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After the acquisition, I think Wiz would have to only focus on Google Cloud which might be a major limiting factor in the company's future. But other than that, It surprises me that, a $23B offer is rejected from the perspective of Employees. IPO won't provide the same level of liquidity opportunities.

I have used Octa and it's a decent platform, not a magical one. Creating a similar platform for Google Cloud should be feasible with the level of Google resources.
The board has a fiduciary duty to consider a reasonable offer irrespective of what the float is
The main difference between tactical and strategic comes down to intended use. Tactical nukes are intended for battlefield use, strategic nukes are intended to end other civilizations. They also come in different delivery methods. For instance there are tactical nuclear landmines, artillery, and so on, whereas most strategic weapons are just going to be missiles and ICBMs in particular.

But I do agree that the labeling is largely pointless because there are nominally "tactical" weapons with payloads exceeding 100kt. For contrast, Hiroshima (which was enough to destroy a mid-sized city and kill hundreds of thousands with a single bomb) was 16kt. So "tactical weapons" can easily destroy cities. Even if strategic weapons can be hundreds of times higher yield, at some point you're just beating a dead horse, or city as it may be.
Yeah, it's a bit like asking why Microsoft doesn't make a BitTorrent client or why Chase doesn't offer a cryptocurrency. The prevailing use cases are just a bit too untoward, even if a few wholesome stories do exist.
this was my first reaction too
Button Stealer
It goes deeper than that. We are copies of our parents made out of self replicating molecules… copying is fundamental to pretty much everything interesting that has ever happened.
Are you using any motherboard overclocking stuff? A lot of mobo’s are pushing these chips pretty hard right out of the box.

I have mine at a factory setting that Intel would suggest, not the asus multi core enhancement crap. noctua dh15 cooler. It’s really been a stable setup.
Network keeps getting faster, and more decentralized:

https://algorandtechnologies.com/technology/solving-the-bloc...

> Currently, Algorand blocks are produced in less than 3 seconds with instant finality. The network can process 10,000 transactions per second, and at a cost of a fraction of a cent per transaction.
the quote GP is considering "mastering luck" as understanding emotionally that sometimes you will lose. the quote asserts that handling your emotions is more difficult than the skill of the game.

so i think there is a chance that the quoted person would agree with your comment here, as I think it is orthogonal to the quote
It is my understanding that excess testosterone can take prostate cancer from „it grows so slowly you’ll die of something else first“ to something that kills you quickly.
What about Nextflow?
github: https://github.com/anatolyzenkov/button-stealer
TorchLens–package for visualizing nearly any PyTorch model in 1 line of code
It can also extract the activations of any tensor operation you want (all function calls, not just module outputs), gives you all kinds of metadata about the model and every layer, automatically finds recurrent loops in the model, and more. GitHub repo has links to a paper describing it, a CoLab tutorial, a partial list of available metadata (e.g., tensor size and memory, layer execution time, plus much more), and a “model menagerie” with visualizations of hundreds of models. The goal is to make it the one-stop solution for extracting activations, visualizing models, and getting all the information you could want about the model, in an easily queried format. Lemme know if there’s anything else that would be helpful to add—it remains in active development, with plans to allow for custom visualizations and performing causal interventions on the network. Hope it helps you out!
Earlier in my career, every single person in my team had a website. At lunch we would talk about how we built it, servers, fail2ban, zipbomb, etc.

Many years later, one coworker has a website under construction, and others say they have nothing to say online. When i bring up a blog post I wrote years ago, relevant to a conversation, I feel like a charlatan trying to sell a product.

But hey, I'm happy to write in the dark. Especially after some of my posts have literally landed me on TV. I felt like everything I Wrote after was scrutinized. But the world has forgotten about me so I'm free again.
I mean I’m not an asthmatic but this random .org seems to contradict you? Or do I have what you’re saying backwards?

https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/state-of-the-air-c...

https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/compare-you...
NASA's Project Echo - 1960s Satelite Communication Balloon
> googling required to get an answer would put me on lists I don’t really feel like being on.

But asking in the clear under the pseudonym "transcriptase" here isn't going to get you put on the exact same lists? How do you think this list making process works?
It seems dual screens would solve their issue. No app switching, and users can still get easy access to their contacts, calendar, music, maps of choice, etc.

I don’t think I could ever buy a car without CarPlay. I don’t like leaving CarPlay to access can controls, but killing CarPlay isn’t the solution for this design problem.
I would love to get a nice electric vehicle, but the fact that they are often so locked down / anti user is such a turn-off for me. It shouldn't be the manufacturers choice what I do with my car / phone / desktop / laptop. I bought it. It's mine. Go away.
Far more likely is Google was not willing to complete the deal and was pulling the plug after looking at internal data. Wiz, fearing the bad press of Google backing out rushes to tell journalists that THEY are walking away because they are worth more.

