djeastm

Mainframes, baby!

Our desires are being met increasingly by fewer and fewer humans.

It's the great turn inward of humanity.

Sorry for the tangent, but if you don't mind can you explain more how you're using it effectively? Are you speaking using "Live" mode or typing? Is it remembering and planning lessons for you or is that on you to do?

They pay as much tuition as the wheat and the schools want them to keep paying said tuition.

>one of the latent findings LLMs unlocked

Either I really misunderstood high school English classes or this is what poems have always been known to do.

Well, now I'm intrigued. I can envision some interesting mechanics...

A very simple open-source browser extension called Karaoke Pitch that lets you adjust the pitch of a YouTube video and optionally store that chosen pitch for later.

https://github.com/djeastm/karaoke-pitch

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/karaoke-pitch...

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/karaoke-pitch/facck...

The Firefox one has 12 average daily users already, so that makes it my most successful side project ever haha.

When my agents start referring to humans as a virus and AI as the cure, that's when I'll worry.

>They’re running a Wuhan for AI.

What does "running a Wuhan" mean?

>voice recordings and data were treated as essentially radioactive waste, deleted as soon as legally possible

Is this what is done with the "Audio was not intended for this device" entries in the Review Alexa History section of the Alexa app?

This report says 49 confirmed cases as of a few days ago. https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/07/health/screwworm-billion-flie...

You're right about the countermeasures, but I can't help but look at 1971 (473 confirmed cases, then almost 100,000 the next year).

I might be missing something here, but can't you just put in AGENTS.md something like "do not run full test suite unless asked" or something?

>I think I’ve easily crossed 100k tokens so far on nothing

100k tokens? Is it just me or is that very low for an app build?

World Happiness Report finds this:

"In general, most Western industrial countries are now less happy than they were between 2005 and 2010. Fifteen of them have had significant drops, compared to four with significant increases."

"In eight of the ten global regions shown in Figure 2.2 (covering roughly 90% of the world’s population), those in the youngest age group have higher life evaluations now than in 2006–2010, either in absolute terms or relative to those over 25. Youth wellbeing has only fallen in the NANZ countries [United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand] and Western Europe, both absolutely and relative to adults. [Emphasis added]"

https://www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/executive-summary-...

And if there's anything Apple wants to do, it's sell phones to older people.

>stuff to do

This is the whole problem in a nutshell. I want a Game™ and they're providing "stuff to do".

It's interesting for a niche audience (and I'm one of them). But that's a small minority of gamers (and $$$).

You see this on Reddit where the bot accounts will just comment in German, French or Italian randomly (and other bot accounts responding to it won't even bat an eye, responding in English as if it's the most natural thing in the world)

> even on a contrarian forum like this one you wouldn't see much opposition to the cameras.

You think the commenters on HN would sacrifice liberty in return for safety? I get the opposite impression.

>where the government just arbitrarily says "Oh, sorry we have 'enough' datacenters / Subway sandwich shops / golf courses / storage facilities so you aren't allowed to build one" -- even if it becomes a populist belief that they should.

It's not really arbitrary though, is it? It's decided by duly-elected representatives who answer to the citizens of the municipality. A government "of the people", etc.

I feel like what you're arguing against is precisely why we have local governments in the first place.

Do we know much at all about Pythagoras or his motivations outside of legendary accounts from many years later?

The behavior sounds like superstition. Is there a belief that something bad will happen if the ritual is not performed?

Same here.

I remember the first time my email client made an unsolicited suggestion about how to compose a thank you note to my grandmother. After seeing what it had autocompleted I thought, "oh, wow that's a lot better than I could do" for a split second before realizing, "wait, what the hell is wrong with me getting a computer to write a thank you note to my grandmother!"

I've never even tried to use AI to write since. I'd be so embarrassed.

>it's a very lengthy way to say few things

The author would likely suggest that we used to read for the variety of expression in the language in addition to becoming informed.

It helps to have outside observers looking at the effects of a new technology and industry and not just depending on those within it to report for us.

I think the alleged 2025 prediction comes from this part: https://youtu.be/xXCBz_8hM9w?t=2768

Interviewer: "What are you excited about in 2025? What's to come?" Altman: "AGI. Excited for that."

I don't know if that counts as predicting it would be here in 2025 or that he's just excited to work on it in 2025

Strange. I see both "vacuous" and "vacuously" on the list.

In a vacuum the immigration pause might be innocuous. But put into context the other actions and statements from this administration and it tells a deeper story.

Just think of it as the return of the 19th-century Know Nothings or the 1920s nativists if the Nazi comparison makes you squeamish.

I think they might mean literally sailing. With sails.

Oh, there's definitely a well-used star-shaped public toilet off the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.