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by no-name-here 1mo ago
The 2024 NYT infographic also has a nice visualization of how batteries flattened the evening curve as of then: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/batte...
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
I'm fine with any power source, but all sources should include all lifetime externality costs (including for fossil/nuclear/renewable): * Externality costs for items like pollution * Any required insurance cost during their l
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
Source for the above claim, although it was actually methane gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk... > A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artifici
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
1. The 2 reactors under construction [1 > CONSTRUCTION] are expected to take 20 years and >20 years respectively [2][3]. 2. Nuclear Safety Commission Chairman Haruki Madarame told a parliamentary inquiry that "Japan's atomic
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
Adding to the sibling comment, from your link: * The longest piece for wind is "Approvals and permits" which takes up to 5 years of the 4-7y. * The building part "takes approximately 3-6 months" for building wind. So win
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
It typically takes 11-12 years for a nuclear plant to get built including planning and construction [1]. Is the idea that we'd build the data centers now, and finish the nuclear plants to power them 11-12 years from now? https:/&
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
> The real issue is the existing system needs to change entirely to facilitate, I know this, Good developers know this 1. I’ll often include boilerplate in a prompt to tell it to make the broader fix. [1] 2. However, a top HN AGENTS.md
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
Adding sibling comments, I think some people may be overestimating how well the median human can draw a pelican, or create an SVG of a pelican (depending if we’re comparing to an image generation model, or SVG generation).
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by no-name-here 1mo ago
> 1. Zitron claims model capability has peaked … Zitron is probably right in this regard … Is there any objective measure that shows this? Would we use examples such as his Feb 2024 claim "I believe we're reaching the upper l
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
There's the one at the end - I'm guessing the other is the police raid on the drug lab at the beginning? Personally I wouldn't have put them in the same bucket.
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
> Rights can't be held by corporations, only individuals. So the rights to a piece of art or IP would always trace down to a list of names. Isn't the current system setup around the idea that the company gets the rights, and
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Your worry was that if you used AI for things other than generating code/tickets/communication/assets, that you couldn't use sourceforge?
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
I’m guessing they’re referring to things like refusals if it thinks your request may be related to building a bioweapon, or hack someone else, etc.
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
I find too often that models do the opposite - they'll pile small targeted band-aids on code blocks based on new requirements, etc, when having them analyze whether a changed (broader) design would result in a far better overall design
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
1. Doesn't that just bring us back to the questions that were explicitly raised in the parent/GP comments, such as if you don't want paywalls or subscriptions, then does that mean that you strongly prefer viewing ads (so that
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
> billion dollar companies producing hacking geniuses that are open for the public Hasn’t the biggest complaint about these (non open weight) models been that the versions open to the public are very careful and will issue denials if the
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
> Having the lowest spending doesn’t mean the spending is responsible. How do you decide whether the spending is responsible? Is spending on the military responsible? Medicare? Social security? Paying interest that is due? Because thos
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
> news companies were giving away for free not that many years ago Haven't either ads or paywalls/subscriptions always been the primary way that news companies paid for journalists/sysadmins/servers, etc? What was t
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Wait, then how do you expect the journalists, sysadmins, server bills, etc. to get paid without paywalls and ads?
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
I don't see it offhand in the newsguidelines page nor the submit page? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/submit Edit: It's in the newsfaq page https:&
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
I guess the idea is that such people strongly prefer seeing ads instead of a paywall?
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Is the idea that you strongly prefer seeing ads instead of paywalls?
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Are we talking a company rewording reporting that a different news company hired 1 or more journalists, etc. to originally report? And in this example, are the sites "free" because ads are enabled?
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Would the biggest impact of this be for things like news sources? I guess the idea is that ads are preferrable, as ads and paywalls seem to be two of the primary existing ways that such places support themselves (or don't)?
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
> People don’t like giving money to people who spend recklessly > spending wildly 1. Per the linked data in the GP comment, the US has the lowest spending of any of the major advanced economies in the world (fed + state + local)
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Article says "some" of the savings will go to customers, but does not explain why all of the savings would not go to customers once other airlines do this? As each company will have to compete, and just as today, airlines can&#x27
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
Yep - Pirates is "the first game to be called Sid Meier's Something or Other" - almost all of his subsequent games used that title scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier#Games
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
1. I'm generally against any countries "disappearing" anyone, including western countries - and my parent comment explicitly said that it happened to more than just billionaires - famous artists and actors were also disappear
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
1. In the US on that item, it's ~50/50 or whatever. 2. In China, aren't even the biggest business leaders, the most famous celebrities, etc. simply "disappeared" if they won't support the party-line? Or even be
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by no-name-here 2mo ago
I love that Meier's memoir is titled: " Sid Meier's Memoir! " (Although remapradio's login system isn't working for me - it uses a magic link, which brings me to a logged-in https://remap.memberful.c

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