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Looking back at this, has there been a maverick company like Nullsoft since then? It's sad, but AOL may have killed off the last one.

Did you read the article? There are large storage and bandwidth requirements.

22B params * 2 bytes (FP16) = 44GB just for the weights. Doesn't include KV cache and other things.

When the model gets quantized to say 4bit ints, it'll be 22B params * 0.5 bytes = 11GB for example.

A popular use case for SaaS companies isn't even in utilizing Zapier themselves, but rather adding their API to the list of integrations. This can really speed up onboarding for customers -- especially if they already use Zapier.

In order to charge 10x faster, you need to deliver 10x the current. That means all the wiring and electronics need to be upgraded to handle the huge increase without melting.

Also, the rest stop won't just be installing a single fast charger, it would install more than one. So you can't really compare 10 slow chargers against a single fast one. That means the wiring service for the entire rest stop would likely need to be upgraded as well.

The Nintendo Switch.

For all the reasons you mention. I have a career, I have a family, and I have side projects. I just don’t have time to dedicate to games. But sometimes you just need to blow off steam for 15 minutes before bed and the Switch is perfect for this.

Every game can be paused/stopped by hitting one button. The controls are great, software is great, and I’ve been using the the dock to play games together with family like Mario Kart. I have a bunch of maxed out characters in Diablo 3 just by playing 15 minutes here and there. :)

I would disagree with the premise that the two stores are comparable. The alternative to not use the Mac App Store is not just financial, but also allows developers to bypass the sandbox requirements.

Whether or not Apple permits alternative payment systems for iOS/iPadOS, all the apps will likely remain sandboxed.

Impressive. I wonder if Google will sell servers with these cards via Google Cloud. Seems like it could be pretty competitive in the transcoding space and also help them push AV1 adoption.

False dichotomy.

Hardware: Starlink, ARM/M1, NVMe/SSD, active noise cancellation, AR, VR, OLED, MicroLED, Wifi, GPUs, portable cameras, quantum computing, multi-touch, self-landing rockets, drones, battery tech, robotics

Software: GPT-3, voice assistants, blockchain, compression, H.264/H.265/AV1, image processing, search, databases, BitTorrent/DHT, open source, MMORPG, autonomous driving, Wikipedia, Linux, map/reduce, deep learning, deep fakes, NEAT

I think the business model and the software license often get conflated like this. Once you release software with an open source license, users are free to do what they wish as long as it's within the bounds of the license.

Separately comes the business model. If a business intends on selling a hosted version of their product, as most open source database companies seem to want to do, that product needs to compete on its own merits. Can the business truly offer a better hosting experience on someone else's cloud than those cloud providers themselves?

I think maybe we conflate the two because we want everything. We want to create open source products that a community contributes to and supports but that only the originating company can monetize. It just doesn't work that way.

Highly recommend the Dell XPS 13 if you enjoy the Macbook build quality. The edge-to-edge screen feels like the future.

I run EndeavourOS which is like a GUI installer for Arch. Arch's package management with (AUR -- Arch User Repo) will remind you a lot of Homebrew. And their wiki helps you get up to speed quickly.

For sure, it will only run MacOS barring any jailbreak from the community.

Even previous gen Mac Mini's with the T2 chip made it difficult to reinstall even MacOS due to Find My Mac.

Always good to know the underlying implementation, but for any Ruby readers check out clamp(). It's been available since 2.4.

  25.clamp(5, 10)
  => 10

  6.clamp(5, 10)
  => 6

  1.clamp(5, 10)
  => 5

People realize this, especially on HN. The post is referring to deprecations. You can patch security vulnerabilities and move a product forward without deprecations. Google does it well with Go.

They also have a really cool zine that's loaded with 90s hacker culture. https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/index.html

It's available https://crystal-lang.org/reference/guides/concurrency.html. Fibers (like goroutines) are scheduled by Crystal and map to system threads.

The work on parallelism is available as a compile-time flag, but not yet GA: https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.h...

We run it in production. Our apps are mostly Ruby but we have been rewriting services in Crystal. Originally we were attracted by the speed and type checks, but one surprising benefit has also been the reduced memory consumption. It's difficult to compare directly, but in some cases it cosumes 10x less memory and performs around 20-35x better. Even I/O bound services are sped up since we can take advantage of Crystal's concurrent fibers (rumored to come in Ruby 3.0).

The main downside has been the somewhat frequent deprecations of methods and changes to the standard lib. But it's mostly due to the preparation to launch 1.0.

Here are thorough benchmarks of Crystal and C up against other interpreted languages: https://github.com/kostya/jit-benchmarks. It has other examples besides Fibonacci.

With my wife's business we applied with Bank of America in the morning as soon as applications opened. They were one of the first banks to offer the loan. Like OP, the next day they asked us to fill out their template PDF which asked for the same information we had already provided. We did that ASAP.

Didn't hear anything else after that.

For my company we went through Chase the same day when it was available. They never asked for any information. We called, they said it was being processed. Still no info.

I have a few other friends who own businesses and none have received the loan. The only person I know that received the loan went through a local bank in New Mexico. I think the big banks just prioritized the really large loans > $1M.

From their BLAKE3 paper (https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak...) they give an example of verified streaming in 6.4.

Basically to verify a video file using serial hash functions you need to download the entire video file before you can perform the hashing. In BLAKE3 you can verify each chunk of the video as it is being streamed because the hash internally is just a Merkle Tree.

Using the tax brackets to measure how much we pay in taxes is incorrect. There are things like Earned Income Credit and other credits that generally relieve the tax burden completely from lower income earners.

Check out https://taxfoundation.org/summary-federal-income-tax-data-20... for an analysis on 2015 US taxes. The bottom 50% of the US paid an average of 3.59% of their income. MarketWatch claims that 44.4% of Americans pay no federal income tax at all: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/81-million-americans-wont-...

Hey everyone, creator of the framework here. Just a short gist of why we made this.. We wanted:

  * Support for any messaging service
  * Support for the all of the great NLP/NLU tools being released
  * Ability to use your own code editor
  * Easy handling of common scenarios (like when a bot fails to understand a user)
  * Deployable anywhere
  * Open source
  * Support for popular databases
  * Support for developer tooling (e.g., CircleCI and Travis, GitHub, Heroku Pipelines, etc)
  * Testing

Hey everyone, I'm the creator of the Stealth framework. Let me know if you have any questions about things not covered in the blog post. Happy to share.

I think it's a little unfair to lump Cloudant in with MongoHQ and label them a "datastore as a service" company. You should check out what they've done with BigCouch and their annoucement today about how they will be committing the BigCouch changes back into CouchDB proper.

There's no law for many things in this world, but there certainly are expectations.

There are many projects with widespread use that have become core projects in the Ruby community (Rails, bundler, RVM, etc). It's reasonable to expect that issues or design decisions get discussed on the project mailing list before you try and divide the community.

Certainly. Sometimes changes are just too major to bring back upstream and a new project is warranted. It just seems like Wayne was blind-sided by all of it.

What did Wayne say when you proposed to make these changes to RVM itself? It seems like if you wanted to make the pie bigger, and you just want ideas versus egos to rule then you could've proposed to improve RVM.

It's strange we haven't heard more from users of the 0.07% of EBS volumes that were corrupted and unrecoverable during the outage. I just assumed there was no data loss as a result of the outage.

If you try to declare that all the money you pulled from your LLC was dividends and not a salary, the IRS will bust you. Once you declare a 'fair' amount as salary (and pay FICA), the rest you can pull without paying FICA.