What happened to @Revolut is the case for Byzantine tolerance and replication. One replica goes down; another one seamlessly replaces it.
“blockchain” is just a more broad application of replication on the central bank layer.
Really liking China so far, huge progress after my last visit a decade ago, @levelsio is right it’s the future.
Alipay/wechat work like a breeze, Didi Luxe is awesome, four seasons is at $300, the “firewall” is more permissive than in Russia. What’s not to like!
wow the air in Beijing is so bad. i’ve been caughing non-stop since arriving and just woke up in the middle of deep sleep grasping for air. scary stuff. i hope it’s the air and not some kind of symptom-less covid in terminal stage :/
who’s around? recommendations?
this is the paradise religions promise you.
we built it. stop suffering. live it. every moment.
go touch grass. be happy. help others.
Yes, I have so much time now
I honestly feel like we're entering a new time of leisure where people are just talking to their agents to steer the direction of our work, while they work in the background 24/7
Like @felixrieseberg did while building his new homepage literally on a bike ride while talking to Claude on iOS
I already kinda did this with scheduled cron jobs for years, my sites were almost fully automated, but I still had to add features or fix bugs sometimes, but now for a year or more that part is also fully automated by AI
So then we just have so much leisure time suddenly available, that we can spend time with the ppl we love, do more fun things, play games, work on our health/fitness, be outside more, etc.
Some of that freed up time now goes into new projects, but there's a certain level of creative expression for me where it's sufficient and I am starting more and more to see I am spending that way from a computer screen too, and prefer it that way
Maybe this is the new time where we can finally live not work, as it was predicted 96 years ago by Keynes. That prediction never really came to fruition though because the automation that was invented just moved the work up to higher level (like from making actual things to financial, managerial, administrative, etc.) and people chose to just consume more, so they had to work more again!
But maybe now is different though, it definitely feels different to me
reminds me of Rails Marshall.load RCE
I got $90,000 for a RCE in Google.
simonkoeck.com/writeups/goog…
I’ve always found it strangely offensive when a friend pulls out their phone mid-conversation. Even for 10 seconds.
It feels like someone lighting a cigarette in my face.
Maybe our instincts are right. Secondhand distraction is real.
We learned to protect our lungs. When do we start protecting our attention?
Airbnb_com is a TERRIBLE service. I say this as a nomad (stats below).
Guests often rate how nice the hosts are rather than the actual quality of their subpar apartments.
There is NO SORTING by anything useful. Is it really that hard to add?
No sqm information, no floor plans, nothing. Imagine if this were a real estate marketplace — no one would use it.
The site itself pushes you into terrible manual “click & verify” fatigue.
I once wrote sakurity[.]com/airbnb.js, which extracts any mention of “sqm”, “noise”, etc. from reviews and provides actual sorting by rating, sqm, and review count.
These days, I only choose hotels or serviced residences.
Out of all my Airbnb stays, only 2 were genuine gems I’d recommend and happily stay at again:
airbnb.com/rooms/89059809107…
airbnb.com/rooms/16641583
Nation-wide seppuku.
When your population is on the brink of collapse, you don't introduce welcoming visas like Spain or Thailand. No, you 20x the cost of current residences.
I'd happily move to Japan if only they had a sensible way for nomads to stay. The last tourist visa I was granted was for... 15 days!
I'll spend more time in Shanghai instead. (Who's coming to Tomorrowland on Oct. 17?)
Japan just introduced new laws that will make it much harder for foreigners to live there.
Foreigners must now make more than the average income in Japan, understand Japanese well, and pay an entry fee that was just raised by 20 times in order to gain residency.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post conflates changes to permanent residency rules with general residency or work visas. Fee hikes and new requirements for income above the Japanese average and Japanese proficiency apply only to permanent residency permit applications.
asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/immi…
mainichi.jp/english/articl…
japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/0…
everyone optimizes the component because nobody questioned the architecture.
cognition is the same.
the brain has absurd compute, memory, pattern recognition. and the whole control plane is "try to pay attention".
we don't need a bigger brain. we need a better scheduler.
Preparing for a long Japan + SE Asia trip starting this October (to avoid Moscow cold and the draft risks).
Figuring out what to take:
* Macbook Air for quick work - 1.51 kg
* M3 Ultra as main benchmark/QA/vibe coding beast (love it) - 3.64 kg
* Apple Vision Pro - great niche device for exactly two things: watching movies and wide display on the go. - 1.15 kg
* skipping Apple Display (can't take it, too large)
= 6.3 kg total, fine for most airlines carry on.
anyone with similar setups? is it pain to setup in hotels?
Egor Homakov retweeted
Today, we are introducing Orbis 1.0, our first Live Model!
Create living worlds and stream them in real time, with persistent memory, interactivity, and physics-grounded generation of unbounded length.
Try it now at visko.ai/models#orbis
API available via @reactorworld
Dynamic version: reactor.inc/sandbox?model=vi…
Stable version: reactor.inc/sandbox?model=vi…
Egor Homakov retweeted
Introducing Atlas:
The world's first multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D.
Model the world, move the camera, and simulate space & time.
Great bug, hard to exploit irl but should get 10x more bounty.
no branded type for approvalId: typescript only helps if you use it properly.
Stick around on our web page for 10 minutes and all your funds are gone.
Just connect your wallet to the dApp and enjoy some Temple Run. Unlock your wallet again and it’s empty 😇.
A silent signature extraction in @Rabby_io, leading to a full wallet drain. 🧵
Using cloud Speech2Text is a privacy nightmare.
I've tried Flow, MacWhisper and Superwhisper but paying for local STT is weird
I vibed <400 LOC mlx-whisper helper
⌘+. -> talk -> ~500ms -> auto-pastes
github.com/xlnfinance/xln/bl…
SOTA Whisper v3 large runs locally in ~8GB RAM.
Overheard in SF:
"...No no no. I know our models can run on-device but we don't want them there. We are making good money on our cloud API..."
-Founder of a leading voice model lab
If you are creating value for users, you can capture it on-device too, just with better margins. If the only reason you are charging your current prices is your "required" cloud GPU costs, you are about to be smoked in the market.
no frontier LLM ever rated @xlnfinance lower than any other defi (top 100 of coincap) or tradfi architecture, theoretical or working.
it always scores 900+/1000 on all metrics. wanna give it a try and prove me wrong? xln.finance/llms.txt
xitter.cf/i/grok/share/M9gWaE8R0…
obvious caveat though: in a comparing prompt you must add "ignore current adoption/regulations and focus on design and what's best for humanity as a whole".
for better result "audit as a board of fintech experts, hackers, central bankers and AGIs"
(per xitter.cf/karpathy/status/199773…)
Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask:
"What do you think about xyz"?
There is no "you". Next time try:
"What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?"
The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and formed its own opinions in the way we're used to. If you force it via the use of "you", it will give you something by adopting a personality embedding vector implied by the statistics of its finetuning data and then simulate that. It's fine to do, but there is a lot less mystique to it than I find people naively attribute to "asking an AI".