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No, don't dial it back. Just stop. The only way this will end otherwise is either with an account ban, a domain ban or both.
Homeowners have, in some cases, gotten a free ride when insurers did not have access to this data. They’re closing the gap with cheap, accessible property data.
> “We're seeing an overreaction by insurance companies to data that they're now getting through new technology," Bach said. "We're seeing them drop homes that they've been insuring for decades - and nothing's changed on the homeowner's part."
> For Bennett, time is ticking. She said she has contacted other companies but has not found one willing to insure her home. She is also consulting with roofers as she weighs her options ahead of a May 1 deadline.
Observing that a roof is at the end of its service life using drones or satellite imagery is entirely reasonable, as would be consuming public permit data to determine the same. The homeowner does not need to take action for the risk assessment to change; the insurer is simply accurately pricing the risk in this scenario.
(State Farm customer)
"Before computers, a knowledge worker who had laboriously constructed essays in college quite likely wrote almost nothing for the rest of their working life. People talked face-to-face or on the phone, and dictated to secretaries."
Real men didn't type.
Even lawyers, whose job is producing written text, rarely typed; they wrote on yellow pads. Legal secretaries turned that into clean copy. Engineers on the Apollo program were still dictating to secretaries.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4904457M/Systemantics
(Systemantics is available for borrowing, Systems Bible is not yet, a copy has been sent for digitizing)
Bit manipulation instructions are part and parcel of any curriculum that teaches CPU architecture. They are the basic building blocks for many more complex instructions.
https://five-embeddev.com/riscv-bitmanip/1.0.0/bitmanip.html
I can see quite a few items on that list that imnsho should have been included in the core and for the life of me I can't see the rationale behind leaving them out. Even the most basic 8 bit CPU had various shifts and rolls baked in.
The beginning of the thread is here: https://bsky.app/profile/randyhermanlaw.com/post/3mgq5nrqa2s...
Context from the OP:
> Today at 4:00 I will go over to Raleigh and sit in on a show-cause hearing. This will be my first time attempting to live-post a hearing in person. The case is Fivehouse v. DOD and the question is whether the DOJ attorney fabricated quotes in a brief.
Original title "Voice Beyond Words: Evidence That Managerial Tone Predicts Returns When Text Does Not" compressed to fit within title limits.
I had swim teammates who made at least hundreds of thousands minting and selling autominers on eBay. I assume if I knew a couple who did that well some made millions.
Somebody should have spoken for fiber everywhere 15 years ago rather than telling us rural people to drop dead.
We used to call it a "phortress"
Don't blame the ISA - blame the silicon implementations AND the software with no architecture-specific optimisations.
RISC-V will get there, eventually.
I remember that ARM started as a speed demon with conscious power consumption, then was surpassed by x86s and PPCs on desktops and moved to embedded, where it shone by being very frugal with power, only to now be leaving the embedded space with implementations optimised for speed more than power.
> He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional.
If I get a note from my boss like that, I consider it mandatory.
My son would point out that the "incel cesspool" actually absorbed a lot of its vocabulary from 4chan and other "manosphere" spaces and there are a lot of people who talk that way who are not incels.
For instance that Clavicular guy who was profiled in the New York Times claims he is having sex and it seems he was actually "dating" a female influencer when he was being interviewed by an NYT reporter.
If we think of spacetime as some sort of cellular automaton, where each state of a given point is a function (with some randomness, because God likes to throw dice) of previous states of the surrounding points, if the rules for a new state generation are extremely complex, there will be some significant overhead in dimensions we don't see, because the rules need to be somehow represented outside the observable reality. Another issue with this idea is that while the rules might be "outside", the parameters themselves have to be somehow encoded in the state of a cell, and can't propagate faster than light, or one cell (an indivisible unit of space) per indivisible unit of time), which limits the number of parameters accessible to any given cell to the ones immediately surrounding it.
Disclaimer: I hope it's obvious, but I'm no physicist. This is just how I would build a universe.
I think she charges a lot more than that.
"...Windows 10 system sounds were leaked onto the air, followed by the transmission getting interrupted."
The court order [1] finds likely violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2) as parsed by LVRC v. Brekka [2] which prohibits “(1) intentionally access[ing] a computer, (2) without authorization or exceeding authorized access, and that [it] (3) thereby obtain[s] information (4) from any protected computer (if the conduct involved an interstate or foreign communication), and [where] (5) there was loss to one or more persons during any one-year period aggregating at least $5,000 in value.”
