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by piker 3mo ago
Perhaps, but "we run the exact same business as Anthropic and OpenAI to the pixel at 0.1% the price" is going to raise eyebrows.
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by piker 3mo ago
I don't think the comment was intended to be pedantic, but rather to reframe the message as scientific fact.
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by piker 3mo ago
It's a mistake to make this such an obvious copy. It will feed the narrative that Chinese entities cannot be trusted by the West. They could have varied it even slightly. It's one thing with hardware because customers don't n
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by piker 3mo ago
Perhaps.
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by piker 3mo ago
Right now? Zero. In 2 years? A well-engineered TUI could be the difference between the Blackberry and the iPhone for all we know.
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by piker 3mo ago
I agree. I think the first part is the surprising part. The second makes sense for an arms-length news service.
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by piker 3mo ago
> The new commercial data feed, named Truth API, promises to deliver posts to paying institutional clients in "milliseconds". ... > The company, which launched its social media app in 2022, said some firms have been copying
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by piker 3mo ago
Does anyone in 2026 rate algorithmic discovery for music? Or is it widely perceived to be the engagement-reinforcement mechanism that it is?
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by piker 3mo ago
Sure, but you cordon that stuff off into small, bounded unsafe surfaces. My bet is the new bun is a crashy pile of garbage if they've just translated Zig spaghetti into Rust unsafe spaghetti with an LLM. Hadn't occurred to me. 4%
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by piker 3mo ago
Fair, but that's also kinda like saying "we translated it to ASM as an intermediate step to C". The hard (and valuable) part is safe rust. If unsafe is everywhere, there will be abstractions that simply have to be reengineere
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by piker 3mo ago
Tritium, the legal IDE: https://tritium.legal We're extending the Web Preview: https://tritium.legal/preview to be embeddable as a WASM bundle for folks on platforms that need a document editor.
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by piker 3mo ago
Wow, it's unsafe Rust? That seems... like the worst of all worlds. If nobody knows why the unsafe is required there's no way they'll be able to unwind it. If they can't unwind it then they're in a worse version of C
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by piker 3mo ago
> It is more ok to refuse to take dependencies now. It used to be the go-to solution to avoid writing anything moderately complex. As recently as this morning, I asked an LLM to write a Levenshtein distance function instead of adding a d
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by piker 3mo ago
Basic economics still holds. There will be firms investing loads of time and money into specific, winning approaches and folks using custom builds will be competed away by them.
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by piker 3mo ago
Like, is all of statistics just basically AI, or is there a meaningful difference?
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by piker 3mo ago
We came up with a hacked font a few months back called "Noroboto"[1]. It just lies about its underlying Unicode representation which fools most of the naive ones and is crystal clear to humans. The better harness/model combos
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by piker 3mo ago
Has AI yet been a serious problem?
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by piker 3mo ago
What a provocative and brilliant way to prove misalignment. It will fall on deaf ears for most but it’s a great litmus test for all: “in your opinion should your AI be permitted to tell you how to cover up a murder?”
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by piker 3mo ago
Okay, but that was a really useful metaphor if incomplete in a lot of ways. It made me say “oh”.
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by piker 3mo ago
Because it’s uncomfortable to see decades of work copied so trivially.
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by piker 3mo ago
Which you will necessarily have if they’ve completed a Rust rewrite.
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by piker 4mo ago
Yes. I think remote works for a lot of people, but at a societal level we need real-time in person collaboration among a large swath of society to accomplish interesting tasks. I say that as someone who works entirely from home and really e
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by piker 4mo ago
A lot if it wants to do interesting things.
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by piker 4mo ago
Okay I tend to agree with the CivPro analysis here, but the parent was probably more concerned with the result on the merits.
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by piker 4mo ago
What?
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by piker 4mo ago
This makes no sense. Masa has at least 2 extraordinary investments and Zuck bought Insta for 1 billion USD.
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by piker 4mo ago
So vibe coding = copy/paste from SO = interpreter with GC = compiler = punch cards. Got it.
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by piker 4mo ago
Makes sense. I was looking for a link from the main site and noticed there wasn't one. A great leave-behind for sales. Nice job.
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by piker 4mo ago
Thanks for sharing that. Very cool - was this sales product that you decided to release or has it always been public?
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by piker 4mo ago
Oxide hitting stride just in time for the memory crisis. I hope they can sustain because they have the coolest stuff, and the podcast is great. I guess the world of atoms is still hard enough that you can publish an interactive spec of your

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