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because (0, 0) is on the left

grug realise grug also rely on "harness" for work? grug just call it by other names: coffee, chair, desk, ubuntu, mechanical keyboard, github (if not broken that day)

but you can click the link and reveal the information. what is being hidden? from who?

why is this such a bad thing? it's not really any different from using a uuid as a user facing key, which basically everyone does.

and trying to protect your moat isn't automatically a bad thing. they clearly feel it's helping competition, so they're closing a hole. competition is good doesn't mean help your competitors.

- coming from someone who's been using fastmail as my personal for ~10 years because i don't want my emails to be backprop fodder

LOC is the worst metric for engineering output, except for all the others - Churchill

> camcorders have been around for ages but you don't have millions of directors around just because you make a tool more accessible

tiktok alone has 1.5 million directors! it's just that we call them creators now.

the meaning of the word director has changed, that's all. but professional roles shift in meaning all the time. a computer used to be a literal human doing arithmetic. an engineer was someone who designed war machinery. being a doctor used to mean teaching at an university.

human beings are natural tool makers. we always have been. the frontier material to manipulate where the most advanced engineering happens constantly changes: stone -> bronze -> iron -> ink (descartes) -> steel -> silicon -> javascript (YOU ARE HERE).

notice how each step is an improvement/abstraction on top of the steps that came before it. some say english is next in that chain. i honestly have no idea. all i know is there will always be The Next Thing and it'll be much nicer to work with.

i got to try exe a while back and i have to say, the "Login with exe" [1] is probably the most magic thing i've seen since tailscale :)

[1] https://exe.dev/docs/login-with-exe

ed is the standard Unix text editor.

December 2018 was the last version to not have "Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity"

https://web.archive.org/web/20181223120124/http://www.muskfo...

too many of these vaguely look like what galaxies look like from earth

e.g. https://i.imgur.com/ZjiBF8f.png

just a coincidence?

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if you haven't read the factorio devblog before, please do!

after HN, it's one of my favourite places on the internet because i constantly learn new, random, insane things almost every time. imho it teaches you how to think + shows you what great engineering taste looks like. sorry if i'm overly effusive but each post is so deeply technical and well-written that i can't believe it's free.

you don't need to know anything about factorio or gamedev btw (i don't), just pick a random number between 1 to 438 and start reading :)

> or endeavor to

you picked the worst example company to complain about how they're are not trying lol. just in 2025 from anthropic:

Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met...

On the Biology of a Large Language Model https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

Progress on Attention https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-update/index...

A Toy Model of Interference Weights https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/interference-weights/i...

Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools https://www.anthropic.com/research/open-source-circuit-traci...

>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how many epicycles you bolt on) from a theoretical perspective. My impression is that they have absolutely no idea why the heavens behave the way they do; all they can do is stare at the night sky, record, and see what happens. That is not reassuring to me at least.

- AstronomerNews user, circa 1650 (probably)

Why not something dumb like this: https://chatgpt.com/share/68b60199-b6ac-8009-b50d-3e7cfff1d7... (gpt-4o)

wow not even yin-yang can escape entropy or the heat death of the universe

>That's basically your documents lossily encoded.

Vector embeddings are lossy encodings of documents roughly in the same way a SHA256 hash is a lossy encoding. It's virtually impossible to reverse the embedding vector to recover the original document.

Note: when vectors are combined with other components for search and retrieval, it's trivial to end up with a horribly insecure system, but just vector embeddings are useful by themselves and you said "all useful AI retrieval systems are insecure by design", so I felt it necessary to disagree with that part.

if you feel cheated now, I promise you'll feel more cheated if they did this after you rely on it for several months. the least worst option is to change pricing as early as possible.

this is just XMPP and it has been around for years before Slack was even a thing

Slack won anyway for the same reasons most centralised, commercial, closed sourced products often win: less fragmentation, more marketing, stronger network effects, simpler onboarding for normies, richer integrations, and most importantly, an enterprise sales team that actually showers

clicked hoping for an out of distribution argument for why a specific type of Japanese martial arts is perfect for git users :(

good article nonetheless!

1. modern computers are insanely fast

2. they compiled a version of the kernel with as many configurable options disabled as possible

3. modern computers are insanely fast

1. PG is implicitly talking about good essays. And it's very hard to write a good essay if you don't believe it's true.

2. Whether something is true has nothing to do with whether the reader knows it. I know many false things and ideas.

this is like saying "same way cells know how to be anything - quantum electrodynamics"