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I actually like the idea here. When I was a kid it was always give the landline number of the friend's house, or it's in the class list from school.

Nowadays landlines are more or less gone, so the card approach is a good one.


Think you're onto something. I'm still rolling a 2005 Toyota. Incredibly functional, reliable, and I can add whatever I want and choose instead of having it forced down my throat by the current wave of nonsense.

It’s a tiny percentage of software work because the programming is slow, and setting up new projects is even slower.

It’s been a majority of my projects for the past two months. Not because work changed, but because I’ve written a dozen tiny, personalised tools that I wouldn’t have written at all if I didn’t have Claude to do it.

Most of them were completed in less than an hour, to give you an idea of the size. Though it would have easily been a day on my own.


HELOC and never pay it off until you die

Public utilities are Public Utilities. Quasi monopolies treated differently and operated outside of 'supply and demand' capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility


> In January I would have told you AI tools are bullshit. Today I’m on the $200/month Claude Max plan.

Same. For me the turning point was VS Code’s Copilot Agent mode in April. That changed everything about how I work, though it had a lot of drawbacks due to its glitches (many of these were fixed within 6 or so weeks).

When Claude Sonnet 4 came out in May, I could immediately tell it was a step-function increase in capability. It was the first time an AI, faced with ambiguous and complicated situations, would be willing to answer a question with a definitive and confident “No”.

After a few weeks, it became clear that VS Code’s interface and usage limits were becoming the bottleneck. I went to my boss, bullet points in hand, and easily got approval for the Claude Max $200 plan. Boom, another step-function increase.

We’re living in an incredibly exciting time to be a skilled developer. I understand the need to stay skeptical and measure the real benefits, but I feel like a lot of people are getting caught up in the culture war aspect and are missing out on something truly wonderful.


Previously GitLab self hosted, then GitHub... now I'm bringing it all under something I host again, so I can block AI bots.

> If you publish a model that doesn't follow these rules

The rules require tracking outputs, which open-weight models cannot do.


I think the youth's parents should be reeling them in, not the government or third parties at the expense of everyone else's freedom.

These are clearly the only possible outcomes in life, assuming of course that we put aside all the statistically likely things and ask what Hitler would think of it..

International students attending Harvard and other top schools are very far from "the weakest" people. They're generally the children of the most powerful and wealthy people in the world.

Public utilities are.... public utilities. That is a specific thing that is not a standard 'capitalistic business'. They can't operate without special concessions/allowances. They can't be severed, but the 'squeeze every penny types' have severed the generation from the grid as if they two are separate, and allowed the 'generators' to behavior as it they aren't tied to a Public Utility grid.

Yes it will, they are already trying it like with Rumeysa Ozturk.

Most people who refer to "North Americans" collectively are Canadian. People in the US can forget Canada exists. People in Canada can't forget the US exist and so they need a term that includes both.

> What's the use case and/or value proposition for the average person?

Weird take. If it doesn't make sense to you, maybe it's just not for you (yet). That's not an indictement of either you, the project, or other people being excited about it. Not everything has to be inviting for everyone on launch.


Orwell snitched on leftists to the british government, so my post (while sassy) is absolutely substantive. So much for fighting totalitarianism. His country literally invented concentration camps. No, I won't stop criticizing George Orwell and the people who idolize him.

Actually, I dont need a "smart newsfeed" to hear about Trump. Smart is not about who is doing the show every day, it's about what's important and may be missed

The models themselves live in an isolated sandbox. On top of that, each mobile app has its own sandbox - isolated from the phone's data or tools.

Both the model and the app only have access to the tools or data that you choose to give it. If you choose to give the model access to web search - sure, it'll have (read-only) access to internet data.


That most counties need to import oil and gas to keep the lights on and industry functioning means you don't need to send gunboats of yore. See Smedley Butler's rant. Now when they get in a pickle they need foreign currency. And that's how they get ya.

Renewables however flips things back.


In my experience, LLMs are not causing people to think more carefully about their code.

It is better to be a producer than to be a consumer if you want to learn something.

Not sure I'd agree. I'm sure most people reading here at HN had some computer-related incident as a teenager that made them realize there could be real consequences goofing around with a computer. And I would guess of those that did, most heeded that warning.

I appreciate this post for two reasons:

* It gives an indication of how much you need to grow before this Postgres functionality starts being a blocker.

* Folks encountering this issue—and its confusing log line—in the future will be able to find this post and quickly understand the issue.


I thought this was going to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

People say the EU is behind at AI. The EU is the only one thinking about AI long-term, everyone else is just seeing what happens.

I think it might be different for area codes that end in a zero - I remember 610 (Philly area, where I grew up) usually being pronounced "six-ten". On the other hand, 215 was always "two-one-five", never "two-fifteen". But I agree for those with zero in the middle, like 404 or 305.

More details in the recent Shop Talk podcast with the authors, https://shoptalkshow.com/670/

There's screening for terrorist ties and then there's screening for wrongthink, no?

> That's not the argument being made though, which is that it does "work" now and implying that actually it didn't quite work before

Right.

> except that that is the same thing the same people say for every model release,

I did not say that, no.

I am sure you can find someone who is in a Groundhog Day about this, but it’s just simpler than that: as tools improve, more people find them useful than before. You’re not talking to the same people, you are talking to new people each time who now have had their threshold crossed.


You missed the part about nobody seeming to mind anymore. We also don't mind having to apply for a visa in the first place instead of just buying a ticket on a ship and turning up at the port. Are visas Hitler too?

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