hunterpayne

This is complete non-sense. Nothing about what you are saying is factually accurate in any way, scientifically or otherwise. What is happening is that enough people have finally learned that the environmental movement's policies weren't based upon actual science or data. This lost them support. They have finally lost enough support to verge on complete irrelevancy. Now that that has happened, they are trying to reverse that trend.

"the most important two reasons to join the EU"

You misspelled NATO

Serbia has been basically ruled by gangsters for the last several decades. So no, I don't think the academic environment has people like who the Serbian government has to deal with.

Honestly, its not the hubris. Politicians are a pretty arrogant group of people. Its the lack of life experience and lessons learned from negative consequences that they lack. The hubris just makes it more galling and thus makes for better sound bites.

I've worked and known many, many academics in my life. I'm sorry, but if you think this is anti-intellectual, then there are some basic things you don't understand about people.

Academics really are naive and out of touch people. In a weird sort of way, being an academic means sacrificing your personal growth for either a) a deep love of their area of research or b) love of teaching. This means that the wider life skills one gains as an adult, they never get. They get to avoid consequences for being wrong but at quite a price. One of the worst things I have seen are what happens to academics who leave for the private sector later in their career. When they can't make it in the private sector, it is pretty crushing to many of them.

That being said, one of the prices of being an academics is being very "out of touch" with the rest of society. And that will take away your ability to read political situations or govern things well. Academics injecting themselves into such situations will almost always be disastrous as a result. Its just a consequence of how academia works. It doesn't have to be that way, but unless academia changes profoundly, it will be.

Fun fact: The US has only had one academic hold the presidency. He is also considered to be the worst US president in history.

Academics don't have a great track record in politics or governance pretty much anywhere at anytime in history.

Its the EU and the UK pushing for this stuff. Take your meds...

You realize you posted this on a site run by a US located tech VC firm right? Or maybe you just forgot the /s?

Paris actually isn't that dense compared to some US cities. NYC for example has far more people in the same space as Paris. Not that that is a goal to shoot for but there you go. That being said, at the moment Paris isn't a very nice place to be with all the smoke and looting and all.

"Self expiring legislation would very likely end up the same way."

Most laws in most countries (including the US) have sunset clauses. They are incredibly common and have existed for centuries.

Ironically, the thing we learned in the US about public housing is that it can't be in high-rise apartments. It has to be duplexes or small 1/2 story apartment buildings. It also must minimized all public space so that each part of the land "belongs" to one unit. If you don't do this, the public areas get messed up really quickly. This tends to lead to the rest of the residents being less willing to take care of the area and it all spirals from there.

The Soviet solution to this was 3 ft thick concrete walls but the crime and other problems that get created by public housing were never addressed there.

Given the rent required to live in Berkeley, its basically the nightmare scenario that we are all talking about. The only people who benefit from Berkeley's laws are the landowners/landlords. Everyone else suffers including the local businesses and especially the renters. Even taxpayers in other states are penalized as lots of federal money is used to subsidize poor renters which ends up both increasing the rental prices even more while benefiting the landowners even more. Basically, whatever Berkeley is doing, do the opposite and you will be fine.

Then why do they have the nice schools? Somehow, suburbs both have the best amenities and the lowest taxes but they are unsustainable? That link is a word salad BTW. In reality, since suburbs have low crime, the policing is cheap. And policing is by far the biggest expense in most cities. Most incorporated suburbs have balanced budgets. Mine does. It also has the best schools in the county. But somehow the large city next door, with billions in debt and all the jobs (and thus the payroll taxes) has terrible services and terrible schools. I think you just don't like suburbs and will twist your logic into knots to claim a rational reason for it. Truth is, you just don't like suburbs. Most people do, get over it.

I see the GCP marketing staff has found HN.

I've worked for a UK financial institution before. If you knew, you would keep your money under a mattress.

Two things:

1) 4b queries a year is nothing. 4b queries is less than an hour for some of the software I have written.

2) The banner was a joke referencing the fact that the EU has a terrible track record with privacy.

I believe the article in question partially provides such a list.

Yes, because the world is so peaceful right now? /s

That's not how proof works.