Wiz's valuation is insane. Most people havent even heard of them. I think it was a > 60x ARR multiple on this deal. Id actually be kinda pissed if I was a google shareholder and they went through with it.

Something very strange is going on with Wiz. My gut tells me if they ever IPO to go big on puts.
> Because if they could start churning out a dozen or a hundred a week within a short period of time, why does the standing arsenal really matter?

There's probably a declared number where this matters, but the current number of warheads is high enough that's there's no need to make more. 3,000 is plenty to retaliate against an opponent with 30,000. More doesn't provide a benefit.

Nuclear disarmament, as practiced by the US and Russia is a negotiation to reduce the number of warheads in a coordinated fashion so that it's possible to convince warmongers on both sides that it's reasonable. The benefits are primary a reduction in cost to maintain and secure the warheads and a significant reduction in the risk of accidents related to the warheads. Mutual destruction is still assured --- you'd need a lot fewer warheads for that and involvement of other nuclear states; but then your question of production capacity would be more interesting.
Absolutely this. It literally happened to me with a Netflix OSS we were using at work. I found a bug that was biting us, opened a ticket with a PR attached with a possible fix and got an answer after a few months "ah yeah we fixed this in our internal version time ago, thanks, will merge it now".
It doesn't matter what the individual words mean, the term UBI refers to income without any means testing. That's just how it's defined.
A similar thing happens with stock and crypto traders. They do a ton of trading during a bull market and feel like a genius, because they bagged a few big wins, but they downplay all their big losses. At the end of the year and once short term capital gains are factored in, they end up making less than the total market index, but due to poor record keeping are convinced they’re some kind of trading savant. Once the market turns down they’ll likely lose it all and be forced to become a social media influencer selling bullshit trading courses to unsuspecting victims.
This is bordering on an unfalsifiable (hence religious claim). If it's only going to work if the money is in perpetuity and then, when that doesn't work, we require the money is in perpetuity for an individual and his descendants, and then, when that doesn't work, require the money is truly perpetual with no hope to end it, then there becomes no way to determine whether or not the policy works in any meaningful way.
I think a lot of what you said probably applies to day trading, too.
Netflix is building a workflow orchestrator not a container orchestrator. The viable alternative would be Airflow or maybe something like Temporal. K8s alone isn't going to meet the need in this case.

Does the world need another workflow orchestrator? Who knows - some folks at Netflix seem willing to pay a handful of engineers $ to do so. Good luck to them
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlgorandOfficial/comments/u0n0mt/is...

Unless this has changed since two years ago, the relay nodes are quite centralized.
It does not interact electromagnetically and does not have friction because of that.
Maybe we aren't at 0 warning at the moment, but if there is a spectrum from 0 warning to imminent, we are close enough to 0 that the distinction doesn't really matter. The US, UK, and China are not actively fighting in Ukraine and even if they were, this wouldn't be the first time these countries have directly fought each other in a proxy war in the nuclear age. So unless you think the Russian military personnel that would actually carry out a full scale attack on the West would prefer destroying civilization to losing in Ukraine, I would expect some type of escalation beyond the position we have been in for the better part of the last 80 years.
Author here.

I'm afraid I've been out of the C# loop too long to know what's fast and what isn't these days.

Now that maybe I have the attention of some serious C# nerds, any assistance in making this thing run faster would be much appreciated.

It's not terrible atm, given a managed host language, but I'm sure there are plenty of knobs left to turn.

See the benchmarks section in the README for more info, and the same benchmarks ported to Python in python/fib.py.

Oh, and there's some undocumented yet potentially useful stuff in /Libs; strings, terminal control and IO mainly.
It is weird how FOSS is constantly reinventing this wheel. All the user wants is the ability to play media over the network and via USB. Think VLC on a HDMI stick. Simple and elegant. What we always end up with is a media server for the network, with torrents, RSS feeds, email alerts, weather, and a semi broken media player, almost as an afterthought. We want a hammer but end up with a hammer factory distribution center, warehouse, and a crane specifically designed to move around pallets of hammers.
Sounds like rsnapshot (rsync with hardlinks and scheduling) but the BackInTime repo doesn't mention any comparison of how it's different, though Timeshift says they're similar. Anyone have experience with BiT vs rsnapshot?
Except that’s not how it ever works. Any productivity gains will be consumed by your employer, and the expectations of your position will increase with the productivity gains.

Ie: if your role is now 75% more productive on average, the new expectation of that role is a 75% increase in outputs.

So it actually will get much worse for you, because you’ll be doing much, much more for effectively the same pay :)

There used to be a single role that did the data layer, a single role that did QA/Testing, a single role for UI/UX, a single role for client side, a single role for server side, and a devops team.

Then when the world became good at this stuff, the expectation shifted to, in many cases, a single role juggling all of this work
Absolutely. But what is interesting is that the family structure doesn't breakdown. The Parents work themselves to the bone and send money back to help their Parents and Children in the village. The Grand Parents take care of the Grand Children. When the children grow up, depending upon the Parent's situation in the City, they move to the city to live with their parents and study/grow up there or if they are already at the employable age join the workforce in the city. And through it all they hang together.
To add to this Commander Keen was released on a very limited platform. More people were gaming on Nintendo systems than personal computers. If Commander Keen was released on Nintendo things may have gone differently.
Are the vast majority of software engineers in Bangalore salaried? If so, this is even worse..
Those release terms are interesting to think about. I’m wondering how to spell out in a contract the difference between selling your company to a firm which will maintain the software well vs selling it to someone who will ruin it and/or do the most bare minimum? How can one draw the line?
I find it hard to believe that it actually is a microcode issue.

Mostly because Intel has way too much motivation to pass it off as a microcode issue, as they can fix a microcode issue for free, by pushing out a patch. If it's an actual hardware issue, then Intel will be forced to actually recall all the faulty CPUs, which could cost them billions.

The other reason, is that it took them way too long to give details. If it's as simple as a buggy microcode requesting an out-of-spec voltage from the motherboard, they should have been able to diagnose the problem extremely quickly and fix it in just a few weeks. They would have detected the issue as soon as they put voltage logging on the motherboard's VRM. And according to some sources, Intel have apparently been shipping non-faulty CPUs for months now (since April, from memory), and those don't have an updated microcode.

This long delay and silence feels like they spent months of R&D trying to create a workaround, create a new voltage spec to provide the lowest voltage possible. Low enough to work around a hardware fault on as many units as possible, without too large of a performance regression, or creating new errors on other CPUs because of undervolting.

I suspect that this microcode update will only "fix" the crashes for some CPUs. My prediction is that in another month Intel will claim there are actually two completely independent issues, and reluctantly issue a recall for anything not fixed by the microcode.
It's not just about accuracy. Targeting silos comes with multiple problems. The first is that they are deep underground and fortified to withstand nuclear blasts. The second is that even if you believe you can disable a silo, there's a very good chance that by the time your nuke gets there - what was in the silo has already been launched. There are also other practical issues - you don't know where every silo is, there are likely dummy silos meaning you end up completely wasting a high yield weapon, and so on.

US Cold War targets have been declassified. [1] That was from an era with less effective detection, and also where launching would generally involve planes, so airfields were targeted, but again you can see the extreme focus on agriculture, industry, medical, economic, and many targets simply labeled "population." The USSR's target list would have looked, more or less, identical. Modern target lists likely aren't even bothering with silos and just going for complete destruction of the enemy civilization.

Nuclear war, has as a prerequisite, the end of any sort of norms. It's not about destroying the opponent's military, but about literally destroying the opponent's country. Military can be rebuilt and redeployed - by targeting population, industry, economic, medical, population, and so on you completely eliminate the enemy's ability to ever be a threat again.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/us/politics/1950s-us-nucl...

[1] - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear... (a much more informative, but less approachable article/datacache)
Sometimes it's not about the money, it's actually about systems security and the level of which you actually want to build, deploy, and protect great products and infrastructure. 23 billion is a LOT of money. Looking forward to see how the IPO plays out.
> People throughout history have replaced the "elite" once the cost to do so became less than the cost (or benefit) to continue on in the status quo.

Past performance is not a guarantee of future success. The elite throughout history relied on masses of common people to get anything done (do work, go to war, etc.). AI as-hyped has the potential to upend that long standing dynamic.

The elite aren't going to be replaced if they and the resources they care to protect are ensconced in a 50 mile buffer patrolled by (among other things) drone-swarms that will shove grenades in the face of any unauthorized human that dares enter. That technology is pretty close to reality, as it's basically the Ukraine/Russia front lines with 5-10 more years of drone development.
You'd adjust marginal rates so the poor would (net) benefit, the middle class would about break even, and the rich would pay more. Napkin math on that isn't that bad, especially if you chop a bunch of other welfare payments (and the associated expensive means-testing and administration).

No one serious is suggesting "everyone gets $1000/month and literally nothing else changes".
While I don't have any comment on this instance, in general I think it's easier to hype the public markets who have limited information than it is to type a bunch of people doing due diligence on an acquisition, even if ultimately the latter is still a case of public market valuation through the acquiring public company. This is particularly true in the current age of extremely hype driven retail investing.
Didn't realize there was a WiZ that specializes in home lighting https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us

Per their About Us page, they are an "IoT platform for smart lighting solutions and smart services" and "offer people connected lighting".
Oh, it was here.
> At least you technically never have less money from more work (but only if you consider bureaucracy free; there is severe bureaucracy especially for those that fluctuate in and out of coverage).

