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it is truly idiotic to compare a explicitly deterministic process like compilation to an explicitly stochastic process like LLM inference

it’s easier to do hard things when you have a sense of humor

All the Doomers and hawks are lining up behind this distillation "attack" farce because they want to see open source banned. It's really as simple as that. They want to take away your right to choose, and take away businesses' rights to fine tune and make your products cheaper and better. The end state here, if we let these short-sighted people win, is a horrible place for America: They will look to ban Chinese models under the guise of national security grounds and conveniently leave only proprietary American companies standing in the USA. The only real "attack" happening is closed source companies attacking open source the same way Microsoft once tried to attack Linux to create regulatory capture. If you can't win in the market, win in Washington is their strategy. Do not be fooled by this regulatory capture and saber rattling nonsense. It's a bait and switch. The goal is to rob you of choice. That's it. These short sighted policies will make America weaker, not stronger. These are the very folks whose shoot-us-in-the-foot policies lost NVIDIA 100% of the market share in China, driving it to basically 0%, while kickstarting the moribund Chinese chip ecosystem. It was dead in the water, and now it's awakened from its deep slumbers. Old state sponsored dinosaurs are reborn as emerging chip powerhouses. The demand for Chinese chips is accelerating and it will only get stronger. When Jensen is proven right a few years from now (he's the best long term thinker in business today) and you have hundreds of cheap Chinese models running optimized on Chinese chips and those models are now hard to run on NVIDIA hardware you can thank these folks. If you're banned in the USA from using these models and these chips, do you think the rest of the world will be? Nope. They'll happily adopt the cheaper, faster, good enough models that we kickstarted with our short-sightedness. 1 billion people in the west will be banned and using closed/gated/sluggish/censored/surveilled models that destroy your privacy while 6 billion other people use the now dominant Chinese ecosystem and your NVIDIA retirement shares lose money. When you can't use open source anymore because it gets banned for Americans, you can thank these short-sighted, foolish folks. When your API bills is a billion dollars and burns your budget in three months instead of 12, you can thank these folks. When all your personal intimate, personal data flows threw a few tight gateways and choke points mandated by law, you can thank these folks.

Geneticist J. Craig Venter, best known for his role in sequencing the human genome, has died aged 79. He spoke to Nature in 2023 about AI, sequencing the ocean – and why he had no plans to stop working. go.nature.com/4tHEf9M

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The more young people use AI, the more they hate it theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

Tanner begged NPM to take down a squatted "tanstack" package that was being held ransom against him. 48 days later, it was compromised and shipped malware. There is no excuse. NPM needs to make significant changes.

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

@kenwheeler worth pointing out that he is wearing a white collar and spewing mostly-nonsense, it would probably be easiest for an LLM to just replace him

i’m beginning to believe this is a fetish for this fellow

This is just like being alive in the 1600s when they got good at making complicated clocks and deduced that every complicated thing in the universe probably functioned exactly like a clock

Training an AI with synthetic data is absurd (except for a few specific niches). It's AI modelling how another model models the real world, rather than AI directly modelling the real world.

@rfleury reading this was like a breadth of fresh air, thank you

A fundamental division between schools of thought in programming is (a) the elimination through simplifying of cruft, boilerplate, and extra abstraction layers, and (b) the automation of maintaining cruft, boilerplate, and extra abstraction layers. One of the reasons I drifted away from C++ and newer languages with adjacent philosophies towards a subset of C is that I found myself in the first camp. Some problems were simply not as hard as I was making them. Memory management, threading, UI, and so on could be simplified such that not only the high level C code became simple, but the actual machine code also became simple. This is starkly different from modern C++ and Rust programming culture, where the philosophy is simply that dealing with the complicated lower level details is a matter of *automation*. The compiler needs to generate something extra, it needs to check extra things, and so on. “Agentic programming” falls into the latter camp, and this is also why I don’t employ it in my workflow (other than search engine usage and so on). I don’t need it to generate 10s of 1000s of lines of code. The requirement of 10s of 1000s of lines of code—for implementing something derived from the information content inside a tiny prompt—is an architectural red flag. Perhaps a substantial portion of that code simply shouldn’t exist. I find that my programs become much better when I do that simplification pass first. After that, there’s drastically less boilerplate, less maintenance, and less busywork to begin with.

‼️🚨 BREAKING: Wiz got access to millions of GitHub repositories across users and organizations using one git push. CVE-2026-3854: git push -o options injected into an internal header split by semicolons, parsed last-write-wins. GitHub patched production in 6 hours.

The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

@GergelyOrosz peple pay them to avoid the reliability issues they think they might have if hosting some alternative themselves

It's hard to have too much sympathy any time the 900-pound gorilla in the room is having reliability issues. Sure, it's hard for them: but as the clear market leader, either figure it out, or give up your customers to those who can deal with the problem of load without issues.

@raysan5 The tech is amazing and can speak for itself; all of the grifters and undue hype turning it into something it isn't will damage the adoption & development of the tech for decades

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What’s next after AI?