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“prepare 3 envelopes” always leaves out the “what to do in case of Nazi robot” part.

surely there are better things to be commenting on?

love this every time i see it, but haven’t yet had the courage to reply to somebody’s “hey” with it

Coming around to this conclusion myself after experimenting with the tools for a few weeks.

Things have changed.

It’s the difference between partnership track and various “counsel” type titles at law firms.

The former grows (or at least maintains) a book of business and is valuable, the latter has key skills and is useful but clearly not to the same degree.

And like many other contexts, the vast pipeline of people willing to dedicate their lives to trying to be useful mitigates the value of just being useful over time.

and law

AI agents and testing “vibe coding”

It doesn’t feel there yet, but starting to seem some workflows could be close. And non-technical folks at business are starting to pay attention and want projects moving in those areas.

when i think of them, i just call 1-800-chat-gpt

Your tax example isn't far off from what's already possible with Google.

The legal profession specifically saw the rise of computers, digitization of cases and records, and powerful search... it's never been easier to "self help" - yet people still hire lawyers.

Lovely article. The payoff of "I loved every minute of it" after all the agony and missed red flags really hit home.

A much more hopeful version than “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here”!

The problem is motivation. I’ve worked at companies that use policies like this, but you often only see a handful of def motivated folks really make use of it.

Ukraine does too…

i’ve seen so many posts about this on HN i can’t help but wonder if it’s a recruiting drive…

ostensibly because after years of experiments, ads get more revenue in most circumstances.

I just asked MetaAI to help me with Wordle and it understood and gave me a sane answer, so…

Edit: ah, I spoke too soon. My first question was too "easy" but I asked a few more, and sure enough... it can understand what I'm asking and it can write an answer that's well formed, but it's fundamentally not understanding the rules of the game or giving me valid guesses. Cute!

counterpoint: robo taxis might be much, much further away than 5-10 years.

Classic symptoms of anxiety from the sleep deprivation, no?

I've also found that there's a lag on recovering from sleep deprivation, where the first night of good sleep often leaves me feeling foggy and lethargic the next day. After 2 or 3, that energy and positivity returns - not sure if that's idiosyncratic or not.

Trick is that in many places rental payments are way cheaper than a mortgage, plus you don't have to fork over a down payment.

Right now some places I look at would be ~5k + per month to purchase (factoring in taxes etc.), but rent for ~3.5k.

What a wild weekend... there are too many strange details to have a simple narrative in my head at this point.

The something awful forums are still out there charging $10 to post in 2023, so…

Of course it's not. Where there are gradients, there are different charges.

Murder I, Murder II, (voluntary/involuntary) Manslaughter, etc.

To the extent grey areas exist, they are accounted for in a gradient of crimes, each of which has a binary degree of guilt.

happy to see this every time it comes around

semi absurd is kinda why DARPA exists!

It’s not that unusual at all. The justices rule all over the map, but only certain hot button political issues expose the high level partisan divide.

Most of their cases aren’t guns and abortion and corporate speech.

> It feels like the board has said, “We don’t care about the company or it’s future, just the price of our stock.”

Well since the board is hired to represent the stockholders...

Do you really think it brought in that much money? I'm sure they had plenty of data when they made this decision.

> Part of the reason SVB failed so fast was because they held a lot of long term government debt, mortgages etc. When they tried to sell it to provide liquidity for deposits they found there were not many buyers for it.

What? That’s nonsense. There is an extremely liquid market for the securities and selling them was no problem.

The problem is that they lost value when interest rates rose, were held in a “hold to maturity” portfolio to avoid having to mark down prices as interest rates rose, and the bank didn’t properly hedge its interest rate risk.

Love this

I wonder how many startups were trying to build something like this and just saw it lunched by OpenAI?