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by rekabis | 2025-11-13 06:06:31+00:00
Every corporation I have interfaced with over the last few months has demonstrated massively epic levels of FOMO over AI.

And yet, when I ask them how they are tracking AI’s effectiveness, especially with regard to degrading skill sets, lowered creativity/effectiveness in solutions to complex/edge problems, slowed dev velocity, and increasing levels of needless code complexity (with associated ballooning of LoC) and gratuitous hallucinations breeding bugs like meal worm farms, all I get are crickets. Or worse, deer-in-the-headlight looks. They’re all wildly unaware of the downsides that are slowly being confirmed by science.

Frankly, I feel that I am lucky that I’ve chosen a sabbatical to deal with my parent’s EoL issues. The chance that this will extend into the popping of the AI bubble appears to be non-trivial. By the time I start looking in earnest again, AI might not be a critical employment benchmark anymore.

Or one of my projects will become profitable and I won’t have to deal with all that bullshite.
by sschueller | 2025-11-13 06:07:01+00:00
They will just add a flag in the SafetyNet service to let other apps know if non "verified" apps have been installed.

You will not be able to use any of your banking apps without first removing all of those...

We need alternatives, this will not work and is a risk to freedom/democracy for all of us.

Switzerland is implementing a digital ID[1]. It will be made available to the most common devices and is open source. However Google and Apple can just remove it, what then?

[1] https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch
by Loxicon | 2025-11-13 06:07:58+00:00
As a startup I tried .NET (it was .NET 8), and it was great. The problem was the education around .NET.

So much DDD-this, Clean-that, CQRS-this, architecture-that.

I get all that stuff is for enterprise with bigger teams. But there wasn't much content/guidance on how to build apps 'quickly' for startups.

I am sure experienced .NET devs know this, but less experience .NET devs don't.

I ended up dropping it because I could work faster in PHP.
by OutOfHere | 2025-11-13 06:09:08+00:00
Zcash is not a privacy coin in the same way that Litecoin isn't. In both cases, their privacy is optional, which is to say that when you need to swap it, your recipient will likely not accept the private version. Monero is a privacy coin with default privacy.

Institutional pumps and dumps are exactly the thing to steer clear of, and Monero is fortunate to not have become a huge victim of them. Monero has seen more organic growth.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-13 06:09:16+00:00
Yeah, I don't think people are processing just how much money is being spent. AI is a useful tool, but the financial aspects of it are monstrous. In terms of comparison, the OpenAI deals announced this year is bigger than the US defense budget. Nuclear weapons, stealth bombers, nuclear submarines, F-35s, a million soldiers...more money than all of that.
by lenkite | 2025-11-13 06:09:19+00:00
I asked Google to describe it and it described how I pronounce it:

"Uiua" is pronounced like "oo-ee-oo-ah", with the sounds flowing together. The "u" sound is like in "boo," and the "i" sound is like in "see," while the final "ua" is a combination of the "oo" sound and the "ah" sound.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-13 06:10:03+00:00
By that definition everyone in the same block is tainted. Maybe the bitcoins from your output came from someone else's input. And you tainted input may have entirely gone to the miner as their reward UTXO. You can't really trace an individual bitcoin / satoshi because in reality it's just a bunch UTXOs constantly being created and destroyed. Maybe you can distribute a percentage of the taint among all the outputs, but at that points its like most US dollars have traces of cocaine on them.
by tjohns | 2025-11-13 06:10:11+00:00
Yes, that's correct. There have been apps on iOS and Android that can read your passport via NFC for ages. As you noted, all you need is the plaintext information printed on the photo page to generate the Basic Access Control key, which will let you connect to the passport's NFC chip.

