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Perhaps you meant to read the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html about comments being kind, not snarky, and substantive.

The article describes the RSR algo which takes load into account.

Alternatively, AI-heavy companies are much more likely to be more agile growth-stage companies rather than large mature companies.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5 This is not hundreds of pages and it gets its own bold headline section.

That's because San Francisco subsidizes the rest of the state, PG&E is a state-wide utility. San Francisco is attempting to run its own utility, but is meeting resistance from PG&E…

For an article that starts off asking us to examine our assumptions and not make leaps of logic, it goes on to make some absolute whopper assumptions, like that governments (Wester…

A 100 dev team is going to cost on the order of $25m a year (keep in mind cost is not just their salary, but also the HR/Management org to support a team of that size, benefits, of…

Those people have proven very untrustworthy and are structurally unaccountable.

Some were pretty bad, but none were nearly that bad. The B-58 Hustler lost 22% of its airframes, the F7U Cutlass 25%, the F-104 Starfighter in German service lost 33%. And those we…

The quote is the wrong way of looking at this. The typical rate of successful primary challenges is only 3%. If you take that to 10% its an enormous success, incumbents will say "i…

The reason disposables are so popular in the US is the FDA banned any flavored cartridges, which doesn't include disposables. The immense battery waste is a direct result of a rela…

If the cars weren't considerably safer drivers than humans they wouldn't be allowed on the road. There isn't as much regulation blocking deploying this healthcare solution... until…

The wages aren't stable either. There's going to be gradual convergence.

There's no lobbying necessary, because FICO isn't a government agency, its a private company. Why we have a private company determining such an important thing with minimal governm…

I tend to agree with you, but without a structure to incentivize people to produce such material, less of it will be created. If people can't pay the bills by doing research or wri…

Yet the people that were apoplectic about Facebook voluntarily working with the government to combat covid misinformation are mysteriously silent.

LA Drivers aren't that bad, driving just is awful there because the amount of traffic. NYC Driving is an absolute pleasure compared to Miami driving. I have what should be an easy …

Flooding is absolutely an issue, during the rainy season (third of the year) localized flooding is quite common. Some streets are partially flooded on an almost daily basis, someth…

You can stay on twitter.

What this is really saying is that hardware is a necessary precondition for, but not determinative of, intelligence. If you have a human brain worth of neurons firing randomly you …

The President of the United States has sole nuclear launch authority. To stop him would either take the cabinet and VP invoking the 25th amendment and removing him from office, or …

If public ownership means we give one guy a button to end the world, I'm not sure how's that's a meaningful difference.

Suddenly there's no incentive to build in all areas.

It's the result of protectionist government policy. The policies are protectionist not just against foreign entry but also against entry of new products into the market. The govern…