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Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:09AM (#50259644)
AI promised less workERS, not less work!

The human workers remaining will be worked to the bone, now competing with, or at least shaded and stalked to some extent, by relentless obliging machines. Or be dispensed with.

Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:11AM (#50104858)
How come the 'documents' are floating above the wood surface creating such deep drop shadows?
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:45AM (#50085498)
Because, although the arguments might make sense in an abstract, detached way, they're very often against 'gut feel', and for good reason.

Therefore they use a kickstarter or aliexpress style torrent of argument and features to try to cudgel you into agreement.

This is like saying you understand the basic principles of internal combustion engines.

Sure, that gets you some level of understanding, but in no way prepares you to be even a mechanic, far less an engineer, let alone a researcher/engine innovator.

That's just a guess.

Do you and your cat make better predictions than your friend without a cat?

Of course model predictions will be acted upon, which will invalidate the predictions.
Re:How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:22AM (#49741223)
Obviously it tricks a human, even if it can't hack the lab's rs423 or modbus or whatever network.
Re:How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:05AM (#49740155)
releasing it.

deliberately, instead of accidentally.

TY I was not aware of that, it sounds extremely useful.
Snap is a little intimidating compared to Scratch.

It's clearly designed for older students, but at that point some of the advantages of blocks are lost.

Most of these systems suffer from the 'canvas' model, where you have many stacks of blocks scattered around the canvas as they are created, possibly in no particular or logical order. It's difficult to find things or to get a good overview, and really becomes a navigation problem as projects get bigger. I think they would greatly benefit from a more traditional ide/file type structure, or some other way to structure 'stacks'.

I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty, and content, or the peace of unburied death, the choice is yours.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Monday September 07, 2026 @08:27AM (#49597556)
So who is the original manufacturer of these readers?
Like a slavery index?

What if you spent 10 years building a business abroad?

I remember early in my career being send by my employer on 'contract' assignments to other companies for 3 or 6 months. When I left that company and went interviewing, everyone was extremely concerned that I had been an independent contractor, some even saying they never employed such people. As though, once you've broken the chains, you're no longer employable.

It's perhaps the least-efficient method of dealing with collisions, in keeping with the rest of his project, lol, but less code.

He researched different methods. My favourite for elegance is to recursively hash the hash n times.

Only passingly related, some fun rust stack-allocation insanity by my 17yo son:

https://ogghostjelly.github.io/slog/alloca.html

Maybe the extra sex is the main benefit?
Re:Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:52AM (#49230953)
woah 4 years is considered obsolete?

My kids still using thinkpad 430 from 2013

Trump literally just paid money (taxpayer money) for nothing
Texae surely
Re:Discovery Loop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:12PM (#49191194)
"making solar energy economical"

judging by the amount being installed, it already is.

The FIFA-planned game schedule is also surprising. Argentina have not had to face a single 'big' contender through the tournament, until now.
Re:Punk, or why I don't stream anymore on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:12PM (#48877386)
By 'advance' I meant 'a further exploration', moving on to something new, not necessarily better.

But it seems like we're just going back to a previous time.

Re:Show HN: Analog Watch on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:24AM (#48861232)
I don't disagree you should improve your skills. but I don't think your app is optimized for that.

But, ok you're the gamemaker, then well done building something, and I hope people enjoy it.

For me, an analogue watch is good for giving you an extremely glance-able approximate time. And potentially as exquisite mechanical jewellery. If you need to know the really exact time to the second and want to be able to tell it quickly, you might be better with a digital watch, especially vs a mechanical watch where a mickey-mouse digital is more accurate than even a COSC mechanical.

But my initial point is that your game is not so much about recognizing the time, even the exact time, but about entering it into the keypad.

Maybe add a multiple-choice mode - show the analogue clocks, pick the digital match.

Re:Punk, or why I don't stream anymore on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:27AM (#48860453)
We've got used to 'reasonable' society and politics in the last few centuries, but check out politics in developing nations or dictatorships, or woke, or Trump or places like pageantry. All fake news and gossip and performance, and AI just makes this potentially much much worse.

It already has a name in academia I think, post-truth, or post-reality or whatever, I think it all started with the French post-modernism thing, then critical theory, etc.

But I'm not sure it's a post- 'advance' at all, but more like a rejection of the enlightenment and a return to the tribal village.

Re:Show HN: Analog Watch on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:54AM (#48858691)
Then just show them the watch, or look at your phone or whatever. How often do you need the exact time?
Re:Show HN: Analog Watch on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:28PM (#48853797)
lol, this completely misses the point of analogue watches or clocks.

It should be called 'keypad data entry game' instead.

The point of an analogue clock is that it gives you an instant sense of the rough time at a glance. I can immediately see it's 'about half past' or 'only a few minutes left until the meeting at 11' or whatever.

Semple's humorous long-form performance art, pillorying Kapoor, while developing a menagerie of new pigments, is much more interesting than Kapoor's sculptures.

Anyone could have made at least the same with the given material, and a more talented artist could stun, but sadly they are not allowed to because contract.

Also erase stars.
It actually does work for a whole range of things.

Is it a panacea? Of course not, but it is potentially a sustainable business.

Except - open models are barely months away from the same performance and there is no moat, so we will see commodity pricing, and the billions being heaped on the fire currently will probably not see a return, unless someone comes up with a genius trading bot perhaps.

Re:Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland? on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:53PM (#48728020)
The whole idea of a 'sovereign' data center is that it is under your control and jurisdiction, and you can protect it.

Iceland is not an EU member, and is remote. What happens if Trump decides Iceland should be a US state?

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