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Depends on your goals. I have stacks of notebooks where I tracked my lifts when I was powerlifting. Tracking is almost required to make progress.

I would have loved to have all that in an app over the last 25-30 years so I could see my progress.

Then you can do the whole file process. For most people the government gets all the data. The filing process is purposely keeping tax companies in business today.

The point of my response is that the analogy was broken without saying what adding those pages could provide.

Depends on the problem those million pages solved. If it meant the government sent me a prepopulated tax form that I could just sign if I agreed with the numbers and be done - yes, I would be extremely excited.

If you only use MSSQL as a datastore, it's not too bad. If you used all the other features (MSAS/SSIS/etc...), it is much harder. PG also isn't a panacea - you're trading one set of issues for another. The biggest upside is that it's much less expensive :)

The only companies who will really need to fire are the big tech companies who hired just because, for empire building, or to keep talent out of competitor's hands. Nearly everyone else is actually positioned to leverage AI to now compete against the bigger players. I'm already seeing small companies have a big surge.

I think avoiding all 3rd party libraries is excessive, but engineering is about tradeoffs. In the extreme case, do you pull in a LeftPad dependency or write it yourself?

I agree with all you said with two caveats. If someone only watched Fox News, they likely didn’t see all this from Trump especially the first time. Second is that Trump is a product of the growing and unaddressed wealth/equality divide. It’s a similar reason we see the rise of the far right in the EU.

> I wouldn't be surprised if the winners of this paradigm are worth hundreds of trillions.

And the winners may be not be the obvious choice.

TNG is the Star Trek I grew up with. I rewatch the entire series every so often and it’s always good.

Maybe I’m an outlier, but I’d rather it stay light later. Sunset at 16:30 in the winter is horrible and depressing IMO.

> I have a non-trivial tax situation, as a US citizen living abroad.

Same situation as you. I have a local accountant in the country I'm in plus my US accountant. Claude/ChatGPT have been a huge help for checking, explaining, and finding issues. They also found websites with pertinent information that Google did not, which surprised me.

Years ago I had a similar issue. Accountant did something incorrect, increasing my liability by around $50k. Tax date came so I paid it, but moved accountants. New person fixed the issues, refiled, but it took a long time to get the refund back. IIRC, the IRS did include some nominal interest for the time they had the money.

Regardless of how that one survey was done AS ends up on many best US fiction book lists. The 90s may have also been one of the AS peaks, as I recall being told to read from multiple people (family and teachers). From your own link:

The novel made the New York Public Library’s list of Best Books of the Century in 1996, and Radcliffe Publishing ranked it 92 out of the top 100 novels of the 20th century. In 1999, Atlas Shrugged was number 37 in the list of 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians. A Harris poll placed Atlas Shrugged on America’s Top 10 Favorite Book List in 2008, and The Modern Library ranked it the number one best novel published in the English language in 2009. The novel is listed as number six on Boston Library’s list of 100 Most Influential Books of the Century, and it ranks number five on the list of the 20 Most Inspirational Books ever written. Atlas Shrugged has been translated into 14 languages, including Chinese (2007).

From a story perspective, I found AS too long and preferred The Fountainhead. Were they influential to my younger self? Sure, much like the Bible was to me as an atheist. A story with both good and bad ideas to draw from.

Convoluted to navigate sounds like a problem that could be solved with technology…

Same. I'm also a Magic Mouse person.

Sure, and maybe I'm odd, but I don't read text while scrolling. I stop scrolling and then read. So yes, if I just scroll up and down quickly I can see the refresh is different, but otherwise I don't notice it in my regular usage.

> Amazon's valuation when they went public was around 400 million.

This isn't just an Anthropic issue, but more and more of the upside of companies have been captured in private markets prior to IPO for around the last decade. This is a consequence of so much money floating around, that IPOing is now the last stop on the train instead of one of the early/middle stops where a company actually needs to raise money.

Would you also like the extra weight of such a device?

> But I'm curious about how people will feel when AI writing is good

This is the question I keep asking the people who seem to really hate AI. At some point it will produce good writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and then what? Will people stop reading?

Someone commented over the weekend they had an LLM generate a sci-fi short story and their community loved it until they told them it was LLM generated.

I’ve also noticed a new type of ad-hominem attack (especially here on HN) where instead of engaging with an argument, people claim a comment is AI and move on. HN users have found 10 of the last 2 LLM generated posts.

> We are getting hammered by a massive increase in generation of content, and no change in our ability to consume content.

There is a bit of a parallel here to what LLMs have done to software. They have sped up the act of writing the code, but have done little for everything on either side of the code writing.

That's how I feel about the current streaming content library and the list of books I want to read and the YT channels I want to watch and the list goes on... The fact that there is so much media vying for our time is one of the drivers bringing down old school media.

I love all those movies because they are from my generation, but how many of those would be considered good with today's audiences?

I think people incorrectly ignore the strikes. The workers had very little leverage and gave a huge opening for Netflix who had the capital to move production anywhere.

Also, at the time (and still somewhat today), Netflix was the only one to really think globally about a content strategy.

This is a good point. Also, anytime there is a discussion about inflation, there should be a timeline included.

Both inflation and wages have not gone up uniformly since they started being tracked. We all know the Trump/Biden covid inflation was bad, but by the end of Biden's term wages had mostly caught back up. The second Trump administration's policies reversed that trend.

Housing in particular cratered in some areas during the GFC, but then went wild especially around the covid.

I don't necessarily want to look beat up, but I'm also fine with it. It's one of (not the only) the signs of a life lived. I've trained BJJ for years, and don't want cauliflower ear like some do. I've drained them a few times, but my ears have definitely changed a bit, and that's fine. I also teach BJJ and let the new people practice moves on me and they sometimes can bump me and give me a black eye. It's always fun to sign onto meetings when that happens, especially since I'm way past the age of fighting. New people are always slightly awkward around asking what happened.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris

You’re right what the law says, but then you run into the Italian tax authority that will only accept an Italian IBAN to pay taxes.

I just run a fan and point it towards the wall. I have never liked any of the speaker-based noise machines.

I typically park my cash in SGOV since the interest is mostly state tax free. It also tracks treasury rates in nearly real time.

In general, figuring out what you want and working towards that is much harder than people realize.