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Hm good timing with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334854 (OpenRsync)

Poetic way of saying that he is really thankful for her and is indebted to her (not in a literal monetary sense, just that her support and love is without bound, such that his own can never measure up against it).

>They're the least generous with open-source.

Yes I'm surprised most of the "anthropic stans" don't realize this.

It's not like OpenAI is a particular fan of open-source models either, but the way I see it to OpenAI it's a purely calculated pragmatic business decision. They won't release weights for any good models since it'd impact revenue, and they view other open models as competition. But otherwise they're not ideological about it. If there was some really good reason to, they would (and they have, gpt-oss probably as a fig leaf). Sure some of the characterizations of "sama" aren't particularly flattering, but at the same time I think the common thread that he views everything as "just ruthless business" is ultimately beneficial, since rational and pragmatic can be modeled and understood.

Anthropic's founding philosophy is built on the premise that only they should control AI because of its danger, only they can be the right stewards, and that open-source models are an existential risk. Oh and the fact that it's Chinese open-source models rather than western models that are "winning" must be keeping them up at night.

>if we automated those jobs with AI, we could direct AI produced value into universal basic income

We've seen this play out twice in history now (industrial revolution, then globalization/offshoring). Every time the pitch has been that automation would make life easier by trickling down the surplus productivity gains. And yet here we are still working 5 days a week with more intense competition than ever. Fool me once...

And also most of what AI can automate today is the "services" economy which was never really that crucial in terms of biological existence. ChatGPT will not build housing, raise livestock, or perform surgery.

Woah up until now I was thinking locusts were a different but related species, but indeed they are the exact same species as grasshopper, just with a different end-product of metamorphosis. And the trigger is just contact with other grasshopper/locusts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURqcI08IC4

>but the two can co-exist.

Experience with modern society has shown that "third places" and human interactions get mowed over when you let algorithmic engagement take over. As I understood GP's point, the whole point of the "words on a shirt" was to get together as a group and attempt to form bonds, and by handing the task over to chatGPT they failed to do that.

Technically you can imagine a future where people use chatGPT "in moderation", but in practice they'll use it for everything and spontaneous/creative "hanging out" will suffer as a result.

Terence tao had a blogpost about this for the case of true/false questions, with multiple choice left as an exercise for the reader.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-part...

At least with the formulation Tao had, one unfortunate side-effect is that if you answer with 100% confidence and get it wrong, you basically fail the entire course.

red-green colorblind folks?

You'd get equally frustrated with a teammate who decided to delete failing tests when you told them to fix the build breakage.

https://archive.is/c7YNw - it's worth a read, summarizing his writing would be a disservice

Last i checked that only disables tracking of new files, it doesn't do anything to prevent the "auto-amend" behavior for modified files.

>You don’t need easy named branches.

You can't possibly see a use-case for long-lived branches? Say what you will of git, at least it exposes enough knobs that it can mostly accomodate every workflow (possibly with a heavy porcelain layer to hide the plumbing). JJ seems to swing too far in the other direction, great for a "live on head" mentality but less ideal for other setups.

(The fact that all edits are automatically recorded is my personal peeve with JJ. I'm ok with lack of staging area like in Mercurial, but mercurial doesn't try to automatically amend the commit with my pending changes. Sure I can pretend that "@" is my staging commit then squash as needed, but then I also need to remember that checking out a commit is "jj new" which feels like absurd mental gymnastics to me.)

>Most agent loops reorder, rewrite, or inject fresh timestamps each turn

That's really surprising, since it'd defeat the whole point of KV caching. I mean I buy it considering how sloppily coded the harnesses seem to be, but this like obvious low hanging fruit.

I've also often wondered why LLMs aren't trained with a format of having a dedicated contextual system-instruction role at the _end_, which you could use to put context like current time or other misc stuff.

>what happened in Ilya's mind

I thought Ronan Farrow's investigate essay answered that pretty satisfactorily? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...

