Hacker News: cmdli

New comment by cmdli in "1Password Replied to My Disappointment"

cmdli — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:38:38 +0000

Would you care if your accountant liked to sit outside a high school and watch teenage girls with binoculars? What if a local shop owner was known to harass female employees? Everybody has a line somewhere.

New comment by cmdli in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

cmdli — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:01:54 +0000

I guess it depends on how to measure a single "person"? If you spun up 2000 copies of Terrance Tao, I wouldn't be surprised if you found a few new discoveries at the end of it.

New comment by cmdli in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

cmdli — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:58:13 +0000

It sounds like they are making a clear argument: models are getting worse for certain domains even while they are getting better at others.

I don't know if I agree with that but it doesn't seem like an irrational claim and does seem credible to me.

New comment by cmdli in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

cmdli — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:32:18 +0000

This reminds me a lot of the proof by construction for the 4-color theorem. It was only enabled by the advancement of computers and dissatisfied many of the computer scientists and mathematicians since it was a "brute force" approach.

I wonder if AI will end up being similar. Certain theorems get proven by AI but others do not. We haven't reached the limits of this yet and I haven't found a good argument for where those limits will be (I do doubt that there are no limits).

New comment by cmdli in "The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'"

cmdli — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:36:05 +0000

> I’m surprised there isn’t a Costco like medical group that’s nationwide, has a membership, and works solely to provide care efficiently.

What you are describing is an HMO, which hasn't had that much lower costs historically. Theoretically, you pay once and then they take care of you, but in practice costs haven't been that much lower.

New comment by cmdli in "How the US got left behind in the electric car race"

cmdli — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:03:31 +0000

Millions would also love to live in Europe. Does that make them better than the US?

New comment by cmdli in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

cmdli — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:18:29 +0000

The reports I have seen have shown significant decreases in revenue, from around $5B in 2021 to $2.5B in 2024: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

I’m not sure about profit, but I do know that Twitter made $1.4B in profit in 2019 according to their SEC filings.

New comment by cmdli in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

cmdli — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:19:53 +0000

Twitter isn’t collapsing, but it’s hardly more profitable. In fact, the last numbers we know about them show >50% drop in revenue.

New comment by cmdli in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

cmdli — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:41:06 +0000

I think this is disingenuous. Charlie Kirk's content was specifically around "triggering the libs". He deliberately tried to make people angry, not looking to make any kind of common ground for discussion.

New comment by cmdli in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"

cmdli — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:29:59 +0000

Haven't you ever turned a blind eye to somebody breaking corporate policy when you know its dumb and helps nobody? This is basically that. This kind of "immigration" is solely helpful but US immigration laws are intentionally obtuse and broken. The only "harm" here is that Hyundai didn't follow the right paperwork while helping build American manufacturing.

New comment by cmdli in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"

cmdli — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:27:56 +0000

Because the documentation is intentionally obtuse and difficult, meaning that it is nearly impossible to get approval for these kinds of things even though they benefit the US immensely.

It's like if a neighbor fixes your fence without asking you first. Wrong? Maybe. Harmful? Definitely not.

New comment by cmdli in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"

cmdli — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:23:42 +0000

The solution here is to work with South Korea to follow actual procedure, not arrest everybody and deport them. These people were objectively good for the American economy.

New comment by cmdli in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

cmdli — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:13:16 +0000

My experience has been entirely the opposite as an IC. If I spend the time to delve into the code base to the point that I understand how it works, AI just serves as a mild improvement in writing code as opposed to implementing it normally, saving me maybe 5 minutes on a 2 hour task.

On the other hand, I’ve found success when I have no idea how to do something and tell the AI to do it. In that case, the AI usually does the wrong thing but it can oftentimes reveal to me the methods used in the rest of the codebase.

New comment by cmdli in "The internet wants to check your ID"

cmdli — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:15:52 +0000

If there is no provable link between the service and the identity, however, there isn't that much harm in the leak itself. It just becomes a list of names and ages which are a dime a dozen on the internet. Hell, if the identity service was the government itself then it would be entirely useless outside of getting a list of people who have a driver's license (is this public info already?)

New comment by cmdli in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

cmdli — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:39:56 +0000

And China is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the Western world. I'm amazed that the US is following suit.

New comment by cmdli in "LLM Inevitabilism"

cmdli — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:00:44 +0000

How much of the code you are writing is tedious? If its a significant amount, the framework you are using could use some improvement.

New comment by cmdli in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

cmdli — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:50:08 +0000

You can't buy a single pizza with it now. Only by exchanging it for an actual, better currency

New comment by cmdli in "Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine"

cmdli — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:11:08 +0000

"Objective good" can only be determined through subjective opinion and belief. What is "good" is judged by us based on our own values, which can differ amongst people. While we may all trend towards similar values, there still can be significant differences amongst people. For example, some may value to live in a freer society while others may value a more restrictive yet more secure society.

New comment by cmdli in "Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine"

cmdli — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:02:49 +0000

A large part of the development of Europe, especially after the Renaissance, was resistance to the church and its historical teachings. The Reformation, Renaissance, rise of deism, scientific revolution, etc were all in response to and in many cases disagreeing with historical understanding. Saying "our current civilization is based on the teachings of the church" ignores the many aspects of our civilization that came about in spite of said church.

New comment by cmdli in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

cmdli — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:10:27 +0000

> tptacek wasn't making this argument six months ago.

Yes, but other smart people were making this argument six months ago. Why should we trust the smart person we don't know now if we (looking back) shouldn't have trusted the smart person before?

Part of evaluating a claim is evaluating the source of the claim. For basically everybody, the source of these claim is always "the AI crowd", because those outside the AI space have no way of telling who is trustworthy and who isn't.