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I wonder if you use opus 5.5 and let it research using the internet what you would get. I use opus 5.5 for legal stuff and it's generally great, but you do have to give it access to the web.
Re:No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:14AM (#50210456)
Karp is known for cross-country skiing, so the Swedish forest land is likely related to that and not fallout.
too few are talking about reshaping society because those in power are not letting that happen. the amount of wealth concentrated at the top is staggering and allows them to fortify their position by bribing, buying governments and media.
Re:Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:23AM (#50021849)
For a long time people with multiple sclerosis were discouraged from exercising. It wasn't until like the 1990s that exercise was recommended. All to say science is ever-evolving.
Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:04PM (#49300635)
Ah, I see. Thanks for sharing. I am OCR'ing public domain .pdfs, so perhaps I haven't run into that issue. The irony couldn't be stronger though.
Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:33PM (#49292639)
>Anthropic now flags OCR

I haven't seen any difference in my ocr workflows, what do you mean by this?

Frankly these tools should be priced per query. One doesn't need mythos to get a french toast recipe or add a few numbers together, but the flat rate subscription rate hides the inefficiency. Maybe a routing filter at the beginning of the query that chooses the right model for the query?
Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @04:04PM (#47695571)
Very cool! I've been playing uke for a few years to help me disconnect from the real world.

Did you go to a luthier school or self taught?

Re:AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @12:02AM (#47685035)
I love this! Thanks for sharing. My job involves reviewing old maps and documents, and I have a special place in my heart for easily accessible archives.

So much cool stuff is freely available at libraries but in practice no one visits them anymore.

You mentioned you're not a fan of this administration. That's -1 on your PalsOfState(tm) score. Your employer has been notified (they know where you work of course), and your spouse's employer too. Your child's application to Fancy University has been moved to the bottom of the pile, by the way the university recently settled a lawsuit brought by the governmentfor admitting too many "disruptors" with low PalsOfState scores. Palantir had provided a way for you to improve you score, click the Donateto47 button to improve your score. We hope you can attend the next political rally in your home town, their cameras will be there to make sure.
you can't criticize someone for poor reasoning while simultaneously making unsupported claims yourself
Re:What I learned gathering nootropic ratings on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:19PM (#44448361)
Creatine does help some. Staying hydrated and good sleep, too.
Re:What I learned gathering nootropic ratings on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:47AM (#44445188)
I'm in a similar situation but with multiple sclerosis for over 15 years. I love to exercise, however on some days a medium-intensity cardio session will leave my brain functioning at like 50% which is not great for my job. I gotta work hard to make sure my gas tank has enough for all the tasks planned for that day. My neurologist calls it Energy Management.
It's like some sort of Cunningham's Law Inception.
Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.
Yes. In any election in which a federal candidate is on the ballot, federal law prohibits any individual or entity, including 501(c)(3) nonprofits, social welfare organizations, and unions, from knowingly and willfully paying, offering to pay, or accepting payment either for registering to vote or voting

52 U.S.C. § 10307

Even so, the IP is used to make things which require resources. Disney IP is used to make toys, movies, books, etc, that all require electricity, paper, computers, employees sitting and eating, commuting into the office. Or a vaccine patent will be used to make a vaccine which requires a factory to be built and operated, the product produced, stored, shipped, used, and disposed into a landfill.
Reddit community r/LocalLlama has great info
I'm in the energy sector and have been thinking of fine tuning a local llm on energy-specific legal documents, court cases, and other industry documents. Would this solve some of the problems you mention about producing specific answers? Have you tried something like that?
Re:Polyamory, the Ruling Class's Latest Fad on Thursday February 01, 2024 @07:47PM (#39223563)
Morals for thee, but not for me!
Ah thanks for the clarification, I suppose I considered the survivor the superior.
Ha, that took an unexpected but interesting twist!
I wonder how the neanderthals felt when a new, superior(?) species appeared out of nowhere. Is this how we're feeling about technology and AI now? Give technology another thousand years and humans may well be facing the same fate as neanderthals did. Or perhaps like nea/humans, we will find a way to interbreed?
6a user here. No issues.
I went down a very deep rabbit hole looking into the Tang clan/dynasty. So interesting.
Having been through a number of mergers and subsequent layoffs, I can confirm the surviving talent is typically less... Talented.
Re:Antidepressant use is surging in Britain on Monday January 22, 2024 @04:36PM (#39095807)
>While some people may have a temperament that predisposes them to having depressive episodes or symptoms

This is me, and that's why I needed medication (bandaids).

Re:Against Normalcy: Why Being Normal Can Be Dangerous on Monday January 22, 2024 @04:11PM (#39095523)
I really enjoyed the read, thank you! Though... I get the feeling we're all obsessing over how to live instead of just... Living. About halfway through I got anxiety thinking about how to improve my life.
I agree. You can infer that falsely creating positive results leads to funding leads to prestige, fancy dinners and fancy homes, fancy educations and large inflated egos.
This is an incredible post, thanks for the link! The researches are quite literally photoshopping study images! How is this even legal? Plain vanilla fraud.

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