I didn't appreciate Pippi Longstocking fully until I read Stieg Larsson's "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Occasionally covers are better than the original song.
It's perhaps no coincidence that the opening theme song of the Fincher (Mara/Craig) version of the movie is an outstanding cover of "The Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.
People go on leave regularly for health reasons, and Fidji Simo has been quite open about her health. Unless you have evidence of your claim, the official explanation is simplest. That's especially the case here since firing someone on health leave can expose you to lawsuits under labor law in the US and many other countries.
I've been in Bay Area tech for 35+ years and this pretty much sums it up. AI has upset software economics at multiple levels, including forcing an increasing number of companies out of business. On the other hand it's hard to imagine a better time if you like new technology and have the grit required to win in very competitive markets.
Pro tip for people moving north; don't buy land in the valleys around Mt. Rainier. This type of flood (also known as a lahar) has occurred there many times. The mudflows reached the harbor of Tacoma in the past. [0] I expect we'll see at least one new one in our lifetime, as the glaciers have been greatly affected by rising temperatures.
A bit off topic about the word "lahar", we Indonesians use that word to mean "lava", and we use "lahar dingin" (lit: cold lava) to mean volcanic mudflow.
Do you have a source about the Nepalese flood being a Lahar? I've only read that it was caused due to the glacier collapse, which seems like a different thing
Thanks, I see that Lahars are technically associated with volcanoes as another comment noted. They have a variety of causes of which glacial collapse is one. [0] The term jökulhlaup describes a flood originating from a glacier, for example draining of a glacial lake. [1] It now seems the Nepali flood was triggered by a landslide onto a glacier.
As a practical matter the effects are pretty similar. Rainier has had lahars and jökulhlaups in the past.
Michigan also dropped their mandate for ACT / SAT to obtain admission. So, yes, I would say that's pretty broken. Combined with systematic grade inflation American universities as a whole are removing any real feedback about student preparation, level of effort, or ability.
ACT/SAT is still needed for merit based scholarships though so if you fall in the income bracket between homeless and owning your own island those tests are very very important.
The UC system and many other of the top universities in the country have also stopped looking at SAT scores.
Growing up with no one in my family having gone to college I had no idea how any of this stuff worked or anybody to tell me its important. Eventually I moved to a middle class suburb and saw kids hire private tutors for it. Meanwhile I remember 2 days before I had mine scheduled and had to find someone to beg to drive me there. I'm quite thankful that universities acknowledge how silly it is to assess a student's aptitudes from a single test score like that.
I think personal essays and a more holistic assessment is a great alternative but I'm worried about the LLM age and the limits it introduces to that as well. Perhaps interviews are the future. It would certainly better prepare students for the real world
It's much cheaper for a smart student to take the SAT than all the alternative ways to stand out. Unless the school just goes by essay, which as we've learned is either lottery or codeword for discrimination, and then they get students who can't deal with college.
> I'm actually really interested in hearing about a large enterprise running vendor code that would even entertain the idea the vendor could automatically update the entire deployment without their direct involvement.
A better word than "involvement" is "knowledge." We operate BYOC installations of managed ClickHouse and allow customers to pick upgrade windows. It's not that different from doing upgrades yourself. It's also important to remember that SaaS products upgrade without user intervention and often without user knowledge. That's one of the characteristics of the SaaS model.
> I think the most important aspect here though, and the most subtle one, is the issue of deployment and operational complexity. For BYOC to work well, the vendor really should be designing for it from the beginning.
This is definitely correct. We made a design decision early on that environments for managed databases (i.e., the data plane) are dedicated Kubernetes clusters for each tenant. Data plane services fit in the single K8s cluster and can be installed in 20 minutes or less over the network.
The Omnistrate article makes a great point that there are different flavors of BYOC depending on how much control users want. We have two variants: (a) fully managed stack in its own VPC where we install and run everything and (b) managed databases on user-supplied Kubernetes.
The fact this plan is called a "Hellscape" is horrifying. I wonder if that's Pentagon remarketing to bring an existing plan on-brand with the new Department of War.
The thinking in this article seems muddled to me. Historically there are two fundamental models for rivalries between powerful economic actors and national governments.
* Regulatory capture - AI Labs [partially] capture government functions, i.e., take over. In practice this equates to oligarchy.
* Nationalization - Government takes over AI labs through some form of direct or indirect control (e.g., dirigisme).
The article discussion does not seem to consider either of them. And the idea that AI labs would act in the interest of citizens at large seems laughable. In practice it looks like California Forever [0], which is quite the opposite.
I mostly read it AI Labs == established AI Labs i.e. under control of a few rich people. Else it wouldn't be called AI Labs but, idk. AI Comission (like FCC) or similar
It's perhaps no coincidence that the opening theme song of the Fincher (Mara/Craig) version of the movie is an outstanding cover of "The Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.
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