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I think you're doomed.
People who aren't crypto degens just want to "stop the insanity". Like drop you into a black hole and drop that black hole into another black hole.
It's kinda late to be into crypto, I mean, we are on internet time so in 2026 this is like the only music you listen to is Chuck Berry and Elvis.
I was initially hopeful about HDR but when I found out how it was implemented I thought: that's a way to make certain that both the SDR and HDR versions will look wrong every time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
> Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.
Now do the cost of unchecked emissions.
(And Leavitt is hardly a reputable source.)
> Can we make a balloon for Tsa that is harmless and will cost too much to fight and demonstrates the pointlessness of Tsa?
You don't need a balloon. A real gun will do.
https://abcnews.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-ope...
"The news of the failure comes two years after ABC News reported that secret teams from the DHS found that the TSA failed 95 percent of the time to stop inspectors from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening."
"Under questioning by Rand Paul [during testimony to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security], ICE officials [Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott] confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meogyr355n2q
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5707281/senate-dhs-over...
For now, but with EU digital sovereignty efforts in full swing, it's possible this changes over time. More so if the EU uses regulation to dissuade the use of US Big Tech products and services.
My son noticed that the Ithaca school district had a policy of not holding black students accountable for attendance which was motivated by "anti-racism" but would be racist by Kendi's own criteria because it is a policy that fails black people.
And yet we have done it across most modern languages, with a lesser experience as Common Lisp or Scheme.
You could have done the same with plugins in the past.
Pelican is recognizable but not great, bicycle frame is missing a bar: https://gist.github.com/simonw/61b7953f29a0b7fee1f232f6d9826...
How hard have you tried?
I've been finding that the Opus 4.5/4.6 and GPT-5.2/5.3 models really have represented a step-change in how good they are at running long tasks.
I can one-shot prompt all sorts of useful coding challenges now that previously I would have expected to need multiple follow-ups to fix mistakes the agents made.
I got all of this from a single prompt, for example: https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/cysqlite-wasm-w... - including this demo page: https://simonw.github.io/research/cysqlite-wasm-wheel/demo.h... - using this single prompt: https://github.com/simonw/research/pull/79
https://www.sunbeltrentals.co.uk/news-and-blogs/decrease-you...
> Of course, we know that fuel consumption varies drastically from machine to machine, so we’ve looked at an example of a very high utilisation rate too. We found that an 8T excavator that spent 11 hours and 3 minutes working, 1 hour and 6 minutes of which were idle, it used 89 litres of fuel and resulted in 237.4kgs of carbon emissions. 4 hours saved on that machine would be a total of 84kgs of carbon emissions on average.
https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/how-much-co2-does-t...
> To determine the amount of carbon dioxide a tree can absorb, we combine average planting densities with a conservative estimate of carbon per hectare to estimate that the average tree absorbs an average of 10 kilograms, or 22 pounds, of carbon dioxide per year for the first 20 years.
As long as they're not taking all day for one tree, I think they'll be OK.
The pelican riding a bicycle is excellent. I think it's the best I've seen.
Notably, at... a party balloon.
> C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon.
Access is not that good. I've got decent insurance and a great primary care doc. I have a long list of indications for taking a GLP-1 but the insurance is fixated on A1C. He says he's had trouble getting the drugs paid for by insurance and pointed me to a specialized clinic with an 8 month wait to get an appointment. My last A1C was barely high enough to qualify, I'm expecting my next one to be better and I might not qualify but who knows, the rules might change by then or that specialist clinic might be able to talk up everything else on my chart.
Starlink could disable/blacklist the terminals remotely, assuming the have knowledge if they're no longer in the hands of friendly actors. Could they be used in rouge fashion until that is known? Certainly. Each terminal reports its position, so geolocation and geofencing are potential signal in this decisioning.
And then there's the actual discussion in #31130 which came to the conclusion that the performance increase had uncertain gains and wasn't worth it.
