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by nosianu 10mo ago
I don't get it. I'm still programming, AI use or not? It's just that I can (finally - when it works) concentrate on the big picture, instead of syntax or API intricacies that I don't really care about. I always formulate
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by nosianu 10mo ago
> Almost all computer equipment companies are from US. Made in a few Asian countries. I think it's kind of funny reading the contents of your post and how it ignores Asia, that's actually behind most of it. How much of a De
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Which in turn was fueled by the consumers' desire for cheap stuff, and for their portfolios to earn them a lot of money to be able to retire early and live comfortably while letting a cheaper workforce far away do more and more of the
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by nosianu 10mo ago
> Evidence I can give in support of the article: I only want to point out that evidence of less hiring is not evidence for AI-anything. As others have pointed out, here and previously, things like outsourcing to India, or for Europe Ea
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by nosianu 10mo ago
> What makes a code worthy of trust is passing tests (Sorry, but you set yourself up for this one, my apologies.) Oh, so this post describes "worthy code", okay then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442
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by nosianu 10mo ago
Look, I understand, but we have a concrete event here that is being discussed and there is no evidence anywhere for what you came up with. Adding feeling-based imagination instead of sticking to facts just makes the discussion much worse -
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by nosianu 10mo ago
Unfortunately, German AND Paywall, but: https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-12/atomkraft-frankreich-... > France's dangerous nuclear friendship with Russia > France promises to support Ukraine. But its
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by nosianu 10mo ago
> political pressure. Same reason lots of stuff is banned in the EU even when it's safer than other things that aren't banned. You avoid the question instead of answering it (What caused that "political pressure"?
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by nosianu 10mo ago
TypeScript is indeed Javascript, all you have to do is remove the type annotations. They are not code. TS does have some minor things like enums that need to be transformed and are actual code, but those are very few, and leftovers from ear
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by nosianu 10mo ago
That's what this is for, in general: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/infrastructure/trans-euro... Also, Germany currently has the problem of much more and more reliable wind generation in the north, but no
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by nosianu 10mo ago
I don't know how reliant France is, but they do seem to rely quite a bit on Rosatom ( https://www.lemonde.fr/en/energies/article/2023/03/12/french... ). They also rely on imports of uranium
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> Working for other people sucks. Depends. I worked and even had a business with and/or worked for three people that I've known for a long time. And had loud substantial disagreements with - before going into business. Worked
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> Arguably, AI is largely marketed that way because that's what corporate buyers care about Why "arguably", that is exactly what he wrote
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> Agentic code tools have a significant bias to add versus remove/condense. Your point stands uncontested by me, but I just wanted to mention that humans have that bias too. Random link (has the Nature study link): https:/&#
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by nosianu 10mo ago
> Would a human perform very differently? How useful is the comparison with the worst human results? Which are often due to process rather than the people involved. You can improve processes and teach the humans. The junior will become
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by nosianu 10mo ago
He is not the only one, this is normal now and not a sign of super-rich depravity. Here in my Bavarian city I can get mangos explicitly labeled "flight mangos" ("Flugmangos" - German supermarket), for example. They look
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by nosianu 10mo ago
The human world model is based on physical sensors and actions. LLMs are based on our formal text communication. Very different! Just yesterday I observed myself acting on an external stimulus without any internal words (this happens contin
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Having grown up in East Germany, that is the truth. From both my grandparents, born early 20th century, to me things continuously got better. Apart from the war of course. They started little better than servant class and ended up with thei
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Hacker-Noosed
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> This other side is not the left, How is that my mistake??? YOU came up with "left". I very deliberately did not say such a ridiculous thing, given that any "left" party has never in power. I would also appreciate
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by nosianu 11mo ago
This did not happen fast though, but over decades. On one side, the right preparing by slowly taking over positions, on the other side people ignoring the problems of many. Here in Germany I fear the AfD too may get into power, because inst
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> If you haven’t had a mind blown moment with AI yet, you aren’t doing it right I AM very impressed, and I DO use it and enjoy the results. The problem is the inconsistency. When it works it works great, but it is very noticeable that
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by nosianu 11mo ago
For some strange reason a lot of people were attracted by a comment that speaks about everything else BUT the actual topic and its the top comment now. Sigh. If you think that carefully chosen anecdotes out of many many more are relevant, t
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Definitely citation needed. Such court cases usually come with a lot of important context. How can you just make such a statement and get away with not providing any context link?
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"Cops in this country think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer" (because of GrapheneOS) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473694 https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Without any of the spatial and physical object perception you train from right after birth, see toddlers playing, or the underlying wired infrastructure we are born with to understand the physical world (there was an HN submission about tha
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Ah, Polish. I love this movie scene, which I learned about here on HN some time ago: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz" -- https://youtu.be/AfKZclMWS1U
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by nosianu 11mo ago
I think a good reminder for many users is that LLMs are not based on analyzing or copying human thought (#), but on analyzing human written text communication. -- (#) Human thought is based on real world sensor data first of all. Human word
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So you agree with the parent commenters actual point and counter-example, great!
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> over the past two decades basically all of the successful entrepreneurs and business owners I know This very much sounds like survivorship bias to me. But more importantly, I think the discussion is going off the track. The important

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