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Re:The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:20AM (#50334318)
Let me guess, they are all really nice people with no links to Epstein between them /s
Re:Show HN: UK Farming Simulator on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:53AM (#50290112)
American defaultism in the LLMs used to make this.
AI magnifies biases and was trained off the internet so yeah the people are in the training.
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:36AM (#50259097)
Sure but proper weekends are much much more recent.

But far away enough that we need to look at this again and get more time back to the workers.

Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:34AM (#50259060)
We had to riot and sometimes people were killed rioting to secure the weekend.

If things are to rebalance again and give some of the productivity gains back to the rest of us, we should be working far less and I hope it comes with less of a fight than it took for us to get 2 days a week off.

It's been over 100 years now.

Re:The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:38PM (#50253682)
Its tiny, setting up traffic lights on some road junction might cost similar.
Re:Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:00AM (#50231691)
That antimatter particle when it gets to the end of the universe late: "you won't believe what happened to me..."
Sorry but no, this is absolutely not the case.

CA put out quizzes and in that era of Facebook the average user absolutely did not think filling in a quiz meant giving some organisation your data.

People probably didn't think about them being run by third parties at all - it was just a fun thing to fill in shared by friends and family.

Re:Not Palantir on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:16AM (#50229976)
Seeing such a ycominator comment makes me want to check them out.

> WeMove Europe is a values-based community of Europeans spread across the continent that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of all people, future generations and the planet.

Ooh yes, how very dare they /s

Sadistic
AI data centres are a thing we are choosing to add, we could just not do that.

What benefit is the AI summary on search giving me Vs the actual search for a start.

Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:17PM (#50201176)
Of course I'll put rubbish in bins and maybe take it out as well as load the dishwasher - but I don't it under pain of penalty.

Air B+B used to be good about 10 years ago, but its scraping the barrel now and most of the time your better off on another site if you want a house or just booking a hotel.

Re:Migrate Your 300-Node Redis Cluster to Just 3 Lavik Nodes on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:28PM (#50199239)
What on earth is running on that, Panantirs spying database ?
Oof.

LiteLLM has one of the nicest programmer UX to use but this is not good at all.

Re:Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:26PM (#50185378)
Shutting down studios is what EA have been famous for in the industry for years.
Exactly. I use this stuff at work, but why would I ever risk this for my own stuff ?
Good for you.

I'm not an introvert and have worked under plenty of bad managers, I don't want to be a manager and wouldn't be a good one - I make stuff with code.

Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:21AM (#50129358)
It doesn't do all that much - so nobody being able to fit it in their head is not a good sign.
Inequality has increased the middle class have been hollowed out and young people have no money so hardly surprising.
Re:Teachers Using AI Say It Frees Up Time for What Matters Most on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:54AM (#50101032)
How were the survey questions worded ?

Gallup will put up surveys for whoever pays.

Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:30AM (#50100876)
Any movement that names themselves after how right they are is suspect.

Similarly movements who use catchphrases for this, like when Kier Starmers centrist version of Labour started calling themselves "the adults in the room" - it gave away their entitlement to lead.

"Rationalists" can't be wrong - it's in the name, any one disagreeing is just irrational.

LLMs usually write comments which the code afterwards exactly reflects - it might help them at the time, but these "waypoint comments" as I call them are almost always useless afterwards.
Given they don't have the code, I think it's fair enough here. Sounds like with it, it would have been much easier to find.
There has been research into Thin Wall Insulation for this very reason, and that would be a good start for much of the Victorian housing stock (e.g. Cork Spray which is permiable so avoids the problems of sealing up these older buildings).
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:13PM (#50060453)
Well, this is horrifying.

But a the conclusion is a nice one for people that will be able to pull it off.

Re:Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:38AM (#50055552)
Wait, do people in the US really call them "orange cats" - I just thought that was a reddit / internet thing.

In the UK these are ginger cats.

Re:Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:30AM (#50053212)
The only reason it would go up by the same amount is greed of "the market" profits are unevenly distributed so it would make sense to even things out a bit (at least undo the gains made over COVID and the last few years by those profiting the most from inequality).
Re:Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:27AM (#50053182)
What I and many others to whom it matters a lot more than me are noticing is that the majority of things in the supermarket are twice the pre COVID price and pay has not gone up.
Feels insane to not do this.
Re:Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:39PM (#50039617)
Nothing to do with the fantastic megadrive game Rampart which is a shame.

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