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New comment by worldsayshi in "Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor"

worldsayshi — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:17:32 +0000

I think these SFRs are basically indoor blimps.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

worldsayshi — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:12:08 +0000

And yet all this power in the hands of the very few are only there because the rest of us don't know any better than coordinating for their benefit rather than coordinating in any other way.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

worldsayshi — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:53:08 +0000

> places like India

I had the impression that India is quickly turning rich enough to say no to things like this.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

worldsayshi — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:31:11 +0000

I've used Interrail every time I want to travel a longer distance across Europe by train. Spares me some of the stress of dealing with interruptions since I can often just hop on the next train. Unless it's fully booked...

New comment by worldsayshi in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

worldsayshi — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:28:52 +0000

> Or they scan at the edge on the user's device.

So then the user can "just" install their own client.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

worldsayshi — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:26:17 +0000

> Is scanning mandatory? - No — voluntary.

Voluntary for whom? The service provider? Can I opt out of getting scanned?

> Does it touch encrypted messages? - No. End-to-end encrypted communications were never scanned but providers could deploy client-side scanning under this law.

So it circumvents e2e encryption?

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How would these laws prevent me from just side loading my own open source client?

New comment by worldsayshi in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

worldsayshi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:24:02 +0000

Why Oracle?

New comment by worldsayshi in "Iroh 1.0"

worldsayshi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:55:23 +0000

Also, all connections in iroh are end-to-end encrypted.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

worldsayshi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:48:04 +0000

Couldn't this be a flaw in the attention mechanism? Like they need some kind of grounding. An awareness of what they fundamentally should care about and how the thing they are currently giving attention to relates to that?

New comment by worldsayshi in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

worldsayshi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:38:14 +0000

It seems like the site is currently getting hugged so I can't look but I'm glad someone is trying to achieve a more minimalistic take on the UX of a software forge. It seems like an area with good room for improvement.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

worldsayshi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:26:11 +0000

Such competition will only turn into a moat of the hardware suppliers never manage (or choose) to fully adapt to increased demand?

But then the real moat should be on the hardware side anyway?

New comment by worldsayshi in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

worldsayshi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:36:08 +0000

Realistically they can't go that much above the actual cost for inference since the customer can always switch to self hosted or inference only providers. Or their models have to be significantly better than the open source models for the foreseeable future. They will never be able to charge much more for their lower tier models.

New comment by worldsayshi in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

worldsayshi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:20:57 +0000

Don't you think that we will eventually get more specialized hardware that will greatly improve efficiency? Running neural networks on GPU:s seem like quite wasteful?

New comment by worldsayshi in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

worldsayshi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:29:28 +0000

I see at least two potential positives in this:

- The frontier AI companies have realized they won't be able to count on gaining ground and earning more in the future through sheer moat. They have to start earning right now.

- The playing field on the market got a whole lot more even as a result. Now everyone is competing on cost and quality - while there are still a lot of competition. AI suppliers can't easily get away with subsidizing their own product and enshittify later.

I might be missing something obvious here? It feels to me that if the frontier AI companies thought they could gain a lot more moat they wouldn't raise their prices this much this early? And their current moats/head start doesn't seem insurmountable?

New comment by worldsayshi in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

worldsayshi — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:12:19 +0000

> craftspeople take their jigs with them from job to job

Except for software gigs the software typically belongs to the customer so you'd need to rewrite it every time...

New comment by worldsayshi in "The dead economy theory"

worldsayshi — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:52:32 +0000

I guess it becomes different if instead of hiring more people to do more - all investment goes into more AI credits.

Then again, as long as there is more demand and there's a limited supply of compute you can still continue to hire people as well. If we assume that the market has infinite demand for whatever AI + humans can produce together both will have jobs.

If demand is limited and compute is plentiful it should make sense for a company to try to have AI do as much of the work as possible.

New comment by worldsayshi in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

worldsayshi — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:46:14 +0000

I guess AGI is the breaking point and superintelligence is everything above?

New comment by worldsayshi in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

worldsayshi — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:18:33 +0000

> no one can stop me or control what is said no matter what

Can't they just triangulate the nodes and hack or unplug them? And put whoever objects into prison?

New comment by worldsayshi in "The AI Elephant in the Room"

worldsayshi — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:22:40 +0000

You're probably on point there.

New comment by worldsayshi in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

worldsayshi — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:08:54 +0000

> The code it generated was awful.

I suppose you could solve that in two ways. Manually rewrite it as you did. Or formalize an architecture and let the AI rewrite it with that in mind. I suspect that either works.