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British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time (cbc.ca)
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I would have preferred permanent standard time to permanent daylight time. But I accept I'm in the minority, and even permanent daylight time is far superior to changing clocks twice a year.
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My dream world is everyone using 24 hour clocks set to UTC
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Sounds good on paper, terrible idea in practice.
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My dream world would have 86400 time zones, one per arc-second of the globe, so we can all sync our clocks at high noon.
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Wow we finally did it
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I won't complain about the NDP for at least 3 days after this one. This is cause for celebration!
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!
America's Ranks of Immigrant Truckers Find a Roadblock: English Tests (wsj.com)
Worth noting that America does not have an official language. Trump tried to declare one via an executive order last year, which is likely not legal, like most of his executive orders. I think imposing an English test is a bit arbitrary and not inline with the culture of America, which is to be a welcoming melting pot. That said, unrelated to language, it does seem like there is a lot of fraud in the testing and licensing of commercial drivers. I’ve seen videos where investigations showed a sophisticated scheme of fake testers filling in for the actual driver.
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Worth noting that America does not have an official language I know this will not be a HN aligned comment but all of the street signs are in US English. That is what drivers are tested on. I do not blame the drivers, I blame whoever told the DMV to license these people illegally. They need to be fired and their agency fined for all the damages they have caused. An empty big-rig (tractor + trailer) can be around 35,000 pounds. Loaded can be up to 80,000 pounds. The person or AI behind the wheel absolutely must be the most qualified person on the road and better ace any test or reading and comprehension test related to road regulations and signs. They need not recite Shakespeare but they better know what ever sign means at a minimum.
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Federal Law 49 CFR § 391.11(b)(2), part of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). > a CDL driver must be able to: > read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, respond to official inquiries, and make entries on reports and records required to be kept.
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I do not like the idea of throwing up road blocks solely to make life harder for any group of people. It seams many times laws and regulations are made for purposes other than the ones stated by supporters. So, the following is more of a general observation. I like that the US does not have an official language. It might be worth noting that someone driving on US roads is going to see mostly English on signs and in the event that they need to speak to someone (road blocks, traffic stops, weigh stations, etc.) it will likely be spoken English. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English . It might be worth making English something to have to know to be a commercial driver.
SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material (reuters.com)
If SCOTUS is saying that AI works, even those co-authored by humans, are not eligible for copyright/patenting; Doesn't that mean any code-base that uses AI generated code does not have an implicit copyright holder? And thus even the human constructor does not have the right to apply any license [closed/open] onto it whatsoever?
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Given how the models were trained for coding, every single code base that uses any code generated by an LLM should be required to be open sourced, or at least source available. I'm not saying there is currently a legal president to enforce this, I'm saying ethically it make sense.
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> If SCOTUS is saying that AI works, even those co-authored by humans, are not eligible for copyright/patenting; They aren't. The copyright office isn't either. Everybody is very explictly saying that if you use say Sora to generate an image and you apply for a copyright with "Sora" as the author it'll be denied. Same as if you apply for a copyright with "My Dog" as the author. Authors must be humans and if you do not fill the author field out with a human it's denied. This has nothing to do with the tool used to create the art work.
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This would only apply if the codebase were 100% vibe coded. If there is human input - as there is in code, with the role of the software engineer, then it falls into another category for the sake of copyright arguments. And the way it works is copyright is granted automatically and only revoked/denied through litigation.
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> Doesn't that mean any code-base that uses AI generated code does not have an implicit copyright holder? And thus even the human constructor does not have the right to apply any license [closed/open] onto it whatsoever? besides copyright, source code also can be protected as a trade secret.
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For a company with any decent number of people with access to the code base, extremely difficult to maintain that type of protection.
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I mean trade secret as a legal protection: code is declared as trade secret. Then if employee leaks it, and other company uses it, it can be sued.
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It is not that simple. To have that protection, it needs to be treated (and protected) like an actual secret. It’s why the nominal ‘top secret’ coke formula is stored in a giant vault. If everyone at the company has access (and it’s a big company), good luck having that protection.
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claude says one needs to take "reasonable steps", which includes asking employee to sign NDA, setting access control, and putting TRADE SECRET disclosure in source files: https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/12/02/fourth-circuit-clarifies-reasonable-efforts-standard-dtsa-trade-secret-protection/
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That's the position I came to based on these rulings, or lack thereof. I think of all the reasons open source shouldn't accept AI created code is that it can't be protected, and that has the potential to threaten the whole project. OpenClaw, for instance has an MIT license [0], but, per the creators own words, they didn't even review the code. OpenClaw isn't MIT licensed, the MIT license relies on copyright, and because there was not even human review of the majority of the code, no substantial human input, that code base can't be copyrighted. No need to steal AI code, it doesn't belong to anyone. [0] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme
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Hopefully.
A case for Go as the best language for AI agents (getbruin.com)
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I wonder if this is why there's been a huge uptick in the visibility of Go related content. I've seen more posts about Go in the last few days then I had in the last year.
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Every agent I've seen in Go has been so straightforward. Take exe.dev's Shelley. Great example of clean code and very effective tooling. Worth a try if you haven't used it.
In this thread, people who like Go talking about how good Go is
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Because it IS good, even if you don't like it.
I've been saying this for maybe nine months vis-à-vis my consulting work keeps proving it. Go is an excellent language for LLM code generation. There exists a large stable training corpus, one way to write it, one build system, one formatter, static typing, CSP concurrency that doesn't have C++ footguns. The language hasn't had a breaking version in over a decade. There's minimal framework churn. When I advise teams to adopt agentic coding workflows at my consultancy [0], Go delivers highly consistent results via Claude and Codex regularly and more often than working with clients using TypeScript and/or Python. When LLMs have to navigate Python and TypeScript there is a massive combinatorial space of frameworks, typing approaches, and utility libraries. Too much optionality in the training distribution. The output is high entropy and doesn't converge. Python only dominated early AI coding because ML researchers write Python and trained on Python first. It was path dependence, not merit.\ The thing nobody wants to say is that the reason serious programmers historically hated Go is exactly why LLMs are great at it: There's a ceiling on abstraction. Go has many many failings (e.g. it took over a decade to get generics). But LLMs don't care about expressiveness, they care about predictability. Go 1.26 just shipped a completely rewritten go fix built on the analysis framework that does AST-level refactoring automatically. That's huge for agentic coding because it keeps codebases modern without needing the latest language features in training data or wasting tokens looking up new signatures. I spent four years building production public key infrastructure in Golang before LLMs [1]. After working coding agents like everyone else and domain-switching for clients - I've become more of a Go advocate because the language finally delivers on its promise. Engineers have a harder time complaining about the verbose and boilerplate syntax when an LLM does it correctly every single time. [0]: https://sancho.studio [1]: https://github.com/zoom/zoom-e2e-whitepaper
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Most of these reasons apply to Java as much, if not more. It's an even more popular language with even more training data and also has a better type system so more validation on LLM output, etc.
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Certainly not the "one way to write it" idea. Java has a ton of language features.
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Except that Go is a simpler, smaller language than Java. That's one of the key points in the post.
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I wonder what people will say to that. I personally think neither Go nor Java would be good for "agents". Better to have them sandboxed in WASM.
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> But LLMs don't care about expressiveness, they care about predictability. I think this is true, but it misses a very key point. Go does an impressively bad job at designing APIs that are difficult to misuse, so LLMs will misuse them and will require also writing unit tests to walk through it, just to validate it used the libraries correctly. This isn't always possible (or is awkward/cumbersome) for certain scenarios like database querues. All of the reasons people argue Go is good for LLMs are more true for Rust. You and the LLM can design libraries to be difficult to misuse, and then get instant feedback from the compiler to the LLM about what it did wrong, and often with suggestions about how it should fix them! This also makes RL deriving from compiler feedback more effective. This allows the LLMs to reason more abstractly at larger scales, since the abstractions are less leaky (unlike in Go). The ceiling on abstraction screws you here, since troubleshooting requires more deep diving. It's the same reason Go projects become difficult for humans at large scales, too.
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Rust is unstable and slow to compile. I think these two features make it bad for LLMs and everything else.
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Rust is harder for the bot to get "wrong" in the sense of running-but-does-the-wrong-thing, but it's far less stable than Go and LLMs frequently output Rust that straight up doesn't compile.
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> Python only dominated early AI coding because ML researchers write Python and trained on Python first. It was path dependence, not merit. Python doesn’t need dependence to prove its merit. There’s a reason why it is one the major programming languages and was top 1 for a while.
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A lot of those pros apply to c# as well. Which claude and gemeni both do very well with.
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Or Java, for that matter.
Yeah, I don't care for go but I expect it to win here. Its performance is good enough for most use cases, it has a huge ecosystem of libraries, lots of training data, and deploys as a binary so users don't need to install anything else. I expect rust to gain some market share since it's safe and fast, with a better type system, but complex enough that many developers would struggle by themselves. But IME AI also struggles with the manual memory management currently in large projects and can end up hacking things that "work" but end up even slower than GC. So I think the ecosystem will grow, but even once AI masters it, the time and tokens required for planning, building, testing will always exceed that of a GC language, so I don't see it ever usurping go, at least not in the next decade. I wish the winner would be OCaml, as it's got the type safety of rust (or better), and the development speed of Go. But for whatever reason it never became that mainstream, and the lack of libraries and training data will probably relegate it to the dustbin. Basically, training data and libraries >>> operational characteristics >>> language semantics in the AI world. I have a hard time imagining any other language maintaining a solid advantage over those two. There's less need for a managed runtime, definitely no need for an interpreted language, so I imagine Java and Python will slowly start to be replaced. Also I have to imagine C/C++ will be horrible for AI for obvious reasons. Of course JS will still be required for web, Swift for iOS, etc., but for mainstream development I think it's going to be Rust and Go.
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> But for whatever reason it never became that mainstream Syntax. Syntax is the reason. It's too foreign to be picked up quickly by the mass of developers that already know a C style language. I would also argue that it's not only foreign, it's too clunky.
