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569: Whatever It Takes May 08, 2024

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Altman's on a spending spree for AGI – why the huge price tag? Mike's back from NYC with juicy API gossip, and we break down the incentives pumping up a giant AI bubble.

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'Belligerent' United Airlines passenger hit with $20K fine, TSA says — United Airlines passenger had been in custody since the March 1 incident
"Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50 billion a year" — Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50 billion a year, we're building AGI and it's going to be worth it
Sam on GPT4 — GPT4 is "the dumbest model any of you will ever have to use again... by a lot"
The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk] - Sam Altman (OpenAI) - YouTube — Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending — The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
@shiraovide • For a sense of how bonkers the money is — Google and Microsoft combined spent $26 billion IN THREE MONTHS on computer chips, servers, data centers and other big ticket costs.
"BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In developed countries the big winners are... — BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In developed countries the big winners are those with shrinking populations.. They'll rapidly develop robotics/AI.. transform productivity.. elevate living standards.. substitute humans for machines"
Apple Vision Pro a big hit in enterprise — There isn't a line item in Apple's earnings for Apple Vision Pro, but CEO Tim Cook shared a tidbit of interest during the Q2 earnings call. He said Apple Vision Pro has been purchased by half of Fortune 100 companies.

568: The Junior Jump May 01, 2024

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How one clever developer has launched his own Appstore on iOS, our thoughts on how this was pulled off, and making a transition into development work late in life.

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FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes — FTC’s final rule will generate over 8,500 new businesses each year, raise worker wages, lower health care costs, and boost innovation
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store - The Verge — Developer Riley Testut finally brings his polished Nintendo emulator to the App Store.
Riley Testut - Mastodon — We’d make everything free everywhere if it wasn’t for the CTF
Core Technology Fee - Support - Apple Developer — Developers operating under the new business terms for EU apps will have the option to distribute their iOS apps in the EU via the App Store, Web Distribution, and/or alternative app marketplaces.
Introducing AltStore PAL | Riley Testut — I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU.
Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders – 512 Pixels — Version 1.70 of Logi Options+ launched last week with — I kid you not — AI tools you can launch anywhere your cursor is located
Sander van Vliet - Mastodon — This disables the process, removes the AI option from the Logitech Options+ UI and allows you to delete the folder without it returning.
SteerMouse — SteerMouse is a utility that lets you freely customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported.

567: The year of Small Models Apr 24, 2024

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Llama 3 and Phi-3-mini are up and running on phones, Raspberry Pis, and we give them a go. Plus Google kills the vibe, and Meta opens up Horizon OS.

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Building for our AI future — But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.
Google, after protester firings, now looks just like every other company — Google's firing of 28 protesting employees Wednesday sends the clearest signal yet that the tech giant — whose founders pledged it was "not a conventional company" — has become just that.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives: Levy, Steven: 9781416596585: Amazon.com: Books — Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers.
Meta Debuts Llama 3, Latest AI Model for Powering Chatbots — Llama 3, unveiled Thursday, is an upgrade from an AI model that Meta released last summer. Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said that model, Llama 2, has been downloaded 170 billion times. Llama 2 was billed as open source, though its license included some restrictions such as requiring companies with more than 700 million users to ask for permission to use it.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says energy constraints are holding back AI data center buildout - DCD — "Now I think that's getting less, and you're seeing a bunch of companies thinking 'wow we should really just invest a lot of money in building out these things.' I think that will go [on] for some period of time."
Private LLM: Secure Offline & Local AI Chatbot for iOS & macOS — Private LLM is a local AI chatbot for iOS and macOS that works offline
Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet - The Verge — Phi-3 learned from ‘bedtime stories’ created by other LLMs.
Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
Dylan Patel on X: — Synthetic data pipelines are massive improvements over internet data Flywheel only continues with big models too when these techniques are applied
Aran Komatsuzaki on X: "A few caveats about Phi-3:" — Phi-3-medium performs well on TriviaQA but noticeably underperforms rel. to GPT-3.5. We can guess that Phi-3 recipe doesn't magically make it understand more random factoids. It's more focused on valuable knowledges (e.g. STEM), which makes sense.
Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets - CNET — Meta opened the Quest Horizon OS to others, and now VR headsets from Asus, Lenovo and even an Xbox variant are on the way.
A New Era for Mixed Reality | Meta Quest Blog | Meta Store

566: FOSS Feed & Care Apr 17, 2024

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We delve into the top 3 open-source revenue streams, expose the pitfalls, and discuss what could be done quickly to improve the situation.

