I immediately noticed this as well. In many cases, they weren't even LLCs, just names.
Maybe my memory is hazy from that period, but I don't recall the clear call to action to request five-figure loans as an individual, (almost) all of which appear forgiven.
I looked for my family's businesses and other old friends and didn't find any of them. Texted my parents about this and they sound as surprised as me, and they have had a small local business for about a decade before Covid. My mom wasn't even aware that they would be eligible. And yet I see individuals, and others in my hometown whose businesses consist of only them and possibly one other person (likely part-time) made out with tens of thousands of dollars, all forgiven. Self-employed and sole proprietorships even. One family who I was always suspicious about how they always had whatever disposable money was needed for anything (the primary income was a local vending machine business) got $187k in this, according to this site. All forgiven.
One major takeaway that matches my own investigation is that Gemini 2.0 still materially struggles with bounding boxes on digital content. Google has published[1] some great material on spatial understanding and bounding boxes on photography, but identifying sections of text or digital graphics like icons in a presentation is still very hit and miss.
Have you seen any models that perform better at this? I last looked into this a year ago but at the time they were indeed quite bad at it across the board.
Also worth noting, a lot of ISO certification is ridiculously easy to get. 27001 you can basically copy off some qms procedures to your google drive and call it a day
Honest question, but how do we as a society culturally align on who has the right to space in low Earth orbit?
I understand there are treaties that prevent ownership of space in general, but it seems like at some point you could reach such density of satellites that at best, it impairs function, and at worst creates potential collisions.
It's gonna be a long while until we reach that point. For comparison, there are roughly 10000 airplanes in the air at any given time in a 5 mile band above the surface and the skies are pretty clear outside of some congested airports. In orbit you have the advantage of 3D, where satellites can be in a band a few hundred miles thick. Unless someone goes and intentionally creates vast quantities of uncontrolled space junk I think LEO won't have too many issues.
> 1. Governments sit together in a room and design rules. This isn't happening and isn't happening anytime soon.
Huh? The ITU has been assigning slots in GEO for decades. There's defined minimum distances based on the application parameters (the more directed the ground-side antennas are, the less separation you need to hit a particular signal-to-interference target) etc.
While there are currently no physical "slots" in LEO to my knowledge, the frequency assignments used by LEO constellations are absolutely coordinated by the ITU, and implemented by participating countries, as well.
I was talking more about further iteration of things like the Outer Space Treaty. There is currently very little chance that this will be evolved to systemically handle things like space junk and so on.
The Artemis Accords are the closes, but that's sign up based, much more coalition building then global cooperation.
It's a pretty reasonable question for both of them. Perhaps more for the CFO, given what we know of Altman's, er, lack of candour with the board where money is concerned. But maybe given the "Her" debate it applies to both of them, in different ways.
Is this a company where the executives can really be more than rubber stamps?
Sure. Sam and other executives probably took an hour of their time to decide what they would write in the blog post to appease the critics (which is par for the course for any public-facing company as widely known as OpenAI †), and then maybe another hour meeting with their lawyers to prepare in case of a suit, three weeks ago.
But in the grand scheme of things, I don't think it's in their top 15 priorities. People here talk as if the Her thing was almost an existential threat to Altman's leadership.
I don't think losing sleep is a requirement. However, you know that the next time an ad is going to be release, it will be in people's minds of what backlash might happen from this before it gets green lit. At least, one would hope that would be the take away.
Also, things like iMessage, FaceTime and Signal definitely work with those sims. Not sure about "wifi" calling or SMS with your home country's plan though.
I've used the Airalo app to buy data-only eSims in multiple regions, and they have global ones also. I would guess it's not as cheap as you'd get if you waited to buy from local providers in arrival, but it's very convenient.
If you click learn-more on the linked page the first section ends with this:
".... I was able to explore my application in ways I didn't think was possible. Yet, I always missed what I was used to in PHP with the Laravel Debugbar."
Reading the comments here, largely negative pointing, I couldn't help but recently feel like IBM was really impressive with their work on Quantum System 2 [1]. I'm not knowledgable enough to know if there's really progress in what they presented, but it seemed to help justify why this is still a $160B+ company.
I found myself wanting something like this the other day trying to query some BigQuery tables I was unfamiliar with.
With that being said, from my vantage, the value of a tool like this is writing the SQL query for me that I can understand, verify, and reuse.
Since it doesn't look you do that, and only return charts or "answers", you're locking users into an analytics solution rather than a tool that provides flexibility to any traditional BI solution.
Perhaps this is explained by a difference in target audience.
Yes, we're locking users into analytics because you can easily ask chatgpt to write an SQL query for you and there's no need for us to replicate the same functionality.
Perhaps I haven't figured out the best way to query ChatGPT, but isn't the magic here that your approach implicitly already understands all the tables/ relationships that exist within database?
Seeing "Powered by GoDaddy" in the footer seems juxtaposed to a company that supposely developed an AI chatbot (even if just forwarding requests on to ChatGPT).
Maybe my memory is hazy from that period, but I don't recall the clear call to action to request five-figure loans as an individual, (almost) all of which appear forgiven.