Have yet to find a better choice than OCaml: - Strongly typed, including GADTs and various flavors of polymorphism, but not as inscrutable as Haskell - (Mostly) pure functions, but multiple imperative/OO escape hatches - The base language is surprisingly simple - Very fast to build/test (the bytecode target, at least) - Can target WASM/JS - All code in a file is always evaluated in order, which means it has to be defined in order. Circular dependencies between functions or types have to be explicitly called out, or build fails. I should add, it's also very fun to work with as a human! Finding refactors with pure code that's this readable is a real joy.
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How's the multicore and async story these days? I remember that was one of the big draws of F# originally, that it had all (or, most of) the type safety features of OCaml but all the mutlicore of dotnet. (Plus it created async before even C# had it). Has OCaml caught up?
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OCaml has full multicore support with algebraic effects now. The effect system makes things like async very nice as there's no function "coloring" problem: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-0-0-is-out/10974 But I don't believe the effects are tracked in the type system yet, but that's on it way.
I think the more you can shift to compile time the better when it comes to agents. Go is therefore 'ok', but the type system isn't as useful as other options. I would say Rust is quite good for just letting something churn through compiler errors until it works, and then you're unlikely to get runtime errors. I haven't tried Haskell, but I assume that's even better.
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I absolutely love Rust, but due to the space it occupies there is simply more to specify in code, and more things to get wrong for a stochastic LLM. Lifetimes are a global property and LLMs are not particularly good at reasoning about them compared to local ones. Most applications don't need low level memory control, so this complexity is better pushed to runtime. There are lots of managed languages with good/even stronger type systems than Rust, paired with a good modern GC.
I think Rust is great for agents, for a reason that is rarely mentioned: unit tests are in the same file. This means that agents just "know" they should update the tests along with the source. With other languages, whether it's TypeScript/Go/Python, even if you explicitly ask agents to write/run tests, after a while agents just forget to do that, unless they cause build failures. You have to constantly remind them to do that as the session goes. Never happens with Rust in my experience.
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Unit tests in the same file wastes context and makes the whole thing hard to navigate for humans and machines alike.
Calling a programming language without dependent types king of type safety is comical. Does one get paid well to post these advertisements for Rust?
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I’m not sure they’re saying rust is king of types, they’re saying it’s king of llm targets.
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Isn’t dependent types replicating the object oriented inheritance problem in the type system?
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No, unless you mean the problem of over-engineering? In which case, yes, that is a realistic concern. In the real world, tests are quite often more than good enough. And since they are good enough they end up covering all the same cases a half-assed type system is able to assert anyway by virtue of the remaining logic needing to be tested, so the type system doesn't become all that important in the first place. A half-assed type system is helpful for people writing code by hand. Then you get things like the squiggly lines in your editor and automated refactoring tools, which are quite beneficial for productivity. However, when an LLM is writing code none of that matters. It doesn't care one bit if the failure reports comes from the compiler or the test suite. It is all the same to it. What you most certainly don't get in Rust is this magical idea that keeps getting repeated that if it compiles, your program is verified. Its type system is nowhere near sufficient for that.
This is quite sad to see someone react to a comment they disagree with by assuming that different opinion is paid for. I'd love it if you dug into my comment history and found even a shred of evidence that I'm being paid to talk positively about my programming language of choice. I hope there aren't many of your type on here.
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All comments are paid for in some way, even if only in "warm fuzzies". If that is sad, why are you choosing to be sad? But outlandish comments usually require greater payment to justify someone putting in the effort. If you're not being paid well, what's the motivation to post things you know don't make any sense to try and sell a brand?
"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) (starlightconvenience.net)
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Interesting. Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
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Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
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https://qntm.org/mmacevedo , for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
I usually don't leave this kind of comments, but I really can't read yellow text on dark red background for more than 20 seconds.
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Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal (bbc.com)
> free-market capitalism and multiparty democracy has created an unprecedented era of prosperity can you prove that it's free-market capitalism and multiparty democracy? because i see this opinion espoused a lot online.
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Can you prove it's not? At this point if anyone wants to propose an alternative then the burden of proof is on them. So far everything else that we've tried has failed disastrously.
Well, thats what "free markets" (tm) allow you to do (-:
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For the downvoters, I do not know why: This is actually percisely one of the main ingredients of a "(whatever) free market" - to put in a contract what you want as long as it is not against the law. ?
The "we invented this really cool product, but minimum production batch is 5000 unities and we need money for the tooling investment" is the right way to use crowdfunding. People get the product, or the company missed something and goes bankrupt. The "I have a software proof of concept, but I need money to make it usable" is also a good way, with a lot more certainty of outcome, but it's one that doesn't strictly require crowdfunding. And the author better publish what he has at the end of the funding. All those variations of you getting equity or repayment are just bad.
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I always wanted “The Pilot Bay” where you could download a pilot episode or concept trailer for a movie and crowdfund it for public release
Is it still in business? My very limited experience makes it seem like the places that mix share ownership with discounts don't survive.
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They had ups and downs of course. The tourism industry can turn sour during a downturn as you might understand. But they weathered for 40 or so years until a bear killed a handler in the summer of 2017 at their wildlife park. This effectively killed the entire park business and forced a major reconstruction. A former major bank CEO offered to buy it wholesale and took it fully private via majority buy-out.
Right, just like all of those people who put their money into Brewdog and then got nothing for it, while the larger investors potentially got made whole. It's almost like there's two classes of investors or something - common people, and then another smaller set - a club, say - that the common people are not part of. You do not have access to the investments or financial instruments that the ultrawealthy do. Your investments are not like their investments, your returns are not their returns, the rules and regulations you face are not the ones they face. They are playing a different game than you, even when they're doing it with your money.
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No equity holders got anything out of the liquidation - whether big or small [1]. Preference shares are just as worthless as common stock if there isn’t enough money to cover debt, tax bills, employee statuary entitlements/outstanding pay, bank loans, etc. [1] https://littlelaw.co.uk/p/the-1-billion-brewdog-deal-that-left-everyone-empty-handed
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> No equity holders got anything out of the liquidation - whether big or small This statement is not supported by the link you posted, nor any other reporting I've seen on the matter. What I have seen is that TSG is senior to all of the other equity holders, so if there's money to be had, they're getting it before the small holders. Also from your link: > TSG was promised an 18% compound return on its investment (which means the amount they’re owed grows by 18% each year, with each year building on the last). > TSG’s preference shares entitle it to an 18% compound return on its £213 million investment. That return has snowballed over time. By 2024, it had grown to around £801 million. I can't say for sure, but I don't believe those terms were available to the average investor.
The craft brewing industry became over-saturated. I also think product has suffered. I seem to remember more interesting and very good beers available. Like, where did all the fabulous Gose varieties go? It seems like everything available today is a hazy IPA or a basic lager. There used to be such a breadth of flavors. The other child comments about GLP-1 is also correct. That also seems to be a source of the protein craze going on right now. The average person is pretty clueless about diet and their doctor told them to get XX grams of protein per meal, and fast food cafes and establishments adapted to those dietary instructions. Also, the brewpub culture is becoming TGI Fridays-ified. TGI Friday’s was a trendy singles bar for boomers at the time, now it’s a watered down boring family restaurant, just like many craft breweries which are stroller-fests. I don’t even know what Gen Alpha/younger Gen Z is up to. Staying inside online? Maybe going more out to party oriented clubs rather than mellow brewpubs? Finally, anyone into indie beers knows that brewdog has been corporate suckage for years.
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I'm convinced the "craft beer" industry settled on IPAs not due to genuine consumer demand, but rather manufacturer demand for IPAs because IPAs are more tolerant of faults in the brewing process and therefore have lower production costs (less wastage.) This is because when an IPA turns out particularly poorly, it can be bottled anyway and if anybody points out that it tastes like silty skunk ass (all my homebrews, BTW) some nearby IPA enthusiast will be sure to scoff that the complainant just can't handle the hops.
It's still illegal in the US too.
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Federally but the feds don't enforce it. And it being legal in so many states has made it broadly available to anybody that wants it, one road trip to another state is very easy and almost seems normal compared to needing to know a "dealer."
Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage (9to5mac.com)
I've been wondering about this failed Apple Intelligence project, but the more I think of it, Apple can afford to sit and wait. In 5 years we're going to have Opus 4.6-level performance on-device, and Apple is the only company that stands to benefit from it. Nobody wants to be sending EVERY request to someone else's cloud server.
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If the goal was as much to establish a trademark for "Apple Intelligence" as anything else then it wasn't a failure.
I do love that feature. As a parent I'm part of multiple group chat for different things. And it's nice to have a single summary instead of reading 50+ unread messages.
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I find there's more times that it summarizes a single message to something more convoluted than times it catches me up. It would at least be nice if they could do some basic attempts to detect scam texts, because I frequently see AI message summaries about supposed $2000 purchases made on my Amazon account, usually worded more eloquently than the original message.
Being able to search photos with queries like "show me photos of me and teeray" is pretty useful. What I really want is my phone to transcribe all of my phone calls to a Notes document. Since it isn't recording an audio conversation, I don't think the consent laws come into play.
