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Funny how the "story" doesn't link to the announcement it mostly copied from the CWA.[1]
Here's the link to the union organizing page.[2] No draft union contract for Id, though.
Interestingly, this is an industrial ("wall to wall") union, rather than a craft union such as The Animation Guild. IATSE Local 839, in Hollywood. TAG only represents specific jobs, mostly animation artists.
A key point in TAG contracts is how "crunch time" is handled. It's allowed, but overtime rates go way, way up as the hours go up. This is standard procedure in Hollywood. Some terms from TAG's standard contract:
All time worked in excess of eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification. Time worked on the employee's sixth workday of the workweek shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification. Time worked on the employee's seventh workday of the workweek shall be paid at two (2) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification. All time worked in excess of fourteen (14) consecutive hours (including meal periods) from the time of reporting to work shall be Golden Hours and shall be paid at two (2) times the applicable hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification.[3]
This encourages management to schedule realistically. The Id/CWA deal isn't far enough along for those terms to be visible yet. But such terms are common in CWA contracts.
[1] https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/video-game-developers-te...
[3] https://animationguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2024-2...
I miss Gassée's the Monday Note, it seems he hasn't published one since 2023.
> Is there an umbrella union that they can belong to?
The article here mentions the umbrella union that this effort was associated with, Communications Workers of America (which itself is part of AFL-CIO.)
IPFTE, I think, also organizes software developers along with other professional and technical workers, and SEIU has a lot in the public and nonprofit sectors.
If software workers were that replaceable, they wouldn't be paid huge salaries to sit in offices in San Francisco, they'd be outsourced already.
(Mind you, that very individualism is why they're not already unionized)
> the company could easily outsource development and license their ip and fire everyone…
This turns out to be a lot harder in practice than in theory.
While things can be bad in software in general, game developers need a union more than anyone. Conditions in that industry are horrendous. The entire period of a game's development is "crunch time". Everyone is exempt, so no overtime of course. And it is standard practice to downsize studios and have mass layoffs right after big launches. It's a shame that so many are drawn to this just because of a passion for gaming.
I think the "inviolability" thing is useful just to understand what's actually happening here, but it's also important to understand that the US and Germany have very different criminal justice, search, and evidentiary systems. Germany doesn't have an exclusionary rule for evidence, for instance.
> The toilet paper thing didn't really happen [...]
Yes, it did.
> [...] because there is so much shit people can produce at a time and the demand never increased if you scaled it to a 2 weeks period. There was enough stock in warehouses that 3 days later every store had a full stock again and the prices never increased.
No, there wasn't in lots of places, and demand for the kind of toilet paper that fits on home dispensers did increase (and demand for the kind of big rolls used exclusively in institutional settings decreased, and shifting between those two for manufacturing is not quick), and there were extended supply issues in many places. (This was certainly true where I lived, but I would expect it had lots of regional variance, because supply chains are regional, the share of workers that were moved home because of either the practicality of remote work or workplaces being shutdown varied regionally because of both policy and industry differences, and because the share of workplaces that use industrial style TP vs TP compatible with home style dispensers probably also varies considerably.)
Rust has no malloc in the language whatsoever. In embedded, you don't even include the libraries for dynamic allocation in the first place, unless you want to. And it's very normal not to.
In a nutshell, the sovereign debt crisis. If you don't realize there's a sovereign debt crisis (ongoing across years), or even more accurately, a wide variety of sovereign debt crises, or even more accurately, a wide variety of debt crises of both sovereign and private entities, well, your governments and some of the more government-adjacent private entities have bent a lot of resources into make sure that's the case and convincing that it's just peachy when they borrow money, if not outright a boon, without regard to how much they borrow or how much they've already borrowed. They may have convinced you that this is true, but they know better.
Whatever happens and however it resolves, there aren't a lot of options where they retain as much power as they have now for very long. (Even if the top people maintain control they're going to be cutting loose a lot of lower level elites because they'll have to because they won't be able to maintain their upkeep.) The wheel turns and we're in that phase where they're still in power, but have begun to feel their decline. Human psychology fears and feels loss much more keenly than gain and they both fear and feel a lot of loss of power underneath the veneer they maintain.
I'm not sure at all if it is relevant because hardly anybody watches broadcast TV but I was thinking how the interactive features in ATSC 3 could be used to add on-screen sports gambling and that might be the only thing that motivates the industry to go down that road -- and of course news gambling is the same.
