Hacker News: relativ575

New comment by relativ575 in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

relativ575 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:51:04 +0000

Huh? Look at the hottest topic at the moment:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-has-attacked-irans-nuc...

and see for yourself if Twitter is dead.

New comment by relativ575 in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

relativ575 — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:22:37 +0000

Can you come up with a plan to ship Budweiser beer to the consumers around the country via train?

New comment by relativ575 in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials"

relativ575 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:47:02 +0000

> But that’s what they sell, that AI could do what the author did with AI.

Can you give an example of what you meant here? The author did use AI. What does "AI coming up with that" mean?

New comment by relativ575 in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials"

relativ575 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:44:51 +0000

Nobody?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542497

New comment by relativ575 in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

relativ575 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:33:40 +0000

I've worked under communist regime. A real one, a few decades ago, and let me tell you, they also demanded proof of disability. Did you have different experience?

New comment by relativ575 in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"

relativ575 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:15:23 +0000

Such as?

New comment by relativ575 in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

relativ575 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:35:08 +0000

> That's not true at all. Someone can simply buy all the media, and the free market will not correct that as long as that person has the wealth to persist.

Do you have an example of that happened in real life? Not just a hypothesis. When was a person being wealthy enough to buy all the media?

New comment by relativ575 in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

relativ575 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:31:38 +0000

Use cases such as?

New comment by relativ575 in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

relativ575 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:31:01 +0000

From TFA:

> LLMs and the platforms powering them are quickly becoming one-stop shops for any ML-related tasks. From my perspective, the real revolution is not the chat ability or the knowledge embedded in these models, but rather the versatility they bring in a single system.

Why use another piece of software if LLM is good enough?

New comment by relativ575 in "Perplexity got ads"

relativ575 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:53:23 +0000

Google's revenue for 2023 was $307.394B, a 8.68% increase from 2022. 2022 was $282.836B, a 9.78% increase from 2021. 2021 was $257.637B, a 41.15% increase from 2020.

Doesn't sound like just past glory.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve...

New comment by relativ575 in "Perplexity got ads"

relativ575 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:37:16 +0000

Really? Ad is the most popular business model for Internet businesses. Any you saying none of those companies is viable?

New comment by relativ575 in "Perplexity got ads"

relativ575 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:34:14 +0000

It's a Chinese company in a wild hot technology field that China want to compete in. I bet that they are very well supported by the state. Similar to Llama with Meta's money.

New comment by relativ575 in "Perplexity got ads"

relativ575 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:30:19 +0000

So anyway, what is your idea of a less shitty business model that can sustain their business? Paid tier? they already have it.

New comment by relativ575 in "U.S. military makes first confirmed OpenAI purchase for war-fighting forces"

relativ575 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:08:11 +0000

War is terrible. Nobody likes war. Yet war is also the norm for as long as human being exists. Saying military is the war machine is a cheap emotional appeal.

Military also fight to protect civilians when war break out.

Military is the deterrence force that prevent wars.

Military plays a key role in rescue and recovery when natural disasters hit.

Most military forces have more peace time than war time duties.

New comment by relativ575 in "FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia"

relativ575 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:22:59 +0000

Why not?

Software engineer in the US makes 100K or higher. Why?

If you have reasons to believe the price is too high, present them?

New comment by relativ575 in "Dell lays off 12,500 people"

relativ575 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:40:12 +0000

Dell's employee number grew from 105,000 in 2017 to peak level of 165,000 in 2020, before going down to the current level of 130,000 - [0]

But are you saying we should only pay attention when layoff happens, ignoring a long period of significant growth?

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/264917/number-of-employe...

New comment by relativ575 in "The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare"

relativ575 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:49:01 +0000

You are very hostile in this thread. The GP didn't say anywhere that it was ok for people to be uninsured. Neither did they say they were among the 55% figure.

Secondly, it's easy to find some official figures - [0]

From January through June 2023, among people of all ages, 7.4% were uninsured, 40.7% had public coverage, and 60.8% had private coverage at the time of interview

And:

The percentage of adults who were uninsured decreased from 14.7% in 2019 to 10.7% in the first 6 months of 2023. Public coverage increased from 2019 (20.4%) through the first 6 months of 2023 (23.6%). No significant trend in private coverage was observed between 2019 (66.8%) and the first 6 months of 2023 (67.7%)

In other words, the majority of people in the US (> 90%) have insurance -- private, public, or both.

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur202312....

New comment by relativ575 in "Human history in the very long run (2021)"

relativ575 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:03:23 +0000

Are you sure? People of the old time spent most of their time worrying about having food on the table. I doubt they could have time for FB if it was to exist at the time

New comment by relativ575 in "Human history in the very long run (2021)"

relativ575 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:00:08 +0000

Well, now you have access to other kinds of food that you didn't have when you were a kid, such as international cuisines. Who is to say which way is better? Although it's certainly the case that it'd be ideal if you could have both

New comment by relativ575 in "AI's $600B Question"

relativ575 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:01:51 +0000

Huh? Mobile phone was available commercially in 1980s, and started to proliferate in 1990s. It was definitely not popular in those groups early on. Any of them.