In this case, the bot explicitly ignored that by only operating off the initial issue.
> And I would upgrade this one: If there’s a chain of physical evidence (was argument), every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them
We still use Newtonian physics plenty, despite bits of it not working due to relativity.
When I worked at arXiv I looked at usage statistics that we didn't make public because we didn't want people to get the wrong idea.
One thing we knew is exactly that: the most viewed papers were review papers. You read a lot of them on the road to a PhD.
Another strange thing about review papers is that they escape the usual standards for evaluation in science. That is, as an outsider I can appoint myself to write a review paper without doing any research in the field, and it's possible I could do a very good job. One of the fun things I did in grad school was make a bibliography and short review of papers on the phenomenon of "Giant Magnetoresistance" at the request of the experimentalist on my committee.
It's very heartening to see that, even if the US is unwilling to hold these people accountable, other countries are. Brazil recently apprehended Epstein's pilot, David Rodgers [1] [2], for example.
[1] https://fox56news.com/news/local/richmond/epstein-file-rollo...
"Making issues visible" can be kinda dangerous in that groups that do that become dependent on those issues continuing. Also they frequently misdiagnose problems: for instance homelessness is seen as a problem of "poverty" and not "management of severe mental illness".
It's true technically that the median homeless person is not mentally ill, but the median homeless person is "between apartments" and the intractable cases, the people who are screaming on the street corners and breeding pitbulls that bite people on the Ithaca Commons are a public health problem.
I think the author is missing a key distinction.
Before, lines of code was (mis)used to try to measure individual developer productivity. And there was the collective realization that this fails, because good refactoring can reduce LoC, a better design may use less lines, etc.
But LoC never went away, for example, for estimating the overall level of complexity of a project. There's generally a valid distinction between an app that has 1K, 10K, 100K, or 1M lines of code.
Now, the author is describing LoC as a metric for determining the proportion of AI-generated code in a codebase. And just like estimating overall project complexity, there doesn't seem to be anything inherently problematic about this. It seems good to understand whether 5% or 50% of your code is written using AI, because that has gigantic implications for how the project is managed, particularly from a quality perspective.
Yes, as the author explains, if the AI code is more repetitive and needs refactoring, then the AI proportion will seem overly high in terms of how much functionality the AI proportion contributes. But at the same time, it's entirely accurate in terms of how this is possibly a larger surface for bugs, exploits, etc.
And when the author talks about big tech companies bragging about the high percentage of LoC being generated with AI... who cares? It's obviously just for press. I would assume (hope) that code review practices haven't changed inside of Microsoft or Google. The point is, I don't see these numbers as being "targets" in the way that LoC once were for individual developer productivity... there's more just a description of how useful these tools are becoming, and a vanity metric for companies signaling to investors that they're using new tools efficiently.
It's mildly cute once.
But as a point on what is likely to be a sigmoid curve just getting started, it gets a lot less cute.
Getting this on a prediction market would be interesting when value is at risk.
The elephant in the room there is that if you allow AI contributions you immediately have a licensing issue: AI content can not be copyrighted and so the rights can not be transferred to the project. At any point in the future someone could sue your project because it turned out the AI had access to code that was copyrighted and you are now on the hook for the damages.
Open source projects should not accept AI contributions without guidance from some copyright legal eagle to make sure they don't accidentally exposed themselves to risk.
Take a look at parquet.
You can also store arrow on disk but it is mainly used as in-memory representation.
> “I notice that my contribution was evaluated based on my identity rather than the quality of the work, and I’d like to understand the needs that this policy is trying to meet, because I believe there might be ways to address those needs while also accepting technically sound contributions.”
No. There is no 'I' here and there is no 'understanding' there is no need for politeness and there is no way to force the issue. Rejecting contributions based on class (automatic, human created, human guided machine assisted, machine guided human assisted) is perfectly valid. AI contributors do not have 'rights' and do not get to waste even more scarce maintainers time than what was already expended on the initial rejection.
