herewego (u/herewego)

herewego commented on LLM=True blog.codemine.be/posts/20... · Posted by u/avh3

mikkupikku · 20 days ago

Seems naive. You can get an LLM to agree with almost anything if you say the right things to it, and it will hallucinate citations to back you up without skipping a beat. You can probably get it to hallucinate case law to legalize murder on Mondays.

herewego · 19 days ago

You’re talking about manipulated/malicious/intentfully steered hallucination but the parent is referring to trained emergent hallucination (even if sycophantic). These are two different things and both can occur, but the latter is what’s being tongue-in-cheek referred to by the professor.

herewego commented on Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway cleantechnica.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/whynotmaybe

loandbehold · a month ago

I'm using FSD for 100% of my driving and only need to intervene maybe once a week. It's usually because the car is not confident of too slow, not because it's doing something dangerous. Two years ago it was very different where almost every trip I needed to intervene to avoid crash. The progress they have made is truly amazing.

herewego · a month ago

Would you use FSD with your children in the car? I sure as hell wouldn’t. Progress is not safety.

herewego commented on Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway cleantechnica.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/whynotmaybe

jdross · a month ago

I am so confused when I read things like this because my Tesla model 3 is effectively self driving for me for months now. Hundreds of miles without intervention. No other car I can buy can do this yet

herewego · a month ago

You and I must not drive the same Tesla brand then because my Model Y is a terrifying experience when “self-driving” anywhere besides on highways.

I do wonder if folks who say Tesla’s FSD works well and safely are simply lacking a self-preservation instinct.

herewego commented on Requiem for a Solar Plant 7goldfish.com/articles/Re... · Posted by u/akkartik

bz_bz_bz · 9 months ago

I'm curious what part of this you thought was an indictment on Texas.

ERCOT has the most generator-friendly interconnection process in the nation and leads the country in both renewable generation and utility-scale solar installations.

Mineral rights are dominant over surface rights in most jurisdictions, including other states like California. To call it "insane" just shows how little experience Mr. R has in land development.

OP lost the game playing on easy mode because he was purely chasing tax breaks with zero experience. The area OP is trying to develop in is a QOZ for a reason; he should have expected there to be upgrades necessary to delivery that level of power to a substation in an area where nothing else is going on.

OP is actually lucky that this project failed. Expecting to get the ISO-average solar PPA price for a project in Coleman County is nuts. This solar farm would have lost even more money had he continued.

herewego · 9 months ago

Not arguing against your overall point, but Texas is a well-known lesson in failed power grid management, market design, and policy - which in combination is the driving force behind the current economic energy opportunities.

I say this as someone in the energy industry who operates many renewable assets across the U.S., some in Texas, and participates in the markets. Texas is a power nightmare, worst in the country. Everyone in Texas is investing in desperate immediate need and toa lesser degree, future potential, but that potential isn’t here yet and the cost of wholesale power spikes to egregious levels regularly.

herewego commented on Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence' nytimes.com/2025/06/10/te... · Posted by u/thm

herewego · 9 months ago

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herewego commented on Dominion Energy's NEM 2.0 Proposal: What It Means for Solar in Virginia virtuesolar.com/2025/05/1... · Posted by u/Vsolar

onlyrealcuzzo · 10 months ago

> If you believe burning carbon fuels is a big negative externality, then solar users are subsidizing everyone else.

If the energy company is paying you $0.12 to sell electricity for $0.09 - they're losing money. Not to mention, they aren't covering any of the costs of maintaining their network (which is a large chunk of the overall cost).

If they're forced to buy rooftop solar from homeowners at a loss - they are FORCED to transfer that loss onto other costumers - which means the other customers are subsidizing that.

There isn't anything tricky about who is subsidizing whom.

Your issues with "dirty" energy are entirely separate.

herewego · 10 months ago

You are stating a common misconception. That being that solar owners should be paying for anything other than the cost to push power into the distribution grid. The grid fees solar owners pay account for that. They should not be paid for supplying power at wholesale rates bc that assumes a wholesale power flow model, which is not physically applicable to solar owners who support the local distribution grid. If you look at the portion of the grid that a solar owner interacts with, how their power flows through it, the efficiencies of supplying that power locally are clear and should be at retail + distribution fees only. It’s the solar owners that are actually (marginally) subsidizing the non-solar owners in reality.

