Centigonal

That tiny 1"x1.5" thumbnail[1] of John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine was the essence of Gravitas for me as a kid.

[1]https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1999-12-14/page/88/mode/2...

Moreover, OpenAI already doesn't have the best reputation for maintaining ideals over doing the convenient and profitable thing

I had the same experience trying to see the 4th of July fireworks in an unfamiliar city. It doesn't help that there was very little information online about which roads were closed.

I didn't get that vibe from this piece at all. Claire sounds disillusioned more than she sounds bitter, and I really don't see too much supporting the narrative about her becoming upset because of her lack of relevancy.

Google is loved for the things they built that cause people to love Google (GMail, Search, Drive, K8s, Android, Patents, Books, Nest, Wave, Workspace, YouTube) and Google is hated for the things they built that cause people to hate Google (the targeted advertising money machine, Google+, the many negative second-order effects of their loved products). I don't see these two things being mutually exclusive. On balance, I think more people have a positive opinion of Google than do for Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook.

Also, humans are a pretty tough audience when it comes to utilities, with that hedonistic adaptation and all. You don't see many people walking around waxing lyrical about the wonders of modern sanitation, water purification, and plumbing -- but people do complain about water bills.

The cloud logo that is inscribed onto the base of this device and on its bottom-right key is no longer used by OpenAI. In fact, the "Codex" app, branding, and featureset was folded entirely into the ChatGPT app earlier this week. Upon release, this device is already outdated.

What an interesting world we live in!

It is an emulator for a console that does not exist in real life. People make games for this "console" because they are fun to play and fun to program.

The same developer made PICO-8, which is better known: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Actually reasonable decision from the DEA under RFK. Scheduling concentrated/semi-synthetic kratom products while leaving the weaker leaf-based products alone is a good compromise to reduce harm without criminalizing kratom (which has beneficial uses for opioid recovery and maintenance therapy) in general.

This is the AI coding version of those long blog posts talking about zettelkasten or workflowy or whatever. I'm sure this is great for you, but without insight into what you're shipping, you're just waxing lyrical about your personal productivity system that probably doesn't apply to others.

Yes, I am. I think Chatto looks great, and I use AI in my job every single day. I've been following OpenAI since MuseNet. I'm uncomfortable about the coming Kuznets curve for AI, the wealth concentrating effects, the energy use, the stunting effects on human intelligence and connection, and the abuse of training data associated with AI. I am that "let's take a nuanced approach and find out how we can get most of the good without most of the bad" person. I think people like me are probably the majority stance when it comes to AI use among tech people. I also think that we'll be steamrolled by moneyed interests and society-level incentives in the short term, and I don't really see a way around that.

In the absence of a way to win with nuance, I think it's just nice to have people walking around who live rigidly by their principles as an example of what is possible.

If they fixed it, then it wouldn't be SWE-Bench Pro anymore, right? It'd be "SWE-Bench-Pro-Fixed-OpenAI." I think it's better optics for the independence of the benchmark if the OpenAI team lets some third party do the fixing and release the improved benchmark.

...Although OpenAI did exactly that when they released SWE-Bench Verified, so maybe I'm talking out of my butt here.

Good luck! The world needs more rms types (specifically referring to people who adhere strongly to moral principles over expedience)

That was intentional - I think Office (or, uh, Microsoft 365 Copilot as it is now called) is frustrating mass-market mediocre software! That said, it consistently lets me do my job, while LibreOffice is often unusable for my purposes.

For 2 and 3, office software and OSs have strong network effects and up-stack effects, just like CPU instruction sets.

Also, I'm sorry, but OSS office suites compete with Office and GSuite the way grocery store frozen pizza competes with Domino's and Papa John's. Quality and completeness of execution matter a lot in that category.

It's in the press release.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

Looking forward to reading something very similar to this in 10 years about the Discord servers and Insta DMs of the 2020s.

There are some nice curb-cut effects of dark-sky lighting:

- The circadian rhythms of birds and nocturnal creatures are less severely affected

- Amber lights produce less insomnia

- The dumb streetlight across the street doesn't blind me from my bedroom window

Larry Sanger has been grinding an axe against Wikipedia for nearly two decades. Some of his arguments are convincing, but it's hard to take them seriously when they're coming from a man who has tried repeatedly to undermine the site since the mid 2000s.

One of the arguments Hank makes in the video is that SpaceX is (via starlink) rapidly occupying large portions of useful LEO shells, which crowds out future competitors or users of that orbit (i.e. you can't put more satellites into the orbit without risking collisions, especially satellites that aren't part of the existing constellation), and that the natural consequence of not regulating orbital space in some way would be to lock in the first movers in an orbital shell as the only organizations that have access to that orbit.

Hank Green did a video recently advocating for an "orbit value tax" -- like a Georgist Land Value Tax, but for orbits. This tax would, among other things, help fund orbital cleanup and internalize the externality of polluting orbital shells. It's an idea that deserves more discourse IMO.

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjW6zuYmos

"Rocket Lab acquires Iridium" sounds like a notification out of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Anno 2205.

That iMessage rendering looks correct, just typeset differently.

There is an active debate on exactly this topic when it comes to whether or not to excavate the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Qin_Shi_Huang

jqwik users want the sort of things that jqwik enables, too.

You're right, I don't want the software on my devices doing things the user doesn't acknowledge or want, that has potentially destructive/negative consequences. Down with that sort of thing!

So when are we nixing Widevine, EasyAC, carrier locks on phones, and TEEs that the user can't look into?

I don't know if I agree with this, especially in the context of animation: https://www.bloopanimation.com/the-art-of-smear-frames/

The model is trained to treat system messages differently from regular user/assistant messages. Most models are trained to only expect system messages at the start of the conversation. This is changing now.

For Deepseek V4, The main effect of raising the reasoning effort is to add a little section[1] to the end of the system prompt that says "BTW make sure to think really hard! :)"

If Anthropic's models work the same way, then changing reasoning effort would break the cache because the API has to modify the system prompt given at the very start of the context and rerun the whole thing through the inference server.

This kind of limitation is one reason Opus 4.8's mid-conversation system messages[2] are actually a pretty big deal (if they actually work).

[1] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash/blob/ma...

[2] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/mid-co...

This is true. Amazon Seller Central, AWS Partner Central, and Glue Databrew are all Amazon productivity-style apps, and I hated every minute of using them. Quicksight is okay these days, but it took them a decade to get there. They really struggle outside of devtools and consumer-facing web experiences.

It's really, really complicated. Even "organic" or "all natural" products often contain synthetic contaminants as a result of manufacturing, packaging, or shipping processes. Unless NASA were to set up separate factories and supply chains for manufacturing all known sources of siloxane contamination (either on their own or in partnership with manufacturers), it would be very difficult to actually get a siloxane-free product with any kind of certainty or consistency.

An example with a different contaminant: We can't seem to keep carcinogenic plasticizers out of our RXBars and our baby formula[1]. Those products are already way more regulated than something like wet wipes, and the companies that make them have a strong interest in keeping them free of contamination.

[1] https://www.plasticlist.org/