying not to starve.”

Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy. When the author is morose, you become morose. When he is mirthful, eventually you may share in it. And after finishing a very good book one is driven a little mad, forced to return from a world that no one nearby has witnessed.

In 2014, I did on average 200-250ug of acid once a week(ish) for ten months, from January to October, or approximately 40 times.

LLM-powered search. Interesting idea, have not tested much to see if it actually works.

Some suggestions:

Reasons we could never have machines larger than humans

this is not about keeping people safe from fentanyl

describe the hallway you too to get into this room (or some aspect of the previous room). People remember details differently

“How can I reduce my time here?” is a good followup question after finding out where one spends time

…and you experience resistance against doing the work, it’s worth identifying and articulating that resistance, and then integrating it into the work. once the resistance is inside the work, it doesn’t need to act against the work

important skills for a world saturated in bullshit