- Did Britain start out with the same gauge as India?
I kinda expected India and Britain to use the same gauge, and was a bit surprised.
Also, what's going on in Australia?
- Well, they at least achieved some free PR for these shenanigans. Probably their best outcome.
- I wonder if this decline means the public health campaigning and lessons about drinking/smoking/drugs prevention made a difference?
As 1 data point, I have a cousin who is 17, and I am 35.
As a 17 year old, she's been taught the dangers of cigarettes, that drinking is bad, and to avoid drugs for a number of years already.
I'm not saying this is bad... it just feels like previous generations (Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, etc) did not really go into the informational side about the risks of drug use from a personal level, and moreso approached don't do drugs like an episode of COPS, which focused more on the risk as a scare tactic.
- Has anyone tried this with Llama 3.2 or any other “open source” options?
- At a personal level, it feels better to have something of your own to hold on to instead of someone else’s, so I think beaucrats will also respond accordingly.
In a way, we’ll probably see more cloud fragmentation in the future, especially as other countries develop their IT sectors more and feel like they want more control over their own infrastructure, and whatever tertiary benefits can be extracted from that.
Relationships don’t even have to turn sour, there just has to be enough protectionism and popular appeal to support it. Just like saying “build it here”.
- The market is sorting itself out right now, and eventually the wheat will get separated from the chaff.
Every cycle, theres all types of people hop on board whatever the hype train is... it's the same mindset as pioneering for gold in the wild west.
I just hope we can move along more in the "wheat" direction with AI products. There's so much low-effort crap already out there.
- IMO, I'd expect to see more international D2C start eating the lunch of US retailers as the D2C companies see they can make more money and still offer lower price points.
If the main value proposition of retailers is importing goods they don't produce and marking them up to sell to Americans, that's a shaky business model, especially in the age of ecommerce.
- Mass shippers like Aliexpress already stopped using ePacket.
Ali has their own Cainiao. The big companies realized if they do the Amazon model and build their own logistics network for cross-Pacific sea/air freight, the long-term savings are huge.
Even within the US, Amazon already has planes, trains, and automobiles. Why pay USPS and be at the mercy of government bureaucracy when you own your own integrated logistics stack.
- That’s the same method as what we use
- The dust still hasn’t settled yet, but from following the discussions and learning more about the board of OpenAI… just… wow.
What stood out:
1. The whole non-profit vs for-profit is like a recipe for problems. Taking billions in investor money, hyper scaling to hundred-millions of users, and partnering with a $1T tech company… you’re already too late to reverse course and say “I changed my mind”.
2. Seeing who runs the OpenAI board is more shocking than the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. That was really never an issue to partners or investors before? Wow…
3. If OpenAI continues down the “we’re a business / startup” path, their board just shot all their leadership credibility with investors and other potential cloud partners. The one thing people with money and corporate finance offices hate is surprises.
4. You don’t pull a corporate “Pearl Harbor” like this and just blissfully move along without consequences. With such a polarizing move, there’s going to be a fight.
- The board completed the "fuck around" stage, now they're in the "find out" stage.
- That board is going to face a wrath of shit from Microsoft, Khosla, and other investors.
This isn't a university department. You fuck around with $100B+ dollars of other people's money, you're gonna be in for it.
- Did you do anything else special in getting it to correctly reference the documentation?
Now that you brought this up, I could really use this ability with some 600 pages of documentation I have.
- Is there not a way to query a database with the ID from a phone?
Why the extra steps?
- Finally, at least it's promising that the process looks to be less bad
- At some point, I think US cities have to just accept & own up to the fact that we have quite bad infrastructure for pedestrians.
Drawing some lines on the road isn't going to stop a 5,000lbs hunk of metal going 20mph over the speed limit from hurting you.
Walking around the city (even just a few blocks to chill and eat dinner with friends after work) is the opposite of "relaxing travel" — it's a pain in the ass.
- How much money do you think a government contracting company charged for this system?
Considering how crappy and plain the UI is, they must have made a boatload of money for not a very high bar.
- Have people also faced these same types of problems with Wordpress? How did you deal with it?
- The hardest part for me in exploring new music is the ‘discovery’ process of new music that I like.
Most of the algorithms just want to reinforce giving me recommendations of either mixes of the same music, or just slightly different but overall still similar music in the same genre.
