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They need a lot more growth just to afford the compute they've already agreed to buy. Not to mention to justify their rumored record-high IPO price.
Excerpt from a memoir that came out recently.
It’s objectively not harmless, and clearly lots of people care.
I’m surprised that Doctorow has such a poor understanding of US copyright law. “Sweat of the brow” does not exist here. It is not “fundamental to a correct legal understanding of copyright.” You can argue it should be, but it isn’t. All that matters is human authorship, and LLMs aren’t humans.
Sans-serif for body, serif for headlines? Unconventional choice.
Why is that better than having the agent(s) write regression tests or explanations of the old codebase?
If nobody knows how the old code works, how will anyone know how the new code (written by an autonomous agent) works?
This site redirects to about:blank if it sees a HN referrer. Clever but obnoxious.
You seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions here. Who said anything about any server being compromised? Much less root-level compromised? And an AI agent being involved?
I mean the most frequent scenario is that the person trying to unlock the device is the one who owns it, yet we still have account passwords. You have to protect against the worst case. There is not a trusted enclave in existence (Apple, Intel, etc.) that will let you read its contents. That’s the point!
LLMs are not training on obfuscated fingerprinting scripts, and there’s essentially no way that could become associated with your brand.
Wow, talk about a change of subject.
That’s not true at all. Many of the most famous religious accommodations in the US are things that mainstream Christians find illogical/absurd:
- Sikhs keeping long hair/beard in the military or police
- Quakers being exempt from the draft
- Quakers, again, refusing to drive with NH plates that say “live free or die,” because they don’t believe that
- Muslims needing breaks to pray 5x/day
- Jews requiring food that follows extremely complex kosher preparation rules
- Native Americans using peyote, a hallucinogen
- Jehovah’s Witnesses and others refusing to swear oaths, even in court
Of course many of these had to be fought for in court, but courts are very amenable to the earnestly held beliefs of minority religious groups in the US. We don’t have a state religion.
“Some person with physical access to the computer” absolutely is part of the threat model.
I mean, is this an actual issue? There have to be plenty of developers using LLMs to write Lisp(s).
I have occasionally seen Claude models struggle to balance brackets/parens in nesting-heavy languages like Dart (Flutter), but it’s gotten much better.
It’s crappy design. It’s just the most logical design they had after starting from the bad premise of “everything is in the Start menu.”
macOS’s Apple menu, which only ever contains system management commands and doesn’t try to be an app launcher too, is so much more logical.
> “To put me to work that way, without remittance, is a form of slave labor,” said Wolff, professor emeritus of English and winner of the National Medal of Arts. “They’re using my work without paying for it. As time goes on, they’re going to make the lives of writers very difficult if there’s no fruit to their labor.”
This is obviously hyperbolic, but it was a very poor choice of words.
It also relies on an assumption - that AI will become a substitute for buying books - that I think is likely untrue. You’ve been able to easily gain a surface-level understanding of anything for free online for decades, and for that matter, you’ve been able to easily pirate any book for decades! Hasn’t stopped people from buying books, or going to college, or doing any number of other expensive things that are technically unnecessary if the goal is just to gain information.
Definitely rose-tinted glasses when people look back at Windows XP and earlier in particular. So many HN posts waxing poetic about how great the UIs were then. No! They were ugly, unreliable, inconsistent, and slow. It was a bad OS. Being gray and having small buttons doesn’t make it automatically more powerful or functional.
Because it’s a high-level interpreted language. Still memory-safe!
Rust is interesting because it’s a low-level language with strong memory safety. That makes it a good fit for projects like coreutils. I’d argue it makes it a bad fit for many other projects that get rewritten in it, though. Not everything actually needs to be in a low-level language with compile-time memory management.
Maybe in Hong Kong, where that article is from? Never heard of it being a scam in the US. And anyway, if you pick up a wallet and someone tries to accuse you of stealing it, can’t you just give it to them?
> X has somehow became the best place to find interesting open-source projects people are building.
This inherently restricts you to projects maintained by people who are willing to wade through a neck-deep cesspool of far-right content, either because they think it’s worth it (Twitter is, alas, still a good source for up-to-the-minute info) or because they agree with it. That’s a small subset of the OSS world. Everyone else has decamped to Bluesky and Mastodon, which are near intolerable in their own special ways.
Fable is inappropriate for the vast majority of tasks (yes, including yours!), and it is quite obnoxious. Opus 5.5 writes concisely and almost sounds like a human.
Not sure that logic really holds up. If the cost of trying is low, why wouldn't you?
That means that it supports other services with OpenAI-compatible embeddings APIs (not just OpenAI's own API). Seems reasonable!
> Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.
> Preformatted is what you can hear: the same shape every time.
> hearing it is all anyone outside the force can do.
> The day has a shape.
I would recommend switching to a newer Claude model.
This is based on OpenOMF.
I mean the best sign that the code is AI is that it's a new software project being released in 2026. What isn't?