It's not just higher than 12 months ago, it's higher by an unprecedented amount.

What makes solar panels a particularly strategic industry? It's nothing like oil, where a loss of imports results in an immediate shortage of energy supply. Panel manufacturing isn't as high-tech as airliners or microchips, we could ramp it up if needed. Converting to clean energy is more important. If China wants to subsidize and accelerate that conversion globally, why not let them?

How ironic, since the whole point of crypto was to be free of the pesky big brother, with all his annoying snooping and regulations.

They'll trade in their Prius for a Model X though. CO2 payback should occur in 2055 if they also install an acre of new solar in their yard and don't need to replace the battery before then.

Your calculation assumes the Prius is going into a junkyard instead of to its next owner, which isn't true.

My state mandated insurance rates have risen 20% over prior year and accident claims are up substantially.

If the design of cars is to blame for rising car insurance, then the prediction would be that home insurance is unaffected, correct?

The cost/benefit analysis is not so simple, since the costs avoided by preventing a crash are huge. How many sensor bumpers can you pay for with the savings of avoiding a million-dollar personal injury lawsuit? Yet those savings do not factor in to a "cost to repair" figure.

Of course the cost/benefit would also vary wildly from one "doodad" to another, so there is no answer 'in general.'

A new one might not be a lot more, since 2024 is so new there would be very few on the used market.

The main portion of OpenAI is for-profit anyways, the structure and motivation for it are all spelled out on their website: https://openai.com/our-structu...

It's interesting how widespread the perception that we're in a crisis of airline safety despite the statistics.

"The hard part is it requires nerves of steel because you will be up 100,000 one day and down 200,000 the next day and up $120,000 a day after that. The point is it's all doable mathematically. "

That's what's wrong with this article. They evaluate the model on its accuracy, or lack thereof, on a single race. That doesn't work

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't expect anything GPT-like to outperform a more simple statistical model on sports gambling. Still, this article doesn't make a lot of sense.

What a language model might be good for here is populating the statistical model, like collecting facts on the different players current injuries from news stories.

I always took these kinds of things as a bit of a joke myself. They can't overthrow the government. But historically what does make paramilitaries forces (more specifically, pro-government militias) potent is being tolerated / allowed / tacitly encouraged by the government - when such groups or more are less in line with the ruling party and allowed to do its "dirty work" that is illegal for the regular police and army. (Yes this is in the presence of some degree of law and order... after all, the ruling party doesn't have to do anything but look the other way).

This has happened all around the world lots of times (yes including but by no means exclusively the Brownshirts) and yes I do think Trump would welcome such support, based on his past actions and statements so far. And yes I do think he would fire the head of the FBI to protect this type of activity, since he already did that to protect himself once.

China eyes May 2024 launch for 1st-ever lunar sample-return mission to moon's far side

By Andrew Jones

February 15, 2024

I don't know who modded this offtopic, this bill sounds 100% like "let's make up an issue to win so we can be winners."

Pointless to ask without knowing what compensation he's getting.

What the deal with silicon valley jobs used to be was, you'd get a big salary, but you'd work a lot.

He who hath never pushed the paradigm of email or spreadsheet past its intended usage, let him cast the first stone at her.