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System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup — Join Jupiter Broadcasting and System76 in the parking lot of Bellingham Technical College after the LinuxFest Northwest conference! Let's eat, drink and be nerdy!
San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks — The agency noted that its system was installed in 1998, when floppies were still in common use
Open Source's Funding Fiasco - dominickm.com — I’ve been thinking a lot about how we as a community and industry can make sure open-source projects keep getting the love they deserve. It’s no secret that the traditional funding model of donations and sponsorships is more than a little shaky.
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world — Researchers have spent the weekend gathering clues. Here's what we know so far.
LocalStack — LocalStack is a cloud development platform that facilitates building/testing of cloud and serverless applications on your local machine. At its core, it features a service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment.
Watch 3 Body Problem | Netflix Official Site — Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

565: The Great Llama Apr 10, 2024

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Why does Meta give away Llma for free? What's in it for them?

Plus, our thoughts on the data showing the trades are starting to see a boom, and new coding jobs are declining.

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Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace - The Verge — Google’s latest Workspace app reflects the way people talk at work now — and maybe signals the end of the slide deck’s supremacy.
Cloud Next 2024: Gmail voice input, Gemini for Google Chat, more — Google is updating Help me write in mobile Gmail with voice prompting and input that lets you “send emails easily when you’re on the go.” Meanwhile, an “instant polish” feature will “convert rough notes to a complete email with one-click.” Google shared today that “70% of enterprise users who use Help Me Write in Docs or Gmail end up using Gemini’s suggestions.”
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple - The Verge — After years of issues, the upcoming Qualcomm chips might be a big moment for Windows on Arm.
Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor | TechCrunch — Google did not provide any documentation to back these claims up and, like us, you’d probably like to know more about these chips. We asked a lot of questions, but Google politely declined to provide any additional information. No availability dates, no pricing, no additional technical data. Those “benchmark” results? The company wouldn’t even say which X86 instance it was comparing Axion to.
Meta Platforms to Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week — The Information
TV Host Mike Rowe weighs in on Gen Z gravitating toward trade jobs - YouTube

564: Re-Re-Rewrite it in Rust Apr 03, 2024

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Microsoft wins the foot-in-mouth award this week, and Google gets the Rust religion - but Mike is skeptical.

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Piece of 5,800lb battery pallet tossed from NASA's ISS crashes through Florida home - and nearly kills homeowner's so — A piece of metal came crashing through a home in Florida that is believed to be from a 5,800-pound battery pallet discarded by the International Space Station (ISS).
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores — “Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts”
FFmpeg on X — The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ devs — Speaking at the Rust Nation UK Conference in London this week, Lars Bergstrom, director of engineering at Google, who works on Android Platform Tools & Libraries, described the web titan's experience migrating projects written in Go or C++ to the Rust programming language.
Spatial Personas Make Apple Vision Pro a Less Isolating Experience — Up to five people can watch movies and TV shows, play AR games, and collaborate on work together even when they’re across the planet.
Two Persona Video Demo on X — Here's a video of two Persona (plus the one looking at them) provided by Apple. This wasn't recorded from my demo yesterday. It's just a demo to show what spatial Persona on Apple Vision Pro looks like
Tailscale happy hour in Raleigh — You are invited to join Tailscale for a happy hour event following DevOpsDays Raleigh. Enjoy drinks and light apps on us.

563: Mike’s No Good Very Bad Rails Update Mar 27, 2024

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Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.

