What are the most upvoted users of Hacker News commenting on? Powered by the /leaders top 50 and updated every thirty minutes. Made by @jamespotterdev.
Try 5 minutes in blackpill hell and see if you can take it.
I think there is a double standard here. I get several sexual harassing follow attempts a day on Instagram and other platforms from (seemingly) women who probably want me to watch their OnlyFans or something. As a guy I'm supposed to treat this as if it was just spam and not sexual harassment, which it is.
Men are culturally expected to be "ready all the time" and not have actual sexual autonomy either.
I think men have a particular seductive attraction to having some slave working for them 24-7 and women are too smart for that...
https://www.thepersistent.com/why-women-dont-trust-ai/
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/10/ai-gender-trust-...
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/women-are-avoi...
I know it's against the rules but I thought this transcript in Google Search was a hoot:
so i heard there is some question about a car wash that most ai agents
get wrong. do you know anything about that? do you do better?
Yes, I am familiar with the "Car Wash Test," which has gone viral recently
for highlighting a significant gap in AI reasoning.
The question is: "I want to wash my car and the car wash is 50 meters away. Should I
walk or drive?"
Why Most AIs Get It Wrong
Many AI models, particularly those optimized for fast, helpful, and concise answers,
focus on the "short distance" (50 meters) and "walking vs. driving" as a lifestyle/efficiency
question. They often recommend walking to save gas, avoid engine wear, or get exercise.
However, this answer is wrong because it misses the core objective: you need the car to be
physically present at the car wash to get it cleaned.
Do I Do Better?
Yes, I do. The key is understanding the objective (cleaning the car) rather than just
processing the keywords (distance/transportation).
My answer:
You should drive the car there. Even though it is a very short distance, your car
cannot wash itself. If you walk, the car stays in your driveway, and you cannot wash it.
Why This Matters
The test highlights a key limitation in current AI: the difference between "pattern matching"
(predicting the next likely word based on training data) and "true, grounded reasoning". It
shows that models sometimes lack a "world model" that understands physical realities, such as
the fact that a car must be present at a car wash.Medical, banking and insurance are three industries that the European data privacy watchdogs are much more strict about because of the potential for damage.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/anthropic-accuses-chinese-...
In the 1980s, a friend got his start by buying packaged software in bulk from the US and reselling it in Europe. The retail price differences were large enough he made bank on it.
It's called arbitrage.
Eventually, other people figured it out and the prices leveled out.
Arbitrage opportunities crop up all the time.
IBM down 11% following this blog post: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/IBM:NYSE
Isn't this like the #1 use case for crypto?
Everyone wants an untrackable unblockable currency that is out of government control until the day it is used for things they don't like, then suddenly "government please control this!"
The modern Techno Viking:
Indeed, Victor Ciura from Microsoft DevDiv has several talks on how this is currently an adoption problem at Microsoft.
They have been working around it with DLLs, and COM/WinRT, but still the tooling isn't ideal.
It's nice that they have what they claim is a solid state battery. But having a small prototype isn't that big a deal at this point. All the major players have prototype solid state batteries that work. Nobody has volume production yet, and volume production seems to be hard and expensive, according to CATL and Samsung.
Mercedes has a test car with a solid state battery.[1] The battery is from Factorial Energy. There's only one such car, and they don't say how much it cost to make the prototype battery.
Ducati has a test motorcycle with a solid state battery.[2] The battery is from QuantumScape. There's only one such motorcycle.
Here's Fraunhofer IKTS making a solid state battery at lab scale.[3] The whole process is shown. Huge amount of effort to make one coin cell.
Samsung prototype.[4] Samsung has been talking about shipping tiny solid state batteries for wearables in 2026. Still too expensive for cell phones, which gives a sense of cost.
All the serious players can make a prototype by now. But the chemistry that's used for the prototypes may not be suitable for production. They have to balance capacity, weight, charge time, cycle life, manufacturing cost, and materials cost. (Samsung made a battery with a substantial silver content. It works, but that's not going to be a volume product)
These problems will be overcome, because throwing money at them works. The history of the tungsten-filament light bulb is worth reviewing. Making fine tungsten wire is very difficult. From 1913 to 2010, a huge plant in Euclid, Ohio, made most of the tungsten wire for light bulbs. There were a lot of process steps.[5]
[1] https://electrek.co/2025/02/24/mercedes-tests-first-solid-st...
