They should fight it. But why does he have to suck up to JD Vance and Musk I the same post? I kind of lost empathy at that point.

There's some irony in that, sure. But at the heart of the matter is privacy. It's about what you input into the chat, not about the output.

Yes! Whoever built the data warehouses and keeps the data pipelines running would seem to be the real heros of this story. I sure hope that group did not get gutted by DOGE.

If the people who set up the DW and set up the data to flow into it did not also build any applications to actually take advantage of the data, they didn’t complete their job properly. It’s been 18 years, that’s long enough to document the existence of it. Some might say 18 years is even enough time to build at least one useful application powered by it.

I’m sure in reality the people who built this system were smart, and wanted people to use it, but were just buried under layers of technology-unaware management and bureaucrats who felt threatened, afraid it would marginalize or eliminate their paper-pushing jobs. But this very likely reality is just more proof that the government needs significant restructuring. Most people in management at the government are there purely because of tenure, not because they’re great leaders, nor subject matter experts in how complex things are efficiently built and run outside the government world.

> If the people who set up the DW and set up the data to flow into it did not also build any applications […] they didn’t complete their job properly

1. That’s a whole extra level of responsibility / management / bureaucracy. At some point, somebody near the top needs to care or it doesn’t all get done. The existence of this DB says somebody cared, they just didn’t have enough power.

2. I’m curious how this compares to experiences at Big Old Corp, like IBM or GM, not just the SV darlings.

It's still a bubble if it happens that investors' expectations are unreasonably inflated. Most expect return on their invested capital.

This is a very naive comment IMHO. There are very few governments in the word, if any, which could be trusted with something like that.

A very cool game! I just wish I could look around while standing still. Well done.

Only is not AI. It's LLM, diffusion models and what have you. The term AI became so overloaded that it means almost nothing these days. AGI is still hard to reach for, but it doesn't stop all kinds of spin artists from trying.

Am I the only one thinking that it's time for something like an R2D2? Presumably it could get into some crammed spaces and thaw things out of needed. I'm sure it's a stupid idea, BTW, but a fun one )

It's a fun idea. Though it would have to be a really small R2-D2 that could work from the inside.

The fictional R2-D2 had a big advantage of being in vacuum so it could work from the outside, without disturbing the airflow, and without having its work disturbed by the airflow.

Envisage what happens at 900km/h in atmosphere, if R2-D2 tries to lift up an exterior wing panel to troubleshoot a blocked line?

Well... aircraft maintenance doesn't work like that.

Even car maintenance doesn't work like that anymore. There's almost nothing you can do just by crawling around and messing with the parts there.

To be fair, we don't yet know how capitalism ends.

We know how everything else does, though.

Heat death of the universe?

It says "Leveraging the trace amounts of moisture in air, the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could be recycled into new PET products or other, more valuable materials." I don't know if there's some enormous challenge hiding behind the word "envision", but I'm assuming it's a closed system until something useful comes out of the other end. The method just can't be a lot more expensive than to make the same thing/material from scratch or it's never going to gain traction.

Well let's truly hope that its not that much expensive