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by jedberg 18d ago
There was a lot of evidence last winter. But with the active El Niño it’s starting earlier this year.
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by jedberg 18d ago
That person is probably misremembering or looking later after the update. I pull weather data from multiple apps all the time because I’m a weather nerd and they all agree equally poorly.
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by jedberg 18d ago
It's because the current administration cut NOAAs funding, which means fewer weather balloons, which means less data to make a prediction. And it means less real time updates. So yeah, when it rains, it might take a few hours for that
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by jedberg 18d ago
It's not only energy though. Desalination takes space, and you have to do something with the salt. Last I saw, to have enough DeSal capacity for all of California, you'd have to replace every beach with DeSal plants to have enou
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by jedberg 18d ago
> Do you own your home? Here in Ca? Yes and yes. And I pay 10K less a year than my neighbor for the same value house. And I pay 10K more a year than my other neighbor. I get a huge advantage from Prop 13, but I still think it needs to
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by jedberg 21d ago
Regulations about 95th percentile decible levels at certain distances, and regulations about max decibel levels at certain distances, for all buildings.
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by jedberg 21d ago
Trying to educate them that water and power usage are the less problematic parts and not as bad as everyone thinks. It's the noise and lack of green power that are the problems.
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by jedberg 21d ago
I'm saying the people who are affected need to lobby their own local governments, because the companies will never do the right thing until they are forced to do so. But what people are most upset about are water and power, which are t
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by jedberg 21d ago
I don't do that anymore since I got laughed at by coworkers when I suggested we focus on using green power and reducing noise. So yes, my conscience is clear.
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by jedberg 21d ago
No, there really isn't. It's more a question of how the data center is cooled. There are quieter more expensive options, which is why they often aren't used.
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by jedberg 21d ago
No thanks, they are loud. I even called that out. But no one should be living next to them. Those people need to get their local government to regulate noise from all buildings. The companies won't do it on their own. (This is part
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by jedberg 21d ago
I have a lot of left leaning non-tech friends. They are all very much against AI data centers. I've built AI data centers, and I keep trying to educate them, but they just won't listen. The water is mostly part of a closed syste
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by jedberg 21d ago
I've been meaning to switch my in-laws to Quad9 and just not mention it to them. They fall for too many scams, I'd love for those websites to just not work anymore.
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by jedberg 21d ago
Cloudflare probably has a server on AT&Ts network, but not on Xfinity. Google is probably the opposite.
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by jedberg 22d ago
I actually know someone this happened to. While they did ban him from using the bank, they first warned him, gave him a chance to close out his open transactions, and then helped him move all the money somewhere else at no cost. The import
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by jedberg 22d ago
Sure, but they have to give you your money back. They can't just keep the money.
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by jedberg 23d ago
Banks can't just ban you, nor just take your money. The price they pay for being gatekeepers is a ton of regulation. This is why PayPal for the longest time made it really clear that "we are not a bank". So that they wouldn
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by jedberg 24d ago
I have 1000s of reddit and hacker news comments from before 2023, and lots of long form writing too. But as you point out, those are all in the training set, and in pangram's "definitely human" training set too. The ones tha
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by jedberg 24d ago
Here is another example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1pyjkuf/i_... Today Pangram says it is 100% human, which is correct. But yet I got multiple DMs when I posted it 8 months ago
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by jedberg 24d ago
It’s important to remember that LLMs were trained on well written human text. People who write well are going to sound like an LLM. Especially if it’s a marketing message for a website. I’ve been accused of being an LLM multiple times here
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by jedberg 25d ago
You can read it here: https://gist.github.com/jedberg/e24124e577c0da1c8445c22798eb... I posted here on HN but it got removed.
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by jedberg 25d ago
Ha! They must run Pangram. It probably flagged the comment.
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by jedberg 25d ago
I just posted it above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524889 Edit: It was removed. Here is a gist: https://gist.github.com/jedberg/e24124e577c0da1c8445c22798eb...
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by jedberg 25d ago
No it isn't. I've put human written material in there (my own unpublished material) and it says 90%+ AI. Then I put some AI material in and it said 30% chance of AI. I only tested it with the two pieces, but was not impressed.
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by jedberg 26d ago
I'm curious if you've tried Claude. Subjectively, I've always preferred Claude's writing over ChatGPT and Gemini.
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by jedberg 26d ago
> Currently we don't allow for multiple model selection, but it is on the roadmap. Cool! What model does it use now? Enterprises will definitely want to know. And the other big question: Why not just use Claude or Codex (via CLI
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by jedberg 26d ago
There is a lot of competition in this space, both commercial companies and open source. It seems like the biggest advantage for using one of these and not Claude or Codex is that you can use multiple models. Otherwise, those two have all
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by jedberg 27d ago
My last few jobs I started with a listening tour. I talked to everyone who was relevant to the job and asked them: - what is going well, - what is not going well -what do hope that I will fix -what should I do -what should I not do I put t
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by jedberg 1mo ago
That's a good point. The other examples didn't involve copyright. Hopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it. ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!
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by jedberg 1mo ago
This is pretty well trod legally. By the user taking a specific action, it makes the user responsible. Comma.ai uses the same technique. Technically their self driving hardware comes with no software. You have to click a button and poin

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