At the time “microservices” was coined, “service oriented architecture” had drifted from being an architectural style to being associated with inplementation of the WS-* technical standards, and was frequently used to describe what were essentially monoliths with web services interfaces.
“Microservices” was, IIRC, more about rejecting that and returning to the foundations of SOA than anything else. The original description was each would support a single business domain (sometimes described “business function”, and this may be part of the problem, because in some later descriptions, perhaps through a version of the telephone game, this got shortened to “function” and without understanding the original context...)
While having Epic Store, Fortnite "mini store", and being perfectly fine with Nintendo, Sony and XBox.
The US will be dragged kicking and screaming to renewables, it has no other option.
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05/exclusive-memory-...
> Lenovo has begun notifying clients of coming price hikes, with adjustments set to take effect in early 2026.. Dell is expected to raise prices by at least 15-20%, with the increase potentially taking effect as soon as mid-December.. Dell COO Jeff Clarke warned that he’s “never seen memory-chip costs rise this fast,” .. Lenovo [cited] two key factors: an intensifying memory shortage and the rapid integration of AI technologies.. TrendForce has downgraded its 2026 notebook shipment forecast from an initial 1.7% YoY growth to a 2.4% YoY decline.
https://hanchouhsu.substack.com/p/overview-of-the-memory-mar...
> The full-year price increase for Samsung’s storage products supplied to Apple in 2026 has been finalized, with DRAM prices rising by 53% and NAND prices rising by 52%. Earlier rumors suggesting an 80% full-year increase for DRAM were inaccurate.. Apple negotiated the prices down to the aforementioned levels and signed long-term agreements (LTAs).. Kioxia also signed a similar agreement with Apple, with price increases consistent with Samsung’s.
Not really. Tribes generally lived in specific areas, and would go to war with other tribes if those tribes tried to expand into their turf. Or would go to war to expand their turf. That's basically the early version of nationalism and borders, with the tribe as the nation, and neighboring tribes understanding which area was whose. Even nomadic tribes would be nomadic within a certain area, and jealously protect the area they would go to at the start of every spring, for example.
Even modern primates establish territories for their groups, and warn off and fight other primates attempting to encroach. So this general behavior is quite natural. The concept of open borders where anyone can just waltz in and live somewhere where they're not from or didn't marry into and haven't been invited -- that's actually the relatively newer idea, historically speaking.
I'm not arguing for more closed borders today, but I don't think we're should pretend that the historical human condition has somehow been "open".
For very simple JSON data whose schema never changes, I agree.
But the more complex it is, the more complex the relational representation becomes. JSON responses from some API's could easily require 8 new tables to store the data in, with lots of arbitrary new primary keys and lots of foreign key constraints, your queries will be full of JOIN's that need proper indexing set up...
Oftentimes it's just not worth it, especially if your queries are relatively simple, but you still need to store the full JSON in case you need the data in the future.
Obviously storing JSON in a relational database feels a bit like a Frankenstein monster. But at the end of the day, it's really just about what's simplest to maintain and provides the necessary performance.
And the whole point of the article is how easy it is to set up indexes on JSON.
I have trouble imagining any home LLM tinkerer who tries to run a naive scraper against the rest of the internet as part of their experiments.
Much more likely are those companies that pay people (or trick people) into running proxies on their home networks to help with giant scrapping projects what want to rotate through thousands of "real" IPs.
This works really well in my experience, but it does mean you need to have a working internet connection the first time you run the script.
# /// script
# dependencies = [
# "cowsay",
# ]
# ///
import cowsay
cowsay.cow("Hello World")
uv run cowscript.py
You can also add a shebang line so you can execute it directly:
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
#
# /// script
# dependencies = ["cowsay"]
# ///
import cowsay
cowsay.cow("Hello World")
chmod 755 cowscript
./cowscriptHumans don't understand their thought process either.
In general, neural nets do not have insight into what they are doing, because they can't. Can you tell me what neurons fired in the process of reading this text? No. You don't have access to that information. We can recursively model our own network and say something about which regions of the brain are probably involved due to other knowledge, but that's all a higher-level model. We have no access to our own inner workings, because that turns into an infinite regress problem of understanding our understanding of our understanding of ourselves that can't be solved.
