I've played with it a little and it's amazing. I submitted a photo when I was charging my car with no real words or signs. It clocked a Colorado license plate, a Wyoming plate, identified the charging station, then identified the red brick and blue awnings typical of a mid 2000s front range Walmart. It guessed I was one town over, but it's an honest mistake and I don't think I could have told the difference

Yeah I don't super understand this. Models have been getting better and more efficient for years and that only seems to benefit nvidia.

And really it did strike twice for nvidia - they were big winners in crypto mining as well.

I am a CS graduate and understand the tyranny of confirming that something is prime, but if you'd asked me to guess how long the longest known prime number was I think i'd have guessed more digits than that.

I'm in the opposite camp where it almost seems unremarkable. I realize the way exponents work and that is a VERY large number, but intuitively computers seem so fast and we have so many of them that the fact we've only been able to check 136,279,841 of them is surprising.

Yeah this is totally normal, and how my employer does it, but it does also have a significant early adopter advantage. It's pretty easy and cheap for the first 3rd of companies to go all-renewable because they can put a big pile of solar into the grid and draw out the same amount and ta-fucking-da, net-zero. Even if that does mean you are providing solar to someone else during the day and using "their" dirty coal power at night. On the one hand, this is great. Amazon invested billions in clean power and we should totally applaud that. On the other, perhaps they should be held to a higher standard because they can surely afford it - the next step needs to be getting to net-zero on an hourly basis by investing in storage, or maybe getting all the diesel vans off the road and brining on more electric ones.

Generally in the US you pay significantly under the MSRP. 40% would be a lot, but it's probably not unheard of for cars that are hard to move.

When i was in university, someone stole a very large generator from outside of their buildings. Large enough that it would have required a oversize load truck and two cranes to take it. I'm not sure they ever recovered it, but it was also before the era of everything being recorded.

I wonder if we could retrofit water towers? They already have pumps that fill the tower and presumably most of the time the tower doesn't need to be completely full. I imagine they are already smart enough to only pump water when the level is really low or the power is really cheap, but you could have them run that water back downhill again at peak hours and run the power back into the grid.

Plus there are reliability concerns. Even if they only run this at times of peak grid demand and sell the power for say 50c/kWh then it's only generating EUR1000 each time they run it and sell all the power (hopefully they can charge at practically zero). The staff and maintenance to keep such a large machine operating seem like they'll readily eat into all of that.

Also it seems like it's just a template that they plug your data into. Maybe they are using neural networks to produce the photos but this basically looks like they have a nice photoshop template. They even say they won't share the PSD file because then you could steal their templates. Seems also very suspect that they produce a "US Driver's License" ... really? a US one? Thing this is just AI-washing where they get free publicity for adding AI to it.

At least in well-populated areas, the US coverage is really good. It also likely costs more because people have higher median incomes and cellular requires a lot of active maintenance. I just tested my tmobile connection here - and while I only have 2 bars, I was still able to get 282 Mbit down (though only 7mbit up).

Sure, but it's not atypical for sites from that period. US sites from the 40s and 50s are pretty bad, russian sites are probably worse, other british sites are quite poor. I really think the scale of sellafield, the fact that it's operated for so long and the comingling of civil and military goals make the mess and risk more concentrated, but I doubt anyone doing nuclear in that period did a better job

It's kind of vague, it's certainly a leading contender for most hazardous - particularly if it were mismanaged. But it's not inherently dangerous, I went to the visitor center with my family a long time ago. Certainly staff all had dosimeter badges but that's hardly unusual in such a situation. Still i'm not sure how you can rank-order such hazards. Chernobyl is in europe and is almost certainly a more hazardous site. I can't think of any other sites that are automatically more hazardous but there are surely contenders. The issue is really the risk of some unexpected disaster happening at such a site. Google the Dounreay Shaft, for example, most likely that'll work out fine - but it's possible that could cause a much worse environmental disaster. I would imagine that the scale of Sellafield makes such disasters more likely, but these are hard things to quantify.

The tipping model breaks down here though, because the labor to deliver the meal isn't commensurate with the cost of the meal. There's very little meaningful difference between the labor to deliver one pizza and ten pizzas or the between a meal from McDonald's and a nice local restaurant. It should entirely be paid for in fees and that might make it less attractive to have a quarter-pounder delivered, but I think that's resoundingly a good thing.