siruncledrew

That's what confuses me too. If they aren't making money any longer, they're basically saying "fuck you" to their own target customers?

What's the aim? ~~Bribing~~ Lobbying someone else in the government with the data they are gathering anyways in the hopes of cementing this?

So what this is telling me is if I don't like the way the government or public services is doing something, I should just plow ahead without any care and just force it and then be immune because I said so?

If anything, I’m worried they’ll both increase prices after they IPO and are pressured by investors.

Right. By those stretches, the Sinaloa Cartel and Saudi Aramco could advertise as "family owned"

> concerned about authoritarian governments

> praises Trump's administration and Vance in his letter

sure there, buddy...

I guess the money printing is slowing down, so the most important thing is to keep it printing fast.

And of course those in-or-adjacent-to the White House are trying to blatantly grab that printed cash.

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.