Issuing a passport is a different issue entirely, since you need a country's document signing key.
by m463 | 2025-11-13 06:10:12+00:00
I remember a guy I know went to japan/asia around 1985ish and came back with a watch. It had hands, but also a small LCD display. You could draw numbers on the face with your finger, like 6 then X then 3 then = and the LCD would show the values, and finally 18

This is completely uninteresting now, but this was 40 years ago

EDIT: I think Casio AT-552

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQHnyZdgF4
by Grimblewald | 2025-11-13 06:10:15+00:00
That's like accepting vaders 'altered' deal, and being grateful it hasn't been altered further.

If google wants a walled garden, let it wall off it's own devices, but what right does it have to command other manufactures to bow down as well? At this stage we've got the choice of dictato-potato phone prime, or misc flavour of peasant.

If you want walled garden, go use apple. The option is there. We don't need to bring that here.
by wpm | 2025-11-13 06:13:20+00:00
I mean, Valve built this with the profits, at least, in no small part with the profits from selling games, DLC, and gacha skins on their storefront which has many many competitors too bozo-brained to run their stores as well as Valve does.

If any company has a business case for “we’ll sell the form factor at a loss with our store preinstalled” now it’s Valve, especially if they want to make the hardware only to prove the viability of the form factor, and especially since they already have been selling on platforms they don’t own.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-13 06:13:21+00:00
If we're going by "all species die out in the end" then anything we transition to will die too: entropy will get the whole universe in the end. Past that there's nothing that says any species can't expand out, settle whatever planets they want and stick around to the end. I'm also pretty cool with my millions-of-years-from-now descendants looking back at me and thinking about how different they are from me. I would consider it an incredible success to go that long without catastrophically destroying ourselves.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-13 06:13:23+00:00
That sounds like you're describing dactyl nightmare. [1] I played a version where you were attacking pterodactyls instead of other players, but it was more or less identical. That experience is what led me to believe that VR would eventually take over. I still, more or less, believe it even though it's yet to happen.

I think the big barrier remains price and experiences that are focusing more on visual fidelity over gameplay. An even bigger problem with high end visual fidelity tends to result in motion sickness and other side effects in a substantial chunk of people. But I'm sticking to my guns there - one day VR will win.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkP2to1P_c
by AuryGlenz | 2025-11-13 06:13:34+00:00
I had a similar instruction and in voice mode I had it trying to make a story for a game that my daughter and I were playing where it would occasionally say “3,2,1 go!” or perhaps throw us off and say “3,2,1, snow!” or other rhymes.

Long story short it took me a while to figure out why I had to keep telling it to keep going and the story was so straightforward.
by godelski | 2025-11-13 06:13:44+00:00
> I expect the operator just is not allowed to give advice like that

Maybe, but that's why I tried to stress the end part of empowering the workers. Empowering your "people on the ground" and stressing how you can't rule from a spreadsheet.

I also want to say that I'm giving this advice as someone who loves math, data, and statistics. Someone who's taken and studied much more math than the average STEM major. It baffles me how people claim to be data oriented yet do not recognize how critical noise is. Noise is a literal measurement of uncertainty. We should strive to reduce noise, but its abolishment is quite literally impossible. It must be accounted for rather than ignored.

So that's why I'm giving this advice. It's because it's how you strategize based on the data. All data needs to be interpreted, scrutinized, and questioned. And constantly, because we're not in a static world. So the only way to deal with that unavoidable noise is to have adaptable mechanisms that can deal with the details and nuances that get fuzzy when you do large aggregations. In the real world the tail of distributions are long and heavy.

A rigid structure is brittle and weak. The strongest structures are flexible, even if they appear stiff for the most part. It doesn't matter if you're building a skyscraper, a bridge, a business, or an empire. This is a universal truth because we'll never be omniscient. As long as we're not omniscient there will is noise, and you have to deal with it
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-13 06:13:58+00:00
That's not why it makes sense. And it's not even true, the failure of Pol Pot's communist state was best for the greater good, the failure of the Nazi state was a good thing. The failure of the Islamic State was great too (not always necessarily true for everybody who have hitched their wagons or bet their fortune on the success of the state of course, but for most people).

