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Reminds me of "Miracle Flights", in which dozens of people require wheelchairs to board but only a few require them to deboard. Of course, if you are in a wheelchair, you get to board first.

https://www.explore.com/1804742/not-divine-story-miracle-fli...

In fairness, no company’s mission statement says “maximize shareholder value” because it doesn’t need to be said - it’s implicit. But I agree that AGI is at the forefront of OpenAI’s mission in a way it isn’t for Google - the nonprofit roots are not gone.

Answering both of my questions, from the post:

  sleep 0.001 # Delay to allow the receiver to process the signal

This is awesome. Does POSIX guarantee the order of signal delivery? And I'm dying to see what the bandwidth / throughput of this channel is...

If only there was an entire American city filled with people and companies who had this expertise. We could call it the "Motor City".

Lots of people, myself included, pay a premium to not have a human at the steering wheel; it's nice to have the car to yourself.

I think the "lethal trifecta" framing is useful and glad that attempts are being made at this! But there are two big, hard-to-solve problems here:

1. The "lethal trifecta" is also the "productive trifecta" - people want to be able to use LLMs to operate in this space since that's where much of the value is; using private / proprietary data to interact with (do I/O with) the real world.

2. I worry that there will soon be (if not already) a fourth leg to the stool - latent malicious training within the LLMs themselves. I know the AI labs are working on this, but trying to ferret out Manchurian Candidates embedded within LLMs may very well be the greatest security challenge of the next few decades.

It's a publicly-traded company (and was private for 16 years prior to going public) so it seems likely that actually making money is at least somewhere on their list of priorities...

This kind of comment comes up a lot On The Internet and it tells me that the commenter has never worked at a company that has lost a massive lawsuit. As someone who has worked at one of those companies, I can tell you that losing a suit like this will absolutely lead to huge operational changes to avoid it happening again.

Whether or not those changes actually change the "character" of the company is a different question (IMHO Newsmax is morally defunct and cannot be saved) but no company anywhere would just shrug something like this off as "the cost of doing business".

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It's 6x that. The median is 2x: https://chatgpt.com/share/682ceb2a-b56c-800b-b49d-1a24c48709...

Fargate is just a container runtime. You can fork processes and share memory like you can in any other Linux environment. You may not want to (because you are running many cheap / small containers) but if your Fargate containers are running 0.25 vCPUs then you probably don't want traditional multiprocessing or multithreading...

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Which gives you a really strong incentive to not put other people’s lives at risk by driving recklessly.

If you don't like an iPhone, don't buy an iPhone. Don't legislate your consumer preferences on me.

Not to mention the total lack of regard for the rule of law, a previous strong point for companies doing business in the US

Correct. As a State Farm policy holder, I get an annual letter reminding me that I am also an owner and have governance rights (basically a proxy vote). More similar to Vanguard than a credit union.

These same companies ruthlessly compete on rates in the consumer marketplace

The insurance companies are betting their margins on this. If they are wrong, they will fail in the marketplace.

Poverty. Regulation and testing are not just a matter of will, they cost money. We like to pretend like all the wealth in richer economies goes to TVs and cars and fashion but health, education, safety, etc are all luxury goods.

If the Waymo could not see the bicycle then them cyclist could not see the Waymo. So at best the fault lies with each party to make visual contact and determine who goes first.

It’s hard to get your license suspended! You have to severely screw up, usually more than once. If you depend on a personal vehicle for your livelihood, you should avoid it!

That’s not the law. Vehicles take turns at an intersection - there’s no total queuing order based on arrival time.

At a contended intersection, it should never be the case that two vehicles coming from the same lane take consecutive turns.

That was nine months ago. How many human drivers in SF do you wager have struck a cyclist since? It’s easily in the hundreds.

Self driving cars do not eliminate risk to pedestrians or cyclists but they reduce it by multiple orders of magnitude, and they are trending in the right direction, whereas human drivers seem to be trending in the wrong one.

I really wish data engineers didn't have to hand-roll incremental materialization in 2024. This is really hard stuff to get right (as the post outlines) but it is absolutely critical to keeping latency and costs down if you're going to go all in on deep, layered, fine-grained transformations (which still seems to me to be the best way to scale a large / complex analytics stack).

My prediction a few years back was that Materialize (or similar tech) would magically solve this - data teams could operate in terms of pure views and let the database engine differentiate their SQL and determine how to apply incremental (ideally streaming) updates through the view stack. While I'm in an adjacent space, I don't do this day-to-day so I'm not quite sure what's holding back adoption here - maybe in a few years more we'll get there.

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Which is... exactly what the software industry has seen over the past 30 years?

Your point is taken, but the history of Java / the JRE is important here. The JRE turns out to be an excellent (and continuously-improving) virtual machine, but a horrible sandbox.

A huge value prop for early (pre-1.5) Java was sandboxing, but it ended up being clunky, frustrating, and too slow for the browsers / dial-up modems of the era and lost its chance to be the sandbox of choice - leaving the door open for Javascript to win as the world's most widely deployed sandbox.

I use this pattern a lot (and I often find myself wishing I used it more). Another way to think about this is "noun-ification" (aka the Command pattern) - instead of invoking a function directly, capture all of its arguments, serialize them to some "store", then provide the ability to rehydrate them and actually run it.

I suspect they will have a harder time finding 400k people than they will finding water.