I think figma has numbered months - frontier AI in naked html is getting to the level of design that is honestly stunning - all of those "svg of a penguin riding a bike" training examples must be doing something because I've seen Opus one-shot an SVG of a logo vs scraping a PNG and it was pixel perfect. Claude design, while it came out a bit light, is now very capable.
I know figma has a strong fanbase and companies are all rolling their own "post-trained" models for their built-in AI, and figma is a great product, but the fact frontier models can basically do in html what figma does in it's intermediary format sort of point to where the chips will land in terms of what you will need to use figma for in a few iterations.
I haven't used canva in 6+ months either for the same reason and I don't think either's userbases are growing honestly.
With that kind of airflow and consistent temperature I would suspect the failure rates to be incredibly small on those batteries - typically what kills them is extreme temperatures and high C charge/discharge at high temperature deltas (as measured from 25'C) which is where the cells have lowest degredation, which they should see very little of in this environment.
What would be more pertinent is changing the charging logic so the packs are held at 50% state of charge vs being always charged up to 100%, that will significantly decrease the chance of pack issues while greatly increasing the longevity of the battery itself. If you hold a lithium ion cell at 50% SOC for years without varying it and keep the temperatures flat, it can last for a very long time without capacity degredation. If you leave it at 100% it will be degrade in a few short years and can swell, at which point it has twice the chemical potential to flame out. Also if it's charged to 100% when the datacenter is at 20'C ambient and datacenter cooling fails and temps go up, having the pack warm up to 40'C can overvolt it and that is usually where they swell/fail.
Also fair to note here that Apple is probably at the frontier in terms of using the highest safety cells and battery management logic so I'd feel better about this than I would putting a lesser brand's lipo pouches in datacenter environment.
> With that kind of airflow and consistent temperature I would suspect ....
A lot of words, many of which might well be true. But it ignores the fundamental point.
I think we can safely assume its not their building, not their datacentre.
As a result, they need to play by the rules of the datacentre operator.
The datacentre operator has fire suppression systems build to a certain spec.
The datacentre has risk assessments and insurance covers to think about.
The datacentre has other customers to think about.
The datacentre has its own staff to think about.
Yes, datacentres have some of the most advanced multi-layer fire detection and suppression systems in the world.
But a fire caused by multiple racks stuffed full of LiPo batteries will likely result in very hard to control results, especially if it becomes a cascading event.
Yes, it is arguably highly unlikely to ever happen, especially with Apple hardware as you say.
However at the very least the guy should fess up and have a chat to the datacentre operator to at least give them a chance to say (preferably in writing) "ok, no problem, we'll just add it to our risk register".
We run lithium ion UPSs in our racks and have for many years - I think you're taking the airline approach here but the reality is the environment inside a datacenter is much more stable than almost everywhere else lithium ion batteries are employed today, and the fire suppression detection and suppression systems add on top of that.
the issue is the internal power supply is not redundant, even if you supply it with an ATS or UPS, that component can still die taking out the entire thing.
> the issue is the internal power supply is not redundant, even if you supply it with an ATS or UPS, that component can still die taking out the entire thing.
I mean, its basically the same thing in the MacBook, no ? The SMC ?
After all, there needs to be a magical chip inside to make sure you don't, for example, fry the laptop because it accepts charge via both USB-C and the MagSafe port.
Sure SMC failure is incredibly rare, but it doesn't mean the theoretical SPoF is not there.
Also when was the last time you had an internal PSU on a Mac fail ? Its been a very long time since I've ever seen one, and that's even thinking back to the old days with the old-school canister capacitors. Say what you like about Apple, but on the whole they do a decent job on their BOM selection.
It's actually quite difficult since it requires many models for each item based on zoom scale progression. Very doable but often skipped, and some are potentially in 5+ zoom levels.
Also hard to reproduce: the selection of objects, the art style (decidedly Japanese) the ambiance (king/prince/planets, the pool table when you lose), music and sounds, and a lot of the little things that make it delightful like things running away, the selection of items - the fact that parts of the world that are not objects become items to pick up at large scales.
>We wanted to do away with the current stereotype that has become the norm in the industry where both the developers and the players have come to accept a set of arbitrary rules as standard, despite the fact that video games are still a very new media. Most importantly, we wanted people to have fun and enjoy their gameplay experience.
Words every game designer should read, even more true today than back then.
CZ saying it is confirmed, and that he expects accountholders to be made fully whole... I guess you can do that when 2.8BN is frozen by centralized stablecoins.
>CZ saying it is confirmed, and that he expects accountholders to be made fully whole
Sure you can print USD to make it all magically go away
But it would be very convenient if there's some experimental token of which a majority was stolen, so that irreversible damage was caused. If the token is experimental it could have a low damage, but could demonstrate the irreversible nature of these types of attacks, returning fiat money doesn't waive the issue away.
There's also the fact of funding criminal networks for billions of dollars, which probably causes them to scale cyber or non cyber operations or otherwise gain power.
You see, he's no longer running Binance or participating in its operation in any capacity, per their deal with the Trump admin / Justice department. He's tweeting about this hack as a civilian, offering personal guarantees to Binance customers out of the goodness of his heart!
It does really take a load off my mind, knowing that he's completely out of binance now, and instead they have an independent CEO like... his wife. Yep. Can't get more independent than that.
Yeah I didn’t realize his sentence was only 4 months which is pretty pitiful when he was financially supporting terrorism. You get more for having an ounce of weed in the wrong state.
There are some interesting advances in neural video encoders and decoders - I suspect it will look a lot like the neural models in DLSS 5 for compression -> decompression/reconstitution. There have been some lossless text-compression neural models built that seem to surpass even high level compression algorithms so with time those could get there.
I know figma has a strong fanbase and companies are all rolling their own "post-trained" models for their built-in AI, and figma is a great product, but the fact frontier models can basically do in html what figma does in it's intermediary format sort of point to where the chips will land in terms of what you will need to use figma for in a few iterations.
I haven't used canva in 6+ months either for the same reason and I don't think either's userbases are growing honestly.
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