She wasn’t the target. She will cut a deal for cooperation or for testimony against…

Hairspray that are toxic and poison.

Habitable zone is made up concept. Life forms can exist in many conditions.

I am very interested to learn the evidence you have that life can develop outside a star’s habitable zone.

I’m getting the sense they can be too close to form life, but can form further out with the right planetary characteristics. How often favorable atmospheres form would be interesting.

Taken another way: Venus’ atmosphere would get more “tame” further out. That might make it more conducive to life. But would its atmosphere still form at those distances? (Clearly it’s not impossible.)

I disagree. They had a leading edge with Siri but failed to invest in AI over a car. This move is just correcting a vital mistake in time past. They’re playing catch up.

OP said reactive, not anticipative. You are both in agreement.

How would one know how much they invested in AI, if they've not discussed such?

For such systems that are commonly used by many, it’s best to open source it. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Have you tried Lago (open source billing)? This is precisely what they do, their HN launch is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773442 They listed the billing engineering nightmares too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450

We looked into them. Unfortunately they’re very expensive.

Lago co-founder here, although we have an Enterprise plan (which, by definition, is for Enterprises), we invest considerable resources in the open-source and free product, used by a lot of early stage companies/bootstrapped projects, let me know if we can be helpful.

I’m referring to the Premium Plan. We are not an enterprise but need a lot of the features offered at that tier, stuff that I feel most businesses need like credit notes and invoices sent by email.

I feel that a pricing product should have more transparent pricing. All the more amusing given that you host a Stripe fee calculator.

'fair pricing' yet no actual, you know, pricing, was such a red flag I didn't even ask for a quote.

It's a massive shame that simple table stakes features are behind "get a quote". Folks, I'm not even sure this makes good business sense; just charge me 0.5% of revenue for premium and set enterprise up as 'get a quote' with enterprise features or 1M revenue plus.

We have hard time having proper implementations of interesting problems, how can we expect an workable open source billing system implementation ? With the proper engineering tradeoffs and flexibility needed to comply with all businesses and legal specificity ?

I disagree.

Vehicles are one thing, AI chips are another.

One is a default investment for any AI tech company to survive.

Data centers will only grow from here.

It's not about whether they'll grow, it's about whether they'll grow more than is priced in

Doesn't that assume the market is perfectly able to assess value?

As an example the market decided Netflix was a terrible value when they announced they were a video streaming company in like 2008ish losing around half their value. Except we all know now that was not a priced in moment.

That's an example of "growing more than is priced in"

I thought if the market is efficient then everything is always priced in?

The market is clearly not efficient, otherwise there would be no opportunity for alpha.

You can go onto the market today and buy like-kind stocks at double digit discounts to valuation just because they're smaller cap/lesser known. e.g. Retail REITs, where the business and risks are almost identical.

EMH as commonly interpreted is clearly wrong in my view.

What is true is that the majority of people can't beat the market picking stocks, but that doesn't mean there aren't observable inefficiencies. Just that most people don't care or know how to observe them

You could have said the same thing about netscape, yahoo, enron, &c.

"it's too big to fail", "xyz is now part of life and will never ever disappear nor change in any way shape or form",... People really lack imagination, they take the last 2 years and extrapole it to the next decades as if there were no variables whatsoever.

AI still has to bring a profit to anyone other than the company providing them. And even if their wet dreams somehow manifest (aka replacing all human labor) you're opening another Pandora's box and all bets are off when it comes to stock valuation, global finance, & c.

True but various companies will start produce more hardware in house in the future too. For now Nvidia is the sole king in that but other companies will catch up sooner or later.

It's still the sole king for cloud consumers, but for internal use, which is bigger than their cloud, Google mostly uses its own stuff, and with the amount the other big companies have to give Nvidia it is worth it for them to do the same.

There doesn't seem to be a moat we'll see how high it can go but in the long run they're a ridiculously overvalued commodity (eventually) producer.

Shouldn't TSMC be the most valuable company in the world then?

TSMC doesn't seem to use their market power to push price. Their take of the final consumer sale price is quite low... they're selling chips to NVDA for ~2k which NVDA turns around and sells for ~60k.

I haven't researched it in-depth, but my take is that they don't have the culture to really be aggressive on pricing.

Real Tesla Range = Advertised Range * 0.80

Real ICE mpg = Advertised mpg * 0.80

They should just change the testing to be 70mph in the cold for all cars. Then everyone can be pleasantly surprised when it does more in other conditions.

It’s interesting that the top companies where employees leave often are tech companies. I wonder why this is?

Do Kenyans that classified data for chatGPT count or are they all well paid? What kind of jobs are these?

Because those employees have lots of options.

Would that apply to non tech workers?

For people who work at giant energy and freight companies, or the world's largest tobacco company (the companies at the top of the tenure list), my guess is most definitely no, it doesn't.

It’s congress’s fault for not defining the rules and for giving the SEC a hammer.

Let the regulations, antitrust lawsuits and monopolies begin!

This is a great opportunity to try to avoid the old mistakes of regulatory capture. It looks like someone is at least trying to make a nod in that direction, by supporting smaller research groups.