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Hacker News in 2026 is the probably the worst place in the world for this! Blame those PCs who cosplay as NPCs in every discussion about Claude Code.
Japan fascinates me.
Growing up in the 1980s Japanese animation seemed to come out of a much larger cultural matrix: I was excited by Space Battleship Yamato and felt moe for the first time when I saw a pin-up of Lum from Urusei Yatsura and my intuitive understanding of that expanded universe turned out to be right: a written culture that started a bit before the year 1000 when Chinese scholars helped Japanese learn to write down their own legends and myths and brought along a wealth of Chinese and Indian literature and then another flowering when Japan opened up to the west and became the first culture outside the west to attempt to beat us at our own game.
It certainly looks as if it has negotiated a different configuration of the balance between individualism and community. In the US people seem to think you are a bad person if you want life to be cozy. On the other hand, I don't think they'd let me ride the bus as-a-fox in Japan. The police have a ludicrously high conviction rate and we don't know if it because if is they are too tough (torture suspects, in cahoots with the judge) or too lax (don't press charges unless they know if they can win)
Even though nonconformists don't seem to be accepted there, the culture industry proves that they must exist. Here on the other hand I increasingly feel frustrated that our vast inventory of fantasy and science fiction literature (Fred Pohl, Pohl Anderson, Piers Anthony, Alfred Bester, Vernor Vinge, ...) doesn't get visual adaptations but our gatekeeping-industrial complex has never seen a sequel it didn't like (Dune, Dune, Dune, Dune, ...) In Japan on the other hand somebody can make a web novel and then a light novel and then there is a manga and a terribly flawed anime that gets me back to the source material... and I'm hooked!
I don't know if I will ever go. I will never go to Akihabara, I've been there in so many video games that I have a vivid image in all my senses including a feel of how many steps it is up to the elevated platform across to the train station. It's probably all wrong but I wouldn't want to let the real thing ruin the Akiba in my mind.
How would that work? It's hydrolized into its constituents, which are present in higher quantities in apples and chicken and other foods, in the upper GI. Do you have a cite for this?
> It’s experimental but he built it with help from Claude in about a month.
We talk a lot about AI building programs from soup to nuts. But I think people overlook the more likely scenario. AI will turn 10x programmers into 100x programmers. Or in Matz’s case maybe 100x programmers into 500x programmers.
I for one like it is ESP-IDF with FreeRTOS, at least we get some variation.
More like, everyone now has KPIs and OKRs attached to AI for their quartal appraisals.
If you don't, I envy you.
This should be seen in another perspective, we will eventually reach the point where LLMs can vomit the formal specification in whatever language we feel like.
The revenge of Rational Unified Process, Enterprise Architect and many other tools.
Instead of UML diagrams it is markdown files.
ASML, SAP, Airbus to say a few.
Right. One thing I learned over the years is that you can support arbitrarily high level of tech debt and still be able to effectively maintain and enrich a successful software system, as long as you throw enough warm bodies at it.
The overhead will get absurd, you'll end up with 10x or more increase in engineers working on the system, all of them making slow progress while spending 90% time debugging, researching, or writing docs and holding meetings to work out this week's shared understanding of underlying domain semantics - but progress they will make, system will be kept running, and new features will be added.
If the system is valuable enough for the company, the economic math actually adds up. I've seen at least one such case personally - a system that survived decades and multiple attempts at redoing it from scratch, and keeps going strong, fueled by massive amount of people-hours spent on meetings.
Adding AI to the mix today mostly just shifts individual time balance towards more meetings (Amdahl's Law meets Parkinson's law). But ironically, the existence of such systems, and the points made in the article, actually reinforce the point of AI being key to, if not improving it, then at least keeping this going: it'll help shorten the time to re-establish consensus on current global semantics, and update code at scale to stay consistent.
>So what do you guys think? Is this the future?
Yes. The feature is quickly produced slop. Future LLMs will train on it too, getting even more sloppy. And "fresh out of uni juniors" and "outsourced my work to AI" seniors wont know any better.
> but nobody seems to care.
Very few people feel impacted by that. If you consider bombing Iran was going to happen anyway because distractions are needed, the money made by the whale that consistently predicts the movements of the current administration is a relatively small thing compared to starting a war for no good reason.
One possible solution is to make all trades public and traceable to the person who made the decision and the people who benefit from that.
