Right, but where is that record kept? Who keeps it? Who can change it?

Keep your own records independently of the company. Include when events happen and when you record/write them. Place them somewhere separately that you have limited access to, so no one can claim you made them up later.

Track your trip time. Track your gas. Track the decisions you make (example: fill up now vs later) and why you made them. Track inspections and their results. I’m sure there’s more you can track, but I’m not a trucker. You know better than I do

Maybe you’re already doing this, but I couldn’t tell from your comment.

AI is often wrong. Sensors often get bad readings. It may falsely record bad behavior, so you need your own records to combat it.

So… I considered trying to start an energy-sustainable data center…

The math doesn’t check out. One square meter of earth gets about 1,000 watts from sunlight. Our current solar panels only run at 20% efficiency at best. Servers I looked at average 500 watts… and we usually put a bunch of servers stacked up in a single rack, which you can only fit one of in one square meter.

As AI grows, it’s only gonna get worse. We need nuclear or geothermal or hell, fusion if we can make it not 50 years away.

But it explains why Amazon and such are looking into smaller scale nuclear. Let’s see how that goes I guess…

Edit: I’m not saying solar is a bad idea. We just need more energy production of many sorts

Hahaha yeah, area. It’s roughly 11km x 11km. Much easier to have frequent transit in that small area. Most US cities are way bigger

Nah, you good. There’s no way for you to know without way too much time investment.

New York, San Francisco, and maybe Chicago have workable systems. Atlanta’s right on the edge, I would say. San Francisco seemed the best by far, but it still wasn’t perfect. It also helps that San Francisco is tiny. I haven’t been to Seattle or Portland, though. Maybe those are better

The smaller cities have super trash transit, mostly because they’re too spread out

In most US cities, no, it’s not an option. But we should work to make it an option :)

That’s very sensible. Thank you for the explanation. A part of me is thinking “hard means opportunity,” but I do computers, not physics

So… yes and no. Yes, most corporations aren’t mitigating their impact as much as they could, even if trying to maximize profit.

But something like consuming red meat… if people aren’t buying it, they’re gonna downsize operations. But that requires a huge change in the diet of a lot of people. So like… yes, but no? If enough people change, yes, but reality suggests that won’t happen, so no. I try to avoid beef, but I’m just one dude.

Here’s what I don’t get: methane is energy rich, and cattle produce a lot. Why the hell don’t they capture the methane and sell it? Yes, combusting it produces CO2, but CO2 has a lesser impact than methane, as I understand. So it’s a (minor) help for the environment and theoretically profitable. Why hasn’t this been done yet???

I learned a thing. Thank you.

I argue that this is due to the poor definition of a coastline. I don’t know why. I go into problem solving mode, and I’m like… yeah… poorly defined problem. Root cause found… uhh… now what. Coastline starts at where water reaches only high tide? No. Continental shelf? Certainly not. Point where building foundations are no longer stable? Maybe, but I don’t know enough… yet.

… is this ADHD? Seriously, my psychiatrist thought I was right on the border. I dunno

Edit: I’m dumb and misunderstood the problem. Disregard me

This. I work at a medical computer vision company, and our system performs better, on average, than radiologists.

It still needs a human to catch the weird edge cases, but studies show humans plus our model have a super high accuracy rate and speed. It’s perfect because there’s a global radiologist shortage, so helping the radiologists we have go faster can save a lot of lives.

But people are bad at nuance. All AI is like LLMs -_-

That is a damn good point.

It’s tricky because sometimes you need to find something specific for good reason, and other times, exploring would do you good.

In any case, very helpful perspective. Maybe it’s good I’d never have the time to build something like this anyway.

I wonder… this is slightly off topic, but fun to think out loud. In Korea, search super sucks. Most content is shared via blogs, and back links aren’t a thing. All bloggers, and even the blogging platform, actively discourage any kind of copying. In the West, we solved this with sharing and back links, but that hasn’t caught on here. But Koreans seem to (to me, at least) almost enjoy drudging through blog after blog trying to find what they’re looking for. I always thought it’s because they felt they had no alternative, but now I wonder if they have your perspective in mind.

Maybe you want to buy some art. Maybe you saw some art but can’t remember where it came from. Maybe you have a specific feeling and you’d like to see some art to go along with it. Maybe there’s a comic with some joke that you want to find and share.

Basically, it fulfills the same role as a search engine.

The reason I propose it for art is because most people may have trouble describing art, and most art isn’t indexed by its contents. An LLM can help with both of these problems.

