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You might wish that were true, but there are very strong arguments it's not. Training on copyleft licensed code is not a license violation. Any more than a person reading it is. In copyright terms, it's such an extreme transformative use that copyright no longer applies. It's fair use.
But agreed that we're waiting for a court case to confirm that. Although really, the main questions for any court cases are not going to be around the principle of fair use itself or whether training is transformative enough (it obviously is), but rather on the specifics:
1) Was any copyrighted material acquired legally (not applicable here), and
2) Is the LLM always providing a unique expression (e.g. not regurgitating books or libraries verbatim)
And in this particular case, they confirmed that the new implementation is 98.7% unique.
What did you think of Dagger? I used Earthly a while ago but the one thing I didn't like was that it couldn't parallelize runs, since it only ran on one CI instance. Other than that, I liked that I could run my entire CI pipeline locally, but didn't like it so much that I ended up using it for much else.
There is a lot of weirdness around Mastodon, particularly some people can’t seem to make up their minds if they want the stuff they post to be visible or not.
Do parking tickets result in “a formal finding of guilt, and consequences tied to a driver’s record”?
How many times will the same report be regurgitated and reposted? There is nothing added here that the original source didn't cover already (https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-...). Read that instead of the derivative blogspam.
The phrasing "HR isn't there to protect you, it's there to protect the company" applies more here.
My experience is also that HR is very reasonable and cooperative with harassment claims. But the thing is that when you have a legit harassment claim, the law is there to protect you. You could make things very expensive for the company in court, and so protecting the company does mean protecting you and treating you respectfully and cooperatively.
If HR investigates and finds you don't have a legit case and that in fact you may have been the instigator, then protecting the company probably means getting rid of you. Your judgment and account of the facts is questionable in that case, and you're a liability from the other side.
I don't know exactly what happened in this case, but in the harassment case I've had to handle as a manager, the (male) employee said that the (female) victim had initiated everything and had this weird fascination with him, while the paper trail that everybody could see clearly showed that he was both the instigator and the one behaving improperly. Projection is strong in cases like these. So it's entirely possible we're not getting the full story from this anonymous blog post.
That's not at all incompatible with Bluesky having a funded company with a CEO.
The term they use for this is "credible exit" - designing the entire protocol such that if the company itself misbehaves the affected users can leave to a separate instance without losing their relationships or data.
The only value driving most things you see online is the value of money. Which is not the kind of values they are referring to.
> The devices will not carry the band support needed for these [non-EU] markets.
Would they have zero radio coverage, or sub-optimal coverage?
Could be a feature for those wanting a Wi-Fi only mobile Linux device.
The thing I most want to use this (or some other WASM Linux engine) for is running a coding agent against a virtual operating system directly in my browser.
Claude Code / Codex CLI / etc are all great because they know how to drive Bash and other Linux tools.
The browser is probably the best sandbox we have. Being able to run an agent loop against a WebAssembly Linux would be a very cool trick.
I had a play with v86 a few months ago but didn't quite get to the point where I hooked up the agent to it - here's my WIP: https://tools.simonwillison.net/v86 - it has a text input you can use to send commands to the Linux machine, which is pretty much what you'd need to wire in an agent too.
In that demo try running "cat test.lua" and then "lua test.lua".
BASIC for 8-bit computers was an interesting language. It was limited in many aspects, but taught a whole generation about how computers actually worked. Apart from non-native data types (strings and floats), it was quite close to the machine - GOTO and GOSUB map very neatly to (in 6502) JMP and JSR.
I don't see a very big reason mentioned: You might not need it at all. Sure, the optimal age to freeze might be 19, but if 80% of women are done with children by age 30, why would you have every woman spend the equivalent of buying a small car on something they're overwhelmingly not going to need?
Waiting to get a good balance of "your eggs are still reasonably healthy" and "if you haven't had kids until now, it'll probably be a while still" is probably the reason behind the current advice.
Fantastic news, the longer the price is held up, the longer oil price levels tilts the economics towards electrification.
As Iran Crisis Upends Oil and Gas, Clean Energy Gets Complicated - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/middle-ea... | https://archive.today/fIND6 - March 2nd, 2026
> The European Union has already seen the benefit of pivoting to renewables after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though it also sought alternative sources of gas which are now under threat. Between 2019 and 2024, EU countries installed enough wind and solar capacity to avoid burning 92 billion cubic meters of gas and 55 million tons of hard coal in 2024, according to Agora Energiewende.
