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This makes the assumption that AI will lead to the apocalypse. That's unfalsifiable, predicted about plenty of things in the past, and frankly annoying to keep seeing pop up.

Its like listening to Christians talking about the rapture.

As others have pointed out, this would not have stopped the current attack.

Your strategy sounds reasonable.

However, I don't believe it will work. Not because one dollar is that much money, but simply having to make a transaction in the first place is enough of a barrier — it's just not worth it. So most open source won't do it and the result will be that if you are requiring your software to have this validation, you will lose out on all the benefits.

It's kind of funny because most of the companies that would use the extra-secure software should reasonably be happy to pay for it, but I don't believe they will be able to.

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Is how you do it on the web. The problem is that it means you app will not look as good as others and that it will look different on different platforms.

This one has bitten me plenty of times, but the solution is what slack does: write underneath what you are supposed to do.

Be careful here - you cannot copyright a story, only the specific tangible form of the story.

We validated that Outlook is no good :)

Seriously though, this is mostly a PR and validation win. I enjoyed watching the new Earthrise (Earthset) image - https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00928... - camera technology has come a long way since the 70s and seeing the moon this close is Weird to me.

When my brother started to study Chemisty, he was told a) that it was easy to make meth b) the profit he would make and c) that the police would no doubt catch him, as only university students would make meth so pure.

By the time he was done, he knew enough to commit mass murder in half a dusin different very hard to track ways. I am sure doctors know how to commit murder and make it look natural.

My brother never killed anyone, or made any meth. You simply cannot have it so that students don’t get this type of knowledge, without seriously compromising their education and its the same way with LLMs.

The solution is the same: punish people for their crimes, don’t punish people for wanting to know things.

You are absolutely correct. However, I fear you're running up against the basic human instinct of "my enemy's enemy is my friend.".

I also wonder how many actually support them, and how much is just a result of opinions boosted by bots?

I love the idea of this. I want it to succeed.

But most of the questions I got... They weren't very good and not just because I got them wrong - I got a bunch of them right that I shouldn't have.

For example, the one about homelessness, where it ends with a guy saying our politicians would rather use the money for genocide.

I downloaded the statement for that reason, got told my vote was correct and then it came up with it was correct only because of the first part of it.

I think you're trying to import statements automatically and I fear that won't work. I also fear that you're gonna get, just crap, to be honest. And your social network doesn't deserve that.

I think your best bet is to look at the kind of questions asked on the LSAT, and just do a bunch of essentially IQ and general-knowledge questions. Take the input from Twitter as inspiration, use it as a template and it might work.

One thing you might consider is wanting to filter out people who can't see past their own political agenda.

You can do that by making enough questions so that you're sure to catch people, no matter what they believe on all the hot issues of the day. This probably isn't as hard as it sounds, there's only going to be seven or eight hot issues.

You pick three of them and you should be pretty certain that you will cover the entire spectrum. So for example, you could make sure to include, pro LGBT, pro abortion and pro guns. You would catch most people on that and then you should exclude them if they cannot see past their blindness.

I hope you make this work, the world needs it.

You are right on both counts and that is a bad thing.

World has had ctrl+b for bold forever, so people can start to use it and then upgrade to styles when they run into the limitations. Alternatively someone knowledgable could set Word to only allow a selection of styles.

Open and Libreoffice has had style support since forever. Its only docs that kneecaps its users learning journey like that.

Windows is still the king for gaming. Word is better than Google Docs for anything but the absolute basics[0].

But as a professional, it has no further use.

[0]: Please tell me how I add a new paragraph style in Docs?

You can get that anyway, and you should because 2 is 1 and 1 is none.

Not your (drone)air-defense, not your data center I guess.

Deduplicating/validating/processing incoming bug reports?

That is a possibility, but even then the models won't become more stupid (you can just keep using the current ones).

I won’t, but it does have a couple features Codex lags, including remote SSH (huge, because the easiest way to sandbox your agent is to put it into a VM), and the ability to kicking things of on your mobile and finishing up on your desktop (again, really nice if you get a good idea out on a walk, or while talking to a colleague.

These are features I am sure Codex will soon have, of course.

Then there is the advantage of multiple models: run a top level agent with an expensive model, that then kicks of other models that are less expensive - you can do this in Claude Code already (I believe), but obviously here you are limited to something like Haiku.

You are right.