It could be useful in other domains, too, but the required information isn’t as readily available. I’ll give two contrasting examples:

1. You saw some web comic. You don’t know the artist. You know the plot. You have some idea of the style. You might query like “web comic about a dad joke, colorful, cartoony art style, one character has a red shirt, the other character has a blue shirt.” All of this information is inside the comic image and could be discerned by an LLM.
2. You went to some restaurant a couple years ago. It was a pizza place. The interior was small. The owner was a little gruff. It had a big red logo. It was on the corner near the sushi place. The tables inside have white table cloths. Not all of that information is available online, so an LLM would have no way to index it.

I imagine at least some people would find it useful. I don’t know if it could be profitable with ads, but… I just like having thoughts like these. Have the knowledge but not the time, energy, or money to build something like this :/

I have a question…

LLMs and generative AI are really only good at a subset of things, and we use them outside those things too often. But one thing they’re extremely good at is identifying similarities in text.

I don’t think AI as a technology is a problem, simply how we’re using it, much like a knife.

If there was an art search engine that indexed every piece of human-made art that could be found and allowed you to search for it in natural language, would you use it? This would be different from a search engine in that natural language allows for more clarity of context and emphasis.

I’ve worked with Swarm in a startup setting. It was an absolute nightmare. We eventually gave up and moved to Kubernetes.

That said, your use case does sound simpler. As I recall, we had to set up service discovery (with Hashicorp Consul) and secret management (with Hashicorp Vault) ourselves. I believe we also used Traefik for load balancing. There were other components as well, but I don’t remember it all. This was over 5 years ago, though.

The difficulty wasn’t configuring each piece but getting them to work together. There was also the time burned learning all the different tools. Kubernetes is great because everything is meant to work together.

But if it’s just two machines with separate configuration, do you even need orchestration? Is there a lot of overhead to just manage them individually?

Unfortunately, it was too long ago to remember the details of differences between compose and swarm. I do remember it was a very trivial conversion.

From the Wikipedia article on Russia’s playbook: “Foundations of Geopolitics”

Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (comprising the regions of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

No. I don’t want to transpile. I don’t want a bundle. I want a simple site that works in the browser. I want to serve it as a static site. I don’t want a build step. I don’t want node_modules. I want to code using the language targeted for the platform without any other nonsense.

Javascript is cancer. Fucking left pad?! How the fuck did we let that happen? What is this insane fucking compulsion to have libraries for two lines of code? To need configuration after configuration just to run fucking hello world with types and linting?

No, fuck Typescript. Microsoft owns enough. They own where you store your code. They own your IDE. They might own your operating system. Too much in one place. They don’t need to own the language I use, too.

“Let’s use a proprietary improvement to fix the standard that should have not sucked in the first place” is why we can’t have nice things.

No.

Why?

No one said anything about pulling SEA into a war. No one said anything about Europe forcing SEA like colonizers. Shit has changed in the past few decades.

NATO is a mutual defense pact. He’s just talking about setting up a similar defense pact in SEA and East Asia.

As mentioned, SEA is relevant because those nations have the potential to be China’s Ukraine.

SEA is likely to be open to some kind of mutual defense pact, as China has been testing borders for a long time, especially in the South China Sea. I believe the only reason they haven’t is because of smaller military, trade relations with China, and the unlikely support of East Asia. East Asia looks down on SEA. If Europe engages in more trade, offers military support, and mediates improved relations between SEA and East Asia, I think a mutual defense pact is all but given. That said, the trade and military support are a tall order.

In any case, this is basically reciprocal action. See the comment about dogs shitting in yards.

You’re making assumptions. Fuck no. What’s happening is Gaza is some of the stupidest ape-brain shit we’ve ever done. So chill out, my dude.

But this lust for vengeance is how Israel and Hamas continued escalating shit. Not a rational brain anywhere in that mess. “They hurt people, so I want to hurt them” is moronic. “They hurt people, so how do I stop them” is how we should be thinking.

What is the purpose of punishment? To reform behavior? Or to make you feel better?

You can claim justice, but in this case, that’s just making you feel better. You want to hurt someone because they hurt others. That’s how we’ve had never-ending wars. We as a species need to grow past this

Okay, but what’s your current level of web development knowledge?

And if I’m understanding your website properly, it seems like you don’t have any kind of user generated content, yes? And if there were updates to the site, you would just make them yourself? If this is the case, then it sounds like frontend-only, and you can probably just use Vercel. If you’re going super simple, maybe even Github Pages would work.

Alternatively, is there any reason you’re not using a site builder like Wix or Squarespace?