There must be some form of memory leak in AI Studio as I'll have to close and open a new tab after about 2 hours as it slowly grinds my slower computers to a halt. Its ability to create a markdown file without escaping the markdown itself (included code snippets) is definitely my first suggestion for them to fix.
While "third world" isn't a modern term and you should try to avoid it, it's also not correct by any means. If we consider 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world countries to be analogous to high, medium, and low income countries, Brazil is easily a medium income country[1], and considered to be in the higher end of that bracket, for what it's worth.
I couldn't find anything on the site relating to donations, and it doesn't have commercial restrictions nor a clear major company backing it. I wonder where the funding is coming from.
I don't think this will or necessarily should ever be fixed. The eventual solution (I imagine) will be to simply plug in a calculator. All the MCP talk on HN pushed me to try MCP out, and I'm sold. A Swiss army knife of tools like a calculator available would let a brain do what a brain is best at, and a calculator what a calculator is best at.
To be fair, after seeing the posts I installed the filesystem MCP server made by Anthropic and it is a massive game changer for working with Claude Desktop to program. I guided Claude to develop a 3000 line python wrapper for ffmpeg for my library conversion project as handbrake wasn't automatic enough, Tdarr was overkill for my 1 machine solution, and I wanted a clean interface as I'm not an expert in video encoding.
It has been possibly the most fun I've ever had programming, as it's been unbelievably effective and quick. I believe the hype. I'll note I'm also very wary of the potential of malicious MCP servers and am rather hesitant to use any "community" projects, as much as it saddens me to feel I'm losing my trust in the open source community.
I had a similar experience with the read-only Postgres MCP. Just asked Claude "how can I optimise the performance of my database?" and boom, it checked missing indexes, most used tables, work_mem, etc and gave personalized suggestions that made sense. It even used data provided by the `pg_stat_statements` extension automatically.
As simple as MCP conceptually can be, nothing like that was this simple and efficient before MCPs. It's a truly game-changer.
Interesting. Do you feel like creating an MCP for a niche devtool would lead you to use it or explore it more? Or is the wariness such that you wouldn't want to?
Personally I would hesitate to install any MCP server unless from an org I trust as it's a whole lot of extra code to trust/audit for possibly marginal gain. That said, depends what the niche is and if the use-case suits LLMs well.
The unfortunate thing is that more than any other service, email feels like the one on which I cannot risk to compromise reliability. This sort of story (thank you for sharing) unfortunately fits with my own experience managing my University's undergraduate society's local email server. Non-stop headaches and complete indifference from every group which affects your setup.
I don't even routinely use my undergrad's email forwarding address. It's probably better than it used to be but, at one time, it definitely caused more stuff to drop in the bit bucket than emailing directly. And I assume, at this point, that my Gmail account isn't going to go away.
Neither you nor the linked comment provide any context for that. Is it not possible that Israel blocked because of a request by the Israeli government, and not because of a political statement?
I guess, good on them for at least blocking the country outright and being honest about it, and not sneakily distributing malware like some very good people did to Russians back in 2022.
I don't think your use of "surely" was very cordial, but I'll indulge your point, thanks for taking the time to respond. If I were a lawyer, I would label those points circumstancial at best:
(1) I'm not sure to which organisation you were referring, but on its own I don't think a link contitutes endorsement, especially when the context is the open source project and not political in nature. It's worth noting that there are a lot of external links in the readme, none looked at the surface level to be linked because of any reference to BDS therewithin. That said, I don't think we should argue this further, it's already innapropriate to comment on political topics such as Israel and BDS here on HN.
(2) Again, the exact cause for this is not clear. There are possible explanations which suppose good faith, and others, bad faith.
(3) While personally I'd lean towards your interpretation (especially considering the use of quotation marks by the poster), it's still not explicit and could be a communication failure.
