jameskilton

I saw a mention that the lack of hurricanes is going to itself be a big problem. Hurricanes are an important way to remove energy from the oceans. Without them, the Atlantic will get significantly warmer, and when storms do form, they are going to be massive beasts.

We are definitely in the "unknown, but it probably won't be good" territory.

> Anthropic said nearly a quarter of its revenue came from two customers last year, and as part of its risk factors, warned that many of its largest clients were not locked into long-term contracts and could cut or stop spending.

No-one has profited off of Bitcoin and crypto currencies as much as North Korea has. The absolute windfall of stealing literally billions of USD through this will be in history books for decades to come.

Code is law!

This is a strange statement because by definition the innocent don't need mercy. Mercy is forgiveness for wrongdoing, and refusing to forgive and give mercy to some leads to a society that is cruel. As Thomas Acquinas put it:

> justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

If there is one fundamental problem with our society it is this.

Mercy for the rich. Justice for the poor.

A healthy society does the opposite, those with much should be held to higher standards.

Please explain / define how America is "strong" today?

In a lot of ways, World of Wacraft survived because it perfected the genre, and in doing so, kind of killed it. Final Fantasy 14 is successful because it copied a lot of WoW's patterns.

Today, though, it's really hard to sell a game that requires such substantial amounts of time to progress. Lobby games, team shooters, battle royales are popular today because you can sign in, play, and be done in your time with no requirements or expectations. Also, trying to make a successful "live service" game (recurring revenue via subscriptions or microtransactions) is nigh impossible because you're fighting against the biggest hurdle of all: making a game good and interesting enough to convince entire friend groups to switch together.

It's no longer "hey this game looks cool lets give it a try" it's "why would I play that game when I've already got X hours in this and I play with my friends?"

A few weeks ago I was golfing with a 21-year old wearing a Trump hat. Didn't ask him about it, it could have been ironic, but I realized something: He's never seen a healthy America, probably doesn't even have any concept of how things could be better.

It's rough being a Millennial. Came of age at the end of the last time the country was arguably "healthy", then 9/11 happened and it's been downhill from there.

Then you've never actually Pair Programmed. It's not "someone looking over your shoulder", it's literally two people writing the code together, one person at the keyboard and the other person saying what's next. Two brains working in tandem on the same problem space.

It works really well, but it is exhausting, and difficult to sell.

No, I'd much rather have Idiocracy than the orange buffoon we actually have in office.

A good article, but missing one very important word: trust.

Civil society only exists when there is a collective general trust that most people are trying to do the right thing. Said society also finds it incredibly important to remove or nullify those who aren't trustworthy because "a rotten apple spoils the whole bunch". Trust is hard to earn, and easy to lose, and it only takes one person exploiting the trustworthy without consequence to ruin a good thing.

So no you can't build a system that's meets all of the article's criteria because almost all of them rely on the unspoken rule of trust in civil society. Everything built for good can be abused for evil.

The entire concept of "for-profit incarceration/detention" should not exist. Such a system only incentivizes cruelty.

I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.

Did Arko ever explain why he was trying to sell access to Rubygem's web access logs?

And some things always are malicious, like "prediction markets", which is just gambling reworded to sound like something else.

This was never, ever going to end well. There is no good use of "prediction markets".

Which is a people problem! The Internet is already a decentralized network. Anyone can hook up a computer to the Internet and others can immediately access it.

Centralization comes from people building bigger and bigger companies which control bigger percentages of hardware connected to the Internet. Consolidation is the natural order of things: competition is hard, so buy your competitor. If you want to solve / prevent it, then there needs to be incentives for companies to stay small, for there to be multiple companies, and for people to (begrudgingly) want more competition. None of this has anything to do with technology.

The state of the Internet today is a people problem, not a tech problem, and trying to throw more tech at it won't solve anything.

Same thing happened the last time we went through this circus. I'm only surprised it took this long for them to shut off access.

My personal photo backup S3 account, with a budget limit of $10, now going to cost me ....

$1,299,988,247,332.56!

That was a fun set of emails to wake up to, figured they had to be phishing for how outrageous of a number it was. But nope! Fun little incident they've got going over there.

If you're ever asking "Is it just me?", the answer is "no".

It isn't and never has been about the children.

Bitcoiners pivoted to AI so hard when they saw actual money to be made. Now AI is turning into as bad of a bet as Bitcoin, so not surprised that the "Bitcoin Policy Institute" would write something like this.

Don't ever let a Republican, and especially a Trump voter, complain about the current state of affairs.

They voted for this, and have been voting for this for decades.

They have two choices: own it and admit to themselves that they do in fact support fascism, or vow to never, ever again vote Republican or similar for the rest of their lives.

Or how he was mailed a box of Calvin and Hobbes plushies to try to get sign-off on the quality of the toys.

He mailed back a picture of the box on fire.

IMO Calvin and Hobbes will always be special because of Watterson's integrity. It says everything it needed to say, and those comics will almost always be relevant.

There is nothing more evil in this world than the pursuit of power and wealth.

After a certain size, one of my favorite Civilization quotes kicks in:

"The bureaucracy is expanding to fill the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

This burned me right out, and I don't plan on ever working for any Silicon Valley company again. I'm now happily employed in a small (10 person eng team) company where we are all doing meaningful work.

> At Anthropic, we build AI to serve humanity’s long-term well-being.

If Anthropic actually cared about humans, they would have the best customer support (staffed by humans, for humans) and communications team (again, staffed by humans, for humans).

As both of these are actually on par with Silicon Valley standards (between medicore and atrociously bad), Anthropic cannot and should not be trusted with anything to do with AI, because whatever they do will not benefit humanity.

A reminder that every line of code written is a liability, not an asset.

If I had any inkling of giving GitLab a try, this killed it.

Flock is pure cruelty. All justice, no mercy. It needs to go away.

Nice, they have availability numbers now on their status page, but they aren't aggregating.

If you multiply all current numbers together (as of Apr 28), you find out that GitHub has a 97.26% uptime.

One ... single ... 9.

They can do better.