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Saudi Arabia did recently invest 45 billion dollars in the vision fund which is an investment fund managed by Softbank but they haven't really invested within Softbank itself so not it is not mostly owned by Saudis from what the data can tell.
Nobody even mostly said that they would be impressed by AI if it can read and write weights because that thing itself felt so out of the blue and unthinkable that AI could even do that (such a high strech)
I am surprised that it did that and I am just left feeling technically impressed. This is insane.
The more AI starts demonstrating its capabilities, the harder it just becomes to imagine what thing would genuinely impress us next. (We need a term for this as I have observed it from the trend of [waiting for AI to write adobe] -> [waiting for AI to write assembly] etc.)
Even logically, most likely these societal issues are coming for everybody and what you can do is to be best prepared for them which inevitably means to focus on yourself (which is a good advice as ever at any point of time).
So why worry about societal issues and instead not just focus on what matters personally and something which you can take an action on and improve upon (Similar to Stoic philosophy maybe)
(I struggle to live by these words, Hopefully I improve, I am trying to watch negative news less nowadays and would like to focus more on hope and personal growth)
Though jokes aside, Kinda impressive that almost all of us are converging on the same idea. Great minds thinks alike haha!
PS: hnrecommends.com is a website listed in your aggregator but it seems that there is an heroku error on that website which fails to show it there.
Another idea though, I don't know if I am grasping at straws here but perhaps an MCP server can be created where I can just link that and then say search "I want to find a good non fiction book" and then it can look at the aggregator of aggregator, go to the HN book aggregator and then it can then take into the data at HNbook into reference to give the final suggestion and the AI can then tell me how verified/vouched it was by HN. The same can happen for dev tools, github projects, movies, tv, youtube videos etc.
Maybe we can all then build an interface on top of that MCP itself but still, I am just in love with what the community is building and these projects are lovely because they show that love outwards and helps in showing how good HN sometimes is :-D
For me these were all the projects that I had included when building[0]
1. HackerTube: https://hackertube.org
2. HackerBooks: https://hackerbooks.org
3. HNMovies: https://hnmovies.org
4. Hacker Papers: https://academy.dair.ai/papers/collections/hacker-papers
5. Wikihack: https://wikihack.netlify.app
6. Trust Me Bro: https://trustmebro.reviews
Ironically, I would love to add your website to the aggregator haha :-D
Seems like our expectations and the floor has been rising at such an exponential rate.
Has someone created a benchmark for our expectations to see how much they've grown for new model releases? I'd be curious to see some of the data :-D
here is the direct link of the video which starts at 1800 seconds.
Offtopic: Fun fact but aside from archive.org there is also a way to have a link which links to any direct video at any time.
Someone made a good HN article about it that I vaguely remembered[0]
[0]: https://www.autodidacts.io/how-to-deeplink-to-specific-part-...
I am curious about the binary sizes (there seems to be a PR which talks about it) and also how easy is it to actually create cross-platform (say android on mac) using pure rust?
While searching after finding this repo, it seems that Slint, MakePad, Egui and dioxus are some other options as well
I am interested in knowing the actual differentiator of the project, in short why should I use it?
The answer to me seems when its a complex and ambitious project?
With all the AI rewrite of closed source applications into open source rust, do you think that your project can help in creating that or porting any already open source AI rust project from another rust library to Ferro and if so it's benefits?
But nonetheless, extremely interesting project and kudos for making it!
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xl7xdk/is_that...
Can someone who is an expert on the topic comment about if the statement regarding AI is true and if so then by how much (and how big/small of a problem it is), or if the Company is suggesting it out of pure hype of AI mania.
> Market research firm Omdia projects that the micro LED display market revenue will grow from $10.54 million this year to approximately $6.8 billion by 2032, particularly in applications for smart glasses and ultra-small displays.
> The WICOP technology involves directly mounting LED chips onto substrates without separate wires or packaging. Seoul Semiconductor and Seoul Biosys have been developing ultraviolet (UV), blue, green, red, and infrared (IR) micro LEDs based on this technology, and have now expanded its application to include white light.
Fascinating results nonetheless even discounting AI use. Having half the price is insane, also 10.54 million seems incredibly small and 6.8 Billion is a little insane. Kinda wild to see such massive growth expected in such short amount of time.
Awesome Idea and I would love to see what else community tinkers with things like these :-D
Hackernews is really a gold-mine in many ways.
Edit: I will try to read thinking fast and slow because of HN recommendations. I have heard some good things about the book but I will try to read it in future given HN's immense recommendations, so your website has already had a negative net positive for me :-D
My dear God, I love you man.
