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For me this was the biggest moat for Quora.

Back in the day, you could have someone who has a legitimate background in geopolitics chiming in a question and answering it with politeness and bringing sources for further in-depth reading.

And this was about in most of the categories of the site.

Looking at Quora now, I can see the same level of questions and answers as Yahoo Answers, but with the aggravation that you have "power responders" that use LLMs and lazy Wikipedia copy-pasting to chase clout in the platform.

I do not know the context of replacing content moderation, but I believe that was a not-so-good decision for the platform.

If Quora was a fountain service that serves water from several clean/reliable sources, the _only job_ that the platform should do is to ensure that people do not take a piss in the upstream water.
Is that not what they were? I didn't click any of them, but I assumed they were links the entire time.
Whenever I've run the numbers, a global power grid is much cheaper than the batteries needed for seasonal variations; the wibble factor being, as usual, politics.

Batteries themselves are cheaper over their lifetimes than fossil fuels. The wibble factor for that being quite how long battery lifetime is. This is a Vimes Boots type of failure, as it means the rich can afford to spend less money than the poor.

If there's a fair-priced market for mid-life batteries, and/or good financing available for packs that you want to keep around for a decade and may keep around for two decades before replacing, then this may help with batteries, but even then a grid is cheaper if you can do it (keep the batteries for mobile storage needs, which is mostly transport but also disaster relief).

Global power grid is only going to happen if very large governments do it deliberately; this may well happen for the same reason China did the Belt and Road Initiative, though a suitable capacity global grid would by itself be about the same sort of scale (in both time and money) as the entire Belt and Road Initiative.

Grids are also basically a requirement for cities: while one can put PV on the side of a skyscraper, this won't be suitable for every single person in every single apartment.
While the post you are replying to is completely wrong (as someone else pointed out they appear to never have heard of comprehensive or collision insurance), I think it's fair to have a debate about whether property damage liability should be capped on the roads.

That is, if I decide to drive a car where the bumper is made of Fabergé eggs, and someone dings my bumper, why should they have to pay me a couple million to replace my couple broken Fabergé eggs? Obviously that's a fake example, but is that really much different from having to pay extreme amounts to fix someone's Lamborghini or Bugatti? It seems more rational to me to conclude that people driving insanely expensive cars on public roads are taking ill-advised risks and should need to shoulder more of that risk.
til macports still exists
> It's not like there is anything country specific about connecting to wifi.

Yes there is. Each country has a lot of different laws and certifications necessary to operate radio equipment in the country.

> Why buy a pixel?

The odds of me going to Sri Lanka or pretty much any country affected by this is practically zero. Why would I base my purchase decision on something that's got like a 0.001% chance of ever affecting me instead of the myriad of other things that'll affect me every day?
You would have to compare them at the time. Things have changed. At the time Ian felt it didn’t do enough. Revisions and decades later it’s basically parity.
That reminds me of the Palantir Xmas party (2011), at some huge museum in Golden Gate Park (de Young or Asian Art, I forget :)
I've watched all of the videos on Ben Felix's channel and generally share his worldview. But I've been having some doubts about market efficiency and active investing being extremely hard.

There were 4 moments when I thought - I should buy this stock for some reason, e.g. after ChatGPT I thought about buying NVidia. But I decided to continue being a purely passive investor. Now I regret that decision because all of those stocks overperformed.

I also correctly guessed that 3 out of 4 stocks would underperform (TSLA was the wrong call). It seemed obvious that the market was dumb about GME, AMC and TLRY.

Sure, many active investors are extremely sophisticated but what if the average invested dollar is kind of stupid?

Also, one minor nitpick about Ben Felix's content is focus on historical statistics. I think this gives you a false sense of confidence and security.
I'm largely an exception, yes
Negative Thermal Expansion Based on a Phase Transition in the GdF3-TbF3 System
all three of those "Katie and her cat" stories are horrible. besides that none of them sound plausible, there is no substance in these stories that would make them useful to even present to children. they're just random events strung together. there's actually reasons humans write and tell stories beyond just sounding "like a story a human wrote".
You don’t have to “magically” know each other, you just have to know what the last name implies. What I’m saying is that knowledge is very locally specific.
Have you watched 60 minutes with Michael Lewis? He's openly defending SBF
Mandatory spending is still at congress's will. They can absolutely cut that money in the next years budget.
Part of the problem is how easy it is to logically and rationally convince yourself or others of something inaccurate, imprecise or just plain wrong.
Specifically until the chimney is hot enough. You can speed up the process though by using a fresh air intake for the stove rather than it using the air in the house.
What Makes an Inclusive Leader?
Estimating how much it costs to run greenfield systems – Thoughtworks
Force return to office in order to have those that are confident they'll find work elsewhere leave. Those who fear their incompetence will make moving difficult will be saddened and remain, compromising parts of their life and resenting the organisation for it.

