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by franze | 2025-12-21 06:09:04+00:00
Honestly, Claude Code Yolo Mode with MCP Playwright and MCP Google Chrome Debug is already sudo on my system + Full Access to my Gmail and Google Workspace.

Also it can do 2 Factor Auth in its own.

Nothing bad ever happened. (+ Dropbox Backup + Time Machine + my whole home folder is git versioned and github backuped)

First it felt revolutionary until I realised I am propably just a few months to one year ahead of the curve.

AIs are so much better as desktop sysadmins, routine code and automating tasks, the idea that we users keep fulfilling this role into the future is laughable

AI Computer Use is inevitable. And already here (see my setup) just not wildly distributed.

Self driving cars are already here (see Waymo, not the Swasticar), computer use super easy in comparison.

Oh by the way, whenever Claude Code does something in my online banking, I still want to sign it myself. (But my stripe account I dont ever look at it any more, Claude Code does a much much better job there than I am interested in doing.)
by utopiah | 2025-12-21 06:09:05+00:00
> why you decided for a UX that each transition required a new slide?

Not OP but I imagine conceptually for a newcomer to 3D or animation that's actually great onboarding. They do not have concepts of keyframes but they do know about slides.

When it becomes really long and complex... then IMHO it's not for the same audience anymore. They can install Blender or whatever other tool they need.
by cornel_io | 2025-12-21 06:11:31+00:00
And at the end of the day it's not really a tradeoff we'll need to make, anyways: my experience with e.g. Claude Code is that every model iteration gets much better at avoiding balls of mud, even without tons of manual guidance and pleading.

I get that even now it's very easy to let stuff get out of hand if you aren't paying close attention yourself to the actual code, so people assume that it's some fundamental limitation of all LLMs. But it's not, much like 6 fingered hands was just a temporary state, not anything deep or necessary that was enforced by the diffusion architecture.
by kristopolous | 2025-12-21 06:11:36+00:00
No not at all. Let's do it this way:

What percentage of people who drive drunk have consumed thc within the time window of blood detection?

Now this is a more reasonable number

I really don't know why this number is significant. Accidents are situational and people who engage in situations where accidents are more frequent likely make other decisions about consumption and lifestyle which involve things like cannabis

Who cares?

You aren't going to elevate the behavior of the population by regulating a plant
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-21 06:11:59+00:00
For the home/lab, an second-hand enterprise network main switch and an OSS router like OPNsense to enforce security policies on the wired side of things. For WiFi gear, I've been a fan of Ubiquiti APs managed by a self-installed UniFi instance without cloud features. This, and some custom glue jobs/scripts on the unifi VM, make it easier to track down troublemakers and lock them down so they can't just dial-home or self-update and brick themselves.

PSA: Don't connect any TV used a dumb monitor to the internet. This is like connecting your toaster to the internet and begging for trouble.
by vel0city | 2025-12-21 06:12:15+00:00
Yeah, they moved. Away from here, for many reasons, often under bad situations. And most no longer exist, and are thus irrelevant to the discussion of lineage of current towns.

Insane you're really arguing a suburb of North Texas is older or at least as old as Rome or Athens.

So yeah, as an identity, this area is extremely young in comparison. It absolutely does not draw its roots back 16,000 years. We are not an extention of the Caddo people, they were not an extension of the first peoples who were here.

> Because we have mainstreets, buildings, blocks, community centers, parks, American-style squares...

Seems to me we're talking urban design here! That's kind of the whole point of the article, looking at urbanism in Europe to the US. Maybe you're imagining some other topic, but urbanism is deep in the discussion overall. I don't think nomadic groups had a lot of thought to how wide their highways were or planning our their parking lots.
by hattmall | 2025-12-21 06:12:42+00:00
I could probably be using the word boilerplate wrong, but to me, it's anything that isn't logic. So anything with basic interfaces, interacting with databases, etc is boilerplate. It's not literally the same code every time, but it's the parts of code that I don't have to make a map of how it should work.