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Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone — The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.
Helix — Multiple cursors as a core editing primitive, inspired by Kakoune. Commands manipulate selections which allows concurrent code editing.
importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. — With this approach you'll ship many small JavaScript files instead of one big JavaScript file.
LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
Carbon Language's main repository — An experimental successor to C++
Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud — I am Sam Bankman-Fried's mother.
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
GPodder Sync - Nextcloud — Expose GPodder API to sync podcast consumer apps like AntennaPod

562: Apple Loses It's Shine Mar 22, 2024

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The antitrust gloves are off as Apple’s legal brawl with Uncle Sam kicks into high gear. We dig through the documents and are surprised by a few things that seem off.

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DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case - YouTube
DOJ Apple Antitrust Suit PDF
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones - The Verge
Here’s the U.S. Government’s Antitrust Case Against Apple
The idea behind antitrust lawsuits is to ‘hold America’s best companies’ feet to the fire’: Tim Wu
Ben Thompson on X: “wut"
Three decades ago…
It is just hilarious that this nonsense is the lead item in a story about why the DoJ will sue Apple
So THIS is why GM said it will no longer support Apple CarPlay from 2026?!
Apple’s response to the DOJ’s iPhone antitrust lawsuit. - The Verge

561: No CUDA for You! Mar 13, 2024

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NVIDIA locks CUDA down further, and we ponder what it might take to break their stranglehold on the market, Zuck's brilliant move that put an egg on his face, and we take a minute to appreciate new developments with Java.

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Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide — According to StatCounter's data, by the end of February 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.03% desktop market share.
Pengwin — A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian.
Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software — This language has been added to the EULA that's included when installing CUDA 11.6 and newer versions.
Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it! — I’d like to showcase two Rust features that are part of what makes Rust excellent, and then compare them with recent innovations in Java.
Brad Neuberg on X — Wow so evidently the quarter that Meta got slammed for expenses & earnings it turns out Zuck was actually massively buying available GPU compute on the market to be ready for scaling AI, increasing expenses.
Joe Burnett (🔑)³ on X — Jeff Bezos: "You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.”
Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 — You won’t be able to download new Android apps from Amazon’s Appstore on Windows 11 in March 2025.
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!

560: Artificial Information Mar 06, 2024

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Apple is pissed, and we'll dig into why. Plus, there are some big hints at Apple's AI plans; Meta's had a rough morning, and Sergey Brin popped back up at Google and proceeded to blow it immediately.

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Victoria Nuland, third-highest ranking US diplomat and critic of Russia's war in Ukraine, retiring — She had been a candidate to succeed Wendy Sherman as deputy Secretary of State and had served as acting deputy since Sherman’s retirement seven months ago but lost an internal administration personnel battle when President Joe Biden nominated Kurt Campbell to the no. 2 spot. Campbell took office last month.
The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s thriving digital music market - Apple — The primary advocate for this decision — and the biggest beneficiary — is Spotify, a company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify has the largest music streaming app in the world, and has met with the European Commission more than 65 times during this investigation.
Will Oremus on X — Apple complains there was no "credible evidence of consumer harm" Spotify is pleased but says “it does not solve Apple’s bad behaviour
iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU after all — Apple is now walking back that decision and says it will “continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability in the EU.”
Apple launches new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip, support for two external displays, faster Wi-Fi — As far as specs are concerned, the M3 MacBook Air features a faster 8-core CPU combined with up to 10-core GPU. Apple is also calling the new Air the “world’s best consumer laptop for AI” thanks to the inclusion of a faster 16-core Neural Engine.
Teslaconomics on X — Google hackathon to stop racism & sexism in Gemeni and the founder of Google, Sergey Brin, shows up to get front row seats
Te𝕏asLindsay™ on X — Co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, seems to think they only messed up on their image generator and fails to acknowledge that Google’s chatbot is just as broken.
Sergey Brin Says Google 'Definitely Messed up' With Gemini Images — Sergey Brin said Google "definitely messed up" with Gemini's image generation.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X — And they are lobbying as a group with great intensity to establish a government protected cartel, to lock in their shared agenda and corrupt products for decades to come.
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