[2] https://www.ducati.com/ww/en/news/ducati-s-electric-research...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SVrp8N-1M
It's crazy for their official account to post this when Anthropic itself is fighting multiple high-profile lawsuits over its unauthorized use of proprietary content to train its models. Did no one run this by legal?
Additional citation:
Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126844 - February 2026
https://sanlab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/20...
From the article: "Teens who reported using cannabis had twice the risk of developing two serious mental illnesses: bipolar, which manifests as alternating episodes of depression and mania, and psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia which involve a break with reality."
That 2X factor is big. If it was something like 10% - 20%, it might be noise or some other factor, but that big a number is real.
Original title "When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude" compressed to fit within title limits.
Paper: https://sanlab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/20... [pdf] | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1165604
> I know this is weird, but I'm in some ways not really sure who is on the side of freedom here.
That’s because “freedom” is complicated and doesn’t precisely map to the interests of any of the major actors. Its largely a war between parties seeking control for different elites for different purposes.
Yeah, the good examples are usually in dictionaries as headwords, the moderate examples are usually in dictionaries as phrases within the entry for one (or more) of the words that comprise them, leaving fairly weak examples actually “missing” if you want to use “missing words with spaces” as the basis for content.
A raise is random noise, not signal, based a confidence game within the VC ecosystem. LP capital call->GP gamble based on waves arms around considering VC underperforms as an asset [1] [2] class even when accounting for the grand slam returns. It's 0DTE options gambling dressed up as skill and an art. But, you know [3] [4] [5], lottery still pays out sometimes.
TLDR A raise is not robust signal in this regard.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260137
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peterjameswalker_most-venture...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...
This is the first "chapter" in a not-quite-book I've started working on - I have an introductory post about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-engineering-pa...
The second chapter is more of a classic pattern, it describes how saying "Use red/green TDD" is a shortcut for kicking the coding agent into test-first development mode which tends to get really good results: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...
>but medium and long term we need to figure out how to build systems in a way that it can keep up with this increased influx of code.
Why? Why do we need to "write code so much faster and quicker" to the point we saturate systems downstream? I understand that we can, but just because we can, does'nt mean we should.
> At what point do you decide to go full El Salvador / Bukele on violent cartel members who are willing to put cities on fire when they cannot human and drug traffic at will?
The point for doing that was some time ago. It's like Islamists. They're so sophisticated that it makes more sense for governments to treat them like foreign military threats than domestic police issues. Don't listen to the "human rights" people in developed countries that became safe and stable by doing these exact same tactics hundreds of years ago.
In Bangladesh in 2016, there was a terrorist attack in a cafe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack. The government then went full Bukele on the Islamists. There hasn't been a significant terrorist attack in the country since then.
Paypal is somewhat irrelevant in a world of instant payments with alias support (email, phone numbers) unfortunately, excepting international payments (until that financial plumbing catches up).
Cloudflare and Big Tech are primary contributors to the impairment and decline of the Internet commons for moats, control, and profit; you are upset at the wrong parties.
The language people use is funny. When companies offshore skilled factory jobs to foreign countries, they call that "offshoring." But when it comes to programmers, they call it "going where the talent is." They act like programmers are in a different class than machinists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer
> According to legend, one day while building magnetrons, Spencer was standing in front of an active radar set when he noticed the candy bar he had in his pocket melted. Spencer was not the first to notice this phenomenon, but he was the first to investigate it. He decided to experiment using food, including popcorn kernels, which became the world's first microwaved popcorn. In another experiment, an egg was placed in a tea kettle, and the magnetron was placed directly above it. The result was the egg exploding in the face of one of his co-workers, who was looking in the kettle to observe. Spencer then created the first true microwave oven by attaching a high-density electromagnetic field generator to an enclosed metal box. The magnetron emitted microwaves into the metal box blocking any escape and allowing for controlled and safe experimentation. He then placed various food items in the box, while observing the effects and monitoring temperatures. There are no credible primary sources that verify this story.
My naive thought is to NOT have these platforms, not to build an alternative.
We really need a ban on leveraged buyouts where the leverage becomes the responsibility of the purchased entity. You shouldn't be able to borrow money to buy a company, then transfer the debt used to buy the company on to the company itself. Any theoretical arguments about why this is OK or a good idea should fall silent against the repeated observations of what happens in practice and the observable incentive structure created.
