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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by hollow-moe »

HolyLampshade wrote: post #533
mrshu wrote: post #436

I guess this unfortunately means HuggingFace won't be "the first company to go public with an emoji instead of the three-letter ticker" as the cofounders originally intended: "When we started the company, a running joke with my co-founders was that we wanted to be the first company to go public with an emoji instead of the three-letter ticker when you go in the NASDAQ." -- Clem Delangue (https://unsupervisedlearning.…

Little bit of a “the more you know” moment. Historically NYSE (and AMEX; thought of in this specific context as CTA) had a lock on 1-3 character symbols. NASDAQ (via UTP) had a lock on 4-6 character symbols. For a long time you could tell where something was listed purely by looking at the length of the symbol it traded under. This all changed in the late 2000s or so, so no longer useful information. I honestly would…

"we're developing software to trade thousandth of cents every nanosecond, so time sensitive we're paying to get our servers physically closer to the exchange one" but supporting unicode in display strings ? Absolutely and terminally impossible. lmao

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by furyofantares »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #749
sbennettmcleish wrote: post #744

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to say "how about github?" ... but, maybe you're right

Github definitely extended git to a far less technical audience than basic git came from. Emailing patches or connecting to others' remote hosts to pull changes was too much complexity for many customers. Pull requests, CI platform, authentication that is not PAM etc.

Is that any of that something that cannot be easily replicated?

A lot of work maybe, and required a vision to do so initially. But straightforward work that MS could easily do it, and of course other small companies have replicated it too.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by bulbar »

lopis wrote: post #281
bulbar wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Acquisition of GitHub let to increased downtimes, but also to unlimited private repos for the free tier.

Overall GitHub still got significantly worse since the acquisition. Downtime was essentially zero before.

I only ever used GitHub for private (and a few public) repos, so for me personally it got significantly better, being able to have private repos for free.

Pretty bad tradeoff of course, improving the situation for non paying people while making it bad for paying customers.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by smcin »

nickburns wrote: post #938
smcin wrote: post #901

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accounting goodwill might be one term, but it has multiple components (trust, reputation, market share, mindshare, track record, relationships, online and offline community presence, etc. etc.)

I only meant the artful term is 'goodwill' and not 'good will'.

Oh

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by rvz »

latchkey wrote: post #759
rvz wrote: post #543

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> uh huh. Exactly. You're one of those that don't care. Mojo's standard library was open sourced a year before the acquisition. > you ever ask Nvidia why? i did. The correct answer to my question is "No". CUDA or NVCC was never open sourced during its lifetime. Since you "claim" to have asked them and know the true reason why is not open source, just say what Nvidia told you verbatim right here. Intel and AMD have no…

I care, I just don't believe you in that statement. There were "confidential nda" notes embedded in the release that Chris didn't remove until afterwards. That doesn't scream: "we're going to open source this some day!" If it was going to "eventually" be made open source, why not do it from the start? Why not do it a year in? From what I was told, your speculation is incorrect. I can't say anything more than that, so…

I don't believe that you even know yourself.

> If it was going to "eventually" be made open source, why not do it from the start? Why not do it a year in?

That isn't how open sourcing software works. It gets released when it is ready or gradually.

But of course as I predicted that you would ask that question. Why didn't Linus release Linux immediately? Why did he wait 29 days to do it instead of the day when he announced it? Why didn't Rust release 4 years early as soon as is was eventually open sourced?

> From what I was told, your speculation is incorrect. I can't say anything more than that, sorry.

Who told you? Nvidia directly?

The correct answer is that you do NOT know the reason yourself because there was NO discussion at all.

Just say you don't know.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by latchkey »

rvz wrote: post #959
latchkey wrote: post #759

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I care, I just don't believe you in that statement. There were "confidential nda" notes embedded in the release that Chris didn't remove until afterwards. That doesn't scream: "we're going to open source this some day!" If it was going to "eventually" be made open source, why not do it from the start? Why not do it a year in? From what I was told, your speculation is incorrect. I can't say anything more than that, so…

I don't believe that you even know yourself. > If it was going to "eventually" be made open source, why not do it from the start? Why not do it a year in? That isn't how open sourcing software works. It gets released when it is ready or gradually. But of course as I predicted that you would ask that question. Why didn't Linus release Linux immediately ? Why did he wait 29 days to do it instead of the day when he anno…

It took about a week to get Sun Microsystems to open source Tomcat and Ant, which became massively distributed and used software. So yea... it happens quickly.

I'm going to skip past all of your asinine aggressive response and just answer one thing again since you missed it the first time...

> you ever ask Nvidia why? i did.

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