elohimus

Thank you :-)

I'm a bit overwhelmed by Google's selection of AI environments (Antigravity, AI Studio, Gemini Platform etc.). If I just want the equivalent of OpenAI Codex, which one do I use?

Smart Home devices feel somewhat antithetical to Apple's Philosophy. Aren't they all about a smoothly integrating, tightly controlled ecosystem? Offering something that connects a potentially large amount of third party devices, protocols and homecooked solutions feels odd for apple.

There's more of the stuff that's well known and understood. Any software with an ecosystem of integrations and connectors added a lot of connectors lately. CRMs, CMS and similar extended their functionality.

What we've seen very little of is fundamentally new ideas, usage paradigms, user experiences or similar.

This gets to the very heart of the tension between what's good for social media companies and what's good for society. Western society would be much better off with less Russian bot traffic. Less misinformation, less promotion of destabilizing far-right or far-left viewpoints, less fundamental opposition. Meanwhile, social media thrives on divisiveness, controversy, and engagement bait.

The involuntary shutdown of the Yandex data centers would be a good moment to reflect on how much of the conversation is real and protected by free speech, and how much is driven by malign foreign actors. I imagine it would be technically easy enough to create filters that specifically block traffic from Russian data centers. Whether we'll want to or not will be a litmus test of where we stand on communication policy going forward.

A lot of law is combing through large bodies of rule sets and reference cases to find inputs or parallels relevant for a case. Are you sure you'd rather have Lionel Hutz, Esq. with his limited comprehension do that at half a page per minute?

I feel it's worth distinguishing between the Hacker News Audience that is highly tech-educated and security-conscious and the general public that just wants to use the web and seems more than happy to give all their data to Meta, Google & Co.

If you ask my 70-year-old mom to decide whether she'd like to allow the WebGL API, she'll go bonkers. If anything, the constant cookie banners have just trained her to consent to stuff out of muscle memory. You could probably design a "Are you ok to sign over the deed to your house" question in the rough shape of a cookie banner and get 90%+ agreement.