How long? Probably about twice the half-life it takes to find a new role, clock starting at the point people believe it'll actually happen.

Some people actually like the office but they're back already. A RTO mandate thus affects those who don't want to go back.

Seems a moderately solid play to sabotage LinkedIn.
I've seen Stanford CS masters hard flunk leetcode-easy.
The headline includes plugin hybrids, which is an ICE vehicle unless driven purely from battery. Grouping then with BEVs can be misleading depending on what the data is used for.
I like that they reference the VT510 manual, if the terminal implements the more advanced control codes then individual applications can do their work without needing to rely on their own implementations of the needed functionality. I'm gonna give Vttest a whirl in Contour and if it does well I'll try daily driving it for a while.
>"people go batshit too."

Thank you for this observation.

LLM Learning from LLM -> Drift

Human on Human echo chamber -> batshit crazy.

I've often thought human echo chambers were their own phenomena. Something about the brain and tribalism from evolution.

I never thought of it in terms of AI training data.

As LLMs train on data produced by other LLMs, they will drift.

And this drifting is the same phenomena as when humans get in an echo chamber. If each person hears what the others are saying, and spits it out in some form, and the others hear it, and also spit it back out in some form, this turns into a drifting in understanding just like an LLM. ("idea telephone game")

Technically, it isn't just in echo chambers. It is all humans, at a lot of different scales, from small to large groups. Countries, and cultures are echo chambers at larger scales.

Like how the concepts in philosophy, as they become more abstract, they kind of twist back on themselves, and become re-invented. And as they get more abstract get accused of just 'playing with words'. Just like an LLM can just 'play with words'?

The difference is eventually humans have to relate to 'real objects'.

So even if the word for 'apple' drifts over time and between groups, eventually you can still relate the words back to the real 'apple'.

Humans are grounded in the reality of 'objects' in space.

But. I tend to think this is temporary. As LLM's are linked to things like AlphaGo, and drone flight systems. They will also have to deal with real 'objects'. Maybe that will then lead to more grounded reasoning.
Ineffective managers are everywhere and hide in the open. They blow through KPI after KPI and are tolerated. They walk away from projects just before the fires are revealed and fail upwards. I don't think RTO has anything to do with it. RTO is a push by insecure micromanagers who are so ineffectual at their jobs that seeing butts in seats is the best metric they have for effectiveness.
Let's run the numbers -

Americans used 135B gallons of gas in 2022. Going to ignore diesels for now.
Average MPG of a car is 25. 135*25 = 3.3T miles.
Teslas get 26 kWh per 100 miles, or about 1/4 kW per mile
3.3T miles / 4 = ~825B kWh = 825TWh or 2.815 quadrillion BTU

I sadly have to run and can't make heads nor tails out of the link posted for US energy usage - but at least we know what goes on one side of the equation now.
Rather, the answer (as always) is carbon tax.
Lighter-Swift/PerformanceTestSuite (2022)
> Someone not understanding what they're buying when the information is all publicly available doesn't make it a scam.

Literally the entire basis of free market ideology is the notion that buyers and sellers operate on an equal footing and a presumption of good faith can be assumed, or at least, that's how it's been sold historically. So, so much of crypto is just outright lies. The notion that every member of a project, for instance, can all walk away rich is at face value a lie: because crypto cannot create wealth, merely move it, the people who cash out big on top can only do that because so many others have bought in on the bottom. It's just a techy retooling of a bigger fool's scam: you can only make money on the asset you've bought by finding a buyer to buy it at a higher price later. The only way you can conceptualize these things as a store of value is to presume an infinite chain of bigger fools ready to buy it at an ever increasing price, ad infinitum. Or, if you prefer to operate in reality, there will eventually be a bag holder, someone who holds something that is now worthless and cannot sell it.

Like, for example, all the people who hold Ethereum Classic, which is probably why it's worth a tenth what Ethereum is: because the principles of this technology don't fucking matter, what matters is the traction the coin has with the investor class, and the people who are in this to make money (which is the vast, vast majority of them) are going to follow the chains that the big stakeholders go to.

> Again, a scam implies someone being "misled". If you buy some ecstasy and its laced with fentanyl, you were scammed (to say the least). If you buy ecstasy and you get ecstasy, you were not scammed as you got exactly what you asked for.

And this again is exactly the attitude I absolutely loathe in the tech space. This notion that if you aren't smart enough or knowledgeable enough to see the bad shit coming, if you, by your very basic human nature can be taken advantage of by someone who knows more, than you apparently deserve to be. Buyer beware.

