Work thinking about the nature of tools Dan Lyke / comment 0
Work thinking about the nature of tools has me thinking on tools which augment human intelligence, which help us conceptualize and think better, and tools which supplant human ability.
It's a continuum, but there's only so much information that can be put in and gotten out via a chat...
AOC at TU Berlin Dan Lyke / comment 0
So much good stuff in this. Even more impressive that she's talking off the cuff. Rep. AOC Speaks at TU Berlin on The Future of U.S. Politics (YouTube video). Around 1:07:30 in response to an audience question:
One of the critiques that we have of capitalism is that it is its goal is isolation and one of the last frontiers that they want to commodify is human relationship and connection. They don't want your friend to drive you to the airport because they want you to give money to an Uber. They don't want you to care for your friend's children because they all of these things the fragmenting of community is where you can make money. And so when we defy that uh in small acts like driving your friend to the airport uh or in larger acts like what coming out and buying a vest and putting it on and blowing a whistle when they saw an ICE agent. All of this scaffolds on one another. Especially in a moment where right-wing populace populism is ascendant, it preys on communities not being in connection with one another. You can build suspicion of your immigrant neighbors or of your queer friend at school if people don't have those relationships. And one of actually the good news is that the fastest way that you can diffuse movements like that is actually building those social ties because then when you know these horrible caricatures are said in public, people say, "Wait a second, no, I know my friend that's like this and they're they aren't like that." And so it it is the kind of stuff that often gets taken for granted, but when you do it day in and day out, it becomes really important building blocks for safety in numbers.
Dax Raad on AI's impact Dan Lyke / comment 0
Tech-Cowboy in Reddit r/ExperiencedDevs: An AI CEO finally said something honest
Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take:
“everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code
here's what things actually look like
- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping
- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life
- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend
- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon
- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real
- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills”
Risk score 1: phew Dan Lyke / comment 0
No ROI, no AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
The report, "The 7 Career-Making AI Decisions for CIOs in 2026," claims AI is facing corporate accountability in 2026 after several years of investment into research and pilot projects. CIOs are worried their careers are on the line if the tech's effectiveness falls short of expectations.
Seems completely fair to me: treat AI spending as R&D.
Pregnancy risks Dan Lyke / comment 0
"It was already fairly alarming that you face a 14-times greater risk of death from continuing a pregnancy [compared to getting an abortion]," lead study author Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Health, told Live Science. "But the statistics we report here suggest that this risk is really much, much higher."
Automated bike lane enforcement Dan Lyke / comment 0
The origin of "morge" Dan Lyke / comment 0
If you're seeing "code morge" floating around as a meme today, this thread talks about a bodged "AI" generated image on Microsoft's site purporting to tell you about git, badly refactored from this blog post.
Good time for meme generation, since JWZ recently uploaded a remastered version of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on the 25th anniversary.
You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.
ClaudeCode leaking other sessions Dan Lyke / comment 0
Hacker News thread about Claude Code leaking prompts from unrelated projects.
Reddit: r/ClaudeCode SwordStroker: Claude Code leaked me someone else's response (I believe)
Opened it today and asked a question then it responded in a way which does not make sense at all like it was someone else's response. Then when I asked like I did not ask you this and what is "Exodus", it just kept burning tokens and I cancelled it at 10K token.
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oh god what have we done Dan Lyke / comment 0
brennen @brennen@federation.p1k3.com
the network is the computer (aspirational) → the network is the computer (oh god what have we done)
brennen @brennen@federation.p1k3.com
everything is a database (wryly observational) → everything is a database (thousand yard stare)
brennen @brennen@federation.p1k3.com
software delenda est (solemn agreement) → software delenda est (jesus christ not like that)
Detecting Claude contributions Dan Lyke / comment 0
No Boilerplate @noboilerplate@namtao.com
PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.
Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.
You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
California Single Stair non-progress Dan Lyke / comment 0
CalMatters: Housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report
In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, airier and better lit apartment buildings in California’s housing-strapped cities.
The Office of the State Fire Marshal was given until Jan. 1, 2026 to come up with a report on single-stair apartment buildings — a type of mid-sized multifamily development legal in much of the world, but effectively banned across most of North America.
And of course... here we are.
I mean Dan Lyke / comment 0
I mean, yes, Open AI has two and a half times the revenue of OnlyFans, and projects that it will have similar numbers of paying subscribers by... Checks notes... 2030...