Favorites May 8th 2024
These are made by Geely and were announced at the end of 2021. Evidence that Waymo has confidence in their rollout, very exciting.
One policy error, refusing to build homes, makes voters think Democrats can't govern.
I'm surprised Randall Munroe didn't make this.
Longer Reads
• A long thread about why trucks accidentally hit bridges they were too tall for very often in the UK. TL;DR: Bad signage, old bridges, Brexit (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Nvidia found a way to setup an LLM to write code that would in turn be used to control a robot balancing on a yoga ball. (src)(cached)
– Very cute IKEA commercial for kids furniture (src)
– It's not correct to use 'no action' as the baseline in climate modeling. More is needed, but our actions area already bringing down emissions. (src)(cached)
– DJI drones are very good at following a target, they make 4 million a year, around the number of US + Taiwanese military personnel. Also, China has doubled their missile inventory in the last three years. What will they do with all this hardware in 5 or 10 years? (src)(cached)
– Excluding Tesla, EV sales were up 35% in the US in Q1. (src)(cached)
– Police officer accidentally fired his weapon when trying to use a flashlight on his gun, which uses a separate trigger below the gun trigger. Seems dumb. (src)
– Sleep baseball, a really boring game to help you fall asleep (src)
– Mark Gurman's sources have been very good recently, and he says there won't be a new Apple Vision product for three years (src)
– A follow-up to the problem with non-profits: they make graft easier for politicians. (src)(cached)
– Noah Smith argues that both the Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine protesters in the US are pro-war. (src)(cached)
– Ethan Mollick messing around with Anthropic's Claude, asking it to really explore the space of "garlic bread". Responses are good enough that I'm actually thinking about giving Claude another shot. (src)
– Customized mRNA treatments trialed for various kinds of cancer. (src)
– American money spent on food is going up because we're eating at restaurants more, here it is broken down in detail. (src)(cached)