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New comment by geremiiah in "EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:30:46 +0000

Hmm, I think you provide a compelling narrative. However I'm not very convinced.

I think AI is a good example. EU wide there are plenty of public HPC centers and in 2020 we had (relative to the world) plenty of compute. In other words, we had the tech, we had the compute, and we had the know how. And yet we don't really have a competitive AI scene in Europe. There were some very small projects launched to try to train LLMs. All of them were no more than learning exercises.

How will QC be different?

New comment by geremiiah in "EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:21:56 +0000

True, but what they do is they invest in fundamental research and then expect magic to happen and that research to lead to economic growth. Unfortunately the wizards that cast the spells live in the US, not Europe.

New comment by geremiiah in "EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:19:45 +0000

Because lots of senior researchers who call the shots are somehow invested in QC.

New comment by geremiiah in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:27:21 +0000

EU also recently introduced a 3 euro fee on all packages from China. Maybe well intentioned but it puts a huge markup, when a thinker wants to buy a very specific 0.05 euro spring from AliExpress or something along those lines.

New comment by geremiiah in "AI Chip Architectures"

geremiiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:55:36 +0000

It's an interesting topic, but the article is completely AI generated, which isn't surprising considering the startup, but still, if you don't even go over the output what's the point?

New comment by geremiiah in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"

geremiiah — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:58:06 +0000

His ancestors murdered and stole a whole lot for him to gain that priviledge.

New comment by geremiiah in "Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?"

geremiiah — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:11:43 +0000

You are not popular enough at your work place or at least not with the right people. Change jobs and try again.

New comment by geremiiah in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

geremiiah — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:00:58 +0000

I don't either. Don't we have free market capitalism? Why don't I have a Linux phone? And why do I need to worry that my government and banking apps won't work if I get a Linux phone?

New comment by geremiiah in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

geremiiah — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:50:43 +0000

I remember in 2010, corporate propagandists were telling us that the effects of climate change won't be felt for a 100 years.

New comment by geremiiah in "Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold"

geremiiah — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:08:32 +0000

Yes and correct me if I'm wrong, but they never did deeper work on dynamics. I think that's very telling.

New comment by geremiiah in "Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold"

geremiiah — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:06:33 +0000

It's probably because they hit a dead end with their approach in terms of improvements. You can only get so far with trying to model a physical system with an insane number of degrees of freedom from simulation (and augmented) data.

New comment by geremiiah in "CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches"

geremiiah — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:57:03 +0000

Capitalism uglifying the world that tiny bit more, so long as we can squeeze some more $$$ out of poor impressionable people...

New comment by geremiiah in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

geremiiah — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:22:52 +0000

This is the kind of rational you arrive to, if you spend too much time in feminist circles and never bother to actually try to understand the other side. I can assure you that nobody thinks in terms of "controlling women".

New comment by geremiiah in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

geremiiah — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:48:11 +0000

To be fair, this is only true in western countries. It's not true, in for example Russia or China. Or to be more accurate, in Russia and China, no matter how many hundreds of billions you own, you won't be able to bend the party to your will.

New comment by geremiiah in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

geremiiah — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:39:33 +0000

One possibly positive side effect is that by sidelining the working and middle classes, the political landscape would pit the rich against the fuck-you-rich.

It would be interesting to see the class of doctors, lawyers and small business owners fighting against the class of large cap c-suite and the billionaires.

New comment by geremiiah in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

geremiiah — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:27:31 +0000

Look, I'm not even a millionaire, and I will never be a billionaire, but in an alternate reality in which I'm a centibillionaire, one of my chief aims would be to limit the political say of the electorate as much as possible, because their voting rights would be one of the biggest threats to my everything.

Moreover, everyone who gains any amount of power becomes protective of it.

That's basic human nature. As a conservative, I under this.

New comment by geremiiah in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

geremiiah — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:44:37 +0000

All the frontier labs are lobbying hard to lock down the AI market, because they see that their position at the top is temporary and that there's no secret sauce.

New comment by geremiiah in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

geremiiah — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:14:48 +0000

Here's a shower thought. BTC essential is worth $70k solely through the power of memes. Can TSLA and SPCX remain overvalued (relative to the revenue of their respective underlying assets) forever through the power of memes?

Intuitively, it seems to me that there must necessarily be some kind of upper limit, but I'm not convincing myself. These speculative assets are only attractive as long as the price keeps inflating. But that can only happen if there is more and more demand. So it's basically a bet that there is an average amount of retail investors (I assume it's mostly retail investors but I could be wrong) that consistently put a percentage of their income into these speculative assets. Can this be maintained forever?

New comment by geremiiah in "What happened to nerds?"

geremiiah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:42:10 +0000

What "charming personality", lol? Nerds always had a higher than average probability of being total assholes. That has always been my experience.

New comment by geremiiah in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

geremiiah — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:07:49 +0000

IDK about Argentina, but the US, Australia and Canada went through the whole cycle post WWII. At first they opened up their borders because they were in need of workers. However, at some point, due to various factors, including rising anti-immigration sentiments, they retightened their immigration policies again. This all happened pre-1990s. And all of those are immigration countries, unlike countries in Europe.