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It didn’t create a level playing field, it just discouraged a very specific type of R&D while ignoring all others. All other types of employee salaries follow certain rules and som…

The existing system is already corrupt so I don’t think that hypothetical is helpful here. The process by which contracts are awarded is already unfair and biased towards certain p…

Sidestepping the corruption piece, which is a huge problem here to be clear, my understanding is that SpaceX has promised to provide starlink antennas at no cost to be used in comm…

Bans from planes are already arbitrary and capricious, so I don’t think changing which arbitrary power is responsible really makes a difference here. Look at all the news articles …

> They could do a shitty job and keep the contract, so why would they bother to do well? I think this is probably the key piece I didn’t consider. SpaceX’s previous work was done u…

While I don’t like the way it is handled, I’m going to be a contrarian here and say this could be a good thing. Previously, the contract was awarded to Verizon at the same price. I…

I’d argue digital ads kill people just via indirect means. Think of all the “dangerous” ads - fast food, alcohol, weight loss and plastic surgery, unnecessary medications, even gun…

Your product hunt link is scheduled to go live on Feb 1st, not Jan 2nd.

In the USA it is public record which in practice means anyone with money can get the record. This is potentially a large part of the high US recidivism. Once you have been convicte…

You’re totally right … should’ve thought that one through more.

Diffusion models are a different architecture, namely, a recursive or iterative one. Transformer models are not recursive or iterative.

That is incorrect. Somewhere in the order of 90% of US nat gas is shale gas/fracking related. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/where-our-na...

Most natural gas in the U.S. comes as a byproduct of fracking oil, which imo is worse than coal as reserve power because you have to maintain fracking sites and usually pump a fair…

Totally fair and I agree. But what about between now and eventually? Eventually renewables will be all we use and eventually fossil fuels will no longer be needed. But between now …

I think the counter argument is that renewables are never going to replace coal/oil/gas completely as there will always be the boogey man of “what if there is no wind/sun”. Having …

> I would suggest that relying on one power source is painting yourself into a corner and then drinking the paint. You’re aware that that is exactly what the GP poster was arguing …

I think that’s an energy conversion for petrol vehicles.

And you probably could have said the same thing about Google 25 years ago when altavista and yahoo were around. What ended up happening was a complete dominance on web search for G…

At a purely technical level, no, as long as the model can output a null token. E.g. imagine training using a transcript of two people talking. What would be a single text token is …

Lease is already a near perfect term for this. It describes a long term rental and everyone knows what it means.

I think the interesting (and scientifically unanswered) question here is: what is the minimum amount of a neuron needed for information processing alone? If we look at the other si…

If inflation is 60% and interest is only 40 percent, wouldn’t everyone be running to the bank to get a loan and buy stuff, knowing the loan will be devalued significantly?

What’s the source on this?

On the other hand, 50 calories x 365 days a year x 20 years x 5,000 calories per lb of weight = 75 lb of additional weight. > Increases in activity tend to drive increases in hunge…