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> By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor. There…

While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being…

Agree with this. LLMs multiply the human user's ability. More ability, more impact!

Was really looking forward to that. Hope they publish.

Avoid the most dangerous situations by making sure LLMs with untrusted input produce output that's human reviewed. Still makes an interesting way for, say, a former employee to poi…

Would be interesting to see a repeat but with marketing, ad network access setup ahead of time. And maybe an email throttle...

Like they did with solar panels, I suspect the goal is to dominate an industry and not need to subsidize it forever.

I’ll be impressed if somebody can make that work considering the vastly larger compute required.

Open-weight and OSS are wildly different and the article makes a poor comparison. What's the incentive for the Chinese labs to continue releasing weights 5 years from now? It's not…

What's the incentive for the Chinese labs to continue releasing weights 5 years from now? In the short term it attracts talent and builds brand, but they make little money on infer…

In addition to this article, I've seen well thought out assertions from knowledgeable people that Hormuz is far worse than the market thinks and the market just continues not carin…

Apple/Google make less money if they sell the data because their ad product would no longer have an advantage. So no, I don't think they do that.

The professions with the least negotiating power will have the most draconian "oversight". Imagine a cashier graded in real time on how many customers they smile at. Or tracking ho…

Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business. The enterprise version never went beyond password manageme…

Better commit messages, better and more up to date docs, etc. It's not all slop!

Why would an investment manager choose a CIT over an ETF? I can't help but think there's additional fees being collected somewhere. To adapt a popular phrase to personal finance, "…

This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing …

tbh, I do that with Uber/Lyft, too

Thank you, Sunnyvale man, for hitting this edge case before I do.

Interesting way to encourage competition for its competitor. A single, scaled self-driving company is a massive threat to Uber.

During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my …

Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?

Are there good hosted options that will not respond to non-judicial data requests? Someone is going to say self hosted is better and I don't disagree, but there's limits to how muc…

From the article > In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

Property taxes come to mind.