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@andy_matuschak In San Francisco the difficulty multiplies of filling retail spaces because of insane anti-business bureaucracy and street chaos

@andy_matuschak Conversely, these spaces are often not very attractive to commercial tenants. They were designed into the renders of the building to create a bustling community feeling, but the occupants of a single building are too few to support several or even one business

In SF, many ground floor commercial spaces in new condo / apt buildings near me have been empty for 5-10+ years. Naively: why doesn't the market clear? If the asking rent is too high for any tenant, wouldn't a building owner prefer to accept a lower rent over decadal vacancy?

@andy_matuschak In San Francisco the difficulty multiplies of filling retail spaces because of insane anti-business bureaucracy and basic public safety gaps

@AndrewKolvet @salerGT @JamesBlairUSA

Already 6 targeted Indiana State Senate races have been called in favor of grassroots candidates over the establishment Rs who betrayed the base on redistricting. Waiting on 2 more but it’s clear the Trump Team delivered @salerGT and @JamesBlairUSA Also major congrats to our @TPAction team that worked so hard mobilizing on the ground in Indiana.

@jamiequint Time to build metrics on judges

I have a ~200mb sqlite DB of the entire history of SF criminal court cases for the last 4 years that I want to make publicly accessible for anyone to query with AI. It includes roughly 77k cases, 319k court-calendar entries, 777k register-of-actions docket entries, DA arrest/prosecution data, attorneys, charges, and matched charge-level disposition/sentencing outcomes where available. It is a combination of data scraping, public records request, and SF DA data. It is extremely eye opening once you get to dig in. What is the best way to host this? MCP? Just put the file on public S3 and share the path so people can have their agents download it?

@revishvilig Starlink policy in the Ukraine theater was dictated by the White House. There is not one instance of SpaceX taking an action against US policy nor disregarding US policy. And who are these “many” and what exactly is the link you’re suggesting between Elon and “techno-fascism”?

What is emerging instead are potentially dangerous ideas. Many are familiar with Elon Musk and discussions around so-called “techno-fascism.” 9/12

General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current Ambassador to the UK: Due to scientific and technological progress, it has become impossible, regardless of what others may claim, to carry out operational-level tasks. 1/12

@sdamico They deliberately made it kryptonite for Silicon Valley, also knowing that the crucial details sound too arcane to the average Joe. They knew all complaints will sound like billionaire tears.

was told that the guy who wrote it basically consulted with no one when doing so, wrote it in the maximally adversarial way, and then ... everyone still went along with it ....!

@yoavgo 640GB ought to be enough for anyone

I am late to the party, but I just did the back-of-the-envelope calculation and realized I dont understand how long-context *inference* works, memory wise. assuming each layer is 4000 dims, 40 layers, and 2 bytes per dim, thats 640k per token, and 640 GB for 1M tokens. so how?

@mattdykema That is impressive runout on a one micron indicator, but that tiny diameter is a bit of a cheat

She's at ZERO 💯

@zanehengsperger @samanfarid It’s coming

theres never been a claude update that killed a manufacturing business

@tay_loehr @gak_pdx @VishakhRanotra That’s just fixturing strategy. If you’re “removing warp” after roughing you haven’t tried blue photon

@gak_pdx @VishakhRanotra Your cycle time and pricing is a bit off because you must you must remove the warp after roughing, then cut the blades in a free state. I know because I machined it 😉

That looks like a machining nightmare

@waitbutwhy Try it with colors reversed

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

@SawyerMerritt Since Gizmodo is published in New York City he could still turn out right, for NYC ;)

Tesla started Cybercab production 18 months after this article lol

@TheStalwart Now try Anduril

@zanehengsperger Get out there and look for space. Review zoning carefully. Talk with the folks in each permitting department. Then you’ll know

best place in LA to open up a manufacturing facility?

@TankerTrackers @mercoglianos Would they start dumping oil, on land or at sea?

To prepare for the possibility of running out of oil storage space at Kharg Island, Iran has brought NASHA (9079107) out of retirement. She's a 30yo VLCC that's been anchored empty for the past few years; currently spending 4 days on a trip that should take 1.5–2 days. #OOTT

@adcock_brett Fixed the Y axis for you Brett!

Humanoid robots manufactured at Figure by month

@JimDMiller (a) The human population is shrinking (b) Look out the window of a plane, the planet is almost entirely empty (c) The earth is 0.0003% of the mass in the solar system (d) …

We are never going to be post-scarcity. Strip-mine Earth: you still ration coastlines. Strip-mine Mercury, build Dyson swarms: even then, there is still only so much mass and sunlight to allocate. Move to VR: you still ration compute. Physics keeps the ledger.

I would love to have someone on 20VC to discuss the disparity between: 1. Cursor clearly crushing enterprise hitting $2BN ARR. with 2. Clear desertion of the product from majority of teams to Claude Code. Who would be best for this discussion?