E.g. I write financial modeling software, designing the interface, getting data from APIs, pulling transactions from database is all boilerplate. I can write in plain English how that should be done, for me to do it, is to just look up the exact methods / structures / etc. AI can do that pretty well... sometimes.

The hard part is figuring out how to make that information meaningful and take action on it, display it to the user, and make certain there aren't mistakes in the interaction of the previously mentioned areas.
by golem14 | 2025-12-21 06:13:03+00:00
It will be interesting to read the actual study when it comes out.

Interesting questions: * What is the baseline of consumption / THC level?

* what was the alcohol level in decesased drivers ? (e..g how many people only had alcohol, how many only THC, how many had both, how many had nothing.

* Are there other test scenarios where THC screening is mandatory that could help getting to the baseline ? Are there ways to get an approximate answer from sewers, like they did for Covid?
by twotwotwo | 2025-12-21 06:13:07+00:00
I'm conflicted about opining on models: no individual has actually done a large sample of real-world tasks with a lot of models to be able to speak with authority, but I kinda think we should each share our dubiously-informed opinions anyway because benchmarks aren't necessarily representative of real-world use and many can clearly be gamed.

Anyhow, I noticed more of a difference trying Opus 4.5 compared to Sonnet 4.5 than I'd noticed from, for example, the last couple Sonnet bumps. Objectively, at 1.66x Sonnet's price instead of the old 5x, it's much more often practical to consider reaching for than past Opus models. Anthropic's basic monthly thing also covers a fair amount of futzing with it in CC.

At the other extreme, another surprise of this family is that Haiku 4.5 with reasoning on is usable: better than Sonnet with thinking off according to some bencharks, and in any case subjectively decent for point edits, single-page thingies, and small tools.
by seesawtron | 2025-12-21 06:13:20+00:00
Sure it makes a few things easier to execute when you have an agent running locally. But many people fear what such an agent might do under a wrong or misunderstood prompt to your local system. There is also mistrust of how it may access your data locally compared to a more controlled scenario where you specifically choose which files it has access to. So, no, “everyone” “should” not necessarily be using more CC. It depends on the tasks in hand and risks associated
by tsimionescu | 2025-12-21 06:13:50+00:00
A very common thing that will happen in professional environments is that you ship software to your customers, and they will occasionally complain that in certain situations (often ones they don't fully understand) the software misbehaves. You can't attach a debugger to your customer's setup that had a problem over the weekend and got restarted: the only solution to debug such issues is to have had programmed logs set up ahead of time.
by mindcrime | 2025-12-21 06:14:53+00:00
Terry Tao is a genius, and I am not. So I probably have no standing to claim to disagree with him. But I find this post less than fulfilling.

For starters, I think we can rightly ask what it means to say "genuine artificial general intelligence", as opposed to just "artificial general intelligence". Actually, I think it's fair to ask what "genuine artificial" $ANYTHING would be.

I suspect that what he means is something like "artificial intelligence, but that works just like human intelligence". Something like that seems to be what a lot of people are saying when they talk about AI and make claims like "that's not real AI". But for myself, I reject the notion that we need "genuine artificial general intelligence" that works like human intelligence in order to say we have artificial general intelligence. Human intelligence is a nice existence proof that some sort of "general intelligence" is possible, and a nice example to model after, but the marquee sign does say artificial at the end of the day.

Beyond that... I know, I know - it's the oldest cliche in the world, but I will fall back on it because it's still valid, no matter how trite. We don't say "airplanes don't really fly" because they don't use the exact same mechanism as birds. And I don't see any reason to say that an AI system isn't "really intelligent" if it doesn't use the same mechanism as human.

