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Unfortunately it won't happen, as humanity rather nuke ourselves generating memes, while driving beverage from paper straws.
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.
They are most definitely aware. They are willfully ignoring this but they are not ignorant.
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.
That's because a foreign substance is introduced into their precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
This is a travesty. I've been watching some of it and it is insane that in a developed country such a situation could exist.
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.
If the options are pensions or self investment, how is one sustainable and the other isn’t? The investment dollars in scope are similar, with pensions being better managed than your average human would do.
I think you misunderstood that movie.
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.
Used to do it... Back in 2001!
> Did he really think his square counters would fool said omniscient God?
My favorite example of this is the string of fishing line around Manhattan.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
None of the options is that great...
Pelican generated via OpenRouter: https://gist.github.com/simonw/cc4ca7815ae82562e89a9fdd99f07...
Solid bird, not a great bicycle frame.
Job losses is a more immediate consequence of massive deployment of AI.
There have never been enough tenors anywhere, as the article acknowledges.
It's not clear what the evidence is that the problem is getting worse though? Or why it would be?
I did this also: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/12/restoration-of-ibm-thinkpad-701... but using original parts.
So, how do you fix it? Can it be fixed?
That's noted in this article:
> One bright spot was last month, when hiring increased by 130,000 roles. This was significantly more than the 55,000 additions that had been expected by economists.
But that's 2026 hiring, and the article's about the 2025 revisions. (And the January number, as they all do, may get revised in a few months.)
"In today’s article, we’ll build a rudimentary blur algorithm and then pick it apart."
Emphasis mine. Quote from the beginning of the article.
This isn't meant to be a textbook about blurring algorithms. It was supposed to be a demonstration of how what may seem destroyed to a causal viewer is recoverable by a simple process, intended to give the viewer some intuition that maybe blurring isn't such a good information destroyer after all.
Your post kind of comes off like criticizing someone for showing how easy it is to crack a Caesar cipher for not using AES-256. But the whole point was to be accessible, and to introduce the idea that just because it looks unreadable doesn't mean it's not very easy to recover. No, it's not a mistake to be using the Caesar cipher for the initial introduction. Or a dead-simple one-dimensional blurring algorithm.
Reactionary accelerationists want a local war of some sort so they can grab war powers and then roll back all the US's post-WW2 social progress (and most of the New Deal too).
Absolutely, Photoshop has it:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/reduce-camera-shake-...
Or... from the note at the top, had it? Very strange, features are almost never removed. I really wonder what the architectural reason was here.
>If I get blown off, or if somebody takes 4 days to respond to my email, my impression is always that my counterparty views the matter as unimportant
Usually it is unimportant, and the other side is just wasting their time.
This is actually kind of hilarious. That your ex-wife would write to the FBI to denounce your character a couple of months after the divorce.
I did really enjoy this detail:
> It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos.
Brilliant guy... but it is funny to think how nonstop bongos could definitely drive a spouse crazy.
>But then, it’s not wrong to scratch your head. Blurring amounts to averaging the underlying pixel values. If you average two numbers, there’s no way of knowing if you’ve started with 1 + 5 or 3 + 3. In both cases, the arithmetic mean is the same and the original information appears to be lost. So, is the advice wrong?
Well, if you have a large enough averaging window (like is the case with bluring letters) they have constraints (a fixed number of shapes) information for which is partly retained.
Not very different from the information retained in minesweeper games.
I'm curious what is coming from Qwen as well. February is starting strong already.
The main problem with "Markdown support" in Notepad is that "Markdown support" is an ill-defined phrase. The closest thing to a well-defined definition is to support CommonMark but that is far, far from universal. Microsoft being Microsoft they'd probably still half-ass the job then just declare their new half-ass support a newly embraced-and-extended standard and leave it that way for the next 20 years, so asking Notepad to support Markdown is in practice asking for yet another effing Markdown dialect to come into existence and join the shambling hoard of other dialects.
Markdown is more properly understood as a family of related-but-mutually-incompatible standards, like CSV, and like "supporting CSV" is a lot more complicated than meets the eye. And supporting Markdown is already clearly non-trivial compared to the baseline of Notepad we've come to expect over the past few decades.
