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by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 11:45:24+00:00
Combustion cars were already usable even on the roads built for horse drawn carriages - they were, in fact, adapted to the existing world.

They even ran on things like firewood, coal, or, for the first ICEs, relatively common liquid fuels that could be sourced in large cities.

Cars rely on gas stations today - but gas stations only became a thing after cars already became a thing.

Nowadays, Tesla had to make Superchargers happen all by themselves before EVs could really happen - despite EVs already having the crushing advantage of being able to charge overnight in any garage that has power.

Can you see a robot company branching out to be a competitor to McDonalds to prove that their kitchen robot is viable if you design the entire kitchen for it? Well, it's not entirely impossible, but I think it unlikely.
by leojfc | 2025-10-02 11:45:34+00:00
Absolutely. Years ago I found this book on the topic really eye-opening:

- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Technological-Revolutions-Financial...

The process of _actually_ benefitting from technological improvements is not a straight line, and often requires some external intervention.

e.g. it’s interesting to note that the rising power of specific groups of workers as a result of industrialisation + unionisation then arguably led to things like the 5-day week and the 8-hour day.

I think if (if!) there’s a positive version of what comes from all this, it’s that the same dynamic might emerge. There’s already lots more WFH of course, and some experiments with 4-day weeks. But a lot of resistance too.
by probablyrobert | 2025-10-02 11:45:36+00:00
DRM is not possible to support unfortunately: https://glide-browser.app/faq#why-can't-i-play-drm-content

Firefox Sync does work!

RPC is not currently supported but I agree it would be pretty interesting, tweety[0] was recently shared with me and that looks like it'd be quite nice, although I haven't tried it yet.

So far the only divergence from Firefox that could impact security is evaluating the config file, so I've described how that is sandboxed in the security[1] docs but I'm not super happy with the contents of that docs page; anything else you'd like to see mentioned?

[0]: https://github.com/pomdtr/tweety

[1]: https://glide-browser.app/security
by rodolphoarruda | 2025-10-02 11:45:48+00:00
I may be depressed. I looked at the picture as soon as it loaded and then read the summary below it. Following the 5-second idea, my eyes were caught by the little frog like figure at the bottom of the image. My initial reaction was like "what is that little frog doing in this fish bow? It's going to be eaten soon."
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-02 11:46:28+00:00
Same here, I tried Nextcloud Memories first which has some of the same functionality but ended up being too slow in nearly all aspects. Immich does well in this regard so I use it just like you do using its external library feature.

You may be interested in the change I submitted to Immich which makes it possible to directly log in to Immich using the Nextcloud OIDC app. Add Immich as an 'external site' and use the autoLaunch parameter [1] to have the site open in NC as if it were a 'native' app without needing to log in first.

[1] https://docs.immich.app/administration/oauth/#auto-launch
by tripzilch | 2025-10-02 11:46:49+00:00
> There's a user expectation that photo20.jpg comes after photo3.jpg

I expect photo20.jpg to come first.

> There's no user expectation around whether photo1.jpg or photo01.jpg comes first.

Clearly photo01.jpg comes first.

> Just like there's no user expectation around whether photo1.jpg or Photo1.jpg comes first.

Of course Photo1.jpg comes first because uppercase comes before lowercase.

It really sounds like you're using the word "user" to mean "dumb" and I wonder, what got you to the point that you started considering yourself an expert on "dumb" and feeling the need to defend "dumb" ?

I'm sorry but it all comes off so condescending, like "users" are a different+lower species or something.
by apercu | 2025-10-02 11:46:56+00:00
"Where's the business value? Right now it doesn't really exist, adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming and even in programming it's inconclusive as to how much better/worse it makes programmers."

The business model is it is data collection about you on steroids, and that the winning company will eclipse Meta in value.

It's just more ad tech with multipliers, and it will continue to control thought, sway policy and decide elections. Just like social media does today.
by viking123 | 2025-10-02 11:47:11+00:00
I think there is real value, for instance nowadays I just use chatGPT as google replacement, brainstorming, and for coding stuff. It's quite useful and it would be hard to go back to time without this kind of tool. The 20 bucks a month is more than worth it.

