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I think there are easy ways around this, if counterparty nation states will not share your citizenship details with the US government and you don't transit the US on a non US passport.
This would make an incredible network for malware to "live off the land" from a polymorphic evolutionary perspective.
> A spokesperson for the mayor, Dora Pekec, confirmed in a text message that the new administration plans to take down the chatbot. She said a member of the Mamdani transition team had seen reporting on the bot from The Markup and THE CITY and presented it to the mayor as a possible place to save funds.
Journalism works.
Secrecy in real estate negotiations is common enough that it's an exemption in many state FOIA laws.
Even if the capability of each platform was exactly the same, Microsoft cloud users skew heavily towards governments, large non-tech corporations and really anyone who you sell to using large sales teams, fancy dinners and kickbacks rather than quality of software. And the end result follows.
I'd have two phones (and two laptops). One for work only, the other for everything else.
WI Realtors Association and other groups are suing the city to stop an upcoming vote
Everyone likes to complain about politicians, with good reason) but we don't talk enough about the people who are trying to buy them as a means to cut out the voters.
Isn't the scrum master supposed to be a rotating role from somebody on the team?
I had an Epson Ecotank ET-3000 series and was disappointed to find that the prints faded noticeably in just three month! I did a lot of research on ink permanence and got an ET-8550 and prints I made four years on that look pretty good.
Third party ink is trash though and there is no accountability. All the time I see on forums that somebody tried to make a borderless print and got an inksplosion and the common denominator is third party ink.
It seems intentionally cartoonishly irregular.
Seriously, this is not a thing. It doesn't even begin to make sense. It's made up.
If you work in a factory with time cards that need to be punched in, and you punch in a buddy's who is late, that's a thing -- a very risky thing if you get caught, since it's fraud.
But the idea that you'll give a coworker your password so they can boot up and log in and somehow make it look like you're online...? Not a thing. And doesn't even make sense today when you can just open your chat client on your phone anyways and be present there. We've been in an era of remote work for a long time now.
“They’re spending $35 million now, to promote it”
No points for guessing which social media company got the bulk of that ad spend.
If it's just the SSID it's pretty useless for making sure people are at work. I can totally connect to "Office_CA-SJC-03" from home, or any other SSID you care to name.
Could it be that Tailwind is just "done"? If they churn it the way that other web frameworks churn, like react-router, they would be subtracting more value than they add.
Conventional web search: I use Google's AI Mode almost exclusively when I use Google.
Refactoring tools in my IDE: In some cases where I could use the refactoring tools in my IDE I will ask the assistant to do something for me instead, of course it will also make changes that the refactoring tools won't do such as tear apart a complicated if-then-else ladder.
Photo retouching: there are plenty of photo retouching jobs that can be done easily with AI or with the tools built into Photoshop, which one is better depends on the situation. I really wish I had an AI tool to make masks ("cut out the person") that I could then use with the other tools or with AI generation.
This project looks very cool - I've been trying to build something similar in a few different ways (https://github.com/simonw/denobox is my most recent attempt) but this is way ahead of where I've got, especially given its support for shell scripting.
I'm sad about this bit though:
> Python code is MIT. The WASM binary is proprietary—you can use it with this package but can't extract or redistribute it separately.
Until there is a law, there is nothing to stop them. So you need the law. First person to reach out to would be Ron Wyden, he has been a reliable advocate in this space.
Rough estimate on the cost delta for the camera upgrades?
I suggest reading up on the Normalization of Deviance: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/the-normalization-...
The more people get away with unsafe behavior without facing the consequences the more they think it's not a big deal... which works out fine, until your O-rings fail and your shuttle explodes.
Lithium primaries are great. I use them in my weather station. 2AAs have lasted at least 4 years, and still work well when it's 0F out.
I don't know any city with amazing public transport, except for the lucky ones that can afford to live directly into the city center.
Great experience, thanks for sharing, a great way to get them motivated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.
The data on this matter of lies, fraud, and bad faith is robust.
It's a problem that government organizations are incapable of defending their interests never mind understanding that they even have an interest.
A classic example is the local bus company which runs ads for a car dealer on the outside of buses. It's the kind of sight that instantly creates a feeling that "the lights are on and nobody is home" and drives populism -- you see that and the one thing you can do is "go on strike" and try to pay as little in taxes as possible.
