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Counterpoint, industry cyber security is so generally weak, if there were actually a secret "huge cold cyber war" on-going, we'd see real world impact.

Since we don't, it probably isn't happening.

Oh wow! Hadn't checked in awhile, thanks for the update.

Yes, I also balked when I originally encountered this pattern at a previous co.

And I think agree with your point, "correct in a wrong way"? Yeah, everything as a POST is wrong, but it is less wrong and more clear to just ignore REST because the assumptions are broken so often it just makes it more complicated.

Just POST everything and make it clear in the URI + bodies what is happening.

I believe they paused freeways everywhere because they drove through some construction (or didn't handle construction zones well).

The longer I work with and write APIs, the more and more I believe everything should be a POST.

It sounds like you have strong faith that if we can do in 100GB what we can do in 1TB today, 10x-ing our model size[1] from today won't be better?

[1]whether it is 10x in size, or maybe running 10x the models to have things like judges etc.

The switch is not novel, that is in fact exactly how autopilot works for any aircraft. The pilot toggles it on and off and the autopilot itself may turn itself off if certain situations occur.

To your point, that isn't without problems, but it certainly isn't novel. It is very standard and boring.

I would bet this is pure marketing speak and there really isn't anything special here. "Follow this flight plan and do so within this flight envelope" is pretty straightforward?

I needed to supply all the necessary documents to prove citizenship, yeah. SSN and birth certificate.

Sounds like RealID has other options for proving identity for non-citizens?

And also according to the DHS is apparently now insufficient to prove citizenship to vote, i.e. goal posts moved.

> AI models cost tens of millions to train.

A pittance frankly. Something that could easily be covered by oh I dunno, let's call it a National Science Foundation who's in charge of subsidizing important basic research for a nation's interests.

Anywho, when the market is trillions (and of potential nation state concern), it is pretty inconsequential and very much worthwhile.

Aside, I think your scale is a bit off, I think Moonshot has raised $5B and potentially they get other breaks from China, not sure. So to produce something like SOTA takes billions, not tens of millions. I'd still argue it is worthwhile to subsidize and invest in open versions, imagine spending $5B to unlocking a few percentage point increases in your country's productivity.

> Most of the operating profit back then came from alcohol sales and that's a totally different business.

I think this is typical of a lot of similar-ish businesses. Restaurants, bowling alleys, movie theaters, all run on high margin alcohol (or concessions) and make very little profit on the primary business.

There are a lot of ideas swirling around right now, it has been the most anybody has cared about OAuth in 15 years.

Most auth companies are playing in this space, some are trying to own the spec, like WorkOS, some are working more closely with standards bodies.

I, like the other commentator, am of the opinion that 90% of the problem space is solved with OAuth and the remainder will be worked out over the next few years as we see how autonomous agents evolve.

Having just joined Twilio (thanks for buying us) and designing some new APIs right now, it warmed my heart to see messages.create(), written over 15 years ago, show up as an example here :)

App Store review is really just luck of the draw in my experience. There is usually no rhyme or reason to a decision, changing some minor thing and re-applying works a lot of the time.

> Property taxes are the only thing that can redistribute wealth from landlords to the working people.

Eh? Working people always pay the property tax, landlords do not.

> it becomes very hard to have a common culture

Counter point: culture has been compressed, not widened, in the last 60 years.

Accents have gone away, we listen to the same music, food has homogenized. By almost any measure, culture across the US has become a monoculture compared to any time in its history.

I don't think your point is necessarily wrong, but how do you square the above?

So we're going to start paying teachers more so they qualify, right? Right?

Oh, we'll just lower requirements for teachers so they don't need a degree...ok [1]

[1] https://www.k12dive.com/news/florida-to-let-veterans-spouses...

You're surprised? I think harnesses are almost as important as the underlying model. Folks have been able to improve benchmark results by nearly 2x based on harness alone.

Harnesses are quickly becoming critical components of the "model" itself imo. Not shocking to me at all that a company that spots a revenue opportunity is keeping its harness closed source.

The word jurisdiction is where it gets confusing. The meaning of that word does not map 1:1 to its modern usage.

To wit, if we read it as "subject to the laws of the land", then the invading army exception does not make sense, invading soldiers are subject to the laws of the United States and have been tried and convinced of violating them. Note, diplomat exception still makes sense, they _are not_ subject to the laws of the land.

So, how do you define jurisdiction in this amendment in a way that covers both invading soldiers and diplomats? I don't think it is super straightforward.

To put good faith on the table, I ultimately agree with your opinion here that birthright citizenship is settled and the vast majority of folks arguing against it are doing so in bad faith. But I also recognize the text of the amendment has holes to my eyes and could be updated for clarity.

Rule of thumb is about 70-80%.

RIP to Glean?

For enterprises already with an Anthropic MSA, hard to see the argument to purchase a third party, like Glean, over this.

I expect mobile OS and maybe mobile app developers to do so.

Google has already downgraded memory for their upcoming Pixel 11 while at the same time imposing local running models as a first-class feature. Both decreasing the memory pool and increasing the demands on it.

The key is that they own the full stack (hardware and software) and can demand the OS be more efficient, along with perhaps forcing that goal on app developers as well via tightened background limits etc.

Have only heard bad stories over the years. Was surprised and disheartened to see him return in a leadership position.

I disagree, I think she articulated it very well. At scale you have sound bites, that's it.

She captured the truth, that our current system vastly favors capital over labor (etc etc etc), and did that in around six or seven words.

You can't really do better than that when communicating ideas at scale. What she said is true, it's for essays, economic papers, and laws to provide the nuance.

Linear is both Jira shaped and less terrible.

Parking: $325

Insurance: $134

Car payment: $330

Charging: $50

All-in for me is around $850 a month. Though I use it far fewer times per month than GP implies, i.e. I don't commute every day via car.

EDIT: I left out that this is a lease, so of course not including any potential depreciation, wear and tear, repairs etc, just the hard costs.

My experience is that open weight models from China are at least ~12 months behind. In some workloads they may be closer, in others further away.

I also find that the harness and product you wrap around models can often narrow that gap considerably.

Opus 4.6 for example, on a PR-for-PR basis was head and shoulders above GLM 5.1. Perhaps GLM 5.1 was a bit under Sonnet 4.6 at the time. That's roughly a year or so behind.

Much cheaper though! I'm bullish on open weight models, I have no idea where all these curves will top out, can the frontier labs keep the year plus lead? Do open labs get close enough to SOTA that they gain adoption across many tasks and drive down inference prices??? Who knows, not me.

Light would travel six feet on a cable in about 10 nanoseconds, is that the sort of latency that you're referencing?

I would be surprised to learn that nanoseconds of latency is worth more than much better compute, lower cost, lighter weight, more physical space in the device etc.

Is that really the case?

Here is my low key prediction about the purchase of Cursor by Elon.

Cursor is purportedly a huge customer of OAI, maybe a top five? I think Elon bought it to have leverage on sama.

If timed correctly, Elon could pull the plug on a huge customer (Cursor) the quarter before OAI try to IPO.

You're not wrong in the long term, either in general or for SpaceX.

In the long term, hopefully the market stabilizes, new entrants can challenge Nvidia etc. But of course maybe not!

However for SpaceX, this is a dead end move. They made a good decision on buying this compute when they did but they failed to use it to create a compelling model.

So they're selling access to recoup some of their investment (maybe a profit?). But what's the plan as these chips age out over the next three to five years? Become a compute company? They claim they want to... in space!

Regardless, they bought some valuable chips, failed to use them, but can now sell access and recoup over the next few years before they become outdated.