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by jcattle 11mo ago
I don't know about the poster before me, but it is not so much about actual clocks changing but about the biological clock changing.
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by jcattle 11mo ago
If Congress tells the Executive: "Here's some money, spend it on USAID to stabilize regions in which the US Army operates and are of strategic importance". And the Executive says, "thanks for the money! I will spend it o
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by jcattle 11mo ago
If we take Elon Musks approach to challenging engineering problems, which in this exact order is: 1. Question every requirement 2. Delete any part of the process you can 3. Simplify and optimize 4. Accelerate cycle time 5. Automate In my ex
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by jcattle 11mo ago
How does that work if your customers want to get a proper invoice?
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by jcattle 11mo ago
I am assuming that millions of dollars have already been spent trying to get LLMs to hallucinate less. Even if Problems feel soluble, they often aren't. You might have to invent an entirely new paradigm of text generation to solve the
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by jcattle 11mo ago
> The argument against the strikes is based on principle alone So you're alright with the sitting president in the US now being able to kill civil citizens in international waters without declaring a war? Without having to go throug
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by jcattle 1y ago
As far as I remember, hypothesis tests smartly. Which means that possibly problematic strings are tested first. It then narrows down which exact part of the tested strings caused the failure. So it might as well just throw the kitchen sink
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by jcattle 1y ago
I've recently used two decades of satellite data to compute average colors for land-cover types (like average forest color or average water color). If you want to extend your color naming game by being able to say: This looks like Afgh
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by jcattle 1y ago
Oh that's a fine example of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Read this comment first, went to read one of the other top links on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377 ) and which Paradox shows up? Jevons'
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by jcattle 1y ago
Ah come on. If you want to discuss let's discuss, but I would ask you to put at least some effort into your points. > It doesn't get more democratic than that. It does get more democratic than that: You vote for congress. You v
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by jcattle 1y ago
> Now, I believe two wrongs don't make a right, but clearly democrats aren't innocent angels in the politics game, but are using every dirty trick in in the book and outside the book to upset the election results while playing
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by jcattle 1y ago
If you remember the last time Trump lost an election there was a violent coup. I do not hold out any hope that there will be an orderly transfer of power. Also, I wasn't comparing the US to anyone, I don't care what China is doing
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by jcattle 1y ago
> As bad as Trump is he's only got 3 more years in power until next elections And even in the "best case" scenario where trump does not win that next election, what are you left with then? A new reality where potentially t
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by jcattle 1y ago
I think hackernews might be the only place on the internet where a commenter uses an AWS outage as an example for why authoritarianism is a good thing.
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by jcattle 1y ago
> And in particular it doesn't give me much benefit over conda/mamba. How about the advantage of not taking an entire lunch break to resolve the environment every time you go to install a new library? That was the biggest stick
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by jcattle 1y ago
So it is not a breach, but a collection of many sources. It is 183 million email (not gmail) addresses in the collection of which 14M haven't been seen before on have i been pwned. This hackernews title should be changed. (Currently: 1
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by jcattle 1y ago
In the case of the Fehmarn belt it's an underwater bridge though.
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by jcattle 1y ago
There's a podcast by 99% Invisible about state lottery. Basically the journalist reporting the story kind of reversed his view on state lotteries over the course of reporting the story. Going from: It's good that we have state lot
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by jcattle 1y ago
Same, that was the first time I've heard of this. I mean, it kind of makes sense. "Just" go where flowers bloom. But still, this seems like madness.
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by jcattle 1y ago
No. Steering demand will not work. Unless by steering demand you suggest forcibly moving millions of people to Scotland. You have an intermittent power source (wind), far removed from where the energy is needed, and you do not have sufficie
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by jcattle 1y ago
That would work if the energy was actually free. Instead, since it is a single market, as soon as curtailment kicks in you do not get the energy for free anymore, you get it for the price you pay for the gas plants that replace the wind gen
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by jcattle 1y ago
It really depends on how much excess capacity the north south interconnects have. You'll have to store the energy where it is produced and then get rid of it when the windfarms are not producing (and there's demand in the south).
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by jcattle 1y ago
This literally is the bottleneck which wastes the energy and is so stupidly expensive in the case of Britain (and Germany). The issue is lots of renewable generation far from places where it is used and not enough transmission capability. T
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by jcattle 1y ago
This is not the issue discussed here. The generated power can not be transmitted to where it is used.
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by jcattle 1y ago
I find macroeconomics fascinating. These theories to explain how growth works, what incentivizes it, where value comes from, I find them really fascinating. It kind of echoes a common theme with LLMs, of humans creating systems that somehow
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by jcattle 1y ago
The german economic ministry has recently proposed exactly that. Slow the addition of more generation while the grid catches up. As expected this proposal did not go over super well.
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by jcattle 1y ago
How? Everyone everyone? How about some guy not invested in the stock market, building a house and working as a plumber be impacted?
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by jcattle 1y ago
Isn't the thing that costs everyone an arm and a leg at the moment the race for better models? So all of the training everyone is doing to get SOTA in some obscure AI benchmark? From all of the analysis I've read, inference is qui
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by jcattle 1y ago
Can anyone give more than a hand-waived explanation on how this crash will come about? This paragraph reads kind of like: Companies not profitable, no more money coming in, ????, crash >> I firmly believe the (economic) AI apocalypse
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Python is adding Zstandard to the standard library in 3.14(discuss.python.org)
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