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If consumers paid close to wholesale rates for their home energy they would be highly incentivized to do these sorts of things: they'd pay almost nothing (or maybe even less than n…

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I'm curious, what actually happens when you're fined some comically large amount of money? Do you just immediately declare bankruptcy and let the courts carve up your assets? Is th…

Doesn't make much sense to compare a model that's not fine tuned to flan models that are fine tuned. Makes more sense to compare to something like T5 base where it's probably a lot…

My (John McDonnell) conversation with Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht are the Co-founders of Generally Intelligent. We talked about the state of reinforcement learning and what the fi…

My (John McDonnell) conversation with Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht are the Co-founders of Generally Intelligent. We got into the state of reinforcement learning and what the field …

Author here, yeah I agree the real world is very complicated. For any given task I'm imagining something like 1. Use some sort of instruction tuning to get the thing "good enough" …

Selling online without negotiated price is a big change. That should make the dealerships really uncomfortable in the long run… he's kind of saying "oh the dealerships could rent o…

I keep hearing this business about the US being a reserve currency and it makes no sense. First off, lots of other currencies are valuable without being reserve currencies. Swiss f…

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This is such an annoying argument. The government gave $18B to the SLS and so far has vapor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System The government spent $211B on the shu…

7% is a low interest rate for an unsecured small business loan. I'm not 100% sure what the FRED chart you cited means by "Effective Loan Rate for Small Business Administration" but…

To actually answer your questions: - Noise means you can't do US domestic They don't seem to be targeting this. - Concorde didn't have the range for Pacific They do seem to be atte…

Not sure where indeed is getting their numbers, but I can assure you levels.fyi are well calibrated. Glassdoor also has weirdly low estimated salaries.

Classic to see the correct take get downvoted. If anyone's interested in actually learning about the causes of mass incarceration, I'd strongly recommend John Pfaff's _Locked In_: …

Lockups typically do not allow any sort of options trading.

Isn't this fiscal conservatism? Spending <= Income?

Not to mention that the beneficiaries are by definition college educated, meaning they are currently or will in the future be among the highest income groups in the country!

…and they are obsessed because _voters_ are.

> Even though rooftop solar might not be the most economical solution to reduce greenhouse gas footprints, I would argue it's very effective. Inefficient and expensive systems can …

I can see you have a lot of interesting ideas, and I think people should be allowed to make developments like what you're describing, but I can't imagine how you justify requiring …

Why would we not just let the market for parking determine how much parking to build? My wife and I live in San Francisco, don't have a car, don't have a garage. Are you saying I s…

I'm pretty sure Andy Rubin's Essential Phone predates the iPhone notch. Odd that the Verge didn't mention it in the article. https://www.essential.com/ …also, regardless of who inv…