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mr_00ff00on UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction

Sure much you will end up with more energy consumed. If it’s a free ration, almost everyone will consume all that they are given up to the limit.

Under the current system, when energy becomes hard to produce or more people need it, rising prices means people will reduce. So pricing for cost of financing, sure, but it might be a higher cost because people will consume more.

mr_00ff00on UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction

Can you give an example of a better method?

The one that I can think of is the government sets the amount of electricity produced, and then it’s rationed. But I doubt the UK would be happy with rationed electricity where your power shuts off the second it’s over. That would be essentially mandatory blackouts all the time.

Not to mention the cost would be held by the government, so you end up paying it in taxes anyway.

mr_00ff00on 73% People Detained by ICE Have No Convictions

A common agreement I hear is “illegals/criminals shouldn’t get a trial” as if the point of trials isn’t to figure who is and isn’t genuinely those things.

mr_00ff00on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

Cloudflare is talking about Italian law and Italian policy and making comments about his actions they will take in Italy with Italian users specifically.

“Italian here” as in “I am not a random person with no skin in the game / I live in the country and presumably am more well informed on the policy he is talking about.

If there was a post about a law in nyc, I think it would be helpful to hear takes from New Yorkers.

mr_00ff00on The C3 Programming Language

Anyone use zig vs C3? Seems like a lot of overlap, curious about people’s experiences with both

mr_00ff00on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

Not doubting you, but any specific examples of him supporting monopoly?

Or are you saying the general environment of high finance supports this?

No doubt he had more money than he needed but if this is referring to his preference for coka-cola and apple stock / any stocks with the ability to set their own prices because of market dominance, I feel like that’s not a totally fair criticism.

mr_00ff00on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

Those examples were simple, so it’s less of an issue, but if the words you use are so crazy that the reader has to read slower or has to stop to think about what you mean…then you aren’t making things more concise even if you are using less words.

mr_00ff00on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

Feel like this debate might be way different for novel writing vs every day writing.

I’m biased because I am not a very good writer, but I can see why in a book you might want to hint at how someone walked up to someone else to illustrate a point.

When writing articles to inform people, technical docs, or even just letters, don’t use big vocabulary to hint at ideas. Just spell it out literally.

Any other way of writing feels like you are trying to be fancy just for the sake of seeming smart.

mr_00ff00on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

What is a pre-training run?

mr_00ff00on Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk

Would current collapse make more than just Northern Europe colder? Or maybe they would be warmer?

They seem to suggest only certain northern countries would be affected because warm water stops flowing from the south.

So the southern waters would stay hotter right? Or what about across the Atlantic where the currents do the opposite (and make the winters so cold). Would Boston and New York get more temperate?

mr_00ff00on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030

Sure and I’m sure there would be a huge shock, but simple economics would dictate that if that’s the true equilibrium of price for LLMs to be economical, then it would have to get to the price eventually

mr_00ff00on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

Fair point, I was incorrect on the exact stat. But it is still very very high for legal prescriptions in the article compared to general populous.

mr_00ff00on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030

I don’t know if this is ridiculous, but I’m curious if access to LLMs will one day be priced like the Bloomberg Terminal or something. Where access for one user is like 20,000 dollars. Maybe less than that, but like 5k per person.

Seems crazy by most software standards, but when Bloomberg became a software only program (they stopped selling physical terminals) and people were shocked when they paid almost nothing for excel but then so much for the second tool they needed as traders.

Yet it still is priced so high and people pay.

mr_00ff00on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna95111

1 out of every 5 Ivy League students is prescribed stimulants.

I think it’s time we stop pretending like prescriptions magically mean the substance isn’t abused or is truly needed.

mr_00ff00on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

“non-addictive at prescribed doses”

Less likely to be addictive, definitely not non-addictive.

https://talbottcampus.com/resources/how-adderall-addiction-s...

This has the same energy as the common incorrect statement “marijuana isn’t addictive”. I assume made by frequent users who want to downplay negatives.

mr_00ff00on Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk

The winters will get worse but also it would cause a new ice age?

Something seems off about saying these two things as if they mean the same thing.

mr_00ff00on 74% of CEOs worry AI failures could cost them their jobs

Automation with code = time consuming because you must build the instructions but will execute correctly basically 100% of the time once written

Automation with AI = less time consuming especially with elaborate rule sets, but it’s a probability model so by definition it will be wrong a percentage of the time

mr_00ff00on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left

Why does it burn fuel so fast?

mr_00ff00on A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code

How does this work for dynamic casting? Say like if an age was submitted from a form?

I assume it’s a runtime error or does the compiler force you to handle this?

mr_00ff00on Italy's pizza detectives

RIP south Italy, where the pizza actually came from.

mr_00ff00on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

Exactly, this is why if I walk down a street that looks sketchy and I get assaulted/robbed, it’s not a crime and no one can be charged!

Any bad behavior should be legal if the victim should have realized the warning signs.

mr_00ff00on The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

Maybe I’m wrong, but I only really know of Jane Street for OCaml, meanwhile FAANG all has at least some rust code.

Also I would argue the rust compiler started as a hobby project

mr_00ff00on The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

This is also somewhat backed up by the fact that OCaml (to my understanding) is basically GC Rust without a borrow checker, and yet it’s basically a hobby language.

mr_00ff00on 'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression

So essentially, you learn to ignore thoughts?

It seems hard to do because some thinking about old mistakes seems essential to not make new ones. Am I missing a key element?

Curious as I think I dwell on the past too much and don’t focus on the present

mr_00ff00on 'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression

I’m a bit confused on what sticky thinking is.

Is it daydreaming about negative future outcomes based on a decision? (If I do this and it doesn’t work, everyone will laugh at me / partner will leave me)

Or is it hyper focus on past bad decisions (I missed out on this / did it wrong and that’s why everyone else is so far ahead. Now I am scared to make same decision again)

mr_00ff00on We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)

Slightly irrelevant, but love the color theme on the python code snippets. Wish I knew what it was.

mr_00ff00on Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market

This is a crazy process. Although I feel like I am a bit confused.

When they say “reduced by lot” then mean by a lottery? By that same original boy or something else?

They also talked about needing approval from electors, I assume that was from the previous small pool. Can’t exactly determine who they mean.

mr_00ff00on Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII

Civ VII I actually think has a lot of new ideas. The game has civilizations transform into other ones. Ever since Civ VI they have made it so you need to spread improvements across tiles instead of building tall.

Civ does seem to change a good amount each game.

Although I also will say, I’m pretty happy with Civ VII, and I think popular opinion is 50-50 right now

mr_00ff00on 21st Century C++

If you only read HN, you would think C++ died years ago.

As someone who worked in HFT, C++ is very much alive and new projects continue to be created in it simply because of the sheer of amount of experts in it. (For better or for worse)