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New comment by measurablefunc in "BriskDB"

measurablefunc — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:04:24 +0000

Looks like another art project.

Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026

measurablefunc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-mid-year-update-2026/executive-summary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264903

Points: 2

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New comment by measurablefunc in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

measurablefunc — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:08:16 +0000

Because I live in a city w/ an unsustainable ecological footprint & so does basically the rest of the industrialized world.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

measurablefunc — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:07:24 +0000

The consequences are already baked in, the only question is how badly it will play out & who will get the short end of the stick.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

measurablefunc — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:53:16 +0000

The average grocery store food item travels more than 3k miles to reach its destination from the source. Let me know how you're going to make that work w/o diesel.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?"

measurablefunc — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:02:05 +0000

Autonomous hacking is an oxymoronic phrase. Someone is running the algorithm & keeping tabs on it b/c hacking is an activity w/ an intention to gain access to privileged information which is often protected by network firewalls & at rest encryption.

STMicroelectronics profit misses estimates, shares fall 14%

measurablefunc — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:46:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/stmicros-q3-revenue-view-slightly-lags-estimates-even-chip-demand-recovers-2026-07-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189479

Points: 1

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New comment by measurablefunc in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

measurablefunc — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:36:33 +0000

That's great. I'm sure you get a lot of good value out of it but eventually OpenAI will have to become profitable & they might curtail consumer resources.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

measurablefunc — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:25:02 +0000

It's now.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

measurablefunc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:57 +0000

It all comes back to electricity cost. China has cheaper electricity so as long as China keeps pace there is no way for American companies to undercut them. Each boolean operation in China is cheaper than the one in America.

> China: Household rates average around $0.08 / kWh (¥0.53/kWh).

> US: Household rates average around $0.16 / kWh, though regional variation is massive—ranging from ~$0.10/kWh in low-cost states (like Washington or Louisiana) to $0.30–$0.45+/kWh in high-cost areas like California or Hawaii.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

measurablefunc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:32:40 +0000

Model segmentation & distillation like this that asks the consumers to pick exactly which version of the algorithm will solve their problem is evidence for lack of intelligence instead of its presence.

Dana Scott – Geometry Without Points (2014) [video]

measurablefunc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:12:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDGnE8eja5o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112831

Points: 2

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New comment by measurablefunc in "Superlogical"

measurablefunc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:13:54 +0000

The list of people on their announcement page have a track record that will probably answer your question.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Superlogical"

measurablefunc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:41:15 +0000

It's a multiplexer w/ distributed state. If you know about tmux then it's basically tmux but someone else can connect to the same session w/o logging on to the same computer. I can imagine it being useful for debugging production outages b/c several people can use a single "dashboard" for coordinating their work w/o having to go back & forth on slack/zoom/etc. You can ask any chat bot to explain further if you want to look into it: https://share.google/aimode/XadkUVcvpjlYhuWmK

New comment by measurablefunc in "Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza"

measurablefunc — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:03:52 +0000

You'll have to take that up w/ the international court of justice instead of random internet strangers commenting on the legality of propaganda & political SEO.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza"

measurablefunc — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:03:39 +0000

Entirely expected & note that there is nothing illegal about it. It is essentially SEO for political purposes.

PJM board proposes backstop capacity auction, data center curtailment plans

measurablefunc — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:02:10 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/pjm-board-proposes-backstop-capacity-100932204.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093588

Points: 2

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Yudkowsky and Soares' Book Is Lacking (2025)

measurablefunc — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:10:59 +0000

Article URL: https://oscarmdavies.substack.com/p/000016-on-yudkowsky-and-soares

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074939

Points: 11

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New comment by measurablefunc in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

measurablefunc — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:48:11 +0000

Water vapor amplifies the greenhouse effect so I don't think rain is going to make it better.

New comment by measurablefunc in "Digital Intelligence: Why Humanity Created What It Does Not Understand"

measurablefunc — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:58:07 +0000

> Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, The History of Intellectronics. Who’d ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that with wisdom they would also acquire cunning? The textbook of course puts it in more scholarly terms, speaking of Chapulier’s Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier. And why indeed should it behave otherwise, being truly intelligent? For true intelligence demands choice, internal freedom. And therefore we have the malingerants, fudgerators and drudge-dodgers, not to mention the special phenomenon of simulimbecility or mimicretinism. A mimicretin is a computer that plays stupid in order, once and for all, to be left in peace.

- Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress (1971)