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The LLMs have indeed gotten better at representing numbers and performing arithmetic, but they can still do it wrong.

I don’t consider it a workaround for an LLM to delegate arithmetic to a calculator.

You seem to be actively resisting the understanding that share dilution is not just about the company’s balance sheet.

This is one of the ways that owning equity in a company is not the same as owning the company.

Yes, even if the company raises $10b, the ownership stake and voting power of a share is reduced by 2.5%.

And if that $10b figure is a fixed target, then if the share price continues to fall, the more shares they will need to issue, resulting in even more dilution.

Half of that would be in stocks, resulting in 2.5% dilution for shareholders at the current market cap. But the stock is down 8%.

This is the same company with intentionally annoying full-wrap bus ads on Muni. They are trying to capture mindshare.

Previously, including commentary by @DonHopkins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064273

The Sheriff wasn’t charged but the undersheriff pled guilty to felony bribery: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/ex-santa-clara-county-un...

From the article:

> Dayton, another city in Minnesota located just 10 miles north of Plymouth, has also paused its Flock program and disabled the two devices in the area. The Dayton police became aware that the company intended to replace these cameras and told Flock not to proceed with the work order. However, it moved forward with the replacement anyway despite being instructed otherwise.

If it defaulted to a week then it actually would have helped mitigated the spread. But it defaults to 2 hours, so there was a 9 hour window during prime US working hours yesterday when machines would have been auto-updating to the compromised extension.

Though Anthropic is claiming that the compromised package was published solely to Cursor’s marketplace, not not Microsoft’s.

The Sherman Antitrust Act specifically provides individuals harmed by a monopoly a cause of action to sue in federal court.

Trees can also provide soil stability. It’s possible that bulk razing this plot has turned it into a liquefaction zone.

You seem intent on arguing that enforcement of this cannot possibly matter. That kind of defeatism often wins Internet brownie points, but is not a useful way of actually being an effective force for change in the world.

Even if Google abandons the site and refuses to pay a fine, they’ll have lost all the money they have invested in site surveys, contracts, labor… even the delays alone of making them fulfill the EIS cost them money, not to mention whatever opportunity cost they were trying to minimize by flouting the environmental regulations.

Google is already feeling pain from this.

If Finland prohibits them from continuing construction, they don’t get the data center they want, and they have to start over somewhere else.

Is the question whether multiple base classes are part of Python’s spec, or if the ability to assign to `__class__` is part of the spec?

It’s the main line, and Toledo is near Madrid.

Bah, too late to edit but I meant work-for-hire laws, not right-to-work laws.

Sorry, you are correct and that is what I meant. The fact that it’s believed to have been spoken on the same land since before Indo-European languages arrived in Europe is what makes it so fascinating to me.

Meaningless to the investors, including employees with vested RSUs. They got bought out at $54.20, way above the soon-to-become market value.

It was meaningless to Musk for all of about a week, when he came off his ketamine binge and realized what a stupid offer he’d made. But it was a done deal by that point.

According to Reddit[0], it might not have been meaningless to employees with unvested RSUs. They lacked an acceleration clause, so instead of immediately becoming 100% vested at $54.20, the schedule remained intact with a cash payout instead of stock. If the cash payout was relative to current company value, then it was a massive hit.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/yykn1e/if_you_work...

I sadly don’t have anything personal to add on the specific topic of Basque cuisine, but I want to encourage any Indo-European language speaker who even marginally enjoys language to read up on the situation of Basque language (Euskara). It is a language isolate, and the only extant language in mainland Europe that does not descend from Proto-Indo-European. The Basque language survived in the sliver of land at the fringes of the Roman and Moorish conquests.

No, Musk designed an offer that forced the board to sell to uphold its fiduciary duty to shareholders. (And then famously got cold feet about it, but it was so well-designed that he couldn’t shirk it.)

The valuation crashing back to reality after going private, and therefore being measured by its intrinsic worth rather than whatever the latest trader paid for a share of it, was an inevitable but meaningless consequence.

There is plenty of room for uncertainty where promissory estoppel and right-to-work laws intersect.

You cannot rely on the model to never make mistakes. You need deterministic controls around the model. I believe that’s what the article’s authors are selling.

> By that logic you can't trust any model

Correct!

It was very disorienting to be reading about “Elm development” in the context of e-mail, but having it refer to the language and not the e-mail client from the 1980s.

Great way to make a mess and attract rodents. Jerks.

I had never heard the Steve Gadd version of Peg. It sounds so different, more “upright”: https://youtu.be/WcrQ20UCxiM

Japan didn’t invade America and forcibly conscript its women as concubines for soldiers.

No, that’s the right path. Your report should have an FB number.