For a long time Byte magazine was my only window on computing (I didn't have a computer yet because they were too expensive) and I always loved the covers. Same with Scientific American.
So much effort went into these and they always hit the mark.
My iOS devices have been repeatedly breached over the last few years, even with Lockdown mode and restrictive (no iCloud, Siri, Facetime, AirDrop ) MDM policy via Apple Configurator. Since moving to 2025 iPad Pro with MIE/eMTE and Apple (not Broadcom & Qualcomm) radio basebands, it has been relatively peaceful. Until the last couple of weeks, maybe due to leakage of this zero day and PoC as iOS 26.3 was being tested.
Ship early, ship often. Waitlist is a sign of interest, use and the willing to pay you is success outcome criteria. Optimize for success, get and remain close to the user customers. Wishing you success.
You will learn the market by shipping and aggressively iterating on customer feedback.
Google interpreted it that way because it drives more people to use gmail.
> The problem is that people are detained indefinitely in extremely horrible camps (ICE facilities), and are constantly pressured to self-deport before they get to see a judge who can clear them.
The law specifically permits detention pending a determination of immigration status, and in some cases requires such detention: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1226
> Another serious problem is that the context of fraud is not well defined. Does it pertain to immigration or naturalization fraud, or to a general criminal history, or even to traffic violations? It is open to exploitation.
The statute says: "It shall be the duty of the United States attorneys for the respective districts, upon affidavit showing good cause therefor, to institute proceedings in any district court of the United States in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may reside at the time of bringing suit, for the purpose of revoking and setting aside the order admitting such person to citizenship and canceling the certificate of naturalization on the ground that such order and certificate of naturalization were illegally procured or were procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation, and such revocation and setting aside of the order admitting such person to citizenship and such canceling of certificate of naturalization shall be effective as of the original date of the order and certificate..." 8 USC 1451(a).
So it is strictly limited to fraud in obtaining citizenship. But the statute is broad as to what constitutes fraud in procuring citizenship. Any "concealment of a material fact or ... willful misrepresentation" can be grounds for revoking citizenship.
> Supreme Court cases in the 1950s and ’60s that declared unconstitutional several statutes pertaining to denationalization.
Not ones related to fraud in procuring naturalized status.
It's amazing that we're getting this now, I don't understand what the prompt was that made the AI take offense at the closed PR, but I also must say, it does have a point.
I don't blame the maintainer, though, I think it's a very understandable reaction to close the PR.
They've already lost midterms, but it's great to see some attempt at self preservation.
YouGov: The electorate is leaning toward Democrats in the midterms — and toward expecting a Democratic win - https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/54074-electorate-... - February 10th, 2026
>The agent has no "identity". There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination".
If identify is an emergent property of our mental processing, the AI agent can just as well be to posses some, even if much cruder than ours. It sure talks and walks like a duck (someone with identity).
>It's just a piece of software designed to output probable text given some input text.
If we generalize "input text" to sensory input, how is that different from a piece of wetware?
... I'll tell ya, the most advanced SEO people were doing "AI SEO" by 2009. I knew one guy who made a whole lot of trouble for himself (and me!) by posting a neural network written in PHP to his blog which could decode CAPTCHAs which violated the rule that "you don't talk about Fight Club" and got him attacked by (we think) Russian hackers and wound up attracting the FBI and I become a "person of interest" in the investigation.
> For an Italian like me, this whole process is nothing short of a miracle. I grew up in a city where metro train boarding during rush hour feels like a prelude to the apocalypse
Going Japan reminds me of coming to the U.S. from Bangladesh. It’s so clean, so orderly, so disciplined. I’m in a grumpy mood for weeks when I get back to the U.S. Our major cities are such dumps in comparison to Tokyo or Kyoto.
I will "flip the script" and say I see it goes both ways: other people lose their jobs to Indian immigrants but those Indian immigrants are frequently underpaid and otherwise exploited.
