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Here's a really interesting discussion of exactly that subject: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work The short answer appears to be "maybe, but probably not, and possibly never due to data, compute, and other constraints".

Streisand Effect strikes again! People never learn.

Are we just pretending the collusion isn't in the open already? We could easily make this argument today, and in fact it might be even easier since we know where the landlords are colluding and likely have incredibly detailed data about what they've seen, what the recommendations were, and what...

What a weird hill to die on. The context of my usage is extremely common, seems you might be unfamiliar with its colloquial usage: Cambridge Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/devil-s-advocate I've never heard anyone define it the way you've chosen to do so, but...

True, maybe I was missing the core point here. However, I still question where that "non-public info" line actually lies - using the hotel industry example, as a customer you won't find out there are 26 rooms remaining at the local Weston with a room rate of $126 today, but hotels routinely...

In case you're also curious about how they define "non-public data": Not to play devil's advocate, but obviously landlords need to set some price for a rental, and they're extremely likely to set it based not purely off of what they see for other rental listings. While I agree with the...

I would really hope no one is surprised that Grok was trained on Twitter data. I mean, where the hell else did you think the training data was coming from?!? They have one dataset and if they actually trained the model themselves that was the option. Also, I virtually guarantee that this...

I really feel you with the burnout in the IT world, it's hard to keep passionate for that long. The advice from timezon3 just now is apt, though - you'll unequivocally find anyone who knows what they're talking about recommending you not turn your hobbies into jobs, unless you really...

It is super frustrating to see this, though frankly I do understand the counterpoint as well. In software dev, unless you have an aggressive internal promotion program, you're virtually guaranteed to lose a big portion of your junior devs to job hops since that's the primary mechanic for...

This was completely unforeseen and could not have been predicted in any way, shape, or form. If only someone could have known this was going to be an extremely important and severe issue ahead of time! Thankfully we're doing everything possible to put these horses back in the stable now. It's...

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree. Oddly enough, many of our enterprise clients can't do SSO (or won't? I suppose it's no difference if you have poor access to IT resources). For those clients, charging more for the base product since it's bundled also seems unfair. I guess my post was more...

I totally get why that’s a big frustration and a point of concern security-wise. However, as a manager of a niche platform which charges for SSO… yeah, there’s a good reason for it. If this were a flip-a-switch feature we’d definitely include it. Most of our clients have a series of role...

I'd absolutely love to have a breakdown of what's going on in the automatic backup battery system market today if Ars is looking for article ideas (unless I missed one recently). We've intermittently shopped them for years and had been thinking a Powerwall was in our future until the sudden...

Considering it requires an internet connection to basically do anything, it's hardly shocking that it just has a voice-to-text shoot off a request to ChatGPT or something and text-to-voice the reply. Hell, ChatGPT can even skip steps 1 and 3 in that cycle for you if you're so inclined...

Besides echoing what I'm sure will be a pile-on of incredulity about a critical SQL injection attack in 2024, this summary of SQL injection methods is a bit off: It's not just strings which are vulnerable - any user input which can make it into a query, from any source and in any position of a...

Wait wait wait... So if this vote fails, we both: a. Don't spend $55.8 billion on Musk, who is contributing worse than nothing to Tesla, and b. He might quit? Man, if only we were always presented with such a pairing of wins! That pay package and move better not go through. Edit: Also, how...

I dug a little bit and this comment came up on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128470 Turns out "September 1752 had 19 days: 1, 2, 14, 15, ..., 29, 30". So for all intents and purposes, a modern developer can likely assume that's not actually an issue that needs to be...

I really wonder how long ago that actually changed. An IPO is great for massive fundraises, but with favorable loan rates, as an insider there was almost never a reason in recent history to go the IPO route and dilute yourself to that extent if you were actually going for productive funding vs...

And frankly, did they start counting users in a different manner? Given how many of their new users are counted despite not having accounts, they're relying on the accuracy of fingerprinting users despite a clear reluctance for those users to be identified voluntarily. They have every...

Frankly, if everyone else was already doing it, perpetual licensing could've been a major differentiator when selecting VMWare in the past. I have to wonder how many enterprise customers could defend sticking with VMWare despite some flaws or shortcomings just thanks to the licensing model...