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>What I don't understand is, what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs?

Wallstreet. These companies are largely based on increasing the share price. That's what shareholders want, that's what the board wants, and that's what the C-suite, compensated mostly in stock, wants. Nothing really matters except increasing the stock price, and right now the AI bubble is so damn superheated that if you do not announce something AI, you might be punished in the stock market as investors pull their money and put it somewhere that is willing to bullshit in order to collect some of that sweet hype money.

Because the vast majority of the stock market is literally a "greater fool" system. The point is not to make good companies that will enrich you with strong dividends forever, but rather to pump and dump. The entire point of the public market (for public companies) is that you can bullshit, pump up your stock price, and then dump those pumped up stocks onto a fool because you know the company isn't nearly as valuable as the stock says it is.

Private investors are so goddamned wealthy nowadays that it makes zero sense to engage with the public stock market, and the regulation and demands that it requires of you, unless you are trying to dump on bagholders.

Your average trader is so goddamned stupid you can literally run a company with no fundamentals and no plan and have a $13 billion market cap. Your entire business can be "sell shares repeatedly to these same losers who are blatantly illiterate, can't do basic math, and are outright gambling addicts" and retire on the free money that these people THANK YOU for taking. You can openly enrich yourself off these idiots, and they will vote for it willingly!

The point of being on the public market is to attempt to take advantage of these people and take their money.
Oh...

I am currently working on building a curated collection of YouTube channels, with custom search index. Thank you for sharing this, I guess I can't continue. It's a shame.
OP uses they/them pronouns.
Made a music video. The footage is all drawn from our creative software projects
I think the argument is misunderstood here. I'm not saying this is the only reason that Netflix would be in favor of passkeys, just that it's one reason, not even the main one.

Here's the argument. I guess it's up to you whether you think it's coherent.

1. Netflix dislikes account sharing. They'd rather have two people pay for two subscriptions. They're a business, and are in favor of higher subscription numbers.
2. Passkeys make account sharing harder. Customer behavior modeling probably suggests that some fraction of account share-ers would create new subscriptions if they switched to passkeys.
3. Of all the reasons Netflix is in favor or against passkeys, this reason is in favor of them, via 1. and 2.
When someone refers to "The X people", they are referring to the Nationality. Historically citizenship and nationality were interlinked, but they are separate.

"The Irish people inhabit Ireland, as Irish Citizens" is not a tautology.

Nationality does not require race or ethnicity; some nations require common descent (blood quantum). The French people do not have such requirements.
Mobile games can often scale to eye-popping numbers. Among Us has over 1 billion downloads and was made by a single programmer. Plenty of other examples -- e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.JindoBlu.O..., a solo dev who has multiple 100MM+ download small games.
Our household parented our children - no phones until middle school (US) and encouraged intentional use thereafter. Observed the mood swings were correlated "proportionately" with phone use.
I seriously regret not seeing my aunt when she was dying, though I went to the funeral.

A memory ill never forget though is the time I went to a funeral for a childhood friends sister - it was extremely sad as you would expect, but her brother (my childhood friend) saw a big group of us there and he said "I cant believe it, everyone came out" and I could see he was really happy.

When the article said "do it for the family" it really hit me, and in hindsight its obvious - we were there for them, not the deceased, and it meant A LOT to them to see us there.
Small discussion (11 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444113
You are clearly not a manager

(That is not an insult)
Because they have lower say-do ratio than employees below them. There's a sign or exponent error in current reward system of modern societies somewhere.
And if I do have the device? And I have guessed the PIN?
If people really cared, law would have been written in Lojban. :P
IP is a legal construct not a technical one. If it's protected by law it's protected by law.
Why? There’s quite a lot of automakers and neither of these two are in dominant positions, one is even flirting with bankruptcy.
Many car manufacturers are state-supported, I don’t think they play by the same rules as other businesses.
It is! In many ways I prefer it because it feels more organic and easier to contribute updates to. However, I am curious to see where we are going to be in several months from now. If it is going to grow at the current pace, there will be several thousand servers by then!
Op uses they/them pronouns.
Are these rear fog lights? They tend to be bright, and lots of people always drive with their fog lights on for some reason.
I'm unaware of motorcycle crash data that detailed measured exhaust decibel levels.
This one is marvelous: In 2021, the US Congress enacted stringent requirements to prevent sesame, a potential allergen, from cross-contaminating other foods. Many companies found it simpler and less expensive to instead add sesame directly to their product as an ingredient, exempting them from complying with the law.
And I'm here for it! :D
Author uses they/them pronouns.
I like this but I am skeptical!

