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My biggest hope for AI is that it leads to more niche software. A big reason for tech monopolies, IMO, is economies of scale. When software development is expensive, it needs to run at massive scale and appeal to everyone. Now that software is cheap, I hope this changes.

@mikemcc1717 @CEmma670 Nobody is forcing you? Loads of people would prefer slamming some beers on the Metra over driving if their train went straight to Soldier Field. And if you're not one of them, then you'd get to benefit from fewer cars in traffic & more parking close the stadium. Win-win.

@h14hdotcom @CEmma670 Yes I want to bring all of my extra layers of clothes and tailgating supplies on the train. That would be so awesome.

Mayor Brandon Johnson on the Soldier Field game day traffic: "Let me tell you how bad it is — Bears vs. Packers, I'm at the game, we're losing. I decide to leave to beat the traffic. Before I get out of the footprint, the Bears had come back to win."

@ChicagosMayor @UnitedCenter Now do the parking lots surrounding Soldier Field.

The 1901 Project will transform parking lots surrounding the @UnitedCenter into a vibrant district filled with housing, retail, and entertainment venues. I'm committed to equitable economic development because when we invest in our people, we strengthen our entire city.

@Jozefowski @CEmma670 It'd force anyone taking a line other than the UP-NW to go downtown and transfer first. That wouldn't be the worst thing ever, but a more central station would be more efficient. They can even save money on signage by renaming 18th. St to "Central Station" to match the pedway!

@h14hdotcom @CEmma670 Arlington Heights has a better Metra right there

@WilliamCrosson @CEmma670 To get a functioning regional rail network, I would open negotiations at replacing 50% of current lakefront asphalt with nature parks. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

@h14hdotcom @CEmma670 Friends of the Park would litigate any required changes to the foot print for a generation.

1. Leaving Bears/Packers early is unhinged 2. Fix traffic by making the trains better Build connections from the 18th St Metra to the Union/Ogilvie lines & replace parking with food truck pavilion. Eating hot dogs & drinking on the train >>> Leaving early & driving in traffic

@Chicago_Goofies The way most smart cities do it is by making the bike lanes big enough to fit emergency vehicles. Way easier for a cyclist to hop off their bike and step on the sidewalk than it is for a car stuck in traffic to move, well, anywhere.

Serious question: What happens when an ambulance or fire truck can’t get through because the street has been narrowed down to a single lane for bike infrastructure? Look at this mess. Who thought this was a good idea?

Using my unlimited access to Kimi K2.6 Turbo via Fireworks.ai's FirePass plan to run DeepSWE evals against different agent harnesses. Early observations testing K2.6 in Pi 1. K2.6 Turbo on Fireworks is FAST -- average time per task improved from the 56 minutes @datacurve reports to 6 minutes w/ Mini-SWE-agent 2. The default Mini-SWE-agent uses FAR more tool calls than Pi -- 172/task compared to Pi's 74/task 3. Subsequently, Mini-SWE-agent uses far more input tokens than pi -- 15M/task compared to 6M. 4. The flip side is Mini-SWE-agent uses notably FEWER Output tokens than Pi -- 77K/Task vs. Pi's 128K/task 5. K2.6 under Pi seemed to be prone to reasoning-loops that led to much higher variability in token usage -- it used 60% fewer tokens per task on average, but only 35% in the worst-case 6. These differences in token usage result in K2.6 being roughly HALF as expensive under Pi compared to Mini-SWE-agent Lastly, it looks like Pi performs slightly worse than mini-swe-agent -- got a lower score by about 3 points (but I'm going to be doing more runs to improve my sample size) Excited to do further testing to see how tweaking Pi's system prompt and adding installed packages impact results!

