How long did it take from the first DBMS to get to Postgres? The first OS to get to Linux? The first compiler to get to LLVM? For Postgres and Linux and LLVM to become mature enough to hold the revered reputation they…
I had conversations with Ben a few years ago about his economics research (incidentally related to some research I was doing at the time). I wouldn't have guessed he was close to 70. He's a sharp guy. (I also think his…
Right. But given that the entire point revolves around QuePaxa, it's strange to see no discussion on it. If that weren't the point, the article would be "Why Cloudflare implemented and deployed Paxos". Which would also…
This article is a bit hard for me to grasp the main ideas of because, given Cloudflare's requirements (e.g. no strong leaders), it immediately seems like they should be comparing to leaderless protocols like Paxos-class…
It depends on the model provider. OpenAI's is very limited and precisely written. Plus, open-source models hosted on SaaS inference providers tend to come with a strong ZDR agreement too.
Most corporations likely have zero data retention agreements with LLM providers, at least for API usage. (Sure, you could be sceptical on whether the LLM provider is upholding that, but I personally do trust them. The…
I mean, after the US just signed an export control ordering Fable access blocked to non-US users (including European nationals), I doubt European and "US-aligned markets" are eager to ban Chinese models against their…
California already has very high taxes. I think marginal tax rates are higher in California than for UK tax residents, certainly for CGT, and roughly similar for income tax. I'd say the fact that California remains the…
I’ve learned that in AI, until you can get your hands on something and try it yourself, assume all claims are false.
Don't think that's a valid comparison. Apple can do those things because they control the hardware device, which has physical distribution, and they lock down the ecosystem. There is no third party app store, and you…
Is WASM’s story for side effects solved yet? eg network calls seems too complicated (https://github.com/vasilev/HTTP-request-from-inside-WASM etc)
Node in Docker doesn’t have full isolation and ‘sandbox’ escapes are possible. V8 is comparatively quite hardened
So ... any bets the cause isn't DNS?
It might meaningfully change the business model of LLM businesses. Becomes seemingly much harder to universally charge $30/mo subscriptions when the user is bringing their own API key.
I’d agree. The biggest exception I can think of is X, which post-Musk has plans to reduce/remove ads. Though I don’t know how much this tanked their ad revenue and whether it was worth it.
Codex got ported to Rust
Think you need a healthy mix? eg: if you want distributed systems, esp Java-style, https://www.martinfowler.com is a pretty handy reference. (similar for other areas of SWE). It’s nice to have a single resource that…
Email is pretty difficult to reliably self-host though, and typically a PITA to manage. And you really don’t ever want to lose your email address or the associated data. Fewer people could say they properly secure,…
At the end of the day, a big part of a good CEO's job is to make sure their company is well-funded and well-marketed to achieve its mid and long term goals. No AI/tech CEO is going to achieve that by selling AI for what…
I think that notion is very specific to Rust's design. Golang for example doesn't have that trait, where the user (or their runtime) must drive a future towards completion by polling.
I'd agree. There's so many footguns involved in multi-master setups, that most organisations should avoid this until they're big enough to hire distributed systems engineers to design a proper solution for the company.…
That would be ASI I think. But consider: technically AlphaTensor found new algorithms no human did before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication_algorith...). So isn't it AGI by your definition of…
That's a weak form of lock-in though, because you can switch to another platform going forward, and access your previous Steam purchases for free. No ads, no subscription fee. Stay signed out of Steam Chat and the…
It's not clear to me that these approaches aren't already being tried. Firstly, by some researchers in the big labs (some of which I'm sure are funded to try random moonshot bets like the above), at non-product labs…
> Do we suppose they will just create a backdoor to allow _some_ bots in? That, and maybe they will as CF seem quite big on MCP.[0] Or people just bypass the bot detection. It's already not terribly difficult to do;…
How long did it take from the first DBMS to get to Postgres? The first OS to get to Linux? The first compiler to get to LLVM? For Postgres and Linux and LLVM to become mature enough to hold the revered reputation they…
I had conversations with Ben a few years ago about his economics research (incidentally related to some research I was doing at the time). I wouldn't have guessed he was close to 70. He's a sharp guy. (I also think his…
Right. But given that the entire point revolves around QuePaxa, it's strange to see no discussion on it. If that weren't the point, the article would be "Why Cloudflare implemented and deployed Paxos". Which would also…
This article is a bit hard for me to grasp the main ideas of because, given Cloudflare's requirements (e.g. no strong leaders), it immediately seems like they should be comparing to leaderless protocols like Paxos-class…
It depends on the model provider. OpenAI's is very limited and precisely written. Plus, open-source models hosted on SaaS inference providers tend to come with a strong ZDR agreement too.
Most corporations likely have zero data retention agreements with LLM providers, at least for API usage. (Sure, you could be sceptical on whether the LLM provider is upholding that, but I personally do trust them. The…
I mean, after the US just signed an export control ordering Fable access blocked to non-US users (including European nationals), I doubt European and "US-aligned markets" are eager to ban Chinese models against their…
California already has very high taxes. I think marginal tax rates are higher in California than for UK tax residents, certainly for CGT, and roughly similar for income tax. I'd say the fact that California remains the…
I’ve learned that in AI, until you can get your hands on something and try it yourself, assume all claims are false.
Don't think that's a valid comparison. Apple can do those things because they control the hardware device, which has physical distribution, and they lock down the ecosystem. There is no third party app store, and you…
Is WASM’s story for side effects solved yet? eg network calls seems too complicated (https://github.com/vasilev/HTTP-request-from-inside-WASM etc)
Node in Docker doesn’t have full isolation and ‘sandbox’ escapes are possible. V8 is comparatively quite hardened
So ... any bets the cause isn't DNS?
It might meaningfully change the business model of LLM businesses. Becomes seemingly much harder to universally charge $30/mo subscriptions when the user is bringing their own API key.
I’d agree. The biggest exception I can think of is X, which post-Musk has plans to reduce/remove ads. Though I don’t know how much this tanked their ad revenue and whether it was worth it.
Codex got ported to Rust
Think you need a healthy mix? eg: if you want distributed systems, esp Java-style, https://www.martinfowler.com is a pretty handy reference. (similar for other areas of SWE). It’s nice to have a single resource that…
Email is pretty difficult to reliably self-host though, and typically a PITA to manage. And you really don’t ever want to lose your email address or the associated data. Fewer people could say they properly secure,…
At the end of the day, a big part of a good CEO's job is to make sure their company is well-funded and well-marketed to achieve its mid and long term goals. No AI/tech CEO is going to achieve that by selling AI for what…
I think that notion is very specific to Rust's design. Golang for example doesn't have that trait, where the user (or their runtime) must drive a future towards completion by polling.
I'd agree. There's so many footguns involved in multi-master setups, that most organisations should avoid this until they're big enough to hire distributed systems engineers to design a proper solution for the company.…
That would be ASI I think. But consider: technically AlphaTensor found new algorithms no human did before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication_algorith...). So isn't it AGI by your definition of…
That's a weak form of lock-in though, because you can switch to another platform going forward, and access your previous Steam purchases for free. No ads, no subscription fee. Stay signed out of Steam Chat and the…
It's not clear to me that these approaches aren't already being tried. Firstly, by some researchers in the big labs (some of which I'm sure are funded to try random moonshot bets like the above), at non-product labs…
> Do we suppose they will just create a backdoor to allow _some_ bots in? That, and maybe they will as CF seem quite big on MCP.[0] Or people just bypass the bot detection. It's already not terribly difficult to do;…