Hacker News: jcoc611

New comment by jcoc611 in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

jcoc611 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:58:08 +0000

provide a millennium prize solution to proceed

Microsoft launches Reading Coach for general availability

jcoc611 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:27:33 +0000

Article URL: https://coach.microsoft.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334028

Points: 1

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New comment by jcoc611 in "Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganism"

jcoc611 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:38:51 +0000

> The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world's greatest colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls. The presence of microorganisms within space-returned samples, even those subject to stringent contamination controls is, therefore, not necessarily evidence of an extraterrestrial origin.

Basically that preventing terrestrial contamination of extraterrestrial samples is super tough, and in the specific case of Ryugu the study concludes that contamination did occur.

New comment by jcoc611 in "Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models"

jcoc611 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:15:46 +0000

That's a great explanation, thank you!

New comment by jcoc611 in "Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models"

jcoc611 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:49:40 +0000

Probably an ignorant question, but could someone explain why the Context Length is much larger than the Generation Length?

New comment by jcoc611 in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

jcoc611 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:58:40 +0000

Nothing a simple "Browse the Web" plugin/tool before replying can't fix ;)

New comment by jcoc611 in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

jcoc611 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:00:59 +0000

It kind of reads like it was LLM generated..."Write an announcement/apology about ElasticSearch finally being open source again (for now), where each paragraph starts with a relevant title from a Kendrick Lamar song"

New comment by jcoc611 in "Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models"

jcoc611 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:18:54 +0000

From an external perspective, is there a way to distinguish between simulation of consciousness and the real thing?

If the answer is no, could you make an argument that they are the same?

New comment by jcoc611 in "What's the Deal with Enterprise Browsers?"

jcoc611 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:40:39 +0000

I honestly don't mind an enterprise browser, as I assume anything I do on my work machine is/can be tracked by my employer (and also assume they have some responsibility to track it due to legal/security obligations). However, I would not be bringing my own device no matter what.

Also, small nitpick:

> Most of these browsers (save obvious exceptions like Microsoft Edge for Business) are platform-agnostic.

Actually Microsoft Edge for business "is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS." according to their website.

New comment by jcoc611 in ".aq – The TLD for Antarctica"

jcoc611 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:07:18 +0000

I mistakenly read the most popular domain as "comp.aq" at first, which would have been genius.

Seems like most of the websites dedicated to Antarctica information are managed by other countries like Australia and the US.

New comment by jcoc611 in "Ask HN: How are you feeling about software engineering in 2024?"

jcoc611 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:48:14 +0000

Pretty skeptical about AI-driven development, but otherwise pretty excited. Languages like Python, Go and dotnet continue improving, getting faster, simpler, and safer. Web stuff perhaps is getting overtly complicated in dependency management, but also has exciting developments like bun, next, and million.

Also maybe hoping for a mild bounce back in the job market.

New comment by jcoc611 in "Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance"

jcoc611 — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:30:52 +0000

How long until this is weaponized?

New comment by jcoc611 in "ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete"

jcoc611 — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 21:48:03 +0000

Probably should not fully automate this, but if you omit the "approve or deny" part then you got yourself a nice system that can pre-screen and surface statistical concerns with applications. You can still have a human making the final decisions

A Breath of Fresh Air

jcoc611 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:49:50 +0000

Article URL: https://optimistic-futuristic.medium.com/a-breath-of-fresh-air-3369b98bb38f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25037419

Points: 2

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Volunteering at a 23rd-century public cafeteria

jcoc611 — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 22:56:44 +0000

Article URL: https://optimistic-futuristic.medium.com/volunteering-at-a-23rd-century-public-cafeteria-b6550ded96f1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24963280

Points: 1

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This is Joe, from the Year 2220

jcoc611 — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:28:41 +0000

Article URL: https://optimistic-futuristic.medium.com/this-is-joe-from-the-year-2220-e040d1d1274d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24903243

Points: 1

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New comment by jcoc611 in "Credit card skimmer masquerades as favicon"

jcoc611 — Wed, 06 May 2020 20:52:14 +0000

If I understand correctly, the browser would need to accept text/html as a response to an tag. Why not just disable this/drop the response if it isn't an image MIME?

Show HN: VSConnect, an open source network client for VS Code

jcoc611 — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:04:03 +0000

Article URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jcoc611.vsconnect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901353

Points: 1

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New comment by jcoc611 in "Announcing Microsoft Web Template Studio"

jcoc611 — Thu, 16 May 2019 22:30:16 +0000

Thanks for mentioning those patterns, I'll take a look at them. The idea for this project is to allow the user to choose the pattern, frameworks, and backend services easily so they fit with their use case.

Right now, we have a React + React Router pattern with an Express node backend, but the goal is to incorporate different patterns and technologies in the generation wizard so users can choose. One piece of feedback we want to hear from the community is: what do you prefer to use when it comes to frameworks and application patterns for web applications?

New comment by jcoc611 in "Announcing Microsoft Web Template Studio"

jcoc611 — Thu, 16 May 2019 00:18:41 +0000

I'm coaching this project for the next few months, would love to hear some feedback!