That attitude sucks ass. If the crypto guys were really about changing the world for the better, they would be building a financial system that is, yes, detached from the current, highly biased and corrupting one that is rife with problems, and on-boarding people with education. With understanding of the underlying tech, imparting knowledge about the failings and foibles of the systems they're replacing, and showing a new, better version, decoupled from the corrupting influences of governments they claim render fiat unusable. That's NOT what they've done here. They have not built a replacement financial system, they built a near exact copy of the current one, minus all manner of consumer protections, any insurance of value, with a singular goal: to recreate the structural inequities of the old system, with them on top. That's fucking it. That is the entire difference between fiat and crypto.
Is anyone else facing it?
If anyone likes the aesthetic of the watch face, you can buy a design for your wrist:

* https://mondaine.com

Apple (potentially) copied (?) the design in 2012 and there was a bit of drama about it and they ended up cutting a cheque:

* https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/21/3367216/apple-sbb-mondain...

* https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/time-is-money-apple-...
Not only that, but half of the paragraphs reference at least one social justice trope, including, ironically, redlining, which supposedly disproportionately urbanized minority populations by keeping them out of newer suburban developments--but those newer suburban developments were inherently less walkable, weren't they? https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...
It will likely follow the standard S curve. Slow adoption up to ~20%, rapid adoption from 20-80%, then slow adoption from 80-100%.
DREAMM is a bespoke emulator for LucasArts games
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
Yeah, that and sometimes the WSL session takes forever to boot up (a good 10+ seconds for the first time, for me).

Once it's working it's fantastic. I don't know what it is with MacOS, unless they're subtly animating keypresses or something. Linux is as responsive as Windows is too. It's a wired keyboard so nothing to do with bluetooth.
It's literally right here: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

100.4q BTU total US energy usage.

37.8q BTU electricity (~37% or ~18% depending on how you count loss).

27.5q BTU transportation (~27% OR ~36% depending on how you count loss).

You're assuming that ~60% of NEW electric generation will come from fossil fuels. We won't have a ~60% loss in electric generation from solar & wind - which is currently ~90% of NEW generation. In 5 years, coal & natural gas will likely drop to ~0% of NEW generation.
Renormalization is all about this symmetric partitioning.
Your article is more about the economics of using a language, while Evan’s talk is about the economics of developing a language.

Your choice of examples also dates you as being roughly 20 years older than Evan. ;)
My argument is basically this. It is a misuse of git.

The author wants to eliminate state, so they suggest using git because as it turns out... you do need state.

But the author didn't eliminate state at all, they just eliminated a seperate statefile. If that's what bothered them, then sure, the problem is solved. But now you are using version control as state and those don't always line up. If you only work linearly then it is perfect. But what happens when you need to start tracking a pre-existing resource? You have to import it into git history somehow.

Back to your point, you really should not be modifying git history at all. There are tools to do so, but anytime you modify git history it is technically a mis-use of git. There are side-effects of doing so, especially when working on a large distributed team.

Basically the author trades one minor problem for many major problems.
Show HN: Focus-time, a tool to trigger your OS Focus Mode based on your calendar
focus-time is a CLI tool for macOS and Windows that triggers your desktop OS's Focus Mode feature (and other arbitrary shell commands), based on blocker events you defined in your calendar.

Without this tool, I would always have to _manually_ stop (and restart) programs during planned focus periods, or trigger the focus (assist) mode on and off manually.

See this blog post for more details and background: https://www.augmentedmind.de/2023/10/08/focus-tools-focus-ti...
A comet explosion may have started agriculture in Syria 12,800 years ago
the ways you can (short term) kill yourself by doing indoor wood (or pallet) burning wrong are quite many and even in countries which relative strict regulations when it comes to chimes and similar deaths by it aren't that rare

if something can kill you just because you used it somewhat wrong it it's somewhat broken in some aspect of ventilation you probably should assume that even a more correct long term usage might have a good chance to have serve long term negative health effects
> before systemd negatively affected the quality of Debian

Is there any publication quantifying this?

I followed the whole debacle with interest, and my personal experience with my servers was the exact opposite: adopting systemd improved reliability and made administration significantly easier. It's sad that this was politicized by a small part of the community, but the end result was worth it.
It's like the US constitution and the bill of rights. Everything in the bill of rights is technically redundant and covered by principles already expressed in general form in the main constitution.

And yet that isn't actually good enough. Those general principles, being general rather than specific, require the key word, interpretation, in each new specific context. And different people with different goals can and do always ALWAYS warp interpretation in infinite ways that are all perfectly reasonable sounding on their face, and yet someone else can always produce a totally different interpretation, which also holds together.
Big companies like ÖBB can get their power through long-lasting power purchase agreements from renewable energy producers.
Zig is a really interesting case... it seems Andrew Kelly has been able to get from a small Patreon donation model to support his own modest salary, to a Foundation that is sponsored by several big names and has enough funds to pay several people to work on Zig full time.

