Hacker News: jackbrookes

New comment by jackbrookes in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

jackbrookes — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:26:39 +0000

By that logic, 'Basque', 'Cantonese', 'Cajun', and 'Tex-Mex' shouldn't exist either

New comment by jackbrookes in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

jackbrookes — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:03:07 +0000

> why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?"

I mean... have you ever used a phone?

New comment by jackbrookes in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

jackbrookes — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:00:35 +0000

This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?"

Imagine it’s 1992:

Cookbook: Open book, follow steps.

PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fiddle with floppies, pray the printer works, hope the shareware recipe isn’t weird.

Not saying you're wrong but its easy to miss the big picture

New comment by jackbrookes in "Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show"

jackbrookes — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:00:04 +0000

I tried for a while to get ChatGPT to generate connections style puzzles with some suggested topics, including red herrings to create some answers that seemingly fit in multiple categories. Then it would post them to https://connections.swellgarfo.com/. Overall they were really bad but that was using GPT4

New comment by jackbrookes in "SVGs that feel like GIFs"

jackbrookes — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:45:44 +0000

just record as mp4 in the first place, gif has limited colour palette, low frame rate and poor compression

New comment by jackbrookes in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

jackbrookes — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:26:21 +0000

Yes I'd bet most users just 50/50 it, which actually makes it more remarkable that there was a 56% selection rate

New comment by jackbrookes in "Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats"

jackbrookes — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:42:23 +0000

Playlists allow spotify to create a moat. It encourages you to listen to (and build) playlists, that wouldn't then be easily available if you try to switch platforms

New comment by jackbrookes in "Large Enough"

jackbrookes — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:16:15 +0000

It just needs a little hint

    Me: spell "strawberry" with 1 bullet point per letter
    ChatGPT:
       S
       T
       R
       A
       W
       B
       E
       R
       R
       Y
    Me: How many Rs? 
    ChatGPT: There are three Rs in "strawberry".

New comment by jackbrookes in "Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone"

jackbrookes — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:54:28 +0000

Apple delivers ads (for e.g. Apple Music) in the Settings app of iPhone. Wouldn't be surprised if macOS ends up with similar things.

New comment by jackbrookes in "'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware"

jackbrookes — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 20:13:01 +0000

Well, my point was made in reference to the original comment which said

> If consciousness is not well understood, how is AI on silicon allowed, or any computing machines at all

Which implies that we should care about some kind of suffering inflicted on conscious beings. My argument was that we don't care about AI suffering because we don't really care that much about suffering generally, because of what we chose to do to animals.

New comment by jackbrookes in "'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware"

jackbrookes — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:26:22 +0000

We understand it well enough to know that animals suffer, yet still commit on the order of a Holocaust per hour (in terms of number of lives)[0]. We have accepted that we don't care enough.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-...

New comment by jackbrookes in "After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing"

jackbrookes — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 20:49:05 +0000

How can you stop that? An intelligent AI will send emails, create companies, hire people, and literally anything else you can do digitally in order to create means by which it can manifest itself into meatspace.

New comment by jackbrookes in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

jackbrookes — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:28:32 +0000

No display, 2 cameras, much thinner form factor

New comment by jackbrookes in "Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password"

jackbrookes — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:30:21 +0000

Maybe unrelated, but I think some people do this to check (at least partially) what email is tied to an account. E.g. if you suspect an anonymous instagram user to be your friend Bob, you can invoke the reset email procedure to see

    We sent an email to bo****@gm***.com

Which gives you a hint

New comment by jackbrookes in "Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?"

jackbrookes — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:33:47 +0000

not really

    marbles = (BlackMarble() for _ in range(random.randint(0, 10)))
    all(isinstance(m, BlackMarble) for m in marbles)

Surely should always be true

New comment by jackbrookes in "Switching from Chrome to Firefox"

jackbrookes — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:13:56 +0000

Agree, if anyone knows themes that make this better I'd love to know

New comment by jackbrookes in "Threads, an Instagram app"

jackbrookes — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:07:24 +0000

Also IGTV standalone app

New comment by jackbrookes in "Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset"

jackbrookes — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:38:56 +0000

The point is that Mark's vision is much more social... The most Apple showed was FaceTime but with added 3D on their avatar. There's so much missed opportunity here for true spatial social interaction that Apple avoided

New comment by jackbrookes in "Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset"

jackbrookes — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:43:22 +0000

There's a small but passionate group of VR enthusiasts, more so than most other consumer tech categories in my experience

New comment by jackbrookes in "Statement on AI Risk"

jackbrookes — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:24:51 +0000

Of course every one has been wrong. If they were right, you wouldn't be here talking about it. It shouldn't be surprising that everyone has been wrong before