> “We’ve had tangible results,” said Frauke Thies, the think tank’s Europe director. “It was thanks to renewables that Europe wasn’t hit harder by the last energy crisis.”
That's a heck of a "back of the envelope".
You're going to have to give us your calculations there.
Because a gigantic amount of life improvement is also attributable to using fossil fuels for energy. So how exactly are you weighing up the two sides? Not to mention, it's hard to see how we ever would have been able to create the modern forms of renewable energy in the first place without fossil fuels as an intermediate technological phase.
And it's not even clear how you'd attribute political violence to fossil fuels. You don't need fossil fuels for massive warfare. And if you remove one primary resource from the equation, then another resource now becomes primary, and people will be fighting over that. In the days of the Roman Empire, grain was the strategic resource.
Insert here the New Yorker cartoon about the shabby business executive around a campfire with a bunch of kids crowing "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
Do you think having women's only bathrooms is discrimination as well?
I think Mr. Foxx might have beat you to that one.
I kinda imagine the situations in MMO where people work to take down a big boss and wonder if you could capture the feel of it without people getting so invested in the game.
> CBP’s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system can apparently only batch-process 10,000 entry summary lines at a time, and there are over 1.6 billion entry summary lines that need updating. Importers frequently lumped their IEEPA duties together with other duties on the same line, meaning CBP personnel would have to manually untangle the amounts. Processing each individual refund takes about 5 minutes, which across 53 million entries works out to over 4.4 million hours.
Digital necrophilia. The living ones are the ones that are going to have to make the objections here.
This is revolting at so many levels.
You mistakenly believe that these camera systems are not functioning exactly as intended: they're a revenue stream. If they ended up shutting down the offenders that revenue stream would dry up. The sociopath you've identified is called a whale instead.
Skimping on the service again, are we?
Email the Cloudflare folks and see what they might have on offer. Might say no, might offer something with reasonable limits. Asking is free. Even if they can’t offer it for free, they might have some comment on how to optimize to keep costs minimal for serving these bits from CDN infra.
Right. The alternative is that we reward Dan for his 14 years of volunteer maintenance of a project... by banning him from working on anything similar under a different license for the rest of his life.
Related:
Microsoft adds higher-priced Office tier with Copilot as it tries to juice sales with AI - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/microsoft-office-365-e7-copi... - March 9th, 2026
Yeah I've been thinking about a web site to shame people out of giving gift cards. On one hand there's the whole arguments that gift cards should be eliminated because they are a conduit for fraud, but also the one that they take away from the recipient as much as they give.
There was the time my sister-in-law gave my son a Burger King gift card just after Burger King went out of business in our town which was the beginning of a series of misadventures which could best be situated in the Buddhist framework that desire leads to suffering. Or the time she gave my son 3 $10 AMZN gift cards and I think I still have one with 84 cents of value on it. Just say no.
So it's an Osprey with a jet in the back?
They can't win against Zuck, have to go after someone they can try to win against.
> Was it due to ideology or lower cost or more features?
It was due to access.
> An LNG terminal would make us more beholden to foreign powers
This is a weird way to justify using LNG brought in through Britain.
Original title "Wall Street Killed the Wildcatters: $100+ Oil Now Means Bigger Buybacks With Fewer Jobs and Babies Than Ever Before" compressed to fit within title limits.
Defending against authoritarianism is never pointless.
I remember dealing with this BS back in 2017. It was clear to me that containers were, more than anything else, a system for turning 15MB of I/O into 15GB of I/O.
So wow and new shiny though so if you told people that they would just plug their ears with their fingers.
I'm curious what advantages this has over adding durability to an existing language, like DBOS does:
https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-demo-apps/blob/main/python/...
You are correct: my bad! Edited per your comment. Thank you.
There's a spicy argument to be made that "Rewrite it in Rust" is actually an environmentalist approach.
As Iran war shakes energy system, some see powerful argument for renewable energy - https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-warming-climate-change-i... - March 9th, 2026
The U.S.-Iran war is the biggest oil supply disruption in history - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/the-us-iran-war-is-the-bigge... - March 9th, 2026
And totally pales when compared to operation spiderweb both in precision and the amount of damage done.
