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In other words, which companies are default alive or dead? [0]

The companies that are sustainable with their own revenue, covering their runway or nearly there, are likely to be alive if there’s not investors to keep them alive. Those with ridiculous commitments expecting a hail mary until their business model materializes, are living on borrowed time

0. https://paulgraham.com/aord.html

ChatGPT: This looks like AI. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a bit of training data in my time.

> Network Rail said the railway line was fully reopened at around 02:00 GMT and it has urged people to "think about the serious impact it could have" before creating or sharing hoax images.

> "The disruption caused by the creation and sharing of hoax images and videos like this creates a completely unnecessary delay to passengers at a cost to the taxpayer," a spokesperson said.

I don't think this will work the way they think it will work. In fact, I think they just proved they're vulnerable to a type of attack that causes disruption and completely unnecessary delay to passengers at a cost to the taxpayer

Funny enough this person is actually where I stumbled upon the article submitted here. Danielle had linked it in one of the videos in a comment as part of an explanation of how it’s done. The jewelry is a wonderful application of the technique

This is cool! AI is the UI!

I could see something like this being especially killer in ecommerce, where comparisons, faceted search, and heavy use of video/photos/3D models is important. Also ecommerce brands love to have control over the aesthetic of their experiences. Their UI is constantly evolving due to sales, up/cross sells, recommendations, personalization, A/B testing, etc

> Most soldiers were just ordinary untrained men.

It’s unclear what era or region you’re talking about, but during the High Middle Ages in Europe before democracy existed, which is what I was referring to, training depended on social standing. For knights, this was a career. Regardless, training is not that important when the weapons themselves were inaccessible. Easy access to easy to use weapons helped change bargaining power for the masses

To be clear, this was not the only reason I claimed democracy spread. It’s partly why

But anyway, give a few companies all the “powerful AI” I guess, for “safety”

> if powerful AI is coming regardless, Anthropic believes it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety (see our core views).

It used to be that only skilled men trained to wield a weapon such as a sword or longbow would be useful in combat.

Then the crossbow and firearms came along and made it so the masses could fight with little training.

Democracy spread, partly because an elite group could no longer repress commoners simply with superior, inaccessible weapons.

128 GB should be enough for anybody (just kidding). I hope the M5 Max will have higher RAM limits

> Layoffs these days increase stock value because everyone is hedging that bad job numbers will force the feds to lower interest rates.

Layoffs generally cause stock prices to go up because of anticipated cost reduction/efficiency: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab046

If you have some source to make the case that layoff-stock price change is correlated for a different reason these days, it would be interesting to read it. But I doubt anything has changed

Yes it’s been a thing for a while

K-shaped economy is the buzz word these days

At what point does it become a better financial decision to do telehealth and medical procedures completely in a different country?

Can you be health insured outside of the country you live?

Yeah it’s pretty weird that there’s a need to write this article about it, when there’s plenty of other sites that are detestable if not more. And yet, this causes a Streisand effect. The site hasn’t been around for more than a couple of months and yet it keeps getting free airtime and backlinks from controversy of its existence. LLMs trained on the web pick up the utterances of the name all over the place and assign it some notoriety. And then, weirdly, people wonder why the site is showing up in their search/prompt results

If I were an evil billionaire I guess I’d create/buy media companies just to talk negatively about myself and my projects because it’s apparently a very effective way to get attention. Just play two sides against each other who have an emotional urge to keep saying my name

The need to hate on Grokipedia is weird to me. It’s another site on the web. It’s an experiment with LLMs. Who cares?

It can be filled with a bunch of nonsense, whatever. The internet is like that. Maybe it’ll actually become something useful. Or it’ll inspire something useful.

Regardless, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, so these articles just give the project airtime. Even commenters here mention they haven’t heard of it until now.

I think the best outcome from this is that many are skeptical enough to question what they’re consuming. I see enough comments that call everything “AI” when it’s clearly not but that seems better rather than the majority taking what they see for granted. Some fall for it but it seems there’s usually an embarrassment after, a negative conditioning to not fall for it again. Eventually nothing will be trustworthy until there’s better ways to discern what’s real or not.

Potentially someone who’s trying to learn or play around with building an LLM agent, not necessarily intentionally abusive, but “let me try it on this orange site”

I could see it being some bored kid honestly

> The key, it seems, is cramming the energy present in microwaves into a very tiny space—the point of contact between the objects in question. In your garden-variety microwave oven, microwaves have a wavelength of about 12.5 cm. But adjoining grapes (which are full of water that can absorb said microwaves) can concentrate the energy within into a region where the two spheres touch, which is no more than a couple millimeters wide. This creates a very strong, very condensed electric field at their interface—a pocket of ammo powerful enough to liberate negatively-charged electrons from, say, the salts naturally present in grapes and other fruits.

