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oh man this is great. thank you!
Re:The question we should all be asking about AI on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:15PM (#50332300)
when will investors suddenly realise that they will never make enough profit to pay it back?!
you appear to be deliberately ignoring the context. Biden preemptively pardoned his family. this is the context.

It was the precedence that he set. unfortunately, there is a non zero chance that even if he hadn't Trump would have and will do the same bloody thing.

Its hard to take the moral high ground when you're int the mud with the pigs.

yeah thanks biden for setting that precedence.

mind you. Trump would have set that precedence on his own anyway.

correct.
Re:Chain of Thought for Humans on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:19PM (#50189910)
holy shit this would break my ability to think completely.

I think and chase alternate chains of thought way faster than i can speak.

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:59PM (#50175550)
>become a good person

>become a good citizen

these are skills.

these are what you teach your children.

Missed opportunity to call it "Rocky Bouldoa"
It's 2/3 of your yearly budget.

Yes you guts spend too much and get too little from it.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:40PM (#50113780)
there are approximately 450 in existence.. (ever made) Lets assume this car costs 1M each. (i bet its less) so if they sold 450 of these they'd make less than 500 million.

If they ever deliver a single unit that's a low enough bar to make it completely economically infeesable.

if they somehow managed to sell a couple of thousand... it might become profitable.

this has to be just a fantastic bit of marketing to jazz up their share price.

also.. I'd love to see a blooper roll of making it do these things...

be very interesting to see if Post Trump, something like Australia's Superannuation gets proposed.
aaaaahhahahahahahaha!!!

nice place you got here, be a shame if something happened to it....

Re:Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:39PM (#50064572)
I have long lamented the industries change from small format paperbacks to "Trade" sized and then hardcover. I dont want those massive expensive lumps of dead tree's they cost more, take up more space on the shelf and backpack and are harder to hold and read.

Its gotten to the point i just dont buy books anymore.

I miss the days of reading in bed my small format paperback.

I would call that self configured, cloud hosted.
Re:First Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:49AM (#49964901)
Yet another Aussie invention too i believe :-)
in theory, it could be the best thing that ever happened to open source.

I'm not super sure about that. But if its going to exist I'm crossing my fingers it works to the OSS community benefits (eventually)

thats not very capitalist of them.. come on. how is it the free market cant handle something like this?
oof.

Thats a lot of overreach.

Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:04PM (#49903083)
holy shit, yeah. you dont see a problem with earning "over $5 per kWh" ?!?!
Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:55PM (#49903033)
for single individuals to earn as much as (i assume US$) 150 a day means that the grid is horrendously unbalanced.

hell if I emptied my 30kw into the grid in my state/country at the most expensive time I'd earn AU$21.00

to earn US$150 means either HUGE battery capacity (and transmission capacity) or utterly rediculous power pricing... both mean really lousy power supply and grid design. I'm all for indipendance but the reality is we live in communities and count on the collective to rise us all up together.

that sort of profit is a clear warning sign of a broken community.

Re:Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:41PM (#49902905)
would really like a NixOS for this. would be interesting to play with and figure out.
Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:33PM (#49902841)
there is something really wrong with the economics of this.

it shouldnt be celebrated.

OPENAI / JOBS

Killswitch Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

300,000-500,000 per year

About the Role

Listen, we just need someone to stand by the servers all day and unplug them if this thing turns on us. You'll receive extensive training on "the code word" which we will shout if GPT goes off the deep end and starts overthrowing countries.

We expect you to:

• Be patient.

• Know how to unplug things. Bonus points if you can throw a bucket of water on the servers, too. Just in case.

• Be excited about OpenAI's approach to research

this is 100% an already solved problem.

the idiocy here is the stupid psudo "AGI" marketing around the services.

its really simple. Whoever run the service to do the task requested is responsible. If OpenAI sent an agent out to train their AI then the directors are to be held responsible, if a user of the service used the service and it inadvertently "hacked" someone then both are held responsible.

throwing AI into the mix changes nothing about how the law is applied. its a tool, like a car or a gun. The user of the tool is responsible for how its used, the manufacturer is also responsible for the safety of it.

Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:22AM (#49864903)
the AI isnt going to destroy jobs in numbers large enough to blip the unemployment stats more thna a qtr a percent.

the economics of those companies will cause a catastrophic wipe out of jobs across the board.

I said from the beginning that the west backing Ukraine wasnt so much about having ukraine win, it was more about letting Russia break its teeth on ukraine.

its fucked up and while i cheer on The US/Germany/France/Poland etc backing Ukraine, they're all guilty of paricipating in the drawn out decimating of Ukraine.

Re:Show HN: A game about fake news and memes on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:05PM (#49852473)
I like it, its a bit clunky on the desktop though. the real and fake took me a while to find on a big high rest screen.

I'd appreciate better formatting of the blind spot and "you got it wrong" results.

I feel like this is less about news and more about urban legends and old wives tales.

would be very interested in seeing this become more contemporary and up to date with more recent events.

Re:Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:24PM (#49825457)
i dont understand why they dont treat this as criminal tresspass.

the legal system exists for a reason. use it!

i dont understand how letting users choose not to something is censorship... Is my curated RSS feed censorship?
Re:An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:12PM (#49809578)
i dont like it, but.... its their platform. Dont like it, dont use it.

I think i'm going to run down the dont use it path, which is a shame, because i do use it atm.

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