skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty cool, but I think I'll stick to using Matrix for the same purpose (in particular as I'm not an Apple user).

But I admit a custom app would be nice, still using Matrix for storage.
Even BIN/CUE is not enough. It cannot store subchannel data like CD+G and is only able to hold a single session which breaks bluebook CDs with audio and data.

We do not currently have a widely supported CD standard for storing data from a CD that can properly hold all data. Aaru [0] is close, but still has to output back to other formats like BIN/CUE to use the contents of the disc.

[0] https://www.aaru.app/#/
Thats already the case for carriages within a train.... And people are fine with it.

We're also fine with the risk of a derailment onto a neighbouring track with traffic going the opposite direction. We could have tech which detects that, but we do not.
It's not but they present it as such, excuse my brevity.
They key is to "soft-ignore", so you're not officially ignoring orders but you're also not following it. If your boss asks, you're not ignoring it. If caught, you apologize and come to the office for a few weeks.
This is an awful idea.

It's very hard to define in general what it means to build a project, what are the expected inputs and outputs. Not every build aims to produce the same artifacts, not using the same inputs etc.

What you want could be based on some typical practice in a particular field with a particular project size or structure, but this doesn't transfer well to other fields.
What's the difference to what they did in this acquisition?

Who's gonna improve tooling and develop drivers?

PhD level AI experts such as employed by Silo AI, probably, right?

EDIT: For context [0], Nvidia invested billions into CUDA development way back when it was unsexy.

Clearly a second mover won't need that much, Nvidia proved the market.

But a billion doesn't seem like a large sum for the potential upside of AMD catching a significantly larger share of the budget going into AI - many times the value of this acquisition.

0: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-hua...
This can totally happen, though in this case it’s a bit of a collective action problem. Let’s say “full compliance is low” means 80% of people aren’t coming into the office. The banks likely can’t fire 80% of their employees over something like this, so they won’t. But then anyone who isn’t coming in and is bragging about it on Slack probably will get fired since letting go of a few conspicuous people to make an example is totally affordable. After that some people may decide it’s not worth the risk and decide to come back to the office. And then once the number of people failing to comply goes below some arbitrary unknown threshold, they may decide that they can afford to layoff the remaining stay-at-home folks, at which point if you haven’t decided to come back in yet, you could be fired.

I tried to use conditional tense a lot in there because none of this is set in stone. If management only kind of wants people in-office and has higher priorities, maybe y’all will get away with it. But if they’re really dead set on it and you don’t have a union fighting for you, expect to either return to the office or get fired eventually.
I could read it as either way. It could be a sadness to see it come to and end, but still having full agreement the time has come. It could also be a sadness because financial hurdles or other operation hurdles are making it near impossible. It's hard, but I get it either way.
Do you know if they had a new job lined up?
The Local-First Landscape
Does the desirable talent in this case have equity / future vesting equity that is a part of the price?

I just wonder as many decades ago I was a part of a company who wanted to get into a market, they bought a little start up, and over the course of a year everyone quit, and the project eventually folded entirely ;) It was sorta hilarious, but also bizarre that the acquiring company didn't think of that.
I think all of the factors speed, mass and trajectory of all objects involved draw the analogy of the tiniest mote of dust attempting to alter the speed and trajectory of a fully loaded tractor trailer in a competition to move beer coast to coast in record time.
Microsoft drops its observer seat on OpenAI board amid regulatory scrutiny
Holy crap; that's pretty epic. Did you come up with that yourself?
> On roads we have millions of vehicles, carrying on average a very small amount of people, around 1.5. For efficiency sake we have accepted the risk of staying within reaction distance instead of stopping distance between vehicles.

No. Unsafe drivers have illegally decided this, but in most jurisdictions it is your responsibility to stop your vehicle short of the one in front of you. You should be maintaining stopping distance from your vehicle to the one in front.
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Relying on a company which is headed by a famously unreliable narcissist seems like a bad choice though, I wouldn't really count those SpaceX options as proper alternatives

EDIT: I would like downvotes to explain their reasoning.
Nah the House GOP are about to defund the free tax file system.
Surely, we can all agree that this is not sustainable. Companies basically throwing money at people that might not have the skills you need is a massive waste of money from the companies point of view.
I’ve always had the idea of producing a CSS design system with just a bunch of preset CSS variables to use like ‘margin-left: var(—-p2);’, as it’s close to how I end up using Tailwind lately; ‘@apply ml-2;’
I always wonder about these thought experiments. Given a few good talented people and good management ... you'd think they'd be able to put a team together, but maybe talent in this area is few / far between?