Until recently (and probably with some pressure from VW) everything else was supposed to be phased out in Europe within a decade: https://www.spglobal.com/automotive-insights/en/blogs/2025/1...
I can just imagine all the other IPv6 security holes that have gone unnoticed because nobody is using IPv6.
This is fascinating to me. I am allergic to pork (or I would say intolerant, when I eat it I get a headache and/or stomach ache). But I did try a piece of wild boar once, and was fine after that. I will have to look into this!
Thank you! So much more helpful.
And there was a real cliff in recording time, not a marginal difference: a normal VHS tape could record a typical TV show, a normal Betamax tape could not. The utility function is a step function here.
(Both got more recording times through Long Play techniques a.k.a. quality degradation and through actually longer magnetic tape in the cassette, but at least in the beginning it was clear-cut).
The last thing this world needs is my handwriting spreading beyond my local community!
But I would have loved to use this to capture my kid's kindergarten handwriting. Maybe I still have a sample around here...
There are 30,000 different x-platform GUI frameworks and they all share one attribute: (1) they look embarrassingly bad compared to Electron or Native apps and they mostly (2) are terrible to program for.
I feel like I never wasting my time when I learn how to do things with the web platform because it turns out the app I made for desktop and tablet works on my VR headset. Sure if you are going to pay me 2x the market rate and it is a sure thing you might interest me in learning Swift and how to write iOS apps but I am not going to do it for a personal project or even a moneymaking project where I am taking some financial risk no way. The price of learning how to write apps for Android is that I have to also learn how to write apps for iOS and write apps for Windows and write apps for MacOS and decide what's the least-bad widget set for Linux and learn to program for it to.
Every time I do a shoot-out of Electron alternatives Electron wins and it is not even close -- the only real competitor is a plain ordinary web application with or without PWA features.
> The company and the Justice Department reached a surprise settlement on Monday, following a week of testimony during an antitrust trial that threatened to potentially separate the world’s largest live entertainment company.
Someone greased a few palms.
Sure, but then the taxpayer has to pay for it anyway. https://news.tvbs.com.tw/english/2690584
"TAIPEI (TVBS News) — Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) announced on Tuesday (Nov. 19 2024) plans to subsidize Taiwan Power Company (台灣電力公司) with NT$100 billion to address rising international fuel costs and stabilize prices"
=> over $3bn USD! This is not a small amount of money.
It might be a good time to move PyCon US to Canada again.
I dunno, previous generation Hakka tires were a revolution that has since been duplicated by other brands. Studless snows are really good, retractable studs can only add so much.
That would be a hypothesis, not a fact.
I'm not closed to it. You can check my comment history for frequent references to next-generation AIs that aren't architected like LLMs. But they're going to have to produce an AI of some sort that is better than the current ones, not hypothesize that it may be possible. We've got about 50 years of hypothesis about how wonderful such techniques may be and, by the new standards of 2026, precious few demonstrations of it.
Quoting from the article:
"Within five years, deep learning had consumed machine learning almost entirely. Not because the methods it displaced had stopped working, but because the money, the talent, and the prestige had moved elsewhere."
That one jumped right out at me because there's a slight-of-hand there. A more correct quote would be "Not because the methods it displaced had stopped working as well as they ever have, ..." Without that phrase, the implication that other techniques were doing just as well as our transformer-based LLMs is slipped in there, but it's manifestly false when brought up to conscious examination. Of course they haven't, unless they're in the form of some probably-beyond-top-secret AI in some government lab somewhere. Decades have been poured into them and they have not produced high-quality AIs.
Anyone who wants to produce that next-gen leap had probably better have some clear eyes about what the competition is.
I think the worst thing about the golden age of symbolic AI was that there was never a systematic approach to reasoning about uncertainty.
The MYCIN system was rather good at medical diagnostics and like other systems of the time had an ad-hoc procedure to deal with uncertainty which is essential in medical diagnosis.
The problem is that is not enough to say "predicate A has a 80% of being true" but rather if you have predicate A and B you have to consider the probability of all four of (AB, (not A) B, A (not B), (not A) (not B)) and if it is N predicates you have to consider joint probabilities over 2^N possible situations and that's a lot.