The terminology of this next statement is a bit sloppy since this isn't a mathematics or computer science dissertation but rather a comment on HN, but: A finite system can not understand itself. You can put some decent mathematical meat on those bones if you try and there may be some degenerate cases where you can construct a system that understands itself for some definition of "understand", but in the absence of such deliberation and when building systems for "normal tasks" you can count on the system not being able to understand itself fully by any reasonably normal definition of "understand".
I've tried to find the link for this before, but I know it was on HN, where someone asked an LLM to do some simple arithmetic, like adding some numbers, and asked the LLM to explain how it was doing it. They also dug into the neural net activation itself and traced what neurons were doing what. While the LLM explanation was a perfectly correct explanation of how to do elementary school arithmetic, what the neural net actually did was something else entirely based around how neurons actually work, and basically it just "felt" its way to the correct answer having been trained on so many instances already. In much the same way as any human with modest experience in adding two digit numbers doesn't necessarily sit there and do the full elementary school addition algorithm but jumps to the correct answer in fewer steps by virtue of just having a very trained neural net.
In the spirit of science ultimately being really about "these preconditions have this outcome" rather than necessarily about "why", if having a model narrate to itself about how to do a task or "confess" improves performance, then performance is improved and that is simply a brute fact, but that doesn't mean the naive human understanding about why such a thing might be is correct.
Tiny bug report: I couldn't edit text in those SQL editor widgets from my iPhone, and I couldn't scroll them to see text that extended past the width of the page either.
Whatever thing you're talking about, it does not appear to be DANE stapling.
>Their biggest issue is when you walk blindly, LLMs will happily lead the unknowing junior astray.
The biggest issue is outsourcing agency and skills atrophy
Basically you're lending your name and identity as a front for someone with malicious intentions.
There are a few different angles to this. Other people have already mentioned the North Korean state-sponsored espionage, but honestly I think this is a small minority of this market.
The other two big ones are visa fraud and employment fraud. With the first one, you have a developer, possibly even skilled in a low-wage overseas company (say Thailand) that wants to make American wages. If he applies as who he actually is, he makes Thai wages, which can be as low as $10K/year. If he uses your identity to apply, he makes American wages, say $200K+/year. He can split that with you and make 10x what he would otherwise, while you get $100K/year for doing nothing (assuming he's honest enough to pay out, which is not a guarantee. There's no honor in thieves).
With the second, they use his interview skills and your identity to get the job, and then do nothing except get other jobs. It's remarkably hard to fire a U.S. employee without risks of lawsuits. If the employer does seem to catch on, he has a lawyer and a psychiatrist on the payroll too. The psychiatrist produces a doctor's note that you are disabled, the lawyer threatens to sue if you are fired. "You" go on disability, where you can stay for up to a year and they can't fire you. Collect the salary, move on after the year. In the meantime, "you" (or the organization using your identity) has done the same thing to hundreds of other corporations. I personally know 2 managers that have been victimized by this scam.
In all 3 cases, you're not the direct victim of the scam. They're using your identity as a shield to legitimize the scam. When it's discovered, it's you who suffer the reputational risk and/or criminal charges.
I don't see it. With Chrome devtools, for the posted URL I see X-Clacks-Overhead, X-Content-Type-Options, and X-Frame-Options. No X-Robots-Rag.
And no <meta name="robots"> in the HTML either.
What URL are you seeing that on? And what tool are you using to detect that?
Edit: cURL similarly shows no such header for me:
curl -s -D - -o /dev/null https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why/Knowing not so much about Tor but some about math: the number of nodes you need to compromise in order to de-anonymize a Tor user is exponential in the number of hops. Google says there are roughly 7000 Tor nodes, including 2000 guards (entry) and 1000 exit nodes. If you have a single hop, there's roughly a 1/1000 chance that you will connect to a single malicious node that can de-anonymize you, going up linearly with the number of nodes an attacker controls. If you have 3 hops, you have a 1 in 1000 * 7000 * 2000 = roughly 14 billion chance. 2 hops would give you 1 in 2 million, 4 hops would give you 1 in 1000 * 7000 * 7000 * 2000 = 98 trillion. In practical terms 1:14B is about the same as 1:98T (i.e. both are effectively zero), but 1:2M is a lot higher.
>Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders
I came here to be dismissive ("power is power, what's the big deal?"), but this is a legitimately useful guide on how to fake a battery. Thanks for this.