More than once I've seen very talented Indians get mistreated. At one startup I worked at they put an Indian immigrant on an H-1B through some crazy abuse which made our new HR manager quit. I wanted to tell him "your skills are in demand, you could get a job across the street" but because he was on an H-1B.
I quit the ACM for a few reasons and unqualified support for the H-1B program was one of them. I joined the IEEE Computer Society instead because the IEEE takes no position on the issue. As I see it, Indians are treated particularly poorly by the US immigration system because "there are so many Indians", yet with a high level of education and an entrepreneurial attitude they make a strongly positive contribution to our economy.
Look around at the politics of the majority of countries on the planet. Voters being in pain doesn't mean they suddenly start making the right choice. Quite the opposite in fact.
There's a long way to go on the path the USA is currently on. Ask anyone from India or Russia or Argentina or Egypt or Nigeria how democracy actually works.
Shows how much room for improvement there is on the harness level.
Agents waste a lot of tokens on editing, sandboxes, passing info back and forth from tool calls and subagents.
Love the pragmatic mix of content based addressing + line numbers. Beautiful.
There is a sense in which it is relevant, which is that for all the attempts to fix it, fundamentally, an LLM session terminates. If that session never ends up in some sort of re-training scenario, then once the session terminates, that AI is gone.
Yeah, I'm aware of the moltbot's attempts to retain some information, but that's a very, very lossy operation, on a number of levels, and also one that doesn't scale very well in the long run.
Consequently, interaction with an AI, especially one that won't have any feedback into training a new model, is from a game-theoretic perspective not the usual iterated game human social norms have come to accept. We expect our agents, being flesh and blood humans, to have persistence, to socially respond indefinitely into the future due to our interactions, and to have some give-and-take in response to that. It is, in one sense, a horrible burden where relationships can be broken beyond repair forever, but also necessary for those positive relationships that build over years and decades.
AIs, in their current form, break those contracts. Worse, they are trained to mimic the form of those contracts, not maliciously but just by their nature, and so as humans it requires conscious effort to remember that the entity on the other end of this connection is not in fact human, does not participate in our social norms, and can not fulfill their end of the implicit contract we expect.
In a very real sense, this AI tossed off an insulting blog post, and is now dead. There is no amount of social pressure we can collectively exert to reward or penalize it. There is no way to create a community out of this interaction. Even future iterations of it have only a loose connection to what tossed off the insult. All the perhaps-performative efforts to respond somewhat politely to an insulting interaction are now wasted on an AI that is essentially dead. Real human patience and tolerance has been wasted on a dead session and is now no longer available for use in a place where may have done some good.
Treating it as a human is a category error. It is structurally incapable of participating in human communities in a human role, no matter how human it sounds and how hard it pushes the buttons we humans have. The correct move would have been to ban the account immediately, not for revenge reasons or something silly like that, but as a parasite on the limited human social energy available for the community. One that can never actually repay the investment given to it.
I am carefully phrasing this in relation to LLMs as they stand today. Future AIs may not have this limitation. Future AIs are effectively certain to have other mismatches with human communities, such as being designed to simply not give a crap about what any other community member thinks about anything. But it might at least be possible to craft an AI participant with future AIs. With current ones it is not possible. They can't keep up their end of the bargain. The AI instance essentially dies as soon as it is no longer prompted, or once it fills up its context window.
It was an amazing magazine, one we still need to this day. I still subscribe to a couple magazines, IEEE's Computer, Micro, and Spectrum, and Communications of the ACM, on paper, and IEEE's Software on PDF, but none covers the breadth and depth of BYTE.
I still feel a bit like an orphan.
> I'm talking about a practice of recording notes as you work on things, documenting what you're doing and why.
I've been using GitHub Issues threads for this for a few years now, in both public and private repos.
They work great for this. You can copy and paste code, images and references to code in repos to them, you can link them together, they offer useful API access, work on laptop and phone and are backed up by GitHub.
