An incredibly unpopular leader desperately trying to censor his way out of electoral Armageddon based on current polling.
This is par for the course for the UK establishment, which has repeatedly wielded the Online Safety Act against protected speech they disagree with politically.
Unfortunately for them, this won't stop the destruction of both major parties next election. Polls have never been this bad, and Starmer won't even survive the year with his colleagues not so sneakily sharpening their knives.
> this is structurally no different than hiring an assistant to shop for you
In my opinion it's fundamentally not, because when you hire an assistant, you're hiring them with the intent to have them buy the product from the merchant.
Here, it would be like if you went to your local Safeway or other supermarket and there was a man standing at one of those sample carts who said "Hey, what you think of these papayas?" They're good, you look at them and decide you want two. "Great, I'll go in the back and get it." They disappear and come back with the papayas.
What's different:
1. You probably don't know where the papaya came from. Your intent in buying papayas didn't start with a clear understanding of the whole transaction.
2. You didn't interact with the merchant. If you want support, you have to go through the supermarket.
3. Whether you can file a credit card dispute is questionable. You likely won't win a dispute saying "I bought these and they're bad." You paid for a personal shopper, not a product. They substantially complied with their end of the transaction. You can't reliably dispute your instacart order saying "The papayas were disgusting." Instacart didn't sell you papayas, they sold you shopping services.
4. The merchant didn't sell to your email, they sold to some Amazon email. Good luck getting tracking details or getting customer support to talk to you directly. Good luck with returns.
5. Either Amazon is giving out your real credit card number (!) or using a virtual card. If it's the former, they've just invented credit card fraud as a service: you really going to trust Amazon's AI to hand out your card details safely? If it's the latter, you're probably going to get billed separately from the merchant charging you, which means Amazon is a middleman for refunds and payment issues.
In November I ordered a nozzle that I needed, which I knew had been discontinued. I ordered from a small seller, thinking they might still have some in stock. Turns out, they never even charged my card (probably because they don't have one and never will). I have been unable to get in touch with them about the order. I suspect this is very common, especially with drop shipping.
If Amazon charged me up front but they were not charged, that's outrageous. They don't even have a way for me to prove I didn't get my item (how could they?). Or will they mysteriously charge me at some point in the future? Who knows!
I saw him perform 26 times in my life, and still those were rookie numbers. Still I thought there would be so many more too. Thanks for all the music, Bobby Weir.
Tried throwing a batch of known-to-be-in-Amazon ISBN's through (from a recent "export my data", so even if they're old amazon fundamentally knows them.) Got 500's for a handful of the first hundred, then a bunch of 502/503s (so, single threaded, but part of the HN hug to death, sorry!)
(Only the first 4 or so were json errors, the rest were html-from-nginx, if that matters.)
> Yes, more interoperability at the cost of capability.
Well, then why aren't you using LaTeX? Isn't that more capable?
> And with vanilla markup, the trouble is that many applications /do not/ use just vanilla markup. People /invariably/ want "one key tweak"
And, that's going to be true as someone adopts it outside of Emacs, right?
Surely, someone will decide that the way Org Mode is doing something is wrong, right? They're going to do something like say, "Hey, why don't we permit Markdown style headings, too?" or something similar.
Or are you suggesting Org Mode military police? Felony markup possession?
There's nothing special about Org Mode that makes it immune to the problems you're describing. They will happen immediately upon wider adoption.
And if you somehow do stop it, well, it's tech. If you don't have a patent on it then someone will fork the idea and you'd have Borg Mode directly competing with you anyways.
That’s not at all why I bought Tailwind Plus. I bought it (at work) to have a solid collection of typical components and UI patterns, mostly expertly designed with a lot of attention to detail, to use as inspiration and as a shared language with other frontend devs and designers. I rarely (if ever) actually copy pasted any of their HTML or Tailwind styles. It’s mostly used as reference and inspiration. The fact that it’s implemented in Tailwind is mostly irrelevant (Tailwind really isn’t hard to use, especially after your first couple of small projects).
What is your supposition here? That addicts are keeping narcan around just in case? That good friends of addicts are standing by with the spray in case it is needed? That your local opium den had staff with it on hand?
Narcan should be available, but short of a few users that know they need to keep it around, I don’t buy that making it available has meant a significant change in total outcomes because of timely deployment.
I understand these points. As someone who truly love open source, we can see open source projects are becoming just a free training materials for AI. After training LLMs using open-source projects AI can build far superior software one day and that software may be not free, not able to replace by any non-AI software project. We all know that day is not far and that period of time all open-source software might consider legacy as no individual contributor able to implement stuff the speed of AI. What you are protecting is not only a legacy system but also the death of the purpose of why people build free software.
I'm...rather confused why the results here are surprising. The title and first paragraph are suggestive of unusual data like analytics or sending all your codebase, but it's just sending the prompt + context.
This is how every LLM API has worked for years; the API is a stateless token machine, and the prompts + turns are managed by the client application. If anything it's interesting how standard it is; no inside baseball, they just use the normal public API.
Of course: Everything is resource-constrained. That’s why it’s called economics.
The question was whether the “pieâ€â€”total economic output—has a meaningful upper bound on growth because we only have a whole planet full of resources to exploit as our minds and capabilities allow.
Don’t worry. If Amazon decided to undercut by selling at a loss, they would absolutely put it in their ToS that retailers cannot exploit this loophole and they would sue to enforce their ToS.
If the 16 performs worse in the power efficiency department, that is not great, but it doesnt make my machine run any worse. Calling it heavy is crazy to me, the thing is tiny. If you think it's heavy you'd have trouble using an iPad. The screen thing was a shitty manufacturing issue, they released a kit to fix it, which I luckily didnt need since mine came after they fixed it in production.
If I have a team of developers should I be enforcing this type of multi-agent setup for development? Has this tech reached the level of being better than your above average developer at implementing well specified features? Has anyone had success doing this?
With Intel VMX virtualization, instruction execution is handled by the CPU but (a lot) of software still has to deal with HW peripheral emulation .
QEMU uses KVM (Intel VMX, etc) but implements HW peripherals (display, network, disk, etc) faithfully matching really HW and provides a full BIOS (SeaBios) or UEFI firmware (EDK) to deal with with boot process.
Over time, Linux (and Windows) were extended to support novel “peripherals†designed for high emulation performance (not a real HW product).
Firecracker basically skips all the “real†peripheral emulation and skips the full BIOS/UEFI firmware. Instead, it implements just enough to boot modern Linux directly. Also written in Rust instead of C. It will never support DOS, Windows 95 or probably anything else.
The “microVM†BIOS allows it to start booting Linux very quickly (sub-second). A traditional QEMU VM might take 2-5 seconds. Some people are emboldened to effectively move back from containers to running applications in a VM…
Instead of the VM being long lived, it is really just for running a single app.
I think Kata containers had this idea for much longer but Firecracker provides a more efficient implementation for such a thing.
> "Give everything away for free and this people will leave technology"
This is more interesting, although somewhat generally understood (can be conflated with people seeing "free" and "cheap" and therefore undesirable). It depends on your definitely of longevity but we certainly have a LOT of free software that has, so far, lasted the test of time.
Been running Linux Mint on this ThinkPad A485 for 1.5 yrs, problem-free. There is no feature that doesn't work. Even the media keys and stuff like the wifi-toggle function key work. Still, yeah, there are some things that are perennial problems for open source OSes, particularly wifi. Nice presentation on the topic: "All types of wireless in Linux are terrible and why the vendors should feel bad" @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwIFz9na2lE
