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But hey they dumped $6.4 billion on Jony Ive. Surely he'll solve all their problems.
The lack of control and cohort following are legitimate criticisms. The effect size is not. Even a single-digit percentage increase over a single year from policy treatment is incredibly impressive when we open the door to cumulative effects.
> Yet the data fits people's biases
It does. But it also fits priors, particularly those we've seen documented when it comes to teens and social media.
What’s the license of the output?
https://internetfreedom.in/iffs-statement-against-dots-direc...
Clause 7(b).. requires that the pre-installed Sanchar Saathi application be “readily visible” and that, “its functionalities are not disabled or restricted.” In plain terms, this converts every smartphone sold in India into a vessel for state mandated software that the user cannot meaningfully refuse, control, or remove. For this to work in practice, the app will almost certainly need system level or root level access, similar to carrier or OEM system apps, so that it cannot be disabled. That design choice erodes the protections that normally prevent one app from peering into the data of others, and turns Sanchar Saathi into a permanent, non-consensual point of access sitting inside the operating system of every Indian smartphone user.He can. He's selling dollars. He's a person who sells dollars for fewer dollars. You'd get dollars.
The bigger problem is that there are much or more of these fat cats that abuse their wealth than use it for good.
Confession: I did not read the interview before I posted it. You are totally right that the content reveals a lack of understanding on both sides — or the interviewer got a lot of things wrong and published without clarifying first.
> Google will do just what Microsoft did with Internet Explorer and bundle Gemini in for 'Free' with their already other profitable products and established ad-funded revenue streams.
“will do”? Is there any Google product they haven't done that with already?
It's not complicated. It's just very basic capacitor behavior. If there is a tricky part here then it is in the bit that is glossed over: the switches. But congrats on getting it! Analog is fun, you can get incredibly complex behavior out of a handful of components.
No mention of flash LIDAR, which really ought to be seen more for the short-range units for side and rear views.
Interference between LIDARs can be a problem, mostly with the continuous-wave emitters. Pulsed emitters are unlikely to collide in time, especially if you put some random jitter in the pulse timing to prevent it. The radar people figured this out decades ago.
I mean, cool story bro.
So you experienced a bug, which happens on software. I've traveled a lot and have never had an issue with my ChatGPT subscription. I'm not doubting you, but I don't think your anecdote adds much to the conversation of OpenAI vs Google.
I see no problem with this, considering who holds most wealth through securities.
Article buries the lede a little:
> Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.
> The Musk Foundation gave away that remainder in 2024, largely by shifting money to the other nonprofits in his orbit. But it still fell $393 million short of the minimum required giving for 2024 itself. This pattern can repeat indefinitely: Mr. Musk’s foundation now has until the end of 2025 to give away the donations it failed to give in 2024.
And the usual Musk honesty:
> In the same interview, Mr. Musk said, “I have a large foundation, but I don’t put my name on it.” Mr. Musk’s charitable foundation has been called the Musk Foundation since he founded it with his younger brother, Kimbal, in 2001.
Love this, great idea. Automating this with an open version of Calendly comes to mind.
Look what happened in Austin, TX, which has much less housing regulation tamping down construction than CA (despite a good deal of local NIMBYism).
Prices spiked during the pandemic, and in response a shit ton of housing was built, much of it multifamily residential. Rents went down significantly and home prices are down 20% since the peak.
> advertising, AI agents for health and shopping,
Um.
- Advertising. "We'll get back to working on your problem in a moment, but first, a word from our sponsor, NordVPN." It's not a good fit.
- Health. Sounds like unlicensed medical practice. That will require a big bribe to Trump.
- Shopping. Can pretty much do that now, in that ChatGPT can call Google. Will Google let OpenAI call Google Search?
> Long-term safety for free people entails military use of new technologies.
Long-term safety also entails restraining the military-industrial complex from the excesses it's always prone to.
Remember, Teller wanted to make a 10 gigaton nuke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial_(weapon)
As a comment mentions, the devil is in the rate of return details. Forward looking growth will not be what historical growth was.
