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by danielgh7 | 2026-02-02 22:07:24+00:00
This Saturday, Feb 7, we’re hosting a free VR screening of Insidious at The Producers Club in NYC. Everyone watches together in the same theater, but using VR headsets instead of a traditional screen.

One interesting twist: you can choose whether you want the experience to be less scary, standard, or more intense.

It’s a very small event with limited seats, so please only RSVP if you’re pretty sure you can make it.

We’ll have snacks during the screening and pizza after. We’ll also ask attendees to fill out a short survey so we can learn what worked and what didn’t.

If you’re curious:
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by comex | 2026-02-02 22:07:47+00:00
However, the United States did not join the Berne Convention until 1988, and prior to 1978 it did not automatically grant federal copyright when a work was created; instead you had to register your work with the Copyright Office in order to receive federal protection. There were also some state-level protections at the time that did not require registration, but apparently they weren't very strong.
by president_zippy | 2026-02-02 22:08:05+00:00
Interesting project and all, but why does everybody out to make their own compiled language want to get away from the basic syntax of C so badly? Rust and Golang are the poster children of this, but it seems like every other language implementer feels the same way on matters which are of 99% personal taste and 1% functionality.

This is just one microcosm of the general pattern I'm picking on here, but what's up with this obsession with scoping via indentation like Python? It's true that it looks a little more like a todo list someone would write on a sticky note, but I don't think C syntax is the hard part of systems programming or video game programming, which is what the creator of the Tomo language does.

It just seems like these kind of design choices needlessly add a barrier to entry for people who want to climb aboard.

Then again one must of necessity, have a ferocious "Not Invented Here" streak to go through all the trouble of inventing a new programming language in 2025.
by dwood_dev | 2026-02-02 22:08:25+00:00
I really would like to see a cost and cooling breakdown. I just can't see how you can do radiative cooling on the scales required, not to mention hardening.

I thought this was a troll by Elon, now I'm leaning towards not. I don't see how whatever you build being dramatically faster and cheaper to do on land, even 100% grid independent with solar and battery. Even if the launch cost was just fuel, everything else that goes into putting data centers in space dwarfs the cost of 4x solar plus battery.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-02 22:08:32+00:00
You would think the effect was the opposite. I think this is worse for OpenAI.

So far, the circular financing from Nvidia has been peanuts for the company. It's roughly equal to giving 5% discount on hardware, not a big deal when the profit margin is 70%. Trying to prop up new neoclouds and competition is a good idea.

As I understand it, the OpenAI investment was much bigger effective discount but still safe because Nvidia invests gradually in installments only when OpenAI invests in data centers: tit for tat. Maybe OpenAI wanted to get the money now and invest it later, as they seem to be running out of cash.
by kemotep | 2026-02-02 22:08:36+00:00
If Musk and SpaceX are serious about putting 1 million datacenter satellites into space, then they are not serious about Mars.

You cannot simultaneously build and launch 10’s of thousands of Starships to deliver 1 million tons of equipment and supplies bound to Mars while also committing to launching 10’s of thousands of Starships to orbit full of satellites.

They would need to quadruple their launch rate, and half of those launches would be Starships bound for Mars, the vast majority of which would never return.

How many Falcon9’s have ever been built? It is incredible to say you can build that many rockets and use up that much fuel on any reasonable time scale. You might as well say the Tesla Roadster version 3 will be a Single Stage to Orbit rocket car.
by bko | 2026-02-02 22:08:43+00:00
What's funny? Do you think the investors are against this? The investor's aren't idiots. I imagine the typical investor in Elon Musk's companies would approve of this sort of thing. So what's the problem? Besides, its a private company with Musk as majority shareholder in both. That's the beauty of private companies, you can just do things.

I wish more companies were private and ambitious. I'm tired of companies like Apple making marginal spec bumps to their phones and milking the same products for decades
by jcfrei | 2026-02-02 22:09:45+00:00
Kind of a bad look - but I can't precisely say why. Maybe he thinks he can raise more capital this way than he could for each company separately? Especially raising more money for X might be quite hard - they seem to be quite a bit behind on the revenue side compared to OpenAI / Anthropic. With both companies merged he might just find enough retail investors willing to buy at sky high valuations.
by grayhatter | 2026-02-02 22:09:48+00:00
> Not clarifying is the right thing to do.