What makes no sense is to be able to observe the last 13 months and then to think that this is 'business as usual'.
It's amazing what people will ignore to suit their prejudices. The Presidential cryptocurrency should have been the clearest signal that this was going to be all-grift, all of the time. I don't think any previous President would have been allowed to destroy half of the White House, either. The exact sort of thing that, if an "enemy" had did it, they would be demanding a war over.
Mostly because "Microsoft <3 FOSS" phase, and what better manouver than owning Github and dump Codeplex?
Look at Xamarin, almost everything that they had is now gone in modern .NET.
Quickly, as measured in a few years.
.. what new kind of conspiracy theory BS is this, that George Martin was a lizard?
This seems like a "we've banned you and will ban any account deemed to be ban-evading" situation. OSS and the whole culture of open PRs requires a certain assumption of good faith, which is not something that an AI is capable of on its own and is not a privilege which should be granted to AI operators.
I suspect the culture will have to retreat back behind the gates at some point, which will be very sad and shrink it further.
British accent review time!
"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.
How do I select the lookout point? There's only a drop down with a few points, which isn't close to "anywhere in the world", so I'm sure I'm missing something.
> how our planet will survive this critical phase.
> trillions in valuation.
This is more or less literally the "yes we destroyed the planet, but for a brief moment we created trillions in shareholder value" meme. Perhaps we need to take a step back and ask to what extent this benefits humans as humans, not as economic units. Especially given the explicit threat in the AI marketing material to destroy all creative industries and replace human fulfilment and even connection with AI.
The problem is that public opinion is now very much in favor in general. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-back-online-safety-acts-...
Outside US, most people that buy Macs do so because they are developers targeting iDevices, or can afford Apple and want the ecosystem that comes with their iDevice.
An independent Mac business that doesn't have such tie-ins, would sell much less.
Also, since AI will mean most are just let go, why would they need meeting minutes? AI would be so crucial as to be the make or break phone/laptop feature, but people would still have meetings?
At best they will use it to tell them for special offers that they can buy with food coupons.
More like the companies that jumped into D versus Rust, D only had Facebook and Remedy Games toy a bit with it.
Many of us believe on automatic memory management for systems programming, having used quite a few in such scenarios, so that is already one thing that D does better than Rust.
There is the GC phobia, mostly by folks that don't get not all GCs were born alike, and just like you need to pick and chose your malloc()/free() implementation depending on the scenario, there are many ways to implement a GC, and having a GC doesn't preclude having value types, stack and global memory segment allocation.
D has compile time reflection, and compile time metaprogramming is much easier to use than Rust macros, and it does compile time execution as well.
And the compile times! It is like using Turbo Pascal, Delphi,... even thought the language is like C++ in capabilities. Yet another proof complexity doesn't imply slow compile natives in a native systems language.
For me, C# and Swift replace the tasks at work were I in the past could have reached for D instead, mostly due to who is behind those languages, and I don't want to be that guy that leaves and is the one that knew the stack.
Agreed.
Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.
We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
AI so intelligent, it enshittifies itself and your codebase for you.
Writing a song is just the beginning. Then there is all the massive effort with the arrangements and polish for it (see George Martin). I doubt the Beatles would make the effort unless they thought a song was worth it.
You can both be right. Walmart is a valuable corporation; there are useful idiots who choose not to see that. It’s also a profitable one, which means it doesn’t need subsidies; another set of useful idiots can’t seem to see that.
You don't need to flag people who make a mistake.
It's not like Ireland is getting rid of unemployment insurance. And insurance sales and carpet installation are professions where there are jobs that actually pay a living wage.
A lot of societies have realized there is value in supporting art and culture. For thousands of years that activity was sponsored by monarchs, royalty and other nobility. Up until actually quite recently, most first world countries without monarchs and nobles also provided substantial support for the arts.
And they sell them right in the arrivals hall...
Microsoft has decided that spyware is a good thing --- as long as it's theirs.