I have tried to get this feature by using custom tampermonkey scripts with tld-list.com which would output a .csv file and then having a custom html file (which I have to open manually) to then get the idea of which domains are non premium and then have to look at which domains cost the most cheap.
I really really love your website and your plans to open source it someday. I experimented with connecting it with MCP and it was able to get me some domain ideas which couldn't have been possible or would've been tiresome (as previously AI couldn't detect which domains were available or not)
Your project has made me a very jolly man, you are a lovely person and I am surprised by the speed at which you added the feature and thanks a lot mate :-D
Seriously gonna recommend it to more folks out there but the amount of appreciation that I can share in words is very little to how I feel when you accepted my feedback which made me feel very heard.
Thank you very much and have a nice day and really genuinely I wish the best for your project! You made my day with this feature :-D
I think that this project is really great and I am curious to hear what you think about open-sourcing the project if that's possible.
I think that open-sourcing can help foster the .wiki style community even more and I am very much interested in contributing and it will be much more helpful for me to contribute if it could be open source!
There are some issues I think but clicking cheapest renewal has issues where it shows: abudhabi at 0.00 but in reality it has 82$/yr costs.
The same goes for .ac.ae domains as well iirc
The website is also incredibly slow and takes multiple seconds for responses for what it's worth.
Anyways a really good project and I wish you luck and hoping that it can be open-sourced hopefully :-D
Also edit: allow me to somehow de-select premium domains as I just want to find the domains which are actually available instead of viewing premium domains.
One watch is enough for me and that's casio for me.
An extremely hypothetical experiment but what if this is some sort of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and in our timeline, we have accepted it with AI.
Deepseek can do MAD on Anthropic and release open weights model (which means that they might not earn the most or basically burn millions/billions to then give us all essentially the same thing and we would all be on equal footing, oh they also released their inference engine right now.)
This might explain why the stock market got into an bubble and is fearing itself right now.
Mutually Assured Commoditization. (Credit where it's due I pasted my comment to Chatgpt and it gave me this term ironically and it seems to fit well to the comment that I am writing, I might write a blog about it someday.)
They will still make mistakes but they have the resources to make them less.
I doubt that such intense level of thorough testing can occur in a smaller company.
I still love small VPS providers and use them myself but it is worth knowing why enterprise is willing to pay a premium over those to these hyperscalers (it is a trust premium)
For Entreprise, the shift will be towards hyperscalers as they want trust and less blame (Nobody got fired for picking AWS)
For consumers, we care about pricing and stability and control and we will move back to our own hardware or cheap VPS providers and self-host things.
The middle ground would be where the slight pain could be at in my opinion.
I wanted to write a blog post about it as I was thinking the same but I guess a comment will help me get my thoughts across just as much.
Either we are gonna see a convergence to hyperscalers as you mention, or we would go back to completely indie companies which compete on perf/price.
There could still be some value to "nicer to use" certainly but with AI, we are gonna see almost every product as being "good-enough" if I am able to convey my sentiment.
An anecdote is: Proton's an middle-ground company. I am seeing the Verge article which states that their CEO has gone a little crazy over the use of AI and the wording makes me lose trust within it. Proton's whole point is security and yet it's having this, It has some stocks in non profit and is a swiss company. It shouldn't have been this way and would've been one of my least anticipated companies but I guess they want growth at all costs and the growth has been slightly lesser than expected and now they are burning the good-will in many ways.
I have to wonder that even if proton might have good engineers, then within this pressure by their CEO/CTO. I cannot trust the engineering talent because of these issues because they are very much forced by their company to use AI.
Proton is also really expensive.
Now just today, also, with a company so big as binance getting hacked and losing 6.5 Billion$. My trust within security just because its a large company is less.
On the other hand, I know a guy called Vikas on lowendtalk who operates his own mail platform called mailbig. I know he vibe-coded the landing page and might've vibe-coded something but it is really cheap. I also know francisco whom I have talked to who runs namecrane. (I think mailbig uses namecrane in many ways)
Perhaps E-mail can be a sensitive matter because you have to place trust in the provider even more because the protocol is not really that much secure but suppose it's an matrix instance (where it is genuinely encrypted) then that shifts it even further. I do trust NameCrane and NameBig from what I can gather.
I'd much rather support them and their cheaper deals than some other middle-corp. Sure some security factor can come in but also, the difference feels comparatively less and the balance has been made
The market will slightly squeeze as Hyperscalers will introduce the solutions of the middle-ground and the new players will everyday enter into the field with more competitive pricing just as well.
