We’ll see. Depends on the primaries. Institutional dems have a pitiful track record on holding people accountable. I expect we’ll see a lot of reaching across the isle and ‘moving forwards, not dwelling on the past’.

Haha I think we have a different idea of which 1% is making life miserable

I don't remember Elon Musk breaking into my garage and stealing my bike. But you never know, they never caught the guy.

Instead of your bike he stole everyones 401k and hurt every being on the planet through his rocket launch emissions.

it's not your bike that he stole.

Street crime is tangible, visceral, and visible. When someone physically accosts you or physically invades your space, you feel it.

Incestuous "robber baron" state-capitalism that privatizes gains and socializes losses, or outright white-collar crime, are not so tangible. You don't see it or feel it. It doesn't feel as invasive.

It's worse though, with the only exception being violent crime against your body. It does more actual damage over a longer term.

Thanks GPT.

People think I’m AI! Yay!

It’s hopeless. You won’t be able to tell at all. Probably can’t already.

We will vote when we want - nothing you are going to do will possibly stop it lol

All people (should) have the right to vote. If you don't like they way they vote, persuade them. This culture of political domination is at the core of our issues.

Yeah it’s freaky. I work in tech too, I know I’m a villain lol

One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensive.

All for rezoning golf courses too

Nobody's shutting off those 150 homes to take their electricity, though. They have to buy it themselves. Lots of industrial things take tons of energy, from metal smelting to food production.

Oh, and datacenters alone shouldn't even make electricity more expensive, because rates are regulated. The state regulators have to approve rate raises. Now, are the regulators a bunch of stooges captured by the utilities who always do their bidding? Probably! But that's a good reason to throw your corrupt state politicians out of office and hopefully run them out of town on a rail -- not to protest datacenters.

Metal and food are useful, though.

the irony of making an implied point that data centers aren’t useful, by using data centers.

Pretty sure hackernews doesn't take a giant datacenter to run. Its a text-only website managed by nerds. If HN didn't care about redundancy they could probably host it out of somebody's basement.

And there are zero data centers in between facilitating anything?

The data centers that already exist are one thing, creating a lot of new ones isn't necessary simply to continue supporting hacker news traffic.

These new data centers are entirely a speculative buildout of new capacity to support theoretical (and some existing) demand for AI compute.

> One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes

Is this supposed to scare me or something? I can't even fathom the actual point you are trying to make if it doesn't involve me having an emotional response to this statement.

Seems pretty obvious- that datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change , and unlike aluminum processing or farming which makes things people want, is used for AI which a lot of people resent. It’s a lose-lose

> datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change

the people who make this true are the same people who oppose the data centers. if they just let people build solar and data centers neither of those things would be true.

Who’s saying not to build solar?

Currently, it's the US government, who is very opposed to renewable energy sources and very in favor of data centers/AI.

There's plenty of opposition to solar farms at the local level.

Wild to see people pretend like this isn't true while we're still in the middle of seeing how badly this shit has already fucked up hardware prices.

in b4 the 'apples and oranges' cope

> One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes

Are you counting the externalized data center use of the people in that house?

To be fair, if they first vocalize it they could just use Sparse Voxels which is my favorite differentiable rendering technique https://github.com/NVlabs/svraster

I find the workflow of fitting Gaussian splats and then immediately turning them into voxels to be rather surprising, too. I can imagine some performance benefits at large scale, or maybe a reduced tendency to generate certain types of artifacts, but going straight to voxels seems more straightforward.

It's literally at the top of the post.

Well, in the secondary link, at least.

I didn’t notice there was a secondary link, sorry. For everyone else, consider this comment a recommendation to click through and watch it then :)

The core idea of capitalism is that you spend money to make more money. Rich get richer is the basic idea, you invest and those investments make you more. It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.

The core ideas of capitalism are private property and free market, not "rich getting richer".

> It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.

Great, let's not leave it unchecked. Unlike other -isms, capitalism does not need to be treated like an ideology to work. Also, maybe let's not attribute obvious failures of the political system to the underlying economic system.

You can have free markets without investments, which imo is the key differentiator between Capitalism and what came before. That’s what ‘capital’ is in capitalism.

In fact, capitalism tends to trend towards monopoly which is the opposite of a free market. Investing in a monopoly tends to be a Very Good Idea for investors but we want a free market so we go against the ideals of capitalism to break up firms and limit acquisitions.

Once you can invest and reliably make money invested by its very nature you get Rich-Get-Richer.

You can say this is a fine trade off for the benefits if you like, but it’s pretty well baked into the design. IMO we don’t have to go all the way to some other -ism either but we have a trillionaire that bought the government, that’s waaaayy too much capitalism if you ask me

I mean, you Can, but I like my friends and myself.

I feel gross about the place I’m at and I don’t want to lose that feeling.

I was considering pretty heavily getting a teaching license