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A decade ago this didn't require LLMs and cutting edge hardware and a trillion dollars of GPUs. This was a Facebook feature in like 2012. >What I really want is my phone to transcribe all of my phone calls to a Notes document This has been doable for decades . Why haven't you done it? My Pixel phones did this with voicemail before LLMs. Windows Vista shipped with full featured dictation functionality, and it works better than you would expect, all local, all using classical algorithms, all evaluated cheaply. If it wasn't accurate enough, Dragon speech to text tools were gold standard for most of modern computing history, and greatly surpassed the accuracy of that built in system. BTW, you can, on any Windows machine right now , access that built in voice recognition, and with a "Constrained vocabulary", say if you only want a few specific voice commands, it gets near perfect accuracy constantly. You have to search for old documentation now because Microsoft wants to hide that you don't need an internet connection or an Azure account and monthly bill to ship accurate voice recognition with your app. It's trivial to use, from both C++ and C#, and anything else that allows you to invoke native code, and the workflow is easy enough to understand. I built an app to utilize it instead of buying one of those $10 "Voice control your game" apps to add voice control to ARMA, and it was easier to implement the voice recognition than it was to copy and paste native code invocations for the Win32 api to inject keystrokes. I don't even write C# code in general. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ms723627(v=vs.85) There's tons of documentation about "Grammar" and configuration but the default configuration IIRC is to just turn speech input into text, and do so with at least 85% accuracy, even without the user actually training the recognizer to their voice. If you build context specific grammars or a hierarchical grammar to support a real UX that isn't just hoping some code knows how to interpret raw speech you will get dramatically better recognition performance. This is IMO a frequent pattern. Time and time again the people who keep saying "I want LLMs to do X" don't seem to be aware that "X" was a robust and mature area of research decades ago! They don't seem to be aware that you could already do X and even buy ready to go software for that purpose! Often enough the LLM version is an outright regression in functionality, as things that were doable with a single microchip in 1960 now require an internet connection. >Since it isn't recording an audio conversation, So to be clear, you want this functionality explicitly to bypass law? Federally and in 39ish states, you only need your own consent anyway.
Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts (govbase.com)
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Overall I love it, my biggest critisism so far is that the impact score seems overly opinionated and overly broad in some cases. For example, https://govbase.com/policy/fr-2026-03380 lists on the policy page as positively affecting "Snap Food Stamps" which doesn't seem to be relevant although I don't have pro to see the reasoning.
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What's the recommended way to consume this with other ai? What kind of api is available?
I think they pretty much do, it’s just not recorded as such in an easily retrievable format.
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From what I understand, it depends on the stage. The United States Code certainly tracks any and all amendments, and you can fully trace which member introduced which amendment, when and where it passed, and even verbatim floor debate. However, the draft stage isn't documented this way. Members negotiate whatever between themselves (well, really their staffers) and this happens over email, in discussions, via Word documents - whatever works. I guess in the git metaphor, drafts are in flux while being worked on as a commit, and are squashed and then accessible as such squashed commits once initially introduced or whenever they lead to bill amendments. You can't necessarily track down what member was responsible for a specific sentence in an amendment.
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The thing is that there is a voting process eventually so it can at least in principle be known which version is proposed by which legislator, or which committee.
Why does Forbes post intentionally misleading charts? The one for Bluesky goes from 9M DAU -> 3.5M DAU The one for X goes from 149M DAU -> 128M DAU Yet, the Y axis of both charts are wildly out of proportion to make it look like they are equivalent, which is also implied by the headline but clearly not true.
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Also, neither is zero based, making a 60% drop (bluesky) and a 15% drop (x) look comparable.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
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Prior Labs Building foundation models that understand tabular data, bringing next-generation AI capabilities to the world's most valuable data format. We are hiring across the board scientist, engineers, and go-to-market. Backed by Balderton Capital, XTX Ventures and top AI leaders from HuggingFace, Google Deepmind, Black Forest Labs, Snyk, AtScale, Silo AI. Check out our jobs page here https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prior-labs
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Level | Senior Frontend Engineer | REMOTE (US + international with US-ET overlap) | https://level.io Level builds a modern Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) platform for IT teams and Managed Service Providers. We help IT professionals monitor devices, automate workflows, remotely support users, and leverage AI to operate more efficiently. We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help us ship faster, including many features requested by our community. You’ll work on real-time device management interfaces, remote control (WebRTC), visual automation workflows, and UI for AI-powered features. Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and GraphQL preferred. We are actively filling this role and will respond to applicants. Details and how to apply: https://level.io/careers/senior-frontend-engineer
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Radar Labs | Software Engineers (SRE, data platform, backend, full-stack, mobile) | Remote (US), NYC | Full Time | https://radar.com - Radar is the geo-location dev tool - Doing 1B+ API calls per day - Our main languages are Rust and TypeScript, we also use mobile and offline pipeline languages (Python, Scala, and Terraform). - We're based in NYC with our HQ in Union Square and remote friendly (US) Interesting things we're working on: - HorizonDB, our Geospatial database written in Rust - Precise indoor location more accurate than iOS and Android leveraging Ultra-Wideband, other mobile sensors and ML. - Extracting raw map data from satellite maps and the web leveraging ML and AI - Anomaly detection to identify spoofed locations - Mobile infrastructure that automatically configures itself optimizing battery-life and location accuracy for different use-cases over time - Multi-Region AWS K8s deployment, 99.99%+ availability - Frontend tools to visualize and debug location data at scale Check out our jobs page here: https://radar.com/jobs#jobs If you have any questions, feel free to reply here or you can e-mail me at tim@radar.com
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Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend. We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers. We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly. We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time). Website: https://vantage.sh/ Learn More: https://www.vantage.sh/careers
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Cradle ( https://cradle.bio ) | Scientific Software Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite | Full-time We're an AI platform for protein engineering (customers include Novo Nordisk, J&J, Grifols). We run our own wet lab in Amsterdam to generate training data for our ML models and to build the automation playbook we share openly with the field. We're hiring a software engineer to work embedded with our bioengineering team. You'd build things like: computer vision pipelines for colony picking, interfaces for lab automation workcells, integrations between lab instruments and Benchling. Python, APIs, databases, some frontend. No PhD or biotech background needed. You'll pick up the biology. We care about solid engineering skills and curiosity about working at the intersection of software and hardware. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cradlebio/7a4f7d2d-714e-4c01-84bb-9e637c730ca2
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Courted ( https://courted.io ) | Senior Backend Engineer | NYC (In-Office 3-4 days) | Python/Django We're building AI-powered recruiting and market intelligence for real estate — an industry that moves $100B+ in annual commissions and still runs on spreadsheets and cold calls. Our backend ingests data from dozens of sources, processes millions of records daily through Celery pipelines, and serves real-time analytics via a Django REST API backed by PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Integrations with OpenAI, HubSpot, Twilio, and MLS data providers. Sub-second response requirements at scale. Stack: Python, Django/DRF, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Celery, Redis, AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda). Looking for 5+ years backend experience, strong SQL optimization chops, and comfort with AI coding tools. LLM integration experience is a plus. Early-stage, high-growth SaaS. Small team, ship fast. Fully covered health/dental/vision, 401k, generous PTO. Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4375275058
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Small & Stealthy | Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Flexible We’re a small team in stealth. Opinionated stack: - PocketBase backend - Next.js frontend - VPS infrastructure we manage ourselves - Bash scripts that Slack us when things catch fire No Jira. No standups. No corporate theater. Async-first. Quick huddles only when necessary. During interviews: camera once, then never again. We need one high-agency human who: - Ships fast and takes full ownership - Actually understands how to use agentic LLMs to multiply output - Is comfortable on raw Linux servers (cron, logs, 5xx debugging, etc.) - Prefers getting things done over process - TDD-first: Pytest + Playwright to verify PocketBase and Next.js code You will own infra, backend, frontend and dev velocity. Email: gettingthingsdone@pindush.net (Burner. We'll reply from a different address.)
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Adaptive | Utrecht/Amsterdam, NL | Software Engineering | https://www.adaptive.live/ Adaptive is building a platform for enterprise AI infrastructure. Our current identity security platform is used by various fintech, regulated, and banking customers. We're hiring a software engineer who is passionate about enterprise security, kubernetes, infrastructure, cloud automation, etc. There are other opportunities that can be found here: https://adaptive.live/careers
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Bubblehouse | Fully REMOTE | Full-Time | $200–250k | Principal Engineer Bubblehouse is a fast-growing custom loyalty platform, tripling the revenue each year. Headquartered in NYC, the entire team is fully remote and spread across the globe. We power loyalty programs for brands like American Girl and Old Spice. We’re expanding our lean team of extremely experienced developers. Companies are switching from other platforms thanks to the customizations and flexibility that we offer, enabled by our pace and technical excellence, which we intend to keep for years to come. We run on Golang and use custom data storage on top of local key-value stores, colocating the storage and compute on dedicated hardware servers, and reading data directly from mmap’ed pages of the database. Ever came across HN saying that one can run Twitter on a single machine these days? We’re doing that in production. Zero lines of React, almost zero third-party dependencies (carefully vetted), every line of JavaScript manually written with respect and understanding of the web platform. We render HTML server-side like it’s 2005. Looking for: 1. Top to bottom understanding of the software stack, from the modern-ish web platform to CPU caches. 2. Thinking and problem solving outside the box. (We don’t _always_ go for unconventional solutions, but we do it often enough to require a person who can do justice considering the entire problem space at every step.) 3. Demonstrated ability and hunger to learn new things quickly. (Every month we’re doing things we have never done before.) 4. Broad experience across multiple programming paradigms, platforms and software stacks. 5. Demonstrated care for the software craftsmanship (which can take many forms). 6. Great spoken English, and ability to communicate 9am to noon in New York time zone. We give you a literally fast-paced environment (with features delivered in days) where you need to solve very challenging problems with practical advanced technology, take on entrenched market leaders, and help entrepreneurs across small and large businesses delight their fans. Send a plain text cover letter to andrey+hiring@bubblehouse.com. Help us see how you stand out. Summarize your experience. Link to 1–5 impressive things you’ve built and proud of, link to where we can see some of your code, include your portfolio/CV, describe the platforms and stacks you’re an expert in. How did you start programming? What are you most passionate about in technology? What are the most interesting or weird things you’ve done? What are your strongest held professional opinions? Please make your email easy to read, we’ll appreciate that. (If you have applied before, no need to re-apply, we’ll reach out.)
