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hazbot··on AI Robots – When will they be in our homes
How could you sleep with one of these in your house? How could you trust it around small children?

If we see rapid advances in robotics will alignment become a visceral concern for the population at large?

hazbot··on Show HN: UTC Time - live clock, ISO 8601, Unix timestamp
Love the 8601 evangelism.
hazbot··on Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
I read Simon Singh's book as a young teenager - loved it!
hazbot··on Git rebase -i is not that scary
It's because git replays your commits one at a time on top of a new commit; so if you resolve a conflict but then your next commits also touches the same code, the intent is ambiguous to git and it asks for your help with the conflict.

Wsc891 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wsc981 has a good resolution for this in the comment directly above: 1) rebase -i onto your own history and squash 2) rebase onto the new branch.

hazbot··on Australian Data Centres forced to generate more power than they use
I always wonder what the politicians are really thinking here.

Is Albo like "this is optics for the plebs, just a bit of window dressing bureaucracy on top of the normal market mechanisms where the data centre buying electricity will stimulate supply"

Or is he like "without these rules, data scenters will shoot themselves and the market in the foot and there won't be enough supply"?

hazbot··on CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026
Can confirm the Baldur's Gate 2 manual was an endlessly fascinating tome.
hazbot··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
The generous interpretation of the OPs comment it was gentle hyperbole but directionally correct relative to the not so distant past.
hazbot··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
Ahhhh but cancer treatment has gotten significantly better over the last 50 years.

Cancer research has a half-decent feedback mechanism that means fads eventually have to prove themselves or die out.

hazbot··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
I suspect it is the feedback from the stricter compiler, not differences in training data between python and rust
hazbot··on The dead economy theory
> I feel like 20 or 30 years ago, the average person seemed to have more disposable income.

Big if true but is it true?

hazbot··on The dead economy theory
Totally - the (useful) economic models they are bringing are being extrapolated into very unusual territory!
hazbot··on The dead economy theory
If AIs become smart enough to outperform a critical mass of humans across the board, that's the singularity and whilst the economic model says all humans out of jobs means no consumers, the model isn't really valid anymore because the underlying assumptions are just broken too, so you can't take the model too seriously. Obviously it would be very disruptive but the demand destruction economic model just isn't making useful predictions anymore.
hazbot··on The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
It's satirical argument against claims that computers will never be as intelligent as humans.
hazbot··on Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
I enjoy having a DVD player for the kids, it makes curating their options so much easier.
hazbot··on Glasses Got Worse on Purpose
Thankyou, this is the comment I came here for - advice on alternatives!
hazbot··on Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI
Yes, it is much easier to train someone to use AI than to train them to have sufficiently baked-in math and language skills to be able to leverage the AI.
hazbot··on Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use
Integration of the air cooling and water heating. For example, I have a air conditioner pumping heat out of my house right next to a box that's putting heat into the water coming into my house.
hazbot··on Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use
We are a happy paying customer at $DAYJOB.

Also, I looked into omfiles for a project recently, I was very impressed with their speed and blown away by the compression ratios!

hazbot··on Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November
Yes this is much stronger and relevant evidence
hazbot··on Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November
When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

hazbot··on Show HN: Chess on a Donut/Torus and Deep-Dive
It's fun to sit down and draw what the board looks like when you cut and flatten the torus before you watch the video!

Bonus points if you hit upon the other 2D projection that is useful (I didn't)

hazbot··on Implications of AI to schools
The way you learn is totally different from the way a novice learns; they don't have a vast memorised store of knowledge, let alone the connected structure over that memorised knowledge. When you learn something, it gets incoporated thanks to these foundations.

But the foundations start with memorisation.

hazbot··on Implications of AI to schools
Projects are less efficient for learning foundational skills. They have their place, but with infinite funds I would still give my children an education with a bedrock of boring drill and testing and memorisation.
hazbot··on Implications of AI to schools
I just went and had a flutter at being a high school math teacher. I went in saying 'I never used math to create until my honours year, I want different for my students'.

I soon changed my mind; I think those of us who become expert have often have really rich memories of a project where we learnt so much, but we just don't remember episodically all the accumulated learning that happened in boring classrooms to enable the project-induced higher order synthesis.

hazbot··on YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff
Nothing, they just don't make the headlines.
hazbot··on What Dynamic Typing Is For
> Okay, but you can do the same in dynamically typed Python

But the rust code is still safer, e.g. you haven't checked for an `AttributeError` in case `req.cookies`, the point is Rust protects you from this rabbit-hole, if you're prepared to pay the price of wrestling the compiler.

hazbot··on A magnetic field orientation that changes the fundamental design of motors
Don't talk about it, be about it.
hazbot··on The average Apple Watch user gets 49 minutes of deep sleep per night
"deep sleep" here has a technical definition which wasn't what I assumed, and the top 10th percentile is 68 minutes of "deep sleep", so this is probably fine and not a problem.
hazbot··on The Gentle Singularity
I'm feeling a bit cheated it's 2025 and I just bought a brand new car that does not drive itself and runs on dead dinosaurs.
hazbot··on Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin
Depends if it's a currency or a store of wealth.

E.g. destroy half the gold in the world, price doubles...

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