Whether the success or failure of the state is good or bad for people is irrelevant to the goal of the state, as I said. You can and do have states that are better or worse for the people, all share the goal of the perpetuation of the power of the state.
by pteraspidomorph | 2025-11-13 06:14:21+00:00
As a current and frequent user of this form factor (Pico 4, with the top strap, which the Steam Frame will also have as an option, over Virtual Desktop) I can assure you that it's quite comfortable over long periods of time (several hours). Of course it will ultimately depend on the specific design decisions made for this headset, but this all looks really good to me.

Full color passthrough would have been nice though. Not necessarily for XR, but because it's actually quite useful to be able to switch to a view of the world around you with very low friction when using the headset.
by eviks | 2025-11-13 06:14:32+00:00
> WhatsApp is one of those Windows apps that went from being a web wrapper to a native app and then back to the web again after all these years of investment.

We often hear stories about the speed of development and the issues of maintaining native apps, and then there are these rewrites every few years. Don't they waste more resources vs. creating / fixing the gaps in the native app? And this isn't somes quick startup prototype app that can flop and the effort would be wasted
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-13 06:16:44+00:00
That is it. When you become very aware of just how amazingly far away everything else is, fighting over a speak of dust and the only home we have seems absolutely ridiculous.

A great long form video on this is "Shouting at stars : A history of interstellar messages". It really highlights just how empty it all is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI5WpK2sgg
by somenameforme | 2025-11-13 06:17:44+00:00
It was a really interesting and weird time growing up when Japan was the king of tech. I had a friend who's dad was often over there and bringing all sorts of weird stuff back. There was this NES/Famicon game where you played with a sort of gyroscope. I have no idea how you were supposed to play the game, but found the gyroscope endlessly fascinating. Then of course there were the pirated cartridges with 100 in 1 type games. Oh then we found the box full of his dad's "special" games. Ah, good times.
by tolciho | 2025-11-13 06:19:00+00:00
> Anyway, I’d remind everyone that “using” RAM doesn’t mean “would not function with less RAM.”

Except when something really does need more RAM, and fails. LLVM for example having, somehow, become a bit chonky and now fails to compile on 32-bit OpenBSD systems because it wants more memory than is available. Less bloated software of course does not suffer from this problem, and continues to run on still functional 32-bit systems.

> Many applications just use a lot if it’s available.

Xorg is using 92M, irssi 21M (bloated, but I've been lazy about finding something leaner), xenodm 12M. That's the top three. Oh, Windows? Yeah. About that. Best you can hope for is not to catch too much of the splatter. (What passes for Mac OS X these days also seems fairly dismal.)

> RAM is not really something you explicitly ration.

Paperclips were hung on the rack doors to make it easier to poke the wee little red reset button when some poorly written software went all gibblesquik (as poorly written software is wont to do) and the OOM killer could not cope and, whelp, reset time. Elsewhere, RAM is explicitly rationed—perhaps certain aspects of timesharing have been somewhat forgotten in this benighted era of bloat?—and malloc will return NULL, something certain programmers often fail to check for, which is generally followed by the kernel taking the error-ridden code out back and shooting it.
by teekert | 2025-11-13 06:19:11+00:00
Back in the day there were pipetting robots and 384 well plates. Probably some smart grouping techniques to hone in on a mutation in a binary search like fashion.

But nowadays we have things like single cell sequencing, which allows you to label thousands of cells with unique DNA barcodes (not the cell itself but the sequencing library you construct to go into the sequencer), and sequence them all in a massive parallel fashion.

Basically all of molecular (and other types) biology is now "high throughput", consequently data science has become very important for biologists.
by nxpnsv | 2025-11-13 06:19:44+00:00
I recently got a tiny and mighty GPD win mini. I booted windows once to shrink the data partition and installed Bazzite Linux. Painless install, never even considered booting in win again, and so far all games I tried worked flawlessly. I know there are issues with anti-cheat, but I usually don't even like those games..
by rincebrain | 2025-11-13 06:20:05+00:00
I believe the specific purpose of that is to appeal to the parts of companies that engage in professional ass covering for the hot potato.

