Hacker News: jimmy2times

New comment by jimmy2times in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

jimmy2times — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:50:39 +0000

The AIs have already figured out how to succeed in a software job:

1. Ship bugs

2. Fix them

3. You're the hero!

New comment by jimmy2times in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

jimmy2times — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:17:55 +0000

Sounds like Google.

New comment by jimmy2times in "A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages"

jimmy2times — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 01:10:05 +0000

I can't believe this is so unpopular here. Maybe it's the tone, but come on, how do people rationally extrapolate from LLMs or even large multimodal generative models to "general intelligence"? Sure, they might do a better job than the average person on a range of tasks, but they're always prone to funny failures pretty much by design (train vs test distribution mismatch). They might combine data in interesting ways you hadn't thought of; that doesn't mean you can actually rely on them in the way you do on a truly intelligent human.

New comment by jimmy2times in "A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages"

jimmy2times — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:52:03 +0000

Can you say the same about the top 100 basketball players?

New comment by jimmy2times in "How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass"

jimmy2times — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:06:05 +0000

Does it support plug-ins?

New comment by jimmy2times in "Piano Practice Software Progress"

jimmy2times — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:35:38 +0000

Yes, excellent point. Notation can be a great aid to understanding. I should give this a try more often.

New comment by jimmy2times in "Piano Practice Software Progress"

jimmy2times — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:16:09 +0000

I guess it would take a lot of patience, but it should be doable, maybe even more feasible than some contemporary music that is heavy on sound fx.

I don't find this as rewarding as trying to understand how a piece "works" though, or creating something new.

New comment by jimmy2times in "Piano Practice Software Progress"

jimmy2times — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:02:34 +0000

I think of this as analogous to self-supervised pretraining followed by training on a smaller labeled set. When you study theory you can ground it on music you've listened to throughout your life.

Also to improvise confidently you have to internalize the theory, not just understand it and memorize it at a conscious level.

I'd say "intuitive knowledge" is a good way to sum this up.

New comment by jimmy2times in "Piano Practice Software Progress"

jimmy2times — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:51:45 +0000

I would add that music theory and sight-reading are orthogonal. My partner learned piano at a young age, and she can follow a sheet but won't know what chords she's playing. I learned guitar by ear but I'm always thinking about intervals/chords/modes. Obviously having both of these skills would be great.

New comment by jimmy2times in "The Cloud I'd Like to See"

jimmy2times — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:33:44 +0000

Besides security and caching, I think standards/interoperability are key.

I want my next-generation apps to work on a cloud filesystem of my choice, be it Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.

That will be the most significant step towards a real cloud OS, and I bet someone's already working on it.

New comment by jimmy2times in "Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years"

jimmy2times — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:13:21 +0000

If we're talking really long-term, I don't see a big difference between loading a web app and having a native app quickly and seamlessly installed and loaded just by clicking on a link. Eventually, improvements in bandwidth and computing power might enable just that. At the end of the day, developers will go with what is more feasible, but the whole distinction between web app and native might disappear from a UX point of view (just like the current web apps are kind of a hybrid between "old" websites and "old" desktop apps).

New comment by jimmy2times in "Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter"

jimmy2times — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:47:43 +0000

Love the name (though I'm sure many would consider it sexist).

New comment by jimmy2times in "Show HN: made a game you can play safely at work"

jimmy2times — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:27:09 +0000

Of course, we Emacs users have always had that sort of thing. That's why Agile folks at Lean startups tend to favor Vim these days. True story.

New comment by jimmy2times in "Semicolon: A language of semicolons"

jimmy2times — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:55:06 +0000

DCPU-16 port anyone?

New comment by jimmy2times in "A Lisp based programming language I'm creating"

jimmy2times — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:24:08 +0000

I also toyed with my own Lisp[1] a few weeks ago, after being inspired by Peter Norvig's Lispy[2]. It's an interpreter though, and written in C++. I mixed together features from different languages (eager/lazy evaluation, call-by-value/reference, macros). It was very instructive and a lot of fun!

[1] https://github.com/apresta/lime

[2] http://norvig.com/lispy.html

New comment by jimmy2times in "Google Search: Change is Coming"

jimmy2times — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:54:24 +0000

For instance, a Google search can distinguish a search for “New York” as opposed to one for “New” and “York.”

OMG, what kind of sophisticated AI did they use to accomplish this? I'm thinking random forests mixed with neural networks and SVMs.

Show HN: LIME - Lisp Implementation with Moderate Effort

jimmy2times — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apresta/lime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3653714

Points: 3

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New comment by jimmy2times in "Show HN: I wrote a tiny Python-based HN crawler with scrapy"

jimmy2times — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:28:05 +0000

I haven't run the crawler so I'm not sure what else it does, but if it only parses the home page and fetches the external links, why not read http://news.ycombinator.com/rss (you can use the feedparser module) and download the pages with urllib? No scraping involved.

Lazy evaluation and infinite streams in C++

jimmy2times — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:03:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apresta/stream

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531463

Points: 1

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