The OS was kind of cool, even if Dylan missed the boat, the mix of NewtonScript with C++ was still kind of cool, and on its last days a JIT was being introduced.
Yet another device ahead of its time.
For these types of problems (i.e. most problems in the real world), the "definitive or deterministic" isn't really possible. An unreliable party you can throw at the problem from a hundred thousand directions simultaneously and for cheap, is still useful.
No, for everybody. We should absolutely bring back some kink-shaming.
> Coders don’t have liability for shipping shit code
Depends on the industry, and shipping shit code is the reason cybersecurity laws are starting to be a thing.
A startup looking to something to hold on, being a VSCode fork isn't really a business plan.
You should look into the latest posts on the subject.
> Just as a reminder, even without --incremental, TypeScript 7 often sees close to a 10x speedup over the 6.0 compiler on full builds!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typesc...
You mean, like Microsoft themselves?
.NET COM support was never as nice, with the RCW/CCW layer, now they have redoned it for modern .NET Core, still you need some knowledge how to use it from C++ to fully master it.
Then there is CsWinRT, which is supposed to be the runtime portion of .NET Native, which to this day has enough bugs and not as easy to use as it was .NET Native.
Finally, on the C++ side it has been a wasteland of frameworks, since MFC there have been multiple attempts, and when they finally had something close to C++ Builder with C++/CX, an internal team managed to sell to their managers the idea to kill C++/CX and replace it with C++/WinRT.
Nowadays C++/WinRT is sold as the way to do COM and WinRT, it is actually in maintenance, stuck in C++17, those folks moved on to the windows-rs project mentioned on the article, and the usuability story sucks.
Editing IDL files without any kind of code completion or syntax highlighting, non-existing tooling since COM was introduced, manually merging the generated C++ code into the ongoing project.
To complement your last sentence, seeing Microsoft employees push COM from first principles in 2025 is jarring.
Yes, the alternative universe had Nokia board not hired Elop.
> No matter how the ad is made, it is still an ad
I disagree. An ad is always an ad. But it can also be art. This ad has artistic merit, and I think people are reacting to that.
It would be impossible to do without taking breaks, as explained in the article:
> Due to visa limits, Bushby has had to break up his walk. In Europe, he can stay for only 90 days before leaving for 90, so he flies to Mexico to rest and then returns to resume the route.
Given that he literally swam across the Caspian Sea in order to avoid Russia and Iran because of legal issues, nevermind bring imprisoned in Russia due to what sounded like bureaucratic BS, it's more impressive than I first thought.
I have a friend attempting to solve this. He's basically creating oauth for age verification. You sign up with his service and verify your age. After that it works similarly to oauth, but instead of return your identity, it just returns your age.
It's not a perfect solution, as he would still know who you are, but it's built in a way where you create a token locally to pass to the site that includes your age, and that site passes it to his site, which verifies the signature. So he knows who you are but not what sites you visit, and the sites know your age but not who you are.
> It's an acceptable way to quickly scale up real mashed potatoes...
Goes with Hamburger Helper.
That's good for blocking. Then, for movement, what? Probably not Labanotation.
tl;dr
My Dad loves instant mashed potatoes. I think they taste awful. A long history of potato consumption. People like potatoes, particularly mashed potatoes. Thus there is money to be made out of selling them as a product, allowing people to skip the peeling, boiling, and mashing. People still buy the product even though it is objectively bad and not even proper mashed potato. This phenomenon seems ubiquitous. Maybe industrial capitalism itself is bad.
Generate more handy summaries like this with Instant Mashed Prose - just 0.000001 BTC per serving!I can easily imagine auto insurers facing exactly that kind of liability if a self-driving car release is bad enough.
Thanks. It was 6 characters too long if I added that.
> Where they put nets over the road for camouflage or physically catching the drones, right?
Yes. But it didn't work for long. The Russians have an answer to that.[1]
[1] https://www.thesun.ie/news/16173281/russian-dragon-drone-str...
I still have an N800-tough, it still works. It even holds a five day charge. This is from after the reboot, it runs linux and so far it has been ultra reliable. I have an older one as well that still works but this one is just a little more useful (it can serve as a wifi access point).
It is an interesting theory that AI generated art is unmonetizable, and, yet, people are, in fact, monetizing AI generated art, both directly and by monetizing products which incorporprate it.
