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> This is simply something that's never been attempted at scale.

isn't that the point though? You invest in a company so they can make these attempts. If it works you make money if it doesn't you lose money, that's the risk.

> "Unless you have special insight, you should assume all stocks are equally good buys."

> Lol maddest thing I've read all day

didn't someone like the WSJ to a long term experiment picking a basket of stocks by throwing darts at the paper? They beat most/all established funds over 5 years or something like that. I don't think it matter much, i just buy VOO when i get my bonus and go back to living my life. That strategy is on track to put two kids through college.

It doesn't seem to me like Flock would reduce crime but increase the rate at which crime's are solved. Maybe a better stat would be median age of a criminal case involving a vehicle before and after Flock was deployed.

edit: i dont know if any stat would work at the city level, the advantage of Flock is the network works across state/county lines. So someone committing a crime in one state and then driving all night can still be located two states away without police departments having to coordinate a search.

In Dallas TX our lightrail runs about every 15 min too. It's works pretty well and is big enough to be actually useful. I like to use for big events when you know parking is going to be a nightmare or expensive. It's slower than a car though, the trip about doubles in terms of time taking the train vs driving.

Yeah you have to see 5-10 years down the road for the payoff. That’s very hard when you’re making a bottle or breastfeeding at 3 am before a client meeting at 8. Or on a flight with a toddler bored, tired, and hungry. I have teens who are really good kids so the payoff is worth it but the struggle to get there is real.

It won’t be a ban, it will be some “certified safe” badge from a federal agency. Companies will be scared into not using anything that is not “certified safe” and business insurance will even require it. Whoever (openAI or Anthropic) gets to the politicians first will be the only certified safe model provider.

Maybe the FDA is a good analogy, you wouldn’t want to buy meat at the store not FDA certified would you? OpenAI and Anthropic want you to feel the same about AI.

The teacher union means no teacher gets fired for performance. My wife worked in public education as a teacher for 20 years.

Trying to fill a backlog to just keep a dev team busy is not what a backlog is for. It would be better for the business to have them rake leaves out front than add to a system something no user needs for the sole purposes of looking busy.

I don’t use windows so what is the difference between home and pro versions of windows? My understanding is the pro version enables device management features needed by a corporate network. Is there a performance difference that would affect an individual developer?

And hard left content is promoted everywhere else. What’s the point?

Get Zuckerberg (and whoever else you want) to come to Brazil and then arrest them at the airport when they get off the plane. If you have actual case that is SOP. Difficulty = having an actual case

There is some phrase (it was actually on my sons vocab study materials) for a mental disorder where when you become emotionally attached to a conspiracy you begin to see it everywhere.

I’ve had two separate similar experiences. The most impressive was my little sister publishing an app on both Google and Apple AppStore’s with subscription payment support. She didn’t even know what an Apple developer account was. I gave her a three line prompt to get started and then she took it from there. She built an LMS for HS students that gets them in shape for college admissions. She has a supabase backend, AI generated videos, quizzes, more content, and all the usual mobile app bells and whistles, she made it through all the paperwork of App Store submission/review/publishing on both platforms including inviting some beta testers. Her workflow was telling ChatGPT what she wanted and then asking that model to talk to claudecode. It doesn’t sound like much but keep in mind she has absolutely zero code or tech experience. I told her she did about a $75k project on her own in maybe 1/5 the time and it blew her away.

It may be a success or maybe not who knows but she did it. I think she has 4 or 5 paying customers.

We’re coming up on the _second_ generation of the best and brightest programmer minds being wasted on getting ad clicks.

Why would you rely on another nation for defense infrastructure? It makes zero sense for Europe to rely on starshield in the first place.

When you have 10,000 users scattered across every continent your access control needs get complex.

> they can just write traditional code on the fly

this is a point that i think is missed on many people (myself included earlier in the year). Sure, the LLM is non-deterministic but it can write code that is not and test cases to verify it. Then, once verified correct, it can use what it wrote to perform the task in a deterministic way. Even though the LLM is still non-deterministic all it has to get right is the arguments to the software which is much easier than the full logic of the task. That's very powerful.

I've seen this first hand when asking AI to do non-trivial analysis over a couple of spreadsheets and then also a database. It writes python to do this, tests it with sample data, and then calls the python it creates to do the processing on the actual data.

you use the chat window to make the software which is deterministic and can be tested. Then the chat window uses that software to do the analytics or whatever else you need. Op is correct.

OpenAI isn't starting 100 companies becauese they're focused on research and making their models better. There's only so many hours in a day..

Accenture and McKinsey are very different. You can't draw any conclusions about one from knowing the other.

dokku is built on docker and dokku is the cat's meow. thank you :)

I have to admit, it is nice when that edge comes off a little bit. Such a perpetual monkey on your back.

> I landed upon the word “resourceful”

My 14 year old is pretty sharp and i like to pose philosophical questions that have no answer to him to watch the gears turn and see what he comes up with. I once asked him what he thought the meaning of life is and he replied "to make the most effective use of the resources available to you". I can't tell you if that came from him or something he read and, while not a perfect answer, i like it quite a bit.

just so you know, there's an almost infinite distance between standing up for yourself and committing mass murder.

> how to learn and think critically.

I agree with this, my boys are 14 and ~17 and i feel they have a petty good start on both. As a parent, you can guide and encourage but kids grow into individuals with their own passions, interests, and views of the world and being able to learn and think critically arms them with what they need to navigate it all.

I have two boys ages 14 and almost 17. First priority is for both mom and dad to invest the time and energy to build a bedrock solid relationship from day 0. It's so frustrating and exhausting but that's priority 1.

When my kids were small we were either at the Perot museum or the Dallas World Aquarium every Saturday morning (giving mom a break). We had family memberships to both of those places and we used it to the fullest. Going to the same places over and over seems boring but I think it really helped them digest what they were seeing and messing with. I feel like a new experience every day is enriching but also overwhelming, especially for really small kids.

I always joked with them "get good at learning and you don't have to get good at anything else". I feel like they've done a pretty solid job at that and can learn/develop their own interests at will. My youngest taught himself guitar, he's really good too, and knows a handful of RATM songs which isn't the easiest music.

Both have gravitated to STEM and attend the magnet HS's in Dasllas ISD ( Townview TAG and Townview SEM ). My oldest is interested in petroleum engineering (i don't really know why, he just is) but my youngest spends all his free time and before school time with his creative writing teacher who he loves. Time will tell with him i guess.

I've been doing this a long time and i would say since the last 3 months or so i've spent more time learning from llm code than correcting llm code. It's not bad and takes approaches and makes decisions i wouldn't have thought of. I'm not too ashamed to admit that, a model just as access wider and deeper experience with code than I do.

isn't impeachment without removal just a bullet point on a wikipedia page? i don't see it being very much of a deterrent.

> a young girl kills the first woman she meets

she never met nor intended to kill her though. It would be more accurate to say "a young girl accidentally kills a woman while getting lost and teams up with three complete strangers to get directions home"

heh we're seriously considering live-streaming someone's execution but live-streaming a woman taking off her shirt to the public would be an outrage. I lean toward "America f*ck yeah!" but I know there's plenty of stupid here as well.