Not sure though that do they make enough revenue and what will be the moat if more or less the best models will converge around the same level. For most normies, it might be hard to spot difference between gpt 5 and claude for instance. Okay for Grok the moat is that it doesn't pretend to be a pope and censor everything.
by pitdicker | 2025-10-02 11:47:58+00:00
To give an example from my software at work, structural engineering: You make a 3D-model (BIM, Building Information Model) of the steel skeleton of some project. The software can than generate 2D drawings, the blueprints. All beams, colums etc should be labeled in the drawing with the steel profile and quality (if non-standard).

However the software has a terrible label placement algorithm that happily switches around the labels of adjacent elements. And it does so without notice after some changes to the model. That is behavior that can lead to pretty dangerous mistakes.

The reply of the software company: you have to check it anyway. That is why you get paid, right?
by modernsorcery | 2025-10-02 11:48:07+00:00
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by raincole | 2025-10-02 11:49:14+00:00
> adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming

In the last few months, every single non-programmer friend I've met has ChatGPT installed on their phone (N>10).

Out of all the people that I know enough to ask if they have ChatGPT installed, there is only one who doesn't have it (my dad).

I don't know how many of them are paying customers though. IIRC one of them was using ChatGPT to translate academic writing so I assume he has pro.
by viking123 | 2025-10-02 11:50:02+00:00
Yeah it wouldn't be a bubble if it didn't have that mentality. Every bubble has had that thought and it's the same now. Kind of hard to notice it though when you are in the eye of the storm.

There were people telling me during the NFT craze that I just don't get it and I am dumb. Not that I am comparing AI to it directly because AI has actual business value but it is funny to think back. I felt I was going mad when everyone tried to gaslight me
by scooletz | 2025-10-02 11:50:20+00:00
> Some people think artificial intelligence will be the most important technology of the 21st century

We're just at 25% of it. Raising such a claim is foolish at least. People will be tinkering as usual and it's hard to predict the next big thing. You can bet on something, you can postdict (which is much easier), but being certain about it? Nope.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-02 11:51:10+00:00
The final AI push that doesn't lead to a winter will look like a bubble until it hits. We're realistically ~3 years away from fully autonomous software engineering (let's say 99.9% for a concrete target) if we can shift some research and engineering resources towards control, systems and processes. The economic value of that is hard to overstate.
by twoodfin | 2025-10-02 11:51:15+00:00
The obvious concern would be data-dependent backdoors for malicious “decoding”, i.e. correctly decoding ordinary data, but manipulating the decoding of targeted data in some compromising way.

That relies on some rather far-fetched assumptions about what the attacker might reasonably be able to control undetected, and what goals they might reasonably be able to achieve through such low-level data corruption.

Maybe information leakage? Tweak some low-order float bits in the decoded results with high-order bits from data the decoder recognizes as “interesting”?
by tonko | 2025-10-02 11:51:41+00:00
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by imiric | 2025-10-02 11:51:53+00:00
> Immich is AGPL-licensed and doesn't have a CLA, which makes it functionally impossible for us to do any kind of rugpull.

More difficult, perhaps, but certainly not impossible. And there are many other ways the software can be functionally crippled without involving a license change.

> We're already "aqcuired" by FUTO since a solid year ago[0] and it's only been up since then.

Like I said, FUTO seems like a fair steward of OSS so far, but I have no reason to trust them long-term. It is funded by a single investor, which doesn't inspire confidence. That relationship may end at any point.

To be fair, I am being overly cautious of what seems like an excellent project by any measure, especially compared to the alternatives. In my defense, I've been conditioned over the years to be wary of software that looks too good to be true, because it inevitably disappoints me, and to prefer simpler and even jankier software that doesn't promise the world, because it rarely does.

Commercializing free software is a difficult and unsolved problem. I'm not against mandatory licenses to unlock features that only a few large/"enterprise" users would generally use. Or to have some sort of a tiered licensing system for more advanced features. This would go against your current philosophy of not locking any features behind a paywall, which is noble, but it also has the drawback of making payments entirely optional. It is essentially donationware, which is not a stable source of income.

Also, subscriptions, as much as users don't like them, are really a requirement for this type of software. It pays for continual maintenance which wouldn't be covered by a single lifetime purchase. There are many ways this could be implemented that makes it fair for both the user and the developer.

In any case, thanks for your work, and good luck with the project. And thanks for the link with alternatives.
by veltas | 2025-10-02 11:52:14+00:00
> Note how gcc is smart enough to detect that the expression ((0xc<<12) | 0xafe) is constant, so it can skip shifts and bitwise assembly operations and just emit the resulting immediate value at line 14. The same goes for the loop condition, gcc emits constant 1280 at line 10 in place of the multiplication 40x32. A classic compiler optimization called constant folding, but nice nonetheless.

