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Definitely not true. Historically, it's been one of the ways they attract (and scout) top talent.

I guess each generation discovers a different William Gibson trilogy? I would have assumed this was more about Wintermute and the HF hack. Remember the Zurich Orbital AI registry?

Yes, this is honestly a huge problem. The US isn't even trying.

Give me balcony solar (in the U.S.) or give me death![1]

[1] Really, climate change risks already a massive liability in so many places (forst fire-caused particulate air pollution, etc.). We need far more solar and battery capacity to bend the curve.

Relevant Eckersley: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00064

You can just follow on the web: https://www.goodfire.com/research && https://www.goodfire.com/blog.

Learning to say "no" a lot, perhaps reflexively, seems like a good practice in the age of AI.

Uncovered canals are ridiculously dumb, if you care about water conservation.

There are resovoirs in California with millions of black rubber shade balls floating on the surface to reduce evaporation. There's no reason why we shouldn't be doing this everywhere.

https://neveragain.tech/ is still up.

It is kind of funny and sad that in the U.S. we've gone from corporations virtue-signalling to vice signalling in just a few years.

I was going to say: is this a joke?

But really, the article seems to be going out of the way to make the author's particular point... but reads to me that the original paper is often understood... it simply shows that "specialists who are very knowledgeable about a subject are more likely to accurately identify gaps in their own knoweldge, when compared to any population less knoweldgeable on the same subject."

For example, I am apparently the most knowledgeable birder in my family. I've taken graduate-level ornithology courses, identify a fair number of N. American birds by their calls, etc. However, I recognize that I know nothing about birds compared to anyone who actually works in the field with them... I don't know enough to even estimate what I don't know.

I mean, Facebook acquiring FriendFeed felt at least as bad as Google shutting down Google Reader.

There are probably some other interesting adaptations involved, like the fact that the surface of a mantis shrimp's (shell? carapace?) selectively filters out sound waves (and thus, shockwaves caused by its own "punch").

People on HN really love small-scale fission nuclear when the sun is (gestures) right there.

That seems like a rather inefficient use of resources. How long will a fund typically keep that on the books before they have to offload the asset or declare bankruptcy? At a certain point, that smells like a scam with a real estate business attached to it.

The Failure to Launch episode about Qian, the Cultural Revolution, and the brief inter-departmental war and attempted "coup" at the defense research institute where he worked... was quite something.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rocket-scientist-g...

If Books Could Kill (which is notoriously against self-help books) did an episode on Dale Carnegie.

Even they said that he seemed to be a pretty alright guy who was genuinely nice to people in his personal life, not just in his public persona.

Often reminded of this passage from Hitchhiker's:

The Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious (MISPWOSO) is a fictional research institution from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

You can get alternative bulk mowable native lawn substitute seeds from the Thomas Payne Foundation.

It was written by an LLM, so... yeah.

As the author is dead, I'm sure the money goes towards site hosting fees.

When I learned that this person was one of the RISD art students who started Fort Thunder, it all made a lot of sense to me. That was by all accounts a very strange and unique intentional space for people who didn't want to live in a conventional manner.

Here's an archive of the old Fort Thunder website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091025093813/http://fortthunde...

If it's already scanned, then you don't have to leave your desk.

It's amazing that so many "leaders" (esp. in tech) seemed to not worry about or even tacitly/openly supported the Trump admin, when so many other folks could clearly see the disaster looming on the horizon.

It's a great idea, but I feel like that way ends up with the nightmare scenario of each of us managing an AWS-style admin console for washing the dishes, etc.

That way lies madness, although I suppose there might be one or two family members I would want to lock out of the dishwasher.

> operating too close to the operational limit, tipping over it, and then requiring a power cycle.

GPUs--they're just like us!

It's wild that these are the failure rates for datacenter-grade products. If you were pushing consumer GPU servers all-out, I would expect this kind of variation.

I expect it's not just a problem with Nvidia, though.

So.... motivated reasoning makes the world go 'round?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

> Don't let comments like this fool you, nuclear is far from being competitive with natural gas. Even in countries like south korea that can deploy nuclear the cheapest it's still $3/watt roughly.

People still insist that ecofascists(?) or NIMBYism is what killed nuclear, when the reality is that it was the coal industry.

Why are you calling Bennett et al "the Stanford... study" ? Not one person on that team went to Stanford.

Direct link to the poster presentation: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf