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The median user isn't going to change default settings, so your app is as secure as whatever the default it.

Anything similar for iOS?

Chemistry would be a great space to explore. The last quarter of the 19th century had a ton of advancements in chemistry. It'd be interesting the see if an LLM could propose fruitful hypotheses, made predictions of the science of thermodynamics.

I’m glad it was blocked. Amazon gives law enforcement and ICE access to Ring camera footage. I have no doubt they’d eventually be letting cops spy inside our homes with these vacuum cleaners.

Software has been moving in the right direction. Tons of open source projects for every application imaginable. But hardware has gotten more closed. You can't replace batteries in phones, they get pre-loaded with state level spyware, laptops today have about the same hard drive space as 10 years ago to drive cloud usage, and GPUs and now memory seem to be becoming increasingly cost prohibitive for consumers.

If you care about your data privacy don't get this bed. There's really no good reason for it to phone home and tell the CEO (YC company), when you're sleeping, if you're sleeping with someone else, and when you're sick.

If I had to classify the current era we're in, it'd be the "Age of the Edgelords".

Enshittification really should be upgraded to a fourth law of thermodynamics.

For anyone here planning on doing corporate fraud, just make sure you leave a $1-2MM line item for regulatory assistance.

His base doesn't read BLS reports.

Yup, the president just fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner when unfavorable jobs numbers were released.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to address this trust issue.

Increasing the supply of the high end market often occurs while simultaneously reducing the supply of the low end market. This happens when landlords renovate their buildings. So it's very possible that adding supply can limit price inflation on the high end, while increasing costs on the low end.

It still is? Few engineers could build a good spell checker without external libraries, giving a database of valid words.

0.2% should be about the correct rate. WeChat in China has zero transaction fee in the system and a 0.1% fee on withdrawals. Visa/MasterCard amounts to a private tax on the economy. Unfortunately I don't see this changing anytime soon, since the US allows rent-seeking middlemen like Visa/MC, TurboTax, and PBMs (pharmacy drugs), to continue their operation as long as they keep funding the right politicians.

I'm not sure the economics of big budget TV series work anymore unless you catch lightning in a bottle so I understand them cutting prod costs.

YouTube's economics are just so much better. YT provides no up front payment for content. The channels are almost infinite, microtargeted to everyone's interest. And the payout is proportional to the success of the content, and paid AFTER the audience has viewed. TV on the other hand has to make big bets before they know whether a show will be a hit.

I've had a TV for years but don't have cable and never watch broadcast. My TV is just a large ipad.

Do you have longitudinal resting heart rate data? Would love to see how it changed over the years.

There were some enterprises that refused to send any data to OpenAI, despite assurances that that data would not be logged. Looks like they've been vindicated in keeping everything on prem via self-hosted LLM models.

A big part of TSLA's valuation was being a meme stock. Was never actually worth $1T.

Now would be a good time to have a functional FTC commissioner. Doing a bait and switch like on a product that was sold with a set of features should be illegal. If I buy a car and the sales guy stops by my house the next day to take back the wheels, it would rightfully be seen as ridiculous.

Almost every big creator has sponsors in their video. This is the biggest source of revenue for large creators. Mark my words, Google will be shaking creators down for a cut of direct sponsorship money at some point.

TurboTax makes a lot of profit. This a perfect example of what should be a government service being privatized. That model will be replicated.

Many Republicans don't realize this. The party you've voted for all your life is not the same party running America today. Today's Republican party has been co-opted by an Anarcho-capitalist wing. And step 1, which they're well on track to do is to dismantle the Federal government. Step 2, which will be coming within the next year or two is to sell off previous government services to private entities.

German manufacturing has also been down 15% compared to 2018 so this is mostly a reflection of reduced economic output. Between the nuclear shutdowns and the disruption of Russian energy sources, German manufacturing has been in a crisis the past few years.

Also, nuclear reactors don't deplete water for cooling so the premise of this article doesn't make sense. It goes from water to steam, to rain, back to water.

How does removing an easy tax filing solution improve government efficiency?

It doesn't. This is a corporate takeover of key government functions. This is just one small part of the plan.

Phase 1, which we're in now is to blame everything on bad governance.

Phase 2 is to say: 'business' can fix it and auction off the US government. Schools, the Post Office, Social Security, elements of law enforcement, and much more.

Phase 3: Read Balaji's "The Network State". TLDR: It will be to give corporations state power, including but not limited to owning and passing laws on their land, and having their own enforcement police/military.

Well this is a counterpoint to the oft used argument that AI will just create new jobs to replace the ones it replaces.

He's pretty good at curating very smart people and interviewing them. There's no shortage of interviews with double talking politicians and polemicists so podcasts like his are a breath of fresh air. I'm not watching his podcasts to learn about Dwarkesh, but to learn what his guests have to say.

For someone who interviews experts across a wide variety of disciplines (I've watched military professors, anthropologists, AI experts on his channel), I'd say Dwarkesh does a pretty damn good job. His interview with the Naval War college, he asked some mid questions, but the professor was able to use his questions as a launching platform to give informed insight, and it's one of my favorite interviews. I can't think of anyone else who interviews as well with such a balance of depth and breadth. It's clear he's a voracious learner and I'd bet he'll be even better than he is now in a few years. He's also really young, I'm not sure he's 30 yet.

Bold take to proclaim we'll figure out interstellar travel before we figure out how to prevent muscle atrophy.

The scenario I described is to ensure the whistleblower being alive or dead has minimal change in impact to the company. If there's a pending case that could wipe billions off a company's market cap and 1 person is a key witness in the outcome...well lots of powerful people now have an incentive if that witness were no longer around.

Why not just publish immediately? Publishing immediately likely violates NDA and could be prosecuted if you're not compelled to testify under oath. This is what Edward Snowden did and he's persona non grata from the US for the rest of his life.