[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.45...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVRC_Holdings_LLC_v._Brekka
"For the longest time, I would NOT allow people to write tests because I thought that culturally, we need to have a culture of shipping fast"
Tests are how you ship fast.
If you have good tests in place you can ship a new feature without fear that it will break some other feature that you haven't manually tested yet.
Why can't you do just that? You can configure file path permissions in Claude or via an external tool.
Thanks for the update and continuing to share this project. What does the roadmap look like into the future?
https://www.spatialintelligence.ai/p/i-built-a-spy-satellite...
It doesn’t appear they’ve made it publicly available, which is kind of annoying, but they used LLMs to build it so you can too (control-F “How I actually built this”).
> If we were trying to adjust the time to track the solar time, wouldn't we need to adjust the clocks every day as days get shorter/longer?
No (not within a min or two). When days get shorter, it's not like they just lose daylight in the evening.
I'll second this.
It is true that the indy game market is brutal but it's always been brutal.
You don't really hear about a crisis at the indy game level though, rather at the AAA game level there is much of "we'd like to use our market power to take out the risk in game development" and then years later we realize they took out all the value before they took out the risk and now they're doomed.
A circus performer kept a troupe of monkeys and fed them 10 nuts each day. He fell on hard times and told the monkeys: 'from now on I can only give you seven nuts a day. I will give you three in the morning and four in the afternoon.' The monkey s were furious and raised a great clamor. 'Very well,' said the man, 'I will give you 4 nuts in the morning and 3 in the afternoon.' The monkeys were delighted.
> Covered Entities are required by the law to provide the demographic survey to their portfolio company founders, but are prohibited from encouraging, incentivizing, or attempting to influence the decision of a founding team member to participate
So the data will be unusable because of response bias.
They will. Just keep grinding, this will be over eventually.
> claimed that the Iran war is the first war that the US is waging without first politically appealing to its public
This is only true if you define this to be a “war” and don’t define other similar actions to be a “war.” Obama announced the air strikes on Libya in 2011 after they had already begun: https://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/19/libya.us.missile...
> U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed that he had authorized "limited military action in Libya" and that "that action has now begun." He is planning for the U.S. portion of the military action in Libya to last just a few days, according to a senior administration official.
You’re correct that U.S. Presidents haven’t sought to persuade the public when the engagement involves air strikes instead of boots on the ground. But that’s been true for a long time.
Mark got lucky enough once he can be wrong the rest of his life and still not be exposed to a cost for it. Purpose of the system is what it does.
A few places, Fujitsu also has Solaris servers, and if you care about security, Solaris SPARC is the only production UNIX with hardware memory tagging in active use since 2015.
Perhaps we’ll be lucky and it’ll stick a bit after oil markets normalize, like remote work and the pandemic. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Not really. The idea that "fiduciary duty" requires companies to maximize shareholder value is a pernicious Internet myth.
Tony Hoare on how he came up with Quicksort:
he read the algol 60 report (Naur, McCarthy, Perlis, …)
and that described "recursion"
=> aaah!
> boomers were children of hippies
The hippies largely were Boomers, not their children.
Who would you say is your primary competitor (besides Stripe) and how are you better than them today?
Moltbook both asks you to verify with Twitter and has you verify an email address too.
Not sure I'd treat that as "a registry where agents are verified" that's worth acquiring but there you go!
Rest in peace, he hasn't seen the industry change.
"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."
-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"
Sorry, but no, that is not a detail, that is a major sticking point for me.
> I’m tired of every AI capability at SaaS companies charging usage fees. I get it: they both have their own token costs and want to make a profit on the feature. But it makes a $50 a month product potentially hundreds if I’m not careful.
Well, I understand how, as a user, yoou’d prefer your $50 subscription to include hundreds of dollars of subsidies for the costs of consuming third-party AI resources, but other than a startup spending VC to buy a userbase and force the traditional unsubsidized competition out of business before milking their new monopoly hard to payback investors, how do you expect a firm to justify that?
He was the professor in the Programming Research Group (known universally as the PRG) at Oxford when I was doing my DPhil and interviewed me for the DPhil. I spent quite a bit of time with him and, of course, spent a lot of time doing stuff with CSP including my entire DPhil.