For any particular situation the values are correlated and you don't really need to consider all those contingencies but a general-purpose reasoning system with logic has to be able to handle the worst case. It seems that deep learning systems take shortcuts that work much of the time but may well hit the wall on how accurate they can be because of that.
I have no power over any of them. I avoid them all like the plague they are.
That's going to be funny when you try to make a photograph on a short shutter time. Half the display will be off!
Sovereignty, the days of peaceful geopoltics are behind us.
This is a SNR discussion, the N has just gone up an order of magnitude and may well go up multiple orders of magnitude more to the point that communication between people will be drowned out by non-people attempting to communicate with people. It's the spam problem all over again.
I predict the outcome will be roughly the same: a more or less working set of LLM filters that allow you to filter out LLM output at the price of some false positives and some false negatives. Coming soon to a browser near you: the Bye AI Plugin.
Somehow that’s an often missed aspect of this. Yeah, ditching coal has a wide array of nice side effects. It has killed many, many more than the world’s nuclear accidents.
I think this is true.
The closest analogy for AI, IMO, is not intellisense or auto-complete. It is cloud (there's a case to be made for compilers too; I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader).
Cloud, like AI:
* transformed hard things that took a lot of time and expertise into simpler things (do you remember setting up database replication?)
* came with a lot of hype but ultimately provided a lot of value (do you remember grid computing?)
* had plenty of skeptics (see this reddit thread which has some examples[0])
* was adopted at various speeds depending on the person and company
* caused security concerns[1]
In the end, people found a place for cloud. It is still growing, but not everything will run on cloud.
The same is true of AI. People will find a place for it. It won't do everything. But just as many sysadmins were forced to adapt to cloud, many developers will be forced to adapt to AI.
0: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/59ty7u/which_companies...
1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10848...
The aesthetic is so incredibly 1998. Reminds me not just of SimCity 2000 but the lesser played "A-Train", with its gentle day-night cycle.
This is s privately owned company
If the AI people win, there will be no human audience for your writing. I don't think people will write simply to benefit someone else's subscription-funded service.
"the vast majority of our media and culture has been created by media and culture specialists" - well yes obviously, just as our technology has been created by technology specialists.
Not so much composability on async Rust.
Of course I think this, otherwise I would not have written it, I also have seen people lose their bycicles and now wondering what they will do next to keep their mind sane.
>The best-sounding note combinations (to Western people) are the ones derived from the first few harmonics. In other words, you get the nicest harmony (for Western people) when you multiply and divide your frequencies by ratios of the smallest prime numbers: 2, 3, and 5.
He keeps writing "for western people" but some parts of these are inherent in the human ear evolution and rather universal. All around the world we can find pentatonic music for example, even from ancient peoples, and this includes e.g. West African cultures, China, etc. And traditions that have microtonal inflections will still place the same emphasis on the octave, the fifth, major/minor third, etc the microtones add different flavors but it's not some widely different thing, which is why e.g. middle eastern or Indian songs e.g. can still be played on pianos, simplified (to the nearest approximation) but still retaining a lot, just losing their full flavor.
I'd agree, I've been building a personal assistant (https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot) and I'm amazed that, for the first time ever, LLMs manage to build reliably, with much fewer bugs than I'd expect from a human, and without the repo devolving to unmaintainability after a few cycles.
It's really amazing, we've crossed a threshold, and I don't know what that means for our jobs.
Inside the browser hardly matters if it isn't maintained, Google has done almost nothing to their DWARF debugging tooling since it was introduced as beta a few years ago.
Unfortunely there are no ARM NUCs with a good distribution support, and that is still a strong value for getting a Raspberry Pi.
I was betting on the 1TB Mac Studio, but half a terabyte was already an insane amount of memory.
Developing the AArch64 code generator for the DMD D compiler.
One thing we did at reddit for a while was put posts from new people in "jail". They would show up in a special yellow box at the top of the home page to accounts that tended to be early upvoters of things that became successful later (our Nostradamusus so to speak), and then if it got enough upvotes from that group it got out of jail and placed on the regular /new page.
So maybe some sort of filter like that? Only show it to those kinds of accounts at first?
The downside is that if that group isn't big enough you get a lot of groupthink, but if your sample is wide enough, it can be avoided. To be honest, I don't recall why we stopped doing it.
