<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: flextheruler</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=flextheruler</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:35:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=flextheruler" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flextheruler in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's more unpopular than that. Not surprising since they're competing underhandedly for electricity generation with everyone else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:46:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425632</link><dc:creator>flextheruler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flextheruler in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:52:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391208</link><dc:creator>flextheruler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flextheruler in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.<p>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.<p><a href="https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/8638-employees-eat-together.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/8638-employees-eat-togethe...</a></p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>I struggle so much with what the allure is for using a chatbot for companionship and I've dealt with loneliness before. Then again I struggle to understand how people become fixated on celebrities or adult actors.<p>Either one seems so glaringly artificial and transactional it'd be more depressing than loneliness.</p>
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<p>Yeah it's awful and the lack of any sympathy from people further along in their career with kids made it even worse. Everyone thinks it's great but I literally developed depression and anxiety from isolation.</p>
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<p>Yes it seems that this discussion that has sparked such controversy involves an already well defined concept in business.<p>Net margin versus gross margin.<p>Net shows profitability after extracting all expenses while gross only extracts the cost of the goods sold. Putting the model training costs into a one time fixed expense provides a much better gross margin.<p>This is known as COGS reclassification or classification shifting and is a common tactic to mislead investors.<p>This is why analysts look at Free Cash Flow Margin.<p>WorldCom and MicroStrategy did this before the Dotcom Bubble imploded.</p>
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<p>Why would it not make sense to change your opinion on something based on its origin? Supporting local artists and small businesses is commonplace. How is this not just another extension of that?</p>
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<p>How can someone be born in a state that does not yet exist? The statement has the year in it clearly demonstrating the contradiction. One can't be born in the Soviet Union in 1995 or in Tsarist Russia in 1950.</p>
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<p>Newtonian physics doesn't just work well enough for education. It provides an incredibly accurate and precise model of the world except at extremes. The majority of engineering does not necessitate using theories of relativity. Both theories are incomplete models approximating reality and are very far from being false.</p>
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<p>It's trained on the internet so it's wrong just as much as the internet is wrong or misleading.</p>
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<p>Why would that matter? You still have to read, understand, and respond. If something is important and specific it takes longer to prompt iterations to generate my response. It's nice for spelling and grammar correction.</p>
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<p>Then why are birth rates falling across all income levels in all countries? Please take the time to research your position.<p>"This perception, however, is false. In most human societies, poverty does not predict higher fertility, and well-to-do families often have the highest fertility. When families in America have more money, they tend to have more children. The stereotype of fertility being skewed towards low-income women is a product of basically two data analysis errors: 1) failure to control for important underlying cultural stratification, and 2) failure to adequately deal with the relationship between age, income, and fertility."<p><a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-relationship-between-income-fertility" rel="nofollow">https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-...</a></p>
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<p>I've started looking at profiles of the non-technical "AI at any cost" people on Reddit and noticed a trend towards AI generated NSFW posts and anime. Unsurprisingly they tend to have zero tolerance towards accepting legitimate criticisms or concerns.
 After reading about the blackmail a school system in the UK faced because criminals took a public post of 10 year old soccer players and generated sexual child abuse materials with the real girls faces it's in everyones best interests to not post their children's images until or unless we can regulate this behavior.<p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/05/deepfake-sextortion-forces-schools-to-remove-student-photos-from-websites" rel="nofollow">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/...</a><p>"By November 2025, IWF reports of AI-generated CSAM had more than doubled year over year, rising from 199 to 426. Girls accounted for 94% of the victims. Reported cases included children ranging from newborns to two-year-olds, according to the organization.<p>The ecosystem around these tools is industrial. In April 2025, a researcher found an exposed AWS S3 bucket belonging to South Korean “nudify” app GenNomis containing 93,485 AI-generated images alongside the prompts that produced them."</p>
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<p>Bald women wear wigs and there's no comparison between short women and short men. I've never heard a man complain about a woman's height being too short and being bald seemed to have a positive effect on a woman I knew as she attracted attention with her differing wigs.</p>
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<p>Ukrainian nationalism has spanned generations. The U.S. certainly helped, but it was not a contrived psychological operation to convince a majority of Ukrainians to revolt against their Russian dominated government.<p>When a nationalist movement has garnered support centuries ago from the Ottomans, Nazis, etc. it's a hard sell for me to believe it was not inevitable.<p>My understanding of Mearsheimer, the only person whose work I've seen, is that the U.S. dropped the ball and made the conflict an inevitable and deadly one which will end in a frozen conflict.<p>I believe he has argued the U.S. should have supported a Ukrainian nuclear weapons program or accepted its existence as a buffer state controlled by Russia.</p>
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<p>Comparing individual drivers to a taxi company is disingenuous and silly.<p>"How many taxi drivers got stuck?" is the actual comparison.<p>This is a paid taxi service. If I got an uncooked meal from a restaurant and their defense was that more people accidentally don't cook their food long enough than we do I don't think I'd be accommodating.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-59736DF1-31FA-4F67-8A3F-6111778939D9.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-59736DF...</a><p>"Failure to follow all warnings and instructions can result in property damage, serious injury or death."<p>"Driver intervention may be required in certain situations, such as on narrow roads with oncoming cars, in construction zones, or while going through complex intersections."<p>"Always remember that Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (also known as Autosteer on City Streets) does not make Model S autonomous and requires a fully attentive driver who is ready to take immediate action at all times."</p>
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<p>There's nothing wrong to point that out but to use it as evidence of a truth as if it is a logical argument is the fallacy.<p>"Richard Dawkins certainly knows about evolution, and he can confidently tell us that it is true, but that doesn't make it true. What makes it true is the preponderance of evidence for the theory."</p>
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