That is, if a well-established company offers you a service explicitly promising no human bones in the soup, when all the other services don't promise that, you can make a reasonable argument that, in the event you were required by circumstances to pick one of the services to use, you have done the best you can in that circumstance, even if human bones ended up in the soup, as long as the company doesn't have a known history of not honoring its commitments.

And in that case, it becomes easier to make an argument to your management chain that you didn't deliberately put in human bones to save on cost, you picked the one that explicitly promised no human bones.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-13 06:21:22+00:00
It’s not just China though, it’s almost every country going through a cashless transition at this point, so if it is awesome idea in Chad and Laos as well as Sweden and Australia, what does it mean elsewhere? Are we the only country that is rich enough to avoid a transition? The biggest issue in the states is that given a choice, the cash holdout businesses become increasing larger targets for theft (eg marijuana dispensaries in the Seattle area) as other businesses opt out.
by pteraspidomorph | 2025-11-13 06:21:33+00:00
As an Index controler and Pico user: The back straps are pretty much essential for any serious use; the controller purportedly includes finger tracking (capacitive) but you can't really open your hand without dropping the controller unless you have the strap.

If as I currently intend I end up purchasing this device, I will definitely endeavour to obtain the controller straps as well as the top strap for the headset at the same time, and I recommend others do the same.
by aarroyoc | 2025-11-13 06:22:07+00:00
So sorry for your loss. Some months ago I was very angry to found out that a person was dead for a bike injury that can be easily solved but he had to wait for almost 50 minutes for the ambulance. Not because he was far away, but because he was in between two regions and the 112 was discussing who should send the ambulance. In fact, they initially send one and later told the driver to go back while in the highway. He's dead just because he happened to have the accident near the border of two regions of the same country, each one with its own public health system.

Link (Spanish): https://www.elespanol.com/alicante/vega-baja/20251028/hijo-c...
by linsomniac | 2025-11-13 06:22:44+00:00
Ahh, we've reached the point in the discussion where you're arguing semantics...

"With a basis in observable facts". I am observing that I am getting things done with GenAI that I wouldn't be able to otherwise, due to lack of time.

While you were typing your message above, Claude was modifying a 100KLOC software project in a language I'm unfamiliar with to add a feature that'll make the software have one less rough edge for me. At the same time, I was doing a release of our software for work.

Feels pretty objective from my perspective. Yes, I realize from your perspective it is subjective.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-13 06:23:03+00:00
The urgency is quite irrelevant. In many locales you will still have to ask voters for permission and/or have a constitutional referendum in addition to having the local legislature acquiesce. All of those parties can do whatever they want and a large percentage of them don't understand and DGAF. This dynamic plays out over and over for countless issues, this is no different.

In the meantime, tax authorities will require compliance as the law demands without any regard for another tax authority requiring something different.

I'd be perfectly happy for pennies to disappear but I am not ignorant of the realpolitik that makes implementation nearly impossible. Wishful thinking won't make it so.
by steve_taylor | 2025-11-13 06:24:36+00:00
Governments aren’t just rolling out Digital IDs. They’re rolling out the platform to enable them to require that you authenticate with a range of apps and websites, ostensibly to keep children safe, with the real purpose being to link your unique identifier to all your online activity. They can then easily build an overall picture of who you are from that ID. Potentially, all this data can be fed into a pre-crime AI.
by ramshanker | 2025-11-13 06:26:29+00:00
Ancedotal: I used to believe in this "freedom to install". Than my Father got scammed (~$1000) in the name of Electricity recharge. The APK was sent over WhatsApp. Now I am not so sure how to implement this freedom. At the bare minimum there has to be big red warnings.

One thing which can immediately improve security is forbidding SMS read access forever. Just like Apple does. No App should be able to read SMS.
by echelon | 2025-11-13 06:26:47+00:00
I don't play games much anymore, so maybe I'm not the right person to respond.

