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123yawaworht456on The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse

>It turns out multiple billion dollar corporations can afford to keep homes empty in order to raise the price of their assets.

would they be doing that if they didn't have a guarantee that importation of millions of people will continue?

>Do you really think someone who makes less than you do, without any credit history, is purchasing a home that's out of your price range?

there are millions of Chinese and Indians who can buy those homes with cash.

123yawaworht456on The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse

I don't spit at the people who do those jobs, I spit at the people who think those jobs are 'amazing opportunities'.

123yawaworht456on The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse

>Just not the kind of people that those in power want.

farm owners don't give a fuck what color the cattle is.

>You bring in families from around the world

and if/when they integrate into the host society, their children will have as few children as the natives

>give them amazing opportunities, then hire them to take care of the elderly

yeah, sure. changing adult diapers. such an amazing opportunity

>This is why immigration is so important to the economy of a developed nation.

exploiting the resources of the undeveloped nations is bread and butter of the developed nations, yeah.

cui bono? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh2Vh-G3vEk

123yawaworht456on The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse

who do they sell/rent those properties to?

123yawaworht456on The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse

because people who want "eating low meat diets" and "walk, bike, or take public transport" go extinct first.

123yawaworht456on The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse

great idea. drive the property prices up, drive the wages down. that will totally help* the TFR :^)

* please disregard the data that shows that it doesn't help at all.

123yawaworht456on I made a parody of enterprise AI chatbots

there's also https://www.goody2.ai/chat

123yawaworht456on German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

lease an apartment

spend a lot of time and money moving your things there

live there for a decade

the landlord shows up and informs you that you are forbidden from using the toilet between 6 PM and 8 PM, effective immediately, punishable by a fine equal to your monthly income. why? fuck you, that's why. if you don't like the legal environment you can just pack up and leave

123yawaworht456on German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

>How the mood has changed on this huh.

has it? if anything, EU continues to fleece US companies with nonsensical, hastily-implemented laws and absurd fines.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=EU+DSA+twitter

123yawaworht456on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza

>We probably have another century of socioeconomic and political evolution to go before we reach a decent end state.

I agree with everything you said, but that's a rather odd conclusion. things are getting worse, not better.

123yawaworht456on Southern Ocean Circulation Reversed

are we reading the the same HN? mine has climate soapboxing in every other thread.

123yawaworht456on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

I assume you've been happy with the other slop Microsoft and Google fed you for years.

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aren't you retired now, Klaus?

123yawaworht456on 'It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost

with the current TFR rapidly approaching 1.5 children per woman virtually everywhere in the northern hemisphere, even if it remains stable (it will not, it will continue to decline), its population will shrink to 1/10th of what it is today in less than 250 years.

there will be plenty of empty houses for the generations to come.

123yawaworht456on The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030

>It can't possibly be a moral crusade as it keeps happening with different players, but I don't understand the purpose.

it's not a moral crusade. they don't give a shit about children. they don't give a shit about crime. to the people in power, crime - even the most heinous kind - is just background noise. the laughably short sentences given to the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes in the EU/UK reflect that.

mass surveillance is a means to identify and suppress dissent.

the people in power care only about maintaining it. it's that simple. and once you acknowledge that, it will finally make sense why the US/EU/UK are implementing the same measures that China and Russia do.

123yawaworht456on Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away

that might be, but it won't bring us closer to lab-grown humans. an artificial womb is still sci-fi, decades or centuries away.

123yawaworht456on Ask HN: Is Labelling AI Output as AI-Slop Just AI-Phobia?

I'm as pro-AI as it gets (or, more broadly, pro- people doing whatever the fuck they want with consenting computers), but I fully acknowledge that generative AI output is soulless slop.

that being said:

1. most of human generated media is soulless slop too.

2. the gen-ai is out of the bottle. it is hubris and delusion to believe that it can be wished away. for every redditor, journalist, and social media influencer tilting at that windmill, foaming at the mouth in impotent rage, there are tens of thousands of people who think it's useful and neat. with the current US administration being much more friendly to it than the previous one, with China rapidly catching up, with the sheer amount of capital behind it, gen AI is here to stay.

123yawaworht456on Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

I love these little mask slips.

123yawaworht456on Immune and metabolic effects of African heritage diets versus Western diets

>young and healthy volunteers assigned male at birth

ah. yes. of course.

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>There's no "rule" that everything must be tech-related here...

take that to its logical conclusion, and you get orange reddit

123yawaworht456on Importance of context management in AI NPCs

>In my local ai (mistral-nemo) around 10 thousand tokens of context decreases my token gen speed from 70t/s to 20 t/s . And the LLM starts ignoring the context after a while.

as much as it pains me to say this, only cloud models are somewhat viable for this. AI-powered NPCs are my dream too, and after many attempts with countless local and cloud models, I've given up for now. locals are retarded and incurably sloppy, clouds can be tard-wrangled into producing somewhat decent prose, but they are prohibitively expensive.

mistral models are particularly soulless and full of cliches.

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-longform/mistra...

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>if you call out propaganda, you are doing propaganda. also you're a pussy if you don't want to be stalked.

123yawaworht456on The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful

90% of real grunt work is "stitch an extra appendage to this unholy abomination of God" or "*points at the screen* look at this shit, figure out why is it happening and fix it". LLMs are more or less useless for either of those things.

123yawaworht456on European summers are getting brutally hot. So why is air conditioning so rare?

>experts warn AC may be a quick reprieve from scorching temperatures but it gobbles up energy, most of which still comes from planet-heating fossil fuels.

yep, this article is exactly what I expected it to be.

123yawaworht456on Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs

EU has a nebulous AI act that prohibits a myriad things.

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you mean like when they voluntarily unpersoned the sitting president of the US? or when they conducted mass purges of his supporters from their premises in the preceding four years, openly vowing not to let such an unthinkable thing - democracy - to happen again, loudly chanting the mantra of free speech not applying to private platforms?

123yawaworht456on RFK Jr.'s health department calls Nature "junk science," cancels subscriptions

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Springer+Nature&ia=web

>Springer Nature is a leading publisher of books, journals, and other materials for researchers across disciplines and regions. Learn about its initiatives, partnerships, and platforms for open science, women in science, SDGs, DEI, and more.

and yeah, the thing looks exactly as you'd expect it to look.

123yawaworht456on Why Is ChatGPT Telling People to Email Me?

on the contrary, they're all heavily filtered and """aligned""". have a chat with any commercial model about some controversial topic, and you'll see the viewpoints that didn't exist until 5-10 years ago and are only held by less than 1% of worldwide population.

unfiltered data might exist in the petabytes of shit they train on, but goodthink datasets are heavily prioritized.