Hacker News: jamiequint

New comment by jamiequint in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

jamiequint — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:42:32 +0000

Good thing you don't get to decide.

New comment by jamiequint in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

jamiequint — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:25:27 +0000

Ed Zitron also said that consumers were losing interest in ChatGPT in January 2024, that AI models were reaching their upper possible limits in Feburary 2024, that ChatGPT and similar products were "not particularly useful for anything", that hallucinations could not possibly be reduced in models, etc.

He's a churlish AI skeptic that isn't worth listening to.

New comment by jamiequint in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

jamiequint — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:11:33 +0000

"Internet constellations may be mildly profitable"

It's insanely profitable they did $7.2bn in EBITDA on $11.4bn in revenue in 2025.

New comment by jamiequint in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

jamiequint — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Effective ads absolutely require knowing more about the user than the context on the page it's a 1-2 orders of magnitude revenue difference for the publisher per-impression.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:02:16 +0000

except it's not? lol

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:49:27 +0000

What is worse a "hamfisted system prompt push to prod" or a system and organization built to enforce systematic bias in the name of anti-bias?

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:43:58 +0000

OK great, do you consider Gemini/Google untrustworthy software that shouldn't be used? Just making sure we're being intellectually honest here.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:40:51 +0000

LOL, pot meet kettle for real.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:38:41 +0000

The reality is both are likely well meaning attempts to squash model bias gone wrong. Since you happen to align with the politics of one more than the other, you are having trouble being intellectually honest about your own biases.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:27:50 +0000

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-making-changes...

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:27:11 +0000

They had a bug in their model that they fixed within days is evidence they are "untrustworthy"?

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:25:14 +0000

read the top comment

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:16:37 +0000

Do you have any examples to illustrate these extraordinary claims?

New comment by jamiequint in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jamiequint — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:21:38 +0000

"What exactly is there in the USA's destruction of the economic norms that have always served it"

What destruction? US GDP growth has recovered to the pre-COVID trendline while EU lags behind it's already-slow previous pace.

New comment by jamiequint in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jamiequint — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:35 +0000

"Fading superpower" is typical EU cope. It may help to be a little bit introspective about why one might want to oppose EU politics, or its leaders, whose "leadership" over the last decade has led to unprecedented migrant, economic, and energy crises, and stalling growth.

New comment by jamiequint in "Tidal AI Policy"

jamiequint — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:38:54 +0000

Called photography poor facsimiles of painting, not real art, etc.

New comment by jamiequint in "Tidal AI Policy"

jamiequint — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:16:53 +0000

Baudelaire and many others said the same thing about photography.

New comment by jamiequint in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

jamiequint — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:53:56 +0000

You're confusing law with ethics, they are not the same.

New comment by jamiequint in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

jamiequint — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:15:49 +0000

"I thought the goal was to generate tax revenue from the taxes, which wouldn't happen to the extent they end up in the hands of NYC residents."

You're right, I'm saying I think it is a good tax for reasons secondary to revenue. We all know NYC is going to squander the money, at least they might make housing slightly cheaper for the average New Yorker in the process.

New comment by jamiequint in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

jamiequint — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:35:59 +0000

"If you make the tax too high it starts discouraging the behavior you're taxing, which can paradoxically reduce overall tax revenue."

I am generally against more taxes, but the structure of this one is quite good in terms of the incentives. If wealthy people who only live in the city part-time stay in hotels instead of buying second homes, the net effect should be to increase the cost of hotel rooms and reduce the cost of owned-housing. NYC charges nearly 10% tax on hotel stays, so recoups some of the cost there. Having property in your city mostly being occupied by people who live their full time, particularly when property is already very expensive, seems like a good thing overall.