1. Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
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The co-founder of a project called Radicle shares a link to a document explaining how the protocol works, but notes that it is still a work in progress.
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The article discusses the idea of embedding project metadata into Git itself to address certain functionalities that are currently missing in Git. The author suggests that Git is already open-source and peer-to-peer, so there is no need to use additional binaries. They mention that Git lacks features such as code issues, wikis, discussions, GitHub pages, and a developer profile network. The author proposes adding independent references like Git notes to handle these missing functionalities. They provide a link to the Git notes documentation for further reference.
2. Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
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The article discusses the acquisition of FanDuel by Paddy Power Betfair and its impact on the founders and employees. Despite the high acquisition amount, the founders and most employees did not receive any proceeds due to the strong liquidation preference rights held by the lead investors. Liquidation preference determines who gets paid first and how much they receive in an acquisition. The preference multiple and participation are the two components of liquidation preference. In this case, the lead investors had a liquidation preference that entitled them to the first $559M in the acquisition, leaving the founders with nothing when the deal was only for $465M. The founders were unable to stop the deal due to drag along rights granted to the lead investors. The article emphasizes the importance of building a healthy startup to secure favorable terms and better valuations during fundraising.
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The article emphasizes the importance of building a healthy and fundable startup. It suggests that a healthy startup attracts more investors during fundraising, allowing founders to negotiate for better terms. These healthy startups also receive better valuations and can raise funds with less effort. However, the reader’s takeaway is to bootstrap or self-fund instead of seeking investment.
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The article discusses a venture capitalist’s perspective on liquidation preferences. The author suggests that a 1x preference is fair and necessary to protect investors from unscrupulous behavior by founders. Without a liquidation preference, a founder could potentially cash out their shares at a discount immediately after fundraising. The article also acknowledges that liquidation preferences greater than 1x can be the fault of either the founder or the VC, sometimes resulting in an exploitative situation. It gives an example of a founder negotiating a higher valuation in exchange for a higher liquidation preference. The article emphasizes the importance of both sides having good lawyers during fundraising, as they will have a better understanding of terms and benchmarks.
3. Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue
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This article discusses the recording session for “So What,” one of the iconic tracks on the best-selling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue. The session took place in 1959 in New York City and featured Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans, among others. The article provides background information on the state of jazz during that time and describes the atmosphere of the recording studio. The album’s enduring popularity and appeal across different music genres is also highlighted.
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This article encourages readers not to overlook the current music being created in the jazz genre, despite the tendency to focus on past jazz legends. It highlights the importance of exploring and appreciating the contemporary jazz scene, and suggests that even influential figures like Miles Davis would have supported this perspective.
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The article is about a jazz venue called Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society (BDDS) in Half Moon Bay, San Francisco Bay Area. The venue has been hosting world-class musicians since the 1950s and is known for its fantastic music and quirky ambiance. The author recommends the venue as one of the Bay Area’s best-kept secrets.
4. Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
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The article discusses the release of a new text-to-image generation system called Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3). The system outperforms other models like DALL·E 3, Midjourney v6, and Ideogram v1 in typography and prompt adherence based on human evaluations. SD3 uses a Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) architecture that improves text understanding and spelling capabilities compared to previous versions. The research paper outlining the technical details of SD3 will be soon accessible on arXiv. The article also highlights the areas in which SD3 performs better than competing models based on human evaluations of Visual Aesthetics, Prompt Following, and Typography. In early tests, SD3 generated an image of resolution 1024x1024 in 34 seconds using 50 sampling steps on consumer hardware. The article also explains the MMDiT architecture, which processes multiple modalities like text and images, and how it outperforms established text-to-image backbones. SD3 employs a Rectified Flow formulation for training and introduces a novel trajectory sampling schedule. The article concludes by mentioning that SD3 can create images focusing on various subjects and styles due to its improved prompt following ability.
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The author is excited about Stability AI’s dedication to open-source and hopes they can continue operating for as long as possible. The author also has a question regarding whether Stable Diffusion 3 still utilizes CLIP from Open AI for tokenization and text embeddings, expressing curiosity about potential improvements in this part of the model’s architecture.
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The article discusses an issue with text generated by a program. Although the program spells words correctly and lays them out properly, the text always appears overly bright and does not blend well with images. This creates a amateurish and unprofessional look, as if the text was simply added on top of the image using Photoshop.
5. European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls
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The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is calling for the automotive industry to change the way controls are implemented in vehicles by 2026. Euro NCAP argues that the overreliance on touchscreens for various functions is a problem as it diverts drivers’ attention from the road and increases the risk of distraction-related crashes. The organization proposes using separate physical controls for basic functions, such as turn signals, hazard lights, windshield wipers, the horn, and emergency features like the European Union’s eCall. While Euro NCAP cannot mandate carmakers to adopt physical controls, achieving a five-star safety score from the organization is highly valued in the industry and may encourage carmakers to make the change.
