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wyre··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
I think their target audience are Apple Music subscribers who are going to watch the recordings of the live videos; they could probably care less who attend's their concerts. It doesn't seem like they want a music venue to support London's live music scene, but a music venue to produce content for their platform.

Frankly, that just makes it worse.

>They could have donated ten million quid to the Music Venue Trust instead.

oh, what the world could be like if music streaming platforms actually supported the industry that power them.

wyre··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Since local models are largest constrained by context window you want to have a tiny system prompt. I know Hax: https://github.com/OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax was designed with local models in mind, but I haven't used it.
wyre··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Here is the IPPC's glossary so we can actually work with their defined terms: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/SR15...

Greenhouse gas refers to any type of gas that makes up our atmosphere. Air pollution are substances entering the atmosphere that degrade air quality and human health.

Therefore air pollution is always going to be a greenhouse gas, but not every greenhouse gas is going to be air pollution.

CO2 is the principle man-made GHG that all the others are compared against. CO2 is what the IPCC refers to as long-lived climate forcer, which are gases that have a warming effect on the scale of decades, fitting the definition of air pollution.

CO2 is a pollutant and has been for as long as humans have been pumping out tons of it into the atmosphere.

wyre··on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
Hippocratic oath?
wyre··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Do you have zero critical thinking skills?

CO2 can be pollution while still allowing plants to grow, plants use CO2 in their growth cycle, if you didn't know, they don't use other greenhouse gases to grow.

Page 9 lists CO2 as the first item in a list of greenhouse gases. I don't want to spend all day read this 37 year old report.

In what world are greenhouse gases not air pollutants?

wyre··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
You need a source showing you that greenhouses gasses aren't pollution?

The thing that is also known as "air pollution"?

I want to tell you to stop being a moron, but its against this site's TOS.

wyre··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
Ya, I think engineering falls under the umbrella of “scientists talking to other scientists”
wyre··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Ya they had a good run ~10-15 year ago at the start of the rise of vintage/chunky/ugly sneaker aesthetics, but failed to innovate and keep up with trends.
wyre··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
No. It’s against Anthropics TOS though.

It isn’t explicitly allowed in OAI’s TOS, however they publicly support Pi and OpenCode’s usage of their Oauth, and because Codex is open-source, it means the machinery to support Oauth login is open-source under Apache 2.0

wyre··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
Pi supports OpenAI login for ChatGPT subscriptions.

Every 3rd party open-source harness I know of supports ChatGPT subscriptions.

wyre··on OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
Compared to including shell scripts with the skills?

Not trying to say that it's not useful, but it seems excessive and potentially bloated.

wyre··on OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
It's just a bundle of skills and md files...

Why does it need to have an entire CLI?

wyre··on Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS
Repo is 2,500loc, all-in, according to SCC. Should be really easy to point your favorite coding agent at the repo and have it one or two shot something similiar in the language of your choice.
wyre··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
But even in streetwear Nike wasn't really keeping up with the trends of more maximalist sneakers.
wyre··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
How has been the return? 6 figs is a lot if your users aren't earning you that money back.
wyre··on Herdr Studio
the demos look SO GOOD
wyre··on OpenAI Agents API
Sure, but neither did I. I summarized the quote, but OP's full quote included the the value of having the work artifacts and works-in-progress on your system to look at. If you are developing software on a VM, there will still be tools to view the artifacts remotely, but this Agents API is still a sign of local development trending away.
wyre··on OpenAI Agents API
>GPT Work runs on your own machines...is sort of the whole point.

Which is also why they want to remove it from your machine. Call it conspiratorial, but I keep thinking about "You'll own nothing and be happy." It seems like the industry is quickly moving in a direction where devices are turning into gateway into the cloud, and personal computing will turn into a hobby that prices out the average individual.

wyre··on Apple is no longer thinking different
I think you're exhibiting a bunch of bias. The world's largest ad company purchasing a smartphone operating system to continue to collect information on their users to continue powering their ad network?

Apple technology is not "reality tv". Their target market is all consumers of technology. There are countless very informed users that prefer Apple (admitingly more are moving to Linux due to it being a stronger platform for agentic development).

If your single issue when making decisions is open vs closed ecosystems, sure, avoid Apple, but to call anyone that treats their technology use with more nuanced as "uninformed" is incorrect at best, and offensive at worst.

wyre··on The Invention of the MMO
Yet people put hundreds of hours into their favorite video games and story-based games are still doing really well.