Now maybe I'm wrong and Terry meant something altogether different, and all of this is moot. But it felt worth writing this out, because I feel like a lot of commenters on this subject engage in a line of thinking like what is described above, and I think it's a poor way of viewing the issue no matter who is doing it.
by nymanjon | 2025-12-21 06:15:05+00:00
Interesting read. I haven't quite finished it all. I haven't ever needed anything like that when writing web pages with HTMX, html-form (my own), nor htmz-be (another one I wrote based off of htmz but the back end decided where the HTML will go, similar to data-star and nomini). When I write code from the back end and target the front end I can use middleware to common updates.

Here's the most complex app I've made with it. The most complex part of the app is the match page. I just use morphdom for that part of the app and it makes it super easy, I just send the whole main part of the page back and let a dom diff happen.

https://github.com/jon49/Soccer
by userbinator | 2025-12-21 06:15:47+00:00
Music files (releasing in order of popularity)

Increasing or decreasing? IMHO increasing would make more sense, as the most popular music is already mirrored in countless other places. It's the rare stuff that is most in need of preservation.

I wonder how much of the content there is AI-generated. Honestly, even as someone who was initially skeptical, I've found some of it to be rather good --- not knowing that it was AI-generated at first. Now if they could only reverse-engineer the prompt and only store the model, that would be an extremely efficient form of "compression".
by mmooss | 2025-12-21 06:16:02+00:00
Property rights are not absolute (except when powerful people have property and want somethign).

> I just think there are things more important than art.

Sure, nothing is absolutely important, but what's the higher priority here?

> It’s worse than advertisement: at least ads are bland and repetitive, you can easily filter them out.

... that you can 'easily filter them out'? (Ads are generally far larger, well-lit, more prominent and designed to be hard to filter.)

> That’s the positive side of living in a democracy: we shouldn’t need to trust that rogue public demostrations, due to the central limit theorem or something, converge on the public sentiment. We have elections for that.

A side of living in democracy is that free expression is restricted to voting? ???
by schainks | 2025-12-21 06:16:06+00:00
Indeed, the cooling infra needed for cryo makes the price per watt go up by unreasonable amounts per unit length.

Also your cryo liquid should ideally be something that doesn't do the following things:

1. Leaks — shouldn't cause asphyxiation risk to humans who need to fix the leak. 2. Broken cable due to disaster – coolant doesn't turn into explosives when in contact with high voltage high current electricity.

However, UHV DC electricity in tunnels could be financially attractive and safe if you can cool the tunnels properly (no superconducting cryo)
by weitendorf | 2025-12-21 06:17:36+00:00
No you're not making it up, this is exactly what some people are working on. Agent frameworks are starting to move towards "dynamic" service discovery/runtime introspection and composition-with-guardrails. Some keywords are "agent mesh", and the general marketing from AI companies about AI "inventors", and agent-driven interfaces like Google's a2ui (which is just a spec)

We recently started working on https://github.com/accretional/collector to serve as a dynamic proto ORM+CRUD server with search and discovery, and features for operating as a node in an "agent/service mesh". The idea is that you can create a uniform interface for data retrieval/search/APIs that lets agents dynamically register, invoke, or discover any data type or service, or write it themselves, then register it locally or share it.

It is feasible to do this stuff now actually, just a bit tricky because most LLMs aren't trained to operate this way without very explicit instructions for how to do so, and for collector specifically the API surface is probably too big. But I am pretty sure neither would take long to fix if enough people were adopting this kind of pattern.
by franklyworks | 2025-12-21 06:19:00+00:00
I am a privacy advocate, and also am disappointed at how narrow minded some of the arguments of privacy advocates are.

"Banning encrypted chat will just mean the bad people moved to banned platforms". Perhaps, but some bad people have to operate where victims are (Facebook stalkers, eBay cons, ...)

"Police should be forced to just do... actual police work."

It's pretty reasonably for police to want to increase the chances and speed of resolution.

