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V0ldek, v0ldek@awful.systems
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Their cash flow suggests they were heavily leveraged on crypto
Wait what, GitLab was doing crypto? The fuck is going on in those people’s heads
Two things:
One, it’s a remarkable accomplishment to not manage to cook an IPO even now when SEC is functionally gutted by the Trump admin. They made crime legal! What are you doing?! Just lie in the statements and run to Barbados or something
Two, I am baffled by this
Harrison Rolfes from Pitchbook (…) thinks a good time for OpenAI to do an IPO is “mid-to-late 2027”. He wants a few quarters of “clean execution” and not floundering.
Like what? What are you talking about. The whole point of the IPO is to cash out ASAP before the music stops. Why are you talking about OpenAI like it’s a real business? Am I in Wonderland? The best time for OpenAI to make an IPO was yesterday, the second best is right fucking now, how would waiting a year be possibly good for them
That’s the straw. I am moving to the woods [switching to vim]
Raycast says they had nothing to do with the ad, and learnt of it only when the Hacker News thread took off.
Wait but like that means that MSFT didn’t get money for the ad from Raycast? So like, they just put ads into stuff for no reason whatsoever??
NotAwfulTechYou only list one submission in the tier list, but you mention that there were a few to the first problem. Did other submissions fail so miserably they didn’t even qualify for a tier?
How can I short this
He walked so they could run
If anything, he is pissed that he wasn’t born now that there’s no consequences for this shit
In hindsight, it wasn’t the best of ideas.
I mean, it was obvious at the time as well, but nevertheless
Fuck that stupid owl, I never liked it
But if both are going to get obliterated in the next five years then the hedge is to buy like, govt bonds. It doesn’t matter if your fund goes down -20% when the entire market went -40%, you’re still losing to the guy who kept his cash under his mattress.
Do we think that a pop of an AI bubble will not result in a massive wipe all across the board, not just with “AI enablers”? These companies are also going to lose value in a recession.
He outside tho
I guess my confusion is this – at what point does reality exert any influence on the lies-and-trash accounting? What in the physical reality is the reason they can’t just keep fapcircling the economy forever?
So we don’t have smoking gun evidence that Windows 11 is broken trash literally because of vibe coding. But Windows 11 feels like the most vibe coded thing ever. Nobody cared about Windows 11 working. Microsoft, where quality is job number 55 or so!
I think the timelines don’t quite match for that, when Windows 11 came out the LLMs couldn’t even output code that compiled more than half the time. However, the moment I’ve learnt the start menu was coded in React I knew the age of man Windows was over. I don’t know how good the guy behind it was in internal politics but everyone on the path from the idea to pushing it to main should be tried for treason and sent to hard labour (debugging the Azure web UI).
I think this was the good old artisinal vibe coding of the previous era, where you still had to not care about quality manually.
wasn’t audited (…) prompting the SEC to open their own investigation.
Ye, I guess I should’ve said “investigated” there, precision is important here.
There’s not only no stock-holding public to hold them to account, even if there was and they filed a lawsuit nothing would happen. SEC doesn’t exist.
I guess this is the part I don’t understand - can’t they all just play this game of pretend forever? There has to be something that corresponds to music stopping in your musical chairs analogy, but if everyone plays along forever what happens? Is there any load bearing part of this bubble where real reality can have an impact? If the stakes of calling the bluff are a complete collapse of the stock market then why would any NVidia stockholders call the bluff ever?
So you talk about Depression 2, but do you have any idea of what could possibly be the spark? You compare it to Enron, but Enron got had because they got audited. The AI bubble seems unparalleled in creating fake money from nothing, is there any limit to how long they do it? Tether still exists
Also “tokens per watt per dollar” by god where are we. It’s like when Elon started to talk about “userminutes per tweetparsec per death threat” or whatever when he took over Twitter
Huh, I hope Satya asks Copilot how to solve this or they’re in trouble!
Wait, does the Starlink internet suck as well? I mean, it has to have high latency, that much I’ve assumed, but other than that?