As soon as I saw the MCP announcement - when dsp annoucned they had open sourced the repo - and started working on my own server [1]...it's quite interesting that anthropic has decided to open source this protocol. I have a couple of questions and if anyone from anthropic reads this please also let us know you're from anthropic.

1/ Why did you built a protocol like this without getting other LLM providers on board - because I believe that would have helped promoting and making this more of a unified effort, now it feels like Anthropic is running the show no?

2/ why is there a need to cenralize this now? surely anyone knows how to use npm or uvx - why do we need a directory? usually this means someone will be moderating this directory, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of letting people contribute (i.e. you will probably reach some bottleneck around validating each server...imagine if npm or pypi had to validate everything...)

3/ What are the plans for MCP long-term?

4/ Side-question: why isn't Anthropic pushing more on making it simple standardizing tools - i.e. openAI has Custom GPTs and they're basically a big RAG play but I can see how slowly these custom GPTs will be able to access more and more external services - what's the Anthropic equivalent?

Thanks for any partial answer, I'm on the MCP official discord too if anyone wants to geek out :)

[1] https://github.com/toolhouse-community/mcp-server-toolhouse
The great thing about bitcoin crap is that it's real world public/private keys used by the general public.

And oh man tons of almost millionaires have lost their backups. Tons of people still have stolen credentials. Basically nobody can "do it correctly".
Submitted by author Jeff earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433097
Cool use of WebSockets! Have you tried deploying it to AWS Lambda? I would like to have something similar on AWS, but SSL support and scale-to-zero are hard and tricky with EC2 Load Balancer and ECS.
> bankruptcy insurance that would pay for support to continue

1. That isn't a thing

2. If your company doesn't exist, it doesn't really matter if you comply with the law anymore.

3. Insurance writes checks, it doesn't conduct business operations

> It seems pretty likely that the vendors would choose to license the code under terms that would allow the source code to be published in that circumstance, since otherwise they have no customers.

Except for all of the hardware and software that already exists, all of the patents that already exist, all of the different laws for hardware and software in every other country where closed-source software/hardware exists, and all of the laws here and everywhere else that restrict hardware or software for other reasons. I think it is much more likely that companies will comply with all of the rest of the operational and legal obligations they currently have, and instead, avoid legal nexus in your jurisdiction.

> 3G cellular radios?

It's not legal to open source a baseband radio in many countries because of the licensing requirements to use the spectrum. If you make this a requirement, and companies want to sell cellphones in other countries (they do) you have banned the manufacture of these devices in your country.

> It seems pretty likely that the vendors would choose to license the code under terms that would allow the source code to be published in that circumstance, since otherwise they have no customers.

It's more likely they will conduct operations outside of your jurisdiction, and continue their business as they currently do.

> Other media is distributed in a human-readable form rather than compiled into an opaque binary.

You don't "read" a piece of software the same way you don't "read" a song on the radio. Software runs on a computer, and songs play on a radio.

But even if we do interpret this your way -- copyright doesn't require anything at all to be published. You can create something, put it in a locked safe, and copyright still applies. You can't create a derivative work of my nudes on my phone, because I won't give them to you. They're still protected by copyright, though.

Your presumption that it is predicated on sharing is simply not factually correct. Copyright is and has only ever been about protecting creators rights. Only patent law is predicated on sharing.
At my current employer, Kuva Space, I'm among other things responsible for the commisioning and in orbit calibration of the payload. The Moon is a major calibration target for us, and between waxing and waining crescents I spent a lot of time analyzing Moon shots to perform radiometric calibration and camera parameter optimizations. The Moon doesn't know about weekends and images are not always downlinked at the most convenient times so that makes my life a bit more hectic.
Burak - one wish I've had recently is for a "py data ecosystem compiler", specifically one which allows me to express structures and transformations in dbt and Ibis, but not rely on Python at runtime. [Go|Rust]+[DuckDB|chDB|DataFusion] for the runtime. Bruin seems very close to the mark! Following.
Albertsons Is Mad at Kroger
How does this work? I'm on step 1 and I typed in "rfl 37=37" and nothing happened. I'm not a coder
UK Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites
I would also like to add that the dazzling lights make it impossible to see the tiny indicators modern cars have
You'd have to have some practical "ramp up" times, but anything that has been written can be written again.