> "At a historically reasonable 7% rate of return"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-strategists-see-us-st...
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/markets-and-economy/top-ma...
I misinterpreted that first comment too. To clarify:
1. User krig reports an issue against the Bun repo: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/24548
2. Bun's own automated "bunbot" filed a PR with a potential fix: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578
3. taylordotfish (not an employee of Bun as far as I can tell, but quite an active contributor to their repo) left a code review pointing out many flaws: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578#pullrequestreview-...
The system prompt is usually accurate in my experience, especially if you can repeat the same result in multiple different sessions. Models are really good at repeating text that they've just seen in the same block of context.
The soul document extraction is something new. I was skeptical of it at first, but if you read Richard's description of how he obtained it he was methodical in trying multiple times and comparing the results: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5...
Then Amanda Askell from Anthropic confirmed that the details were mostly correct: https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/1995610570859704344
> The model extractions aren't always completely accurate, but most are pretty faithful to the underlying document. It became endearingly known as the 'soul doc' internally, which Claude clearly picked up on, but that's not a reflection of what we'll call it.
> their investors might still take a bath if the very-ambitious aspect of their operations do not bear fruit
Not really. If the technology stalls where it is, AI still have a sizable chunk of the dollars previously paid to coders, transcribers, translators and the like.
How much has actually been spent on AI data centers vs. amounts committed or talked about? That is, if construction slows down sharply, what's total spend?
I've been saying this for years, since the first AI coding models came out. Where do the juniors go to learn? I'm a senior engineer because I got to do a bunch of annoying tasks and innovate just slightly to make them better.
That opportunity is now lost. In a few years we will lack senior engineers because right now we lack junior engineers.
All is not lost however. Some companies are hiring junior engineers and giving them AI, and telling them to learn how to use AI to do their job. These will be our seniors of the future.
But my bigger concern is that every year the AI models become more capable, so as the "lost ladder" moves up, the AI models will keep filling in the gaps, until they can do the work of a Senior supervised by a Staff, then the work of a Staff supervised by a Principal, and so on.
The good news is that this is a good antidote to the other problem in our industry -- a lot of people got into software engineering for the money in the last few decades, not for the joy of programming. These are the folks that will be replaced first, leaving only those who truly love solving the hardest problems.
Agreed, the language would be interesting during the 1990's, nowadays not so much.
The tools that the language offers to handle use after free is hardly any different from using Purify, Insure++ back in 2000.
> and people with too much money?
No. VC’s historical capital has come from institutional investors. Pensions. Endowments. Foundations.
Maybe, Bending Spoons is software targeted private equity buying up poorly run businesses to optimize.
Monthly sales of NEVs (battery electric and plug in hybrids) in China had already surpassed 50% while exporting ~6M/units/year, good sign the market for combustion vehicles is compressing.
Over the timeline in this post, ZIRP and the pandemic seem like equally important factors to LLMs in explaining hiring trends.
> What he did was not a Nazi salute and everyone knows it.
Correct. It wasn't a Nazi salute. It was multiple, and everyone knows it.
We've plenty of actual Hitler footage to compare against; https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i6par1/elon_musk_vs_...
> I'm a BIG critic of Musk
Your entire comments history here spans two pages; you've made about 20 comments. About a quarter of them are defending Musk or his companies. None critique him.
> If I were to graduate today, I'd be royally screwed.
I feel that too. I am a self-taught dev. Got a degree, but not in CS. I don't know if I could get hired today.
Not sure how to fix it; feels like the entire industry is eating the seed corn.
"Native typescript execution" can mean two different things:
1. Chrome/v8 takes TS code, compiles it down to JS internally, erases types, and then runs it like normal. This isn't going to be too hard to do, but also isn't going to be very meaningful. Compiling is a one-step process in any case, and plenty of tooling exists to make it seamless.
2. Chrome/v8 actually understands TS types at runtime, and throws exceptions for mismatches. This isn't going to be possible without a major rewrite of the v8 engine and the ECMAScript spec itself.
