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New comment by yCombLinks in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

yCombLinks — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:17:46 +0000

Users visited the site and couldn't even begin the form, nor get seen as a visitor, due to javascript metrics and rendering failing.

New comment by yCombLinks in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

yCombLinks — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:28:24 +0000

That sounds like 5 humans got replaced by AI. I don't think most people worry about whether all humans will be replaced, simply whether or not they will be replaced, or people they care about.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

yCombLinks — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:29:04 +0000

Or perhaps there is a 3rd explanation, spending all of your time with people much less intelligent is frustrating and unsatisfying, and being such an outlier, it's how most of your time is spent. Someone with a 142 IQ is to the 100 average in the same way that 100 average is to someone with a 70 IQ. We don't expect people with average IQ to spend all of their days with 70 IQ people (in a peer situation). (BLAH BLAH BLAH Multiple intelligences, IQ isn't a good measurement, etc)

New comment by yCombLinks in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

yCombLinks — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:34:55 +0000

Sorry, I didn't make the point I was aiming for initially

New comment by yCombLinks in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

yCombLinks — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:24:06 +0000

They want it on their resume primarily to make more money and have a better career in terms of getting hired, etc. Very different motivation. They'd only work at a FAANG for free long enough to get that bump. Game devs however would work for many years underpaid because they like what they're creating.

New comment by yCombLinks in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

yCombLinks — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:00:16 +0000

I've got no problem with your concept, and even think it's useful. I just don't think that concept and AGI are the same thing. Economically useful has no relation to what has been called AGI before.

New comment by yCombLinks in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

yCombLinks — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:58:33 +0000

Well, let's look at someone like Einstein. Just for argument's sake let's say he has a flat salary demand of $5 million dollars. It's not cost effective to hire Einstein to write your CRUD apps in this situation. That doesn't mean there isn't somewhere that he would have a value of $5 million.

New comment by yCombLinks in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

yCombLinks — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:47:39 +0000

> The overlapping AGI definition I use here is "Most purely cognitive labor is automatable at better quality, speed, and cost than humans".

That's a poor definition. Nowhere have I seen cheapness as being a requirement to count as AGI. If we have something that can do everything people can do and more, but it costs a lot means it's not AGI?

New comment by yCombLinks in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

yCombLinks — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:54:46 +0000

They are better and keep getting better and cheaper. Iteratively rather than one giant leap, but undeniable.

New comment by yCombLinks in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

yCombLinks — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:56:48 +0000

Eh, at the beginning of 1995 the Nasdaq PE ratio was about 17.5. The current Nasdaq PE bounces around 33. During the dotcom bubble that would be the early 1998 timeframe.

New comment by yCombLinks in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

yCombLinks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:38:47 +0000

All of the authors age at a rate of 1 year per year

New comment by yCombLinks in "FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall"

yCombLinks — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:58:45 +0000

That's mostly due to homogenization, a process that spreads the fat evenly through the milk and keeps it from resettling.

New comment by yCombLinks in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"

yCombLinks — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:36:06 +0000

99.9% vs about 20%. Pretty weak argument.

New comment by yCombLinks in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

yCombLinks — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:07:14 +0000

I'm in one of the many states where my vote doesn't matter. Deep red. Doesn't make me a supporter

New comment by yCombLinks in "FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot"

yCombLinks — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:24:24 +0000

Good how?

New comment by yCombLinks in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

yCombLinks — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:42:16 +0000

The difference is jquery went away because better things replaced it (in javascript). If the fundamental need for tailwind has passed why is it's usage growing? It's more that the problem solved by the paid portion of tailwind is now solved by AI.

New comment by yCombLinks in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

yCombLinks — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:33:37 +0000

The texture of the film grain makes Mulan and Aladdin really look better. The large simple filled sections look like they have so much more to them.

New comment by yCombLinks in "LINQ and Learning to Be Declarative"

yCombLinks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:41:08 +0000

I think the final version is far worse than the second version. This is simpler in what way ?

New comment by yCombLinks in "The Hollow Men of Hims"

yCombLinks — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:33:05 +0000

You don't get to speak for how other people feel.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates"

yCombLinks — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:57:26 +0000

Well, front brake lights take out user errors for activating them.