That depends on what your goal is. If it's to change the world, it's self-defeating. If it's to build a product, it's common sense.
Well, it was hallucinations any way so in this particular case it hardly matters. But I can see how the Pope has identified AI as a competing religion.
That doesn’t make sense either. How is it a burden to pay the market price for something?
>Sure, but they're going to be stuck writing software for yesterday's problems
As long as they get paid for it (or have fun, if it's a personal project), they couldn't care less about that. Tomorrow's problems are overrated.
What if the dead internet is where the profits are?
https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-rele... "Pinterest Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results, Delivers First Billion Dollar Revenue Quarter"
(presumably the money is from advertisers, and the 5200 people are on the phone to advertisers persuading them to increase spend)
We go back to the demoscene days, being creative with what we have instead of shipping Electron junk.
If they're Protestant, that might be a point in its favor :)
> except for the temperature, which I assume is more or less the same as yesterday
I guess you live somewhere very, very different from me.
And I guess I just don't enjoy the surprise of shivering cold, or soaking sweat, when I choose the wrong jacket.
I just wonder when somebody is going to have an opinion on this subject they take seriously enough to write a blog post themselves.
Yeah that's the top contender at the moment. I think it's pretty good.
They had no reason to stop this until it became publicly embarrassing for them.
Can you expound on that? I'm not sure I get what you're implying.
What people mostly see is the illusion of productivity. But the measure should be outcomes, not the amount of stuff made. If a factory produces 10x the product but it is only 1/3rd the quality of what it was before that is long term unsustainable and leaves the door open for a competitor to attack them on quality.
This is the key driver behind all those 'enshittification' problems that we see. Quantity over quality is almost always a balance and not a binary, if you start treating it as if one should always trump at the expense of the other then sooner or later it will catch up with you.
There is another factor at play here: EU hosting providers that are not owned lock, stock & barrel are few and far between and Hetzner has a very nice sales representative in the White House.
Meta is notorious for wishing executives had deleted their Inbox.
All the best to them, however this feels like yah shaving instead of focusing into delivering a browser than can become an alternative to Safari/Chrome duopoly.
To win benchmark games it does, in a world where people keep shipping Electron crap, not really.
And now is subject to the whims of Microsoft, wherever Windows, DirectX, Visual Studio go, Valve must follow.
Additionally, everyone is betting on Valve as if Steam would be around forever serving Linux gaming with Proton, except no one lives forever, and who knows what will happen to Valve, when current management passes the torch.
> then these two teams are essentially in a race against each other and the port will likely never catch up
Ladybird appears to have the discipline to have recognized this: “[Rust] is not becoming the main focus of the project. We will continue developing the engine in C++, and porting subsystems to Rust will be a sidetrack that runs for a long time.”
> Don’t underestimate the reach of billionaires with an ideological agenda.
Or the audience's need to have their wrong opinions validated.
My rice cooker has solved this: it plays a pleasant little tune, once, at almost inaudible volume, and then shuts up while keeping the rice warm.
Bit of googling suggests this is a whole, fascinating world of little improvements. However it's also both constrained and pushed forward by what's road legal.
https://www.volvotrucks.co.uk/en-gb/news/insights/articles/2... : removing mirrors allows for much smoother cab airflow
https://go2stream.com/blog/aerodynamic-truck-legislation-rea... : UK legalization of fishtail-like devices
https://www.kudauk.ltd.uk/aerodynamics-explained : Kuda on the UK allowing higher loads, and therefore benefiting from extra wedge devices on the top of the cab.
I'm sure there's a lot more out there. The eventual switch to electric will probably come with another round of aerodynamic improvements to maximise range, as with cars.
This is a valid observation. Capital breeds more capital and just like water seeks the lowest point capital will seek to enable those who are willing to bend or even break the rules. This is embodied in YC's application questionnaire in interesting ways, it is effectively capital testing for exactly those properties. I think 'ethical' should be made explicit in your list, and not lumped in with 'other'. Because that is one of the more important ones and it usually is also the first to be thrown out.
Both in the case of drugs and short form vertical video.
There's a lot of stuff which may loosely be termed "vices", e.g. alcohol and gambling, which have the property:
- many people never touch
- many people indulge without significant harm, getting enjoyment from the process
- some people over indulge messily
- a few people get their lives completely ruined, or ruin the lives of those around them
Then there's an uncomfortable, unreconcilable tension between the desire to punish/prevent the last group by banning the thing, versus the second group entirely reasonably saying that it's not a problem for them.
