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by est31 7mo ago
They also have their own global CDN, while Disney/HBO et al use various third party CDNs.
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by est31 7mo ago
I suppose eventually we'll see something like Google's OSS-Fuzz for core open source projects, maybe replacing bug bounty programs a bit. Anthropic already hands out Claude access for free to OSS maintainers. LLMs made it harder t
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by est31 7mo ago
> But the problem is that Toys R Us is spending $15, 20, or maybe even $50 (who knows?) to sell a $10 toy. It's like how Uber and Airbnb in the early days were burning loads of cash to build market share. People went to these servic
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by est31 8mo ago
I'd say it has advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that whales can't play around with the stock price, say VCs dumping stocks at an unfortunate moment and putting pressure on the price. But it's also just wall stre
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by est31 8mo ago
If I buy something worth 17$ from an SMB's website, and the SMB buys their ingredients from their merchants via stripe for 10$, then those suppliers get a bill for 8$, then that's still only 17$ of GDP, but 35$ of stripe transacti
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by est31 8mo ago
I think something like an x86 -> ARM change is perfect example of something where LLM assisted coding shines. lots of busywork (i.e. smaller tasks that don't require lots of context of the other existing tasks), nothing totally nove
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by est31 8mo ago
Note the date, it's April 1 1988.
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by est31 8mo ago
I wonder if this makes the frontier labs abandon the SAAS per-token pricing concept for their newest models, and we'll be seeing non-open-but-on-chip-only models instead, sold by the chip and not by the token. It could give a boost to
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by est31 8mo ago
Our brains evolved to hunt prey, find mates, and avoid becoming hunted ourselves. Those three tasks were the main factors for the vast majority of evolutionary history. We didn't evolve our brains to do math, write code, write letters
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by est31 9mo ago
I was mostly thinking about CGNAT instead of NAT around your home network. There is a talk by Dmitriy Melnik at RIPE 91 about the costs for ISPs to not adopt ipv6 vs to adopt ipv6 (relevant stuff starts at 9:55). https://ripe91.r
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by est31 9mo ago
Yeah many programming languages have been advertised to fulfil precisely this goal, that people can program computers via natural language instead of having to think hard and too much about details. Usually programming languages intend to m
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by est31 9mo ago
If you are an ISP running dual stack ipv4 with NAT plus ipv6, the more connections happen via ipv6 and the more traffic happens via ipv6, the better, because it doesn't have to go through the NAT infrastructure which is more expensive,
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by est31 10mo ago
I have mostly been writing Rust in the last 10 years, but recently (1 year) I have been writing Go as well as Rust. The typical Go story is to use a bunch of auto generation, so a small change quickly blows up as all of the auto generate co
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by est31 10mo ago
Machine translation has certainly become better, and that's amazing and wonderful to see. Definitely an amazing thing that has come out of the AI boom. However, it has led to many websites to automatically enable it (like reddit), and
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by est31 11mo ago
Centralized planning is needed in any civilization. You need some mechanism to decide where to put resources, whether it's to organize the annual school's excursion or to construct the national highway system. But yeah in the end
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by est31 11mo ago
This was a really great read. Loved it!
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by est31 11mo ago
All information technology is killing privacy, deriving from the trend that it's getting easier to collect and copy data. Of course it doesn't help that people tell their most secret thoughts to an LLM, but before ChatGPT people d
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by est31 11mo ago
Another instance of GEMA fighting an american company. Anyone who was on the german internet in the first half of the last decade remembers the "not available in your country" error messages on youtube because Google didn't m
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by est31 11mo ago
LLMs (or LLM assisted coding), if successful, will more likely make the number of compilers go down, as LLMs are better with mainstream languages compared to niche ones. Same effect as with frameworks. Less languages, less compilers needed.
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by est31 1y ago
AIs replacing jobs is not the only way those companies can see a return on investment, it's not necessarily zero sum. If the additional productivity given by AI unlocks additional possibilities of endeavor, jobs might stay, just change
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by est31 1y ago
Which EU countries have those been? The EU has recently reduced fees for one of the biggest instant payment systems of the world (SCT inst reaches the Eurozone's 350M residents). Compare the quality of that to a wire or to a ACH transf
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by est31 1y ago
Deuterium might be the oil of the future as one can do fusion with it easily (in comparison).
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by est31 1y ago
> (when the max their productivity is worth relative to AI falls below a living wage), humans will continue working side by side with AGI as even relatively unproductive workers This assumes that humans will be unwilling to work if their
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by est31 1y ago
> Excellent Linux support with in-tree drivers. For 15 years! Linux support has been excellent on AMD for less than 15 years though. It got really good around 10 years ago, not before.
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by est31 1y ago
GPT-5 was I suppose their attempt to make a product that provides as good metrics as their earlier products. Uber doesn't really compare, as they had existing competition from taxi companies that they first had to/have to destroy.
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by est31 1y ago
In Hollywood, union bargaining bought some time at least. Unions did mandate limits on the use of AI for a lot of the creation process. AI is still used in Hollywood but nobody is proud of it. No movie director goes around quoting percent
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by est31 1y ago
I really loved the "Common People" episode from Black Mirror. IMO it's the best episode of the whole series. It shows the enshittification cycle of technology really well applied to technology connected to your brain.
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by est31 1y ago
I remember you talking about this the other day when we met at RustWeek. The CLI tools on Linux have certainly missed many of the recent great improvements in verification technology, so there is a gap between browsers and non browser compo
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by est31 1y ago
Yeah they certainly generate a lot of value by providing excellent productivity tooling. The question is how they capture some of that value, which is notoriously hard with an OSS license. A non-OSS license creates the adobe trap on the oth
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by est31 1y ago
Currently he is at UCLA which is technically not an Ivy League place but a public ivy. As for thinkers of equal caliber, he is probably quite alone anyway. But if you look at the list of Fields medalists, there is a lot of europeans in that

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