So in short, Enterprise will move towards the hyperscalers. Generic Consumers will move towards the cheapest option. The moat of the middle ground where UI/UX was the differentiator is being turned down. There would be some mix and match and there will be cost-savings for Enterprise to move from hyperscalers but it would depend on a lot of factors.
This is an genuinely good minimalist good editor that is created in mostly assembly that was created with the help of AI[0]
I maintain a fork of it which basically adds scratchpad ability to it and is something that I use daily myself for what it's worth[1]
My fork was created with the help of GLM 5.3 (an open-weights model)
The future is already here in some sense. I could in theory add more features but I intentionally add not more features because asm is still slightly difficult for it to write but in some sense the tradeoff has been/could be worth it. It was more of an experiment really and I am really impressed by it.
in many ways, forcing AI to write asm does make you now think intentionally of features and ironically prevents feature creep and makes you think of stability of the product (atleast right now for me anyways)
[0]: https://rhun.app
Keeping an absolutely small amount of buffer in stablecoins and swapping it for monero for actual transactions is what I do or just keeping it in monero directly (and that is also because the act of moving the money out is harder and I just buy vps's/domains with it semi-anonymously)
You can just pay fiat to buy monero when you actually have use of it.
Aside from very few use-cases (like dictatorship cases for example) I just think that it doesn't make sense for people to invest life-saving investments for money within crypto perhaps.
I think that one can use crypto for its good sides (anonymous payments) without facing its downsides by buying crypto or just having an insanely small/small buffer and using it when needed rather than life-changing savings.
My apologies. Wasn't my intention
> That's just an observation, do with it what you will.
What I will try to do is try to improve myself. Thanks for the help!
You have accomplished a great deal in your life when I am just starting. I hope I get your blessing nonetheless as I step in this brave new world.
Will try to be more mindful from here on out. Have a nice day.
To dear OP going through dark phase, I apologize for the petty arguments that I entered when the topic of discussion should be about you: all the best in your life and I wish nothing but the best for your future.
people have shared amazing advice here and I hope that you apply.
Try to act on anything small which is meaningful consistently with hopefully a community of friends that you can make.
> Other than that I think that this book has a shadow side, and that that shadow side can manifest even if the book warns against it.
Slightly agree as I have tried to say within the comment that I can see how people reading the book can just go through it and even if the book warns against it, can take the shortcut. because taking shortcuts is so much easier than doing the actual work of giving sincere appreciation or other things.
> The fact that it is a best seller doesn't really hold much weight with me
Once again I agree.
> Note that I'm not in the USA and that financial success and 'hustle' have less value where I live
I am not from USA either though I do have to admit that financial success does have more value where I live. Hustle not so much as risk-taking is slightly not preferred.
In the end, where we have the disagreement on is that I have found the book to be helpful of me and to have not seen its shady side. I have seen the warmth of it and have good experiences with the book but I concede that everything can have two sides. Your experience within relation to the book has been with this shady side and I realize how you might feel about it and why the disagreement occurs. IMO nobody is right or wrong perhaps as much as two sides of the same coin but if there is one wrong, then it can be me, as I can be wrong and I usually am ;)
have a nice day.
Maybe the book will not help the OP, maybe it can. I apologize if it will not be of help to OP and hope that the rest of my initial comment can make up for it. Maybe I shouldn't have recommended books after suggesting them to take action (any action) and then immediately suggested them to read books (which can procastinate taking actions)
The book to me, has changed my actions and I consider it one of the action books. The question of for better or for worse is subjective and I believe it has been good for me but I concede that it could perhaps be bad for someone else or moreso that perhaps it might not be extremely relevant to OP. I can only guess.
I realized it after writing the comment but I do sincerely hope that OP takes what he wants the best from all the comments and basically does action. My whole comment is about taking actions, any actions specifically suggesting that more knowledge might not be the thing that they should necessarily want at this point but rather taking actions!
(I think it could very well be that when I suggested the books, it was me suggesting all the books which helped me conclude to the things said in my comment) but once again, it's not knowledge that's the issue but rather taking actions.
Now coming to the point about OP:
But TLDR, I once again recommend the OP to take actions and follow the advice of action.