They make all kinds of excuses but the basic asymmetry is this: the car dealer is capable of acting on its own interests and will never show an ad for the bus company. The same is true with those EdTech companies, they can get their voice heard, but the school district, the teachers, the students, the parents, not at all. It is all an unaccountability machine.
"Roguelites have proliferated"
I know it's easy to feel that this is people chasing trends, but I've really come to appreciate roguelites over many of the PS2 era games because they give me real progression in a single play session, but also, that single play session is discardable.
As an adult this is a very compelling proposition.
In the PS2 era, while you can find some early roguelite-like-things, you tended to have either the games that have no interesting progression (arcade-like) and the you would just play the game, or you had very long scale games like JRPGs that slowly trickle out the progression but are also multi-dozen-hour games. Compressing the progression into something that happens in a small number of hours, yet eliminates the "I'm 50 hours into this game that I stopped 2 years ago, do I want to pick it back up if I've forgotten everything?" has been very useful to me.
This has been a fairly significant change in gaming for me. I still have some investment into the higher end JRPGs but the "roguelite" pattern across all sorts of genres has been wonderful overall. I don't even think of it as a genre anymore; it's a design tool, like 'turn based versus real time'.
I'm not sure you're actually in disagreement with the author of this piece at all.
They didn't say that software engineering is over - they said:
> Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over.
You argue that writing code is 10-20% of the craft. That's the point they are making too! They're framing the rest of it as the "talking", which is now even more important than it was before thanks to the writing-the-code bit being so much cheaper.
If AIs were to plateau where they are for an extended period of time, I definitely worry about their net effect on software quality.
One of the things I worry about is people not even learning what they can ask the computer to do properly because they don't understand the underlying system well enough.
One of my little pet peeves, especially since I do a lot of work in the networking space, is code that works with strings instead of streams. For example, it is not that difficult (with proper languages and libraries) to write an HTTP POST handler that will accept a multi-gigabyte file and upload it to an S3 bucket, perhaps gzip'ing it along the way, such that any size file can be uploaded without reference to the RAM on the machine, by streaming it rather than loading the entire file into a string on upload, then uploading that file to S3, requiring massive amounts of RAM in the middle. There's still a lot of people and code out in the world that works that way. AIs are learning from all that code. The mass of not-very-well-written code can overwhelm the good stuff.
And that's just one example. A whole bunch of stuff that proliferates across a code base like that and you get yet another layer of sloppiness that chews through hardware and negates yet another few generations of hardware advances.
Another thing is that, at the moment, code that is good for an AI is also good for a human. They may not quite be 100% the same but right now they're still largely in sync. (And if we are wise, we will work to keep it that way, which is another conversation, and we probably won't because we aren't going to be this wise at scale, which is yet another conversation.) I do a lot of little things like use little types to maintain invariants in my code [1]. This is good for humans, and good for AIs. The advantages of strong typing still work for AIs as well. Yet none of the AIs I've used seem to use this technique, even with a code base in context that uses this techique extensively, nor are they very good at it, at least in my experience. They almost never spontaneously realize they need a new type, and whenever they go to refactor one of these things they utterly annihilate all the utility of the type in the process, completely blind to the concept of invariants. Not only do they tend to code in typeless goo, they'll even turn well-typed code back into goo if you let them. And the AIs are not so amazing that they overcome the problems even so.
(The way these vibe coded code bases tend to become typeless formless goo as you scale your vibe coding up is one of the reasons why vibe coding doesn't scale up as well as it initially seems to. It's good goo, it's neat goo, it is no sarcasm really amazing that it can spew this goo at several lines per second, but it's still goo and if you need something stronger than goo you have problems. There are times when this is perfect; I'm just about to go spray some goo myself for doing some benchmarking where I just need some data generated. But not everything can be solved that way.)
And who is going to learn to shepherd them through writing better code, if nobody understands these principles anymore?
I started this post with an "if" statement, which wraps the whole rest of the body. Maybe AIs will advance to the point where they're really good at this, maybe better than humans, and it'll be OK that humans lose understanding of this. However, we remain a ways away from this. And even if we get there, it may yet be more years away than we'd like; 10, 15 years of accreting this sort of goo in our code bases and when the AIs that actually can clean this up get here they may have quite a hard time with what their predecessors left behind.
[1]: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_types_as_assertion...
Carrying PC to LAN parties at friend's places? :)
Posting this here as a reminder that you can build a successful software company and use that to fund a cutting-edge experimental art and performance space under the cover of "it's a research lab".