I've watched Elm for many years from a distance, and I think that with a little more "social skills", Evan could've probably done the same as Elm had quite a lot of hype a few years ago... notice that even though Andrew may be a bit more charismatic (though I find Evan really nice too) he also has a bit of a hardline regarding features, specially requests by sponsors are not treated specially in any way - there's a talk from an Uber employee where he mention that after getting Uber to sponsor Zig, they asked about some issues they'd created and were told very, very clearly that sponsorships don't come with "perks" like having your issues given priority!
$128 per month fixed charge for having a grid tie and not using it is also expensive. This income-graduated fixed charge surely pushes the break even point towards going off grid.
Total energy consumption in the US is 100.4q BTU currently.

Current electricity generation is 37.8q BTU.

It depends how much energy is lost in generating electricity.

Since >90% of NEW generation currently comes from solar & wind - the loss will be minimal compared to current methods (coal & natural gas with an average loss >50%).

I'm assuming that by the time electric vehicle adoption picks up close to ~0% of NEW generation will come from coal or natural gas.

If we would continue to generate ~60% of electric from fossil fuels - it's maybe a net negative trade to move them to electric. But in 15 years - the grid will be <30% fossil fuels, and in 30 it will be close to 0.
For me, if it need to manually tracked then I will absolutely forget or stop using it because too lazy. Unless you need to track for getting paid or something important.

The website looks clean though, good work!

If you only want to track what are you doing in your laptop or PC, I recommend activitywatch [1], it can detect when AFK and what app or web we open. I only run and forget it and check it later when I want to know what I'm doing this week/month. It's open source and I'm not affiliated with it, just a happy user.

[1] https://activitywatch.net/
Checkout this tweet https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1706545305762582580 by Yan LeCun.

"Parameters are coefficients inside the model that are adjusted by the training procedure. The dataset is what you train the model on. Language models are trained with tokens that are subword units (e.g. prefix, root, suffix)."

His comment on GPT-4 parameters count

"Also: a model with more parameters is not necessarily better. It's generally more expensive to run and requires more RAM than a single GPU card can have.
GPT-4 is rumored to be a "mixture of experts", i.e. a neural net consisting of multiple specialized modules, only one of which is run on any particular prompt. So the effective number of parameters used at any one time is smaller than the total number."
I would hope that in some point in the future people would stop caring about how much/far their posts were shared. The "social graph" is a polluted concept that ad-fetishists at Facebook came up with to try to track and monetise all our contacts online. That we still get some sick thrill out of using it as an internal metric to gauge our self-worth is something that should be stamped out with all haste.
> If we lived in a world where money wasn't so important...

Money being important is not part of the world, it's part of you. You even say so a few lines later:

> ... I don't want to work forever.

So yes, you indeed have no choice but to treat money as important because... you've chosen to treat money as important.

I'm offering this in the hopes that you can stand back and look at your need from a distance. What are other ways to satisfy this need without you writing useless software _and_ without money being the main constraint? Get creative!
I can't speak for OP, but these days a lot of conversation about efficiency and green is considered "woke", so it can be categorically dismissed without even considering the truth of things.
Hydrofoils have been exploding in popularity in watersports. It used to be seen as a thing to do on light wind days, because it lets you go faster than the board usually limits you if you can't get hydroplaning. Hydroplaning takes a lot more wind power than hydrofoiling.

But, they've been pushing the windsurf gear to 40kts on hydrofoils. That's without adjustable control surfaces like these boats, just steering with body weight and sail trim. I personally have gone 23kts or so and it feels much much faster than when you're on a fin, and you are constantly moving your weight to keep from slapping the water or getting too high for the foil then crashing.
Obesity rate in the US is double the EU's. There's no way to overcome that.
Mm, indeed.

Given the usual intention of "how green are we?", I would suggest counting them as 80% of a "real" EV, for the same reason that I give when the discussion turns to putting PV cells physically on a car[0]: most driving is short trips where this is fine, and the longer trips, while they absolutely exist, are less common.

[0] though with different underlying causes that means this is coincidentally 80% and they may diverge
I think it'll exhibit more as a slowdown in ICE sales than a speedup in EV sales. The people who buy a new car every 3 years are mostly unaffected, but anybody who buys a new car planning on keeping it for 5 - 10+ years is likely to be questioning their decision. Choosing between EV and ICE is hard, there's lots of FUD on both sides, so the easiest decision is not to choose, to keep their current vehicle longer, to buy used instead of new, et cetera.
You can literally make up a language yourself and get ChatGPT to talk in it. Sure I can't prove that I didn't just make up a language that someone in the trainingset also made up exactly the same way. But that just seems incredibly unlikely.
True, I've done that for some projects. With the crazy schedules though, it can be tough to coordinate for routine chores.
You could take solace in this part from the end, maybe?

“Ironically, perhaps, it is AI, for all it’s threats, that will offer the best chance for a solution to itself. And, it is to be hoped, to the climate apocalypse, too.”