We never needed them, it is all about where do you want to spend your development budget.
Cash allows for freedom and not being tracked by organisations.
Many European countries have learnt hard lesson about state protection police agencies.
A lesson that younger generations seem keen to forget and live through by themselves, because our stories aren't real enough.
Any AOT compiled language offers enough performance for writing full compiler toolchain.
1 is certainly happening in agency delivery work.
Most language translations and asset creations for CMSs are now AI driven.
In big corps delivery teams were already being reduced by relying in LEGO building with SaaS, iPaaS and serverless/microservices (aka MACH architecture), now with agents, the integrations teams get further reduced into writing the tools/skills modules instead.
> But an ecosystem where the planet spends most of the year in darkness or dim light?
If you're floating you don't have to track the ground.
That has to have been an intentional joke; Greggs' aren't good, just cheap and ubiquitous, and almost any proper hand-made-on-site bakery will beat them.
What does separation of powers mean when both houses, the president, and the Supreme Court are controlled by the same party?
At the moment the US is just Big Poland (PiS era).
> they said democratic
They didn't even say that. They only said China playing is "better than leaving everything to the US alone."
Looks quite nice, adding it to my tooling list.
> Except for in Korea, Vietnam, etc etc
I originally discussed "war between industrialised civilisations." "Korea, Vietnam, etc" were not that.
The World Wars drove home the argument that direct confrontation between industrialised socieities is a lose-lose proposition. Since WWII, what I think we've been experimenting with is whether industrialised civilisations can wage war by proxy and still come out ahead. ("Ahead" here measured in relative and absolute power and wealth.) The answer appears to be no–unless you can bog down another who was stupid enough to engage without a proxy. But I don't think it was obviously no until somewhere between the Iraq War and now.
Makes me think of a question my coworker asked the other day - how is it that with all these stories and reports of people "hearing voices in their head" (of the pushy kind, not usual internal monologue), these voices are always bad ones telling people to do evil things? Why there are no voices bugging you to feel great, focus, get back to work, help grandma through the crossing, etc.?
It's because a compiler is supposed to be high-level to low-level; you already have a lower-level language to write in it, and not a higher-level one. Writing a C compiler in a higher-level language than C is going backwards.
E.g., Pascal compilers have traditionally been written in Pascal, hardly a language which conjures up a "low level" image.
How could the first Pascal compiler be compiled if it was written in Pascal, but a Pascal compiler didn't yet exist?
Did you look at DBOS [0]?
It does everything you list here, and more, all locally. It's also MIT open source.
Would it actually improve readability though? Seems likely!
Highly unlikely.
https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
(Look at what else he's done, if you doubt the value of his opinion.)
On the other hand, it can't be denied that AI political music has given the population a bigger voice.
I like the pelican I got out of deepseek-v4-flash more than the one I got from deepseek-v4-pro.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/
Both generated using OpenRouter.
For comparison, here's what I got from DeepSeek 3.2 back in December: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/deepseek-v32/
And DeepSeek 3.1 in August: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/deepseek-31/
And DeepSeek v3-0324 in March last year: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/deepseek/
This is the case with most tech companies. Google bought Android, YouTube, DoubleClick, Maps, etc. etc.
Someone has to build, test, deploy, and maintain that app. It also has a back-end. Someone has to build and maintain those servers as well.
...and these days, someone has to justify their continued employment, hence guaranteeing that said app and its related systems will be subjected to constant trendchasing and the inevitable resultant enshittification. It's otherwise perfectly possible to create such an ordering system that will keep working with next to no attention, which is why the most stable and reliable systems I've worked with were created by someone who didn't want to have to work on it more than once.
Genuine question: is the cost to keep a persistent warmed cache for sessions idling for hours/days not significant when done for hundreds of thousands of users? Wouldn’t it pose a resource constraint on Anthropic at some point?
> I eat meat. And I'm highly, highly morally conflicted. I'll leave it at that to avoid sounding hypothetical—except to mention that the only logical reason I don't go vegetarian/vegan is the work and personal development that'd be required of me. (I'll take being called lazy over disingenuous any day, if we're ostensibly virtue signaling here.)
But that is precisely acting as a martyr.
You're "highly morally conflicted", which means you suffer inside. You could stop that suffering by either 1) going vegan, so you don't have to worry about it, or 2) deciding to continue eating meat and no longer worry about it. Right now, you're picking the strictly worse combination of continuing to eat meat and remaining conflicted indefinitely.
