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Does not happen to me under ubuntu, FWIW

> make the humans irrelevant

Only the poor or undesirable ones. I have the (hopefully incorrect) feeling that universal basic income and similar proposals are red herrings (due to their impracticality) to distract the masses from the fact that once people with enough economic power don't need them to fulfill their wishes, they will be in no better position than cattle.

There might not be a universe where, for example, someone with ALS is able to benefit from a humanoid robot for their daily needs unless they already had enough money/resources before this incipient revolutionary technology is deployed en masse.

We are close to a point where even personal security or securing one's assets can be done with robots. So you would not even need to keep human private security happy.

Again, I really really hope this new technology benefits the average person. I'm not optimistic on that happening.

muh shareholders!!!!!

on a more serious note, why is it always (ok, not every time, but too many times) a software developer (or adjacent) looking down on categorically more stressful and lower paid jobs? Must be some "huh they deserve it for not knowing bubblesort" type of mentality

And we are not even building enough housing as it is, imagine if we were...

username checks out.

I'm sadly unsurprised, but me ranting about silicon valley mentality on HN feels like yelling at a cloud. Best we can do is keep trying to make people's lives better even if it is not in the best interest of the shareholders :)

As far as I understood, the problem happens when the ad has a link to a website. I can't imagine that happening with static images or videos that don't link a website (that could be solved quite trivially...)

Yeah the brain is a bit of an extrapolation machine isn't it. Try running on a treadmill for half an hour and quickly stop and see what happens with your vision :)

X's scam originated revenue is probably a bigger percent, but 10% is too much... Shame on Meta.

edit: wow, some people REALLY don't like getting told they are knowingly contributing negatively to society.

Nikita should be ashamed of how BAD the android X app is.

Last time I had a medical intervention with propofol I returned so relaxed that I thought I had died and was in the afterlife.

Holy molly this must be the equivalent of reading the necronomicon and getting cosmic madness disease as a result.

What a flex of patience!

> wish there were a way, once and for all, to prevent this ridiculous idea from taking hold over and over again

"Ideas are bulletproof, Mr Creedy". It's valid for good and bad ideas.

> Being shamelessly focused on wealth accumulation seems to be socially acceptable in a way it wasn’t fifty years ago

Has anyone here had the chance to have a frank conversation which such types? Morbid curiosity...

joking about people having too many worker rights is tonally comparable to a dog that won't let a cow eat grass

sometimes what works for me is literally inventing a movie in my mind. Then the awake part take the backseat...

This cannot possibly end well (flipped bits, maintenance, cooling).

If they fulfill their promise within 10 years I'll change careers to kiwi farming. I promise.

Dunno about brain drain but some departments seem to be having a mandate of "must have AI" when procuring products. Pump and keep pumping!

funny that even if we have our app running fine in AWS europe, we are affected as developers because of npm/docker/etc being down. oh well.

I can't avoid feeling admiration for each and every person involved in such a procedure.

And the most impressive thing I managed today is to test out a data and schema replication utility...

numbers don't need to add up if you don't have an alternative to survive. That is why a lot of jobs get away with paying peanuts, because 3 peanuts is more than 0 and people need to eat.

> very smart and intelligent researcher being incredibly bullish on AI on Twitter

A bit offtopic but as time goes by, I believe we can be very intelligent in some aspects and very, very naive and/or wrong in other aspects.

UBI never "mathed" to me. It always smelled like a pseudo solution to distract the soon-to-be-replaced long enough until they are replaced.

I really feel like a leaf being blown over reading this stuff while planning on getting a Mortgage. Well, at least I have a rented roof over my head and eat every day. A lot of people can't afford that right now.

The people with money don't care, as the very next day Vercel got a series F. That is funny tho because I remember him being pretty anti-israel back in our High school on the long defunct semi-official foropelle.com.ar he owned and managed.

He is a programming prodigy, and that's it. Not a nice person.

Nevertheless, my anecdote should only be taken with a grain of salt... After all, the only person that probably has backups of foropelle is Rauch himself. And who cares what a teenager had to say back in 2006?

As time goes by I tend to agree more and more with your POV.

In Argentina it is said, half-jokingly, that 1 week of news cycle in Argentina is 10 years of news cycle in Switzerland.

On a similar note, leave Argentina for 2 years and everything is different. Leave for 20, and everything is the same.

In summary: There are far crazier places to be born than Argentina, but oh my god I would pay to see what a billionaire would do if they had to live there with the median wage and the current cost of living...

> China is superlative in every way possible and Americans don't really seem to get it.

A a latino it's amusing to watch. After the soviet union failed, Americans thought they had won the civilization game forever.

I would never move to China due to political concerns, but at the game of empire they are kicking butt, and that unnerves some Americans.

Must be odd being born and raised in a first world country (?)

Then we infect every microbe with that biomarker and make hell real for germophobics?

Or a less dumb application: lab leak monitoring

Operation paperclip >>>> some nazis fleeing to argentina after WW2

We got the criminals who did not know rocket science, America got the ones who knew.

ontopic: This is extremely in character with Rauch, as anyone who has interacted with him since forever can confirm.

LMAO, this goes to show that people can be funny with a few words. Why lot word, when few word do trick?