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We seem to have valued comfort for the landowning class over general productivity or creative endeavors in America, and now our tax systems reflect this. Whether comfort is the greatest virtue in the long term remains to be seen.

It seems the age old academic model of scientists competing against each other for fame and prestige is done, and now we must merely enjoy the fruits of scientific discovery for their own sake.

I feel that you can see quite strongly the truth in “writing code was never the point” when you encounter inevitably at every company the guy who has been around forever but doesn’t seem to be working particularly hard. Their value is (was) no longer in writing code at a furious pace all day. It was having a coherent, intelligible and communicable theory of the software system the company is founded on.

I propose this thought experiment: put all living mathematicians in a very long bus. This bus crashes and they all tragically lose their lives. Can we really say mathematics simply marches onwards with AI alone? Let’s say Anthropic needs a new research result to improve Claude. Are we really already at the point where we burn tokens ad infinitum and arrive at the end of scientific progress in some timely fashion?

We should remember that Meta is the largest social media company in the world, so they do not have much trouble with people trusting them with data.

Fable is much more expensive both in time and tokens for a marginal increase in productivity.

Yes, I think this project is a good example of how complex domains aren't simply solvable just by pointing ever more intelligence at the system, even when the code is all open source and the issues are all well defined. I say this as a contributor!

I used to find internet slang very piercing and illuminating. I felt I was able to describe certain things which were difficult or impossible to convey with AFK language. But now that this way of speaking has become normalized outside of the internet, I find it’s lost this piercing quality, and just makes me confused. If only this cloud in the sky would move away!

I think what voters want is for highly skilled founders to come and start companies and for normally skilled employment to go to Americans before foreigners.

From 1990 to 2025, the number of people in extreme poverty dropped from around 2.3 billion to roughly 831 million. I think we're making fast enough progress here to warrant public companies going to space on their own dime and volition.

I don't think there's much value in college anymore outside of as a class signifier, and most schools are signifying that you are not in the right social class.

It kind of has the personality of those students that get so stuck on one promising idea they lose sight of the problem.

Very surprised no one has this answer: because it is fundamentally not a human being.

I actually don't read any code! For generation I use simulations to ensure satisfactory error rates, for deterministic code I use test suites, and for user interfaces I use good ol' intuition! So I guess you could say I just write extra code that makes reading the code unnecessary. I find it quite strange to be honest! But this is the most effective way for me to ship now.

But why can’t we prompt the LLM “just do math research”? This is what I don’t understand.

Yes, now that humans write less than 99% of code, the most important criteria for a language isn't readability, which I'd argue was always Python's main selling point, but the underlying runtime. There are practical limits to how fast a Python program can run either under I/O or CPU bound compared to other popular and mature languages with extensive libraries, like Elixir, Go or C++, depending on your use case.

It's a good joke but most of my applications are I/O bound. So I use Elixir for performance.

Kind of feels like fusion power at this point, always just around the corner.

A company is like a bridge. The job of a bridge is to support the weight of what crosses it. But if a particular deck or arch or beam or joint or bearing fails to do its own job, the bridge can fail and will catastrophically. Perhaps some beams hold more weights than others, but can any bridge be composed entirely of decks or entirely of arches or entirely of beams? Perhaps, but we do not see many of them. It is always possible to innovate in the design of bridges, but if most of the great bridges in the world all have a mix of decks and arches and beams and joints and bearings, instead of simply being composed of solely beams or solely joints, then we might begin to wonder if this composition is not accidental to the proper functioning of a great bridge, but essential to it, even if we are not particularly interested in or proficient in the Art of Being Another Part of the Whole.

I think this is correct. There has been bipartisan support of Israel for decades. Netanyahu even mentions in his autobiography that Israeli politicians usually underestimate the strength and durability of the relationship with America.

I’ve never thought about how the room model matches the LiveView socket model before. Which socket library are you using?

My neighborhood in California added plenty of these and it didn’t change the vibe of the neighborhood at all. It’s a great YIMBY solution because it satisfies both the pro and anti development crowds.

A real theory would predict phenomena thus far unseen. We already know about this 4 part taxonomy.

It’s not that crazy! Or hard. If you can store a hashed password in your users table, and keep the salt secret, you have working auth.

I have noticed that everything in their app Just Works. It's very satisfying coming from other services!

CUDA is an extension of C++ just like C++ is an extension of C. Deployed CUDA is growing exponentially. C++ is definitely not a dying language!

I don't know of any. People are really just selecting for the underlying runtime. And Elixir and Gleam are better targets here.