I'm starting to realize that internal moral conflicts are a lot like physical pain - it's an important signal from the body, and you should pay attention to it, but in the end, if you know you're not going to do anything about the underlying cause, then there's no point in continuing to suffer - you just make it go away with painkillers, and carry on living. This does not mean denying the problem - quite the opposite. Constant pain makes it hard to think rationally, and suppressing it puts you in a much better position to address its underlying cause.
Vibe litigation
Seriously, I think you should just do it closed source and pursue adoption by other channels. If people ask you why it's not open source, say you're not ready to manage it yet.
It’s arguable that opening the doors for greedy soldiers to do a little insider trading and inadvertently expose the illegal covert violent raid that they’re party to might be one of the few positive outcomes in a society gamified by Polymarket
For one thing there is the nightmare scenario that the guy who shows up for the job interview is the front man for a North Korean team. Also the Bay Area is like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave... but much worse and they’d hate more than anything if you “think different”
It's a very strange definition. Would you consider domestic chickens "endangered"? Clearly if there are many kept in captivity and bred, there's little chance of them becoming extinct even if there are nearly none in the wild.
This is a pretty common feature, isn't it? Binary templates, I mean. Even Hex Fiend has it.
They're defense contractors the same way IBM and Oracle are. Palantir has a huge USG business, but they're also widely used across the Fortune 500. From the coverage of Palantir online you'd think the company actually manufactured Palantirs, but they are in fact a database consultingware company; one person described them to me as "Oracle but with the benefit of the Web 2.0 technology stack".
People read things like this and a switch flips in their brain, that they're being told to be more charitable to Palantir, and that's not at all where I'm coming from. Rather: the attention paid to Palantir does a very effective job of running cover for Oracle, IBM, and Cisco.
Obviously, the ludicrous marketing/communications operation Palantir is running doesn't make any of this any simpler to reason about. Imagine getting a manifesto from AWS alongside your S3 bill urging you to reconsider Apostolic succession in the traditional Catholic church; that's the vibe they've managed to create.
This is going to come off glib, but I don't think you can believe any of this having actually used the Internet of 1999. As is so often the case, there are lots of real annoyances and offenses behind the sentiment, but still, the Internet of 2026 is vastly better than that of 1999. The amount of things you're just one quick search away from right now would break the brains of a 1999 netizen. We were still required to buy paper books for all sorts of routine knowledge work tasks.
That one is ancient history. My 6yo is currently fighting her friends and their parents alike to make them realize and learn that there is an "L" at the end - it's "axolotl", not "axolot".
I think the FOP stickers are quite bad, but it's obviously not a "protection racket"; virtually nobody around here has them, and for a protection scheme to work there has to be some pressure to buy in.
One of the most important "con"'s is that without controls, fewer people will allow their data to be included in the data sets.
> no SEC lawsuit or civil complaint
The suspect didn't trade securities. SEC doesn't have jurisdiction. The curiosity–to me as a layman–is that this is being prosecuted by the DoJ versus under the UCMJ.
Try: "the farther out [from the center] astronomers look"
Dubai has cracked down on anyone reporting damage in the city from the war with Iran. That incident about their "7 star" hotel being hit is being played as "minor damage". That the hotel has now closed for an 18-month renovation is just coincidental. Trump keeps trying to sue media organizations. He's trying to prosecute a member of the U.S. Senate for insisting that US troops obey US laws of war. China has severe Internet censorship, of course. So does Russia, although it's less well organized.
Was that on a country that went on a genocidal rampage just before and lost the war after killing millions all around Europe, which was decided to be divided in several parts, of which USSR got to control one, and which still developed into an independent country less than a decade later?
Just use Pi core, no need to reinvent the wheel.
>Meta has about 10% more employees now than they did at the end of 2021.
So? They likely already had too many in 2021.
>They currently have less than half the employees of Google or Apple; only a third of Microsoft.
Technology (hw/sw) wise, they also have 1/10 the internal tech and public product breadth and scope of Google or Apple and Microsoft. Maybe 1/50 even. They do like 4-5 social media and chat apps (that they hardly ever update anymore), and some crappy VR stuff nobody cares for.