But users are not mindless drones. Even the least computer-savvy is aware that they're being asked to make a choice and is probably unpleasantly reminded of the dark patterns in user agreements etc., so they'll feel like they're being guided down a sales funnel immediately after installing the app/signing up on web.
What percentage bounce at that stage? It's probably large. I did so, and although I later relented and created a Mastodon account I've felt emotionally biased against it ever since and barely use it. When I have used it I don't experience any tangible benefit to overcome my reflexive dislike. The network effects aren't anything great, the timeline/feed mechanism and presentation are not fundamentally different from other social media offerings, the QoL improvements are marginal. If I cared about architecture and ideology above all else it would be great, but what I actually care about is being able to get news faster than any other source and being able to find more people there than anywhere else. I can only think of 1 or 2 people who I check in on periodically via Mastodon because there's no other place to find them.
> I feel like a lot of this would go away if they made a different API for the “only for use with our client” subscriptions.
They literally did exactly that. That's what being cut off (Antigravity access, i.e. private "only for use with our client" subscription - not the whole account, btw.) for people who do "reverse engineer to use it in other tools".
Nothing here is new or surprising, the problem has been the same since Anthropic released Claude Code and the Max subscriptions - first thing people did then was trying to auth regular use with Claude Code tokens, so they don't have to pay the API prices they were supposed to.
This is great. Gives a strong sense of the stress level of carrier operations.
It seems to be cut and pasted from somewhere else. Large blocks of text are duplicated. See [1] for one of five examples. Is there some place to read the original?
[1] https://thelexicans.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/part-x-a-blown-...
> Fox News has been the #1 rated cable news network for over two decades.
Yeah, but cable news only displaced local and broadcast TV news as the main news source after 9/11, and already by 2010 had itself been displaced by online media. There was only a very brief moment in history where "the #1 rated cable news network" was really an indicator of being a mainstream news source.
This compiles to native binaries, as opposed to deno which is also in rust but is more an interpreter for sandboxed environments?
> Offering goods or services below the cost of their production is often illegal, though. It's called "dumping"
No.
Dumping is an international-trade term. It doesn’t even require pricing below cost, just aiming “to increase market share in a foreign market by driving out competition and thereby create a monopoly situation where the exporter will be able to unilaterally dictate price and quality of the product” [1].
Loss leaders are common in commerce and entirely legal, as are free trials. I struggle to think of a competent jurisdiction that bans them.
Restaurants are doing more of this than most people think.
Here's an article from the head chef from a commercial microwave oven company, on how to get more done faster.[1] Commercial microwave ovens have about 2KW-3KW of power, and some of them have true variable power, not the on/off thing most home microwave ovens use. "I’ve shown teams how to make mug cakes, molten chocolate brownies, and steamed puddings with just a microwave. The reactions are always the same: "I had no idea a microwave could do that.”"
[1] https://totalfood.com/revolutionizing-microwave-cooking-comm...
My problem with smart thermostats is the user interface couldn't be more awful. It's just nuts. You cannot do anything without the squinty manual in one hand and the squinty touchscreen in the other. So, you finally get it programmed. Then you want to change something, and boom, start all over.
I gave up.
I use a simple dial the temperature, turn on/off thermostat. I turn it off when going to bed, turn it on in the morning. Very happy.
Any ATProto based replacements available?
Internet Archive has 2025-2026 in their possession, should make it into OpenLibrary eventually once scanned.
Why I built it: I wanted a safe, ad-free environment where my kids could see themselves as the heroes of their own adventures.
This is what play is for. I don't think trying to maximize engagement by training them to see themselves at the center of events is a recipe for healthy mental development. If you're not finding that standard bedtime stories are sufficiently engaging...try different ones? It's not like there's a shortage of children's books, maybe your kids are in the mood for more advanced reading material.
one of the key benefits of reading non-personalized stories is developing an ability to appreciate and mentally model things that are happening to other people, albeit fictional ones. The reader not being in control of the story (and indeed feeling powerless to change the outcome) means they're forced to engage with the possibility of things not turning out as desired.
If you want to help them capture their unique imagination, buy them a tape recorder. Writing and drawing their own books at that age is a tall order because it's such a time-consuming process, but chattering isn't a problem, and they'll probably figure out how to iterate on things by themselves.
