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Your example proves their point perfectly. You shouldn't delegate wishing your grandma happy birthday to a fucking AI agent. And you should feel ashamed for doing so. And you should feel the social pressure to hide that fact if you do resort to it.

While this tech doesn't feel quite as dystopian as most recent AI innovations, I do think it is a further step in the direction of human disconnection.

Re:Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2B years on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:29AM (#49873998)
Cool idea. The way the video explains how he used probabilistic models to simulate when an action is expected to happen doesn't feel the same as it actually happening (whatever tf "happen" means in a simulated game to begin with).

It feels like saying some specific sequence of head and tails is 99.9% likely to occur after 3 million tosses, therefore let's pretend that it did occur. Though I'm not sure where the game footage came from so maybe there was some legitimate game engine running or I'm misunderstanding.

Re:Discovery Loop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:49PM (#49188016)
That sounds like just playing further and further into the game of the corrupt leaders. Who do you think would profit off that 5x margin? Would that margin come more likely from a scientific breakthrough of via some new exploitation of natural resources or human labor?

It's yearsss past time that our leaders should have changed policy.

> % of U.S. adults who say they think the impact of AI on __ over the next 20 years will be positive or negative

Blank | Negative | Positive | Equal | Not sure

Society | 40 | 16 | 31 | 13

Them, personally | 31 | 23 | 27 | 19

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Probably as much a commentary on the fallacy that bad things won't happen to us, personally, as much as a commentary on AI. But I found the difference interesting.

Unfortunately it's already time to remove the "going to be" part of this.
I think we saw during covid that we most certainly can see the benefits in our lifetime if we took it more seriously.
Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:18AM (#47350870)
I wonder what would happen if you tell the LLM to have no/less bias. What would the 1913 one say
Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:21PM (#47224265)
I feel like you're wrong about this and small phones. Perhaps you're the one in an "everyone on HN must be in a bubble" bubble.
Googled "radio controlled clock" and seeing results from $20-$200, lots of inconsistency in what the product is.
Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:17AM (#46617887)
Look at the user lists that the band/album is included in. The title of the list should give you a good idea of what else you'll find on it.

You can also click on any one of the band/album's genres and look at the charts.

Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:29PM (#46277503)
How does more pollution/waste equal higher consumer cost? Do you mean because we'll have to pay more taxes because we'll need more publicly funded resources to clean up the excess waste? Or because corporations would pass the price of the fines for violating environmental regulations onto consumers?
True, but there's probably many ways to do this and unless AI content starts falsifying tons of its metadata (which I'm sure would have other consequences), there's definitely a way.

Plus other sites that link to the content could also give away it's date of creation, which is out of the control of the AI content.

Re:You Should Write An Agent on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:42PM (#45842708)
Very early in TFA it explains how easy it is to do. That's the whole point of the post.
As you seem to understand, creating something that generally fits a description is the walking for AI. Following exact directions is the running. It may just feel reversed because of the path of other technology.
Re:Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @09:14AM (#45197151)
I love my personal car bubble as much or more than most people (though maybe not as much as you), but at some point we have to get over ourselves. We're all so spoiled. Why the hell do we deserve to all have our own giant speed machines careening through cities where people (including us drivers!) are trying to live? It doesn't make any sense and it's a shame that we've let it go so far, especially in the US.

It should be discouraged (financially, logistically, socially) to drive in dense urban places. Obviously, in order to achieve that, these urban places need to have alternative means of transportation.

Re:The day Return became Enter on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:40PM (#45106439)
A lot of people talk like this too. I'm sure I'm a little too literal, but IMO most people are too clickbait-y.
Re:Face it: you're a crazy person on Thursday July 31, 2025 @01:36PM (#44748024)
Very unrelated, but when I clicked that link the image immediately appeared on my screen. It actually confused me for a second. Going to any webpage, even tiny images, takes at least a split second to happen these days, or is delayed by a new tab opening animation/load time. What a world.
holy shit dog, you make over $533,000???
> The functions are self contained in that their dependencies/inputs are the arguments provided or other pure functions and the outputs are entirely in the return type.

Is this just a fancy way of saying static functions?

Re:Mixxx: GPL DJ Software on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:12AM (#42780954)
You're looking for a DAW (digital audio workstation). Ardour is open source and works on Linux. It's not one of the "main" players but I'm sure it has all the important features. You can google "how to mix music" and apply pretty much any tutorial to any DAW.
Re:Tldraw Computer on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:07PM (#42476390)
I found the demos just under My Projects under the Examples section
Re:The shrimp welfare project on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:05AM (#42173696)
Responses to animal welfare articles are sad. There are mountains of evidence[0] that many animals experience emotions (including suffering) in much the same way that we do. It's tough seeing people say, without hesitation, they'd kill millions of animals over a single human.

> Shrimp are a test of our empathy. Shrimp don’t look normal, caring about them isn’t popular, but basic ethical principles entail that they matter.

I think we'll be looking back in the not-so-far future with disgust about how we treated animals.

[0] RTFA

Re:Please, Stop the Coding Challenges on Friday November 15, 2024 @11:15AM (#42148244)
There's no need to be shooting for 7 figures. Get a life
Re:555 Timer Circuits on Sunday October 20, 2024 @10:53AM (#41895726)
Whoa that's a really cool application! Another example of limitations begetting creativity.
Re:Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively? on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:00AM (#41291122)
Looks like there's a pretty big jump at 56 in the first version as well.
Apologizing on behalf of exploitation is unbelievably weak.

What do you like to do?

Bike? What if one company controlled all bike sales and bike lanes, bikes costed $20,000 and you needed to pay every time you go on a ride?

Programming? What if one company controlled all computer sales and internet access, they costed $50/hour to use and each program is another $10/hour and it costed another $200/month to host anything publicly?

Can confirm, I've tripped a sawstop twice. Both times were because of the material, not flesh.

Not to say it isn't good technology, just that - anecdotally - it's more often a $150 mistake than a finger saving feature.

Re:ShowHN: Htmz – a low power tool for HTML on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:37AM (#39431741)
ha, I'm working on a dev-side version similar to this (mostly just for me, but hopefully publishable). I opted for an entirely pre-deplopyment build tool, where you just put

  <custom-tag custom-param="value"></custom-tag>
in your HTML, run the build and it outputs the filled in file somewhere else. I know its functionality is very similar to many web frameworks (e.g. React, handlebars) but it does one thing.
Re:Finding a new software developer job on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:36PM (#39338429)
I don't question that is takes hard work, even for more senior devs like the author, but 30 apps leading to 3 offers is a dream. Most early-career people are probably at >100 app with maybe a few interviews and hopefully one offer.

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