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SVB wasn’t a local SF story though - tech companies around the US banked there.

What could prevent them from getting a launch license?

What’s the FAA considering in approving or denying a request like this?

Interesting fact, Monster Energy is the best performing stock of the past 20y.

Knowledge creation doesn’t seem hard enough. I think an a/b testing service that optimizes based on how users respond is doing science, and knowledge creation.

I feel like compressing knowledge and being able to answer questions about the knowledge, with the ability to explore “what if” differences seems more like it suggests real understanding. And that’s what these LLMs can do.

He didn’t take equity in OpenAi. Does that suggest altruism?

But how specifically should they be treated differently?

For ex, I don’t think police should ever have the right to privacy while on duty. Turning off body or security cameras should be a crime for them, and anything that happens after should be assumed to have been done with criminal intent.

But I don’t think they should have their faces used in ads without their permission. That seems like a weird difference to apply to them.

I sort of see their side.

First you have to put aside whether they should have been there, and whether they committed crimes while on his property. Basically start by assuming the police in this situation are unsympathetic criminals.

What rights do they still have even if they’re the bad guys here?

They don’t have a right to privacy. It’s fine to publish videos of them stealing his money. It’s fine to make fun of them.

But do you have the right to use their image in a video, for profit?

Where’s the line between being allowed to make, own, and publish a video of someone, and being allowed to profit from it?

If Tom Hanks visits your restaurant and is on your security camera, that’s legal. You can own that, and even publish it as a fact.

But can you make a commercial showing him eating in your restaurant? No. You’d need a model release for that.

You don’t get to use a video for commercial reasons, even if it’s ok to use it for editorial reasons.

When 2 parents have a child, where does that new consciousness come from?

When someone dies where does the consciousness go?

I don’t think there’s any law of conservation of consciousness.

Nice. FYI, on iOS Safari you can’t scroll the page if the swipe starts on a chart component.

It seems like this would work better combined with a jail-break. It’s being way too polite.

Position A is basically treating this a completely reasonable suggestion that might have some downsides. It should be treating it as entirely unreasonable.

Position B would be more persuasive if it was a little chaotic, like arguing that NASA is terrible and should be destroyed, and so a monkey leader is a good choice.

This is all getting so meta. This particular article is “fake news”, or at least a false headline.

The bot doesn’t “lose its mind”. It doesn’t agree the linked article is true, presumably because it was setup with contradictory beliefs. So it answers in a reasonable way to an article it believes is wrong.

Is it wrong? Yes. “Lost its mind”? There are much better examples of that happening than this.

This is quite a gentle introduction to Diffusion models, from the YouTube channel Computerphile.

https://youtu.be/1CIpzeNxIhU

Running with the analogy.. We’re used to using tools that help us find needles in the haystack. A rake, a bright light, a metal detector. Now someone sold us a machine that turns hay into needles. They’re not quite as good, but they’re definitely needles. So now as you say the haystack is going to get covered in these. Do we ban use of this machine? Build new machines to separate these synthetic needles from real ones? Or improve the machine so that the needles it makes are good enough for what we need?

Are browser extensions safe? My understanding is they generally get access to everything you browse, and are too big a security risk for a work machine.

Is it as bad as I think?

I’m not familiar with Irish pensions, but in general if the benefit has a vesting schedule that means you earn it over time. If you leave the company for any reason you get to keep the part that’s vested, and not the remaining unvested part.

Blame doesn’t have to be zero sum.

This seems to be 100% the fault of Tesla for selling unsafe equipment. Some amount of blame for the Tesla driver. 0% blame for the car that got cut off and hit the Tesla. And 100% blame for every car behind that crashed into the car in front of them.

I’d love to see their data on how often iPads are used horizontally vs vertical or somewhere in between.

I think there are lots of ways to hold an iPad or laptop where your hand rests near the screen, at least for scrolling.

On the one hand, most programmers are writing at a higher level, and probably have no ability to fix or even work around a date rollover issue.

On the other hand, a few fixes at lower levels will correct it for everyone above them.

Here’s a great story about the ongoing impact of those decisions. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

The first column of audio is just a sample of that person reading different text. That’s what the model gets to hear to learn what they sound like, before trying to speak the text in their voice.

In the video of the delivery event they announced new Megawatt chargers.

I thought all employee equity was converted to cash grants.

Are they still giving equity in the chance that it goes public again someday?

Other than a good salary, where’s the financial upside?

You can fine tune stable diffusion for $10 using this service: https://www.strmr.com/

It works super well for putting yourself in the images, the likeness is fantastic.

It’s obviously a small training process, they only take 20 images, but it works.

You have a machine that if you turn it on, it removes carbon from the air. But, to power it you release a greater amount of carbon into the air.

Should you turn on the machine? No, you should leave it off.

Only when your power sources are green should you turn on the machine.

He wouldn’t need to declare bankruptcy because they’re not his loans. They’re Twitter’s.

According to blind, vesting schedules are converted to cash grants on the same schedule.

So essentially there is still vesting, and no acceleration for regular employees.

Curious to hear if anyone knows otherwise.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Twitter-Accelerated-Vesting-L...

For this particular case I’d want it to be even less creative. I want it to be able to make designs that just use cabinets that are available to buy, and it should know where to source them and what they cost.

And only show me lights that really exist and are for sale, etc.

My understanding: what’s great about Webb is that it can take pictures in the infrared.

It has to be really cold to do this, hence the big complicated heat shield.

Infrared let’s us see things that are further away, because when something’s really far away it gets red-shifted down out of the visible spectrum into the infrared (due to expansion of the universe).

So it’s not really any better at imaging things that are close / in the visible spectrum like Jupiter.

I would’ve tried changing that last dot to a comma just to see what happens.

You only need a universe the size of a data center with nothing in it but a bit of vacuum fluctuation that causes particles to appear sometimes. Then just wait.