Legally? Likely not. Ethically, definitely not.

Legally, (in the US at least,) any ambiguity in the interpretation of a contract will most often be interpreted to benefit of the party that didn't draft the contract. In this case, the interpretation of license would likely benefit the user. But then, I'm only repeating what you've already said. So the ambiguity here doesn't benefit them legally speaking. I do agree, a frontline engineer shouldn't be trying to clarify the legal meaning in a github issue (without the legal expertise a good legal team would contribute). I don't agree that leaving the understanding to be ambiguous, is a solid legal decision.

Then, ethically. If someone ask if the license is trying to trap them, and all you do is shrug. You're not the good guy, ethically speaking.

> This is why using standard well drafted licenses verbatim is so useful. Legal phrases that have established meanings clear things up for legally even if they confuse the rest of us.

This may be pedantically true, but the part that trumps the US doctrine of contra proferentem, is the original intent that both parties likely understood. The legal interpretation, while you say it may be confusing for some people, doesn't override what the parties reasonably understood the contract to state. Or in this case, license, to grant.

That is to say, if you represent your offering as open source, and enjoy the benefits of such. It's a fundamental error to assume the courts will later back you up when you change your mind, and attempt a rug pull. And that's ignoring the ethical implications, which are enough for me to wanna peace out. (I.e. if you're pissing off your users and supporters, it was the wrong decision.)
by OlympicMarmoto | 2026-02-02 22:09:49+00:00
This is another common excuse.

You don't need to use microsoft's or apple's or google's shit UI frameworks. E.g. see https://filepilot.tech/

You can just write all the rendering yourself using metal/gl/dx. if you didn't want to write the rendering yourself there are plenty of libraries like skia, flutter's renderer, nanovg, etc
by harikb | 2026-02-02 22:09:50+00:00
If the web-interface of a website can serve same HTML to all browsers, these UI can as well. I don't think we have IE6 level incompatibility these days. I have no idea what specific incompatibility you are talking about. I am writing my 4th desktop app since early 2025.

But sure, you could have some specific need, but I find it hard to believe for these simple apps.
by godelski | 2026-02-02 22:10:14+00:00
You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. in one of two ways:

1. Under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU AGPL v3.0, subject to the exceptions outlined in this policy; or
2. Under a commercial license available from Mattermost, Inc. by contacting commercial@mattermost.com

My read:
We provide you with two options, either:
1. Follow Apache License
2. Pay us and you don't need to follow Apache License terms

This really seems like a dual license situation where they are saying "Let's encourage Open Source, but if you want to just use our work to make yourself rich and not even acknowledge you're using us then fuck you, pay us."

I expect this to become more common as companies routinely infringe on OSS licenses while simultaneously many companies are hesitant to use OSS because of licenses. This at least gives an out for the good actors and allow devs to make money (other than being reliant on donations, because... that's worked out...).

But maybe I'm misunderstanding? If so, I don't know what I'm missing
by andsoitis | 2026-02-02 22:10:22+00:00
> These are no longer tech companies, to they are financial, and power, instruments of the billionaire class

SpaceX has made numerous breakthroughs in reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight, satellite constellation, and rocket propulsion.

SpaceX is the world's dominant space launch provider with its launch cadence eclipsing all others, including private and national programs.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-02 22:10:36+00:00
Remember MoviePass, and how they were losing gobs of money by letting people see unlimited movies for $20/month?

It was so obviously stupid that a bunch of people went, "well, this so clearly can't work that they must have a secret plan to make money, we'll invest on that promise", and then it turned out there was no secret plan, it was as stupid as it looked and it went bankrupt.

The "datacenters in space" thing is a similar play: it's so obviously dumb that a bunch of smart people have tricked themselves into thinking "wow, SpaceX must have actually figured a way it can work!"; SpaceX has not and it is in fact exactly as stupid as it looks.
by rybosworld | 2026-02-02 22:10:52+00:00
> The basic math is that launching a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per ton would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually, with no ongoing operational or maintenance needs. Ultimately, there is a path to launching 1 TW/year from Earth.

> My estimate is that within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space.

This is so obviously false. For one thing, in what fantasy world would the ongoing operational and maintenance needs be 0?
by sfink | 2026-02-02 22:11:01+00:00
>> the meaning of words and concepts is not an intrinsic property, but is derived entirely from relationships between concepts.

