Hacker News: JTon

New comment by JTon in "Implications of AI to schools"

JTon — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:38:33 +0000

Is this how you defeat AI detection? I.e. Generate a report, then manually introduce spelling and/or grammatical errors?

New comment by JTon in "Generative AI Hype Peaking"

JTon — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:38:59 +0000

> Yahoo yodel

I wanted to hear this again. Leaving it here for the next person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5FE0x9eY0

New comment by JTon in "QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices"

JTon — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:41:03 +0000

> Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.

Agreed. This reality slapped me in the face quite hard after I was given an ipad 2 (circa 2011). I figured I'd use it as a couch-side device for spotify. Soon realized nothing worked on it, even with old version apps loaded. Server side shut it down.

New comment by JTon in "Welcome to the ad-free internet"

JTon — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:42:12 +0000

Perhaps. But what I described benefits the institutions as well, no?

New comment by JTon in "Welcome to the ad-free internet"

JTon — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:50:56 +0000

> That’s also why it takes 2 days to send money to people, in an era of instant communication.

I always assumed anti-fraud had something to do with it. Give the victims time to notice and the institutions the ability to reverse transactions without loss

New comment by JTon in "I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate"

JTon — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:22:08 +0000

I've been told that many players buy counterfeits specifically for old school tournaments so they don't put their very expensive pieces at risk to theft or damage. I can't verify this, but it makes a lot of sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by JTon in "I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate"

JTon — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:18:18 +0000

You can get professionally printed proxies [1]. I've been told there's often a "don't ask, don't tell" policy around many unofficial mtg tournaments regarding proxies. It obviously upsets some people, but others see it as requirement for new players to enter legacy format (and keep it alive).

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg/wiki/index

New comment by JTon in "The new Paris métro"

JTon — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 02:42:10 +0000

I don't know. I heard this narrative a lot more during the trump era, and I rarely hear it now. I have a pet theory that it comes up in popular Canadian culture when a republican is in office and dies down when a democrat is there.

New comment by JTon in "Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration"

JTon — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:24:43 +0000

Thanks! So is patching this as simple as not allowing the entire space of X for user prompt? i.e. guaranteeing some amount of X for model owner's instructions

New comment by JTon in "Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration"

JTon — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:51:19 +0000

> because all the rules have been pushed out.

Can you unpack this a little please? Is it possible to ELI5 the mechanisms involved that can "push" a rule set out? I would have assumed the rules apply globally/uniformly across the entire prompt

New comment by JTon in "Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic"

JTon — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:43:17 +0000

Not 100% sure but I believe Llama [1] is a LLM created by meta. Code Llama is probably one tailored as a coding assistant

[1] https://ai.meta.com/llama/

New comment by JTon in "[dead]"

JTon — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:59:33 +0000

Unable to view content on my end. Paywalled

New comment by JTon in "The process of making food models. Japanese 73-year-old craftsman [video]"

JTon — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:34:45 +0000

True, but there's a vast time and skill delta in making professional looking menu pics and simply snapping reference photos.

New comment by JTon in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

JTon — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:06:04 +0000

In general or for this specific application (linking primary sources)?

New comment by JTon in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

JTon — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:55:09 +0000

Agreed except ChatGPT (3.5 at least, haven't tried 4) is unable to provide primary sources for its results. At least when I tried, it just provided hallucinated urls

New comment by JTon in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

JTon — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:55:21 +0000

True but a useless fact. One way to interpret u/seanhunter's comment is to make the comparison between imessage and activex in the known exploit space and then extrapolate into the unknown space assuming equal proportions. Seems reasonable to me.

New comment by JTon in "Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke"

JTon — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:48:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing this project. Love the sounds [1]. Unfortunately, the github states the windows version is broken (haven't verified myself). Also, just personal taste, I can see myself getting tied of the bucklespring sound. Klack having different switch sounds seems worth the price alone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21AuWT1lDMc

New comment by JTon in "The office is a theatre for work (2019)"

JTon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:34:17 +0000

I'm not following this at all. This narrative is at odds with the cut-throat capitalist narrative which is also popular to characterize businesses today. I.e. If business administrators could cut labour costs by reducing workforce, they would in a blind of an eye. For knowledge workers, I think the "idle capacity" model is more correct. Basically, demands for output are not constant, they ebb and flow. It's expensive to acquire and train staff, so they retain surplus capacity. It's inefficient, but it's more resilient.

New comment by JTon in "B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations"

JTon — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:51:12 +0000

Doubtful. Canada has emergency alert systems in place over AM and FM radio, over Broadcast TV, and over SMS/cellphone. Those are the systems I'm aware of, but there may be more.

New comment by JTon in "Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone"

JTon — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:04:46 +0000

Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?