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The article discusses Euro NCAP’s stance on physical controls in cars. Although they do not require everything to have its own button, they do insist on physical controls for turn signals, hazard lights, windshield wipers, the horn, and any SOS features. The author agrees with this requirement, stating that while touchscreen controls for other functions are acceptable as long as they are responsive, the lack of physical controls for windshield wipers and turn signals in Teslas is seen as a design flaw. Overall, the author supports the need for physical controls for safety-critical functions that are frequently or urgently used.
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The article discusses the author’s frustration with touch controls in cars, which they believe are unsafe while driving. They refuse to buy cars that have replaced physical buttons with touch controls. Additionally, the author criticizes car makers in the US for using flashing red lights as turn signals instead of yellow lights. They argue that red lights are harder to see in sunlight and can be confused with brake lights. The author suggests that all turn signals should be yellow to avoid confusion.
6. Based: Simple linear attention language models
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The article discusses a new architecture called Based that combines sliding window attention and linear attention to improve language modeling and associative recall capabilities. Based offers faster generation speeds and higher throughput compared to other models like FlashAttention-2 and Mamba. The article also explores the tradeoff between memory consumption and recall performance and investigates alternative attention techniques. Based on their experiments, the authors found that Based outperforms other models and expands the recall-memory tradeoff curve. They also consider hardware optimization and simplicity as design principles for their architecture.
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The article discusses Together.ai, a company that provides inference and training services. It highlights that the company focuses on optimizing the speed of inference at different quality levels in order to meet customer demands. The writer also mentions that as the company’s revenue grows, they will have access to more computational resources, which will enable them to train models at a scale that meets minimum acceptable quality. Overall, the writer expresses excitement about the prospects of companies like Together.ai competing on quality in the future.
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The article “Hopfield networks are all you need” discusses the significance of softmax in the attention formulation for recall. The author expresses surprise that these ideas have not gained wider acceptance in the community. The article explains that when attention is viewed as a Hopfield network, linear functions have a theoretical limit on the number of patterns, whereas exponential functions allow for high information density and recall.
7. Meta outage
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The article discusses multiple services that are experiencing outages. This includes platforms owned by Meta (formerly Facebook), such as Google, YouTube, and Google Play. Other services like T-Mobile, Twitter (referred to as “X”), Discord, TikTok, Pokemon Go, and Snapchat are also mentioned. The article suggests that all of these services may share a common point of failure.
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The article discusses how it is intriguing to witness a major website experiencing an outage, comparing it to a power grid failure but for attention rather than energy. When a platform like meta (presumably referring to a popular website) goes down, users scramble to find an alternative to direct their attention to. However, the system is built with the assumption that meta will handle all the user traffic, so when it crashes, everything else is affected as well.
8. What Is WebTV?
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The article announces the addition of a new feature, WebTV radio, that allows users to listen to radio content.
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The author expresses gratitude towards the developers of WebTV, as it was their invention that allowed them to access the internet for the first time and sparked their interest in technology. This experience was especially meaningful to the author because they came from a financially disadvantaged background.
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The article discusses the author’s discovery of a memorial site for an engineer named Jos who worked at WebTV. The site includes Jos’s college essays and other pieces of writing like a guide to OOP programming. The author expresses appreciation for Jos’s writing style and sense of humor, and they continue to visit the site for nostalgia. The author also expresses gratitude to Jos’s family for keeping his memory alive.
9. AWS acquires Talen’s 960MW nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania
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The article clarifies that Amazon Web Services (AWS) did not actually acquire a nuclear reactor. Instead, they purchased a data center park located near an existing nuclear power station. While the news is interesting, it is not as sensational as the headline may suggest.
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The article discusses the prediction that in the future, most network traffic will pass through one or more AWS data centers, making Amazon the primary controller of network traffic. The author finds this prospect alarming.
10. I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
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Lasse Stolley, a German teenager and digital nomad, has been living on trains for the past year and a half. He travels 600 miles a day throughout Germany on Deutsche Bahn trains, using his unlimited annual railcard. Lasse travels first class, sleeps on night trains, and even has breakfast in DB lounges. He enjoys his nomadic lifestyle and chronicles his experiences on his blog, Life on the Train. Lasse’s parents initially needed convincing, but now support his decision. He lives a minimalist lifestyle due to limited space on the train and focuses on the essentials. Despite the challenges, Lasse finds tranquility by observing the scenery outside his window.
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The article suggests that young people should engage in certain activities because opportunities for these experiences decrease as they get older. The author reflects on their own adventures and regrets not doing more of them.
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