The market can remain irrational longer than a chud’s heart can remain functional
Oh for fuck’s sake
Ye it’s called a “grift”
What brilliant observation, your mom must be proud
They clank when you hit the gpu with a big hammer
“If you said something different you would’ve said something different” what brilliant rhetoric, your mom must be proud
I think everyone can agree on “this is a slur that we took from StarWars to be derogatory and justify our distaste and opposition to genAI”, it’s just that some people think that’s a bad thing?
Like it appears some people think using the n-word is bad because it’s Bad™, not because there’s an actual dehumanising effect on a group of people. What’s your argument, that we’re dehumanising Grok? Ye because it’s not a human! “But if it was about the Jews it’d be bad” ye and if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike, what the fuck is your point?
As for the origins I also think it is very important that the word is “clanker” from StarWars, since their droids are not sentient, whereas both “toaster” and “skinjob” are actually used as a hateful term towards sentient beings. BSG goes out of its way to drive in the fact that genociding Cylons would also be bad, actually. The sentience of “skinjobs” is like the whole point of Blade Runner.
Isn’t it insane that there is a separate special fapcircle of open-source contributors that are also untenable human beings?
Unrelated note but why is fashtech even a thing and why did no one warn me about it before I made my career choice, I could’ve been a happy person
That link goes to a post that links to 4 Twitter posts, the first one of which is just a screenshot of a PR (?); then a post “basically @BrendanEich right now”, name I haven’t heard before but apparently that’s the guy that made Brave (how the fuck does that project still exist) so at least this one tracks; then there’s a donation from ProtonPrivacy so I’d need receipts for them being fashy, I know they were doing that stupid AI bot but that’s all; and finally some talk by a guy I’ve never heard of at a conference I’ve never heard of for FUTO which the only bell it rings for me is the university in Nigeria but that doesn’t make sense
I need a fucking codebook to read these receipts, what is going on
At both unis I was at (U of Warsaw, TU Munich) courses with heavy loads contract out grading to students of the university. E.g. during my M.Sc. I was grading submissions for one of the B.Sc. courses I already completed. You get a small amount of money for that.
Contracting out to a company sounds extremely USA-pilled, as in “the university does not have enough resources so, instead of increasing their budget, we use THE FREE MARKET BABY and have a company whose whole existence is dependent on that resource hole continuing to exist.”
Okay, like, you could’ve just started with this, this Weinstein person is clearly an idiot and cannot be taken seriously
I hate this framing so fucking much, Einstein wasn’t an “outsider”! He was known and respected! He talked to other prominent physicist all the time! Where does this myth even come from.
Hey I’m not an artist or really familiar with film and I also could’ve told you this
It’s not even that hard to grasp, ChatGPT is trained on all of human textual output it can be and it can’t write a coherent story, Copilot is trained on all of open-source code in existence and it can’t write a correct line of C++, obviously a film model is not gonna be any better
I have no idea about Ruby or the politics behind the scenes, but I do know who DHH is and so it seems like literally none of this would’ve happened if not for point 2. on the list?? Just like, don’t platform the rancid toxic cesspit of a man and you’re fine??
God, we had so much fun doing this at my uni when creating an example DB table for an exam (only it was fake song/band combinations). Are you sure your coworker isn’t a robot themselves?
That’s interesting, because in Poland 95% of all history you are taught is “and then they grabbed guns because they were just so fed up with their* shit” and from modern history it’s mostly anti-commumist worker movements that were all about general strikes and loud, disruptive protests.
*Russians’, Germans’, Austrians’, king’s, …
Importantly though, not crazily so. We know they can do factorisation quick, and we believe classical cannot. But we also believe they can’t quickly solve NP-hard problems.
(In each instance, believe means it’s not proven, but the implications of it being false would be so weird and surprising we think it’s probably true and are trying to prove it so)
Capabilities in the sense that they can compute problems that digital TMs cannot? No, they cannot
Capabilities in the sense they’d be more efficient at computing some problems than digital TMs? Hard af to prove or disprove.
Sorry but who the fuck is that? Not one of our common guests here, I need a primer on her
I think it’s important to remember that Bayes was a real guy and bayesian statistics is a real useful thing even though Those Guys made it their religion. And they don’t really understand bayesian statistics anyway.