Meanwhile Waymo has actually cracked self driving, and is operating a fleet of taxis. Tesla said they were going to do this at least as far back as like 2018, and still aren’t.
I've been trying to get token usage down by instructing Claude to stop being so verbose (saying what it's going to do beforehand, saying what it just did, spitting out pointless file trees) but it ignores my instructions. It could be that the model is just hard to steer away from doing that... or Anthropic want it to waste tokens so you burn through your usage quickly.
Marriage seems like a dated concept from when traditional gender roles were a thing, and men and women worked more as a team because they needed each other. Now that they don’t, with the high divorce rates and the high risks for men I can’t see a reason anyone would want to get married, especially outside the US where there’s minimal tax benefits.
Sadly accurate - and what is worse is that child support laws by state [0] are actually even more dated in their mechanisms, where despite using an "income shares" model, most don't take custody & parenting time into account.
So despite "savings" from a MFJ filing status, when you go back to Single filer or HOH filer, you're penalized on the child support side.
The government isn't doing any favours for its image by simulatenously trying to ban X, and introducing all of these internet controls. It just fuels the narrative that the government is trying to shut people up and control the spread of certain ideas. Then when you add in that weird "education" game they paid for, Pathways[0], it feels like a very coordinated effort.
As a fun exercise, I tried to see how close I could get to Cursor's results without using any Rust crates, and by making the agent actually care about the code. End results: 20K LOC for a browser that more or less works the same, on three platforms, leveraging commonly available system libraries and no 3rd party Rust crates: https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522)
I'm not entirely sure what the millions of lines of code is supposedly doing.
It's most software. Cryptography is user-unfriendly. The mechanisms used to make it user friendly sacrifice security.
There's a saying that goes "not your keys not your crypto" but this really extends to everything. If you don't control the keys something else does behind the scenes. A six digit PIN you use to unlock your phone or messaging app doesn't have enough entropy to be secure, even to derive a key-encryption-key.
If you pass a KDF with a hardness of ~5 seconds a four digit PIN to derive a key, then you can brute force the whole 10,000 possible PINs in ~13 hours. After ~6.5 hours you would have a 50% chance of guessing correctly. Six digit PIN would take significantly longer, but most software uses a hardness nowhere near 5 seconds.
Take it a step further, even - "End-to-End-Encryption" is complete security theater if the user doesn't control either end.
We joke and say that maybe Microsoft could engineer a safer architecture, but they can also ship an OTA update changing the code ad-hoc. If the FBI demands cooperation from Microsoft, can they really afford to say "no" to the feds? The architecture was busted from the ground-up for the sort of cryptographic expectations most people have.
> A six digit PIN you use to unlock your phone or messaging app doesn't have enough entropy to be secure
The PIN is not usually used for cryptography, it's used to authorize the TEE (secure enclave) to do it for you. It's usually difficult or impractical to get the keys from the TEE.
Particularly an explosion of SaaS sandboxes... why should I pay a subscription for some remote sandbox with paltry compute power, which I need a constant internet connection to access? I have this brilliant processor in my own laptop I want to use that I have already paid for, I don't want to use someone else's!
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