Hacker News: jimsimmons

New comment by jimsimmons in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

jimsimmons — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:12:53 +0000

pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowd

they do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others.

btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pretty strange in that it allowed murder for a fine. there is definitely a savage aspect to white tradition as there is to any modern culture, but there is a lot of whitewashing thats done to present anglo saxons as racially superior, highly civilized culture.

New comment by jimsimmons in "Linux is good now"

jimsimmons — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:35:26 +0000

just bricked my display out after a nvidia driver upgrade attempt. the swapped ctrl and alt (to mimic mac) setting has been reversed.

horrendus ux

New comment by jimsimmons in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

jimsimmons — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:33:24 +0000

does not have paper ergonomics

New comment by jimsimmons in "Steve Ballmer Interview"

jimsimmons — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:04:18 +0000

  >  if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years?

Invented the Transformer, Gemini, TPUs, monetized YT effectively, transitioned to mobile successfully, established GMaps as a foundation of internet etc.,

Google has a dozen services with > 1 billion users a month. Google in 2010 had only one

New comment by jimsimmons in "Who Invented Backpropagation?"

jimsimmons — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:46:39 +0000

Honest person would have rejected it and protected the prize's honour

New comment by jimsimmons in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

jimsimmons — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:45:16 +0000

Also how can one totally anonymously pay them?

New comment by jimsimmons in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

jimsimmons — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:43:12 +0000

Does anyone have discreet pointers for downloading all the data? What format is it usually?

New comment by jimsimmons in "Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)"

jimsimmons — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:40:37 +0000

And how solving the trolley problem is the key to make it all work

New comment by jimsimmons in "Conscious unbossing – 52% of GenZ professionals don't want to be middle managers"

jimsimmons — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 07:18:29 +0000

"it is never too late to start a career in middle management" goes the old joke

New comment by jimsimmons in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

jimsimmons — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:58:11 +0000

I've been waiting since 2021 when I saw demos of GitHub copilot

New comment by jimsimmons in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

jimsimmons — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:00:11 +0000

This whole "I became 10x better" is vaporware.

It can kinda sorta maybe help sometimes a little bit is not vaporware

New comment by jimsimmons in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

jimsimmons — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:59:16 +0000

Yeah if you're getting paid $50K outside the bay maybe.

If you want big bucks you are writing original code, no two ways about it

New comment by jimsimmons in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

jimsimmons — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:57:57 +0000

I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed.

I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.. etc., and it still didn't fix.

The longer the chat the more likely it was Sonnet forgot a clarification I provided.

Overall huge waste of time, lost my train of thought and I was helping an LLM rubber duck and fail repeatedly

New comment by jimsimmons in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

jimsimmons — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:52:20 +0000

He worked there for a year. He had minimal impact. Probably not even among the top 50 impactful people in OpenAI history

New comment by jimsimmons in "Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot"

jimsimmons — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:51:42 +0000

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New comment by jimsimmons in "Cursor Has Raised $60M"

jimsimmons — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 02:18:54 +0000

That's just 125K users

New comment by jimsimmons in "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk"

jimsimmons — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:36:29 +0000

Larry bought Android without telling Eric even though Eric was the CEO of Google at the time. He is a bean counter and the only form of accountability he knows is billable hours.

New comment by jimsimmons in "The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space (2022)"

jimsimmons — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:24:59 +0000

Is it non Riemann or non Eucliden

New comment by jimsimmons in "White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now"

jimsimmons — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:13:56 +0000

Is that "umm ackshually .." bit really worth doing here?

Open weights vs training code is not a distinction worth drawing for the average person

New comment by jimsimmons in "'Writing a C Compiler' is a book (2022)"

jimsimmons — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:53:53 +0000

Advertising it as Writing a C Compiler is misleading. This is no where near C's speed. It's just an implementation of a C like language. And honestly there are better books or tutorials for something like that.

C's selling point is performance and portability and this book covers neither