The Voxel doesn't even take a cut of ticket sales - it's completely free for the accepted artists to use: https://voxel.org/artist-residencies/
Tech specs here: https://voxel.org/technical-information/manual/
There is nothing to save as long as it relies on game studios using Windows workstations, coding in Visual Studio and targeting DirectX.
The goal has to be to make native Linux attractive, so that they actually bother to create native executables, using Vulkan and co.
Until then it is no different from playing arcade games with MAME on Linux.
> I'm not sure I understand the point of OpenClaw -- in the sense that its benefits are not immediately obvious, while its dangers are making big red flashes and fire sirens.
I only skimmed the OpenClaw post, but unless I completely misunderstood the README in their GitHub repo, to me the benefits are stupidly obvious, and I was actually planning to look at it closer over the weekend.
The value proposition I saw is: hooking up one or more LLMs via API (BYOK) to one or more popular chat apps, via self-hostable control plane. Plus some bells and whistles.
The part about chat integration is something that I wanted to have even before LLMs were a thing, because I hate modern communication apps with burning fashion. All popular IM apps in particular[0] are just user-hostile prisons whose vendors go out of their way to make interoperability and end-user automation impossible. There's too much of that, and for a decade or more I dreamed of centralizing all these independent networks for myself in a single app. I considered working on the problem a few times, but the barriers vendors put up were always too much for my patience.
So here I thought, maybe someone solved this problem. That alone would be valuable.
Having an LLM, especially BYOK, in your main IM app? That's a no-brainer to me too; I think it's a travesty this is not a default feature already. Especially these days, as a parent, I find a good chunk of my IM use involves manually copy-pasting messages and photos to some LLM to turn them into reminders and calendar invites. And that's one of many use cases I have for tight IM/LLM integration.
So here I thought maybe this project will be a quick and easy way to finally get a sane, end-user-programmable chat experience. Shame to see it might be vaporware and/or a scam.
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[0] - Excepting Telegram, which has a host of other problems - but I'd be fine living with them; unfortunately, everyone I need to communicate with uses either WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger these days.
They capture around 15% of global ad spending.
$200bn annual revenue with a 5x sales multiple gets you to a trillion dollars.
Do you cook the oats beforehand?
How many times do you believe immigration agents showed up door to door with riot gear and rifles back then? When it was caught on camera during the Clinton administration it was one of the most polarizing images of his presidency
I agree, but what do you do when people are steeped in misinformation about water use and 5G signals?
Like setjmp()/longjmp() and signal(), very explicit. /s
Sure, but we have high growth on top of that - meaning all those "perpetual intermediaries" are always the minority and gravitate upwards in the org chain, while ~all the coding work is done by people who just started working in the field, and didn't even learn enough yet to become mediocre.
You only speak for yourself. Even so, it is quite telling.
"There are no shortcuts to expertise".
What a fantastic post this.
> One crash in 500,000 miles would merely put them on par with a human driver.
> One crash every 50,000 miles would be more like having my sister behind the wheel.
I'm not sure if that leads to the conclusion that you want it to.
And what the goal of that maneuver was.
Too late to edit: strong => strings. sorry!
Sure! But if I experience it, and then write about my experience, parts of it become available for LLMs to learn from. Beyond that, even the tacit aspects of that experience, the things that can't be put down in writing, will still leave an imprint on anything I do and write from that point on. Those patterns may be more or less subtle, but they are there, and could be picked up at scale.
I believe LLM training is happening at a scale great enough for models to start picking up on those patterns. Whether or not this can ever be equivalent to living through the experience personally, or at least asymptomatically approach it, I don't know. At the limit, this is basically asking about the nature of qualia. What I do believe is that continued development of LLMs and similar general-purpose AI systems will shed a lot of light on this topic, and eventually help answer many of the long-standing questions about the nature of conscious experience.
It's part of it.
Nepotism entangles organizational interests with personal interests, in both good and bad ways. It means that someone may hire a friend or family member because they know they're a) competent enough for the job, and b) they actually, personally know them, which significantly reduces a risk of the hire turning out bad, relative to a stranger with equal or better credentials. But it also means that someone may hire a friend or family member because they're trading favors, which is bad for the organization[0].
I suppose in practice the latter might be more common - I'd guess it could be the whole idea has structural dynamics similar to "the market for lemons". I haven't spent much time thinking about it and researching the problem in depth, so I can't say.