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
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Location: Greater New York Area Remote: Yes (US-based) Willing to relocate: No Services: Healthcare data engineering, Clinical data pipelines, AI/ML integrations, Cloud architecture, Full-stack development, Technical Discovery About Me: I'm Karan Krishnani, an independent software consultant with almost 20 years of experience. For the last several years I've been focused on healthcare tech, building HIPAA-compliant data pipelines, clinical analytics infrastructure, and AI applications for organizations like Tuva Health, NYU Langone, and VA.gov. I work best as a fractional embedded team member for healthtech companies that need senior technical help without a full-time hire. Technologies: Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java | Frontend: React/Next.js, TailwindCSS | Backend: Node.js/Express, Django, GraphQL | Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Vercel, Supabase | Data: Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, DuckDB, Tuva Data Model | AI/ML: RAG pipelines, OpenAI, Vector Stores, Hugging Face | Other: Docker, Terraform, DataDog, Git Recent work: Tuva Health (Principal Architect, HEDIS quality measurement platform, millions of patient records), KeyWell (HEDIS measure logic in Databricks), NYU Langone (provider scheduling), VA.gov (AI chatbot). Résumé/CV: https://karankrishnani.com/resume LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karan-krishnani Email: karan.krishnani@gmail.com
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Location: Zürich, Switzerland, Europe/EU Remote: Nice to see. Worldwide okay, depending on arrangement. Willing to relocate: Poland/Switzerland, optionally China, but depends on the offer. Technologies: Strong with distributed systems, networking (SD-WAN, VPN, ZTNA), authorization systems, web/network security and more. Backend: Rust, Typescript, Python, C#, Go and a variety of other interpreted and compiled languages. Frontend: React, Angular, Tailwind and so on. Relational and document databases. Data analytics. AWS and Azure. China specialist and interpreter, can speak German. Résumé/CV: https://sowinski.blue/files/cv.pdf Email: igor at sowinski.blue I have 9+ years of experience as a software engineer and technology-oriented China specialist. Based in Switzerland. I have designed and implemented a large part of internal production systems at a well-known international printing company, and currently develop zero-trust solutions at a Swiss networking company. I've been engaged with China since 2015. In 2020, I've started a degree in Chinese Studies at the University of Zürich. In 2024, I have finished a scholarship at the BFSU, the best language university in China. I have interpreted between Polish, English and Mandarin Chinese for the Polish Trade & Investment Agency at the Polish-Chinese Economic Forum in Shanghai (see pics on LinkedIn). I also keep tabs on technology and Chinese cybersecurity laws through Chinese sources and keep in touch with open source enthusiasts based in Mainland China and in Taiwan.
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Location: Calgary, Canada (UTC-7) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Flask, Django) / Typescript (React, Vue, Angular.js) / Ruby / Node.js / GCP / SQL Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ECJiaqv-m-se_S0kwS1-zP3pds7HjXuk/view?usp=drive_link Email: bennerguy@gmail.com I'm more than happy to learn a new language or two. I've worked with AI since 2018 at a variety of startups, but I'm equally comfortable with non-AI work.
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Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm a CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product and my team bootstrapped a data pipeline using Spark, Databricks, and microservices built with Java, Python, and Scala. At ATTN:, I re-built an ETL Kubernetes stack, including data loaders and extractors that handle >10,000 API payload extractions daily. I created SOPs for managing data interoperability with Facebook Marketing, Facebook Graph, Instagram Graph, Google DFP, Salesforce, etc. More recently, I was the CTO and co-founder of a gaming startup. We raised over $6M and I was in charge of building out a team of over a dozen remote engineers and designers, with a breadth of experience ranging from Citibank, to Goldman Sachs, to Microsoft. I moved on, but retain significant equity and a board seat. I am also a minority owner of a coffee shop in northern Spain. That I'm a top-tier developer goes without saying. I'm interested in flexing my consulting muscle and can help with best practices, architecture, and hiring. Would love to connect even if it's just for networking! Blog: https://ai.dvt.name/whos-david/ (under construction) GitHub: https://github.com/dvx Email: [david].[titarenco]@[gmail].[com]
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Location: USA Remote: Yes (remote-first) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Electron, React Native, Expo, Capacitor, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, Python, GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, SQLite, Supabase, SQL, Drizzle, AWS, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, Docker, CI/CD, Heroku, Vercel, Figma, UI, UX, Design Systems Resume/CV: https://travisbumgarner.dev (PDF available) Email: travis.bumgarner@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/travisbumgarner Senior / Staff-level product engineer with ~12 years of experience building and shipping production software. Strong frontend focus with deep full-stack experience. I’ve led zero-to-one builds, shipped high-reliability systems, real-time collaborative tools, and large-scale search (1.6M+ searches/month). Comfortable owning architecture, product, UI/UX, and execution end-to-end. Looking for Senior, Staff, Principal, or Founding Engineer roles at product-driven teams that value team health, self-starters, and high quality work.
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Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Next.js, TS/JS, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Mongodb, Stripe Resume: https://manhhung.app/resume.pdf Email: me [at] manhhung [dot] app Website: https://manhhung.app/ I'm a fullstack developer with 4 years exp. I enjoy building small projects especially now with AI empowered it's easier, I'm looking for a fast paced environment where I can build and learn at the same time, if you going fast, looking for someone ready to solve problems and grow along, hmu!
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Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, distributed systems, APIs, etc CV: On request Email: asim@mu.xyz Most recent work https://mu.xyz Most well known work https://go-micro.dev GitHub profile https://github.com/asim
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Location: Southern California / Pacific Time Remote: Ok Willing to relocate: Yes, w/ expenses Technologies: Expert: Python, PostgreSQL, Linux Django Near: HTML, CSS, JavaScript Flask, FastAPI HTTP, Sockets Rust, Java Containers Hardware Familiar: Electronics C, C++ Windows, macOS Just took a Machine Learning (ML) class. Interests / Experience: Software Development Data Engineering Distributed Computing Graphics / data pipelines Vfx, Aerospace Project Management Training / Mentoring DevOps, SysAd, QA and more. Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hxygjtb1vrwuwnznzn2vd/mgm_resume25pw.pdf?rlkey=kv6e5gljiz3p8jym9ztgirc1a&st=6p05kj9g&dl=1 Password: "resume_2025" (no quotes) Email: See resume. Seasoned full-stack developer here—focused on solving problems: ▸ Recently finished a multi-year modernization of the backend platform for congress.gov, specifically their substantial ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipeline. ▸ Worked at a number of Internet-facing companies during high-growth periods. Can do it all. ▸ Have extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining distributed graphics production pipelines for visual effects companies, under harsh deadlines. ▸ Have trained and mentored developers, tech-folk, and end-users as well. ▸ Love building reliable, well-documented, and maintainable systems. Let’s crush your issues! Cheers,
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Location: Austin, TX, USA Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in Austin. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: - Data Storage: AWS S3, BigQuery, GCS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake - DataOps: dbt (Cloud/Core), Fivetran, Hightouch, Looker Studio, Metabase, Tableau, Hex - AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, Ollama, OpenAI - Programming: Bash, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL - Product: Arcade, Betterstack, Hotjar, Intercom, Retool, Segment - Web & Design: Descript, Docusaurus, Figma, Ghost, GitBook, Sanity.io, Webflow - GTM: Ahrefs, Apollo, Clay, Google Ads, Salesforce - Productivity: Airtable, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zapier Résumé/CV: https://bburch.my/resume Email: agile.desk3846@fastmail.com (masked address so I can filter out spam) Hey - I'm Blake! I'm a seasoned technical product leader with 10+ years building AI-powered data products and B2B SaaS platforms. I was previously the first analytics hire at Roboflow (Vision AI), co-founder at Shipyard (data orchestration), and Head of Data Products at PMG Advertising Agency. My experience spans early-stage IC work to building a department of 12. I'm looking for technical PM roles at mission-driven companies, ideally smaller orgs, where I can build from the ground up. I prefer a ~70/30 leader/IC split with a focus on AI and data-adjacent work. I'm open to any industry except advertising, gambling, crypto, and defense.
Language Model Contains Personality Subnetworks (arxiv.org)
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is this somehow related ? https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model
It's not even really the researchers' fault, academic psychological personality research is in general philosophically very weak / poor, in that they also almost always conflate "models of / talking about personality" with actual personality, and rarely actually check if things like the MBTI or Five-Factor Model actually correlate meaningfully with real behaviours. Those that do find correlations between self-reported personality and actual behaviours tend to find those to be in a range of something like 0.0 to 0.3 or so, maybe 0.4 if you are really lucky. Which means "personality" measured this way is explaining something like 16% of the variance in behaviour, at max.
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I don’t think this is even limited to this part of academia - or academia at all, but I do think it’s a bit irresponsible of them to assume prior rigor in those personality tests. On top of that, a confounding issue is that human nature is to anthropomorphize things. What is more likely to be anthropomorphized than a construct of written language - the now primary method of knowledge transfer between humans? I can’t help but feel that this wishful bias contributes to missing the due diligence of choosing an appropriate metric with which to measure.
Language constrains your perception of reality to only the set of concepts conceivable within that language. Agents who only speak Rust have no conception of what runtime errors are, for instance. Fascists won't understand concepts like "universal human rights" as in their worldview there is nothing universal about humanity as a whole.
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> Language constrains your perception of reality to only the set of concepts conceivable within that language. It's the opposite. People make up new concepts all the time for which they have no words, to then give it a name. Language is composable, words and names are just a mean to improve communication, make it faster, more efficient. > Agents who only speak Rust have no conception of what runtime errors are, for instance. Agents don't really learn. They have a fixed set of data and everything new has to be pressed into the prompt. This is unrelated to language.
It is a wordcel problem, i.e. the belief that language is all there is for modeling reality, even though this is obviously false and has been clearly disproven by decades of research in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. At best we can say that sometimes language has a strong influence on our perceptions of reality. EDIT: For a neuroscience reference that also argues why the general perspective is obviously false: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/ . But really, these things ought to be obvious from introspection.
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Also in my dealing with birds and animals of all sorts I've come to believe that they are very capable in many forms of cognition without the use of language. There was a fad called "structuralism" that liked to imagine that such and such is "structured like a language" but then when we got a paradigm for language it was one of those "normal science" paradigms that Kuhn warned you about, like you could write papers grounded in the Chomsky theory for a lifetime but it wouldn't help you learn to read Chinese more quickly or speak German without an accent or program a computer to parse tweets. That is, the structure of language is absolutely useless except for writing papers about linguistics -- and the "language instinct" becomes some peripheral that grafts onto an animal but you need the rest of the animal for it to work. Now LLMs may not be a model for how we do it but they are certainly going to bring back structuralist and "wordcel" positions because they do seem to show, somehow, that "language is all you need" to accomplish whatever it is LLMs accomplish.
Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case (northdakotamonitor.com)
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I find it hard to believe these people did 345 million in damage.
So they almost certainly are guilty, but the damages seem exorbitant
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Hard to believe you’re downvoted in an organic way…
As an outsider, why is this a credible institution over the jury and judge?
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Based on their "Meet the Committee" page, they look a bit more like they have a dog in this fight beyond simply adjudicating the case. https://www.trialmonitors.org/meet-the-committee Plenty of accomplished people there, but as a group "unbiased observers" isn't the first phrase that comes to mind.
Oil companies haven't done a damn thing. We are the cause of global warming. Every time we pump gas into our car, buy anything that came from far away, or use any technology dependent on oil. Blaming oil companies is childish garbage people do to avoid recognizing their personal share of the responsibility.
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Blaming oil companies for the extremely well documented history of suppression of research and action into the impact of climate change is not childish.
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You know the carbon footprint concept was literally created by BP marketing, to place the blame for climate change on society, and distract from all the evil stuff they did to promote more fossil fuel consumption and sabotage climate science. The Climate Town channel on Youtube has lots of video's on this, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9LOqiXdpE
Oil companies have a definite history of punching people and then suing them for running into their fist. But I should also point out that Greenpeace is the kind of shitty activist company that also does those kind of tactics, so an oil company suing Greenpeace leaves my priors as "I don't know which side is more likely right in this scenario."
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> I don't know which side is more likely right in this scenario. What are the motives? Follow the money? Who profits most might give an indication of who is more likely wrong.
Yeah we're dealing with a mud fight between two highly resourced adversaries who are practiced in bullshit underhanded tactics and influence operations.
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Nah, its one source of funding. The oil giants pump there money in bonkers oppossition- one Greta Thunberg glueing herself to a public street does more damage to that cause then the whole of counter propaganda ever could. And it prevents the debate about resonable measures like free public transport.
Wait til you hear about Steven Donziger. Steven is a lawyer who helped Ecuador sue Chevron who was polluting massively. The Ecuadorians won and secured an historic $9.5 billion judgment because it was so egregious. Did that end the matter? No. Chevron ran to American courts and argued that Donziger helped secure this judgment by committing fraud. I believe the evidence of this was a video showing a minister and Donziger at a social gathering. The court ruled in Chevron's favor. This made the judgment unenforceable in the US. As part of all this, Chevron wanted Donziger to hand over all communications and electronic devices associated with the Ecuador prosecution. That is of course attorney-client privilege. But the court agreed and Donziger refused. But it didn't end there. Chevron (through their law firm) lobbied the Department of Justice to criminally prosecure Donziger for this. The DoJ declined. But it didn't end there either. Chevron asked the court, and they agreed, to appoint Chevron's own law firm to conduct a private criminal prosecution . You might be asking "what is that?" and you'd be right to be confused. It rarely happens but a civil court can pursue a private criminal prosecution. Donziger was convicted, disbarred and spent years in home detention over this whole thing. The Appeals Court affirmed all this and the Supreme Court declined to intervene. So does it surprise me that Greenpeac can get hit by a $345M judgment for hurting the feelings of an oil company? No, no it does not.
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I'll call you a pdf, put banners on every utility pole where you live, and even set your bicycle on fire. Will it count as I just "hurt your feelings"?
Sounds like it's time for GreenPeace USA to follow the chemical industries example - do a corporate reorg, put all the liabilities in specific subsidiary and then declare bankrupacy for that subsidiary.
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The proper way to do it would be to let Greenpeace USA go insolvent and then immediately form GreenPeace America as a new entity unhindered by the liabilities of the old one. This tactic has been used by our current President.
No. My OP said that Texas Two step was used all the time. I said J&J tried to use Texas Two Step and it ultimately failed. And yes it did fail mostly because it was not being used in good faith.
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> And yes it did fail mostly because it was not being used in good faith As of today, judgments against J&J total to less than $10b. J&J committed up to $61.5b to LTL, the company it spun off. Simple arithmetic shows us all current judgments will be satisfied. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222778 The judge used this $61.5b commitment - which J&J made to ensure LTL would pay for all the lawsuits J&J lost - as proof that LTL wasn't actually bankrupt. Which is weird but also correct. Where is the bad faith today? I mean it's possible J&J has done some internal analysis and expects to be on the hook for more than that in the future. Or there's some other arcane legal issue I don't understand. And in that sense committing the $61.5b is a smart way of capping their losses while still looking like good guys today. There's no evidence of that right now though. To re-iterate, the bankruptcy was rejected because of how it was structured. Not because there was an attempt to dodge liability. To me that's a more damning indictment of the legal system because it implies liability dodging might have worked if it were structured right.
This is funny. I didn't know who Jill Stein is, so I asked an LLM about how she is relevant. Instead of explaining how she might be involved in evil conspiracies, it thinks that Jill Stein is relevant because, "like a charged college kid," she was apparently at this Greenpeace protest! Hilarious.
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She ran for President in 2024. Where were you?
This case is not important because of Greenpeace, it's important because of the implications for free speech in the US. They are not being bankrupted because they took the wrong stance on nuclear, they're being bankrupted for supposed defamation and incitement against a major energy corporation. This is a precedent that will be used to attack all kinds of civil society organizations when they threaten the profits of major corporate interests. Including the civil society organizations which you do agree with.
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What does setting things on fire have to do with freedom of speech?
With all due respect, I disagree. I loved the winters. I loved the people. I loved how its natural beauty was subtle and rewarded the patient, unlike El Capitan or the Black Hills. The economy was fine before oil appeared.
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https://www.dmr.nd.gov/dmr/news/studies-underscore-oil-and-gas-industrys-significant-impact-north-dakotas-economy-communities
> i wish such a strong voice as Greenpeace was capable to incite people to rise against the greedy corporations destroying our planet. Posted from your iphone while driving to the gas station to fill up? Where did you fly to for your last vacation?
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Not this tired nonsense again. Contrasting specific technological and social artifacts with a form of economic organization and legal structures without noting how different they are is a cheap and weak form of argument. If you want to insist that only greedy corporations could have made portable hand-held network connected computing devices possible, then make that point. If you want to insist that there could be no automobile or refueling system without a system in which corporate profits primarily are directed towards capital rather than labor, then make that point. If you find it impossible that powered flight would exist at a price where most people could afford it without specific laws controlling corporate liability and legal fiduciary responsibility, than make that point. But "ah, so you use human-created technology while criticizing the organizations that make it" isn't really the winning argument that you appear to think it is.
A SLAPP is a frivolous lawsuit that the plaintiff has no chance of winning. In this case they won a judgment, so it's the opposite of that.
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That's not technically what a SLAPP is. The reason it is called a strategic lawsuit is frequently that it will cost the defendant so much to defend themselves that they opt to settle rather than risk that cost. Even if the plaintiff is unlikely to win, it is rarely a "no chance" situation, and with judge/district shopping, it is quite possible for large corporations to move further from "no chance" than an individual or non-profit might.
Regardless of what you think of pipelines, under the current system they have the protection of the law. Courts are judging based on what the law says, not on the sense of "justice" that you seem to be operating on. As you yourself said, they may not intersect.
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kind of an insulting position to assume i (or anyone else you might be educating) don't know that courts ostensibly rule on law/precedent. i'm specifically responding to your use of the word "justice" and how those two do not always align - it's a lack of precise definition, or a disagreement in terms. this is one of the clearest examples of that phenomenon that exists, especially when you consider the lengths the fossil fuel industry has gone to hide and misdirect evidence of the negative environmental impacts of their business model.
Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs (schipper.ai)
The merge conflicts and cognitive load are indeed two big struggles with my setup. Going back to a single Claude instances however would mean I’m waiting for things to happen most of the time. What do you do while Claude is busy?
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It is one of those things I look and thing, yeah you are hyper productive... but it looks cognitively like being a pilot landing a plane all day long , and not what I signed up for. Where is my walk in the local park where I think through stuff and come up with a great idea :(
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Quite a bit. - Research - Scan the web - Text friends - Side projects - Take walks outside etc
I've been building agent-doc [1] to solve exactly this. Each parallel Claude Code session gets its own markdown document as the interface (e.g., tasks/plan.md, tasks/auth.md). The agent reads/writes to the document, and a snapshot-based diff system means each submit only processes what changed — comments are stripped, so you can annotate without triggering responses. The routing layer uses tmux: `agent-doc claim`, `route`, `focus`, `layout` commands manage which pane owns which document, scoped to tmux windows. A JetBrains plugin lets you submit from the IDE with a hotkey — it finds the right pane and sends the skill command. For context sync across agents, the key insight was: don't sync. Each agent owns one document with its own conversation history. The orchestration doc (plan.md) references feature docs but doesn't duplicate their content. When an agent finishes a feature, its key decisions get extracted into SPEC.md. The documents ARE the shared context — any agent can read any document. It's been working well for running 4-6 parallel sessions across corky (email client), agent-doc itself, and a JetBrains plugin — all from one tmux window with window-scoped routing. [1] https://github.com/btakita/agent-doc
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The "don't sync, own" model makes a lot of sense. We were thinking about it wrong - trying to push state out to a shared file, when the cleaner move is to pull it in on demand. The SPEC.md as the extraction target after a feature is done is a nice touch. In our case the tricky part is that browser automation state is partly external - you have sessions, cookies, proxy assignments that live outside the codebase. So the "ground truth" we needed wasn't just about code decisions but about runtime state too. Ended up logging that separately. Checking out agent-doc, the snapshot-based diff to avoid re-triggering on comments is clever. Does it handle cases where two agents edit the same doc around the same time, or is the ownership model strict enough that this doesn't come up?
I avoid this with one spec = one agent, with worktrees if there is a chance of code clashing. Not ideal for parallelism though.