We should champion and defend privacy, in spite of the good reasons to weaken it. There's no need to strawmen.
by viraptor | 2025-12-21 06:19:42+00:00
I'm confused by the example in readme:

Example: LIKE '%abc%def' ... Step 2: Match first part as prefix -- "abc" must start at position 0 Candidates = pos[a@0] ∩ pos[b@1] ∩ pos[c@2]

Is this a mistake, or is there some position magic that makes the position == 0, even after an arbitrary prefix?
by nymanjon | 2025-12-21 06:20:24+00:00
Here's an example offline-first hypermedia-driven soccer application. The match page is the most complex part of the application and I use Morphdom to just do a diff on the main section of the page. I find hypermedia-driven development to be super simple.

I find React to be really complex. What normally takes me just some HTML rendered from the back end and some interactivity on the front end can be done in just a few lines of code, but React takes 10s of lines of code for what I can write in a single line of code using vanilla js. The virtual dom causes it to make everything state. I always find it odd that people reach for that as their front end. I could understand something like Svelte, but even that is too complex for my needs. But I'm always writing CRUD apps, so there is some complexity but not that much, React just makes something that was simple, super complex.

https://github.com/jon49/Soccer
by weitendorf | 2025-12-21 06:21:04+00:00
It does matter because the code needs to still be legible and discoverable and semantic enough for other AI to find it and use it without it being so confusing or painful that they prefer to just write it themselves.

The reason software is so valuable is that it's capital/up-front investment in figuring something out that can continuously deliver value with low or no marginal cost. Rewriting/maintenance/difficulty/figuring out software is marginal cost.
by npn | 2025-12-21 06:21:20+00:00
wal archiving is piss easy. you can also just use basebackup. with postgres 17 it is easier than ever with incremental backup feature.

you don't need horizontal scalability when a single server can have 384 cpu real cores, 6TB of ram, some petabytes of pcie5 ssd, 100Gbps NIC.

for tuning postgres parameters, you can start by using pgtune.leopard.in.ua or pgconfig.org.

upgrading major version is piss easy since postgres 10 or so. just a single command.

you do not need pgbouncer if your database adapter library already provide the database pool functionality (most of them do).

for me maintained database also need that same amount of effort, due to shitty documents and garbage user interfaces (all aws, gcp or azure is the same), not to mention they change all the time.
by Arainach | 2025-12-21 06:23:20+00:00
> An open question for me is how feasible it is to teach people how to teach themselves effectively using this new technology.

It's not really an open question. We've had a huge amount of content on the internet including documentation, tutorials, example code, and actual online courses available for years and in the end most people don't learn effectively when presented with that information and left to themselves. LLMs are no different.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-12-21 06:25:10+00:00
They're not. Rural electricity can be had in the United States for far less than PG&E's charging. Look at Hawaii, Alasaka, TVA, etc., etc. PG&E is expensive because they have to pay for negligence, homicide, stock buybacks, dividends, executive bonuses, lobbyists, and back maintenance.

It's also worth noting that PG&E's got a history of astroturfing. Back in the 00s there was a local blogger, Greg Dewar, who ran a blog called the N Judah Chronicles. Ostensibly it was a blog about Muni and transit issues, but when muni power in SF came up for a vote boy was he hopping mad. It wasn't until someone else called him out for being on the PG&E payroll that he owned up to being paid to astroturf.
by injidup | 2025-12-21 06:25:35+00:00
That is the decision of artists to sign with a mega corp. Any tom dick or harry can create a Spotify account, load their warbling autotuned ditty written by themselves ( or AI ) on any theme, in any genre and wait for fame or fortune to appear or not. You can take your 70% or whatever the exact number is with no.middle man if you like.

Unfortunately the number of people producing music and the quantity of it is much higher than the number of people able to consume it. And culture is simply network effects. You listen to what your friends or family listen to. Thus there are only a small number of artists who make it big in a cultural sense.

And one of the cheat codes for cracking the cultural barrier is to use a mega corp to advertise for you but if course the devil takes his cut.

Anyway AI is coming for all these mega corps. If you haven't tried SUNO and many of you have it's amazing how convincingly it can crack specific Genres and churn out quality music. Call it slop if you like but the trajectory is obvious.