@josevalim IMO we need a "State Message" protocol for appending dynamic, stateful data to context via hooks. Using tool calls and filling up context with stale results seems so blatantly inefficient. Should be as simple as saying "append a state hook for fetching current Figma selection"

MCP needs a way for servers to push prompt context to clients. Today, if I select something in Figma, I have to perform a second action and tell the agent: "hey, I selected something in Figma". Could also be used for CI failures, exception pages, text highlighting, etc. Yes, there are security concerns but these could use the same permission model as tool calls... but it may also be safer? With push, users can review the exact content being added to the prompt, while for tool calls you review only the inputs, not the output.

Spending $350M on new lakefront freeway infra is a major cost to taxpayers, both up front, and in ongoing maintenance. The only plan that even has a shot at working for Illinois taxpayers is one that turns Soldier field into a one-of-kind, transit-oriented NFL stadium. If we #BuildTheTunnel (cc @StarLineChicago) and create direct Metra connections to soldier field from the North & West suburbs, we would create far more transportation capacity than any freeway project could dream of. And do so in a way that drives ridership & ticket revenue to Metra, and massively expands regional transit connectivity year-round. It would also result in direct Metra connections from ORD to McCormick place, and from UChicago to Northwestern. If your office wants to offer a real plan that makes Solider Field work for everyone, it starts and ends with public transit.

Chicago has put forth the only plan where Illinois taxpayers would not be responsible for the development of a new Chicago Bears stadium.

@Lithius72 @ThePrimeagen Oooh you have a fun road ahead! Light Bringer is probably my favorite in the RR series.

@h14hdotcom @ThePrimeagen Just caught up in Locked Tomb and I am on Iron Gold for Red Rising. Great recs

Looking for new fantasy book: * I loved Wheel of time * Liked mistborn * Loved storm light archives book 1/2, liked 3/4, meh on 5. (Just turned Kalladin into a soyboy) *Another kingdom enjoyed What else should I read?

Funny with all the announcements coming out of Computex that (by far) my favorite recent AI announcement came from @pewdiepie pewdiepie-archdaemon.github.io/odysseus/

@tan_stack tidewave.ai support?

June 11th.

@betomoedano expo on the left since it has footer elements you likely got for free with expo router

Two different apps, one built with SwiftUI and the other with Expo UI. Can you tell which one is which?

@KCPSShain Bears have been arguing in bad faith every step of the way. I am a massive Bears fan - live a 10 minute walk away from the stadium. But if the McCaskey's are too horny for a tax break to want to find a way to make a new stadium actually benefit residents and taxpayers, then GTFO.

2/2 a deal too good to pass up. Chicago politicians poisoned the well bc they didn’t want Arlington Hts to get the Bears. No deal now 5 years in. If Bears were EVER serious about a possible move to Hammond, Ind., which borders Chicago, we’ll find out now. IL deserves this.

Bears stadium situation dumbed down: Illinois had 5 years to give the Bears a tax deal anywhere close to every other franchise in the NFL. Politicians failed and were antagonistic every step of the way. Bears used the Indiana move first as a ploy, but then Indiana offered 1/2

RTX Spark is for devs, not gamers, but gamers should still be excited. @nvidia has woken up to the fact that server compute isn't the moat they thought it was. If folks can install an app on their laptop which does 90% of what ChatGPT does, runs offline, and is totally free to use, suddenly consumer hardware is competing with server hardware for marketshare. @Apple has a massive lead here with Apple Silicon, but is playing catchup on the software side with MLX. If Nvidia isn't able to get CUDA capable devices into enough consumers' hands, they may find themselves with a very difficult road ahead. But regardless, this likely means more hardware getting built for consumer products, and a race to get as much capable hardware into the hands of consumers as possible. Very real possibility the next year starts to see consumer electronics prices start to fall, which will be a very welcome change.

There's so much latent demand for software automation in small business and I am really curious how/whether it gets unlocked. Only a matter of time before the locally-owned Cafe has a custom app of at least the quality of Starbucks.

@badlogicgames @nateberkopec geminiprotocol.net

@nateberkopec we should build a new internet.

I’ve given up. Slop content at the top of HN and also shared around on here, even by people I like. It’s over.