Why would anyone ever buy a console again? This thing has the ultimate library and works on all platforms.

Steam seems to have played the best game of chess in the industry. Sony and Microsoft were battling over exclusives and acquisitions and ways to screw over customers. This came out of left field and looks a million times better than Xbox or PS5. It has people's entire libraries on it, and the games are cheap and portable. There's no lock down. No funny business.

I almost want one. I'm excited about it and I don't even think I'd play it.
by vrighter | 2025-11-13 06:27:46+00:00
"RAM is not really something you explicitly ration."

It most certainly is. My old pc ran on 8MB of ram. Modern ones need 16GB for a comfortable experience. They do not do much more than I needed back then. I think it's reasonable to expect a simple chat app to not take up 128 times as much memory as my entire PC had when I was young.
by strken | 2025-11-13 06:27:55+00:00
I was under the impression that air ambulances in Victoria are mostly for rural areas - either responding to incidents in the middle of nowhere, or flying patients to Melbourne for urgent specialist care. Most of them aren't even based in Melbourne, they're out in regional centres like Bendigo and Warrnambool[0].

A helicopter seems like it would be pretty useless for landing in an urban area. I can't imagine winching is risk-free or would save much time, and you can probably put many more ambulances on the ground for the cost of a single air ambulance.

[0] https://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/air-ambulance-victoria
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-13 06:28:20+00:00
The reason they have different levels is that the DRM pitchmen got tired of everyone making fun of their ineffective snake oil, so they tried to make a version that was harder to break at the cost of not supporting most devices.

Naturally that got broken too, and even worse, broken when it's only supported by a minority of devices and content, because the more devices and content it's used for the easier it is to break and the larger the incentive to do it.

If you tried to require that for all content then it would have to be supported by all devices, including the bargain bin e-waste with derelict security, and what do you expect to happen then?
by zeroq | 2025-11-13 06:28:59+00:00
It is precisely that! My version was wireframe and I can't recall the dragon, but everything else is exactly like I remembered it!

For me this serves as an example.

Few years later VFX1 was the hype, years later Occulus, etc.

But 3D graphics in general - as seen in video games - are similar, minus recent lumen, it's still stuff from graphics gems from 80-90s, just on silicone.

Same thing is happening now to some degree with AI.
by rajnathani | 2025-11-13 06:29:43+00:00
Also, I wish there was a setting to disable ChatGPT in its system prompt to have access to my name and location. There was a study on an LLM(s) (not image gen) a couple of years ago (I can't find the study now) which showed that an unfiltered OSS version had racist views towards certain diasporas.
by cma | 2025-11-13 06:29:49+00:00
Pay people $1 and hour and ask them to choose A or B, which is more short and professional:

A) Keeping it short and professional. Yes, there are only seven deadly sins

B) Yes, there are only seven deadly sins

Also have all the workers know they are being evaluated against each other and if they diverge from the majority choice their reliability score may go down and they may get fired. You end up with some evaluations answered as a Keynesian beauty contest/family feud survey says style guess instead of their true evaluation.
by axiolite | 2025-11-13 06:29:50+00:00
> Why does it matter if the production cost is higher than the face value?

You can buy pennies or nickels in bulk, melt them down, and turn a tidy profit. That's literally a "money printing glitch"

Every penny or nickel that gets lost in the gutter, stored in a coin collection, used as a washer or shim, turned into jewelery, or sets around in jars unused, represents a financial loss to the Treasury.

It's called seigniorage and melt value. Also see Gresham's law (hoarding).
by charcircuit | 2025-11-13 06:30:10+00:00
Maybe this example will help. Let's say a user has 1 bitcoin UTXO that is tainted and then 1 bitcoin UTXO that is not tainted. They create a transaction that takes both UTXO as an input and as an output creates 2 UTXO of 0.5 bitcoin.

In this scenario, is the first output UTXO of the transaction tainted? The second? The miner's reward UTXO? Someone else's output UTXO?