Hacker News: jdale27

New comment by jdale27 in "Claude Opus 5.5"

jdale27 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:40:42 +0000

Can you explain the scenario where Anthropic getting to “aligned” superintelligence first blocks their competitors from creating unaligned superintelligence?

New comment by jdale27 in "OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco"

jdale27 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:43:09 +0000

SF is the quintessential boom town. Yet every batch of newcomers eventually thinks they have the right to be the last batch of newcomers and get to declare that the city should remain the same forever more, in its current state, perfected by their presence.

New comment by jdale27 in "Waymo in Dallas"

jdale27 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:41:07 +0000

You can’t do intercity trips on California high speed rail either.

New comment by jdale27 in "Waymo in Dallas"

jdale27 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:00:29 +0000

Waymo is already working, on roads today, for less time and money than it took to build zero miles of high speed rail in California.

New comment by jdale27 in "Marimo now runs in PyCharm"

jdale27 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:47:43 +0000

You're being facetious, right? How is it different from regular data science?

New comment by jdale27 in "Marimo now runs in PyCharm"

jdale27 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:02:42 +0000

What’s “modern” data science?

New comment by jdale27 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

jdale27 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:22:54 +0000

You don’t have to invest your 401k in stocks.

New comment by jdale27 in "The desperation of NYTimes"

jdale27 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:03:06 +0000

There’s a form of Gell-Mann amnesia at work here. Why would you expect a company that is unethical in its business practices to be ethical where it counts, in its reporting? The answer is that it isn’t.

New comment by jdale27 in "Only 54% of miles traveled by Waymos in California have a passenger onboard"

jdale27 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:30:44 +0000

From section 1: “In conventional rideshare (e.g., Uber and Lyft) deadheading, the miles driven without a fare-paying passenger, has been estimated to exceed 40% of the total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) (Henao et al. 2019)”

New comment by jdale27 in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

jdale27 — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:09:53 +0000

I don't know that it's that disappointing. I doubt most of the great mathematicians were actually doing it to achieve immortality. I suspect most of them were either after (possibly indirect) practical applications (via the math -> physics -> engineering pipeline) or just "for the love of the game", appreciation of the beauty of math and the intellectual joy of doing it. AI might also take over the practical application side, but the other aspects are still there for the taking.

New comment by jdale27 in "Elon Musk says building his own 'TeraFab' chip fab may be the only answer"

jdale27 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:25:02 +0000

Lol. I assume you’re being facetious. But those companies have all been at it for decades.

New comment by jdale27 in "OpenAI submitted antitrust complain to EU against entrenched GOOG, AAPL and MSFT"

jdale27 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:29:02 +0000

Yeah, poor little OpenAI. A real David vs. Goliath story.

New comment by jdale27 in "Google just cut off 90% of the internet from AI – no one's talking about it"

jdale27 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:11:31 +0000

Clickbait title. They only cut off the AI that was using Google as their crawler, which was not a good idea in the first place. I’d love to ask the developers of these AIs: what exactly did you expect to happen here?