Why do LLMs receive high investments despite the current high-interest rates that usually restrict hypes? The companies doing the investing are essentially feeding themselves money independent of LLM profitability. Read the article to learn why/how.
Also, if you were wondering what all the shrimp news was about, read on as well 😅
Ben makes the case that the Internet and various Apple products, aren't reductive, but rather empowering and positive. Decentralisation is at the core.
I believe this wasn't just Jobs-era marketing but a reality, one I and my family grew up benefiting from. GarageBand!
But, does Apple still believe that today? It seems with every release, my devices can do less with things I own, music, files, etc
Best sentence of the Wikipedia article about temperance activist Carrie Nation:
“Her methods escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a hand organ, to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, ‘Good morning, destroyer of men’s souls'.”
Charged thousands of dollars for an empty Amazon S3 buckets?
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I opened my bucket for public writes and collected over 10GB of data within less than 30 seconds.
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It's like registering a domain previous used by malware. I forget where I read it, but it was something like $huge amounts of Internet web and email traffic are former malware and viruses still diligently trying to seek instructions or deposit data.
I wonder if there's a better way to show page weight on leaderboards.
One thing could be to sync their Y-axis so that they're lines on the same base chart (instead of relative to own history only).
Another might be to then invert that axis with bottom the current largest and top the current-smallest. Or... maybe a singlestat number with current size of each and some kind of shared color range (no line/history until click).
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That accident of history ended up more meaningful to me: while I am most well-known for Stratechery, I am equally proud of the paid newsletter model — services like Substack were based on Stratechery [...]
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I had no idea the link was that explicit. Indeed, the linked interview with Substack founder explicitly says they were inspired by Ben Thompson's Stretchery blog.
The year is 1984, A-ha records it's now-famous song and music video. At its 25th anniversary, the band released a 3-part documentary.
Bunty Bailey, the star actrice, reunites with Morten Harket, at the diner where they filmed the original music video. It's called Savoy Diner, and it's in London!
Looks like it finally closed during the pandemic, just months after the documentary...
Fastly uses the H2O reverse proxy for fast and secure TLS termination over QUIC, HTTP/3, HTTP/2, and 1.1.
The project site compares its benchmarks only to Nginx. I'd love to see a more recent comparison that includes ATS (Apache Traffic Server), HAProxy, and Varnish/Hitch as fellow reverse proxies for TLS termination.
Geoff Graham, former lead editor of CSS-Tricks @geoff, wrote:
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My professional identity shifts from CSS developer, JavaScript developer, WordPress developer, web designer, technical editor, and educator depending on who you talk to. [..]
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I feel you. Even before I became a staff/principal engineer, I found this industry only enjoyable and effective when you're not afraid to take on different hats. I can't imagine doing just one of these.
Difficult is a cult centered around the exchange of Diffie–Hellman public keys. Its members are primarily known for their interest in obscure cryptographic inventions.
increasingly heavy software ("just run these docker containers!"),
promise of free crypto "money".
People will use "Free" cloud hosting via Travis/GitHub/Circle and other CIs to run the most compute possible, triggered via random empty commits and such. This is the new normal.
I've been wondering what it would take to create a decent Linux REPL on a webpage, backed by ephemeral "free" CI.
The page would need start with doing something that CI can react to. Could be OAth to comment on a GitHub issue, which count as CI events these days. The build would start by "finding" the waiting user, eg edit the comment, which the web page would poll, and then establish a web socket for the rest.
You'd want an asymmetric key so that only the initiator can talk to that build.
@krinkle Cryptocurrency has amazing “utility” in turning stolen CPU time into money. I mean, what would those scammers do in a world without cryptocurrency? Run BOINC?