> Also, for some reason Optional[T] became deprecated, just as the ecosystem finally embraced types ~3 years ago. Optional[T] is now T | None. Means exactly the same thing but doesn't require an import. Support for the…
> This is unprofessional and embarrassing for Zig. It is. It's also why Anthropic and Bun moved off Zig. Zig is effectively a one-man show, and that one man has been making increasingly erratic decisions. It's his…
You're framing this as a thing done by a greedy corporation in an evil manner, which maybe it is, but it's also just a sign of the times. For most of the 90s and 00s, your game engine, specifically idTech in this case,…
No missing "k", really just 191 players. https://steamdb.info/app/3043580/
> - The make around 5 billion in revenue per quarter - The problem according to them is profit margin - around 150-160 million > So first of all, they are big! Secondly they are not at a loss. They just have a "thin,…
I think this article is a good demonstration of how the nebulous concept of "taste" still dominates, despite AI taking over so much. IMO -- and apparently the opinion of others -- adding an AI-generated picture every…
> Honest question : does it need to be said ? At the current time I'm writing this, all other top-level comments are engaging with the article as if it were sincere. So, yes.
I mean I agree with this as well, the people who yell and swear at LLMs are just as bad as the people who chit-chat with them like they're friends. It's all very unsettling because it's prepatory for psychological…
I'll go a step further and to say this it's genuinely unsettling someone type to a computer like this. I won't claim to be a psychologist, but with how many instances of "AI psychosis" have been reported (and I've seen…
... except this is on-prem with their own infrastructure, not cloud?
The loudness war in the strict "we must compress and slam everything as much as possible to make our stuff sound good on the radio" sense is over thanks to Spotify et al doing loudness normalization, but there's still…
Now, yes, but in the 90s/00s the alternative to CDs was cassette tapes, which were both inferior audio quality and took up more space. CD players in cars were a very desirable feature back then. At my peak in the…
"How do I acquire users" is the entire function of sales and marketing. A single HN comment explaining how to do sales and marketing, which is highly dependent on your product and market (and much more difficult than…
I am glad you like some things. Some people like other things, such as LLMs, or hosted server infrastructure. Now explain to me why you are allowed to have the things you like which use a lot of water, while other…
That's exactly my point! Everything has negative externalities, and focusing on them is the way to seem "rational" even though you don't actually care about them. It's the same as how people will protest high density…
It takes 870 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of wine -- if people were genuinely protesting water waste it would be a good idea to start there. Almonds too.
> Then there's the fact that many of those datacenter are being built over what would otherwise be usable farmland. I'm sure many will say "it's not that much land", but then tech billionaires would like to build…
I love Linux and think it's better than ever to have Linux as your daily driver, especially thanks to the work of Valve with Proton, but I'm gonna be real and say "the year of the Linux Desktop is a personal journey" is…
Right, the confusion is that the quote-unquote "subsidized" monthly pricing is often used by Anthropic/OpenAI skeptics as proof that inference is unprofitable, i.e. the API would have cost $2000 but you only paid $200…
Yep, member since May 21 2005 here, still scrobbling with Spotify. Don't think I've ever used any of the radio features on the site, really; even back in the 00s all I used were the WinAmp/Foobar plug-ins.
> It seems like the fair solution to this problem is to open source server code if you are going to cease support for an online game. That way the community has the opportunity to run their own servers if they want to.…
Yes, with the caveat that the 30% work allocation counts toward likability. You can be friendly, charming, well-spoken, fun, etc., but if you fail to deliver and make work for other people, cause your coworkers…
I've heard similar stories from AWS and other non-AWS FAANG employees. All of the token leaderboards have a "this doesn't count toward your performance review" disclaimer, but there's an implied nudge nudge, wink wink…
This is Rust we're talking about. It doesn't even need to work; as long as it compiles, it's correct.
Python has had type hinting for quite a while, and adding validation with mypy/pyright/ty as a step in CLAUDE.md (as well as having it as part of your CI pipeline) can emulate static type checking pretty well.
