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What do you folks think Loom's revenue was in the recent years? I'm curious what the ARR multiple would be in this deal. 20X? 40X?

Patiently waiting for the detection of a neighbouring neutron star passing through the Solar System at 250AU in the next century.

Concern trolling 101

What does constitute “absolute proof”? Holographic 4d scans of military men waving their respective flags whilst planting charges on the dam?

I've had a similar problem with YouTube. What helped me was a) disabling the history; b) heavily curating my subscriptions. I only try to consume content that comes from either my specific searches (e.g. "how to change oil in a motorcycle") or from the channels I follow. You still get occasionally sucked into "recommended" videos, but it is much better than having to rely on the front page of my account feeding all kinds of garbage.

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I went and read through the last 3 days of chat history, including the part where the original article was mentioned. There are not really a lot of “cursing about stupid sensational news“ there. In fact, people were posting screenshots of news about Chemezov (the Head of Rostech) reporting to putin about the ongoing cannibalisation of the current fleet.

Why use throwaway btw?

Do you work in the airline industry? Any source on the “absolutely no shortage of airline parts in russia”?

Who needs China's Social Credit system if we can build a better one ourselves?

What likely happened: the CEO got tired of coming to an empty office and not having underlings scurry around as his excellence powerwalks through the stunning estate of Clearlink Inc.

The whole thing reads like a script for an unreleased episode of The Office.

As the saying goes, the confetti has left the cannon. Pausing the development of AI for 6 months is an insurmountable task; shutting it down altogether is as close to impossible as you can get. Even if we assume our geopolitical rivals somehow sign an AI non proliferation pact, all it takes is one rogue billionaire or a criminal organisation with deep pockets. Yes, it might not be as fast, but they will get there eventually. This is the Manhattan Project of our era - whatever the outcome might be.

No it’s not a silly problem. Assigning a subjective probability to some world-ending scenario does not somehow make all other concerns invalid.

(Roughly) Amara's Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

Time to layoff 50,000 employees and announce another stock buy back to prop up the share price for <24 hours

Plenty.

- A supposed Latin American account; only comments (whitewashing really) are on posts, issues or themes related to China - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=RedCondor

- An account with no comments elsewhere, bar this thread, commenting on how they want to move to China because: affordable housing, "great Chinese society", "going to let go off freedoms, but whatabout public shootings in the US", etc etc. etc. This is the identical messaging to what China is using on other SM platforms - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tiny_ta

- A Chinese / Chinese nationalist's account. If you look through their comments you see they leave mostly political comments with the themes of "russia is winning" (China has been following russia's propaganda almost in almost a complete lockstep.), "USA has not right to intervene vis-a-vis Taiwan", "US elite", posting garbage from "resources largely excluded from the American mainstream" (as usual), 'conflict in Ukraine'. They left comments in this thread as well (a sad attempt at whitewashing Tiannamen). This is more relevant, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xtian&next=34628768#...

Now back to this thread. This is a curious case of an issue being relevant from both internal and external angles. The former - like I said before, the aim is to influence you. The latter - anyone within China who is contemplating to leave the country, just like the author is doing. China has been known to focus heavily on retaining people with technical skills within the country and also campaigning for skilled Chinese nationals to return back 'home'.

Chinese influence operations have been detected everywhere: from 4chan boards to youtube videos and [insert your social media platform here]. What would make HN an exception?

Warning: this thread is very likely to be heavily astroturfed by Chinese influence operations. This is exactly the type of question and discussion that provides a perfect opportunity to change or chip at your opinion on China. Hence:

- “Taiwan is acqshually a dictatorship”

- “The integration of HK was managed extremely well”

- “China may have X, but whatabout Y in the US/decadent West/Europe”

- “That’s it, I’m moving to China. Any tips?”

I’m not saying any positive comments about China are manufactured. But given the amount of money and effort China spends on these type of influence operations, the context of this thread, and the type of audience HN attracts, chances are they are.

