ianm218

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by ianm218 4mo ago
The people there genuinely thinking that AI could end up being more dangerous than nuclear bombs or COVID or anything else as well as a decisive national security tool. There is theoretical backing for that as well as lately practical resul
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I feel like it is strange seeing some really smart people go full conspiracy theory tin foil hat. Half these threads think that Anthropic is playing some 5D chess game to purposefully get nationalized.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
So should we have more people behaving like Sam Altman and just lying about existential risks and anything else?
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by ianm218 4mo ago
My perspective is that it is good to have a beta in a lot of directions. No one really knows what the endgame of software security looks like. So some people should try the port to rust angle, some should focus on hardening the C, some sh
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Here is an example https://github.com/ianm199/nginx-rs-port/blob/main/crates/ng... Basically I use these "kits" to prove that the behavior is working as expected with mocked data/ int
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by ianm218 4mo ago
https://securityaffairs.com/192132/hacking/nginx-rift-an-18-... The project was inspired by that. Also unlike most other projects, nginx is directly exposed to the internet often times which makes it more vulnerab
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by ianm218 4mo ago
We're literally in a thread on converting legacy C projects to idiomatic Rust? It seems many people are working on this same problem.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Well the biggest goal was to be useful. Nginx serves ~20% of the web, memory unsafe languages might just become untractable for critical exposed to the web infra if the rate of critical CVE's on these rises faster than they can be patc
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Yeah an example is that currently you can't build Bevy games in the browser with scripting in Lua, so I've gotten a little traction there. And yes it seems like there has been many attempts to get a solid Rust Lua over the years a
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by ianm218 4mo ago
There is often good reasons for these purposeful digressions. I.e. in nginx the unit tests cover cyphers that are considered unsafe and not supported by modern libraries like rustls https://github.com/rustls/rustls . It
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I have been working on the same problem in other areas. My ultimate goal is to rewrite nginx in Rust passing as much as the upstream tests as possible while leveraging the strongest aspects of Ruts ecosystem - i.e. rustls (modern memory saf
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Mlua works for many use cases but is a wrapper around the C code, so you need to bundle C as part of the build. So this is worse for cross compilation and makes it so you can't easily use mlua projects in wasm32-unkown-unknown. An exam
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I’ve been working on implementing some common web infra type projects in Rust lately. Basically trying to use a lot of the great primatives in Rust like rustls (modern openSSL) and Tokio (async) to build memory safe or close, nginx drop in
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by ianm218 4mo ago
My point is just we don't need to jump right to everything is a hype train and it's all a conspiracy to pump stocks. You are welcome to disagree with Tao or anyone elses line of thinking. > Any software producing stochastic or
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean, we have already scaled up AI exponentially. The amount of AI compute in the world has been doubling every 7 to 8 months [1], so it is already exponential despite not being able to do human or super human res
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I've seen a lot of people indicate they think people's predictions for the future with AI are like a psy-op and that none of them really believe it. Isn't it simpler to believe that people like Terrance Tao who have been in g
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by ianm218 4mo ago
You say it worries you more than pure digital AI but don't explain. What is it about that humanoids that makes you worry?
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Where have you found early traction with users? Why has your solution been useful for these users relevant to the other options?
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by ianm218 4mo ago
What are considered the best games in WASM? I recently got into playing around with WASM - it would've been great if this technology was prevalent during the Flash games era
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by ianm218 5mo ago
Maybe if AI becomes deeply embedded enough in society/ government it will tell lawmakers "You should let people build housing in urban areas where there is demand" and that would be a nice step in the right direction!
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by ianm218 5mo ago
Rare earth minerals are not particularly rare or needed in huge quantities. Helium is probably more limited but for most cases there is alternatives I.e. I believe people use argon. Idk none of this seems overly pressing in terms of prevent
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by ianm218 5mo ago
When people say "people can't afford homes now" your referring to places like NY, MA, and CA where people can't afford homes because the local governments have made it basically impossible to build to match the demand in
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by ianm218 5mo ago
With renewables and nuclear we have basically unlimited energy, which can solve a lot of resource related issues. What are you concerned we would run out of?
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by ianm218 5mo ago
What is your case at all? AI could usher in a post scarcity world so why not have more humans who can enjoy better lives? You just said AI Armageddon as if there is an already predetermined ending that is widely agreed upon.
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by ianm218 5mo ago
Have you been able to build anything substantial with AI factory itself? I have done some of these experiments myself on these sort of things and found they ended up often being less effective than using the latest tools in harnesses like c
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by ianm218 5mo ago
Posted this in a thread yesterday but seems relevant, I have been working on similar open source rewrites. Starting with Lua and Nginx. Trying to target idiomatic/ performant safe Rust from the start than straight porting and adding sa
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by ianm218 5mo ago
If someone is running projects with a big "alpha" tag in production, exposed to the web they very well might get pwned haha!
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Yes original licenses are preserved
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by ianm218 5mo ago
Hmm I view open source as purely positive sum. Valkey was forked from Redis in the first place. But this is more about memory safety - you can have immense respect for the giants who built these tools but also be worried that memory safety
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by ianm218 5mo ago
Yes I hope this can be separated from people who are inundating OSS maintainers with slop PRs - these are fully separate projects with zero expectation of involvement from maintainers. Valkey itself is forked off the original Redis. There m

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