> Also, for some reason Optional[T] became deprecated, just as the ecosystem finally embraced types ~3 years ago. Optional[T] is now T | None. Means exactly the same thing but doesn't require an import. Support for the…
> This is unprofessional and embarrassing for Zig. It is. It's also why Anthropic and Bun moved off Zig. Zig is effectively a one-man show, and that one man has been making increasingly erratic decisions. It's his…
You're framing this as a thing done by a greedy corporation in an evil manner, which maybe it is, but it's also just a sign of the times. For most of the 90s and 00s, your game engine, specifically idTech in this case,…
No missing "k", really just 191 players. https://steamdb.info/app/3043580/
> - The make around 5 billion in revenue per quarter - The problem according to them is profit margin - around 150-160 million > So first of all, they are big! Secondly they are not at a loss. They just have a "thin,…
I think this article is a good demonstration of how the nebulous concept of "taste" still dominates, despite AI taking over so much. IMO -- and apparently the opinion of others -- adding an AI-generated picture every…
> Honest question : does it need to be said ? At the current time I'm writing this, all other top-level comments are engaging with the article as if it were sincere. So, yes.
I mean I agree with this as well, the people who yell and swear at LLMs are just as bad as the people who chit-chat with them like they're friends. It's all very unsettling because it's prepatory for psychological…
I'll go a step further and to say this it's genuinely unsettling someone type to a computer like this. I won't claim to be a psychologist, but with how many instances of "AI psychosis" have been reported (and I've seen…
... except this is on-prem with their own infrastructure, not cloud?
The loudness war in the strict "we must compress and slam everything as much as possible to make our stuff sound good on the radio" sense is over thanks to Spotify et al doing loudness normalization, but there's still…
Now, yes, but in the 90s/00s the alternative to CDs was cassette tapes, which were both inferior audio quality and took up more space. CD players in cars were a very desirable feature back then. At my peak in the…
"How do I acquire users" is the entire function of sales and marketing. A single HN comment explaining how to do sales and marketing, which is highly dependent on your product and market (and much more difficult than…
I am glad you like some things. Some people like other things, such as LLMs, or hosted server infrastructure. Now explain to me why you are allowed to have the things you like which use a lot of water, while other…
That's exactly my point! Everything has negative externalities, and focusing on them is the way to seem "rational" even though you don't actually care about them. It's the same as how people will protest high density…
It takes 870 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of wine -- if people were genuinely protesting water waste it would be a good idea to start there. Almonds too.
> Then there's the fact that many of those datacenter are being built over what would otherwise be usable farmland. I'm sure many will say "it's not that much land", but then tech billionaires would like to build…
I love Linux and think it's better than ever to have Linux as your daily driver, especially thanks to the work of Valve with Proton, but I'm gonna be real and say "the year of the Linux Desktop is a personal journey" is…
Right, the confusion is that the quote-unquote "subsidized" monthly pricing is often used by Anthropic/OpenAI skeptics as proof that inference is unprofitable, i.e. the API would have cost $2000 but you only paid $200…
Yep, member since May 21 2005 here, still scrobbling with Spotify. Don't think I've ever used any of the radio features on the site, really; even back in the 00s all I used were the WinAmp/Foobar plug-ins.
> It seems like the fair solution to this problem is to open source server code if you are going to cease support for an online game. That way the community has the opportunity to run their own servers if they want to.…
Yes, with the caveat that the 30% work allocation counts toward likability. You can be friendly, charming, well-spoken, fun, etc., but if you fail to deliver and make work for other people, cause your coworkers…
I've heard similar stories from AWS and other non-AWS FAANG employees. All of the token leaderboards have a "this doesn't count toward your performance review" disclaimer, but there's an implied nudge nudge, wink wink…
This is Rust we're talking about. It doesn't even need to work; as long as it compiles, it's correct.
Python has had type hinting for quite a while, and adding validation with mypy/pyright/ty as a step in CLAUDE.md (as well as having it as part of your CI pipeline) can emulate static type checking pretty well.