Like, who knows, I may really like scandinavian metal bands, but how much time will I realistically spend going out of my way to find it or get recommendations if I know nothing about it? Especially as one gets older with more obligations and has less time to spend.
- As someone who has ridden the DC bus before (mostly when the Metro broke), "free" meets the mark on the only price I'd pay to use it again.
Aside from the other stuff you can probably picture, it's slow AF and takes longer to move between popular spots than drudging through traffic in a car or Uber.
Now making the Metro free... that would pique people's interest.
- Guess Disney world is not always the happiest place
- Based on the article, I was surprised China and India accounted for ~50% of the world’s coal use together.
Those are both huge economies and I guess a big part of the problem is that they need (cost-effective) energy today, not tomorrow, so coal is their immediate solution. So I’d assume that will hold as long as Russia is still at war and other energy tech is still being developed.
- IMO the hardest part about rolling out other forms of public transportation like scooters is creating a public ecosystem that will properly support multiple modes.
The public part is important because an ecosystem is not one individual entity like Bird/Lime/etc where everything for particular mode of travel has to funnel through.
The escooter experiment has basically shown lacking an ecosystem causes problems. And the same thing would happen if “escooter” is replaced with “ebikes” or “eskateboards” or “emopeds”. They would still be scattered everywhere, get in people’s way, etc.
So far the only real ecosystem for transportation we have comes down to cars once again (unless you live in NYC with the subway). There’s not enough momentum to holistically address multi-mode transportation meshed in public life and not just think in terms of “cars and car alternatives”.
- “Made in America” comes up a lot, then when it comes time to needing Americans for the work, these factories either downsize, close, or just move to some faraway country again.
It’s like the thing that gets people excited only to deflate again and sizzle out hope.
Then all that’s left is another pile of rust and a trail of tax credits…
- Looking back at Wechat from how it was since ~2013, I think there’s a decent amount of recency bias influencing it as “the everything app”. It definitely wasn’t close to being as horizontally integrated until recently.
On another note about Facebook, even though Facebook/Messenger is still past its prime in the US, Whatsapp is like the closest Facebook-made Wechat equivalent because that is absolutely popping off in other parts of the world like Latin America. Literally everyone (people & businesses) use it as their primary channel of interaction on a daily basis. In the US it’s still not nearly as popular.
- 100%. It feels like a bait and switch. They say “we created brex because it’s hard to get banking as a startup”, and then what do you know… now they don’t want to bank startups and are giving them the boot.
It’s just annoying as hell. A bunch of promises but then the opposite actions.
- A taser-drone looks like an expensive remedy designed to be a money-sucker than an actual solution.
Instead of making schools safer, pretty soon we'll just have a bunch of defense companies lined up to sell snake-oil bandaid solutions to schools for millions of dollars, and meanwhile nothing will change.
- Is there even any data or evidence to support the claims that letting farmers repair their tractors with OEM parts is going to result in deaths and injuries?
And wouldn’t there already be company liability protections and user agreements in place anyways?
It just seems like a ridiculously condescending “but think of all the farmers that will die” argument that these people are too stupid to be allowed to work with their own equipment.
- I can see agricultural land going down even further in the future as techniques, incentives, and people dynamics change.
How much of what we farm is really just 'superficial agriculture' and not 'survival-driven agriculture'?
For example: gigantic monoculture fields of corn in the midwest US, groves of almonds and grazing crops in California, huge amounts of grasslands for beef. (I'm sure there's more examples too)
It just seems like many of the ways agriculture operates doesn't make sense from a needs-based perspective and certainly not from a nature-enhancement perspective either. Farmers just do their job of growing, and then money does its job of convincing.
Even if you have a very smart new hire, it would be irresponsible/reckless as a manager to just give them all the production keys after a once-over and say "here's some tasks I want done, I'll check back at the end of the day when I come back".
If something bad happened, no doubt upper management would blame the human(s) and lecture about risk.
AI is a wonderful tool, but that's why giving an AI coding tool the keys and terminal powers and telling it go do stuff while I grab lunch is kind of scary. Seems like living a few steps away from the edge of a fuck-up. So yeah... there needs to be enforceable guardrails and fail-safes outside of the context / agent.