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The worktree approach is interesting - keeps the filesystem separation clean. The parallelism tradeoff makes sense if the tasks are truly independent, which in practice is most of the time anyway. What does your spec file look like when you kick off a new agent? Curious if you start from scratch each time or carry over context from previous sessions on the same project.
I'm using Claude Code (loving it) and haven't dipped into the agentic parallel worker stuff yet. Where does one get started? How do you manage multiple agents working in parallel on a single project? Surely not the same working directory tree, right? Copies? Different branches / PRs? You can't use your Claude Code login and have to pay API prices, right? How expensive does it get?
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Check out Claude Code Team Orchestration [1]. Set an env var and ask to create a team. If you're running in tmux it will take over the session and spawn multiple agents all coordinated through a "manager" agent. Recommend running it sandboxed with skip-dangerous-permissions otherwise it's endless approvals Churns through tokens extremely quickly, so be mindful of your plan/budget. 1. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
I am now releasing software for projects that have spent years on the back-burner. From my perspective, agent loops have been a success. It makes the impractical pipe-dream doable.
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That’s completely ignoring the point of the person you are responding to. They weren’t talking about small greenfield projects.
Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning (github.com/anthropics)
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In the meantime, I deleted the virtual machine and the Claude application. I simply created a web app through Safari. It works very well.
The network file system to host is usually pretty slow no? That was my impression. As for memory ballooning, the main issue with it is that it (generally) only gets triggered when the host runs out of memory. For a host which is only running VMs, this is fine. But for the typical consumer host it becomes cumbersome as you still need to give the VM a giant memory block and hope that your VM of choice is good enough to free on time. It's also uncoordinated. When swapping needs to happen, if the VM was using the host for allocation the host could much more efficiently decide what needs to go into swap. And if the host was in charge of both the memory and file system, then things like a system cache could be done more efficiently on top of all that.
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> The network file system to host is usually pretty slow no? That was my impression. NFS doesn't have to be slow. If you avoid traversing the TCP/IP stack, performance is fine. Linux guests can use vsock to communicate with the hypervisor directly, and macOS hosts can use the Virtualization framework to map a guest vsock to a host UNIX socket.
That's every virtual machine that's ever existed. They are slower than metal and you're running two OS stacks so you'll draw more power.
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Hot forking would be a killer app here - far faster to clone a VM, screw it up, burn it down, and repeat than anything else
Arguably, even without LLM, you too should be dev-ing inside a VM... https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant is still a thing. The market for Cowork is normals, getting to tap into a executive assistant who can code. Pros are running their consumer "claws" on a separate Mac Mini. Normals aren't going to do that, and offices aren't going to provision two machines to everyone. The VM is an obvious answer for this early stage of scaled-up research into collaborative computing.
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Do you wear a condom while you’re programming too for maximum protection?
New iPad Air, powered by M4 (apple.com)
I still don't get what they're for. Most people I know end up in the same situation as me, buying one thinking you'll use it mostly as a writing device but then either it ends up in a closet or just a web browser you use while sitting on the couch watching TV. In that case what does any of the improvements matter? With first party native apps it's not great for writing, editing pdfs, nor drawing. I mean the notes app doesn't even have simple things like letting you zoom in. You'd think a common use case would be to use it as a drawing tablet for your computer? Maybe not a common use case but I think something a lot of people would end up using a few times a year (countless times I'd love to have a whiteboard on a zoom call but setting that up is annoying) There's great third party apps to do this but I think it just shows that either Apple is disconnected or just trying to get money from developers. It's also not great as a computer. I mean in another thread I've mentioned my laptop (macbook air) is a glorified ssh machine and frankly, an iPad should the perfect device for that because its size. But it seems they don't want me to use it like a computer and idk why iOS locks down third party terminals so much. It also sucks as a second monitor (why is everything monitor related so bad with Apple?). Keeps disconnecting, I need to restart Bluetooth/airdrop constantly to detect it, and the angle it sits at when sitting on my desk... really? I really want to know what you guys use it for because mine just really feels like expensive ewaste.
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Have owned a couple iPads starting ~2010 -- mainly for reading pdfs, and comics in electronic form. Occasionally drawing / jamming some tunes - almost all via 3rd party apps. There are still plenty of decent apps in the ecosystem, even though their eventual obsolescence is as good as built in, and a lot of stuff I previously loved the platform for has now been gone for years with no replacement. Native apps have never been great at pretty much anything, with a notable exception of Garage Band which is an absolute banger for its money. Books is... passable I guess? But the reading pdfs part is important -- and really hard to beat for me, the iOS drag/scroll/pinch/zoom UX perceived responsiveness is still unmatched IMO. It would take some real creativity beyond liquid glass to enshittify this aspect out.
I have a 6 with cracked glass and won't buy another one until 3rd party browsers can release without webkit. The net is an awful place without uBlock, which I am reminded about every time I try to surf with the ipad...
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Your answer is Vivaldi, it has a built-in ad blocker that in my few years experience works exactly the same as ubo out of the box. If it wasn't for Vivaldi, I wouldn't buy an iPad because of what you described.
DNS-based blocking is the way (possibly via conditional VPN if you can tolerate the minimal latency bump).
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nextdns.io works fine on my iphone so ipad shall be fine
I remember sitting on my friend's couch drinking beer when they announced the iPad and debating if it was ever going to be popular. Time marches on.
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I remember the total uproar about the name! Everyone said it was too close to a Feminine hygiene product, or too close to iPod. Nobody's complaining any more.
The iPad would go from a never-buy to a buy-right-away for me, if they added user profiles. It'd be a nice thing to have on your coffee table, where anyone in the household can pick it up and be logged into all of their stuff. Windows XP had this feature. Chromebooks have this feature. It's inexcusable that such an expensive gadget can only have one user.
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I an afraid the same will happen with iPhone foldable. No, it doesn't need to have multiuser support, but how does Tim make you still want an iPad? And macOS - through limitations.
The way Apple TV allows doing it is fine but the iPad could probably make things even easier since it has Face ID authentication as an option too. The bigger limitation is that most apps don't tie into the profile well yet, but it has not also been around long in a just a niche product as well.
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Window with Hello cameras can basically do this today.
My library gives free Libby and PressReader, so it would let me read The New Yorker more comfortably than I can on my laptop of phone.
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Same use case here. Wife sits on the couch and reads magazines from the public library on the iPad. She enjoys the form factor.
I agree 100%. When I purchased my Steam Deck, I was actually surprised that it was so easy to switch between Steam profiles. Last year, my wife and I tried Apple Vision Pro. While we aren't the target audience for a $3,500 headset, we might be tempted at $1,200. But not if each of us needs to buy our own.
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I was also going to point out how awesome the Steam Deck multi-user experience is: 1. Turn on Steam Deck 2. Open Steam on your phone 3. Scan QR code 4. Choose whether or not to stay signed in on the Steam Deck It is such a great UX that makes using the hardware very easy for any random Steam user who picks it up. I'm sure the security angle would be something a lot of people would bring up, but if iPad had this feature, they could make great use of Apple's Data Protection Classes[1] to ensure that all per-user data is encrypted when that specific user is not logged in and actively using the device. 1. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-classes-secb010e978a/web
> Shared iPad requires a device management service and Managed Apple Accounts that an organization issues and owns I don't want to have to do a bunch of sysadmin just so my wife and I can both see our own YouTube subscriptions on an iPad. Again, you could do this with zero fuss in 5 minutes on Windows XP.
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the point is that the OS primitives exist.
Tim Cook's fear of people not buying a full set of Apple devices for each person is the driving force behind not just the lack of multiuser support, but also the overall nerfing of iPadOS. For the past 5+ years it's been, "This will be the year of real work on the iPad," but they keep circling around it, trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook.
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Yeah, everyone I know who owns an iPad for personal use, they also own a laptop. It's possible they use the iPad more than the laptop, but they still need the laptop, which might be a Mac.
> they keep circling around it, trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook. Which is really silly, because if someone needs to do actual work they are not going to do it on an iPad no matter how capable it is. The form factor simply does not work for getting work done. Apple has nothing to fear here.
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You know you can use a standard Bluetooth and keyboard and mouse with an iPad? My wife uses her 13 inch iPad for everything - mostly Zoom, Office, everything web based, and “consumption”. I have an M2 MacBook Air that I bought in 2023 for a side project I was doing when I was in between jobs. I haven’t opened it since. I do the little bit of stuff I do outside of work on my iPad Air 3.
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I would absolutely carry an iPad Pro with a dev environment with me on the holidays for emergencies instead of macbook. And I could add a cheap keyboard, mouse, and connect it to TV to get good enough work environment. Or connect it to dock at home, just like I do with the macbook.
I haven't seen one yet, but theoretically a case that secures the tablet in a holder that has a proper hinge (instead of the typical kickstand style) attached would work. You'd have to weight the keyboard a bit but there's no reason it wouldn't work, and effectively give you the exact same form factor as a laptop.
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That sounds like the existing Magic Keyboard for the current iPad airs and pros, can you explain the difference a bit more?
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i bought a magic keyboard for my 11" ipad pro and ultimately didn't use it much. it does have a traditional laptop-style hinge, but the way the ipad mounts to the case brings it forward over the keyboard more than with a regular laptop. the hinge also doesn't allow for a very wide range of motion (even compared to macbooks). finally, the center of gravity is really high compared to a laptop which makes it awkward to use a a literal laptop or when lying down. it definitely looks cool (i could see the design having been inspired by the OG Mac and 20th Anniversary Mac) but works best on a stable surface; plus if you want to take it out of the case. the idea of a laptop/tablet combo is cool but i haven't seen the concept executed very successfully from either starting point.
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I think they just don't know about the Magic Keyboard.
What's the "somehow" about the mouse? They've supported that for a while now.
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Exactly - any USB mouse via the USB-C connector (or lightning camera adapter before that) works. External displays also work via USB-C.
> trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook. TBH, if you buy an iPad and their nice keyboard case, it costs almost as much as an MBA. This is one of the reasons I simply cannot justify getting a new iPad these days. The other is that my 8 year old iPad Pro still works just fine, in case I ever need to do iPad-ish things like draw with the pencil.
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$270-$300 (used to be $350?) for the iPad keyboard. I feel like Apple did a good job targeting a user segment that is just happy to spend extra money on gadgets, aside from whoever really needs this laptop-tablet in-between.
I bought M1 pro ipad that ended up being on a windowsill in kitchen as a youtube tv or a again a youtube viewport while rowing, lol. What a waste, but I cannot find a better use for it. User interface also sucks, half the time i have to ask chatgpt to extricate me from some accidental split screen or what not. Kicker is that it needs to be charged almost daily while it is really only used about 30-45 min a day in the morning while my kids m4 air can go for a week.
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Cue Steve Jobs keynote slide about 1st gen iPad lasting 30 days in standby.
I’ve been experimenting with a 13” iPad Pro and Mac mini, setup with Tailscale. I love it, minus the general issues you run into with Remote Desktop. That plus not being able to deploy apps unless I’m on the same wifi (as an iOS developer.) A dual boot iPad would be killer. I would go out and by the maxed out M5 if it was possible. MacOS for workdays, and iPadOS for everything else. That or just finish the last mile of iPadOS (Add terminal access, long running processes, lower level file system access, actual developer tooling.)
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Remote Desktop is another nerfed thing. Windows is sending around window positions and UI primitives, while Mac still streams terribly compressed and lagging video of desktop, unable to even adapt resolution to client.
We each have our own car too. Hard to share the things people use at the same time.
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> Hard to share the things people use at the same time. Yes, but if it's your goal to have fewer cars, then you'd make an effort not to need to use it at the same time. If that's not what you're trying to do, fine. My wife and I share a car. It's slightly inconvenient sometimes, but really not bad at all. For our particular life anyway. So here we're talking about iPads. Some families need multiple devices for various reasons. Some don't except for the fact that iPads don't support accounts. No one's saying you would have to use them. But you're not allowed to.
As a very simple example, airdrop to macOS with multiple logged in users will frequently pop up the confirmation notification in the user account that is not active.
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Facetime too. I shared a laptop with my wife for like 2 years, so it was an ok experience, but we noticed those little things.
>hated dealing with a laptop Can you expand on this, as im having a hard time comprehending. At the least, a laptop is a tablet with a built in stand :). How is a laptop hard to deal with?
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It's probably the immediacy. You click an app and you get a fullscreen touch UI with no distractions. Quite different to opening a slow-loading DAW and starting up various plugin windows inside it. iPad music apps are typically priced far lower than the equivalent PC apps, and there's a thriving community of iOS-only development as well. For me it's the sweet spot between hardware (which is expensive and annoying to cable up) and PC VSTs (I associate my laptop with work). The fact the iPad can also be used for videos/books/drawing/note taking is just a bonus.
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I prefer music production on a laptop, so I'm not the target audience here. But it's so easy to pick up the iPad and noodle on a synth for 5 minutes. And the music you write is infinitely better than the music you don't. Anything that inspires gets extra points for that alone. :)
But the iPad is not a console … it doesn’t even do Steam. All that horsepower to play … a couple of forever titles and that’s it. I have the M1 iPad Air and it has never used that processor to its fullest. I think iPad is just an odd device for most people
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Remember, the reason the iPad doesn't do Steam is because Apple won't let it. It is perfectly capable otherwise.
What’s wrong hardware wise with the current one?
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I think its at least 3 years old
The iPad Air and iPad Pro are both available in 11" and 13" variants. 30% savings if you want like-for-like storage, almost 40% if you can do with less.
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Oh shit, I didn’t know they had the 12.9 in a lower spec config these days! That’ll be what I finally get when I replace my current old-ass pro. Never needed the power, just wanted the size.
I'm about to head to the gym with my 12.9-inch 2017 vintage iPad Pro, which is still going strong. I prop it up on the elliptical trainer every other day or so for entertaining me while I grind out an hour of cardio. I use it for reading, watching YouTube, listening to music, audiobooks, etc. It's been my regular gym buddy for years, and is showing no signs of needing to be replaced. It's stuck on iPadOS 17.7.10, which is fine. I can only imagine that these new generation iPads will easily go for the next 10 years.
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Honestly this is iPads biggest problem. My is from 2019, and there’s just no reason to upgrade, unlike a phone I don’t need it to have a better camera or be lighter or whatever. They nailed it years ago and the hardware is so good the software never really challenges it.
An old iPadOS means an old safari, which means some of the websites are going to get suspicious. I remember one day not being able to open any Cloudflare website.
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How old was the device? I have a Late 2018 iPad Pro and have never encountered anything like this. It still works perfectly fine, and having invested in the nice keyboard case for it, I'm hoping to not have to upgrade for a while longer. It honestly might last me 10 years without breaking a sweat.
My iPad 2011 is still going strong, except that my Airpods Pro won't talk with them anymore. So should I buy a second pair of work-out earphones or a new tablet? A new tablet would give me back access to app store and many apps, which are no longer compatible with this old slab, but at least Amazon Prime Video and most importantly, VLC still works.
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I’d buy a new (or used) tablet. An iPad 10th gen can be had lightly used or refurb for under $200. Or go with the brand new 12th gen that is supposed to be coming out tomorrow at $349 if you’re not on a super tight budget and want it to last you as long as that ancient one did.
I’m not sure this is a good thing..
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Not needing to charge as much due to much better battery capacity and/or usage efficiency is objectively a good thing, full stop. How that additional time is actually spent is a whole separate story, but that's entirely tangential to assessing the impact of battery life improving.
> It's one of those devices that just quietly do their job forever. Except for the battery, which isn’t that easy to replace on an iPad. And apps relying on anything online (including browsers) stop functioning at some point, because you can’t replace the OS or install arbitrary apps.
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I mean, you can take your iPad back to Apple and have them replace the battery, you know. For my current one (a "4th generation" Air) that'd be $120, which is not cheap, but it's cheaper than replacing it for $700 and a lot less stressful than trying to replace the battery myself. (Having said that, I'm not ruling out replacing it, but I don't think I'll be inclined to do that until they stop updating its version of iPadOS.)
It’s a shitload of glue around the screen, so yes, it’s worse. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPad+Air+5th+Generation+Battery+Replacement/156671
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An iPhone 13 is also a shitload of glue around the screen, though pulling apart an iPad sized device using suction cups does sound especially hair-raising.
I use a 2012 MacBook Air 11" for Zoom meetings. Still runs like a champ. It's stuck on Catalina, but Apple still sends out patch releases.
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That machine was perfect in so many ways.
This sums up my entire experience with technology progress over the past 40 years.
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40 years from now we won't be able to boot our device until an LLM codes the software on the fly for it. (Each time it boots, of course.)
↙ time adjusted for second-chance
Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase (understandlegacycode.com)
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I've been a few times in a situation where I needed to make significant changes in a huge codebase with lot's of tests but also with a lot of corner cases, on my own. I've spent blood sweat, tears and restless evenings scrolling and ctrl-f-ing huge build and test logs to finally accomplish the task. But let's take a step back. So they assign you to get that done. You're supposed to be careful, courageous and precise while making those changes without regression. There's very little up-to-date documentation on the design, architecture, let alone any rationale on design choices. You're supposed to come up with methods like Mikado, tdd, shadowing or anything that gets the job done. Is this even fair to ask? Suppose you ask a contractor to re-factor a house with old style plumbing and electricity. Will they do it Mikado style, or, would they say - look - we're going to tear things down and rebuild it from the ground. You need to be willing to pay for a designer, an architect, new materials and a set of specialized contractors. So why do we as sw engineers put up with the assignment? Are we rewarded so much more than the project manager of that house who subcontracts the work to many people to tear down and rebuild?
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I was hoping it was a reference to The Mikado, given that the best way to refactor is with a short, sharp shock[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short,_sharp_shock
Also known as "Make the change easy, then make the change" Something to realize is that every codebase is legacy. My best new feature implementations are always several commits that do no-op refactorings, with no changes to tests even with good coverage (or adding tests before the refactoring for better coverage), then one short and sweet commit with just the behavior change.
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I also do this and try to teach it to others. One thing I add is trying to go even further and making it so the new feature can essentially be a configuration change (because you built the system already in the first steps). It doesn't fit every situation so it's by no means a hard rule but "prefer declaration functionality over imperative".
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That’s just mostly refactoring in general. Mikado is more of a get out of jail card for getting trapped in a “top down refactor” which is an oxymoron.
This sounds like torture (as written). Of course, working in a legacy codebase is also torture. Software development is a hyper-rational endeavor, so we don't often talk about feelings. This article also does not talk much about feelings. Reading between the lines, it looks like reverting the code is supposed to affect how you feel about the work. Knowing that failure is an explicit option can help to set an expectation; however, without a mature understanding of failure, that expectation may just be misery. With a mature understanding of failure, the possibility of a forced rollback should help you "let go" of those changes. It's like starting a day of painting or drawing with one that you force yourself to throw away; or a writing session with a silly page. ---- If someone thinks that they are giving you good advice, but it sounds terrible, then maybe they are expecting you to do some more work to realize the value of that advice. If you are giving someone advice and they push back, maybe you are implying some extra work or expectations that you have not actually said out loud. Advice is plagued by the tacit knowledge problem.
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Maybe it is the framing of the step as a "reversion" or "roll-back" rather than "spike" or "prototype" that is causing that sense. Personally, I would never throw away the code I spent time and effort writing just to stick to a systematized refactoring method like this "Mikado." I don't think the advice is unsound, and I have done exactly this many times in my own career, but instead of throwing it away I would shelve it, put it in a branch, write a document about what has been/needs to be done, and write a corresponding tech debt or feature/fix ticket for it with the new and realistic estimate.