And a big challenge for both of these is that TypeScript is iterating at too fast a pace for something like Chrome to keep up. It's best to just leave versioning and compilation for the developer to manage and give end users a consistent JavaScript experience.
What can you do in more easily in pandas than polars?
For noncoding tasks, Gemini atleast allows for easier grounding with Google Search.
> Sanders and Mamdani are about as far left of center as one can get at the moment
No, they aren’t. They are about as far left of center as you can get and be competitive in US elections, maybe, but that’s a very different thing. There’s a lot to their left (as you an see from the by the opposition from leftist as sellouts to capitalist/imperialist/etc. institutions both have.)
> Racists deserve free speech, and our society is better for it.
To the extent that our society is better for extending free speech to racists it has nothing to do with them deserving anything, but with the costs of empowering any fallible human institution to deny anyone things that that particular group of people do not deserve, and the cost of failing to make that distinction is being susceptible to being convinced that some other group truly does not deserve it and therefore some institution should be empowered to identify members of that group and deny it to them.
You would have someone like Code for America build a minimum viable open source super app that cities could have customized for their needs.
The strategic thinking revolves around "how do we put ads in without everyone getting massively pissed?" sort of questions.
> is better solved by improved education
From the article, this has nothing to do with education. It's:
> The app is mainly designed to help users block and track lost or stolen smartphones across all telecom networks, using a central registry. It also lets them identify, and disconnect, fraudulent mobile connections.
If your phone gets stolen, you can disable it.
I'm not saying that a government app is necessarily the right or best way to go about this, but to suggest that this can be solved with education misses the point entirely. No amount of education is going to prevent someone on a bike swiping my phone from my hand and cycling off with it.
And as long as the app isn't otherwise spying on you (and there's no mention of that), I don't see much of what this has to do with freedom either. The freedom to steal someone's phone and use it without being blocked? There are already a bunch of apps on my phone I can't uninstall, so that's not new.
Wrapping every IO operation into a channel operation is fairly expensive. You can get an idea of how fast it would work now by just doing it, using a goroutine to feed a series of IO operations to some other goroutine.
It wouldn't be quite as bad as the perennial "I thought Go is fast why is it slow when I spawn a full goroutine and multiple channel operations to add two integers together a hundred million times" question, but it would still be a fairly expensive operation. See also the fact that Go had fairly sensible iteration semantics before the recent iteration support was added by doing a range across a channel... as long as you don't mind running a full channel operation and internal context switch for every single thing being iterated, which in fact quite a lot of us do mind.
(To optimize pure Python, one of the tricks is to ensure that you get the maximum value out of all of the relatively expensive individual operations Python does. For example, it's already handling exceptions on every opcode, so you could win in some cases by using exceptions cleverly to skip running some code selectively. Go channels are similar; they're relatively expensive, on the order of dozens of cycles, so you want to make sure you're getting sufficient value for that. You don't have to go super crazy, they're not like a millisecond per operation or something, but you do want to get value for the cost, by either moving non-trivial amount of work through them or by taking strong advantage of their many-to-many coordination capability. IO often involves moving around small byte slices, even perhaps one byte, and that's not good value for the cost. Moving kilobytes at a time through them is generally pretty decent value but not all IO looks like that and you don't want to write that into the IO spec directly.)
> Christians don't drink or use contraceptives?
They're talking about a very particular sort of pseudo-insurance plan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_sharing_ministry
They can and do exclude whole swaths of what normal health insurers have to cover. They don't even have a legal requirement to pay out at all.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/health-care-cost-...
> Beyond restricting maternity coverage, many groups’ policies state that they won’t reimburse for prescriptions, routine doctor’s visits, contraceptives or mental health or substance use services. Coverage for medical conditions that predate someone’s membership is often excluded, as well. And health care sharing ministries aren’t required by law to limit out-of-pocket costs or maintain large cash reserves to cover members’ bills the way insurance companies are.