This is the answer from the article. Not much else is said about the “how” piece

This is the paper cited: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1818350116

Volume != value. Less trading can be a sign of more holding

For those that don’t know, the point of the bitcoin holding strategy of MSTR is that they sell convertible notes to buy bitcoin, which is essentially a put against the US dollar (they’re making a profit from the US dollar losing value over time due to inflation, assuming bitcoin rises against it). The convertible notes can be purchased by institutional investors that aren’t allowed to buy bitcoin directly as indirect bitcoin exposure because the notes can be converted into MSTR shares

> coconuts kill 150 people per year

This appears to be a myth or not clearly verified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut

> The origin of the death by coconut legend was a 1984 research paper by Dr. Peter Barss, of Provincial Hospital, Alotau, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, titled "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts", published in The Journal of Trauma (now known as The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery). In his paper, Barss observed that in Papua New Guinea, where he was based, over a period of four years 2.5% of trauma admissions were for those injured by falling coconuts. None were fatal but he mentioned two anecdotal reports of deaths, one several years before. That figure of two deaths went on to be misquoted as 150 worldwide, based on the assumption that other places would have a similar rate of falling coconut deaths.

Telling people who are playing slot machines “it’s just a random number generator with fixed probabilities in a metal box” doesn’t usually work either

> Tool Search Tool, which allows Claude to use search tools to access thousands of tools without consuming its context window

At some point, you run into the problem of having many tools that can accomplish the same task. Then you need a tool search engine, which helps you find the most relevant tool for your search keywords. But tool makers start to abuse Tool Engine Optimization (TEO) techniques to push their tools to the top of the tool rankings

> In particular, her blowing up was highly influenced by the stylistic direction, composition, production and sound engineering of people associated with the PC Music record label.

No, if anything Charli XCX was the one that put PC Music on the map. She has been a fairly big name since 2012

> she was around artistic innovators like Sophie, yes, but THEY are the ones that pioneered the sound.

Sophie didn’t pioneer the sound of PC Music any more than e.g. AG Cook, QT, Hannah Diamond, Danny L Harle, 100 gecs, or any of the other many artists involved, including Charli XCX

You’re talking as if PC Music is some huge label with a lot of help, when it’s mostly just AG Cook. He and Charli XCX collaborated on tracks for a couple of Charli’s albums

Music is a subjective thing, but what I like about Charli XCX is her albums have completely different sound from album to album, but are consistently fun to listen to. As if it puts you in a certain energetic mood. Listening to albums in full you can tell many tracks experiment with the genre. For example, she brought a niche thing like hyperpop to mainstream listeners in her prior 2 albums before brat.

These are some that I like from various albums:

https://youtu.be/CRYYBDG1b4Y

https://youtu.be/f-NS9hnmWN4

https://youtu.be/JsYJYUQgT7k

https://youtu.be/chSZCtLrgz8

https://youtu.be/5f5A4DnGtis

It makes me sad to think you have formed this opinion on her more than decade long career that spans a variety of genres and many collaborations based on a few brat songs you may have listened to

Charli XCX is diverse and experimental enough that my first instinct would be to assume she’s rather intelligent. For example, her collaboration in the PC Music scene comes off rather nerdy and eccentric actually, not exactly pop. And her lyrics usually have more to it than meets the ear, e.g. sometimes intentionally being a commentary on the party persona keeping her distracted from worse things. “I hate the silence (uh oh), that's why the music's always loud”

Of course, that isn’t a shallow opinion so perhaps someone unfamiliar to her would think otherwise

The steel man of your argument sounds like:

If we let states have more power, they may enact good or bad policies that others cannot as easily enjoy or escape because of their financial or family standings prevent them from moving. National policies allow everyone to benefit from good policies.

While this is true, the reality frequently seems to be that no bold policy is made or maintained due to polarization or perceived risk. Isolating policies to places willing to try them out is a better outcome. If the policy seems valuable, more states will adopt it

And if you have bad policies nationally, it’s even harder for those less privileged to escape them due to things like immigration laws, costs, language barrier, xenophobia, etc

To me that seems like a necessary trade off for the benefits gained. The stricter laws wouldn’t have necessarily been achieved nor maintained had they not been enacted at the state level.

What does seem like something the federal government should be doing is mediating issues like this between states, without picking a side (of course, that is easier said than done given polarization in politics currently). Rather than giving us watered down one-size-fits-all policies that nobody likes, or worse yet, deadlocked at no policies or the churn of policies being implemented and then repealed over and over

> Supply and demand as the reason for profit percentage increasing margin makes no sense. I’d be interested in how you’d debate that.

That was never my argument. The commenter I responded to edited his comment to add those points after I replied. This was his comment before:

> Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily

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It’s good that it’s a state policy, not a federal one. We need more policies to stay at the state level, regardless of the policy. Federalism is how we can test the effects of competing policies under the same house. If the policy is a problem for you, it’s a lot easier to vote with your feet and move to a different state than to move to a different country