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What’s wrong with e-books? Highlighting is awesome. Accessible and searchable! I have a number of paper books myself but it seems odd to need to have them all on a shelf outside of the need to show your identity to folks that walk into the room with you, or to have some form of art “on the wall” to help one think.

Yes. You need to stand up as a citizen to have the impact (they cross check).

Publication is probably a bit much as a default and chills speech a bit, but it’s also important that the federal register can remain public with all public comment on the web. These are official comments on the record.

So far Claude Fable is relentlessly unavailable. /shrug

Not sure why this didn't occur to me earlier. It's always been the play, and it's probably ALSO why many Tesla investors went along with this IPO. It gets him control of Tesla again without paying him all those shares and without the lawsuits (though if I'm honest any decent anti-trust regulator would prevent it so this will likely need to happen in the next two years (while little to no competent governance is allowed)

Amazing! Even though they’re “just prompts” that knowledge is still important and valuable. Very cool. Unfortunately I’m just a guitar newb trying to figure out what pickups are doing things to my tone so you probably don’t want me in there :)

The consumers were paying for tokens with their data. If you pay for the tokens yourself the expectation is that your data doesn’t get trained on or used.

Buy a house first - then make another 20 million, then maybe consider this haha

This is really cool!

Seems like the key to the prompt it seems is the knowledge of how these tones were created in the first place (your system prompts for the 80s) which requires some actual tone knowledge and leaves all the fiddly bits to the LLM.

As someone relatively new to guitar this is intimidating, but also a fun rabbit hole. Additional “expert” prompts for different archetypes and genres could be fun.

Biggest win for me was building a new service to manage Cub and Boy Scout units.

Modern calendars and RSVPs via link, Roster management, LLM integration via MCP to manage all of it and send communications, and also includes a sync of all advancements and status from scouting servers (via API) so you can view them the way you want and share with parents all in one place.

Lets you customize events so you can add signups, modern document management and mapping, etc.

Also allows you to ask questions of models like “what group activity will knock out X rank for most kids” and the answers are good!

This kind of stuff is buried right now for most scout programs and units but this makes it really easy.

This will support multi-tenant so drop a note below if that sounds like something you’d be interested in.

What about a few hundred billion in salary and benefits reductions due to mass layoffs?

Not saying this would be good (qualitatively) or even good business in any sense, but we’ve already seen companies willing to sacrifice headcount to cover CAPEX for these models.

This is the way.

Crepes / pannekoeken are tough because they are almost always a “you know it when you see it” amount of flour and milk to get the batter right.

I have bookmarked this site for future. I love Food Lab and this seems like a natural batty expansion on some of those ideas :)

The article doesn’t make it quite clear but dopamine fracking (such as described) requires both you and the companies to work.

The companies are trying to make something you’ll want, and you want it! But if you allow fracking on your “property” then you will be left with poisoned aquifers and empty of substance.

True!

It was because the group made the mistake of inviting the federal appointee currently running NIH.

This would probably have been fine if this administration was not comprised of individuals that cannot abide any sort of pushback.

The protest would not have been needed without the official there - but their presence made the organizers so nervous that they tossed the editor in chief of their own journal.

The problem is how deep the federal dollars go into these systems that enable fear of pulling it. That is the mechanism of control. Our own tax dollars being weaponized.

When was the last general strike? And what would it ask for if it happened?

I understand you’re a fan of the method and it can be impactful but that’s not a reason to state that protesting does not accomplish anything.

This. 100% this. Data centers drive up our energy costs and are external to the local economy for the most part.

Blocking them should be a priority until rates are negotiated with your G&T / major provider (PJM and FERC in Maryland and many other states)

RE blaming the peon reader: you’re talking about Vox so that is expected unfortunately.

We do not have a eunuch congress - but we do have a Congress that believes their balls have been removed despite being there the whole time. This is a solvable problem, happily. It does, however, require some will and for folks to remember they actually have some power as elected representatives to the highest legislative body in the land.

How has this not been patched by the company? Hasn't this been in the wild for a long time already?

The only reason this happened was due to taxpayers bailing out financial institutions. This only exacerbated an insane amount of moral hazard already present in the market following previous bailouts.

Unfortunately, the US Government continued to run themselves into the ground spending-wise and may have a difficult time with another bailout, unless everyone pretty much agrees that we cannot have a USG failure, so they all pretend like nothing happened.

Eventually the merry-go-round stops, I'm just not sure what the catalyst will be, and it might be 100 years from now.

A shitshow for whom? I see it as extremely unlikely for the United States of America to not allow individuals to purchase things for whatever money they can pull together.

The only answer is to make it unacceptable socially, more costly economically (taxes, etc), or the third option which involves pitchforks (perhaps that also falls under "unacceptable socially") that I hope we can avoid at all costs. (is this the show you mention?)

Feels like folks used to understand the balance a bit better - but I think I made that up. This next governance cycle is going to be a trust-busting, wealth-confiscating one I think.

100%. It doesn’t pay the same kind of bills but it makes life 1000% better.

At what valuation?

I’m a user and I like the routing layer and not having to change things up too much, but I’m not sure why a solid business model for this product would require this much money at this kind of valuation unless they’re trying to buy data center capacity to self-host models eventually?

This looks awesome! Exciting to see what happens in this space.

I would love for a robot to wipe me after using the toilet - and I have a washlet for this!

It’s not about tax bracket. You can still pay your cleaning folks a reasonable wage and be kind to them. You can still treat them like human beings. It’s vulnerable to have another person tidy up after you, but fine in the end. Turns out vacuuming isn’t really that personal.

It’s one thing to have NEVER done the mundane chores and entirely another to save some time in your day while you’re at work to have someone help with it.

Great story. Wish you hadn’t done the bait and switch with the title.

Better now than ZIRP for me - at least people are asking timid questions about the unit economics and how long the runway is _early_ while also spending absolutely insane amounts of money on this bet. During ZIRP, these companies would have turned down any investor asking questions. Less contagion when rates aren't zero hopefully? :grimace:

Why did you let me send you a message? That’s what came up when I hit this page.

For me curation was better but I was really missing the ability to quickly seed a playlist with a specific vibe and build from there for specific moods.

That, and the desktop app and confusion between library and Apple Music streaming was annoying to manage. They need to unify that experience or split it completely.