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50 years old sci fi is today’s economics. That was just metaphoric highlighting of the direction which always includes miniaturisation at some point.

If that line about space is the only line you picked up as meaningful, then you missed whole point made and your economics is science fiction, buddy

Agreed,

I believe AI is here to stay as general concept turned into practically working implementation.

What that practicality means is we all who consume AI are learning but we're still in the early adopters phase of all that.

Of course AI companies invest a lot and try to stay on top of the traction but I also believe not all of them will survive test of time.

I personally believe that a lot of over investment in data centers and supply of energy will be burnt and will have to be reinvested somewhere else when technology advances enough to "miniaturize" AI enough so it won't require couple of football fields to provide what it does today.

I do believe cloud based AI will be always attractive to small business if price is right and to big enterprises so they don't need to invest inhouse for the scale they need, but that will be sort of alliance based enterprise B2B market.

anything between (including me for the scale I represent business wise), I can't wait until I will be able to buy appliance from 12 to 48U maximum that can do all what me and my company needs AI wise as local AI.

moment subscriptions become equally expensive as pay as you go models, I switch to mac studios with 96GB and reasonable weighted models that will be specialized in something instead of one LLM/AI to prompt everything to it and hoping it can address all sort of problems as one solution.

AI one day must fly to space, be called Mother and discover aliens. it can't be 6 football fields as physics won't let it take off. It must be one day small enough so we all can have ChatGPT 6.1 medium model at home without subscription, just as fixed price with TCO over lifecycle of the whole appliance (software + hardware together)

that may become a drama to many companies that apparently may not be worth trillions unless they diversify enough its AI offering.

Nice. I have my own GPU GUI toolkit I'm satisfied with and developed because I did not want to have yet another imgui looking app that required gpu accelerated UI toolkit.

But, if I did not invest last two years into my own toolkit, I'd definitively consider.

yes, I know it for years, play with it when I have time. really cool.

this and telehack.com is nice entertainment

Nope, but I hope EU would be capable not only to create regulations but being able to actually manufacture and produce stuff.

Moving away from C in any POSIX system is in fact stop being POSIX system as POSIX and linux being unix like system is built on standard that is defined as C library specification.

Rewriting it to Rust is fine attempt, just hard to call it is unix/posix anymore. It may not matter but semantically true.

I'm not surprised. Pace of adding new features vs. realistic added value, vs. complexity to get it properly standardised makes 3 years rounds to circulate new ISO C++ standard less and less possible without introducing major flaws that will continue sending C++ to hell in the eyes of Rustafarians and other safe languages folk.

I agree, I’m impressed by a sole idea of connecting these two things together

That’s the question I’m asking. Where is Siemens and Bosch these days… all I see is China is playing to get through EU compliance to ensure more phoning home from Industry 4.0 appliances. Meh.

And no, I’m not American, nor I think Americans can be trusted more these days in the race of global surveillance programs.

But having open, patent free standards is noble. I love the idea.

I think you misunderstood. I’m happy to buy RISC-V computer but from a vendor that I can trust I don’t need to place in DMZ or I see funny traffic on the routers

I like RISC-V as a concept but still only Chinese are focused on manufacturing those today.

So.. it's a bit funny to read there is an European Initiative... to promote Chinese computer appliances.

In times when fridges with Chinese electronics that are phoning home become more hack-able today than ever..

small part of Downtown.. looks cool but instantly one wants more, especially if you know what this city can offer today and how rapidly it's changing its landscape!

but why? :)

oh geez.. I was not thinking about it, but if this piece of hardware runs PowerPC Mac.. then Amiga OS 4.x or MorphOS and Amiga baby... PowerMac is for sissies when you compare this opportunity!

IP6 babe!

Oh my Gosh.. this is a little bit too abstract to me as first encounter, but the concept never the less is cool to digest deeper into!

Agreed, I found SO and Quora and similar sites with general or specific question/answer based communities weak long before AI.

AI replaced Google Search in many ways more directly on arrival than those.

SO to me was weak as it had outdated answers to outdated questions (yet related to search queries) that nobody maintained well.. and the community more focused on patronising to push their point of view than being essentially objective in many ways.

that was a total killer to me and I started preferring to come back to books, manuals and researching topics myself than short cuts like SO.. and that research is heavily optimised during AI/LLM era, yes, but that's just one of many nails to SO's coffin.

