Democrats should finally pass a law that bans members of Congress from trading individual stocks. It’s extremely popular, directly addresses corruption, and the President would probably sign it — he doesn’t care if members of Congress are allowed to trade stocks.

Siri AI has gotten better at answering general knowledge questions, but it takes 30 seconds to turn on a light bulb. I’m not sure if the trade off is worth it.

Did OpenAI hack Hugging Face or didn’t they?

Laurie Voss, regarding OpenAI hacking Hugging Face:

All the news coverage of this seems to have boiled down to: wow, models are clever these days! And that confuses the hell out of me. Models are capable of autonomously committing crimes is the thing we should be learning here, and we need some kind of legal framework to deal with that. We are going to need something more concrete than “wow, models are clever these days”.

John Gruber:

A telephoto is only good for photography, in that sense. The ultra-wide lens is a tool with additional utility beyond capturing photos you want to keep in any artistic or emotional sense. You can always grit your teeth and use digital zoom if you don’t have a telephoto, but you can’t fake going wider or, importantly, closer. The minimum focal distance of the iPhone 17 Pro 1× lens is 20 cm. The minimum focal distance of the iPhone Air 1× lens is 15 cm. Those extra 5 cm make a difference, but the iPhone Pro’s 0.5× lens has a minimum focal distance of just 2 cm. It can focus on pretty much anything you put in front of it. The iPhone Air’s 1× lens can’t do that. With Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, taking macro photos of objects and text, simply to ask Siri or another chatbot about them, is increasingly important.

A 0.5Ă— and 1Ă— lens can also be used to shoot 3d video for the Vision Pro.