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I think they found the one weird software dev in Anguilla willing to do it. The "Offshore Information Services" link on the .ai wikipedia page "registry" link redirects to the dudes wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate

A colorful character to say the least, and exactly the kind of person I'd expect to be running the ccTLD of a small caribbean island.

Just a note for anyone basing their business on the .ai TLD.

It's technically the domain for Anguilla, a literal British colony in the Caribbean.

It appears to be managed by some random guy- check out the .ai registration FAQ: http://whois.ai/faq.html

If you are going to use .ai, just be aware the top level of the domain appears to be managed by some dude with a gmail account. Its not necessarily bad, but something to consider if you're planning to host your billion dollar AI startup on it.

Also useful for bootstrapping a dev ecosystem.

If engineers are getting into AI development through OpenAI, they're using tools and systems within the OpenAI ecosystem.

Daily on HN there's a post on some AI implementation faster than chatgpt. But my starting point is OpenAI. If you can capture the devs, especially at this stage, you get a force multiplier.

I'll take the other side of this. While there certainly are examples of click bait and inflammatory BS on Twitter, there is also an element of legitimate thought leadership that can go viral in a way you just don't have on any other social media platform.

There are few other platforms I can think of where someone with deep expertise on any subject can publish interesting, informed takes on their field- On a platform where the barrier to entry to publish is near-zero, provided with a random chance to go viral.

When I used Twitter, seeking out and following these kinds of experts actually made the experience of Twitter a rich and informative platform- albeit one where you constantly needed to "weed the garden".

The problem of course is that was a thin layer of wheat in a big bucket of chaff- but there is a better answer to "best alternative to twitter is no twitter": The best alternative to Twitter is one that can maximize virality for expert opinions; incentivizing other users to write engaging, structured opinions. Try to build a system where the best way to engagement farm is to show real thought leadership.

The entire field of Service Reliability is dedicated to finding the exact boundaries of acceptable errors, and defining the response function when those boundaries are crossed.

I would assume this actually gels very nicely with neural nets since its constantly optimizing for fitness. Hell in theory you could bake in your SLA/SLIs into the models to self correct? Give the model direct feedback that its unfit?

Employee and customer happiness has nothing to do with CEO performance.

A CEO's sole responsibility is to deliver value to the shareholders. It literally doesn't matter how that value is delivered, as long as it gets delivered.

Like many things, the more complex the workflow the more useful it becomes running it locally.

I've found it especially useful for fixing complex workflows or working with custom actions. It's not strictly needed, but it does speed up your workflow once you figure out the kinks.

I personally liked the anecdote about Clever Hans.

I also learned there's a long history of AI skepticism, the root of which comes down to "Compositionality(?)"- and this wall of understanding meaning has vexed AI for decades.

That would be lost in proposed short form summary.

Feels like there's a big race to be the all-in-one everything tool for everything. It's Gitlabs whole schtick, GitHub is moving in that direction, now "also Jetbrains".

IMO I think something like Jetbrains should be leaning into integration, not all-in-one. Connective tissue last longer than walled garden.

It also pushed art to the niche. Painted images explicitly for children has been a massive industry for decades- also one that mature AI generative art could absolutely dominate.

I'd love to see this technology aimed at concept art for games. I don't think this would hurt employed concept artists, I do think it will be a tool concept artists can use to quickly thumbnail significantly more versions of a vision.

That artist will then refine the results into something supremely engaging to humans.

Really I see this as an incredible tool for artists to help refine truly innovative ideas.

Not gonna lie I'd watch his unhinged YouTube videos.

> It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand.

The thing about a decent monetization model is that is _has_ to be thought about and structured from the very beginning.

If you are going to have a live team creating content for a game over the long term, then the game has to make money over the long term as well. If you try to hamfist that monetization model at the end, it looks like a hamfisted monetization scheme that players are _very_ attuned to.

Bad monetization design is like bad game design, it makes the game worse. Good monetization design can allow you to support your game for _decades_.

League of Legends would have died years ago if not for a monetization model that worked over the long term.

Venezuela oil industry is literally falling apart, the real amount of oil they could produce with lifted sanctions doesn't make much of a dent in global demand.

Oil markets are pretty tight to begin with- they're finely tuned to react to even marginal shifts in supply/demand. Have massive changes like the lockdowns or turn off a major supplier, you see equally massive swings in price, backwardation/contango levels, etc.

While I would agree that the libertarian anti-establishment cypherpunk culture was ingrained in the early stages of Bitcoins adoption, I would argue the driving motivation of BTC participants have changed.

The overwhelming culture of Bitcoin now is Number Go Up, which will be tested should US regulators fall more anti-crypto than pro-crypto.

Could short the futures ETF now. Timing lines up nicely.

Honestly as good as most of the excuses I've seen for "Reasons I won't work with _____ langauge"

Patenting Entity-Component-System sounds like a hot take.

I didn't look close enough to see if what they're patenting is something specifically unique to Unity3d's implementation. It would have to be?

From the abstract it sounds like the equivalent of trying to patent Observer/Observable.

Maybe there is a history of patenting software architecture that I'm not aware of, I'm not an expert in patenting in software development.

If governments are looking at Chinese-Taiwan relations, and gaming the result of an occupied Taiwan, those supply chains become profitable pretty damn quickly.

You'd be shocked at what Canadians put up with. Look closely at any industry here and corruption/abuse run rampant.

My only question is if MoU is necessary step for any project like this. My expectation is that government bureaucracy requires each laborious step be taken in order for the project to even get to a state where it can start to fail.

Larger amounts of people mean more chances of exposure.

Being in urban environment means higher dependence on fragile supply chains- food security is totally dependent on JIT grocery store inventories.

Rural homes, by virtue of being isolated, are easier to self isolate.

Just gonna quickly fork this gold and call it silver

I always try to aim for the "Most Likely Worst Case Scenario"... not the worst thing that can happen, but the most likely bad thing that can happen.

What strikes me about their scenario is how it assumes there is a core group making malware to rob the corporations.

While that would make an interesting episode of CSI: Who Cares, it doesn't square with the flash rebellions we've seen since the Arab Spring.

The nature of rebellions in our time are sudden, decentralized, massive protest movements with no clear leaders and no clear goals.

Much harder to counter one of these protest waves than troll the darknet for anarcho-hipster corporate raiders.

While I appreciate the invocation of Godwin's law, Facebook is absolutely a private empire with an empire; in context of modern society.

I find it funny that the SSL cert on antirez.com is throwing PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

PowerShell takes some time to grok, but once you get it it has very deep integration with Windows systems, and can become a joy to work with.

That being said, I still feel violated every time `ls` returns `bad command or filename`

Makes me think you can add scent trails to many objects- like the path of a fired arrow. Would help mitigate the "stealthy archer" problem Skyrim AI has.

FWIW I've found that there is a cross section between excitement of a new project and the momentum of that project.

Most projects fizz out when the excitement wears off before the amount of work you've already done on it has enough momentum to push you to do one more task.

When I push though that motivational hurdle, I find the amount of work already done incentives to continue on with it. The next task is obvious and relatively easy, because there is something to work with.

Now, losing confidence that everything you've written is garbage and refactoring the same systems over and over again until you give up- that's the hurdle I choke on :D

I too went straight to HN upon realizing this