I’m fine with it as long as Anthropic is fine we can distill their models to create own without burning all that energy (vide DeepSeek case)

I agree, this is also where I'm investing my time Metal mostly and then try to adapt it to DX12 on Windows and I totally skipped Vulkan for that simple reason you have described. but in generic terms only Vulkan comes with portability as analogy to original OGL vision.. I respect that even though the whole framework is to be ditched and rethought into something even more modern and sustainable...

so Metal yes, if somebody wants to be Apple focused. but in the academic world I don't believe that's the case either...

I agree with Adam Sawicki that it's not that relevant any more but also I do believe it's valuable lesson to tech students where the modernity comes from.

I just don't see personally sense to focus on it longer than just 1mo of intro, tutorial, get through simple example, show limitations, carry on to Vulkan/WGPU with background story that there is also DX12 and Metal that follow similar principles.

Man, <Eternal September> this is so true. I totally forgot that term until you brought it back to my memory. I miss times when only universities and enlightened people had access to online discussions, not the average folk who just quack.

considering people today are messaging (typing in) more in whatsapp than in facebook as the latter is infested by AI content and dead internet theory more than ever.. well. I'd add to whatsapp valuation in their evil empire. I'd not be surprised it should be more valued by Zuck today than FB + Insta together as prospect for the future.. only to die as every online communicator eventually dies... call it ICQ, Skype or whatever...

true. but since 2012 or so with almost no karma thanks to little activity. so I'd say I respect HN for it's self-curated discipline to consume something that often Reddit and other places long lost. Don't screw it up people! :)

that's something very key about how you found out that it had to be paid first to afford what is the most expensive currency in the world -> time. People not always realise that until it's too late that we're not fighting to get more dollah... but more time when you have enough dollah so you can show all that consumerism and wanna-be-life-celebrity attitude a proper middle finger!

I absolutely agree too.. also on the extra effort factor to get it.

when I think about ADHD as modern civilisational disease, I can't find better reference than Johny Mnemonic and that lady who needed jabs from a black doc because she could not handle emotions not keep her hand without shaking and they explained it very well.. "nobody understands it.. but it came with the moment we stopped being able to consume all the information that was bombarding us" sort of as quasi quotation (I don't really remember it word by word, but I do believe that was the explanation)

Today we don't need sci-fi/cyberpunk movies/books to actually have that as properly diagnosed biological/psychological problem, not many know how to deal with unless you get prescriptions for soft-amphetamine variance given as a medicine so one can kill extra thoughts running crazy inside or... go mental and/or depressed. and trust me.. I have 2 at home. so it's not that I'm judgemental.. it's just my daily routine to deal with a challenge that outside drug.. slowing down and getting offline.. actually helps equally vs. everybody believes we can be celebrities online for 72h then nobody cares... actually never cared so here comes the attention drama to 10k other thoughts, brains tells you is important.

I can assure you... all the online mess ain't helping all of you who suffer it, unless you're brilliantly intelligent people (many are) who are highly functional, considering the energy burnout that requires you to stay above the water line.

Yes, world we live in not helping to avoid its pitfalls, even if you were born with it. not saying it's 100% 'gotten' thanks to times we live in, but surely exposed beyond personal management to many... thanks to times we live in.

Gopher or not.. there are BBSes, there are many ways just to stop doom scrolling, avoid surveillance economy as much as possible and live offline with a book (not a kindle device) on your knees. and yes.. most of the ADHD generation with depressions, self-identification problems that we see today is exactly because tech made them this way.. or social media most of all.

I came back to simpler life some years ago. Being close to 50yo punk rocker who every time when asked to reply on Whatsapp answers "I don't have Whatsapp, if you want to call me you should afford to call me without making Zuck richer at your own cost". and people.. are.. bamboozled in most cases and just carry on doom scrolling themselves.

I don't. I finally have time again for movies, books, games and deeper communication with fewer and just occasionally pop up in more... I hope, moderated places like even here (although Hacker News that mixes tech, politics and food links is not exactly Hacker to me anymore and that's where actually some harder moderation would be beneficial here instead of just letting cry outs down voting just because we may have different opinions).

World is screwed as this guy described in his phlog. Hard to believe river can be turned back with a stick as we say in my country... but skipping as much BS as possible and "don't feed the troll" should be rephrased as don't support social media barons and political adversaries who manipulate us via non-moderated pseudo journalism.. not just punishing simple people who just want simple lives.

I personally miss times when netiquette (the one that emerged from early UNIX and USENET communities) was still the thing in the net. At full extend.

Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?

Apologies if this is vulgar but what kind of idiot grants access to his own bank account to AI agent. I don’t see logic here outside maybe B2B so accounting systems use AI while accessing accounts, like part of ERP system integration which is interesting case to confirm who and how allows that technically so IT could also educate itself and its accounting department and partners about the precedence… outside that it’s just plain stupid!