I'm not so sure that the numbers will bear out what you sketch here. If we assume a drone flight per package and we scale this up to get rid of all of the delivery vehicles the number of people hit by and killed by drones will rise substantially. Drones are immature tech at best and a 5 Kg drone will put you in the morgue on impact with a greater likelihood than an accident with a delivery van. Gravity has no brakes and a drone isn't going to be able to refuse its imperative when the tech inevitably fails. I think you have to watch out not to be so 'anti' one thing that you end up with another that is as bad or even worse. Maybe the solution isn't drones and not delivery vans either.
Cue lots of managers using this title to push the 'back to the office' movement a bit further.
There are so many axis other than 'output', and some of them are a lot more important. For instance 'quality'. And 'employee happiness' and 'employee retention'. The term 'human capital' is such a terrible one to use as an abstraction. Capital is something you expend, once you start looking at people as just another resource to make ROI on you're asking to be treated the same way in reverse.
@Dang: suggested title change: "The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?"
full text:
https://pallais.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum592...
Well, that's a good question but the answer isn't going to be to anybody's liking. Because he's got money. People equate having money with wisdom rather than with intelligence and intelligence is dual use, you can use it for good and you can use it for bad just as easily. It may lead to wisdom but that's fairly rare. Most of the time it just leads to money.
So people will follow those with money (or that they perceive to have money) without much critical thought about where that is going to lead them, they're hoping for wisdom but may end up being misled. That's why all of these ultra wealthy folk turned on a dime when the political weather changed, they don't really have principles, they just want more zeros.
Better stick to LTS distros and even then....
Any sort of atrophy of anything is because you don't need the skill any more. If you need the skill, it won't atrophy. It doesn't matter if it's LLMs or calculators or what, atrophy is always a non-issue, provided the technology won't go away (you don't want to have forgotten how to forage for food if civilization collapses).
You could have a similar console on IE already back then, naturally it only worked on Windows, and MS being MS, the expectation was that either Office Tools or VS would be installed, as it was provided via them in a way similar to Firebug.
There was also the integration with Dreamweaver, Frontpage.
Great news, Stride has been coming along quite nicely during the last years.
Yeah, I can confirm, before LLMs I definitely thought coding would be the last thing to go.
No, obviously it's all just Not Eating Healthy. Calories are irrelevant, because Body Is Magic and Not As Simple AS "calories in, calories out".
Azure runs on top of Windows hypervisors.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...
> I could write a blog of interesting Pod behavior. I thought having one or a pair in each room would be nice. No, more of them is not nice. Constant bizarreness.
Oh my fucking god, thank you. I have one in my kitchen and one in the living room, and every few weeks they decide it would be the bees knees to have a 3AM conversation with one another.
> "VAE: WAN2.2-VAE" so it's just a Wan2.2 edit
No, using the WAN 2.2 VAE does not mean it is a WAN 2.2 edit.
> compressed to 7B.
No, if it was an edit of the WAN model that uses the 2.2 VAE, it would be expanded to 7B, not compressed (the 14B models of WAN 2.2 use the WAN 2.1 VAE, the WAN 2.2 VAE is used by the 5B WAN 2.2 model.)
True, I should have specified that the timing I was providing was the Western tradition; the Orthodox (both Eastern and Oriental, I believe) tradition has a 40-day Nativity Fast (in some, the name is different in others) mirroring the 40-day season of Lent, that is similar (in terms of being a preparatory season for the Feast of the Nativity) to the Western Advent.
I was curious about the BASIC capabilities, so
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/tektronix/405x/070-2142-02_Tek_405...
As someone that is slowly being dragged into agents, and AI powered tooling, I am start to see language wars even more worthless than they used to be.
Manual memory versus GC, JIT, AOT, interpreted, begin/end or curly brackets, unsafe or not, whatever.
We will be slowly moving into some kind specifications for autonomous systems (please not YAML based), up to a point, and language wars will become a moot point, only relevant to the selected few implementing the low level parts of how everything comes together.
