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I think people are opposed to all of these.

kalshi has a feature in beta right now that lets the public bet on the outcomes of this game

"...investigating data centers is quickly becoming its own beat"

ie it is in the economic interest of the writers to tap into (and foment) the FUD around "data centers."

Enlighten me

The hostility towards self driving is so baffling to me. Setting aside the question of which company is going to get there first, it seems patently obvious that self driving is clearly the safer future for drivers and pedestrians. after all, self driving cars are getting better, and human drivers are not.

That said it's not guaranteed that the version we get will be without drawbacks, and imo we should be trying to shape a better version of the future by passing regulations now before unwanted behaviors calcify. Stuff like limiting how many empty miles cars are allowed to drive so that ppl don't just circle their cars around the block to avoid paying for parking, or regulating how long security updates need to be supported to keep insecure cars off the roads.

Cool to see that lack of object permanence does not prevent one from becoming CEO.

I would pay to see no more than 50 posts per account per year in my feed.

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In the about page, this author states that they produce "original reporting and commentary on the criminal justice system and civil liberties." I really think it is a mistake to blur that line. These days it feels like you can pretty reliably predict what narrative a journalist will present on any given story based on their individual poltics.

How can you reasonably expect to be viewed as an objective reporter of facts if you also are acting as a commentator trying to shape public opinion?

How can something be simultaneously useless to the average person and likely to create massive joblessness?

Turns out media fear mongering for clicks works

> The honest first question is: what data platform are you already standardized on? If your analytics warehouse is Snowflake, the answer is Snowflake Postgres or no managed cloud-native PG...

Wait, who is picking an operational data stack after they decide on an analytics stack?

Is your objection just to the bloat, or also to what the bloat is for?

Four(?) years ago this could have been a PhD thesis project

Well it's 5-10 minutes once you get to the west 30th st heliport, which can easily take 20 minutes within Manhattan. Plus getting loaded in, cleared for takeoff, and potential for backups at the landing pads, I suspect the gains are much less in practice.

JFK airtrain carries about 30K passengers per weekday in 2025. how many landing pads would be needed to carry a meaningful % of that traffic alone?

> solve tons of problems

I'm skeptical that air taxis could ever meaningfully reduce traffic congestion to / from JFK. Compared to cars, these would seem to require a significantly larger landing pad and passenger unloading space and need much more safety margin in-between drop offs. Maybe this is competitive vs the private helicopter market?

The time part reminded me of the old WWVB radio time signals.

If/when that goes away, I wonder if it will be cheaper to use a gps chip to make "self setting" clocks, or if everything will just be wifi connected.

> The report estimates that training the latest frontier large language models, such as xAI’s Grok 4, can generate over 72,000 tons of carbon-equivalent emissions.

That seems pretty trivial, relative to 38bn per year globally?

> Claude doesn't ask you to define an attribution model. It doesn't open a whiteboard. It runs [query]"

Why is that a good thing? Claude didn't ask any obvious follow up questions, like what determined whether a user got an email or not? It is using the ab test terminology in Step 3 without any kind of confirmation that this is, you know, a valid test.

This is maybe beside the point but it annoys me how many CEOs wax poetic about "locking in" and "grindset" but then seem to have infinite time for bullshit side projects like owning an NBA team.

Not really, the same study could be done with giving people a calculator to do long division. How much participants bother to check the work is a function of 1) their expectations for how accurate the tool is 2) how much time they are afforded 3) what the upside of additional accuracy is. Just because they largely default to accepting the answers at face value doesn't mean they are experiencing "cognitive surrender", and doesn't mean calculators are some 4th system of thinking.

Doesn't sound like there was any incentive to get the answer right, so why would anyone bother fact checking AI answers. These marketing researchers are basically trying to rebrand path of least resistance to be a new thing?

On brand for Wharton I guess.

Despite what the folks here like to believe about themselves, I think the reality is we as attuned to what is in fashion and on trend as everyone else, just about different stuff. Last year it was Chatgpt, this year Claude is the new hotness. Things move so fast we barely have time to form our own opinion, so we fall back on what we read or hear from others. In 12 months who knows what it will be... Gemini? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Long term, my feeling is Anthropic's focus on enterprise is the most obviously lucrative but also least defensible application of LLMs. If (more likely when) open source models reach the point of being "good enough" then it's a race to the bottom on pricing. Maybe it will be like AWS vs GCP et al, but I kinda doubt it.

That is my understanding as well, but I see it so often and stuff changes so quickly it's hard to tell what is real.

Where would you put 24x7 political content?

> When a caller asks something that isn’t in the knowledge base, the AI doesn’t guess.

I've seen a number of instances of this type of thing in wild, and under the hood it's usually some prompt that asks the llm to gauge confidence in its own answer. And from my admittedly naive understanding of how this all works, this seems extremely unlikely to be accurate. But I'm curious if that's still the case or if I'm operating under pre-2026 information?

Yeah but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a company that thinks comms/collab are the only thing.

> But there’s a huge difference between communication and collaboration as infrastructure to support individual, high-agency ownership, and communication and collaboration as the primary activity of an organisation.

that is a meaningless buzzword salad masquerading as a deep insight

I think it would be helpful to engage with the possibility that they are neither stupid nor ignorant, rather that they simply have different values and priorities than the early internet users.

imo childcare is at most two of: low cost, high quality, low time commitment