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Nice touch with the "one more thing".

OTOH, Steve must be rolling over in his grave about the stylus-on-iPhone capability.

So it looks like they're just doing Pro and folding models today?

The audience for this sort of thing is currently quite limited. It may grow more in the future, especially if prices get out of control, but for now, it's a relatively small subset of people.

Completely agree. I don't think my writing style has changed much, but there are times when I think of writing a sentence and then reconsider because "it sounds too much like AI to me". Scary!

Yeah, when I read this sentence I thought, "well, maybe you're just incorrectly classifying non-obvious LLM writing as human writing, which makes your hypothesis unfalsifiable".

I agree completely, but how does that relate to my comment (saying it's cat and mouse, the game may never end, and Pangram's current success isn't indicative of future value)?

Seems like it's a cat and mouse game that won't end anytime soon. LLMs are constantly getting better at writing, so at some point people won't be able to tell reliably tell the difference anymore. I wouldn't laude Pangram so highly at this point, since we're not at the final round yet.

Weird, I read this in English and don't know why it would have copied the link to the Spanish language page. It doesn't look like I can change the link here, sorry.

It clearly is not:

> he is currently slogging through 350 direct messages and holding open interviews until he finds the right candidate

> The pay is certainly driving attention. With SF’s minimum wage at $19.61 an hour, dishwashers in the city typically make $22 to $23 an hour, at the most, according to the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.

Also, "living wage" is a made-up concept that is subject to continuous goalpost-moving.

Going to war with Iran seems like a dumb idea, but I don't remember Elon being involved in that.

It doesn't really matter whether native born Americans commit crimes at higher rates than illegal immigrants. We shouldn't have any illegal immigrants here, so every additional crime is one we should not have had to endure. Also, if you want to look at how crime breaks down demographically in America, there are some striking patterns that might not fit your preferred narrative.

Your point about interest payments on the debt doesn't seem to support the assertion that we should go into more debt. It's not like we have a choice about continuing to make interest payments, which makes it a false comparison.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure the definition of murder doesn't include defunding programs with the knowledge that doing so will lead some people to die. If that were the case, then Joe Biden "murdered" the Americans who were killed by the illegal immigrants whom he willingly let across the border (by not funding ICE or allowing them to do their job). It was obvious that by letting in millions of them, some of them would end up killing people. Would you say he is a murderer too?

Is it also murder to fail to save the lives of the millions of more people we could save if we went into trillions more debt?

> He slow-motioned murdered a million people, when is his stench of death going to be enough?

I beg your pardon?

> 5. It has enough storage left for your app.

This is the wildest part. It seems that sub-250MB apps are the rarity now. So every 4 apps I install is 1GB. I guess it's good for Apple, since they know you can't back up to your SSD so will then have to buy iCloud (unless you're savvy enough to open up Terminal and make a symbolic link to an external drive – the fact that they don't enable manual changing of the backup location is unjustifiable).

If this works, I expect Big Food to boost the hell out of it. It has some plausible benefits over GLP-1s (avoiding uncomfortable side effects, which in rare cases continue after patients go off the drugs), and obviously it's better for people who sell calories for their customers to want to eat more calories.

You're right that $200/mo is much cheaper than comparable infrastructure. OTOH, you don't get to have a computer that can also be used for other applications, or which works when the internet is down. Also, you remain tethered to whatever pricing the AI companies want to charge. If AI pricing goes like Uber/Lyft did when the VC cash ran out, then we'll be paying much more in a few years' time. We could look back and think "I wish I'd bought my own setup back in 2026" if it's going to be inevitable.

And all this before you get into privacy/security/compliance stuff.

> AI subscriptions are too highly subsidized right now

I've been running into annoying limits with Claude recently. It gives me like 5 questions over the course of 15 mins and then tells me to wait 5 hours. When companies can change things up to make the base subscription nearly useless (the last question always gets messed up, too), then you realize the value of owning your own infrastructure.

I guess this is one downside of connecting a monitor over USB-C. But can a monitor connected over HDMI use the computer's data connection also?

There are objectively far more hits when you search HN comments for "people" than "humans". So while I would not negate your experience, I would say that your assertion that "at least on HN, almost no one refers to "people" anymore". There are 5 million hits that would say otherwise, more than 3x as many for "humans".

Really? I don't think I've ever written the word "humans" here, except perhaps when distinguishing people from rats/mice/etc.

I also don't recall seeing people use "humans" excessively, or in a way that sounded off to me.

It's possible that the lack of these alternatives will decrease engagement enough that Twitter would loosen these rules. Perhaps not that likely, but it's possible.

Pretty cool. I wonder at what point it makes sense to actually try to guess what the actual word is and then figure out which words you should guess in order to avoid it.

I wonder to what extent the timing of this release was driven by their need to increase prices, but not wanting to apply it to in-market hardware. It's kind of a weird time to drop new Macs, between WWDC and the iPhone release, but not early enough that it could be purchased by college students. I get that most students use laptops, but if I were heading off this year I might use an iPad + Mac mini for more horsepower while maintaining portability.

The NYT comments are telling. The top comments defend the use of the SAT and chastise the author for his treatment of it.

Sometimes the comments tell as useful a story as the article itself. Here, it appears the columnist is out of touch with what NYT readers think.

You may be right. Nonetheless, it's possible that the act of trying to get your brain to understand a system that works in more than a few orthogonal dimensions will help develop useful intuitions about how LLMs, and the many systems/products/robots that will be built on top of them, work.

The rare scientific news article that puts "in mice" in the headline.

When you say "greedy US corporations" do you mean that these US corporations are uniquely greedy, or that all corporations are greedy, and this is bad for the ones in the US? Do you think that corporations in China, which in many cases are subsidized by the government, are also greedy?

YC gets a mention:

> Grills, who is 33 and lives in San Francisco, typically works 10 hours a day and takes one weekend day off. She went through the Y Combinator startup accelerator program in 2024 and saw firsthand the effects of pushing too hard. A fellow founder in her cohort was hospitalized after failing to eat solid foods and living off mostly meal-replacement products. (Y Combinator says it has long advocated that its founders take care of themselves.)

> Like real birds, the digital pigeons have a chance of getting lost or dying — 0.2 percent. Buying a new one within the app will run you 99 cents.

Cute concept (it's like skeuomorphism for the transport layer), but IAP for buying new pigeons is typical lousy monetization.

Updated title is:

> I’m a Former Dean of Admissions. Colleges Shouldn’t Be Paying Rich Kids to Enroll.

This fundamentally misses the point. Colleges are not paying anyone to enroll. They're using dynamic pricing and giving discounts to kids whose GPAs/scores will help boost the college's rankings.

Also, pretty much every competitive school has "need blind" admissions, which means that this isn't really an issue for the several dozen schools that are at the center of every admissions debate.