This is actually required rather than an optimisation for any C compiler, from early on, as C semantically allows constant expressions rather than just constants to be used for statically allocated sizes, etc. While the 'optimisation' is not guaranteed you'll see even on -O0 the constant was evaluated at compile-time, as it's harder to not fold constant expressions sometimes than it is to just always fold them for the already required constant expression features.
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by aiisnotjustah | 2025-10-02 11:53:34+00:00
I'm not following the arguments in the blog at all tbh.

The small huge companies investing in AI are tech companies who already make a lot of money. They did not invest in 'manufacturing' or other things on the side as relevant as the blog makes it.

The offshoring of manufacturing to China was a result of cost and shareholder value. But while USA got rich in 60-90 for manufacturing, now this moved over to China.

The investment is not just going into LLM, its going into ML and Robotics. The progress of ML and Robotics in the last x years is tremendous.

And the offshoring of Datacenters? DCs have very little personel they need, they are critical infrastructure you want to control. There is very little motivation to just 'offshore' critical infrastructure espescially from companies who are so rich, that they don't need to move them in some weird shitty location which only makes sense because energy is cheap but everything else is bad.

The 'AI Bubble' i'm experiencing, is adding real value left and right. And no i'm not talking about only LLMs. I'm talking about LLMs and ML in general.

This 'Bubble' is disrupting every single market out there. Everyone is searching for the niche not optimized yet and only accessable now tx to LLMs and ML.

And if you think this is just some hype and will go away, have you even tried Chat GPTs voice mode? This was literaly NOT possible 5 years ago. And i have real gains like 20% and more in plenty of things i'm now leveraging ML and LLms which was also NOT possible 5 years ago.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-02 11:53:46+00:00
My understanding is that the 40 hour work week (and similar) was talked about for centuries by workers groups but only became a thing once governments during WWI found that longer days didn't necessarily increase output proportionally.

For a 4 day week to really happen st scale, I'd expect we similarly need the government to decide to roll it out rather than workers groups pushing it from the bottom up.
by rwmj | 2025-10-02 11:53:51+00:00
Also no one is talking about how exposed we are to Taiwan. Nvidia, AMD, Apple, any company building out GPUs (so Google, Microsoft, Meta etc), even Intel a bit, are all manufacturing everything with one company, and it's largely happening in Taiwan.

If China invades Taiwan, why wouldn't TSMC, Nvidia and AMD stock prices go to zero?
by Etheryte | 2025-10-02 11:53:55+00:00
The recent MIT report on the state of AI in business feels relevant here [0]:

> Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return.

There's no doubt that you'll find anecdotal evidence both for and against in all variations, what's much more interesting than anecdotes is the aggregate.

[0] https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Bus...
by aiisnotjustah | 2025-10-02 11:55:35+00:00
I don't know what you mean by this at all tbh.

I don't think the researchers at the top think LLM is AGI.

DeepMind and co are already working on world models.

The biggest bottleneck right now is compute compute and compute. If an experiement takes MONTH to train, you want a lot more compute. You need compute to optimize what you already have like LLMs and then again a lot of compute to try out new things.

All of the compute/Datacenters and GPUs are not LLM GPUs. They are ML capable GPUs.
by newscracker | 2025-10-02 11:56:20+00:00
Last I checked, Proton Mail does not support standard email client protocols. So you’re stuck with its apps and a browser interface or with buying a paid subscription and using a bridge software on desktop to use a client like Thunderbird. Getting mails out of Proton Mail is also not as easy as setting up a client with IMAP or using other tools like imapsync.
by wadudu | 2025-10-02 11:56:27+00:00
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by _heimdall | 2025-10-02 11:58:34+00:00
I don't think the question would be whether the technology literally disappears entirely, only how important it is going forward. The metaverse is still technically here, but that doesn't mean it is impactful or worth near the investment.

