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KaoruAoiShiho··on Endometriosis is an interesting disease
I think OpenAI has plenty of investors...

https://x.com/deedydas/status/1933370776264323164

KaoruAoiShiho··on Endometriosis is an interesting disease
Nah AI can easily be programmed to be much more patient and investigate edge cases and figure out personalized solutions thoroughly and provide bespoke service. This problem would be solved, though of course there are other issues with biases of the bureaucracies.
KaoruAoiShiho··on Endometriosis is an interesting disease
Yep this is something that only AI can solve. Same situation applies to education, sales, HR. Human powered bureaucracies and systems suck.
KaoruAoiShiho··on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
I hate to say this but when I saw this line:

> My continued shareholding isn't just a matter of financial confidence—it's a statement of faith in what HP can become when the right leadership applies systematic thinking to innovation decisions.

I strongly felt like it was ChatGPT and suddenly my interest in the article plummeted.

KaoruAoiShiho··on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
They already have a chatgpt competitor, you can talk to llama in all the facebook apps, they're just clearly inferior.
KaoruAoiShiho··on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
This is a new organization, Lecun leads the FAIR team which is more focused on basic ML research than this ASI focused team.
KaoruAoiShiho··on So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything
Seems like a strawman... I don't know anyone who thinks they "will be on top" and beat the AI, it's more of a let's just make as much money as we can for now before AGI ruins us all.
KaoruAoiShiho··on What was Radiant AI, anyway?
The Sims, Crusasder Kings, the new inzoi games all have this.
KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
You're right. I think it's extremely cultural to Christianity. The notion of suffering for your sins, and when bad things happen you ought to try to feel it as much as possible instead of working on pain mitigation. This is definitely how a lot of people approach life and it makes sense for his characters. But IMO coping and rationalization strategies are built into every human, a lot of angst is performative and communicative rather than "soulful". They do it because they want to be a good religious boy and communicate devoutness. I honestly don't think he gets that. When his characters perform pain he treats it as evidence of the soul’s torment which doesn't resonate with me since I don't believe in the soul.
KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
The conflicts in his plays just aren't that profound, you know? Compared to modern "psychological turmoil" it's relatively simplistic, something like Macbeth's "ambition vs morality".

Modern writers pull in more layers of depth, explain the ebbs and flows of motivations and identities through social forces and work more with complex ideas like self-deception and rationalization. Shakespeare's characters are generally reliable narrators in a way that later lit tends not to be.

KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
If he did it's not shown in his writing, or really any pre-20th century writers really.
KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
I recommended a book in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181274
KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
depth and characterization isn't everything but it's the discussion chosen by the OP, he seemed to imply that Dostoevsky had the best psychological interiority and "multiple scales of experience".
KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
I might've conveyed myself poorly. Never said Dostoevsky wasn't great or not a relevant read! I was just reacting to the OP who seemed to say it's still the best ever. But we've improved everything, art, kites, the wheel. It's the same for literature, but you do have to get pretty deep into lit to see though.

The main criticism for I have for Dostoevsky is that he's overdramatic. Yes it's great fun fiction and a vast improvement over the simpler, more idealized writing of much of his era, but some of the angst of his characters is simply cultural. He has a lot of religious influence in his work (which don't appeal to me as an atheist) and their struggles for the human soul is a symptom of his time. A Buddhist might say, just calm the fuck down man. Most people don't react to horrible situations by "crashing out", but via coping and rationalization and making the best of their situation, that's how you get consistent improvement and accrue generational uplift.

Later writers like Virginia Woolf is able to better integrate a variety of responses to suffering, post modernists like Tao Lin even gets overly detached (everyone hates post modernists). But I think the best novel about the human condition ever written, which handles the drama, but realistically, is probably by Elena Ferrante in 2011. I'm not highlighting any underrated work here lol, it's widely acclaimed, including called the best book of the 21st century by the NYT.

KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
I did 30 novels a year in highschool, it's nothing crazy. Though tbf kids do have more free time than working adults, I think it would really only drop if you become parents though.
KaoruAoiShiho··on How to Read a Novel
Lol I always laugh when I see people talk up Dostoevsky and any 19th century writer. It's 2025 now and literature has improved in depth and characterization as much as any other field.
KaoruAoiShiho··on Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth
How does it compare to the other recent YC company Stack Auth?
KaoruAoiShiho··on Launch HN: Relace (YC W23) – Models for fast and reliable codegen
Does this work on any language or text?
KaoruAoiShiho··on Claude 4
Aider is not just leetcode exercises I think? livecodebench is leetcode exercises though.
KaoruAoiShiho··on Claude 4
Is this really worthy of a claude 4 label? Was there a new pre-training run? Cause this feels like 3.8... only swe went up significantly, and that as we all understand by now is done by cramming on specific post training data and doesn't generalize to intelligence. The agentic tooluse didn't improve and this says to me that it's not really smarter.
KaoruAoiShiho··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
iPhone should've been a successful formfactor, it's not the form factor that's the problem it's the lack of apple datacenters that can train and inference for a popular service. Instead Apple went all in on edge inference which as we all know is absolutely stupid and probably will never be that relevant.
KaoruAoiShiho··on OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
That describes Google buying Youtube and Facebook buying WhatsApp, those seem to have turned out okay.
KaoruAoiShiho··on Bitter Lesson is about AI agents
It's much higher than 1.5x-2x, both scale up and scale out. Moving onto fp4 alone will offer a huge speedup.
KaoruAoiShiho··on GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price
Dario, founder of Anthropic is an ex-Baidu AI employee, it was at Baidu that he learned the bitter lesson.
KaoruAoiShiho··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
The TikTok ban is still happening, some trump donator will end up owning majority of tiktok.
KaoruAoiShiho··on Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama
How good is the RAG though? Just throwing a vector db at it doesn't make it useful...
KaoruAoiShiho··on Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok
Would be interested in using this if not for the lack of LLM support.

Can you also explain what the advantages are over React Native?

KaoruAoiShiho··on Expanding AI Overviews and Introducing AI Mode
It's necessary to defend search, even if this cannibalizes search it's better they do it than let someone else do it.
KaoruAoiShiho··on DeepSeek releases distributed DuckDB
Dropped could also mean they used to use it but stopped, that's also pretty common parlance in software...
KaoruAoiShiho··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
Everything messes with your head, this adjusts the mess levels.
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