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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
I really like this piece for Real Life Mag (rip) on what most startups "do": https://reallifemag.com/money-for-nothing/ "privatization by way of electrification"
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
And now the data exfiltration stuff happening makes me put my tinfoil hat on and think this was actually a coordinated data exfiltration attack that leveraged AI hype lol.
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
This is basically the playbook of every "disruptive technology" startup or FAANG initiative of a similar stripe - set prices incredibly low to bleed out competition and gain market share, then raise them once you are in the domina
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
I agree with this - the sudden prevalence of Clawdbot everywhere feels like tactical astroturfing.
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
Great comment. The best part about it as well is that you could put this under basically anything ever submitted to hacker news and it would be relevant and cut to the absolute core of whatever is being discussed.
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
This is one thing I find funny about all the discussion around AI watermarking. Yes for absolutely nefarious bad actors it is incredibly important, but what seems clear is that the majority of AI users do absolutely nothing to conceal obvio
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
And yet historians love to nitpick this stuff as if indexicality is the only goal of creative media...
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
This is awesome, and thanks so much for the deep dive into process!! One thing I would suggest is to also post-process the pixel art with something like this tool to have it be even sharper. The details fall off as you get closer, but runni
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by kkukshtel 9mo ago
I'm so bullish on CUE. It seems like it's really solving the "code as configuration" problem properly and I think there are lots of other upside use cases around general data defintion components of it that make for type
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by kkukshtel 10mo ago
I like to tell people that all the AI stuff happening right now is capitalism actually working as intended for once. People competing on features and price where we arent yet in a monopoly/duopoly situation yet. Will it eventually go r
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by kkukshtel 10mo ago
Wanted to chime in here with some thoughts/clarifications as I'm the Enginnering Manager of the VM team at Unity, aka the team that is leading the charge on .NET Modernization and the CoreCLR transition (and also owns IL2CPP). Als
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by kkukshtel 10mo ago
This is the first time they've done this in a long time fwiw. So the answer is "they usually never worry about this because it never happens". That said, they will also throw compiler warnings in console during build if you a
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by kkukshtel 10mo ago
This is the most boomer response. The idea of a long horizon to build your wealth against implies some faith in the future, which a lot of younger people no longer (righfully) believe in. But for a lot of the working public it seems a lot l
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by kkukshtel 10mo ago
duh
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
sounds awesome but too bad it is impossible to figure out how to actually use these models and what I have to pay for/where
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
You've needed to have a project file in the past to compile .cs files, and this gets rid of that need. There are things that are part of more esoteric corners of Roslyn like .csx files that have allowed similar behavior in the past, bu
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
They have $230m in funding and some of the best CS/AI researchers in the world. People like Skybox labs have already released stuff that is effectively the same as this with far less capital and resources. This is THE premiere world mo
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
I assume this is definitely the case, with a drive to create platform economics on their sharing platform so that there is platform lock-in when any better thing releases. This is more of a platform launch than any notable model launch imo.
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
Something great about this release as well is the release of "file-based apps" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals... Basically, you can now write scripts in C# without the
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
I don't think C# really has bloat — there is generally very little overlap between things they add, and each release they don't add a lot. This release's big thing was better extension method syntax and the ability to use &qu
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
This was my take as well — this is just pose estimation from generated stereo panoramic images.
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by kkukshtel 11mo ago
Incredibly disappointing release, especially for a company with so much talent and capital. Looking at the worlds generated here https://marble.worldlabs.ai/ it looks a lot more like they are just doing image generation for
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
I've thought about this a lot, and it comes down ultimately to context size. Programming languages themselves are sort of a "compression technique" for assembly code. Current models even at the high end (1M context windows) d
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
The space is being actively developed but it also requires you know where to look. This is a journal that tracks a lot of new abstract stuff: https://www.abstractgames.org/ Notable recent releases: https://boardg
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
This is incredible, bravo.
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
From one hand-pixeled isometric dev ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/690370/Cantata/ ) to another, congrats! People really discount the complexity of doing isometric — it's a surprisingly nuanced thing
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
There should be a HN name for posts like this - things that are clearly influenced by what was popular yesterday. The creator of this is the same person that wrote the blog post on being present without phones that was top ranked yesterday.
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
This looks very similar to a FoSS version of Tana: https://tana.inc/ Which is well timed because I've been increasingly leaning more into Tana but also being like "it would really suck if this tool goes away"
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
(DISCO ELYSIUM SPOILERS BELOW) One of the most poignant moments in Disco Elysium is near the very end when you encounter a very elusive crypid/mythic beast. The moment is treated with a lot of care and consideration, and the conversati
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by kkukshtel 1y ago
Building demos as a key part of development is really key imo. Demos act as a half-step between working on the software (programming) and writing about the software (writing). Demos act more as a way to continually validate your own theses

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