Thanks for the link. The comparison to electricity is a good one, and this is a nice reflection on why it took time for electricity’s usefulness to show up in productivity stats:
> What eventually allowed gains to be realized was redesigning the entire layout of factories around the logic of production lines. In addition to changes to factory architecture, diffusion also required changes to workplace organization and process control, which could only be developed through experimentation across industries.
Exactly. If we really wanted to benchmark the various models on the merits of their individual implementations, we should be comparing them all on the same open dataset.
Highly recommend integrating with the atproto network to hop onto its social graph; that could be a major differentiator for your service. I’d love to log in with my Bluesky account and see who else in my network has opted to share their couchsurfing status.
I’d be much more at ease with their long term prospects if they begun the process of transitioning to a cooperative or steward-ownership, so that they’re less at risk of CEO-capture.
I mean I'm fine with them as they are now, corporate-structure-wise. What happens if Kagi starts to suck? I stop paying for it and move on with my life, so rather than worrying about what could happen, I'll just enjoy it for what it is now.
If nothing else, Google taught me that just because something is great today doesn't mean it will necessarily be great tomorrow. I can't get attached.
It depends. I'd love to make a prototype using Bevy with Roto. What I'm trying to say is that if you only want something to make Rust compile faster, then Rust might the better option. If you want something that behaves more like a scripting language and you don't mind that is compiled at startup, then Roto might be good for that purpose (with the caveat that there are missing features of course).
Having not yet actually tried it, I assume I could compile at startup on a separate thread with no issues? This seems like a dream scripting language--or "application language" as someone else called it.
Yes, you definitely could! And thanks for the kind words! If you try it out for your own purposes, you'll probably run into some missing features (e.g. lists and loops), but we'd be happy to hear what you think!
Thank you for putting this out there! I'll make sure to let you know what I think when I try it out—but I have some wood to chop on other parts of my app before I get into scripting.
Re: lists and loops, is that not supported because it hasn't been a priority or because it requires some fundamental redesign? Which is to say, if I wanted to add those down the road, is this something I could try my hand at implementing on my own and possibly contributing back?
They're on the roadmap for sure. While loops are quite easy to add I think, but it would also need an assignment operator to make it useful. Lists are complicated because they're generic over the element type. That's why I've waited so long to add them.
Hey, one of the two cofounders here. Very cool to see Weird on HN, although we had purposefully refrained from posting it ourselves yet since it’s still baking.
This looks really interesting, I always thought Linktree (and all the copycats) were just too simplistic.
However, I don't see anywhere on the homepage where you have an example. I think it would be really helpful if the example images you posted actually went to those pages. Or even better, can your homepage just be a demonstration of your product?
ATM, it seems quite distracting, rather than just being clear about the benefit.
The extended version of Weird that we’re building now however will include community hosting ranging between $10/$100 per month as part of a B2B play as opposed to the B2C model of Weird as-is, so that.
The quirky sensibility coming through in the copy might appeal to the demographic interested in maintaining personal digital gardens rather than a slick SaaS product. It does too me!
Not disagreeing with the thrust of your post though I would take issue with it being both "strangely eloquent" and "utterly incomprehensible". It's just awkward writing... which, for a platform called WEIRD, is perhaps the point.
Seems rather premature to call the experiment over when Bluesky/atproto has only been generally available for a year since they opened up registrations to all in February 2024. That’s a very short amount of time to explore the affordances of a brand new platform and ecosystem.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43697717