dmitriy_ko

Data centers use miniscular amount of water. Data center water use is a fake issue.

whats working is ML models trained on specific domains (not much different than 5+ years ago), and whats not working is a general model that humanity can let go to work on its own.

As usual, AI skeptics are moving goal posts. Modern LLMs are on a completely different level in terms of how GENERAL they are vs anything pre-LLM. You can give it a completely novel puzzle and it will solve it. 5+ years ago you had to train NN to solve particular type of puzzle.

And a lot more electricity to power them.

It will happen after AGI singularity.

poly breaker, where they have three shifts of people in protective suits that smash large pieces of silicon down with hammers

Why is this done manually? wouldn't it be easy to automate?

Average American "cardboard house" is better insulated than average European brick or concrete house. Having heavy walls make your house feel "sturdy" but it has nothing to do with energy efficiency. A lot of houses in Europe are just brick or concrete with no additional insulation. In US it's it's rare to have uninsulated houses.

In US more people live in very hot places like Texas and Arizona and people mostly live in single-family houses. Single-family houses obviously takes more energy to cool than "flats". Plus average American house/flat has twice the living area.

ICON has been building houses like that for a while. You can find walkthroughs of their houses on YouTube to understand what to expect. https://youtu.be/vcSaUXViD9g

It could be that dolphins are smarter than humans. Dolphins didn't build civilization, but it could be because they don't have flexible enough limbs for tool making. Maybe humans just got lucky with a combination of relatively high intelligence, language and flexible limbs.

Why would the fact that the loans are now from the government mean that universities no longer had to compete on costs? The bill ultimately goes to the student in either case.

Because 17 years old student taking out the loan is not financially experienced, so the issue of cost is often not properly considered.

Modern houses have PEX plumbing. It has some advantages over copper, e.g. it won't burst if it freezes. But the main advantage -- it's less labor to install.

Are you sure the difference is not in your head? Try to do a blind experiment. Ask someone to pour a glass of milk from plastic container and a another glass from paper container and see if you can tell which is which.

Android also allows user to control permissions on per app basis. What does iOS do that Android doesn't?

Underwater Cavity doesn't require digging a hole. It's just a concrete sphere that's lowered deep underwater.

Yes, but where would water come from? What you are describing is regular pumped-hydro storage. It uses two reservoirs with different elevations. It works well when there are two naturally occurring reservoirs with elevation differences. You are suggesting to create low-elevation reservoir artificially by digging a hole. It would be very expensive because hole would need to be either very deep or very large.

How would you store energy by filling and emptying hole with water? Where would water come from? Where would you drain it?

I'm not trying to defend Amazon, but I don't think Amazon can legally tow a vehicle in this case. It's not their vehicle, it belongs to an independent business/contractor. The best they could do is to contact the contractor and offer to cover costs of towing. But we don't know what the situation is, what they tried to do.

When police tows a vehicle, owner has to pay for towing to get the vehicle back. If nobody picks up the vehicle then vehicle is auctioned off and proceeds cover the cost of towing and storage. So the only way tax dollars end up being used is if the vehicle is worth less then the cost of towing.

Parent poster meant "properly cared for timber", not chemically-treated timber. Timber doesn't have an expiration date. As long as you keep it dry, it will last indefinitely. In fact, it becomes stronger over time. There are many 100+ years timber buildings in US.

For timber used outdoors, e.g. for making decks pressure-treated timber is used. It's a timber treated with pesticide (chromated copper arsenate). In the past creosote was used to treat things like wooden railroad ties and power poles, but it's no longer used because it's toxic.

I was looking at Austin on Zillow and property taxes were really high, maybe it's just the areas I looked at.

0 state income tax, but property taxes are 3% vs 1% or so in California.

There's a labor shortage in US right now. You can feel it everywhere: from having to book car mechanic appointment weeks in advance to construction projects going to standstill.

Right, and it doesn't even require actual tumblers. Any service where you can deposit and then withdraw bitcoin can be used as a tumbler: gambling sites, exchanges, bitcoin marketplaces etc. Each time this is done the link is broken, and to de-tumble you need transaction history from each of those services. It's like if you want to deanonymize someone who connects to Internet though 10 VPNs: you need logs for ALL 10 VPNs to deanonymize the user. Criminals can also exchange bitcoin to Monero through anonymous exchanges, let it sit for a while and then exchange back over time.

cat videos are more profitable.

I learned a lot from watching YouTube. I was able to complete many home improvement projects based on DIY videos. And learned about many different subjects: history, science, engineering. I probably learned more from YouTube than from books. I do have YouTube Premium subscription so I don't need to watch ads — makes a big difference.

Is organic food an IQ tax?

Why doesn't California use a more market-based approach? It could simply decide how much water can be sustainably consumed and then auction-off rights to that amount of water.

There's a lot more space available in the air than on the road so there shouldn't be any traffic jams even if everyone is flying. Above buildings whole horizontal plane is available with no obstructions, and flying cars could fly one above the other.

In 1930s people wouldn't heat the whole house and wouldn't heat it to 70 degrees in the dead of winter. People would heat one room to 50 degrees and stay there most of the time, and put on a jacket. Walking around in a t-shirt in the dead of winter is a very modern thing. You don't realize how much higher your standard for comfort are.

It's economic singularity.

So it was more or less a large solo project? How do you know your code base was much better than those less clean/spaghetti codebases? Your own code is obviously easier to read/understand than that of others. In general it's easier to write code than to read/understand code of others. Developers who are founding members of a codebase are able to navigate it better vs those who come later and therefore able to work much faster. It may give them a false impression that they are genius 10x coder. Then when developer who comes later is not able to be productive, founding developer would blame it on incompetence of newer developer. But it could also be that codebase is of poor quality, but as founding developer you don't see it. It's hard to be objective about your own code. Now let's go to the reverse situation when you are spending hours "tracing state through spaghetti-like code". It could in fact be that it's actually a great code written by a 10x developer, but you are not smart enough to understand how it works. It's natural to blame someone else and not you.