Interstellar nuclear-powered transport (1968) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132756 - Aug 2021 (34 comments)

There are a few more, under different titles. I remember reading Dyson’s autobiography a couple of years ago and he mentioned his involvement in the research. Absolutely amazing stuff.

This will get much, much more ugly very quickly.

Oh your daughter is spending her gap year in South East Asia? Find her social media -> download the videos with a sample of her voice -> generate audio of her asking you to help/send money because "she was robbed at a gunpoint" -> message your phone number/WhatsApp/Facebook account etc.

These scams are possible now, but their quality will increase exponentially given that you won't need to know perfect English or be well versed in tech to do this.

How would you know that the confidence factors the model gives you are correct or a best guess? Is it event possible with the current LLMs (see the Liar Paradox)? A better strategy is to use chain of thought prompting or similar techniques, essentially asking the model to explain how it arrived at a solution. https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/techniqu...

Assuming some form of UBI is implemented and AI replaces most tech/service-related jobs, there will still be plenty of work for all of us to do. In no particular order: cleaning our environment, planting new trees, removing trash from oceans, engaging in archaeology, conducting research, providing homes for animals, rebuilding war-torn countries, demining land, and so on. As utopian as it sounds, there will still be plenty of tasks to keep humans busy.

Obviously, the alternative is a scenario reminiscent of an Elysium-like society, where AI-owning elites jet off to space, leaving the dying planet for the rest of us, the riff-raff, to fight for dwindling resources.

I'm equally excited and terrified. Excited for the possibilities of a new technological revolution, but terrified for all potential abuses of technology the said revolution would bring. What is stoping our adversaries from developing malicious AI models and unleashing them on us?

Once we have models that can generate perfect audio and video + better AR/VR tech, it’s game over.

Could you share the initial prompt for your chatbot? I would love to experiment with it

Your stocks will be safe. The bank does not buy or sell stocks itself; this is handled by a stock broker that does trading on bank’s behalf.

Entirely predictable. Cloud is good for some use cases. Self hosting is good for some other use cases. Neither is objectively “better”. Both should be seen and used in the context of a task in hand. But alas it is human nature to pick up a hammer, call it the best thing in the world, and start whacking it at every problem. See: cloud, blockchain, k8s, and now chatgpt/ai.

Probably not sub-1-hour, unless you are a fast reader, but this is good: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

I hope I’m not putting words into the author’s mouth (and I happy to be corrected if I am), but I have interpreted that part as following:

- A lot of value is being generated in service industry, technology, content creation (for balance)

- If AI starts to replace / automate swathes of industries, humans and some companies simply won’t have time to adjust resulting in a net loss to economy. See: horses and automobiles in early 20th century, except sped up x100

- Whatever value was generated by the said industries/businesses is now also usurped by AI companies. In significantly reduced quantities (interconnectedness of economies, less paying customers or users etc.)

I agree with you. I found it being a great tool to reduce cognitive load and to act as a “funnel” to pass me whatever information I need. Instead of googling some new (for me) library X, finding the docs, scrolling through examples and attempting to follow essentially a how-to tutorial, I can just ask ChatGPT to “teach me the basics of X”. Asking follow-up questions is a major part of that. Yes, there is no such thing as a stupid question. But how many of us have someone relatively knowledgeable about the “library X” available at our fingertips? For auto-didactic learning these LLMs are a godsend.

I tend to update my CV on a yearly basis regardless of whether I’m looking for a job or not. This year I used ChatGPT to write up my most recent role. After some minor tweaks it wrote it as good as I would have done - using the same language, tone, etc. I can see this working other way around: if I get a pile of CVs for a role I’m hiring for I’m going to use ChatGPT to summarise candidates’ skills. I’m not sure how well this approach would work, but I’ll give it a go.

Tangentially related, but I highly recommend Long Now seminars. The caliber of guests and the variety of topics are really, really good. https://longnow.org/seminars/