Just 12 hours [1] before I wrote on HN how I hope Zig won't do a hostile reply to Jarred's blog post.
I was half expecting it to be from Loris Cro, being VP of community for Zig. But was really hoping Andrew would write one himself, hopefully being more diplomatic.
I was wrong.
Even if everything that was listed in the blog was true, it could have been either not mentioned, or in all cases put it in much better way. And that is why copywriter are worth something.
Disagreeing on AI, How to run its business, low salary for Zig's job hurts the Zig foundation, Code quality, meaning on Fuzzing etc. Instead a lot of this now reads to me as direct attack. It could have been written as a heavy disagreement in a much more professional manner.
And no, professional doesn't mean cooperate speak.
Considering the Internet was on Zig's side when Bun switch to Rust was brewing.
I hope Zig won't do a hostile reply to this blog post. But some thoughts on Zig's future where a lot of these problems could be fixed or migrated by better tooling and compiler checking.
But a lot of people have been saying this for sometime, Rust and LLM is a great match. A lot of friction of the language were smoothed out by LLM assisted programming.
Not only that. I think most of us, including the author wouldn't have thought this was actually feasible.
Not only is the time and dollar spent lower than a lot of people expected. We could now foresee a lot of these human interaction, mistakes, time and cost could be further reduced by a factor of 2, 5 or even 10+ in the not far future.
Also worth taking into account what is stated in the blog post is also acting as PR piece for Claude and LLM in general.
Thanks I have somehow missed this. My mental model is that Go is still 1.5 to 2.5x speed of C hence I asked the question. This is likely wrong number now given so much has been happening without much fanfare. ( or may be I just missed all of it )
I am surprised that Siri has only been mentioned 5 times here, out of the current 355 comments.
I am wondering if this because Siri is so bad, people think of Siri now as a voice activation method rather than an AI assistant as it was intended.
The demo is so good, what was once a sci-fi / Iron Man Jarvis services is now real. I don't follow AI closely, but all previous iteration were at best ask and answer type of services. It wasn't real conversation. And whatever flaws it may have now, at the rate of improvement within a few iteration it will surely reach good enough stage for majority of people.
This is also scary. Not just for adults, but for kids. How they could become even more isolated.
I remember the PC era, the internet from Information Super Highway to Web 2.0 Then Smartphone. It may have been obvious to many but AI really is something much bigger than all the previous three, perhaps combined. And it is also the only one that I think is scary.
Agree and I think Server CPU segment desperately needs more competition. Pushing ahead with PCIe 6.0. They now have full stack from CPU, GPU and Networking. Working with partners that pushes Rack Improvements and Water cooling development forward.
>At the core of Vera is Olympus, NVIDIA’s custom CPU core, which delivers 50% higher instructions per cycle than NVIDIA Grace
It sounds exciting until you do the maths.
NVIDIA Grace is based on Neoverse V2, also used by Graviton 4, it is derived from the ARM Cortex-X3, used in Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Mediatek Dimensity 9200.
With the context above, 50% IPC improvement in 2028 doesn't sounds that impressive. We since have Cortex-X4, Cortex-X925 and currently C1-Ultra used in Dimensity 9500. And we are expecting C2 this year. Considering every generation has had higher than 10% IPC improvement. That Rosa would be about the same as C2, or roughly M5.
Some things are measured from 0, some are measured from 100. Depending on Expectation.
When expectation is 100%, telling me 98% success rate isn't enough. An example where the argument happens on Reddit, Macrumours and even on HN. When Apple's butterfly keyboard have issues. Apple Supporter was quick to dismiss the issue and point out the double entry is such a small issue because it is working 99.9% of the time. What they don't realise keyboard before that was practically 100%. That 0.1% error rate is infinitely more than 0%.
Another example is Internet connection When you are used to perfect Internet connection, just a small beep in disconnecting turns to be major annoyance. There are plenty of these examples especially with DOCSIS Cable modem. The modem theoretically is working 99,95% of the time, hence cable companies won't fix it. But Disconnecting 10 to 30 seconds every day is annoying enough.
I am not sure if there is a word or terminology for it so this could be better explained to people.
On the other hand, there are plenty of things where 80% is good enough, or doing above and beyond at 96% by getting 80% out of the original remaining 20%.
May be true between late 90s to late mid 10s. Both Java and JVM has had enormous of work going into it. 2026 the JVM is pretty damn good pieces of engineering.
We ( including myself ) like to shit on Apple's regression of UX and software. Which is true, on all of their OS. But every time we look into alternatives, the others are so far off that even Apple has regressed 10 - 20% they will still be so far ahead of others.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, Meta. Is there even one software company that does software UX well but not on Apple's platform?
By charging it for content. Since HN doesn't like any form of Ads. /s
Sorry I have to write this out. But I am somewhat glad in the past 2 years HN has returned back to discussing monetization, money, business in a sane way.
>That's Micron's problem. Nobody held a gun to their heads and made them accept the prices Apple was offering. Micron willingly took those deals.
Then they risk losing Apple as a customer, with empty Fabs running which cost them most money. And pile of stock unable to be covered by any other player in the market.
The power is over at the buy side. The sell side have very little leverage. Hence they some times come together, and then they were called price fixing.
Literally every other commodity market with only a few players will have price fixing by the definition of those verdict. Since there are limited customer in the market and limited supply. Even without the player actively asking what others are buying or selling the market over time will naturally arrives at an equilibrium.
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