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by hackerlight 2y ago
It's going to be easy to substitute in their own LLM behind the API in the future. None of the branding or platform is controlled by OpenAI.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Any developing country that has cheap labor costs and no tariffs. The retail cost for panels is $205 per kW, inverter $115 per kW, then add another 30-40% for labor, cables and mounts.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Initial costs were estimated at 3.3bn euros, blew out to 13.2bn.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Biden's chips sanctions are also hurting them. They only just figured out how to make 7nm chips. They'll struggle to assemble the compute to keep up in AI. Now, if only we didn't insist on publishing all our trade secrets in
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by hackerlight 2y ago
90% capacity factor is possible but quite generous, France is below 70%. As nuclear penetration goes up it becomes impossible to sustain high capacity because demand itself is variable, so you either need to overbuild nuclear and run nuclea
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Two reasons - the shown capabilities are way beyond what dalle is capable of, and they've been clear that this "omni" model by the "omni team" is natively multimodal
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by hackerlight 2y ago
As a moral realist and liberal humanist, I agree, but the post highlights something important. Evil acts are often motivated by sincere moral systems. These people are mostly not sociopaths acting independent of a moral system. The feelings
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by hackerlight 2y ago
US golf courses take up 2x the area of currently deployed solar panels and California already has over 20GW of deployed capacity. When you combine unoccupied deserts, unused rooftop area, and agrivolataics, land use should be a non issue.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
You can look at a world heat map plot of solar irradiance. That's one factor. The other factor is seasonal variability, which is a harder problem to solve than low irradiance. Low irradiance can be solved by installing more panels, whi
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Anduril says they have a focus on industrial capacity and cost effectiveness
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by hackerlight 2y ago
California and China are doing it already. It's not theoretical. It's here, today, thanks to massive cost reductions.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
No need.to install, go to www.morphic.sh
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by hackerlight 2y ago
How confident are you in your 1% number? Are you sure it's not 20% or 50%?
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Impact would depend on cost per kWh of the fusion energy
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by hackerlight 2y ago
The shape of the curve is a bit of a red herring, unless additional context is considered. Decay could mean we have succeeded in decarbonizing the entire power sector, which is a signal of success. Or decay could mean California has finally
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Prisons is an apt analogy. If you think otherwise you probably went to a uniquely good school or were high charisma and avoided bullying. But that's not everyone's experience. Human children socialized just fine in the 100k years
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Biden Keeps Passing Smart Climate Policies(distilled.earth)
1 points by hackerlight 2y ago|0 comments
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by hackerlight 2y ago
This could be confirmation bias. Here's an alternative explanation that fits the same facts. Sam tweeted "her", not due to the voice, but due the existence of a conversational system that resembled the system in the movie. Th
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Iowa has more renewables than CA but has cheaper electricity prices than the national average. There are a few examples like this that prove that the inference you're attempting to make is symptomatic of stupidity.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Not trivial. Factors: Local labor costs, PV import tariffs, net metering arrangement, roof space and tilt angle, electricity prices, local solar irradiance levels, solar seasonality, and large cost difference between grid tie versus hybrid
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by hackerlight 2y ago
"What was new was that the stories had been taken from legitimate news outlets and modified using large language models, most likely one built by Openai" Huh? What is the evidence for this claim? I assumed they used an ope
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by hackerlight 2y ago
"you swap the vehicle" -- that's a large cost associated with the battery getting old earlier than it otherwise would have. Have you factored this into your math? If you have a $40k EV expiring two years ahead of schedule, th
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Crazy expensive solar panels? Depending on where you live they can be gotten for less than $120 USD for a half kW panel, retail cost. It gets expensive if you insist on a hybrid inverter and battery. But even then, you can get full ROI in l
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by hackerlight 2y ago
1 GWh is 1 million kWh, multiplied by $0.1 that should give $100k in energy costs?
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Weather is variance around climate. Heatwaves are caused by both (high variance spikes to the upside around an increasing mean trend)
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by hackerlight 2y ago
It's meaningfully affecting people today near the equator. Look at the April 2024 heatwave in South Asia. These will continue to get worse and more frequent. Millions of these people can't afford air conditioning.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
4o uses less compute and performs better.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
A spanner in the works is Biden's tariffs that will hit grid storage imports from China, which is currently the large majority of deployed storage. These particular tariffs will start in 2026.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Iowa has more renewables as a proportion than CA yet has lower electricity prices than the national average. There are a few examples like this. Raw retail prices are not an accurate reflection of anything. You actually have to do your home
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Any such argument needs to accurately account for the relative ease of recycling lithium ion batteries, and the existence of batteries with significantly longer lifespans like iron air, compressed air (eg Hydroster) and pumped hydro

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