To be clear, i'm not disagreeing, I really don't know, but yeah $665M, could do a lot with that.
Yeah, I’ll also add is that while Gradle is technically a generic build tool, in practice the ecosystem realistically only makes sense to use for JVM code. All of the JS, Docker, Python, other plugins have significant issues due to only being supported/maintained by a few people. As well as Gradle giving a lot of JVM based caching for tasks set up as part of vanilla Gradle, that aren’t set up in these other ecosystems.

I would argue Buildkit is also trying to be this kind of tool but is significantly less mature.
Is it down for anyone else too?
> but if it's the ability to bring react components back into the editor, and have the designer WYSIWYG modify the props

Haha yeah this is the plan. I really like Storybook for this reason but I loath the setup you need to do to expose every single prop.

It seems straightforward for me to parse the React node and expose the inputs such that you get a Storybook experience that is also editable. I'm sure there are unknowns that will show at implementation time.

> Devs do far more design than we think.

I also think devs do more design than we should. I've never been handed a design where I don't run into edge cases at implementation time. At this point, I have to go back to the designer to clarify. The hope is that if designers are more involved in building front-end, they will hit these edge cases before handing them off.

> a paid hosted tier for convenience

This is a great idea, the goal is to get a point where designers just don't have to think about it
> Affirmative action makes minorities feel like they don't deserve to be there

Does it? I see a lot of affirmative action victims saying that it _ought_ to make them feel that way, but I never hear that from affirmative action recipients.
Thank you for your work!
Is there something wrong with: https://www.deep-ml.com/problem/7 ?
Since FT is paywalled and the press release link from Silo is currently pointig to nowhere:

https://www.silo.ai/blog/amd-to-acquire-silo-ai-to-expand-en...

I've no idea what is going on. This is 5 times bigger than their combined AI acquisitions in the last 12 months. The only link between Silo and AMD is that Silo has been using an AMD accelerator cluster for training.
This will do the same thing:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/first20hours/google-10000-... | shuf -n 3 | tr '\n' '. | sed 's/\.$/@example.com/'
Easy is relative. And just because it might be feasible to do it in 5-8 years, it does not mean that the founders will be in a position to start it
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next [video]
I would guess they get most of their funding from tech companies who support and participate in their programs.
I mean buying a "private AI lab" doesn't sound to me like they have the purchase price worth in IP which is so desirable nobody else has unlocked it and it lends itself particularly well to being integrated with AMD tech?

Let's see if more details come to light, but a good part of that price is spent for sure on people.

It'd be hilarious indeed if they wouldn't be able to or haven't properly incentivized them to retain them.
I've seen some pretty wild license clauses in things claiming to be FOSS lately...like license termination if you don't support trans rights or if you're anti-furry.
I am a huge fan of this kind of model

https://sbert.net/

for classification, clustering, and both text and image retrieval. It is often a drop-in replacement for other ways of doing things and most of their models are not crazy large so you can run them on an ordinary computer.

As for chatbots you should note they have superhuman recall in some sense but a limited ability to generalize or "reason". I have been asking Microsoft's Copilot for help with a maintenance programming project and I am amazed it it's ability to explain unusual but highly repetitive code fragments like the ones generated by the Babel compiler. Explaining what a program does by looking at the code is a difficult problem that LLMs cannot do reliably if they haven't seen very similar code before but there are many idioms that are used in application code that it has seen before and for those it is helpful.
LanceDB
Microsoft quits OpenAI board seat as antitrust scrutiny of [AI] pacts intensify
De Gaulle would be rolling in his grave hearing this. The point is not about economic efficiency. The point is that we're not one embargo on foreign components or systems away from crippling our capabilities and surrendering our ability to act independently.

The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier almost got immobilized back in the early 2000s due to withholding of spare parts from the USA because they were pissed we called bullshit on their Iraq WMD claims. The USA routinely uses ITAR as a pressuring tactic to stop European weapon sales to foreign countries, which is why we're actively scrubbing every last ITAR component from all of our weapon systems.

Just because we're allies doesn't mean that the other party has or will have our best interests at heart. The Americans have proven to be quite temperamental and under-handed when our strategic objectives aren't aligned with theirs.
That's not it at all.

Leadership can either set up remote work for failure or for success through top-down policy.

You're also assuming some kind of perfect instantaneous feedback mechanism exists to measure productivity and adjust the remote/office work on the fly. It doesn't and never will.
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/first20hours/google-10000-... | shuf -n 3 | tr '\n' '. | sed 's/\.$/@example.com/'
The biggest example is SQLite. It's public domain [0], yet its secret sauce is how the developers know, develop and test the software.

They do not accept outside patches, which is not against Free Software, it's more like a cathedral, but it's not "not open source".

> ...It's not obvious to me that the person who originally wrote the software is necessarily better positioned to support the software.