Myself I've usually tried to "go native" in whatever domain I am working in whether it is sales management [1], swap trading, or public opinion polling.
[1] great excuse to drink with salespeople in hotel bars!
You familiar with the idea of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
?
This is the standard way of turning a probability-calibrated predictive model into a trading or betting strategy. Even the best AI model you're going to make is going to be making guesses about the direction of the financial market so you have to (1) make it smart about "knowing what it knows" and (2) build it's predictions into a systematic risk-managed trading strategy.
afaiu this will also be an open weight release (soon?)
Can extensions:
be scoped, meaning only allowed to read/access when you visit a particular domain whitelist (controlled by the user)?
be forced (by the extension API) to have a clear non-obfuscated feed of whatever they send that the user can log and/or tap onto and watch at any time?
If not, I wouldn't touch them with a 10000ft pole.
The sort of systems which demand 100% reliability tend to be like that. "Disruption" in the middle of live sports broadcast is unpopular with customers.
The UK has a local car manufacturing industry (Nissan, Jaguar/Landrover), but not large enough to be able to lobby for protectionism. And in any case the UK has basically given up on having a coherent trade policy since Brexit.
I've seen quite a few BYDs and MG4s, and there are Jaecoo and Leapmotor dealers near me. I've been told that some NHS boards were using MGs as "pool" cars, but the only example I can find a reference for is Shetland. https://www.nhsshetland.scot/news/article/43/nhs-shetland-ro...
I don't think I've ever seen a Rivian. The R2 is supposed to be coming to the UK in 2027.
Hm, right. I somehow never really saw those two as different, hm.
Neat post. I wonder what the drift is on those clocks.
Wavelength for electromagnetic waves = c/frequency.
So to 'catch' a certain frequency with a receiver the size of the receiver gets proportionally larger as the frequency drops. Focusing light can be done with relatively small gear. Focusing radio waves, especially when the source is distant requires a massive structure and to keep that structure sufficiently cool and structurally rigid is a major challenge. It is already a challenge for the JWST at the current wavelengths, increasing the wavelength while maintaining the sensitivity would create some fairly massive complications.
In the end this is a matter of funding, and JWST already nearly got axed multiple times due to its expense.
Funny, I posted the same link yesterday.
Deindustrialization, triggered by depletion. The thing about mines is they don't last forever, and if you build your industry near the mines that supply it it becomes uneconomic once the mine is depleted.
Also, the world got a lot bigger, to the extent that a tiny canal was no longer meaningful.
The population of Scotland as a whole has grown slowly and continuously - nothing comparable to the mass depopulation of Ireland, even when you consider the Highland Clearances. It has however mostly concentrated in the economic centers of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
It was only legendary because DropBox hit it out of the park. In hindsight it is easy to see this. And it's the default HN response to anything.
Moreau is apparently a Russian citizen living in Russia since 2013. I have some concerns about process, but not for these guys. People working for enemy intelligence services tend to get treated harshly.
The reason being it is a plain text edit component, with a window around it, hence the limitation.
Port 23 has been filtered by most providers for decades.
This is why everything converges on using TLS over 443 or a high port number. I don't see this as a huge deal, and especially not one deserving all caps rants about censorship. Save those for things like FOSTA/SESTA.
> if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?
The answer is, in case anyone wonders: because OpenAI is providing a general purpose tool that has potential to subsume most of the software industry; "We" are merely setting up toll gates around what will ultimately become a bunch of tools for LLM, and trying to pass it off as a "product".
Thing with factories, is that only like 25% of the original employees are left to take care of the belt, and remaining actions not covered by the robots.
Everyone is hoping to be part of those 25%.
Do you really need a 0-60mph time of 3.0 seconds in a mommymobile?
Beware of similarities with similarly named commercial products for networks.
https://www.javad.com/product/netview/
> this review reports bioavailability of up to 70% for some agents
To save us some skimming, could you specify which ones? (The review covers cyclic peptides that are absorbed by all mammals.)
