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by echelon 6mo ago
This. It's that simple. Companies shouldn't get your labor for free. Especially the big ones. Trillion dollar companies don't deserve hand outs. We should have figured this out twenty years ago.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Not to mention that "OSI open source" is basically sponsored and advocated by the firms that stand to benefit the most: hyperscalers that will embrace, extend, and encrust the thing you built with their monetization tendrils and l
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by echelon 6mo ago
Almost every "AI washing", except for the firms that are spending massively on data center capex (Microsoft, Meta), is coming from a company that is hurting. The macro is not great right now. The world economy is on a razor's
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by echelon 6mo ago
We're supporting ad campaigns from major fashion brands, technology companies, and food service companies. They're using AI for plates, edits, pickup shots, previz, and in some cases the primary footage itself. They're super
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by echelon 6mo ago
MoviePass was one of the most absurd ideas for a company ever. I don't know what they were thinking. Unlimited movies and they ate the entire cost? They didn't arrange any special deals or anything - they just paid the full price
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by echelon 6mo ago
AI is already in commercials, TV, and movies. Companies for the most part just don't tell you because the reaction of the general public is "eww, AI". It's already here in a big way. You just won't be told about it
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by echelon 6mo ago
Rust is legit one of the best languages to "vibe code" in. The emitted AST has a lower defect rate since it incorporates strong types and in-built error handling. Other pros include native code and portability, but downside is the
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by echelon 6mo ago
I think everyone's just citing platitudes at this point. The earth will move on. Smart people will continue to exist. I'll bet on the smart people.
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by echelon 6mo ago
I work in the video AI world. We gave up on subscriptions long ago. They're rinky dink and get you a paltry amount of utilization before they run out. The per day per seat costs can exceed $1000. This is already normal for studios, and
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by echelon 6mo ago
Google on several occasions took moves to make the web less semantic. They dumped microformats and standards in favor of soupy error tolerant formats that benefitted their search engine and made it harder for other efforts to make informati
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by echelon 6mo ago
> Also, no one gets smarter by outsourcing thinking. Thinking is happening at a higher level. Humans are adepts at abstraction, and they are always capable of looking under the hood when needed. We've never had so much societal capa
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by echelon 6mo ago
This one is (was) pretty important. The hyperscalers stopped that timeline from winning, though.
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by echelon 6mo ago
IIRC, Aaron Swartz was one of the contributors to the format. RIP.
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by echelon 6mo ago
> the juniors who start today don't have that, they overrely on agentic coding and do not know what they don't know Y'all need to stop worrying about the kids. They're smarter than us and will run circles around us. T
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by echelon 6mo ago
> It’s the real code there is code for known removed content (tanker escape scene and the 9/11 removed cutscene). Also AI can’t do what you’re theorizing yet. There are lots of decompilation community efforts for N64 games, etc. Som
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by echelon 6mo ago
> inference itself is a few seconds on a recent Mac This is impressive as hell Very cool demo. It works in about ~9 seconds on my machine. A few asks if you're going to devote more time to the project: can you make a full orbital ca
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by echelon 6mo ago
> Open weights is great if you want to do additional training, or if you need on-prem for security. The power of giving universities, companies, and hackers "full" models should not be understated. Here are a just a few ideas f
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by echelon 6mo ago
This is the future though. Open weights models that run on H200s provide far more opportunity to build products and real infrastructure around. You can always distill this for your little RTX at home. But models shaped for consumer hardware
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by echelon 6mo ago
Firstly, this is completely orthogonal. But it's also improper reasoning. If Neanderthal had bigger brains (they did) or had different cognitive abilities, there's a chance they were baseline smarter than homo sapiens at the time.
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by echelon 6mo ago
The real predators are Roblox for getting kids addicted to gambling and the lawmakers who refuse to protect them. Not that they haven't also abdicated responsibility for keeping sexual predators off the platform. But the societal-level
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by echelon 6mo ago
The world before WWII was chaos. It has never been peaceful to be a human for much of our species' existence. America was the global hegemon. Under the "rules based order", where America safeguarded international trade in exc
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by echelon 6mo ago
1. This is Hank Green's site. That's amazing! If you don't follow him on YouTube, you need to. 2. He used Claude Code! What an incredible enabler of fun little side projects it's turning into. 3. This is exactly what t
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by echelon 6mo ago
My recording of police interactions is free speech, for example. My recording my property is free speech. My taking a camera into public spaces and recording is free speech.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Are you suggesting that they might be targets for stealing copper?
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by echelon 6mo ago
Cameras are free speech and are a shield against property crimes and assault. Our building complex has rampant break-ins. We've needed more cameras for years and we're only now starting to add them. Worse, someone recently someone
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by echelon 6mo ago
How many people have died on account of nuclear accidents? Vs. coal? Vs. not having enough energy? (eg. blackouts killing hospital ventilators, etc.) ----- Edit: because of HN rate limits, I can't respond to a sibling comment. I'l
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by echelon 6mo ago
I know protobuf code is extremely high quality, but I really can't stand the c-style naming conventions. I know people train themselves into grokking this and reading and emitting this way, but it sounds like writing "bork bork bo
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by echelon 6mo ago
They really should have built a car. It'd make them leaders in batteries. It'd keep America at the forefront of EVs. Huge disappointment.
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by echelon 6mo ago
And it's a ghost town.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Can someone here please create a LinkedIn replacement for developers that 1. Doesn't have the spam 2. That doesn't look like it's from 2008 3. That only developers / engineers / tech folks can join 4. Doesn't t

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