Given a theory, and facts directly contrary, one would normally conclude that it is the theory, not the facts, which are in error.
Just to add real quick: there is not in fact a meaningful growing deployment of DNSSEC --- in fact, in North America and the western commercial Internet, the opposite thing is true: the number of signed zones has decreased. This is especially stark if you look at the true figure of merit, DNSSEC deployment on popular zones (take the Tranco academic research ranking of popular zones as a model):
I liked it --- it doesn't have to be true to be thought-provoking, but also: it was the logic I used when I bought a carbon steel nakiri for my brother; that he would read the intent behind the gift as a show of respect. If he doesn't want to maintain the knife, he doesn't have to use it! Erin came back from Tokyo a few years back with a stainless-clad nakiri that I use every day, and a carbon steel nakiri with my surname engraved on it that I use maybe once a year. I'm still thrilled to have the carbon-steel nakiri!
(I have a carbon-steel gyuto I use all the time, but I bought it specifically so I could get good at sharpening it when it eventually dulls, which it stubbornly refuses to do.)
Wait how do I monetize? Am I leaving money on the table?
> Honestly when are we going to impeach Trump, he's basically the same Hitler.
When did Germany impeach Hitler?
Also, Donald Trump has already been impeached as many times all other Presidents combined.
You didn't, at all. I didn't look at the videos you provided; I simply stipulate that they're real and depict what you say they depict. That doesn't demonstrate anything at all about Hezbollah's rules of engagement. When they have a clear firing solution on an IDF tank, they take the shot? Ok. And?
At the point where you're declaring Hezbollah a moral ally, I think the conversation has run to its logical terminus. Ask the Sunni Arabs in Syria how allied they feel with Hezbollah.
Russia is also running out of resources at current global oil prices. China’s rapid electrification and EV deployment is destroying oil demand growth, causing global oil oversupply, a confounding factor on top of sanctions. If you’re a petrostate, the future is not bright.
Strikes on critical Russian oil infrastructure would likely speed this along.
https://www.energyintel.com/0000019b-082a-d02f-adfb-cebb5e2a...
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/09/russian-oil-prices...
Works with other object stores.
Apparently fish aren't animals. :)
Record button in the app if you’ve got the feature.
The word in the German original is "Gutachten", so better translation would be "expert opinion."
Capitalism does not need and has never had free markets, though some arguments for capitalism being ideal rest on the assumption of free markets, along with a stack of other idealized assumptions, like human behavior conforming to rational choice theory.
> The proscription is ridiculous
They broke into a military base. If that was sanctioned by the organisation, they should be shut down.
I do it sometimes and usually notice that I did it and reverse it. I do with the flag button too.
You support the ban but also circumventing it?
Strongly agree with this advice.
React Server Components always felt uncomfortable to me because they make it hard to look at a piece of JavaScript code and derive which parts of it are going to run on the client and which parts will run on the server.
It turns out this introduces another problem too: in order to get that to work you need to implement some kind of DEEP serialization RPC mechanism - which is kind of opaque to the developer and, as we've recently seen, is a risky spot in terms of potential security vulnerabilities.
I was just in a discussion on this very topic. It's the build vs buy equation applied to silicon. Early in the tech boom the entire silicon stack was proprietary and required a lot of time and investment to train up people who could design the circuitry, we got our first "ASICS" which was basically a bunch of circuitry on a die and you then added your own metal layer so it was like having a bunch of components glued to a board and you could "customize" it by putting wires between the parts. Then we had fabs that needed more wafer starts so they started doing other peoples designs which required they standardize their cells and provide integration services (you brought a design and they mapped it to their standard cells and process). And as the density kept going up they kept having loots of free space they needed to fill up. The 'fabless' chip companies continued to invest in making new parts until the pipeline was pretty smooth. And at that point the level of training you needed a the origin to get it into silicon dropped to nearly zero, you just needed the designs. And into that space people who were neither 'chip' companies, nor were they 'fabless' OEMs, realized they could get their integration needs met by asking a company to make them a chip that did exactly what they wanted.
One the business side, the economics are fabulous, your competitors can't "clone" your product if they don't have your special sauce components. So in many ways it becomes a strategic advantage to maintaining your market position.
But all of that because the all up cost to go from specification to parts meeting the specification dropped into the range where you could build special parts and still price at the market for your finished product.
