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New comment by dangond in "The people who actually want AI to replace humanity"

dangond — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:39:15 +0000

What happens to that labor if everyone that would hire them previously is now using cheaper artificial labor? They don't exactly have the capital to make use of artificial labor themselves, nor do they have the skills to work other jobs. The problem is solved for the 10% who are citizens. Great! They don't have a moral quandary regarding slave labor anymore (notwithstanding that there are other ways to prevent being in that situation). But, the 90% of the population that is now displaced has a very serious problem if they cannot earn an income with which to feed or home themselves or their families.

People don't linger like they used to

dangond — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:40:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/we-dont-linger-like-we-used-to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050047

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dangond in "Can You Find the Comet?"

dangond — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:17:17 +0000

Given that the moon is about 0.5 degrees in diameter from Earth, shouldn't we expect to see the stars and comet much more blurred than they are here though? Or the ground if it's stabilized against the rotation?

New comment by dangond in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

dangond — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:53:29 +0000

"Don't ask to ask, just ask" is great in general, but if I tell someone this, I'm not trying to schedule a single call. It's more asking for permission to call whenever. Depending on who you and your friends are, it can be necessary to give this heads-up at least once so that, as another user put it, they don't get a panic attack from an unexpected phone call. As an older Gen Z, it feels like no one my age really calls each other out-of-the-blue, and you need something like this to establish it.

New comment by dangond in "I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye"

dangond — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:31:41 +0000

Good read (as is the next article in the series), but you can tell it hasn't been proofread due to "paypa׀.com" being described as a danger. Maybe in a different font than the website's, but in that case, maybe this should have been rendered out.

New comment by dangond in "Google Street View in 2026"

dangond — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:07:30 +0000

Costa Rica and Paraguay coverage was added recently (within the last year iirc). The author notes Paraguay as an example of a country that was not yet in the dataset they sourced from.

El Salvador does have a decent amount of coverage on street view, but this was done by El Salvador Maps (if you pan the camera down, you'll see this name on the cars used to capture the coverage). The dataset is curated by a member of the Geoguessr community, in which "unofficial" coverage like this is disregarded, which is why you won't see it included.

New comment by dangond in "Be wary of Bluesky"

dangond — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:05 +0000

I might be misunderstanding something about atproto, but isn't it always possible to export data from bluesky because all it takes is reading your data, which is done by any app interacting with your pds anyway? If they block that, they're blocking atproto functionality entirely, no?

New comment by dangond in "It's all a blur"

dangond — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:59:38 +0000

I believe diffusion image models learn to model a reverse-noising function, rather than reverse-blurring.

New comment by dangond in "How to Draw a Space Invader"

dangond — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:01:43 +0000

Got a fun little heart-shaped guy that morphs into a ditto when animated here, love the variety! https://muffinman.io/invaders/#/size:9/main-seed:officer-clo...

New comment by dangond in "Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library"

dangond — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:08:51 +0000

Does this do anything differently from https://backloggd.com/? I've been using Backloggd a lot over the past year and I'm not sure how this is different (aside from being ad-free, which is nice)

New comment by dangond in "Should this be a map or 500 maps?"

dangond — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:28:16 +0000

What do you mean by custom maps? What do you include/exclude from them, and how do you make them?

New comment by dangond in "GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?"

dangond — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:53:29 +0000

Seems most likely to be a training data issue, the first release of llm was in 2023 whereas shot-scraper's was in 2022.

New comment by dangond in "Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers"

dangond — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:46:39 +0000

> Recent Armenia vs Azerbaijan (supported by Turkey) war. More tension on border.

I completely missed the Armenia/Azerbaijan conflict, but from what I can tell, tensions there don't seem likely to pull many other countries into it. Curious if you have thoughts on that.

> Posturing in Africa by Russia, France, and China.

Can you explain why this would lead to a potential world war? Most of what I can find about this is foreign countries vying for economic influence, which seems unlikely to burst into conflict, especially one that would become a world war.

New comment by dangond in "Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers"

dangond — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:33:12 +0000

I did in fact miss this, thanks. I'm not as convinced by other commenters' references to Putin's nuclear threats, but the Middle East erupting into a broader conflict with the US joining in seems at least somewhat plausible to me. Another comment mentioned the potential of the US entering a war in defense of Taiwan, which also seems quite plausible to me given China really wants Taiwan back and Taiwan is much more critical to the US than, say, Ukraine.

New comment by dangond in "Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers"

dangond — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:22:11 +0000

What makes you say teetering on the edge of world war? Is there some recent news I've missed?

New comment by dangond in "Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers"

dangond — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:13:16 +0000

Fun implementation! There's currently a bug that allows the same number to appear twice after a combination step (I was able to perform 2,3,7,5->5,7,5)

New comment by dangond in "Claude 3 model family"

dangond — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:21:16 +0000

This absolutely would be called AI 10 years ago. Yes, it's a machine learning task, but a computer program you can speak with would certainly qualify as AI to anyone 10 years ago, if not several decades prior as well.

Diff History for Neural Language Agents

dangond — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:07:03 +0000

Article URL: https://diffhistory.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387945

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dangond in "Proton Mail gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar"

dangond — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:05:01 +0000

Out of curiosity, what makes people prefer desktop apps for mail over just visiting the browser version? The idea of downloading a desktop app for something I can do in the browser makes no sense to me. At least on mobile, the ergonomics of apps tend to make the experience better than the mobile-web version.

New comment by dangond in "Do black holes have singularities?"

dangond — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:59:49 +0000

I can't do the math to determine this more rigorously, but my intuition tells me you can do something analogous to the Hairy Ball Theorem to prove that there exists a point within the convex hull of those stars where the gravitational forces cancel out. However, as the stars move, there's no guarantee that point will remain static and stable.