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nelsondev··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Do local inference (especially if you have a high RAM Mac), to ensure your chats don’t leave device.
nelsondev··on An American Privacy Emergency
I believe $50-100k
nelsondev··on TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants
> The eight 345 MW advanced sodium cooled reactors would provide Meta with up to 2.8 GW of carbon-free, baseload energy. Each reactor comes with the Natrium technology’s innovative built-in energy storage system providing the capacity to boost total output to 4 GW of power.

For energy storage, is it storing the hot water, or using batteries to store generated electricity?

nelsondev··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Especially one you manufactured yourself
nelsondev··on The bee that everyone wants to save
Some carpenter bees moved into my roof overhang. Last year it was two, this year it’s closer to 10. I like them, the only problem is they burrow into my house and leave little piles of sawdust behind.

There is plenty of old fencing, a stack of logs, but they like my house.

nelsondev··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
It’s date partitioned, you could download just a date range. It’s also parquet, so you can download just specific columns with the right client
nelsondev··on The Waymo World Model
Neat! What happens when the simulated data is hallucinated/incorrect?

In the example videos, the Golden Gate bridge with snow shows the bridge as 1 road, with total of 3 lanes. But in reality, it’s a split highway with divider, so 2 sides both have 3 lanes, 6 total lanes.

What happens when the car “learns” to drive on the simulated incorrect 3 lane example? For example will next time it goes on the real GG bridge hug to the rightmost lane?

nelsondev··on Eat Real Food
This guidance will be taken in by government agencies that set rules, by schools choosing kids lunches , etc .

Not all government action is in the form of a specific law with specific enforcement mechanism.

nelsondev··on Eat Real Food
I think you answered your own question with the last sentence. Have cattle ranchers, chicken farmers, vegetable and fruit farmers lobby for same or higher subsidies than grains.
nelsondev··on Midjourney is alemwjsl
This would be my guess, query reformulations (user rewriting their query after first doesn’t work for them) is very common technique that search engines look through search logs to learn (mis)spellings.
nelsondev··on Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)
Wait Google Maps is not satellite photography it’s aerial?? I feel like I’ve been lied to.
nelsondev··on ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
Until a new law is passed, the government and courts have a duty to follow the current law.
nelsondev··on Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months
I would add another axis to the graph. So x axis would be pace at which you work, and y axis would be novelty of work.

You can be burnt out doing fast paced repetitive work. It’s not always true the faster you go the more you learn.

nelsondev··on GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
The audience member can share the experience with the person sitting beside them.

Doesn’t have to be shared with the artist.

nelsondev··on All clocks are 30 seconds late
Perhaps we could retitle the link, as it stands a bit click-baity.

Perhaps, average error of clocks is 30 seconds higher because minutes use .floor() nor .round()

nelsondev··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
Bee There (logo is cute honey bee) tag line, Be there now, be there then
nelsondev··on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
Sounds similar to experiences inside sensory deprivation chambers.

In the SF Bay Area, there’s a company called reboot floatation spa , where you can book time floating in body temperature epsom salts inside a box that blocks noise and light.

I also experienced intense visual imagery and extraordinary ability to concentrate on thoughts while my other senses were deprived. And then I got sleepy

nelsondev··on Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
Yet in your house you likely have a mobile phone, a computer, perhaps a Smart TV; all with microphones and a long history of privacy breaching hacks.
nelsondev··on How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)
Sounds like you are ready to open a crematorium that specializes in former jewelers.
nelsondev··on California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA
Complying with environmental regulation, permits, planning, etc
nelsondev··on Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
This idea also applies to software sales.

e.g. A bloated, overly complicated, CMS is easier to sell to a company as a solution than a sleeker, cleaner solution.

“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit”

nelsondev··on SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure'
Why will a new system make the trains run better? It could also make it run worse, if they don’t cover all the current cases.

I’ve ridden Muni in SF for years, drivers control most of the decision making.

There’s a handful of single track tunnels/sensors/necessary software-based coordination, but as another commenter pointed out, the doors cause more issues than signal problems.

nelsondev··on Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code
If I had a tail, could I wave it with Kegels?
nelsondev··on Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
Not exactly related, but in the same vein - Deep Impact - deep learning to find term impacts in the context of their document.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12016

nelsondev··on Australia to ban engineered stone
The problem I had with wood countertops is that little area behind the sink that is almost always wet.

Either from your sponge, turning off the faucet with wet hands, or just splash back, it always is wet.

Then the wood gets moldy or rots or is disfigured.

nelsondev··on Beeper Mini is back
One thing I’m not seeing discussed in the battle of client apps, is that Apple is still paying to run the backend servers. Considering the ubiquity of iMessage, this ain’t cheap.

When Beeper charges customers subscriptions for the client app, do they kick back any money to Apple who provides server side support for iMessage?

nelsondev··on Factors driving a productivity explosion
Another factor improving productivity is AI tools. I for one, am more productive writing code with the help of a generative AI.
nelsondev··on PacketMill: Toward per-Core 100-Gbps networking (2021)
Reminds me of a Kafka topic, where different Consumers each have their own commit that indicates how far along the stream they’ve caught up to.
nelsondev··on Low current around roots boosts plant growth
Fungal mycelial networks can form an underground network capable of transmitting electricity from plant to plant.

I wonder if we tune into just the right frequency plants are already using for communication, we can send more “grow, please” signals.

nelsondev··on TSA Policy on Light Sabers
Or being shot down by a fighter jet.
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