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Gravey commented on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations   dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist
astrange · a month ago
Are you a Waymo tester? I haven't gotten Bay Area access yet despite it being released, and when I checked with support they were just like "oh we lied, it's for trusted testers only."

I dug up my email and found they'd sent me the tester application form like a year ago and I just forgot to fill it out, so maybe they'll let me in sometime.

(Also, the chat claimed the support agent was named Al Pacino. Unless it was a pun on AI and I just couldn't tell with the font.)

Gravey · a month ago
My partner downloaded the app and registered last weekend. She already has full peninsula access, but still non-freeway roads.
Gravey commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
keernan · 4 months ago
Who benefits from high stock prices?

Certainly not people regularly buying stocks or stock ETFs/Funds.

Gravey · 4 months ago
I suppose if you’re operating on the assumption that tech stocks are vastly overinflated then this makes sense. Otherwise I would expect the people that are regularly buying these securities would be happy that they’re increasing in value, no?
Gravey commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
ath3nd · 4 months ago
The media was saying nfts are a reasonable investment and web3 is the future, so I am not sure if they have any remaining credibility.

We are at the awesome moment in history when the AI bubble is popping so I am looking forward to a lot of journalists eating their words (not that anybody is keeping track but they are wrong most of the time) and a lot of LLM companies going under and the domino crash of the stocks of Meta, OpenAI to AWS, Google and Microsoft to Softbank (the same guys giving money to Adam Neumann from WeWork).

Gravey · 4 months ago
Can I ask why you would be looking forward to the stock market crashing? Vindication?
Gravey commented on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study   nutraingredients-asia.com... · Posted by u/hilux
Beijinger · a year ago
Po in the periodic system. At least for Americans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gravey · a year ago
K.
Gravey commented on Apple endorses bill that forces companies to disclose their carbon footprint   twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/... · Posted by u/stalfosknight
dataflow · 2 years ago
No. In an alternate universe something that work. In ours they're basically scams at this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37284764

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/carbon-c...

https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+offsets+site%3Anews.y...

P.S. I don't believe it's "sequester Y", but something more like "promise we wouldn't burn Y that we also promise was otherwise definitely going to be burned". I could be off here, feel free to double check.

Gravey · 2 years ago
The news article you’ve linked seems to suggest that these scam offset companies may soon be losing their ability to sell their credits.

Carbon offset startups are booming right now, not all of them will succeed, but there are viable technologies already being scaled up. For example, Heirloom Carbon has just made front page news today with a 200 million dollar deal they signed with Microsoft.

All this is to say, I agree that there are some bad actors in the space, and it’s great that they’re being called out for it. To suggest they’re all scams is an unfair, and largely inaccurate statement.

Gravey commented on Apple endorses bill that forces companies to disclose their carbon footprint   twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/... · Posted by u/stalfosknight
dataflow · 2 years ago
Is there any reason to believe "offsets" won't be used to game these numbers?
Gravey · 2 years ago
Is that not the point of carbon offsets, at least in principle. If you emit X and sequester Y then it would be correct to consider your net emissions to be X - Y.
Gravey commented on Apple endorses bill that forces companies to disclose their carbon footprint   twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/... · Posted by u/stalfosknight
xnx · 2 years ago
I've never understood how "carbon footprint" can reasonably be assessed. What gets counted? The fuel used to power the diggers that mine the materials to make an iPhone? The salaries paid to employees to take vacations to Fiji?
Gravey · 2 years ago
Employee commute method & distance would be an interesting datapoint to factor in.
Gravey commented on What an executive physical is like   twitter.com/WillManidis/s... · Posted by u/aliabd
Gravey · 2 years ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1696515577442103585.html

For individuals (such as myself) that are incapable of reading twitter threads

Gravey commented on Top Cooking Oils the Good, Bad and Toxic [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=pljQr... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Gravey · 2 years ago
Attempting to summarize:

* In terms of cooking stability - saturated fats > monounsaturated fatty acids > polyunsaturated fatty acids. * The less stable the cooking oil, the more damage (oxidation?) occurs while cooking, the more inflammation they cause * Seed oils are generally to be avoided, especially ones that advertise a high smoke point. This is due to a highly industrialized refinement process that damages the oils (see previous point) * High smoke point avocado oil is included in the above category (avoid) * Extra virgin avocado oil is good (but don’t cook with it) * saturated fats are healthy * high carbohydrate intake is bad for your arteries

He recommends the following for cooking: * ghee * butter * coconut oil * olive oil

Gravey commented on Get a personal teacher   sebastian.bearblog.dev/ge... · Posted by u/real-sebastian
behnamoh · 2 years ago
I have found ChatGPT quite useful in teaching me new things. I know it might hallucinate, but human teachers are not always right, either.

I think in the future, the main value of going to college will be socializing, networking, and learning "life" skills through interactions with others, dorm mates, etc. The teaching part will be already taken care of by AI.

Gravey · 2 years ago
I’ll second this. It really shines when learning new technologies in a field in which you already have some expertise. Being able to apply the smell test, or quickly validate the output is important.

I haven’t tested this, but I would imagine the type of information you’re requesting dictates the quality of response you’ll get. In my case I use it mainly as interactive documentation for different tooling. Asking it to explain the process for synthesizing new hypothetical polymers likely will not yield useful results.

It’s worth noting that my experiences are with GPT 4.

u/Gravey

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