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Spivak commented on Stop generating, start thinking   localghost.dev/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/frizlab
woeirua · 4 hours ago
This person is not using Claude Code or Cursor. They refuse to use the tools and have convinced themselves that they are right. Sadly, they won't recognize how wrong they were until they are unemployable.
Spivak · 3 hours ago
If Claude Code or Cursor is actually that good then we're all unemployed anyway. Using the tools won't save any of our jobs.

I say this as someone who does use the tools, they're fine. I have yet to ever have an "it's perfect, no notes" result. If the bar is code that technically works along the happy path then fine, but that's the floor of what I'm willing to put forth or accept in a PR.

Spivak commented on Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage   expressnews.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/robotnikman
csense · 11 hours ago
> no, there really doesn't need to be

Bob the Bully doesn't like you. Whenever you leave your front door, Bob will fly his drone over your head while its onboard speaker continuously curses you out with TTS. Whenever you want to have a romantic moment with your boyfriend / girlfriend, Bob's drone will be watching through the nearest window.

If you ask Bob to stop harassing you, he'll laugh and curse you out in person. If you sue Bob, after thousands in legal fees the court system will say "You're SoL; there's no law that says Bob can't do what he's doing." If involve the police, they'll say "We can't do anything because no illegal activity is occurring." If you shoot down the drone, you'll be sent to prison like the guy in the video.

You only have one realistic option in this situation, "Just put up with it." This certainly seems like a bug in the law that ought to be patched.

Spivak · 11 hours ago
This would easily meet the bar for a harassment complaint.
Spivak commented on Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage   expressnews.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/robotnikman
gretch · 11 hours ago
> There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property

I agree. It should be the same one we use for helicopters and airplanes.

Spivak · 11 hours ago
If they fly low enough that I could hit them with a shotgun, they're on my property. This isn't true of planes and helicopters.

These things aren't planes or helicopters and poised to be much more invasive and annoying, why people act like they are just like a passenger airplanes flying a literal mile overhead is baffling. But to that end if Amazon started making deliveries by landing a fucking helicopter in my yard on the regular I would also want them banned.

Spivak commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams   kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
direwolf20 · 2 days ago
My IG ads are so extremely personalized with every detail of my life it's both extremely creepy because I volunteered none of this data, and very useful because they are showing me things I might want to buy.
Spivak · a day ago
I genuinely wish they would flip it around and put me in the driver's seat. I would easily turn to a "Meta Product Search" over search engines or Amazon or whatever.
Spivak commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs   fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino
Arainach · a day ago
"Demand" is not a good metric for proper medical or safety review. There is constant demand for products that promise amazing things, but they should not be approved more rapidly because of their claims until they have gone through the proper process and reviews to show both that they do what they claim and that they do not have other serious side effects or consequences.
Spivak · a day ago
We're talking about allowing an "essentially" generic version of an existing FDA approved drug made by licensed compounding pharmacies that has been legally distributed for years due to the shortage. If it's safe enough for people to take in a shortage then it's probably safe enough for people to take in a not shortage.
Spivak commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs   fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino
loeg · a day ago
Yes, bootleggers can undercut legit competitors, providing a boon for consumers.

In this case, Novo developed the drug. In your view, why does Hims get credit for "the greatest good to public health in a century" and not the company that sank over $10B into developing Ozempic?

Of course, Novo faces competition from Lilly and every other pharma company in the world and continues to lower prices in the face of this competition.

Spivak · a day ago
And they provide a valuable service to their customers, I have a very positive association with various drug dealers I've had over the years. Say what you want but they're literally out on the streets serving their local community. For a more HN example, people in the real world are extremely pro piracy and view the people cracking DRM as doing a public good.

I fully expect the state to take action against the, to me, very obvious will of the people who are actively seeking out and purchasing these products. Clearly folks don't respect the legitimacy of IP rights in the same way they respect property rights since nobody blinks when buying compounded GLP but at the same time wouldn't shoplift at their local BestBuy.

So yeah the government's response isn't surprising but you won't see me cheering them on, and I don't think you should either. You literally stand to lose from it.

Spivak commented on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs   fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/randycupertino
loeg · a day ago
Why is it bad when companies break the law? We have patent laws for a reason (to incentivize enormously expensive drug development).

Novo and Lilly already sell direct to the consumer! Yes, you need a prescription, but once you have one you can buy straight from the manufacturer.

Spivak · a day ago
As always, depends on the law. This is a bright line example of companies breaking the law to the direct tangible benefit of not only their customers but the population at large. Letting Novo Nordisk jack the price back up and deprive the vast majority of Americans access to the greatest good to public health in a century meanwhile is… maybe not the example you should be holding as the law working.
Spivak commented on Stay Away from My Trash   tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
anileated · 3 days ago
"Just show me the prompt."

If you don't have time, just write the damn issue as you normally would. I don't quite understand why one would waste so much resources and compute to expand some lazily conceived half-sentence into 10 paragraphs, as if it scores them some points.

If you don't have time to write an issue yourself or carefully proofread whatever LLM makes up for you, whom are you trying to fool by making it look pretty? At least if it is visibly lazy anyone knows to treat it with appropriate grain of salt.

Even if you are one of those who likes to code by having to correct LLMs all the time, surely you understand if your LLM can make candy out of poo when you post an issue then it can do the exact same thing when it processes the issue and makes a PR. Likely next month it will do a better job at parsing your quick writing, and having it immediately "upscaled" would only hinder future performance.

Spivak · 2 days ago
Because the point is for the AI to take the prompt, figure out what that prompt means in the context of the code base, and then make an issue that provides additional information.

It's asking the AI to takes its best guess at what you actually have to do to solve/implement the issue using the code that already exists.

Spivak commented on Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better   github.com/dmtrKovalenko/... · Posted by u/neogoose
oguz-ismail2 · 2 days ago
Since when `{...}' syntax is a glob pattern? What does `{a,b}/c' produce when there is no directory named `a'?
Spivak · 2 days ago
Globbing is a matching library. It just means match a/c or b/c if they exist. You should get an iterator of somewhere between zero and two elements.
Spivak commented on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/gfortaine
qwertox · 2 days ago
MCP servers are the correct way to offer this service. Webpages are for humans, these served documents are for agents.

You could argue that they could just let the agent curl an agent-optimized API, and that is what MCP is.

Spivak · 2 days ago
Sure, but Google isn't maintaining two sets of documentation here, the MCP server is just a thin wrapper around the webpage with a little search tool. So it's still the docs for humans just with a different delivery mechanism. Which is fine, but you can understand when hypertext exists largely for this exact purpose folks would find it odd and over complicated to reinvent the web over jsonrpc for robots.

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