Hacker News: jasonlfunk

New comment by jasonlfunk in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:57:47 +0000

All of society is impacted by terrible parents who raise terrible kids.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)"

jasonlfunk — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:43:41 +0000

The verb seems pretty important to me…

————- Learn more about [the browser]

Never hear about [the browser] again

Those links will do very different things.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Satellite will have to be turned off when it floats over the US"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 11 May 2025 22:34:17 +0000

Why does the title only mention the US? It can’t do it over Europe either.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy"

jasonlfunk — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:45:10 +0000

I’m always a bit skeptical about these sorts of things. Perhaps I’m just ignorant about the methods used.. but the amount of data we can get from the most distant known galaxy can’t be very much. How confident can we be that the shift in observed light or whatever is actually from the presence of Oxygen and not one of probably countless other causes, both known and unknown.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Google Maps Will Rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in US"

jasonlfunk — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:17:07 +0000

This is exactly right. I'm not sure who should get to decide what the name of the gulf should be, but it shouldn't be Google.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law"

jasonlfunk — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 02:53:06 +0000

It’s hard to know what they hope to accomplish with this bill. Anytime you develop custom code, it’s because you need something, well, custom.

What are the chances that something custom built for one agency is going to be at all useful to the custom needs of another agency?

New comment by jasonlfunk in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:04:59 +0000

I just hope that the US can ban ads for pharmaceuticals.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought"

jasonlfunk — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:53:54 +0000

This is 100% a factor. The internet has some pretty dark and nasty corners; therefore so does the model. Seeing it unfiltered would be a PR nightmare for OpenAI.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free"

jasonlfunk — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:07:58 +0000

Can someone help me understand why it's a problem for companies to train these huge LLM on your copyrighted material? What exactly is the harm that is being done to the copyright holder?

I can understand why the New York Times (for example) wants to claim that a couple billion dollar companies have done it actual harm; but I am struggling to actually identify what it is.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming"

jasonlfunk — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:15:13 +0000

Whether or not this will reduce CO2 is yet to be seen. But it will almost certainly raise the price of beef and dairy products. Taxes on producers inevitably get passed on to consumers.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy"

jasonlfunk — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:28:45 +0000

Isn’t it true that the only thing that LLM’s do is “hallucinate”?

The only way to know if it did “hallucinate” is to already know the correct answer. If you can make a system that knows when an answer is right or not, you no longer need the LLM!

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Does anyone need a 1k Hz gaming display?"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:59:18 +0000

Certainly there is an upper limit to what our eyes/brains can perceive. I don’t know what it is, but I’d imagine 1 kHz is getting close.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 19 May 2024 14:19:42 +0000

The author did not commit a logical fallacy. They referenced some people worth reading if you wanted some various opinions on a controversial subject.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

jasonlfunk — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:37:50 +0000

https://twitter.com/aarongraves/status/1765441652120834112

Apple’s justification isn’t too unreasonable.

The Netflix Logo with Yarn was a lie

jasonlfunk — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 04:21:45 +0000

Article URL: https://kevinparry.tv/blog/i-lied-about-recreating-the-netflix-intro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39379073

Points: 68

# Comments: 50

Apple Watch: Currently Unavailable

jasonlfunk — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:01:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-series-9/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758613

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Stephen Fry Warns About the Dangers of Voice Clones"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 13:28:56 +0000

I think we should less worried about people believing deep-fakes are real and more worried that politicians (and others) will be able to claim things which they actually said are deep fakes.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)"

jasonlfunk — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:23:19 +0000

I think the important part of the technique is talking about what you see, not the actual act of seeing things. He talks about creating brain pathways between the visual and linguistic parts of your brain.

It’s those new pathways that are the key.

New comment by jasonlfunk in "Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance"

jasonlfunk — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:28:34 +0000

Sure, but "were they in the office" is /much/ easier to measure at scale. And I'm sure you'd throw a pretty big fit if your pay was docked because the company didn't think you did a good enough job, even though you were in the office.

MultiButton – run multiple shortcuts from iPhone 15’s action button

jasonlfunk — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-multibutton-assign-two-shortcuts-to-the-same-action-button-press-on-iphone-15-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0