> I can see street-view using it to perfect the 3D analysing of the photo-video they catch with there google-car.
Waymo recently announced[1] a World Model that does exactly this: using footage from a single-camera dashcam, it can predict/simulate multiple inputs that would have been sensed by a Waymo vehicle on the same travel path (i.e. multiple camera angles, Lidar cloud, etc). On top of this, the model can be prompted to customize the scenario (adding an elephants or a tornado were the example given)
> Creating a startup has to be about a product. When you raise 1B, investors are expecting returns, not papers.
Speaking of returns - Apple absolutely fucked Meta ads with the privacy controls, which trashed ad performance, revenue and share price. Meta turned things around using AI, with Yann as the lead researcher. Are you willing to give him credit for that? Revenue is now greater than pre-Apple-data-lockdown
> At some point you're not reviewing diffs at all, just watching deploys and hoping something doesn't break.
To everyone who plan on automating themselves out of a job by taking the human element out- this is the endgame that management wants: replacing your (expensive and non-tax-optimized) labor with scalable Opex.
Over the years, Meta has bought a lot of "talent" based on a single hit, and they continue to be one-hit wonders despite being embedded at Meta, with ungodly amounts of resources at their disposal. e.g. none of the game studios they bought have produced new IP, all they do is produce content for the aging, pre-acquisition games
"Filed for bankruptcy" != "out of money" in the ordinary plebeian sense.
These are the kind of criminals where the judges will let them stay under home arrest in their twenty-bedroom mansion, have their chauffeur drive them around in a car worth more than my entire life savings, etc... because it would be "unconscionable" for them to lose the life that they're accustomed to. I.e.: Affluenza.
Just look at Prince Andrew or whatever he's called now. He raped children and his rightful punishment would be to sit in a jail cell with no access to anything even resembling his lavish digs, instead he's luxuriating in a lifestyle you and I would envy.
I can list far, far more examples of billionaires or mere hundred-millionaires living luxuriously after committing capital crimes or "going bankrupt" than not.
Find me an ex-billionaire living out of a motor home, then I'll cede your point.
> These are the kind of criminals where the judges will let them stay under home arrest in their twenty-bedroom mansion…
Another egregious example of this sort of thing:
> Robert H. Richards IV was convicted of rape, the wealthy heir to the Du Pont family fortune […] received an eight-year prison sentence in 2009 for raping his toddler daughter, but the sentencing order signed by a Delaware judge said “defendant will not fare well” in prison and the eight years were suspended.
> Being able to coat efficiently run frontier models is i think, not a high priced endeavor for an org
Running proprietary model would make you subject to whatever ToS the LLM companies choose on a particular day, and what you can produce with them, which circles back to the raison d'etre for the GPL and GNU.
Until all software copyright is dead and buried, there is no need for copyleft to change tack. Otherwise there rising tide may rise high enough to drown GPL, but not proprietary software.
Open source is easier to counterfeit/license-launder/re-implement using LLMs because source code is much lower-hanging fruit, and is understood by more people than closed-source assembly.
Bitwarden annoyingly ignores subdomains by default. Enabling per-sudomain credential matching is a global toggle, which breaks autocomplete on other online service that allow you to login across multiple subdomains.
Tell me about it... that infinite Ctrl + Shift + L sequence circling through all credentials from all subdomains. Then you brain betrays you making you skip the right credential... ugh, now you'll circle the entire set again. Annoying.
Seriously? That sounds incredibly awful - my keepass setup has dozens of domain customizations, there's no way in hell you could apply any rule across the entire internet.
It's weird that supposedly clever people cannot see beyond "this number goes down/up now" to "this is not immediately beneficial, but it keeps our company healthier in the long run".
Lacking backups and staging/test environments is organizational failure: everyone who is between senior and the CTO is to blame for not fixing it post-haste.
Elections are not good sample of our collective values. The approval rating is quite low and is probably a better measure.
But when it comes to elections, first, somehow “we” get 2 bad choices every time. This last time, I personally feel they were 2 incredibly terrible choices. Then the fumbling from the other side basically assured orange man’s victory. It was a disaster of an election (but sadly appropriate as it seems like every thing we do is a disaster now.)
We also have a low voter turnout. So the result isn’t really complete and probably has some bias.
We also have an electoral college which means the winner can have less than 50% of the popular vote and win.
I could probably go on but I feel the point has been made that election outcomes are not the proxy you think
If "both sides" are equally bad, then both sides equally represent the people, no?
> I could probably go on but I feel the point has been made that election outcomes are not the proxy you think
The purpose of a system is what it does. There are not many grassroots efforts to change the many negatives you listed. Tacit approval - whether through nor voting or not fixing what is broken - does not lessen culpability. The outcome is still accurate representation on the aggregate.
If 4 housemates always have a dirty kitchen, it's a reflection on all of them. It may fall short of their ideals, or they can blame Bob for not doing dishes, not fixing a problem whose root they know is an indictment, not an excuse.
Most Canadians are visiting Hawaii and California, not Arkansas and South Dakota, so the point still stands for the states most people are going to. (Although Florida and Arizona are both pretty popular destinations too, which somewhat contradicts my point)
South Dakota actually has a few decent tourist attractions west river: (Mt Rushmore, Badlands, Crazy Horse).
With its proximity to Canada, and relative cheapness, likely pulls in quite a few tourists from up North.
One additional South Dakota attraction (although lessening interest as of late) is how much hunting/fishing is available, and how much the community is interested in the ‘visiting’ hunter.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, thanks! I guess I was only thinking of warmer places, since that's where I tend to travel to. I personally live a bit too far north to drive to the US (in a reasonable amount of time), so I completely forgot that the US is close enough for a summer road trip for most Canadians.
Waymo recently announced[1] a World Model that does exactly this: using footage from a single-camera dashcam, it can predict/simulate multiple inputs that would have been sensed by a Waymo vehicle on the same travel path (i.e. multiple camera angles, Lidar cloud, etc). On top of this, the model can be prompted to customize the scenario (adding an elephants or a tornado were the example given)
1. https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-f...
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