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New comment by mym1990 in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

mym1990 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:52:46 +0000

I have not seen the research on CoT and how it impacts spatial reasoning and outcomes, so I can’t comment on that part. I do see continuously that in almost every example of non-trivial image generation and 3d modeling, there are quirks that point to the fact that the model does not understand relationships within the space based on physics.

CoT seems to work really well for text based generation but once you’re past that and into physics models and detailed relationship mapping, it may work better but it’s not enough to make me believe it’s “reasoning” in a way that humans do.

New comment by mym1990 in "America.gov"

mym1990 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:46:00 +0000

Right, and a modernization can run for as long as 10 years, meaning your budget over the modernization is actually closer to 350 million. The DMV likely just contracts the services to ILSOS and gets billed a ginormous amount in contracting fees.

So you initially say 100k-1 million and then pull a 35 million dollar budget out…seems a little disconnected.

New comment by mym1990 in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

mym1990 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:19:43 +0000

Or it’s just taking common examples from training and applying those copied heuristics to your problem? Doesn’t mean it’s actually reasoning about the space and how to solve the problem. It’s the equivalent of a student writing an answer they saw somewhere else without understanding “why”.

New comment by mym1990 in "America.gov"

mym1990 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:04:07 +0000

Ooooh man, if you think a DMV site is contracted for 100k-1 million, I have some very, very bad news for you.

New comment by mym1990 in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

mym1990 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:49:08 +0000

Advertisers, for one.

New comment by mym1990 in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

mym1990 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:09:32 +0000

I didn't even mention anything about AI, so no reason to bring it into this. Lawyers or not, it signals to other companies and society in general that repercussions are at least less severe now, or in some cases non-existent.

New comment by mym1990 in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

mym1990 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:55:56 +0000

Not too hopeful here as we see the major labs continuously break rules and are not held accountable for anything. Accountability in general is on a major decline, in case no one has noticed.

New comment by mym1990 in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

mym1990 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:45:10 +0000

Modern economies are addicted to growth, and asset prices are pinned to showing continued growth more than ever. As soon as any global power proposes to take a beat and re-evaluate the trajectory of innovation, they will be left behind. Global leadership is also effectively non-existent and aside from trade, no one seems to be able to really make inroads on big ticket issues. In a time where we need more collaboration that ever, governments seem to be skewing more nationalistic than ever.

New comment by mym1990 in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

mym1990 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:36:56 +0000

I'm not going to lie, and this is not meant as an insult, but I could not comprehend what a single sentence here is trying to say.

New comment by mym1990 in "Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]"

mym1990 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:52:43 +0000

I think there is lots of nuance between theory and application. Some people are really good teachers, and good teachers can give us mental models are abstract enough to get the gist of things.

Roger Federer would say he never knew what kind of grip he used on his shots(which is one of the first things one learns as a beginner), and I think Roger might not be an elite coach, because so much of his greatness may have come from a very intuitive understanding of tennis. (Would I still take him as my coach, heck yeah).

I think some people have really intuitive understanding of their subjects and can express that understanding in amazing applications, but they lack the communication skills, patience, or language to properly pass on the knowledge to others.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:01:06 +0000

Drug addicts don't become addicts all of the sudden. Lots of people with no place to go resort to awful things, people that feel like they have no place in society do not see a reason to take care of it. It doesn't make it right, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to address the root cause.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:09:02 +0000

I don’t disagree that the problem is difficult and has various surface areas to address, but everyone can’t blame the drug users when even putting up the stall costs north of $500,000. That’s just governmental bureaucracy at play.

Additionally, not all areas of the country are infested with the “homeless and drug addicts”. People can spin that all they like but areas where people take care of their local services are plentiful.

Lastly, don’t talk to me about prohibitive pricing in government initiates. When we stop spending hundreds of billions bombing other countries, then come talk about things being too expensive.

Nice condescending comment about the homework though, you must have been pleased with that one.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:56:44 +0000

Go touch grass, you seem a little angry for a forum.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:20:50 +0000

Funny how the government is "underfunded", yet can spend billions and trillions on plenty of things.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:19:09 +0000

Yeah, I did this at 16 at a gas station and got paid 8.75 an hour, there are lots of people out there doing this type of work in the private sector. Its not glamorous thats for sure but supply/demand will dictate the labor market. The government doesn't deem it infeasible because hiring is difficult, its because they aren't willing to pay a reasonable wage for the work.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:09:52 +0000

How is maintaining public restrooms a "massive liability"? Surely its an inconvenience but massive liability seems a bit of a hyperbole.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:08:18 +0000

It probably isn't as much about population growth as the increasing wealth gap. My hypothesis would be that a society where people don't feel fair distribution of wealth is more prone to this 'abuse' that you call 'overuse'.

New comment by mym1990 in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mym1990 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:05:47 +0000

I was in Nice as well and found one place that had a public urinal(my back was literally to people walking around). It was a bit odd...but I really had to go.

New comment by mym1990 in "c100"

mym1990 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:42:36 +0000

We're truly living through the cash grab era. $1400 + a yearly subscription for an extremely vague product that will likely lose support in 2-5 years.

New comment by mym1990 in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

mym1990 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:58:10 +0000

Massive, complex codebase…short pseudocode.

The fact that you don’t think this is particularly difficult makes me questions everything after that statement.