Passwords are definitely not better than passkeys for login flow as a user, at least not on MacOS / iPhone, etc. I just tap my finger onto the fingerprint reader on my MacBook or I just look at the camera on my iPhone - biometrics for the win.
But you need something as a backup to passkeys so I choose emailed OTP, but it isn't meant to be the primary way to log in.
Congrats BetterAuth! It was the system I was considering before I rolled my own auth system around the passwordless concepts of: OTP + Passkeys + Google login. It is quite nice and simple and I've ported it to 3 separate projects now just via LLM:
> prohibition doesn't work in any of its many forms.
It definitely does work in that it will prevent us customers from accessing cheap goods from China and thus enrich the local AI companies that are paying the politicians to ban the Chinese models.
So this means that China’s low cost models won’t benefit the rest of the world? Then we have to make our own. If we only have expensive models and they have cheap ones they will be at a huge advantage not unlike low cost of labor advantages.
I think that token usage by engineers continues to increase, probably at a very high rate for many years (we are in the middle of the S curve of adoption and it isn’t yet clear where this will plateaux) but an increasing percentage of those tokens are cheap, because we use expensive models for goals and design and cheap models for implementations and workflows.
> For any intelligence agency, they can afford to keep and store all of that forever, and later do analysis on it.
At the scale the AI companies are operating at, I think it isn't likely that they are sucking it all in right now.
More likely I think the intelligence agencies will get a real-time live tap into the raw data feed which they will process onsite for interesting things and then if things are flagged, they will log it in the intelligence agency systems.
All remote AI are a massive security risk for individuals/companies/governments that may be targeted by the US government.
It is likely that the US will get a live feed from each AI provider that they are inspecting in real time to identity things of interest, terrorist attacks or foreign government planning or even foreign companies competitive to key US companies.
It will give them access to the though process in those companies as well as much of their text-based IP (source code, docs, meeting transcripts, etc)
Also if you are using local AI that you didn’t train yourself you can never be sure it doesn’t have purposeful biases in its reasoning that may disadvantage you - such as directing you away from certain plans or ideas or patents etc.
He did the same thing with VR/Oculus/Reality Labs. Huge budget but it doesn't justify itself in terms of outcomes. Strange. Is it something in the way he/Meta manages the projects?
I think Meta has a problem that very few of its internal projects widely succeed. Facebook and Messenger being the only two. The rest of the successes were acquisitions.
I do recommend turning off "isolate" for as much of your code base as possible when it makes sense. And I recommend ensuring "maxWorkers" is being used properly, I prefer something like 60% of my totals cores as the number of workers to use. And use a top level vitest start so it properly runs all the packages in a pipeline rather than as separate vitest runs (which would mess up the maxWorkers optimization anyhow.)
I have my 3000 test project suite completing in 15 seconds on my MacBook Air M3. It is pretty sweet with that setup.
I did the migrations and they were not horrible. A few breaking changes but they were relatively isolated. And the speed and improvements over these versions had been quite significant.
> But I have zero clue what those other tools are.
The incorporated tools are actually really amazing:
- vitest, an ultra fast test runner. After using a lot of others, including jest and node's built in one, I love vitest.
- oxlint, replaces eslint but is compatible with its file format and ultra fast, since it isn't written JavaScript. I tried biome, but I found oxlint to have more rules and the eslint compatibility was nice.
- oxfmt, replaces prettier and is faster since it isn't written in JavaScript.
- rolldown, replaces rollup and is compatible with it but it is much faster since it isn't written in JavaScript.
The above are my go-tos in new projects anyhow since they are killer good and fast.
The fact that political spending is considered free speech in the US gives the rich and already powerful massive sway in the political system, it is basically tiled hard towards them. And then combined with how PACs hide their funding behind names like "Everyday Americans Making the World Better" when really it just wants to lessen online gambling laws for a billion dollar company, is just brutal. US politics is a dystopian future realized.