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Google Maps' high-resolution "satellite" imagery is actually captured from planes.

Antarctica is huge (1.5x the area of the US), it would be a dangerous logistical nightmare to fly the sorts of patterns you need to capture aerial imagery there, and it's almost entirely covered in non-descript ice -- what would be the value of having high-resolution imagery there?


This is also a low effort comment, despite the word count.

In contrast, shubhamjain found Meta's earnings release for the specified time period, quoted numbers that appear to contradict the claim, and provided a link to the release. This adds to the conversation, while a comment that says "Source?" or a few paragraphs that can be reduced to "Source?" do not.


I mean, if you go outside and everyone else is carrying an umbrella, it's probably going to rain.

Or the town has been hoodwinked by a smooth talking umbrella salesman.

Again!?!!

Mono! Doh!

If you go outside and they are burning witches, it's best to go along with it.

This greatly overestimates the rationality of markets.

perhaps tis not the rain but the sun they fear.

That would be compatible with them carrying umbrellas; https://www.etymonline.com/word/umbrella

Stray from the light long enough and they'll start calling blindness "market strategy"

If you go outside and see people buying tulips, it doesn't mean that tulips are great investments.

Another example is how Isaac Newton lost money on some other bubble as well: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/market-crash-cost-... [ The market crash which cost newton fortune]

So even if NEWTON, the legendary ISAAC NEWTON could lose money in bubble and was left holding umbrellas when there was no rain.

From the book Intelligent investor, I want to get a quote so here it goes (opened the book from my shelf, the page number is 13)

The great physicist muttered that he "could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not hte madness of the people"

This quote seems soo applicable in today's world, I am gonna create a parent comment about it as well.

Also, For the rest of Newton's life, he forbade anyone to speak the words "South Sea" in his pressence.

Newton lost more than $3 Million in today's money because of the south sea company bubble.


> So even if NEWTON, the legendary ISAAC NEWTON could lose money in bubble and was left holding umbrellas when there was no rain.

The moral of that story is that being a legend or smart doesn’t count for much in investing.


People often use that example, but Newton, for all he was unquestionably a giant of physics, was a bit of a weird dude and not 100% rationalist[1]. Additionally, just because he was a great physicist doesn't mean he knew anything at all about investment. You can be an expert in one field and pretty dumb in others. Linus Pauling (a giant in chemistry) had beliefs in terms of medicine that were basically pseudoscience.

Intelligent investor is a great book though.

[1] eg he wrote more than a million words on alchemy during his lifetime https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/project/about.do


> ...was a bit of a weird dude and not 100% rationalist...

That covers everyone. Especially and including the rationalists. Part of being highly intelligent is being a bit weird because the habits and beliefs of ordinary people are those you'd expect of people with ordinary intelligence.

Anyone involved in small-time investing should be considering that they aren't rational when setting their strategy. Larger investment houses do what they can but even then every so often will suffer from group-think episodes.


> Newton, for all he was unquestionably a giant of physics, was a bit of a weird dude and not 100% rationalist

The norms of "rational" science hadn't really been established yet. There wasn't really a clear line drawn between alchemy and what we would consider chemistry today.


That is what I used to think, but if you dig a little deeper I'm not sure it's quite that simple. If you read the link I posted, all that work on alchemy was not printed after his death because people examined it and deemed it "not fit to print". So it definitely seems that even at the time, there may not have been a clear line, but people felt that his alchemical writings were on the wrong side of whatever line might in future be drawn.

Newton was also definitely in favour of an empirical/axiomatic basis for science in general. If you read principia he proves almost everything[1] and of course he famously deformed his own eyeballs with wooden gadgets to do his experiments in optics.

[1] In fact pretty much the one thing he doesn't prove is the calculus, which Alex Kontorovich once said in a lecture on youtube that he has a pet theory that the reason that Newton never published the calculus was not the one everyone says about his rivalry with Hooke etc but that he wanted a rigorous proof first (which of course didn't come about until much later with Cauchy, Weierstrass, Dedekind etc for normal calculus and the 1960s for non-standard analysis to prove Newton's fluxions rigorously).


Newton knew a lot about investing for the time. He was a master of the mint for much of his adult life.

As I understand it, Master of the mint was more about knowing enough metallurgy to not be ripped off by people using weak alloys to smelt coins. It wasn’t like a modern central banker or anything like that.

Hint: its a classic LLM misunderstanding; theyre protecting from sunshine. Theyre parasols.

If you don't meet the financial requirement ($200K annual income or $1M net worth), you can also qualify as an accredited investor by passing the Series 65 exam and filing a form with the SEC.

