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“So glad we found a home for all of the Claudes!”

I think Codex is a better fit for professional software engineers. It's able to one-shot larger, more complex tasks than Claude and also does better context management which is really important in a large codebase.

On the other hand, I think Claude is more friendly/readable and also still better at producing out-of-the-box nice looking frontend.

Context management is one area where I’ve found Codex is a lot better than Claude. Sessions last forever without degrading. Codex doesn’t forget things that Claude drops from context.

Another sketchy practice: if you get Uber Cash through a card like Amex, when you go to use it the price for the ride is automatically $15-$20 more than someone who doesn’t have an Uber Cash balance.

I’ve checked this side by side with colleagues at the airport getting ride quotes to the same hotel. When you have Uber Cash they will quote you more. You can find numerous Reddit threads on the topic as well.

This feels very illegal to me, but not a lawyer.

If you believe the AGI thesis, this is a stepping stone to unlocking fusion and other scientific advances.

Jobs was kind of infamous for making people put their app / product in front of him while he sat in silence and used it. Harder to fake.

But lots of execs don't know enough about their own products to interrogate like that. So they settle for BS presentations.

One of the things I love about ChatGPT is voice mode for collaborative searching. My wife and I will both ask questions about things like house repairs, meal planning, sleep training, etc. So much better than both of us googling separately in silence on our phones.

Why assume that chat will be the interface? Multimodal and dynamically generated seems more likely.

I find it fascinating how communication channels are subject to some form of Goodhart’s law. Channels that are recognized as valuable by subscribers become more desirable by publishers, receive more noise, and then cease to be useful.

I truly wonder if this is an “any publicity is good publicity” tactic on their part. It’s now national news that OpenAI supports conversational voice. Buying this level of publicity would likely have cost more than the lawyers and damages.

The same problem can have different causes. Forgive me, but this sounds like rationalized fatalism. I’m genuinely curious, what keeps Sweden from building more cheap housing?

More people need to know about the role unions play in obstructing new construction.

From locking up permits in CEQA reviews to blocking pre-fabricated structures, they are one of the driving factors behind a housing unit costing $700k at the very minimum. This puts housing out of reach for anyone making less than $150k/year.

It’s a 3rd rail issue for anyone in the democratic machine, which is why we won’t see meaningful progress in housing or homelessness under the current incumbents.

I’m actually pro union in most other contexts, especially when workers are underdogs. But in CA there are some unions which are quite powerful, exclusionary, and have negative effects on society.

IMO teaching people about passkeys and making the onboarding experience as easy as possible would be many times more effective at actually preventing phishing.

Boom (and supersonic aircraft) are a strategic investment priority for Saudi Arabia to sustain demand for oil. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about their impact on emissions I don’t know what else does.

It’s one of those experiences you didn’t realize you wanted until you have it.

- No need for chit chat, you can just work / talk on the phone / play music

- No 18-hour shift sweat and deodorant smell

- No cursing at other drivers or awkward apologies because of fear of a bad rating

- Smooth, predictable driving. I have yet to have a “holy shit” moment in a Waymo, but this happens regularly in Uber / Lyft.

Also on safety, about 50% of the population has to worry a lot more about being abducted/hit on/stalked/etc. Uber and Lyft know this and have gone to great lengths to recruit female drivers, set up safety hotlines, etc. Not having to worry about the driver is a big deal.

The only major U.S. airline to not currently operate the MAX is Delta. Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Spirit, and SunCountry also do not operate it.

Agree with this. For folks not familiar with Twilio leadership, I would liken Kho to Twilio's version of Tim Cook. For the size and stage of growth that Twilio's at, he's the best possible replacement for Jeff.

I’ve noticed these near-death-experience videos coming up in my recommendations and found it truly odd. They don’t seem to have anything to do with what I normally watch. I have to wonder if they’re the top of the funnel for religion campaigns like “hegetsus”.

Out of curiosity, have you ever been responsible for hiring and managing a team?

I say this because my experience of hiring and employing people really shifted my opinion in favor of maximum diligence unfortunately.

I'd be curious to know from someone with more knowledge: are there any technological improvements that could prevent this kind of accident?

