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This was true six months ago but today models are indeed excellent at coding especially if you give them guidance.

It’s been wild watching smart people have their brain cooked on a constant diet of X and LLMs in the past two years. Models are excellent at code but they are not people managers. …

idk why this is getting downvoted, I also got this sense, plugged it into Pangram and indeed, 80% AI-written score. I guess that's fine, but after awhile I get a spidey-sense readi…

That is fair. FWIW I think if you are just doing pure analytics and nothing else, Parquet will probably continue to do the job for you just fine, and you don't need to touch your w…

> Also, my main gripe with parquet (single table per file) is not even addressed, so, also the name is a bit hyped up. This is really more of an expectation that has been put on fi…

> “I never got my driver's license, and I rely on Waymo to commute to an office every day," said Sarah Paige Roland, a Waymo rider in Phoenix. "I get privacy, time back, a safe rid…

Move fast and meltdown

I think I'm missing the excitement. This is an artist's rendering of a supposed massive orb in the sky? I am more impressed by the actual UAV footage that has been released previou…

On top of this whole thing just being ridiculous, $50mm is also just not a very impressive amount of money to build out an AI data center.

In the case of the "Gulf of America" thing there was a clear and open statement by the executive that they wanted the maps changed (note that even in the US the name is still legal…

Sure, but I'm in the US, which is not a party to the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. To my knowledge the US continues to recognize Lebanon as a sovereign country.

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OSM is a foundational data layer for GIS. If you're building a mapping service, you're almost certainly using OSM augmented by satellite imagery and other sources to find populatio…

It is straightforward to visit any other online mapping service and see many villages labeled there. Bing: https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=33.185932%7E35.321974&lvl=11.9&... Google: h…

I don't understand what using Scala has to do with anything here.

This reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexico. I'm not sure why…

I'm not sure how much of that converts to revenue. If it's free plan users, that's just cost. You can say what you want about "creating a training data moat" but that doesn't seem …

There's something a little off about the projection logic when you drop into the Leaflet view, you'll notice that when you pan around after zooming the planes shift their location.…

It's even funnier actually. Yes, Palantir does have free Zyn vending machines in every office, but the Zyn is only for visiting customers. Employees are explicitly prohibited from …

They need to refund it *with interest*, according to filings cited in the article.