jameslk

TFA:

> OpenAI had spent months making the case that it was the economic heart of the California economy—and would be willing to leave if Bonta blocked its plan to convert to a simpler corporate structure.

https://x.com/sama/status/1983223056668746218:

> California is my home, and I love it here, and when I talked to Attorney General Bonta two weeks ago I made clear that we were not going to do what those other companies do and threaten to leave if sued.

Hmmm...

The government didn’t have to spend more money, and this organization didn’t have to take money with strings attached they didn’t like…

It seems like a win-win to me

There is no warning in the article? It just discusses all the ways Argentina could be a superpower

The complexity is a feature not a bug. If you have more complexity, you have more opportunities for loopholes. Those loopholes are currently used by those wealthy enough to hire creative firms to help them get through them and minimize owed taxes

If there’s one outcome I really hope from AI automating work, it’s taking away the advantage the monied class has in this regard. Then perhaps there’s less purpose for the complexity

It seems their business model is more existentially challenged by LLMs these days. I’m waiting for the regulations preventing AI being used for taxes and legal counsel

Edit: This is timely being on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601230

Are these specific companies paying for said bribes? Or is it still guesses?

> my guess is that they want to collect bribes (sorry, 'presidential library donations')

Green account, making an off-topic comment about partisan conspiracies… and it’s voted to the top

As someone who went all in on the 2019 i9 Intel MBP months before Apple announced the M1 MBP, I can tell you this strategy is not always optimal. Years of managing overheating and underperformance due to said overheating has not been fun. Especially when I found out about the benchmarks showing those M1s were running circles around the laptop I purchased, for a fraction of the price

Your IKEA Nesting Instinct kicked in. The things you own ended up owning you

Viacom-suing-YouTube-after-it-used-all-its-IP-as-a-growth-hack vibes

Finally, a digital form of “papers, please”

Where else are you going to park your money?

The S&P 500 is currently dominated by a handful of very expensive companies: https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500

If you look at the P/E of mid and small cap companies, their valuations look much more sane: https://x.com/sonalibasak/status/1970881745227833694

Is there somewhere I can determine if a particular business is majority held by a PE firm?

Hmm I just tried that search and Midjourney's site was at the top.

Regardless, at this point, I consider Google Search "legacy software." I rarely use it anymore. Google's AI mode or ChatGPT Thinking perform much more nuanced searches for me and surface the results I'm looking for much faster.

I used to consider my Google-fu top notch, but even without Google Search "Classic" getting destroyed by SEO spam, it's still more work at the end of the day than AI models. I'm sure spam and irrelevance will be the eventual fate of these AI models too, but for now they're the new Google

Many of the things you mention seem like they're symptoms of one specific problem with online dating: it's more like a sales numbers game than an intentional focus on one individual. This dynamic is present for both genders.

Due to the "sales numbers game" of online dating, there's an incentive to keep your pipeline full, lest one of your deals falls through and you have to start all over. This seems to create many of the negative phenomena that people complain about.

* Overwhelmed by too many matches or not enough matches? It's due to the numbers game

* Shallowness and hyper pickiness? Numbers game

* Getting ghosted? Numbers game

* That "stranger" dynamic- i.e. not enough time to really get to know someone beforehand? Numbers game

* Burn out? Numbers game

* Situationships? Numbers game

* Dopamine "likes" rollercoaster? Numbers game

Before online dating, everything was slower. You were introduced through a friend or family member. You met someone at work, third place, community, or at a bar. It was one person at a time. Not a pipeline of matches.

Misinformation, disinformation, terrorism, cancel culture, think of the children, fake news, national security, support our troops, and on and on. These will be used to justify censorship. Those who support it today may find out it's used against them tomorrow.

Are you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site?

How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like

Is it not problematic that the government is bringing up specific things they’d like censored?

Yes the government asking for content to be censored is censorship. They don’t always ask either, e.g. Julian Assange/Wikileaks

Dissolved Girl from the album Mezzanine, though as another commenter mentioned elsewhere, a different version of the track is used in the film

Drag a folder of application shortcuts into the the dock and you’ll have roughly the same thing

Like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/i3prgq/til_you_can_dra...

Anyone who’s seen The Matrix has been exposed to Massive Attack in one of the most famous scenes from the movie:

https://youtu.be/6IDT3MpSCKI

In fact, I recall many songs from The Matrix being played nonstop back in my teenage gamer IRC days. Maybe even by others than just me

How does Waymo factor into this equation?

You posted about this a few times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208072

The comparison with the Minnesota lawmaker murders submission sounds political and you seem to care about this aspect a lot to mention it 3 times

If you’re genuinely curious why this event is likely getting so much attention, I’d wager it has less to do with politics than it has with the fact that this occurred in front of thousands of people, mainly young students, and was recorded by many on their phones. It was also being broadcast I believe. Multiple angles of a very graphic video of a person getting murdered are all over the internet

It’s terrible when innocent people are murdered. In this case, many people watched it happen too

The unfortunate truth is that Palo Alto is in the epicenter of one of the biggest providers of jobs and income. As much as many would prefer to have that epicenter relocated to somewhere more deserving given how little the area cares to develop beyond a dreary suburban money vacuum, network effects prevents it

I really miss that old Samsung grimace emoji: https://imgur.com/02C8x4i

Or the eye roll one: https://imgur.com/FE664R2

Good times

No, I don't think every homeowner thinks that way. But that doesn't change that the incentive is there for every individual, company, and trust that owns homes to keep prices from falling

I don't have an answer to that (I'm sure others do) but I do feel this is a problem that can only make itself worse

The more prices go up, the larger % of net worth for an individual a home consumes. If your entire net worth is wound up in your home because your home costs so much, your incentives are much higher to keep the price of your home from falling than if it was just a fraction of your net worth. Worse yet if you're in debt and you have to sell

The longer this problem goes on, it seems the harder it will be to rectify

It probably looks somewhat like this: https://psmag.com/economics/inside-japans-disposable-home-ma...