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Forcing Puritanical values on the world around you is half the reason we are in this mess.

I think HN “crowd” on average is smarter than a random or some hype eating crowd on the internet.

Smarter people tend to be more sceptical and resistive when something gets shoved up their bottoms too much or much more than it seemingly deserves.

Nothing special about AI here, it’s a general tendency.


The database is exactly the hardcore piece of engineering that's been designed to scale and be fault tolerant for decades

This is not true – the police cannot "simply ask anyone for their passwords", and your oversimplification has resulted in this becoming a lie. I would really strongly recommend that you educate yourself first – by doing this, you contribute to the misinformation that is currently making much of the world an unpleasant place to be.

One of my indices of mania. You saw similar comments for crypto, blockchain, NFT, VR.

Two things amaze me about GPS. First, that there are still four Block IIR and seven Block IIR-M satellites operational; these had 7.5 year design lives and were launched by 2004 and 2009 respectively. Second, that L1C, L5 and L2C are all still pre-operational thanks to the OCX debacle. L1C and L2C really modernize the signal structure to improve accuracy.

> AMD is nothing

What?

SpaceX is the hype not AMD guy


>> humans are mostly not needed anymore other than for menial low-paid work. Economy slows, then almost completely stops.

> Economy slows or stops when AI robots are producing goods and services for much lower cost than human workers?

You can't have an economy without employment.


The password can only be compelled via a judge. A policeman can't demand it on whim.

>If you believe that what happened to George Floyd was bad, you would also believe that what happened to Nowak was bad

except Nowak has never done a crime such as robbing a pregnant women with a knife or overdosed on drugs leading to his death.


Twitter too, right?

At that point there's no material difference. You can seek out the best treatment anywhere on the planet. The point becomes moot.

i earned myself a notice in the local newspaper in 8th grade for hacking the public library. what i did: on the PC terminal right click, show source, edit the HTML to leave a "i was here" note, click save :)

The exact quote "python is for brahmins" brings up top links on incels.is and 4chan, so perhaps OC's character is something worth dismissing.

Because you likely already have a database and likely don't need to bring on an entire new distributed system to orchestrate your workflows.

It required reading comprehension skills.

It is simply a fact that most commits are small - that is the nature of that kind of project. I looked at the commit history. It still takes a lot of work and it is valuable, but it has very different review requirements.


That’ll be deprecated in 6 months. Nope.

Do you have two or more kids? I say it’s different. For people with more kids, a single child seems like a walk in the park. Because in the worst case at least one parent is "free". With two or more kids the default is being fully occupied or if one partner takes all of them for the other to have free time, it’s insanely draining and the other partner feels almost pressure to make the sacrifice worth it.

This of course being said about the situation without any parents around. The step from two to three is worse for car/transportation and hotel room but I think it’s not nearly as hard as from one to two.

What you also have to consider: You’re gonna have bad nights. With one kid only, it’s fine. You can recover. With two, you simple don’t have room for that. The bad nights will eat you up.


It gets pretty dark if you pull that thread of reason. =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer


Because it's the crowd that sees reality of the results, not just the marketing.

You can ship a 1.0 10x faster and leave bug hunting to your users and tank your reputation before you have one or you could do like what we've been doing for 30 years and ship quality. There was no problem to fix there that AI fixed.


And what happens if company A issues more stock? Company B is delisted? Company C is now listed? Company A and C merge? Company A spins off it's most valuable side business into it's own independent listing company?

This was my fist ever conversation with Da-Vinci model: https://imgur.com/a/9Cj39MV

Firstly, your question is not genuine and it's clear by how you've constructed your post. There's no need to put on a facade of curiosity to make a statement. It would somehow be less antagonistic without the question and just the statement.

I feel you could be confusing negativity towards the application of AI with negativity towards the technology itself.

I use AI frequently and am neutral to positive regarding the technology. However, we have seen a rise in "I built a tool" submissions on here which advertise AI envisioned, AI named, AI marketed, AI designed and AI programmed projects. The submissions contain AI generated descriptions. The authors reply with AI generated responses. Often, other authors reply with AI generated comments.

I am entirely comfortable expressing negative sentiment towards the people promoting projects made using AI in the most lazy, passive fashion possible. It's not a moral stance, it's just a matter of quality control.

Further, CEO's and thought leaders with strong pro-AI stances have repeatedly expressed sociopathic or misanthropic views. Again, I'm comfortable holding negative sentiments towards them.

Lastly, your framing is entirely from the point of view of a product person who is desperate to ship something. This is not necessarily the priority of all people present on here. I'm very happy to express negative sentiment towards the SaaS bros who create little value for their users, the tools they use or the wide community in which they participate.


When LinkedIn filled up with 1000 copies of what seemed like the same exact post: 20 lines long, breathless, declaring humanity over.

I thought, "I will never let myself become a zombie like that. I am me. I am worthy of my own respect"


The was a lawsuit that they only allowed favoured castes to use Python.

I remember in the early days when I was just trying out ChatGPT on a phone for the first time (this was around GPT-3.5? GPT-4o?) and snapping a picture of our fridge that's full of magnet souvenirs and asked it to identify all the places we've been in and it gave a nice list of what it saw and the places that were featured.

Did it get it fully right? No. But it was one of those "oh wow, you could do that?" moments for me. There's obviously a lot more "oh shit" moments as time went on, but it was a neat little moment.


I never connect any “smart” device to wifi. If it doesn’t work without connectivity, I don’t want it. I use my TVs as display devices. They have HDMI-in and that’s it.

I was using DALL-E to create stickers, and was like "oh shit"

Please read my comment - my London tech worker total comp is about 8 times that 62k and I am coasting mid-level. The poor folks in the UK are pulling the average down too.

Oh and healthcare costs in the UK are obviously zero percent, paid for out of general taxation (there is no dedicated "NHS tax"). So those unemployed poor people with literally nothing pulling down the averages get better-than-US health outcomes from the NHS, subsidised by the taxes from wider economy. I get private healthcare too through my employer and it is also zero cost to me. No co-payments.


How can you tell that tech is the cause of people not having children, and not just what they're doing because they don't have children to fill their time?

I don't think you can point to the rise of tech as a casual just because it's popular. If people aren't having children they'll do something else instead. To say what that is you need more evidence that what people are doing.


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