"Meta to Lay Off 10 Percent of Work Force in slowing economy, attributing it to AI because it makes for better optics"
I would love to see some extra sensors for heartbeat, temperature, blood oxygen and whatever else could be captured by the design.
It seems you haven't done the due diligence on what the parent meant :)
It's not about "constructing a prompt" in the sense of building the prompt string. That of course wouldn't be costly.
It is about reusing llm inference state already in GPU memory (for the older part of the prompt that remains the same) instead of rerunning the prompt and rebuilding those attention tensors from scratch.
>social contact is a definite plus for well-being
If you have asd or adhd (not uncommon in programmers) it can be a definitive minus for well-being. But even if you don't, between office politics and idiotic corporate mandates, it can be draining.
Especially as for the average office worker, originally you had an office of your own or at worse with one or two other people, then starting from the 80s you had a cubicle, then we got the hellish open plans. You're asked to focus on a screen and a codebase in an environment full of distractions, and full of activity around you.
And that's before we added any commute, and preparing for the commute, which can easily eat an additional 1-2 hours of your day, every day.
This is pretty cool, I turned a NUC at home into this, and would probably rather use you guys instead. However, is there a way for me to keep a session open without being connected? Sometimes I want the session to be there so I can connect/disconnect to check up on it, so I want "just disconnecting for a bit" to be different from "I don't care about this any more, destroy it".
At home, I've done that with a Zellij session (everything is tied to the session, and quitting Zellij completely means "I'm done with this". Merely disconnecting keeps it running).
Yeah, like I don't think ARA could build a mobile app for ordering at a cafeteria, period.
“Isopods of the world, unite and get rolling”.
That’ll be seriously weird.
If I cared about people copying my projects and ideas I wouldn't put them on GitHub with a liberal open source license.
Every time something like this happens I think that at least one person made a very bad cash flow decision and now needs to cover a hole they dug out themselves.
Sadly, they are never the ones to be sacked.
New Startup idea: Mordor is a company dedicated to doing evil. We actually plan to lay waste to the world, enslave everyone in it, enshittify anything in sight, and maximize the use of AI for the worst possible thing. Just negative externalities, all the way down.
A (covert) investment in us today can make you seem like an angel tomorrow! Also, with this agenda we're probably going to make a fortune so you might as well get in on the ground floor. Why just fall into hell when you could take one of our luxurious express elevators and get there twice as fast?
I set it up as a joke, to make fun of all of the other benchmarks. To my surprise it ended up being a surprisingly good measure of the quality of the model for other tasks (up to a certain point at least), though I've never seen a convincing argument as to why.
I gave a talk about it last year: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/
It should not be treated as a serious benchmark.
In Brazil “US glazing” was very popular and, in many groups, still is. I’m not sure how it is now, but up to 10 years ago it was annoying.
Almost like outside and inside are different, eh?
We should have much stricter penalties for fraud. Vastly more money is stolen this way than by petty theft or robbery, but the perpetrators tend to get off very lightly by comparison.
Saturdays are communist. Sundays are far-right.
Direct link to section: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors#claude-opus-is-not-av...
Austin prices absolutely exploded from about 2010 to 2022. A huge part of that was housing, and then just before the pandemic Austin became sort of a weird "meme stock" ("Elon Musk is moving there!", "Joe Rogan is moving there") where its popular vision far outstripped its actual reality. I remember travelling around 2018 or so and telling people I was from Austin, and nearly every time I got a "Oh cool, I've heard that's such an awesome city" in response, which was far different a response I'd get in like 2005 or so. I mean, I like Austin, but we also had 2 months straight of 105+ degree weather a few years ago...
Like the article states, when housing goes up everywhere, it means that even the lowest wage workers need to be paid a lot more to survive, so the reason basic sandwiches are so expensive there is that entry level pay is now about $25/hr.
The other issue you saw, homelessness, is especially concentrated in Austin. Austin is perhaps the most liberal city in deep red Texas, so homeless people flock to Austin because it has good services and a generally sympathetic populace, and some rural conservative locales have even been giving homeless people one way bus tickets to Austin.
I guess the good news is that Austin built a shit ton of housing since 2021-2022, so housing prices (including rentals) are falling faster in Austin than anywhere else in the US.
> There's no one saying "ha ha, we should hurt people just for fun"
Yes, there is.[1]
There's an older "Plus" model available on Amazon.[1] Surprisingly cheap, at US$66. This new model is the "Ultra".
