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You give them (a scan of) your state ID, or just send in your previous passport if it’s a renewal.

The process in the US is you open an online form, type in your details, and upload a JPEG of your face! Then you receive a passport in the mail a few weeks later! I would say that is a lot less painful than the Polish process.

US citizens aren't fingerprinted on entry, regardless of race(!). They don't even have the fingerprint machines in the citizen line at any airport I've ever gone through, which is why I suspect GP went to the wrong place.

OpenCode Zen works with Pi, etc. It's totally separate from the OpenCode harness that this article is about.

Not those issued in Denmark or Ireland, apparently [1], though I see other sources saying Denmark does fingerprint now. Most countries don't fingerprint children.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passports_of_the_European_Unio...

because they were too stupid to figure out US citizens don't have to do that

This seems extremely unlikely to me. Did you stand in the noncitizens line by mistake?

There are other OSS agent harnesses.

Most countries' passports don't include fingerprint data. The US passport application process is entirely digital/by mail, for example, with no fingerprinting at all.

They verify a phone number, but you can use the same number on as many accounts as you want, and it's just a verification code.

Does macOS even have exclusive fullscreen anymore? I haven’t looked into it, but my impression is that it fakes it with borderless windowed even when the app explicitly asks for it.

Been a while since I’ve heard “Marxist” used that way.

I’ve been seeing this “high-trust society” dog whistle a lot lately, and I think it’s one of the funniest of its kind. You truly want me to believe that the United States, a country with a history of slavery and segregation, a country that went through a historical period dominated by people literally called “robber barons,” was a high-trust society before immigrants from less industrialized places came and ruined that?

From 2025 to 2028, in a specific list of qualified occupations, as long as your AGI is below $150,000.

Well, for the creators’ sakes, I hope the ToS that Claude wrote [1] holds up in court!

[1] https://strata.highloop.co/terms

Also known as vector tiles.

CarPlay enables a car-friendly interface with big buttons, shortcuts to navigation/music/communication, and minimal distractions. I don’t know of any way to get that on the phone’s own display.

I'm glad!

What's up with the AI narration at the beginning? Or is it just someone with an incredibly steady voice and AI cadence? It's uncanny and weird considering that this is a podcast hosted by actual humans!

The search field loses keypresses on mobile. I haven’t looked at the code, but I’m assuming it uses a React-style value binding but has some synchronous processing before it propagates the new field value back into the state variable. That is a really terrible pattern.

That's 10 cents for a single 35-calorie corn puff, to be clear, and it was a 25% price increase. 10 cents for one corn puff is not actually a good price.

Certainly below 6!

4.6 was released at the beginning of February, so if the Chinese models only "tickle its tail," that means they're >5 months behind.

Apple education store isn't subsidized or "for children."

They're willing to admit "5 to 6 days a week" in writing [1]! Crazy stuff. Also a notably huge number of job openings, including for a head of HR [2]. Worrying signs, I would say.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/corgi-insurance/jobs/X...

[2] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/corgi-insurance/jobs/Y...

Claude stopped doing all the LLM ticks like 6 months ago.

Oh God, if only. You’re right that it moved on from the classics, but it has new ones, and they’re just as identifiable.

Well, I'd never heard anyone make it before, but sure. (I looked into Mercor a bit and know some people who've worked in data generation/labeling, which is what exposed me to that side of the operation.)

It doesn't absolve them of any theft, but it does make the assertion that they should be required to release their models to the public seem, to me, a bit farcical. There are dozens of free and open-weights models that have all trained on exactly the same web crawls and books as GPT-5 and Opus. The proprietary models are better because of proprietary data.

I'm not sure which country that is, but it would have to be on a different planet! No country on Earth has banned data centers.

The vast, vast majority of submarine cable projects are paid for with private money. I'm only aware of a few in the US that have received any public grants (all connecting relatively unprofitable areas like Hawaii, kind of analogous to the Essential Air Service program).

I didn't say that.

The core of the training data is public, but the part that actually makes these models smart came from (pretty highly-paid) experts via platforms like Mercor. Claude didn't magically learn to write good code by reading all of GitHub - humans trained it in that, more or less manually.