The less conspiratorial view is that the Australian government was the first to actually legislate it. Much easier for everyone else to follow in someone else's footsteps rather than being the first to take the plunge.

I think MoltenVK probably is the translation layer they're using.

it would be cool to use cosmickrisp instead at some point... in fact i saw someone run minecraft on macos using cosmickrisp -> zink to have modern opengl features that macos does not have

I get this regularly too, it's very annoying. I've started using one git worktree per Claude session specifically to avoid this issue.

Will they be better than Opus though?

I always wanted to crunch the numbers but never got around to it, so I'm glad someone actually went and did it. YC company IPOs always smelled like pump-and-dump than a true liquidity/fundraising event, and if those numbers are correct, I was right. Or to put it another way, if someone asks "should I buy IPO shares in a YC company", the answer is "no".

> Real management work doesn't operate like this.

Don't know about Amazon but my experience with middle management is that it's exactly like that.

Also, if you bite them after telling them five times "please don't touch me", it's somehow your fault.

Brockman 2018: “The nonprofit board retains full control, and can only take actions that will further our mission. As described in our Charter (https://openai.com/charter/): that mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.”

Brockman 2017: "Financially, what will take me to $1B?"

Brockman 2025: donates $25m to Trump.

I don't even need to state my opinion about these people, nothing more really needs to be said.

"beta invite codes traded on black markets for $7,000-$14,000"

I don't believe this.

To clarify, Kim Dotcom was arrested by NZ police and is making his way through the NZ court system. It wasn't a Maduro situation. I'm not sure he's even been extradited yet (though that's the most likely outcome).

If the reports are true, the proceeds from selling Venezuelan oil are going into his own Qatari bank account. That's third-world tinpot dictatorship right there.