Hacker News: flextheruler

New comment by flextheruler in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

flextheruler — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:02:20 +0000

This essentially requires tripling the entire tech sector's share of the economy in a few years.

New comment by flextheruler in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

flextheruler — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:55:46 +0000

Sarcasm over a legitimate question really? After about 4 years I think it's totally acceptable to ask where the profit is on any company's 10-K. Where are even the revenues on a 10-K?

New comment by flextheruler in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

flextheruler — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:03:25 +0000

8 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory illnesses.

New comment by flextheruler in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

flextheruler — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:24:25 +0000

So like a bottle of cough syrup it should have a child-lock cap and be required to be 18 and show I.D. to buy?

New comment by flextheruler in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

flextheruler — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:46:40 +0000

How do you conclude you carry more muscle than the average?

New comment by flextheruler in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

flextheruler — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:18:12 +0000

I'd like to apply for this job where I can make mistakes and it's considered an acceptable cost. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I made a significant error and it was acceptable. Maybe during training? Half the effort in any job is literally verifying correctness.

New comment by flextheruler in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

flextheruler — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:11:59 +0000

Unfortunately for a lot of people with weight issues it stems from becoming overweight during puberty which is uniquely bad. Your body's appetite signals are permanently impaired if you become overweight during puberty because during this window your fat cells don't just increase in size, but also in number and this increased quantity does not go away once created. Fat cell shrink as weight is loss, but they are not destroyed and they are responsible for appetite signaling. It's one of the reasons that childhood obesity is actually leagues worse than it first appears and I think should be considered child abuse in extreme circumstances.

New comment by flextheruler in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

flextheruler — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:38:16 +0000

While I'm sure professionals in neuroscience or philosophy can expound on this topic in a more satisfactory manner than myself, I think a relevant point is that despite all our efforts we still don't know how brains think.

New comment by flextheruler in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

flextheruler — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:48:15 +0000

Yeah not sure how mold infestation in every bathroom of every apartment you've lived at for longer than 2 years can be anything besides a user error.

New comment by flextheruler in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

flextheruler — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:21:42 +0000

Solar, wind, and even hydroelectricity are too dependent upon the environment to make up the entire electricity generation capacity of any major industrial country. With renewables, even with batteries, the actual production is within a range. Couple that with demand also being in a range you get uncomfortable possibilities at play. And while colder water is definitely preferable for cooling, I'd have to imagine that if the bodies of water were actually becoming too hot to cool a nuclear reactor system there'd be bigger problems than energy production.

New comment by flextheruler in "Claude Corps"

flextheruler — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:05:01 +0000

Sure I'll do the same for those other industries. It took generations and many deaths after each industrial revolution to address the harms caused by the technology. People's complaints about economic disruption have been proven to be legitimate and require fighting. This will spill into violence if these criticisms are not taken seriously.

New comment by flextheruler in "The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat"

flextheruler — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:54:49 +0000

If not for the war or other legitimate reasons I'd assume a preponderance of one demographic doing a specific job as likely a bad thing. I'm surprised it'd be wishful thinking.

New comment by flextheruler in "AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?"

flextheruler — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:50:51 +0000

I find it inefficient to use models for all possible uses right now even with the current subsidies. As the costs increase this will only become more true. Keeping that in mind will naturally motivate you to not lose your skills by engaging in inefficient token burn.

New comment by flextheruler in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

flextheruler — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:43:37 +0000

Sure it's a social construct, but billions have killed or been killed for money, land, and ownership of assets. Social constructions at their extreme are just abstractions of power which determines life and death. Something being a social construct does not make it invalid or ignorable. All of life is a series of intrapersonal relationships built atop social constructions. I'm sorry but I find pointing out something being a social construct only serves a somewhat naive/juvenile purpose as an easy way to make a statement look nonsensical.

New comment by flextheruler in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

flextheruler — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:31:05 +0000

The argument that commoners now live better than historical kings because we possess better technology is reductive if by living better you mean life satisfaction. Happiness is relative. Most people compare themselves to their peers. This is borne out by a multitude of studies one being that upper middle class people are unhappier living in upper class neighborhoods than in middle class neighborhoods despite the richer neighborhood having lower crime, better services, etc.

There will never be a point that society at large will decline to exploit resources when there is competition for those resources. It's easy to see why on average this behavior is common from an evolutionary perspective.

New comment by flextheruler in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

flextheruler — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:46:54 +0000

It's more unpopular than that. Not surprising since they're competing underhandedly for electricity generation with everyone else.

New comment by flextheruler in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

flextheruler — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:24:51 +0000

You've named technologies that people were heavily speculating on that did experience bubbles. A useful technology and a painful misallocation of resources is far from mutually exclusive.

New comment by flextheruler in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

flextheruler — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:52:47 +0000

These are similar numbers to the dotcom bubble. With GDP growth and the percentage of productivity AI contributes staying the same in this scenario this requires regular gains in revenue or growth. If things just stumble, like with most datacenters going unbuilt the bubble will pop.

New comment by flextheruler in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

flextheruler — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:29:21 +0000

Begrudging more senior employees for lacking sympathy for younger employees who feel left out by remote work is not the same as begrudging them for working remote. Regardless, I would say it's a fair hypothesis that the vast majority of senior employees now would have reacted negatively to working remotely out of college. My experience and my peers has been that it's a significant negative to working relationships or gaining a mentor which is crucial for younger people. I see no reason why this would not be a universal experience. Studies back this up even before remote work was a thing. One I recall of the top of the dome was that it was actually cheaper over a lifetime in many occupations to go out to eat for lunch with coworkers than packing a lunch because just going out to eat with work peers had an immensely positive impact on promotions and networking. If just going out to lunch does that you can easily extrapolate to what effect not even working in the same place physically has.

I cannot find the exact study that concluded this but here's a recent one making a similar case. I know this isn't the one I've recalled since I read it back in high school. This one speaks to the benefits to the employee and employer.

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/8638-employees-eat-togethe...

New comment by flextheruler in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

flextheruler — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:19:38 +0000

I considered this too but I didn't think it too ironic considering anonymous pen pals have been a thing since the 20th century at least. Obviously the technology would amaze, but the concept would be understandable and appreciated.