siruncledrew's comments

Until climate plans align with short-term personal incentives, I don't see how there's going to be any serious persistent fight against climate change.

People might feel benevolent one day and do something good, but the next day when they are faced with a problem and the environment is a convenient trash can or resource bin, they'll go right back to those bad habits.

The only way things will change is if everyone's life gets made miserable by the effects.

This is like putting your money in a bank ran by a cartel and expecting them not to steal it as soon as it benefits them.

Generally speaking, with humans there's more guardrails & responsibility around letting someone run while in an organization.

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.

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.