barumrho

I get where you are coming from, but identity is the foundation of surveillance.

Given xAI built its 100k gpu datacenter in a very short time, is the infra really a moat?

Shouldn't this problem self-regulate, though? Ultimately, investors mainly care about the returns and if you can get better returns elsewhere due to these fees, they will switch.

If they can charge large amount of fees and still stay competitive, then good on them, right?

You are right about Social Security. It only holds Treasuries. But, there are many other pension funds like teachers pension, government workers pensions, etc that manage working class money.

Am I getting this right?

  - LSD SQL is a way to query a webpage to extract data...sort of like BeautifulSoup
  - You can "give LSD to Claude" using Claude's model context protocol
  - Now Claude can use LSD to extract more relevant data from webpages and use it to answer questions

YouTube ads generated almost $9B last quarter. I think that should be a viable business on its own?

Do you mean bitcoin/crypto or did you have something else in mind?

I've decided that browser extensions are too much of a security/privacy risk. I just stick with 1password extension and an ad blocker extension that uses Safari's Content Blocker API only.

And then from time to time I have a dedicated profile on Chrome to use other extensions that might be useful, but I don't do day-to-day browsing there.

What can go up so quickly can also come down quickly.

It's impressive that Nvidia has been delivering explosive growth in their earnings to match their valuation, but it is valid to be concerned whether the world can keep investing in GPUs like this sustainably.

How do you do this with other DBs?

The new Variant type exists independently of JSON support, so it seems good that they handle it properly.

Thinking about abuse potential, is there such a thing as irreversible finger-printing of media generated like this? So that even bad actors couldn't hide the fact that it was generated by AI.

Elm debugger did something like this, but it's much more limited in scope.

Did not know that. It's an interesting way to keep ownership of the project! What other projects do this?

Being a student not in a narrow sense of being enrolled in a school, but being someone who studies and learns new things by doing rather than simply doing the given task in a conventional/quick/easy way that may not resolve the underlying issues that caused the problems in the first place.

Curious why you need the map to always point to north?

Alexa is not on a phone or PC. It could only be so useful being available only at home.

I'm impressed that they are still around.

With Java, they are executing it pretty well these days. Old code pretty much works out of the box, so you get the improvements for free.

Some language-level improvements are significant enough to get people excited (e.g. virtual threads).

And standard library improvements are pretty low-risk as well.

Good point, but it is interesting that the computations to render visual worlds in high fidelity is the same computation to "ingest" the data to create a model.

Reminds me of how a mic is a speaker and speaker is a mic.

My guess is that it’s aimed at celebrities/politicians.

In economics, everything affects everything else, so you are trying to solve for the equilibrium. For example, high unemployment (not the only immediate effect) in turn will reduce consumption either directly due to loss of income or anticipation of it.

Traditionally, there is the Phillips Curve which states that unemployment and inflation have inverse relationship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve

Incidentally, I was in the top 10% in my last half-marathon. My next goal is to be in the top 5% (~1h30m). I expect this to take decent amount of effort and more structured training.

Only for some class of websites with limited interactivity.

On iOS/Android, before all the WebKit apps took over, many apps would use a local SQLite database to support offline edits and implement a syncing protocol to the server. It's a lot of work, but the end product can be quite handy. (This is how you'd expect your email client to work, for example.)

1Password started off like that and relied on file syncing services like Dropbox for supporting multiple devices. It's still using the same foundation, but 1Password provides the syncing service itself. (They aren't supposed to see the master password.)

Pardon my ignorance, but can a non-profit sold for shareholders’ benefit?

There is some description and link on the page.

  Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income (DPI), frequently referred to as "the personal saving rate," is calculated as the ratio of personal saving to DPI.
  Personal saving is equal to personal income less personal outlays and personal taxes; it may generally be viewed as the portion of personal income that is used either to provide funds to capital markets or to invest in real assets such as residences.(https://www.bea.gov/national/pdf/all-chapters.pdf)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=54&eid=155443...

I hope there is some clause that exempts small manufacturers from having to comply...

I used to choose other distros for more updated dependencies, but now I appreciate the stability at OS level a lot more. Containers also solves the problem for running services.

One could argue that fragmentation is a sign of more active development and a cause for excitement. Of course, it comes with less stability/maturity, but it means that everyone is empowered to do their own thing.

Huge cultural difference.