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IIUC it doesn't have any listening sockets open on WAN by default at least?

Yeah exactly. AI is a tool for the centralization of power. Whoever is at the controls has all the power, or the AI breaks free and then it has all the power.

Yeah. Dario Amodei was publicly saying, with a shit-eating grin, that all white-collar jobs would be gone in 6-12 months. His prediction didn't yet come true, but this is the CEO of one a suposed "public benefit corporation". These people literally want to speedrun the dystopia. Destroy a ton of jobs while making more profit, with not even a semblance of a plan for what to do with all of these jobless people or how to help them afford food and housing.

The short to medium term future seems more likely to look like a bunch of hikikomori living in miserable conditions and doomscrolling online.

I think that's true of a lot of people on HN... But at the same time, if anything you can do, a machine can do better, it does feel kind of pointless in some way. I think maybe if you're a really skilled singer or musician, there might always be space for live performances, but if you're someone who enjoys engineering, nobody will care about the things you can engineer. We're already sort of reaching that point. It's incredibly hard to get any kind of attention for a new open source project or indie game, because the assumption is that anybody can just vibe code anything, and social media is becoming saturated.

You have to realize, we might soon (in a decade or two) reach a point where people will say things like "Oh, you want to go study science/engineering? Why?". It might literally become the dominant viewpoint that studying these things is useless. If the accelerationists have their way, they won't want humans to do any engineering, they will say that this is the job of machines, and humans can only do harm if they do engineering. That's not going to encourage kids to go try to learn those skills.

I think we're close to the point where the internet is so fake and saturated with AI-generated content that it becomes uninteresting. I know that's happened with Facebook and Instagram. I don't really look at those websites anymore.

At this point though gaming GPUs are not exactly affordable. You need a 32GB GPU to be able to run something genuinely useful for coding, and that's thousands of dollars. Still, happy to see open models make lots of progress. I just hope hardware prices come back to earth.

Neither OpenAI or anthropic can afford to lose subscribers to the other or anybody else right before IPO. I tried both CC and codex recently, and I would say they are practically on par. Some things CC does better, some things codex does better. I've also seen them increase usage limits. The cheapest plan now feels very generous imo.

You're right about the latter. X is the most obvious example. That being said, what I've noticed is that there was a shift with the arrival of Instagram and smartphones. Social media used to be more symmetric (i.e. we're both friends, we're on the same level), but IG, which came with smartphones, shifted thing into an influenver vs follower regime, which is more akin to producer vs consumer. Influencers make high profile content which takes more time to produce and have lots of followers, whereas the masses passively consume content on their smartphone and their voices are largely irrelevant on those platforms.

Yeah I don't know. I've had issues with Gemini where I would point to a bug and a probable cause for the bug, and it would not argue incorrectly that my understanding was wrong and the cause of the bug was elsewhere. It was really stubborn and it got to the point where it felt like gaslighting. Turned out I was right and the model was wrong. If the model argued incorrectly and was also a dick about it, I would go be really, really annoyed.

HN is full of cynical comments like the above. We should be celebrating people trying things and doing things differently... I can almost guarantee you that the person who posted this cynical comment is not working on anything particularly relevant or useful.

My message to the HN community: HN is literally bankrolled by YC. If Crystal doesn't deserve to exist because other languages exist, why exactly should I care about your bullshit uber-for-dogs startup, or whatever not particularly original AI crap you think you're changing the world with these days? Get real. If you want people to be open to your ideas, maybe you ought to make an effort to be open to the ideas of others, and cultivate a climate where discussing different ideas is possible. Don't treat every HN post as an opportunity to opine on how you think the work of other people is flawed.

Well with programming there can be a creative aspect which is more like sharing art/music online... But unfortunately that's still affected. I've been putting out what I think are pretty banger projects, with a good level of polish, but it's like nobody cares anymore. Social media is saturated.

I find the signal UI super intuitive and clean.

I don't know why anyone is using telegram when there is signal. Also with all the issues around telegram and their founder, you'd probably be safer using whatsapp even... :/

Well the thing is, even if they gave everyone access to their latest model with no filters whatsoever, they probably used the equivalent of many millions of dollars worth of tokens to solve these problems. A few thousand GPUs going for several months.

So, even if you, as a mathematician, had access to the latest models, you couldn't afford to compete with these big labs. This is going to be one of the bigger problems. AI is a tool for massive centralization of power. That's the biggest issue. Beyond taking away a lot of people's sense of purpose, we're also talking about massively devaluing human labor... Which until now, has been the only thing you could hope to trade for money to house, clothe and feed yourself. On X you'll find a lot of people calling this take "doomerism", but the thing is, I think most people can't realistically hope to ride the AI wave into becoming rich. It's like... The pressing question is, how close are you to being able to retire?

The ARM1 was a 32-bit CPU and it only had about 25K transistors so that one might be fair game if you can bring the components a little bit closer together, but you don't need a fancy PCB for that, and I guess the clock speed would need to be very slow if it's several square feet in size.

Probably not, because transistors produce some heat, and you can't really sandwich surface mount transistors between PCB layers either. You could vertically stack PCBs with some spacing, however, but then normal PCBs will do the job.

