lxdlam's comments

I still suspect the effectiveness of plugging in a type system patch to a complete system, like typescript to javascript. We still observe so many `as any` or `as unknown as` at every corner.

Despite of the suspicion, Gleam provides a better and elegant syntax for those who are not familiar with Erlang or functional programming languages, which I loved most.

What does the "Google Antigravity" mean? The link is http://antigravity.google/docs, seemingly a new product but now routing to the Google main page.

We self hosted Kratos only as our IdP: three million total users, about 200k login/logout/session/jwt queries a day, using only four 1C 2G k8s pods with one extra for courier, a standard proxied 4c8g Postgres, everything works fine. Really easy to maintain with simple configuration and fully featured API.

But their documentation is really bad, especially in OSS suites. I generally use Claude Code to read their code, find the matching implementation, and try to figure out how to properly configure.

Anyway, if you need self host your IdP, just go for it, you cannot go wrong.

I'm reading some literature(fictions and non-fictions) reviews these days, and realized that literature itself, is just recording our lives in thousands or even millions of different views. The events in the real life can be similar or even identical, but will finally result in many different books, some of them are bad while others are masterpieces. Then I suddenly realized that why I hate some AI work as a long time content consumer, because that the creator behind them are just utilizing AI as a "tool", to quickly generate something meanlingless only for sensory stimulation, which stays at the surface-level, becoming a sort of cheap sensationalism works.

In contrast, I must admit that there are some AI assisted creations really shine , for example, generate an AR annotated POI image with nano banana(https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1960529167742853378). But sadly, there are only 1% of creations, regardless it's an image, an audio or a video, are good, inspiring and exciting as previous ones.

Before AI can get a consciousness, it's a tool, no matter how "smart" it looks like. Only the human who use the tool smartly will create outstanding works.

Really happy to see some company that plays a key role that publish such a statement. Creativity comes from humanity, from our experience, our work, our connection.

AI may be not a theft, but it just sophisticated combinations from our wisdom. Until it can really create, the human will always win.

It really sucks. BTW, how did you find the statement? I cannot find it in any place.

I have a serious question about the term "AI TOPS". I find many conflicting definitions while others say nothing. A meaningful metric should at least be well defined on its own term, like in "TOPS" or expanded "Tera Operations Per Second", what operation it will measure?

Seemingly NVIDIA is just playing number games, like wow 3352 is a huge leap compared to 1321 right? But how does it really help us in LLMs, diffusion models and so on?

From my very own perspective, to compare OpenAI with any others is meaningless: AI is far different in terms of resources and business models, maybe similar to some others, but it may collapse or have the rug pulled out by another significant technology evolution, e.g., quantum computer which may ridiculously speed up the training, or a more self-update-friendly model architecture.

To the rest of us, training a usable model these days is relatively affordable, and it seems to make no difference to use a "most intelligent" model against a subtly small model. The current business blocker is to find the application fields that work for models, which is not an area where OpenAI has an advantage.

I must say this is tremendous. There are many different AIGC explorations in 3D topics, with such high quality dataset, it will greatly assist current workflow and accelerate the 3D creative evolution.

I've watched the talk in 2022 between Linus and Pat. It's a common talk as a company PR but I think Pat showed me that he is a real engineer to drive this huge and years-old company, not the Wall Street managers.

For anyone interested, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlWx7oRk.

You mentioned a great point that LLMs are hitting the edge of a marginal gain decreasing point, at least I think so. Many applications are struggling to provide real benefits instead of just entertaining people.

Another funny thing is that we are using LLM to replace creative professionals, but the real creativity is from human experience, perception and our connections, which are exactly missing from LLM.

Totally agree.

The software development is absolutely a fractal. In 1960s we were solving the complexity by using high level language that compile to machine code to enable more people write simple code. This has happened again and again and again.

But different generations face different problems, which requires another level of thinking, abstraction, and push both boundaries until we reach the next generation. All of this is not solved by a single solution, but the combination based on basic principles that never changes, and these things, at least for now, only human can do.

Tried a lot of Monokai-likes or named themes, then picked Monokai Pro and purchased it 4 years ago, and only realized it is the real successor of the original Monokai today.

It's the only color scheme I've used for over 8 years if considering the usage of orig Monokai. For me, it's worth more than its price.

I'm curious why the author always recommends using a hybrid scheme, i.e., a classical protocol combined with a PQC protocol. I'm not an expert in PQC; what property are we losing that requires us to still need a classical protocol in the same time?

Edit: I've found a design draft associated with the TLS 1.3 hybrid scheme that explains the choice: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-....

HN became the go-to place to find and discuss serious technology topics several years ago and still is today.

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