So you have to prove that either you can afford to lose some money or you have enough investing knowledge to know what you're getting into. Seems fair.


So someone who inherits $100 million (11 year old or not) doesn't have take the exam, but someone who knows about the industry inside out has take an exam to participate?

Seems "fair" to be honest.

I have a few friends that that have told me about certain companies they would like to invest in and they are knowledgeable about but they cannot access them but I can and not give them any shares.


If you'd like to petition the SEC to make it so that you also have to be, say, 25 to be accredited so as to remove that particular loophole and make it even harder to become a accredited so 11 year olds don't get accredited because of a rather specific scenario, send me the change.org petition. I don't think 11 year olds should be accredited. Might make me elitist, but I've been called worse things.

Still, the theory is that having $100 million, even as an 11 year old, means you have about $90 million more than most people to lose before it even becomes an issue. Hence "accreditation". Accreditation isn't about "can you make smart investments" but about "will you be broke and destitute soon", and having $100 million makes it harder than I'd $400k is your life's savings, and you're about to put it all into NFTs.

Is the theory, anyway.


We don't care if people with $100MM make a bad bet on a tech company.

Maybe we should, seeing how disastrous unregulated tech has been for society.

Upvote the conversations that you find to be more interesting. If enough people do the same, they too will make it to the top.

Parent implies there might be some "boosting" involved, in which case, "upvote the conversations that you find to be more interesting" wont change anything...

Not saying this is the case, but it's what the comment implies, so "just upvote your faves" doesn't really address it.


If you say: "Generate a strong password", then Claude will do what's reported in the article.

If you say: "Generate a strong password using Python", then Claude will write code using the `secrets` module, execute it, and report the result, and you'll actually get a strong password.

To get good results out of an LLM, it's helpful to spend a few minutes understanding how they (currently) work. This is a good example because it's so simple.


I think that "Generate a strong password" is a pretty clear and unambiguous instruction. Generating a password that can be easily recovered is a clear failure to follow that instruction.

Given that Claude already has the ability to write and execute code, it's not obvious to me why it should, in principle, need an explicit nudge. Surely it could just fulfil the first request exactly like it fulfils the second.


It's not actually thinking, though. There's no way for it to "know" it will be wrong because it wasn't trained on content covering that.

Maybe in the future companies making the models will train them specifically on when to require a source of true randomness and they might start writing code for it.


> It's not actually thinking, though.

That may well be, I genuinely don't know. However, consider the following thought experiment:

Ask a random stranger on the street[*] to "generate a random password" and observe their behaviour. Are they whipping out their Python interpreter or just giving you a string of characters?

Now ask yourself whether this random stranger is capable of thought.

I think it's pretty clear that the former is a poor test for the latter.

[*] someplace other than Silicon Valley :)


It's 2026 on hackernews of all places and people still think llms "know" stuff, we're doomed...

> a human brain operates on 12 to 25 watts

Yeah, but a human brain without the human attached to it is pretty useless. In the US, it averages out to around 2 kW per person for residential energy usage, or 9 kW if you include transportation and other primary energy usage too.


Fair.

Maybe the Matrix (1999) with the human battery farms were on to something. :)


I suspected it wasn't just battery farms, but more like what you see in less mass market scifi where the humans are used for more than just batteries... they'd also be some storage and processing for the system (and no longer humans).

However at that point I don't see the value of retaining the human form. It's for a story obviously, but a not-human computational device can still be made out of carbon processing units rather than silicon or semiconductors generally.


Here's Claude's translation of the PDF in the repo:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0c40c3f8-16de-4947-93c1-3...

I couldn't verify it, and a human translation would be preferable -- but it's probably good enough to get an idea of the story if you want to read some right now.


I can verify it looks fine.

Not absolutely rigorous, e.g.

> "You have far more knowledge of the stars and the planets than any other living man"

Why "far more knowledge"? I don't see any emphasis like that in the original.

I'd have a few nits but they're of similarly small magnitude.


> “I became certain the planet was in the sky, in the very place where the ancient Egyptian scientist had marked it”

Ah yes, planets famously remain static in the sky…


Why? Very few nonprofits contain that language in their mission statements. It's certainly not required to be there.


Perhaps not, but if it was there before and then got suddenly removed, that ought to at least raise the suspicion that the organization's nature has changed and it should be re-evaluated.


There are dozens of spam and security settings that admins can change in the Google Workspace console, presumably because different businesses have different requirements. So in practice, there's not just two sets of rules in gmail -- there's probably thousands or millions (however many combinations of settings are actually in use).


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