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chewbacha

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    Comment #49208540

    Parts of the world are literally on fire but the US is redirecting money to halt renewables and towards gas. The demand for energy is higher than ever due to AI data centers, but I…

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    Comment #49063928

    Must… Build… More… Datacenters… But seriously, hacker news routinely denies the obvious when it comes to climate crisis.

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    Comment #49063575

    I’m sure if we build a few more AI data centers the world will cool down and we’ll stop having all these fires. Just a few more GPUs ought to fix it.

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    Comment #49061375

    Yes, atmospheric rivers all winter. Next year a super bloom then the following year massive wild fires. rain -> fuel -> fire

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    Comment #49060606

    I believe it’s mostly due to closeness to the work and actually turning the problem over in my mind. When I use an LLM to code much of the context is lost and my understanding of t…

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    Comment #49058093

    The issue would be that LLMs seem to not improve senior devs productivity. In which case what you are saying is “we shouldn’t use LLMs” Which I happen to agree with.

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    Comment #49057922

    Big caveat to the productivity claim is that it’s concentrated in lesser experienced engineers and vanishes or goes negative with highly experienced engineers. This intuitively mak…

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    Comment #49052727

    Pretty that’s just not true. Sodium ion batteries are less energy dense than lithium ion and are not prone to dendrite formation. They are also more thermally stable and less likel…

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    Comment #48830573

    This sounds like Claude apologizing for making a CRM. What actually happened???

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    Comment #48770560

    I did this for two weeks on a side project and still ended up in a situation where I did not have a mental model of the codebase. There’s no way build that model without building i…

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    Comment #48753302

    Looks like AI slop marketing, feels like a scam.

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    Comment #48513263

    Would not surprise me if Anthropic wanted this to avoid the inference costs of running the latest frontier models. It also is a good PR for them because it continues to doomer hype…

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    Comment #48399235

    Crypto investors are migrated to the newest unregulated speculative asset: the stock market. I don’t know for certain but the amount of retail investing on vibes around AI companie…

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    Comment #48378427

    My best guess is that Gemini was trained on the textbooks that the questions are meant to test against, thus they are probably better at explicit recall of those questions or relat…

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    Comment #48048466

    They all are but generally difficult. Andes strain is more transmissible but has only been shown to have one super spreader event previously.

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    Comment #47789111

    My immediate first thought is if the XKCD standards comic https://xkcd.com/927/

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    Comment #47646159

    Well then, I won’t be a paying customer then.

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    Comment #47544036

    You mean Google Chaos Services as we call them?

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    Comment #47481285

    This read like an AI generated piece and seems to be an advertisement for their product.

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    Comment #47473270

    Well, now it might.

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    Comment #47473255

    Actually, yea, I do a lot of mental calculations to avoid losing my edge on thinking about numbers. I avoid gps navigators for similar reasons. But the analogy doesn’t actually hol…

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    Comment #47438526

    Totally! I intended to imply that hypocrisy :)

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    Comment #47437959

    Jake Tapper was on the case… against Biden.