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by pingou 7mo ago
Yann LeCun said a number of things that are very dubious, like autoregressive LLMs are a dead end, LLMs do not have an internal world model, and this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFi1TPiB058 (in french) that an I
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by pingou 7mo ago
I think the main point was to flatten the curve, as hospitals were overloaded. Masks (at least the better ones) did reduce the likelihood of getting covid, and people didn't have the antibodies they have now.
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by pingou 7mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204784
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by pingou 7mo ago
What was your point? My point is that if more people were vegan there would be less deforestation. Instead of eating the beef that eats the soy, you eat the soy directly, which is much more efficient. It's unclear if you think it'
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by pingou 7mo ago
If AI energy usage continues to grow and grow until it reaches the majority of electricity consumption, we could imagine a specific tax on AI companies, with private households getting electricity for free (to a certain point).
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Americans' electricity bills are up. Don't blame AI(economist.com)
6 points by pingou 7mo ago|1 comments
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by pingou 7mo ago
You must have been misinformed, they tear down forests to grow soya to use as feedstock (mostly for beef). Nothing to do with fake meat tofu, quite the opposite actually.
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by pingou 7mo ago
Am I correct that if you earn less than a million dollar a year and wish to continue using Google services it changes nothing? You will pay 10% service fee + 5% billing fee, the same as the old 15% fee?
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by pingou 7mo ago
I would say mastering the art of talking to anyone includes having a good mental model of what the other person thinks or how they would react. It can be delightful to be surprised, but if you are surprised all the time then I would say som
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by pingou 7mo ago
This is quite entertaining and I'm glad there are people like you, but you didn't even think it would be inappropriate to comment on a naked picture that someone receives in a private conversation? I don't even think you were
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by pingou 8mo ago
But in the article they talk about manipulating users devices to do a DDOS, not scrape websites. And the user going to the archive website is probably not gonna have a subscription, and anyway I'm not sure that simply visiting archive.
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by pingou 8mo ago
But don't news websites check for ip addresses to make sure they really are from Google bots?
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by pingou 8mo ago
But how do they bypass the paywall? They can't just pretend to be Google by changing the user-agent, this wouldn't work all the time, as some websites also check IPs, and others don't even show the full content to Google. The
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by pingou 8mo ago
Is OnlyFans spending also correlated with lower education (when adjusting for income)?
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by pingou 8mo ago
Or eat mussels. Yes I am aware that this is not vegan, but it is hard to think that they would be a lot more conscious than plants, and they are sustainable and clean up the water. I consider myself vegan (although I guess I'm technica
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by pingou 8mo ago
Pretty cool, although it's polluting so hopefully it wouldn't become too popular (probably not). "And because such diminutive payloads don’t pose a danger to aircraft" even though they are small and wouldn't make a
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by pingou 9mo ago
Why is the maple leaf so commonly used? To mean autumn? Leaves in general? Canadians?
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by pingou 9mo ago
What about renewables + battery storage? Does it take much longer to build? I can imagine getting a permit can take quite a long time, but what takes so long to set up solar panels and link them to batteries, without even having to connect
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by pingou 10mo ago
This is interesting but there isn't any battery breakthrough here, and I don't think many people would accept losing cargo capacity/passenger seats and potentially safety features just to be able to charge every 800 km instea
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by pingou 11mo ago
What causes the improvements in new AI models recently? Is it just more training, or is it new, innovative techniques?
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by pingou 11mo ago
But of course the countries who would have to pay are precisely the ones that will never sign on that.
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Geothermal's Time Has Come(economist.com)
22 points by pingou 11mo ago|27 comments
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A new industry of AI companions is emerging(economist.com)
1 points by pingou 11mo ago|0 comments
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by pingou 11mo ago
The average emissions for a car is 4.6 tons of co2. The average carbon intensity of U.S. electricity generation is around 384 grams of co2 per kWh. 1230000 * 0.384 / 1000 = 472 tons. But 185000 cars emit 851000 tons so 500 tons is like
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by pingou 11mo ago
We have a similar law in France. Something is unclear to me though: "build a conceptually similar, 657 kW solar carport system across 12 parking lots (shown, above) that delivers more than 1.23 million kWh of clean, emissions-free powe
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Gang suspected of sending up to 40k stolen UK phones to China(bbc.com)
4 points by pingou 1y ago|0 comments
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Renewables Overtook Coal in 2025(ember-energy.org)
4 points by pingou 1y ago|1 comments
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by pingou 1y ago
As a developer, is there a way on mac to limit npm file access to the specific project? So that if you install a compromised package it cannot access any data outside of your project directory?
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by pingou 1y ago
I wonder why they didn't add something more nefarious that can run on developers machines while they were at it, would it have been too easy to see? It was caught very quickly anyway.
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by pingou 1y ago
If it really grows that much and households then consume a small fraction of the generated electricity, it would be easy to tax the electricity generated for AI and just make it free for household consumers.

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