Readit News> Over the last year the Post has been involved in almost monthly car wrecks
I mean, unless the subscription number is way down or revenue has dropped significantly (which the article does not seem to mention), none of this matters, which is exactly what Bezos wants.
So far each big, unpopular decision by Bezos has led to significant cancellations of paid subscriptions. Since it's happened more than once I don't think it's safe to assume the remaining subscribers are happy either.
Bezos cancels planned endorsement of Harris: 300,000 paid subscribers cancel in period up to election. (400,000 new paid subscribers over the period, but they offered significant promotional discounts)
Bezos tweets change to opinion policy: 75,000 paid subscribers cancel within four days
With in the order of 2.5 million paid subscribers before all this started that's significant losses.
Edit: Source is https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post...
Journalists should have realised a long time ago that their opinions are a commodity, and they will destroy their entire industry by focusing on opinions and not on on-the-ground reporting. But they doubled down, and decided to be as opinionated as possible. Of course this was tempting, because emotional propaganda gets more clicks.
But I think there would still be a market for a 1990s BBC style on the ground, completely opinion free reporting, and someone could fill this niche because a lot of people WOULD actually pay for this. But it would take a big investment and it's a big risk.
The problem is that opinions are way cheaper.
Look at the article currently promoted at the top of Post opinion page: "Trump is off to a good start with an AI action plan" https://archive.is/ERCme
Regardless of what you think of the quality of that opinion, it took very little effort to make.
Compare the sources they used to the work it would take go out on the ground and do novel research:
- Their own news article about it (itself based on press releases and an off-the-record comment that obviously would have come from someone in the White House press office assigned to promote the press release)
- Their own past opinion pieces
- Reuters.com
- WhiteHouse.gov
- Online govt statistics
- CNN.com
- NeurIPS' blog
- Columbia Business School blog
- Matthew Yglesias' blog
- Greg Lukanioff's blog
I could have found those sources based on vague memories of tweets I've seen by following journalists on Bluesky and a few hours of googling. I suspect they did the same, except they used X instead.
iudqnolq commented on Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code · Posted by u/MistermanX
"AI started actively breaking working code" is vibe coding talk, you should monitor what it does and undo at the step that breaks. I've been able to do that just by prompting "undo last step/<specific action>"
I used it before as a free Claude Code to do ad-hoc scripting, pretty useful. Now I have found a bunch of TUI programs (Amazon Q, rovo dev, opencode) that can assist with that kind of workflow. I don't like that it's a GUI app, but I like the fact that it's a terminal app where I can type command directly into, not just prompt. Claude 4 should be fine, was on free, never hit limit so not sure what's the lite experience is.
I've found Claude to be terrible at undoing.
It feels analogous to what would happen if you put me in front of a broken project without source control that I've never seen before and asked me to fix it without giving me enough time to actually understand it. It starts from errors and bugs, guesses corresponding source code, and tries to narrowly fix just that snippet. Generally it favors deleting, but not specifically deleting new code.
I would have thought it could record a log of its actions and use that log to think about undoing. I would also think it could annotate lines with git blame so it knows undoing wouldn't involve changing anything more than say a day old. Unfortunately that isn't consistent with what I've seen.
I just make a WIP git commit and run git commit -A --amend --no-edit after manually reviewing each unit of work.
Edit: I also wish Claude implemented undo at a higher level instead of relying on the model. Some combination of snapshotting the whole repo and tracking operations that have precise inverses. But I understand that would have drawbacks.
I have a gut feeling that writing this kind of MCP server can't be the future of software development. I'd expect a two year old AI model to need this kind of handholding, but I don't understand why it's still necessary.
Couldn't any modern AI model know that Zig docs are relevant to the question, figure out how to find the docs, write some code to parse it, and guess how frequently to update it's cache?
I expect there to be plenty of problems AI can't write for the foreseeable future but they have a very different vibe from this.
Edit: I just asked Claude Sonnet 4 to pretend it has a tool that makes docs available that has an update frequency parameter. It said the zig stdlib should be updated weekly but the Java stdlib would only need quarterly. Seems reasonable to me.
> Second date has capabilities of network eavesdropping, MiTM, and code injection
This is probably a dumb question but doesn't that require an SSL cert? Obviously the NSA can get someone to issue a cert for a domain they don't own but wouldn't that be visible?
Couldn't you have every user device log the SSL certs it sees to detect this attack? What about CT?
That's really a good point. If you're building a native app or similar, why constrain yourself to HTML?
Because flexbox & grid are amazing. And you'll probably need it anyway if you ever have to render arbitrary rich text.
iudqnolq commented on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything sergey.fyi/articles/gemin... · Posted by u/serjester
In what contexts is 0.84 ± 0.16 actually "nearly perfect"?
Because it shows up in the baby's meconium...
That doesn't even get into the second order effects such as mothers then having trouble lactating/nursing.
And beyond that, we should probably question why, statistically, the mothers that have the most children don't use painkillers during childbirth.
Why should we question that? The most obvious answer would be that women who have a hard time giving birth are more likely to get painkillers and less likely to want a second child.
There was a time when tweets were just good ol' regular HTML pages. Today it's unbearable if you remember that you're just trying to read one small paragraph.