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New comment by gcheong in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

gcheong — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:37:02 +0000

Wrong Eric Ries? The writer of that blog claims to be a 65 yo Baby Boomer (would be 67 today), the one here is much younger than that iirc.

New comment by gcheong in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

gcheong — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:41:03 +0000

"1. a long-term commitment to maximize some aspect of human flourishing (in the book I explain how this is the true definition of what it means to create a for-profit venture"

How does this square with the widely taught business-school definition of a for-profit entity being something that aims to maximize shareholder value?

New comment by gcheong in "I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit"

gcheong — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:10:54 +0000

Interesting that the guy who rightly criticizes billionaires for not paying their fair share of taxes thinks those same billionaires are going to use AI for maximizing the common good. Already there is much evidence that they are not.

New comment by gcheong in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

gcheong — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:39:44 +0000

I got my hunter's safety card back just before covid. Prior to the actual course starting, our instructors spent a good 15 minutes "encouraging" us to join the NRA because "they're really trying to take our guns, blah blah". This was in "liberal" California. When I had last taken the course as a kid in my home state of Oregon, in a conservative majority town, there was never any kind of propaganda that I can recall of this level.

New comment by gcheong in "I want to live like Costco people"

gcheong — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:51:21 +0000

Sometimes you just have to trust your Coscto instincts.

New comment by gcheong in "Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?"

gcheong — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:56:12 +0000

AIpathy

New comment by gcheong in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

gcheong — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:01:12 +0000

I would hypothesize that this is strongly correlated to where a person's sense of purpose comes from. If someone gets most of their sense of purpose from their job then you would expect to see a decline once they leave their job if they can't replace it with something else. For those whose sense of purpose is derived mainly outside of work and can continue to derive that sense of purpose in retirement, I would expect less of a decline in retirement other than normal aging.

New comment by gcheong in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

gcheong — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:15:40 +0000

Didn't they need the data from the 200 million miles or so from actual driving before they could get to the generative model though? Data isn't everything, as you point out with Telsa (mainly because they decided to forego using lidar it would seem), but it is pretty fundamental.

New comment by gcheong in "Waymo in Portland"

gcheong — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:58:43 +0000

From the article it doesn't sound like it was physically stuck as much as it's maps might not have been updated with the latest addition of that light rail and/or it was confused by the ongoing construction.

New comment by gcheong in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

gcheong — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:31:42 +0000

"Make something people want" seems so quaint now.

New comment by gcheong in "1D Chess"

gcheong — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:29:24 +0000

Minor typo: assming -> assuming :)

New comment by gcheong in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

gcheong — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:17:33 +0000

If there is anything left to come back to.

New comment by gcheong in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

gcheong — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:14:17 +0000

I have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major appliance use between these hours (dishwasher scheduled to start at midnight or manually run early in the day, washer/dryer loads run in the morning). I am home during the day which makes this easier to do though. Another solution of course would be to bank your solar generation or low rate electricity into a set of batteries that you could draw from during peak times.

New comment by gcheong in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

gcheong — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:38:29 +0000

Maybe not our careers, but probably our souls.

New comment by gcheong in "36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?"

gcheong — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:30:06 +0000

Can you take advantage of the Portuguese educational system to train for a professional career while you are living and working there? If so, I think that might tilt things in favor of Portugal especially if the prospect of obtaining an EU passport is there.

New comment by gcheong in "YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of""

gcheong — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:45:11 +0000

I don't know if even they know that they're looking for with the question as they marked it as experimental and optional but the explanation perhaps gives some hint:

"Optional: attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of. This is an experimental question for the Spring 2026 batch to give people a chance to show off their skills with AI coding tools."

Maybe they're hoping to gain some signal around a correlation between good AI coding skills and future company success?

New comment by gcheong in "Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?"

gcheong — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:44:15 +0000

Sometimes the why is discovered when you try to change the code to what you think it should be and see it fall down in some cases you didn't anticipate or some other system is affected. It's often really hard to find out the why but either it will become clear at some point when the code is refactored or it will be irrelevant.

New comment by gcheong in "Martin Luther King was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool"

gcheong — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:57:15 +0000

Maybe something more akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund - just replace oil revenue with AI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

New comment by gcheong in "Martin Luther King was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool"

gcheong — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:49:29 +0000

https://archive.is/R2K77

New comment by gcheong in "Ask HN: How do you know what you're working on is worth working on?"

gcheong — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:40:03 +0000

Unless you have a paying customer willing to pay you with just a promise of something to be delivered (see kickstarter et al, Steve Blanks's customer discovery, etc.), you don't. If it solves a problem you have and in a better way for you than other solutions then you personally get immediate value from it. From there, it's possible others may have the same problem and will be willing to pay for it. It's not guaranteed but the number of people getting value from the software will be at least n = 1.