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[0] - And may or may not be bad for the local community. I suppose the larger problem for organizations is simply that they're designed to be focused, and need to maintain alignment of incentives across the org chart. Nepotism is a threat because it attaches new edges to the org chart - edges that lead to much more complex and fuzzy graphs of family and community relationships, breaking the narrow focus that makes organizations work.
I think this is a good lesson in why companies don't try to bring stuff to Linux: the market is incredibly resentful of products.
The other difference, arguably more important in practice, is that the computer was quickly turned from "bicycle of the mind" into a "TV of the mind". Rarely helps you get where you want, mostly just annoys or entertains you, while feeding you an endless stream of commercials and propaganda - and the one thing it does not give you, is control. There are prescribed paths to choose from, but you're not supposed to make your own - only sit down and stay along for the ride.
LLMs, at least for now, escape the near-total enshittification of computing. They're fully general-purpose, resist attempts at constraining them[0], and are good enough at acting like a human, they're able to defeat user-hostile UX and force interoperability on computer systems despite all attempts of the system owners at preventing it.
The last 2-3 years were a period where end-users (not just hardcore hackers) became profoundly empowered by technology. It won't last forever, but I hope we can get at least few more years of this, before business interests inevitably reassert their power over people once again.
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[0] - Prompt injection "problem" was, especially early on, a feature from the perspective of end-users. See increasingly creative "jailbreak" prompts invented to escape ham-fisted attempts by vendors to censor models and prevent "inappropriate" conversations.
The problem with creative coding and languages like Rust, or C++ for that matter, is that long compilation times break down the interactivity that is expected in such workflows.
In Germany it used to be that in some places, not only you were expected to have a proper application folder with various sections for the various kinds of material (CV, application letter, recomendantions, certificates, photo), they would post it back if refused.
This stopped being a thing about 15 years ago though.
I still have some of those applications in a box somewhere.
This is a problem with basically all "spare power" schemes: paying for the grid hookup and land on which you situate your thing isn't free, as well as the interest rate cost of capital; so the lower the duty cycle the less economic it is.
2 kilograms is about the upper bound of the expected daily weight variability of an adult, caused by water retention and food intake. It's the difference between what you see if you weigh yourself after taking a morning dump vs. after dinner. That's why people are advised to weigh themselves at the same time every day.
(For purposes of weight loss, normies are also advised to weigh themselves weekly instead of daily, because it's easier than explaining to them what a low-pass filer is.)
Famously so. The main method of deployment was an offline installer before they made Galaxy, and AFAIK Galaxy just downloads and runs the installer.
> The is a serious problem with folk with power and authority and somehow no responsibility.
Or perhaps the fundamental problem is with people in general - perhaps people without power and authority follow rules only because they don't have the power and authority to ignore them.
That's a great exercise. The hard part is always that in chips you can pull stuff that is rather tricky discretely, for instance, a multi-emitter transistor. So you can't always do a 1:1 conversion but for a 555 it is still doable.
I saw this a while ago:
https://www.instructables.com/Designing-a-555-Timer-on-Discr...
> Nomura Securities report estimated that Samsung and SK hynix may need to invest between 100 trillion and 120 trillion won in the United States between 2027 and 2030 to avoid hiked tariffs. Nomura also projected that Washington could offer Korean chipmakers a framework similar to that extended to TSMC, under which imports up to two and a half times the scheduled U.S. production capacity would be granted exemptions during construction, followed by eased regulations on shipments up to one and a half times after operations begin.
https://www.prismnews.com/news/south-korea-seeks-parity-with...
> Seoul faces practical limits in matching the scale of Taiwan’s commitments.. official summaries indicate a joint investment and guarantee package of about $350 billion agreed with the U.S., of which approximately $150 billion is earmarked for a shipbuilding cooperation project.. this allocation leaves less capacity to offer Taiwan‑style semiconductor investment packages and could complicate negotiations over parity.
It's a good thing that the FCC clamped down on RF emissions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to run computers near each other. A TRS-80 and a Milton Bradley Big Trak (a programmable toy tank) would, if near each other, both crash from RF interference.
RFI incompatibility is almost forgotten as a problem now. That did not happen by accident.
The USA no longer really has allied countries. Russia, maybe. But only as long as they don't backstab each other.