My favorite tool for trying scary complicated things in an unknown space is the feature flag. This works even if you have zero tests and no documentation. The only thing you need is the live production system and a way to toggle the flag at runtime. If you can ship your hypothesis along with an effectively unaltered version of prod, the ability to test things without breaking other things becomes much more feasible. I've never been in a real business scenario where I wasn't able to negotiate a brief experimental window during live business hours for at least one client.
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While very powerful, I think it's worth calling out some pitfuls. A few things we've ran into - long lived feature flags that are never cleaned up (which usually cause zombie or partially dead code) - rollout drift where different environments or customers have different flags set and it's difficult to know who actually has the feature - not flagging all connected functionality (i.e. one API is missing the flag that should have had it) A good decom/cleanup strategy definitely helps
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Feature flags are like bloom filters. They make 98 out of 100 situations better and they make the other 2 worse. When performance is the issue that’s usually fine. When reliability is the issue, that’s not sufficient. If you work on fifty feature toggles a year, one of them is going to go wrong. If your team is doing a few hundred, you’re gonna have oopsies. Most of the problematic cases are where the code is set up so that the old path and the new one can’t bypass each other cleanly. They get tangled up and maybe the toggle gets implemented inverted where it’s difficult to remove the old path without breaking the new.
Boundaries? Module? I laugh.
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Mikado is really only powerful when dealing with badly coupled code. Outside of that context you’re kinda cosplaying (like people peppering Patterns in code without an actual plan). Refactoring is generally useful for annealing code enough that you can reshape it into separate concerns. But when the work hardening has been going on far too long there usually seems like there’s no way to get from A->D without just picking a day when you feel invincible, getting high on caffeine, putting on your uptempo playlist and telling people not to even look at you until you file your +1012 -872 commit. I used to be able to do those before lunch. I also found myself to be the new maintainer of that code afterward. That doesn’t work when you’re the lead and people need to use you to brainstorm getting unblocked or figuring out weird bugs (especially when calling your code). All the plates fall at that point. It was less than six months after I figured out the workaround that I learned the term Mikado, possibly when trying to google if anyone else had figured out what I had figured out. I still like my elevator pitch better than theirs: Work on your “top down” refactor until you realize you’ve found yet another whole call tree you need to fix, and feel overwhelmed/want to smash your keyboard. This is the Last Straw. Go away from your keyboard until you calm down. Then come back, stash all your existing changes, and just fix the Last Straw. For me I find that I’m always that meme of the guy giving up just before he finds diamonds in the mine. The Last Straw is always 1-4 changes from the bottom of the pile of suck, and then when you start to try to propagate that change back up the call stack, you find 75% of that other code you wrote is not needed, and you just need to add an argument or a little conditional block here and there. So you can use your IDE’s local history to cherry pick a couple of the bits you already wrote on the way down that are relevant, and dump the rest. But you have to put that code aside to fight the Sunk Cost Fallacy that’s going to make you want to submit that +1012 instead of the +274 that is all you really needed. And by the way is easier to add more features to in the next sprint.
Plockepinn in Swedish, approximately "pickastick". Edit: thought I read it was of Scandinavian origin, hence my comment. But Wikipedia said european origin. Well well.
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I suspect it was invented the first time a parent dropped a pile of sticks because their bored kids were distracting them. “Ok kids, new game, pick those sticks up as quietly and tediously as possible.”
> I have never worked on a project with any kind of meaningful test coverage That says more about you and the care you put into quality assurance than anything else, really.
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Have you ever worked at a place where you were put on an existing codebase, and that code has no tests? Have you ever worked at a place where, when you try to fix that, management tells you that they don't have the time to do so, they have to crank out new features? Is ipsento606 working at such a place? I don't know, and neither do you. Why do you jump to the conclusion that it's their personal failing?
The problem with complex legacy codebases is that you don’t know about the myriads of edge cases the existing code is covering, and that will only be discovered in production on customer premises wreaking havoc two months after you shipped the seemingly regression-free refactor.
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You can infer based on code coverage. If coverage is low, tests are likely insufficient and change is risky
iPhone 17e (apple.com)
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709 euro in Austria (828.89 us dollars), a 38% increase in price...
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Apple seems to be pushing for accessibility and volume. Cheaper phones, mac minis, and entry point mac that will be introduced on Wednesday.
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I'm happy for the existence of the e line mainly because it forces them to bump up the specs on the base iPhone. 17 is so good that there's very little reason to get the 17 Pro.
I really want to like the lower cost e phones, but the lack of ultrawide band support is a deal breaker. Does adding this feature really increase the cost, or is this a calculated move by Apple to ensure those who use this for air tags or keyless entry continue to buy higher end phones.
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Probably both.
I think the most valuable part of this “e” lineup is the in-house developed modem. The power and security benefits are probably enormous.
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If the 17e had that chip, wouldn't it have Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6? It has neither of those.
Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
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Finally moved on from my 12 mini, but I still have it sitting in my office and when I pick it up I think "wow this feels like a phone from the future." Wish they made a new mini instead of the Air. A friend bought one of those, and frankly I just don't get it. The screen is too big to use it one-handed, and thickness is really just the single dimension of the phone that I don't care about. They probably spend billions of dollars shaving off half a millimeter and what do we get with that technology? Phone that's too big.
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Same here, just replaced the battery.
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Same holding on the 13 mini, love the form factor.
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If we could get a 13 mini sized phone with some better battery that would be great
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Same. This would be an obvious upgrade for me, if the overall size was anywhere close to the Mini. Oddly enough, the announcement doesn't even list the screen size, but I'm sure it's 6" +
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6.1" vs. 6.3" on the regular 17
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I stuck with my 13 mini for a long time, and had recently put a new iFixit battery in it too. I did finally make the jump to a Pixel 10 but sign me up with everyone else who misses reasonably-sized phones.
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I moved off the mini to get satelite messaging which I use while hiking. But now that T-Mobile/starlink support satelite on the 13 mini, maybe I’ll go back.
my wife upgraded from a 13 mini to an Air and she loves it. She thought she hated the larger size of new phones, but after holding the Air in her hand she realized the weight and thickness was the issue for her! It’s a tough call though because the Air has a lot of pros and cons! My wife never takes nature photography or macro photography, so she was OK with the 1 camera compromise. If you truly want a shorter phone, my condolences lol. Apple seems to be ignoring this user segment.
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Now imagine an iPhone Mini Air. I'd be all over that, camera compromises or not.
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for me it's the comfort/ability to put the thing in my pocket.
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I can relate. I actually used to be jealous of the ladies because they always have a convenient purse to put things in. These days I wear a light weight cross-body “sling” bag, and i’m happy as a peach. Easy way to bring my phone, sunglasses, wallet, keys, etc with me. Pockets can be pretty annoying. Maybe 2027 will be the year of the mini? :)
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I tried the Air and went back to the mini because of the camera compromises. One big issue for me was losing Cinematic video, which I use all the time.
People make fun of me but I'll never skip a chance to complain about how large these phones are. I hate it so much. I have a standard iPhone, not a max, and it causes real pain in my wrist if I use it too much. Was honestly thinking about downgrading to the last SE model even though it's several years out of date.
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I don’t think anyone should make fun of you for it but I’m in the opposite boat. I’m so glad that they make the pro max variants because most smartphones are so small that it hurts my fingers to bend them in the unnaturally inward way it requires to hold and interact with them.
SE 3rd gen here as my daily driver. Small form factor and Touch ID. The perfect iPhone IMO. Not looking forward to having to settle for those comically large phones with Face ID for my next one.
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The thing I've come to like about FaceID on my 13 mini is that I can require it for certain apps to open that don't require it - e.g. messaging as opposed to banking which generally require some kind of auth by default - which is much better security in case someone snatches it out of my hand while it's unlocked. It's pretty seamless because I'm generally looking at the device anyway, and it's much less faff than it would be with TouchID.
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I think the way the Pixel does it is strictly better across the board. The fingerprint sensor doesn't sacrifice screen space, and the platform offers face unlock as well.
Have you replaced the battery? My 13 mini shows 90% battery health but I can’t use it for the full day (and I don’t game or anything, just light use). I wonder if the battery is really ok and it’s the software that is to blame.
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My 13 mini on iOS 26 shows 83% maximum capacity but makes it through the day with light-ish use (Spotify (although generally offline playlists because of lossless audio) NYT games, email, messaging, browsing, Instapaper). I do have lots of accessibility settings enabled to stop things like transparency and animations though. See my comment here for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544554
Taking inflation into account, a $599 iPhone in 2026 would have been $380 in 2007. Given that the actual launch price in 2007 was $499, that's a pretty hefty drop.
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$499 with carrier subsidy too
So is Mercedes-Benz. But they don't sell a $20,000 commuter car.
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Oh but they do: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Automobile
OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub (star-history.com)
Who are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Then, to my surprise, a coworker came and told me they were running it and happy with that setup. I was baffled, but I work with Gen Z in a pretty niche Gen Alpha market, so I kinda feel like they’re somewhat more likely to go for these things. What’s your experience?
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If I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox) There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...
The old dudes had something they called the "Eternal September" like when ISPs began providing free internet access and discussion culture declined after forever. I starred this thread here as the start of the "Eternal March" when the open internet died forever.
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Eternal March already happened in 2020.
> If I can’t trust a piece of software with anything important Not what I said. As I've repeatedly said in this thread: Plenty of use cases where you don't give it access to email and write access to files. The comment you're replying to has an example of that. > Might as well go play a video game or go do literally anything else entertaining. True of most hobbies, right? I knew people who 20 years ago used to spend time in their garage building solar powered vehicles. But if I can't trust it to be reliable and safe on the road, I might as well go play a video game. Also: Is anyone telling you to use it?
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> True of most hobbies, right? If everyone treated OpenClaw as a hobby, you might have a point, but people are using it for work in ways which will affect millions of other people when they’re hacked or the agent fucks up something important. You already know how Meta’s AI Safety Director borked her email. Here’s the corporate vice president of Microsoft Word asking to be pwned: https://www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobster-my-personal-ai-assistant > Also: Is anyone telling you to use it? You don’t need to use the technology to be affected by it. Ask Scott Shambaugh: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-3/
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