I thought one of the main issues is that during sleep you lose muscle tone and control, so no matter how much you do myofacial therapy while awake it doesn't really matter much in preventing your tongue from falling back when asleep.

>basic technique of "mewing" is very similar if not identical to something that's been practiced in yoga for thousands of years

Can you elaborate more on this? I also assume by "mewing" you mean putting the tip of your tongue on your hard palette right behind your upper incisor, and letting the rest of the tongue suction against the hard (and soft) palette. Surprisingly for something that seems to be so "popular" in "broscience" I find it hard to find any canonical definition or technique.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233034

That was for this particular technique, but the comment suggested that a similar construction can (but is unproven) to beat erdos and at least gives some flavor of what this looks like

https://x.com/i/status/2057490144546927046

No, there's quite a bit of evidence that they last much longer than that.

> The only thing I've really been a bit tempted by is Lidar on Apple

Maybe in that vein, one thing I wish phones would do to differentiate themselves is just add more sensors. I want my phone to be the tricorder from star trek. iPhones should have first party support for generating point clouds and measuring distances using lidar. Their microphones are probably already calibrated, why not expose that as a decibel meter. Same for light sensors. Phones used to have IR emitters, why not add those back in?

Also the iPhone still only has 240fps slow motion, I've found samsung's 960fps really useful in capturing transient phenomenon or even measuring mundane things like LED flicker.

Conversely the Pixel seems to be the only one shipping with an IR thermometer, and they'll probably remove it given most people don't seem to care. That's something I would've found useful in ad-hoc situations where I've had to make do with the back of my hand.

Air quality detection (especially pm2.5, CO2, and CO levels) would be great but I don't know if those sensors can be miniaturized enough to fit.

I'm not sure what you mean, tetanus shots actually last 30+ years.

I wonder if anyone has taken the source of TextEdit [1] and added some minor niceties to just make it slightly more convenient for text editing (like adding line numbers).

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/TextE...

Both good points, thank you! I hadn't appreciated how complex it was, reframing it as something closer to spectometry makes the difficulty clearer.

>He often needs to ask people to smell him during the day, which leads to some hilarious situations sometimes

Smell and taste seem to be the last two senses/modalities we can't really work with using technology. Vision (cameras) and sound (microphones) have existed for a long time but it's only within the last decade that they've become ubiquitous in the form of a smartphone, and only within the last 5 years that ML is good enough to work across them (ocr, stt).

But for some reason (maybe lack of easy commercial opportunities) we haven't even come close to making "artificial noses" to record raw input. Maybe as part of the push for "embodied humanoid AI" (e.g. Figure) we'll find a way to do that.

It's not going to break, it'll selectively bend to the gravitational pull of wealth like it always has. You won't be able to use anna's archive to "download" that out of publication book, but companies will happily train on all that data and charge a subscription for you to prompt out a summarized version of it.

They can simulate "driving out of a raging fire" but not a flooded street? This seems like an admission that the fancy "world model simulation" doesn't actually mean much

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-f...

If one only found meaning in life through external factors like work (no matter how "intellectually rewarding") then it seems like a life destined for eventual disappointment.

>Google SERP results have been gamed by SEO slop for economically valuable search terms

So why not use AI to find the obvious spam and SEO? Sites like pinterest, "geeksforgeeks", stackoverflow clones were notorious for ranking highly on almost every technical search and you didn't even need AI to deal with those. Using AI to provide distilled summaries and making it harder to get the actual links is going to make things even worse for the user, because you have to cut through two layers of slop. And there's also not using the smartest model for the responses anyway.

I'd like to see a sequel where the fractional fourier transform is used for image restoration

It seems plausible given that people have been using off the shelf 5.5 xhigh to decent success with some erdos problems. There is likely still some scaffolding around it though (like parallel sampling or separate verifier step) since it's not clear if you can just "one shot" problems like this.