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> Is the alternative not likely that they would have spent a decade fighting a losing battle over office software with Google and Microsoft? Paper was a great product but the big guys have vertical integration so companies prefer their end-to-end solutions (GSuite etc) and I don't see how Dropbox could have easily overcome that.

Slack, Zoom, and Notion all argue against that. Yes, they have to compete against Google and Microsoft's integrated solutions, but they're good enough that they have held their own. Of course they would be bigger if Google and Microsoft didn't have such products.

It has always existed, but how strictly it’s interpreted (i.e., just cash welfare, or also Medicaid, SNAP, and other means-tested benefits) has shifted between administrations. If you applied during Biden’s administration, I could believe the public charge rule was applied very laxly, particularly because it’s rare to get direct cash welfare in the US these days, and even less for an extended period.

> A human is not reviewing every weld.

On civil engineering projects, I’m pretty sure a human reviews each weld. For mass-produced things, maybe not, although a company would not look good in a lawsuit if they had inadequate inspection procedures which allowed a fault causing injury or death to occur.

> how famous FOSS devs of tools that Google use internally couldn't even get past the resume screen at Google to get an interview

As a former Googler, Homebrew was not ever officially supported at Google, or even particularly recommended, particularly because you were not allowed to store source code on your laptop anyway. Homebrew was definitely not used in any production-critical workflow. It's more accurate to say that some Googlers used Homebrew (I myself used Macports and never encountered any additional friction). Homebrew at that time was also unsuited to anything like Google's scale, so it's no surprise the author didn't get any brownie points for it.

Woz isn't some kind of monk. He enjoys his tech toys that he can only afford because he's rich. He's just bad at managing his money and lost a lot of it through multiple divorces.

Woz should have a lot more money than that for being such a large early shareholder of Apple, so that actually speaks poorly to his reputation as a "successful entrepreneur/investor". Some of the reason why his net worth is below expectations is noble (giving $10m of shares to early employees), but most of it is not - 4 marriages as opposed to Steve Jobs' 1 marriage, an impractical attitude in general, and never having any success after Apple, even as an investor.

What, no comments at all? I guess people are really not surprised.

The eternal truth: money talks, bullshit walks

Mentioned on the story about OpenAI's solving a major Erdos problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493

HTML is famously forgiving as well - that's the whole reason XHTML failed, because one typo in the latter will make your entire web page fail to render with an error. Markdown is probably a little more forgiving, which mattered more with previous-gen LLMs with small context windows. Any near-frontier model should have no problem generating valid HTML.

Also a lot of LLMs are trained specifically to expect Markdown in their instructions, OpenAI's models in particular (Anthropic expects more pseudo-HTML/XML, but that is different from real HTML/XML).

In the sense that its capabilities were a little overhyped as a quantum leap / unique security threat, and it's so expensive that it's impossible for Anthropic at scale. That hype looked a bit silly when GPT-5.5 matched or even exceeded its capabilities while actually being a model ordinary people could access. But its level of capabilities is only currently matched by OpenAI at this time - the other AI providers, even Google (at least publicly) are quite a bit behind.

It's interesting that ChatGPT Pro is the real deal that can write novel physics or math papers (for certain values of novel), while Claude Pro is crap that, depending on the A/B test, may not even provide Claude Code or at the very least doesn't provide Opus. Shows how LLM naming conventions are currently a mess.

Can you name any instance of OpenAI being as trigger-happy with bans as Anthropic has been in the past few months? Codex may have fewer prosumers, but they've added a lot in that time.

Ironically an analysis that Codex or Claude Code might be able to perform

I’m surprised to hear that she’s only now learning the lesson of group presentations - if you’re even slightly more competent than your group, you’ll be doing all the work and the rest of the group will freeload off of you. It’s not like the freeloaders would have been able to answer follow-ups questions before AI.

There’s always the issue that it might be hard to find competent people that can implement a control network isolated from the internet if it has an internet connection by default.

Why do you trust the UK government won’t do the same?

Still not great if you want a family, because daycare/private school are expensive, and housing in a good school district (to not have to pay for private school) are even more expensive.

They were not photovoltaic solar panels, but solar water heating panels - i.e., running a ton of water pipes on the roof where they're perfectly placed to leak and potentially damage historically-significant artifacts. I'm not surprised they removed them when resurfacing the roof (not right when Reagan entered office, but in 1986).

George W. Bush actually installed solar water heating once again, but on the roof of a maintenance facility, which I didn't know about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House

5 minutes ago, I was seeing the old version of the page in which Claude Pro included Claude Code. I refreshed and now see that it does not.

No one intelligent should be logging into their personal accounts on their work devices in any case - it's always been the case (at least in the US) that companies can do whatever invasive scanning they want on devices they own.

@dang can we fix this to mention John Ternus becoming CEO

> all sorts of fun virtual backgrounds, filters, emoji in their statuses

I don't want more pieces of flair in my life, thanks

You generally won't get to know someone well enough to appreciate their unique aspects unless you see them in person at least sometimes, unless that person has the habit of letting their freak flag fly in all circumstances, which has its own downsides.

On https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356000, it looks like the user there was intentionally asking about the implementation of the Python chardet library before asking it to write code, right? Not surprising the AI would download the library to investigate it by default, or look for any installed copies of `chardet` on the local machine.

Wait for court cases I suppose - not really Linus Torvalds' job to guess how they'll rule on the copyright of mere training. Presumably having your AI actually consult codebases with incompatible licenses at runtime is more risky.

> “undue financial hardship”

If they have already moved away from paper tickets for everyone else, now there is financial hardship, not to mention the loss to the team's economic position from scalping. Also smartphones have supported usage by the blind for years, particularly on iOS.

I was wondering how they solved the `drop` problem (the fact that `return foo;` is not the last code executed in most functions, because Rust values are all implicitly dropped at the end of scope), and it seems that they cut the Gordian knot so that values are all implicitly dropped before `become` instead. Hope that works out - probably why it's still nightly for now.

To be fair, iTerm is likely to be the single most common terminal emulator used by Claude Code developers, so I'd hope that it would work tolerable well there.

Forks are easy for Github to shut down simultaneously. What you really want is to upload the code as a new repo (ideally a different name from the original one). But it shouldn't be too hard in practice to detect uploading the same codebase as one that's taken down if that's desired.