Well Whoop-D-Dooo. NYC has 8.5 million people vs. SF at 850 K and they just FINALLY got more tech workers. NY would be one of the FEW places more expensive than SF. I can see the draw to NYC, but this seems like a hollow celebration.
In the news NYC has more muggers than SF, and probably, maybe more homeless ?
What a deeply hateful comment. Well, I guess you are a full-on psycho with no compassion and no human decency.
Or...I've very personally seen and live with the resulting human destruction low life people can and will do to them selves and everyone around them. It is amazing, how you fully analyzed me from a paragraph. You must be a genius...or something. Live a while, watch the needless suffering caused by drugs and the morons who use them. If it hasn't touched you personally, be thankful and STFU about things you can't know unless you lived them.
Crank whores deserve whatever they get. Meth during pregnancy is the almost worst thing you can do. 2 decades in jail for ruining your child's life, and inflicting your forever needy child on society seems like she got off lightly.
Oil cooled with "Canola"
Not specific to data centers, but too often legislators ignore the will of the people who voted them in. We could use more of this type of accountability.
If only voters would get this worked up about corruption.
There's obviously a massive large-scale backlash here, and it is pretty bipartisan. Part of it is concern about water use (which is largely overblown) and part is concern about increases in electricity cost (which is much more reasonable). But it is clear that two related things are happening: 1) People are reacting this way to all data centers, whether or not they have anything to do with AI. 2) People are blocking data centers rather than trying to take reasonable steps to make them manageable with their concerns, like requiring that they have solar panels. There's room for compromise here, but we're not getting it.
People are also ignoring the benefits. Data centers don't bring a lot of jobs after construction is complete, but they can generate a lot of tax revenues for counties and cities. Huge amounts of money that can be a real game-changer for the local budgets, and could be very beneficial for the locals. By itself that's not a reason to accept them, but it should be part of the overall calculation, and the net cost/benefit of the projects should be reasonably and fairly evaluated, and negotiated.
But this isn't what's happening.
No buttons for the mirrors
The thumb wheels on the steering wheel do that. You do have to use the touch screen to put it in "mirror adjust" mode, but really that's something you only do once. Set up your driver profile, set your mirrors, then the car just always changes them to your settings.
No buttons for the wiper. If you leave the auto-wiper on it randomly activates and smears the windshield in the driest of weather
I find the auto wiper works pretty well... it is important to keep the windshield fairly clean, but I like to do that anyway.
The door handles are terrible.
Yeah, the Model 3/Y handles are weird. The S/X handles are pretty nice. In theory the fact that they're motorized could make them a maintenance problem. In practice, little electric motors are extremely reliable. There was a problem with the wiring harness getting fatigued and breaking about 10 years ago, but that's been fixed.
The lack of any kind of physical controls for climate and entertainment is terrible
Those are also on the thumb wheels on the steering wheel.
Before I came up with my current system I spent a lot of time looking into actuators for windows. They exist but they're expensive, often bulky and look like a lot of work to install and maintain. Then it occurred to me that I already have a whole-house fan (HVAC system)... if I could just get it to draw from outside rather than from the air returns. That part woks great and I think it does give me a pretty good single point of control. The only problem is that the house is pretty tight so I also needed a way to create some negative pressure, hence the laundry room to attic fan. I think that's still my airflow bottleneck.
As for whether I've crunched the numbers.... no, I haven't. And since I installed solar last year it maybe doesn't even matter any more? Throughout most of the summer I'm actually giving away nearly a MWh per month of electricity even after running house, A/C, car, steam shower, etc. So it's really more of a game to me than a serious attempt to save money. That said, I do watch my energy consumption closely (game, right?) and running the fans consumes maybe 400W. Overnight that's about 3.2 kWh. Meanwhile, my AC draws 4 kW, so if my AC kicks on for 45 minutes it consumes as much as the passive system does all night. And for that, the passive system cools the house by ~10F degrees while the AC will cool it by about 2F, which would indicate 5X efficiency improvement. But even that doesn't fully capture it, because the AC will cool the *air* by 2F while the passive system will cool the house and also much of the thermal mass, so it's actually moving quite a bit more heat out than the thermostat temperatures would indicate.
So, yeah, an order of magnitude more efficient seems about right. When outside air cools down at night!
I've also been thinking about building something for my shop. It's an uninsulated pole barn (30' wide x 40' long x 25' high) which gets quite hot in the summer and quite cold in the winter. I think some automated fans to exploit day/night temperature variations could probably move the average interior temperature several degrees closer to comfortable, year round. Even better if I insulate it.
To be fair, we had plenty of that even back in the glory days... but the noise has stayed constant while the signal seems to have dropped off with most topics.
I think that's fair, although it feels like the tone has gotten harsher.
I'm curious, do you think the semi-passive cooling system will still be useful at beginning and end of summer, even if the night get too warm? Savings obviously aren't going to be as attractive as using it all through the summer, but I would hope there are still seasons where the system is worth running.