> In California with PG&E which most people have,
Most people in California don’t have PG&E. Most of the land area in the northern 2/3 of the State or so is covered by PG&E, but people and land area aren't the same thing. Southern California Edison alone serves almost as many people as PG&E, and other smaller utilities, including public utilities like LADWP, SMUD, Silicon Valley Power, etc., serve another big chunk of the population.
I've lived in both places and I think the narrative is a lot more fair, in terms of day-to-day quality of life for, like, the median resident, about San Francisco than it is about Chicago. The narrative about Chicago basically doesn't connect with anybody's experience here unless they live in places like Lawndale or Englewood. San Francisco's problems are broadly shared by every neighborhood.
Yeah, I was on the outside looking in when it came to sketch comedy until I developed a new character that can make people laugh just with hand gestures. It's really funny how you go nowhere telling other people's jokes and you really need to write your own material.
A varnish cache won't help you if you're running something like a code forge where every commit has its own page - often more than one page, there's the page for the commit and then the page for "history from this commit" and a page for every one of the files that existed in the repo at the time of that commit...
Then a poorly written crawler shows up and requests 10,000s of pages that haven't been requested recently enough to be in your cache.
I had to add a Cloudflare Captcha to the /search/ page of my blog because of my faceted search engine - which produces may thousands of unique URLs when you consider tags and dates and pagination and sort-by settings.
And that's despite me serving ever page on my site through a 15 minute Cloudflare cache!
Static only works fine for sites that have a limited number of pages. It doesn't work for sites that truly take advantage of the dynamic nature of the web.
Gotta echo other commenters here. Many people do not want revolving credit, or want to just use it to smooth out balance spikes and for emergencies. The American tropes of carrying a large debt balance or maxing out cards (eg to launch a business) as financial strategies are viewed as somewhere between gambling and fraud by a lot of people.
Average price of a new vehicle in the US is $50,000. This is priced appropriately considering total cost of ownership delta against a combustion vehicle. Rivian needs more volume for prices to decline from manufacturing efficiency at scale.
> copy FSD instead
They are. It’s also subscription based, however.
(For what it’s worth, my friends with Rivian are fine with its phone interface. As are most people who own Tesla’s fine without CarPlay.)
Man, these "hot takes" on the impact of AI are all becoming so tiring. I'm especially sick of all these "code was always the easy part" missives I see everywhere now, mostly because I think they're flat out wrong.
As another comment said, "easy can still be time consuming". I've seen plenty of projects that were well defined take months in implementation time (and then still sometimes fail for technical reasons). But most importantly, if "code were the easy part", why were top programmers receiving kingly wages for over 20 years? Because business people knew the difference between a successful tech company and an also-ran usually was, in huge part, due to the quality of their software engineers. If "code was the easy part", then you go write Google Maps in 2005, or Netflix streaming in 2007, or self driving cars in 2010, or, heck, ChatGPT in 2022.
Sure, good code for a bad product still fails, but this revisionist history trying to pretend coding was so easy, so LLM-assisted coding tools won't have a big impact, is nauseating.
And the fact that the UIs are less responsive and have worse UX now.
> surprised that Canada doesn't seem to be talking about doing this
Canada could get the best of all worlds. Let Visa and Mastercard compete with Alipay and whatever the EU comes up with in the 2030s.
This is Twitter science, not reality.
Nothing about the Philippines in that.
Any time you get mad about a streaming service who seems to have changed music or a credits clip for a TV show or movie, this is basically why.
To get the rights to use things in technologies that didn't exist when the media was created, you often have to go back to everyone involved and get their permission. Sometimes they don't say yes, or they aren't findable, or just aren't alive, and it's not clear who owns the rights anymore.
This isn't as much of a problem with newer media, because contracts now specify what happens with new technologies, but old contracts were often limited to specific technologies.
> They are being exploited. They live in a lower cost-of-living country
So tech companies should be barred from hiring anyone outside the Bay Area? Because hiring someone in Texas or Arizona is necessarily exploitation?
What's interesting is how many things can be made to lase, and how many ways there are to do it. The list appears to be never ending and new entries are made all the time.
International drivers are allowed to drive on US roads as long as they have a valid license in their own country. In particular, Filipino drivers are allowed to drive on US roads without any extra paperwork.