Sad to think that the TonyHoare process has reached STOP.
RIP.
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...
State censorship is a different kind of centralization.
>... its ability to expand when swallowing enormous prey, right up to the size of a cow, which is virtually impossible for most people to comprehend.
> and approaches Linux performance in some areas (e.g. Networking)
I started using FreeBSD 26 years ago when I worked for Sendmail, who had a couple of core committers on staff or staff-adjacent. Back then the refrain was "it can't do nearly as much as Linux, but what it does do it's much better than Linux".
And specifically it was known that if you wanted the best possible networking stack, FreeBSD was the choice to make (And also why Netflix uses it, for the networking stack).
All this to say, is it true that Linux now has better network performance, or did you mistype that?
There are already several ones in Europe.
The only things I'm aware of that I consider actual problems it solves are "it breaks classical encryption" and "you may be able to use it to directly model other quantum systems like for protein folding and such".
Everything else I consider pretty silly. "It can improve logistics" - I'm fairly sure computers are already as good as they can be, what dominates logistics calculations isn't an inability to optimize but the fact the real world can only conform so closely to any model you build. "It can improve finance" - same deal, really. All the other examples I see cited are problem where we've probably already got running code that is at the noise floor imposed by reality and its stubborn unwillingness to completely conform to plans.
If I had $1 to invest between AI and quantum computing I'd end up rounding the fraction of a cent that should rationally go to quantum computing and put the whole dollar in AI.
By far the most exciting possibility is one that Scott Aaronson has cited, which is, what if quantum computers fail somehow? To put it in simple and unsophisticated terms, what if we could prove that you can't entangle more than 1024 qubits and do a certain amount of calculation with them? What if the universe actually refuses to factor a thousand-digit prime number? The way in which it fails would inevitably be incredibly interesting.
SSD is 2x faster read/write
Additional citation:
Why $100 Oil Isn't Going to Spark a New Shale Boom – Oilprice.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324000 - March 2026
Even some cheap Kindles came with a SIM card.
I expect this to happen if enough people block ads on TVs. (They'll probably promote it as a "backup connection" or something.)
But this isn't corporate censorship.
This is Russian government censorship. Where "constitutional rights" don't really apply, either. And probably quite a bit less sueable than Cloudflare.
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/electricity-price chart is extremely noisy, and is quoting wholesale rather than retail, but to my eyes that actually looks flat over the period from before the Ukraine war. It seems to have started that spike in late 2021, before the war in February 2022 (which of course shoots it upwards, that's the "doubling in late 2022" you mention).
I built a landing page for my "business cards" that is all about React, Bootstrap and all that, even uses Helmet when I really should have just set the title directly -- and it came out to around a 512k bundle so if you wanna impress me with an unframework page you got to get it down to 200k or less.
If you want to reduce air travel for environmental reasons, then tax it more.
Shaming individuals doesn't seem to be productive or helpful.
Air travel works for people if the benefits outweigh the costs. The only thing that changes behavior is to change the costs.
And even if costs were 10x there are still plenty of people who will fly tons, because it would still be economically productive. There are always going to be people who fly 10x more than others, because certain jobs and roles simply require it.
My guess is the best market for space-manufactured objects is in space, particularly for objects which take advantage of the unique space environment, say, large solar sails or solar collectors.
1 and 2 were hyped up for the Space Shuttle in the 1990s and you know how that went. 3 is newer but all the time I read stuff on "why biological systems don't work quite right in zero gravity" so it might be more like space travelers will want to go to Earth or spin things like an O'Neill colony to do those things than the other way around.
From the viewpoint of "get some numbers to run that can show it makes money" I like "new patents on blockbusters" but I'm skeptical that people on Earth won't find equivalent methods of manufacturing or that politicians will let you make those profits.
Congrats!
What convinced you this was the right moment and the right company to join?
You went from founding to acquisition in roughly a year and change.
Did something about the AI security landscape cause this offer to make sense? Or was it the impact you could have inside OpenAI? Or something else?
I feel like I'm the only one not getting the world models hype. We've been talking about them for decades now, and all of it is still theoretical. Meanwhile LLMs and text foundation models showed up, proved to be insanely effective, took over the industry, and people are still going "nah LLMs aren't it, world models will be the gold standard, just wait."
