For as long as I've visited HN, the majority of submissions have been noise, albeit with clean and simple presentation (not just referring to ads but also forum signatures/avatars and other needless decoration).

This is entirely normal — I have my interests and they need not align with anyone else's. HN tends to have better odds of having submissions relevant to my interests, so it's a regular stop.

All I have ever done really is scan through the top 150 submissions for particular topics and if there's nothing there's nothing, and if there's something there's something.

There are a lot of submissions about AI, but before that it was kubernetes and before that it was React, and so on.

Let's say there's 50 threads about AI, then there's 20 about random applied science stuff, 10 about some political nonsense, 15 random blog posts about how someone does something in their special way, couple of tech demos...

I probably wouldn't check many of these, so I'm not really perturbed by the density of one particular topic in the subset of submissions I don't care about.

Here's what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has to say about dating applications:

It is safe to assume that people who are on dating application platforms are mostly insufferable or insincere, and should therefore not be considered good candidates for romantic partnership.

Firstly, the majority of sentient beings can already be described as insufferable or insincere, or indeed both.

This may even adequately describe every sentient being, but sentient beings tend to be rather pedantically divided on the subject, or think you're joking when you ask them.

As long as it is not a defining characteristic of a sentient being, but rather just a high probability, then a sentient being's presence on a dating app offers an additional hint.

You can infer from their presence on a dating platform that they are already struggling to find a partner (either because they are difficult to tolerate, or will not be very likely to tolerate others), and that they are concerned enough about it to advertise themselves.

It is thus not recommended to seek a partner in this manner. You could instead consider the many brothels and professional friends available in the galaxy (such as on Eroticon VI), though due to a lack of viable currencies in circulation, this is also unlikely to yield positive results.

This isn’t in any of the books

Subsets of HN do understand this.

Subsets of HN just want to know how long before they need to withdraw their savings, or sell their position.

I would say growth is even expedited with high allowances for borrowing/leverage, but at the cost of increasing systemic risk.

Obviously the people who will suffer from this are the taxpayers, who don't get a say in the matter, so no one is going to stop and consider whether it's a bad idea to continue issuing more and more debt.

Pretty difficult when a lot of government people are in it looking for any opportunity to get into bed with private sector for their own individual gain, and when corporations have far more spending power and far less bureaucratic lag than governments. Governments are also just as hungry for data as corporations are.

And if you think a government has any interest in protecting their people, well, that is simply inaccurate in practice.

The government exists to organise and pacify its people, to prevent unpredictable or counter-productive behaviour. Primarily to protect the government from its people.

Regulation doesn't protect people, it protects the government, corporations, or both, in the same way HR protects the company from its employees. The people benefit coincidentally, if at all.

Couldn't you just have it charging on a time-regulated supply e.g. smart plug?

Do the lenders actually have the right to that collateral? What are the details in these private SPV deals?

And is it collateral if it has yet to be built?

(I'm asking because I want to correct my own ignorance.)

If executives were at any risk of facing repercussions for their negligence, greed or outright villainy, I suspect fewer people would aspire to become one or remain one for very long.

At a glance, Battle Programmer Shirase and Patlabor also seem to be absent.

Similar boat to you, but I already got out a couple of years ago in anticipation of the direction AI would take things.

Honestly, I've never been happier — that might technically say more about how far from happy I was before, rather than the extent to which I am happy now. But the main point is that I am not less happy.

I still work on side-projects but it's strictly for leisure or occasionally some freelance stuff for long-standing relationships — just pocket money and nothing I'd lament being rid of.

I do not work in finance, perhaps someone here can tell me if I have the wrong impression on the situation here:

Tech giants with AI interests, hyperscalers, have used "special purpose vehicles" — shell companies — to quietly issue credit to AI companies, and these AI companies have used this line of credit to purchase/lease compute hardware/infrastructure primarily from their creditors, inflating the demand and price of said hardware.

And much of the future infrastructure has yet to be constructed, and the hardware available now will at some point become obsolete or at least decrease in collateral value.

But the credit doesn't actually come from the hyperscalers themselves, as it exceeds their actual cashflow, so it comes from investment banks and/or private investors/lenders... who actually absorb the majority of the risk then?

And the big banks are currently offloading their loans at discounted rates, while simultaneously trading in swaps against hyperscalers?

I presume the reason for the shell companies/private funding shadiness, is to keep debt off-the-record and perhaps avoid regulation / exceed risk tolerance limits.

Just how exposed are the banks and the hyperscalers in all this?