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by salynchnew 1y ago
I'm still surprised no billionaire has latched onto this as their passion project. This book outlined a whole space colonization effort from soup to nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project
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by salynchnew 2y ago
This is the issue. A lot of hydocarbons can still be produced without extracting them from rocks miles under the ground, poisoning the water supply, or any of the externalities of runaway global warming. The trick is leveraging insanely che
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by salynchnew 2y ago
One reason so many people are amenable to the copyright argument is at least partly because of these counterarguments that posit that every writer must be an elitist or fabulously wealthy vs. instead of someone who spent X years toiling awa
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Yes, but the piece is specifically composed to be played "as slowly as possible" fwiw.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
I am so happy that this is in my HN feed today. I wish there was more stuff like this, both in my feed and in the world.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Being American right now makes this whole episode feel like a 1950s McCarthyism/Qian Xuesen-type situation. Maybe another xenophobic red scare-type U.S. gov't overreaction will inadvertently export top talent to China a second tim
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Most obvious tell of the former/current Stripe employee, imho.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
This is the kind of twee, midwestern robotics research that we all need today.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
If walking down to the corner shop is considered a "journey" then 2% of all journeys being made by train is a massive number.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
There are mostly end-runs around regulations or taxes for small groups of people, so putting them into a small geographic area makes sense (at least for the folks who will benefit). I'd also bet that in many cases, it's easier for
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Yeah, I thought it'd be a cold day in hell before I saw the FBI going after Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Link to the CNN segment that this story was based on: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/us/video/hartford-school-dist...
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by salynchnew 2y ago
I think there obviously would be a large scale effort to taint the AI. It's obvious why anyone with sufficient resrouces would want to do this, given that AI is rapidly replacing traditional search & we all know the history of SEO,
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Also interesting to see that parts of the training infrastructure to create frontier models is itself being monetized.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
LOL. https://lobste.rs/s/eluli7/botfly_test_characterizing_parasi...
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by salynchnew 2y ago
I don't go in for most conspiracy theories, but there is this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba... (second half of the article)
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Fundamentally, just one update to the protocol (becuase code kind of is actually law, insofar that code is overseen by a group of humans capable of collective action and coordination around documentation and if-then statements) will circu
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by salynchnew 2y ago
User "timewizard" should note that the date of reporting for this law was still in the future when the law was effectively killed.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
We can also just build more solar, and then the need for 90% of this just goes away. Why not just use the DEEP ideas and tech for pumped solar energy storage?
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Correct arguments all around re: utility scale solar, but the incentives for an individual farmer to immediately adopt are huge: local generation makes power cheap, shading makes water use more efficient, etc. Obviously there is a capital c
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Why wouldn't this remote cabin be better off with wind or solar?
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by salynchnew 2y ago
I was wondering what the training dataset looked like, and I'm very surprised that they're not using BIM data... although after living with an architect for 20 years, I think there's a joke in here somewhere about contractors
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by salynchnew 2y ago
I know people hate electric-ICE combos, but charging at home for next to nothing, running 90% of local trips on battery only, and not having any charging downtime if we go somewhere that hasn't caught up with EV charging is pretty nice
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by salynchnew 2y ago
100%. The CPUC is a government entity and can technically dictate power prices. Unfortunately, state engergy conglomerates are very good at regulatory capture.
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Daniel Rock has done some interesting work on the ROI of AI in general (also, I believe two of his papers are referenced in this study). Note that this doesn't explicitly restrict itself to covering LLMs, but... still a very interestin
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Honestly, DOGE seems like a disingenuous enterprise simply based on the fact that they are not starting with the DoD. Defense contractors simply couldn't stop accidentally electricuting people in warzones[0, 1]. They have had a major n
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by salynchnew 2y ago
While I agree and generally feel the same way, I think it is worth mentioning that the "war for attention" is an existential issue for most online publications these days. The clickbait headlines are used specifically because it m
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by salynchnew 2y ago
The generous hypothesis, here, is that this is so they can automate the benchmarking itself. If that is true, then this is likely a result of the test authors being too clever for their own good and over-optimizing. If an LLM can't fig
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by salynchnew 2y ago
Given the number of ultrarich and powerful people that already hate the Hindenberg folks... my guess would be that there is some calculus here about the incoming U.S. presidential administration's enmity towards whistleblowers and thei
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by salynchnew 2y ago
One interesting part of this is a small number of companies will post multiple job listings with different locations listed for a single open headcount, to get maximum expsosure on Indeed and LinkedIn (both of which have some sense of geo-b

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