Hacker News: JohnPrine

New comment by JohnPrine in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

JohnPrine — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:46:35 +0000

Seems like this article had a large impact on your understanding of the housing system. Could you post it so that others can read it too?

New comment by JohnPrine in "Claude 4"

JohnPrine — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:24:22 +0000

oil is a commodity, and yet the oil industry is massive and has multiple major players

New comment by JohnPrine in "AI Is Not Your Friend"

JohnPrine — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:14:26 +0000

not sure what this sort of naval gazing accomplishes. software companies are designing their products around user preferences. you or anyone else are welcome to create the kind of software you think we "should" have, but if it doesn't line up with the revealed preferences of the users then I'm not sure what the point is

New comment by JohnPrine in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

JohnPrine — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:45:29 +0000

giving a single counter example does not mean "most of the world" is not true here

New comment by JohnPrine in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

JohnPrine — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:43:57 +0000

do you really think that if I said "he is american" that 96% of the world isn't going to think I mean the USA?

New comment by JohnPrine in "Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities"

JohnPrine — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:25:44 +0000

Thanks for the insight. Very cool to get your perspective on this

New comment by JohnPrine in "Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities"

JohnPrine — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:39:11 +0000

Agreed, blind people and sighted people are able to experience different kinds of beauty that are inaccessible to each other. As a sighted person, if there was a technology that could describe the beauty that a blind person experiences in a given moment I would think that would be pretty cool to try.

> Please, don't hype accessibility just for your personal fun. There are people out there with real problems, and dangling impossible solutions before their "eyes" is pretty much cruel

Do you think it's going to be impossible forever? bandwidth and latency seem like the surest things to improve in AI tech

New comment by JohnPrine in "I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)"

JohnPrine — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:34:38 +0000

The thesis is simple: these programs are smart now, but unreliable when executing complex, multi-step tasks. If that improves (whether because the models get so smart that they never make a mistake in the first place, or because they get good enough at checking their work and correcting it), we can give them control over a computer and run them in a loop in order to function as drop-in remote workers.

The economic growth would then come from every business having access to a limitless supply of tireless, cheap, highly intelligent knowledge workers

New comment by JohnPrine in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

JohnPrine — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:45:10 +0000

I don't think this is true

New comment by JohnPrine in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

JohnPrine — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:46:11 +0000

lol you got me

New comment by JohnPrine in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

JohnPrine — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:29:51 +0000

I'm starting to think there's no difference between this website and reddit

New comment by JohnPrine in "Why housing shortages cause homelessness"

JohnPrine — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:01:53 +0000

there are ways to support yourself without supporting a corporation

New comment by JohnPrine in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

JohnPrine — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:21:59 +0000

you'd rather everyone die than to see experience requirements for certain jobs go up?

New comment by JohnPrine in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

JohnPrine — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:38:16 +0000

if y'all think that being in the dark about market wages is going to result in employers offering higher salaries then I don't know what to tell you

New comment by JohnPrine in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

JohnPrine — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:07:52 +0000

it wouldn't surprise me if what we think of as intelligence is nothing more than brute force attempts at prediction with educated guesses

New comment by JohnPrine in "Testing AMD's Giant MI300X"

JohnPrine — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:28:14 +0000

Are you saying that companies lose the ability to secure financing once they go public?

New comment by JohnPrine in "Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street"

JohnPrine — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:06:59 +0000

Thanks for the comments, that was really enlightening. Not sure why people on a tech forum seem so eager to dismiss an emerging technology rather than using their imaginations a little

New comment by JohnPrine in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

JohnPrine — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:51:43 +0000

> But second, it's easy to say, 'it's probably fine' from the outside, when your neck and your future isn't at risk.

Yeah this was basically going to be my response to the first part of your response. Israel wants to be around for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. You can't accept existential risk, even if small, if that's your goal.

> And too much force could provoke them. It's not that simple.

I agree. My comment was just trying to look at the question of why the initial invasion by Hamas was seen as an existential threat great enough to justify an all out counterattack. I don't know how to answer when enough is enough, and I could easily believe that Israel isn't even considering that question out of rage.

The damage to Israel's international reputation could outweigh any security it gains through deterrence - the fact that Hamas hasn't freed their hostages or stopped firing rockets suggests that they don't want Israel to stop fighting for this reason

New comment by JohnPrine in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

JohnPrine — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:03:26 +0000

Israel is surrounded by nations which want to see Israel destroyed, and which have banded together in the past to attempt exactly that (e.g. the Yom Kippur War in 1973). If Israel fails to retaliate against aggression forcefully enough it could embolden the surrounding nations enough to form a new coalition and attack.

New comment by JohnPrine in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

JohnPrine — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:55:31 +0000

Could you give a clear mechanistic model of how the US would handle such a danger?