My only complaints about Ruby, as someone that never really did much with it, would be a more Smalltalk like dev experience (not sure how RubyMine fares), given its influences, and a proper JIT in the box (which is happening).
This is interesting, but falls just short of explaining what's going on. Why does UDP work for ICMP? What does the final packet look like, and how is ICMP different from UDP? None of that is explained, it's just "do you want ICMP? Just use UDP" and that's it.
It would have been OK if it were posted as a short reference to something common people might wonder about, but I don't know how often people try to reimplement rootless ping.
I was eagerly waiting for the Larry and Curly models.
They're overstated. The median commute time in the USA is about 27 minutes each way. NYC is the highest at 33 min.
I think the $70k downpayment mentioned in the original comment is what changes the math from "impossible" to "25 years or so".
Not really, otherwise you would be getting SteamOS native builds.
It is up to Valve to sort it up, they are the ones that care, otherwise they will need to pay Windows licenses, which is really what this is all about, while pretending to be some kind of white knights.
If these details were harmful, don't you think it would take less than sixty years to discover them?
0 to 60mph in 6.8 seconds.
The 0-60mph time for a 2025 Ford F-150 pickup truck is 5.8 seconds. Today's "performance" cars are in the 2 to 3 second range.
It was a more leisurely time.
Best of luck to you! I spent many hours trying to understand and generate proper Dwarf tables.
Probably the same answer as "how do you brake", you use the pedals to slow down.
Whenever I'm in the office, I get zero work done. It's great for socialising and catching up with colleagues, but abysmal for productivity.
Worse, it shows how badly staffed the companies are, with a management that doesn't care about their staff skills.
From experience, I bet Apple and Microsoft have offshored all their desktop teams.
> Once a contract is deployed on the blockchain, its source code is immutable.
Maybe. Some smart contracts have calls to other contracts that can be changed.[1] This turns out to have significant legal consequences.
[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/smart-contracts-ru...
Varies by country. [1] Europe, even within the Schengen zone, is split on this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...
Yeah but use of the models isn't limited to the company.
It's been all downhill for Mozilla since Brendan Eich was fired.
Sounds great to me actually. I’m glad the states still have the leverage to do this.
I’m surprised folks aren’t already grinding against smart contract security in prod with gen AI and agents. If they are, I suppose they are not being conspicuous by design. Power and GPU time goes in, exploits and crypto comes out.
Real poverty is not in fact "closer to $140,000 than to $31,000" and economics people have been dunking on that claim for a week now on Twitter.
I don't think this is the case.
I have no problem with LLM generated PRs in my repo, I merged one the other day and it was very helpful. What I do have a problem with is two things:
0. Make the PR reviewable. That means small, logically distinct PRs, not one huge PR with a bunch of stuff in it.
1. You are 100% completely responsible for the code. I gave the maintainer some feedback on how to add a few lines of comments, they gave that to the LLM, which changed an unrelated path in a pre-commit hook. That's unacceptable, I don't want to babysit your LLM because you can't be bothered to review its output.
2. If I talk to you, I expect you to talk to me. I asked the author a question with a simple answer, and got four pages of LLM ELI5. If I wanted to read four pages of text, I'd open Anna Karenina.
You might notice that the above requirements don't have anything to do with LLMs. I expect them whether a person wrote the PR or an LLM. It's basic etiquette.
I don't think OSS contributors suddenly went crazy and started being rude, but I do think that LLMs allow people who have never contributed to OSS before to start doing it, before they know the rules of OSS etiquette. I'm not sure that's a net positive, but I hope we'll all learn.
> The more than 400,000 tech workers who have been laid off since 2022 are a clear reflection of wage suppression in the industry,
IMO, they are a clearer reflection of the fact that the industry has lots of jobs that are tied to remote future payoff and dependent on financing outside of operations, and that tighter money policies reduced the flow of investment into the broad industry (outside of the AI segment), cutting a lot of those jobs.
Yes, there are a few. Anthropic released one just last week.
