<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jamilton</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamilton</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:57:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jamilton" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some people say they care more about the concept than the music, but in practice if someone had just posted "imagine if etc" approximately no one would care, upvote, or comment. In reality people actually do care about the implementation at least existing. It's more novel and interesting than the abstract concept.<p>I don't think most artists make most art with the expectation that people are going to spend hours obsessing over it, if they did they'd be disappointed. Most art has approximately no one pay any attention or care about it, so the creation of art has to be driven by something else. Maybe the artist just wants the thing to exist for themselves, for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:47:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747707</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Siri does have a setting that'll activate it if you say "hey siri" while the phone is locked. Obvious privacy and battery usage concerns though, and it's still Siri, so it's a little clunky.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663749</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems more like Twine than Inform. Inform is for parser fic, where you enter commands ("get key", "go north", "open door"), Twine and this are for choice-based fiction.</p>
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<p>I don't think either of those would typically be seen as weird? It's certainly less common, but I think the people most likely to find it weird would be those who would think women reading trashy romance novels is weird too.</p>
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<p>"Remote Application<p>The Remote Uber and Hybrid are like a roulette computer in the cloud – it can be applied from anywhere with internet access. You don’t even need to enter a casino. You can have others play for you, who pay you part of their winnings. You determine who accesses your computer and when. The Hybrid computer even allows you to watch your teams play live with a hidden camera."<p>This whole thing sounds sketchy, but this is particularly sketchy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:16:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582697</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That seems like a pretty reasonable subdivision to me. Culturally there are differences in what it means to be attractive as a male or female, so it follows that the effects could be different.</p>
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<p>"Attractive" is something evolved as well though, so that just passes the buck. It's culturally determined as well of course.</p>
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<p>Also interesting to consider how much "compute" has to be spent by humans are learning something like that. Like, do we need to see more examples if learning from pictures of cats and dogs than seeing them in person? How many more examples? What if we're seeing them all in sequence, or spread out across hours or days?<p>I've probably seen... at least a dozen pictures of aardvarks and anteaters and maybe even see one of them at the zoo but I don't think I could reliably remember which was which without a reminder.</p>
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<p>What levers are there, really? Waymo has a monopoly and it seems like they will for a while, so they have a lot of power, but all I really see them doing is making it expensive. Anything that makes the experience worse takes away from their ability to take market share away from Uber/Lyft.</p>
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<p>An obvious issue with the metaphor that comes to mind is that if you consider yourself to have a pretty good life, to be overall happy and satisfied, but you think it's possible to have an objectively much better life, then you'd rank yourself relatively low. And vice versa, if you think your life sucks but it could be much worse you'd rank yourself relatively high.</p>
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<p>I don’t think that assumption is being made, why do you think that? In terms of metaphor, training a model could be considered both knowledge acquired after birth and its evolution. But I don’t think it’s particularly useful to stay thinking in metaphors.</p>
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<p>Technically any market that's about someone doing something by a certain time can be an assassination contract, if you think the market will it enforce it that way. Can't do it if they're dead.</p>
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<p>I would assume it was manually coded.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:45:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366006</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're all pretty common AI-isms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:35:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342331</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "I put my whole life into a single database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still worth trying, IMO.<p>An alternate approach that would be seen as consumer and business-friendly would be subsidizing companies with a certain level of fuel efficiency per passenger mile, targeted above current levels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:42:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328549</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free.<p>Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps seem to have trouble with it, I assume they're assuming a larger screen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258074</link><dc:creator>jamilton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jamilton in "This time is different"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it's a UX thing. You'd still have to edit it by typing afterwards as well.<p>Similarly, raw LLM/chat interfaces are usually not the best option.</p>
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<p>People <i>can</i> tell. The premise is false. It’s sometimes hard to tell, obviously it’s hard to ascertain false negatives and false positives, but it’s usually pretty obvious.</p>
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<p>Feels very AI written in a way that makes it annoying to read with all the repetitive short sentences.<p>Neat concept though, would be cool to see some tests of performance on some tasks.</p>
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<p>Cool. How’d you pick decks?</p>
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