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> The actually sane default is to treat it like a junior trainee you would never trust with rights to anything critical

In my experience (mainly claude and Gemini argon, less so with gemini 3.1 pro), it's a bit worse. A junior dev won't hit "yes, delete" so confidently and think "I can just remake it" and proceed to ~~lie through its teeth~~ apologize 2 seconds later.

I agree that reply was unnecessarily rude, but... idk man. I'm a huge cheerleader for Google [1], use 3.1 Pro via AI studio, I'm on a Pro plan... and I can't access this model? Not even a "4 chats per hour" type thing?? I mean, I have video generation access for some reason (no good for me), but Google's policies are baffling to say the least.

Ofc I know this isn't your fault in person, but I really wish Google would get its shit together.

...As a long time tech enthusiast I should probably stop being so delusional. Heh (cries internally)

1: lol I know who cheers for a trillion dollar company but I'd rather not cheer for OpenAI

It's good if you're a tech guy in silicon valley with a good salary who used to upgrade every year to the latest pro max.

It's terrible if you're a labourer in India who buys phones under 10k INR (~100 USD) when your salary is 20k INR per month.

Unfortunately there are way more in the latter category than the former, and most of them won't know what ram is. They'll just be paying more and getting less going forward for a few years.

(Source, the salaries and phones I've seen of the staff at office. And we're in a major region you've likely heard of, not some tiny rural village.)

Tangential but I've been low key dying to tell someone - just today I FINALLY hit 100% usage on my paid claude account.

I really don't know why, but it feels very satisfying. It's like the LLM telling me "good job buddy, you've worked hard enough. You deserve a break now."

(For context I write a lot of text per message it sends. I'm not asking it to one-shot an app to solve world cancer, I'm just working with mathematical stuff with a lot of back and forth.)

And I think Alexa is a proper name too in some places?

How'd you do it with a vpn? Doesn't it still need your facebook account to be from the US?

For a company of Apple's size? Yeah it's the difference between pocket change and pocket change.

If browsers changed that much so suddenly, a lot more people would have big problems.

Technically proper HDR is supposed to do exactly that. Doesn't matter if it's a pass or an image on a website.

True, but there's a very good business reason, and it's a slightly unethical/scammy one. Just like here.

> just rent access to a Mac online

The friendly librarian/community centre person sure as hell isn't going to be aware that that's an option.

Understandable and quite possible, however that seems like a relatively lazy thing for Apple to do.

I'm not entirely sure what's the use case for most of these cards, but I'd hardly be surprised if this kind of decision didn't affect usability and accessibility for a lot of iPhone users, just because their venue guys don't have a mac.

And it's not like apple doesn't have the resources to make this software run across different types of computers. Iirc itunes and bonjour are (still?) very much developed by Apple for windows.

I agree, it's just freaking ironic how it was Jobs who said that "if you don't cannibalize your own products, others will"... and then you have such restrictions for eg on iPadOS software that really push you to a Mac for any "proper" compute...

> Parent meant the macOS version restriction.

Ah thanks, I didn't realise Macos 27 is a new version.

Ironically though, I think it's kinda the same thing? Apple software is first class if you follow their rules - including having Apple hardware, being on the latest version, and so on. It's still a nice and pretty walled garden of Eden.

Yeah this caught my eye too. I can't imagine any technical reason why a Mac works but a windows/Linux computer wouldn't work. Tbh this is the side of Apple I dislike the most - restricting things without any good reason.

And especially if you look at small organizations without much funding that use old PCs (or just have crappy IT departments)... it's disappointing. This kind of restriction won't stop a billion dollar LiveNation, but it absolutely could affect the local library or cafe.

Both things are simultaneously possible: * This admin is actively hostile in a specific way (eg towards immigrants) * All govts have been hostile for a (very) hot minute (see: patriot act, snowden stuff that happened across different presidents).

And a bonus: * This is not a new thing, a is related to why people occasionally talk about "the swamp"/the "deep state"/"3 letter agencies". NSA has self interest to stay alive regardless of admin.

And this aspect (of "some parts of the govt aren't really affected by the elected reps) isn't a new thing at all either - see: Yes (Prime) Minister.

Very similar on Chennai too apparently.

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858643

I noticed the GitHub linked to this interactive page that's probably a much better explainer than a paywalled paper.

If you want to see an even more heavy/"extreme" example of this, there was this HN post & blog some months ago on Claude Design.

Basically, Claude Design is primarily a huge prompt.

That's all.

There's no "magic sauce", and with the right tools to call, even your local LLM can implement "Qwen Design".

I... don't know how I feel about this. I mean, the concept, sure, good idea. Is it reliable? Perhaps. But... I get a "buy merch" popup the moment I open the page, and there seems to be a pro option for what seems to be a very much LLM-aided app? ...IDK, rubs off a bit wrong IMO. Just my personal opinion.

The thing is, it doesn't even have to be PG/HN doing this. Case in point, look at reddit being astroturfed by every company.

And also, look how good Graphene OS posts do, and now compare that to Stop Killing Games. These both have a similar overlap (unless you work at Google, both are interests/hobbies), yet GOS almost always hits front page (and rightly so), yet SKG failed to, despite being a Stallman-ian topic.

True, but there's that 10% posts where there's (eg) a good cancer breakthrough, and it's two guys going back and forth on the methodology adding a lot of comments. Not always, but not never either.

I really wish there was a way to "mark" such posts as "high quality, ignore comment to vote ratio" just like how you can vouch a comment. Enough such marks and it gets auto turned off the flamewar parameter.

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There are only 2 people on the list with the same surname, and Srivastava is a very common surname.

...does noob here just refer to a new (green) user? Or is it something else?

I mean, both can be true at the same time. For a slightly controversial example, look at Kanye. If you knew him before he got off his rocker (especially the 2000s), he was a very different person than who he has become today.

The list is quite similar in NL too tbh.

Depends on your phone, but for some qualcomm devices there was a vulnerability some time ago, iirc the OnePlus 15 has a dedicated thread on XDA. I also found this on XDA while trying to find the other exploit:

https://xdaforums.com/t/the-holy-grail-universal-no-bl-root-...

Side note, it's quite ironic, google being so heavily anti-root is forcing people to opt for root access via more hidden ways, making it easier to avoid root being detected.

The joke is it used AI to do the filtering ;)

Now that you mention it, it does make some sense that with the rising prices (especially for ram) (and maybe with LLMs?) it’s cheaper to use basic hardware and put “more effort” on efficient code (an LLM’s effort, of course).

There's scope for an incredibly cheeky joke about AI here... but I'll hold myself back :)

This is Terence's blog about the significance of Buckmaster/Alpoge's work.

For more context, you can see the current thread by Buckmaster here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915

Terence posted this on the 7th (about 2 days ago), seemingly before this OpenAI angle became public.

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