<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jacknews</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacknews</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:35:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jacknews" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jacknews in "Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's just a guess.<p>Do you and your cat make better predictions than your friend without a cat?</p>
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<p>Of course model predictions will be acted upon, which will invalidate the predictions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743993</link><dc:creator>jacknews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jacknews in "How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obviously it tricks a human, even if it can't hack the lab's rs423 or modbus or whatever network.</p>
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<p>releasing it.<p>deliberately, instead of accidentally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:05:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740155</link><dc:creator>jacknews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jacknews in "Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TY I was not aware of that, it sounds extremely useful.</p>
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<p>Snap is a little intimidating compared to Scratch.<p>It's clearly designed for older students, but at that point some of the advantages of blocks are lost.<p>Most of these systems suffer from the 'canvas' model, where you have many stacks of blocks scattered around the canvas as they are created, possibly in no particular or logical order. It's difficult to find things or to get a good overview, and really becomes a navigation problem as projects get bigger. I think they would greatly benefit from a more traditional ide/file type structure, or some other way to structure 'stacks'.</p>
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<p>I bring you peace.
It may be the peace of plenty,
and content,
or the peace of unburied death,
the choice is yours.</p>
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<p>So who is the original manufacturer of these readers?</p>
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<p>Like a slavery index?<p>What if you spent 10 years building a business abroad?<p>I remember early in my career being send by my employer on 'contract' assignments to other companies for 3 or 6 months. When I left that company and went interviewing, everyone was extremely concerned that I had been an independent contractor, some even saying they never employed such people. As though, once you've broken the chains, you're no longer employable.</p>
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<p>It's perhaps the least-efficient method of dealing with collisions, in keeping with the rest of his project, lol, but less code.<p>He researched different methods. My favourite for elegance is to recursively hash the hash n times.</p>
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<p>Only passingly related, some fun rust stack-allocation insanity by my 17yo son:<p><a href="https://ogghostjelly.github.io/slog/alloca.html" rel="nofollow">https://ogghostjelly.github.io/slog/alloca.html</a></p>
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<p>Maybe the extra sex is the main benefit?</p>
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<p>woah 4 years is considered obsolete?<p>My kids still using thinkpad 430 from 2013</p>
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<p>Trump literally just paid money (taxpayer money) for nothing</p>
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<p>Texae surely</p>
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<p>"making solar energy economical"<p>judging by the amount being installed, it already is.</p>
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<p>The FIFA-planned game schedule is also surprising. Argentina have not had to face a single 'big' contender through the tournament, until now.</p>
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<p>By 'advance' I meant 'a further exploration', moving on to something new, not necessarily better.<p>But it seems like we're just going back to a previous time.</p>
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<p>I don't disagree you should improve your skills. but I don't think your app is optimized for that.<p>But, ok you're the gamemaker, then well done building something, and I hope people enjoy it.<p>For me, an analogue watch is good for giving you an extremely glance-able approximate time. And potentially as exquisite mechanical jewellery.
If you need to know the really exact time to the second and want to be able to tell it quickly, you might be better with a digital watch, especially vs a mechanical watch where a mickey-mouse digital is more accurate than even a COSC mechanical.<p>But my initial point is that your game is not so much about recognizing the time, even the exact time, but about entering it into the keypad.<p>Maybe add a multiple-choice mode - show the analogue clocks, pick the digital match.</p>
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<p>We've got used to 'reasonable' society and politics in the last few centuries, but check out politics in developing nations or dictatorships, or woke, or Trump or places like pageantry. All fake news and gossip and performance, and AI just makes this potentially much much worse.<p>It already has a name in academia I think, post-truth, or post-reality or whatever, I think it all started with the French post-modernism thing, then critical theory, etc.<p>But I'm not sure it's a post- 'advance' at all, but more like a rejection of the enlightenment and a return to the tribal village.</p>
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