For LLMs, the architecture will be here and we know how to run them. If the tech hits a wall, though, and the usefulness doesn't balance well with the true cost of development and operation when VC money dries up, how many companies will still be building and running massive server farms for LLMs?
by mnky9800n | 2025-10-02 11:59:19+00:00
i think it is more like maps. before 2004, before google maps, the way we interacted with the spatial distribution of places and things was different. all these ai dev tools like claude code as well as tools for writing, etc. are going to change the way we interact with our computers.

but on the other side, the reason everyone is so gung ho on all this is because these models basically allow for the true personalization of everything. They can build up enough context about you in every instance of you doing things online that they can craft the perfect ad experience to maximize engagement and conversion. that is why everyone is so obsessed with this stuff. they don't care about AGI, they care about maintaining the current status quo where a large chunk of the money made on the internet is done by delivering ads that will get people to buy stuff.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-02 11:59:37+00:00
> This friend told me she can't work without ChatGPT anymore.

Is she more productive though?

People who smoke cigarettes will be unable to work without their regular smoke breaks. Doesn’t mean smoking cigarettes is good for working.

Personally I am an AI booster and I think even LLMs can take us much farther. But people on both sides need to stop accepting claims uncritically.
by tymonPartyLate | 2025-10-02 11:59:50+00:00
I did just that and I ended up horribly regretting it. The project had to be coded in Rust, which I kind of understand but never worked with. Drunk on AI hype, I gave it step by step tasks and watched it produce the code. The first warning sign was that the code never compiled at the first attempt, but I ignored this, being mesmerized by the magic of the experience. Long story short, it gave me quick initial results despite my language handicap. But the project quickly turned into an overly complex, hard to navigate, brittle mess. I ended up reading the Rust in Action book and spending two weeks cleaning and simplifying the code. I had to learn how to configure the entire tool chain, understand various cargo deps and the ecosystem, setup ci/cd from scratch, .... There is no way around that.

It was Claude Code Opus 4.1 instead of Codex but IMO the differences are negligible.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-02 11:59:58+00:00
https://www.msrs.co.uk/the-libel-labyrinth-navigating-the-tw...

> The costs in this case were significant, with Vardy being ordered to pay a substantial proportion of Rooney’s legal fees. Initially, the court ordered Vardy to pay £1.5 million in costs, earlier this month, it was revealed that Vardy had been ordered to pay an additional £100,000, bringing the total to £1.6 million.

https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/noel-clarke-ordered-to-pay-...

> In August, after a six week trial, the High Court upheld the Guardian’s defences of truth and public interest speech.

> The trial judge, Steyn J, has now ordered Mr Clarke to pay £3m on account within 28 days, in respect of a likely eventual costs liability of over £6m.

Those are cases where the defence won. But in those cases, (a) they have to front the legal fees themselves for a period of several years during the action and (b) there is a real risk that the person who filed the libel action may not be able to pay it.

It very risky for an individual to defend a libel action, so almost everyone folds instantly on receiving a letter, or settles.

An exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_v_Hopkins - peak Twitter, sadly. Fortunately in this case justice prevailed and Katie Hopkins lost her house and life savings.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-02 12:00:03+00:00
> It’s not clear that firms are prepared to earn back the investment

I am confused by a statement like this. Does Derek know why they are not? If hes does, I would love to hear the case (and no, comparisons to a random countries GDP are not an explanation).

If he does not, I am not sure why we would not assume that we are simply missing something, when there are so many knowledgable players charting a similar course, that have access to all the numbers and probably thought really long and hard about spending this much money.

By no means do I mean that they are right for that. It's very easy to see the potential bubble. But I would love to see some stronger reasoning for that.

What I know (as someone running a smallish non-tech business) is that there is plenty of very clearly unrealized potential, that will probably take ~years to fully build into the business, but that the AI technology of today already supports capability wise and that will definitely happen in the future.

I have no reason to believe that we would be special in that.
by cornholio | 2025-10-02 12:00:14+00:00
It's silly to say that the only objective that will vindicate AI investments is AGI.

Current batch of deep learning models are fundamentally a technology for labor automation. This is immensely useful in itself, without the need to do AGI. The Sora2 capabilities are absolutely wild (see a great example here of what non-professional users are already able to create with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXp8_w3XzgU )

So only looking at video capabilities, or at coding capabilities, it's already ready to automate and upend industries worth trillions in the long run.

The emerging reasoning capabilities are very promising, able to generate new theories and make scientific experiments in easy to test fields, such as in vitro drug creation. It doesn't matter if the LLM hallucinates 90% of the time, if it correctly reasons a single time and it can create even a single new cancer drug that passes the test.

These are all examples of massive, massive economic disruption by automating intellectual labor, that don't require strict AGI capabilities.