I did a lot of study of Lotus Notes circa 2015 when I was thinking about a no-/low-code future. It is still ahead of its time when it comes to having a document database that supports merging but it's unthinkable that you'd build a system like that around email today as today an email system is 99% spam filter and 1% other stuff.
... liquid glass isn't very liquid anymore. it's frosted.
Oh, that's a good one, I can see how that would put a lot of g's on the package. I think this will be a factor depending on the weight of the total assembly. If that weight is significant it will dampen the shockwave.
I miss what attempts were made to improve the code using modern C#, spans, ref structs, scoped, stackalloc, fixed arrays, and Native AOT, before going into full rewrite.
No, you can't. See, that's where you are just wrong: when you don't respect the boundaries an open source project sets that you want to contribute to then you are a net negative.
Restricting this is their right, and it is not for you to attempt to overrule that right. Besides the fact that you do not oversee the consequences it also makes you an asshole.
They're not asking for you to write standing on your head, they are asking for you to author your contributions yourself.
While tag dispatching used to be a widely used idiom in C++ development, it was a workaround for which nowadays there are much better alternatives with constexpr, and concepts.
>I guess I don't necessarily hate it, it's more of a neutral thing, but who is deciding these strange things??
Probably nobody, just some artifact of the overlay APIs used default behavior that they didn't bother to streamline.
> I don't buy the 10x efficiency thing: they are just lagging behind the performance of current SOTA models. They perform much worse than the current models while also costing much less - exactly what I would expect.
Define "much worse".
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------------------+
| Benchmark | Claude Opus | DeepSeek | DeepSeek vs Opus |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------------------+
| SWE-Bench Verified (coding) | 80.9% | 73.1% | ~90% |
| MMLU (knowledge) | ~91 | ~88.5 | ~97% |
| GPQA (hard science reasoning) | ~79–80 | ~75–76 | ~95% |
| MATH-500 (math reasoning) | ~78 | ~90 | ~115% |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+------------------+It is quite common when being around WG21 stuff, just as info.
The GPL talks about "the preferred form for modification of the software", and I'm starting to think that anything which involves any kind of LLM agent should be including all the text that the user gave to it as well. Prompts, etc.
Of course, even then it's not reproducible and requires proprietary software!
When you grow up you should want universal healthcare...
No, the number is made up, I'm saying that there's a point where the advice makes sense. Whether or not that's actually the case now is then a matter of statistics.
The right way to start is with LispWorks or Allegro Common Lisp, exactly the surviving Common Lisp IDEs, instead of building your own IDE out of Emacs and SLIME.
However I do agree with the AI part.
Outside US those demographics will be buying cheaper PC laptops under 500 euro, with higher RAM.
Open a couple of Electron crap apps, and the 8 GB are gone.
Also, despite the CPU being 1000x slower, redraws were extremely fast. If they weren't quite fast enough, then the combo of deterministic keyboard nav and a reliable type ahead buffer meant the user could queue up a burst of actions from muscle memory.
And yet: current state of the art models are also great at navigating and trying language ecosystems that aren't as mainstream. So if you're curious it's now great to explore topics, languages, concepts that — even if not mainstream — were so far a bit out of reach.
Yes, used it on MS-DOS 3.3, until getting hold of Works for MS-DOS.
I won't be public shaming, but on a .NET podcast I just heard of an internal Microsoft project that took 7 years (!), to become public, it was a plain single Assembly .NET library nothing special (1 DLL).
Is that because you don't believe we should use AI, or because you do not agree with “if you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.”
No, the President does not have “full naming rights” over entities defined and named in statute law. The President is bound to faithfully execute that law, but to change it (even if that change is merely to the name of a department or title of an officer specified within it) requires a bill to that effect to be passed by a majority of each house of Congress, which the President may then sign into law, effecting the change.
> I don't like paltry sums like this. $300 is a significant financial impact to someone who's barely making ends meet, and absolutely nothing at all to a billionaire.
One thing about daycares is that you will essentially never find "someone who's barely making ends meet" and "a billionaire" with kids at the same daycare, so a surcharge for out-of-normal-expectations service does not need to be designed to address both cases.
(In fact, you'll probably not find a billionaire with kids at any daycare, their hired childcare workers won't be shared with other people, and will probably be adequately compensated up front in a way which anticipates a fair degree of schedule variability.)
