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Most people don't have lidar phones. The statement is still very true, even if you said US only. What are you trying to say?
DJB is a bit off his rocker and biased by selling the solution to a problem which does not exist. Reads more like a ransom note than a "good counter".
Re:You are the scariest monster in the woods on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:31AM (#45593209)
"to the monsters we're the the monsters" station eleven
Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:18AM (#44973886)
your comment somehow feels more emotionally charged and low effort than the original. here, let's continue that...
Re:Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:27PM (#43107938)
it is amazing at what passes for an academic paper these days
Re:Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#43107809)
which is totally out of touch with the reality of making use of the extra qubits they just slapped on the chip to get a high number
Re:GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:00PM (#42893388)
If they don't like where you are going and they go a simpler way, I don't think they will feel left behind at all. More like dodged a pitfall.

How is this lazy again? I thought we are supposed to use the AI to be lazy.

Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:15PM (#42796412)
Nope, totally fine with me. I'll just assume you see the error of your ways.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762755#42789029

Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:23PM (#42795895)
You can make the weak argument all you want, it is still a weak argument. I get it, you think there is no such thing as an original thought therefore mass scale plagiarism (even for profit) is all cool and fine, like a technical loophole or something. Just like the music AI will create, the end result will be that nobody will want to listen to you.

Good for you. Enjoy your AI generated art. By yourself. You've missed the whole point of art.

Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:36PM (#42788665)
I've seen this on SoundCloud, but that was a while ago.
Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:21PM (#42788573)
Yes, lyrics are usually part of a traditional notation "score". Of course, Ableton is too hip to provide traditional notation with a score editor, but quite a few other popular DAWs do, including Logic:

https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/add-lyrics-to-a-sco...

Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:53PM (#42788375)
Art is about the human experience of the artist reflected in the art. LLMs have no human experience. They just try to statistically trick you into thinking they made art through mass plagiarism of art. It's an illusion, and also rather boring/lame/uncool.

You can do it, sure. But you'll probably also start to wonder why nobody really wants to listen to it, and you can count me out before I do.

Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:30PM (#42788189)
Sure. With rock & roll, the pencil is sometimes not large enough to rage against the machine properly and a heftier implement is necessary.
Re:Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:08PM (#42787995)
Hardware is better at this: notebook, pencil, baseball bat.

"AI art" is plagiarism and not an art at all.

So you are sorry and take it back? Should probably delete your post rather than striking it out.

I live, work, and posted this from Texas, BTW...

Also it takes up more than one line on my screen. Not a "one-liner". If you think it is, please follow the rules consistently and enforce them by deleting all comments on the site containing one sentence or paragraph.

Otherwise, people will just assume all the comments are filtered through your unpredictable and unfairly biased eye. And like I said (and you didn't answer), this kind of thing is no longer in fashion, right?

None of this is "borderline". I did nothing wrong and you publicly shamed me. Think before you start flamewars on HN. Bad mod.

Nope. Any crypto you can break with a real, physical, non-imaginary quantum computer, you can break faster with classical. Get over it. Shor's don't run yet and probably never will.

You are misdirecting and you know it. I don't even need to discredit that paper. Other people have done it for me already.

By your own admission, Ikea eliminated 0 jobs and you gave no number for Meta.
Not guilty. No sarcasm intended, of course. If your guidelines are so broad to include this, you should work on them, and in turn, yourself.

Governor says our power grid is the best in the universe. Why don't you believe us?

Stop breaking your own rules.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Let's not ruin HN with overmoderation. This kind of thing is no longer in fashion, right?

Not sure about that.
At peak hype?
Who can break crypto with quantum computing? That is total speculation.
Fossil fuels, of course.
How many jobs will it net if "successful" and the AI eliminates jobs?
I thought the business prop for AI was that it eliminates jobs?
Probably the first state to power all those renewables down at the whim of the president too.
It is an ideal location for bribing politicians. That was at the top of the reqs list, infrastructure was at the bottom.
Don't worry, they said they are doing it in Texas where the power grid is super reliable and able to handle the massive additional load.
Re:VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:48PM (#42512334)
DMA will work fine. I remember a time when we were rewarded for making do with what we had rather than putting a handful of CPU cores on a sensor. These do not sound interesting to me, honestly. It sounds more like they can't figure out what they need to make.
Re:A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:58PM (#42083677)
This is all half-baked and either insecure or unrealizable in the real world we live in.

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