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I think I'm on the same computer, the M1 MBP with the touchbar right? I was eyeing an upgrade for a while but now that I've transitioned to running agents on a home server instead of locally, I think I'll be putting my money into a ram upgrade for that box instead. My macbook is basically a dumb terminal at this point, the only reason for an upgrade would be battery life. I might get an air or even a neo if this thing dies.

Pacing the frontier doesn't mean stopping development of smaller models with better distillation and RL.

I think if it's well built by experts it doesn't deserve the "vibe coded" label even if it was built with agentic tools.

They recently tried to upstream an improvement to zig, but were prevented from doing so because zig has a hard and fast "no AI code" rule. Whether you think this response is trying to put pressure on zig or whether they're just moving for practical reasons is up to you.

It's probably a bit of both.

Gemini's best ability is it's 3d spatial reasoning. It's downright terrible at a lot of things (toolcalling is an absolute nightmare), but it consistently wins in stuff like 3d modeling, reasoning through 3d problems, and even 2d layout and animation tasks like the infamous pelican riding a bycicle benchmark

This is a psyop to recruit more Australians I'm sure of it

People are mad at openAI cooperating with the pentagon while anthropic put their foot down over their red lines.

I'm wondering how this plays out in practice. Does the administration decide to strongarm contractors into cutting all ties? Will that extend to someone like google who provides compute to anthropic? Will the administration just plain ignore any court ruling? (as they've shown they're ready to do recently with the tarrifs situation)

If the legal system works as intended, the blast radius isn't too big here and something Anthropic will accept even if it hurts them. Maybe they even win and get the supply chain risk designation lifted. But I have zero faith that the legal system will make a difference here. It all comes down to how far the administration wants to go in imposing it's will.

Bleak.

Weirdly I feel like partially because of this it feels more "human" and more like a real person I'm talking to. GPT models feel fake and forced, and will yap in a way that is like they're trying to get to be my friend, but offputting in a way that makes it not work. Meanwhile claude has always had better "emotional intelligence".

Claude also seems a lot better at picking up what's going on. If you're focused on tasks, then yeah, it's going to know you want quick answers rather than detailed essays. Could be part of it.

Companies are not comparing it straight to juniors. They're more making a comparison between a Senior with the assistance of one more more juniors, vs a Senior with the assistance of AI Agents.

I feel like comparison just to a junior developer is also becoming a fairly outdated comparison. Yes, it is worse in some ways, but also VASTLY superior in others.

the distinction here is mainly jets vs props.

I agree with you functionality wise, but a video showing it in use would be a good idea so those of us away from our midi devices can at least see it in action.

I wish I could do this. Do you even use a flip phone or anything? Or simply no cell phone?

Contextually no one is using nanometers in aviation nav applications. Many aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so capitalisation is rarely an important distinction.

No one is using nanometers in aviation navigation. Quite a few aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so you can't always make a distinction.

In fact, if you say "miles", you mean nautical miles. You have to use "sm" to mean statute miles if you're using that unit, which is often used for measuring visibility.

And as always, when problems get solved, other problems get revealed. We didn't even really know about cancer until life expectancies got to the point where dying in your 30s is a tragedy instead of being fairly normal.

At the enterprise level my understanding is that PlanetScale can operate within your environment directly instead of as a pure service.

bold of you to assume I'd ever read an article rather than just skimming the comments

Not sure if he had this turned off beforehand or if it's because it's on the front page of HN, but there's no slots available. Not that I was personally going to book one!

I'd love to do something like this though - I've always enjoyed teaching so maybe something where I offer free calls to help newer developers with their project for an hour? Interesting idea!

I'm the same, I've basically upgraded on release or shortly thereafter to every version of windows since Windows XP, and the only one that actually felt bad and I rolled back was Vista. Windows 8 was a tad whacky, but since windows 10 things have been pretty dang stable, which I'll remind you is 9 years old. Windows has been pretty consistent for a long time at this point.

IMO a lot of complaints about new OS versions are just a plain psychological aversion to UI changes. I always try and give them a go with an open mind, and most of the time it's honestly just fine if not actually a bit better in some way.

I feel like every time this device shows up I need to yell from the rooftops how dangerous(and illegal) some of the wifi and Bluetooth attacks can be. Even if it's totally baffling WHY any safety critical devices including industrial cranes and pacemakers have consumer radios in them, that doesn't make you less responsible when you crash tons of metal into someones skull or stop someone's heart.

Cool device, and I'm not saying it should be illegal or anything, but I've met people who have zero clue with these devices and it's a bit scary.

Can't wait for the stories of how this broke baseball analytics software that assumed that a single player will never play for both teams in a match.

IMO there needs to be personal criminal responsibility for safety related issues in an engineering org like this. We did this in New Zealand a few years back, you can get prosecuted and sent to prison for wilfully ignoring safety issues that cause serious injury or death, and that responsibility exists at every level up to the board.

This actually has a semantic purpose, it's not just about bike shedding. CSS classes, if applied to the same element, will prefer the class that's defined later in the CSS file. The plugin sorts them via priority order so it's more clear is one tag might override another.

The terms "cleared to land" and "cleared for takeoff" are extremely specific (a regulation written in blood like many aviation rules), but "cross runway" and "line up and wait" also give permission for aircraft to enter the runway.

The word "cleared" is often used for IFR clearance delivery as well which gives you permission to navigate via a planned route to a particular point, so it's much more common than just takeoffs and landings.

This is the "your job won't be taken away by AI, it will be taken away by someone who knows how to leverage AI better than you"

It's non-standard but I'd argue that the weird structure was designed to enable this exact type of decision to be made by the board. The non-profit board is a peer of investors like microsoft, not answerable to them like a normal company.

It's apache

No, but removing typings in a python project would be.

He basically had this option, and it's the way that Rich Harris and the Svelte team went a few months back by adopting JSDoc, and honestly his reasoning for dropping typescript in favor of another typing system is pretty sound and did result in clear benefits for both users and maintainers.

DHH has something specific against types in general which I really don't understand. And that's fine, I'm happy to let him and 37 signals do whatever they want. I probably won't be super duper interested in applying to work on basecamp/hey, but that's his choice and I'm sure there are devs there who do prefer it. It sounds like they've been doing it for a while.

But this is an open source project with users and contributors outside the company. It absolutely can and will impact those people. Types supercharge your IDE with better linking, docs, and error detection. It will be harder to work on and around this project, and many current open PRs now will need to be refactored, and the way people build things will need to change.

And that wouldn't even be so bad if the proposal had come out more than a few hours before the merge. It's clear that no community engagement was even considered.