It could eventually result in the third-party libraries being fully replaced (good value) or them adapting so that they update their libraries yearly - sure you can get the 3 year old one open-source, but do you want to?

id ran into this with the sound code for Doom, and Carmack regrets it (though I'm not sure they had many other practical options, they could have at least contracted for a distribution license which wouldn't need to be open source).
The anorexia problem is part of the obesity problem. Young girls (and increasingly, young boys) see all the pressure to be skinny and at the same time are surrounded by food designed to make them fat. They respond by swearing off food entirely. They are terrified of becoming fat, and literally see their bodies as fat even as they are about to die of starvation.

Fixing the numerous causes of obesity would definitely help. But it's not made easier by the existence of "pro-ana" social media which encourages young anorexics to reinforce each other's dangerous attitudes to food.
> the former chief creative officer of Leo Burnett US, recalls one agency trying to lure her in the ’90s with a stunning oceanfront house in Rye, N.Y.

That’s quite creative or a great troll: Rye, NY has no oceanfront.

It does have a Playland on the Long Island Sound.
Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.
Evidence that cultural groups differ in their abilities to detect fake accents
The password book of every person around me become awful over time. They don’t distinguish between uppercase and lowercase, they write bad notes, most of the content is outdated, sometimes there duplicates and overall cause me more headache than anything.

I hate password books. I don’t have a better solution though.

For now, I teach them to use chrome password manager for now and log in their chrome account when they need help. It sucks too. But at least I don’t get angry with their notes.
Funnily, this JavaScript would not pass through most modern job interviews.
As a fellow frugal sceptic, that won't impact us much.

We get a little buzz dragging the super value pack off a top shelf or knowing that the bottom shelf economy product is actually made in the same factory as the high priced brand. We are the ones standing in the aisle eyes glazed computing the 1g/£ value of a "get one free offer" vs. the family pack no matter how hard supermarkets obfuscate it with different units on each label. It's a contrarian world-view that assumes by default, that eye-level products have the lowest value.

I used to humbly assume I must be vulnerable to advertising but I later realised I actually have years of expenses that show otherwise. They show I am a cheap bastard. I don't make impulse purchases, mostly buy fruit and veg, don't buy branded products if it can be avoided and major purchases will be drawn out optimisation processes with spreadsheets and using return processes to compare alternatives if necessary.

What I can humbly reveal is that this is no brag, this is no moral virtue, just a personality trait that is not always rational and comes with swings and roundabouts e.g. good opportunities are rejected with suspicion, important purchases are procrastinated and we can make poor use of our time to indulge our psychology e.g. walk 10 minutes to the next store to buy something for 50p cheaper just because being gouged 50p physically hurts!
Compilers weren't trusted in the early days either.
Makes sense now. I shoulda read the document, but conversation is funner.
this sounds like the CGP Grey video about solving traffic whose solution* would completely eliminate pedestrian crossings.

My rule of thumb is that f a solution is extremely comfortable for drivers then it is likely damaging to everybody else.

* basically turning all cars in a coordinating mesh network
> In the case of those services you mention, passkeys are nothing but convenience; they provide no extra security.

They do provide extra security, in that they ensure that you're on the correct domain instead of a phishing site.
Part of the issue is that you have to spend time and money to defend an accusation.
This is just dunning kruger effect
Same, I drive a new model Suburban and constantly get flashed. I think it is the combination of the LED headlights and height at which they sit. I wish there was something I could do about it, but it isn't user adjustable.
Amazing work!

I wear mechanical watches, and find them not to be "outdated technology" as a lot of people assume. My automatic skeleton watch requires no winding, batteries, or charging, which makes it a more practical way to tell time than an electronic watch in my opinion.

I suppose one could argue that a solar powered quartz watch is even more practical for the same reasons... but the automatic is nearly the same in practice, and is a lot more fun, and looks cooler.
Easier said than done with deadlines, managers, and incentives
Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the first fusion power plant
That's true. I prefer this approach because it removes that additional thing (the request to S3) that can be slow or fail at runtime. Or "initialization" time, I guess, depending on how you look at it.
> It shouldn't be amazing but it is endlessly surprising to me that authorities cannot stop abusing their authority to spy on their fellow citizens.

The relationship between the UK and Ireland is less like that of fellow citizens and more like that of a colonial occupier.
I think it's like a novelist who assumes they will find a linguistics degree fascinating, but the focus of writing a novel is actually very different from linguistics.
Given that you said "always", I suspect they were the regular headlights of those cars. Which is really what the article is getting at. Especially because the height of cars in the US can be much higher than you might see in Europe (e.g. a lifted F-250), which point directly into the face of a driver in a smaller car. I hate it.
Related general discussion (201 points, 1 day ago, 332 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429045
Argentina is an economy weakened by Peronism, an ideology that constantly interferes with the free markets, with excessive regulations that incentivize rent-seeking and unproductive businesses.

