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Fortunately the site is right next to the title, and so HN regulars can see it's a Simon Willison post about it. And like many expect, it isn't merely reporting, but offers interesting thoughts on it, including some not in the HN discussion you mentioned.

That isn't what dupe means here.

I disagree. "Benefit society" means something that can't be defined or tracked so easily. And consumer behavior is heavily biased by things that aren't optimized to benefit society. I have in mind this book, Hooked by Nir Eyal: https://www.nirandfar.com/hooked/

I don't think it matters if it's silly. I think it's highly successful, and that the success is continued. CryptoPunks is a clear example of genuine use of NFTs that still is an elite thing today, but another example is needed. I'll use this: if you go to Bored Apes and sort by recently sold, and look through them, you can see that there would have to be a lot of manipulation to have them rated in quality like they are. It just isn't plausible to me that a huge amount of those are self-dealing. If people were self-dealing, there would be a bunch of less cool ones with high prices, in order to try and get people to pay more for them. https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub?sortDirectio...

I think the brand Clawd belongs to OpenClaw now. It didn't start there but it landed there, until Anthropic tried to kill the fun. Anthropic hardly uses that name, it's mostly an anonymous mascot.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22clawd%22+site%3Aclaude.ai https://www.google.com/search?q=%22clawd%22+site%3Aanthropic...

Since Anthropic clearly maintains copyright over the mascot itself (though it is so simple it feels like a stretch to me) I prefer not to see it referred to as Clawd...

Edit: props to Anthropic for bringing more attention to Claude Shannon

Edit 2: this repo does show very well the dimensions of the Claude Mascot at rest - it's only 12x8 https://github.com/afspies/ClawdMoji#the-pixel-grid It's both impressive and seems independently discoverable. How many symmetric 12x8 patterns are there?

It's something to avoid for everything. They've gone further with nastiness than the other FAANGs IMO. Though alternatives may be hard to see, they exist, including for PyTorch. In many places it's zero sacrifice like with React.

They should rewrite it in GraphQL, that's turing complete, right? <ducks>

The request would need to be done from their service, so as not to expose the API key, and because it just makes sense. They could probably directly proxy it and Wireshark couldn't catch it, due to everything being HTTPS. But people could probably catch it by decompiling, so it would make more sense to have the server make the request as part of a GLM request. Not that I think this is plausible - I'm not sure.

Moxie doesn't trash NFTs or Web3 in that article. He just points out some limitations of the ecosystem.

Also, ipfs directly fixes one of the bigger issues:

Instead of storing the data on-chain, NFTs instead contain a URL that points to the data.

If it's ipfs, it points to the content. If it's ipns, it points to a changeable link to the content, but one that is made consistent through the network, preventing the trick of making it differ based on the referrer.

It's not not purely prepaid. It is purely prepaid through I might favor another way of saying it that specifically says that they don't offer any services on a postpaid basis. But even if you define purely prepaid differently from me, it doesn't work so well as a correction because the comment being replied to didn't use the term "purely prepaid" or something highly similar.

It's inaccurate to say that it isn't purely prepaid, because that could be taken to mean that some services are available to be postpaid, with a due date. Here you can see that a negative balance isn't the same sort of thing as having a postpaid bill due: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/8726637076124-My...

It's not an accurate correction. It's prepaid with an ability to incur a small amount of negative balance, partly for protection against downtime or data loss and partly so the systems can have some time to shut off (it would be hard to suspend service immediately across all services). However it is purely prepaid in that they don't provide a postpaid option.

I think perhaps they'll crash more than others because they aren't AI enough. It's more of an AI financing bubble than an AI bubble.

That is an opinion framed as a fact. There's plenty to rub a coder the wrong way, such as the sigil in builtin functions like @import, the dot syntax in structures (.{}, Timestamp{ .seconds = 0, .nanos = 0, };), triple slash comments (///), and multiline strings (beginning each with \\ - good luck grepping for escaped backslashes). However, that is just like any programming language - none is immune to this criticism.

Need an update from Elon about what he meant when he said "Midjourney is not mid" and what he thinks now https://x.com/minchoi/status/1766131045177409784

The way they talked it up, having both legs on one side of the bike is like walking to the car wash

Valkey continues to be the real redis, released under a permissive open source license like redis originally was. The fork of redis known as redis because those that decided to fork it had the trademark at first wasn't under an OSI-certified open source license and now is under a non-permissive OSI-certified open source license.

I'm taking liberties with the concept of forking.

Indeed. I have my agent edited files in podman in Lima, under two layers, and it's fine, because I do most stuff within my podman VMs. (I have shared volumes so I can review things before pushing the changes to my forge in separate containers that the agent can't access. When I need stuff on my mac, which is the exception, not the rule, I just copy them, putting them in a tar or zip if it's a lot of files.

LLMs don’t care about UX

Many parts of the LLM care about UX, and you unlock it with your feedback loop, which is a good way to unlock it but one of many ways.

One way to show that LLMs care about UX is to have one tutor you about UX. If they weren't trained to care about it, they couldn't do a decent job. But I've asked dozens of questions about UX to LLMs and they have a great deal of insight.

That looks pretty good, but it isn't quite there yet, for me. If you try to delete the opening fence, the closing fence turns into a closing fence, and the abstraction leaks in tables.

The goodness of the people in the chain make me think that the rider would have had a much greater than 50% chance of following through properly. But it's good that Django decided to further increase the odds by taking matters into his own hands.

The author's 1000% wrong. Online is the world.

AFAICT no. It's similar to Hermes Agent and the Hermes JavaScript engine. They are two very different things. Though you could argue that both Helix projects are editors but I don't think that's meaningful in this instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux

I guess at a company of seven, if two people are making the executive decisions and the two people are drinking the same AI kool-aid and the other five people are dutifully following these executive decisions, the whole company can be considered to be under this condition.

It's also harmful to overly gatekeep the term autism to the point where a lot of legitimate uses are discouraged, and it happens a lot, if you let it.

Someone did a multi writer implementation that supports the sqlite3 protocol and has finer grained locking, just as a solo project.

https://x.com/doodlestein/status/2052910351474209258

This seems to be quite a recent development. duckduckgo has Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the title. Google and the title tag on the website do not.

As for the value of Bill Gates as a husband or of his foundation, the positives don't outweigh the negatives. I have no problem saying with certainty that this is a bad move on Anthropic's part, because anything that Gates Foundation does could be done under an untarnished name.

Has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with Google's unchecked monopolism

I'm actually surprised val.town outsources it. So what you're doing makes sense to me.

The amount of repetition of @override seems unpythonic to me, but maybe that's python being unpythonic.

https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/blob/3.x/src/pyinfra/...