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im not ripping it off, or at least, i wouldnt consider that. a perfect example is artsy. i like the clean style of the website, and the colors, so if im building a prototype instead of getting the standard shadcn look i get something a bit different. im not building a competing product to artsy, i built a piece of software i run locally to aggregate my taxes everything year.

Pick a website you like, and tell claude to use it for inspiration. I do this all the time and the results are pretty impressive and different than what you get out of the box prompting.

I agree with this article, but I found the easiest ways to work on my focus are the following:

- Don't use social media. It's all garbage and counterproductive for your attention. Once you stop using it, you start to forget it exists.

- Always carry a Kindle, and when you're bored, read instead of reaching for other apps or games.

- Try to read 15 minutes before work, 30 minutes during lunch, and 15 minutes after work. That's an hour of reading a day — enough to get through a lot of books and papers.

- If you use an elliptical, read while on it. It takes practice, but it can be done.

You will see the biggest gains by saying bye to social media.

he cant shut them off anyways, anyone can just VPN to europe and download them

is anyone doing this ?

I only read non-fiction, maybe my situation is unique.

Ryan Holiday is a stoic influencer who happens to have written a lot books, most of them not good.

I dont know you about you, but the reason I read is to learn and retain -- many studies havnt shown audiobooks are much worse than reading for retention.

Example: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247504935_They_Hear...

same, i use the voice feature every day at the gym, talk to it for 1 hour, and then make anki cards based on what it has taught me, total game changer.

Doesnt an NVIDA Spark solve most of these problems? (at 5K)

why is SVD so important? i know it's important in general ML but seems minor for LLMs (LoRA?)

those are just people with bad manners.

sure, because you'd be offering me an idiotic arbitrage. your sentence doesnt prove it's useful.

what percentage of BTC transactions do you think are being used for international cash transfer in 2026 ?

what is your point?

i know exactly zero people using any of these markets, and 99% of the other people here can probably say the same.

neither of them are sane. BTC is useless, unless your trying to buy child porn, buy illicit drugs on the internet, or someone who bought it before the value exploded. eventually, the world will come around and it will go to zero, if quantum doesnt kill it first. im looking forward to that day.

anthropic's products are much better, anthropic and google will win the AI race, we wont even be talking about OpenAI in a few years when they run out of $ or compute and get acquired. They will be remembered by their Wikipedia page(s).

if i had to short 1 of the 3, it would be OpenAI

so how do stripe employees get liquidity? can anyone sell their secondary shares?

really - what am i missing?

go away. this isnt reddit

Anti-elon fud incoming....

you going to document this exchange in your diary ?

5/6/2026

Drank a cup of coffee; Made snarky remark to HN user.

Who keeps a personal diary in 2026?

Local governments have obvious incentives to encourage building, but the state of Florida itself does subsidize flood and hurricane insurance.

If you own a house or building in Florida and have a mortgage, you're required to carry it. Here's how a policy gets priced:

You go to a retail broker with your info. They pass it to a wholesaler, who puts the submission out into the market for quotes. Any carrier or MGA that wants the business prices the CAT and AOP (non-CAT) portions separately. Actuaries build models for the AOP side, while Verisk and Moody's model the CAT portion. Those two numbers get added together, plus some fees — and that's your annual premium.

From there, the insurers buy reinsurance on their portfolios. The reinsurers run those same models, do their magic, and come up with their own price.

Just an example, because no major hurricanes have hit the south east in a while, premiums are down 30% right now. All of the insurance companies are getting squeezed.

it has more character that SF

It's two monte carlo models that get refreshed every few years.

stick to software, you have no career in comedy.

i work in insure tech, in the E&S space, which is where all of the flood and wind polices gets placed. Actuaries have nothing to do with it --- the cost of hurricane insurance comes from Moody's RMS and Verisk AIR, the only two CAT models the carriers and re-insurance companies use. Actuaries price the non-cat risk.