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Owners of data centres don't have any skin in the game. They are not affected by the negative consequences of the data centres. However, any rise in electricity prices, environment…

>China is not “just china”, it’s a totalitarian regime without freedom if speech, without worker’s rights and without many/most of the freedoms we take for granted. Just shows the …

> China is not far away from deindustrializing and then we all suffer. How? China is actively moving up the value chain, into EVs, batteries, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing…

> But so is German industry - every day in the news either insolvency or workforce reduction and moving production to Eastern Europe - main reason often stated "expensive Energy". …

> I mean, instead of investing so much effort to get glutamate into your food, why not use MSG directly? HN never disappoints when it comes to bizarre takes.

lmao, no. start paying people for FLOSS development, and maybe then we can talk about holding them accountable for their projects. as long as there are no contracts and no payment,…

When I take you at face value, it makes even less sense to me. If what you care about is the characters and the plot, you already have those, you wrote them yourself. That's what y…

Yes, but then you are just an idea guy. Why bother, when you are not interested in the act of writing, or worse, don't enjoy the experience of writing at all, including the struggl…

So, if you hire a builder to implement your design, the end product is functional, i.e. it should provide you with shelter and keep you warm. The builder's craft serves a purpose b…

I mean, you’re right in a way that motifs, stylistic devices and archetypes recur in fiction, and that an LLM could produce similarly inspired texts – so what? That’s no reason not…

I wonder if this spells the end for online bookshops. I can imagine that small bookshops – or even online bookshops that focus primarily on selling curated books – are the future. …

> Hold up, are you the type of person wanting to fire software teams because we can just ask the Product Owner to vibe code the new features? No, and I don't even know how you can …

It's crazy that in 2018 a cellular automata written in JS by a 12 year old was considered special (which it is) and today, nobody would even bat an eye because you can just vibe co…

Shit engineers say

> We are very rapidly automating humans out of the academic publication loop here. It more looks like the breakdown of the current academic publication system, which was rotten to …

> I have pretty cynical opinions as to the "why" of this, largely involving the fact that the vast majority of software engineers refuse to learn anything that they weren't explici…

> also, technology largly exists to remove the discomfort of evolutionary pressure. I think this is a very limited way to view technology

> So could neuromorphic processing be exactly that or is it not mature yet? So, take this with a grain of salt. I only dabbled in Computational Neuroscience and met some people wor…

> That's a very interesting perspective but now that you mention it, I can't even think of the last time I daydreamed, even when I'm not on a device. Sometimes I just turn my phone…

> I think it's just information overload. There's so much information everywhere now clamoring at you for attention. Our brains aren't made for processing this much information. Go…

I just take a photo and let an LLM transcribe it