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New comment by jshmrsn in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

jshmrsn — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:01:01 +0000

I am working on a modal code editor project that you might find interesting then. It also operates on an AST directly, which is represented as UI nodes which closely resemble normal text layout. Email in profile if you’d like to give it a try and possibly give early feedback (still in early development).

New comment by jshmrsn in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

jshmrsn — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:18:10 +0000

Considering that a fleur-de-lis involves somewhat intricate curves, I think I'd be pretty happy with myself if I could get that task done in an hour.

Given a harness that allows the model to validate the result of its program visually, and given the models are capable of using this harness to self correct (which isn't yet consistently true), then you're in a situation where in that hour you are free to do some other work.

A dishwasher might take 3 hours to do for what a human could do in 30 minutes, but they're still very useful because the machine's labor is cheaper than human labor.

New comment by jshmrsn in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

jshmrsn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:55:31 +0000

If you haven’t already, try going to Personalization settings, change tone to “Efficient”, and set Warm, Enthusiastic, and Emoji to “Less”. While not fundamentally solving the issue, I do prefer it over the baseline behavior, to the extent that I miss having a similar setting in Gemini.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

jshmrsn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:43:36 +0000

I enjoyed reading it. Whether one believes the future will look like this fictional/hypothetical one, it encourages the reader to think about what would need to become true for this future to be plausible.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

jshmrsn — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:29:00 +0000

That has not been established in the courts, at least not precisely enough to assert that for sure this project isn’t copyrightable.

“ But the decision does raise the question of how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as the “author” of a generated work. While that question was not before the court, the court’s dicta suggests that some amount of human input into a generative AI tool could render the relevant human an author of the resulting output.”

“Thaler did not address how much human authorship is necessary to make a work generated using AI tools copyrightable. The impact of this unaddressed issue is worth underscoring.”

https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/230829-district-cour...

New comment by jshmrsn in "Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says"

jshmrsn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:47:57 +0000

I don’t mean to suggest it alone would tip the scales. And I agree the hope for international intervention is dimmer than it ever has been. But it would be one thing on the scales, as it has been in Ukraine as well. While there has not been direct military intervention in Ukraine, the support that has been provided relies on political popularity, and Russia’s endangering of Zaporizhzhia has contributed to the disdain of and attention towards Russia’s invention.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says"

jshmrsn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:17:57 +0000

I wish Taiwan’s reactors were never shut down in the first place, and I hope Taiwan can hold out long enough to get it started back up again. It’s a step towards being able to withstand a blockade (Taiwan lacks oil, gas, and goal resources, so it relies on imports). If PRC chose to attack a nuclear power plant, it might give the necessary pressure for international intervention.

For what it’s worth, I’ve personally walked around the nuclear containment area on Orchid island and swam in the waters around it. It’s a well managed and nice place.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Claude 4 System Card"

jshmrsn — Sun, 25 May 2025 09:04:16 +0000

Scale AI is a provider of human data labeling services https://scale.com/rlhf

New comment by jshmrsn in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

jshmrsn — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:33:37 +0000

This is true again for the most advanced fighter aircraft, except the active hand is now a computer.

New comment by jshmrsn in "ARC-AGI without pretraining"

jshmrsn — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:50:14 +0000

If the machine can decide how to train itself (adjust weights) when faced with a type of problem it hasn’t seen before, then I don’t think that would go against the spirit of general intelligence. I think that’s basically what humans do when they decide to get better at something, they figure out how to practice that task until they get better at it.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ruby 3.4 Highlights"

jshmrsn — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:27:29 +0000

I am familiar with ‘it’ as a default closure input from Kotlin. From a quick search, that in turns seems to be inspired by Groovy.

New comment by jshmrsn in "g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains"

jshmrsn — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:36:38 +0000

Some of the text that the LLM is trained on is fictional, some of the text that its trained on is factual. Telling it to not make things up can tell it to generate text that’s more like the factual text. Not saying it does work, but this is a reason how it might work.

New comment by jshmrsn in "City council passes bill enabling tenants to report vacant apartments"

jshmrsn — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:14:10 +0000

Did that model also factor in risk of damage, liability, and normal wear and tear that a tenant brings over a vacant unit?

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?"

jshmrsn — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:14:00 +0000

If the “sound” is an internal perception, then noise cancelling headphones would not help at all. They might make it worse by quieting any background sounds that could otherwise help cover up the internally produced sensations.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Mistral 7B"

jshmrsn — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:27:15 +0000

An idea I hear often listening to talks about LLMs, is that training on a larger (assuming constant quality) and more various data leads to the emergence of grater generalization and reasoning (if I may use this word) across task categories. While the general quality of a model has a somewhat predictable correlation with the amount of training, the amount of training where specific generalization and reasoning capabilities emerge is much less predictable.

New comment by jshmrsn in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

jshmrsn — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:03:13 +0000

I can only speak from my own internal experience, but don’t your unspoken thoughts take form and exist as language in your mind? If you imagine taking the increasingly common pattern to “think through the problem before giving your answer”, but hiding the pre-answer text from the user, then it seems like that would pretty analogous to how humans think before communicating.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Youtube2Webpage: Create Websites with Text from Videos"

jshmrsn — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:49:14 +0000

There’s a website designed for language learning from watching YouTube captions with inline translations and dictionary lookup. It also has support for searching videos by subtitle content. But it has a limited index and isn’t free for all features. I thought its source was available but I can’t find it now… https://languageplayer.io/

New comment by jshmrsn in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

jshmrsn — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:04:18 +0000

I get the point that the US already put people on the moon… but how can you possibly make the leap that there can be no scientific value to additional unmanned laboratories and instruments landing on the moon? Especially since this represents increasing the number of countries who can contribute to this scientific endeavor? If the US elects a president who is not interested in lunar science or has economic problems, then the whole world must wait for the US to decide to resume lunar missions?

An overview of the scientific instruments onboard:

“ Lander payloads: Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) to measure the thermal conductivity and temperature; Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) for measuring the seismicity around the landing site; Langmuir Probe (LP) to estimate the plasma density and its variations. A passive Laser Retroreflector Array from NASA is accommodated for lunar laser ranging studies.

Rover payloads: Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) for deriving the elemental composition in the vicinity of landing site.

Chandrayaan-3 consists of an indigenous Lander module (LM), Propulsion module (PM) and a Rover with an objective of developing and demonstrating new technologies required for Inter planetary missions. The Lander will have the capability to soft land at a specified lunar site and deploy the Rover which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during the course of its mobility. The Lander and the Rover have scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surface. The main function of PM is to carry the LM from launch vehicle injection till final lunar 100 km circular polar orbit and separate the LM from PM. Apart from this, the Propulsion Module also has one scientific payload as a value addition which will be operated post separation of Lander Module.”

https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_Details.html

New comment by jshmrsn in "New finding boosts Panspermia theory that life on Earth originated in deep space"

jshmrsn — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:37:10 +0000

Wikipedia defines panspermia as living organisms being spread throughout the universe. An unreviewed paper about carbonic acid in outer space does not directly have a connection to panspermia. The topic of panspermia is being pushed by the article.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Seattle in Progress"

jshmrsn — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:22:18 +0000

Amazon is based in Seattle, Microsoft is based nearby. Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. all setup offices there as a result. There’s a concentration of wealth, talent, and offspring startups.