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New comment by jaspax in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

jaspax — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:58:07 +0000

Clearview AI | Fully Remote | Full-stack Software Engineer

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We're seeking an experienced Full-Stack Engineer to join our team and help evolve our customer-facing web application. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI facial recognition technology and user experience, building features that make our facial recognition capabilities accessible and valuable to our government and law enforcement clients.

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New comment by jaspax in "Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)"

jaspax — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:20:31 +0000

I'm the author of the top answer, and I believe that this is the top-voted thing that I ever posted on any StackExchange site. It was a lovely surprise to see it here today, and I hope that everyone else enjoyed reading it. Merry Christmas!

New comment by jaspax in "Nobody cares about our concurrency control research [pdf]"

jaspax — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:19:35 +0000

Ha! Well, that's what I get for having studied Classical Greek in school but not Modern Greek.

New comment by jaspax in "Nobody cares about our concurrency control research [pdf]"

jaspax — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:49:45 +0000

Katastropheas dedomenon

Means, I think, "given over to overthrows".

New comment by jaspax in "Kids Are Not Okay"

jaspax — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:29:11 +0000

Didn't even notice that. I would change it now, but we're outside the edit window.

Kids Are Not Okay

jaspax — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/the-kids-are-not-okay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080231

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

New comment by jaspax in "Becoming a Magician (2018)"

jaspax — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:20:04 +0000

Sorry, but that video is also bad. The whole point is that not everything needs to be a campaign ad.

(Additionally, the video is twice as long as it needs to be. By minute 4 I was bored and scrubbed ahead to see if he was going to do something other than beat the dead horse some more. The turn into the antithesis finally happens around minute 10, at least 5 minutes after it should have been over.)

New comment by jaspax in "Becoming a Magician (2018)"

jaspax — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:58:51 +0000

Funny, looking at those pictures greatly reduced my interest in the genre of body-painting, if that's what world champions look like. They certainly have technical expertise, but nonetheless to my eye they are both ugly and off-putting by the ubiquity of their political subtext. And it's not even politics that I necessarily disagree with! But political cartoons are not improved if you paint them on a human body.

New comment by jaspax in "ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been adopted?"

jaspax — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:45:06 +0000

I think that typescript meets all 5 of the items in your first list.

New comment by jaspax in "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text"

jaspax — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:13:26 +0000

> You repost good stuff, so a link can travel several hops to someone, but it must have been filtered through a friend.

This is exactly how Tumblr works, and is a big part of why Tumblr is actually a great social network for the people who have stuck it out there.

New comment by jaspax in "Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]"

jaspax — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:50:40 +0000

Yes, mostly.

Though I'm a bit curious what the links are, since I have been using their repo for a few months and don't recall ever seeing a link to actual porn. There was an external site that had a bunch of generated anime girls with the expected anatomical proportions.

New comment by jaspax in "Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing"

jaspax — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:37:36 +0000

What GP means is that ChatGPT output is generally not similar enough to any _particular_ source document to establish the fact that it's derivative. Instead, it resembles what you'd get if you asked a (credulous and slightly dumb) human to read a selection of documents and then summarize them. These kinds of summaries are absolutely not copyright violations, even if the source document can actually be identified.

New comment by jaspax in "Langoguessr"

jaspax — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:30:51 +0000

Strongly agree. I could see a "hard mode" in which you only get the audio, but I consider the clever use of all available clues (text, video content, appearance of performer) to be part of the game.

New comment by jaspax in "Langoguessr"

jaspax — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:30:14 +0000

Unfortunately, the leaderboards are currently dominated by cheaters reporting times of 0.0s. However, once you exclude those then my current rank of #28 actually is #7, which isn't bad at all.

New comment by jaspax in "Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower"

jaspax — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:03:31 +0000

I don't think the person you're replying to denies the importance of teachers. Rather, it's that students don't know about the quality of teaching before they get to the school and generally have little way of finding out even if they wanted to, and so other factors actually determine their decisions.

New comment by jaspax in "Punctuation and other ways negotiators have resolved climate change issues"

jaspax — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:55:18 +0000

One wonders if this isn't the esoteric reason for writing the paper in the first place. The "victories" involve getting parties to agree to subtle linguistic changes to various documents which have no impact at all on the actual problem they're supposedly addressing, and writing a paper that points this out sure seems like a way of making the whole enterprise look ridiculous, even if the explicit frame is one of praise.

New comment by jaspax in "The family that built a ballpark nachos monopoly"

jaspax — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 05:04:45 +0000

What you're describing is restaurant nachos, which is indeed a very nice meal. Ballpark nachos are a deliberately simplified version made to be very easy to serve and eat out of a flimsy paper tray. They aren't great, but they're salty and savory and crunchy, which is good enough for munching on at the game.

New comment by jaspax in "Everything Breaks at Scale"

jaspax — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:47:22 +0000

Some good and interesting ideas, but ultimately it falls apart into the same old thing: "the problem with the internet is that we aren't censoring people I disagree with."

New comment by jaspax in "Everything Is Anime"

jaspax — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:39:13 +0000

How in the world is Arcane considered anime? It wasn't written or produced in Japan, nor does it have the anime style.

New comment by jaspax in "I Don't Like Medium"

jaspax — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 06:20:59 +0000

The difference, I think, is that nobody goes to "Substack", they go to particular people on Substack. The existence of low-quality stuff on Substack doesn't have any impact on me at all, since I never see it and don't have to interact with it.

I suppose there is someone out there who actually browses the Substack front page, but this is very far from being the dominant mode for substack content.