When the effective marginal tax rate is high, this is often as close as makes no difference, because you not only have the cost of bureaucracy but also the cost of working. You're paying an effective marginal tax rate of 80% so nominally you get to keep 20% of your income and have the incentive to work, but working requires you to commute, so you have to buy transit tickets or maintain a vehicle.

And because you're now spending your day working, you can't use that time to prepare food or maintain your household, so you may have to pay someone else to do some of those things -- but their entire compensation has to come out of the 20% of your pay you actually get to spend, so this can easily eat the entire thing and make you better off to not take the job.
First feedback I have is that the name "Lunix" was already taken by the "LUnix" project back in 2000, which developed a Unix-like OS for the C64/C128 [0] (that's right, the Commodore 64!). Although, to be fair, there hasn't been an update since 2013 so maybe you're ok using that name. I don't suspect there'd be too many people aware of the original project.

[0] http://www.lunix.c64.org/
Can they just buy all the shares on the open market then?
Founded in 2020, with a $23B valuation, aiming for $1B ARR?

CloudFlare is worth $26B and had ~$1.3B revenue last year. Something's fishy here.
What do you imagine happens when thousands of nukes explode? The Earth splits into pieces?
I assume nobody reads my blog, at most a couple people check out the pretty pictures but that's about it.

My opinion on blogging is do it for yourself, not to achieve something. That way it doesn't feel like wasted effort when nobody reads it and it can still be fun or cathartic to write.
Why Kawii? Kawaii is japanese for cute
Yeah, if we assume they are at 20% profit margin like FAANG or other tech / finance companies, at $1B ARR, they are making $200M net income per year. At 30-40 PE, they would be valued at $6-8B max.

In reality, they are most likely losing money at this point like most startups, might take them a few years to hit profitability. But that doesn't seem to have stopped previous startups from commanding insane valuations, so maybe Wiz is able to do that too.
I agree it’s not as important. There have still been some rather high .com sales though… Ai.com sold for 11M recently. Now personally, I have never accessed ChatGPT through that domain and never seen it even linked from that.
It's not that black and white.

IMHO, most people donating to a software project would assume the funds are used for something related to that software project. Of course you can invent a narrative saying that the funds are now given to <developer> of the project, and now that he owns the money, he wants to donate to <some other project> -- it's probably a valid legal argument in case disputes arise, but it probably isn't what the original donors had in mind...
Can you tell me the difference between building a brand and this guy ?

I struggle to understand what this means, as I dont know what "building a brand" means when a person does it.
The thing about irl blogs is how, if it's tech related, then it kinda follows you. So there's a pressure to keep things corporate to not scare away job opportunities.

There's a reason why LinkedIn reads like garbage, and even if it's obvious, people neither point it out or stop.
"Use it till you die" seems like less and less of a penalty the older you get.
> the Notices require each property owner to respond within ten days with evidence that the property owner is no longer permitting pirate radio broadcasting to occur on its property.

So, like, post a sign "no pirate radio broadcasting plz"? Or show how it's in the lease agreement that it's against the rules?
Because the food needs to come from somewhere?
I would say the level of realism and similarity to the users' photos stands out in Quick Headshots vs the competition. But obviously I am biased :)
Swimming, walking in the park, running, hiking, board games etc.
I used an Apple TV for the longest time, but as more of my content shifted from pure consumption to more interactive live streams or YouTube videos that often serve as a jumping off point for research, the artificial limitations of the platform came to bear.

A Windows PC is the easiest thing for this, so I built one. LTSC with all of the annoying crap turned off, Firefox with extensions, fast, upgradable hardware. Full keyboard and trackpad, plus smaller pointer and keyboard devices scattered around.

The costs of doing so are the cost of buying a cheap used SFF PC from eBay or a new miniPC and a few hours of setup. An N100 box can be had for less than $200 USD with enough horsepower to due basically any HTPC task you want, including ones the STB makers wouldn't allow you to do like emulate old consoles or install whatever software you want.
>I once had a boss that saw my desk and started complaining to HR that it was too big, and if we can split this desk into 2 to save on office space.

ooh, I know the perfect way to save on office space...

as is the theme of 2023/4, Companies want to pretend they want X, but then make X as miserable as possible because the real reason is Y (anywhere from taxes, to sunk cost fallacy, to lack of trust in workers, etc).
Thanks for saying so. Its nice to know I'm not alone in struggling with this stuff. Now that some time has passed, I might loop back and take another stab at it. It'd feel great to clear this hurdle.
Some people think that represents a consistent train of thought. Amazing.