I like my Coros Pace 2, it's round and looks like a normal watch, instead of the rounded rectangle/square slab of glass that was popularized by Apple Watch, an aesthetic I find terrible.
I call this genre of article "I'm too lazy to think about how to deal with the fact that LLMs are sometimes wrong, especially when they aren't using thinking and are given short, leading prompts."
Ok great! For those of us who aren't too lazy for it, LLMs are providing a lot of value right now.
Did you compare to Cursor? We gave up on Copilot a while back after Cursor blew us away. In the context of this article though, Cursor is very obviously tuned better towards Claude than OpenAI in my experience.
Cursor's agent is better, but the in-editor suggestions by Copilot when you're actually the one coding are very useful. Claude's agent is better than Cursor, so I'm not sure where Cursor fits in with this ecosystem.
This is interesting to me for the reason of having a way to interact with social media that isn't loading a social media feed. It would be great to put this on my blog and then have people able to comment on it, and basically the only way I interact with Blue Sky or any social media feed is through this kind of interface and through creating content.
Over the years I've found that any interaction with social media that involves me loading the feed inevitably ends up with me doomscrolling or spending way too much time scrolling stuff that doesn't add anything to my life. This could be a way to avoid that cycle, finally, but still interact with the wider social media world a little bit.
> Over the years I've found that any interaction with social media that involves me loading the feed inevitably ends up with me doomscrolling or spending way too much time scrolling stuff that doesn't add anything to my life.
The existence of 10x engineers is something no one believes until they meet one, and they are extremely rare so I can believe many people have never met one.
The co-founder of a company I worked at was one for a period (he is not a 10xer anymore - I don't think someone can maintain that output forever with life constraints). He literally wrote the bulk of a multi-million line system, most of the code is still running today without much change and powering a unicorn level business.
I literally wouldn't believe it, but I was there for it when it happened.
Ran into one more who I thought might be one, but he left the company too early to really tell.
I don't think AI is going to produce any 10x engineers because what made that co-founder so great was he had some kind of sixth sense for architecture, that for most of us mortals we need to take more time or learn by trial and error how to do. For him, he was just writing code and writing code and it came out right on the first try, so to speak. Truly something unique. AI can produce well specified code, but it can't do the specifying very well today, and it can't reason about large architectures and keep that reasoning in its context through the implementation of hundreds of features.
> He literally wrote the bulk of a multi-million line system, most of the code is still running today without much change and powering a unicorn level business
I've been a bit of that engineer (though not at the same scale), like say wrote 70% of a 50k+ loc greenfield service. But I'm not sure it really means I'm 10x. Sometime this comes from just being the person allowed to do it, that doesn't get questioned in it's design choices, decisions of how to structure and write the code, that doesn't get any push back on having massive PRs where others almost just paper stamp it.
And you can really only do this at the greenfield phase, when things are not yet in production, and there's so much baseline stuff that's needed in the code.
But it ends up being the 80/20 rule, I did the 80% of the work in 20% of the time it'll take to go to prod, because that 20% remaining will eat up 80% of the time.
From time in hospitals I've gotten very good at disabling them. Most nurses are fine with it but every now and then one would come on shift and tut tut at me for having done it. They usually shut up when I point out that they don't respond to the alarms in any sort of prompt way - as I'm sure if I were to continue pointing that out up their chain of command they would then find some trouble.
I always tell people though that being in the hospital doesn't make you healthier, mainly because you can't sleep. The hospital should be the absolute last resort, and your first priority on finding yourself in one should be to figure out how to get out of it, even if it involves nursing care at home.
The light source could be connected to a clock and the flashes represent the encryption of the time using a private key, verifiable using a public key.
It's a lot of complexity, so probably only worthwhile for high value targets like government press conference rooms, etc.
“ rather than encoding a specific message, this watermark encodes an image of the unmanipulated scene as it would appear lit only by the coded illumination”
They are including scene data, presumably cryptographically signed, in the watermark, which allows for a consistency check that is not easily faked.
That's just saying that the coded image will only be apparent in the areas of the image lit by the light. Which is obvious, that's how a flashlight works too. They're not signing the actual pixels or anything. They've increased the difficulty to that of 3D-mapping the scene and transferring the lighting: not trivial, but still two long-studied problem spaces.
Hmm yeah fair point. I'm not sure you can do it without some control over the observer device then... will we have "authenticated cameras" soon, with crypto in secure elements? Feels like we'll have to go there to have any trust in video.
It turns out if you give an adversary physical access to hardware containing a private key, and they are motivated enough to extract it, it's pretty hard to stop them.
What you're missing is that the activities you're doing were not the activities people were largely doing 10-20 years ago to be social. Going to bars was probably at least 100x more popular than hiking, so even if you see a 10x growth in hiking, if going to bars goes down even 10%, it dwarfs hiking's contribution to overall social activity of the population.
More than half of the office buildings downtown are empty, and the ones that do have something only have a business in a handful of offices on a handful of floors.
Because of that, people started moving away because of lack of nearby jobs.
As people moved away, rents increased in both commercial and residential spaces to cover losses.
Library attendance and checkouts are way down.
Public transportation use is down.
Tax revenue in the city is down, which means less support for public services.
Landlords don't increase rents to "cover losses". That's not a real thing that happens. Rents are set at the market rate, with some variance and time lag for price discovery.
No, that's not how it works. You're just making things up. There's no such thing as a "silent understanding" with a bank. Either that's a covenant in the loan terms or it's not.
I spent 3 years renting a commercial property that subsidized the rest of the property locations. As soon as my business left, the building and rest of the tenants were gone within 3 months.
Cities wax and wane. A commenter a couple posts up in this chain (fwiw, they were arguing on the “there is a decline” side) shared a story with a 5% decrease. That’s not nothing, but it isn’t an extreme decline.
This largely isn't true. If you talk to people who work in nightlife and have for a while, they will tell you that patronage is down significantly over the past couple decades.
If you do actually go to a bar or club, you'll even notice nobody is dancing. People don't even dance anymore.
But if you don't want to believe me, we do actually have statistics. Young people are drinking less than ever and having less sex than ever. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe not, but if people aren't fucking and drinking - why would they be going to bars? To play Scrabble?
What social venues? We don't have clubs anymore. There's no young men's club I can go to like my grandfathers.
Where I'm sitting, there are no social places, just corporate hellscapes. You're correct, mom and pop is gone. But it's replaced by big chains, who want you in and out and give nothing to their community.,
Restaurants, cafes, bars and night clubs, courses, all styles of workout places to name a few.
Personalized and interesting is the name of the name of the game. Big chains have been stagnant or even reducing for a while now here.
There’s also an endless list of non profit organizations where a good cause and the social interactions are the goal.
But I can very much see that the old school genderized social clubs are dying. That niche is dead with our less segregated modern generations, and it is good that it is.
I feel like some of the cultural outrages and doomerism are getting ridiculous. People do not drink as much alcohol as they used to, we are doomed! People actually avoid situation that make them drink and drive, we are doomed! Teenagers have less sex then before, take less drugs, commit less crime, we are doomed!
Cant wait for "kids play less videogames, we are doomed!" round.
The two of you might simply talking about different locations. This article seems very US focused, but in europe third places still exist, and it seems the US is having a severe decline in those.
I love the European model of retractable bollards that are down overnight and then go up in the morning and stay up until late in the evening. Allows for night time delivery vehicle access while preserving a car free space for the whole day for residents and visitors.