> Possibly I'm not understanding you here. Supposing that certain meanings were intrinsic properties, would the relationships between those concepts not also carry meaning? Can't intrinsic things also be used as building blocks? And why would we expect an ML model to be incapable of learning both of those things? Why should encoding semantics though spatial adjacency be mutually exclusive with the processing of intrinsic concepts? (Hopefully I'm not betraying some sort of great ignorance here.)

I probably shouldn't respond to this part, because I don't really agree with the original assertion. Or rather, I think this ends up boiling down to a disagreement over semantics, and so isn't a particularly interesting question.

Relationships between concepts covers a lot of what "meaning" is. You can teach a computer to translate from language X to Y purely based on it learning the relationships of words to each other in each language, and then generating a mapping between the weight-graph of X to the weight-graph of Y. (Yeah, citation needed; I remember reading some specific evidence for this, but I don't remember where.) So you can get a long way with just relationships.

At the same time, I don't think that proves that the relationships between concepts are everything. A human getting burned and learning the word "hot" could be described as "hot" having an intrinsic meaning. But you could equally describe it as a relationship between the action taken, the sensation experienced, and the phonemes heard. If all those are "concepts", then the relationships between concepts are everything. If they're not, then you can call something intrinsic. Personally, that strikes me as a pointless philosophical question.

I guess you could argue that if you have an LLM trained on mostly English but also enough Chinese to be able to translate, and it generates text including the word "hot", then if you compare that to the same LLM generating text including the Chinese word for hot, that there's more opportunity for drift in the Chinese output. The first case has the chain of a human feeling pain => writing text containing "hot" => generating text containing "hot", whereas the second has the chain of a human feeling pain => writing text containing "hot" => encoded associations between English and Chinese concepts embedded in weights => writing Chinese text containing Chinese "hot". The English "hot" output is more tightly connected to and more directly derives from the physical sensation of burning. (This is of course assuming majority English training data, and in particular a relative lack of Chinese training data containing the "hot" word/concept.) So in a way, you could claim that the question of whether the word "hot" has an intrinsic meaning is relevant and useful. But it seems to me that's just one way of describing the origins of training data; use it if it's useful.
by SimianSci | 2026-02-02 22:11:02+00:00
It's a CONSTANT stream of new ideas with no payoff at this point.

Hyperloop > Neuralink > Self-Driving Cars > Robotaxi fleets > Personal Robots > Orbital Datacenters > [insert next vibe shift]

At what point do people start to see the ever-shifting goalposts for what they are?
by tromp | 2026-02-02 22:11:09+00:00
BLC can output any literal 60 bit string x as the 64-bit (delimited) program 0010 x, so in that sense it would be some 61 bit number.
But if ask about just lambda calculus terms without the binary input, then I think it would be some small number of at most 10 bits. BBλ looks at the normal form size so it cannot even reach numbers 0,1,2,3, and 5.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-02 22:11:19+00:00
After their gaming stock crashing, making Windows 11 completely useless, not to mention its Copilot adoption getting nowhere, this was just a matter of time.

Windows 11 falling apart after AI adoption tells their AI, vibe coding is not going as planned.

If you saw their latest report claiming to focus on fixing the trust on Windows, it is a little too late, even newbies moved to Linux, and with AMD driver support, gaming is no longer an excuse.
by pibaker | 2026-02-02 22:11:21+00:00
To be fair I doubt there are that many people scanning for internet facing XPs in 2026.

On the other hand, any server running old, unpatched versions of apache or similar will get picked up by script kiddies scanning for publicly known vulns very, very fast.

The notepad++ attack is politically targeted and done through unconventional channels (compromise in the hosting provider). I don't think 99% of the people reading this thread has a comparable threat model.
by gspr | 2026-02-02 22:11:27+00:00
Indeed. But it's also a hilariously Musky idea! Some moderate technical competence paired with sociopathy and an ego orders of magnitude too big, and voila, you get Cybertrucks, Hyperloops, Neuralinks, Teslabots, datacenters in space, and all the other garbage the man spews.

I cannot wait for him to one day be hit in the face by reality.
by brian-armstrong | 2026-02-02 22:11:35+00:00
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by brightball | 2026-02-02 22:11:52+00:00
Aside from Elon Musk, there are a few other people with a lot of capital aiming to do the same thing. That means, either they are all wrong (possible) or this problem has been solved somehow and the solution itself is not public.