It's amazing that the market is big enough to get the price that low.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/LILYGO-T-Watch-S3-Development-SX1280-...
The libertarian argument for prediction markets is really beautiful.
It's just a pity it basically depends on all participants in the prediction market being basically unaware that they are participating in a prediction market, and being oblivious to the incentives to create the outcomes they are predicting by the very act of predicting it with money.
But other than that minor detail, that little minor catastrophic flaw in the foundation, it's a beautiful argument.
I think we can call it as a society. It's a failure. We can go back to banning them, not just for moral reasons, but just pragmatic ones. The theory doesn't work. The supposed benefits don't manifest, and "unanticipated" costs to everyone do. We did the experiment. (Again.) We can close this out now.
The more interesting part of the announcement than "it's better at benchmarks":
> To better utilize GPUs, Codex analyzed weeks’ worth of production traffic patterns and wrote custom heuristic algorithms to optimally partition and balance work. The effort had an outsized impact, increasing token generation speeds by over 20%.
The ability for agentic LLMs to improve computational efficiency/speed is a highly impactful domain I wish was more tested than with benchmarks. From my experience Opus is still much better than GPT/Codex in this aspect, but given that OpenAI is getting material gains out of this type of performancemaxxing and they have an increasing incentive to continue doing so given cost/capacity issues, I wonder if OpenAI will continue optimizing for it.
"Do you want my number? It's inside this list:"
You might find it interesting to learn a bit about information theory. The entire purpose of your specific number is precisely to identify which number in that list is yours. Having the list of all possible numbers is irrelevant. Conceptually you can model that as everyone has that, all the time. But that's not enough to do anything with, because having that list entire list means you have zero information.
If you say "it starts with an 8", you've eliminated 90% of the possibilities. Now you have log2(10) bits of information, but you haven't nailed it down yet. For each additional number you give you give that many more bits until you nail it down.
This is a common misconception people have. I remember someone who claimed to have copyright all possible melodies by virtue of having printed them out and thus enumerated them. But that is meaningless, because the entire job of naming a specific melody is precisely the nailing down of which one you mean. Expanding the list of possibilities you might mean is actually a reduction in the amount of information, despite the superficial appearance of listing more numbers out, and when you expand the possibilities out to "all possible instances of the thing" you're actually at the minimum of information, not the maximum.
> relative quality of life
Relative to what?
Tractors are tall but generally not that much wider or longer than a car. Small ones, especially, are pretty manageable.
> Among the questions he would not answer was: “While driving the RAM 1500, have you been involved in a collision with a car, pedestrian or cyclist?” (We can’t independently find that out because license plates are not in the city database of crashes for some reason.)
I think AI is a good tool but we need to face up to how a high number of AI applications are about enabling people to lie to each other more effectively.
"Remember, there are no technological solutions to social problems."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
would be difficult enough to solve in a socially cohesive society run by philosopher kings. Practically you have a choice between democracies which have a 0 probability of being adequate to the task (against the axioms of political science: it's like a perpetual motion machine which violates the first and second laws of thermodynamics and then the old professor chimes in and says it must violate the third too) and autocracies which might get lucky 10⁻¹² of the time; even if the tech fix [1] has a 10⁻³ chance of successfully kicking the can down the road I'd take that chance.
[1] say: liquid salt (not metal) fast breeder reactor with a supercritical CO2 powerset
You say it's just people who are "really far gone", but when I look at the type of marketing at CBD stores, it's marketed for nearly everything, so I suspect a lot more people are falling for this than you might suspect. Plus, any individual doesn't have to believe it's a "cure-all" - they just have to believe it cures their specific random ailment. I've seen it marketed to help with sleep, anxiety (despite it causing anxiety in a lot of people), depression, any type of pain you can think of, nausea, hoarders of chronic conditions, etc.
I agree with the top comment - I think it's great that we're starting to deal rationally with cannabis, but we need to be realistic about. It can be beneficial but can also cause real harms, especially in children and young adults, and cannabis use disorder is a real thing.
Dynamic typing doesn't scale in large teams, it is however great in small projects, or if optional typing is supported, which took a long time to learn from languages like structured BASIC dialects.
It is no accident that all mainstream dynamic languages now have optional typing support, either in the language directly or via linters.
What is "the charged word"? I don't know who Karoline Leavitt is, do they mean a specific word ("deportation"?) or just different words when they gave it sentences?