It'll be much richer if it was designed to "benefit the capital," but it's far from it.
>I don't know if that has ever been enforced in the car industry, especially for import brands.

An example involving Stellantis in Turkey: https://moparinsiders.com/stellantis-turkish-unit-sale-faces...

>It's unclear what US regulators would latch onto here as part of an anti-trust case.

You still have the EU.
https://archive.today/5Rork
I'm certain that humans are picking up AI dialect. Very hard to prove though and will become harder.
The passkey pitch needs to incorporate this. Last time I paid attention, which was a long time ago, passkeys were non-portable. This is a deal breaker for me, so I wrote the whole thing off. I guess they fixed it.
In the original, if either the stock transfer books of the Company _or_ the book entry system of the warrant agent are closed, the person becomes a holder on the next date when either are open.

In your rewrite, if both the stock transfer books and the book entry system of the warrant agent are closed, the person becomes a holder on the next day when both are open.

If you search for the language of the original, you'll find a bunch of examples of the exact same language. I'm with the others that this is well-litigated language that no one wants to change. https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=161&q=Each+person+in+whose+....
> You can have your computer re-challenge you for a full password on some interval. So have it force you to use your password on your first login of the day, then you can use your PIN to hop back in during the day and then have the PIN option time out after so many hours. Same with any of the Hello credential options.

That still requires making up and memorizing a PIN.
You can remove some of that by making the "open platform" happen after a certain date (e.g, when the warranty has already expired).
She had the same reaction to two different people dying. So either she has a complicated relationship with both the cousin and brother or she’s the problem.

I put my money on the mother because people do weak stuff like that all the time. Can’t get over a little awkwardness to do the right thing because people aren’t self aware and fragile.
Meredith, clear the rest of my day.
That sentence triggered memories of reading the huge paperback Asimov compilation my mom kept on the bookshelf as a kid.
You think its mindboggling that some laws refer to other laws? Really??
Modern drives are directly connected to the PCIe bus (over NVMe) and even have DMA access IIRC, which potentially enables them to do much more than just store bits of data.

FWIW, even external drives connected through TB have similar level of access.
Important to note that this side effect is still very rare and that we still use drugs with similarly serious and rare side effects.

The authors of the study do not recommend abandoning these drugs, rather we should understand and manage the risks.
Some comment on the original article pointed out that the merger is about firing people which makes sense.
Every vehicle in (most?) states have to already be checked regularly for things like emissions. There's no reason we couldn't check for improper lights as part of that.
Oshkosh Only Delivers 93/3000 EV USPS Trucks, Hit by Supply/Manufacturing Issues
There are gradations. Yes, it might be unreasonable to never get in a situation where hitting a pedestrian is impossible, but it's not unreasonable to expect to never get in a situation where hitting a pedestrian at more than 20mph is impossible. Below 20mph a pedestrian collision is usually non-fatal.

That might mean limiting speed to 30mph or lower in residential area. That is fine.

Just like airplanes and surgery and almost every other dangerous activity, it should be impossible to have a road fatality with only a single failure. Only multi-systems failure should result in a fatality from any form of technology.
And how do you protect the password manager, with a passkey that needs to be stored in another password manager, or with a password with all the security risks that come with it?
The eye condition: non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)
in patients with Type 2 diabetes
> I'm saying that the world which passkey advocates want is a world where if, for any reason, you can't log in with your passkey (due to a lost/broken device, a software bug, whatever), you'll be locked out of your account.

And a world where people only use passwords has the same problem if you can't log in with your password.

Moving from one single point of failure to another isn't great, but it's not a downgrade.

(And just like it's possible to back up a password, it's possible to back up a passkey. And I know passwords can be memorized, but in practice it's bad passwords that get memorized.)
> always-on high beams are now common or if SUVs + superbright beams

I think it's a little bit of both. I believe the latter started the trend, and that confusion has led other people to just say screw it.
Infamous paper that popularized unproven Covid-19 treatment retracted
I went down a shallow rabbit hole (turns out https://www.reddit.com/r/uptimeporn/ exists ... of course) and found this:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa...

(6430 days as of 2 weeks ago)
Sure, here’s one that’s particularly disturbing and I can’t imagine long term is classified as benign.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831...
Proactive vs. Reactive Customer Service