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by echelon 8mo ago
We skipped over sum types here and the syntactic sugar that makes them a cut above other languages.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Folks have little appreciation for how soon we're all about to transition to something new. I don't know what that entails, but something is going to happen. I got into a discussion with some Rust compiler folks yesterday. I calle
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by echelon 8mo ago
> Even rust has need of this. For example, I want a nopanic effect I can put on a function which makes it a compile error for anything that function calls to panic. This ! This apart from build times is my biggest request for the langua
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm sorry my autistic elation for Rust is perceived as being over the top, but I truly do mean everything I say. I could have articulated it in a less saccharine tone. > > Defect free. There's a Google talk on the matter. &q
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by echelon 8mo ago
Fun joke! Eggs are really old evolutionarily. Over 600 million years old if you count preamniotes. You could still say that's recent on the evolutionary time span, given that life on Earth is ~3.5-3.7 billion years old. (Which is withi
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by echelon 8mo ago
Do you trust today's democracy to be a democracy tomorrow? Never. Cede. Ground. You'll never get it back, and one day the rights will be gone.
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by echelon 8mo ago
We need open source infra and models ASAP. This is quite possibly the last ship.
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by echelon 8mo ago
It's honest. If we can serialize our ideas to any language for durability, Rust is the way to go. It's not the best tool for the job for a lot of things, but if the LLMs make writing it as fast as anything else - whelp, I can&#x27
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by echelon 8mo ago
Rust is the final language. Defect free. Immaculate types. Safe. Ergonomic. Beautiful to read. AI is going to be writing a lot of Rust. The final arguments of "rust is hard to write" are going to quiet down. This makes it even mor
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by echelon 8mo ago
10,000 students go to film school every year. A handful of them will have the autonomy and scope they want. The rest of their dreams die on the vine. This is my friends' lives. That should make your day worse.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Given that 10x engineers cost in the millions and that movies cost in the hundreds of millions - this is okay! Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here - I'm saying that hiring ten senior engineer costs millions. (Not a s
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by echelon 8mo ago
I really don't think so. I feel like we're at a takeoff. Senior engineers using AI coding are 10x more productive. My output has jumped dramatically. I'm a senior engineer and built six nines, active-active systems that moved
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by echelon 8mo ago
The minute internet became widespread it was game over. Pros and cons. :/ It'll never happen, but we need a bill of rights for privacy. The laypeople aren't well-versed or pained enough to ask for this, and big interest donor
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm not talking expensive apartments. People might have the faux preference for ideal conditions, but it's an artificial mask for not having time. Severely resource constrained people have kids. People with other things to do, don
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by echelon 8mo ago
I really don't buy that argument at all. My parents lived in apartments. Parents for all of human civilization and history have lived in worse. The fastest growing populations have less money and safety nets than middle class folks. It
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by echelon 8mo ago
I actually looked at several graphs before posting. Wasn't easy to share crude data so I didn't link it. Now that I'm googling for more deliberate correlations, I see other people are talking about this: https://ro
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by echelon 8mo ago
Birth rates took a dip with broadband, smartphones, and TikTok. Dopamine and attention sinks are pulling society in directions counter to evolutionary programming. Our runtime algorithms optimize for different things. No value judgment, but
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by echelon 8mo ago
"nicotine free cigarettes" are a product too. We have limited time on earth, so many tend to evaluate things on how big of an impact they make or how large of a demand they satisfy. It's okay if not everything is big, but it&
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by echelon 8mo ago
Chinese engineers are knowingly surveilled by the state with no recourse. Commercial offerings of all shapes and sizes have cameras and microphones. It's just new tech. In the US, Five Eyes, and abroad, there is at least some ceremony
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by echelon 8mo ago
Google needs to be dismantled. A lot of us on HN have been calling for this for years now. Can we start saying it in unison to legislators and the press? Please? If you're in the EU, do your part too. This company taxes the URL bar. It
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm really puzzled. I frequently post scathing criticisms of government spying on HN. I'm one of the top HN commentors for the string "1984" and led to 10% of the mentions last year (as someone else blogged about). I was
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm quipping about the title, sorry.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Ontology is not a buzzword. It's precision nomenclature. We've been using ontology well before RDF and the semantic web. It precisely describes their flexible engineering approach of using entities, definitions, and relationships.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Palantir's secret weapon is the closeness and affinity to the DoD. The tech stack ontological model is flexible like Salesforce so that it can be jammed into any task or contract quicky. It isn't engineered, it's glued in. Th
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by echelon 9mo ago
We deserve web installs without deep settings menu configurations, scare walls, or onerous processes. The EU and every other nation with digital sovereignty concerns need to make this happen to both Apple and Google. These are our devices.
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by echelon 9mo ago
> death of Android death of personal computing freedom, sovereign compute, and probably soon our ability to meaningfully contribute to the field as ICs? A lot of really bad things are happening to our field, and Google is one of the agen
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by echelon 9mo ago
And they're not the only company doing this. Financial capital at scale will begin to run circles around labor capital.
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by echelon 9mo ago
You better hope Anthropic and OpenAI thrive, because a world in which Google is the sole winner is a nightmare. Google's best trick was skirting the antitrust ruling against them by making the judge think they'd "lose" A
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by echelon 9mo ago
It's the political zeitgeist. If it were the Biden years, I think it would have been interpreted differently. One of the reasons why it blew up is the relative silence from American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney, both of whom took their swe
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by echelon 9mo ago
Why do you fundamentally dislike him as a person? The only thing I've seen from him that I don't like is the "SWEs will be replaced" line (which is probably true and it's more that I don't like the factuality o

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