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I've banked professional success on my superior "Google Searching" ability (compared to my peers) for 20 years. A little but of thinking goes a long way, even when using tools designed to replace thought.

Someone who keeps up on AI and finds productivity gains will outcompete someone who doesn't, even for activities that aren't develoing new AI weren't AI-based before.

What is an "AI startup"? If you add a chatbot do your product, are you an "AI startup"? Does "startup" require having no moat? Can you be an established stable business that loses everything to a startup that leapfrogs your tech, AltaVista?


Or, they'll waste their time on trivial nonsense and get nothing useful done. Which is seeming more and more likely every day.

Every startup is now an AI startup.

SteamDeck says what?

Steam Deck uses a desktop OS (Arch), and Steam's Big Picture mode is well-optimized for controllers.

Most gen ed articles on HN are not new ideas, just articles that could be pages from a textbook.

Concurrency implies asynchrony (two systems potentially doing work at the same time withut waiting for each other), but the converse is not true.

A single process can do work in an unordered (asynchronous) way.


Parallelism implies concurrency but not does not imply asynchrony.

Could your whole village walk to a library in 5 minutes?

Regardless of population density, villages/towns/settlements/cities tend to span a mile or more, not one acre with 1-1000 people surrounded by non-residential space.

How many books were in that library that served 500 people?


There's 3 smaller daughter-libraries in nearby villages. I'd say 20 minutes walk to the nearest library for everybody in the whole gmina is realistic. Less if you include school libraries (but they suck).

I had no idea how many books, checked right now and apparently it's 32 000. It's not really serving 500 people, it's got 1100 regular readers. Which means people are going there from other villages.

It also has all the multimedia stuff, audiobooks, internet access, printers, etc.


It's a TV show for kids who do NOT read.

Contests run by smarter people have a prize pool, with prize selection priority assigned by performance rank.

https://usamts.org/about/prizes/


The acquisition of Windsurf was cancelled.

Instead they are paying 2.4B to "license" windsurfs IP. Still a loss vs OpenAI but at least the employees will get cash not openai stock.

Whose cash? OpenAI isn't paying, and Google isn't paying, and Windsurf investors already paid.

I wasn’t referring to Windsurf. But if there was no cash involved here, then ya, the employees were screwed. Do we know that’s the case though?

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