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It makes sense to see the number of questions decline over time as people google questions and get results. It would be interesting to look at the number of comments and views of questions over time to see if that has declined as LLMs have driven declining engagement and discussion.

This post is kind of sad. It feels like he's advocating for human depopulation since the trajectory aligns with horse populations declining by 93% also.

Have we ever fully realized the lessons of the "Pale blue dot" photo? When will we stop the wasteful fighting and over-consumption and finally embrace a cohesive sustainable lifestyle together to protect the only life we know of in the universe.

I'm glad he tried to look it up. But we shouldn't have to, all AI generated images/videos should be watermarked full stop.

Unreal. Traveling is just not worth it right now.

All the major airports. Just looks up the top airports in the US they will all be impacted.

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

Official announcement tomorrow.

“The only energy is the launch”, that’s false.

Energy went into mining, extracting, refining, transporting all the raw materials needed to make these chips.

This is typical tech industry green washing as the industry fails to accept its destructive influence on the planet.

We need practical solutions that help reduce consumption and waste and actually address the issues. We don’t always need more we need to find a way to use less.

The people selling these tools are doing so with a powerful narrative: Generative AI supposedly supercharges all that it touches, democratizing creativity, eliminating friction, increasing productivity, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Its disruption of the online economy, the boosters argue, is a reason for great optimism. But at the moment, so many of these benefits are theoretical. Generative AI is disruptive, is transformative, and is reducing friction, but the economic incentives for using it are geared far less toward supercharging human potential and much more toward producing abundant slop.

This is tragic. The loss of friction deprives people of something crucial. What happens between imagination and creation is ineffable—it entails struggle, iteration, joy, and frustration, disappointment, and pride. It is the process through which we enact agency. It is how we make meaning and move through the world. To lose that, I fear, is to capitulate on our very humanity.

Anthropogenic climate change is the most pressing issue humanity faces. Yet the best minds of our generation our focused on creating AI models to plagiarize human expression.

The world deserves better then the onslaught of ad powered content that technology has enabled the proliferation of.

You gotta start thinking about the energy used to mine and refine the raw materials used to make the chips and GPUs. Then take into account the infrastructure and data centers.

The amount of energy is insane.

This doesn't include the energy for mining and chip production either. Can you imagine if it did?

Then when you take into account the amount of water used to cool the data centers as well as part o extraction and production process? Things get insane then https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-ac...

This sounds like an application of ML. But we can't call it ML anymore right? Need to call it AI in the media whenever possible.

Thanks technology.

We need to halt the AI rollout and focus on using engineering talent to help make sure afforestation works and forests conditions are monitored carefully. We need to make sure that the forests we have can be sustained and the carbon we have emitted can be successfully sequestered back into the forest.

Most importantly we need to drastically change our consumption patterns to prevent emissions from continuing to rise.

Google Glass again ...

Mr Roger’s and Reading Rainbow will always be the best children’s programs ever made. No other show in history has been able to entertain children with real people as successfully as they were. You won’t know unless you let your children watch it. It’s just amazing because they engage with it and when you turn it off they don’t have a tantrum like many animated shows or Ms Rachel

Drastic oversimplification of what is meant here. The core take away is writing can give the illusion of wisdom without the reality of it. True wisdom must be cultivated internally, through thoughtful interaction and lived experience—not simply consumed passively through text.

The withdrawal of the United States from the agreement in January 2017 effectively ended any prospect of the agreement entering into force. In response the remaining parties successfully negotiated a new version of the agreement that lacked the 85% GDP threshold, the CPTPP, which entered into force in December 2018

That's a bit different than complete access to the complete payments database isn't it?

The impacts of climate change are real. We have known for a long time that as the climate worsened animals would be more vulnerable to illness that live outside and have to deal with a destabilizing environment.

I believe this post is relevant to HN because we depend upon our ecosystems in order to function as engineers.

This incident has been largely unreported in the US mostly due to the dominance of reporting on the federal government lately.

But this is incredibly relevant and significant.

This is happening and we need to discuss solutions - https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/la-homeless-enc...

We also need to discuss clearing plants and other fuel that comes back as part of the drought / rain weather patterns we are seeing. Goats and other firefighting clearing efforts need to be discussed.

Most of these wildfires are caused by humans. Not just because of climate change but because of people intentionally starting fires who want to watch the destruction unfold. There were fires near these exact areas where fires in homeless camps were found to be the cause. Not enough was done to enforce the law and stop street people from intentionally causing destruction and being pushing for it.

Microplastics impact endocrine hormones and potentially are carcinogenic.

Lifespan growth has stagnated although technology has improved. Quality of life has declined as number of temperate days with good air quality declines with climate change.

I think the author forgot to see this.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-china-ev-graveyards/

Because it is increasing by decade we can probably assume its consistent with children now or maintaining along the increasing incidence trend line.

HN is all about everything that impacts engineers in our work lives, and home lives. Did you know fireworks cause microplastics levels to spike in your environment leading to endocrine system hormonal damage in your family? I bet not.

No fireworks do not just fade away. The microplastics released into the environment take extended time periods to degrade, impacting lives for generations. The millions of animal deaths annually are forever. The shortened lifespans from the smoke caused by fireworks also is permanent.

BBQs aren't killing animals and releasing microplastics nor toxic smoke that pollutes the air nationally.

A lot of misunderstanding about this comment. I think adding solar energy capacity to the energy supply mix is helpful. What I want to clarify is this, adding all energy supply has costs. Rare earth metals and other mining and habitat destruction that goes into increasing renewable supply needs to be considered. Like I said all additional energy supply has a cost.

The real problem is we need to reduce consumption. We also need to rework our energy supply chains with renewables when appropriate as well as nuclear that isn't vulnerable to meltdowns.