It seems as though it should be possible (though perhaps not easy) to automatically detect an aircraft on runway and relay that to the approaching aircraft.

With all respect for the coast guard pilots who died, I would say this incident is the "best case" scenario we could hope for when two large aircraft crash on a runway. Had the other plane been carrying passengers the casualties could have easily been in the hundreds.

It seems odd to me that with all the safety advancements in aviation we don't have the technology to prevent this.

I'm very mixed about B-corp (I say this as someone who went through it about 10 years ago).

There isn't really anything about the certification process that's binding, and it's definitely gamed. There are multiple MLMs that are certified B-corps. I would liken it to those semi-paid 40 under 40 lists that pop up every year.

Yes, the “Rockwell Retro Encabulator” - a Reddit favorite - is currently on the front page of HN. Sigh.

Many people will exclaim, "only $9M!?" It's probably true that this amount is underestimated. But it's also true that incumbent politicians are very cheap.

For example, a $10,000 donation obscures that the lobbying group might also have threatened to donate millions to a competitor in the next election.

Most incumbents stay in office not by advancing any particular policy, but by not making themselves an enemy of interests that could mount a campaign to replace them.

This firing very much has the feeling of the board fearfully pulling the circuit breaker on OpenAI's for-profit trajectory.

On the one hand, I actually respect their principles. OpenAI has become the company its nonprofit was formed to prevent. Proprietary systems. Strong incentive to prioritize first-to-market over safety. Dependency on an entrenched tech co with monopolistic roots.

On the other hand, this really feels like it was done hastily and out of fear. Perhaps the board realized that they were about to be sidelined and felt like this was their last chance to act. I have to imagine that they knew there would be major backlash to their actions.

In the end, I think Sam creating his own company would be better for competition. It's more consistent with OpenAI's original charter to exist as the Mozilla (though hopefully more effective) of AI than as the Stripe of AI.

I’ve received two data breach notices in the past week, one from my healthcare provider and the other from the bank that holds my mortgage.

In both instances they said to lock my credit, and provide free credit monitoring for a year.

I find this egregiously insufficient to the point where I think we need more regulation in this space. They should provide lifelong credit monitoring and full insurance on any financial fraud that now occurs on my behalf, as well as immediate presumptive financial compensation.

That aside, the root cause here is that identity in the U.S. is a dumpster fire. We have no distinction between unique identifier (SSN) and secret (also SSN). Every other security question is just another version of the same factor type (something you know) which is easily accessible to scammers.

There is quite literally no agreed upon way to prove you are who you say you are.

We need DMVs to begin issuing IDs that are physical with digital capabilities, like credit cards. We need the equivalent of Apple/Android Pay for identity online. We need to mandate that banks support digital IDs. And we need strict enforcement for people who misuse a digital ID.

I believe that the consequence of ignoring this problem is at least tens of billions of dollars in GDP annually lost to fraud. And perhaps more importantly, it’s an insidious erosion of our status as a country of laws.

If you read the article, it speculates that the most likely mechanism will be IR cameras that detect distracted driving/sleep. This technology is already widely used in commercial truck driving.

A government’s source of revenue is working age taxpayers. Its biggest cost is the social safety net for the elderly. It seems natural for them to care about population growth? Where would they get the money for UBI if their tax base is contracting every year?

Immigrants (at the scale Spain needs) don’t want to move to a shrinking economy. Spaniards themselves are leaving the country to look for work. As an example, Central American immigrants will immigrate through multiple low growth countries specifically to get to the U.S. for work.

To GP’s point though, I think Spain’s population problems aren’t all that related to dense apartments and more tied to economic opportunities.

Do more short high effort intervals. Find a track to run at if you can and alternate easy/hard laps. The visual cues of a track will really help you feel confident pushing hard because it’s easy to see how much distance remains.

Also, check out your local running clubs on Strava. I know social running isn’t for everyone, but it’s a really good way to push your speed up. Every club I’ve run with has been psyched to get a new person.

Worn out shoes can cause pain after a few months. Any further diagnosis should probably be delivered by a PT.

I mean the actual worst is having the 4th highest tax burden in the nation and having a dysfunctional EDD that can’t efficiently give unemployment to people who need it.