As a consumer you will get you own custom music feed singing songs about YOUR life or desired life and you will share those on your social media account and some of those will go viral most will die.

Content creation as a career is probably dead.
by ofalkaed | 2025-12-21 06:26:13+00:00
Who said anything about big stores? Every big city I have lived in has had a stadium and parking lots owned by either the stadium or third parties which allow tailgating and I have been to/was involved in a good many events held in private parking lots. Big stores open 7 days a week if not 24 hours a day are obviously not going to sacrifice their parking lots but a good number of parking lots are mostly vacant on the weekends, they serve the 5 days a week, 9-5 buisness world and they are more willing to sacrifice their mostly empty weekend lots.
by eimrine | 2025-12-21 06:27:35+00:00
RMS has seen our troubles with non-free software as early as in 80s. What he has not predict that the software has find even more cruel way of shipping - disservices which do not even allow the freedom 0.

BTW the statement about democracy is not a lie - everyone knows some big and small revolutions happened after someone's post in social networks. Also such things as anonymous news sources, torrents and bitcoin has democraticized a whole lot of things in our lives.
by oarfish | 2025-12-21 06:29:10+00:00
Yeah this is actually quite nefarious, as it is a private organization that decides what sites get blocked, with no legal oversight.

- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearingstelle_Urheberrecht_im...

- https://netzpolitik.org/2024/cuii-liste-diese-websites-sperr...

Its a DNS based block, so overriding your default DNS server is enough to circumvent it. I think Dns over Https also works.
by 10000truths | 2025-12-21 06:29:44+00:00
The biggest risk to this business model isn't the government, but the payment processor. Anonymity makes it easy for unsavory characters to use stolen credit cards to buy your compute. The inevitable barrage of chargebacks will then cause Stripe to cut you off. Hell, if you're particularly unlucky, your payment processor might even cut you off proactively, if they decide that your lack of KYC makes you a risk.
by musicale | 2025-12-21 06:31:02+00:00
> I agree that it can be difficult to make sense of a model containing billions of parameters. Certainly a human can't understand such a model by inspecting the values of each parameter individually. But one can gain insight by examing (sic) the properties of the model—where it succeeds and fails, how well it learns as a function of data, etc.

Unfortunately, studying the behavior of a system doesn't necessarily provide insight into why it behaves that way; it may not even provide a good predictive model.
by vel0city | 2025-12-21 06:31:26+00:00
> Every big city I have lived in has had a stadium and parking lots owned by either the stadium or third parties

So not the city, the stadium corporation (which might have ties to the city, but usually a wholly separate organization) or private third parties. Like I said.

> they are more willing to sacrifice their mostly empty weekend lots.

Once again I've had a lot of very mixed experiences on this one. Some don't care, some see it as an insurance liability. I've spent a lot of my life adjacent to commerical property management, I can't imagine most of these groups being thoroughly OK with unknown groups using their lots for whatever. Seems like a good chance to get sued.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-21 06:32:35+00:00
I don’t think any of them are breaking even when you consider the maintenance costs, I just thought it was kind of funny considering the nature of the line of work they are in.

This was a different group of people but when some of the old LibGen domains got seized the FBI uploaded photos of the owners and the things they had spent their money on; a crappy old boat, what looked like a trailer in rural Siberia, and a vacation somewhere in the Mediterranean. It honestly read like sketch comedy, because the purchases didn’t appear remotely ostentatious.

Z-library also supposedly caps downloads at 5 per day and offers more and faster downloads to paying subscribers.
by faidit | 2025-12-21 06:33:54+00:00
All things considered, I don't think advanced degrees necessarily correlate with intelligence. It's often just a marker of socioeconomic privilege.

A Carnegie Mellon study found that people with PhDs were more likely than any other educational attainment level to be against the Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v... (page 17)

Gallup polls during the Vietnam War found that higher-educated Americans were more likely to be pro-war while the most anti-war group were those with only a grade school education: https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a15203... (page 19 of the PDF, page 38 of the document)