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Re:AI is coming for accounting after coding on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:35AM (#50244452)
If the LLM reached 95% accuracy and humans typically hit below 90% accuracy, then it would be demonstrable in court that the accountant who didn't utilize AI or use it as a basis for their marginal enhancements past 95% accuracy was negligent.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:30AM (#49816773)
Those are not personal road-going vehicles.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:24AM (#49800915)
> it's only a matter of time

Is it, though?

Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:22AM (#49800874)
People replying to me keep confounding human-controlled transportation with the transpo tech itself. Yes horse and buggy is long gone. But human-controlled transportation is still here, over the course of driving horses, gas cars, and now EVs.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:20AM (#49800844)
I'm talking about drivers, not horses. EVs are slowly displacing gas cars but that's quite different than human drivers becoming obsolete.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:36AM (#49788662)
There's this prevailing narrative that someday self-driving cars will eliminate all human-controlled driving and that these types of stories are like milestones in the path to that future utopia.

But I don't think that's the case anymore than the narrative that LLMs will eventually displace all software engineers.

Re:Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet? on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:30PM (#49566851)
Firefox DarkReader
Re:Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives? on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:48AM (#48747754)
Mullvad CEO is the primary donor to a European political party that supports "re-migration"; a far right policy ideal that is literally about sending migrants back to where they came from.
Re:Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives? on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:47AM (#48747737)
You're purposely minimizing the Mullvad CEO's actions by making an incongruent comparison.

Proton CEO made some vaguely pro-Republican (U.S) comments one time.

Mullvad CEO is the primary donor to a European political party that supports "re-migration"; a far right policy ideal that is literally about sending migrants back to where they came from.

Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:36PM (#48722338)
skill issue
Oh so let's just be reductive about the issues that are important to us. Let's just throw our hands up in the air and say "Pobody's nerfect!" BFFR
You're mischaracterizing what most people are taking issue with. Being dense, honestly.
Re:Tell HN: Claude is completely unusable for biology on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:13AM (#48541604)
What do you consider to be straightfoward immunology questions?
Wow this is is so on-brand for Hacker News, a religious discussion entirely divorced from tech...
Re:Ask HN: Burned out on AI and want to go part time on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:46AM (#48308916)
You know, many people groan about consumerism and advocate being a creator... but at a certain point, someone has to consume all of those creations, otherwise it's just navel-gazing slop being churned out for one's own self-satisfaction.
20+ year old cars are much less safe than modern ones. I would strongly consider a newer car if I were you.
Hanging and folding does not take seconds blud
Re:Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:16PM (#47851660)
That's just you, bud.
Alr bro we're making software not going to war.
Re:Mass Resignation from xAI on Thursday February 12, 2026 @10:16AM (#46989843)
This is just schizo-posting.
Re:Thought-Terminating Cliché on Monday February 09, 2026 @09:00AM (#46945284)
It is what it is.
Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:19AM (#46811367)
Is it really safe to unleash 300hp daily drivers with instant torque and significantly greater weight to the general public?
Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:11AM (#46811249)
Oh their self-driving thing...Full* "Self" Driving (supervised)(see notes)(not liable for anything)
Re:How has mathematics gotten so abstract? on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:28AM (#45425175)
>he's nerd-famous enough to not warrant an introduction

What is nerd-famous supposed to be. He's at the center of some subjective in-group that exists in your head?

Pointless observation.
They said: "12*0.4% is 4.8%. Inflation is running at an annualised 4.8%."

This is patently wrong.

You concede that monthly inflation is volatile but then proceed to assume it is has grown uniformly and speculate that it will continue to grow uniformly? Umm...
No. What he's describing is like covering your face with your hands and thinking that you're invisible.
You're on social media.
Re:What newspaper are you paying for these days? on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:19PM (#44300834)
I get most of my news from NPR or BBC. I don't subscribe to either but I used to subscribe to Economist. It's still good but the writing style and tone is cloying.

I've been considering Financial Times to replace it.

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