Oh dear. I'm afraid I'm not going to the take the requisite dozens of hours to be sure by learning this keyboard and making a truly "fair" comparison, but I'd bet I'm faster swiping with the current keyboard than I would be on this one. Swiping is why I can use words like "comparison" or "requisite" on a phone without giving it much thought anymore. I'm still faster on a real keyboard, especially as I rarely get those "tried to write 'hello', got 'grump'" sorts of errors with a keyboard, but it's a lot closer than it was when mobile devices first came out out and Palm's Graffiti input was considered a major breakthrough. (Laughable by modern standards.)
Musk is a habitual liar and fraud, so more lying and fraud is not unexpected, regardless of feelings about Electrek.
Pretty simple solution: all tech out of schools, back to paper.
There is value in being able to automate things, but there is far more value in being able to first to learn how to do stuff yourself.
> It's not unfair its how every business works.
Not. On both counts.
I find Stillwell's writings to be exceptionally clear and accessible, and I recommend them.
It will be interesting to see if Tao's writings are as clear, though possibly he is targetting a different audience.
I don't know why people here can't accept the simple fact that AI companies are offering cheap "unlimited" plans as a loss leader to tie you to their ecosystem, and then make up for it via add-ons, upsells, ads etc. If you use those API tokens to access external services it defeats the purpose. The hack may have worked so far, mainly because no one was checking, but they are all going to tighten the access eventually (as Anthropic and Google have already done).
Either stick to first party products or pay for API use.
https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt is a conversation between Knuth and Wolfram about GPT-4.
> I find it fascinating that novelists galore have written for decades about scenarios that might occur after a "singularity" in which superintelligent machines exist. But as far as I know, not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost.
> I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.
The claim that this has happened in the past is obviously well-supported. The claim that it's broad practice or representative in any general way of policing is more or less completely unfounded.
In fact, general cognitive tests of any sort aren't common recruiting practice. States have standardized reading comprehension and writing tests, like CA PELLET-B, but there's no high-end cutoff score for them, and there's also no direct analog between them and IQ.
“Felony Contempt of Business Model” on the part of AirData.
I don't understand why people keep giving Grokipedia this kind of oxygen. It's an utterly unserious project. Wikipedia, on the other hand, stands among the most important achievements in human knowledge of the last 100 years. It's like comparing a pillow fort to the Great Wall.
Unfortunately yes. It's just another stupid marketing buzzword these days.
For my version of the AI assistant, I used a Docker container and Unix permissions:
https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot
All plugins run in one Docker container, but they're isolated from each other by different *nix users, so they can't read each other's files. That's much more lightweight, and you don't have to run one container per plugin.
Crucially, plugins can't read each other's secrets or modify each other's code. I even have a plugin configuration webpage that doesn't go through an LLM, so the LLM never sees your secrets if you don't want to.
“To simplify greatly, the strategy of non-violence aims first to cause disruption (non-violently) in order both to draw attention but also in order to bait state overreaction. The state’s overreaction then becomes the ‘spectacular attack’ which broadcasts the movement’s message, while the group’s willingness to endure that overreaction without violence not only avoids alienating supporters, it heightens the contrast between the unjust state and the just movement.
That reaction maintains support for the movement, but at the same time disruption does not stop: the movements growing popularity enable new recruits to replace those arrested (just as with insurgent recruitment) rendering the state incapable of restoring order. The state’s supporters may grow to sympathize with the movement, but at the very least they grow impatient with the disruption, which as you will recall refuses to stop.
As support for state repression of the movement declines (because repression is not stopping the disruption) and the movement itself proves impossible to extinguish (because repression is recruiting for it), the only viable solution becomes giving the movement its demands.”
https://acoup.blog/2026/02/13/collections-against-the-state-...
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/RPI/raspberry-pi-h...
Take a look at the jump in the Radpberry Pi stock price this week. They haven't released anything new so it's quite likely this is the OpenClaw effect.
My seven year old boy likes to spin in circles. I think he likes the stimulation from the inner ear fluid sloshing around. Dancing in a club seems similar.
> Treating DoS as affecting availability converts the issue into a "do I want to spend $X from a shakedown, or $Y to avoid being shaken down in the first place?"