The model is not the system. The model is a component of the system. The "cron job" (or other means by which a continuous action loop is implemented) and the necessary prompting for it to gather input (including subsequent user input or other external data) and to pursue a set of objectives which evolves based on input are all also parts of the system.
I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI
Nothing wrong with that. Beats a boring corporate dashboard any day. Video game and similar interfaces work for a reason.
These agents are all calling APIs that are well beyond your control. How does it matter whether a thin CLI wrapper is running on your computer or not?
Getting bombed tends to make people care a lot, just not for the people doing the bombing.
Found while comparing options to catalog magnet torrents and search the BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table (DHT). Similar to https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505226
Photoshop does the same with the .raw extension.
> another unproven allegation by Israel
There is substantial evidence Hamas stored munitions in hospitals and at schools. One hospital in particular has long been notorious for dual use issues [1].
We don't yet know if Iran is doing this. (There are allegations. But not yet substantiated.) But if a source is confused about whether Hamas waged war from hospitals and schools, it's not a reliable source for this war.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shi...
Satellite killers are cheap and effective for nation states, if anyone ever lifts to orbit.
Not the first time something Apple did was slightly phallic --- OS X El Capitan (now 10 years ago!) had a slightly unfortunate slogan:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/25/more-to-love-with-every-di...
As an aside, your link leads to an image/webp served with a .jpeg extension. WTF?
I made my own AI personal assistant:
https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot
It's like OpenClaw but actually secure, without access to secrets, with scoped plugin permissions, isolation, etc. I love it, it's been extremely helpful, and pairs really well with a little hardware voice note device I made:
“Be greedy when others are fearful.”
I assume it's mostly the same thing that keeps non-Catholics from taking communion at Catholic mass.
https://www.familysearch.org/ is a free resource for those needing to collect evidence to prove descent for countries that offer a path to citizenship via descent.
The challenge I'm finding with sandboxes like this is evaluating them in comparison to each other.
This looks like a competent wrapper around sandbox-exec. I've seen a whole lot of similar wrappers emerging over the past few months.
What I really need is help figuring out which ones are trustworthy.
I think this needs to take the form of documentation combined with clearly explained and readable automated tests.
Most sandboxes - including sandbox-exec itself - are massively under-documented.
I am going to trust them I need both detailed documentation and proof that they work as advertised.
Recessions without an external shock are rare. But you could say the rest of the economy is in stagnation. I‘m expecting real recession as soon as the LLM bubble begins to burst.
Everybody says "but they just predict tokens" as if that's not just "I hope you won't think too much about this" sleight of hand.
Why does predicting the next token mean that they aren't AGI? Please clarify the exact logical steps there, because I make a similar argument that human brains are merely electrical signals propagating, and not real intelligence, but I never really seem to convince people.
>So, this all then implies that 'intelligence' is then a commodity too? Like, I'm trying to drive at that your's, mine, all of our 'intelligence' is now no longer a trait that I hold, but a thing to be used, at least as far as the economy is concerned.
This is obviously already the case with the intelligence level required to produce blog posts and article slop, generade coding agent quality code, do mid-level translations, and things like that...
> what is a “good” economy vs. a “bad” economy?
One that is growing sustainably with broad benefits.
American here: will there be political consequences for the now-slapped-down decision makers?
Source for Khamenei holding assets in Europe? (Genuine ask.)
Some more background and a user report of the migration process: https://gregpak.net/2025/11/13/how-and-why-i-moved-from-a-bl...
Crucially, the purpose of Blacksky is to provide a service for the (US) black community which has its own moderation decisions while being substantially interoperable.
(Remember, the reasons people use one social network rather than another are almost always social first and technical second, where the social functions are enabled or hindered by the technology)
Very agile, have to start somewhere. Keep learning and cranking on the controls to tighten them up.
Wouldn't help if the user closes the drawer and moves it to the left - which users used to having apps to the left (and to a left to right reading culture) would.
The main problem I see is the mouse pointer has reason to be on the proximity of the left side: the Apple menu is there, the most important dock elements (on a bottom dock) are there - or the whole dock for a left-placed dock), the menubar File, Edit, etc, and the most common icons for icon bar operations are there.
And if 'content is king', navigating the content (TOC, search, thumbnail) should also be king, not just the current viewing page.
https://archive.ph/GvTml