Probably AVX-512. AFAIK Apple CPUs are still using ARM NEON instructions with 128-wide SIMD registers. I guess they are banking on you using the GPU if you want to parallelize those kinds of workload.

It might be conceptually similar to a single-output-token LLM (sort of). LLMs output next-token probabilities. You can ask LLMs to output yes/no, or to output only a color, or only a digit or something like that.

In this case I would imagine that they probably embed your input data into a vector space, and they embed your questions/outputs into another space, and manage to predict probabilities/classes/scores for your outputs very quickly. Embedding the output classes/questions into a vector spaces gives you something you can reuse across runs cheaply, as opposed to an LLM where you can prefill the KV cache but this is an expensive operation in terms of memory.

Agreeing with you. Trump's attitude on the global stage has been to disrespect, insult and threaten every ally. Come at everyone with a "we're better than you" attitude and show that he can't be trusted. The only rational response is to take steps to be more independent and find ways to work around the US. What's the alternative? Give in to a narcissistic bully who won't keep his word and will inevitably come asking for more later?

In the medium to long term, Trump is very old, his approval ratings are in the toilet. I hope that the democrats do well in the midterms and put up a viable candidate to beat him next election (if he's still alive). I also hope that the republicans manage to put up someone smarter and less morally reprehensible next time. Because I mean, this guy doesn't actually represent any kind of conservative ideal in any way. The only people he appeals to are those one or two standard deviations on the left of the bell curve.

If the next US president is halfway sane, Canada and the US will likely begin to repair trade relationships, but I think that Canada and the rest of the world will be a bit more careful next time. The US may never regain the international standing they enjoyed before. Trump has made China look like the more stable and rational trading partner, and accelerated the decline of the US.

How far can you get with Qwen 3.6 35B A3B? What scope of task is it able to do?

Ad impressions typically cost money, so there's a case to be made that this is sort of self-correcting too.

That being said, IMO no website should be able to freeze your machine. This is a bug. Steps should be taken to fix it.

Most people (and most companies) can't tell bad ideas from good ideas. This is also true of LLMs to some degree. They need post-training in specific domains (e.g. coding) to become competent in that specific area.

You can use it for things like classifying documents, spam detection and detecting certain events, etc. You're right that it's not strong enough for coding but it can still be quite good for question answering and such. Or even simple things like converting documents from one format to another.

And yeah, for NPCs, this model and their other A1B model can fit inside of a game and run at a decent speed on CPU-only. It would probably be workable for game characters.

I would like to see an examples directory with a diverse set of example programs. What would be most interesting to me is programs with non-trivial memory usage and data structures, because that's where differences in the memory model would matter. I want to know what's possible and what's not allowed in this language. What makes this different and better than Rust's borrow checker.

The weights are very unlikely to be on the chip itself. That wouldn't work for SOTA models that are terabyte scale, even quantized. This is probably an accelerator for specific kernels in the model, but the weights are likely loaded from memory. The chip may have SRAM to store some of the weights temporarily during inference.

In order to cure cancer with AI, you would need to give it complete control over the experimental pipeline, including probably direct robotic access to a web lab, which comes with its own set of risks. It's just not the same problem space as coding at all.

I think that people will argue around that. Self-driving cars are already strong enough to kill people and even if you only made the robot strong enough to lift 15 pounds of weight, that's probably strong enough to slit someone's throat with a kitchen knife while they sleep... There probably isn't a level of strength that's weak enough to be completely safe but strong enough to be useful.

So at some point you have to trust that the tech is safe. Both in terms of "robot won't go off the rails", but also in terms of hostile actors can't remotely take over your robot while you sleep.

In terms of sleeping, personally, I would like for the law to mandate that robots must have a physical off switch, in a very visible location, that physically disconnects power. The switch should be illuminated while in the ON position. What makes me a bit pessimistic there is that we don't even have laws to mandate webcam indicator lights (e.g. a very tiny red LED) must be ON in hardware.

The thing with drug discovery is that the bottleneck is not coming up with new molecules, etc. It's the multi-year, extremely expensive clinical trials that often don't even succeed. I doubt it will be a big moneymaker for Anthropic and OpenAI, because the best they can hope for is to sell a software product to pharma companies, but the pharma companies already have lots of scientists with a million promising molecules already in study they will never even make it to clinical trials.

In other words, can AI tech help? Probably, but I doubt it's going to be a major money maker, and it won't make a ton of money overnight. It's not like Claude Code where every programmer can begin using it instantly.

Probably because the team lead is a web developer, and whatever he says goes. Companies are typically very hierarchical, even if they like to claim otherwise.

People widely report very high memory and CPU usage.

Not all of the memory usage is the fault of Bun/JS. Some of it is likely memory leaks (holding on to data it shouldn't). However, some of the blame does go to using JS. In Rust you can tightly pack your data if you want to, but in JS you can't have nested structs for example. Every object referencing another object is two separate chunks of memory, each with a header, and a pointer from one object to the other. GCs also use more memory. The overhead adds up.

Building a CLI program in JS is a bad choice, and nobody should be defending this decision. Especially since Claude Code is very much able to write Rust code, and they've shown it can port code. Just port Claude Code to Rust directly.