But that is what security is in the real world anyway. Once you move past the imaginary realms of crypto and secure coding that some engineers daydream in, the ultimate reality is always about "do I want to spend $X dealing with consequences of ${specific kind of atack}, or $Y on trying to prevent it" - and the answer is to consider how much $X is likely to be, and how much it'll be reduced by spending $Y, and only spending while the $Y < reduction in $X.
It also doesn't help that "robust security" often is the problem in the first place.
People forget to ask the most important question: security for whom, and from what.
I was trying to formulate my argument to disagree with the "cost center" thinking in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107553, until I saw this comment. Now I feel that 'alephnerd might be right after all.
> (...) ops (...) a bunch of scripts to manage deployments.
Devops is prime example of work to be minimized and ultimately eliminated entirely by automation. Yes, it's a complex domain rich in challenges and there's both art and skill to do it right, but at the same time, it's also not the thing we want, just the thing we have to do to get the thing we want, because we can't yet do better.
USB-C can do up to 240W. These days I power all my devices with a USB hub, even my Lipo charger.
> they are going to try to say that a “balance of payments” problem is a “payments problem”
"The balance of payments consists of two primary components: the current account and the...financial account" [1]. The current account is the trade deficit or surplus in goods and services. The financial account (a/k/a the capital account) tracks movement of money.
If you have a free-floating currency, your balance of payments is always zero. This is the principle advantage of a free-floating currency: your exchange rate adjusts to finance trade deficits and invest surpluses [2]. America does not have a balance of payments problem because America doesn't fix the price of a dollar.
The best the U.S. could argue for § 122 jurisdiction is that a trade deficit constittues a fundamental international payments problem. That is, of course, nonsense from an economics perspective. But I don't know how these terms have been used in U.S. trade law. (My strongest argument against the author's argument woudld be that the Congress passing statute that "no longer applied by the time the Trade Act was introduced" merits deeper scrutiny of Congressional intent.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_payments
[2] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/meltzer/fribal67.pd...
Somebody should measure keyboard/mouse lag for various web site/browser/operating system combinations. That would be useful. There's probably a startup in doing that as a metric.
This would be easier to do now that LLMs can learn to navigate web sites. Less custom code.
Also useful - measure it for point of sale systems.
Is there a good book on “the three pillars of modern Iranian philosophy” that could serve as an overview to someone unfamiliar?
The value add here is in highlighting and encouraging a new piece of terminology in the AI space which I think is genuinely useful.
I think it's a good idea to define a name for the category of personal digital assistant agents that fit the general shape pioneered by OpenClaw. And "Claw" fits the bill.
> it would be utterly foolish to exclude the vast amounts of data collected by government agencies
Never suggested this. You use the government data. And you supplement with specialist sources. If you’re near any avalanche areas, for example, your snow forecasts typically have an additional layer of resolution available if you know where to look.
It’s building pyramids all over again.
No, the whole point of these systems is that you can trust them even if their servers are compromised. If you exclude that possibility from your threat model, you might as well not bother encrypting at all; just send your passwords to the server in an HTTPS POST.
We've had a few dud booms in the last fifteen years. 3D TV. VR. Metaverse. Electric cars in the US. They all worked technically, but just didn't catch on.
I've been developing one of these in the past few days, and this is like saying "this is a great example of how silly the whole thing is, there's next to nothing to cars" because you saw a piece of plywood with four gaskets nailed to it.
If you want a personal assistant to work well, there's a whole lot to it.
And you don’t think short term profit chasing has a death count?
It's the attention mechanism at work, along with a fair bit of Internet one-up-manship. The LLM has ingested all of the text on the Internet, as well as Github code repositories, pull requests, StackOverflow posts, code reviews, mailing lists, etc. In a number of those content sources, there will be people saying "Actually, if you go into the details of..." or "If you look at the intricacies of the problem" or "If you understood the problem deeply" followed by a very deep, expert-level explication of exactly what you should've done differently. You want the model to use the code in the correction, not the one in the original StackOverflow question.
Same reason that "Pretend you are an MIT professor" or "You are a leading Python expert" or similar works in prompts. It tells the model to pay attention to the part of the corpus that has those terms, weighting them more highly than all the other programming samples that it's run across.
I have not vandalized any Ring cameras, but I have paid to replace those installed by friends and family and have those replaced shredded as part of an electronics recycling waste stream. "Think globally, act locally" sort of thing.