> Did the link say they were? That seems like a red herring.
By "here" I meant posts on this thread, not in the content of the article.
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By "here" I meant posts on this thread, not in the content of the article.
I also wonder what the contribution of domestic solar and on-site industrial generation is? I'm a dev in a large manufacturing business and two of our three factory buildings are now covered in solar cells which power a lot of our operations. Some big industrial sites have on-site wind-powered generation too. Is that counted as generation in these stats? Or is it just manifested as reduced demand?
(Edit: added "being posted", "welcome" and "(neutral?)" for clarity)
And to preempt the inevitable comments about what happens to the employees: anyone who works for an oil or gas (or tobacco or social media or junk food, etc) company who's culture is so broken that it produces such planet- or society-wrecking egregious behaviour, is part of the problem and they know it. Find a new job doing something constructive.
Handyman? One of my neighbours used to be a senior sales director. Now he paints fences and assembles flatpack furniture. He seems happy enough.
Or get out of town, buy a shack with some land, try live cheapy off grid, wreck my body hacking turnips from the frozen waterlogged ground.
Retire, try to live off an inadequate pension, hang out in the local public library where its usually warm.
I've long suspected the RFK jr's role is simply to exploit that for his, and his political owner's, benefit. Thata all. The man has no redeeming qualities.
This seems like a rather fascile take, tbh. Along the lines of "everything is just atoms". Yes they're numbers. And yes, the hardware is just atoms. But its the emergent properties of those things that is significant, and the way that behaviour is embedded in human society - which can be just as morally consequential as swords and brains and harmful ideas.
The Orange Entity sets the direction and his congress provides the money. My guess would be that NASA has been told that the direction that leads to there being money is to forget the space telescopes and other science, and instead to focus on national prestige projects (Moon, Mars) and things that will feed through to military applications (hypersonic flight).
Clearly. And I'm sure you're right about US public sentiment.
I was perhaps trying to make the point that powerful authoritarians like Trump always have to consider future threats because, unless they can stay in power forever, the future is where they are most vulnerable. Eventually they no longer have the energy to keep it going, and someone else is in charge - someone who then has more power than they do, and may not owe them any loyalty.
The usual work-around is dynastic power, but I don't see any signs of that this Trump's case.
> But he'd belong in American jail, tried in our courts, under our legal system.
For January 6th, sure. But the war with Iran, the Venezuela thing - they're international crimes the like of which a non-trivial proportion of the world considers the ICC to have jurisdiction over.
But anyway... if he doesn't die in office he'll realistically be too old to face justice in any court.
Personally I'd love to see Trump on trial at the ICC. Along with Putin and Netanyahu. And Blair (the former prime minister of my country) and George Bush.
As for me, I've come to appreciate that I'm a fairly average thinker. Mostly I just try to make things work and watch the clouds.
There are people who's thinking I admire - Stewart Brand, for example. As for Nietzsche et al, I've never really had the time.
I don't know for sure but, as others have pointed out, yesterday's submission was the third time you'd posted it to Show HN. People have a low tolerance for dupe posts, especially if they're perceived as excessive self-promotion.
Also, your work might be seen as vibecoded and therefore "ai slop". I dont know if it is, but all it takes is a perception.
Finally, your work might be seen as a commercial threat by some people here - causing them to flag it.
> how i can share my work with HN community
Write a technical article about some aspect of what you've done. Talk about the challenges and how you solved them. Include a link to the repo. Put it in an external site (even github) and submit a link. If its interesting then people will notice.
Musk would be so proud. Do you by any chance drive a cybertruck too?
Seriously, don't do this while you're driving. Or even while your car is driving. Its dangerous to be distracted in that situation.
Is this something that people do?
As for the technology itself - it isn't like anything we've ever seen before and, when embedded in human societies, it won't behave in a way that has any comparable precedent. I worry that basically nobody of good will who has any political power understands it.
And no, its not a marketing ploy.
No, it isn't. There are people of good will and integrity in US politics. As there are is almost all countries.
"They're all as bad as eachother" is just a lazy excuse for cynicism and inaction.
You seem to be using the "they're all as bad as eachother" argument. But previous US presidents haven't used their office for enrichment on this scale - and so it seems likely that there are alternative potential presidents who would behave with integrity and dignity.
Nobody donates those kind of sums without wanting a quid pro quo. And the donors, as you say, are extremely dodgy. As a brit it frankly frightenes me.
TIL about the /usage command... Thanks!
And I suspect you're pushing Claude a lot harded than I am.
Eventually, though, they decided to migrate the whole thing to Azure. And they were far enough through that to be basically committed... when AI coding started hitting them with much higher workloads.
I personally think the reliability problems are more to do with the reliability of the Azure migration. But both factors are likely relevant.
Scientists are notorious for believing in things like observable reality, truth, scientific and academic integrity, etc. That puts them in opposition to the people currently running the US government — who absolutely do not want "experts" pointing-out the deficiencies in their policies and scams.
Ron Suskind's quote of a Bush2-era politician sums it up:
"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'." [1]
Trump etc want to create a non-reality reality in which their grift and social engineering are so normal that they're unnoticed. Their contempt for, and dismantling of science, is part of that.