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Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?

How will you log into your email from a strange computer without your phone. Gmail has required 2-factor auth for a long time.

You have to set up those backup codes and keep them in your wallet or somewhere independent of your phone and in your person at all times.

I get your point, but believe it or not there's more email services than just Gmail

Really, because I’ve been working to move off gmail for 5 years and it’s slim pickings.

I’ve tried fastmail, protonmail, outlook and they all suck. Gmail is probably the only google account I still use.


I like fastmail but any provider worth using is going to have 2FA mandatory so that will be an issue regardless. Gmail was just a (popular) example.

My wife doesn't check email frequently, so SMS (or even better, WhatsApp) would be more reliable.

Maybe an alternative is to store the WhatsApp contact information of people who could help behind a password.

Then, if I need help, I can ask to borrow someone's phone on the street. If they don't have WhatsApp, I can just make a regular phone call instead.


Why hide emergency contact info? Put it in Emergency group on everyone's phone.

The goal should be to send a single message with nature of emergency, what you need from them, and what they do like call police

I could see a private reference page with important info. Including checklist for various scenarios. That's what I thought you did. Then print out a copy and put in binder somewhere at home.


> If they don't have WhatsApp

Is this really likely? I would guess only 70 year olds don't have WhatsApp.

Seems more likely you forget the impoprtant phone numbers because you never enter them manually.


Nobody in my friend group has a WhatsApp and I'm a millennial.

Depends where you are, in most European countries, everyone including their grandmas will use Whatsapp.

It doesn’t have to be just for one type of user.

WhatsApp is not universally used. Line, WeChat, and KakaoTalk are more common in East Asia

In the US, the only people I know who use WhatsApp are immigrants who use it to talk to friends and family back home.

With iMessage, Discord, and Signal, I can't imagine a use case for me or anyone I know to use WhatsApp.

The vast majority of the world defaults to whatsapp. But yes, other than convention, any of these could be equivalent.

I don’t see why you would care for Discord over whatsapp except that it’s what you happen to use already.


lol not 70, no Whatsapp.

This can be fixed by relaxing your eyes and staring through the wall. This is equivalent to looking into the distance.


Once the USA wakes up, this will be insane news


What's special about Claude Code? Isn't Opus the real magic?

Surely there's nothing here of value compared to the weights except for UX and orchestration?

Couldn't this have just been decompiled anyhow?


I think pi has stolen the top honors, but people consider the Claude code harness very good (at least, better than Cursor)


Pi is the best choice for experts and power users, which is not most people.

Claude Code is still the dominant (I didn't say best) agentic harness by a wide margin I think.


Pi really is amazing. It's as much or as little as you need it to be.

Not having to deal with Boris Cherny's UX choices for CC is the cherry on top.


Already made the switch back to Codex :-)



It uses Claude Code natively. If you're still neurotic about it, you can also use opencode with gastown.


Are there credible sources for these claims?


These type of stories are typically attributed to anonymous sources. So it’s impossible for a reader to conclude anything about the sources’ own credibility. So they usually rely on the credibility of the reporter or media org who’s published about it.

The Information is also reporting on this, but paywalled. IMO The Information does solid reporting.

https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/openai...

Editing to add some of the Information’s reporting: > Speaking at a panel at Davos moderated by The Information CEO Jessica Lessin, Friar suggested that in the field of drug discovery, her company could, for instance, take a “license to the drug that is discovered” using OpenAI’s technology. In other words, OpenAI would take a profit-sharing stake in the financial upside its AI creates for customers.

> Friar is no doubt familiar with older AI drug discovery firms such as Recursion that struck deals with pharmaceutical firms to give them big bounties for successful drugs identified by their tech. There aren’t many, if any, examples of such successes yet, though.

> OpenAI isn’t the only firm eyeing this opportunity. Its rivals Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary focusing on using AI for drug discovery, have also held discussions with early-stage biotechnology startups about data licensing or partnerships.


We have the same insight into the sources as we do OpenAI’s finances.


A rigorous study of the "unreasonable effectiveness" method.


Why Johnny can't be unreasonably effective?


What we talk about when we talk about the unreasonable effectiveness


Reasonable effectiveness: an alternative to unreasonable effectiveness


Does anyone understand what the end objective of V is? I've known about this language for I think 4-5 years and for some reason it's still v0.5...?


> Does anyone understand what the end objective of V is?

The Vlang site makes it clear what their objectives are[1]. "Simple, fast, safe, compiled. For developing maintainable software." They also have a roadmap[2], showing what their end objective version (or production release) will have.

> I've known about this language for I think 4-5 years and for some reason it's still v0.5...

They just came out with version 0.5 (2 weeks ago from this post), so obviously that statement is mistaken.

[1] vlang.io

[2] https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/ROADMAP.md (vlang's roadmap)


No it has not been 0.5 for years. Check their homepage. You can see the timeline for the releases there. 0.5 was released a few days ago and is a major step for the language.


There is a noprocrast feature in your settings to specify how long you can stay on for a single session and the frequency at which you can view HN. Super helpful!


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