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capital_guy··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
I tend to agree. it's by far the best coding model i've ever worked with, including astra and if i remember correctly fable, and it's unbelievably smooth at just getting the work done and communicating in simple terms.

if GPT 6 Sol is just 5.6 at half the price it will be everything i really ever wanted.

capital_guy··on Astra for Law
I have always felt like LLMs are uniquely suitable for legal work. I really have trouble believing we will have hardly any legal assistants and paralegals going forward when these LLMs are so incredible at spotting issues with arguments, figuring out citations, and doing semantic search.
capital_guy··on Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
This is the most broken rule in the history of time. Every thread
capital_guy··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
This is the main thing that Android users have been saying is the differentiator for them using Android, and they're butchering it in multiple ways. Wild.
capital_guy··on New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice
The person that introduced this bill is not a lawyer. A former tech worker, actually.
capital_guy··on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Maybe it's time for pitchforks.
capital_guy··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
I usually find these apple design nitpick articles tiresome but the gif of the guy grabbing at the plate was hilarious and also accurate about user expectations
capital_guy··on Eat Real Food
the reason it's being _changed_ is obviously partisan politics.
capital_guy··on Our $100M Series B
I believe the fans are actually smaller. The rack is definitely quieter than other racks, but he says in the rear rack tour that it's quite hot. Check out these videos of it

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbgjB0RQ1s [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmw9OICH-4

capital_guy··on GCP Outage
BigQuery is completely dead
capital_guy··on MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
For professional basketball, the statistical advantage of 3-point has completely warped the game. There are a lot of articles online about it
capital_guy··on US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
This is a point of hubris I see among SWEs very frequently, for some reason. People like to think they could make a better system, one that's black and white. The truth is the use of judgement and context is essential to a good legal system.
capital_guy··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
Finding a way to complain about your wife in a comment about an IDE is peak hacker news.
capital_guy··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
I guess if they integrate this then that will be the case, I'm not sure I'm convinced that much stuff is going on in dbt cloud that I can't do in dbt core.

A comparison that's obvious to my team is the release cadence of Metabase, which we also self-host. The frequent rollout of new features in Metabase is great and gives me more confidence in the product. But I'm not in the position to decide whether to cough up the $ for the paid version so I suppose it's moot.

capital_guy··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
Seems like a great pair. Especially the bit about static analysis instead of using string parsing.

Frankly, the dbt product hasn't really evolved much. I've been a bit disappointed with its lack of evolution toward this stuff organically. The "modern data stack" is in kind of in a magic position where they are working at very technical companies but the people using it are not SWEs who can build out the tooling themselves so they are just getting buckets of money without a really big value proposition. My team self hosts a dbt core workflow and it's been almost trivial to build out dbt's paid product ourselves

capital_guy··on The Origins of Wokeness
The beautiful thing about essays like this is that they show you that the author has truly never known what he was talking about. Just a guy who stumbled through life at the right time. It’s a shame these people have so much power and influence. It could be wielded by people much more thoughtful and benevolent.
capital_guy··on Zero-based regulation made Idaho the least regulated state in the US
This is just literal propaganda output by a think tank.
capital_guy··on IMG_0001
I completely agree. There's something really jarring about watching videos from this time, where things were just more candid in a way that's hard to describe. I only clicked through a few videos and I was smiling from ear to ear. People dancing in a club, a guy riding a homemade little dirtbike in the countryside, babies playing and kids riding bikes. They feel like home videos. It's beautiful.
capital_guy··on Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck
A crumple zone?
capital_guy··on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect
Amazing all the newfound lawyers in the HN section here pointing out "loopholes" in the rule and then getting corrected by the next commenter.

The FTC continues to do the good, thankless work of making good public policy. I appreciate it.

capital_guy··on Crokinole
This is a thing of beauty. Thank you for sharing!
capital_guy··on Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI
> That's just how the internet works. Don't put something on the internet if you don't want it to be globally distributed and copied.

And if someone takes a picture of your artwork, or takes a picture of your person, and posts that to the internet without your consent? Have you given up your rights then?

My answer: Absolutely not.

capital_guy··on I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment
I've seen this ad a hundred times during the Olympics so far (why do they play the same ads over and over?) -- and this article summarizes how it makes me feel very well.

The logical extension of this stuff is insane -- why have kids learn to write at all? They can just have an AI do it. Why learn anything? It's all on the internet anyway.

There are plenty of good use cases for AI generated texts. Creating transcripts from audio, writing meeting summaries, and other types of rote, monotonous tasks. Writing a letter from the heart is not one of those things that should be outsourced.

If there's anything on this earth we should value, it's humanity. And the tech giants are chomping at the bit to take that away. It's a sad vision for the future they're pushing

capital_guy··on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
No
capital_guy··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
Good. Adobe is one of the most annoying subscriptions to cancel. Lina Khan continues to do great work.
capital_guy··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
> You choose to have Gmail

Disagree with this. self hosting email is notoriously difficult. Gotta give the data to somebody. Plus, your work email is either going through MSFT or GOOG, 99% of the time

capital_guy··on Google's Chrome antitrust paradox
Which was written by Lina Khan, (now) the current chair of the FTC. Very pointed.
capital_guy··on The Reddits
Reddit has declined in quality significantly since the API changes. All my favorite subreddits lost their moderators, which were always the heart of the site.

Couple that with their constantly pushing their own (objectively inferior) client and killing the best ways to browse the site, I've really dropped off on how much I use reddit.

capital_guy··on NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of Paul Cristiano to NIST
I can think of an entire body of people who should be excluded from such a role; people who spent multiple years working at OpenAI.
capital_guy··on Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools
Anyone using these tools is asking for all their data to be hoovered up. Locally powered AI is the only way to use it if you care about this kind of thing.
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