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New comment by fhe in "When did Google get so weird?"

fhe — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:58:31 +0000

while i share your frustration, Google for their part is trying to adapting a new technology into an existing service. while the whole endeavor might have been misguided, not sure we want to blame them for trying...

New comment by fhe in "Winning the visa lottery"

fhe — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:45:48 +0000

evolution -- ppl who refuse to acknowledge reality tend not to leave many offsprings. and if they do, maybe they are adhering to a more powerful reality afterall.

New comment by fhe in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

fhe — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:04:10 +0000

my cat at its peak weight is about 8kg, and that's the size that i'd get a bit nervous around if i didn't know it's a tame housecat that runs away at sight of a mouse...

New comment by fhe in "Germany turns on Brussels as Chinese car sales on track to exceed 1M in 2026"

fhe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:36:48 +0000

we are witnessing an industry collapse in real time.

What Using AI Therapy Gets Wrong

fhe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:14:07 +0000

Article URL: https://emilylee293105.substack.com/p/what-ai-therapy-gets-wrong-904

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753965

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

New comment by fhe in "Waymo in Singapore"

fhe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:09:48 +0000

interestingly enough though, car ownership, and even having a driver's license is increasingly less common among the young.

New comment by fhe in "Waymo in Singapore"

fhe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:08:39 +0000

despite the convenience of a well-run public transport system and uber-like services, the ease and freedom of owning your own transport is still hard to beat, and evidently worth the ~75k dollar COE. it removes the walk from bus/subway stations under the tropical/sun, humidity; and the wait (typically 5-10min) of waiting for your uber/taxi driver to showup and enduring the uber car smell (often heavily scented for some reason and triggers my allergic reaction) and someone else's music. and once you have children a car is almost a must.

New comment by fhe in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

fhe — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:30:36 +0000

came here to say exactly this. in fact, this is probably why we are not seeing a lot of AI application on customer service use case, and when we see one, it's almost always frustrating.

New comment by fhe in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

fhe — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:28:08 +0000

but maybe... the said human has also read every other piece of text ever written, including ones about other (similar?) board games, which in aggregate vastly dwarfs whatever he has read on chess, that non-chess reading could have corrupted whatever he's learned about chess?

New comment by fhe in "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"

fhe — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:16:01 +0000

yes to agents! how i had wished i could just point an agent at my footage and instruct "do something sensible with color grading and audio cleanup". i just want something presentable for a hobby video podcast. it doens't have to look a million bucks, and i have no time or desire to learn the intricacies involved. just something that would get me 70% (or 50%!) the way there would be more than fine.

New comment by fhe in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

fhe — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:59:07 +0000

good or bad, it comes down to a financial decision. Nvidia was willing to offer the highest bidding price, and HF was willing to sell.

New comment by fhe in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

fhe — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:51:03 +0000

maybe it's not so absolute. if someone else has the talent or takes the effort to come up with a clever prompt that got an interesting response from an LLM, I'd want to read it too. Treating LLMs as a tool, this is not so different from someone else using Blender to create an interesting animation.

New comment by fhe in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

fhe — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:26:26 +0000

extreme cases aside, memory and intelligence have always been found to have very strong correlation. so much that you might even just call them the same thing.

New comment by fhe in "How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)"

fhe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:07:09 +0000

I hope you don't mind, but just in case anyone is curious like I am, here i think is the video to the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZq5JvhPVQ

New comment by fhe in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

fhe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:47:36 +0000

agree and i wonder why don't they (the leading AI labs that are putting out these models) fix this? I felt it shouldn't be too hard to introduce some bias towards more intelligible text during the post training/fine-tuning stages?

New comment by fhe in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

fhe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:40:01 +0000

might want to look into statistics on ppl who play a lot of first-person shooting games. does it have to navigation of physical environments? or virtuals ones work too?

Six Problems When You Try to Build an AI Therapist

fhe — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:56:02 +0000

Article URL: https://emilylee293105.substack.com/p/six-problems-when-you-try-to-build

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165140

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fhe in "AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates"

fhe — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:32:50 +0000

so their idea is to put an ipad in the middle of the forest, installed with games, and if played right, delievers a treat... makes me wonder if something alien civilization is not doing something like that to us.

New comment by fhe in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

fhe — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:25:19 +0000

came here to say some version of this. for the average joe, good financial advice is simple and boring (low cost ETF tracking broad based index), and AI is definitely able to give that. the question has always been getting people to listen though, and I am not sure how effective AI will be at that. I continue to be amazed at the confidence that people place in hot stock tips from tiktok (yes, tiktok!). little has changed since the 1920s i guess.

New comment by fhe in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

fhe — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:32:20 +0000

if authors get an advance that's greater than the sale of their books, doesn't it mean that the publishers lose money, i.e. paid more for those books than the books sales?