Is it really true that nothing would change if the Sun's mass was suddenly compacted by several orders of magnitude (into a point mass or black hole)?
This seems unintuitive to me. The sun is a million miles in diameter, so surely shrinking that to zero would lower the amount of gravitational force infinitesimally since the gravity is 1/distance^2 not linear. I would think the planets would sort of drift ever so slightly farther.
For Newtonian gravity at least, the gravitational force everywhere outside a sphere or spherical shell is exactly the same as if it was a point mass (and everywhere inside a spherical shell it is zero). Not sure if it holds exactly for general relativity.
The dude works for GitHub. I don’t doubt there is some rotten code on there, but what you’re saying seems like a stretch and exactly what he’s describing.
Microsoft is currently a target of BDS, which calls it "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza." This isn't about some hobbyist's wonky code. https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft
Just because it uses the className attribute doesn't really mean it is "like tailwind"... SQL is not anything like CSS classes and cannot be composed in the same manner. It's basically just using className as a data attribute. You might as well just stick raw SQL in there and parse it... what is the point of the weird hyphenated pseudo dialect?
This feels like a nascent form of what Nick Land describes as "hyperstition" ... feedback loops where the presence of it's idea within peoples mind brings it into realization.
I mean... in what world would you send a customers private root key to a web browsing client. Like even if the user was authenticated why would they need this? This sort of secret shouldn't even be in an environment variable or database but stored with encryption at rest. There could easily have been a proxy service between client and box if the purpose is to search or download files. It's very bad, even for a prototype... this researcher deserves a bounty!
They didn't even mention MessagePack. Also there is a huge amount of developer over-head for using things like ProtoBuf. You can always validate your API responses with Zod or JSONSchema so that is a bit of a moot point!
I agree with his take on Googles enormous strategic advantages.
I think he’s wrong that OpenAI can win this by upping the revenue engine through ads or through building a consumer behavior moat.
At the end of the day these are chat bots. Nobody really cares about the url and the interface is simple. Google won search by having deeply superior search algorithms and capitalizing on user traffic data to improve and refine those algorithms. It didn’t win because of AdWords … it just got rich that way.
The AI market is an undifferentiated oligopoly (IMO) and the only way to win is by having better algos trained on more data that give better results. Google can win here. It is already winning on video and image generation.
I actually think OpenAI is (wrongly) following Ben’s exact advice — going to the edge and consumer interface through things like the acquisition of things like Jony Ives device company. This is a failing move and an area where Google can also easily win with Android. I agree with Ben that upping the revenue makes sense but they can’t do it at the cost of user experience. Too much at stake.
This seems unintuitive to me. The sun is a million miles in diameter, so surely shrinking that to zero would lower the amount of gravitational force infinitesimally since the gravity is 1/distance^2 not linear. I would think the planets would sort of drift ever so slightly farther.
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