<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jhayward</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jhayward</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:45:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jhayward" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not a copyright lawyer, but it seems pretty clear to me you can't wash a license using an LLM.<p>[US jurisdiction]:
Anything in the result written by the LLM can not be copyright by anyone.<p>Anything in the result written by a human can be, and if it was all emitted by the LLM then that portion originally written by a human carries its own copyright.<p>As a work of an LLM, the entirety presumably can not be copyright, at all.  Portions written by humans presumably carry their original copyright.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:03:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470878</link><dc:creator>jhayward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> While the intent is not to call for competing proposals, we believe that now is a good time to discuss and propose alternative proposals as well.<p>If I were a contributor I would read such language as saying "we have no respect for you or your intelligence, so we'll just straight up gaslight you and expect you to accept it."<p>The dictum can't be read literally - it has to be read like the manipulative, narcissist-speak that it is.  And what it's telling you is - get out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427062</link><dc:creator>jhayward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, there is a long tradition of "testing" developer candidates by asking them to exhibit skills in tasks that they never, ever, do in their work.  Like whiteboard coding.<p>It doesn't have a great success record.<p>I personally would rather they exhibited expert skills in using tools, and expressing their design insight as a part of that skillset.</p>
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<p>It's not uncommon for older aerial photos to be single-pixel lines that the film is moved past.  The motion of the film is correlated with the motion across the ground, so you can reconstruct a 2nd axis from the exposure.<p>There's no shutter speed, it's continuous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842170</link><dc:creator>jhayward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know, I go back and forth a bit.  The thing that makes me skeptical is this: where is the training data that contains the experiences and thought processes that senior developers, architects, and engineering managers go through to gain the insight they hold?</p>
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<p>Did you ever test drive the Drafts app?  It is remarkably easy to build customized workflows, both editing and document processing, and is built to be glue between different document/message apps.</p>
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<p>I don't think your conclusion of "hitting the wall on intelligence" is warranted.<p>It makes more sense to believe that scaling has hit the wall on available text data to train on, and that to continue scaling, along with whatever emergent properties arise they need much more data than exists as text.<p>There are orders of magnitude more data as video, audio, and images and this is what they intend to use to continue scaling.</p>
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<p>That answer has 4 upvotes.  A much more electrically literate answer above it, with 35 upvotes, explains in detail that it is a real thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:09:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43839158</link><dc:creator>jhayward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43839158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43839158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't recall any groups using Vignette at AOL during that time.  It may be that one of the acquisitions used it prior to being acquired, but again, I never heard about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:33:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595100</link><dc:creator>jhayward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For many years every web page at CNN and all web email at AOL was hosted by AOLserver and coded in TCL.  It was not a mess.</p>
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<p>Two reasons it matters:<p>1) Discoverability<p>2) "System structure mirrors organization".  I.E., it's an indicator of a fragmented and disorganized structure that's not likely to produce cohesive product results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:55:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348962</link><dc:creator>jhayward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhayward in "Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who's spouse is currently in their 3rd year of rehabilitation after TMJ (tempo-mandibular joint) reconstruction, let me warn you against <i>any</i> kind of chewing activity that involves either high direct pressures (ice, hard things that "crack", anything that resists biting down very much), or strong lateral forces (bagels, pizza crust).<p>We're about $60K in to her treatment. She's had the meniscus of the joints on both sides of her jaw surgically repaired and now is undergoing orthodontia to permit her jaw to safely re-align.<p>This after a year of excruciating pain (the TMJ was bone to bone contact), and a year of painful muscular rehab.  Unless you are a maxillofacial surgeon or perhaps a particular specialty of orthodontia you are probably unaware of just how many muscles in the head have to re-learn how to work after TMJ problems.<p>The "straw that broke the camel's back" in her case?<p>A pistachio nut.</p>
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<p>I was like that for several decades but after I retired I got better.<p>I'm fairly certain that, at least in my case, it was a form of hypervigilance and based in anxiety.  I'm less anxious these days and hope to live longer as a result.<p>Although I do still have a better-than-average ability to know when to check what's in the oven for doneness.  This "feels" much different, though - I'm completely unaware of the passage of time until something just says to me "that stuff should be about done now."</p>
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<p>Not a mainstream view.<p>Python 3 is a hugely successful language and implementation, and almost no one regrets that it exists aside from a few noisy holdouts, and people who never liked any Python anywhere at any time.</p>
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<p>I've never heard any seismologist holding a responsible office blaming the Ridgecrest quake on any man-made cause.  The links posted do not support that claim either.<p>Do you have any information which directly supports this?</p>
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<p>Because it costs too much to keep them running safely.</p>
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<p>To be specific, it's even more basic than that.  For 10Base-5 and all the coax ethernets, it was "if there's more energy on the wire than you are transmitting, a collision is present".</p>
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<p>RTO is actually energy positive from a heating/cooling point of view (i.e., excluding transportation).  People set their home HVAC to "away" to reduce use, and the central HVAC systems found in commercial buildings are far more efficient than home systems.</p>
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<p>Austin Energy does Tiered Usage billing, not time-of-use, for residential customers.</p>
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<p>Your local fire department will want to very closely inspect your explosive materials handling and safety procedures.  Think about what big banks of lead-acid batteries have to do, and google the pictures of battery rooms with their roof blown to bits.</p>
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