AI has been awful on Reddit.
I've acquired a sense for at least some of the bots. There's this set of bots that post a high-engagement post about once a day to an implausibly large range of subreddits, with implausible regularity. I can tell by the way I remove them and the way that the other subs are mostly not that most subs have not figured this out yet.
There is an obvious solution to that problem, which I haven't wanted to put out there, but I've become increasingly suspicious that it's already been figured out anyhow, which is to limit a specific user account to a specific "persona" with plausible interests and posting rates.
And that's where I think the race may well end, victory spammers. If there's a winning move against that in general I haven't figured it out.
I know reddit is concerned about this at the corporate level but I'm not sure they realize this is possibly their #1 threat, towering above all others. Not that I have any specific suggestions about what to do about it either. And it's years before the masses realize this and stop visiting, and by the time that happens all the social media companies are going to be in trouble for the same reason. You can see the leading edge here on HN but it's still only an almost negligible fraction of the total userbase of something like Reddit today. But that will change.
Apple iPad Pro can copy the unification of ChromeOS+Android on Arm (ex-Apple Qualcomm) laptops from Dell, Lenovo, HP.
They run a mass surveillance operation so they can target individual people with exploding pagers. It's just another aspect of the longstanding war between Israel and Iran (via Hezbollah etc).
What exactly does it do? I'm looking at hexl-mode sources in my Emacs, and I see it defining only two faces - hexl-address-region and hexl-ascii-region.
>> SMTP "“didn’t win because it was ‘better,’” he argued, but “just because it was easier to implement."
Yes - and this is actually really important! It's true of most of the important early internet technologies. It's the entire reason "internet" standards won over "telco" (in this case ITU) standards - the latter could only be deployed by big coordinated efforts, while internet standards let individual decentralized admins hook their sites together.
Did any of the ITU standards win? In the end, internet swallowed telephones and everything is now VOIP. I think the last of the X standards left is X509?
I thought you're talking about Qwitzatteracht, but that's not fake.
The "effective altruism" people speedran the philosophical problem that good intentions do not necessarily produce good outcomes, far faster than any Communist revolution.
> Paid out like Spotify pays out artists.
So, mostly to fraudulent AI spam?
AI makes this problem worse in both directions. It makes it fantastically easy to produce ""content"". So if you're scraping content, or browsing content, you're going to run in to increasing amounts of AI. Micropayments makes this worse, because it's then a means of getting paid to produce spam. The problem comes when you want the ""content"" to be connected to real questions like "how does my dryer work" or "what is going to happen to oil availability six months from now".
AI trainers didn't pay book authors until forced to. $3,000 ended up being a pretty high value! But it was also a one-off. Everyone writing books from now on is going to have to deal with being free grist to the machine.
Is it a bug or a feature though? What's more common: wanting to delete a message and have it stay gone, or accidentally deleting the message you wanted to preserve? For most people the latter is more likely than the former.
2010 MB C300 I bought in 2013 from a dealer after the lease expired, parked outside without a garage or cover since then (Virginia).
About 3 years ago a large branch (about 8" diameter) from an old overhanging tree fell right on the transparent sunroof cover and shattered it into a million pieces. After picking them out of the sunroof mechanism (which no longer worked after the impact) and the inside of the car, I covered the opening with several sheets of magnetized vinyl. Works great, never a drop of water inside since then and it's stayed in place without any attention. Temperature control inside the car at rest or while driving at highway speed is like it was before the damage.
Being old now I never go anywhere since I can get stuff delivered. About every 3 weeks I go out and the car starts right up, I drive a 5-mile loop to circulate the oil and then park it for another 3 weeks. Been doing this for years. I do get an oil change annually.
The phrasing of "gun rights" in the context that's really about gun responsibilities is a big part of the problem. And I say this from an unusual position; I'm a Brit who was taught to shoot at school (cadets). The urban gun control question is not so much about responsibility as about malice. There's not a huge number of people with murderous intent, but there are enough. And the resistance of rural America to the questions of either "do you actually need a gun?", "are you a responsible person?", and "no, you can't bring that into the city" result in thousands of deaths every year in the city. If they were willing to allow separate rules for different areas, this wouldn't be nearly as heated.
> a large number of people who live in cities seem to want to extend childhood through age 25
This is not great, and a more complicated problem of percieved danger.
