This is supercool(ed) research but it still amazes me that bluesky startups like this can get funding.

Is DARPA backending it?

Or is the hope of a mega acquisition before market just that high?

Doing actual physics engineering mostly stopped after 1971 so the compass is pointing in the right direction, even if this one doesn't produce a usable product.

Radiance Corp too but they have an unspoken advantage.

They should have introduced the list with a colon, but legal writing is /intended/ to be hard to understand. It creates tons of downstream work for lawyers.

The "Plain English Movement" is an effort to stop doing the that. Here's a reasonable description:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fir.lawnet.fordham.edu%2F...

Some people say their internal "Community Guidelines" prohibit promoting other platforms and this is selectively enforced.

Regardless of the veracity of those claims it could easily be added to their ToS for "safety".

>> I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car")

Anybody know what he's referring to? I'm ignorant of that one.

Seriously - their best stuff is in NIC's, embedded (n100 etc), wifi, chipsets, etc.

Sounds like they're gonna 86 all that.

Meanwhile Chinese foundries will be delighted with RISC-V parts at 19% gross.

Somebody told me they hired an engineer to run the place - guess not.

The point is that the tax code is contradictory so if they want to prosecute YOU they absolutely can.

It's how they got Al Capone and they've indicted Roger Ver for daring to say Bitcoin is broken by making up completely novel and new interpretations of tax code never before applied to anybody, much less a former citizen, and that's after he asked them how much he owed and paid it.

At the same time Trump is investing in BTC in his businesses and needs NGU.

Three things are inevitable: death, taxes, and corruption.

I don't like any of these people but those who use the service have infinitely better privacy guarantees with Regeneron than Wojcicki.

FDA would clobber a drug company for selling genetic data to advertising or insurance companies.

Which may be why the Tech Bros have a pile of cash to hijack the Court process.

Don't forget about Bankruptcy - suppliers get stiffed by Courts.

If it's a start-up/salary/loss/bankruptcy scheme the payers are the suppliers of product, rent, investors, utilities, etc.

Not that I've seen any evidence of misdeeds in this case. Just be careful in assuming Bankruptcy isn't corporate welfare.

Invoicing has its conveniences but it's a tradeoff with cash-on-the-barrel certainty.

Personally I prefer cash and prepaid services. YMMV.

The issue is going to be if the malicious actor "permanently deleted" the AWS and Github accounts. Domain registration, DNS, internal checkout scripts tied to a github account, etc.

The backups, if they exist, are the easy part of this DR Scenario.

Not that anybody writes DR plans anymore or that any of the Big Tech sites support Shamir's Secret Splitting for account deletion (or offer real customer service).

This aspect of IT is the most highly neglected, aside from workers' rights and competitive pay.

Imagine all the businesses with X accounts he has to boycott.

Comcast offers gig-down for $50 with a 3-yr contract for new customers.

> By whom were the harms committed and who suffered

It's widely reported that she was besties with Ghislane Maxwell, so maybe she knows something about harms and suffering

You can find old pics of them hanging out in swimsuits with a quick search.

You can't have a rich guy in the big chair. They need someone who can be promised a seven-figure job after the stint if he is generous to the right people. A billionaire who wants the job and is a space nut would be too focused on program goals.

At some point something bad will happen and the company will be sued and they will claim they didn't even write the code and the AI vendor will say it's not their fault either.

Or the bridge their AI designed.

"Oopsie! "

I wouldn't trust the Courts to get any of this right either.

We'll maybe see contracts and insurance enforce human oversight but then people will cheat and settle for less than profits.

As they say, profit has replaced survival as the Human evolutionary fitness function.

> so why doesn't AI just create the pull request

It does, but that's the problem.

Have a listen to this week's Security Now, they do a segment on exactly this with a Microsoft engineer 'arguing' with a chatbot on a .NET issue.

The chatbot identifies the filed problem as improper memory allocation in a regex parser (backtracking), but then instead of fixing the parser, it patches the parser to fail silently but without triggering the memory violation.

The engineer suggests that it should be fixed instead and the chatbot agrees but then makes unit tests that fail, forgets to turn on the unit test, etc.

Steve and Leo accurately describe its level of competence as that of a new intern.

Except with Nadella's new AI Vision the Microsoft employee's job has gone from that of a developer to one that suggests AI do a better job. Tending to Copilot pull requests instead of fixing problems as an engineer would.

But the problems don't throw a memory error anymore, so close it and move on. "Automated enshittification" was mentioned as the trajectory's outcome.

You seem to have missed the mass extinction of Humanity during the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period.

All those stories of Romans growing grapes in a lush British Isles and the Vikings settling in Newfoundland and Labrador until it turned cold again are just fables. As are the records of bountiful harvests and greening of the deserts in those centuries.

The people back then faked all that harvest data because they knew we'd get to this point today and they were part of the Secret Societies' conspiracy to oppose those who merely want to tax our breath and impose global communism for our own good. The archaeological evidence was fabricated and buried back then too.

Tree ring studies are just paid opposition and fake news. Carbon dating doesn't even exist (have *you* ever counted isotopes?). The maps of an ice-free Antarctica by the master seafaring Chinese were just a lucky guess.

You must be one of those dragon-believers to not understand that our complex-systems models are robust and predictive. They're so good that you can change each of the variables by significant percentages and the results come out the same. That's how good they are. No evidence is required to justify them against your conspiracy of "data".