MattGrommes

I was also wondering if the GPUs that die and need to be replaced actually become inert blocks of fused silicon or do they work at half speed or something? A data center full of half speed GPUs is still a lot of computing power waiting for somebody to use.

One of my least favorite things to come from AI is labelling any writing someone doesn't like as "obviously AI generated". I've read 3 of these kinds of comments on HN just today.

> Technology is neutral it’s always been neutral it will be neutral

I agree with a lot of what you say here but not this. People choose what to make easy and what to make more difficult with technology all the time. This does not make something neutral. Obviously something as simple as a hammer is more neutral but this doesn't extend to software systems.

> I looked around me and all the other kids were talking and joking around. I thought that was strange. How could you ever win if you're not in the mindset of winning. If you're not locked in?

I'm generally not a competitive person so this is so strange to me. Even as an introvert on the spectrum, this sounds terrible. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. I'd rather do my best to study ahead of time, have fun, and see where it takes me during the competition.

This is cool but I'd love the option to filter out the author of the book you entered. I put in Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky and almost all the books are others by him, which is fine but doesn't really mix up the stuff I'm reading.

I feel like a lot of this is breaking up of culture into a million shards. People are being weird in much smaller domains so if you look at the old bigger chunks of culture it seems like it's solidifying. Just because TV is largely boring doesn't mean online video isn't weird. You just might not like it so you don't pay attention to it.

Yep. Frog, boiling water, etc.

If they get away with it for a few offices and a little money, it just becomes how they do business and grows.

I talked to my kids' teachers about their homework and just told them I didn't believe in homework for younger kids and they wouldn't be doing it unless they were falling behind and needed practice. Some teachers were a bit taken aback but I didn't get any real pushback.

That's true, of course. It's a matter of degree and scale.

I first learned that it was possible to intentionally act "normal" when I was 12 (I'm now 47). So I spent a lot of years studying people to figure out how to do those things they did automatically but I had to do manually.

Later I learned it's called masking and a lot of people like yourself think of it as bad.

But it made my life immeasurably better.

I hated how I acted and how people reacted to me when I was young.

I wouldn't even know how to turn off the "masking behavior" now and I never would have become who I am without it.

Maybe it's because I was young and didn't know any other people like me but I don't think labelling this survival technique as hell is right for everybody.

Beating SimCity 2000 was one of my favorite gaming moments in my life.

If you haven't seen it and think it's weird to beat a city game; if you fill the entire board with Arcologies, they all become rockets and take off into space. What a thrilling science-fictional way to end the experience. Loved it.

I work with some bigger ultrasonic cutters/welders and the thing I didn't see in the video was the horrible noise they make. He says the knife makes no noise but they also don't have the noise on for the shots of the bigger ones so I'm suspicious.

Take a look at the maker community if you want to see people doing stuff just for the heck of it, with bits or matter. The article from the other day about a guy who put a web server on a vape, for instance.

I do agree that there has been a significant shift in developer culture because of business bros and hustle culture, but it's not nearly gone.

I was wondering what the orientation of the Earth is relative to the plane of the planets in the solar system. You normally see the Earth as basically North/South == Up/Down in pictures of all the planets but I don't know if that's actually true. Interesting thought.

Absolutely. But you can combine motivation and discipline. Over time I've made my morning exercise into "just what I do" in the morning by having discipline as best as I can. But it sure does help to have a good show or the next part of a movie to look forward to while I do it.

Does liberal mean something different where you live? Where I live, the right-wing republicans are the ones who are prone to letting corporations do whatever they want without regard to the people/environment getting hurt.

"confused" is a pretty generous reading of the situation. They just don't want anyone here from outside the US. Or anyone who isn't white, really. If they don't have a justification for kicking someone out they'll make one up or just use it as a way of scaring other people. Too many hispanic people are being picked up outside their immigration court hearings or lawyer's offices while trying to immigrate "the right way" for it to be confusion or coincidence.

The way I've been thinking about this is that there is The Tech and The Business. The Tech is amazing and improving all the time at the core, then there are the apps being built to take advantage of the Tech, a lot of which are also amazing.

But The Business is the bubble part. Like all the companies during the first internet boom/bubble who did stuff like lay tons of fiber and raise tons of money for rickety business plans. Those companies went out of business but the fiber was still there and still useful. So I think you're right in that the Tech part is being shafted a little in the conversation because the Business part is so bubbly.

I wasn't going to downvote you until I got to the third sentence. No need to be a prick.

Spoilers! If HN has spoiler text maybe use that or redact. The shock is part of the importance of that event I think.

Yep. Then they're the lottery winner that gets to go on TV and write a book about it as if it was expertise that led to their prediction.

The incentives just don't seem to be there. This boggled my mind:

> For each container Mr Gibson holds up and searches, the police must pay the port a fee of £200.

It's easy to over index on data when it's the bubble you're in. I know it happens to me on Reddit. Since I see so many different subs it makes it seem like you're getting a well-rounded view of things but that can be an illusion.

Everyone deserves companionship, it's just that chatbots don't provide it. What I worry about is people who don't want to have conversations with people at work, or go do a hobby with other people, etc. and use a chatbot as an alternative when it's just a parrot pretending to be a person but providing no actual interaction. A chatbot has no needs, tells no embarrassing stories, requires no compromise, makes no promises, does no favors. That's why I said it was candy, not McDonalds. They provide no nutrition but sure taste good.

This is the same argument people made for DOGE. "Don't we want the government to be more efficient?" Yes, nobody is going to argue the opposite. But there are ways of doing this that are rational, then there is the way this is happening. Using a chainsaw for fine cutting only works when you are an expert at chainsaws. Otherwise you're just chopping chunks off something with a dangerous tool.

Of course this is assuming they actually want these agencies to be more efficient and not just die, which is a big assumption.

The problem I see is that since the chatbots are so easy to chat with, some people use them before they even try to do the work at getting human companionship. It almost never true that it's impossible for a person to find other people to be friends with or chat with. I've known plenty of people who said they would never find a companion due to X, Y, and Z intractable reasons but who stumbled into strong relationships anyway. A chatbot is "companionship" in the same way candy is food.

I think animal companions are a different class than chatbots since they're not trying to be people so I make no comment on those.

With my kids, one of my main priorities was just making sure they knew that things were available and possible. Even if they never got into drawing or painting, we did them to show that painting or woodworking weren't some mysterious process. If you never do things with your hands, you won't have those potential areas of expression available to you.

"Everybody wants to have written, nobody wants to write". Attributed to Mark Twain. I also use this quote for books and movies. Everybody wants to have read the book, people just don't want to actually read.

It was never a great user experience but as the dotcom boom died out and the money went away, they got worse and worse as they got sold a few times.

> Miami is the 'future of America'

Probably true in that it's on track to be mostly destroyed by climate change and people are injuring themselves looking the other way.