To people like that, random college students are "establishment" because they are lefty, and the literal President of the United States is "anti-establishment" because he uses slurs on social media.
> If we were to uncap the size of the House of Representatives, and instead change so that each district contains 50k people (or close to it), we would have roughly 7k representatives in the House.
Nice and proportional, but a completely unwieldy number of representatives. 700 reps for 500k people each would be more manageable.
(of course, that means very little if (a) they're only from two parties and (b) all 7k districts are gerrymandered six ways from sunday)
What is wrong with all the good things in the world?
Oh, that takes me back to 1982.[1] This is very similar to what we did back then. The syntactical approach is almost identical. It's much more programmer-friendly than some other approaches. One of the problems with proof of correctness is that the people doing it tend to fall in love with the formalism, and it all becomes too abstract and hard. This project didn't do that.
It's not clear what they do when they need to prove something beyond what an SMT solver can do. That's supposed to be covered in section 11.4, "forall and exists: writing and using triggers, inline functions". What they call a "trigger" is apparently a theorem proved by some more powerful system. (Or just assumed as an axiom. That's cheating, and it will come back to bite you.)
That's the right approach - use an SMT solver for the easy stuff, which should be 90-95% of the proofs. Then use something else for the hard stuff. We used the Boyer-Moore prover, a predecessor to the ACL system. Others have used proof-checkers, and Lean. There's recent interest in using LLMs to drive something like Lean; the LLMs make mistakes but the proof checker catches them. Looks like they haven't gotten to this part yet.
The way to partition the problem is to use two "assert" statements in succession. An assert statement is a proof goal before the assert, and is assumed true after the assert. So when you hit something hard, you try to bracket it with
assert(a);
assert(b);
a implies b
There should be object invariants, except that Rust doesn't have objects. It does have structs with associated functions and encapsulation. You need some way to express that structs with internal state are consistent before and after being called. C++ has about the right amount of hiding ("abstraction") for this, with public and private fields and functions for objects. Rust's idea of "private" means "same module", not "same struct". So invariants would apply to a module. Then you have to be very organized about when control enters and leaves the module. Like not calling pub functions from inside the module, because the module invariants may not be valid at internal entry to a pub function.
The extensional equality thing is interesting. It needs more description. The basic problem is this: for some types, such as sets, hash tables, and such, objects are supposed to be considered equal if you can't tell from the outside that they're different internally. Formally, the type must have the property
for all functions f where x is an element of T,
x == y implies f(x) == f(y)
Nice work. Keep plugging.
It's hard to see the scale of what he's doing. Could be:
- I'm building a server farm in my homelab.
- I'm doing a small startup to see if this idea works.
- We're taking on AWS by being more cost effective. Funding secured.
That basically shows the AI has learned what the average webpage looks like, and it's indeed horrible.
From an illustration in the middle of the piece:
"The Stack":
Space: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Maxar, Voyager
Cloud: Palantir, IBM, Cisco, Meta, AWS, Microsoft
Surface: Data Centers, Urban Surveillance, Mobile Fortify, Axon
Energy: The Nuclear Co, Valar Atomics, Oklo, General Matter, Helion
Finance: Paypal, Coinbase, Ramp, Stripe, Erebor, Ripple
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This doesn't make any sense at all. Many of the categories aren't even internally consistent, and the space->cloud->surface->energy->finance "stack" is incoherent.
I should like this, because one of my longstanding hangups is people hyperfixating on Palantir (the company), which is a database consultingware company and a JV version of Oracle in all the senses we care about --- civil tech punditry has an awful habit of focusing on these lurid instances when they're really just banal examples of something tech giant companies do generally, which has the effect of letting companies like Oracle and Cisco (both of whom have demons resumes) off the hook.
But if the author can't lay out a reasonable map of the industry and the forces acting on it, I have trouble taking the rest of it seriously.
How does a quick benchmark of a model "add no value" to the post about the model?
Looking at the screenshots shows why there's a reason 5x7 is the "standard" for tiny legible fonts that cover all of ASCII, e.g. as found in character LCD displays:
Well, there's the token exchange RFC, which defines on-behalf-of/delegation and impersonation semantics.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693 has all the details, but here's an example:
In this case, the user is user@example.com, but the actor is admin@example.com. (In the agentic case, the actor would be the AI agent.)Is this kinda what you are looking for?