Hacker News: jpfromlondon

New comment by jpfromlondon in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:39:37 +0000

Your comment makes it pretty clear that mine went over your head and that's fine, these tools are for people like you, godspeed.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:08:57 +0000

that isn't rational, rational is using the model that can best solve your current problem in the timeliest cost considered manner.

I'm not working on the frontier problems, I don't need god-in-a-box for $600 per month.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:41:08 +0000

All models from the past two years are close in the general case.

This is just another incremental improvement, rushed out to boost the ipo, AI has the capacity to aid an engineer but this minor bump in performance will have essentially zero impact on the productivity of an engineer working on real world solutions when compared with any other major model.

We are trending towards asymtotic and it can't happen fast enough, that's when the true cost of this will become evident.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:03:54 +0000

>We as technologists need to engage with wider society and understand on their terms, the worries they have.

We were the vanguard blocking this to the public's benefit, now they've voted for it our only duty is to ourselves; to make sure the rules don't apply to us.

New comment by jpfromlondon in ""Terrorists?": The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign – Egham Museum"

jpfromlondon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:19:19 +0000

The suffragists arguably achieved a great deal more, without them the measures of the suffragettes would likely have set women’s rights back further.

Yet they are all but forgotten.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Show HN: Going from 1+1=2 to Quantum Mechanics"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:29:19 +0000

Mine was like an ancient remnant from the soviet union, dry as anything but wickedly funny, used to yell at us if we pronounced the Cyrillics wrong, or more usually if we did not use capitals for units named after people; I can still hear his rebuke "why do we capitalize Newtons? BECAUSE HE WAS A GREAT MAN".

Really punished our (my) youthful laziness.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Show HN: Going from 1+1=2 to Quantum Mechanics"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:39:51 +0000

"Note that ψ (psi) is pronounced sye and ϕ (phi) is pronounced fye."

This is the American pronunciation I take it? During my undergrad physics and mathematics modules I was instructed by a handful of Europeans (including a charming old Russian for theoretical) who stressed the importance of preserving the pronunciation I'd learnt in classics at school - "(p)See" and "(p)Fee" respectively.

Love the site.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:08:12 +0000

Why is this a "fun fact", what is this reddit-tier comment contributing?

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

jpfromlondon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:59:24 +0000

>obscures ... implies

See: Presumption

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

jpfromlondon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:50:24 +0000

>Er, it kind of predicts the internet,

The internet long precedes the publishing of Infinite Jest.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

jpfromlondon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:45:52 +0000

I had already been cutting screen-time, my phone especially which no longer leaves the house with me.

It's pure coincidence too as I read TPK in January and knew I had to read more DFW fiction as soon as I could.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

jpfromlondon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:52:07 +0000

I wish to read this but I'm on page 600 of my first pass of the book and worry it'll spoil it for me.

At risk of marking myself a "lit-bro" I think the book is proving solidly prophetic.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

jpfromlondon — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:36:10 +0000

how is that misleading if it's a fact, it's only misleading if you presume to know the reaction or intent behind making such a claim, and without context we should be extremely careful in making such presumptions.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Replacing My ISP Router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max"

jpfromlondon — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:13:23 +0000

This sounds mostly like a skill issue, and the notion that it's somehow a walled garden is laughable when the alternatives are Cisco/Meraki, Juniper, et al? I can plug whatever I like into my Unifi estate and expect it work with little fault.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

jpfromlondon — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:28:33 +0000

There are, making such a conspiracy all the easier to perpetrate.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

jpfromlondon — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:09:11 +0000

I suspect because the Chinese firm in question was a fabrication of FMIC for exactly this purpose.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

jpfromlondon — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:11:14 +0000

The unsubsidised costs can't be revealed soon enough.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:11:42 +0000

did they? Is piracy now impossible?

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:13:07 +0000

you get used to it within a couple of hours

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:26:13 +0000

I'd like to know this too, especially the ipad.