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The NYT just did a story on Andon: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-... Their AI "boss" appears to be pathologically chill and worker-friendly. Has never…

Who will invest in generating data for the frontier of AI if their output will immediately be used to train a competing model? Forget China vs. US, this applies within-country too.…

It's like the Victoria 3 combat system. You just send an army and a general to a given front and let them get to work with no micro. Easy! But of course some percentage of the time…

This is actually not such bad advice for a manager who manages other managers, though I can see why ICs find it very frustrating. If you are giving high level platitudes and counse…

The total profit of ALL US health insurance companies added together was $9bln in 2024: https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/2024-annual-hea... . This is a profit margin of…

Is it easy to record a voiceover or add chosen audio? (Sorry I don't have an invite code so I can't try.) I could see some room for human jokes or short human-driven songs that cou…

Does Disney have a positive obligation to show animal cruelty snuff films on Disney Plus? Or are they allowed to control what people say on their network? Does Roblox have to allow…

Their revenue is like $670bln. If you come up with an innovation that increases that by 0.01%, say by better optimizing prices or targeting adds, you've added $60m of revenue. If y…

Ok but telling someone they can have GPUs online in a mere 5 years if they build as fast as SK is still going to be a very painful pill. How do we get a DC in a year?

I see an increasing number of politicians taking the position: "I supported Israel's government's actions when they first attacked, given the goals of destroying Hamas' leadership …

Manufacturing output has more than doubled in the US since 1980: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPMAN#

Companies can choose their gross margins! Just take the cost of manufacturing, double it, and call that your price. You now have 50% gross margins. But you can't choose your total …

In the models I've seen, they still require and bill insurance. The monthly fee is a supplement for the doc practices.

Ok, I appreciate that timelines in this space are long. But the opening phrase: "Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collabor…

Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris. Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why I should do this, perhaps you may ask... I know not, but I feel it done…

I feel like LLMs are the same as the leap from "world before web search" to "world after web search." Yeah, in google, you get crap links for sure, and you have to wade through sal…

In a past startup, we had at least one person apply to our regular job postings with a cover that transparently said "I know this is a full-time, long-term posting, but I really wa…

Algebra in 8th grade is back this year. https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/... . I have no other knowledge to vouch for SFUSD either way though.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes! Lots of detail, but it also shows how many geniuses it took working over years to really make it work.

I'm still surprised the "dumb phone for kids" and "dumb watch with basic comms" markets are so underdeveloped (from my perspective). I would love my kids to have (a) gps tracking, …

Controversially, Rawls asserts that you clearly want to maximize the worst outcome in this case (the "maximin" principle). Economists strongly disagree as it doesn't take into acco…

This is a really important problem, and a lot of software attacks it. Pretty much every big HR/workforce management system includes options for it, e.g. https://www.workday.com/en-…

There's a phenomenon in which inflation-related posts generate lots of comments or concerns that the CPI methodology is manipulated in some way. If you are interested in learning m…

For folks with GPUs, note that HDBscan is very optimized in cuML ( https://docs.rapids.ai/api/cuml/stable/api/#clustering / https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/faster-hdbscan-soft-cl…

Man, I want to appreciate a nice new hardware approach, but they say such BS that it is hard to read about them: > “There might need to be a new term, because by the end of next ye…