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base698··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
I’ve used both. Claude more extensively. I’ve had good results with Gemini too, however it seems easier to get stuck in a loop. Happens with Claude too but not quite as frequent.

By loop I mean you tell it no don’t implement this service, look at this file instead and mimic that and instead it does what it did before.

base698··on Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering
Or you find your users search for id strings like k1231o to find ref docs and end up needing key word search and reranking.
base698··on OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification
I have a product I built that uses some standard automation tools to do order entry into an accounting system. Currently my customer pays people to manually type the orders in from their web portal. The accounting system is closed and they don’t allow easy ways to automate these workflows. Automation is gated behind mega expensive consultants. I’m hoping in the arms race of locking it down to try to prevent 3rd party integration the AI operator model will end up working.

Hard for me to see how it’s ethical to force your customers to do tons of menial data entry when the orders are sitting right there in json.

base698··on Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)
I routinely flew that far in a plane I spent $100k on. You can land and refuel and a plane that 155+ kts can get quite far in two hops with 3 hour legs. The weather and other maintenance inconveniences is more the issue.
base698··on Death by AI
You could make a browser extension to filter your content through AI and rewrite it to something else you find more palatable. Ironically, with AI you could probably complete it in an hour.
base698··on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
Similar to what was shown in the video when I make a large purchase like a home or car I usually obsess for a couple of years and make a huge spreadsheet to evaluate my decisions. Having an agent get all the spreadsheet data would be a big win. I had some success recently trying that with manus.
base698··on Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department
I think that would be power components like transformers for the grid.
base698··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
Ah yes, lock you up for Facebook posts UK is the bastion of privacy.
base698··on The Llama 4 herd
You can use the entire internet as a single prompt and strangely it just outputs 42.
base698··on ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
Thanks for the recommendation. Watched that before bedtime with my 3 year old. Somehow we had not seen that one.

Love the music in Beach and Fruit Bat as well.

base698··on 'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
The argument goes: Because 3% of the population is antisocial personality disorder in the screens on TV and the internet tell them it's okay to commit violence against you because Nazis.

You may not care but the crazy people care a lot.

base698··on 'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
You should uncritically believe them, they have no reason to lie.
base698··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
That's was I was trying to convey. They do seem to be cutting contracts and that is publicly what they are saying.

From personal anecdotes, I'm seeing a lot of people in my town at gov contractors laid off already.

base698··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
1. My main concern is the total debt and its interest, as you mentioned in point two. With DOGE, ensuring orders are followed to fix policy is crucial, but some of these cuts do seem more about installing loyal personnel than just reducing costs.

I also worry about shifting staff to contractors. From friends that work in the DOD contracting they get paid 3-4x what an equivalent gov employee does. If contracts are cut too that could be a much bigger win than the gov staff.

2. They've discussed cutting programs like the F-35 and shifting towards robotics and drones for defense and offense. The goal is to move away from expensive Cold War-era weapons that are easy targets. If this just redirects more money to Anduril and Silicon Valley, that’s unfortunate. But if it reduces overall costs, that’s a positive step.

3. Diabetes and dialysis treatments are extremely expensive. Addressing obesity could significantly lower end-of-life healthcare costs. RFK has explicitly focused on this issue.

4. Agree.

Another major issue is the sheer number of regulations involved in anything. Not all are federal, but it's revealing to count how many laws you unknowingly break. For example, where I live:

If your dog chases a squirrel—illegal.

Flying a drone and disturbing a bird’s flight path—illegal.

Using a quadcopter to photograph your house in snowy conditions (when visibility is below IFR limits for airplanes)—illegal.

Taking pictures of dolphins from a boat, even if they move away on their own—illegal.

I don’t own a business, but friends who do often describe the nightmare of dealing with regulatory agencies. They may not be police, but the experience feels just as stressful—especially since they can effectively shut down your business. Compliance is incredibly expensive for the company.

base698··on Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama
This was a major plot point of the movie Her. I remember thinking it was wild when it dawned on me that was what was happening in human to human interactions. Now here we are.
base698··on Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor
Big Tobacco became big food: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/bi....

When tobacco became problematic they bought all the food companies.

base698··on GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
Concur. A Toyota salesperson was once unable to tell me what the highest trim level of a Highlander was and how it differed from the model they had. Seen staggering lack of knowledge in all things, not just tech.
base698··on Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain
I think the difference in pressure holding the pen or pencil and the dexterity required to form letters still activates way more of the brain than simple touch type would.
base698··on Notion's mid-life crisis
I just migrated everything out of Notion into Ibsidian. Notion was unusable after more than a few hundred items in a DB. I migrated to using dataview and lists in Obsidian and haven't had a problem since. And it works offline.

I use it for my workout logbook and cooking/recipe log with hundreds of entries.

base698··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
The doc culture is great and I prefer meetings having the time upfront to get everyone up to speed. However, I regularly saw six page docs written for 25 line lambda functions.
base698··on The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)
Similar to this post, which I believe I saw here a decade ago: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
base698··on Horseshoe crab counting with New York’s citizen scientists
I've caught them in bays of the Gulf of Mexico. They must be everywhere.
base698··on Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk
I'm just asking if you're comfortable about a lot of other risks, some worse, why is this one specifically worse? Because you hate dirty hippies?
base698··on Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk
To make it more clear, it's not typically fatal and many other foods cause higher levels of both sickness and fatalities. To get any number of fatalities you have to expand the timeline like 40 years. I'd consider that basically never.

I've not seen anything claiming TB is a risk even in sources like the CDC and FDA. Maybe it is, but given the small numbers of illness I'd wager it's something localized or that effects people with serious underlying health complications.

base698··on Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/dangers-r...

Any of the articles about it never mention fatalities.

You can get all the above from lettuce and deli meat.

base698··on Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk
How many cases per 100k? Where do people typically contract it?
base698··on Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk
It's my understanding the sickness from milk isn't fatal. There are many foods which have comparable levels and even much higher risk. Somehow raw milk gets all The attention.

Like most things medical you can't compare the risk to the population as a whole. Risk factors, environment and individual farms will vary risk greatly.

base698··on Rare things become common at scale (2014)
Would you say it's a canary in a coalmine?
base698··on Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?
What kind of work did you do to become a teacher? Extra school?
base698··on Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
Isn't the paper filter supposed to strip flavorful oils? Which negates using a French press?
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