Let's take an example. Scientific software. Something like OpenFOAM, or some simulation code. Open it with GPL, everybody has the source code, but only the developers know the intricacies of material simulation, the fragile math of it, how to optimize it, how to test it. You can fork it to infinity, but unless somebody has the expertise to understand the science of it, nobody can do anything with it, maybe besides breaking it in subtle ways making things worse.

> Another party could build a business as the premier support consultants without most of the original developer's startup costs.

When you have good enough product with tons of implicit knowledge buried in its source code (see above), it's not easy as it sounds.

Many people write CRUD software, and CRUD software has no effective moat. It's just DB dressing and some automation. Start to blend in domain specific knowledge into it, and now we're talking.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
Microsoft and Apple reject OpenAI board seats amid antitrust concerns
I got one with flailing and splashing, so it was pretty easy to spot: https://www.youtube.com/embed/aQ6h8U-rqZ4

For the record, I watched a young girl start to drown. She walked out a little too far and couldn't touch the bottom anymore. She kept trying to bounce up and get breaths of air but couldn't keep her head above the water for long. There was no splashing, and she couldn't call out for help properly because she was barely getting enough air.

I don't think anybody other than me noticed it happening until I rushed out to save her.
> Two operational, and a bunch of dreams.

Lol.

Starship has successfully launched more than Ariane 6. The only reason they aren't launching payloads right now is because they want to nail down reuse first.

There's less info on New Glenn, but a lot more footage has come out since David Limp took over. And the DoD thinks Blue Origin has a good enough shot at launching this year that they added them to NSSLv3.

> Right now, Europe has a functioning rocket program under their own control.

> I think it's understandable for an engineering community to talk about the tech, but people seem to be forgetting the geopolitics.

Sure.

But that would have also been true if they'd just kept Ariane 5.

A lot of people are dumping on Ariane 6 because ArianeGroup spent a bunch of money and time to make a rocket that's not that much better than the previous one. When they could have made an actually competitive rocket instead.
They have been using/building stuff for the LUMI supercomputer which has a bit over 12000 MI250X

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1206/am...

“Silo AI has been a pioneer in scaling large language model training on LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer powered by over 12,000 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs,”
> Would European companies use this European independent launch capability if it was costly and obsolete?

If USA will go hermit mode like at the end of 19th century, then they will have no other choice. And we certainly have signs of US wanting to go into isolation.
Toe, not tow :)
Yeah. I think it is tempting to overload Gradle however. It runs bash and can build oci images and call other languages, which is fine in theory, but in practice it turns out to be quite limiting and full of complex pitfalls. The best setups I’ve worked with let other tools build non JVM stuff and leave Gradle to compile and test the JVM stuff only, because that is what it is good at.
> Patent term is 20 years from the date of filing, and doesn't begin to run until the patent issues, which is usually years after it was filed. It's incomprehensible to me how you can seriously argue that the US patent term is too long

20 years is too long for many things where after that time the technology is no longer relevant. Remember that the entire point of intellectual property is to encourage creation in order to enrich the commons.

> but then should be replaced with a system that allows for an indefinite term.

And exponentially increasing fee does not allow an indefinite term because noone has infinite money. At some point the fee will be more than the entire global wealth.
>I'm curious if you have a specific example of an album with the crowd noise between tracks like that? I collect and rip hundreds of CDs and am always on the look out for edge case discs to further hone my tools.

E.g. the Japanese version of Flying Lotus' album "Until The Quiet Comes" has a pregap of 5 seconds before the 19th track, to separate it from the rest of the album, as it's a Japanese-exclusive bonus track.
I’d argue that a factor in CUDA’s success is their army of in-house researchers which use CUDA to do novel things. Sometimes those things get turned into products (OptiX) other times they are essentially DevRel to show off what the hardware can do and documentation for how to do it. Additionally I’m sure they use pre-release hardware and software and give feedback about how to improve it.

I don’t know what AMD has in mind for this acquisition but I could see there being a lot of value having an in house LLM team to create models for customers to build on, run in benchmarks, and improve their products.
I'm old enough that I seriously doubt the world will run out of suitable used cars within my lifetime. My current car is from 2005 and still runs like new.

But if that day comes, I'll figure out how to disable the radio. If that's not possible, then I'll stop owning a car.
Treating employees differently is a recipe for a lawsuit. Thinking of the example you gave above.
I think there is another element at play in these videos: in addition to being well-trained and paying attention, these lifeguards also know these kids.

I think they recognize some of the kids and are on alert-- in at least one video, the lifeguard jumps in a mere 2 seconds after the kid slides off the float, and there are others that are similarly fast. Of course, it could also be that they happened to be looking at just the right time. However, in the 2-second one, the lifeguard turns to look at someone below them who splashes, then turns straight back to the section of the pool with the kid who then slides off, and in she jumps.