Do you know why that is the case? Its because calling a war a genocide is basically extremist propaganda. It isn't a charge based in fact.

HAMAS uses child soldiers, then when they inevitable get killed claim that X number of children were killed in the war. HAMAS doesn't use uniforms so they can claim when their fighters die that a civilian was killed. These things are warcrimes exactly because it creates such confusion and because it increases the chance that actual civilians will get killed.

The people who make such charges are absolutely doing it to create the environment where they can commit atrocities. HAMAS publicly admits such things. Additionally, most of the images and videos from Gaza that got people upset in 2024 were generated by LLMs. It was pretty obvious too. Plenty of images with the wrong number of fingers or limbs were posted around that time. That's why such speech gets treated the way it does, not because of some sort of grand conspiracy.

PS Nobody debates the finer points of fascist public policy. The things people don't like are about vilifying a group of people and then creating a "final solution". Being part of a propaganda effort to do it again isn't a great look. That's why such speech is treated how it is.

The vote totals from that election are...odd. Somehow Biden got about 28% more votes than any US election in history and about 24% more votes than you would expect in that election. That's way outside the error bars. As in 5 sigmas or more. Other than that, I have nothing but only because I don't go down this specific rabbit hole.

Trump also got a weird and very high vote total in the 2020 election. People just chalk this up to mail in voting. Perhaps, but the 2024 vote totals fell back into line with previous expectations on both sides for vote totals. Make of that what you will.

Oh look, this post is explaining the reason for another article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065892

Nice one...

Yea, that's because 80% of the work is getting to that level of quality and even most human devs struggle to get there, even with the necessary resources. So using a LLM which is trained on the absolutely average corpus of code produces the same level of average. Getting to that noticeable level of quality is difficult and time consuming and LLMs do not help you get there. But much like everyone thinks their baby is beautiful, they think the code they create is the same. And most of the time it isn't. Sorry about that but if quality was common, it wouldn't be called quality.

Auto workers in Detroit probably wouldn't agree with you. They had a union. Now they have no industry.

Take a look at what you pay for health insurance and then get back to me.

According to test scores, our best and brightest don't go to med school and haven't for about 50 years. So I'm not sure the argument about restricting the number of med school slots to preserve quality really holds any water. Also, a lot of the job of being a doctor isn't all that mentally taxing. There are a lot of specific procedures to follow and having really good coordination is a big plus. Technique is required a lot more often than brilliant insight. Bedside manor doesn't hurt either. None of these things are limited by test scores. So no, it probably doesn't benefit society but it definitely benefits those that are already practicing.

If you know what you are looking for, its still pretty tedious to sort the fakes from the real CVs. If you don't, its like picking a random number. I do think this is a big part of the problem currently. The idea that someone with a psychology degree is a good choice to do this is one of the most absurd things ever conceived by a human.

I suspect he means things that HR thinks are important but aren't.

I also think there is a noticeable drop in the quality of the interviews on the employers side. My friends still in the bay tell me there is a noticeable drop in the quality of the people they work with in the office. Look at the languages they are asking for, they are the languages that are cheap to develop for. But software isn't manufacturing, its more like some sort of publishing. And just making something for cheap is the best way to go out of business in publishing. I suspect that will be happening in the future. I know quite a few devs like the author who instead just started their own software business. Some are doing well, others not so much. I suspect this is the future of tech and it won't be in SV.

Here are the relevant numbers:

- Worldwide Li-ion battery production per year: 35GWh

- Worldwide grid capacity: 5000GWs

- Lifetime of a specific cell in a grid scale battery: 20-30 years

- Current known reserves of Lithium worldwide at current usage rates: 80 years

So even if we magically mined all known Li reserves this year, it still would only be about 14% of the grid for 1 hour or about 9 minutes total for the entire grid. You don't actually need to backup the entire grid (only about 20-30% of it), but you need to do it for at least 4 hours. Basically, it isn't even close even if we only used Lithium for this use. You can get more with Na-ion, but if you think NPPs are dangerous (they aren't)...let's just say nobody would ever insure a grid scale Na-ion battery. Just one leak and it goes up with 1000s of tonnes of TNT of explosive force.

"they don't have free speech in the US, on Israel-related matters"

Is the sky in your world green?