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https://twitter.com/h_liyan | CTO @ liquidlabs.agency

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  1. hliyan
    Unless this is satire, one of the most frightening comments I have read here in a while. Not because of any intended malice, but precisely because of its very absence in advocating something that is the psychological version of eugenics. Much like the Formics in Ender's Game (or the protomolecule in the Expanse), the scariest type of monster is the one that genuinely has no malicious intent, but simply cannot comprehend our individuality, our desire to live and be free, and our fear of pain.
  3. hliyan
    I think neither analogy is correct. We're using macro metaphors (real world things at human time and spatial scales) to explain microscopic phenomena that may not correspond to anything that we find familiar.
  4. hliyan
    This is where a lot of people are. In my case, every time I open a PDF in Google Drive, it forces an AI summary of the doc with no way for me to switch it off. I try to close it mid-generation, but I suspect not fast enough to keep it from getting counted in the usage stats, which is probably what some product manager is trying to maximize and demonstrate ("X number of PDF summarizations this quarter").
  5. hliyan
    Yes, but QT is precompiled. If QML can be served over the web and JIT compiled locally, that might be closer to what I'm talking about.
  6. hliyan
    You have completely misunderstood the proposal. None of those drive OS native UI widgets through markup and scripts downloaded from the web.
  7. hliyan
    I've been wondering whether it's time to reserve browsers for their original purpose of reading documents and move web applications to a different paradigm: perhaps native controls/windows rendered and controlled by cross-platform markup served over the web, running on a "headless" sandbox. Perhaps a bit like React Native, but JIT compiled on the client. Not sure if this already exists. I'd really like to have native UI controls back for applications.
  8. hliyan
    I kept reading, waiting for a definition of spatial intelligence, but gave up after a few paragraphs. After years of reading VC-funded startup fluff, writing that contain these words tend to put me off now: transform, revolutionize, next frontier, North Star.
  10. hliyan
    They have the compiler tool chain but don't even have a bootloader yet: https://radiant.computer/status/

    Still early stages https://radiant.computer/log/

  11. hliyan
    Inter-process pointer sharing, ability to persist and restore pointer-connected data structures, address-translation-independent memory protection, to name a few reasons.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_address_space_operating...

  12. hliyan
    If by service, you mean the cloud machine -- I mean a plain vanilla machine running an OS of your choice (e.g. Windows or Ubuntu). Switching to another service provider means taking your file backups + reinstalling your software on the new machine.

    Developers already know how to do this with EC2s, Droplets, Linodes, Azure VMs etc. The process just needs to be more average-person-friendly.

  13. hliyan
    I wonder if the future should simply be a cloud version of a personal computer. Rather than subscribing to a lot of SaaS where your data distributed across various platforms, you "purchase" a cloud computer (could be a tiny SOC + disk, or a VM), install software on it (licensed, not subscription based), and store all your data on it, as good old-fashioned files only you and your programs can access. Including your video library, part of which you can choose to expose to the outside world through a public IP. When your cloud PC needs more memory or CPU, you upgrade, just like you do your physical device.
  14. hliyan
    This is true even of some third world countries like Sri Lanka (where I live). There is a web-based system called RAMIS (Revenue Administration Management Information System). Any taxpayer can log in using their tax identification number and file their taxes.
  15. hliyan
    Perhaps if a company is providing a service that might be considered critical (e.g. primary email address / identity provider), then there should be regulations about the level of customer support, especially some sort of human response SLA.
  16. hliyan
    If you reframe this as: a commercial entity progressively dominates a service that is increasingly becoming necessary for survival in the modern world (e.g. primary email / identity provider) or in a given profession (Android developer), and then denies that service to some individuals, while also keeping the cost of switching away to competitors high, then there is a case for natural justice, even if there (still) aren't laws in the books to cover it.
  17. hliyan
    It's interesting that there is a generation of developers now who seem to believe that the Internet is an achievement of pure commercial, market dynamics and are surprised to learn about ARPANET and its early development within academia (we were taught this history in the first year of university). If the foundations of the Internet (particularly the protocol suites) had not been open, government-funded and not-for-profit, we would probably have a number of competing closed platforms instead of a single Internet, with paid services to perform protocol translations between them.
  18. hliyan
    Wouldn't this be better as a browser extension where the user can highlight some text on it and have it explained, like these: https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/ai%20explain?filter...
  19. hliyan
    Do any of these models know how to say "I don't know"? This is one of my biggest worries about these models.
  20. hliyan
    Very questionable reasoning: using a traffic analogy to argue against medical reality.

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