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The Achilles heel of this class of library (including stylex, Linaria, etc.) is precedence. You either have to use a runtime and some complicated merging rules (e.g longhand overrides shorthand) or compile every possible combination of the styles at build time.

So if a program decided it owned .cache and deleted it every startup you’d be fine with it?

Honestly, kinda? It'd be rude and cause a performance regression, but it shouldn't break anything.

What a weird straw-man. The comparison here is a program breaking compatibility with a file in ~/.cache/... and deleting it instead of providing compatibility. I'd do that without thinking about it twice.

I don't see it as a strawman. The comparison here is a program breaking compatibility with a file _used by another program_. If vim and neovim undo files are incompatible, why does neovim delete vim's file instead of using its own file name/extension and not caring about vim's undo? And why do they use the same subdirectory even? To me it is a case of a program deleting cached files of another program, which, as a user, I see as deleting user data that said program should have touched.

Don’t punish the people who do crimes because otherwise they won’t self-report that they are doing crimes? real galaxy brain shit

There's very good evidence that being overly punitive for a crime reduces how often people will self-report. It's not a hard concept.

Start throwing people in jail and fining billions of $ and you will very quickly see the number of "incidents" drop. You will never learn if it's because they truly are happening less often.


What should I look at for such evidence? If something is highly regulated and controlled then things would be quite different from today, not sure there wouldn't be reports of failures of containment, for example, if they are mandated including any rquired monitoring.

There's a perfect example of "highly regulated and controlled industries" in which people no longer self-report: aviation.

Pilots do not (or no longer) self-report mental illness at the same frequency because it effectively destroys their lives and career. One paper of many describing this phenomenon: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11302551/

An article, one of many: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/if-you-arent-lying-yo...

If you have any pilot friends in commercial aviation, you can just talk to them as well.


Airlines cannot try to put systems in place to deal with the issues? This isn't just about individuals but also organisations. You have to believe that organisations would also want to hide things even if mandated and incentivised otherwise.

Airlines sometimes try, but the regulations are federal, and the liability for the airlines of having a "pilot with reported mental health issues" is huge as well (because ultimately it's their business on the line if things go south).

So getting pilots to self report has been very unsuccessful because of how badly it ends for them.

A couple of days ago the senate had to pass a bill to make mental health medication access easier for pilots. We will see if it helps, but it doesn't solve the root cause (punitive measures) so I doubt it'll move the needle.


Not sure this is a good analogue as this isn't a situation of running experiments as a company, no?

The same incentives apply around self reporting.

Not so sure about the dynamics when it is a group of people with individual and collective reporting obligations and knowledge isn't just with one individual.

Collective reporting obligations are so easy to just break though. At many companies the process for such obligations is intentionally broken.

I do agree with you that a proper regulatory framework with clearly defined obligations is better than one off overly-punitive fines and arrests.



The thin serifs not being slightly shifted to align weight-wise with the sans serif is triggering my OCD, but yeah Astra is miles ahead here

I think there must be such a thing as design dyslexia because they all look fine to me shrug

Yeah that’s why ea is like catnip for these folks, justify anything by some handy hallucination about how the outcome will help more than it hurts. Suffering is fungible

> Overall, the best-performing model was Claude Opus 5 on “reasoning” mode, which still made mistakes in 39 per cent of answers.

They indeed will be in about 20 years when the impending population collapse hits

Serving requests where every user has their own set of self-updating weights will absolutely murder whatever minimal margin the AI providers have today

Who says the weights have to be duplicated in their entirety? Even that will likely be worth it.

Imagine an OpenAI owning the ERP and CRM databases and workflows of a big chunk of the Fortune 500. Their typical customer's employee headcount might be 10% of what it once was, and OpenAI might capture 25% of the resulting savings. The contracts are signed in the same hemoglobin-based ink that Larry Ellison uses.


Dan spent 7k words missing the forest for the trees

People had been calling a housing bubble since 2003. You quite literally need the market to do dumb things over a period of time before the bubble pops. Otherwise it’s not a bubble!

Actually making money on a bubble pop is another story and that does rely on timing. pointing at a history of failed market predictions as a gotcha is about as effective now as it would’ve been in 2003-2007 right up until the bubble popped

Right now it’s painfully obvious that there is a bubble, the circular financing is documented, the hype-driven valuations are real, it’s just a waiting game to see who holds the bag


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