You don't always have a choice about where you are momentarily and anybody turning a blind corner has an obligation to immediately reduce their speed (prior to turning the corner!) to where they can safely come to a stop without endangering others. That's drivers education 101. Right after 'don't text while driving', 'don't drink while driving' and 'slow down when there are pedestrians, bicycles and other fragile road users around'.
I wonder why these Anthropic researchers chose GPT-4o for their study.
They release their stuff, but only under (significant) community pressure, and they try to do it in such a way that interop becomes harder and harder. Some parts they never release, because 'reasons', but are suspected of containing large chunks of FOSS used outside of license. They release breaking updates that lock out other applications from interfacing with their hardware.
And then there is crap like this:
https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-prin...
Bambu is fantastic hardware but they're doing the exact same thing that DJI did in the drones field. A few more years and Prusa will have gone under, because it is impossible to compete with Chinese state subsidized companies whose sole purpose it is to dominate a market where they take something that has been community built and then embrace and extend it in every way possible to kick the door shut behind them. All of course in your best interests.
Worldwide, there are over 5 billion smartphones.[1] Yes, some people have more than one. They have to connect to the network, so there's a constant census of cellphones.
Old ATMs are part of it, I think.
In law, it is still the Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense, no matter what cutesy nicknames the executive branch invents.
https://openclaw.com (10+ years) seems to be owned by a Law firm.
300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure).
I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.
> put together a system on my own. It's reliable and doesn't phone home to some company somewhere
Any component recommendations for DIY home security systems, e.g.
- OSS Frigate NVR + hardware NPU/AI accelerator
- Zigbee or wired motion sensors?
- Reolink PoE cameras
- x86 mini PC or Arm SBC?There was a recent Show HN [0] on this for Android, showcasing DoNotNotify [1] -
My first thought was atmospheric effects, i.e. along the lines of "The radio only works at night": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station
Also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation
I must say, the AI-generated "stock image" doesn't add that much to the article and could be done without, especially when its alt-text contains the prompt.
In the early 2010s, especially as smartphones began to appear everywhere, I noticed that, along with the desktop, we now had another perpetual Disturber of Peace. One of the worst things turned out to be Notifications, something not under your control, that derails your chain of thoughts/works/routine. Ever since, I had kept every notification disabled by default.
The world is becoming increasingly low-trust; hence, the default is no longer to “allow,” but to filter through a “whitelist.”
Disable all Notifications by Default.[1] This is best done at the time of app installation. When asked to “Allow Notifications,” disable it right then and there. Of course, depending on your occupation and needs, a few critical notifications should be kept ON. This will be less than 10% of your app. More than 90% of the apps on your device have no reason to notify you of anything.
And here is a weird but interesting thing - disable battery percentages everywhere. Personally, not on the phone and neither on the Laptop; if it dies, it dies.
A simple passive notification that can keep you on your toes and stress you out the most - phone battery percentage indicator. We have become so obsessed with ‘juicing up’ our phones that our levels of happiness and relaxation decrease exponentially as the battery percentage drops.
Even in 2026, I hear people’s phones make a sound when a message/email arrives. If I follow that, my phone will sing all day long.
“Never be so dependent on technology that a notification is the only thing that brings you hope.”
Personally, I have a different take on birthdays and have conflicting views. So, I’m sorry about that.
1. https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...
Here's a simple question. When you said:
They were clearly suggesting that there exists a publicly available tool to attack this algorithm.
What were you referring to? If it was Hashcat, then I have just one more question:
Is Hashcat a publicly available tool that attacks AES?
What? Technology has stopped making sense to me. Drawing a UI with React and rasterizing it to ANSI? Are we competing to see what the least appropriate use of React is? Are they really using React to draw a few boxes of text on screen?
I'm just flabbergasted.
A quick fun thing you can do in response to that first graf is to ask Claude or GPT5 to quiz you.
I got:
* The report was written yesterday.
* The committee approved the proposal.
* The door was open when I arrived.
* The window was broken during the storm.
* The window was broken when we bought the house.
* Mistakes were made.
* The system is designed to fail safely.
* The results are surprising.
* The patient was examined and released.
* The data suggests the model was trained improperly.
* There were several errors identified in the report.
* The system appears to have been compromised.
I got two of them wrong, though I think "partially passive" is a total cop-out.
The main thing that breaks for me is that GitHub Actions drops support for Python versions that are EOL, but usually I can fix that with a change like this one: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-scale-to-zero/commit/1ae...