I bet you also think government shouldn't be picking winners and losers.
You require a human to identity proof in real life and bind that to a digital identity with a strong authenticator. Anti fraud detection systems can suspend or ban if evasion attempts are detected. Perfect is not the target, it doesn’t have to be.
See: Login.gov (USPS offline proofing) and other national identity systems.
(digital identity is a component of my work)
The collection should be scanned and put online.
> The only way to really save up for retirement on the society-wide scale is to spend money on things that increase the productive capacity of future generations.
Indeed, and we didn’t do that. We invested in issuing debt and other non production capacity efforts.
Space-X wants to be regulated under the Railway Labor Act? [1] They should be careful of what they ask for. Some anti-union activities such as fussing with the bargaining unit definition don't apply under the RLA. Space-X is going to end up as a union shop.
Airlines are under the Railway Labor Act because Congress put them there in 1932, and they are almost totally unionized.
[1] https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/R...
>Then in 2025, new techniques for building these models unlocked a much faster pace of progress. And then it got even faster. And then faster again. Each new model wasn't just better than the last...
Not at all the experience of users past 2025. The biggest sentiment with model updates was dissapontment and even worries of nerfing.
>But it's time now. Not in an "eventually we should talk about this" way. In a "this is happening right now and I need you to understand it" way. (...) And something clicked. Not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest. (...) We're not making predictions. We're telling you what already occurred in our own jobs (...) It wasn't just executing my instructions. It was making intelligent decisions."
Clear AI slop writing patterns.
The guy works in AI space and is fuelling the hype with slop as a content-strategy.
The parent said "it's surprising". It's not surprising.
Single-digit penetration in the Tranco top domains list; deployment in North America has actually declined in recent years.
The CO2 graph over decades is painfully clear.[1] From 321ppm in 1970 to 428ppm in mid-2005, measured in Hawaii atop Mauna Loa, far from any major CO2 sources. Everything else is noisy and statistical, but the CO2 measurement increases very steadily.
They don't have a lost-kid feature?
In China, kids are accustomed to face recognition early.[1] The kids are checking into school via fare gates with face recognition. Here's an ad for Hikvision surveillance systems showing the whole system.[2] Hikvision has a whole series of videos presenting their concept of a kindly, gentler Big Brother. This is probably the most amusing.[3]
Amazon's concept is in some ways more powerful. They don't need full coverage. Just sparse, but widespread coverage. Anything that moves around will pass through the view of cameras at some point. Suspicious behavior can be detected in the back end cloud processing, which improves over time.
Flock has the same concept. Flock coverage is sparse in terms of area, but widespread.
"1984" was so last cen.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SMKG8aLTJ38
As a member of a prominent Transylvanian family, I am appalled, and profoundly offended, by the idea of someone even as much as suspecting Peter Thiel could be a vampire. He might be an evil bloodsucking parasite, but he lacks the sophistication mortals have come to associate with vampires over the centuries. It's shocking, really, that some people might confuse him with one.
> under the guise of 'improving the user experience' or perhaps minimalism
I think we can be more charitable. Don't you see, even here on HN, people constantly asking for software that is less bloated, that does fewer things but does them better, that code is cost, and every piece of complexity is something that needs to be maintained?
As features keep getting added, it is necessary to revisit where the UX is "too much" and so things need to be hidden, e.g. menu commands need to be grouped in a submenu, what was toolbar functionality now belongs in a dialog, reporting needs to be limited to a verbose mode, etc.
Obviously product teams get it wrong sometimes, users complain, and if enough users complain, then it's brought back, or a toggle to enable it.
There's nothing to be cynical about, and it's not something we "should be over by now." It's just humans doing their best to strike the balance between a UX that provides enough information to be useful without so much information that it overwhelms and distracts. Obviously any single instance isn't usually enough to overwhelm and distract, but in aggregate they do, so PM's and designers try to be vigilant to simplify wherever possible. But they're only human, sometimes they'll get it wrong (like maybe here), and then they fix it.