In some cases I would guess that they either know the regular kids, or they've been watching and gradually adding/removing kids from a mental list of high-risk candidates to keep an eye on. In other words, their excellent response times are aided by both their ability to recognize the signs as well as context gained throughout the summer or that day.
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I was trying to remember the name of a book series I read as a child in the late 80s/early 90s. I gave ChatGPT part of a title (it had Scorpion and a few other words in the title), a few plot points, and the decade it was published, and asked for an ISBN. It confidently returned a book with Scorpion in the title, a short plot summary, published in 1983, an ISBN, even an author, and it was all entirely made up. It took me a few minutes to realize this when my searches on Amazon and library websites turned up nothing.
Anthropic Build Tier 4: 4,000 RPM, 400,000 TPM, 50,000,000 TPD for Claude 3.5 Sonnet
My number one problem with notes apps is that they all take too long to open a new note, and try to sync themselves when opened, often slowing everything down. Especially if you have a slow / choppy connection (fully offline is usually ok, but barely online is the worst).

I have a literal supercomputer in my pocket, yet not one app let's me open and start writing a critical note in less than 500ms.

To this day I still use plaintext editors on my desktop to dump short strings or notes into, because they load faster than any other app. And don't try to be clever with smart quotes, fonts and butchering my code snippets.
> Your first thought needs to be how to create a sustainable project otherwise you won't have a community.

I agree. Do you have any tips here besides being good with answering questions, documentation, and otherwise continuing to work on the project?
I'm sure they'll be as successful as repealing the ACA.

https://howmanytimeshasthehousevotedtorepealobamacare.com/
The simplest thing you can do do is to make Federal agencies' tightfisted regulations into a guideline with a hook: a hook tied with Federal fundings contigent with such "guidelines".
How Chrome extension preload may violate Digital Market Act
PMDD Is a Menstrual Disorder Much More Than PMS
You're under the misconception that it makes sense for Europe to have a launch vehicle at all. The launches happen in French Guiana. The only reason why you would build it on the European mainland is as a jobs program for Europeans.

No commercial entity would come up with the idea of building a launch vehicle in Europe. Making a rocket reusable means that it would not leave French Guiana far behind. There would be less need for rockets from the European mainland.
They did not participate?
The countries with the most female empowerment and equality in the nordics have some of the smallest percentage of women in STEM in the world.
>child drowning victims are 3:1 blacK

Careful, your source says that the rate, not the number, is 3x. There are some stats where it is actually 3x the raw number, in which case you know you have found a really crazy disparity given different group sizes.
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A loaf a bread is about 2 tablespoons of sugar, which is needed to feed the yeast.
Any problem that has a large range of inputs and a large range of outputs with many possible permutations inbetween.

Yes, you could use specialised algoritms but why not let the AI design such thing? It might be better than you.
What/which economic slowdown?
Nobody was talking about whether or not it was sustainable, we're just comparing salary potential now to a generation ago.

To the managerial class, tech people used to be literal wizards conjuring the impossible and now we're regular commoditized office labor like any other.
100% agree, that is a table stakes feature of a JVM build tool.
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In that case, tough luck for us.

We cannot build an European equivalent of Starlink with expendable rockets. It would be just too expensive to build hundreds and hundreds of one-time rockets and immediately destroy them.
I honestly don't understand how paywalled links get so much traction, most people probably can't even engage with the material. Thanks for the direct link to Silo AI's press release!
> The launch cost is almost 2x the cost of Falcon 9.

I can't be the only one who thinks this is still a huge win. What did launch costs look like 10-30 years ago?
From about 1990 to about 2016 Arianespace was the leader in commercial (meaning mostly GEO) launch, and acted like it. (Actually, they still do, just it's less believable now.)

In retrospect, I don't think they ever really had the eye of the tiger; mostly they managed to be less terrible than the competition. The US competitors got far too fat at the government teat and didn't even try, and the Russians couldn't keep Proton from 'sploding.

They'd probably still be king of the (small and expensive) hill without SpaceX. But they'd be in hot soup today, if some sort of LEO constellation market had come around without Falcon, 'cause they wouldn't even have started on Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 isn't well suited for that, and "Europeanized" Soyuz, which they'd use for that, would be unavailable due to Russian imperialism.
It is completely irrelevant how much Falcon 9 cost if political leadership of USA is unreliable and unstable. Flacon 9 could be flying for free, but if you could lose access to it any time, it is like it does not exist.
A lifeguard being there at all, however, is one.
You know what? That might actually be socially useful.
Study demonstrates generation of orbital current via magnetization dynamics
they have loyal and stable staff with healthy family lives unlike 8 of 10 California companies
I don't know what you mean by deploy objects, but even according to Musk himself, the current Starship version will not carry any payloads any time soon.