But you can use AI to improve your codebase too. Plus models are only going to get smarter from here (or stay the same).

Yeah, thats part of why I hate "login with SERVICE". The big benefit would be not spamming me, but they always insist on getting my email.

There was a time were you would have to select "sign me up for your newsletter" then you had to uncheck it. Then you had to check to not get an email and now you don't even get that choice.

And lately? You have to go dig through your email because you can't set a password (looking at you Claude), so you can't filter email.

Didn't they have a crash dummy in it the last time? The data from buster should be able to tell us if the parachute worked or not.

Dane here. I have had more than one coworker get that treatment.

Sure the company still has to payout salary, as per the contract, but plenty of companies do not want laid of people around.

Do you really want five minutes of audio of me rambling, then some instructions for how to split it up and organise it?

Plenty of people make LLMs make text longer, but writing a short accurate text with the essential points is much harder.

You don't.

There are more consequences to your actions as you age, but you will never feel like are are the person your parents were when you were a kid.

Because it was a projection. Seeing my coworkers interacting with their kids and seeing them interact with other adults made it abundantly clear: there are no adults in the room, we are all just muddeling through life and sometimes we do it more or less successful than others.

If we are going by Culture standards, then surely the AIs should give themselves appropriate names?

Your comment is shocking to me. AI coding works. I have seen it with my own eyes last week and today.

I can therefore only assume that you have not coded with the latest models. If you experiences are with GPT 4o or earlier all you have only used the mini or light models, then I can totally understand where you’re coming from. Those models can do a lot, but they aren’t good enough to run on their own.

The latest models absolutely are I have seen it with my own eyes. Ai moves fast.

Sounds like you need to add more tests to your code. The AI is pretty good at that.

I hope I don't suffer from early onset Alzheimer's, but I seem to recall the joke pre the pandemic was that Google would constantly make new chat apps.

Google Dou, Google Chat, Google Wave, Google this, Google that. Seemingly because someone needed a promotion and the way to do that was to create a new chat app or lead the effort for the same.

I use a similar system at work.

Off the top of my head, I have used it to put links together — for example, a Stack Overflow description of some bug, the official documentation, and maybe copying in the exception or the error message.

Then I've sometimes done the same thing when I'm doing ops on a broken system.

Other times it's copying in a specific query or a link to a query in Application Insights.

Other times it's the ticket I was working on, a comment from a coworker, and maybe a few references to either tickets or files. Very rarely is this professional or looks nice. It's just that I need one place where I can put multiple things that fit together.

I find that retrieval does drop off very quickly. But that's just to say most of the value is front loaded. And we should not underestimate the value of being able to answer 'da fuck was I doing yesterday'. Context switching is expensive. But in many ways it is also unavoidable. If you context dump at the end of a workday, it's that much easier to return to it later.

The other thing I do is because the note system I use can I can drop in Hashtags. Yeah, I know. Not exactly HN friendly. What that means is I can find all the times I ran into the same issue, sort of weaving a meta thread through my work. It's really hard to explain, but it's one way of treating notes as not just segments of text.

>My spouse is a lab scientist, and I've seen her meticulous notebooks. She was telling me just last week that one of her experiments produced a puzzling result. The next day she said: "I figured it out from my notebook. I skipped a step that was in the procedure."

This puzzles me. If you are skipping a step in the procedure, aren't you also possibly going to skip writing a step down? And if you're not sure you wrote the exact right steps down, how are you going to use the notebook for that purpose?

What if you have to do several steps rather quickly? Say adding a particular chemical, then waiting for ten seconds and adding, another chemical? Do you have time to write it down?

I think you're missing one element. It works. The culture in Germany in 1600 compared with the culture in Germany in 2026 is very, very different, even though the geography hasn't changed. That's because in the modern world nearly none of the culture of the old Germany works.

This is not unique to Germany, of course. We long ago gave up on the four humours theory. We long ago gave up on burning women who wear pants. We long ago gave up of many things that used to be European culture.

The culture of queuing in Japan works because you are looked down upon if you don't participate and because it is better than the random stuff we do in the West. However, it would probably disappear pretty soon if it wasn't also a good solution.

While I tend to agree with your general example, there are lots of products that people don't talk about because they are icky, personal, or embarrassing but also really useful. Period cups fall into this category. Ting or whatever needs to advertise because nobody talks with their friends about phone subs.