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sampton··on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
Apple please expose GPU cores to the VMs.
sampton··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
Amortization is bad policy when it comes software. Software is inherently high risk. Every piece of software is unique and does not guarantee steady income over 5 years. Most startups won't survive 5 years to fully realize the deductions. This is the end of US software dominance.
sampton··on Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
OT requires centralized server.
sampton··on Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
I don’t know. This check and balance thing is not exactly working out here.
sampton··on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Watermarks, both hidden and visible, would be a more sensible solution.
sampton··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
VSCode death by a thousand forks.
sampton··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
OpenAI is busy rearranging the chairs while their competitors surpass them.
sampton··on Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform
I'm starting to see line-of-business folks start jumping into Python using LLM. It's going to be hard to compete with that with your custom flow diagrams.
sampton··on The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine
There's an ongoing debate whether LLM should be considered intelligent when it's just generating tokens from latent space. Meanwhile there are humans that are only capable of spitting out the same 5 tokens yet still considered to be "intelligent".
sampton··on US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick
Just like that, appl rally was killed before Monday could start. What a bunch of clowns.
sampton··on Controlling Language and Diffusion Models by Transporting Activations
Multimodal LLM is the true solution but Apple is probably looking for something they can run on-device, at least current generation of devices.
sampton··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
It also makes it easy for Chinese manufactures to circumvent tariffs. Completely pointless theater for the MAGA crowd.
sampton··on Robotics Meets Runway: Unitree G1's Catwalk Debut at SHFW
Oh good they dressed up the dog too.
sampton··on The belay test and the modern American climbing gym
Climbing, especially bouldering, requires solo problem solving. It’s the closest thing to coding in athletic terms.
sampton··on Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
Google is guilty of a lot of things but this is a drive-by shakedown by predatory law firms.
sampton··on Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
Most managers are human ticket classifiers.
sampton··on Ask HN: Where Do Seasoned Devs Look for Short-Term Work?
It depends on how badly you need the money. If you really need to get paid you are probably better off finding a full time job and quit after 9 months. Otherwise invest the time in yourself. Work on a passion project or a blog.
sampton··on Happy 10k Day
If anyone from comma is here, what is the state of transformer based world simulator. I recall watching a talk about it year ago but haven’t heard anything since.
sampton··on America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
China has been methodically preparing for trade war and decoupling for the better part of the decade. US went in full throttle with zero preparation. This is not going to end well.
sampton··on Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
Thousands of engineers grinding leetcode so they can work on a Craigslist clone.
sampton··on You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)
I recently started a green field project using copilot and tailwind. I’m blown away by how good ai is with css. I’m just glad no one has to try wrestle with css like we did back in the days.
sampton··on Wall Street sell-off turns 'ugly' as US recession fears grow
Back paddling on the tariffs without any concessions is more damaging the tariffs themselves. It shows the leadership is uninformed and the economy is very weak. Way to flash your weak hand in the first round.
sampton··on ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
Legalities aside, I don’t get the logic of engaging political protests while on a foreign visa. No one is forcing you to live in the country you hate so much.
sampton··on NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument
Beep twice to resign.
sampton··on Sam Altman Returns to Political Fund-Raising
Elon was liberal until he wasn't. Politics is like sports teams. It's an immutable identity for the poor. But for the wealthy they are open to purchase any team.
sampton··on Apple unveils new Mac Studio
ggml and pytorch support mps. aside from bleeding edge most ml workloads can run on mps these days.
sampton··on DARPA project reveals one person can control dozens of robots
Coincidentally EA just open sourced C&C games.
sampton··on GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?
Too much money not enough new ideas.
sampton··on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US
Nvidia has proven the space is incredibly lucrative and Apple is best equipped for high end chip designs. Remember 10 years ago it was unthinkable for an ARM chip to compete with x86.
sampton··on Show HN: Willpayforthis.com – Ideas people will pay for
A buck a tweet.
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