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The challenge is timing. Power is a relatively low share of the cost of a modern data center, but the length of time it takes for approvals and construction for solar means it woul…

The problem is that I don't know before I read a doc whether or not it will be useful and valuable. If someone wants me to spend my time and attention on something they have shared…

"profitable on inference" means "marginal costs of inference are lower than revenue". It is very common to distinguish between upfront costs vs. marginal costs when judging the eco…

There's been a huge amount of improvement in coding agent effectiveness since they ran that experiment. In a more recent follow up experiment, METR found 20% speed up from AI assis…

You can use the "cameo" feature only with users who have gone through the cameo creation flow. Sama has an account and created a cameo likeness of himself. When you create your cam…

That's hiring for a role buying ads, not selling ads. i.e. this is ChatGPT buying ads on other platforms to promote ChatGPT.

Yes they do: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ljery5/gemini_just...

The Clayton act explicitly includes partial acquisition as still being covered. "No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indi…

It might reduce scrutiny, but not completely prevent it. Clayton act says "No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly…

Depends on where you live. The average in San Francisco is $0.29 per kWh.

These drugs (mostly) don't allow you to eat more unhealthy food, instead they make it easier to have the self control to avoid over eating / choose healthier foods.

Iron Gall ink was used on both the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. It can last for many centuries, unfortunately it can fade if exposed to strong sunlight, which i…

The profit maximizing price after a 30% cut `q(price) * (price - 30% price)` is not the same as the profit maximizing price without that cut `q(price) price`. As long as the demand…

This is why targeted advertising is so much more effective than un-targeted. On Facebook/Instagram I frequently see ads for products I was not aware of that are relevant to my inte…

If you prefer dplyr syntax you can use https://tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/

I haven't run into any friction for (1), since worst case you just call `.to_pandas()` at the end of your pipeline before you start plotting. For any plotting apis that rely on the…

For (2) I like to do: 1. `from polars import col` which at least shortens each use by a few characters 2. For columns that I use very frequently, define a "constant" for them e.g. …

You don't 'need' tracking for ads, but it has a huge impact on the the amount of revenue per impression the ads will generate, because tracking enables you to show ads to the peopl…

If you had a system that was (a) oriented towards achieving some goal and (b) understood the world it was operating in, then allowing someone to "pull the plug" would interfere wit…

They key is that it is a tax on the value of the land not the size, so large plots of land would face a much smaller tax per acre compared to prime real estate in a city. It is tru…

I don't understand how you think that building up defensive capabilities is provoking war. Making the cost of invading higher makes it less likely the PRC will try to invade. The U…

Looks like she was wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116

Looks like her claim was in fact false: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116

I'm pretty sure the author is misinterpreting what she saw. Here is a thing that Google does do: The user searches for "children's clothing". An advertiser has created a search ad …

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. The "main" training step using huge amounts of inputs is called pre-training. The idea is that after that pre-training, you might…