Dear OP, the only thing you need to do is now take actions. That is worth more helpful to you than any book at this moment. I recommend reading these books later if you wish or if you don't then that's completely fine as well. I just hope that you can take actions to help your own life. You have to step up and realize the effortlessness when viewing from the bird's eyes view of a lifetime. It feels effort now but it takes more effort over a lifetime to maintain that lifestyle and coping up with the stress that it can cause than taking the struggle of fixing it once. I assume You had your job and everything going close to perfect once, have some leap of faith of confidence within yourself that you can do it again, that you have the capabilities to do so and you are capable enough and have enough strength, or more so find the ability to find strength within yourself. The strength is already within you (you are capable enough), all you need to do is look inwards and realize it again.
A lot of words which mean nothing except saying that an internet stranger wants you to succeed and to re-find the strength within you that you think has been lost. Take small steps as they go a long way. Thank you very much.
The book specificially says not to be un-authentic, that flattery is like printing fake currency and sooner or later you are gonna get into trouble of it. It genuinely asks people to do the hard thing of giving sincere appreciation not flattery and genuinely warns against being un-authentic and sycophantic as you mention.
> It's a book that is popular for all the wrong reasons and the title alone is a turn-off.
It depends. I understand what you mean in terms of the terms like winning friends and influencing people but the title sounds more as a plead to do something for me.
To me, the book is an action book (it specifically says so), and the title is a reminder to it being a guide and that we have to implement it. It's almost like a guide (how to) to making (win/winning) friends and having good connections (influencing people).
To me, its exactly a book which you can recommend someone to get out of rust when we worry about relationships and friendships etc., thus recommending it to OP because he wants to get out of it as well. It's a book which can help in producing actions. In the start they maybe less genuine because we are none the wiser but perhaps I do think that it helps over a long term.
The book is the best selling self help book of all time[0] (if you don't consider an novella/self-help category book)
It's not as if the popularity of the book means anything but rather how much the title contributes to such a book. Suppose 1 million people read the book more because of it. I think that the book is good in its content and genuinely net positive so the cost analysis of this title is that it is catchy and it allows more people to be happier maybe.
In the end, it comes down to the content of the book itself IMO rather than the things surrounding it (the title or the group of people that you have met who have read the book, that is a very small n factor to have a judgement about and I would please suggest to reconsider that judgement.)
I sincerely recommend reading the book.
Hey, as an challenge for both of us if you wish, we both can read it together as I wished to read this book again and maybe e-mail each other about it and we can have a good discussion on the content of the book itself! I am up for the challenge as I do want my opinions challenged :-D
My mail is open if you are interested!
It is completely up to you if you wish to do so or not! (The challenge or otherwise reading the book itself). No pressures!
Though I have to be honest as well, this very well maybe a post-hoc justification as well. I was very young when I first read it and was gifted to me by my cousin. I love the book, it was maybe my first or second extra book that I genuinely read. it's close to my heart for emotional reasons and maybe I am biased out of it as I still carry the book, it has underlinings done of a 6th grade me I think.
I cannot say if the book can help you or not, it has helped me and I have my reasons (which I tried to provide here) to support it. From your experience, you have observed the connection with sycophancy so you have slight distate of the book. I may or may not be able to change the opinion about the book and it's completely okay as I understand where you are coming from :-D
It is one of the only things that I have of that age of mine. I don't know how I used to think back then to be honest. The only thing I have mostly genuinely left out of that is this book and others. It's beautiful and the book feels warm to me and Dale carnegie like an old uncle telling me stories. It feels like I re-meet with him when I read the book and re-meet with my younger self. I maybe using slight hyperbole and I am invoking emotional response to an logical argument and I am slightly sorry about that but I hope that I can convey why the book feels so warm to me!
Now applying the lessons of the book, I wish to speak less and listen more! So I am curious to hear what you think and have an nice day :-D
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
Even with trading, you can't really know if the strategy that you have made which might work first time is because of luck (crystal ball) or analysis. You might believe its analysis because why not but repeating that strategy consistently over a long period of time is downright near impossible.
And then you realize that most of the traders lose money and there have been systematically proven to be basically very little alpha if any and you are better off just investing within the index funds and focusing much more on increasing the amount of money that you can save (increasing your salary, finding ways to save money etc.)
https://www.bogleheads.org/ for those of you interested.
These may not be the same people but sometimes they are
I have an apple device and I like its hardware at its price. My brother gifted it to me and my father had an accident with it once which caused it to fall on pure concrete. Other laptops would have been broken but for this it was a tis but a scratch moment
But I am an openness zealot by heart. I can mix and match
In this particular instance though. Shame on apple for not taking any steps and maybe actively fighting against it. I don’t understand why! I hope that they definitely do something about it