Diederich

I'm watching it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ecCDqTSJs As always, Tim is doing a fantastic job.

SpaceX will now be beholden to Wall Street

I get and appreciate that sentiment. Musk currently has a controlling interest in SpaceX. Do you expect that to change after the IPO? Thanks!

I get your sentiment, though I think it's likely that people, on average, are going to organically start writing more and more like LLMs.

I believe the inflation adjusted price per piece has remained fairly consistent? https://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/priceperp...

Perhaps sets of a given physical size have more pieces now compared to before? Not sure.

I have had the experience of serendipitous discovery when researching relatively recent history.

I would really love to hear about this. (:

I found this the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFhXFuRblg "NBC Nightly News, June 24, 1975" I strongly urge people to watch this, it's 30 minutes but there are many very illuminating insights within. One word for you: Exxon.

While I was young in 1975, I did watch ABC's version of the news with my grandparents, and continued up through high school. Then in the late 1980s I got on the Internet and well you know the rest.

"Back Then", a high percentage of everybody I or my grandparents or my friends came into contact with watched one of ABC, NBC, or CBS news most nights. These three networks were a bit different, but they generally they all told the same basic stories as each other.

This was effectively our shared reality. Later in high school as I became more politically focused, I could still talk to anybody, even people who had completely opposite political views as myself. That's because we had a shared view of reality.

Today, tens of millions of people see the exact same footage of an officer involved shooting...many angles, and draw entirely different 'factual' conclusions.

So yes, 50 years ago, we in the United States generally had a share view of reality. That was good in a lot of ways, but it did essentially allow a small set of people in power to decide that convincing a non-trivial percentage of the US population that Exxon was a friendly, family oriented company that was really on your side.

Worth the trade off? Hard to say, but at least 'back then' it was possible, and even common, to have ground political discussions with people 'on the other side', and that's pretty valuable.

"Show of hands for anyone using ChatGPT to shop. Be honest."

I use Gemini to help with shopping decisions pretty frequently. It's been very effective and useful for that.

I used the same prompt keepamovin used and changed it to CNN, which produced this:

https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html

Some interesting similarities.

They don't need a lot of tools to do such a deep 'search' of your car, they're not under any requirement or mandate to make it easy or even possible to repair.

In my 40+ years of driving, I've seen such disassembled cars along the road a hand full of times.

I also lived not too far from that location, and unfortunately got a glimpse of the aircraft as it was spiraling down. The scene on the ground was pretty hellish.

How did that look on the host system CPU/memory wise?

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Is this deficiency likely to persist long-term as LLMs grow more powerful?

Recently, something quite rare happened. I needed to Xerox some paper documents. Well, such actions are rare today, but years ago, it was quite common to Xerox things.

Over time, the meaning of the word 'Xerox' changed. More specifically, it gained a new meaning. For a long time, Xerox only referred to a company named in 1961. Some time in the late 60s, it started to be used as a verb, and as I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, the word 'Xerox' was overwhelmingly used in its verb form.

Our society decided as a whole that it was ok for the noun Xerox to be used a verb. That's a normal and natural part of language development.

As others have noted, management doesn't care whether the serverless thing you want to use is running on servers or not. They care that they don't have to maintain servers themselves. CapEx vs OpEx and all that.

I agree that there could be some small hazard with the idea that, if I run my important thing in a 'serverless' fashion, then I don't have to associate all of the problems/challenges/concerns I have with 'servers' to my important thing.

It's an abstraction, and all abstractions are leaky.

If we're lucky, this abstraction will, on average, leak very little.

I watch this video at least once a year, and make my immediate family do the same.

Everyone in the United States should watch this video, or something similar, on a regular schedule.

As great as the first part is, I actually think the second part, with officer George Bruch, is even more important.

It's not as smooth, it's not flashy. Officer Bruch comes across as just a regular guy who wants to help you.

I've long viewed the world primarily through the lens of incentives and motivations. When officer Bruch is talking to you in a little room, you just want to tell your story, get it off your chest, and he makes it very, very easy to do that. In fact, if the roles of these two guys were reversed, and professor Duane, with his slick and fun personality, was interviewing you, you'd likely trust him less.

Even though it feels like it, officer Bruch is not your friend. He's not on your side. It doesn't feel like it, but his incentives and motivations are mostly in conflict with yours, whether you are guilty or innocent.

I think you mean legality -> lethality? That had me stumped for a moment!

This sounds very interesting; can you share more? Thanks!

...and search. That was amazing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 is always fun to look at, 18.5 years ago.

temporarily throw all the materials into a trash

Just curious, did they pull it out of the trash later on?

Perhaps too provocative of a question for this forum:

Assuming that this plant (and potentially others) ends up substantially reproducing the capabilities that are currently available only in Taiwan, how much would that fact change the US'/the west's response to a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan?

To remove inequality requires a totalitarian government. Be careful what you wish for.

Are a lot of people actively and actually suggesting the full removal of inequality? Finding ways to reduce it is a very different thing.

This is an outstanding analysis, thank you, and very succinctly summarizes my own views.

... I remember I did the same when I was in 10 people startups and it required A LOT of work to keep all these things running...

Honest question: how long ago was that? I stepped away from that ecosystem four or so years ago. Perhaps ease of use has substantially improved?

I think this author is effectively saying that the devices that are widely known as 'heat pumps' tend to be more efficient than devices that are widely known as 'air conditioners'.

Why do something annoying once when you can do it twice for twice the outrage?

Last night, just before full darkness, I was walking through the woods around our home in rural western Washington state and quite suddenly I'm looking at a surprised black bear. It was perhaps 4 meters away and immediately stood up and started huffing. I shouted at it and calmly walked away.

We don't live in a true old-growth forest, but it's pretty close. There are definitely many hundred year old trees.

We manage our five acres very, very minimally, and we're actively re-foresting most of the ~1ac of yards that were mowed prior to us moving here in 2020.

As another commenter said, this is the most beautiful natural environment I've ever seen, and we're extremely grateful that this has become our forever home.

Wow, can you expand on that? Thanks!

Does anyone have a sense of how practically difficult it would be to detect an active Starlink installation?