A really interesting illustration is to look at disk drive controller boards from the Shugart Associates ST-506 (5MB) drive, to Seagate's current offerings. It is illustrative because disk drives are a product that has been ruthlessly economized because of low margins. The ST-506 is all TTL logic and standard analog parts, and yet current products have semiconductor parts that are made exactly to Seagate's design specs and aren't sold to anyone else.
So to answer your question; apparently the economics work out. The costs associated with designing, testing, and packaging your own silicon appears to be cost effective even on products with exceptionally tight margins, it is likely a clear winner on a product that enjoys the margins that electric vehicles offer.
Until they discovered why so many of us have kept with server side rendering, and only as much JS as needed.
Then they rediscovered PHP, Rails, Java EE/Spring, ASP.NET, and reboted SPAs into fullstack frameworks.
Find the market clearing price for unwanted jobs with domestic labor. Any job will be done at the right compensation. This is what UBI would do. I prefer this versus continuing to require an imported underclass. With my apologies to the conservative mental model, “starve the beast” but of cheap labor.
Not your parent, but I'd expect they mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defunctland
Age verification in general is not intended to defend against people lying or using stolen credentials. If you’re 13 but know the password to your dead grandpa’s account and the website in question has no idea he’s dead, there’s no way to defend against that, with or without a ZKP.
What the ZKP does is let you limit the information the site collects to the fact that you are under 18, and nothing else. It’s an application of the principle of least privilege. It lets you give the website that one fact without revealing your name, birthdate, address, browsing history, and all your other private data.
Sadly, it doesn't work with the coolest niche fonts... https://www.google.com/search?q=ibm+3270
> Onlyfans is legal prostitution
No, its legal (in some jurisdictions) pornography. Prostitution on the platform, as well as whatever the legal status is in the set of jurisdictions involved, is also, from what I understand, explicitly against the platform ToS.
That's a far more dangerous territory. A machine that is obviously broken will not get used. A machine that is subtly broken will propagate errors because it will have achieved a high enough trust level that it will actually get used.
Think 'Therac-25', it worked in 99.5% of the time. In fact it worked so well that reports of malfunctions were routinely discarded.
I was introduced to UNIX in 1993, Linux in 1995's Summmer, and have lost count how many X Windows desktops or windows managers have come and gone in 32 years.
This is such a clean interface design:
export LITESTREAM_REPLICA_URL="s3://my-bucket/my.db"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your-access-key"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your-secret-key"
sqlite3
.load litestream.so
.open file:///my.db?vfs=litestream
PRAGMA litestream_time = '5 minutes ago';
select * from sandwich_ratings limit 3;> Autonomy subscriptions are how things are going to go
In America, maybe. Chinese manufacturers are already treating self driving as table stakes. If I have a choice between a subscription car and one that just works, I’m buying the latter.
> continuous development and operations/support
ICE vehicles require continuous servicing and manufacturer support.
> what's that say about the business world at-large?
Nothing. OpenAI is a terrible baseline to extrapolate anything from.
Why do people own cars when they can just Uber?
Why would I own a car when I can Waymo one?
The coupling is more with cost than drive train, but consumers most likely to pay extra for autonomy are the same ones willing to pay extra for electric.
Which is why you see it on the Mercedes ICE vehicle. Because it's a high cost vehicle to start with.
Wow, there's a lot going on with this pelican riding a bicycle: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c31d7afc95fe6b40506a9562b5e83...
> Does elevenlabs have a real-time conversational voice model?
Yes.
> It seems like like their focus is largely on text to speech and speech to text.
They have two main broad offerings (“Platforms”); you seem to be looking at what they call the “Creative Platform”. The real-time conversational piece is the centerpiece of the “Agents Platform”.
I'm going to argue that the original sin of capitalism is change over time.
The story of how microeconomics works so that the invisible hand empowers, say, a kid's lemonade stand, is straightforward and real.
The trouble is that the market can only guess at how future investments will pay off or how technology changes so we get ruptures when it is wrong: the business cycle is one consequences of this (accumulating debt now that can't be paid off easily later) but many of the other complaints about "the market" come from this too.
If you consider the "cost of living" issue for instance I think the real issue is that people don't like change; because technology is changing and the walls of the environment are closing we (or our children) will have hell to pay for instance if we don't rebuild our energy system, change the way we drive, etc. That's all going to cost money and things will be different -- maybe you want an 8 seat SUV but maybe you are going to get a 4 seat sedan. The thing is right now we don't have a completely clear picture of what the future is and it is certain that X% of any investment we make will be wasted.
Those tend to be about sex, not pornography, no?
Note that GPT 5.2 newly supports a "xhigh" reasoning level, which could explain the better benchmarks.
It'll be noteworthy to see the cost-per-task on ARC AGI v2.
I remember back in the late 90s that, if you ignored the matter of hardware driver quality (and that is a big "if", no question) that open source software tended to be higher quality in general than a lot of commercial software. Not because of any moral characteristic per se, but just the "many eyes make bugs shallow" sort of thing. Since it was mostly only programmers using open source anyhow, if someone hit an annoyance, statistically speaking, there was a good chance that someone who could fix the problem had hit the same annoyance.
Then maybe in the 2010s commercial software at least caught up.
But it seems to be swinging back around to, if I want my software to effing work I want to be seeking out open source again. Statistically speaking, fewer of the users who may encounter problems can fix any problems they find, as the systems have gotten much larger, but it is still possible, and on the compensating side, no one on the emacs team is figuring out how to stuff AI where it doesn't belong [1] or how to monetize it via ads or any of the other exciting ways to arbitrage long-term software quality against short-term money.
It's an opinion, it is clearly highly path-dependent, and I won't deny this is just my impression... but it is something I've been noticing again lately. Especially as Windows seems to be heading down the catastrophe curve and this time I'm not sure they can stop it.
[1]: I'm not anti-AI at this point... but there are places where it belongs, and there are places it just doesn't, and stuffing it where it does not belong is not a win.
You know how when someone hears how many engineerings are working on a product, and you think to yourself, "but I could do that with like three people!"? Now you know why they have so many people. Because they did this with their codebase, but with humans.
Or I should say, they kept hiring the humans who needed something to do, and basically did what this AI did.
> This is what the AI boom is really about, removing more power from labor. Its why all the AI hype largely markets itself in this way "how AI can replace or minimize X role" as opposed to "This is how you can use AI to empower your workforce in the majority of discourse I've seen around it.
Arguably, AI is largely marketed that way because that's what corporate buyers care about, the same way every productivity improving invention has been marketed to corporate buyers even if a major actual effect is increasing the value of each labor hour and driving wages up. (Which is largely isomorphic to reducing the number X role needed in the production of Y units of a good or service.)
Its also sold as a labor productivity increase to independent creators. And the two things are, after all, different sides of the same coin.
> The initial claim was "OpenAI has indicated they're getting into porn", letting writers write the scripts, story-lines or dialogue for pornography does not mean OpenAI suddenly "does porn". In that case Google and Microsoft with their Docs and Office are also "getting into porn", which would be a ridiculous claim.
Actively announcing a change of policy whose marketable function is to facilitate porn production is only the case for the OpenAI action and you have presented nothing analogous for the entities you are trying to hold up as comparable.
> OK, this means that MAGA is grooming people to be racist?
Irrespective of the upthread discussion, MAGA is absolutely both being racist and quite actively grooming people, particularly children, to be racist. That's fairly overt.
I don't think deprecation should come with hostile signalling like this, but if it did, it should be consistent, and escalating with subsequent releases, performance regressions on the deprecated path, starting at least one release after the deprecation warning, not wrong results.
And it should be explicitly mentioned in the deprecation warnings.
(You don't want to break systems, but you want something people who care about the system will investigate, and will quickly find and understand the source of and understand what to do.)
OMG yes. Pretty sure that bug has been around for something like a decade. Insane they haven't prioritized it, or I wonder if they hide behind the fact there doesn't seem to be any way to reliably reproduce it?
Someone just has to look really hard at the code and find the bug. Surely the relevant code can't be that long?
Disney isn't "paying someone," they're expecting to make money. They're investing.
The $1B turns into OpenAI stock. If Disney characters make OpenAI more valuable, that stock and its future dividends become more valuable.
Claude is very good at unfun-but-necessary coding tasks such as writing docstrings and type hints, which is a prominent instance of "laundry and dishes" for a dev.
> LLMs are great for this, for the plot and character questions, etc.
The article links to a clear, direct counterexample of this claim. By Amazon, even.
https://gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-recap-prime-video-amazon-2000...