> Otherwise Hermes would probably have 30,000.

It already does!

I thought you must have meant open issues but no, they have 29K open PRs right now. 54,000 closed! Which is a heroic achievement.

I remember teknium stressing when he had 1500 open PRs.

> Seeing popular projects (like hermes) having 5k issues and 5k pull requests is madness.

It's actually got nearly 30k open pull requests!

> However, in the end most people just end up buying it from top 2-3 marketplaces anyway, not because its cheaper, but also because they can trust it, it arrives in 2 days, and you can easily return it if you don't want.

I've got enough complaints about the amazon customer and user experience that I'm not going to list them here, but returns are so easy.

I click the button, and then I don't need to print off a shipping label or even package the item back up, I just drop it off at the convenience store by my house, they scan a QR code on my phone, and take the bare item from me.

I suspect it's not a real crash you're seeing, but rather a deceptive anti-adblocking script that redirects to a page that fraudulently claims to be a crash.

You can have an arbitrarily low opinion of Trump and still trust in democracy as a form of government over autocracy or oligarchy, which is what the AI labs have.

You can have abstract trust in democracy over autocracy, but this is not an abstract question - these are the actual choices. Does it really matter if the person who will use AI to fuck us has a "democratic mandate" to do so? We're fucked either way.

It's less the mandate that matters, but the fact that they can be removed from power.

You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to.

The majority of the world will refuse to be subject to American AI laws under the control of the US gov't, whether it pretends to be democratic or not. Or should.

> You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to.

FWIW, I'm not American and refuse to step foot within American borders while Trump is in power.

Exactly. No matter how bad Trump is, millions of American people at least voted / vouched for him. Nobody voted for Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or any other CEO to have as much power as they have. Maybe a handful of shareholders. Totally unelected and unapproved by the public, but run companies that affect most of the public's lives.

My Sony with Google TV is pretty good in "Basic Mode" without an internet connection though.

> Yes, most of society is online nowadays, or at least is hard to engage in if you can't access the online stuff that organizes it.

I think there's an analogy to physical roads there. Most of society is connecting by roads and adults driving cars, but that doesn't prevent children from participating in the things between the driving.

Lack of access to take a bus or permission to walk anywhere is another form of the same disease.

Yeah, there's the obvious analogy here to physical automation methods and tools.

Kids don't go to gym class to determine who can stack crates most effectively with a forklift.

Whenever I've tried this, it seems okay if you need an answer to a question, but plain bad if I'm looking for a specific page.

e.g. I'm just now looking for the menu for a local restaurant. "restaurantname menu" in Kagi (Google would presumably be similar) returns a link to the menu as the first result in about a second. Or "restaurantname menu !" goes directly to the menu in about a second.

Meanwhile, searching "restaurantname menu" in chatgpt takes about 5 seconds to return an embedded map from mapbox showing the location of the restaurant. If I click the restaurant pin on the map, there's no menu link, the 667 reviews have no link or way to view, and the restaurant description literally says "I don't have enough information to identify which local business <restaurantname> refers to."

Below the map there's some text: "If you mean <restaurantname> in <place>, here’s the current menu. <restaurantname>". The <restaurantname> link just opens the same card as clicking the pin on the map.

After that there's a bullet point list of the menu that ommits a ton of detail and options.

After that there's finally a link... that I can click to open up a popup at the bottom of the page with an actual link to the menu.

This was literally the first thing that popped into my head, I didn't have to put any effort into finding a query where chatgpt falls on its face.

You might have better luck using google maps (even the web version) to find menus.

Yeah, I would... but also a search engine works even better than a map if it's a restaurant I'm already familiar with and just want a link to restaurantwebsite.com/dinner-menu

How would this even be tenable? Like there's no way for Apple to stand up production of hundreds of millions of iPhones per year in the US.

Like say Apple invests billions of dollars into American iPhone production to at least produce the tens of millions to sell in the US - then what? Apple just accepts the the US market is basically a wash where profits are a fraction of the rest of the world with Chinese/Vietnamese/Indian models? And you anticipate that other countries won't mandate the same thing?