WoW puts 95% of the game at max level requiring players to invest dozens of hours just for table stakes. A well designed MMO doesn't have to do that, but the game needs to have enough content to have a thriving midgame, which is something that runescape does really well, except RuneScape's issue is to get out of the midgame requires hundreds of hours of grinding to get out of the midgame.

I think the biggest difference between battle royals and team shooters with MMOs is the online shooters are funded mostly by aesthetic packs, and a new and old account have the same gear available to them, while MMOs allow older accounts to unlock better gear. Nothing is stopping you from playing with your friends, while you can still invest into a character.

wyre··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
Giving private businesses the monopoly on violence seems like a great idea ;p

What happens to the business when it isn't small anymore? What does that accountability even look like? Paperwork isn't accountability.

I agree that details can be worked out and systems can be made better, and the government is corrupt (especially now, but also the past two decades I've been old enough to be politically conscious), but I don't think ideological free market libertarianism is the right path to get there. I think there is a lot of merit to a free market and I agree people deserve their own autonomy to not be ruled over, but right now corporations hold way too much power and wealth inequality is too large and only accelerating for me to accept libertarianism as a solution to modern society.

I think another issue is the word libertarianism can easily mean so many different things. There are anarchist libertarians on the left and right, with social libertarians and market libertarians taking up the space between anarchists, and between the four of them there is no solidarity because they all want different things regarding the structure of society.

wyre··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
So then what will the government due about supplying their military, offices, supplying technology, constructing the buildings that they work out of, purchasing or renting the land those buildings are on, or any other of the material goods that it needs to do the bare minimum of enforcing laws.

I don't see how libertarian can ever be well defined when it seemingly is always based in ideology and the arguments supporting it always seem to be fallacious.

wyre··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
How is communism self-serving when, you said it yourself, the main concept is assigning resources to everyone?
wyre··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
How is that not No True Scotsman? You disagree with the outcome of the described libertarian structures so it can't be actual libertarianism?

The government is inevitably going to do business with the market. Where do you draw the line between a government contract and favors to big business?

What is libertarianism's answer when there are 6 people that own everything, or more realistically, how the richest people in the world, already deeply entrenched and leading their respective industries from continuing to accrue resources until everything is owned by a small group of people and/or taking advantage of their market advantages to shut out any competition.

wyre··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
Remember Cambridge Analytica and PRISM?

I don't think it's unrealistic for state or another party to be taking the decades of data on individuals they have and feeding it into their large hyperscale data centers and using the platforms they own to predict our actions and propagandize us.

Unfortunately, I don't think most people understand it's about mass surveillance yet, but about the misappropriation of resources in lower income communities to power LLMs and/or the intellectual theft and profits off the data used to train LLMs.

wyre··on Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools
It's a rebuttal in the same way that saying the Vulcans in Star Trek use AI in their classrooms. Star Trek is a fictional story in a fictional universe that doesn't have to follow the laws and rules of science, society, reality, etc for the sake of telling a story that fans will want to follow.
wyre··on Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools
They can, but I don't think we are there yet. No need to sending taxpayer dollars to silicon valley on educating the next generation using a new technology that hasn't proven itself in education yet.
wyre··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
Lost a bit of respect for the EFF with this. I can understand their dogmatism around not wanting to limit anyone’s electronic freedoms, but these are social media companies we are talking about. They aren’t there to provide a public service, but to , sell and serve ads, command attention, and create addiction to their service. Meta just agreed to pay $18 billion because it was harming its young users. It’s wild that the EFF who works very hard to defend the privacy of the users of the same corporations, is against a bill benefiting the same corporations.

It’s certainly more nuanced, but it’s like if children could smoke cigarettes being against laws to raise the smoking age. The arguments boil down to right of these kids to engage in practices they don’t understand the ramifications of, or putting it on the parents. I get there’s a libertarian argument that the government shouldn’t be limiting their citizens freedoms period, but this is California ffs, it’s probably the last state in the list for libertarian morals.

wyre··on Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention
Thanks for developing scc!

Regarding LOCOMO I have a fork that calculates an estimate based on # of commits * price per task according to Artificial Analysis benchmarks for a given model, and includes a simple overhead multiplier to pad out the estimate.

wyre··on US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"
Yes. Or pro-fa.
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