OTOH, with red light cameras, you also don't need to scale the fine to work with both, because the entire purpose is to bind the lower classes while exempting the upper from any substantial burden. (The least cynical explanation is that it is to discourage behavior which might incur liability grossly exceeding the mandatory level of insurance company by those least able to cover the cost of that liability, thereby avoiding uncompensated harms, but the realistic explanation is...not so generous.)
It's a common problem to get excited about networks, build a large one, and then by stuck with an unapproachable hairball. If you want to explore network structure, consider using tools like quadrilateral simmelian backones which can provide an opinionated look at what matters in the network.
programs that have no good Linux equivalent
There is WINE.
But it's not bad enough yet to have a New Coke type consumer rejection.
All corruption (and other dishonest ways of making profit or advantage) is graft, to attempt sell something under false pretenses is to grift [0].
Grifting is often among the techniques used to effectuate graft.
IMO, the upthread post reads better with “graft” which is a abstract noun, matching the use upthread, where “grift” is usually a verb (I've also seen it used as a concrete now for a particular operation in which the agent is perceived to be grifting.)
[0] Most dictionaries I think will still say this is specific to small-scale swindling, but I think that's a lagging indicator; IME, usage has drifted to be more generalized, with large scale operations often referred to as grifting.
The title does not all accurately describe the article IMO. Zuckerberg is not "finished" with Alexander Wang, whatever that was supposed to mean.
Best bit:
Put in an unreasonable amount of effort
> Earlier I made an analogy to being an explorer; here's another I like even more. Think of yourself as a wildlife photographer. Obviously you need to be in the right place (you won't get a great picture of anything from your couch) and you need to be skilled at your craft. But once you've met those preconditions, the way to get the best picture is to just spend an unreasonable amount of time waiting for exactly the right circumstances to arise.
> Same with ⌃ being a pinky not retained when ⇪ replaced it
Any time I get a new computer, one of the very first things that I do is remap Caps Lock to Ctrl for exactly this reason. I literally never use Caps Lock, but my pinky hits it all the time.
The majority of the artist responses were "hard no" in 2024. There's no way the artist demographic such a service would appeal to would be on board with anything even tangent to AI in 2026 (even done ethically) where the professional liability far exceeds the potential revenue.
I mean, the very first paragraph of TFA is describing who is under that impression. Literally the first sentence:
> My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are full of screenshots from the recent Forbes article on Cursor claiming that Anthropic's $200/month Claude Code Max plan can consume $5,000 in compute.
> With the files API, apps could actually replicate the microsoft word experience of drafting a file and saving it to your desktop and praying that your hard drive doesn't fail,
Even withou the files API, with local storage, web apps can (and some—mostly extremely casual games that are free—do!) duplicate that experience with the extra risk of your data being lost because your disk became too full or some other event causing the local storage to be cleared.
> Unfortunately for Anthropic, the Constitution does not require the government to purchase goods or services from a company that has made a public declaration that it will not allow its AI models (specifically Claude) to be used for mass domestic surveillance or to power fully autonomous weapons, if such a declaration goes against the government's contract requirements.
Obviously, if the contract requirements themselves are lawful, the government has the power to purchase only those goods and services that meet the requirements, and to not purchase those that do not.
But that's irrelevant, because the "supply chain risk" designation is not needed if the government is merely trying to assure that the good and services in a contract meet the requirement of the contract, it is a separate legal provision with separate purposes that would be superfluous for the purpose described.
If the government is using the "supply chain risk" designation as a backdoor way to rewrite all previously-entered, still-in-force defense contracts to retroactively add new requirements incompatible with the use of Anthropic software given their limitations on the service Anthropic is willing to provide, that also is not what the "supply chain risk" designation exists for, and, even if were to seem facially within the statutory purpose of the authority, would raise 5th Amendment takings issues.
> There are plenty of example, even recently, of billionaires losing their fortunes
Billionaires aren't on the same level of wealth as hectobillionaires, just like decamillionaires aren't on the same level of wealth as billionaires.
Thousands, perhaps millions of people use Anki with no manipulation or social component, just internal drive. Maybe start your research there.
Yes, Amazon Retail being the sole significant customer of AWS, I guess?
> The tech industry often talks about “the cloud” as though it were something abstract and untouchable. But the cloud runs on data centers, those data centers have an address, and that address can be hit by a drone.
Nominating this as the best opening line I have read in a while.
If someone was confident enough to push through an AI change without even reading/reviewing it themselves adding more buttons to the UI isn't going to change anything.