I am waiting to see how and when anthropic IPOs, because I think that is l the more important comparison. OpenAI is caught between a rock and a hard place, because they want to go public for exit liquidity, but anthropic will always be a direct comparison. And if the financials aren’t in their favor, then they won’t get the valuation they desire as the second best.

For the evaluation OpenAI and its investors would target, they would need pretty great ones. But another thing is that they’d also need to look good relative to anthropic, who is also looking at an IPO.

Not sure if their plan for it has changed,but OpenAI would always be measured against them. And my understanding is that anthropic is said to have better financials while having raised less investment money so far.

There is only so much liquidity for IPOs and SpaceX already vacuumed up a lot. If both openai and and anthropic would IPO as an option for investors to buy into a pure play, I assume everyone would compare the two and go for the perceived winner (or want a good discount for the second best)

Personally I just wish this had legal consequences for real people, because ultimately someone makes those decisions.

Avoiding a single company might be viable, but constantly keeping track of who (and their brands) should be avoided imo is not the solution, but a bandaid fix.

That’s great to hear, thanks for the link.

The one issue, besides availability (both on the vendor side and banks offering it), is that as I understand it wero is basically just a somewhat more convenient direkt bank transfer. But does it also offer some form of buyer protection?

For many things like sending money to friends or shopping at large retailers that doesn’t matter. But for buying at smaller websites that

More supply should still lower prices, even if Trump puts tariffs on Chinese dram/nand. While there might be some quality differences in the end dram/nand still is a commodity good that is for the most part interchangeable (assuming it meets some standards).

So China would just supply everyone else leaving more capacity from other manufacturers like micron for the US.

(all this is just based on what I’ve read, I have no qualifications on this topic)

My understanding is that french and British aircraft carriers differ in the way they launch planes. France uses a catapult, which requires the frame of the aircraft to be reinforced, the UK does not.

The UK also is already part of a separate program called gcap to develop their next gen fighters together with Japan and Italy. This is already well underway and work share has been decided on.

As I’ve already mentioned in this thread, the whole thing about the next gen programs is not just about having the aircraft at the end, but also retaining/building up the domestic industry and know-how.

Sweden might be interested to team up (although theyd probably prefer a lighter/cheaper aircraft than Germany), but my understanding is that Germany and Sweden both have similar gaps in their know-how. I think it has to do with some hot parts of the engine, which in Europe France or the UK would be the experts in. You can ofc develop them yourself from scratch, but that is costly and more importantly likely takes too long.

But the military requirements are only half the issue, the other half is building up and retaining institutional knowledge in building auch planes. Otherwise Germany could probably solve their problem easily by just buying whatever gcap ends up producing.

What I find quite fascinating is that on one hand 100 billion is a fuck ton of money, on the other hand it’s like 2 quarters of profit for Google or less than what Meta is planning to spend on data centers in 2026 (they also spend like 70billion on the Meta verse). I guess money wasn’t the direct issue right now, but France (a large nation) will have trouble with funding when they decide to do it by themselves

I think with the German TÜV numbers it is not quite as clear cut.

My understanding is that telsa unlike other manufacturers doesn’t require regular inspections to keep warranties. So it might just be that other brands have just as many faults, but they get caught and fixed during those regular inspections, rather than at the official TÜV. Which wouldn’t show up in that dataset.

I haven’t seen any studies accounting for that discrepancy, but I’d be curious to see whether the higher failure rate persists after accounting for that.

I also tried TrueNAS scale once (but I think at the time it was quite new so maybe not how it is now) and didn’t like it either so I won’t speak about that.

If it were literally just for network storage and nothing else I guess the way to go might just be to hook up a usb drive to ones router (if it supports that). So most people probably do want slightly more or at least the option to expand capabilities without having to fundamentally change their setup.

But in general I would say that yes, the web interface is definitely part of the appeal. I think what something like Openmediavault offers is that someone else chooses sensible presets, it gives an easy to use gui that allows oneself to get stuff done without any major technical knowledge, and it also creates a community with a shared similar setup that can offer support.

I guess it depends on what one wants from the server. Of course you can have a plain Debian or whatever installation and do everything yourself. But for most, especially the less technical knowledgeable, it is nice to have some interface for setup and maintenance stuff.

I guess if you want specific recommendations you need to define your needs and requirements a bit more.

Since I was wondering if Cockpit is an option for immutable distros I stumbled on this video, which seems to suggest it might since it is used on one there. So I guess you could pick your favorite immutable distros and see if Cockpit works to have a easy gui for managing the server stuff.

You could of course also go for something like NixOS and make everything declarative.

For me Openmediavault was easy to set up and just works for the little stuff I want it to do.

I (very much an amateur) briefly tried TueNAS scale in the past and didn’t like how they did apps. So I switched to Openmediavault, which since then has served me very well.

With a plugin I could easily add my zfs raid and I use their build in docker compose gui to run the few programs I need.

I didn’t try out others, but there are more options. CasaOS and yunohost already got mentioned, there is also Cosmos or just running a basic server with e.g Debian and maybe adding Cockpit for some management gui.

Disagree that HBO is trash. But the issue is that even if one doesn’t like and avoids them, they shape the perception of other people. So no matter how much/little oneself engages with them, you can’t really escape the indirect effects.

Imo they also has their charging network, which was a differentiating feature. But imo it was clear that eventually it was something that becomes less important the wider general adoption progresses.

Not sure, but I think they also were early or at least better than legacy car makers with over the air software updates.

But nowadays I don’t see any standout thing that sets them apart. Tesla got the early lead due others imo facing the inventors dilemma, but they didn’t progress further and now others caught up.

Is he actually selling shares? Imo this move might actually be more about gaining more control percentage wise.

Similar to how he increased his control when he folded Twitter into xAI (at a imo very favorable valuation for him), which gave him a larger share of the combined company.

If he merges space x and xAI (especially at a high valuation of the latter), he would own more of the combined company as he owns more of xAI then space x.

For me the only surprising thing is how existing shareholders seemingly just let him dictate these mergers and valuations. But I guess they face a dilemma where valuation depend so much on Elon that they have to play by his rules or risk loosing even more.

As others have already answered, you share DNA with relatives. Anonymisation is certainly good, but I wonder how well it works with something so inherently personal.

Some areas are conserved quite well, so you can infer the degree of kinship quite well. Another aspect is that imo one of the dystopian uses of DNA is for health insurance. And for that you wouldn’t necessarily need to know whether someone has a certain gene or not. It would probably be good enough to work with probabilities, if you know someone else in the family has a certain gene.

But I am probably pessimistic here, because of course there is tremendous value for research here.

I am quite torn on this one. Of course this can be a tremendous resource, but at the same time when volunteering genetic and medical data you are not just giving away your own, but also information about others, who didn’t get to make that decision.

Based on the other replies it seems indeed like niche genres and non English music seems to be a weak spot, which really is unfortunate. Only 60% success rate in your case is indeed a deal breaker.

That is sad to hear and based on the other replies it seems not too uncommon that something niche is missing.

Imo it’s really fascinating how music streaming is different in that regard compared to video streaming. Where more people are just happy with whatever e.g. Netflix offers them and don’t seem to mind too much, if one particular thing isn’t on their service.

But I guess the fact that in regards to music everyone has a slightly different taste and each one really wants that particular, different niche artist is what so far has prevented a similar fragmentation of services happening as we see with video.