But also, even in the USA, we have 51+ different licensing schemes in the US. We already accept that if you have a license in one place, it's good in all the places.
So eleven years ago someone put a backdoor in the Telnet daemon.
Who?
Where's the commit?
Waymo seems to be unnecessarily secretive about this. Why not let reporters visit the control centers? Zoox had the New York Times visit one a few years ago. It came out that there are about 1.5 support people per car. Nobody has a steering wheel. They hint to the cars by dropping "breadcrumbs" on screen.
It's well known that Bill Gates's favorite band is Weezer, so this feels unsurprising.
> Furthermore, once a structure is in place, there doesn't seem to be a trigger point that causes the LLM to step back and think about reorganising the code, or how the code it wants to write could be better integrated into what's already there.
Older models did do this, and it sucked. You'd ask for a change to your codebase and they would refactor a chunk of it and make a bunch of other unrelated "improvements" at the same time.
This was frustrating and made for code that was harder to review.
The latest generation of models appear to have been trained not to do that. You ask for a feature, they'll build that feature with the least changes possible to the code.
I much prefer this. If I want the code refactored I'll say to the model "look for opportunities to refactor this" and then it will start suggesting larger changes.
Not sure if this is an "oh, no" event.
So this goes into Vulkan. Then it has to ship with the OS. Then it has to go into intermediate layers such as WGPU. Which will probably have to support both old and new mode. Then it has to go into renderers. Which will probably have to support both old and new mode. Maybe at the top of the renderer you can't tell if you're in old or new mode, but it will probably leak through. In that case game engines have to know about this. Which will cause churn in game code.
And Apple will do something different, in Metal.
Unreal Engine and Unity have the staffs to handle this, but few others do. The Vulkan-based renderers which use Vulkan concurrency to get performance OpenGL can't deliver are few. Probably only Unreal Engine and Unity really exploit Vulkan properly.
Here's the top level of the Vulkan changes.[1] It doesn't look simple.
(I'm mostly grumbling because the difficulty and churn in Vulkan/WGPU has resulted in three abandoned renderers in Rust land through developer burnout. I'm a user of renderers, and would like them to Just Work.)
[1] https://docs.vulkan.org/refpages/latest/refpages/source/VK_E...
We need it all... oh, wait, you're not silicon... sluuuuuurrrrpp...
Robots may fill the gap. Really. It seems silly now, but give it twenty years. The developed world may end up with a modest human population and a large robotic population. Asimov explored that idea in SF decades ago.
The humans may still think they're in charge. They won't be.
You are selection biasing towards the most extreme cases of AI absurdity.
> GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 2.6 were released. Reviewers note they're struggling to find tasks the previous versions couldn't handle. The improvements are incremental at best.
I have not seen any claims of this other than Opus 4.6 being weirdly token-hungry.
It is your bank, I don't pay for transfers.
Maybe not a lot.
Showboat documents look neater if there are single one-line commands that do something useful. Dumping a full Playwright script into a cell is less readable.
Showboat also has a special feature where you can embed an image directly in the document by running:
showboat image doc.md 'rodney screenshot'
It may well turn out that Rodney is unnecessary and people find better patterns using Showboat with existing tools like playwright-cli - in which case it won't matter because Showboat and Rodney aren't coupled to each other at all.
Showboat is definitely the more significant of the two projects.
In this climate make sure you have a new job lined up before you quit your current one. Don't let on the slightest that you care what title you have because personally I would blackball anybody who talks like that.
> Don't use products from large US tech companies?
What does large have to do with it? Why do you think smaller companies are any more likely to resist? If anything, they have even less resources to go to court.
And why do you think other countries are any better? If you use a French provider, and they get a French judicial requisition or letters rogatory, then do you think the outcome is going to be any different?
I mean sure if you're avoiding ICE specifically, then using anything non-American is a start. But similarly, in you're in France and want to protect yourself, then using products from American companies without a presence in France is similarly a good strategy.
I don't know if this will help, but I believe that all of mathematics arises from an underlying fundamental structure to the universe and that this results in it both being "discoverable" (rather than invented) and "useful" (as in helpful for describing, expressing and calculating things).
