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New comment by cuttothechase in "FAANG Simulator"

cuttothechase — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:13:36 +0000

The funny thing is that this is not a linear relationship.

It is not like ah.. there is my 85K job or 150K job and now I will never get fired or laid off.,

Late stage capitalism will find its way to make it more efficient at 85K level or at 1.5M level. Pick your red/blue pill.

New comment by cuttothechase in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

cuttothechase — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:06:41 +0000

But that's the nature of the beast isnt it? A probabilistic token predictor will all always have some errors from a human perspective, more and more energy, money and resources will always be needed to control and direct towards desired outcomes.

New comment by cuttothechase in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

cuttothechase — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:54:34 +0000

It will burn up the tokens to get through the deterministic gates, more so when n order dependencies are involved in the mix. Enough typewritters and monkeys could get it done too.

New comment by cuttothechase in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

cuttothechase — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:52:23 +0000

what is of really good use is a super factory. The super factory drives the factory which builds the harness of harnesses.

New comment by cuttothechase in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"

cuttothechase — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:48:23 +0000

3% of measurable gains is massive in itself isn't it? Taken as a percentage of the total volume of workforce and the world economy?

If we can gain 3% across the board gains on AI based tasks without subsidized expenses, that would be a great win!?

New comment by cuttothechase in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

cuttothechase — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:09:30 +0000

It's hard to keep track of how many times American football or Baseball is used as a back drop of some TV shows or a hollywood blockbuster. How many US pop culture figures have performed at half time shows. How many U.S. heads of states have mentioned about their favorite teams and stadiums etc.,

New comment by cuttothechase in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

cuttothechase — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:01:47 +0000

Agree. "Culture" provides the nurturing "gap fill" while the capital is not exactly flowing and rules are evolving over time. Culture keeps the lights on in lean years and builds camaraderie when the sports is thriving.

Cannot keep count on how many times I have heard of "Babe Ruth" (1895 - 1948) mentioned in a movie/tv show entertainment context, where a grandpa or an elderly figure is fondly reminiscing things to their gen X grandkids!

New comment by cuttothechase in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

cuttothechase — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:53:50 +0000

Answer is simple.

Why isn't U.S. better at Field hockey, Badminton, Cricket, Ping pong etc.?

Ideally a capitalistic system is supposed to produce the best or close to the best in each category to stay competitive then what gives?

Capitalism produces the "best" in categories where there is a high demand for a product. In the U.S., the demand is for high-scoring, high-production-value entertainment. This is closely entwined with "culture".

This is why the U.S. leads in sports that are tailored for television and massive stadium revenue. Sports that are more nuanced, low-scoring, or lack a domestic TV or the US cultural zeigeist simply cannot compete for the attention span of the American consumer, and by extension, the capital that follows that attention.

New comment by cuttothechase in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

cuttothechase — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:39:07 +0000

calc, stat etc from a text book is something they would naturally be good at but I don't think book based computations thats in the training set and its extrapolations is what is at question here.

They are not great at playing chess as well - computational as well as analytic.

AI Kills HTML?

cuttothechase — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:00:28 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884959

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cuttothechase in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"

cuttothechase — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:37:39 +0000

Well the same logic can be used to justify bias too. I am surge pricing a person of religion X or race Y because I am increasing the supply for All races / religion in a equitable way!

New comment by cuttothechase in "3.4M Solar Panels"

cuttothechase — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:21:29 +0000

Do you have a blog or a writeup about this?

What would have been the cost if it was not DIY'd? Is this doable only in a rural/semi-urban settings?

New comment by cuttothechase in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

cuttothechase — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:09:16 +0000

As one commenter put it: "You can fake a star count, but you can't fake a bug fix .. "

The way to beautify the pig is to put lipstick on the pig!

New comment by cuttothechase in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

cuttothechase — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:22:33 +0000

One could take anything like a cell and split it into genes, molecules, atoms, sub-atomic wave functions (with infinite value range) and take time which can be split into another infinite entity say even within a finite interval. How does this analysis account for that?

I could split this object into 10^500 or 10^50^500^5000 etc., with imagination being the limit.

These values Id'd at whatever imaginable resolution are far from practically useful but at a cosmic scale, there is no telling what is a useful value?

So this framework seems to be more limiting because we define a resolution ?

New comment by cuttothechase in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

cuttothechase — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:41:50 +0000

>> Incidentally, San Francisco public schools had a combined admission rate of just under 20%, well below the state average. Mission had the highest rate (26.5%) and Balboa the lowest (15.4%). It may or may not be a coincidence that 90% (the most of any SF school) of the applicants from Balboa were Asian whereas only 25% (the fewest of any SF school) of the applicants from Mission were Asian.

In order to promote diversity of the freshman classroom the college needs to suppress merit to achieve their diversity targets?

New comment by cuttothechase in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

cuttothechase — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:18:28 +0000

Sergey's challenge looks like is not in retiring early or with non-work.

We had a high performing co-worker who was scared witless after a lay-off episode and this was not because he was worried about lacking money or loss of prestige., but because he could not come to terms with the simple fact of facing the 9 am on a Monday morning with absolutely no expectations. It freaked so much to not feel the hustle and the adrenaline rush of experiencing the blues Monday morning!?

Another colleague used to drive up to the parking lot of their previous employer, post lay-off., so that he could feel normal., and he did this for well over 6 - 8 months. Pack bags, wave to his wife and family, drive up in his Porsche to the parking lot and I guess feel normal !?

New comment by cuttothechase in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

cuttothechase — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:31:53 +0000

>>This was a five-minute lightning talk given over the summer of 2025 to round out a small workshop.

Glad I noticed that footnote.

Article reeks of false equivalences and incorrect transitive dependencies.

New comment by cuttothechase in "MIT Report Claims 11.7% of U.S. Labor Can Be Replaced with Existing AI"

cuttothechase — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:44:23 +0000

https://gizmodo.com/replacement-study-mit-2000692601

MIT Report Claims 11.7% of U.S. Labor Can Be Replaced with Existing AI

cuttothechase — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:44:22 +0000

Article URL: https://iceberg.mit.edu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093458

Points: 8

# Comments: 10

New comment by cuttothechase in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

cuttothechase — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:08:27 +0000

I am pretty sure you wouldn't have touched anything from google and meta as well.