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New comment by id in "The Human in the Loop"

id — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:33:08 +0000

>software engineers will still need to apply their expertise and wisdom to generated outputs

And in my experience they don't really do that. They trust that it'll be good enough.

New comment by id in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

id — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:42:49 +0000

The world being indifferent to your pain is not helping if you're in acute pain. Step outside your perspective, sure. I guarantee you this will not work if you have real issues like physical pain due to terminal cancer.

New comment by id in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

id — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:35:41 +0000

It simply doesn't work, even assuming you had no empathy as described in the quote.

New comment by id in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

id — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:45:57 +0000

It works handsomely for the 1%. The rest, well, ...

New comment by id in "Gemini 3"

id — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:26:39 +0000

gpt-5.1 gave me the correct answer after 2m 17s. That includes retrieving the Euler website. I didn't even have to run the Python script, it also did that.

New comment by id in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

id — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:52:01 +0000

Or maybe, just maybe, becoming a billionaire has way more to do with luck than anything else.

I don't know about any billionaire in the history of billionaires who appears to have gotten there solely based on special abilities. Being born into the right circumstances is all it really takes.

New comment by id in "Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019)"

id — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:01:13 +0000

It wouldn't surprise me if healthy, privileged people with access to good healthcare are more optimistic than those with serious illness, no coverage and three shitty jobs.

Hard to be optimistic when you have cancer and can't afford treatment.

New comment by id in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

id — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:29:23 +0000

>due to being open minded, adaptable, giving, and curious

And how do you become that? Exactly, by being lucky.

New comment by id in "Four thousand weeks"

id — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 10:23:47 +0000

The other ones I can maybe understand, but why would I be embarrassed to go to water parks?

New comment by id in "Daily habits of happiness experts"

id — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:18:10 +0000

When I have been unhappy in my life, it was never about the past or future. It always had to do with the present.

New comment by id in "Ask HN: Need Career Recommendations"

id — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:29:53 +0000

Start a corporation so that you don't need to sell your soul to corporations?

New comment by id in "Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?"

id — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:14:29 +0000

Difficult to accomplish when your work is on the computer and the entire entertainment of the world is also on the computer.

New comment by id in "Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?"

id — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:11:23 +0000

I don't know, I've seen both and they don't really offer any solutions. Plus Dr. K. spouts a lot of pseudoscience and at times even esoteric nonsense.

New comment by id in "ElonJet – Account Suspended"

id — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:35:18 +0000

To be fair, public is not the same as easily accessible.

New comment by id in "Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad"

id — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:17:35 +0000

We don't see what they are not reporting.

New comment by id in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

id — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 08:42:32 +0000

Musk didn't start Tesla and he's not the only person working there.

New comment by id in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

id — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:20:28 +0000

Trump University was a scam - it didn't stop Trump from being elected.

New comment by id in "Ask HN: What Happened to the Reddit IPO?"

id — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:00:39 +0000

I'm unironically sure it's helping their engagement numbers. Someone with the app installed on their phone is going to engage much more frequently.

New comment by id in "Pessimism is a barrier to progress"

id — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:48:17 +0000

It's not a disagreement. You made a false statement, I called it out.

New comment by id in "Pessimism is a barrier to progress"

id — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:54:43 +0000

I don't hate him for being rich, I simply want him to stop polluting excessively. It would help the climate and his message alike.

And I don't buy that you can do your share by talking one way and doing the exact opposite privately. It's like being an animal rights advocate who (openly) tortures animals in their free time. Simply doesn't work that way, even if you save more animals than you torture.