The few people that I've known with private nannies (usually au pairs) have had only one and also each had 3 or more (up to 6) kids.
As always, the only two positive things about WebGL and WebGPU, are being available on browsers, and having been designed for managed languages.
They lag behind modern hardware, and after almost 15 years, there are zero developer tools to debug from browser vendors, other than the oldie SpectorJS that hardly counts.
Or like Vitamin C. There aren’t side effects to fixing a vitamin deficiency. This increasingly, to me, looks like that. (There are absolutely bad effects from overdoing it.)
The simple model of an "intelligence explosion" is the obscure equation
dx 2
-- = x
dt
1
x = -----
C-t
dx
-- = x
dt
Like the exponential growth equation it is unphysical as well as unecological because it doesn't describe the limits of the Petri dish, and if you start adding realistic terms to slow the growth it qualitatively isn't that different from the logistic growth equation
dx
-- = (1-x) x
dt
For me, it really is a wonder drug. My blood test results were stellar when the drug worked for me. Unfortunately, with me, it either works and I get side effects, or it doesn't work at all. I feel minimal effects (and almost no weight loss) even on a 10mg dose.
Phew, so we won't have to deal with the Year 2038 Unix timestamp roll over after all.
You can setup ACH for a number of Google services; Cloud, Workspace, the Play Store.
Don't forget collapsing testosterone rates: https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...
I don't know what the explanation is, but I find your's implausible: "Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe that their children will have good lives, then will they have them." I think that might be true in certain bubbles, but I don't think that explains why the fertility rate has collapsed just as much in Scandinavian countries that have the highest reported happiness ratings in the world.
See the discussion of alignment in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great
which can be summarized as "You have alignment because your business makes sense, you can't paint alignment on to your business as an afterthought" Go read the book though because Collins says it very well.
I think your motivation is wrong.
I don't know if it came from my work getting a PhD or from my work in startups [1] or earlier than that but I think any side project that "hasn't been done before" is not worth doing. For me any side project has to be something I can demo to an audience that, with a dash of showmanship, will knock their socks off.
For instance I knew a machine-learning based RSS reader was possible in 2004 and almost 20 years later it hurt that nobody else had made one, so I made one. I got interested in heart-rate variability and couldn't understand why I couldn't find any web-based HRV apps that used the BTLE API so I made
https://gen5.info/demo/biofeedback/
I wrote the prototype of that using Junie, the agent built into IntelliJ IDEA. I had a lot of anxiety because how do if I know if I coded it wrong or if the Windows Bluetooth stack is just being the Windows Bluetooth stack? The fact that I couldn't find public examples that could connect to a heart rate monitor made me wonder if there was a showstopper problem; what if I invest hours in study the documentation and "it just doesn't work?"
With Junie I had something up and running in 20 minutes that I understood and was ready to continue the development of. Now I can study the documentation and experiment with things and not have the fear I'm going to get stuck.
If you're making things that make no different like another TCP/IP stack and another compiler and another database and another editor no wonder you have been working on it for decades and have nothing public to show for it. You could have made an implementation of any of those things that was unique and different and shipped it which requires and entirely different kind of craftsmanship (if you use AI or not) and leaves you with a very different kind of feeling in the end.
[1] like oil and water in most people's mind, but like peanut butter and jelly in my mind.
Another "xyz" domain that doesn't resolve on my network.
I was amazed to see that David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca.
It started as Testing on the Toilet, which was an effort to get people to actually care about unit-testing their code and software quality and writing maintainable code that doesn't break in 6 months. Later was expanded to Learning on the Loo, general tips and tricks, and then Testing on the Toilet became Tech on the Toilet. It's been going on for a good 20 years now, so that's about 1000 articles (they change them out weekly) and there aren't really 1000 articles you can write about unit testing.
The insight is actually pretty similar to Google's core business model: when you're going to the bathroom, there isn't a whole lot else you're doing, so it's the perfect time to put up a 2-3 minute read to reinforce a message that you want people to hear but might not get attention for otherwise.
Not entirely. Sperm counts in young men have been falling for decades. No one is sure why.
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.)