Miraste

When talking about Jev, people love to bring up the whole "bitter lesson" idea that generalization will win out. Maybe it will in the end, but I tried most of the recent Jev-likes on my own not-very-complex use case and they weren't competitive with domain-specific classification at all.

The percentage of programming work that was advancing society was very, very small.

Knitting and sewing were "mainstream impactful work" for a long time, much longer than programming was.

There has always been a divide between people who learned programming because it was the best way to accomplish other tasks, and people who enjoyed programming. It was just never relevant before now, because this is the first time there has been a better way to accomplish those tasks. Lots of people find vibe coding fun, because they're using it as a tool and not as an end in itself.

The skill of programming isn't eliminated and it's fine to still enjoy it. I think it will end up like carpentry or metalworking, or maybe ham radio.

The economic impact of this shift is a separate, much more problematic issue.

I do see your point, but what the assistants are doing is recording. It's only a second or two, on-device, and not stored, but it is already a recording. Apple is just changing the duration and retention.

I think as soon as the original capability launched the game was over. People don't understand technical distinctions like that and they've already accepted it.

Screen size is a good point. For the other things, I suppose I was thinking of my own grandparents, who had memory issues and would've benefited from a device that can't be misplaced.

Hidden? Every device with a voice assistant has been advertising always-on recording for a decade plus.

A lot of those cons are advantages for at least one target market, the elderly. It's much better for them if the device can't move and can't install new software.

GNOME 3 is what happens when you follow the Apple designer-is-always-right philosophy without Apple-level talent.

Seconding KDE, I hope it overtakes Gnome as the main Linux DE. It had some rough teething problems with Wayland, but it's very good now. It has a much less... opinionated interface than Gnome, and it doesn't eat as many resources either. It also doesn't try to stop you from customizing things if you want. I finally switched my main PC off of Windows for it last month.

The point wasn't that there are no alternatives, but that calling Amazon "only an interface to purchase products made by other companies" is reductive to the point of being completely wrong.

"you can already build [Dropbox] yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

For all the complaints, it's nice to see HN hasn't changed that much.

This is (still) never going to happen. A more realistic outcome is a deal between Meta and Amazon to enable access in exchange for invisibly integrating advertisements into the agents' decisions.I don't know exactly what that will look like, but I'd bet we will see a version of it soon.

That section is so biased it reads like satire. The current US government is not safer or more responsible than China, nor is it a democracy. I can't tell for sure if this is a clumsy attempt to ingratiate Anthropic with the administration, or if he actually believes it, but given the "I agree with Secretary Bessent" name dropping I lean towards the former.

I think you're right, and that's worse.

This disaster of a PR strategy is not going to produce the outcomes Dario says he wants. It's going to make people hate him. Most importantly for his goals, it's going to make Chinese labs hate him--and they already hate him, because he treats them as basically terrorists. So if there is a "pacing", it won't include China, and thus may as well not happen.

That leaves only two conclusions, and really only one:

Dario believes what he says about safety, but does not understand politics and is prone to very counterproductive action, and therefore can't be trusted at the helm of a leading AI company.

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Dario is lying about his goals, and therefore also can't be trusted.

That's the only explanation that makes sense. If it was frontier but cost or compute were limiting factors, they'd release it at an obscene price for the bragging rights. Google doesn't care that much about alignment, and I don't think it's likely to be significantly different than 3.5 anyway. The only reason it would need to be soft-canceled is if it's terrible, and has to end up in a ditch like Llama 4 to avoid shareholder panic.

What you're describing is similar to how the copilot harness in vs code tracks state and previous work. These systems are being implemented, bit by bit.

At a certain level, yes, but AI is still so bad at writing that its failures are objective and easily measurable

I suppose that's true. I was thinking of my car, which has a lot of buttons on the steering wheel itself. They're easy to use without looking, since you don't have to change your hand position, and I control music entirely with those.

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You most certainly can. That doesn't mean people do it 100% of the time.

There are zero touchscreen designs that are better than (physical, tactile) buttons.

You can hit buttons without taking your eyes off the road.

You cannot do this with a touchscreen.

There's no way to design or engineer around it, it's simply the wrong tool for the job.

There is a wonderful teardown of it here:

https://www.vcalc.net/CU-Disassembly/

Scrolling through that makes me think it's extremely unlikely to be replicated commercially. I can't imagine how much machining all of those parts would cost.

There's no way to prove it one way or the other. I would be willing to bet money any recent AAA game was made with AI code in it somewhere, though.

What novel ideas are you thinking of? In my experience there are very few games with novel software engineering. New gameplay mechanics or story or art or design, sure, but they're generally built with very old and standardized patterns.

To my knowledge, all major LLMs are multilingual. This article could really have used an evaluation of existing models' European Portuguese capabilities.

Union busting is easy to do and hard to prove. This would act as a supporting regulation by making it more difficult. I imagine a legal framework similar to other privacy regulations: nothing about specific software or implementations, but instead new classes of data that are illegal to collect or store about your employees. There is complexity there, but something like mouse movements and keystrokes as described in the article is completely black and white.

While you have the right practical approach, I do believe companies should face harsh regulations preventing this kind of monitoring. It has almost universally negative effects, from enabling union-busting to exploitation to all kinds of discrimination and favoritism.

Reliability: complete solar deployment includes some form of power storage. There are many variations, but chemical battery technology is improving the fastest, so it's gaining the most ground.

Amount of power: World solar power generation capacity is in the terawatts and rapidly increasing, there's no issue with its potential ceiling. As a bonus, it tends to work best on land that's useless for other purposes.

If only there were some form of cheap, widely manufactured power generation technology that didn't use turbines... Are they really going to wait until 2030 to get more turbines rather than invest in solar?

China's domestic chips are increasingly close to state-of-the-art. The US electrical grid is... not.

It's not at all clear whether automobiles were a net positive. They are more or less solely responsible for climate change (even emissions not directly from motor vehicles wouldn't be possible without them), which may prove to be the worst mistake in the history of technology.