Just by reading the title I've thought - it must be Photonicinduction! Glad to see that I was correct. True madlad!

With any of the "high power experiment" folks on YouTube, I'm always glad when they upload again... you start to worry after a few years!

I love how this video has a modern "podcast" setup, yet the lighting and camera quality are still consistent with a decade ago when I started watching the zany experiments.

Not OC you replied to.

I had similar question as you and conclusion as OC.

My answer maybe abstract in some ways, but:

- something that requires network effects, e.g social media, even twitter with megahitler stuff is going strong. Even though twitter's base app model could be done in 30min by LLM;

- something that maps to infrastructure in someway. Good luck copying Cloudflare, residential proxy provider, established email provider or VPS with LLM in a weekend. Though parts of it are definitely easier;

- something that is a platform (adjacent to first point). Google's search platform, ads, docs, youtube, music, email, business tools, etc. Similar to Meta (seemingly half of the world's small businesses control their business with whatsapp) and others. Though parts of those platforms can be disrupted with LLMs;

Right, but all of those examples are - if you’re already big and established, that’s your moat.

Yeah agree with this, these seem like genuine moats for now (we'll see whether this is still true in 6-12 months)

eh, compared to salaries even shiniest macs wouldn't register in USA, especially hubs like SV. Especially if it's issued once a couple or four years.

With AI spend - especially at Anthropic/OpenAI API prices - spending 0.5-1 macbook a month worth of tokens per employee seems normal (from what I've seen, heard, what happens in this forum and thread and what my employer does).

Tokenmaxxxing (followed by commit/PR-maxxxing) is celebrated. Don't think - just launch orchestrator that will create dozen child agent sessions to do useless work to impress your superiors. If buy the end of the day you will ask to increase your token allowance - you're a superhero.

So many CVEs and other vulnerabilities, that this post gets zero traction on HN?

Not OC, but don’t be daft.

How modern Israel came to be upon “God promised land”?

That’s the main reason and I do not believe in any possibility of any peace in the region, whatever bullshit politicians would say.

Tell me why anyone in the region shouldn’t be pissed of at Israel (and to their piggy banks in the West)?

Where I am from this sort of dark pattern is used by most service companies at this point. There’s some regulation, though too little.

Most gyms, ISPs, mobile carriers, any sort of services with continuous subscription have this scheme:

- they sell you subscription with some ridiculous (and perpetual) discount (often with “first three months - it’s free”);

- there’s minimum commitment clauses/fines (so you won’t leave too early);

- there’s clause to “pay up all given discounts on canceling the contract”;

- they “balance” two rules above in such a way that it is never “good time” to leave.

I am probably looking waaaay too much into this, but I was told 5+ years ago that streaming platforms will develop AI to plugin "natural" product placement for each user.

For example, ad algorithm will draw product placement with specific products that it thinks you're the target. Protagonist will drink pepsi/coke/juice, will use linux/mac, will drive MB/BMW/Ford - depending on what ad algorithm thinks you'd like to buy.

Somehow I feel like this "A/B testing" feature is actually a cornerstone by YouTube for AI driven media future, for exactly this (dystopian) reason.

Early cars were called horseless carriages for a reason.

Car bodies were carriages for few first decades of car history. So if you can fix and maintain horse carriage - you can maintain car carriage.

Engines were simple too and designed to be maintained in a field environment with few tools. So it’s reasonable that this skill was learned, especially by mechanically inclined people.

From Ink & Switch, discussion on HN from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842270