pronounced "zork" per: https://www.xorq.dev/blog/introducing-xorq
The point was it's not obvious.
Readit Newszcw100 commented on Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI github.com/xorq-labs/xorq... · Posted by u/mousematrix
zcw100 commented on Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI github.com/xorq-labs/xorq... · Posted by u/mousematrix
I think so too...seriously considering changing the name
And how do you pronounce it? EX-ork, Zork, Ex or Que?
zcw100 commented on The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s apolloacademy.com/ai-bubb... · Posted by u/akyuu
For those around for the .com bust it does feel very similar. In both cases the tech is amazing and isn’t going away, but the business models of many/most companies “innovating” with the tech is simply unsustainable. A lot of “AI” currently looks like a dry forest waiting for lighting to strike and burn it to the ground. The latest round of PR puff from CEOs saying they’re doing layoffs because of AI (vs their poor performance or prior bad business decisions) is fueling the perception that the hype is a mile wide and a millimeter thick, just waiting for the moment when it all comes crashing down.
This is a longstanding predictable pattern in tech. Most of these “AI companies” will go bust or become a shell of their former self and sold off for parts. The tech will be commoditized and become pretty ubiquitous across the board but not a profit center in its own right.
Some of the most valuable companies in the world right now are remnants of the dot com crash, Facebook (Meta), Google, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. By this logic the "AI companies" will go bust and coalesce into a few winners who will go on to become the worlds first multi trillion dollar companies and dominate the economic landscape for the next couple of decades.
zcw100 commented on Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin mill-build.org/mill/index... · Posted by u/lihaoyi
I don't know why I don't see anyone ever mention JeKa. https://jeka.dev/
You don't have to learn a separate language or some weird config.
All we have now are "entry level" jobs with PhD level requirements and senior roles that companies post but never hire.
The market doesn't want actual junior engineers right now. Training juniors into productive workers takes time and money when you could just hire a senior, call them a junior, and chronically under pay them until they quit
Why are we talking about “jobs” like it’s some singular thing? Is the best we can do to explain what we think might happen to line up every person who has something that can be described as a job, left to right by experience, and then decide which part is going to be mowed down by AI?
It’s just going to be way more complex than that. Some people are going to have more work than they know what to do with. Some jobs are going away, some people will see zero change. It’s going to depend on what you do, what industry you’re in, where you live, your experience. We can see some vague outlines of what is coming but the only thing we can be certain of, at this point, is there will be a lot of change.
zcw100 commented on Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start w3.org/blog/2025/join-the... · Posted by u/pentagrama
… And that's clearly a major concern because my front end developer colleagues treat everything that Google does as the one true way of the web. No matter if it is accepted into a standards body, or if the Chrome implementation is buggy, that is their target and every other browser is an after-thought at best.
Historically nothing has changed just who’s on top. Mosaic, Netscape, IE, Chrome…
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zcw100 commented on Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama evan.widloski.com/softwar... · Posted by u/Evidlo
It definitely will be if you go to court. As soon as you have any witnesses there is little chance to get out of a verbal contract.
This is a gross simplification of the law. There isn't some "gotcha" like some schoolyard disagreement. "I gotcha! You said it! Derik heard it you gotta do it now! Do it Do it! Do it!"
Yes, you can enforce a verbal contract. You'll need to show what exactly you agreed to which is going to be vague due to the nature of a verbal contract. You'll need to show an offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, legal capacity, and certainty. So no, you can't offer to buy your buddy's car for $1 when you're at the bar grabbing a beer and have them say, "haha, deal" and expect to get their car.
zcw100 commented on Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama evan.widloski.com/softwar... · Posted by u/Evidlo
zcw100 commented on Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith vincentschmalbach.com/sta... · Posted by u/vincent_s
This is true, except in the usual case where early employees are made offers that include some presumption of partial ownership of the company through stock grants or options, often with a corresponding decrease in salary that scales inversely with the strength of the founder's reality distortion field.
There's no such thing as presumptive partial ownership. Lando had a presumptive partial ownership and if you do you should expect the Vader treatment, "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further".