Google and Amazon are doing the same thing. Maybe it is a moonshot (pun intended), but Musk is hardly alone in the push.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-and-musk-race-to-bring-data-c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/technology/space-data-cen...
by emacdona | 2026-02-02 22:11:58+00:00
I am not a lawyer.

My reading of the license is: either (a) buy a license or (b) be bound by the AGPLv3 -- with _very_ limited exceptions.

So, my question is: are the people that are upset with the "ambiguity" people who neither (a) want to buy a license nor (b) be bound by the AGPLv3?

If so, I have no sympathy.
by hdjrudni | 2026-02-02 22:12:03+00:00
I appreciate this (as a Windows user) but I'm also curious how necessary this was.

Like I notice in Codex in PhpStorm it uses Get-Whatever style PowerShell commands but firstly, I have a perfectly working Git-Bash installed that's like 98% compatible with Linux and Mac. Could it not use that instead of being retrained on Windows-centric commands?

But better yet, probably 95% of the commands it actually needs to run are like cat and ripgrep. Can't you just bundle the top 20 commands, make them OS-agnostic and train on that?

The last tiny bit of the puzzle I would think is the stuff that actually is OS-specific, but I don't know what that would be. Maybe some differences in file systems, sandboxing, networking.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-02 22:12:04+00:00
This reminds me of all the "i could turn the spreadsheet into a webapp in a weekend" type comments. Sure, you could get CRUD and a datatable working but then a user is going to ask you for a custom field and you'll say "ok let me vibe code that, update the database, and then deploy" but the user will say "well in Jira I could just to that myself...". Then the next thing they're going to ask is some kind of custom workflow utility which you'll then goto work vibe coding that feature and they'll say again "...but in jira that was already there". Meanwhile they'll ask you why they can't change the validation criteria on the custom field from before, they said it should be required but now there's a case where it's optional.

Pretty soon you're just re-implementing Jira while your users wait and get pissed because they could have just been using Jira all along. It's just like turning a spreadsheet into a webapp, inevitably you just end up trying to re-implement Excel.
by birdmania | 2026-02-02 22:12:20+00:00
Friend asked for help with her Hinge profile. Instead of winging it, I wasted weekend on research - signaling theory, mate selection studies, photo perception research. 45 papers later, I had a framework.

Turned it into a repeatable process: audit current profile, discovery interview, game theory analysis (what signals filter for who you actually want), then copy and photo principles.

Worked well on a sample of one.
So have packaged the whole process as a Claude Code skill if it helps anyone get laid / loved then great!
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-02-02 22:12:42+00:00
I can't tell how many layers of sarcasm are here, but I just want to highlight that aktshually cooling in space is quite difficult because there is no convection, so the only cooling option is radiative. Which gets a bit hard when the satellite gets blasted by the sun.

The ISS doesn't have problems staying warm, it has problems cooling off.
by readthenotes1 | 2026-02-02 22:13:02+00:00
How's that? You give people enough money for food and shelter for a while and they have food and shelter while you're giving them that money?

It says nothing about what happened 5 years after the participants stopped getting the money.

And I'll remind you that giving money to people directly instead of creating complex government programs is exactly what Reagan wanted in the 1960s when a lot of the programs started--so must be a suspect idea
by dangrahn | 2026-02-02 22:13:02+00:00
This is such a common trap for many, building a solution looking for a problem.

I’ve experienced it myself many times. Learned by experience that validating early is better, but even when knowing the fact there’s a gravitational pull for builders to just wanting to build things, without knowing if it’s a solid opportunity or not. It’s an opportunity loss for us builders.

I’m now building the tool I always wished I had. An idea research and validation tool that streamlines idea validation for busy founders and product developers. Type your idea, get it properly researched and instantly get validation optimised landing pages to distribute with your target audience for quick and early validation.

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by kpalang | 2026-02-02 22:13:06+00:00
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by bluGill | 2026-02-02 22:13:23+00:00
It is very much important to the developer - whoever buys the land wants to know that their employees and customers can get there. That means there needs to be enough parking, transit, or pedestrians. If it is in a car centrist area that won't buy if there isn't enough parking. Downtowns can get by with less parking only if there is great transit to bring people in. Developers are not stupid, they know that if there isn't enough parking property values go down.