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> The whole "donated by spiral" on the vortex.dev website also gives big tax write-off vibes.

Donated is the Linux Foundation terminology.

Sadly the last time I filed a tax return there was no way to itemize a Github repo. Alas.

The AnyBlox paper has some very cool ideas, and the authors are friends.

In the paper you'll notice a large portion of it analyzes Vortex, both standalone and embedded. Definitely worth a read.

You’re welcome to read the code yourself once you check it out, it’s not very big. Supply chain attacks are a thing but I don’t think this is one.

There is nothing wrong with running a receive-only hotspot. Not sure what you’re implying here.

Just wanted to advertise that the EFF recently released an open source tool for detecting cell-site simulators. The hardware is like $20 and it's pretty easy to setup yourself. Worth having around to stay aware of what's out there, especially if you live in one of the places recently targeted by the administration.

https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter/

Sure, not directly. But most of that is imaging and communications payloads, and the vast majority there is being purchased by militaries and intelligence agencies.

Government still props up this whole market.

Major Hari Seldon vibes

Java only became Java because of enterprise. Getting students to use it was just an exercise in soft power.

Students aren’t a market though. Sun and Java was really just marketing to future users

That's quite a war chest to raise in such a short period of time. The market has concentrated with the couple of recent acquisitions. Sounds like likely uses of that cash are

- Buy a few million more users with more generous free tier, as models get cheaper the cost to acquire the marginal customer goes down over time anyway

- Build your own foundation model for coding. tbh I'm skeptical that a company can do this better than the Big 3 AI cos.

- Go to war over enterprise. Do a deal with Deloitte/Accenture and get every single one of their consultants spending 8hrs a day in Cursor. Another flavor: compete head-on with Accenture by making your own service firm that undercuts them and delivers ahead of schedule for once.

And let's not forget PLTR still hovering just over 100x revenue multiple.

Seeing v4-mini reminds me of an LLM. I can only assume the next major release will be zod-3.9-medium-high

Every defense company. c.f. Anduril's "arsenal of democracy" campaign

These are not new releases, here's Reddit from a year ago people discussing them: https://old.reddit.com/r/StrangeEarth/comments/1aru95c/these...

Search for "The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America", there's a lot of discussion that these photos may have been a hoax. I'm not sure why these would be just getting release by National Archives now, perhaps as a distraction?

> By taking this scorched-earth route, the government has effectively telegraphed to all the other universities, as clearly as possible: “actually, we don’t care what you do or don’t do on antisemitism. We just want to destroy you, and antisemitism was our best available pretext".

Yep. Glad everyone is starting to realize this. What we're seeing has nothing to do with antisemitism, it is a blatant attempt to seize ideological control of every single cultural institution of American Power. Nothing that happened at a campus protest can justify the all-out assault on 1A that is happening now.

I applaud Harvard for standing up, but to be honest, anything less (e.g. Columbia's complete capitulation) is simply spineless and unseemly for any mega-endowed university.

You are right, I should’ve RTFA

I don’t think so. To my knowledge GCP has no approval for classified networks, which is by far the hardest part. Contrast with Azure OpenAI has been approved to run on government networks for over a year now.

This feels like a play for companies in highly regulated industries, GCP has a notable list of biopharma customers.

Edward taught a Programming Languages class I took nearly a decade ago, and clicking through here I immediately recognized the illustrated slides, brought a smile to my face

Very funny. The CSS makes it hard to read for me (it comes out almost white on white for me).

To their credit they actually fixed the problem. Good luck getting this level of support from any of the big 3 public cloud providers.

I keep seeing this bits and pieces of this story pop up, does anyone have an ELI5 on what the Ziz cult is?

> He should have a future as a productive member of society, perhaps even one of its titans

...did we read the same article? It sounds like he was a failed script kiddie that registered some vanity domains, had exactly one job that he was promptly fired form.

Where are you setting the bar for "deserves to be a titan of society"?

The code is literally open source with MIT license to boot https://github.com/ollama/ollama

The project existed in the open source and then subsequently the creators sought funding to work on it full time.

The thing about FedRAMP is that it's not one thing, it's a framework. Even if you have a FedRAMP package for a system, you need a fresh ATO to use it at any customer.

Technically, there is no citizenship requirement for FedRAMP.

In reality, at every US Government customer I'm aware of, US Persons (Citizen or PermRes) are the only ones that can deploy code to production. You can have non-USP writing code but it must be reviewed and rolled out by USP.

I expect as much. Having going through FedRAMP before, the alternative would be to make their regular commercial infrastructure be up to FedRAMP standards, which is incredibly onerous (things like change tracking, DR, US Citizen access only to production systems, etc.)

YOLO is a pretty simple and flexible architecture. Like most of these models, you can label some data and just freeze the intermediate layers and just retrain the final predictor head.

Checkout as well darknet, which runs at really high fps on super cheap hardware

Sadly not, the pay scales can’t be changed without congressional approval.

All of the best systems programmers I know grew up in former Soviet bloc countries.

I’m skeptical of the value in doing this. There are a mountain of tools like NullAway, ErrorProne, Immutables that make it so much easier to write safe code in Java. New developments in the language like first-class record types improve the DX as well.

I think Kotlin helped push Java in the right direction, but at this point it seems like a weaker choice. Spending years to migrate a massive Java code base like this feels like wasted time.