Hacker News: jezzamon

New comment by jezzamon in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

jezzamon — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:44:26 +0000

A lot of people, especially left leaning and young people, are very against any AI use and especially for AI pictures or video. For them it's very cringe-worthy. So that would all need to change somehow.

Remember that a lot of the people driving opinions on stuff are the artists that would be displaced by this technology.

Also... Actors aren't hired based on acting skill. AI can't replace the notoriety part of why studios hire actors.

New comment by jezzamon in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

jezzamon — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:25:56 +0000

You ideally need a directed graph where descendants can have multiple parents (which JJ supports). If you can't, then the linear tree is just as good I think.

Say you do change A, add a protocol buffer API definition, then implement the server logic (B) and the front end code (C) so that both depend on A but not each other. That can be in a tree. But now you want to add an integration test (D) that depends on B and C. The tree doesn't help you there, and you were better off making it a linear chain by arbitrarily picking one of B or C to be dependant on the other so that you have a code state with all of A,B and C applied to create D on top of.

New comment by jezzamon in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

jezzamon — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:35:46 +0000

Kids murdering people at school doesn't tend to change US policies...

New comment by jezzamon in "Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France"

jezzamon — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:27:28 +0000

I think most ways of obtaining carbon neutrality are a little bit BS, that's why.

An alternative is what Google is theoretically aiming for: being carbon-free. But they've already started using language describing it as a moonshot or idealistic goal so seems likely they'll abandon that

https://sustainability.google/reports/247-carbon-free-energy...

New comment by jezzamon in "Show HN: Neil the Seal Game"

jezzamon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:12:57 +0000

I can tell this is at least partially vibe coded... Out of curiosity, how much did you use AI for this?

New comment by jezzamon in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

jezzamon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:15:22 +0000

If you want to get fired / sued for leaking internal info, you should at least aim for 1 million (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/google-employee-polymarket-i...)

New comment by jezzamon in "Solving Wordle using information theory"

jezzamon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:39:51 +0000

I thought this was old news? I remember people making videos about using information theory to solve Wordle back when it was particularly hyped. (After writing this I checked, there's even a 3 blue 1 brown video on this)

My favourite along those lines was solving wordle in 1 guess using the distribution of coloured squares on social media https://www.kaggle.com/code/benhamner/wordle-1-6

New comment by jezzamon in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

jezzamon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:32:09 +0000

Counter point: Government inaction and easily cause deaths at a similar scale, and some types of things only really work with large scale collective action

New comment by jezzamon in "World Capitals Voronoi"

jezzamon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:14:28 +0000

I want to see one a diagram which includes the oceans too

New comment by jezzamon in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

jezzamon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:09:38 +0000

We used to call them social networking sites, now they're social media sites.

But I think the problem is that people don't contribute very much too them, so if none of your friends are sharing things that interest you then the media part has to come in as a fallback

New comment by jezzamon in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

jezzamon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:16:02 +0000

I think they're still there, but deeply hidden in their menus

New comment by jezzamon in "Dav2d"

jezzamon — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:17:53 +0000

You are underestimating HN's reach, this happens all the time. As someone who has been on the front page of HN it's a pretty big rush in traffic!

New comment by jezzamon in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

jezzamon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:33:24 +0000

FYI, those 8% of males / 0.5% females stats are not about complete colorblindness, so almost all of those people use color in their life

New comment by jezzamon in "What are locusts and what happened to them?"

jezzamon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:04:39 +0000

I have been in a locust plague once. It does feel very weird. Yes they are grasshoppers but you might be underestimating just how many there are. Plus they don't look normal, they actually change appearance when they're in a plague.

One small detail I remember was when the sun was just behind a building, you could see this glow around the building which was the sun reflecting off all the locusts that were flying around it

New comment by jezzamon in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jezzamon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:28:16 +0000

It's internal to my company, unfortunately! Otherwise I would've mentioned it

New comment by jezzamon in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jezzamon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:19:15 +0000

There's another way to find out, which is to track things from the other side. Highly likely Google has access logs on the data.

New comment by jezzamon in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jezzamon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:17:05 +0000

It's possible he had multiple accounts but seems unlikely, one reason he was caught was because he made a whole bunch of trades on markets related to "year in search", all on one account, and all the trades were perfect. If he was thinking about creating new accounts to obscure himself then he should have at least made each bet he placed on a seperate account.

People (particularly those committing crimes) do frequently overlook things in inconsistent ways, so it's possible. But seems unlikely to me.

New comment by jezzamon in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jezzamon — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:46:36 +0000

You can definitely get stuck in a weird place with git that I haven't run into in the same extent with jj. The ability to undo anything with the one 'jj undo' command is awesome in the agent coding world when it makes a mistake.

New comment by jezzamon in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

jezzamon — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:39:32 +0000

If you do want to solve this, here's two thoughts on how you can deal with it. First: don't try to edit jj changes. Always work on a new change and then squash that in to the parent. You think of that top level change as your working space.

From there, the simplest way is to just always use 'jj commit -i' and 'jj squash -i' to create change ids with your work. Then if you want to have your changes move around with you, just rebase your working copy which contains your "uncommitted files" to the new branch.

A different idea is to put those changes in a separate change, and then when you do work, always create your working space change as a merge change like 'jj new

. Then you should be able to do 'jj absorb' instead of 'jj squash' to put changes into the right change. Switching to a different branch is 'jj new .

As in typing this, I'm thinking for myself and what I actually do in practice... I find moving / rebasing jj commits very easy (I have a UI tool that literally lets you drag and drop them) so I usually just commit these changes and then drag the commits around so it's not in the chain of when I want to send it out for review

New comment by jezzamon in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jezzamon — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:36:02 +0000

You have to do a lot when you get a green card to prove you won't be a burden on the US tax payer. It's a big part of the system and a big part of the anti-immigrant rhetoric