Hacker News: jhull

New comment by jhull in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

jhull — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:01:47 +0000

> And the best thing of all: they crawl the stupidest pages possible. Recently, both ChatGPT and Amazon were - at the same time - crawling the entire edit history of the wiki. And I mean that - they indexed every single diff on every page for every change ever made.

Is it stupid? It makes sense to scrape all these pages and learn the edits and corrections that people make.

New comment by jhull in "Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (1991)"

jhull — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:03:13 +0000

Requirements:

  Mac Plus or higher
  5.5MB of hard disk space
  1.5MB of RAM
  HyperCard 2.0

New comment by jhull in "On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe"

jhull — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 23:53:25 +0000

Thinking of all the baseball applications here: catcher signals, third base coach, head coach etc.

Reflections on a Failed Startup

jhull — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:10:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/semi-random-thoughts/reflections-on-a-failed-startup-6029586bf681

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20750786

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jhull in "How MeUndies built a $32M company"

jhull — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:12:30 +0000

Likely they have some anorexia/thinspo guidelines that this ad didn't adhere to. Search google for "thigh gap thinspo"

New comment by jhull in "Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa"

jhull — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:54:25 +0000

Here is an article on a block of East African countries trying to prevent this [0] and the backlash [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/world/africa/east-africa-... [1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/31/news/economy/rwanda-us-trad...

Bike Share Graveyards

jhull — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:53:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/china-abandoned-bike-share-graveyards/566576/?single_page=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707157

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Intertwingularity

jhull — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:37:01 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17298706

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How Killers Bought Guns They Weren't Supposed to Get

jhull — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/how-killers-bought-guns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284646

Points: 11

# Comments: 9

New comment by jhull in "How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic [pdf]"

jhull — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:22:21 +0000

I wonder why the out of pocket price of Oxycontin spikes so dramatically each January (see figure 4)

New comment by jhull in "Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail"

jhull — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:36:49 +0000

What is a dating websites incentive to couple people up? They have seemingly reverse incentives too. The better a dating website is the less potential users it might eventually have.

New comment by jhull in "Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail"

jhull — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:22:08 +0000

the article talks about treatment with Vivitrol which is similar to suboxone, except it can't be abused (and therefore has no street value) and is a monthly injection instead of a daily.

Naloxone/Narcan is for immediate treatment of an overdose

Machines Took Over the Stock Market. Next Up, Bonds

jhull — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:20:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/traders-vs-bots-moves-to-the-corporate-bond-market-1508327100

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15500979

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jhull in "History of Vending and Coffee Service (2016)"

jhull — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:48:21 +0000

they should add "1997: When this website template was created"

British Airways left to count cost of weekend IT meltdown

jhull — Tue, 30 May 2017 14:11:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-airports-iag-stocks-idUSKBN18Q0K9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14445468

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Presidential Tax Returns over the years

jhull — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 17:01:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121601

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests Now on YouTube

jhull — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13916486

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jhull in "Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals"

jhull — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:33:49 +0000

a friend of mine spiraled into years of undiagnosed anxiety, depression and fatigue and was told by many doctors it was all in her head. a few years later she was diagnosed with lyme disease, got treatment and now has a new lease on life.

New comment by jhull in "Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption"

jhull — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:36:56 +0000

the post mortem says an authorized team member

New comment by jhull in "[dead]"

jhull — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 03:02:48 +0000

Apparently this bill has been introduced every time a new Congress has come in for the last 20 years.

See http://www.snopes.com/us-pulling-out-of-un/