So the 4D chess move in April '25 was importing a boatloads of Gucci, car parts and jamón ibérico [1], undercutting the competition, stiffing CBP and then mailing in a gilded copy of the SCOTUS opinion saying you owe fuckall?
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-biggest-price-hikes-tied-10...
With $85/month service (AT&T unlimited premium with only a single line) and financing a $2,000 phone (The smaller storage version of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 at MSRP) over 18 months, you’d hit almost exactly that; you could so the same with a cheaper service and/or phone with some add-ons (e.g., while Apple Care is billed directly by Apple and so wouldn't be on a phone bill, insurance for non-Apple phones is often billed by carriers on phone bills.)
Its purpose was to get training data for speech recognition. Once Google’s speech recognition was working reliably, there wasn’t much reason to offer the service got free.
Where is this "real AI" you speak of?
> it really feels like Apple focused so much on privacy and now has no strategy of how to make that work with AI right now
I see Apple dusting off its OG playbook.
We're in the minicomputing era of AI. If scaling continues to bear fruit, we'll stay there for some time. Potentially indefinitely. If, however, scaling plateaus, miniaturisation retakes precedence. At that point, Apple's hardware (and Google's mindshare) incumbency gains precedence.
In the meantime, Apple builds devices and writes the OS that commands how the richest consumers on Earth store and transmit their data. That gives them a default seat at every AI table, whether they bother to show up or not.
Literally doesn’t matter to the people making these decisions. It’s unfortunate.
> Because children don’t contribute to GDP
The simplest model of GDP is productivity per capital times population. And the simplest model in finance is moving cash flows around in time.
> wasn't a SINGLE ONE that would tolerate someone declining EVERY MEETING when the culture does not align to the ideals this presentation outlines
Well yes, if the culture doesn't allow it then it's not going to happen. That doesn't mean those cultures don't exist or that they can't be created, even if just in a pocket
> What's the benefit of working remote from your team but next to random, noisy people?
You'll cross-pollinate across functions. Or at least increase the chances of that happening. Not saying that's worth the tradeoff. But my time in the office often finds serendipitious value in random off-team conversations, not scheduled time.
And the employees most likely to quit will be ones with responsibilities that make it difficult to do the commute 5 days a week - kids to pick up from daycare, health issues to manage, a social life in the evenings, travel plans - basically the exact category that a company like Meta would want to replace with a younger, more exploitable bunch.
I wouldn't say that human intelligence is "the pinnacle" but I do think that more intelligence might not turn into the ability to solve harder problems.
For instance the problem with high energy physics is not that people don't have ideas but rather we have limited experimental and observational results that would let us tell one theory from another.
Similarly I don't think more intelligence would help in solving the Collatz conjecture.
59 year olds were born in 1966, so the average homebuyer is from Gen X, not a Boomer.
Potentially helpful citations below:
So you're a manager now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745123 - July 2025 (185 comments)
The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change [Learning Notes] - https://keyvanakbary.github.io/learning-notes/books/the-mana...
What does this app actually do, in detail? Anyone know?
BYD Sold Nearly Three Times As Many Cars As Tesla In Europe - https://www.carscoops.com/2025/11/byd-sold-nearly-3-times-as... - November 26th, 2025
* Chinese automakers now hold 6.8% of total European new car sales.
* BYD’s European sales jumped 206.8% in October compared to 2024.
* Tesla’s sales plunged 48.5% in October to just 6,964 vehicles.
It's still facing the headwind that a lot of people still don't believe that Steam can give you a lean-back experience which is fun like a game console. Some people still think PC games all have sweaty keyboard and mouse control schemes and those crappy huge joysticks from the 1990s that were always falling apart and had to be recalibrated every few minutes -- and that's what is keeping the PS5 alive.
Jury trials are an ancient Germanic tradition without cultural precedent in most countries. Lee Kuan Yew eliminated jury trials in Singapore because he didn’t believe they were viable in a multi-cultural country: https://www.postcolonialweb.org/Singapore/government/leekuan...