> I'm not sure to which organisation you were referring [...] It's worth noting that there are a lot of external links [...] none looked at the surface level to be linked
Literally the first link in the README.
website -> Incubator -> "list of projects we’d love to get started!":
> ### Built with Israel
> Many companies and NGOs unwittingly use tools created by Israel
> ### BDS in your bank account
> Build an app that can apply BDS to your bank account.
or
website -> Blog -> "T4P Incubator Alum Boycat Is Teaming Up With BDS"
If you can't figure out what the first website link is in the README that's on you. I'm not gonna promote that hateful organization's website.
I'm curious by what measure you suggest it's "too cold". Kelvin is an offset celsuis, so it's not like we're talking about an innapropriate order (like 10 000 000 grams vs. 10 tonnes).
I would understand if it detracted from one's understanding, but I think this format is more accessible than assuming everyone knows what kelvin are, and it's explained in the first sentence. This is journalism, accessibility to science should be lauded while maintaining brevity for , IMO.
Frame of reference. Kelvin immediately tells you the distance from absolute zero, which is at least somewhat relevant in this context. Celsius tells you the distance from liquid water which isn't very helpful in understanding the figure.
I think fewer people know the offset between K and C than the fact that 0K represents absolute zero.
Isn’t it the exact opposite? It you talk to people about something being “twice as warm” or “half as warm” people will assume you are talking about a scale in celcius or something closely related? Because it doesn’t make sense to say “the bedroom is freezing it’s 3/100th colder than the living room!” And no one saying “the bedroom is half as warm as the living room” will be interpreted to be saying that it’s -127 degrees celcius.
No I mean this in a physics sense, not ‘feelings’ sense.
If there is a physical phenomenon that depends on temperature, you can’t use C or F in that calculation unless the temperature parameters somehow cancel out.
So, if y = Tx, twice the temperature means y is twice if x is constant. But only if it’s in Kelvin.
In a “physics sense” there is no such thing as warm or cold those are language constructs not physical properties of materials. In physics there is temperature. You don’t say “the metal bar is 20 warm” you say “temperature is 20 degrees celcius” something having “twice the temperature” isn’t the same as being twice as warm or twice as cold.
You are using language and you seem to make an equivalence of temperature to warm/cold which doesn’t work. Now your saying that it only makes sense to use kelvin because it’s the only scale that doubles when you double it (which is actually also false they all do that). When in fact the concept of “twice as warm” is a fuzzy language construct which matches better to celcius. Which isn’t surprising as both the language and celcius scale are designed around our subjective experience.
> I'm curious by what measure you suggest it's "too cold".
I'm accustomed to thinking about superconductors in an environment on the order of around ~0.01K. And, it's worth spending a little time understanding absolute temperature. Take, say, Zirconium -- its critical temperature is around 0.55K. This new material's Tc is around 40/.55 = 73 times hotter. This perspective is useful if you're thinking about how much work it'll be to get something down to a given temperature. So you've kinda hit my complaint on the head -- it's precisely because temperatures of that magnitude don't make sense to me. And I'd expect folks reading phys.org to be unsurprised by temperatures reported in K.
Thanks for sharing this thought, it hadn't occured to me that this could be an issue. Would the choice of AGPL or MPL for a licence have satisfied your concerns?
As a person who shares OPs concerns, (A)GPL is acceptable, in v2 or v3 form. Anything permissive is not, because allows a closed fork, which everybody wants to do to rob free software ecosystem to undo what has been done over these years.
Personally I haven’t seen this motive across any of the organizations I’ve worked at. They usually seem more interested in minimizing maintenance costs, which means they try to upstream changes where possible or practical.
What would motivate a company to fork and keep private changes to a core GNU utility like chmod?
Any hardware company which would want to block 3rd party firmware from loading or executing on their systems. They can add a small handshake code to every binary on that system to authenticate via TPM or the processor's embedded secure element on start.
They don't need to make extensive changes. Pull the latest, patch, compile, burn to FW. TaDa!
IOW, TiVoization 2.0. GPL2 makes it very hard already, but GPL3 makes it impossible.
For me the most important thing is the rights of the end user. So I consider the AGPL the best of all licenses I am aware of. And hey, if Google bans AGPL software then it must be doing something right.
It's a great tool, but sometimes frustrating.