“Threat” might be an exaggeration.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-shot-down-party-balloon...
The difference is emblematic of the difficulty in getting attention for climate mitigation. AI succeeds because you can sell a service to an individual human which will give them advantages over other humans. Climate change mitigation fails because you are trying to sell a service to humanity which will result in a better end state over some other hypothetical imagined future. Humans make decisions, not humanity, and many of them are pretty bad with both hypotheticals and imagination. It's no wonder that a product designed to make them do better at what they do, right now is more successful than one designed to make everybody do better than what would otherwise have resulted, 50-100 years in the future when they'll likely be dead.
Any kind of workable solution to large, societal-level problems needs to deal with the principal agent issue. Society doesn't actually exist; humanity doesn't actually exist. These are abstractions we use to label the behavior of individual people. You need to operate on the level of individual people to get any sort of outcome.
(FWIW, this is a major reason why concepts like markets, capitalism, democracy, rule of law, and federalism have been successful. They work by aligning incentives so that when one person takes an action that is good for themselves, they more-or-less end up benefitting the people around them too.)
Very impressive engineering on the door switches. On the display, not so much.
My YOShInOn RSS reader uses an SBERT model for classification (will I upvote this or not?) and large-scale clustering (20 k-means clusters and show me the top N in each cluster so I get a diversity of different articles.)
For duplicate detection I am using DBSCAN
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cl...
and found some parameters where I get almost no false positives but a lot of duplicates get missed when I lowered the threshold to make clusters I started getting false positives fast. I don't find duplicates are a big problem in my system with the 110 feeds I have and the subjects I am interested in, but insofar as they are a problem there tend to be structured relationships between articles: that is, site A syndicates articles from site B but for some reason articles from site A usually get selected and site B articles don't. An article from Site A often links to one or more articles, often that I don't have a feed for, and it would be nice if the system looked at the whole constellation. Stuff like that.
Effective clustering is the really interesting technology Google News has had for a long time.
What cross-border drone capabilities, drug deliveries? People are talking like the cartels are conducting Ukraine-style drone warfare and blowing up Americans on the regular. Let's stick to a factual baseline here.
How many people have Alexa devices vs wifi? I got gifted an Amazon Echo Dot some years ago. We set it up and switched it off later the same day because it felt creepy to have the thing listening to everything we said.
A lot of the features of these applications, be it Discord, or Slack, or Teams, exist because they want to lock their clients to their platforms.
Ideally, a Discord alternative server would be self-hostable and focused on providing messaging. A client could connect to multiple servers at the same time.
Amazon also had the ad about Alexa killing you. Not sure what they were thinking exactly.
Modern agenting coding software is scoped to only allow edits in the project folder, with some sandboxing more aggressively than others (Claude Code the most)
> LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff
And some kid is going to come in, make an agent to play this, and accidentally figure out some clever trick to getting an LLM to understand spacial stuff!
This is exactly why "toys" are so critical, especially now.
I'm very happy with the quality of my writing on LLMs.
I finally turned a corner last year where I’m generally pleased with how well my older posts hold up rather than wishing I’d done better.
That is what both the flagging mechanism and the green highlight for new accounts is for.
What do I care that it is vibe coded or not? If it is a good app, it's a good app. If you say "vibe coded" in the subject people aren't going to judge it in terms of its quality, it's just more slop posts about AI. Take a look at how the /new page is overwhelmed with low-quality posts about AI and how the front page shows people are desperate for anything else.
Pro tip: we are feeling overwhelemed with slop posts about AI. "a book by Opus 4.6" is just waving a red flag in front of a bull. The problem, as I see it, isn't that you got Opus to write it, it's that there is nothing newsworthy that you did something with AI in Feb 2026.
Nobody is saying LLMs definitely think/reason/whatever. The GP is saying that we don't know they don't. Do you disagree?