The utilities and ISO’s do not argue against this. They want to eliminate NEM 2.0 in favor of NEM 3.0 bc the difference in rates are to then be provided by alternative incentives such as battery pay-for-performance programs.

Disclaimer: I own an energy company that does C&I and Residential energy aggregation and participates in wholesale market energy supply and incentive programs.

herewego commented on DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days github.com/deepseek-ai/op... · Posted by u/ahsmha_

johnthewise · a year ago

this doesn't argue whether existence of profits necessarily implies exploitation of workers but asserts it and then proceeds to argue against philanthropy funded by profits. This line of reasoning only makes sense if one already accepts the initial assumption, whereas the original poster questions that very assumption, so it's a bit irrelevant quote.

herewego · a year ago

I read the parent’s comment as arguing that the existence of profits implies exploitation of workers in the quoted instance (p perhaps broadly in England at the time) and that there is some similarity with DeepSeek. No hard-line assertions, just suggested similarities.

herewego commented on Batteries start to rival gas on California's electricity grid english.elpais.com/econom... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

PaulHoule · 2 years ago

When I try to model out an all-renewable grid I think of it this way: capital cost is the sum of generation capital cost + storage capital cost + transmission capital cost.

In the winter you get less energy from your solar panels, one answer to that is build enough storage to shift energy from summer to winter, another is to build an excess of solar panels. In the latter case you need less storage but you have an excess of cheap energy in the summer you can do something with (e.g. factobattery, desalinating water, making e-Fuels, e-Fertilizers, etc.)

To realize that benefit you need additional investment in transmission (with an option of locating sinks close to sources to minimize transmission cost) Also the capital cost of any facility that you run 50% of the time is effectively doubled.

I have yet to seen a cost analysis of a 100% renewable + storage system as it needs a detailed analysis. One problem is that you occasionally have the bad luck of an extended patch of unfavorable weather. It's going to cost more to build a system that runs out of juice once every 20 years compared to one that runs out of juice every year. Advocates of renewable + storage systems claim to be a lot cheaper than AP-1000, my back of the envelope calculation is that that renewables + storage might be a little cheaper than AP-1000 under favorable assumptions, but I haven't done detailed enough modelling to have much confidence in that and I haven't seen anyone else do it.

herewego · 2 years ago

Distributed energy resources eliminate a large portion of the transmission cost, leaving only the distribution grid in an idealized/future-state scenario (as I assume you’re talking about). In the summer, you lower the solar output so as not to overload the s distribution grid.

Also, batteries come in several long-term flavors. Thermal sand batteries are able to provide many months of energy storage today. A mid-term future will surely include even longer term storage as we develop improved storage technology. LiPo batteries are a bridge storage solution.

herewego commented on Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid blog.gridstatus.io/a-reco... · Posted by u/kmax12

infecto · 2 years ago

Regressive in what manner? Historically a lot of solar buy-back programs were incredibly inflated. Residential solar can be great for the resident but is usually not great for the grid. Paying resi. solar producers greater than market rates always felt foolish to me.

herewego · 2 years ago

Regressive in that solar programs are not inflated, but do require distribution upgrades to realize their efficiency advantages over centralized power transmission. These distribution upgrades are costly to IOUs because they cut into their margins when the efficiency of distributed generation is considered.

Paying distributed generation export at retail rates or higher (DR, etc) makes plenty of sense because there are significant load, resiliency, and efficiency advantages to homeowners who are supposed to be the ones to benefit most from the grid.

herewego commented on Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid blog.gridstatus.io/a-reco... · Posted by u/kmax12

infecto · 2 years ago

Bless your heart for trying to be so witty but in fact coming off foolish.

Texas is simply hot and has been for our timelines. You could make the same silly comments about locations that have long and cold winters. Texas is hot we get it, you don't like it but it does not change that this summer has been great, it is a lot cooler than usual.

;-)

herewego · 2 years ago

He’s saying Texas is hot for humans, which is objectively true. One’s willingness to tolerate it is subjective, but that’s not the point here. Don’t take it so personally.