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New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Claude is a space to think"

yMEyUyNE1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:55:29 +0000

> Companies exist to earn money

By providing product or services of value, not by maximing profits at any cost (definitely not by taking advantage of people, shortcomings of rules/laws, ... , or by harming people, ... , environment)

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

yMEyUyNE1 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:31:39 +0000

> I've wondered if it is some innate need to nourish herself with calcium, or if it's stress relief :)

methinks: Calcium is required to make the egg shell. Calcium supplements would help, just in case "Life finds a way".

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Try and"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:25:49 +0000

For me, if someone says "try and see for yourself", it implies possibility of failure or something new.

If outcome is considered in terms of success or failure then try implies non-zero probability of failure. If outcome isn't considered in terms of success or failure then "try this flavour of ice-cream" is experience and try this outfit(fits or doesn't) is a test you can't fail. Philosophically, it is as master Yoda said: Do or do not, there is no try.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

yMEyUyNE1 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:27:55 +0000

Felt like deja vu

“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment” – Warren G. Bennis.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:55:01 +0000

> There's simply so much to know that the LLM has an inherent advantage.

But do they understand it? I mean, A child used swear words, but does it understand the meaning of the swear words. In other comment, somebodies OH also mentioned about artistic abilities and utility of the words spoken.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

yMEyUyNE1 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 07:35:30 +0000

Not what you asked for but should help https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1028:_Communicati...

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Knowledge-based society, my ass"

yMEyUyNE1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:35:00 +0000

Albert Einstein: 'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.'

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "OpenAI o3 and o4-mini"

yMEyUyNE1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:45:27 +0000

> Not to lie me in the face.

Are you saying that, it deliberately lied to you?

> With right knowledge and web searches one can answer this question in a matter of minutes at most.

Reminded me of Dunning Kruger curve, the ai model at the first peak and you at the latter.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:03:12 +0000

> capitalism favors profits over anything else.

At what rate of return does "profits" turn into unbridled greed and capitalism turns into parasitic exploitation?

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "When Not to Obey Orders (2019)"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:18:10 +0000

Mark Twain — 'Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.'

In democracy government is for the country/people and not the other way round.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Engineering Sleep"

yMEyUyNE1 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:34:03 +0000

How about engineering the society/civilization(?)/world so that "all can" work hard (8hrs), rest hard (8hrs), live hard (8hrs) and die hard when the eventuality arrives?

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "The History and Evolution of Playing Cards"

yMEyUyNE1 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:10:14 +0000

There is also an entertaining TED talk by Marco Tempest explaining cards https://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_a_cyber_magic_card_t...

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "When are two proofs essentially the same? (2007)"

yMEyUyNE1 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:42:41 +0000

>> An algorithm is not a proof.

> That is an opinion that many do not share.

Say, we have an algorithm to color a planar graph with 4 colors, can we say that we have a proof for 4-coloring a planar graph?

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:29:53 +0000

You have a typo, https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Does “building in public” work?"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:10:08 +0000

How about a bullet? :)

https://theworld.org/stories/2024/08/27/a-rise-in-water-rela...

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Things I learned from teaching (2023)"

yMEyUyNE1 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:15:37 +0000

> would you want a 'passionate' doctor

As long as the doctor is proficient/expert/licenced, why would the rest matter?

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking"

yMEyUyNE1 — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 07:40:44 +0000

> Eventually, business owners will no longer need people at all.

Who will they sell to? For business/markets to exist, it needs people who can buy.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms"

yMEyUyNE1 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:14:34 +0000

Yeah, there is a huge difference between opportunist petty thiefs and organized crime bosses.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission"

yMEyUyNE1 — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 07:51:28 +0000

I view such companies as Trolls under the Bridge (i.e. appstores) that connect the app developers and the users.

New comment by yMEyUyNE1 in "A female albatross over 70 years old"

yMEyUyNE1 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:26:24 +0000

Why bother to downvote, if you can't state the reason?