<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dsizzle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dsizzle</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:38:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dsizzle" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first thought was that the article was redacted lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:57:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848045</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Libraries spend like $2B / year buying books <a href="https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/fy19-pls-results.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/fy19-pls-re...</a>, which is like 10% of the total book market. So even if no one ever bought a book because they first encountered the book, author, or genre in the library that's already a signficant difference</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789140</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "How to defer US taxes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you take a loan against your larger capital pool, inflation helps you (to the extent it wasn't incorporated in higher lending costs).<p>But yeah that's a second order effect. There aren't really any scenarios where you have a fixed nominal tax that can be deferred without locking up the money, so I think you're mostly right that it comes back to lower tax rate and step-up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455558</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "How to defer US taxes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and when you do pay it's a lower "real" tax (due to inflation)</p>
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<p>Yes, I came here to say this sounds a lot like Strunk & White</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:56:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45315610</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45315610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45315610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fwiw the substack app did this to me too</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:53:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609719</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some Thoughts on Generative AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jassy suspects AI will reduce jobs:<p>> As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.</p>
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<p>It's also bad because of the time value of money (deductions in the future are worth less than deductions now).<p>But I agree that much of the outrage seems due to a confusion that 80% of the deduction is lost completely (vs deferred).</p>
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<p>Not sure what you mean - both the "Explore" part and the Life List both have the pics and the calls together?<p>It is indeed a good app, but my beef is how bad it is at adding birds to your life list. After ID'ing a bird by sound or picture it'll ask you where/when you found it with the worst defaults -- it'll know where you are and what time it is, but it sometimes randomly picks some time/place you've been at months ago (even ignoring that you may have just entered several at your current location)!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:55:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183573</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More like he says the affirmations result in stock market premonitions. For example, he said after his "I will get rich in the stock market" manifestation he woke up in the middle of the night thinking "buy Chrysler" before it went on a rally.</p>
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<p>This guy always finds a way to claim victory for his AI pessimism. In a few years: "AI's Nobel Prizes aren't even in the top 10, just like I predicted"</p>
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<p>I just asked Claude what would happen if the Earth rotated in the opposite direction, and it correctly told me the sun would rise in the West, which is indistinguishable from an answer by someone who understands the way the Universe works.<p>I don't understand why this article is #1 currently</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926131</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you summarize what kind of responses you get? I'd like to believe I'd quickly figure out this too-on-the-nose response wasn't serious and it'd lead to a laugh and more interesting discussion</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.is/GazXf" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/GazXf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595436</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similar energy lol: <a href="https://theonion.com/ob-gyn-assures-woman-he-respects-doctor-slut-confidentiality/" rel="nofollow">https://theonion.com/ob-gyn-assures-woman-he-respects-doctor...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:14:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395840</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should read about compatibilism, e.g. the work of Daniel Dennett, which argues that the parts of free will worth wanting are consistent with determinism. He definitely doesn't believe in magic or god!</p>
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<p>Why would you assume it's all or nothing? Will (free or otherwise) implies something like effort and clearly we're not constantly applying effort. Believing in free will doesn't mean believing that everything results from it.</p>
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<p>I feel like all recommendation systems already do similarity well -- and it's not what I want. True, similarity matters to some extent, but my dream is something that can accurately predict what I'd like. Often I'll only like a song or two from a given artist, so finding artists similar to this artist are often useless.<p>Related question: I wonder if identical twins are good at recommending each other music</p>
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<p>The "noise level" heading is spelled "noice level" and at first I thought the author meant "nice" spoken like an Australian lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:24:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702056</link><dc:creator>dsizzle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dsizzle in "Designing a website without 404s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have any evidence that redirects are bad for SEO? Redirects are a normal part of the web and Google tells you they are fine with it <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...</a></p>
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