It’s called the Gemba walk but it does more than just to look important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba

Addiction is really boring and makes you really boring. That’s part of why it’s so terrible.

When William Burroughs was on heroin he would spend 6 hours or so a day just staring at his shoe.

There is a scene in a French documentary in which a former Dassault boss displays his vintage wine collection as one of his many tools to ease arms supply deals with various nations. When the journalist asked him if it really works like this he responded, “Of course, because men are pigs!”

Reminded me of a bit from the GOAT political comedy Yes, Prime Minister:

"But he's the Prime Minister!"

"Indeed he is Bernard. He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place in the country, endless publicity and a pension for life. What more does he want?"

"I think he wants to govern Britain."

"Well stop him, Bernard!"

Oh man, that show has some amazing writing.

"Tobacco-related diseases cost the NHS £150 million per year!"

"Yes we've looked into that, it turns out that if those people had survived they would have cost us billions in pensions and healthcare costs! From a financial perspective, it's vastly preferable that they continue to die at the current rate."

This is indeed what the current US administration is failing at: keeping Trump from governing the US...

I would not have chosen the word governing for that sentence but I'm not sure what fits best. Plundering, pillaging, gutting, ransacking, Rick rolling, despoilng, or perhaps molesting.

...molesting? a country? ...how?

Sending ICE agents to chase around random children and demand they (on their own) provide proof of citizenship sure seems to fit the bill to me.

"If you are famous they let you do anything!"

Trump is indeed effective at pillaging. The interesting thing is that Yuri explained and predicted (!) this in the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

pmurt

A purely resistive heater, by definition, has no reactive component so there's no reactive power considerer.

The 0.1% mentioned might be the light that the project produces.

Assuming you're not in an endless vacuum, the light will also become heat.

I think it's fair to separate it from the direct heat generation because if you look at second order effects like that, pretty much all of the energy ends up being radiated away as infrared in space.

It's hardly a second order effect if you're talking about heating a space and the light is absorbed by the walls of that space.

It's quite literally a second order effect. The first order effect is light generation, and a consequence of that effect is heat generation via light absorption.

Depends on where you want to draw the lines. Heating the room and emitting light could both be a second-order effect if you want to say that the first order is heating up the actual heater.

Nice point! Would it be the same for sound that doesn't escape a room?

It is greed; LLMs are progress but their cost, and the lies told about them wildly exceed their utility for most of the tasks that they’re otherwise expected to perform. The claims are fraudulent, fraud is a crime, and crime does not benefit society.

I read the title as “The largest zip file…”

Should’ve called it OuiChat

Love it, all that’s missing is n-gate style summaries of the articles and comments.

N-gate was so good. http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

It would be amazing to refine / fine tune a model on n-gate somehow.

It is good, but it's a very specific voice and take. AI has more range. (And, more stamina!)

Still, did this guy die/get executed because he was speaking the truth? A modern day Giordano Bruno?

Still, the number of people who referenced N-gate in these posts seems flattering.