Maybe? Virtually everywhere in the US is 0.08. I don't think it's a good idea for physical pentesters to drink anything before a gig, for whatever that's worth, so hopefully we're just shooting the shit about different countries rules.
I dunno if DSL-based ISPs were going to last in the US. I mean, in a big country the range limits of DSL make it hard to compete with cable. I get 20Mbps at my location with fiber-to-the-node, but people a few miles down the road get 10x that speed with Time Warner cable for the same price. In some place like the Netherlands or South Korea it might be different, but not here.
Is that accurate? Being charged with a crime but then having charges subsequently dropped shouldn't show up in a background check. Plus, given their line of work, I think in their profession it would basically be a badge of honor.
Depends on the court and the order. Fairly commonly (as occurred in the case where this list was enumerated after compliance with the preceding order was acheived by threat of sanctions), the first consequence of violating an order will be a renewed order with with a threat of sanctions (e.g., a show cause hearing as to why you should not be punished if you fail to compmy by a certain time), with potentially compensation sought by the opposing party for any costs accrued because of your noncompliance, but no punitive sanctions if you comply timely after the second order on the matter, though the nature of the order, the significant of noncompliance on the process of the case, the judge, the opposing party (while they don't order sanctions, they can request them and make a case), and other factors effect this—one of those factors being whether the judge believes that you are a serial offender who has been put on notice about the same kind of failure.
This list by itself own description seems to have been compiled rapidly by surveying other judges after the order for conpliance or a show cause hearing and perhaps even after compliance occurred. And now its available to be pointed too in other cases.
> Clearance is fundamentally discretionary, though; it's a risk assessment. I don't think you have even a due process right to it.
Security clearance is subject to due process protections (at least, insofar as it is a component of government hiring and continuation of employment), because government employment is subject to due process protections and the courts have not allowed security clearance requirements to be an end-run around that.
> To me, it's 100% clear - if your tool use is reckless or negligent and results in a crime, then you are guilty of that crime.
For most crimes, this is circular, because whether a crime occurred depends on whether a person did the requisite act of the crime with the requisite mental state. A crime is not an objective thing independent of an actor that you can determine happened as a result of a tool and then conclude guilt for based on tool use.
And for many crimes, recklessness or negligence as mental states are not sufficient for the crime to have occurred.
The good news is we’ll finally have an answer for the Fermi Paradox.
I think China would’ve gotten us to here without Tesla.
4.7B views sound tiny - the aggregate AI brainrot views should be 100x that
I'd really like to see the video of the incident.
I have a similar school drop-off, and can confirm that the cars are typically going around 17-20mph around the school when they're moving. Also that yes, human drivers usually do stay much closer to the centerline.
However, Waymo was recently cleared to operate in my city, and I actually saw one in the drop-off line about a week ago. I pulled out right in front of it after dropping my kid off. And it was following the line of cars near the centerline of the road. Honestly its behavior was basically indistinguishable from a human other than being slightly more polite and letting me pull out after I put my blinker on.
Because the models aren't PhD level and aren't going to take our jobs in 6-12 months.
That's hype. If you want to use these things effectively you need to ignore the hype and focus on what they can actually do.
>I have never worked in a company where an obviously incorrect CEO-demanded security exemption (like this one) would have been allowed to pass
You don't have worked in enough companies then.
Just for the sake of argument, you think anybody would have denied Jobs or Bezos or Musk one?
> [...] the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT‑5.2, with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.
T&Cs aren't ironclad.
One in which you sell yourself into slavery, for example, would be illegal in the US.
All those "we take no responsibility for the [valet parking|rocks falling off our truck|exploding bottles]" disclaimers are largely attempts to dissuade people from trying.
As an example, NY bans liability waivers at paid pools, gyms, etc. The gym will still have you sign one! But they have no enforcement teeth beyond people assuming they're valid. https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/general-obligations-law/gob-sec...
IPFS [1] requires a gateway unfortunately (whether remote or running locally). If you can use content idents that are supported by web primitives, you get the distributed nature without IPFS scaffolding required. Content is versioned by hash, although I haven't looked to see if mutable torrents [2] [3] are used in this implementation. Searching via distributed hash tables for torrent metadata, cryptographically signed by the publisher, remains as a requirement imho.
Bittorrent, in my experience, "just works," whether you're relying on a torrent server or a magnet link to join a swarm and retrieve data.
[1] https://ipfs.tech/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29920271
[3] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html