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New comment by jpkw in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

jpkw — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:02:24 +0000

At least for art - I don't think you'll find anyone who actually enjoys art hanging up anything produced by AI on their walls. For these kinds of "customers", they could equally easily frame & hang up a poster of the Mona Lisa. Artists are not at threat, if anything, AI makes original artworks more precious & enjoyable.

New comment by jpkw in "SpaceX S-1"

jpkw — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:49:56 +0000

Depreciation should be quite substantial - I recall reading that the starlink sats have a 5 year life expectancy?

New comment by jpkw in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

jpkw — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:32:12 +0000

I think a more fair and accurate comparison would be religion.

New comment by jpkw in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

jpkw — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:35:19 +0000

Come on now, by this logic marines should not be allowed to live in the US at all as they couldn't be trusted to go out in public without strangling someone for doing something that they deem a potential threat.

New comment by jpkw in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

jpkw — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:31:08 +0000

Deploying troops to Greenland right now would be solely aimed at seizing Greenland by force and would be a major international incident against the US's most important military allies. Deploying troops to Minnesota would be a domestic show of force that would have minimal impact, as they are incapable of seizing Minnesota for the US as it is already a US territory, so they would be used to guard public buildings (and would basically just sit around doing nothing all day).

New comment by jpkw in "GPT-5.2"

jpkw — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:18:28 +0000

I think the above comment was a joke (Claude frequently says that whenever you challenge it, whether you are right or wrong)

New comment by jpkw in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

jpkw — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:30:29 +0000

Right, I'm just going to teach my dog to do my job then and get free money as my brain is no more magic, special or different to theirs!

New comment by jpkw in "The past was not that cute"

jpkw — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:05:52 +0000

Maybe something like a publicly traded company, Citizens can vote directly on individual bills, or choose a proxy to vote on their behalf (and change that choice at any point that desire).

New comment by jpkw in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

jpkw — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:45:25 +0000

No. You state that this is all that it would take to be considered as tremendous business value. You are moving your goal posts on your point. My point is that you are taking an absolute position that there is tremendous business value in its current form(as a miniscule improvement and one insignificant new use case does does not equate to tremendous business value in itself) and so that remains to be seen.

New comment by jpkw in "The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy"

jpkw — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:32:37 +0000

So if the plateau is unanimously declared to have been reached tomorrow OR just one more tiny use case exists tomorrow and all others dwindle away to nothing, than you consider yourself to be correct? What a wild assertion!

New comment by jpkw in "Gemini 3"

jpkw — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:51:45 +0000

Hoping someone here may know the answer to this, but do any of the benchmarks that exist currently account for false answers in any meaningful way, other than it would in a typical test (ie, if I give any answer at all it is better than saying "I don't know" as the answer I give at least has a chance of being correct(which in the real world is bad))? I want an LLM that tells me when it doesn't know something. If it gives me an accurate response 90% of the time and an inaccurate one 10% of the time, it is less useful than one that gives me an accurate answer 10% of the time and tells me "I don't know" the other 90%.

New comment by jpkw in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

jpkw — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:47:33 +0000

Dick, take a look out of starboard. Oh my god, it looks like a huge...

New comment by jpkw in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

jpkw — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:01:19 +0000

I would love it if this were the solution, embossed card imprinters can work without internet and power and are both fast and intuitive. It worked as a primary method in the past, it can work as a backup method in the future.

New comment by jpkw in "The Anti-Pattern Game"

jpkw — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:01:18 +0000

Just adding to op, for some (myself included) it is quite painful to see loose in place of lose, this should be fixed asap as it distracts the reader from the content. Lose = opposite of win, loose = opposite of tight.

New comment by jpkw in "Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle"

jpkw — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:37:30 +0000

Agreed with this comment and the one above it - I think the difficulty is spot on but the UI was a bit frustrating on chrome/android and I may have given up sooner but for my love of solving puzzles.

New comment by jpkw in "I shouldn't of made this. Another direnv alternative for no reason"

jpkw — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:47:46 +0000

I will jump on the obvious error too but will provide some more context:

You are typing what you hear in: "shouldn't've" which is a double contraction of "should not have"

"I should not of made this" vs "I should not have made this"

New comment by jpkw in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

jpkw — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:56:14 +0000

In each of those examples, we said "no" decades after they were developed, and many had to suffer in order for us to get to the stage of saying "no".

New comment by jpkw in "PlayAI's new Dialog model achieves 3:1 preference in human evals"

jpkw — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:06:11 +0000

Testing with "Banana... Banana???? Banana!!!!!" Yields interesting results each time, and none so far the way a human would read it.

New comment by jpkw in "Show HN: 100k1M – Turn $100k into $1M in 10 yrs with live investment calculator"

jpkw — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:27:30 +0000

Good work, I like the look and feel of it all.

It would be good for the dismiss of the "goal within reach" message to be permanent so each time I make a slight adjustment it doesn't keep popping up.

It would also be good to have a deductions option somehow, like the contributions but inverse - say I have a large starting amount but I want to make regular small deductions but still have the goal of increasing the pool through investment gains over time (eg starting capital of 1m, goal of 2m over 20 years while deducting 2k per month - is this viable)

New comment by jpkw in "Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator"

jpkw — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:04:14 +0000

Not sure how you'd execute this, but I think a great method of control for rhythm would be like a karaoke bouncing ball that you control with a keystroke. eg:

  -I write out my lyrics
  -you break my lyrics down to [x] syllables
  -I choose this rhythm control option
  -I hit the spacebar [x] times, in my desired rhythm based on those syllables (maybe a karaoke style visual to guide this), & you calculate timings between each keystroke and then attempt to create rhythm based on that