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The one feature in Jonathan Blow's Jai language I really envy is a a single keyword to switch AoS to SoA and visa-versa at comptime

Array of Structs and Struct of Arrays

The @[grind] tactic has to be the single most important addition to Lean in terms of it's growing popularity

There's going to be a golden age of GPGPU compute in the next few years once A100/H100 are fully obsolete for running frontier models efficiently and the price plummets

It will be perfect for stuff like GPU-accelerated query engines, "classical ML" and every other CPU-based workload that could conceivably be offloaded to GPU

If distillation truly is the cheat code they act like it is, then all the US and EU AI labs have no excuse for not having Fable-level models already

Who do you think is paying $100K+ for "Enterprise" access to Anna's Archive?

So many of the breakthroughs and architecture that make LLMs powerful in general today came from China, especially ones related to sparsity and MoE that have made inference and training substantially cheaper.

Let's not forget how much people talked about "prompt engineering" before Deepseek mainstreamed the idea of thinking mode which is now universal

I wouldn't be surprised at all if US labs are also distilling Chinese models, except we'd never know since they can simply self-host them

If he found fucked up stuff regarding crimes way worse than his on university networks don't you think he could have gotten out of the sentencing entirely by cooperating against them

Epstein was relatively restrained even in his personal email, I doubt he was using MIT administrated systems to facilitate a pedo ring

America actually produces less CSAM in general because Americans are lot more off put by Sex than most other cultures

The US has the largest pornography industry in the world by a massive margin, and the largest consumption of online pornography per capita

Meanwhile should we be surprised that CSAM production is higher in countries like the Philippines that have very weak digital policing, abject poverty, high numbers of street children etc?

I imagine whatever wins will probably resemble demoscene stuff or .kkrieger in that it's impressively optimized and modern looking despite the size

Ironically what doesn't stand the test of time are Civ 2: Test of Time and the Civ 7 Test of Time update

2 of the most promising Rust ones

https://github.com/1jehuang/jcode https://github.com/gi-dellav/zerostack

Have you tried Pi though? I was a big Opencode user but once I started using Pi I never looked back

The bigger point is that the codebase is hopelessly bloated by vibe coded features at this point, mirroring the same problems with Claude Code. And stability, performance, memory use have all gotten terrible.

I liked Opencode a lot previously but there's no doubt it's not well-written software. Pi has fully replaced it for me and there are quite a few newer options that learned from Opencode and exercise more minimalism where it matters

The CCP encourages open source contributions from companies, you can see this in how much Alibaba open sources across their entire stack

Chinese tech leans much more heavily towards build vs. buy than the SaaS dominated West (where programmers are more expensive) so the positive externalities on their tech industry are more pronounced

You're probably thinking of Lore by Epic Games which was announced recently and seems to be well-received so far and natively supported by Unreal Engine

Cosmic is really solid, I ended up switching to Niri/DMS and prefer it for a number of reasons but this is probably one of the best DEs nonetheless and the only that does a good job with both tiling and stacking WM

Very cool- I've been working on a new engine for this type of stuff so glad to see others are interested. Also reading Permutation City right now so cool to see it on your reading list

The methodology is a joke, this barely qualifies as research

TBH the PS3 probably should have been more similar to PC, the people I've talked to who have worked for it said the architecture was a nightmare to work with.

There's really no reason console games of that era needed, or even could benefit from 6 cores

Consoles just don't make sense in any modern context. It's profoundly wasteful to have an edge device sitting in your living room, unused for 99% of the time that can only do an incredibly small subset of what a gaming computer can

Every PS5 in existence is destined to become e-waste

Not to mention how bad the developer and porting experience is compared to PC/Steam Machine

The natural world is full of things that area beautiful and breathtaking without having come from "human emotion".

The plumage of a peacock is beautiful and awe-inspiring beyond most human made art, and it is genuinely the result of evolutionary hill climbing on a fitness landscape

It does feel like reading books is one of the best activities for reconditioning your brain in the wake of screen/dopamine addiction

If you go through the most recent YC batches, it's insane how much of their "customer list" is just other companies in the same or recent batches

shoehorning an entire metro into the echo-chamber you're supposedly beyond

The SF metro is possibly the worst in the entire world in terms of CoL vs QoL.

It has a higher proportion of unsheltered population living on the streets than almost any city outside of Africa except Manila and possibly Dhaka

Yeah but it was only like 2 years ago that artists were arguing this on the basis that AI-gen images would consistently mangle hands

Now we're at a point where that never happens, and where lipsync is almost a completely solved problem

If the issue here is simply that the quality is bad, one has to contend with the fact that it is undoubtedly exponentially improving and there's no reason we should expect that improvement to stop

I also don't have any interest in consuming AI generated art, but the same criticisms were levied at computer graphics and if we're comparing to CGI we'd be at the late 1970s in terms of nascency

I think calling it AI has been very negative.

One of the lesser, but still underdiscussed ramifications is that I think it has limited the public's ability to comprehend the Yann LeCunn argument, that genuine AI is likely possible but that LLMs and transformers are a dead end and we need to explore different modalities

I've seen to-do list apps that gameify your tasks and make it like an RPG. Does anyone actually use this stuff or benefit from it? It seems infantilizing

Are you using Datafusion or parts of it for query engine