Definitely. I'm actually already seeing a little of that in late August. Nights are getting down to ~62F, which is managing to cool the house to the high 60s. I'm wondering if I could get a higher-volume fan for the laundry room to increase the air flow... I'm sure that by the end of September we'll have nights in the 50s but days will still often reach the mid-80s. That's when another benefit of having it automated kicks in. If I were just opening a bunch of windows before going to bed, there would be a period of time when the house got too cold at night. With the automated system, when the house gets to 62F it turns the fans off.
Of course, as we get into winter, I pop the laundry room fan out and fill the gap with an insulated pillow of the type they sell for filling swamp cooler vents.
Speaking of swamp coolers... those have historically been fairly effective in Utah, thanks to the dry air. My first house had just a swamp cooler and it was honestly fine. I've actually thought that it might make sense to have all three: passive cooling, swamp cooler and central air. With a smart system deciding which to use when. You don't want to use the swamp cooler a lot on days when the A/C might need to run, because it raises interior humidity, which the A/C then spends a lot of effort extracting. Maybe... have to consider the cost of buying and installing the swamp cooler.
Regardless, most students at Berkeley don't need Calculus 1. And if students do need it, but aren't ready, then send them to the next class down until they are ready.
Calculus 1 pretty much is the lowest-level math class at Berkeley. There's a math fundamentals refresher class, which is for people who are pretty much at pre-calculus level. But if they're saying students really don't understand fractions, it's a mystery how they even got into Berkeley. California has an amazing community college system that will teach you all the way down to basic algebra if you need it, and once you spend a couple of years there, there are easy avenues to transfer to the many high-quality California four-year schools. I sense the op-ed author has an axe of some kind to grind, because even without the SAT, it's not like admissions to Berkeley aren't competitive.
Most people would be fine with 100 Mb: dual condensed HD streams, and relatively low latency. Hell: aside from the ISOs I occasionally download, I'd be fine with 25 Mb.
But.
This doesn't take into account the future. When I upgraded to 2400 baud, I thought I was pretty hot stuff then, too. If we don't keep the bar high, there's no real incentive to increase speed along the fringes -- rural communities, etc. I even know one guy who still uses dialup.
Chinese manufacturers are ramping up output faster than that.
This isn't the first example of DRAM price collusion either. Happened around 2000 as well, and lawsuits alleging it is happening now have already started.
It's possible. My prediction is that they're not going to find any evidence of collusion, that all of the DRAM manufacturers simultaneously shifted production to AI chips in response to clear market demand, not because of any agreement.
Yes, there was collusive price fixing 25 years ago, but the companies got slapped pretty hard for it -- not just cash fines but prison sentences for executives. I think that prior experience makes it less likely that they're colluding now, not more likely. Once burned twice shy.
I live in australia in a port that used to get a lot of US ships (and marines) visiting, so I spent a fair bit of time propping up bars listening to US marines telling stories about fucked up shit in Iraq and Afghanistan. One thing that surprised me was that literally every single soldier I spoke to told me stories about being super poor and disadvantaged and that the military was their way out of the hood, serve a bunch of years, get some school done, hopefully come out of the other end into a viable career. Note: None of these where officers. I've always presumed the officer class had different career motivations.
But yeah, get out of poverty, get a degree , get a job. I dont think once did I hear one of them say "To defend america" or "To fight for freedom".
Then the same company will have to sue every kid who plays Stairway to Heaven or Blackbird on the guitar they got for Christmas, in order to maintain the same merit. It's not about the training; it's about the money. The suit only exists because Anthropic has money.
This is a magical thinking argument that assumes that a kid learning from listening to music is the same thing as an algorithm adjusting weights in a regression to try and replicate data. Its not how humans work, and its not how ML works.
It also fundamentally ignores the fact that when a kid buys a record, he's engaged in a lawful transaction to purchase the rights to listen and enjoy (and study) music he paid for with the artist understanding that kid might pick up a guitar and write a song too.
This is not whats happening here. This is illegally scraped data that HASNT been licensed for this purpose , and often obtained from torrent sites. used to create AI slop to displace artists and steal their royalties.
Comparing them is intentionally muddying up the waters and is a dishonest way to argue.
This is why a lot of chronic diseases will NEVER have cures. It's more profitable to treat than to cure.
While I get the skepticism towards big pharma , I dont see any evidence of any of them thinking this way. Cures are cashmoney right there in the pocket, and if you dont have the patent on the maintainence drug, then competition dictates that if you can beat your opponent by getting the cure, then your going to destroy your opposition and win. Capitalism prefers long term payments, but to state this is the reason why there will be no cures assumes there is only one company in the world, and thats absurd.
The reality is some conditions are hard to treat. HIV is a perfect storm of infernally difficult self reinforcing obstacles towards cure. It targets the immune system, it embeds itself in the patients DNA using reverse transcription, it hides cryptic populations in the bones to evade antivirals, and so on. Its a big bitch thats *really frigging hard* to dislodge. Cancers are often similar, DNA altering (intrinsically difficult to purge), entropy monsters that are made out of the patients own body. Whats more, there are thousands of types of cancer, each its own unique disease.
Cures for any of these would be a license to print money, but the difficulties are epic in scope.
Whats needed is government investment, and frankly it needs time, something patients often dont have on their side.
Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little.
