jdross

The second box is 10,000 pixels (100x100). Not 1,000 pixels (31x31)

They do. The law is literally that you must equally protect all groups

He has children, and this is what children listen to

They’re going to use junior attorneys to do that work. It’s the juniors who will be expected to produce more

I’m not trying to challenge how you feel, but I’ll note that in my social groups people don’t feel this way, life is good, and they also feel confident that they’re well informed.

So I’m open to the possibility that lot of these types of feeling, in both directions depending on the political era, is more dictated by environment and media consumption choices and their versions of doom and gloom than reality

Spend 15 minutes talking to a person in their 20's about how they use ChatGPT to work through issues in their personal lives and you'll see how much they already trust the "advice" and other information produced by LLMs.

Manipulation is a genuine concern!

It looks like they did the first one. And are already on the platforms. What’s stopping you now?

For us, we’ll probably try it for workflows that don’t currently work with 4.1 or 4 sonnet

I'm not saying this doesn't hold, but this includes every first-run first-model car from Tesla (5-10 years old cohort), and decade+ old refined models from every other brand.

Admittedly just a hunch, but I suspect the data for the more recent cohorts and Tesla models is much better than this data shows

True story: My great uncle was a secretary to General MacArthur during world world 2, and one of his jobs was to source and procure ice cream to the front for the general and the troops.

They already have 400 million daily users and a billion people using the product, with billions of consumer subscription revenue, faster than any company ever. They are also aggregating R&D talent at a density never before seen in Silicon Valley

That is what investors see. You seem to treat this as a purity contest where you define purity

Many people who would otherwise love public transit – like me, hi, I grew up in NY and rode Muni & BART my entire 10 years in SF – avoid it in places like SF or the bus in NYC because increasingly over the last 15 years "the public" part has included very antisocial people, zero enforcement of social norms allowed, and declining enforcement of law.

In my life this has been replaced by group chats on WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal etc

I am tech founder, who spends most of my day in my own startup deploying LLM-based tools into my own operations, and I'm maybe 1% of the way through the roadmap I'd like to build with what exists and is possible to do today.

The pace of notable releases across the industry right now is unlike any time I remember since I started doing this in the early 2000's. And it feels like it's accelerating

My friends aren’t working on USAid they’re in departments doing work that has no political storytelling like cutting a bunch of redundant $2-10M contracts here and there every day. Remember that it’s been like 2-3 weeks — what has your established company done in these 2 weeks?

For what it’s worth two of my friends did have to get appointed positions including these clearances

These are people I personally know working “at DOGE” (appointed in departments, but under DOGE umbrella)

“These kids” I’m talking about are in their 30’s and 40’s and making recommendations to department heads which almost all seem to be approved

I’m just telling you what I know from personal friends doing individual work in specific departments. The mandate is “find $X million per day” and they do, and it’s a lot of work, and it doesn’t happen overnight like big PR things

Honestly it seems to me like a shock and awe PR campaign combien md with a daily grind. It’s been like 15 days, what thoughtful work do you think it’s being announced that happens that fast from a cold start (including hiring!)

I realized I’m treading in extremely hostile waters here, but the stories I hear from folks working in DOGE are closer to “I spend 8am to 2am with the leaders of department X going through all contracts and outflows and identifying what is important versus wasteful given a target of saving $X million per day, and there are some great people in this department who really know what’s been going on and it’s been great to make a difference”

Versus whatever the media is reporting

Arguably it was designed explicitly for the chief executive having control of the executive branch we just haven’t had executives with this level of interest in making major changes in 40+ years. Was somewhat common to shake up the scope of the federal gov’t when the bureaucracy was much smaller in the 1800’s and early 1900’s

I know a number of them but they’re rightfully not looking to be especially public about it now on the internet — life is hard enough just doing the job they’re trying to do. Which is frankly a lot of banal accounting and auditing type work. They’re in their 30’s and 40’s with prolific backgrounds in PE, as entrepreneurs managing nine figure budgets and thousands of employees, etc.

Politics vs policy, or something like that?

It would be nice if anyone would state a law being violated. A lot of people seem to be making a lot of assumptions too about what DOGE/Elon are doing vs what the president or directors of the agencies (for instance) are doing

because working with poor performing coworkers is soul crushing, and having a bad boss even worse

How does this compare with commercial OCR APIs on a cost per page?

In these bigger companies it is very time consuming and difficult to fire someone. In some it is nearly impossible for a manager, and they can't replace the headcount until they do.

There's a real tradeoff between employment stability and managerial oversight in companies at scale.

which they have also massively refurbished and could have handled themselves if not for regulations around creating a launch site.

there aren’t many technical issues to pouring concrete in a good lat-lon

By definition people are not very aware of their blind spots

Yes, but the problem is that I don't want to be recorded without my consent by you at all times. And I don't want to have to negotiate you removing this device that is recording me every time we are near each other.